AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Fair Warning Michael Connelly

The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in the new thriller from #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar--until now.

Description Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered.

McEvoy investigates--against the warnings of the police and his own editor--and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.

As he races to clear his name, McEvoy's findings point to a serial killer working under the radar of law enforcement for years, and using personal data shared by the victims themselves to select and hunt his targets.

Called 'the Raymond Chandler of this generation' (Associated Press), Michael Connelly once again delivers an unputdownable thriller that reveals a predator operating from the darkest corners of human nature-and one man courageous and determined enough to stand in his way.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. His most recent #1 bestseller is The Night Fire.

Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40

Price: $32.99 $36.99 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly has also ISBN: 9781760877989 been awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm He is the executive producer of the successful TV series Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, and the creator and host of the Extent: pages Bic1: Crime & mystery podcast Murder Book. He spends his time in California and Florida. Bic2: Illustrations: To find out more, head to: Previous Titles: Author now living: Website: www.michaelconnelly.com.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichaelConnellyBooks Twitter: @Connellybooks

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The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in the new thriller from #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar--until now.

Description Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered.

McEvoy investigates--against the warnings of the police and his own editor--and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.

As he races to clear his name, McEvoy's findings point to a serial killer working under the radar of law enforcement for years, and using personal data shared by the victims themselves to select and hunt his targets.

Called 'the Raymond Chandler of this generation' (Associated Press), Michael Connelly once again delivers an unputdownable thriller that reveals a predator operating from the darkest corners of human nature-and one man courageous and determined enough to stand in his way.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. His most recent #1 bestseller is The Night Fire.

Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40

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Michael Connelly AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Poet Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly's breakout thriller: cunning, poet-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another.

Description Jack McEvoy specializes in death. As a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder. But his professional bravado doesn't lessen the brutal shock of learning that his only brother is dead, a suicide.

Jack's brother was a homicide detective, and he had been depressed about a recent murder case, a hideously grisly one, that he'd been unable to solve.

McEvoy decides that the best way to exorcise his grief is by writing a feature on police suicides. But when he begins his research, he quickly arrives at a stunning revelation. Following his leads, protecting his sources, muscling his way inside a federal investigation, Jack grabs hold of what is clearly the story of a lifetime. He also knows that in taking on the story, he's making himself the most visible target for a murderer who has eluded the greatest investigators alive.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers.

Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly has also been awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing.

Connelly is the executive producer of the successful TV series, Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch Season 4 is now available on SBS in Australia, with Season 5 to screen in 2019 and Season 6 also going into production.

Michael Connelly's new true crime podcast, Murder Book, premiered on 28 January, 2019. Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781760878375 Format: Paperback - B format Michael Connelly spends his time in California and Florida. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: pages Bic1: Crime & mystery To find out more, head to: Bic2: Crime & mystery Website: www.michaelconnelly.com.au Illustrations: Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichaelConnellyBooks Previous Titles: Author now living: Twitter: @Connellybooks

Michael Connelly AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Viennese Girl Jenny Lecoat

Inspired by the true story of a young Jewish girl - Hedy Bercu - who fled to Jersey from Vienna only to find herself trapped on the island during the German occupation.

Description In June 1940, the horrorstruck inhabitants of Jersey watch as the German army unopposed takes possession of their island. Now only a short way from the English coast, the Germans plan their invasion.

Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl from Vienna who fled to the isolation and safety of Jersey two years earlier to escape the Nazis, finds herself once more trapped, but this time with no way of escape.

Hiding her racial status, Hedy is employed by the German authorities and secretly embarks on small acts of resistance. But most dangerously of all, she falls in love with German lieutenant Kurt Rummele -- a relationship on which her life will soon depend.

A remarkable novel of finding hope and love when all seems at its darkest.

About the Author Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, Jenny Lecoat's parents were raised under German Occupation, and both families were involved in resistance activity. Lecoat moved to England aged 18, where, following a drama degree, she spent a decade on the alternative comedy circuit as a feminist stand-up. She was nominated for a prestigious Perrier Award in 1986. She also wrote for newspapers and women's magazines (Cosmopolitan, Observer) and presented TV and radio shows, before focusing on screenwriting from sitcom (Birds of a Feather, Sometime Never) to sketch shows (The Catherine Tate Show).

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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Satapur Moonstone Sujata Massey

Lawyer-sleuth Perveen Mistry returns in another fascinating Bombay mystery.

Description 'Vivid and clever...love her to bits.' Kerry Greenwood, bestselling author of the Miss Phryne Fisher series

The delightfully clever Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, returns in an adventure of treacherous intrigues and suspicious deaths.

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri Mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse has fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja and his teenage son are both dead. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow.

The royal ladies are in dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer's council is required - but the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one woman can help them: Perveen Mistry.

Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house, but when she arrives she finds that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Too late, she realises she has walked into a trap. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the deadly curse on the palace?

'... even better than the series' impressive debut . . . The winning, self-sufficient Perveen should be able to sustain a long series.' - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

'Simply put, The Satapur Moonstone is a flawless gem. Historical mysteries don't get any better than this.' - New York Journal of Books

'Once again Massey does a superb job of combining a fascinating snapshot into 1920s British-ruled India with a top-notch Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529420 mystery. She has created a strong, appealing heroine who is forging her own path in a rapidly changing world.' - Library Format: Paperback - C format Journal, Starred Review Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery About the Author Bic2: Historical fiction Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, was raised mostly in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Illustrations: lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a features reporter for The Baltimore Evening Sun before becoming a full-time Previous Titles: novelist. Her novels have won the Agatha, Shamus and Macavity awards and been finalists for the Edgar, Anthony, Author now living: Balitmore, Maryland USA Harper Lee Legal Fiction and Mary Higgins Clark prizes. Visit her website at sujatamassey.com.

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Fool Me Once Karly Lane

An enticing new rural romance from the bestselling author of The Wrong Callahan and Mr Right Now.

Description 'Karly Lane has a wonderful way of creating a sense of place - These are books I know I can fall into and be transported.' - Noveltea Corner on Return to Stringybark Creek

Farmer, Georgie Henderson manages a cattle farm in the New England region of NSW, but her dream has always been to buy back her family property, Tamban. Her every waking hour for years, has revolved around planning to make this dream become a reality.

When an unlikely meeting with Michael Delacourt at a rowdy B&S Ball sends them on a whirlwind romance, Georgie can't believe it's possible for life to be this good and her dream of buying back Tamban have, for the first time, taken a backseat to happiness.

But her world shatters when she discovers the shocking secret Michael has been trying to keep from her.

Can Michael convince her they still have a future? And after having her heart so thoroughly broken, can Georgie ever trust anyone again?

'The Wrong Callahan embodies Karly Lane's passionate rural voice, reminding us of the value she is to Australian fiction. A must buy for all Aussie readers.' Mrs B's Book Reviews

About the Author Karly Lane lives on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four children and wife of one very patient mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most - being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529246 Format: Paperback - C format Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Dimensions: 234x153mm Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses, Six Ways to Sunday, Someone Like You, and Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Romance the bestselling Callahans of Stringybark Creek series - The Wrong Callahan, Mr Right Now and Return to Stringybark Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Creek. This is her fifteenth novel. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Wildflower Ridge Maya Linnell

Four sisters, one farm and a second chance at following your heart.

Description 'A moving tale of endings, new beginnings and love. A page turner.' - Fleur McDonald, author of the bestselling Where the River Runs

Four sisters, one farm and a second chance at following your heart

Penny McIntyre loves her life as an ambitious city professional, with a marketing team at her fingertips and a promotion just within reach. So when she's floored by a mystery illness, and ordered back to the family farm for three months' rest and recuperation, she is horrified to find her perfect life imploding.

Within days, Penny has to leave her much-loved job, her live-in boyfriend, and her beloved city apartment ... to return to the small country town in which she grew up. Back to her dad and three sisters, one of whom has never forgiven her for abandoning her family. And to her ex-boyfriend, Tim Patterson, who was the biggest reason she ran away in the first place.

When Penny's father is injured in a farming accident and Tim campaigns to buy the property, she must choose between the city life she loves and the farming dream she buried long ago.

Wildflower Ridge is rural fiction straight from the heart.

'Familiar, comforting and warm - perfect for a winter's day read in front of the fire.' - Blue Wolf Reviews

'...told with plenty of heart and lashings of authenticity.' - Mrs B's Book Reviews

About the Author Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781760877552 Maya Linnell grew up in a small country town, climbing towering gum trees and reading her way through her family's Format: Paperback - B format bookshelves before discovering a never-ending supply of novels at the local library. She found her feet in journalism, Dimensions: 198x128mm working at a rural newspaper before segueing into public relations and now fiction writing and blogging for Romance Extent: 392 pages Bic1: Romance Writers Australia. Wildflower Ridge is her debut novel and gathers inspiration from her rural upbringing and the small Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) communities she has always lived in and loved. Maya currently lives in rural Victoria with her husband and three children. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Narrawong, VIC

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Eleanor's Secret Caroline Beecham

An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets and long-lasting love...

Description London, 1942 When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artists Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer to realising her dream of becoming one of the few female war artists. But breaking into the art establishment proves difficult until Eleanor meets painter, Jack Valante, only to be separated by his sudden posting overseas.

Melbourne, 2010 Although reluctant to leave her family at home, Kathryn can't refuse her grandmother Eleanor's request to travel to London to help her return a precious painting to its artist. But when the search uncovers a long-held family secret, Kathryn has to make a choice to return home or risk her family's future, as Eleanor shows her that safeguarding the future is sometimes worth more than protecting the past.

Eleanor's Secret is at once a surprising mystery and compelling love story.

'...Beecham's easy-flowing prose and astute structure make the pages fly.' - Sydney Morning Herald

'An intriguing read that switches effortlessly between war-torn London in the 1940s to Melbourne in 2010. A meticulously researched novel that shows the enduring power of love, the damage of secrets and how dreams come true.' - Weekly Times

'A captivating wartime mystery of past deceits, family confidences and long-lasting love.' - PS News

About the Author Caroline Beecham grew up at the English seaside and relocated to Australia to continue her career as a writer and producer in film and television. She has worked on a documentary about Princess Diana lookalikes, a series about Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760529918 journeys to the ends of the earth, as well as a feature film about finding the end of the rainbow. Caroline decided on a Format: Paperback - B format new way of storytelling and studied the craft of novel writing at the Faber Writing Academy at Allen & Unwin in 2012. She Dimensions: 198x128mm has an MA in Film & Television and a MA in Creative Writing and lives with her husband and two sons by Sydney Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Historical fiction harbour. She is the author of Maggie's Kitchen and Eleanor's Secret. Her third novel, Finding Eadie, will be published by Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Allen & Unwin in 2020. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Birchgrove, NSW

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Who We Were B. M. Carroll

A gripping novel about the power of childhood cruelty, and how it makes us the adults we become.

Description IT'S BEEN TWENTY YEARS BUT ALL IS NOT FORGIVEN

Katy is not the shy schoolgirl she once was, and she's looking forward to showing her classmates who she's become.

Annabel was the queen bee. But her fall from grace changed her life forever.

Zach was cruel, but he thinks he's changed.

Robbie was a target. And he never stood a chance.

The reunion will bring together friends and enemies, many for the first time in decades. But someone is still holding a grudge...

About the Author B.M. Carroll was born in Ireland, and spent her early career working in finance. She is the author of eight novels, her most recent being The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy, which was described as 'irresistibly good' by Liane Moriarty. She lives in Sydney.

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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Drop-Off Fiona Harris and Mike McLeish

At Bayside Primary, it's the adults who are behaving like children...

Description Lizzie, Megan and Sam became accidental friends over good coffee, banter and wrong-world jokes at school drop off. Lizzie is a part-time midwife with four kids and a secret past. Sam is an ex-chef and stay-at-home dad with an absent, high-flying corporate wife. Megan is an ex-model single mum with a thriving online business and no time for loneliness.

None of them have much interest in their school community, but when tragedy deals Bayside Primary's reputation a potentially crippling blow, this unlikely trio have to step up. Forced out of their respective comfort zones, Lizzie, Megan and Sam learn more about each other, the school and themselves than they thought possible.

And it all begins at The Drop Off.

About the Author Mike is an actor, writer, singer, musician, cabaret performer, song writer, one-time artistic director and full-time collaborator with his wife, Fiona Harris. He famously played Paul Keating in Keating! The Musical. This past year he has appeared on the telly in Utopia and Mustangs FC, and on stage in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

Fiona is an actor, writer, producer and director, and the author of various children's book series' including The Super Moopers, Miraculous and Trolls. She has written television sketch comedy, numerous stage plays and one woman shows, and has acted on screen (The Beautiful Lie, Tangle, Skithouse) and stage (Spencer, Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls) for the past twenty years. www.fionaharris.com

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Echo AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 We Begin at the End Chris Whitaker

This is a book that will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will break your heart. A triumph of a novel from the award-winning author of Tall Oaks.

Description With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper's The Dry, We Begin at the End is a powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between.

'You can't save someone that doesn't want to be saved . . .'

For some people, trouble just finds them.

Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer.

Now, he's been released from prison and is back in his hometown of Cape Haven, California. Not everyone is pleased to see him. Like Star Radley, his ex-girlfriend, and sister of the girl he killed.

Duchess Radley, Star's thirteen-year-old daughter, is part-carer, part-protector to her younger brother, Robin - and to her deeply troubled mother. But in trying to protect Star, Duchess inadvertently sets off a chain of events that will have tragic consequences not only for her family, but also the whole town.

Murder, revenge, retribution.

How far can we run from the past when the past seems doomed to repeat itself?

'Surely destined to conquer the world. This intensely captivating story and its uniquely intriguing characters holds you in its jaws till the very last word. Astonishingly good' Ruth Jones Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781785769399 Format: Paperback - C format 'A very real, very rare talent' Sarah Hilary Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery 'The most beautifully written book I have read this year . . . Chris Whitaker is proving himself to be one of the most Bic2: talented writers around' Lisa Hall Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author Chris Whitaker's debut novel, Tall Oaks, was published in 2016. It was a Guardian crime book of the month as well as featuring in Crime Time's top 100 books of 2016 and BuzzFeed's incredible summer reads. It won the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award, and was shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award. All the Wicked Girls, Chris's second novel, was described by Look magazine as 'the next Gone Girl'. Chris lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two youngZaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 We Begin at the End 10 copy pack A&U Point of Sale

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Zaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Dirty Dozen Lynda La Plante

The fifth book in the Tennison series following Jane Tennison in the early years of her policing career.

Description The gritty new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison series.

Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or 'the Sweeney'. But the 'Dirty Dozen' is a notorious boys' club, and Jane's new colleagues make it clear that they don't think a woman is up to the dangers of the job.

Dealing with some of London's most ruthless armed criminals, who think the only good cop is a dead cop, is no joke. Determined to prove she's as good as the men, Jane discovers from a reliable witness that a gang is going to carry out a massive robbery.

But she doesn't know who they are, or where and when they will strike . . .

Praise for Lynda La Plante

'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller' Karin Slaughter

'Classic Lynda - a fabulous read' Martina Cole

'Satisfyingly full of twists and turns' The Independent

'A rare ring of authenticity' Sunday Telegraph

'An absorbingly twisty plot' Guardian Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785768521 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RDC Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally Bic2: Thriller / suspense successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international bestsellers. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmy, British Broadcasting and Author now living: Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Lynda has written and produced over 170 hours of international television.

Lynda is one of only three screenwriters to have been made an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and wasZaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Blood in the Dust Bill Swiggs

A fast-paced adventure novel for readers of Wilbur Smith.

Description For readers of Jeffrey Archer and Clive Cussler, Blood in the Dust is a fast-paced adventure story and the winner of the 2018 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for best unpublished manuscript

'Essential reading for all adventure fans.' Wilbur Smith

1853, Victoria, Australia. Five bushrangers led by the murderous outlaw Warrigal Anderson raid a small homestead. When they ride away, nineteen-year-old Toby O'Rourke's life is changed forever. His parents lay dead at his feet and his brother, Patrick, is badly wounded.

But Toby O'Rourke is made of steel forged in the hardship of colonial life. Forced into adulthood, he and Patrick will seek to restore the family fortunes and outwit not only the rich businessman who conspired to rob them of their birth right, but the vicious men who murdered their parents . . .

About the Author Bill Swiggs was born in Victoria and brought up in Western Australia, where he still lives. He joined the Royal Australian Air Force as an aviation firefighter before becoming a police officer, and now works as a firefighter for a defence contractor. Bill divides his time between working, writing, flying and his grandchildren.

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Zaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Lost Ten Harry Sidebottom

A fast-paced thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden.

Description A desperate rescue attempt deep behind enemy lines . . . this nail-biting adventure has all the hard-edged appeal of the Bravo Two Zero mission.

When Valens, a junior officer in the Roman Army, joins a crack squad of soldiers on a dangerous mission, little does he know what's in store for him. Tasked with rescuing the young Prince Sasan, who has been imprisoned in the impenetrable Castle of Silence, the troops set out across Mesopotamia and into the mountains south of the Caspian Sea.

Deep in hostile territory, inexperienced Valens finds himself in charge. And as one by one his soldiers die or disappear, he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in their midst, and that the rescue is fast becoming a suicide mission.

Valens must marshal this disparate group of men and earn their respect, before it's too late . . .

From the author of The Last Hour comes another fast-paced thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden.

Praise for Harry Sidebottom

'Relentless, brutal, brilliant, this is Jack Reacher in ancient Rome' Ben Kane

'A cracking tale. More twists and turns than the Tiber itself' Rory Clements

'Cracking, page-turning stuff' James Swallow

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785765612 'Grabbed me from the start. I loved it' Donna Leon Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm About the Author Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Harry Sidebottom teaches Ancient History at Oxford University. His career as a novelist began with his Warrior of Rome Bic2: Historical fiction series, which has sold over half a million copies. His next series, Throne of Caesars, was equally acclaimed. The Last Illustrations: Hour, his tenth novel, introduced us once again to Marcus Clodius Ballista, hero of the Warrior of Rome books. The Lost Previous Titles: Author now living: Ten is his eleventh novel.

Zaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Your Deepest Fear David Jackson

The relentlessly gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Cry Baby and Don't Make a Sound.

Description A dark, shocking and relentlessly gripping thriller that will keep you up all night, for fans of Adrian McKinty's The Chain and M.J. Arlidge.

'Sara! Remember! Victoria and Albert. All I can say. They're here. They're-'

These are the last words Sara Prior will ever hear from her husband.

As DS Nathan Cody struggles to make sense of the enigmatic message and solve the brutal murder, it soon becomes clear that Sara is no ordinary bereaved wife. Taking the investigation into her own hands, Sara is drawn into a world of violence that will lead her in a direction she would never have suspected.

For Cody, meanwhile, things are about to get personal in the darkest and most twisted ways imaginable . . .

Praise for Don't Make a Sound

'Incredibly chilling. A contender for THRILLER OF THE YEAR' Fiona Cummins

'A FAST-PACED and DARKLY DISTURBING thriller' Clare Mackintosh

'MIND-BLOWING, HEAD-RATTLING' Joanna Cannon

About the Author David Jackson is the bestselling author of Cry Baby. His debut novel, Pariah, was Highly Commended in the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Awards. He lives on the Wirral peninsula with his wife and two daughters. Follow Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785765568 David @Author_Dave. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 A Year in the Chateau Sarah Long

La vie en rose begins at 50!

Description When Nicola's husband, Dominic, retires they decide not to spend their days finding hobbies to fill the time until Countdown is on. Instead, they fulfil their life-long fantasy of buying a country house and filling it with their dearest friends. Reliving their youth and spending their children's inheritance.

Joined by seven of their friends they club together to invest in a chateau in Normandy. Group dinners, fine wine, beautiful scenery - they're living the dream!

But la vie en rose is harder than it first appears. Is there a reason why only teenagers take gap years?

This is sharp, irreverent and very funny women's fiction for grown ups. If you love Dawn French, Sue Townsend and Veronica Henry, this book is for you!

About the Author Sarah Long is a London-based author of three previously published commercial fiction novels and one hilarious memoir about her ten years living in Paris. She is a married mother of three.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785764769 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 To Keep You Safe Kate Bradley

How far would you go to save a child that wasn't yours?

Description For fans of Now You See Her and Sleep comes a nail-biting suspense thriller that asks: how far would you go to save a child that isn't yours?

You don't know who they are. You don't know why they're hunting her. But you know she's in danger. What do you do?

When teacher Jenni Wales sees 15-year-old Destiny's black eye, she's immediately worried. Destiny isn't your average student: she's smart, genius IQ smart, and she's in care. But concern turns to fear when Jenni witnesses an attempt to abduct Destiny from school.

Who are these men and what can Destiny know to make them hunt her?

With those around her not taking the threat seriously, Jenni does the only thing she can think of to keep Destiny safe: she takes her.

About the Author Kate Bradley worked for many years managing services for people who are marginalised by society; her work has taken her into prisons, mental health hospitals and alongside the homeless. She currently works in education. She holds a first- class degree in English Literature, in addition to qualifications in creative writing and teaching. Kate lives in a small coastal town just outside of Brighton with her husband and sons. To Keep You Safe is her debut novel.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781838770617 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x155mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 No Going Back Sheena Kamal

From the author of Eyes Like Mine comes another gripping suspense novel featuring Nora Watts - a woman as intriguing and kick-ass as Lisbeth Salander.

Description Nora Watts is being hunted . . .

When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father, she is thrown into turmoil. Struggling with the imminent death, from cancer, of her friend and mentor Sebastian Crow, she is unprepared for the memories that this encounter brings back. What happened to her father that made him kill himself and abandon Nora and her sister?

Heading to Detroit to try and find some answers about his life there, Nora expects to discover a reason behind his suicide. Instead, she finds more questions than answers.

But trouble always follows Nora, and it's found her in Detroit, a city that is as broken as she is.

About the Author Sheena Kamal holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and went on to work in the film and TV industry, most recently as a researcher for a crime drama series being developed for television. Her research into crime and investigative journalism inspired her debut bestseller Eyes Like Mine.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785768446 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante

Description The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, as their friendship, beautifully and meticulously rendered, becomes a not-always-perfect shelter from hardship. A memorable portrait of two women, My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation. Through the lives of Elena and Lila, Ferrante gives her readers the story of a city and a country undergoing momentous change.

About the Author Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She is also the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work of non-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, were published in 2019.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781787702226 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Europa Editions AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Weight of a Piano Chris Cander

A dazzling exploration of how the human heart can both break and be restored.

Description The Weight of a Piano is a tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents. In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life, a Bluthner piano built by a master piano-maker at the turn of the century in Germany. In 2012, in California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, a situation which is further complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday: a Bluthner piano.

The mysterious - and tragic - connections between Katya and Clara unravel gradually yet thrillingly in Chris Cander's powerful novel about attraction, obsession, creative passion, love and loss.

About the Author Chris Cander is the author of two previous novels, 11 Stories, and Whisper Hollow. She lives with her husband, daughter and son in Houston, Texas.

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Europa Editions AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores Massimo Carlotto

International secret police operations, drug trafficking, prostitution, and identity theft set the stage for the eternal struggle between Good and Evil.

Description Acclaimed as one of today's best contemporary noir writers, Massimo Carlotto reaches new heights in the most complex "Alligator" novel to date. Rich with biting humour, humanity, and psychological insight, this is an exemplary noir novel from a crime writer at the top of his game.

Marco Buratti, aka the Alligator, and his partners have fallen into a trap laid by their worst enemy, Giorgio Pellegrini, a wanted man who has no intention of living as a fugitive and turns police informer. To survive, some rules will have to be bent, and others broken.

About the Author Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua, Italy. In addition to the titles in his popular "Alligator" series, he is also the author of The Fugitive - based on his own experience of being wrongfully accused and convicted, and subsequently absconding and going on the run. Carlotto is one of Italy's most popular crime writers and a major exponent of the Mediterranean Noir novel.

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702134 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 210x135mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Europa Editions AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Just After the Wave Sandrine Collette

A remarkable story of destruction, resilience, love, and the invisible but powerful links that bind a family together.

Description A small boat, alone on the furious ocean. A family stranded on an island, battered by waves on all sides. A decision which looms, unavoidable, on the horizon. When a volcano collapses in the ocean and generates a tidal wave of biblical proportions, the world disappears around Louie, his parents and his eight siblings. Their house, perched on a summit, stands firm. As far as the eye can see there is only silver water. It is shaken by violent storms, like jolts of rage.

About the Author Sandrine Collette was born in Paris in 1970. She divides her time between Nanterre, where she teaches philosophy and literature, and Burgundy, where she has a horse stud farm. She is the author of numerous novels. Nothing but Dust, winner of the Landerneau Prize for crime fiction, was her English-language debut.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702127 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 210x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Fiction in translation Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Europa Editions AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Love After Love Ingrid Persaud

The debut novel from the winner of the BBC Short Story Award is a love letter to family and friendship in all its forms. It has a West Indian heart, a Caribbean setting and a truly Trini voice.

Description Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love.

Irrepressible Betty Ramdin, her shy son Solo and their marvellous lodger, Mr Chetan, form an unconventional household, happy in their differences. Happy, that is, until the night when a glass of rum, a heart to heart and a terrible truth explodes the family unit, driving them apart.

Brave and brilliant, steeped in affection, Love After Love asks us to consider what happens at the very brink of human forgiveness, and offers hope to anyone who has loved and lost and has yet to find their way back.

About the Author Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was a legal academic before taking degrees in fine art at Goldsmiths College and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect and Pree magazines. Ingrid lives in London and Barbados.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571356201 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Discomfort of Evening Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief, translated by Michele Hutchison.

Description ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S TOP TEN BEST NEW BOOKS IN TRANSLATION

The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief, translated by Michele Hutchison.

I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.'

Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all.

A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other.

About the Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, their first poetry collection, Calfskin, was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming them literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published their first novel, The Discomfort of Evening, which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. Alongside their writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.

Michele Hutchison was born in the UK and has lived in Amsterdam since 2004. After a stint as an editor, she became a Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571349364 literary translator from Dutch. Her translations include the bestselling An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl, Mona Format: Paperback - Demy format in Three Acts by Griet op de Beeck and Seaweed by Miek Zwamborn - and most recently, The Discomfort of Evening by Dimensions: 216x135mm Marieke Lucas Riijneveld. She is also co-author of The Happiest Kids in the World. Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Fiction in translation Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Paris Diversion Chris Pavone

The explosive sequel to the top ten bestseller The Expats, The Paris Diversion takes place over the course of one nail-biting day.

Description 'Sleek, cunning and breakneck . . . A knockout.' Megan Abbott

'A fast-paced and heartfelt thriller . . . that echoes the best of John le Carre.' Daily Mail

'You won't stop reading until the final devastating pages.' Stephen King

Kate Moore - a mother with an interesting past - is living the quiet life in another European city, or trying to. On her way to drop her children off at school in the city centre, the cafes and streets of Paris start to come alive around her. Kate's husband Dex, meanwhile, charged with finding a particular present for their son's birthday, is struggling to focus on the job in hand as a financial matter at work seems to be playing on his mind. As worrying reports begin to circulate from key locations around the city, and the sound of wailing sirens becomes increasingly hard to ignore, could their day and, indeed, their lives be about to change forever?

About the Author Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Cornell, and was an editor at book-publishing houses in New York for fifteen years. His 2012 debut, The Expats, described by the Sunday Times as 'a captivating, sophisticated thriller' won both the Edgar and Anthony Awards for best first novel and was a Sunday Times bestseller. It was followed in 2014 by the New York Times bestseller, The Accident and his his most recent novel, The Travelers, was The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571337231 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 576 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Espionage & spy thriller Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Crushed Kate Hamer

Sunday Times bestselling author Kate Hamer's new novel blends the rawness and power of The Virgin Suicides with the propulsive force of a Megan Abbott novel.

Description Phoebe stands on Pultenay Bridge trying to cover her face with her hair so she won't be recognized. Her tights are gashed from toe to thigh. She has lost a shoe. People keep looking.

Was it five, or ten minutes later she heard the commotion? Phoebe ran down the road until she saw. Mangled metal. Blood ran down the walls.

Phoebe believes this was of her making. She thought murder, and murder happened. She had told them her thoughts weren't just thoughts and now she must live with the consequences. Phoebe won't miss any more signs.

Who will be the next to suffer? Phoebe directs her ire at her mother, scissors and knives all covertly pointing in her direction, but there are others to whom she is inexorably bound, her best friends Grace and Orla, and then there's Mr Jonasson. Any of them might find themselves caught in the crossfire. For Phoebe is many things, but she is not in control.

About the Author Kate Hamer grew up in the West Country and Wales. She studied art and worked for a number of years in television. In 2011 she won the Rhys Davies short-story prize and her short stories have appeared in various collections. Her debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat was published in 2015. It was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, the British Book Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and the Wales Book of the Year. It was followed by the acclaimed The Doll Funeral in 2017. Kate now lives with her husband in Cardiff.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571336678 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Little Boy Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A hypnotic tale of a Little Boy's life - and the craziness of the century that witnessed it - from one of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation.

Description 'A brave man and a brave poet.' Bob Dylan

'Utterly extraordinary.' Guardian

'A torrent of textual splendor.' Los Angeles Times

Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from. Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him.

From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all.

This is the story of one man's extraordinary life - a story steeped in the exhilarating energy of the Beats. It is a novel serving as the literary last will and testament of the iconic publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti: a meditation on his one hundred years on the planet, rich in wisdom, emotion and memories.

About the Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of the last surviving members of the Beat movement. As co-founder of City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco, he championed many of the century's greatest authors, and was arrested on obscenity charges for publishing Howl. Ferlinghetti has written over forty poetry collections, including the bestselling A Coney Island of the Mind which has sold over one million copies. He has received a National Book Critics Circle lifetime achievement Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571351046 award and a Literarian award for 'outstanding service to the American literary community.' Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Death in Holy Orders P. D. James

Set in her beloved East Anglia, Death in Holy Orders is the fourteenth novel in P.D. James's Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of crime fiction filled with intrigue and suspense.

Description When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglican coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder.

About the Author P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).

James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571355716 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 560 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Murder Room P. D. James

Set in the world of museums and galleries in London, The Murder Room is the twelfth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant work of detective fiction from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.

Description Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room, Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer.

About the Author P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).

James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571355747 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 560 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Lighthouse P. D. James

The classic Adam Dalgliesh mystery.

Description Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers a peaceful and secure respite to the over-stressed professionals who holiday there. But their peace is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is found hanging in the island's lighthouse, and the islanders realise it is murder, not suicide. As Adam Dalgliesh arrives to investigate, a second murder is discovered and the whole case is jepoardised by a new danger on the island, one more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.

About the Author P. D. James (1920-2014) was born in Oxford and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and The National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, stepping down from the post in August 2013.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571355723 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Leopoldstadt Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard's new play is a passionate drama of love and endurance, an intimate play with an epic sweep, the story of a family who made good.

Description Vienna in 1900 was the most vibrant city in Europe, humming with artistic and intellectual excitement and a genius for enjoying life. A tenth of the population were Jews. A generation earlier, they had been granted full civil rights by the Emperor, Franz Josef. Consequently, hundreds of thousands had fled from the Pale of Settlement and the pogroms in the East and many found sanctuary in the crowded tenements of the old Jewish quarter, Leopoldstadt.

'My grandfather wore a caftan,' says Hermann, a factory owner, 'My father went to the opera in a top hat, and I have the singers to dinner.'

It was not to last. Half a century later, this family, like millions of others, has re-discovered what it means to be Jewish in the first half of the 20th century.

About the Author

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Faber Plays AUSTRALIA MAY 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: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781847088116 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Hinton Mark Blacklock

A nineteenth century tale of dangerous and pioneering mathematical ideas, based on an incredible true story.

Description Howard Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. Hinton's obsession is his work, his voyages into mathematical pure space, into the fourth dimension, but also his wife and sons, each of whom are entangled in the strange and unknown landscapes of Hinton's science fictions.

In a bravura and startling meeting of real and philosophical elements, Mark Blacklock has created a ravishing period piece of late-Victorian social, scientific and domestic life. Hinton is about extraordinary discoveries, and terrible choices. It is about people who discover and map other realms, and what the implications might be for those of us left behind.

About the Author Mark Blacklock is the author of the critically acclaimed I'm Jack (Granta, 2014). He teaches at Birkbeck college.

Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781783785209 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Philosophy of mathematics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Death of Comrade President Alain Mabanckou

A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists.

Description In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares - lost grocery money, the whims of his parents' moods, their neighbours' squabbling, his endless daydreaming - are soon swept away by the wind of history. In March 1977, just before the arrival of the short rainy season, Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered in Brazzaville, and not even naive Michel can remain untouched.

Starting as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary Congolese family, Alain Mabanckou quickly expands the scope of his story into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization and dead ends of the African continent. At a stroke Michel learns the realities of life - and how much must change for everything to stay the same.

About the Author Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. His six previous novels Black Moses, African Psycho, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar and Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty are all published by Serpent's Tail. Among his many honours are the Academie Francaise's Grand Prix de literature and the 2016 French Voices Award for The Lights of Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou is a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur, was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize and has featured on Vanity Fair's list of France's fifty most influential people.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788162326 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Black Moses Alain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017: the larger-than-life, laugh-out-loud story of an African Oliver Twist.

Description It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But over at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young Moses has grown up, the revolution has only strengthened the reign of terror of Dieudonne Ngoulmoumako, the institution's corrupt director.

About the Author Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo. An award-winning novelist, poet and essayist, Mabanckou currently lives in LA, where he teaches literature at UCLA. His four previous novels African Psycho, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar and Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty - a fictionalised retelling of Mabanckou's childhood in Congo - are all published by Serpent's Tail, as is the memoir The Lights of Pointe-Noire, which won the 2016 French Voices Award. In 2015 Mabanckou was listed as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781781256749 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Hollow in the Land James Clarke

A remarkable work of fiction and a vivid portrait of modern Britain for readers of Jon McGregor, Sarah Hall and Jim Crace.

Description Through childhood hopefulness, teenage delinquency, faded first love and middle-aged disillusionment, James Clarke's extraordinary novel in stories takes us into the Hollow in the Land, a Lancashire valley no longer than ten miles end to end. If you're born here, you'll likely spend the rest of your life here, and even those who do make it beyond the bypass often find themselves drawn back.

This is a place where the realities of regional decline and political indifference play out in people's lives: in run-down pubs and sitting rooms, dead-end jobs and black-economy gigs, for-profit care homes, Traveller sites and abandoned warehouses. Clarke's writing is unsentimental but retains a fierce empathy for the lives it is describing. Through a wide range of characters at every stage of life, Clarke shows us how much of what we become is defined by where we are from.

About the Author James Clarke grew up in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire. He studied English at Manchester Metropolitan University and graduated with an MA in Creative Writing at The Manchester Writing School in 2017. His debut novel The Litten Path won the Betty Trask Prize. He currently lives in Manchester and is writing a novel with the working title Sanderson's Folly.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788163514 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Say Say Say Lila Savage

A stunning literary debut garlanded with praise - now in paperback.

Description Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student have given way to an unintended career as a care worker. One spring, Bryn - a retired carpenter - hires her to help him care for Jill, his wife of many years. A car accident caused a brain injury that has left Jill verbally diminished; she moves about the house like a ghost of her former self.

As Ella is drawn ever deeper into the couple's household, she is profoundly moved by the tenderness Bryn shows toward the wife he still fiercely loves. Ella is startled by the yearning this awakens in her, one that complicates her feelings for her girlfriend, Alix, and causes her to look at relationships of all kinds - between partners, between employer and employee, and above all between men and women - in new ways.

Tightly woven, humane and insightful, tracing the most intimate reaches of a young woman's heart and mind, Say Say Say is a riveting story about what it means to love, in a world where time is always running out.

About the Author Lila Savage is originally from Minneapolis. Prior to writing fiction, she spent nearly a decade working as a caregiver. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review. She is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner fellowship and graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2018. She lives in San Francisco.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788162234 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Jakob von Gunten Robert Walser

Robert Walser's great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by J. M. Coetzee.

Description The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming 'something very small and subordinate later in life', a goal he sets about achieving with laconic dedication and wry detachment.

Irony, scepticism, absurd images and sensations, disconcerting humour, minor humiliations and minute observations mingle to form one of the signature works of twentieth century fiction. First published in 1908, a forerunner to and key influence on the work of writers such as Franz Kafka and Thomas Bernhard, Robert Walser's masterpiece is a paean to infinitesimal unimportance, a celebration of the marginal life that is the life of the mind.

About the Author Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a writer. In 1929 he was diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia and was admitted to Waldau psychiatric hospital. In 1933 he was transferred against his will to the sanitorium at Herisau, where he gave up on writing. Walser died there on Christmas Day, 1956.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788164504 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Like Flies from Afar K. Ferrari, translated by Adrian Nathan West

A wickedly dark, multi-award-winning noir novel in translation about corruption in the Argentine state.

Description 'Latin crime fiction is the genre's new wave. Go ride it' - CrimeReads | Literary Hub

Luis Machi has had enemies for a long time: after all, he's built his success on dirty deals - not to mention his cooperation with the military junta's coup years ago, or his love life, a web of infidelities. What's new is the corpse in the boot of his car. A body with its face blown off, detained by a pair of furry pink handcuffs that Machi knows well . . .

Someone is trying to set him up, but the number of suspects is incalculable. Machi is stuck dredging his guilty past for clues and trying to dispose of the mystery corpse. But time is just another enemy and it's running out fast.

Like Flies from Afar is a wickedly dark and thrilling ride through the corruption and violence of Argentina, embodied by a single degenerate man and one very complicated day.

About the Author K. Ferrari was born in Buenos Aires. He is the author of the novels Operation Bukowski, What Was Not (Winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize in 2009), Nadie es Inocente and Punto Ciego - in co-authorship with Juan Mattio. Like Flies from Afar is published in Argentina, Spain, Italy, France and the US.

Adrian Nathan West is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation. He is a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review; his essays, short fiction and translations have also appeared in the New York Review of Books, McSweeney's, the London Review of Books and other publications. He has translated books from German, Catalan, Spanish and French by authors such as Josef Winkler, Pere Gimferrer and Marianne Fritz. @a_nathanwest | anathanwest.com

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786896964 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Fiction in translation Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Laidlaw William McIlvanney

In the beginning there was Laidlaw...the CWA Silver Dagger-winning masterpiece that launched a genre, from the godfather of Scottish crime fiction.

Description WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER

'The pure distilled essence of Scottish crime writing' PETER MAY

'A bloody good read' VAL McDERMID

'If you only read one crime novel this year, this should be it' Guardian

When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding her killer. Jack Laidlaw. He is a man of contrasts, ravaged by inner demons but driven by a deep compassion for the violent criminals in Glasgow's underworld. But will Laidlaw's unorthodox methods get him to the killer in time, when the victim's father is baying for blood?

Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction.

About the Author WILLIAM McILVANNEY's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. McIlvanney died in December 2015.

Laidlaw is the first book in the Laidlaw Trilogy. Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781838850326 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Papers of Tony Veitch William McIlvanney

Read the CWA Silver Dagger-winning masterpiece from the godfather of Scottish crime fiction

Description WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER

'A bloody good read' VAL McDERMID

'The pure distilled essence of Scottish crime writing' PETER MAY

'Brilliant . . . Grips like a mangling handshake' SUNDAY TIMES

Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a clue to the murder of a gangland thug and the disappearance of a student. With stubborn integrity, Laidlaw tracks a seam of corruption that runs from the top to the bottom of society.

Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction.

About the Author William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. McIlvanney died in December 2015.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781838851095 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Strange Loyalties William McIlvanney

Read the remarkable conclusion to the Laidlaw series which launched a genre, from the Godfather of Scottish crime fiction.

Description 'It's doubtful I would be a crime writer without the influence of McIlvanney's Laidlaw' IAN RANKIN

'The Laidlaw books are not just great crime novels, they are important ones' MARK BILLINGHAM

'Laidlaw is an enduring hero with the dry wit and insight to make other literary detectives seem two-dimensional' GORDON FERRIS

When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, Detective Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what really happened. With corrosive wit, Laidlaw begins an emotional quest through Glasgow's underworld, and into the past. He discovers as much about himself as about the brother he has lost, in a search that leads to a shattering climax.

Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction.

About the Author William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. McIlvanney died in December 2015.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781838851118 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Absolution Caro Ramsay

In their first case together, Glaswegian police team DI Anderson and DS Costello chase the Crucifixion Killer.

Description 'Glasgow comes alive in Caro Ramsay's dark, vivid and daring thriller' VAL McDERMID

'A cracker of a debut . . . Many shivers in store for readers followed by a shattering climax' Times

The Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow, leaving victims' mutilated bodies in a Christ-like pose. DCI Alan McAlpine is drafted in to lead the hunt, supported by local officers DI Anderson and DS Costello.

But the past holds horrific memories for McAlpine. He last worked this beat some twenty years earlier, when he was assigned to guard a woman - faceless after a sadistic acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital. An obsession was born at that hospital room that has never quite left McAlpine and now it seems to be resurfacing. As the chase to halt the gruesome murders intensifies, so Anderson and Costello find chilling cause for concern uncomfortably close to home . . .

About the Author Caro Ramsay is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed DI Anderson and DS 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.

@CaroRamsayBooks | caroramsay.com

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781786898739 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Dark Water Caro Ramsay

In their third mystifying case, Glaswegian police duo Anderson and Costello must solve the murder of a criminal with a mutilated face.

Description In the attic of a deserted tenement, the body of a criminal is found hanging with his face horribly mutilated. Investigating officers DI Anderson and DS Costello believe he was a suspect in a decade-old case: the rape and attempted murder of a young student. There are other similar cases on file. But the dead man didn't act alone, he had an accomplice in his crimes.

When another young woman is brutally attacked, Anderson and Costello suspect the accomplice has developed a taste for killing. To satisfy his lust he will kill again and again unless Anderson and Costello can stop him.

About the Author Caro Ramsay is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed DI Anderson and DS 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.

@CaroRamsayBooks caroramsay.co.uk

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781786898821 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Singing to the Dead Caro Ramsay

Glaswegian police duo DI Anderson and DS Costello face their second disturbing case when two young boys are abducted.

Description Two seven-year-old boys have been abducted from the streets of Glasgow. Both had already endured years of neglect and betrayal - but for DI Colin Anderson the case is especially disturbing, because the boys look so much like his own son Peter . . .

With police resources stretched to breaking point, a simple house fire turns into a full-scale investigation. An invisible killer is picking off victims at random and, if DS Costello's hunch is correct, committing an ingenious deception. As his squad struggles to work both cases, DI Anderson learns that duplicity and betrayal come in many guises. For while the boys' abductor is still out there no child is safe - as young Peter Anderson is about to find out.

About the Author Caro Ramsay is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed DI Anderson and DS 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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Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781786899071 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Spark Naoki Matayoshi

Hilarious, strange and moving in equal measure - a Japanese multi-million-copy smash hit about the struggles of a pair of young manzai stand-up comedians.

Description Spark is a story about art and friendship, about countless bizarre drunken conversations and how far it's acceptable to go for a laugh. A novel about comedy that's as moving and thoughtful as it is funny, it's already been a sensation in Japan.

About the Author Naoki Matayoshi is a Japanese manzai comedian and author, who found fame performing as part of the popular comic duo 'Peace'. Spark is his first novel and has been hugely successful in Japan since it was first published in 2016. It has won the Akutagawa Prize and was adapted for film, stage and TV - the hit series is available on Netflix UK.

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781782275909 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Fiction in translation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Pushkin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Other's Gold Elizabeth Ames

A poignant and sparkling novel that opens on a college campus and follows the friendship of four women across life-defining turning points.

Description Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret quickly become inseparable. But their bonds must weather threats that come from the dark forests of their childhoods, and beyond - from institutions, from one another, and ultimately, from within themselves.

As they move through their wild college days to their more feral days as new parents, each of the four friends will make a terrible mistake. With one part of the novel devoted to each mistake - the Accident, the Accusation, the Kiss, and the Bite - The Other's Gold reveals the achingly familiar ways our life-defining turning points prompt our relationships to unravel and re-knit, as the women discover what they and their loved ones are capable of, and capable of forgiving.

About the Author Elizabeth Ames is a graduate of the University of Michigan MFA program, where she won the Hopwood Award. Her short stories have appeared in Ninth Letter and Third Coast. She currently lives in a Harvard dormitory with her husband, toddler, and a few hundred undergraduates. This is her first novel.

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781911590323 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Pushkin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Temptation Janos Szekely

A hilarious and poignant rediscovered classic: the story of a young boy's struggle and (mis)adventures as he escapes poverty in interwar Budapest.

Description Bela has never had much luck. His mother abandoned him at birth to go to work in Budapest, leaving him in the care of the dubious 'Aunt Rozika', a former prostitute who now runs a foster home with equal parts hauteur and cruelty. Victimised and almost starved by his guardian, Bela must fight for everything, from scraps of the other boys' food to the right to go to school. At fourteen he is caught trying to steal a pair of shoes; his mother is called and she reluctantly takes him with her to Budapest. Once in the capital Bela manages to secure a position at a grand old hotel, and it is here that a more privileged lifestyle seems to extend a hand to him. Operating the lift, Bela encounters people from across Hungarian society and beyond, including the beautiful daughter of an American businessman and a passionate revolutionary. But his new lifestyle offers both pleasures and perils, and Bela must find a way to forge his own life from the divergent influences that surround him. A picaresque classic with a rich vein of bawdy humour, Temptation is an under-appreciated masterpiece of twentieth- century fiction. Rich, varied and endlessly entertaining, the novel creates a stunning panorama of Hungarian society through the travails of its singularly charming hero.

About the Author Janos Szekely was a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. He fled Budapest for Berlin, where he penned scripts for silent movie stars including Marlene Dietrich. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States and continued writing for films in Hollywood, winning an Academy Award for Best Story for Arise, My Love in 1940. His novel Temptation was initially published in English translation in 1946. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, Szekely spent several years in Mexico with his family before returning to Berlin in 1957. He died there in 1958.

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Pushkin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Days in the Caucasus Banine

A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom.

Description This is the unforgettable memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood, of growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early twentieth century, caught between East and West, tradition and modernity. Banine remembers her luxurious home, with endless feasts of sweets and fruit; her beloved, flaxen-haired German governess; her imperious, swearing, strict Muslim grandmother; her bickering, poker-playing, chain-smoking relatives. She recalls how the Bolsheviks came, and they lost everything. How, amid revolution and bloodshed, she fell passionately in love, only to be forced into marriage with a man she loathed- until the chance of escape arrived. By turns gossipy and romantic, wry and moving, Days in the Caucasus is a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a vanished world. Banine shows us what it means to leave the past behind, and how it haunts us.

About the Author Banine was born Umm El-Banu Assadullayeva in 1905, into a wealthy family in Baku, then part of the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution and the subsequent fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Banine was forced to flee her home-country - first to Istanbul, and then to Paris. Days in the Caucasus is Banine's most famous work. It was published in 1945 to critical acclaim but has never been translated into English, until now.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781782274896 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Pushkin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Winter in Sokcho Elisa Shua Dusapin

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author

Description It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down: the fish turn venomous, bodies are red and raw, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives, a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. As she begins accompanying him on his trips to discover his idea of an authentic Korea, the two of them begin an uneasy relationship filled with suspended misunderstandings and punctuated by spilled ink. They visit snowy mountaintops, take daytrips to dramatic waterfalls, cross into North Korea. But he takes no interest in the Sokcho she knows - the gaudy and beautiful neon lights, the fish market where her mother guts squid and puffer fish, the evening meals she prepares meticulously for the guesthouse. As she's pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she strikes upon a way to finally be seen.

An exquisitely-crafted novel, which won the Prix Robert Walser, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. A natural inheritor to Marguerite Duras, Elisa Shua Duspain's voice is distinctive and unmistakable.

About the Author Elisa Shua Dusapin was born in France and raised in Paris, Seoul and Switzerland. Winter in Sokcho (Hiver a Sokcho) is her first novel. Published in 2016 to wide acclaim, it was awarded the Prix Robert Walser and the Prix Regine Desforges, and has been translated into six languages. Aneesa Abbas Higgins is a London-based translator and writer. Her translations include What Became of the White Savage by Francois Garde, which was the winner of a PEN Translates award, and Seven Stones by Venus Khoury-Ghata, for which she was shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff Prize.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781911547549 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Daunt Books AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Balance & Other B.S. Felicity Harley

When having it all becomes doing it all: a guide to mastering the mental load.

Description According to the 2018 Global Wellness Trends Report, feminist wellness is about 'new powerful intersections between women's empowerment, feminism and wellness', and it's one of the top 10 global health trends of last year.

The irony is, while many women are more health conscious than ever, many of us haven't even been to the dentist in the past 12 months, arguably the most basic of all health appointments. Words like overwhelmed, stressed, exhausted, always on, burnt-out, fed up, over it ... I'm hearing these again and again from women married, single, with and without kids. Close girlfriends, mums at the school gate, single women in cafes, on social - my many conversations are proving we're all in this pressure cooker, feeling trapped, carrying a semi-trailer of mental stuff on our shoulders and riding the rollercoaster. We can't find the emergency stop button.

The result of all this overwhelm is a new wave of health problems, mental and physical. We have the studies flooding in that women are unhappier, more anxious, depressed, more likely to burn out than men. Perhaps it's time we moved the conversation away from so-called 'balance' - balance is bull, burnout is real.

About the Author Felicity Harley is one of our most respected contributors to women's health discussions through her work on Australia's leading women's magazines and websites for the past 20 years.

Felicity was launch editor of News Corp's women's site whimn.com.au in 2017. She returned from maternity leave in March 2019 and is now editor-at-large, contributing to the network of sites with interviews, opinion pieces and editorial strategy as well as event and commercial opportunities. She appears regularly on Sunrise, on radio and as a keynote speaker. During Felicity's nine years as editor of Women's Health magazine, it became Australia's top women's lifestyle magazine. She was the inaugural editor in 2007, and won numerous national and international awards for her work driving the magazine's brand while maintaining its circulation at a highly competitive time. In 2012, Felicity was named Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760877545 one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence by Westpac and the Financial Review for her brainchild - the 'I Support Format: Paperback - C format Women in Sport' campaign - which won recognition from then PM Julia Gillard plus national and international awards. Dimensions: 234x153mm Today, it is the premiere female sporting awards ceremony on the Australian calendar. Felicity's contacts cover a broad Extent: 238 pages Bic1: Women's health range of influential women with whom she has mutually respectful connections. Felicity is a proud mum to three young Bic2: kids, Jimmy, Hugo and Arabella, and wife of Tom Harley, Sydney Swans CEO. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 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 MAY 2020 An Alice Girl Tanya Heaslip

For fans of Tony Tapp Coutts' A Sunburnt Childhood and Mary Groves' An Outback Life, comes Tanya Heaslip's extraordinary story of growing up with her sister and brothers in the late 1960s and early 70s on the outback cattle property, Bond Springs Station, just north of Alice Springs.

Description As far as our eyes could see were miles upon miles of emptiness, huge blue skies and bare earth. We heard pink cockatoos squawk in the gum trees, and crickets click and clack at night, but it was also a place of silence. There was not a person or town to be seen. We could shout into the hills and hear our voices echo back to us. We could lie on our backs at night and imagine the sky of stars swallowing us whole. We could die out here under the savage summer sun and our bones would turn white and dissolve in the dry winds. Nobody would ever know we'd been there. We thought that was kind of exciting.

For fans of Toni Tapp Coutts' A Sunburnt Childhood and Mary Groves' An Outback Life comes Tanya Heaslip's extraordinary story of growing up with her sister and brothers in the late 1960s and early 70s on their vast outback cattle property just north of Alice Springs.

Whether working the mobs of cattle with the stockmen, playing cattle-duffing on horseback or singing and doing lessons at their School of the Air desks, Tanya and her siblings led a childhood unimaginable to many Australians. But while her sister M'Lis and her brother Brett loved riding and working stock, Tanya's heart was always back at the homestead with her books and stories. As the eldest child, her added responsibility was to look after the younger ones, including little Benny, so she was usually by their sides, dealing with snakes, the threat of bushfires and broken bones.

Tanya's parents, Janice and Grant 'the Boss' Heaslip, were pioneers. They developed the cattle station where water was scarce, where power was dependent on generators and where a trip to town for supplies often meant a full day's journey. Grant was determined to teach his children how to survive in this severe environment and his lessons were often harsh.

Price: $32.99 $36.99 In a childhood that most would consider very tough, Tanya tells of this precious time with raw honesty, humour, love and ISBN: 9781760529772 kindness. This is the story of an Alice girl. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 344 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Alice Springs, NT

About the Author Tanya Heaslip was born on a cattle station in outback Australia at the height of the Cold War. She grew up to study and then practice Law. In 1989 she travelled to Europe for the first time and in 1994 she moved to the CzechAllen Republic & Unwin where AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Alice to Prague: The charming true story of an outback girl who finds adventure - and love - on the other side of the world Tanya Heaslip

What happens when a young independent Northern Territory country girl decides to follow her dreams and go off in search of adventures abroad? An honest, often funny, bittersweet memoir of love, loss and belonging; of the hard-won understanding around where home lies.

Description 'I loved it! I laughed and cried and it was very hard to put down.' Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Where the River Runs

'A story of love for country, for home.' Toni Tapp Coutts, author of A Sunburnt Childhood

In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic.

Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching experience whatsoever, to work at a high school in a town she'd never heard of, where the winters are frigid and plunge to sub-zero temperatures.

During her childhood on an isolated cattle station in Central Australia, Tanya had always dreamed of adventure and romance in Europe but the Czech Republic was not the stuff of her dreams. On arrival, however, she falls headlong into misadventures that change her life forever.

This land of castles, history and culture opened up to her and she to it. In love with Prague and her people, particularly with the charismatic Karel, who takes her into his home, his family and as far as he can into his heart, Tanya learns about lives very different to hers.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 Alice to Prague is a bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging and love, set in a time, a place and with a man ISBN: 9781760529765 Format: Paperback - C format that fill Tanya's life with contradictions. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 360 pages Bic1: Memoirs 'Vivid and detailed . . . questions what it is to belong.' Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace Bic2: Travel writing Illustrations: Previous Titles: 'A brave, open-hearted and emotionally intense journey.' Liz Harfull, author of Women of the Land Author now living: Alice Springs, NT About the Author Tanya Heaslip was born on a cattle station in outback Australia at the height of the Cold War. She grew up to study and then practice Law. In 1989 she travelled to Europe for the first time and in 1994 she moved to the Czech Republic where Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Wisdom of Tea: Life lessons from the Japanese tea ceremony Noriko Morishita

A book of deep wisdom, gleaned from a quarter of a century spent trying to master the intricacies of the Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Description For more than 25 years Noriko Morishita studied and practised the intricate ceremonies of the famous Tea Ceremony, trying to learn its complexities and achieve a perfection of movement and mood that few can master. With insight and beauty she describes her first uncertain steps following the Way of Tea as a college student, through to her gradual discovery of freedom within the very rules that once seemed to hold her back. At each phase of her unfolding life, she began to understand that the Tea Ceremony was always there to remind her that simply being present in the moment is enough.

The Wisdom of Tea is a distillation of the life lessons she learned over a quarter of a century, from girlhood to adulthood. It is a book of deep wisdom and inspiration, but also a fascinating insight into an ancient ceremony.

About the Author Noriko Morishita was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1956. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women's University. While still an undergraduate, she began working as a reporter, gathering stories for Shukan Asahi magazine's popular Dekigotology column. Since publishing her experiences researching the column in the 1987 book Nori-yakko Dosue, she has enjoyed a flourishing career as an essayist and reporter. Morishita's books include Nori-yakko perushawan o yuku, Zense e no boken: runesansu no tensai chokokuka o otte, and Itoshii tabemono.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781741758146 Format: Dimensions: 208x153mm Extent: 300 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Cookery / food & drink etc Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Japan

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Daddy Cool: Finding my father, the singer who swapped Hollywood fame for home in Australia Darleen Bungey

A captivating, generous and exquisitely written memoir of family and a daughter discovering her father's multi- layered life

Description 'Every family has secrets. Ours also has an award-winning biographer. My sister's discoveries astonished me.' Geraldine Brooks

Who can ever truly know their parents? He was a glamorous heart-throb, a famous American singer performing at the Academy Awards in front of Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Clarke Cable and other stars. In the 1930s, his records were outselling Bing Crosby's. So how did he become an Australian infantryman, fighting alongside and performing for his fellow Diggers in Palestine, Beirut, Egypt and New Guinea? Why did he leave Hollywood and the ritziest hotels in California for a modest Californian bungalow in suburban Sydney? And what caused him to cease his endless drifting from one woman to another, one marriage to another, and settle with the love of his life? She was a strong Aussie woman, a talented radio broadcaster and publicity agent. Why did she take a chance on this reckless vagabond and notorious womaniser? Seeking answers, Darleen Bungey turns her forensic skills on her own family, exploring her father's multi-layered and at times tempestuous life with a truthful eye and loving heart.

'This memoir does maximum honour to the idea that each family is its own unique story. And in the case of Darleen Bungey, the tale she tells of Robert Cutter/ Lawrence Brooks, her father, is a charming and engrossing record of an exuberant, gifted, contradictory and brave man whose nationality was as varied as his gifts and who kept his daughters enriched and fascinated to the end. In an era of catastrophic family confessions, it reads like silk.' Tom Keneally Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781760529673 About the Author Format: Dimensions: 234x153mm A multiple award-winning author, Darleen Bungey's first book Arthur Boyd: A Life received the ABIA Biography of the Year Extent: 240 pages and her second, John Olsen: An Artist's Life, won the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Point Piper

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Radio Girl: The story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend David Dufty

All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.

Description As you climbed the rickety stairs of an old woolshed at Sydney harbour in 1944, you would hear a thrum of clicks and buzzes. Rows of men and women in uniforms and headsets would be tapping away vigorously at small machines, under the careful watch of their young female trainers. Presiding over the cacophony was a tiny woman, known to everyone as 'Mrs Mac', one of Australia's wartime legends.

A smart girl from a poor mining town who loved to play with her father's tools, Violet McKenzie became an electrical engineer, a pioneer of radio and a businesswoman. As the clouds of war gathered in the 1930s, she defied conventions and trained young women in Morse code, foreseeing that their services would soon be sorely needed. Always a champion of women, she was instrumental in getting Australian women into the armed forces.

Mrs Mac was adored by the thousands of young women and men she trained, and she came to be respected by the defence forces and the public too for her vision and contribution to the war effort. David Dufty brings her story to life in this heartwarming and captivating biography.

'[An] incredible and inspiring life... Dufty's new biography captures her unwavering dedication in the face of adversity.' - Professor Genevieve Bell, Australian National University

'A cracking story about the famous Australian radio engineer you've never heard of.' - Dick Smith, entrepreneur and philanthropist

Price: $29.99 $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781760876654 Format: Paperback - C format David Dufty has a PhD in psychology, and has worked as a statistician and social researcher at the University of Dimensions: 234x153mm Memphis, Newspoll, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. His book The Secret Code Breakers of Central Bureau won Extent: 312 pages the 2017 Nib Military History Prize. Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Bic2: Second World War Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Wright, ACT

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Six Capitals Updated Edition: The revolution capitalism has to have-- or can accountants save the planet? Jane Gleeson-White

An accessible, timely and fascinating account of the revolution going on in the world of finance - and how accountants really can save the planet - from the acclaimed author of Double Entry.

Description FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED

This is the story of a 21st century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants.

It is only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping emerged in medieval Italy - and it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and the environmental crisis. The changes it will wreak are profound and far-reaching. They will transform not only the way the world does business but alter the very nature of corporate capitalism.

The accounts of nations and corporations are vital to the 21st century global economy. They translate value into the language of modern times - numbers and money - in the shape of GDP and profit figures. They rule the world. But increasingly the world is coming to realise that the seemingly endless growth that capital offers us is in fact limited by the earth's resources and comes at a huge price to the planet and our own wellbeing. It simply cannot be sustained.

This revolution demands that we start accounting for nature and society. It urges us to rethink our idea of capital, insisting that the familiar categories of industrial and financial capital bequeathed by the mercantile and industrial ages be broadened to include four new categories of wealth: intellectual, human, social and natural. Incorporating them into our financial statements and GDP figures could be the only way to address the many crises we face today.

Just two years ago this revolution seemed idealistic and unlikely. Today it is unfolding at speed. 2012 was the sea-change year, in which two key initiatives took root: an international movement to transform corporate accounting, and the rise of Price: $24.99 $27.99 natural capital accounting for nations and the global economy. Six Capitals tells the story of their rise to prominence, ISBN: 9781760876784 which signals a new age in capitalism, and evaluates their promise - and their threat. Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 208x138mm Extent: 272 pages The revolution is here. But will we embrace its potential or deny its urgency? Can accountants save the planet - or will we Bic1: Social issues & processes destroy it for future generations? Bic2: Corporate finance Illustrations: Previous Titles: Praise for Double Entry: Author now living: Chippendale, NSW 'A lively history.' The New Yorker

'Entertaining and informative.' The Economist Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook: Stories, recipes and secret tips from prize-winning show cooks Liz Harfull

Delicious recipes, heart warming stories and expert cooking tips from 70 of the best show cooks from all around Australia.

Description Every year hundreds of talented amateurs devote hours to preparing entries for cookery competitions run as part of 600 or so agricultural shows across Australia. In their quest for a precious blue ribbon, they use recipes based on generations of experience and strict judging codes that demand absolute perfection.

In this follow-up to her first award-winning book, The Blue Ribbon Cookbook, Liz Harfull brings together 70 tried and true recipes from some of the country's most enthusiastic and talented show cooks. But more than that, in The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook Liz shares their heart-warming stories, and the wisdom, knowledge and generosity of spirit that brings success, even for novices. Whether it's a traditional Mixed Mustard Pickle or Madeira Cake, mouth-watering Sausage Rolls or Pumpkin Damper, Jenny's Jam Drops or Cousin Barb's Jelly Slice, there is something delicious for everyone to try.

The end results may even win you a blue ribbon!

PRAISE FOR THE BLUE RIBBON COOKBOOK

'The spirit of the Australian country show permeates the pages of this marvellously nostalgic collection of show recipes, judges' hints and vintage images.' Gourmet Traveller

'Here is race memory and the faith of the mothers rewarded - a harvest of thanks made with flour measured out in an old cup without a handle, kept in the kitchen dresser. The secret ingredient is love.' Peter Goers, Sunday Mail

Price: $34.99 $39.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781760878245 Liz Harfull is passionate about telling the stories of regional Australia, its people, communities, history and traditions. An Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x190mm award-winning rural journalist and communicator, she grew up on a small farm near Mount Gambier, which has been in Extent: 240 pages the family since the 1860s. Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Cookery / food & drink etc Illustrations: In 2006 Liz walked away from corporate life, as a director of a leading national public relations agency, to write books. Her Previous Titles: leap of faith was rewarded two years later with The Blue Ribbon Cookbook, which became a surprise best-seller. Author now living: Crafers, SA Capturing the stories and traditions of South Australian country shows and show cooks, it even took her to Paris where it won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award. Since then she has written two national best-sellers, Women of the Land and The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook, as well as Almost an Island: the Story of Robe, about her favourite season town on the windswept Limestone Coast. Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Hell Ship: The true story of the plague ship Ticonderoga, one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history Michael Veitch

The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.

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'Meticulous research. . . Veitch fleshes out a tale of courage and tragedy and brings it to life with drama, passion and detail.' Herald Sun For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better life, they believed, awaited them in Australia.

Three months later, a ghost ship crept into Port Phillip Bay flying the dreaded yellow flag of contagion. On her horrific three-month voyage, deadly typhus had erupted, killing a quarter of Ticonderoga's passengers and leaving many more desperately ill. Sharks, it was said, had followed her passage as the victims were buried at sea.

Panic struck Melbourne. Forbidden to dock at the gold-boom town, the ship was directed to a lonely beach on the far tip of the Mornington Peninsula, a place now called Ticonderoga Bay.

James William Henry Veitch was the ship's assistant surgeon, on his first appointment at sea. Among the volunteers who helped him tend to the sick and dying was a young woman from the Isle of Mull, Annie Morrison. What happened between them on that terrible voyage is a testament to human resilience, and to love.

Michael Veitch is their great-great-grandson, and Hell Ship is his brilliantly researched narrative of one of the biggest stories of its day, now all but forgotten. Broader than his own family's story, it brings to life the hardships and horrors endured by those who came by sea to seek a new life in Australia. Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781760877460 'Imaginative and vivid . . . a window onto the times, both in Britain and Australia.' The Age Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 272 pages About the Author Bic1: Maritime history Michael Veitch is an Australian comedian, broadcaster and author. His books include Flak (Pan Macmillan 2006), Fly Bic2: Illustrations: (Penguin 2009), The Forgotten Islands (Penguin 2011), 44 Days (Hachette 2016). Previous Titles: Author now living: Launching Place, VIC

Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Jacinda Ardern Michelle Duff

Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has been stellar. In 2017 she became leader of the Labour party just seven weeks before the election at which she claimed the top job.

' Michelle Duff sweeps up all the misogyny that's accompanied Ardern's career so far and show how it undermines women in politics. It's engaging, enraging, illuminating and funny.'

Description

'Sincere, intent, focused, and always readable. [This] book gets to a truth, and an understanding.' Steve Braunias, Newsroom Michelle Duff delves into Ardern's beginnings in small-town New Zealand, discovering a nose-ringed teen fighting for equality and her own identity in a devout Mormon family.

Duff tracks Ardern's political career, from being dismissed as a 'show pony' to her compassion during one of New Zealand's biggest tragedies, the Christchurch mosque terror attack of 2019. In its aftermath, Ardern has become a global icon for her strength and decisiveness while uniting a country in shock and mourning.

Ardern attracted international headlines for being the second world leader to give birth while in office. But why was having a baby so meaningful, and what does it say about the continued struggle for gender equality?

Has Ardern really been a transcendent leader, and what enduring mark might she leave on the political landscape?

This is an engrossing and powerful exploration of one of the most intriguing political stories of our time - telling us as much about one young woman's ascendancy as it does about the country that elected her.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781988547572 Michelle Duff is a highly regarded New Zealand journalist whose work has appeared in print and online media in Aotearoa Format: Paperback - C format and internationally. Duff covers social issues with a primary focus on health, maternity and sexual violence. She has a Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages background in psychology, with specialties in gender and sexuality, and writes a high-profile column for Stuff exploring Bic1: Memoirs these topics. She is a nine-time finalist at the Voyager Media Awards, most recently as part of Stuff's Me Too team, where Bic2: she exposed the predatory behaviour of a trusted family doctor. She won general feature writer of the year in 2016, for a Illustrations: Previous Titles: piece on the widening race gap in education. She has two small children. This is her first book. Author now living:

A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Address Book: What Our Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power Deirdre Mask

An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.

Description Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says about us. From the chronological numbers of Tokyo to the naming of Bobby Sands Street in Iran, she explores how our address - or lack of one - expresses our politics, culture and technology. It affects our health and wealth, and it can even affect the working of our brains.

From Ancient Rome to Kolkata today, from cholera epidemics to tax hungry monarchs, Mask discovers the different ways street names are created, celebrated, and in some cases, banned. Filled with fascinating people and histories, this incisive, entertaining book shows how addresses are about identity, class and race. But most of all they are about power: the power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn't, and why.

About the Author Deirdre Mask graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude, and attended the University of Oxford before returning to Harvard for law school, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She completed a master's in writing at the National University of Ireland. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. Originally from North Carolina, she has taught at Harvard and the London School of Economics.

Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781781259009 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop Adam Kucharski

The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.

Description Why do some ideas take off - and others fail to spread? Why are some diseases predictable, and others swamped in uncertainty? And what about the outbreaks that never happen at all?

We live in a world that's more connected than ever before. But even as we see our lives being shaped by the spread of ideas, trends - and even diseases - we sometimes struggle to grasp how it actually works. Outbreaks seem to be driven by randomness and hidden laws, and in order to understand them, we need to start thinking like mathematicians.

Here, epidemiologist Adam Kucharski reveals how new mathematical approaches are transforming what we know about contagion - from the revolutionary initiatives that helped tackle gun violence in Chicago to the truth behind the spread of fake news. And along the way, he'll explain how innovations and emotions can spread through our friendship networks, what STDs can tell us about banking, and why some outbreak predictions go badly wrong.

About the Author Adam Kucharski is an associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, working on global outbreaks such as the Ebola epidemic and the Zika virus. He is a TED fellow and winner of the 2016 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture and the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. He has written for the Observer, Financial Times, Scientific American, and New Statesman. He is the author of The Perfect Bet: How Science and Maths Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling.

Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781788160193 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Mathematics & science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Idea of the Brain: A History Matthew Cobb

The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. Here's how we found out what we know so far.

Description We've been trying to make sense of the link between our minds and our bodies since the very dawn of civilisation. Now the pace is hotting up.

Join the biologist and historian Matthew Cobb (Life's Greatest Secret) to explore the weird theories, blasphemous experiments and terrifying operating theatres that got us here, to the cusp of revelation.

Written with ambition and verve and rooted in a solid scientific explanation of the issues, The Idea of the Brain spans the centuries to reveal how the lives and works of a parade of philosophers, surgeons, mystics and neuroscientists have shaped the way we understand ourselves at the most profound level. From primitive dissections to the latest complex computational models of brain function, Cobb charts the course of this continuing quest, and prepares us for the astonishing discoveries to come.

About the Author Matthew Cobb is Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behaviour, and the history of science. In 2008, he won the Zoological Society of London award for Communicating Science. His previous books include Life's Greatest Secret:The Race to Discover the Genetic Code, which was shortlisted for the the Royal Society Winton Book Prize, and the acclaimed histories The Resistance: The French Fight against the Nazis and Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944. He is also the award-winning translator of books on the history of molecular biology, on Darwin's ideas and on the nature of life.

Price: $59.99 $69.99 ISBN: 9781781255896 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition Cathy Park Hong

A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by award-winning poet Cathy Park Hong.

Description What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they're told about their own racial identity?

For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings".

The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche - and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth.

About the Author Cathy Park Hong has written three books of poetry, and has received some of the most prestigious fellowships for her writing: the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her essays have been cited by Claudia Rankine, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Ben Lerner, and have been called 'groundbreaking' (Granta) and the 'cornerstone of contemporary criticism' (Ploughshares).

Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781788165587 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Social discrimination & inequality Bic2: Social mobility Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Persecution of the Templars: Scandal, Torture, Trial Alain Demurger, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

The definitive account of history's most infamous trial, following the doomed Order from scandal to suppression.

Description The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts and more.

This book follows the everyday reality of the trial, from the early days of scandal and scheming in 1305, via torture, imprisonment and the dissolution of the order, to 1314, when leaders Jacques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charnay were burned at the stake. Through first-hand testimony and written records of the interrogations of 231 French Templars, this book illuminates the stories of hundreds of ordinary members, some of whom testified at the trial, as well as the many others who denied the charges or retracted their confessions.

A deeply researched and immersive account that gives a striking vision of the relentless persecution, and the oft- underestimated resistance, of the once-mighty Knights Templar.

About the Author Alain Demurger is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris, and France's foremost specialist in the history of the Crusades and the Military Orders. His books on the subject have become required reading, including The Last Templar, published by Profile [9781861975539] and translated into a dozen languages.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781781257869 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Medieval history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Gods of Management: The Four Cultures of Leadership Charles B. Handy

The essential handbook for understanding management styles and finding your own.

Description It has always been a myth that there is one best way to manage - but it has been a pervasive myth and a damaging one, to both individuals and organisations. Alongside the most successful leaders in history, we can find a new story in the timeless wisdom of the Ancient Greeks. They recognised a variety of gods and, Charles Handy shows, this productive diversity should be reflected in management too.

In this classic of business thinking, Handy draws on decades of experience and the Greek gods to illuminate the different styles of management found in businesses and organisations. Whether the dynamic entrepreneurial spirit of Zeus, or the task-oriented focus of Athena, each god demonstrates the different values and culture that a leader can create. Successful leaders will learn how to cultivate these qualities, work to their teams' strengths and use the importance of culture to foster a productive and happy workplace.

About the Author Charles Handy is a writer and broadcaster, following careers as an economist, Professor at the London Business School (which he co-founded) and a consultant to a wide variety of organizations. He is widely regarded as the top 'business guru' in the UK, and has been rated as one of Thinkers 50, the most influential management thinkers.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788165624 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Business & management Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Business AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Diary of a Pint-Sized Farmer: A Year of Keeping Sheep, Raising Kids and Staying Sane Sally Urwin

Hilarious and honest, Sally Urwin takes us through the highs and lows of a year on her farm.

Description Sally Urwin and her husband Steve own High House Farm in Northumberland, which they share with two kids, Mavis the Sheepdog, one very Fat Pony, and many, many sheep. Set in a beautiful, wild landscape, and in use for generations, it's perfect for Sally's honest and charming account of farming life.

From stock sales to lambing sheds, out in the fields in driving snow and on hot summer days, Diary of a Pint-Sized Farmer reveals the highs, lows and hard, hard work involved in making a living from the land. Filled with grit and humour, newborn lambs and local characters, this is the perfect book for anyone who has ever wondered what it's like on the other side of the fence.

'I am going to do the whole bloody lambing. I'm going to lamb all the lambs. I imagine myself lean and strong, with thin thighs, in attractive waterproof overalls, striding through the lambing shed like I own it. I spend the rest of the evening searching through eBay for waterproof trousers, short leg, size 14, that don't look like a pair of plastic bags stitched together at the crotch.'

About the Author Sally Urwin is (probably) the shortest farmer in England and lives with her family and a lot of sheep in Northumberland. She used to work in the most depressing job in the world - marketing manager for a bankruptcy practitioner - but made a bid for freedom after nabbing farmer Steve from the Dating Direct website in 2001.

www.sallyurwin.com @pintsizedfarmer

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788160704 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Agriculture & farming Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World's Wild Places Jeremy Purseglove

How do we work with nature rather than against it, both harvesting and conserving? The environmentalist Jeremy Purseglove shares a lifetime of experience.

Description From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature and protect it - in effect, gardening on a global scale. It is also a memoir of encounters with larger-than-life characters such as William Bunting, the gun-toting saviour of Yorkshire's peatlands and the aristocratic gardener Vita Sackville-West, examining their idiosyncratic approaches to conservation.

Jeremy Purseglove explains clearly and convincingly why it's not a good idea to extract as many resources as possible, whether it's the demand for palm oil currently denuding the forests of Borneo, cottonfield irrigation draining the Aral Sea, or monocrops spreading across Britain. The pioneer of engineering projects to preserve nature and landscape, first in Britain and then around the world, he offers fresh insights and solutions at each step.

About the Author Jeremy Purseglove was born in Africa and grew up in Singapore, Trinidad and Kent. Working as an environmentalist in the water industry, he helped pioneer a new approach to reducing floods which also preserved the beauty of rivers. This culminated in a TV series and influential book, Taming the Flood, first published in 1986 and revised in 2017. In 1989 he joined an engineering consultancy, where he worked around the world with engineers to promote practical development while enhancing wetlands, forests and flower-rich meadows.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788161602 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Natural & wild gardening Bic2: Conservation of wildlife & habitats Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic: 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible The Moth

50 extraordinary new stories from The Moth.

Description Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth recaptures this lost each week in cities across America, Britain, Australia and beyond, playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events.

Occasional Magic is a selection of 50 of the finest Moth stories from recent shows, from storytellers who found the courage to face their deepest fears. The stories feature voices familiar and new. Alongside Neil Gaiman, Adam Gopnik, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, and Cristina Lamb, there are stories from around the world describing moments of strength, passion, courage and humour - and when a little magic happened.

In finest Moth tradition, Occasional Magic encourages us all to be more open, vulnerable and alive.

About the Author The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. They run story slams across the US, Britain, Ireland and Australia.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781781256671 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: True stories Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back Mark O'Connell

Veteran worrier, author of To Be a Machine and father of two, Mark O'Connell, meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich who are preparing for the end of days.

Description From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world

In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready.

They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it.

Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O'Connell set out to meet them.

About the Author Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine (Granta 2017), which won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017. He lives in Dublin with his family. He writes for The Guardian, Slate, The New York Times and The Millions.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781783786374 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O'Connell

An exploration of transhumanism: the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human machine.

Description Winner 2018 Wellcome Prize

What is transhumanism?

Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better, than the animals we are. It's a philosophy that, depending on how you look at it, can seem hopeful, or terrifying, or absurd. In To Be a Machine, Mark O'Connell presents us with the first full-length exploration of transhumanism: its philosophical and scientific roots, its key players and possible futures. From charismatic techies seeking to enhance the body to immortalists who believe in the possibility of 'solving' death; from computer programmers quietly re-designing the world to vast competitive robotics conventions; To Be a Machine is an Adventure in Wonderland for our time.

To Be a Machine paints a vivid portrait of an international movement driven by strange and frequently disturbing ideas and practices, but whose obsession with transcending human limitations can be seen as a kind of cultural microcosm, a radical intensification of our broader faith in the power of technology as an engine of human progress. It is a character study of human eccentricity, and a meditation on the immemorial desire to transcend the basic facts of our animal existence - a desire as primal as the oldest religions, a story as old as the earliest literary texts.

A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind?

About the Author Price: $22.99 $24.99 Mark O'Connell is a journalist, essayist, and literary critic from Dublin. He is a books columnist for Slate, a staff writer at ISBN: 9781783781980 The Millions, and a regular contributor to the New Yorker's 'Page-Turner' blog and the Dublin Review; his work has been Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm published in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and the Observer. Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Mathematics & science Bic2: Literature: history & criticism Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Granta 151: Membranes Rana Dasgupta

Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new writing and art. This special issue is guest-edited by award-winning writer Rana Dasgupta.

Description Membranes - porous biological interfaces which regulate flows between one zone and another - are the foundational image for an issue guest-edited by Granta contributor and best-selling novelist Rana Dasgupta.

Featuring new poetry from Andrew McMillan and Tishani Doshi, photography from Ruchir Joshi, Arturo Soto Gutierrez, Monica de la Torre and Anita Khemka, as well as cutting-edge fiction and thought-provoking essays:

Fatin Abbas on the border between Sudan and South Sudan Lydia Davis on faultlines in families Mark Doty on homelessness in New York City Anouchka Grose on infidelity and the idea of the unwanted third Daisy Hildyard on membranes in the human body Adam Jasper on Christian Enzensberger and 'smut' Kapka Kassabova on lakes and Europe Anita Roy on the newt Eyal Weizman on contemporary architectural strategies for repelling and dividing people

About the Author Rana Dasgupta is an award-winning, best-selling writer. His novels include Tokyo Cancelled and Solo, winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His non-fiction book Capital won the 2017 Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781909889323 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Anthologies (non-poetry) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future Beth Gardiner

The landmark book on air pollution: a major threat to the health and longevity of each and every one of us

Description Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, premature birth and dementia, among other ailments.

In Choked, Beth Gardiner travels the world to meet the scientists who have transformed our understanding of pollution's effects on the human body, and to trace the economic forces and political decisions that have allowed it to remain at life- threatening levels. But she also focuses on real-world solutions, and on inspiring stories of people fighting for a healthier future. Compellingly written, and alive with the personalities of the people who study, breathe and fight bad air, Choked is a vital contribution on one of the most important - but too often ignored - issues of our time.

About the Author In her more than twenty years as a journalist, Beth Gardiner's work has been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, National Geographic and the Washington Post, and she is a former long-time Associated Press reporter. She has appeared on the BBC, Sky News, ITV and LBC talk radio.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781846276477 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Pollution & threats to the environment Bic2: Popular science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.

Description Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm (author of Reading Chekhov, The Journalist and the Murderer and In the Freud Archives) examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame, to discover how Plath became an enigma in literary history. The Silent Woman is a brilliant, elegantly reasoned inquiry into the nature of biography, dispelling our innocence as readers, as well as shedding a light onto why Plath's legend continues to exert such a hold on our imaginations.

About the Author Janet Malcolm's books include Reading Chekhov, In the Freud Archives, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York, where she now lives.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783786237 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Biography: literary Bic2: Literary studies: from c 1900 - Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity Julia Cameron

A lavish new hardback edition of the multi-million copy bestseller: discover your innate creativity with The Artist's Way.

Description 'Julia Cameron invented the way people renovate the creative soul' - New York Times

Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron guides readers in uncovering problems and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to free up any areas where they might be stuck, opening up opportunities for self-growth and self-discovery.

The program begins with Cameron's most vital tools for creative recovery - The Morning Pages, a daily writing ritual of three pages of stream-of-conscious, and The Artist Date, a dedicated block of time to nurture your inner artist. From there, she shares hundreds of exercises, activities, and prompts to help readers thoroughly explore each chapter. She also offers guidance on starting a 'Creative Cluster' of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavours.

A revolutionary program for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.

About the Author Julia Cameron has had a remarkable career, which in turn has given remarkable help to others. An award-winning poet, playwright, and filmmaker, she has written thirty books, from crime to children's poems and prayers. She has written films, plays, musicals, a memoir, and her journalism credits include Rolling Stone and the New York Times. But she is best known for her transformative works on creativity, from The Artist's Way, which has sold more than four million copies worldwide, to The Vein of Gold, and many more. She teaches in person and online. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

www.juliacameronlive.com Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781788164283 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 237x198mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Theory of art Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Menopause: The One-Stop Guide: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Dealing with the Menopause Kathy Abernethy

A practical guide to understanding and living with the menopause.

Description The menopause is a natural event, but for many women it represents a time of hormonal upheaval and uncomfortable symptoms. It can happen at any age, and the journey through it may feel a bit rocky.

Menopause: The One-Stop Guide explains the changes which are occurring and advises on steps one can take to make life easier during this time of change. With clear and sensible information about recognising symptoms, getting help, treatment and staying positive, this guide will help those who are going through menopause, and family members who wish to better understand and offer their support.

This book evaluates the best approaches to the menopause and offers women all the information they need to determine whether medication, holistic remedies or other forms of treatment will work best for them, and helps them to take charge of their health.

Kathy Abernethy is the chair of the British Menopause Society with over 20 years of clinical experience.

About the Author Kathy Abernethy works as part of an award-winning menopause team in London and at a private clinic in South West London. She holds a Masters degree in reproductive women's health and speaks and writes regularly on the topic of menopause. She has authored a book for nurses on Menopause and HRT as well as numerous articles which have appeared in Woman's Weekly, Now, Essentials, Saga and Yours magazines. Kathy raises awareness of the impact of menopause at work by delivering workplace sessions to staff and managers of various organisations throughout the UK and in 2017, was elected as chair of the British Menopause Society, the lead professional organisation for those working in menopause. www.kathyabernethy.com Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788165389 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Personal & public health Bic2: Women's health Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Denial of Death Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker tackles our relationship to mortality and searches for alternative ways to live.

Description Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality.

The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.

In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.

About the Author Ernest Becker was born in Massachusetts to Jewish immigrant parents. After completing military service, in which he served in the infantry and helped to liberate a Nazi concentration camp, he attended Syracuse University in New York. In his early 30s, he returned to Syracuse University to pursue graduate studies in cultural anthropology. The first of his nine books, Zen: A Rational Critique was published in 1961. He died in 1974 at the age of 49, two months before he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Denial of Death. After his death, the Ernest Becker Foundation was founded, using Becker's ideas to support research in science, the humanities, social action and religion.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788164269 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Popular psychology Bic2: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar Oliver Craske

The first full biography of Ravi Shankar, India's most important cultural figure of the past century.

Description Over eight decades, Ravi Shankar was India's greatest cultural ambassador who took Indian classical music to the world's leading concert halls and festivals, charting the map for those who followed. Renowned for his association with The Beatles - teaching George Harrison sitar - Shankar turning the Sixties generation on to Indian music, astonishing the crowds at Woodstock, Monterey Pop and the Concert for Bangladesh with his virtuosity. He radically reshaped jazz and Western classical music as well as writing film scores, including Pather Panchali and Gandhi, and transformed awareness of Indian culture in the process.

Indian Sun is the first biography of Ravi Shankar. Benefitting from unprecedented access to family archives, Oliver Craske paints a vivid picture of a captivating, restless workaholic, who lived a passionate and extraordinary life - from his childhood in his brother's dance troupe, through intensive study of the sitar, to his revival of the national music scene; and from the 1950s, a pioneering international career that ultimately made his name synonymous with India.

About the Author Alongside a career as a publisher of books on music and art, Oliver Craske has pursued a longstanding interest in Indian music, and was appointed to work with Ravi Shankar as the ghostwriter of his autobiography Raga Mala (1997), carrying out over 30 hours of interviews, and forming a close bond for the last eighteen years of his life. Shankar encouraged him to write his full story after his death. He is curatorial consultant to London's Southbank Centre for their exhibition on Ravi Shankar, which will run from January to June 2020. He has visited India frequently over the past two decades, and is a student of North Indian classical vocal music under Chandrima Misra at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London.

Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571350858 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 656 pages Bic1: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Music AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 wow, no thank you. Samantha Irby

A global publication with major impact: do what you can to get your hands on this new collection from bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and one of the funniest people in print: Samantha Irby.

Description Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thought. Recently, things are more 'Girls Gone Mild.' In Wow, No Thank You Irby discusses the actual nightmare of living in a rural idyll, weighs in on body negativity (loving yourself is a full-time job with shitty benefits) and poses the essential question: Sure sex is fun but have you ever googled a popular meme?

About the Author Samantha Irby is a New York Times-bestselling author and writes the blog bitches gotta eat.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571359264 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Literary essays Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life Samantha Irby

Outrageously hilarious essays from the blogger behind Bitches Gotta Eat.

Description 'The second book of essays from this frank and madly funny blogger ... A side-splitting polemicist for the most awful situations.' - Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Summer Reading Pick

'From the blogger behind Bitches Gotta Eat comes a seriocomic essay collection that will have you crying from laughter and then just crying. A boisterous medley of awkward sex, pop culture obsession and coming-of-age.' - Oprah.com

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire.

With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., 'bitches gotta eat' blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making 'adult' budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette - she's '35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something' - detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes, sharing awkward sexual encounters, or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms - hang in there for the Costco loot - she's as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.

About the Author Samantha Irby writes a blog called 'bitches gotta eat.'

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571349814 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Lost, Found, Remembered Lyra McKee

A memorial collection of writings by the murdered young journalist Lyra McKee - from viral articles to unpublished material - that celebrates her life, work and creative legacy: one that will live on.

Description When the Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee was murdered in Derry in April 2019 aged just 29, she was survived by her articles that had been read and loved by thousands worldwide.

This memorial anthology will weave together the pieces that defined her reputation as one of the most important and formidable investigative journalists of her generation. It showcases the expansive breadth of McKee's voice by bringing together unpublished material alongside both her celebrated and lesser-known articles.

Released in time for the anniversary of her death, it reveals the sheer scope of McKee's intellectual, political, and radically humane engagement with the world - and lets her spirit live on in her own words.

About the Author Lyra McKee was born in 1990 in Belfast. She won Sky News' Young Journalists Award in 2006 and became an investigative reporter, writing for numerous newspapers, magazines and websites. She was featured as one of Forbes' 30 under 30 and a rising literary star by the Irish Times. Lyra McKee was fatally shot during rioting in Derry on the 18th April 2019. At the time of her death,she was working on a piece of investigative journalism entitled The Lost Boys which is not yet ready for publication, but remains under review with Faber and those closest to her.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571351442 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Religion & politics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Where the Wild Mums Are Katie Blackburn

A charming and very funny tribute to the children's classic, to appeal to mums everywhere.

Description The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . .

In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and try to entice her to join their conga . . . But Mum has just remembered who she loves best of all . . .

Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers, new mums - or any mum who's ever wanted to go on strike.

About the Author Katie Blackburn lives in London with her husband and young son. This is her first book and is dedicated to all mothers, but most especially her own mum, with thanks and admiration.

Price: $19.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571321513 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 188x210mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 This searing light, the sun and everything else: Joy Division: The Oral History Jon Savage

A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, Jon Savage's magisterial oral history is the last word on Joy Division.

Description The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller #1 Book of the Year, UNCUT #1 Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADE A Book of the Year, MOJO

Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the wake of the war and entering a phase of huge social and physical change, and something of this spirit made its way into the DNA of the band. Over the course of two albums, a handful of other seminal releases, and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life.

In This searing light, the sun and everything else, Jon Savage has assembled three decades worth of interviews with the principle players in the Joy Division story: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Deborah Curtis, Peter Saville, Tony Wilson, Paul Morley, Alan Hempsall, Lesley Gilbert, Terry Mason, Anik Honore, and many more. It is the story of how a band resurrected a city, how they came together in circumstances that are both accidental and extraordinary, and how their music galvanised a generation of fans, artists and musicians. It is a classic story of how young men armed with electric guitars and good taste in literature can change the world with four chords and three-and-a-half minutes of music. And it is the story of how illness and demons can rob the world of a shamanic lead singer and visionary lyricist.

This searing light, the sun and everything else presents the history of Joy Division in an intimate and candid way, as orchestrated by the lodestar of British music writing, Jon Savage.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 About the Author ISBN: 9780571350636 Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: The "Sex Pistols" and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm 1875 - 1945. He has written sleevenotes for Wire, St. Etienne and the Pet Shop Boys, among others, and his Extent: 336 pages compilations include: Meridian 1970 (Heavenly/EMI 2005); Queer Noises: From the Closest to the Charts 1961 - 1976 Bic1: Music reviews & criticism (Trikont 2006); and Dreams Come True: Classic Electro 1982-87 (Domino 2008). His most recent book is 1966: The Year Bic2: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups The Decade Exploded. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Coltrane: The Story of a Sound Ben Ratliff

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Description A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as John Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for The New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and controversial music pioneer. As well as an elegant narrative of Coltrane's life Ratliff does something incredibly valuable - he writes about the saxophonist's unique sound.

About the Author Ben Ratliff, son of American and British parents, is the jazz critic of The New York Times and is the author of Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571359813 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Jazz Bic2: Biography: arts & entertainment Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Art Sex Music Cosey Fanni Tutti

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Description A SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, ROUGH TRADE, PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Musician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions for four decades. As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle, as one half of electronic pioneers Chris and Cosey, and as an artist channelling her experience in pornographic modelling and striptease, her work on the margins has come to reshape the mainstream. Shocking, wise and life-affirming, Art Sex Music is the fascinating memoir of an inspirational woman.

About the Author Cosey Fanni Tutti whose career began in 1969 is a respected artist and musician of worldwide renown - for her Art, her work in the sex industry, as co-founder of Industrial music and Throbbing Gristle, and her pioneering electronic music as 'Chris & Cosey' and 'Carter Tutti'.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571359776 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music Nicholas Dawidoff

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Description A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

In his critically acclaimed book, In the Country of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff travels to the origins of country music and talks to the musicians who created this original American art form. Here, amongst others, are indelible portraits of Johnny Cash, behind whose black apparel lies a Faustian dilemma; Merle Haggard, a man as elusive as he is gifted; and Patsy Cline, a lonely figure striding out bravely in a male-dominated world. An exhilarating journey from Maces Springs, Virginia to Bakersfield, California, In the Country of Country conveys the spirit and passion that informs country music and confirms Dawidoff's reputation as one of the most gifted cultural commentators of his generation.

About the Author Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg and In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, and is the editor of the Library of America's Baseball: A Literary Anthology. He is also a contributor to The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and The New York Times Magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy. He and his wife live in New York.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571359806 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Country & Western music Bic2: Music: styles & genres Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco Peter Shapiro

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Description A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re- defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade.

Featuring artists such as Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank Grasso, Turn the Beat Around illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.

About the Author Peter Shapiro writes for The Wire and lives in New York. Turn the Beat Around is his first book.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571359820 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head Rob Chapman

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Description A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Syd Barrett was the lead guitarist, vocalist, and principle songwriter in the original line up of Pink Floyd. During his brief time with the band (1966-68) he was the driving force behind the unit. After he left the band he made just two further solo albums which were both released in 1970, before withdrawing from public view to lead a quiet, and occasionally troubled life in Cambridge, the town of his birth.

Rob Chapman's book is the first authoritative and exhaustively researched biography of Syd Barrett that fully celebrates his life and legacy as a musician, lyricist and artist, and which highlights the influence that he continues to have over contemporary bands and music fans alike.

About the Author Rob Chapman is currently the holder of a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at The University of Manchester. He was for a long time a freelance radio broadcaster with the BBC national network and a music journalist. His work has appeared in Mojo ,The Times, The Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Word and Jockey Slut. He is the author of Selling the Sixties: The Pirates and Pop Music Radio (1992), The Vinyl Junkyard (1996) and the acclaimed biography Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head (2010). His first novel Dusk Music was published in 2008. He lives in Todmorden, Lancashire.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571359783 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Popular culture Bic2: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made Mark Townsend

A gripping true crime account of radicalisation in Britain - and how it can be prevented.

Description Five teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold story.

No Return is a unique insight into a hidden Britain, based on true events that so shocked intelligence experts they are now the Home Office's lead case study into youth radicalisation.

Drawing on a cache of leaked classified documents and unprecedented access to all the main players, award-winning investigative journalist Mark Townsend reveals the shocking truth behind what drew these young Britons to martyrdom in a foreign land. The end result is a fast-paced and powerfully gripping true crime account of radicalisation - and how it can be prevented.

About the Author Mark Townsend is the Home Affairs editor of the Observer. His Guardian Long Read on the subject of the book was shortlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize, and he was named News Reporter of the Year at the 2018 Press Awards.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781783351817 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Terrorism, armed struggle Bic2: Violence in society Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Guardian Books AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Accidental Countryside: Hidden Havens for Britain's Wildlife Stephen Moss

The fascinating and remarkably uplifting story of how Britain's wildlife has co-opted the most unlikely corners of our manmade landscape, turning them into teeming havens of (un)natural beauty.

Description In The Accidental Countryside, author and naturalist Stephen Moss makes a journey of discovery through Britain, in search of the hidden corners where wildlife survives against the odds.

From Shetland's Iron Age stone structures to London's most modern skyscrapers, and from lowly railway cuttings to ornate stately gardens, Moss reveals the unlikely oases where wildlife thrives in areas originally created for human purposes.

The result is a surprising and uplifting story of how we have influenced the landscape and wildlife of these crowded islands; and how wildlife has taken advantage of us - even when we least expected it.

About the Author Stephen Moss is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and author. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain. His books include The Robin, A Bird in the Bush, The Bumper Book of Nature, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds and Wild Kingdom. He is also Senior Lecturer in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. Originally from London, he lives with his family on the Somerset Levels, and is President of the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781783351640 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 204x153mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Wildlife: general interest Bic2: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Guardian Books AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance Adharanand Finn

An electrifying and inspiring account of one of the toughest sports in the world.

Description 'Finn has written the definitive book on ultra running today. I couldn't put it down.' - Dean Karnazes

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Marathons are no longer enough. Pain is to be relished, not avoided. Hallucinations are normal.

Ultra running defies conventional logic. Yet this most brutal and challenging sport is now one of the fastest-growing in the world. Why is this? Is it an antidote to modern life, or a symptom of a modern illness?

Adharanand Finn travelled to the heart of the sport to find out - and to see if he could become an ultra runner himself. His journey took him from the deserts of Oman to the snow-capped peaks of the Rockies, and on to his ultimate goal, the 105-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc.

The Rise of the Ultra Runners is the electrifying, inspirational account of what he learned along the way. Through encounters with the sport's many colourful characters and his experiences of its soaring highs and crushing lows, Finn offers an unforgettable insight into what can be found at the boundaries of human endeavour.

About the Author Adharanand Finn is the author of Running with the Kenyans (2012) and The Way of the Runner (2015). The first of these was the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year, won Best New Writer at the British Sports Book Awards and was Price: $22.99 $24.99 shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Award. He is a journalist at the Guardian and also writes regularly for the ISBN: 9781783351336 Financial Times, the Independent, Runner's World, Men's Health and many others. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 1x1mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Marathon & cross-country running Bic2: Sports psychology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Guardian Books AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Department of Mind-Blowing Theories: Science Cartoons Tom Gauld

A hilarious new collection poking fun at the scientific world, from The New York Times bestselling cartoonist and illustrator.

Description 'Tom Gauld is always funny, but he's funny in a way that makes you feel smarter. Which is especially useful when he's being funny about science' Neil Gaiman

A dog philosopher questions what it really means to be a 'good boy'. A virtual assistant and a robot-cleaner elope. The undiscovered species and the theoretical particle face existential despair.

Just as he did with writers, poets and literary classics in Baking with Kafka, Gauld now does with hapless scientists, nanobots, and puzzling theorems - with comic strips funny enough to engage science boffins and novices alike.

About the Author Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire. He is a cartoonist and illustrator with weekly comic strips in The Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in The New York Times and on the cover of The New Yorker. In addition to his graphic novels, Goliath, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Mooncop (a New York Times bestseller) and Baking with Kafka (winner of Best Humour Publication at the 2018 Eisner Awards), he has designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.

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Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781786898050 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 156x209mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Humour collections & anthologies Bic2: Cartoons & comic strips Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Baking with Kafka Tom Gauld

The new collection from multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld - the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.

Description In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get published during a skeleton apocalypse? - What was the secret of Kafka's lemon drizzle cake? - And what plot possibilities does the exploding e-cigarette offer modern mystery writers?

A riotous collection of laugh-out-loud cartoons in his signature style, Baking with Kafka reaffirms Gauld's position as a first-rate cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

About the Author Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is a cartoonist and illustrator and his work is regularly published in the The Guardian, The New York Times and New Scientist. He has created a number of comic books. He lives in London with his family.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781786891501 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 156x209mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Radical Acts of Love: How We Find Hope at the End of Life Janie Brown

A profoundly moving account of an oncology nurse's conversations with the dying.

Description In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse of thirty years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying; including those personally close to her. Each conversation uncovers a different perspective on, and experience of, death, while at the same time exploring its universalities.

As well as offering an extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown offers practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful; from fear to acceptance; from feeling disconnected and alone, to becoming part of the wider, collective story of all our mortality.

About the Author Janie Brown was born in Scotland and has a Masters in Psychology at St. Andrews University, and a Masters in Nursing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has worked for more than thirty years as an oncology nurse and counsellor, and in 1995 founded the Callanish Society, a grassroots non-profit organisation for people living with, and dying from, cancer, based in Vancouver (callanish.org). She presents nationally and internationally, has published in professional journals, and writes a widely-read blog.

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Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781786899026 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Coping with death & bereavement Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 On Making Art & Being an Artist Kent Nerburn

Guidance and wisdom for young artists, from award-winning artist and writer Kent Nerburn.

Description A rallying cry for artists.

When Kent Nerburn received a letter from a young woman questioning a life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own youth. So Nerburn resolved that he would write his own letter: one of welcome and encouragement to all young artists setting out on the same strange and magical journey, sharing the wisdom of a life spent working in the arts.

From struggles with money and the bitterness of rejection, to spiritual questions of inspiration and authenticity, On Making Art & Being an Artist offers insight, solace and courage to help young artists on the winding road to creative fulfilment. Tender and joyous, it is a celebration of art's power to transform the human experience.

About the Author Kent Nerburn is a sculptor and award-winning author of sixteen books. He has been writing about Native American history and culture for almost thirty years, and is the founder and director of 'Project Preserve', working on the Red Lake Ojibwe reservation helping students collect memoires of tribal elders. He lives in Portland, Oregon. kentnerburn.com

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786891174 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Prose: non-fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Five Rules for Rebellion: Let's Change the World Ourselves Sophie Walker

5 rules for rebellion from the Founding Leader of the Women's Equality Party.

Description 'As it becomes depressingly clear that those presently in power are not taking the urgent action required on climate change, poverty and inequality, we must ourselves take action wherever and whenever we can. This book - by one of the most visionary women I have ever met - will tell you how.' - Actor, screenwriter and activist, Emma Thompson

Five Rules for Rebellion is an inspiring handbook for future rebels and revolutionaries - women who are fed up and disempowered but uncertain of where to begin. Sophie Walker, a long-time activist and journalist turned political party leader and 'modern-day suffragette' (Evening Standard), offers us the alternative, with a 5-step journey to incorporating activism into our lives.

Featuring tips from a number of leading activists, and drawing on Sophie's own experiences, this book teaches us to see activism as a positive lifelong learning experience, rather than a series of pitched battles. From escaping the numbing effects of despair, to learning how to channel our anger, arming ourselves with hope, engaging with differing views compassionately, and enduring in the face of challenges, we'll see how to convert our confusion and impatience into a force for good.

About the Author Sophie Walker is a feminist activist, founding leader of the Women's Equality Party, and recently-appointed chief executive of Young Women's Trust, the charity representing and supporting women aged 18-30 who are living on no or low pay. She is passionate about rebuilding society for and with (extra)ordinary women. She stood for London Mayor in 2016, winning a quarter of a million votes, and in 2017 stood for election to Parliament on a manifesto of equal pay, investment in care and an end to violence against women. She has debated #MeToo with Germaine Greer, Trump's presidency with Piers Morgan and gender roles with Jordan Peterson. She was named by Vogue in 2018 as one of the 'New Suffragettes' and is a regular contributor to broadcast and print media on the subject of women's rights, representation and rebellion. She is a long-term campaigner for disability rights and worked for 20 years as an Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781785786037 international reporter. In her spare time she is a keen runner. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Political activism Bic2: Feminism & feminist theory Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey Roger Morgan-Grenville

Two men decide to become beekeepers, learning about nature and about themselves in the process.

Description After a chance meeting in the pub, Roger Morgan-Grenville and his friend Duncan decide to take up beekeeping. Their enthusiasm matched only by their ignorance, they are pitched into an arcane world of unexpected challenges.

Coping with many setbacks along the way, they manage to create a colony of beehives, finishing two years later with more honey than anyone knows what to do with. By standing back from their normal lives and working with the cycle of the seasons, they emerge with a new-found understanding of nature and a respect for the honeybee and the threats it faces.

Wryly humorous and surprisingly moving, Liquid Gold is the story of a friendship between two unlikely men at very different stages of their lives. It is also an uplifting account of the author's own midlife journey: coming to terms with an empty nest, getting older, looking for something new.

About the Author Roger Morgan-Grenville was a soldier in the Royal Green Jackets from 1978 to 1986. After leaving the army he ran a small company developing kitchenware. In 2007, he helped to set up the charity Help for Heroes. This is his fourth book.

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781785786051 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Wildlife: general interest Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Things My Mother Taught Me Claire Halliday

How did you become the person you are today?

Description Lessons learned from the first key person in our lives - our mother - can set the course for the lives we will lead. A mother can be nurturing, inspiring, difficult; she guides us in our growth, she teaches us about the world. And all the while she is her own person. For everyone, that critical relationship - whether it is positive and loving or scarred with bitterness - leaves a huge impression.

In Things My Mother Taught Me, a diverse range of Australian identities share their personal stories. Within these pages are mature reflections on how a mother shapes, nurtures, and complicates a life. Reflections on how each of these prominent people would not be who they are today if it weren't for this unique relationship. These are stories of fondness, gratitude, respect and regret. They are insights into an area of human experience where small moments can have a large and lasting impact.

About the Author Claire Halliday is an experienced journalist, copywriter, and author.

Price: $29.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781760069995 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Family & relationships Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Echo AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages Phyllis Rose

'I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had found this book earlier.' - The New York Times

Description In Parallel Lives, Phyllis Rose examines five famous Victorian marriages. Raising questions about the politics of sex and the expectations of marriage, she probes inherited myths and assumptions. Of the five marriages - or parallel lives - explored here, that of John Ruskin and Effie Gray was unconsummated, those of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh and John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor were almost certainly chaste, the Dickenses marriage degenerated into melodrama and the liaison between George Eliot and G.H. Lewes, which scandalised London society, was the happiest of the lot.

About the Author Phyllis Rose is the author of Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf, Jazz Cleopatra, The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time, The Shelf: From LEQ to LES, and other noted works of biography and criticism. She is professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781911547525 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 360 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Daunt Books AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics Piero Boitani

Boitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative.

Description Boitani invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. With their emphasis on the mutability and fluidity of identity and matter, their examination of the power and position of women in society, and their enduring treatments of force and subjugation, fate and free will, the ethical life, hospitality, love, compassion, and mysticism, the classics play active roles in our lives and can help us refine our opinions and our values. Ranging from Homer to Tacitus, with Thucydides, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and many others in between, Boitani's A New Sublime is a fresh, inspiring reminder of the enduring importance and beauty of the classes of the Western canon.

About the Author Piero Boitani is one of Italy's most renowned philologists and literary critics. An expert on ancient myths, medievalist, and Dante scholar, he holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at the "Sapienza" University in Rome.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781787701816 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 180x120mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Classical history / classical civilisation Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Europa Editions AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 A Midlife Cyclist: My two-wheel journey to heal a broken mind and find joy Rachel Ann Cullen

The second heartfelt and inspirational story of Rachel Cullen's marathon journey with mental health. Perfect for readers who enjoyed Bryony Gordon's Mad Girl and Mike Carter's One Man And His Bike.

Description Praise for Running For My Life:

'An amazing story' Mel Sykes 'Heartwarming' Jo Pavey 'Brave and inspiring' Ruth Field 'I love Running For My Life' Louise Minchin

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A Midlife Cyclist is a tale of two wheels - across the Yorkshire Dales, Vietnam,- Costa Rica and beyond - and a rider in search of peace.

Rachel is a cyclist. But she was never meant to be.

After gaining mental strength and healing through running, she thought she was free. Her depression alleviated, she came off Prozac, winning races and collecting medals at marathons.

But when injury stopped the only thing helping to quiet the voices in her brain, Rachel finds out what she is truly made of. As body dysmorphia began to grip her in earnest, she knew she had to find a different way to kick her mental health demons for the sake of her sanity.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 So, she went down to her cellar, heaved out her old bike, and started pedalling. ISBN: 9781788701846 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Like her life depended on it. Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Memoirs Uplifting and inspiring, A Midlife Cyclist is the story of how Rachel found herself again, using the only thing she knew Bic2: Cycling Illustrations: would work - moving her feet. Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author Rachel Ann Cullen is an author who spends as much time outside running and riding in the Yorkshire hills as she does writing. Blink AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II Jacky Hyams

The story of Britain's hidden World War II heroines, in their own words.

Description They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines that would ensure victory. It was dangerous, dirty and exhausting work. They worked round the clock, often exposed to toxic, lethal chemicals. A factory accident could mean blindness, loss of limb - or worse. Many went home with acid burns, yellow skin or damaged hair, others were forced to leave their loved ones and move to live with strangers in unfamiliar surroundings. Frequently, their male bosses were coarse and unsympathetic. Yet this hidden army of nearly two million women toiled on regardless through the hardest years of the war, cheerfully ignoring the dangers and the exhaustion, as bombing, rationing and the heartbreak of loss or separation took their toll on everyone in the country. Here, in their own words, are the vivid wartime memories of the 'secret army' of female munitions workers, whose resilience and sheer grit in the face of danger has only started to emerge.

About the Author Jacky Hyams is a Brighton-based journalist and Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction author. She has written over ten non-fiction books, including three personal memoirs about post-war London in the 50s and 60s and several historical titles, The Female Few, exploring the unique role of Britain's female Spitfire pilots in WWII, Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army, the hidden WWII history of Britain's female munitions workers, and Spitfire Stories, published in 2017.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781789462050 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

John Blake AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Love After Love Ingrid Persaud

The debut novel from the winner of the BBC Short Story Award is a love letter to family and friendship in all its forms. It has a West Indian heart, a Caribbean setting and a truly Trini voice.

Description Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love.

Irrepressible Betty Ramdin, her shy son Solo and their marvellous lodger, Mr Chetan, form an unconventional household, happy in their differences. Happy, that is, until the night when a glass of rum, a heart to heart and a terrible truth explodes the family unit, driving them apart.

Brave and brilliant, steeped in affection, Love After Love asks us to consider what happens at the very brink of human forgiveness, and offers hope to anyone who has loved and lost and has yet to find their way back.

About the Author Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was a legal academic before taking degrees in fine art at Goldsmiths College and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect and Pree magazines. Ingrid lives in London and Barbados.

Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571356195 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Dream of Fair to Middling Women Samuel Beckett

'The chest into which I threw all my wild thoughts': the exuberant first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author.

Description Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.

About the Author Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. As a playwright and novelist in both French and English, he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. He won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. Beckett died in Paris in 1989.

Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571358052 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Literary studies: from c 1900 - Bic2: Literary studies: poetry & poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Magic Mobile: 35 pre-loaded new text files Michael Frayn

The newest volume in Michael Frayn's comic trio: thirsty 'pre-loaded' new text files in a no-fuss, non-digital entertainment system.

Description The whole world at the touch of your finger - why ever leave the imaginary realm of your mobile phone? But this book is even better. Anything but analogue, Magic Mobile is the latest offering of comic genius from Michael Frayn, the author of Matchbox Theatre and Pocket Playhouse.

'Michael Frayn is the most philosophical comic writer - and the most comic philosophical writer - of our time.' Daily Mail

About the Author Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on The Guardian and The Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies and Skios. His seventeen plays range from Noises Off - recently chosen as one of the nation's three favourite plays - to Copenhagen, which won the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571355006 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Performing arts: comedy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and Their Circle Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick and edited by Saskia Hamilton

The illuminating letters of Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, including the dramatic breakup of their 21- year marriage and their extraordinary reconciliation.

Description The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centred on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of their circle - writers, intellectuals, friends and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Mary McCarthy and Adrienne Rich - this book has the narrative sweep of a novel, telling the story of the dramatic breakup of Lowell and Hardwick's twenty-one-year marriage and their extraordinary, but late, reconciliation.

Lowell's sonnet sequence The Dolphin (for which he controversially adapted Hardwick's letters as a source) and his last book, Day by Day, were written during this period, as were Hardwick's influential books Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature and Sleepless Nights. Lowell and Hardwick are acutely intelligent observers of marriage, children, friends and the feelings that their personal tribulations gave rise to.

The Dolphin Letters, edited by Saskia Hamilton, is a debate about the limits of art - what occasions a work of art, and what moral and artistic licence artists have to make use of their lives and the lives of others as material. The crisis of Lowell's The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone around him, and Bishop's warning that 'art just isn't worth that much' haunts us today.

About the Author Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a literary critic, a novelist and one of the founders of the New York Review of Books. She was the author of Sleepless Nights (1979) and two other novels; a biography of Herman Melville; and four collections of essays, including Seduction and Betrayal (1974), a study of women and literature. Price: $69.99 $79.99 ISBN: 9780571357413 Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including Life Studies Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm (1959), For the Union Dead (1964) and Day by Day (1977). Extent: 560 pages Bic1: Diaries, letters & journals Saskia Hamilton is the author of three books of poetry, including Corridor (2014). She is the editor of The Letters of Bic2: Poetry Illustrations: Robert Lowell (2005) and The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 (2019), and co-editor of Words in Air: The Complete Previous Titles: Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (2008). She teaches at Barnard College. Author now living:

Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems Simon Armitage

A special 'poetry of place' edition to accompany Simon Armitage throughout his laureateship.

Description Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those 'private, moonstruck observations' and the clockwork comings and goings in the village providing rich subject matter for his first poems. Decades on, that window continues to operate as both framework and focal point for the writing, the vastness of the surrounding moors always at his shoulder and forming a constant psychological backdrop, no matter how much time has elapsed and how distant those experiences.

Magnetic Field brings together Armitage's Marsden poems, from his very first pamphlet to new work from a forthcoming collection. It offers personal insight into a preoccupation that shows no signs of fading, and his perspective on a locality he describes as 'transcendent and transgressive', a genuinely unique region forming a frontier territory between many different worlds. Magnetic Field also invites questions about the forging of identity, the precariousness of memory, and our attachment to certain places and the forces they exert.

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 twelve collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019) 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. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571361441 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 104 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Poetry Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 After Fame: The Epigrams of Martial Sam Riviere

This ambitious and resonant engagement with the Latin epigrams of Martial completes the loose trilogy of Sam Riviere's process-derived works.

Description After Fame is a discursive rendering of the Roman epigrammatist Martial's Book I. Its 118 poems, on themes such as work, friendship and public life, are modelled after the source material through a variety of 'treatments' - most notably machine translation (for which Latin still presents near-insurmountable difficulties), employing the results as scaffolding for poems that quickly improvise their way clear of their originals. As it progresses, the book is increasingly interrupted by reflections on authorship, technology, cultural complicity and the privileged, mediating role of the poet: all fixations of Martial's work that still resonate today. Pitched between translation and new writing, After Fame challenges the integrity of both categories, dramatising the obscurity of its source, refraining from easy equivalences, while insisting on its contemporary relevance.

About the Author Sam Riviere is the author of the poetry collections 81 Austerities (2012) and Kim Kardashian's Marriage (2015). Safe Mode (2017) is his first work of fiction. He runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571356928 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Leopoldstadt Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard's new play is a passionate drama of love and endurance, an intimate play with an epic sweep, the story of a family who made good.

Description Vienna in 1900 was the most vibrant city in Europe, humming with artistic and intellectual excitement and a genius for enjoying life. A tenth of the population were Jews. A generation earlier, they had been granted full civil rights by the Emperor, Franz Josef. Consequently, hundreds of thousands had fled from the Pale of Settlement and the pogroms in the East and many found sanctuary in the crowded tenements of the old Jewish quarter, Leopoldstadt.

Tom Stoppard's new play is a passionate drama of love and endurance, an intimate play with an epic sweep, the story of a family who made good.

'My grandfather wore a caftan,' says Hermann, a factory owner, 'My father went to the opera in a top hat, and I have the singers to dinner.'

It was not to last. Half a century later, this family, like millions of others, has re-discovered what it means to be Jewish in the first half of the 20th century.

About the Author

Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9780571359042 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Plays AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation Edmond Rostand

Description A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.

Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.

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Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571361403 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x127mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Plays AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Inheritance Matthew Lopez

Description "The most important American play of the century." Daily Telegraph

Inspired by E. M. Forster's novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Inheritance wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class and asking what one generation's responsibilities may be to the next.

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Faber Plays AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Shoe Lady E. V. Crowe

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Faber Plays AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Scenes with girls Miriam Battye

Description You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before - but like Let's Be Modest About It

Tosh and Lou. 22 scenes. In a space they have created, using a language they have created, the two girls talk.

Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what. Tosh and Lou have each other. They're not interested in becoming cliches. They won't sit in a narrative someone else thought up. They'll never be like the other girls. This is sustainable, right?

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Faber Plays AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 We Begin at the End Chris Whitaker

With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper's The Dry, We Begin at the End is a powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between.

Description With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper's The Dry, We Begin at the End is a powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between.

'You can't save someone that doesn't want to be saved . . .'

For some people, trouble just finds them.

Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer.

Now, he's been released from prison and is back in his hometown of Cape Haven, California. Not everyone is pleased to see him. Like Star Radley, his ex-girlfriend, and sister of the girl he killed.

Duchess Radley, Star's thirteen-year-old daughter, is part-carer, part-protector to her younger brother, Robin - and to her deeply troubled mother. But in trying to protect Star, Duchess inadvertently sets off a chain of events that will have tragic consequences not only for her family, but also the whole town.

Murder, revenge, retribution.

How far can we run from the past when the past seems doomed to repeat itself?

Price: $39.99 $45.00 'Surely destined to conquer the world. This intensely captivating story and its uniquely intriguing characters holds you in ISBN: 9781785769627 its jaws till the very last word. Astonishingly good' Ruth Jones Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm 'A very real, very rare talent' Sarah Hilary Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 'The most beautifully written book I have read this year . . . Chris Whitaker is proving himself to be one of the most Illustrations: talented writers around' Lisa Hall Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author Chris Whitaker's debut novel, Tall Oaks, was published in 2016. It was a Guardian crime book of the month as well as featuring in Crime Time's top 100 books of 2016 and BuzzFeed's incredible summer reads. It won the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award, and was shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award. All the Wicked Girls, Chris's secondZaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Time to Say Goodbye Rosie Goodwin

The finale of Rosie Goodwin's bestselling Days of the Week collection

Description Nuneaton, 1935.

Kathy has grown up at Treetops home for children, where Sunday and Tom Branning have always cared for her as one of their own. She enjoys her life at Treetops Manor, surrounded by her beloved horses, and with a future as a nurse ahead of her, she could wish for nothing more.

But when Tom dies suddenly in a riding accident, life at Treetops will never be the same again. Kathy is distraught, and Sunday, overwhelmed by grief, leaves the running of the estate to her stepson.

In an effort to raise all their spirits, Sunday invites the former residents of Treetops to return to the house for one final celebration before its inevitable closure. But as their financial difficulties mount, will Kathy and Sunday be forced to leave their home?

About the Author Rosie Goodwin is the million copy bestselling author of more than thirty novels. She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow three of Catherine Cookson's trilogies with her own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, then fostered a number of children, she is now a full-time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs.

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Zaffre AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Water Ways: A thousand miles along Britain's canals Jasper Winn

Most of us in England and Wales live within five miles of a canal - and they are used more today than in their industrial heyday. There is a lot more to canals than just narrowboats!

Description For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high- tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a 'slow highways' network, a peaceful and countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday.

Writer and slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain's waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of 'wet roads and water streets' he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage and history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.

About the Author Jasper Winn grew up in West Cork, where he left school age ten and educated himself by reading, riding horses and playing music, an upbringing that shaped a lifetime of travel. He is the author of Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland (Sort Of Books) and is currently Writer in Residence for the Canal and River Trust. Find Jasper on Twitter @JasperWinn or at http://jasperwinn.com.

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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature's Wild Harvests John Wright

A beautiful bible for every outdoors lover.

Description 'He writes so engagingly that it's hard to imagine that actual foraging can be more attractive than reading his accounts of it. ...[This book] is a treasure. It is beautifully produced, designed and illustrated.' - John Carey, The Sunday Times

Look out of your window, walk down a country path or go to the beach in Great Britain, and you are sure to see many wild species that you can take home and eat. From dandelions in spring to sloe berries in autumn, via wild garlic, samphire, chanterelles and even grasshoppers, our countryside is full of edible delights in any season.

John Wright is the country's foremost expert in foraging and brings decades of experience, including as forager at the River Cottage, to this seasonal guide. Month by month, he shows us what species can be found and where, how to identify them, and how to store, use and cook them. You'll learn the stories behind the Latin names, the best way to tap a Birch tree, and how to fry an ant, make rosehip syrup and cook a hop omelette.

Fully illustrated throughout, with tips on kit, conservation advice and what to avoid, this is an indispensable guide for everyone interested in wild food, whether you want to explore the great outdoors, or are happiest foraging from your armchair.

About the Author John Wright is a naturalist and one of Great Britain's leading experts on fungi. His publications include books on how to forage in hedgerows and seashores, on the delights and perils of gathering fungi and mushrooms, and how to make your own booze, all published in the popular River Cottage Handbook series. His most recent books include The Naming of the Shrew (2014) and A Natural History of the Hedgerow (2016). He lives in Dorset, where he regularly leads keen foragers on forays into nature.

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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back Mark O'Connell

Veteran worrier, author of To Be a Machine and father-of-two, Mark O'Connell, meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich who are preparing for the end of days.

Description From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world

In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready.

They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it.

Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O'Connell set out to meet them.

About the Author Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine (Granta 2017), which won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017. He lives in Dublin with his family. He writes for The Guardian, Slate, The New York Times and The Millions.

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Granta AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Imagine a Country Val McDermid and Jo Sharp

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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth About Birth Anonymous

Birth is one of the most defining, ubiquitous moments of human existence and there, from the very start to the very end, are the midwives who help us navigate it safely.

Description Strongest advocate, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer . . . Before, during and after labour the role of a midwife is second to none. The Secret Midwife reveals the highs and lows on the frontline of the maternity unit, from the mother who tries to give herself a DIY caesarean to the baby born into witness protection, and from surprise infants that arrive down toilets to ones that turn up in the lift.

But there is a problem; the system which is supposed to support the midwives and the women they care for is starting to crumble. Short-staffed, over worked and underappreciated - these crippling conditions are taking their toll on the dedicated staff doing their utmost to uphold our National Health Service, and the consequences are very serious indeed.

The Secret Midwife is a heart-breaking, engrossing and important read. At once joyful and profoundly shocking, this is the story of birth, straight from the delivery room.

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John Blake AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 Fighting For Your Life: A paramedic's story Jackie Hyams and Lysa Walder

Real-life stories of heartbreak and hope, direct from the very frontline of the NHS.

Description A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is gang-raped and her stricken boyfriend takes an overdose; a disturbed young man flings himself in front of a speeding train at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.

Few people can imagine living in a world where such situations are part of everyday life. Yet for veteran paramedic Lysa Walder, these and thousands of other emergency call outs are part of a day's work: scenes of tragedy, heroism loss and horror - but also stories of triumph and humour.

Lysa has been a paramedic for over twenty years, working for the London Ambulance service - the world's biggest and busiest free service - for much of that time. Here, she reveals what it's really like to work in a job that brings paramedic teams face-to-face with death - and destiny - every day.

About the Author London-born Lysa left school to join a travelling circus, working in Europe for four years as an acrobat and ring-mistress. In a slight change of direction, she then qualified as a paramedic and emergency care practitioner, spending over fifteen years saving lives in the UK. She can usually now be found hiking over Italian mountains in aid of various good causes.

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John Blake AUSTRALIA MAY 2020 In Her Room: How Music Helped Me Connect With My Autistic Daughter James Cook

A fascinating exploration of the link between autism and music, and a touching story of a father reconnecting with his daughter.

Description During the early years of his daughter Emily's life, James noticed that she was strangely taken by strong colours and patterns around the house, and that at times the only way to calm down her piercing screams would be a slow, repetitive song.

As the other children in their NCT group began to outstrip Emily, James began to suspect that she wasn't simply a 'late bloomer' (as he and his wife would tell friends and family). At the age of two, Emily was finally diagnosed with non-verbal autism, a severe form of autism that hinders her mental and physical development, and may have affected their relationship forever.

This is an extraordinary and heartbreaking story of a father trying to connect with his daughter in the face of a life- changing disability, and how music helped bridge that divide.

About the Author Originally a musician and songwriter, James Cook released two critically acclaimed albums with his band Flamingoes, toured the UK and Europe and sold 20,000 records worldwide. In 2009, one of James's short stories was featured in a collection alongside pieces by Nick Cave and Man Booker Prize-winner D. B. C. Pierre. In 2018, his first book, Memory Songs, was published with Unbound. James has written about music for the Guardian, Boundless and Review 31. He lives in London.

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