AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Long Petal of the Sea Isabel Allende
Sometimes, the difficult thing is not to flee but to return. A love letter to Chile that soars from the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Pinochet, and a stunning return to great storytelling heights, A Long Petal of the Sea is the much-awaited new novel from literary legend Isabel Allende.
Description That September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.
Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life and the fate of his country forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser Bruguera, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge in Chile arises, they take it, boarding a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to the promised 'long petal of sea and wine and snow' over the seas. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world. A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.
About the Author Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of twenty-four bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune and City of the Beasts. A Chilean immigrant herself, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes and in 1996 founded the Isabel Allende Foundation. She lives in California. isabelallende.com
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection between them that threatens to undo them both.
Description 'Utterly phenomenal' JESSIE BURTON
'I couldn't put this down' JOJO MOYES 'Kiley Reid is the writer we need now' CHLOE BENJAMIN
'Will have the same impact as Sally Rooney' PANDORA SYKES
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix's desire to help. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the awkwardness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone 'family', the complicated reality of being a grown-up and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
About the Author Kiley Reid is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a babysitter for six years.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Royals Emma Forrest
Devastating and dazzling, Royals is the story of an unlikely friendship set against the intoxicating colour and headiness of 1980s London
Description 'Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany's' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Dazzling ... I'm incoherent with love for it' MARIAN KEYES
'Elegant, sexy, tender, wild - A beautiful, beautiful book' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of ANIMALS July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe he hasn't decided yet. There's a lot Steven isn't sure about, like whether he hates himself or thinks he's amazing. When he ends up in hospital after being brutally attacked by his father, he meets Jasmine, an heiress. Intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Fuelled by their shared love of fashion, a friendship blossoms and soon, Steven finds himself swept into her hedonistic world, wholly beguiled. However, underneath the glitter and the frivolity, darkness lies. Devastating, dazzling, queer and radical, Royals is a love story between unlikely friends from completely different worlds. It's about the power of art to transform lives and the power of families to destroy them. It's about working out who you are and what you want. It's a tale of giddy happiness, crushing lows and, ultimately, the fragility of lives lived too fast.
About the Author Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir Your Voice In My Head. An Anglo- American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut, Untogether. @GirlInterrupter
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Land of the Living Georgina Harding
'Vivid, illuminating and unbearably tense ... A masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea of home and the limits of love' Guardian
Description 'Vivid, illuminating and unbearably tense ... A masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea of home and the limits of love' Guardian Charlie's experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history. Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk and newly married to Claire, he is one of the lucky survivors. Starting a family and working the land seem the best things a man can be doing.
But a chasm exists between them. Memories flood Charlie's mind; at night, on rain-slicked roads and misty mornings in the fields, the past can feel more real than the present. Though hidden even to himself, the darkest secrets of Charlie's adventures in the strange and shadowy ridges of the Nagaland mountains, his dream-like encounters with the mysterious and ancient tribesmen, leak and bleed through his consciousness. What should be said and what left unsaid? Is it possible to forge a new life in the wake of unfathomable horror?
A beautifully conceived, deftly controlled and delicately wrought meditation on the isolating impact of war, the troubling legacies of colonialism and the inescapable reach of the past, Georgina Harding's haunting, lyrical novel questions the very nature of survival, and what it is that the living owe the dead.
About the Author Georgina Harding is the author of four previous novels: The Gun Room, The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, which was shortlisted for the Encore Award, and Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. Georgina Harding lives in London and on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Black Fox Running Brian Carter
A beautiful lost classic of nature writing that sits alongside Tarka the Otter, Watership Down and War Horse, with a new foreword by Melissa Harrison
Description 'I have never read a novel about animals and the British countryside with the single exception of BB's The Wild Lone which has so moved or entranced me. Never' John Lewis-Stempel This is the story of Wulfgar, the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor, and of his nemesis, Scoble the trapper, in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1947. As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive in its portrayal of damaged humanity, it is both a portrait of place and a gripping story of survival.
Uniquely straddling the worlds of animals and men, Brian Carter's A Black Fox Running is a masterpiece: lyrical, unforgiving and unforgettable.
About the Author Brian Carter was an artist, poet, columnist, children's author, naturalist and broadcaster who influenced a generation of nature writers. His six novels all explore man's relationship with nature, the first of which, A Black Fox Running, was published in 1981. His art was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and at galleries in Paris, Germany, Holland and Canada, and he had a one-man show on London's West End. He fought and won many conservation battles for the English countryside and had a great love of the natural world, particularly of Dartmoor, living in sight of it for most of his life. Melissa Harrison's debut novel Clay won the Portsmouth First Fiction Award, was selected for Amazon's 'Rising Stars' programme and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year for 2013. Her second novel At Hawthorn Time was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 and longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016. Rain, a work of non-fiction, was longlisted for the 2016 Wainwright Prize. Her new novel is All Among the Barley and will also be published by Bloomsbury. A freelance writer, occasional photographer and columnist for The Times, the Weekend FT and the Guardian, she lives in South London.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Mouthful of Birds Samanta Schweblin
A spellbinding collection of short stories from the Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin
Description A SPELLBINDING, EERILY UNSETTLING COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY STAR The crunch of a bird's wing. Abandoned by the roadside, newlywed brides scream with rage as they are caught in the headlights of a passing car. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. Unearthly and unexpected, these stories burrow their way into your psyche with the feel of a sleepless night. Every shadow and bump in the dark takes on huge implications, leaving the pulse racing - blurring the line between the real and the strange.
About the Author Samanta Schweblin is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into twenty languages. Her debut novel Fever Dream was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin. Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's and The Paris Review. She lives in Chile.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Hidden Mary Chamberlain
Her heart died in the war can she breathe new life to it?
Description Her heart died in the war can she breathe new life to it?
Dora Simon and Joe O'Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are abruptly upended by the arrival of Barbara Hummel, who is determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions.
Forced to confront a time they thought buried in the past, Dora and Joe's lives unravel and entwine. For, trapped on the Channel Islands under the German occupation in the Second World War, Dora, a Jewish refugee, had concealed her identity; while Joe, a Catholic priest, kept quite another secret...
This is a story of love and betrayal, shame and survival. But can a speck of light diffuse the darkest shadows of war?
About the Author Mary Chamberlain is a novelist and historian. Her debut novel, The Dressmaker of Dachau, was published in 18 countries. She is the author of non-fiction books on women's history and Caribbean history including Fenwomen, the first book published by Virago Press. She lives in London with her husband, the political theorist Stein Ringen.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 I Will Miss You Tomorrow Heine Bakkeid
When you go searching for your demons, what happens when you find them? A brilliant new Norwegian crime series that's perfect for fans of Ian Rankin's Rebus The start of a brilliant new character-led crime series, perfect for fans of Will Dean
Description The first in a new Norwegian crime series featuring disgraced ex-Chief Inspector Thorkild Aske, a damaged man with a complicated past
Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved. The woman he has lost forever. Yet when Frei's young cousin goes missing off the Norwegian coast and Thorkild is called in by the family to help find him, dead or alive, Thorkild cannot refuse. He owes them this. Tormented by his past, Thorkild soon finds himself deep in treacherous waters. He's lost his reputation will he now lose his life?
About the Author Heine Bakkeid grew up in the rugged landscape of northern Norway. I Will Miss You Tomorrow is Bakkeid's first venture into crime fiction, and has earned him in his home country the critics' recognition as a virtuoso of darkly atmospheric suspense. Anne Bruce has degrees in Norwegian and English from Glasgow University. She lives in Scotland.
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Raven Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 I Will Miss You Tomorrow 8 Copy Pack
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Raven Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Flower Girls Alice Clark-Platts
'Enjoyably twisty - with a killer ending' i
'I couldn't put it down' Sophie Hannah
'Clever and twisty' Observer
Description 'Enjoyably twisty - with a killer ending' i
'I couldn't put it down' Sophie Hannah
It's been nineteen years since ten-year-old Laurel was given a life sentence and six-year-old Rosie was given a new identity.
The sisters were the very picture of innocence: two little girls who loved to listen to their mother's bedtime stories and play make-believe in the garden. But then an act of unparalleled horror tears their family apart, leaving Laurel behind bars and Rosie moved to a different part of the country.
Neither sister has laid eyes on the other since then, during which time their lives have followed very different paths. But now with Laurel coming up for parole they look set to be reunited in court, and the world will be watching -
About the Author Alice Clark-Platts is a former human rights lawyer who worked at the UN International Criminal Tribunal. She is the author of the police procedurals Bitter Fruits and The Taken, the latter of which was shortlisted for the Best Police Procedural in the Dead Good Reader Awards 2017.
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Raven Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Pulse Michael Harvey
Stranger Things meets The Departed. A hugely original thriller, with film rights already snapped up by New Line Cinema
Description Stranger Things meets The Departed. A hugely original thriller, with film rights already snapped up by New Line Cinema
Daniel Fitzsimmons seems like an ordinary American teenager. He loves his brother, his friends, his school work. But Daniel has powers. Powers that he does not understand and is not sure he can control. Daniel can't risk telling those around him what is happening, but when a mysterious stranger offers an insight into what he is experiencing, he becomes Daniel's unofficial mentor. And when a tragedy threatens to derail his life, and with the police growing ever more interested in his past, Daniel's powers will finally come into their own.
About the Author Michael Harvey is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third Rail, We All Fall Down, The Innocence Game, The Governor's Wife and Brighton. He is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won numerous national and international awards, including multiple news Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. He holds a law degree with honors from Duke University, a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in classical languages from Holy Cross College. He lives in Chicago. @MichaelHarvey88 michaelharveybooks.com
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Edgar Allan Poe and The Empire of the Dead Karen Lee Street
Edgar Allan Poe owes his old friend Auguste Dupin a favour
Description Edgar Allan Poe owes his old friend Auguste Dupin a favour Dupin needs Poe's help solving a deadly crime. Poe agrees and soon becomes enmeshed in Dupin's quest to bring down the man who singlehandedly ruined his family. This rival now wishes destruction upon Poe's head too. Caught in a deadly cat and mouse game within Paris' famous necropolis Poe and Dupin must use their wits to survive. And they discover that when venturing down into the Empire of the Dead, it's not so easy to return from the darkness.
About the Author Karen Lee Street is a British/American dual national. She has a PhD in Writing from the University of South Wales and has worked for many years in the European film industry. She is the author of Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster and Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Red Snow: A Tuva Moodyson Mystery 2 Will Dean
Red Snow is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dark Pines, selected for ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club
Description Red Snow is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dark Pines, selected for ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club TWO BODIES One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? And who's really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik? TWO COINS Black Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man's eyes. The hashtag #Ferryman starts to trend as local people stock up on ammunition. TWO WEEKS Tuva Moodyson, deaf reporter at the local paper, has a fortnight to investigate the deaths before she starts her new job in the south. A blizzard moves in. Residents, already terrified, feel increasingly cut-off. Tuva must go deep inside the Grimberg factory to stop the killer before she leaves town for good. But who's to say the Ferryman will let her go?
About the Author Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. He was a bookish, daydreaming kid who found comfort in stories and nature (and he still does). After studying Law at the LSE, and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden. He built a wooden house in a boggy clearing at the centre of a vast elk forest, and it's from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. He is the author of Dark Pines.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Dark Pines: A Tuva Moodyson Mystery 1 W.R. Dean
Five villagers. Six hundred square kilometres of Swedish forest. One reporter. Two bodies...
Description Will Dean's atmospheric crime thriller marks him out as a talent to watch. Dark Pines is stylish, compelling and as chilling as a Swedish winter.' Fiona Cummins, author of Rattle Claustrophobically atmospheric and spine-tingly tense, Dark Pines kept me enthralled to the very last page. A stunning debut from a major new talent.' Steph Broadribb, author of Deep Down Dead Atmospheric, creepy and tense. Loved the Twin Peaks vibe. Loved Tuva. More please!' C.J. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man For fans of C.J. Sansom, a brand new debut crime writer introduces a Tuva Moodyson Mystery. SEE NO EVIL Eyes missing, two bodies lie deep in the forest near a small Swedish town. HEAR NO EVIL Tuva Moodyson, a deaf reporter on a small-time local paper, is looking for the story that could make her career. SPEAK NO EVIL A web of secrets. And an unsolved murder from twenty years ago. Can Tuva outwit the killer before she becomes the final victim' She'd like to think so. But first she must face her demons and venture far into the deep, dark woods if she wants to stand any chance of getting the hell out of small-time Gavrik.
About the Author Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying Law at LSE, and working many varied jobs in London, he settled in rural Sweden with his wife. He built a wooden house in a boggy forest clearing and it's from this base that he compulsively reads and writes.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Kim Rudyard Kipling
Widely considered to be Kipling's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels written in the English language.
Description Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across the Indian subcontinent. After falling into the hands of his father's old regiment, however, Kim is separated from the lama and sent away to school. There, his natural flair for espionage is spotted, and he is soon catapulted among the majestic peaks of the Himalayas to play his part in the secret service's confrontation with Russia, the so-called 'Great Game'. With its peerless evocation of the teeming cities, breathtaking landscapes and diverse cultures of late-nineteenth-century India, Kim is widely considered to be Kipling's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels written in the English language.
About the Author Famous for his tales of adventure in British India, Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) is one of the most popular writers of all time and the first English-speaking recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Mill on the Floss George Eliot George Eliot
Tragic and affecting, and drawing heavily on George Eliot's own rural upbringing and relationship with her brother, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence, and introduces, in Maggie Tulliver, one of the most beloved heroines in the English canon.
Description 'Those bitter sorrows of childhood! When sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.' Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting father, an obdurate and vengeful brother, a good-looking and frivolous suitor and an earnest old playmate who happens to be the son of her father and brother's sworn enemy. Tragic and affecting, and drawing heavily on George Eliot's own rural upbringing and relationship with her brother, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence, and introduces, in Maggie Tulliver, one of the most beloved heroines in the English canon.
About the Author Mary Ann Evans (1819 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight. Middlemarch is her masterpiece.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Manon Lescaut Antoine Francois Prevost
The basis for Puccini's famous opera, Abbe Prevost's ground-breaking tale of passion and tragedy became hugely influential on the next generation of novelists.
Description When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming lower-class Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her and runs away with her to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and forfeiting his inheritance. However, he struggles to satisfy her taste for luxury, frittering away the little he has left, and his domestic bliss finally disintegrates when he finds out that Manon has taken a rich lover. Although causing scandal when it was first published in 1731 and subsequently banned, Manon Lescaut proved very popular with eighteenth-century readers and circulated in pirated editions. The basis for Puccini's famous opera, Abbe Prevost's ground-breaking tale of passion and tragedy became hugely influential on the next generation of novelists.
About the Author Antoine Francois Prevost (1697 1763) was a Benedictine monk who left the order and moved to England and the Netherlands and became an author under the name Abbe Prevost. He is now best known for his novel Manon Lescaut, but he wrote many other volumes of fiction, history and travel writing, as well as translating the works of Samuel Richardson among others.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Flush Virgina Woolf
Flush is a genre-defying blend of biography and fantasy, and an accessible yet stylistically innovative jeu d'esprit.
Description Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dog's early days in the countryside, his adoption by the famous poet, his subsequent life in London and his travels with his owners to Italy. While the resulting narrative is light-hearted and playful on the surface, Woolf ingeniously uses the faux-naif impressions of her animal narrator to voice her social criticism on topics such as the class system, the oppression of women writers and the degradation of the environment. Much like its predecessor Orlando, Flush is a genre-defying blend of biography and fantasy, and an accessible yet stylistically innovative jeu d'esprit.
About the Author The most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf (1882 1941) was a novelist, essayist and critic. Her writing established her as one of Modernism's leading exponents, as well as a pioneering feminist. Her most famous works include To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Mrs Dalloway.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
The novel, which caused an immediate uproar on its publication, is now widely considered to be one of the great works of the nineteenth century and the apotheosis of Hardy's fiction.
Description Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, is encouraged in his scholarly pursuits by the local schoolmaster, Mr Phillotson. Jude dreams of studying at the university of Christminster, the author's fictional representation of Oxford. Yet, soon Jude is deceived into marriage and then deserted by the duplicitous Arabella Donn, and he travels to Christminster to work as a stonemason while continuing his studies in the hope of being admitted to the university one day. There, Jude falls for his free-thinking cousin Sue, but with the pair living together out of wedlock, the pressures of poverty and social disapproval soon threaten to ruin their lives. Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society's attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women. The novel, which caused an immediate uproar on its publication, is now widely considered to be one of the great works of the nineteenth century and the apotheosis of Hardy's fiction. This edition is fully annotated and contains extra material.
About the Author The Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) is most famous today for Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and other works set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail Pablo Picasso
A testament to the great artist's imaginative powers, and have been considered as forerunners to the theatre of the absurd
Description In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such as the Onion, Silence or Fat Anxiety discussing the crucial wartime themes of hunger, cold and love; the second, The Four Little Girls, came about a few years after the end of the war on the French Riviera, and presents the stream-of-consciousness thoughts of four unnamed girls in a vegetable garden, revealing an unexpectedly evil aspect of childhood. These surreal compositions, which were meant to be read aloud rather than formally staged, are a testament to the great artist's imaginative powers, and have been considered as forerunners to the theatre of the absurd of the 1950s, as exemplified by Beckett, Ionesco and Adamov. This volume also contains the accompanying illustrations by Picasso himself.
About the Author Born in Malaga, Pablo Picasso (1881 1973) spent most of his career in France and became one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, a pivotal figure in the Cubist and Surrealist movements.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Dreamerika!: A Surrealist Fantasy Alan Burns
Dreamerika! provides a satirical look at the Kennedy political dynasty, interspersed with newspaper clippings, headlines, cartoons and photographs to create a collage of contrasting effects
Description Dreamerika!, Alan Burns s fourth novel, first published in 1972, provides a satirical look at the Kennedy political dynasty, serving up an idiosyncratic hotch-potch of history that gives an old tragedy new meaning. For this book, Burns collected newspaper clippings, headlines, cartoons and photographs, cut them up, filed them and then interspersed them throughout his text to create a collage of contrasting effects.Presented in a fragmented form that reflects societ s disintegration, Dreamerika! fuses fact and dream, resulting in a surreal biography, an alternate history which lays bare the corruption and excesses of capitalism just as the heady idealism of the 1960s has begun to fade.
About the Author A trained lawyer, Alan Burns (1929 2013) became a celebrated novelist and playwright, loosely associated with the 1960s British experimental circle of writers led by B.S. Johnson. He is best known for Europe after the Rain (1965), Celebrations (1967), Babel (1969) and Dreamerika! (1972).
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Berenger Plays Eugene Ionesco
While each play in the Berenger cycle is unique, they are all prime examples of Ionesco's conception of the theatre of the absurd, and touch on themes that preoccupied Ionesco throughout his career, such as mortality, alienation, freedom and the evils of Fascism. This volume constitutes a perfect introduction to one of the twentieth century's most original and influential playwrights.
Description This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Berenger. In 'The Killer', he comes across a 'radiant city', an ideal civilization which is unfortunately being terrorized by a killer, whom he decides to track down and dissuade from committing any further crimes. In 'Rhinoceros', he is the only person in a provincial town who is resisting 'rhinoceritis', an affliction that turn its victims into the eponymous horned beasts. In 'Exit the King', he is the powerful King Berenger the First, who refuses to acknowledge that he is dying. And in 'Strolling in the Air', he acquires the capacity of flight and discovers that the celestial vault is held up by a gigantic pink pillar. While each play in the Berenger cycle is unique, they are all prime examples of Ionesco's conception of the theatre of the absurd, and touch on themes that preoccupied Ionesco throughout his career, such as mortality, alienation, freedom and the evils of Fascism. This volume constitutes a perfect introduction to one of the twentieth century's most original and influential playwrights.
About the Author Born in Romania, Eugene Ionesco (1909 94) became one of France's foremost practitioners of avant-garde theatre.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Six Plays Luigi Pirandello
Preoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.
Description This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play and Henry IV a tragicomic tale of a man who falls from a horse and believes himself to be the eponymous Holy Roman Emperor. Preoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.
About the Author Born in Sicily, Luigi Pirandello (1867 1936) studied as a philologist before becoming an acclaimed writer of both drama and fiction. One of the most innovative and influential playwrights of the last century, he is best known for his comic masterpiece Six Characters in Search of an Author, and was the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Price: $19.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9780714548494 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Politics and Literature Jean-Paul Sartre
Investigates concepts and highlights conflicts, interrogations and debates that remain topical and relevant to this day.
Description First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre's most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of the intellectual not only as an aloof theoretician, but also as a constructive agent of change. His writings on literature explore the limitations of language as an exact vehicle for meaning, the author's lack of ownership of his own words and the avenues that certain types of theatre such as Artaud's open for non-verbal communication. A useful, concise introduction to Sartre's thinking, Politics and Literature investigates concepts and highlights conflicts, interrogations and debates that remain topical and relevant to this day.
About the Author The father of Existentialism and one of the key figures of French twentieth-century philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 80) was equally famous for his plays, novels and political writings.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 I Am My Brand: How to Build Your Brand Without Apology Kubi Springer
I Am My Brand provides achievable techniques and tools for women to build their brand, after first exploring what their personal brand is. The book demonstrates how your personal history ties into your brand story to make it successful and authentic, while guiding you on the branding elements to focus on in order to build that crucial emotional connection with your target audience. Featuring insights and interviews from established female brand builders from around the world, alongside Kubi's eight pillars of personal branding, I Am My Brand is an essential step-by-step guide to building your brand, knowing your worth, and being unapologetic about it.
Description I Am My Brand is a toolkit for personal brand success. Featuring dynamic female brand builders from around the world, the book is a woven tapestry of personal brand advice with storytelling and support that offers a practical guide for female entrepreneurs, freelancers and executives. I Am My Brand explores the techniques used by different women across cultures to build their personal brand, as well as the challenges they faced and their paths to overcoming them. Focused on the skills needed to succeed, their stories coupled with the author's expertise will support readers on their own journey to brand success and self-empowerment in work and life. The book is written in a down-to-earth style, with light entertainment and real-life anecdotes, providing insights into how to create, package and grow your personal brand. Written by one of the most influential female brand builders in the UK, I Am My Brand is a testament to the power of being a woman and illustrates what it takes to build a powerful female brand in today's male dominated business world.
About the Author Kubi Springer is an award-winning specialist with twenty-two years of brand experience. She has worked global brands including Nike, L'Oreal, MTV, London Fashion Week, NY Fashion Week, P.Diddy, Rio Ferdinand, Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, Rolls Royce and, most recently, Aston Martin.
Since 2007, Kubi has taught brand marketing in academic institutions, corporate firms and international conferences, with Price: $29.99 $32.99 clients that include: NatWest, Deloitte, Oxford University, London College of Fashion, New York University and Kings ISBN: 9781472974396 College. She has also taught at Essence magazine's 'Women Who Are Changing the World' conference in New York, Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm SME Corp Malaysia and SWAA Conference in Mauritius. Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Business ethics & social responsibility Kubi has been featured across media platforms including BBC News, Forbes magazine, the Guardian, The Sunday Bic2: Times and Virgin Entrepreneur Magazine. She has been a presenter on her own business TV show entitled 'The Kubi Illustrations: Previous Titles: Springer Show' on Sky 198. Today, she is the host of the 'She Builds Brands Radio Show' on Ruach Radio and a regular Author now living: contributor, providing brand commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Bloomsbury Business AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 I Am My Brand 8 Copy Pack
Comprising 8 copies of I Am My Brand, plus a free reading copy
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Bloomsbury Business AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House Kate Summerscale
An exquisite new edition of the award-winning, number one bestselling true crime masterpiece; 'a classic' (John le Carre)
Description An exquisite new edition of the true crime classic; 'a classic' (John le Carre)
Saville's corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets and pillow of the cot. On a summer's morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery; their youngest son has been brutally murdered. When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer when the grieving family are the suspects. The original Victorian whodunnit, the murder and its investigation provoked national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the locked doors of respectable homes scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing.
About the Author Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Kate Summerscale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London. katesummerscale.com
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe Rory Maclean
An unsettling, poignant and darkly comic expose of Putin's Russia and European disintegration from the highly acclaimed travel writer.
Description 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carre In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were for most Brits and Americans part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.
About the Author Rory MacLean is one of Britain's most expressive and adventurous travel writers. His books which have been translated into a dozen languages include the Sunday Times bestseller Stalin's Nose, Under the Dragon and Berlin: Imagine a City, which was named a Book of the Year by the Washington Post.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of America's Longest War Erik Edstrom
A whistle-blowing manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from an Afghanistan veteran and new kind of military hero.
Description A whistle-blowing manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from an Afghanistan veteran and new kind of military hero. First: Imagine your own death. Second: Imagine America's wars from 'the other side.' Third: Imagine what might have been if the war were never fought. Un-American poses these startling circumstances in a searing examination of America and Americans at war. Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban Massachusetts with an idealistic desire to make an impact, ultimately leading him to the gates of West Point. Five years later, he was deployed to Afghanistan as an infantry lieutenant. Throughout his military career, he confronted atrocities, buried his friends, wrestled with depression, and struggled with an understanding that the war he fought in, and the youth he traded to prepare for it, was in contribution to a bitter truth: The War on Terror is not just a tragedy, but a crime. The deeper tragedy is that our country lacks the courage and conviction to say so.
Un-American is a hybrid of social commentary and memoir that exposes how blind support for war exacerbates the problems it's intended to resolve, devastates the people allegedly being helped, and diverts assets from far larger threats like climate change. Un-American is a revolutionary act, offering a blueprint for redressing America's relationship with patriotism, the military, and military spending.
About the Author Erik Edstrom graduated from West Point in 2007. He was then deployed to Afghanistan, where he served as infantry platoon leader. Erik spent the remainder of his military service as the Presidential Escort Platoon Leader during the Obama administration. He is a graduate of U.S. Army Ranger school, was selected for the U.S. Special Forces (SFAS), and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. After the military, Erik went on to earn an MBA and Master of Science at Oxford University. He lives in Boston.
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Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale Adam Minter
From the acclaimed author of Junkyard Planet, a global exploration of the hidden market for used stuff and a travelogue that follows unwanted, obsolescent objects' journey into a reusable future.
Description From the acclaimed author of Junkyard Planet, a global exploration of the hidden market for used stuff and a travelogue that follows unwanted, obsolescent objects' journey into a reusable future.
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where does it go? Probably across the country - or even halfway across the world - to people and places eager to re-use what you don't want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages and storage units of middle America, to epic used goods markets in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Ghana, India, Malaysia and beyond. Secondhand takes us through the often painful and heartbreaking process of cleaning out a lifetime's worth of possessions, and shows that used stuff still has a place in a world that values new and shiny - it entertains us, makes fortunes, fulfills needs, and transforms the way we live and work.
About the Author Adam Minter is the author of Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He lives in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781635570106 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Waste management Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor Patrick Leigh Fermor
The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor
Description The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a zest for life and adventure characteristic of the man known to all as 'Paddy'. Paddy's exuberant letters contain glimpses of the great and the good: a chance conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, when Paddy opens the wrong door, or a glass of ouzo under the pine trees with Harold Macmillan. They describe encounters with such varied figures as Jackie Onassis, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Oswald Mosley and Peter Mandelson, while also relating adventures with the humble: a 'pick-nick' with the stonemasons at Kardamyli, or a drunken celebration in the Cretan mountains with his old comrades from the Resistance, most of them simple shepherds and goatherds. Paddy was at ease in any company unfailingly charming, boyish, gentle and fun.
Patrick Leigh Fermor has long been recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his time. Nowhere is his restless curiosity and delight in language more dazzlingly displayed than in his letters, skilfully edited in this collection by Adam Sisman.
About the Author Adam Sisman is an award-winning writer, author of Boswell's Presumptuous Task, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and biographer of John Le Carre, A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper. He selected and edited Dashing for the Post, an earlier volume of the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, and (with Richard Davenport-Hines) One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Bristol.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Heavy: An American Memoir Kiese Laymon
The story of the black male experience in America you've never read before
Description 'So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so vulnerable, so intimate ... A gift' JESMYN WARD 'Wow. Just wow' ROXANE GAY 'Unflinchingly honest' RENI EDDO-LODGE 'An act of truth-telling unlike any other I can think of' ALEXANDER CHEE A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The story of the black male experience in America you've never read before Kiese Laymon grew up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his career as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, abuse, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing and ultimately gambling. In Heavy, by attempting to name secrets and lies that he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few know how to love responsibly, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. A defiant yet vulnerable memoir that Laymon started writing when he was eleven, Heavy is an insightful exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship and family.
About the Author Kiese Laymon was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Mississippi, Laymon is the author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. His third book, Heavy, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Non-Fictionand and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. He lives in Mississippi.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 One Person, No Vote Carol Anderson
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin, now with a new afterword by the author.
Description PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Finalist, Longlisted for the National Book Award Best Books of the Year--Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, Bustle, NYPL
From the award-winning, NYT bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin, now with a new afterword by the author.
In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.
Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. In a powerful new afterword, she examines the repercussions of the 2018 midterm elections. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans.
About the Author Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 She is the author of White Rage, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bourgeois Radicals, and Eyes off the ISBN: 9781635571394 Prize. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Political science & theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads Tim Cope
The extraordinary adventure of one man's journey following in the footsteps of Genghis Khan's conquering armies
Description The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century - a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads still lead today, Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn't been successfully completed since those times: to travel on horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Crimea and the Ukraine to the Danube River in Hungary. From horse-riding novice to travelling three years and 10,000 kilometres on horseback, accompanied by his dog Tigon, Tim learnt to fend off wolves and would-be horse-thieves, and grapple with the extremes of the steppe as he crossed sub- zero plateaux, the scorching deserts of Kazakhstan and the high-mountain passes of the Carpathians. Along the way, he was taken in by people who taught him the traditional ways and told him their recent history: Stalin's push for industrialisation brought calamity to the steepe and forced collectivism that in Kazakhstan alone led to the loss of several million livestock and the starvation of more than a million nomads. Today Cope bears witness to how the traditional ways hang precariously in the balance in the post-Soviet world.
About the Author Tim Cope, F.R.G.S., is an adventurer, author, filmmaker and motivational speaker with a special interest in Central Asia and the states of the former Soviet Union. He has studied as a wilderness guide in the Finnish and Russian subarctic, ridden a bicycle across Russia to China, and rowed a boat along the Yenisey River through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. He is the author of Off the Rails: Moscow to Beijing on Price: $19.99 $24.99 Recumbent Bikes. He is the creator of several documentary films, ISBN: 9781408831304 including the award-winning series 'The Trail of Genghis Khan', which Format: Paperback Dimensions: 201x130mm covers the journey of this book. He lives in Victoria, Australia. www.timcopejourneys.com Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Off the Rails: 10000 km in fourteen months Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly
This is the true story of two twenty-year old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and Mongolia, to Beijing.
Description It is as much a story of perseverance, passion, and belief as it is about the people and remarkable landscapes of Siberia and Mongolia. Tim and Chris are not just fearless adventurers but philosophers on wheels, willing and able to open themselves up to everything from the voice of the Steppes to the Russian villagers and the nomads of the Gobi desert. From this they draw an often funny, moving and inspirational tale of living out a dream. Mixed into this journey is the story of their tumultuous relationship as two opposing wills battle it out in the midst of heat, snow and hunger.
About the Author Tim Cope is a professional adventurer, author, filmmaker, and motivational speaker. He has worked as a guide in Antarctica, studied as a wilderness guide in the Finnish and Russian Arctic, ridden a bicycle across Russia to China, and rowed a boat through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. Off the Rails: Moscow to Beijing on Recumbent Bikes was first published by Penguin Australia, alongside an ABC Australia series of the same name. 'The Trail of Genghis Khan', covering the journey of this book, has also been made into a six-part TV series by ABC Australia. He lives in Victoria, Australia. www.timcopejourneys.com
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Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Lose Weight & Get Fit: 100 high-flavour recipes for dieting and fitness Tom Kerridge
A brand new cookbook from Tom Kerridge, bestselling author of Lose Weight for Good and Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start coming this December!
Description As a Michelin-starred chef with personal experience of dieting, Tom Kerridge knows that cooking good food is the first step on the road to both weight-loss and better performance. In Lose Weight & Get Fit he shows how you can eat well, shed the pounds and kick-start a more active lifestyle. As Tom says: 'For me, losing weight was less about reaching a target weight and more about getting fitter and healthier. I reckon that setting fitness goals alongside weight-loss goals is a win-win formula for lasting success and here are the recipes to help you.' His home-cooked recipes for British classics, international dishes and family favourites are generous, flavour-packed and nutritious while still lower in calories. This book is for everyone who knows they want to lose weight and do some more exercise, but also needs the motivation to get started. With chef's techniques for the best lower-calorie cooking, plus tips for stepping up to fitness targets, Tom will give you the inspiration you need to lose weight AND get fit.
About the Author Tom Kerridge worked as a chef in restaurants across Britain before deciding to set out on his own and take over a rundown pub in the quiet Buckinghamshire town of Marlow. He opened The Hand & Flowers with his wife Beth in 2005, and it went on to become the first (and only) pub in the world to acquire two Michelin stars. In 2014 he opened a second pub in Marlow, The Coach, which was followed by The Butcher's Tap. Most recently, he and his core team launched Kerridge's Bar & Grill, which is housed in Corinthia London. His previous books include the bestselling Proper Pub Food, Tom Kerridge's Best Ever Dishes, Tom's Table, Tom Kerridge's Dopamine Diet, Lose Weight for Good and Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start.
Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472962829 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Rebel Recipes: Vegan Food for the Soul Niki Webster
It's all about the taste! Let Niki Webster inspire you with her delicious, rebellious plant-based food.
Description Inspired by her travels around the globe, Niki Webster gathers some of her favourite recipes together into this rebellious new book. You won't find any limp lettuce or boring old-school vegan dishes here. Expect to find all kinds of awesomeness, such as mouth-watering spicy Indian crepes; baked aubergine with cashew cheese and pesto; sweet potato, cauliflower and peanut stew; and chocolate cherry espresso pots. While a number of vegan and plant-based books focus on health, Rebel Recipes is unashamedly about taste; it's all about pleasure, vibrancy and flavour food for the soul. Niki's delicious recipes are bought to life with photography from Kris Kirkham.
About the Author Niki Webster is an award-winning blogger and food consultant for a range of household brands. Niki is no stranger to developing recipes, food styling, photography and content strategy, and her customers include Holland & Barrett, Wholefoods and Waitrose among others. She has also developed menus and recipes for restaurants and cookbooks alike. Niki is a certified Holistic Health Coach, and Plantlab Level 1 Raw Chef who regularly coaches, gives workshops, and appears on panels. She has appeared in the Independent, Grazia, Women's Health, Red, Vegan Life and Vegan Food and Living. Niki lives near Birmingham, UK, with her husband, but spends as much time as she can travelling to the places that inspire her most. Rebel Recipes is her debut book. @rebelrecipes
Price: $52.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472966841 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Vegetarian cookery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Absolute Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Jack Stein's World on a Plate Jack Stein
Combining his years of culinary globetrotting and passion for British produce, Jack celebrates his favourite dishes from around the world
Description In the past 20 years there have been huge movements in the way we British think about produce. As someone is involved in that conversation I have seen it change and now, more than ever, the produce that is available to the keen home cook has increased in variety and quality immensely. What this means is that the home cook is now faced with the fantastic situation of being able to source the produce needed to make great food all year round. It is important that this movement progresses, and that if we choose to source our meat, fish and other major ingredients from Britain, why not have fun with world food concepts' In this beautiful new book, Jack Stein combines his culinary experience from working in restaurants around the world and his passion for British produce to create 100 dishes to enchant and entice home cooks. From dishes such as chilli crab (using the very finest Cornish crab) and Szechuan-style duck to monkfish satay and buttermilk fried chicken, the recipes featured are all easy to follow and simple to make, bringing the taste of exotic holidays to our own kitchen tables. Stunning photography complements these delightful recipes, ensuring this is a book you will cook from time and time again.
About the Author Jack Stein, middle son of Rick Stein, is the Executive and Development Chef of the Stein Restaurant Group and heir apparent to the Stein empire. He spent his early years being travelling around the world with his family to discover food in far-flung places whilst his father created and presented world famous TV cookery shows. A bug for food and travel was caught. With food now firmly on his mind, Jack secured himself a stage at La Regolade in Paris which reignited a passion for travel and led him to take further stage work in leading restaurants all over the world, picking up culinary customs and traditions as he travelled. There then followed a period cooking at the legendary Tetsuya's in Sydney after which he began to explore the Far East and Japan, and a world gastronaut was born! Jack entered The Seafood Restaurant as sous chef before graduating to Executive Chef and Development Chef for the Price: $45.00 $47.00 ISBN: 9781472949387 rapidly expanding group of Stein Restaurants. Working from the development kitchen Jack creates and perfects new Format: Hard Cover recipes introducing his passion for the world's great cuisines into the menus of the restaurants using the best of British Dimensions: 252x196mm produce to create a singular culinary identity. Extent: 272 pages Bic1: TV / celebrity chef cookbooks @JackStein Bic2: Vegetarian cookery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things Grace Lees-Maffei
A beautifully-illustrated guide to the stories behind fifty iconic designs from around the world.
Description Iconic Designs is a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to fifty classic 'things' designs that we find in the city, in our homes and offices, on page and screen, and in our everyday lives. In her introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei explores what makes a design 'iconic', and fifty essays by leading design and cultural critics tell the story of each iconic 'thing', its innovative and unique qualities, and its journey to classic status.
Subjects range from the late 19th century to the present day, and include the Sydney Opera House, the Post-It Note, Coco Chanel's classic suit, the Sony Walkman , Hello Kitty , the typeface Helvetica, the Ford Model T, Harry Beck's diagrammatic map of the London Underground and the Apple iMac G3.
This handsome volume provides a treasure trove of 'stories' that will shed new light on the iconic designs that we use without thinking, aspire to possess, love or hate (or love to hate) and which form part of the fabric of our everyday lives.
About the Author Grace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Price: $36.99 $40.99 ISBN: 9781350112476 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 249x197mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900 Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Great Fashion Designers: From Chanel to McQueen Brenda Polan and Roger Tredre
A lavishly illustrated guide to the lives and achievements of 55 of the most influential fashion designers of the last 180 years.
Description Over the last 180 years designers have propelled fashion from an elite craft into a cornerstone of popular culture. This brilliantly written guide to the lives and collections of 55 iconic fashion designers draws on the latest academic research and the best of fashion journalism, including the authors' own interviews with designers. Beginning with 19th century couturier Charles Frederick Worth and concluding with the star names of the 2010s, Polan and Tredre detail each designer's working methods and career highlights to capture the spirit of their times. This beautifully illustrated revised edition features five new designer profiles: Hedi Slimane, Raf Simons, Phoebe Philo, Alessandro Michele and Demna Gvasalia. It's also been updated throughout to reflect a fashion world in constant ferment, with designers swapping jobs and fashion houses at unprecedented speed. The industry has expanded into a global phenomenon - and designers have emerged as true celebrities; The Great Fashion Designers explores their passion and flair to show us fashion at its most inspirational.
About the Author Brenda Polan is a fashion writer, editor, lecturer and academic. She was formerly fashion editor and women's page editor of The Guardian and has since written for all Britain's major newspapers and many magazines. She was until recently Programme Director (Media) at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
Roger Tredre is Course Leader, MA Fashion Communication, at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Prior to his academic career, he worked in newspaper fashion journalism and was the first Editor-in-Chief of WGSN, the online fashion trends and research business.
Price: $66.99 $73.99 ISBN: 9781350091603 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Fashion design & theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Vegetarian Meals in 30 Minutes: More than 100 delicious recipes for fitness Anita Bean
The ultimate vegetarian guide to eating well for optimum fitness.
Description Grounded in scientific evidence, Vegetarian Meals in 30 Minutes is part nutrition guide and part cookbook with over 100 recipes to show you how to eat well and improve your performance through simple and delicious vegetarian cooking. Bestselling author Anita Bean demystifies sports nutrition, debunks the myths surrounding a vegetarian diet and covers popular topics such as what to eat before and after exercise, how much protein you need and which supplements actually work. Vegetarian Meals in 30 Minutes will help you gain the confidence to create quick, tasty and nourishing meals that will support your training goals.
About the Author Anita Bean is an award-winning registered nutritionist, internationally published author, health writer and former athlete. She specialises in sport and exercise nutrition and is passionate about helping people improve their health and performance. Anita was the nutritional consultant for Tom Kerridge's latest book Lose Weight & Get Fit and is the author of The Runner's Cookbook, The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, and The Vegetarian Athlete's Cookbook, among other titles.
Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472960641 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Vegetarian cookery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Mother of All Jobs: How to Have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish) Christine Armstrong
The Mother of All Jobs is about the battle to make modern working parenting actually work. If not for our own sanity, then perhaps for our children's.
Description It's time for a different conversation about working and parenting. As our working days get ever longer and our phones keep so many of us glued to work, the needs of our children and the world of school and childcare has not changed at all. School summer holidays are still longer than our annual leave. Working mothers everywhere are tearing themselves apart, trying to meet the needs of their children, their relationships and their careers and too often feeling like they are failing. So is there a solution?
When Christine Armstrong became a mother, it never occurred to her that she would want to give up her job. But the truth is, combining work and small kids is hard, and when Christine tried it, she found herself desolate with misery. Determined to find a way forward, she looked for answers by interviewing other working mums and found that she wasn't alone.
The Mother of All Jobs brings together the wisdom of the women who opened up about everything (and we mean everything) into a manifesto for happy professional families. Ignoring the glossy lives presented on social media, this book shows that, while it's not always pretty, working parents can thrive if they have the knowledge others learnt the hard way.
About the Author Christine Armstrong is a writer, speaker and adviser to business leaders on the future of work. She is a contributing editor of Management Today, has three daughters and is, against her own advice, an active member of the PTA. christinearmstrong.com
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781472956255 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Green Tree AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong: The Global Game's Greatest Myths and Untruths Kevin Moore
Our view of football will never be the same again - Written by a world-respected football historian, this football unique gift title reveals the global game's greatest myths and untruths.
Description Our view of football will never be the same again - Written by a world-respected football historian, this football unique gift title reveals the global game's greatest myths and untruths.
Football has been completely mythologized and many of the things football fans think they know about football and its history turn out not to be true. We want to believe the myths, and so they become accepted. So much football writing is not properly researched, and so the myths get repeated - again and again and again.
Written by Kevin Moore, the founding director of the National Football Museum (the world's leading football museum), this thoroughly researched and authoritative book debunks 50 of the greatest myths surrounding football. Backed up by the highest level of academic research yet written in an accessible style, the book explores the truth behind many accepted myths. For example, did you know: e The Germans took football to Brazil, not the English e Rugby and not football could quite easily have been the world's leading sport e There are gay professional players -.and always have been! e Football hooliganism did not begin in England e Shirt colours do make a difference e Cambridge and not Sheffield is the home of the oldest football club in the world e Arsenal should not be in the Premier League - they cheated to be there e The Dynamo Kiev team were not executed after beating a German SS team in 1941 e England did not win the World Cup fairly in 1966 - but not in the way you think!
Price: $22.99 $24.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781472955661 Dr Kevin Moore was the founding director of the National Football Museum, which he led for over twenty years. He is an Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm internationally recognised researcher and writer on football history. He holds a key role at the International Football Extent: 192 pages Institute and is on the editorial board of the world's leading academic journal for football, Soccer and Society. He is Bic1: Football (Soccer, Association football) Special Advisor to the Chinese Football Museum in Linzi, Zibo and the Fanarric Sports Museum, Kolkata, India. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Essential Family Guide to Caring for Older People Deborah Stone
Everything carers need to know to help and support their parents, relatives and friends
Description No one wants to think about getting older. It's true. At any age, when things are moving along normally day to day and everyone seems fit and well, there seems no reason to think about future problems that your friends and relatives might (and probably will) come across as they age. In fact, it might even seem a little morbid to think such thoughts, or possibly even tempting fate?
Yet there will come a time when you must raise these issues and, ideally, this should be before any problems arise. The Essential Family Guide to Caring for Older People is the ultimate source of information and help for families with care responsibilities. Deborah Stone draws on her extensive experience working in elder care to offer practical advice on every aspect of the field indepth.
Topics range from how to get help immediately, legal information, care funding options, a guide to useful technology and advice on the main physical and mental health issues that affect older people. Plus guidance is given on dealing with social services and ensuring you choose the right care for your situations. Crucially, the book also offers help on how to cope as a carer with practical advice on juggling family, work and your caring responsibilities while looking after yourself.
About the Author Deborah Stone is a leading expert in the field of elder care. Through her website, www.maturethinking.co.uk she provides information and advice for families caring for older people, as well as advising companies on the effective development of products and services for older people. Deborah hosts regular seminars and clinics for company staff juggling work, family life and care responsibilities. She appears regularly on TV and radio and contributes to many national newspapers. Her debut novel, What's Left Unsaid was published in 2018.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472965431 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Care of the elderly Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Green Tree AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 With Him: Listening to the Underside of the World Bruno Cadore
A meditation on the role of the Dominican in the modern world
Description With a foreword by Timothy Radcliffe OP Bruno Cadore has recently completed his nine year term as Master of the worldwide Dominican Order an order which includes men and women, friars and nuns and also a very large 'Third Order' of lay people and workers. To be Master of the order means constant travel, living out of a suitcase. But as a result of this experience, Cadore has developed a new and invigorating vision of the Charism of the Dominican Order, the res dominicana.
Cadore's father was born in Martinique and thus remained something of an outsider to European culture this background has been an essential part of the vision he has brought to the role. But this book is fundamentally about engagement, engagement the Dominican way. Cadore talks of the murder of the Dominican bishop Pierre Claverie by Muslim fundamentalists, the community of Dominican nuns and brothers who continue to live and work in Baghdad, and his own experience of extreme poverty when he returned to work among the native people in Haiti. In the pages of this book, Cadore, in an incisive and illuminating manner, writes of the future of the planet, of humankind, of a universal conscience which is compassionate and demanding but focussed always on the Dominican motto, the one word: Truth. This book may be of Dominican inspiration but it is a book which should be read by all people of goodwill.
About the Author Bruno Cadore is the Master of the Dominican Order. In 1992, he received his doctorate in moral theology. He taught biomedical ethics at the Catholic University of Lille while directing the centre for medical ethics. He has also been on the National Aids Council of France since January 2008 until 2010.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472970152 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Religion: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Continuum AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Contact Paradox: Challenging our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Keith Cooper
Addresses the important and difficult questions raised by humanity's search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Description In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a brief blast of radio waves designed to alert extraterrestrial civilisations to our existence. Of course, we don't know if such civilisations really exist. For the past six decades a small cadre of researchers have been on a quest to find out, as part of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far, SETI has found no evidence of extraterrestrial life, but with more than a hundred billion stars in our Galaxy alone to search, the odds of quick success are stacked against us. The silence from the stars is prompting some researchers, inspired by the Arecibo transmission, to transmit more messages into space, in an effort to provoke a response from any civilisations out there that might otherwise be staying quiet. However, the act of transmitting raises troubling questions about the process of contact. We look for qualities such as altruism and intelligence in extraterrestrial life, but what do these mean to humankind? Can civilisations survive in the Universe long enough for us to detect them, and what can their existence, or lack thereof, reveal to us about our future prospects? Can we learn something about our own history when we explore what happens when two civilisations come into contact? Finally, do the answers tell us that it is safe to transmit, even though we know nothing about extraterrestrial life, or as Stephen Hawking argued, are we placing humanity in jeopardy by doing so? In The Contact Paradox, author Keith Cooper looks at how far SETI has come since its modest beginnings, and where it is going, by speaking to the leading names in the field and beyond. SETI forces us to confront our nature in a way that we seldom have before where did we come from, where are we going, and who are we in the cosmic context of things? This book considers the assumptions that we make in our search for extraterrestrial life, and explores how those assumptions can teach us about ourselves.
About the Author Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor. Since 2006 Keith has been the Editor of Astronomy Now, and he Price: $34.99 $36.99 is also the Editor of Astrobiology Magazine. In addition he has written on numerous space- and physics-related topics, ISBN: 9781472960429 from exploding stars to quantum computers, for Centauri Dreams, New Scientist, Physics World, physicsworld.com and Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Sky and Telescope. He holds a BSc in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Manchester. Extent: 336 pages @21stcenturySETI Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Sigma AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Align: A Leadership Blueprint for Aligning Enterprise Purpose, Strategy Jonathan Trevor
Drawing on research and real life challenges, Align is a guide on how to achieve positive enterprise alignment.
Description Why do some businesses thrive whilst many more struggle and fail? A key reason and focus of this book is strategic alignment. Superior strategic alignment enables McDonald's, for example, to serve over 70 million customers a day around 1% of the global population and dominate its industry, as it has done for decades. McDonald's winning formula is tight alignment of its strategy, organisational capabilities, resources and management systems all arranged systematically to support its long-term purpose. Most executives today know their enterprises should be managed in this 'aligned' way. The challenge is that executives tend to focus on only one aspect of what makes their enterprise effective (either their strategy, capabilities, resources or management systems), to the exclusion of the others. What really matters for performance is how they all fit together. The reality is that there are thousands of organisations globally who are operating well below their potential and getting by because they are not aligned. This book aims to change that.
About the Author Dr Jonathan Trevor is Associate Professor of Management Practice at the University of Oxford, Sa d Business School. He is a management researcher, author, adviser and expert on the subject of Strategic Alignment. He works extensively with executive leadership teams in all sectors and internationally and teaches on the Oxford MBA, Executive MBA and executive education courses.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472959393 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Business ethics & social responsibility Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Business AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Influence Sara McCorquodale
A detailed review of what businesses need to know about influencer strategies, social media and how digital communication works.
Description Digital influencing is one of the most exciting and disruptive new media industries, forecast to be worth over eE10bn by 2020. Influencers now dominate the digital world and, when it comes to growth, they are consistently outperforming traditional media and brand advertising. Despite their prominence, digital influencers continue to be misunderstood and undervalued by many people, as those charged with incorporating the influencer space into their digital strategy rarely comprehend how this extremely powerful industry works. As one of the leading authorities on the influencer space, Sara McCorquodale demystifies exactly how it operates, as she interrogates the phenomenon, analyses its problems and forecasts its future. Influence draws upon first-hand interviews with world-renowned influencers, providing an invaluable insight into the inner- workings of digital culture and how it can best be used as an effective marketing and branding platform. This compelling guide on how to effectively identify and utilise the power of influencers is a must-read for anyone who wants their business to succeed and prosper online.
About the Author Sara McCorquodale is CEO and founder of influencer intelligence and digital trends platform, CORQ. Prior to launching the business in 2017, she spent 12 years as a journalist, starting in local news before working on the launch of Mail Online and later moving to Conde Nast to develop Tatler's online presence as its first ever digital editor. From there, she headed up Huffington Post Style UK and its sister lifestyle platform MyDaily after which she led global B2C content at trend forecasting agency WGSN as senior editor of special projects. She has been working on influencer campaigns and projects since 2012, consulted on this and the world of digital for many brands including Chanel, Estee Lauder and Net-A- Porter and written for The Guardian and the BBC.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472978219 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 233x157mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Advertising Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Business AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Hole's Live Through This Anwen Crawford
A positive, feminist reading of Hole's landmark 1994 album and its controversial creator, Courtney Love, which explores womanhood, desire, disgust, self-destruction, survival, and fame.
Description Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This, awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners. Live Through This arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier Nirvana's Nevermind had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called Riot Grrrl had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riotgrrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band. Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on?
About the Author Anwen Crawford is an Australian writer. She is the music critic for The Monthly magazine, and her essays have appeared in publications including Frieze, Overland and Loops: Writing Music.
Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781623563776 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 167x122mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Talking Heads' Fear of Music Jonathan Lethem
A virtuoso performance by a writer at the peak of his powers, tackling one of his great obsessions: Talking Heads.
Description It's the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs 'The Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music' - and everything spins outward from that one moment.
Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece - edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the band would take in the future. Lethem transports us again to the New York City of another time - tackling one of his great adolescent obsessions and illuminating the ways in which we fall in and out of love with works of art.
About the Author Jonathan Lethem is one of the most acclaimed American novelists of his generation. His books include Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City. His essays about James Brown and Bob Dylan have appeared in Rolling Stone. He is Roy Edward Disney Professor in Creative Writing at Pomona College, US.
Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781441121004 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 163x120mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 J Dilla's Donuts Jordan Ferguson
A compelling, multidisciplinary analysis of hip-hop producer J Dilla's deathbed record Donuts as both a cultural artifact and an example of historical 'late style'.
Description From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James 'J Dilla' Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as 'hip hop music' is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying? Drawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla's own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artist's declining health as it is an example of what scholars call 'late style,' placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.
About the Author Jordan Ferguson is a freelance culture writer based in Toronto. He can be found online at poetryforgravediggers.com.
Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781623561833 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x121mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Music: styles & genres Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks Clare Nina Norelli
The first book to focus on the soundtrack of Twin Peaks, with publication timed alongside the series return.
Description When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-loving FBI agent's investigation into the murder of a small town teen queen, Twin Peaks brought the aesthetic of arthouse cinema to a prime time television audience and became a cult sensation in the process. Part of Twin Peaks' charm was its unforgettable soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti, a longtime musical collaborator of film director and Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch. Badalamenti's evocative music, with its haunting themes and jazzy moodscapes, served as a constant in a narrative that was often unhinged and went on to become one of the most popular and influential television soundtracks of all time. How did a unique collaborative process between a director and composer result in a perfectly postmodern soundtrack that ran the gamut of musical styles from jazz to dreamy pop to synthesizer doom and beyond? And how did Badalamenti's musical cues work with Twin Peaks' visuals, constantly evolving and playing off viewers' expectations and associations? Under the guidance of Angelo Badalamenti's beautifully dark sonic palette, Clare Nina Norelli delves deep into the world of Twin Peaks to answer all this and more.
About the Author Clare Nina Norelli is an Australian writer, composer, and musician. She holds degrees in composition and musicology from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781501323010 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 163x120mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Music reviews & criticism Bic2: Music reviews & criticism Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kirk Walker Graves
A beautifully written exploration of Kanye's landmark 2010 album, and his wider work - positioning West as the most compelling American artist of recent years.
Description In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form.
A look at the arc of his career, from the heady chipmunk soul exuberance of The College Dropout (2004) to the operatic narcissism of MBDTF, tells us about the march of pop music into the digital age and, by extension, the contradictions that define our cultural epoch. In a cloud-based and on-demand culture a place of increasing virtualization, loneliness, and hyper-connectivity West straddles this critical moment as what David Samuels of The Atlantic calls 'the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music.' In the land of taking a selfie, honing a personal brand, and publicly melting down online, Kanye West is the undisputed king. Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on MBDTF, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future very much a tale of our culture's wish for unfettered digital ubiquity MBDTF is the album of its era, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our era's most dynamic artist.
About the Author Kirk Walker Graves is a writer from Tennessee at work on his first novel. A graduate of Princeton University, he lives with his wife and son in Nashville.
Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781623565428 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 180x124mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Hotel Joanna Walsh
A lyrical, inventive, and witty look at the ways in which the hotel is the necessary complement, the flip side, of home, and how the alienated state of being in a hotel can be a welcome alternative to the demands of the hyper-connected, instantly personal modern world.
Description Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy -hotels are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation, this book visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies the spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and alienation, hotels. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
About the Author Joanna Walsh is a writer based in England. Her work has been published by Granta, Dalkey (Best European Fiction 2015), Salt (Best British Short Stories 2014 and 2015), Tate, and others. Her books include Fractals (2013), and Vertigo (The Dorothy Project, 2015). She reviews for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The National (UAE). She is fiction editor at 3:AM Magazine, and runs #readwomen, described by the New York Times as 'a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers.' She is also an illustrator.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781628924732 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 164x120mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Drone Adam Rothstein
Drones are a catch-all, and ominous, technological category, but when we talk about drones we are really talking about our own relationship with this technology.
Description Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word 'drone' fills many of us with a sense of technological dread. Adam Rothstein cuts through the mystery, the unknown, and the political posturing, and talks about what drones really are: what technologies are out there, and what's coming next; how drones are talked about, and how they are represented in popular culture. It turns out that drones are not as scary as they appear but they are more complicated than you might expect. Drones reveal the strange relationships that humans are forming with their new technologies. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
About the Author Adam Rothstein is a freelance technology writer and researcher based in Portland, USA.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781628926323 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 160x124mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Literary theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Bookshelf Lydia Pyne
Shows that, whether in the library, office, or home, the bookshelf is where and how we create categories to sort knowledge and experience and that every bookshelf tells a different story.
Description Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom? Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
About the Author Lydia Pyne (PhD) is a freelance writer, editor, historian, and Research Fellow in the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is a contributing editor for The Appendix and a reviewer and essayist for NewPages and New York Journal of Books. She is the author of Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils (Viking, 2016) and, with Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene (Penguin, 2012).
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BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Remote Control Caetlin Benson-Allott
A material, literary, and cultural exploration of how the remote control, a seemingly innocuous media accessory, impacts our perception and world-view.
Description Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson- Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
About the Author Caetlin Benson-Allott is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA. She is the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (University of California Press, 2013) and of a column on film and new media in Film Quarterly.
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BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Golf Ball Harry Brown
Golf balls embody the complex human relation to the natural world, a will to control nature, but the action of balls in play reveals the futility of the endeavor.
Description Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their hitters by a thousand years, in places far beyond our reach. Golf balls embody our efforts to impose our will on the land, whether the local golf course or the Moon, but their unpredictable spin, bounce, and roll often defy our control. Despite their considerable technical refinements, golf balls reveal the futility of control. They inevitably disappear in plain sight and find their way into hazards. Golf balls play with people. Harry Brown's short treatise on the golf ball serves up surprising lessons about the human desire to tame and control the landscape through technology. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
About the Author Harry Brown is Associate Professor of English at DePauw University, USA. He is the author of Injun Joe's Ghost (University of Missouri, 2004) and Videogames and Education (M.E. Sharpe, 2008). He has published articles on American literature and culture in The Journal of American and Comparative Culture, Studies in Medievalism, and Paradoxa, as well as original fiction in Blueline and The Mississippi Review.
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BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 How to Adult Anna Blackie
A guide to not being a trash human, and other life lessons.
Description Do you know your shiraz from your merlot? Are you craving gravy but don't know how your parents conjured this magical sauce? Are you terrified of your impending adult responsibility? From doing your taxes to changing a tyre, asking for a raise to mastering avocado preparation How to Adult contains everything a fully functioning adult should know to survive in the grown-up world. Packed with life advice gained by an actual hopeless millennial through consistent failure, humiliation and awkward conversations, this book will keep you from starvation, make folding fitted sheets a reality, and teach you how to look like a professional adult when you're actually an incompetent trash human. Get wise, get it together, and grow the hell up. Shit you should know, but probably don't.
About the Author Anna Blackie is a real-life hopeless millennial who spends her time advising other millennials on how to function in an attempt to avoid her own shortcomings. Her long-term love of words led her into a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and Writing at Macquarie University. After that, she decided three years of full-time reading just weren't enough and went into publishing, where she now works in the editorial department of an independent Australian publisher. How to Adult came to be when Anna realised that there was a shocking amount she didn't know about how to function in the adult world so she decided to write her very own guide to being a grown-up and fill it with all the things she hoped she would one day understand. She lives in Sydney and dreams of one day eating an avocado in her very own house.
Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781925700398 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Pantera AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 We're All Going to Die Stefan Hunt
Explore the meaning of life in the form of a Dr Seuss-esque 'children's book for adults'.
Description Stefan Hunt's ultimately uplifting prose poem, We're All Going to Die, seeks to empower individuals to fear less and live more. Structured as a conversation between fear and death, the work emerged during a turning point in Stefan's journey with anxiety. While everyone around him seemed to be kicking life goals, Stefan had been engulfed by fear of the unknown. He became so afraid of making the wrong decision and failing life that he found himself almost immobilised. While writing this poem about the one certainty he could find that we're all going to die Stefan experienced a profound shift in perspective. Suddenly the small stuff seemed, well ... small. If life's only guarantee is death, then why not take a few risks? Now on a mission to spread this message, Stefan hopes to start a global movement, one life-changing realisation at a time.
About the Author It all began in 2006 when he packed his camera, headed to the USA, bought an ice cream truck and drove to all fifty states to make a documentary. No lie. This adventure set him on his way to directing films all over the world capturing beautiful stories, making new friends and eating tacos. No lie. But none of this really defines why he does it, and the why is important to Stefan. You see, he believes that creativity and social impact should not be mutually exclusive and his work consistently reflects this. Often narrating through the eyes of a child, his films are naive yet poignant and a reminder that we were all once children. He has gone on to collaborate with the biggest global brands, directing multi award winning documentaries, commercials, music videos and TV series. And through it all there will always be one sentiment. To inspire change through creativity. In 2017 Stefan launched his most ambitious creative endeavor titled We're All Going To Die. This consisted of a published book, short film and sold out multimedia art festival in Sydney Australia. The project aims to empower an audience to 'fear less and live more' through humour, colour and death. It has since toured to New Zealand and USA.
The following video is Stefan's autobiography in moving colour, and a great insight into the project as well as the man: Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781925700626 https://vimeo.com/277252568 You can see how comfortable and natural Stefan is talking about these topics, and how Format: Hard Cover important it is to him. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 30 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Pantera AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Genius and Anxiety Norman Lebrecht
A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them
Description In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. What do these visionaries have in common? They all have Jewish origins. They all have a gift for thinking outside the box and all of them think fast. In 1847 the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world's population, and yet they saw what others could not. How?
About the Author Norman Lebrecht is the world's bestselling author on classical music. His Whitbread Award-winning novel, The Song of Names, is currently being developed into a feature film. Aside from the history of Western music, he has a lifelong passion for the culture and chronicles of the Jewish people. He lives in London.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Priests de la Resistance! The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
Who says you can't fight fascism in a cassock?
Description Whoever said that Christians had to be meek and mild hadn't met Felix Kir parish priest, French resistance hero and inventor of the Kir Royale. And they probably weren't thinking of Archbishop Damaskinos who, when threatened with the firing squad by the Nazis, replied, 'Please respect our traditions in Greece we hang our archbishops.' Whether pushing down country roads atop a tank or taking a bullet for an innocent schoolgirl, these fifteen extraordinary people were willing to give their lives to fight for the world they believed in. Wherever fascism has taken root, it has met with resistance. From wartime Athens to sixties Alabama, Vichy France to military dictatorship in Brazil, these are the priests who dared to speak out (and act out) against those who would persuade us that hate is stronger than love.
About the Author The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie is Assistant Curate at Liverpool Parish Church and the author of A Field Guide to the English Clergy, a Best Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Cambridge. He once accidentally appeared on Only Connect. This is his second book.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786076724 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 They Will Have To Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate James Verini
To win, they have to take Baghdad. To survive, they have to hold on to Mosul.
Description In this masterpiece of war journalism based on months on the frontlines, award-winning reporter James Verini describes the climactic battle in the struggle against the Islamic State through the eyes of fighters and the families that refused to abandon their homes. The battle was a long time coming. Mosul, and its ancient counterpart Nineveh, have a proud history as the birthplace of Western culture, but they have also been an epicentre of cruelty and violence, from the ancient Assyrians to the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. The Battle for Mosul was the first to show us the true shape of twenty-first century warfare, in which the distinction between military and civilian has collapsed and mobile phone towers are a strategic priority. As the government forces inch forward through narrow alleyways, co-ordinating their movements via WhatsApp, scanning for ISIS snipers and suicide car bombers using commercial drones, Verini shows how this viciously contested patch of earth came to represent a war for the soul of a country, its history and its future.
About the Author James Verini is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. He has also written for The New Yorker, the Atavist, and other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award and a George Polk Award.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781786077486 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 You are Not So Smart David McRaney
In this international bestseller, award-winning journalist David McRaney examines the assorted ways we mislead ourselves every single day.
Description How many of your Facebook friends do you think you know? Would you help a stranger in need? Do you know why you're so in love with your new smartphone? The truth is: you're probably wrong. You are not so smart. In this international bestseller, award-winning journalist David McRaney examines the assorted ways we mislead ourselves every single day. A psychology course with all the boring bits taken out, prepare for a whirlwind tour of the latest research in the subject, fused with a healthy dose of humour and wit. You'll discover just how irrational you really are, which delusions keep you sane, how to boost your productivity, and why you've never kept a New Year's resolution.
About the Author Self-described psychology nerd David McRaney is a journalist and new media worker, and twice-recipient of the William Randolph Hearst Award. He runs the popular blog You Are Not So Smart. This is his first book.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Gene Machine Venki Ramakrishnan
The thrilling story of how scientists unlocked a new window onto how life works
Description From Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan 'Beyond superb' Bill Bryson 'A wonderful book' Ian McEwan Everyone knows about DNA. It is the essence of our being, influencing who we are and what we pass on to our children. But the information in DNA can't be used without a machine to decode it. The ribosome is that machine. Older than DNA itself, it is the mother of all molecules. Virtually every molecule made in every cell was either made by the ribosome or by proteins that were themselves made by the ribosome. Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of the race to uncover the ribosome's enormously complex structure, a fundamental breakthrough that resolves an ancient mystery of life itself and could lead to the development of better antibiotics. A fascinating insider account, Gene Machine charts Ramakrishnan's unlikely journey from his first fumbling experiments in a biology lab to being at the centre of a fierce competition at the cutting edge of modern science.
About the Author Venki Ramakrishnan is a structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome. He was knighted in 2012 and elected president of the Royal Society in 2015. He works at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Patriot or Traitor Anna Beer
A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh
Description A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the man who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.' Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Ralegh was a writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. He lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. We do not even know when this fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman was born, yet he went on to 'climb full high' in the England of Queen Elizabeth I. How was such a man able to do this? His life was romantic, irresistible and of central importance to early modern history. Prone to periods of extreme melancholy alternating with extreme activity, here was a liar who believed his own lies. He had a hunger for life, a longing for death, a passion for words - and a love of silk stockings. Always driven, and always consumed with wonder, Ralegh was a man who pored over maps, asking dangerous questions of the world around him. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh's famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness.
About the Author Anna Beer is a cultural historian and one of the leading experts on the life and works of Sir Walter Ralegh. She has written biographies of Milton and Lady Bess Ralegh, and Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music, which is also published by Oneworld. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786076700 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands Hazel V. Corby
A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story
Description 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh mother, but to untangle knots the British Empire created across the Atlantic. Tracing the skeins of this knotted past through the method of 'autohistory,' Imperial Intimacies charts empire's violent interweaving of lives and states, Jamaica and Britain, capital and bodies, public language and private feeling. In so doing, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.
About the Author Hazel V. Carby is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization at Yale University. Her books include Reconstructing Womanhood, Race Men, and Cultures in Babylon.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781788735094 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Colonialism & imperialism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History Steve Fraser
Steve Fraser is the preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization
Description Conventional stories about American history, its origins and unfolding, do not feature capitalism. Other tales about the country's history usually take priority. If capitalism figures at all, it is to foreground opportunity, entrepreneurial vigour, material abundance, and the seven-league boots of manifest destiny. Conflict may rear its unseemly face but only episodically, as a kind of alien or aberrant detour off the main road of America's exceptional career in world history. Instances of serious social discord, when they draw notice, are transcended a course correction that allows the utopian project to resume. In this collection of essays, Steve Fraser corrects the record, rewriting the arc of the American saga with capitalism and class conflict centre-stage and mounting a serious challenge to the consoling fantasy of American exceptionalism. Working through the central concepts of political economics unemployment and risk, unfree labour and household debt he demonstrates that class is a deeply structuring feature of American political life, and an invaluable heuristic for reading American politics in the longue duree.
About the Author Steve Fraser is a historian, writer, and editor. His research and writing have pursued two main lines of inquiry: labour history and the history of American capitalism.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781788736701 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: History of the Americas Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Inequality and the 1% Danny Dorling
Fully updated new edition: Why we cannot afford the rich in post Brexit Britain
Description Since the Great Recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity. But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on a person's potential: reducing life expectancy, limiting educational and work prospects, and even affecting mental health. What is to be done? In Inequality and the 1% leading social thinker Danny Dorling lays bare the extent and true cost of the division in our society and asks what have the super-rich ever done for us? He shows that it is the 1% that threatens us with the most harm and why we must urgently redress the balance
About the Author Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford. He appears regularly on TV and radio, and writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and other papers. He advises government and the office for national statistics. Among his books are Peak Inequality, All That Is Solid and Injustice.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788736473 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 276 pages Bic1: Social classes Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Fall and Rise of the British Left Andrew Murray
The return of British socialism: Where does it comes from? Why now? And where is it going?
Description The remarkable advance of 'Corbynism' did not emerge from nowhere. It is the product of developments in socialist and working-class politics over the past forty years and more. The Thatcher era witnessed a wholesale attack on the postwar consensus and welfare state, through a regime of deregulation, attacks on the unions, privatisations, and globalisation. However, at the same time, there existed a persistent resistance to the growing powers of neo-liberalism. This side of the story is rarely told as it was considered to be a history of defeat. Yet out of this struggle emerged a thoroughly modern socialism. This book is essential reading for those who want to know where Corbynism comes from: the policies, personalities and moments of resistance that have produced this new horizon. This includes the story of power struggles within the Labour Party, and the eventual defeat of New Labour. The movements outside it unions, feminists groups, anti-fascists activists, anti-war protestors that have driven the policies of the movement forward. And the powerful influence of international groups that have shaped the potential for a global progressive politics.
About the Author Andrew Murray has been Chief of Staff of Unite union since 2011, and was previously its Director of Communications. He was Chair of the Stop the War Coalition. He is the author of a number of books on history and politics, including Off the Rails: The Crisis on Britain's Railways, A New Labour Nightmare and with Lindsey German Stop the War: The Story of Britain's Biggest Mass Movement. He worked as part of the strategic leadership of Labour's 2017 general election campaign.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788735131 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Political parties Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism: Journeys in the New Colonialism Stefano Liberti
Exemplary reportage . accurate, engaged, honest. Corriere della Sera Liberti writes with the curiosity and passion of the great journalists of the past. Internazionale
Description We are now entering a new era of colonialism. While rich nations and powerful corporations call it land leasing for the thousands that suffer it is nothing more than land grabbing. Italian journalist Stefano Liberti visits Africa, South America and the Middle East in pursuit of the true cost of affordable food.
About the Author Stefano Liberti is a journalist at the foreign desk of the Italian daily newspaper il manifesto. He is the author of two books including Lo stivale meticcio and A sud di Lampedusa. He is the winner of the 2008 Luchetta Prize, 2010 Carletti Prize, and 2010 Indro Montanelli Prize for his writing.
Price: $19.99 $20.99 ISBN: 9781781683125 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Brazil Apart Perry Anderson
Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula's Workers' Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right
Description What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's most populous society, and how has it come about? Perry Anderson, foremost observer of the Brazilian scene in the English-speaking world, offers a matchless account of the country's recent political upheavals: after the dashed hopes of the Cardoso years, the soaring popularity of Luiz InAicio Lula da Silva; the parliamentary coup d'etat against his successor, Dilma; and the sweeping election victory of Bolsonaro, backed by the Armed Forces and a youthful new right. Always something of a world unto itself, under the Workers' Party, Brazil had bucked the global trend towards a tighter neoliberalism. With its lodestar, Lula, now behind bars, a weighing up of the PT's legacy, and of the contrasting Bolsonaro regime, is urgently needed.
About the Author Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, The H-Word, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers, The Indian Ideology, The New Old World, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions and The Origins of Postmodernity. He is an editor at New Left Review.
Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781788737944 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: History of the Americas Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Heart So Fierce and Broken 6 copy pack
Includes 6 copies of PB ed + free reading copy
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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Heart So Fierce and Broken Brigid Kemmerer
In this thrilling, eagerly awaited sequel to the bestselling A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Brigid Kemmerer returns to a lush fantasy reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer, Melissa Albert and Louise O'Neill
Description Find the heir, win the crown. Win the crown, save the kingdom.
Harper has freed Prince Rhen from the curse that almost destroyed his kingdom. But all is not well; rumours are rife that there is a rival heir with a stronger claim to the throne and that 'Princess' Harper of Disi is nothing but a fraud. Grey has fled the castle carrying a terrible secret. When he is discovered by soldiers and returned to Ironrose by force, Grey's allegiances begin to shift. And as he grows closer to an enemy princess, he is forced to decide whether he will stand against Rhen for the crown he never wanted -
About the Author Brigid Kemmerer is the author A Curse So Dark and Lonely, the CILIP Carnegie Medal-nominated More Than We Can Tell and the Zoella and Friends Book Club-pick Letters to the Lost. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, though her parents quickly moved her all over the United States, from the desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the lakeside in Cleveland, Ohio, and several stops in between, eventually settling near Annapolis, Maryland. brigidkemmerer.com @BrigidKemmerer
Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781408885086 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Fantasy romance (Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Heart So Fierce and Broken Brigid Kemmerer
Find the heir, win the crown. Win the crown, save the kingdom. 12+
Description In the sequel to New York Times bestselling A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Brigid Kemmerer returns to the world of Emberfall in a lush fantasy where friends become foes and love blooms in the darkest of places.Find the heir, win the crown.The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the true heir and that forbidden magic has been unleashed in Emberfall. Although Rhen has Harper by his side, his guardsman Grey is missing, leaving more questions than answers. Win the crown, save the kingdom. Grey may be the heir, but he doesn't want anyone to know his secret. On the run since he destroyed Lilith, he has no desire to challenge Rhen--until Karis Luran once again threatens to take Emberfall by force. Her own daughter Lia Mara sees the flaws in her mother's violent plan, but can she convince Grey to stand against Rhen, even for the good of Emberfall?The heart- pounding, compulsively readable saga continues as loyalties are tested and new love blooms in a kingdom on the brink of war.
About the Author Brigid Kemmerer is the New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Call It What You Want, More Than We Can Tell, Letters to the Lost, and the Elementals series. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, though her parents quickly moved her all over the United States, from the desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the lakeside in Cleveland, Ohio, and several stops in between, eventually settling near Annapolis, Maryland.www.brigidkemmerer. com@BrigidKemmerer
Price: $25.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781681195117 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Fantasy romance (Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Children's USA AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Ellie, Engineer: In the Spotlight Jackson Pearce
Ellie the Engineer is back in a third charming, hilarious, illustrated story filled with creative, STEM-powered fun!
Description Ellie the Engineer is back in a third charming, hilarious, illustrated story filled with creative, STEM-powered fun!
'Look out, Junie B. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations!' - School Library Connection on Ellie, Engineer Ellie enters a pageant with her best friend Kit, which means lots of glitter, hairspray, and chances to make new friends. After all, Ellie has lots of engineering ideas to help the other girls with their talents, like building a light-up skateboard ramp for Kit! But one contestant, Kit's not-so-nice pageant rival Melody, makes fun of Ellie's tool belt and thinks engineering is messy. And when Melody's rabbit--part of her magic act--goes missing, Ellie knows that she can build a contraption to catch him. But Melody's comments have made Ellie start to doubt herself--what if a pageant isn't a place for engineering? With Ellie's designs and sketches throughout, and her fun guide to electricity and circuits in the back, the continuation of this delightful series will leave young readers laughing and inspired to create.
About the Author Jackson Pearce lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of a series of teen retold fairy-tales, including Sisters Red, Sweetly, Fathomless, and Cold Spell, as well as two stand-alones, As You Wish and Purity. As J. Nelle Patrick, she is the author of Tsarina. In addition to the Ellie, Engineer series, The Doublecross, and The Inside Job, her middle grade novels include Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures, co-written with Maggie Stiefvater. www.jacksonpearce.com @JacksonPearce (Twitter and Instagram)
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781547601851 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Children's USA AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Princess Ponies 12: An Enchanted Heart Chloe Ryder
Enter a land of magical ponies in this chapter book series that features illustrations throughout and comes with a collectible charm!
Description Enter a land of magical ponies in this chapter book series that features illustrations throughout and comes with a collectible charm! The enchanted island of Chevalia, where ponies rule, has finally had its magic restored, thanks to human Pippa and pony Princess Stardust. Her task complete, Pippa has returned to our world . . . but her friends in Chevalia are never far away. It's Valentine's Day, and Pippa is so excited to get a surprise visit from her best friend, Princess Stardust. But Stardust needs Pippa's help. . . Troublemaker Divine has cast a spell, and the ponies of Chevalia have forgotten how to love and started fighting! Together, Pippa and Stardust must search the forests, fields, and volcanoes of Chevalia for a way to break the curse. Can they remind the ponies how to be kind before Valentine's Day is ruined? Pippa's adventures in magical Chevalia are brought to life with delightful illustrations, and the book includes a special collectible charm. Collect all of the books in the Princess Ponies series: A Magical Friend A Dream Come True The Special Secret A Unicorn Adventure! An Amazing Rescue Best Friends Forever! A Special Surprise A Singing Star The Lucky Horseshoe The Pumpkin Ghost Season's Galloping
Price: $9.99 $12.99 ISBN: 9781547601905 About the Author Format: Paperback Chloe Ryder lives on a farm for thoroughbred and rescue horses. When she's not caring for the horses, she rides them Dimensions: 0x0mm across the hills surrounding her house. Chloe is one of the very few who know the true location of the magical island Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Chevalia. She is also the alter ego of Julie Sykes, award-winning author of over 60 books for children. Julie lives in Bic2: Hampshire with her family and their pet wolf. Illustrations: www.chloeryder.com Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Children's USA AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Funny Sort of Minister Dominique Demers
The next installment in Dominique Demers's The Adventures of Miss Charlotte series, beautifully illustrated by Tony Ross
Description At a train station on her way to meet her friends Marie and Leo to recover her pet rock, Madame Charlotte accidentally picks up the Prime Minister's elephant-hide bag instead of her own. As it contains important documents and the politician is due to make an important speech on children's education, Miss Charlotte hoping that she might get a ministerial job out of this embarks on a quest to track him down. Along the way, Miss Charlotte cannot help making speeches on behalf of the country's leader and putting her own original twist on his boring children's policy, while attracting at the same time the attentions of the media and the secret service.
About the Author A former professor and journalist in her native Canada, Dominique Demers is the successful author of over fifty books for children, young adults and adults.
Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781846884566 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Alma Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 New Teacher Dominique Demers, illustrated by Tony Ross translated by Sander Berg
This book is the first in the series of Mademoiselle Charlotte's Advenutures where the main character keep on changing her identity and delight all children. In the first book she is a teacher, then she will be a librarian, after that a football coach, a minister and so on. Mademoiselle Charlotte is a modern Mary Poppins. The series has been very popular in Canada where it's adapted on television.
Description Mademoiselle Charlotte, the new teacher, is not like the others: she wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that make her look like a scarecrow, and she talks to a rock. The children think she is crazy at first, but soon realize she makes school more fun than ever, getting them to measure the room with cooked spaghetti in maths class, telling fascinating stories about a gorilla and even taking the pupils on at football. The first book in Dominique Demers's popular series, The New Teacher, brilliantly illustrated by Tony Ross, is an entertaining, imaginative and inspiring book that will make you wish you had a teacher just like Mademoiselle Charlotte.
About the Author A former professor and journalist in her native Canada, Dominique Demers is the successful author of over fifty books for children, young adults and adults.
Price: $14.99 $15.99 ISBN: 9781846883996 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 199x129mm Extent: 100 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Alma Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The New Football Coach Dominique Demers
The latest instalment in Dominique Demers's popular Adventures of Miss Charlotte series, The New Football Coach, brilliantly illustrated by Tony Ross, is a marvellous tale about believing in yourself and beating the odds.
Description Miss Charlotte the new coach of a children's football team has some odd methods to prepare them for the big match. She decides to teach them to lose! And to have fun. Incredibly, it seems to work, as the kid who was always useless on the pitch suddenly scores a screamer in practice. But will their hopes of victory be dashed when the ambitious star player decides to join the other team' The latest instalment in Dominique Demers's popular Adventures of Miss Charlotte series, The New Football Coach, brilliantly illustrated by Tony Ross, is a marvellous tale about believing in yourself and beating the odds.
About the Author A former professor and journalist in her native Canada, Dominique Demers is the successful author of over fifty books for children, young adults and adults.
Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781846884351 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x128mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Alma Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Lola Dutch I Love you so much Kenneth Wright Kenneth Wright
The unstoppable Lola Dutch is back and she knows that when it comes to showing your friends how much you love them, there's no such thing as too much! A delightful, gloriously illustrated friendship story that's perfect for Valentine's Day
Description This is Lola Dutch, a delightfully creative girl who loves her friends SO much. When they re having a bad day, Lola knows just what to do to make each of them feel better:She sews cozy pajamas for Gator,constructs the perfect reading nook for Crane,and takes Pig to the park!Lola loves showing her friends how much she loves them! But ther s one special friend sh s forgotten--Bear! Can Lola decide on the perfect way to express how much he means to her?The curious and inspired Lola Dutch knows that when it comes to showing friendship and appreciation, ther s no such thing as too much. And maybe because of that, the thing Lol s friends love the most is . . . LOLA DUTCH!Inspired by their own four gorgeously creative children, Sarah Jane and Kenneth Wright are thrilled to continue this fun series about the unstoppable Lola Dutch, a larger-than-life character perfect for fans of Olivia and Fancy Nancy.
About the Author Kenneth and Sarah Jane Wright live in Utah with their four uniquely intense children. In 2008 Sarah Jane opened a simple online shop that has since grown into a worldwide business with art prints, fabrics, wallpaper, puppets, and illustrated children s books. Kenneth is a full-time educator and history teacher. Together Kenneth and Sarah Jane share a ridiculous number of hobbies. On any given day at the Wright house yo ll see treehouse building, pastry making, spontaneous musicals, and kids tucked into cozy nooks, reading stacks of books on EVERYTHING. They are thrilled to be writing picture books about Lola Dutch together.www.sarahjanestudios.comwww.loladutch.com@sarahjanestudios (Twitter and Instagram)@loladutch (Instagram)
Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781547601172 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 40 pages Bic1: Picture books Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Children's USA AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Time to Make Friends Penny Tassoni
0-5 years
Description From shy to confident, quiet to enthusiastic, all children have different personalities and sometimes they just need a little help when it comes to making friends. How can we best help children communicate clearly and build strong friendships? Penny Tassoni, leading Early Years education consultant, author and trainer, uses simple words, accompanied by delightful full-colour illustrations by Mel Four, to support children as they make friends.There's lots to talk about in Time to Make Frien which makes this book ideal for sharing. It also includes a page of practical advice and tips for practitioners, parents and carers making it the perfect resource for supporting this essential life skill.
About the Author Penny Tassoni MBE is an education consultant, author and trainer who specialises in learning and play. Penny began her career as an Early Years teacher before training nursery nurses. She has also worked for a large day care chain as their education and training manager. Penny has written forty books, many of which are core textbooks in the UK for training nursery nurses and Early Years teachers. In 2013, she took on the role of President of the Professional Association of Early Years and Childcare (PACEY) an organisation with over 35,000 members in the UK. Penny is a well-known speaker and trainer. She regularly works with nurseries and preschools in the UK and Turkey and has supported nurseries in China, Dubai and Hong Kong.Mel Four is a book cover designer and illustrator. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. As well as loving drawing and reading (of course!), Mel enjoys family camping trips and all crafts, especially knitting and crochet.
Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781472966704 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 181x182mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Time to Share Penny Tassoni
0-5 Years
Description Penny Tassoni MBE is an education consultant, author and trainer who specialises in learning and play. Penny began her career as an Early Years teacher before training nursery nurses. She has also worked for a large day care chain as their education and training manager. Penny has written forty books, many of which are core textbooks in the UK for training nursery nurses and Early Years teachers. In 2013, she took on the role of President of the Professional Association of Early Years and Childcare (PACEY) an organisation with over 35,000 members in the UK. Penny is a well-known speaker and trainer. She regularly works with nurseries and preschools in the UK and Turkey and has supported nurseries in China, Dubai and Hong Kong.Mel Four is a book cover designer and illustrator. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. As well as loving drawing and reading (of course!), Mel enjoys family camping trips and all crafts, especially knitting and crochet.
About the Author Penny Tassoni MBE is an education consultant, author and trainer who specialises in learning and play. Penny began her career as an Early Years teacher before training nursery nurses. She has also worked for a large day care chain as their education and training manager. Penny has written forty books, many of which are core textbooks in the UK for training nursery nurses and Early Years teachers. In 2013, she took on the role of President of the Professional Association of Early Years and Childcare (PACEY) an organisation with over 35,000 members in the UK. Penny is a well-known speaker and trainer. She regularly works with nurseries and preschools in the UK and Turkey and has supported nurseries in China, Dubai and Hong Kong.Mel Four is a book cover designer and illustrator. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. As well as loving drawing and reading (of course!), Mel enjoys family camping trips and all crafts, especially knitting and crochet.
Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781472966674 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 180x182mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Time to Tidy Up Penny Tassoni
0-5 Years
Description Penny Tassoni MBE is an education consultant, author and trainer who specialises in learning and play. Penny began her career as an Early Years teacher before training nursery nurses. She has also worked for a large day care chain as their education and training manager. Penny has written forty books, many of which are core textbooks in the UK for training nursery nurses and Early Years teachers. In 2013, she took on the role of President of the Professional Association of Early Years and Childcare (PACEY) an organisation with over 35,000 members in the UK. Penny is a well-known speaker and trainer. She regularly works with nurseries and preschools in the UK and Turkey and has supported nurseries in China, Dubai and Hong Kong.Mel Four is a book cover designer and illustrator. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. As well as loving drawing and reading (of course!), Mel enjoys family camping trips and all crafts, especially knitting and crochet.
About the Author From shy to confident, quiet to enthusiastic, all children have different personalities and sometimes they just need a little help when it comes to making friends. How can we best help children communicate clearly and build strong friendships? Penny Tassoni, leading Early Years education consultant, author and trainer, uses simple words, accompanied by delightful full-colour illustrations by Mel Four, to support children as they make friends.There's lots to talk about in Time to Make Frien which makes this book ideal for sharing. It also includes a page of practical advice and tips for practitioners, parents and carers making it the perfect resource for supporting this essential life skill.
Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781472964656 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 182x182mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Time to Eat Penny Tassoni
0-5 YEARS
Description Penny Tassoni MBE is an education consultant, author and trainer who specialises in learning and play. Penny began her career as an Early Years teacher before training nursery nurses. She has also worked for a large day care chain as their education and training manager. Penny has written forty books, many of which are core textbooks in the UK for training nursery nurses and Early Years teachers. In 2013, she took on the role of President of the Professional Association of Early Years and Childcare (PACEY) an organisation with over 35,000 members in the UK. Penny is a well-known speaker and trainer. She regularly works with nurseries and preschools in the UK and Turkey and has supported nurseries in China, Dubai and Hong Kong.Mel Four is a book cover designer and illustrator. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. As well as loving drawing and reading (of course!), Mel enjoys family camping trips and all crafts, especially knitting and crochet.
About the Author From shy to confident, quiet to enthusiastic, all children have different personalities and sometimes they just need a little help when it comes to making friends. How can we best help children communicate clearly and build strong friendships? Penny Tassoni, leading Early Years education consultant, author and trainer, uses simple words, accompanied by delightful full-colour illustrations by Mel Four, to support children as they make friends.There's lots to talk about in Time to Make Frien which makes this book ideal for sharing. It also includes a page of practical advice and tips for practitioners, parents and carers making it the perfect resource for supporting this essential life skill.
Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781472964649 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 181x181mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Can I Touch Your Hair? Irene Latham, Charles Waters
A powerful story told through linked poems which raise questions of race and identity in an honest and tangible way for younger readers.
Description A powerful story told through linked poems which raise questions of race and identity in an honest and tangible way for younger readers. How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other...and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, use this fictional setup to delve into different experiences of race in a relatable way, exploring such topics as hair, hobbies, and family dinners. Accompanied by artwork from acclaimed illustrators Sean Qualls and Selina Alko, this remarkable collaboration invites readers of all ages to join the dialogue by putting their own words to their experiences.
About the Author US based poets Irene Latham and Charles Waters were sort of friends when they began writing this book together. Now, after many email and text messages (and the occasional phone call), they are friends for life. They believe poetry can start conversations and change lives.
Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781786077370 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Illustration Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Oneworld AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles Mark Kurlansky
A fascinating look at the rise and decline in populations of beloved bugs
Description By now you've probably heard that bees are disappearing--but they aren't the only species at risk. Populations of fireflies, butterflies, and ladybugs have all been declining in recent years, too. This middle grade nonfiction explains the growth, spread, and recent declines of each of these four types of insects. Exploring human causes, like the Baltimore electric company that collected fireflies to attempt to harness their phosphorescent lighting source, to natural occurrences, like the mysterious colony collapse disorder that plagues bee populations, master nonfiction storyteller Mark Kurlansky shows just how much bugs matter to our world.
About the Author Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 books, including A World Without Fish for young readers and Milk, Salt, and Cod for adults. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appetit's Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. He lives in New York City. www. markkurlansky.com
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781547600854 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Wildlife (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Children's USA AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Fantastically Great Women Boxed Set: Gift Editions Kate Pankhurst
A beautiful gift set of the first three books from the wildly successful Fantastically Great Women series by bestselling children's author and illustrator, Kate Pankhurst, a descendant of Emmeline Pankhurst. Shine like the star you are and follow your hearts, talents and dreams with these brave and bold Fantastically Great Women!
Description Kate Pankhurst illustrates and writes from her studio in Leeds with her spotty dog, Olive. She loves a good story, the funnier the better, and gets her best ideas by doodling in her sketchbook; because even quick wonky drawings can spark ideas for amazing plots. As a child, Kate spent most of her time drawing silly characters and thinking up funny things for them to do, she feels very lucky to now do this as her job. Kate is the bestselling author and illustrator of the phenomenal Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, nominated for the Kate Greenaway medal 2018, Fantastically Great Women Who Made History and Fantastically Great Women Who Worked Wonders.
About the Author Following the wild success of Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, Fantastically Great Women Who Made History and Fantastically Great Women Who Worked Wonders comes this gorgeous giftable boxed set containing all three gift editions in the seriesA fantastic collection of facts about well-known female historical figures, all researched, written and illustrated by Kate Pankhurst, descendent of Emmeline Pankhurst and much-loved children's book author and illustratorThis beautiful boxed set of three books will make for the perfect gift: birthdays, Mother's Day, Christmas, International Women's Day and any other special occasionLittle ones will be inspired to be brave and bold following the example of these great women throughout time: from those who made amazing discoveries to women who changed the course of history and pioneered careersThe Fantastically Great Women brand has sold over 220,000 through TCM
Price: $44.99 $46.99 ISBN: 9781526610645 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: People & places (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Summer Reading 14 copy pack
2 copies of eachclassic paperback ed, plus1poster and20bookmarks.
Description JAN 7th: Invite your young customers to spend their Summer reading!
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Price: $277.86 $355.86 ISBN: 9781472998538 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Summer Reading 28 copy pack
Pack contains 4 copies of eachclassicpaperback ed, plus1poster, 20Bookmarks, 1Display Cube and gorgeous standee set.
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Price: $555.72 $711.72 ISBN: 9781472998545 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON - with brand new children's editions of the classic and internationally bestselling series
Description Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .
About the Author Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 450 million copies worldwide and been translated into 78 languages.
Price: $16.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781408855652 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 199x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling
It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON - with brand new children's editions of the classic and internationally bestselling series
Description Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone . Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .
About the Author Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 450 million copies worldwide and been translated into 78 languages.
Price: $16.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781408855669 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 201x133mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON - with brand new children's editions of the classic and internationally bestselling series
Description When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves . But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .
About the Author Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 450 million copies worldwide and been translated into 78 languages.
Price: $16.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781408855676 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 197x130mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling
It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON - with brand new children's editions of the classic and internationally bestselling series
Description The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive! These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .
About the Author Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 450 million copies worldwide and been translated into 78 languages.
Price: $21.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781408855683 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x123mm Extent: 640 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling
It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON - with brand new children's editions of the classic and internationally bestselling series
Description Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .
About the Author Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 450 million copies worldwide and been translated into 78 languages.
Price: $21.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781408855690 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x129mm Extent: 816 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling
It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON - with brand new children's editions of the classic and internationally bestselling series
Description When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .
About the Author Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 450 million copies worldwide and been translated into 78 languages.
Price: $21.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781408855706 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 560 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling
It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON - with brand new children's editions of the classic and internationally bestselling series
Description As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is now broken, but he cannot keep hiding. The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves, and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes. The final battle must begin - Harry must stand and face his enemy. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .
About the Author Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 450 million copies worldwide and been translated into 78 languages.
Price: $21.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781408855713 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 197x130mm Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Goblet House Editions 12 copy pack
Pack contains: 3 copies off each Goblet of Fire House ed in paperback,plusx1 poster andx1bookmark set.
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Price: $263.88 $335.88 ISBN: 9781472998552 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Goblet House Editions 24 copy pack
Pack contains:6 copies off each Goblet ofFire House ed in paperback, plus 1 poster, 1bookmark set and 1 sticker sheet.
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Price: $791.76 $761.75 ISBN: 9781472998569 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Gryffindor Edition J.K. Rowling
The exclusive, bespoke Gryffindor House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE
Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Gryffindor House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its courage, bravery and determination. Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Gryffindor moments and characters, including Harry's unexpected selection as champion in the Triwizard Tournament not to mention Hagrid's misadventures with Blast-Ended Skrewts!
Each Gryffindor House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate gold foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from this much-loved story. In addition to a bespoke introduction and exclusive insights into the magical paintings of Hogwarts, the book also boasts new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular portrait of Hogwarts' gamekeeper, Rubeus Hagrid. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be GRYFFINDOR!'
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Price: $21.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781526610287 Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Format: Paperback - B format digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Dimensions: 0x0mm from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Bic2: Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Ravenclaw Edition J.K. Rowling
The exclusive, bespoke Ravenclaw House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE
Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Ravenclaw House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its wit, learning and wisdom. Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Ravenclaw moments and characters, including the return of Moaning Myrtle, who with typical Ravenclaw intelligence helps Harry solve a crucial clue in the Triwizard Tournament.
Each Ravenclaw House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate bronze foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from J.K. Rowling's much-loved story. In addition to a bespoke introduction and exclusive insights into the magical paintings of Hogwarts, the book also boasts new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular portrait of master wand-maker, Ollivander. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be RAVENCLAW!'
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Price: $21.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781526610324 Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Format: Paperback - B format digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Dimensions: 0x0mm from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Bic2: Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Hufflepuff Edition J.K. Rowling
The exclusive, bespoke Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE
Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its dedication, patience and loyalty. Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Hufflepuff moments and characters not least the heroism and valour of Hogwarts champion Cedric Diggory in the thrilling Triwizard Tournament ...
Each Hufflepuff House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate silver foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from J.K. Rowling's much-loved story. In addition to a bespoke introduction and exclusive insights into the magical paintings of Hogwarts, the book also boasts new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular portrait of Hogwarts' heartthrob, Cedric Diggory. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be HUFFLEPUFF!'
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Price: $21.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781526610300 Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Format: Paperback - B format digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Dimensions: 0x0mm from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Bic2: Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Slytherin Edition J.K. Rowling
The exclusive, bespoke Slytherin House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE
Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Slytherin House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its pride, ambition and cunning. Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Slytherin moments and characters, culminating in the terrifying finale of the Triwizard Tournament, which sees the momentous return of Voldemort, the greatest Dark Wizard of all time - Each Slytherin House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate silver foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from J.K. Rowling's much-loved story. In addition to a bespoke introduction and exclusive insights into the magical paintings of Hogwarts, the book also boasts new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular portrait of Lord Voldemort himself. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be SLYTHERIN!'
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Price: $21.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781526610348 digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Format: Paperback - B format from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Dimensions: 0x0mm written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Gryffindor Edition J.K. Rowling
The exclusive, bespoke Gryffindor House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE
Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Gryffindor House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its courage, bravery and determination. Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Gryffindor moments and characters, including Harry's unexpected selection as champion in the Triwizard Tournament not to mention Hagrid's misadventures with Blast-Ended Skrewts!
Each Gryffindor House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate gold foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from this much-loved story. In addition to a bespoke introduction and exclusive insights into the magical paintings of Hogwarts, the book also boasts new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular portrait of Hogwarts' gamekeeper, Rubeus Hagrid. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be GRYFFINDOR!'
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Price: $32.99 $35.99 ISBN: 9781526610270 Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Format: Hard Cover digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Dimensions: 0x0mm from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Bic2: Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Ravenclaw Edition J.K. Rowling
The exclusive, bespoke Ravenclaw House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE
Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Ravenclaw House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its wit, learning and wisdom. Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Ravenclaw moments and characters, including the return of Moaning Myrtle, who with typical Ravenclaw intelligence helps Harry solve a crucial clue in the Triwizard Tournament.
Each Ravenclaw House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate bronze foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from J.K. Rowling's much-loved story. In addition to a bespoke introduction and exclusive insights into the magical paintings of Hogwarts, the book also boasts new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular portrait of master wand-maker, Ollivander. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be RAVENCLAW!'
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Price: $32.99 $35.99 ISBN: 9781526610317 Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Format: Hard Cover digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Dimensions: 0x0mm from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Bic2: Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Hufflepuff Edition J.K. Rowling
The exclusive, bespoke Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE
Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its dedication, patience and loyalty. Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Hufflepuff moments and characters not least the heroism and valour of Hogwarts champion Cedric Diggory in the thrilling Triwizard Tournament ...
Each Hufflepuff House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate silver foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from J.K. Rowling's much-loved story. In addition to a bespoke introduction and exclusive insights into the magical paintings of Hogwarts, the book also boasts new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular portrait of Hogwarts' heartthrob, Cedric Diggory. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be HUFFLEPUFF!'
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Price: $32.99 $35.99 ISBN: 9781526610294 Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Format: Hard Cover digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Dimensions: 0x0mm from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Bic2: Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Slytherin Edition J.K. Rowling
The exclusive, bespoke Slytherin House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE
Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Slytherin House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its pride, ambition and cunning. Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Slytherin moments and characters, culminating in the terrifying finale of the Triwizard Tournament, which sees the momentous return of Voldemort, the greatest Dark Wizard of all time - Each Slytherin House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate silver foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from J.K. Rowling's much-loved story. In addition to a bespoke introduction and exclusive insights into the magical paintings of Hogwarts, the book also boasts new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular portrait of Lord Voldemort himself. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be SLYTHERIN!'
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Price: $32.99 $35.99 ISBN: 9781526610331 digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Format: Hard Cover from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Dimensions: 0x0mm written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter 1-3 Box Set: A Magical Adventure Begins J.K Rowling
A perfect introduction to the world of Harry Potter a beautiful three-book box set, containing paperback editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, featuring instantly appealing cover art by Jonny Duddle
Description The essential introduction to the world of Harry Potter: three magical adventures in one beautiful box set. Every great story has a great beginning. From the moment Harry Potter is deposited on the doorstep of number four, Privet Drive, with a swish of Albus Dumbledore's cloak and the words 'Good luck, Harry', J.K. Rowling's irresistible storytelling pulls readers into an unforgettable, magical adventure. Harry Potter is a milestone in every child's reading journey and this gorgeous, collectable three-book set is the perfect introduction for new readers and young Muggles everywhere. This beautifully produced box set contains Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, with enchanting cover art by Jonny Duddle.
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Price: $49.99 $52.99 ISBN: 9781526620293 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1216 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Hogwarts Library Box Set J.K Rowling
The Hogwarts Library brings together three much-loved classics from the wizarding world in a stunning box set, now available in paperback for the first time essential reading for all Harry Potter fans
Description This gorgeous new paperback edition of the Hogwarts Library brings together three much loved classics from the Wizarding World Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Each handsome paperback features stunning colour art by Jonny Duddle and beautiful interior line illustrations by Tomislav Tomic.
A treasure trove of magical facts and fairytales, the Hogwarts Library is an essential companion to the Harry Potter series, illuminating everything from the origins of the Golden Snitch to the curious habits of Nifflers and the haunting Tale of the Three Brothers. Required reading in every wizarding household, these are a delight for both wizards and Muggles alike. This set includes the updated edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which features a foreword from J.K. Rowling (writing as acclaimed Magizoologist Newt Scamander) and six new beasts!
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Price: $34.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781526620309 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them J.K. Rowling
Stunning new paperback edition of this essential companion to the Harry Potter novels, with the fully updated 2017 text, featuring a gorgeous foil effect jacket
Description An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since first publication, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable guide to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. Muggles who have seen the eponymous film or read the Harry Potter novels will be familiar with some of these beasts the Niffler, the Thunderbird, the Hippogriff ... This new paperback edition features the recently revised 2017 text, which includes six curious new creatures that inhabit the North American continent, and a new foreword from Newt Scamander that sheds fascinating light on the events surrounding a serious breach in the International Statute of Secrecy which took place in New York in the 1920s. This new paperback edition features gorgeously shimmery snakeskin detail on the foil effect jacket and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Witches, wizards and Muggles of all ages will delight in discovering the extraordinary habits and habitats of magical beasts from across five continents.
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 450 million copies, been translated into 79 languages, and made into 8 blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos) and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. J.K. Rowling has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West end in the summer of 2016. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content from J.K. Rowling. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE for services to children's literature, France's legion d'honneur and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781408896945 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x128mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Quidditch Through the Ages J.K. Rowling
Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! Brand new edition of the most famous sports book in the wizarding world an irresistible read for all Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling's original text, with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic.
Description Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! A perennial bestseller in the wizarding world and one of the most popular books in the Hogwarts School library, Quidditch Through the Ages contains all you will ever need to know about the history, the rules and the breaking of the rules of the noble sport of Quidditch. Packed with fascinating facts, this definitive guide by the esteemed Quidditch writer Kennilworthy Whisp charts the game's history from its early origins in the medieval mists on Queerditch Marsh, through to the modern-day sport loved by so many wizard and Muggle families around the world. With comprehensive coverage of famous Quidditch teams, the commonest fouls, the development of racing brooms, and much more, this is a must-have sporting bible for all Harry Potter fans, Quidditch lovers and players, whether the weekend amateur or the seasoned Chudley Cannons season-ticket holder. This brand new edition of the most famous sports book in the wizarding world pairs J.K. Rowling's original text, with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. A contribution from the sale of each book will go to Comic Relief.
About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 450 million copies, been translated into 79 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a film script inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. J.K. Rowling is currently collaborating on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II, which will open in London's West End in the summer of 2016. In 2012, J.K. Price: $12.99 $14.99 Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy her new writing and immerse themselves ISBN: 9781408883082 deeper in the wizarding world. J.K. Rowling has written a novel for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy, and also writes Format: Paperback crime novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE for Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 144 pages services to children's literature, France's Legion d'honneur and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Bic1: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Tales of Beedle the Bard J.K. Rowling
Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! Brand new edition of this collection of classic fairy tales from the Wizarding World an irresistible read for all Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling's original text, with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Published in aid of Lumos (www.wearelumos.org), an international children's charity founded by J.K. Rowling.
Description Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! The Tales of Beedle the Bard have been favourite bedtime reading in wizarding households for centuries. Full of magic and trickery, these classic tales both entertain and instruct, and remain as captivating to young wizards today as they were when Beedle first put quill to parchment in the fifteenth century. There are five tales in all: 'The Tale of the Three Brothers' Harry Potter fans will know from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune', 'The Warlock's Hairy Heart', 'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot' and 'Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump' complete the collection. These narrative gems are accompanied by explanatory notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore (included by kind permission of the Hogwarts Headmaster's archive). His illuminating thoughts reveal the stories to be much more than just simple moral tales, and are sure to make Babbitty Rabbitty and the slug-belching Hopping Pot as familiar to Muggles as Snow White and Cinderella. This brand new edition of these much loved fairy tales from the wizarding world pairs J.K. Rowling's original text with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is published in aid of the Lumos (link to wearelumos.org), an international children's charity (registered charity number 1112575) founded in 2005 by J.K Rowling. Lumos is dedicated ending the institutionalisation of children, a harmful practice that affects the lives of up to eight million disadvantaged children around the world who live in institutions and orphanages, many placed there as a result of poverty, disability, disease, discrimination and conflict; very few are orphans. Lumos works to reunite children with their families, promote family-based care alternatives and help authorities to reform their systems and close down institutions and orphanages. Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781408883099 About the Author Format: Paperback J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the Dimensions: 196x129mm Extent: 144 pages world, the series has sold over 450 million copies, been translated into 79 languages, and made into eight blockbuster Bic1: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Bic2: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a film script Illustrations: Previous Titles: inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. J.K. Rowling is currently collaborating on a stage play, Harry Author now living: Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II, which will open in London's West End in the summer of 2016. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy her new writing and immerse themselves deeper in the wizarding world. J.K. Rowling has written a novel for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy, and also writes crime novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE for BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Harry Potter Booknight Event KIT 2020
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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Handbook of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Mark Carwardine
Practical and portable, this is the ultimate field guide to the world's cetaceans
Description From the blue whale to the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, this handbook is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up- to-date reference to each of the world's 90 species of cetaceans.
With more than 1,000 meticulous and specially commissioned illustrations complete with flukes, blows and dive sequences it includes detailed annotations pointing out significant field marks, as well as extensive distribution and migration maps. Many of the world's most respected whale biologists have collaborated on the text, helping to provide the ultimate guide to the identification, distribution, behaviour, life history and conservation of every species and subspecies of whale, dolphin and porpoise.
This is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in these truly spectacular animals.
About the Author Mark Carwardine is a zoologist, writer, radio and TV presenter, wildlife photographer, wildlife tour operator and an active and outspoken conservationist, with a special interest in cetaceans. His TV series include BBC's Last Chance to See with Stephen Fry, and for many years he presented the weekly half-hour programme Nature on BBC Radio 4. Mark has been writing a monthly column in BBC Wildlife magazine since 2004, is Contributing Editor of Wanderlust magazine, and has written more than 50 books on wildlife and conservation, including many about whales. He has been studying, observing and photographing whales, dolphins and porpoises around the world for more than 30 years.
Price: $64.99 $69.99 ISBN: 9781472908148 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Wildlife: aquatic creatures Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Elite: The A-Z of Modern Special Operations Forces Leigh Neville
Created by a world leader in modern Special Forces with access to some of the most secretive elite units, this book provides a fascinating overview of Special Forces units around the world, including the SAS and Delta Force.
Description Using previously unpublished images from around the world, as well as maps and illustrations, The Elite: The A-Z of Modern Special Operations Forces is the ultimate guide to the secretive world of modern Special Forces. It sends the reader back in time to operations such as Eagle Claw in Iran and the recapture of the Iranian Embassy in London and then forward to recent operations against al Shabaab and Islamic State. Entries also detail units ranging from the New Zealand SAS Group to the Polish GROM, and key individuals from Iraq counter-terrorism strategist General Stanley McChrystal to Victoria Cross recipient SASR Corporal Mark Donaldson.
Answering questions such as how much the latest four-tube night vision goggles worn by the SEALs in Zero Dark Thirty cost, what types of parachutes are used to covertly parachute into a target location, and if Special Forces still use HALO jumps, this book is the definitive single-source guide to the world's elite Special Forces.
About the Author Leigh Neville is an Australian national who has written a number of books on both modern conventional military units and Special Operations Forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, and their weapons and vehicles, including ten titles for Osprey, with several more in development. He has also consulted on military topics for several wargame companies and television documentary makers. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two dogs.
Price: $60.00 $65.00 ISBN: 9781472824295 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Desperate Sunset: Japan's kamikazes against Allied ships, 1944-45 Mike Yeo
In a last desperate bid to stave off defeat, Japan's High Command launched the terrifying kamikaze attacks. This fully illustrated book examines Imperial Japan's last throw of the dice.
Description Fully illustrated throughout, Desperate Sunset examines the development and evolution of the kamikaze using first-hand accounts, combat reports and archived histories. By the middle of 1944, Imperial Japan's armed forces were in an increasingly desperate situation. Its elite air corps had been wiped out over the Solomons in 1942 43, and its navy was a shadow of the force that had attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. But the Japanese had one last, desperate, card to play.
The Japanese High Command decided that the way to inflict maximum damage on the superior enemy forces was to get the poorly trained Japanese pilots to crash their explosive-laden aircraft onto their target, essentially turning themselves into a guided missile. The kamikazes announced themselves in the immediate aftermath of the Leyte Gulf naval battles, sinking the USS St. Lo and damaging several other ships. The zenith of the kamikaze came in the battle of Okinawa, which included ten kikusui (Floating Chrysanthemum) operations which involved up to several hundred aircraft attacking the US fleet.
About the Author Mike Yeo is a Singaporean aviation enthusiast and a keen student of aviation history and the Pacific War who is currently based in Melbourne, Australia. He has studied World War II military aviation, with a particular focus on the Pacific War campaign. He is a freelance military/defence journalist specialising in the Asia-Pacific region, and has written for Shephard Media, the United States Naval Institute, Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, Aviation International News, Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter and Asian Military Review.
Price: $69.99 $74.99 ISBN: 9781472829412 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Peace Through Sacrifice Brian Deutsch, Catherine Plunkett
A carefully selected collection of World War I images, showcasing a range of striking, rare and personal images of the conflict.
Description This is the pictorial story of the triumph of the human spirit through conflict and the sacrifice made by the few for the benefit of many. In spite of the great turmoil and the strife through the period, starting with the Second Boer War with which the century opened and the World War with such a devastating loss of life that followed, never the less humanity triumphed. These thought-provoking images demonstrate that even during the worst of times mankind can behave with compassion, and men, women and animals work together in harmony. These pictures show those who played their part in this rich tapestry from the leaders of men and women, to the ordinary soldiers, sailors and airmen in the trenches, on the high seas and in the air, as well as those who were committed to their care and healing. This book will provide biographies of many of those featured in the pictures and a general background of the scenes portrayed. It will follow the pictorial history of the war on land, at sea and in the air, as well as showing the roles played by women and the formation of the women's' service arms. The introduction of the new technologies of tank and aircraft, motorised vehicles and machine guns will also be covered. These memorable images are gathered from the great UK photographic archives. Foremost among them is the Hulton, now part of Getty images, where in the past throughout the 1940s and 1950s Picture Post gathered from many earlier collections the picture stories of our history. The Keystone library is another great resource at Getty which was added to the Hulton-Deutsch Collection in the early 1990s. Alamy is the next important source of images as it represents the rights of many other smaller historic collections and add another dimension to the pictorial history. The Imperial War Museum, that great repository of our military history, is represented through the above two photo libraries, the National Library of Scotland is a source of many of the charming and personal images, many taken by ordinary soldiers rather than official war photographers. The selection of pictures has been made to show many images that are little known; and it is hoped that people will Price: $59.99 $64.99 ISBN: 9781472842930 realise the great treasures of our picture history hidden in these collections. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm About the Author Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Military history Brian Deutsch's interest in photography was the result of purchasing the Hulton Picture Library from the BBC in 1989. It Bic2: proved to be the beginning of a love affair with images. He is also a keen reader of history and has been a cardholder at Illustrations: the Bodleian Library since the age of 17 and past fellow of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Warship Tyger: The master shipwright's secrets behind a Restorationwarship Richard Endsor
A magnificent illustrated history of HMS Tyger, a fourth-rate ship of the Navy of Charles II.
Description Inspired by the recent discovery of mathematically calculated digital plans for a fourth-rate ship, written by the Deptford master shipwright, John Shish, The Warship Tyger is an illustrated history of the HMS Tyger, one of the smaller warships of the Restoration period. Tyger was originally built in the middle of the 17th century and served in the Anglo-Dutch Wars. It was sent to Deptford for rebuilding at the end of the wars in 1674, but the ship was left to deteriorate over the next few years and ended up as a sunken wreck at the bottom of the great double dock. Eventually, the yard officers at Deptford wrote that there was 'no such thing as the Tyger' and wanted to pay off the last warrant officers belonging to her. However, King Charles II decided otherwise and kept her on the books to eventually reappear as a 'rebuilt' but in fact, entirely new ship in 1681. This book is replete with beautiful and detailed illustrations of the construction of the Tyger and explores both its complicated history and its complex rebuilding, complete with deck plans, internal sections, and large scale external shaded drawings. The title also explores associated ships including another fourth-rate ship, the Mordaunt, which was purchased into the navy and had a dimensional survey made of her at the time by John Shish. A rare contemporary section drawing of another fourth-rate English ship and constructional drawings of Shish's later fourth-rate ship, St Albans are also included.
About the Author Richard Endsor is an engineer by profession, but has devoted considerable time to researching 17th-century ships his project on the Lenox took twelve years to complete. Richard was a trustee of the Nautical Museum Trust and is a member of the Society for Nautical Research. He has had numerous articles published in Mariner's Mirror and is also an accomplished artist, having exhibited at the RSMA exhibition. He also lectures widely on maritime topics.
Price: $119.99 $129.99 ISBN: 9781472838384 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Ship design & naval architecture Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 British Amphibious Assault Ships: From Suez to the Falklands and the present day Edward Hampshire
From the first 'commando carriers' to the legendary Fearless class and the current generation, this title explores the capabilities, roles, and history of the Royal Navy's frontline amphibious assault ships.
Description Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963 66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq (2003). In major operations such as Suez and the Falklands, the use of amphibious assault ships was essential to the military success of the campaigns. The Suez Crisis saw two of the Royal Navy's former light fleet carriers converted into 'commando carriers' to specialise in amphibious warfare. In the 1960s these were followed by the famous Fearless class ships the first purpose-built amphibious assault ships in the Royal Navy. With an internal dock, headquarters capability, and multiple landing craft, these 'Landing Platform Docks' were built to project power around the world. When the Falklands were invaded, HMS Fearless was the key to the successful landing in San Carlos. In the 1990s, a new generation was ordered: the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean and the Albion class LPDs. In recent years Ocean, Albion and Bulwark have been the largest fighting ships of the Royal Navy and have acted as the navy's flagships, as well as being perhaps the most versatile ships in the navy. This title is an essential guide to British Amphibious Assault Ships across the decades, from the mighty Fearless to the modern Albion. Packed with full-colour illustrations, contemporary photography, and detailed analysis, this definitive work explores the history, development, and deployment of the Royal Navy's front line.
About the Author Edward Hampshire is a historian at the Naval Historical Branch of the Ministry of Defence. He has lectured at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and worked for ten years at the United Kingdom National Archives. He has written on the Cold War at sea, British defence policy and intelligence history, and is currently researching British naval policy in the 1980s. His publications include From East of Suez to Eastern Atlantic, Price: $24.99 $26.99 British Naval Policy 1964-70 and (co-authored) British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and Sources. This is his third book for ISBN: 9781472836304 Osprey. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Adam Tooby is an internationally renowned digital aviation artist and illustrator. His work can be found in publications Extent: 48 pages worldwide and as box art for model aircraft kits. He also runs a successful illustration studio and aviation prints business. Bic1: History He is based in Cheshire, UK. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Wright Flyers 1899-1916: The kites, gliders, and aircraft that launched the 'Air Age' Richard P. Hallion
An authoritative new history and analysis of the Wright Brothers' pioneering aircraft, from their triumph in 1903, through their string of achievements in the next decade, to their eclipse in the 1910s.
Description Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight. But their success over the cold and windswept Carolina dunes that day has overshadowed their many other accomplishments before and after that historic flight. The Wrights' progression from theory to analysis to ground-testing components and wing shapes, and then to flight-testing kites, gliders, and their first powered aeroplane, marked the world's first successful 'X-Plane' research and development programme. They established a template all subsequent aircraft have followed, one still relevant in the era of hypersonic flight and drone research. This book traces the Wright Brothers' story, from their first success on that cold December day throughout their glory years to their eventual eclipse by other aviators. It explores in detail the process that lead them to their pioneering craft and their many subsequent achievements over the following years, and highlights their enduring importance in the age of modern flight.
About the Author Richard P. Hallion holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, and has completed specialized governmental and national security programmes at the Federal Executive Institute and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has held many high-profile posts, including as a Curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum; as the Charles Lindbergh Professor at the National Air and Space Museum; and as The Air Force Historian. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Member of the Order of Daedalians who has flown as a mission observer in a wide range of military aircraft. He is based in Shalimar, Florida.
Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472837776 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Ragnarok: The Vanir Tim Korklewski
A supplement introducing the Vanir to Ragnarok, the game of vicious Viking combat with a heavy metal edge.
Description The Aesir are dead, and the Vanir, now uncontested in their divinity, come to claim what is left of the Nine Realms. The War Clans must oppose, or align with, these new foes. Ragnarok: The Vanir features new Godsparks that War Clans may harness to combat the marauding Vanir, as well as new scenarios, monsters, and options to further develop players' campaigns.
About the Author Tim Korklewski has worked extensively with several gaming companies to help produce content for many different games, including Malifau 2.0, Warzone: Resurrection, Dark Age, Wrath of Kings, and the upcoming A Song of Ice and Fire. Specialising in miniature wargaming, he has assisted in rules design, in-house playtesting, community management, and organized play (campaigns, slow-grow leagues, and tournament systems). Aside from pushing toy soldiers around the table, Tim is an avid martial artist.While his days of competition in Kickboxing and MMA may be behind him, he still enjoys coaching and instructing both beginners and professionals.When not kicking things, he can be found cooking up a storm for family and friends. aRU-MOR was born in Tarragona, Spain, and studied Fine Arts at the University of Seville, specializing and working on artwork restoration. She began her professional career in 2000, sculpting historical, fantasy, and science-fiction miniatures. These days she combines her work as a sculptor with her work as a freelance illustrator, and has provided illustrations for various Spanish RPGs, books, and card games
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472832849 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey Games AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Wildlands: Map Pack 2: The Fall of the Dark House Martin Wallace
Three new maps for Martin Wallace's critically-acclaimed Wildlands, including two designed specifically for two players.
Description The Dark House lies abandoned. Who knows what horrors lie within? Once the home of one of the Empire's grandest family, the Dark House lies as an epitaph to their fall. As you fight your way across the two-storied Mansion map, you will find remnants of their wicked ways. Out back, struggle through the Hedge Maze map, sinister and long overgrown with vicious thorns. Down below, in the Crypt map, encounter the deadly curse that once cast a noble line into oblivion. This board expansion for Wildlands gives players three new maps, two of which are specifically designed for two players. Each map features new rules, new challenges, and new opportunities. Requires a copy of Wildlands to play. Number of players: 2-4 Ages: 14+ Playing time: 30-60 minutes Components: 2 boards, rule sheet
About the Author Martin Wallace was born in Hampshire in 1962, and started designing board games in 1990. He self-published his first game, Lords of Creation, in 1993 and has had over seventy games published since. Martin is best known for Steam, Brass, Discworld Ankh Morpork, and A Few Acres of Snow. Having spent most of his life in Manchester, he now resides in Queensland, Australia.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472841117 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 286x287mm Extent: 1 pages Bic1: Board games Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey Games AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Whitaker's Concise 2020 Whitaker's
A UK-centric version of its big sister Whitaker's 2020; packed with thousands of facts and figures. Great value for money!
Description Whitaker's Concise 2020 is the definitive reference guide to the UK. The concise edition is a UK-centric gold-mine of information with enormous breadth of coverage. At a fraction of the price of the standard edition, the reader with an interest in UK facts and figures is really getting value for money.
The concise edition contains a comprehensive explanation of every aspect of national and local government infrastructure in the UK, astronomical and tidal data for 2020, guides to UK law, education and taxation, overviews of the water, energy and transport industries, essential calendar information, chapters on royalty and peerage, defence, complete results for each constituency from the last UK General Election and an up-to-date list of MPs, government departments and public bodies - quite simply, the UK in one volume! Our dedicated team of both in-house editors and specialist contributors spend a total of 6,000 hours, updating Whitaker's annually this includes contacting over 5,000 people to update their own organisation's details, researching information from official annual reports, and gathering statistics and facts from the most up-to-date authoritative sources available. Completely revised and continually updated throughout the year at least 60% of the contents are newly compiled specifically for this edition. Around 2,000 hours of editorial time is dedicated to verifying every piece of information to ensure that, unlike collaborative online sources such as Wikipedia, all the material in Whitaker's is neutral and reliable. 'If you want to know it... it's here' John Humphrys
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Yearbooks AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Who's Who 2020
The 172nd annual edition of the internationally respected and renowned source book of information on people of influence and interest in every area of public life.
Description Who's Who 2020 is the 172nd edition of the world's longest established and most comprehensive general reference book, brought right up to date for the year ahead. The first autobiographical reference book in the world and, after 171 years, still the most accurate and reliable resource for information supplied and checked by the entrants themselves. 'The famous red covers of Who's Who are exclusive and only the enduringly notable get into them... After a week with the new Who's Who (and though it's heavy to pick up) 'you can't put it down' best describes my feeling.' - Matthew Parris, The Times 'The unrivalled compendium of the good and the great' - The Daily Telegraph 'Who's Who is a mirror in which society glimpses a reflection of its own achievement.' -The Times 'Britain's most famous reference book ...a biographical record of the great and the good.' - Daily Mail
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Yearbooks AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Measure For Measure: Third Series William Shakespeare, ed. by Al Braunmuller & Robert Watson
The latest Arden edition of Shakespeare's dark comedy of justice, mercy and the governance of sexual desire.
Description Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes his strict moralistic deputy, Angelo, temporary leader of Vienna, while he disguises himself as a friar to witness all that ensues.
In the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition, with commentary and notes from A. R. Braunmuller, Robert N. Watson explores the recent increased attention to the play and the shifting judgements of key characters such as the Duke and Isabella. He analyses the social foundations of these changes, their validity as readings of the text, and their manifestations in performance. It also explores the play's implications on topics including love, marriage, sexuality, consent, mortality, religion, statecraft, moderation, and theatre itself.
About the Author A. R. Braunmuller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, USA. Robert N. Watson is Associate Dean of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of many award-winning books, including Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance and Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition.
Price: $21.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781904271437 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 440 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Oxford, UK
Arden Shakespeare AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Rough Magic Theatre Company: New Irish Plays and Adaptations, 2010-2018 edited by Patrick Lonergan
This anthology collects recent plays and adaptations from Rough Magic, one of Ireland's most vital and daring theatre companies
Description Celebrating the work of one of Ireland's most daring theatre companies, this anthology gathers five plays by established and emerging playwrights. They include vibrant new adaptations of the world classics Peer Gynt and Phaedra alongside vital new dramas that explore issues of urgent contemporary concern, such as sex and sexuality, emigration and climate change. With contributions from Hilary Fannin and Ellen Cranitch, Arthur Riordan, Sonya Kelly, Morna Regan, and Shane Mac an Bhaird as well as a foreword from Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright - this book is an exciting snapshot of contemporary Irish playwriting. The book operates as a showcase of outstanding new Irish playwriting, blending work by established and emerging playwrights, and also acts as a celebration of one of Ireland's most important theatre companies. And it includes new plays that demonstrate Rough Magic's consistent willingness to push the boundaries of Irish theatre, both formally and thematically, in plays that cover such topics as sex and sexuality, emigration and climate change.
About the Author Patrick Lonergan is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway. He has written or edited six previous publications for Methuen Drama including the books The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh and Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950. With Kevin Wetmore he is co-editor of Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series.
Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781350119796 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Screen Acting Skills: A Practical Handbook for Students and Tutors Roger Wooster and Paul Conway
Screen Acting Skills offers up advice and practical screen acting exercises for students preparing to work in the industry.
Description Screen Acting Skills offers up advice and practical screen acting exercises aimed at students seeking clear, practical exercises to aid them in their study. The book addresses the fact that many screen actors beginning their careers lack the necessary pre-shoot preparation and knowledge of studio protocols that are required of them, and aims to augment existing theoretical and academic studies by offering practical, focussed exercises that can be explored in low-tech workshop situations. Written in an informal, accessible, jargon-free and often humorous style, Screen Acting Skills enables creativity on the studio or workshop floor, allowing young actors to access their own talent, and to discover and hone their skills in preparation for future training and a career. Through the exercises and the overall approach, the reader is offered a fresh, low-tech and yet highly relevant professional approach to early screen acting training and studio work. The book is published alongside online videos of workshops with screen acting students.
About the Author Roger Wooster has worked in theatre, radio and television during his career. In 1990 he moved into academia where he has worked at FE and HE levels teaching performing arts including screen-acting modules. He has given papers at many international conferences and has been widely published in a range of academic journals. His Contemporary Theatre in Education was published in 2006 and in 2016 a major study of educational theatre, Theatre in Education in Britain, was published by Methuen Drama. Paul Conway (PGCE, Diploma in Speech and Drama, Brendan Smith Theatre Academy, Dublin) has spent his career working in film, television, stage and radio as a professional actor, director, devisor and published playwright. As an actor in Ireland he worked on a TV series Inside and was writer director of The Last Shout for Sahara Films. He has also worked for film directors such as Ken Loach, Vinny Murphy, Desmond Davis and Gerald Stembridge. Since moving into academia he has been a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts including screen performance workshops. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the Royal College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781350093034 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Acting techniques Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Paris Fashion and World War Two: Global Diffusion and Nazi Control edited by Lou Taylor and Marie McLoughlin
Demonstrates for the first time that the Parisian couture industry's international trade, manufacturing and cultural links continued unabated throughout the Nazi occupation in WWII.
Description In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of fashion. This pioneering book offers a different story. Arguing that Paris retained its hold on the international haute couture industry right throughout WWII, eminent dress historians and curators come together to show that, amid political, economic and cultural traumas, Paris fashion remained very much alive under the Nazi occupation and on an international level. Bringing exciting perspectives to challenge a familiar story and introducing new overseas trade links out of occupied France, this book takes us from the salons of renowned couturiers such as Edward Molyneux and Robert Piguet, French Vogue and Le Jardin des Modes and luxury Lyon silk factories, to Rio de Janeiro, Denmark and Switzerland, and the great American department stores of New York. Also comparing extravagant Paris occupation styles to austerity fashions of the UK and USA, parallel industrial and design developments highlight the unresolvable tension between luxury fashion and the everyday realities of wartime life. Showing that Paris strove to maintain world dominance as leader of couture through fashion journalism, photography and exported fashion forecasting, Paris Fashion and World War Two makes a significant contribution to the cultural history of fashion.
About the Author Lou Taylor is Professor Emerita in Dress History at the University of Brighton, UK. She played a central role in establishing the discipline of dress history with her two books The Study of Dress History (2002) and Establishing Dress History (2004). Marie McLoughlin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. She lectures in dress history and her research interests include the intersection of fashion with art.
Price: $56.99 $62.99 ISBN: 9781350000261 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Styling Shanghai edited by Christopher Breward and Juliette MacDonald
Bringing together leading international scholars, Styling Shanghai examines Shanghai's status as one of the world's leading fashion cities in the modern and contemporary periods.
Description Styling Shanghai is the first book dedicated to exploring the city's fashion cultures, examining its growing status as one of the world's foremost fashion cities. From its origins as an international treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai has emerged as a global leader in the production, mediation and consumption of fashion. This book reveals how the material and imaginative context of this thriving urban centre has produced vivid interpretations of fashion as object, image and idea. Bringing together contributions by a range of leading international fashion historians and theorists, and drawing on extensive original research, Styling Shanghai offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the mega-city's shifting position as a fashion capital. Rooted in collaboration between leading UK, Australian and Shanghai-based institutions, it considers the impact of local and global textile manufacturing, the representation and marketing of 'Shanghai Style', bodies and gender in the 'Paris of the East', and the challenges of globalization, commercialization and digital communication in contemporary Shanghai.
About the Author Christopher Breward is Director of Collection and Research at the National Galleries of Scotland, UK and Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of Fashioning London (Bloomsbury, 2004) and co-editor of The Englishness of English Dress (Bloomsbury, 2002) and Fashion's World Cities (Bloomsbury, 2006). Juliette MacDonald is Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK and International Dean at Shanghai International College of Fashion and Innovation, Donghua University, China.
Price: $54.99 $60.99 ISBN: 9781350051133 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Fashion design & theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey Soner Cagaptay
A new edition of the leading book on modern Turkey and the strongman who rules it.
Description *New Edition of the Leading Work on Modern Turkey* In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Since 2002, Erdogan has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military and diplomatic means to solidify Turkey as a regional power. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent - scores of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and many of the highest-ranking military officers arrested. In some senses, the nefarious and failed 2016 coup has given Erdogan the licence to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a 'strongman'. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at Erdogan's roots in Turkish history, what he believes in and how he has cemented his rule, as well as what this means for the world. The book will also unpick the 'threats' Erdogan has worked to combat - from the liberal Turks to the Gulen movement, from coup plotters to Kurdish nationalists - all of which have culminated in the crisis of modern Turkey.
About the Author Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, New Republic, and Newsweek Turkiye. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, BBC, and CNN-Turk.
Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781838600587 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
I.B. Tauris AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Pornographic Age Alain Badiou, translated by A.J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens
A brutal indictment of the political systems and order of society that defines our current age, and a passionate call to arms for those committed to radical change.
Description With The Pornographic Age, Alain Badiou offers a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become. This short, critical work, is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems which characterize it. Badiou argues that any true radical politics must begin with dismantling the obscene (or pornographic) qualities of neoliberal capitalism. He asks us to hold up a mirror to ourselves and confront the debasement of the political realities in which we live and use the shock with which we must react to galvanize ourselves into action. It is only through this realization, this crucial confrontation with the perversity with which we conduct our daily lives that we can prompt true revolution. Accompanied by extensive commentary by experienced translators and Badiou scholars Bartlett and Clemens, this is philosophical call to arms: Badiou's radical indictment of the current age is an exciting, no holds barred, exploration of both how we live and how we might live.
About the Author Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Universite de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Francois Lyotard. A. J. Bartlett teaches philosophy in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (2011), co-author of Lacan Deleuze Badiou (2014) and What is Impossible: Alain Badiou and Contemporary Philosophy (2016). He is also the co-editor of Badiou: Key Concepts (2010), The Praxis of Alain Badiou (2006) and co-editor and translator of Alain Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury 2014). Justin Clemens is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory (2003), Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy (2013) and, with A.J. Bartlett and Jon Roffe, Lacan Deleuze Badiou (2014). He has edited many academic collections, including translating and editing Alain Badiou's Infinite Thought (Continuum 2003) with Oliver Feltham. Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781350014794 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 How to be a Failure and Still Live Well: A Philosophy Beverley Clack
Challenges contemporary and material constructions of success and failure to suggest that richer accounts of what it means to live well can emerge whilst engaging with the inevitability of loss.
Description In consumer economies, success has increasingly been defined in terms of material attainment and the achievement of status. This model of 'the good life' and its formulas for success ignore the haunting possibility that one may not succeed and as a result be deemed 'a failure'. How to be a Failure and Still Live Well explores that often neglected theme of failure, not just as the opposite of achievement, but also, and more importantly, how it has been conflated with loss: that which haunts all transient, mortal human experience. Understanding loss as a form of failure affects our ability to cope with the everyday losses that permeate existence as a result of the natural processes of ageing, death, and decay. Engaging with loss and thinking about what it inevitability means for our lives and commitments, allows different values to emerge than those connected to success as attainment. Relationships, spontaneity, and generosity are explored as qualities that arise from taking seriously our vulnerability and that form the basis for richer accounts of what it might mean to 'live well'.
About the Author Beverley Clack is Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include: Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle: The Limits of Success, co-edited with Michele Paule (2019); Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction, co-authored with Brian R Clack (3rd edition 2019); Freud on the Couch (2013); Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings, co-edited with Pamela Sue Anderson (2004); Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality (2002); and Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition (1999). From 2012-16 she was City Councillor for St Clements Ward in Oxford, and from 2016-2018 she was a member of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum. She is a member of the Methodist Church's Faith and Order Committee, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Price: $36.99 $40.99 ISBN: 9781350030695 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Social & political philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are Stephen Davies
Richly illustrated with examples from a wide range of cultures and periods Stephen Davies tells the history and reveals the philosophy of the practice of bodily adornment.
Description Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures.
From the decline of the hat, the function of jewelry and popularity of tattooing to the wealth of grave goods found in the Upper Paleolithic burials and body painting of the Nuba, we see that there is no one who does not adorn themselves, their possessions, or their environment. But what messages do these adornments send? Drawing on aesthetics, evolutionary history, archaeology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and gender studies, Stephen Davies brings together African, Australian and North and South American indigenous cultures and unites them around the theme of adornment. He shows us that adorning is one of the few social behaviors that is close to being genuinely universal, more typical and extensive than the high-minded activities we prefer to think of as marking our species religion, morality, and art.
Each chapter shows how modes of decoration send vitally important signals about what we care about, our affiliations and backgrounds, our social status and values. In short, by using the theme of bodily adornment to unify a very diverse set of human practices, this book tells us about who we are.
About the Author Stephen Davies is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is a former President of the American Society for Aesthetics and Vice-President of the International Association for Aesthetics. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy Compass, and Rivista di Estetica, he is a consulting editor for Res Musica and Philosophy of Music Education Review, and he is co-editor for aesthetics in Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781350120983 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Philosophy: aesthetics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction Anthony Uhlmann
A new interpretation of the life and career of J. M. Coetzee, encompassing all his fiction and nonfiction, with special attention to the central ideas that have informed and motivated Coetzee to write.
Description In this major reassessment of J. M. Coetzee, which looks at Coetzee's full writing career thus far, Anthony Uhlmann illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzee's writing. In doing so, Uhlmann makes the case for Coetzee as an important and original thinker in his own right.
Whilst looking at Coetzee's writing career, from his dissertation through to The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), and interpreting running themes and scenarios, style, and evolving attitudes to literary form, Uhlmann also offers revealing glimpses, informed by archival research, of Coetzee's writing process. Among the main themes that Uhlmann draws out from Coetzee's writing, and which remain highly relevant today, are the ideas that there is truth in fiction, or that fiction can provide valuable understandings of real world problems, and there are also fictions of the truth: that we are surrounded, in our everyday lives, by stories we wish to believe are true.
J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction offers a revealing new account of our most significant contemporary writers.
About the Author Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (2006), and Thinking in Literature (Bloomsbury, 2011). From 2008-2013 he was the Editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies. He co-founded the Australian University Heads of English in 2012 and was elected President of this body in 2013. He is the author of the novel Saint Antony in His Desert (2018).
Price: $44.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9781501357466 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives Michael Lawrence
Offers wide-ranging coverage of Indian film stars and stardom, from the 1920s to the present day.
Description Indian Film stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures in India during the 20th and 21st centuries. Indian Film Stars seeks to inspire and inform further inquiries into the histories of film stardom the industrial construction and promotion of star personalities, the actual labouring and imagined lifestyles of professional stars, the stars' relationship to specific aesthetic cinematic conventions (such as frontality and song-dance) and production technologies (such as the play-back system and post-synchronization), and audiences' investment in and devotion to specific star bodies across the country's multiple centres of film production and across the overlapping (and increasingly international) zones of the films' distribution and reception. The star images, star bodies and star careers discussed are examined in relation to a wide range of issues, including the negotiation and contestation of tradition and modernity, the embodiment and articulation of both Indian and non-Indian values and vogues; the representation of gender and sexuality, of race and ethnicity, and of cosmopolitan mobility and transnational migration; innovations and conventions in performance style; the construction and transformation of public persona; the star's association with film studios and the mainstream media; the star's relationship with historical, political and cultural change and memory; and the star's meaning and value for specific (including marginalised) sectors of the audience.
About the Author Michael Lawrence is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Sabu (BFI Publishing, 2014) and the co-editor, with Laura McMahon, of Animal Life and the Moving Image (BFI Publishing, 2015), and, with Karen Lury, of The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016) and, with Rachel Tavenor, of Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture (2019).
Price: $54.99 $60.99 ISBN: 9781844578542 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Film, TV & radio Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
British Film Institute AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century edited by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza
Insightful analysis of the key words that have defined and will define India in the 21st century.
Description What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender and technology, economics and politics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies.
Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, this work differs from it in at least one crucial aspect. It is not single authored. In it, for the first time, more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars form a polyphonic collective, whose sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book explores the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India also presents the world with emancipatory keywords from India.
About the Author Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Peter Ronald deSouza is Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Developing Societies, India.
Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781350039230 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Sociolinguistics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Sonic Fiction Holger Schulze
The first academic overview of one of the most advanced and controversial approaches to sound studies, offering insight into its background, history, the present discourse surrounding it, and its likely future impact.
Description Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction. In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book 'More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction'. Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.
About the Author Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen and Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the author of numerous books including Sound as Popular Culture (2016) and The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781501334795 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Theory of music & musicology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Royals Emma Forrest
Devastating and dazzling, Royals is the story of an unlikely friendship set against the intoxicating colour and headiness of 1980s London
Description 'Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany's' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Dazzling ... I'm incoherent with love for it' MARIAN KEYES
'Elegant, sexy, tender, wild - A beautiful, beautiful book' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of ANIMALS July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe he hasn't decided yet. There's a lot Steven isn't sure about, like whether he hates himself or thinks he's amazing. When he ends up in hospital after being brutally attacked by his father, he meets Jasmine, an heiress. Intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Fuelled by their shared love of fashion, a friendship blossoms and soon, Steven finds himself swept into her hedonistic world, wholly beguiled. However, underneath the glitter and the frivolity, darkness lies. Devastating, dazzling, queer and radical, Royals is a love story between unlikely friends from completely different worlds. It's about the power of art to transform lives and the power of families to destroy them. It's about working out who you are and what you want. It's a tale of giddy happiness, crushing lows and, ultimately, the fragility of lives lived too fast.
About the Author Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir Your Voice In My Head. An Anglo- American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut, Untogether. @GirlInterrupter
Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781408895214 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Circus AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection between them that threatens to undo them both.
Description 'Utterly phenomenal' JESSIE BURTON
'I couldn't put this down' JOJO MOYES 'Kiley Reid is the writer we need now' CHLOE BENJAMIN
'Will have the same impact as Sally Rooney' PANDORA SYKES
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix's desire to help. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the awkwardness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone 'family', the complicated reality of being a grown-up and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
About the Author Kiley Reid is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a babysitter for six years.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781526612144 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life Georgina Ferry
Fascinating biography of pioneering chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in science to date
Description Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was renowned for her medically-important work on penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of her time, she participated in some of the greatest upheavals of the 20th century: women's education; the globalisation of science; the rise and fall of communism; and international peace movements. She was also Margaret Thatcher's tutor at Oxford, and lobbied Thatcher against the use of nuclear weapons. Thatcher, meanwhile, had a portrait of Hodgkin up in downing street. A wife, mother and grandmother, she cared deeply about the well-being of individuals in all cultures, and is a long- standing role model for women in STEM. Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life is the definitive biography of one of Britain's most brilliant and unique scientists.
About the Author Georgina Ferry is a freelance science writer and broadcaster. She was formerly a staff editor on New Scientist magazine, and a presenter on Science Now and other programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. In 1989 she won the Glaxo Science Writers' Prize for her radio series, Seven Ages of Health. Her work has been published in a number of national newspapers, including the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, and she is Science Editor of Oxford Today. She lives in Oxford with her husband and two sons.
Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781448217601 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 560 pages Bic1: Biography: science, technology & medicine Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Reader AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 I Will Miss You Tomorrow Heine Bakkeid
When you go searching for your demons, what happens when you find them? A brilliant new Norwegian crime series that's perfect for fans of Ian Rankin's Rebus The start of a brilliant new character-led crime series, perfect for fans of Will Dean
Description The first in a new Norwegian crime series featuring disgraced ex-Chief Inspector Thorkild Aske, a damaged man with a complicated past
Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved. The woman he has lost forever. Yet when Frei's young cousin goes missing off the Norwegian coast and Thorkild is called in by the family to help find him, dead or alive, Thorkild cannot refuse. He owes them this. Tormented by his past, Thorkild soon finds himself deep in treacherous waters. He's lost his reputation will he now lose his life?
About the Author Heine Bakkeid grew up in the rugged landscape of northern Norway. I Will Miss You Tomorrow is Bakkeid's first venture into crime fiction, and has earned him in his home country the critics' recognition as a virtuoso of darkly atmospheric suspense. Anne Bruce has degrees in Norwegian and English from Glasgow University. She lives in Scotland.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781526610775 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Raven Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe Rory Maclean
An unsettling, poignant and darkly comic expose of Putin's Russia and European disintegration from the highly acclaimed travel writer.
Description 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carre In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were for most Brits and Americans part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.
About the Author Rory MacLean is one of Britain's most expressive and adventurous travel writers. His books which have been translated into a dozen languages include the Sunday Times bestseller Stalin's Nose, Under the Dragon and Berlin: Imagine a City, which was named a Book of the Year by the Washington Post.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781408896525 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 I Am My Brand: How to Build Your Brand Without Apology Kubi Springer
I Am My Brand provides achievable techniques and tools for women to build their brand, after first exploring what their personal brand is. The book demonstrates how your personal history ties into your brand story to make it successful and authentic, while guiding you on the branding elements to focus on in order to build that crucial emotional connection with your target audience. Featuring insights and interviews from established female brand builders from around the world, alongside Kubi's eight pillars of personal branding, I Am My Brand is an essential step-by-step guide to building your brand, knowing your worth, and being unapologetic about it.
Description I Am My Brand is a toolkit for personal brand success. Featuring dynamic female brand builders from around the world, the book is a woven tapestry of personal brand advice with storytelling and support that offers a practical guide for female entrepreneurs, freelancers and executives. I Am My Brand explores the techniques used by different women across cultures to build their personal brand, as well as the challenges they faced and their paths to overcoming them. Focused on the skills needed to succeed, their stories coupled with the author's expertise will support readers on their own journey to brand success and self-empowerment in work and life. The book is written in a down-to-earth style, with light entertainment and real-life anecdotes, providing insights into how to create, package and grow your personal brand. Written by one of the most influential female brand builders in the UK, I Am My Brand is a testament to the power of being a woman and illustrates what it takes to build a powerful female brand in today's male dominated business world.
About the Author Kubi Springer is an award-winning specialist with twenty-two years of brand experience. She has worked global brands including Nike, L'Oreal, MTV, London Fashion Week, NY Fashion Week, P.Diddy, Rio Ferdinand, Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, Rolls Royce and, most recently, Aston Martin.
Since 2007, Kubi has taught brand marketing in academic institutions, corporate firms and international conferences, with Price: $39.99 $42.99 clients that include: NatWest, Deloitte, Oxford University, London College of Fashion, New York University and Kings ISBN: 9781472971876 College. She has also taught at Essence magazine's 'Women Who Are Changing the World' conference in New York, Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm SME Corp Malaysia and SWAA Conference in Mauritius. Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Business ethics & social responsibility Kubi has been featured across media platforms including BBC News, Forbes magazine, the Guardian, The Sunday Bic2: Times and Virgin Entrepreneur Magazine. She has been a presenter on her own business TV show entitled 'The Kubi Illustrations: Previous Titles: Springer Show' on Sky 198. Today, she is the host of the 'She Builds Brands Radio Show' on Ruach Radio and a regular Author now living: contributor, providing brand commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Bloomsbury Business AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Christopher Booker
Description This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
About the Author Christopher Booker writes for the Sunday Telegraph and is the bestselling author of The Seven Basic Plots, The Real Global Warming Disaster, The Great Deception and Scared to Death (all published by Bloomsbury Continuum). He has been an author and journalist for nearly 50 years, and was the founding editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye.
Price: $36.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781472976185 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 736 pages Bic1: Literary theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Continuum AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Bowls English Bowling Assocation
A series of books designed to help the reader get more out of their chosen sport or game. Suitable for the active participant and passive enthusiast. Each book is packed with information, photographs and illustrations to explain the core skills, tactics and rules of the game.
Description A guide to playing bowls, designed for both the active participant and the passive enthusiast. It features information, photographs and illustrations to explain the core skills, tactics and rules of the game. There are photographs of the top players, and this third edition is updated to include developments in the rules and regulations. The volume is part of a series which seeks to help readers get more out of their chosen sport or game.
About the Author
Price: $17.99 $19.99 ISBN: 9781472976932 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Bowls, bowling, petanque Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Sculpting in Copper Jim Pratt & Sue White-Oakes
A practical introduction to the art of sculpting in copper, this book covers the basic tools and techniques, as well as five exciting projects, for beginner metalworkers and sculptors.
Description Metalworking in copper is an ancient and rewarding art. Used by human beings for more than 4,000 years, this long- lasting, widely available and very forgiving material lends itself to the creation of beautiful figurative sculptures, as well as abstract forms. In this book, lifelong sculptor Sue White-Oakes and writer Jim Pratt explain the craft of working in copper with the novice metalworker in mind. First covering basic tools and techniques, from cutting and truing to annealing and soldering, they go on to demonstrate five exciting sculpture projects, each increasing in complexity, with the aim of building readers' confidence as their skills progress. Providing clear, practical instruction for the beginner, accompanied by helpful how-to images, this book is the essential resource for anyone wishing to explore the potential of sculpting in copper.
About the Author Jim Pratt is an amateur photographer; a forest research scientist by profession, he has made a photographic record of much of Sue's work over the past 25 years. Sue White-Oakes trained as an industrial designer before taking up sculpture and painting in 1975. She now sculpts in copper using a process akin to silversmithing, and has a passion for representing animal forms in her chosen medium. She exhibits widely and her sculptures are featured in private collections around the world. Her work can be seen at the Lost Gallery in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.
Price: $46.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9781789940190 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Ceramic arts, pottery, glass Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Herbert Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Practical Jewellery-Making Techniques: Problem Solving Stephen O'Keeffe
Presenting an overview of the core jewellery-making techniques, this book provides easier and often cheaper alternative solutions for achieving the same results as traditional techniques. Each chapter is packed with unique (and money-saving) tips.
Description Practical Jewellery-Making Techniques: Problem Solving presents an overview of the core jewellery-making techniques but provides easier alternative solutions for achieving the same results as traditional methods. Each chapter is packed with unique ideas on how the jewellery maker can make tasks simpler, quicker or less expensive, and produce beautiful pieces. There are instructions for adapting and making your own problem-solving tools and jigs from everyday items, and tips on identifying potential pitfalls in a project and avoiding costly mistakes. Practical and in a step-by-step format, this book includes over 50 projects, all fully illustrated, and detailed explanations of tools and working techniques.
About the Author Stephen O'Keeffe has been teaching craft and design, specialising in jewellery, for more than 20 years. He teaches students of all ages and is constantly experimenting with new ways to make his craft accessible to his students. He is also the author of the successful Tips and Shortcuts for Jewellery Making.
Price: $46.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9781789940213 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Precious metal, precious stones & jewellery: artworks & design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Herbert Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945 Christopher Westhorp
The SAS Pocket Manual is an incredible insight into the origins, training and earliest operations of the special service volunteer soldiers who formed the original units of the world's most famous military force.
Description The Special Air Service was the brainchild of Scots Guards' officer Lieutenant David Stirling, serving with No 8 Commando. He advocated a specially organised, specially equipped and specially trained unit dedicated to the 'unrelenting pursuit of excellence' that could act covertly and operate behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy enemy aircraft and attack their supply and reinforcement routes. The 1st SAS Regiment was officially designated after successful raids against enemy airfields in the Middle East in 1941 -1942. In May 1943 a 2nd SAS Regiment was raised in Algeria and would also serve in Sicily and Italy. SAS troopers were at the forefront of the action on D-Day, serving behind the enemy lines, assisting the French Resistance in diversionary attacks and in support of Allied armies. The SAS served with great distinction through 42 significant actions in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany until the end of the war in Europe. This new addition to the bestselling Conway pocket-book series is compiled from wartime and post-war memorandums, manuals and documents. They include unit after-action reports and lecture notes from the centres used to train special services soldiers, gathered from the Liddell Hart Military Archive, National Archives, wartime periodicals and post-war memoirs. The book covers: - training methods - weapons handling - fieldcraft - sabotage training - operations in North Africa and the Middle East (1941 1942), Sicily and Italy (1943) and France (1944 1945)
About the Author Chris Westhorp is an experienced freelance editor, writer and researcher. Formerly of Arms and Armour Press and Duncan Baird Publishing, he has a specialist interest in military history and aviation. Chris is the author of The Commando Pocket Manual 1950-1945 (Conway, 2012) amongst numerous other titles. Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781472841421 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac 2020 Perrin Towler, Mark Fishwick
In a practical handy format the Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac, published in association with Practical Boat Owner, covers the North Atlantic coastline from Denmark to the Gironde. It contains essential navigational information for small craft sailors including tide tables, waypoints, tidal streams, tidal gates and weather information, and represents excellent value for money.
Description In a practical handy format the Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac contains many unique features for small craft sailors and represents excellent value for money. Meticulously researched, this popular almanac contains a wealth of information presented in an easy to find, quick reference manner for practical on-board use. The Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac covers the whole of the UK and Ireland and the west coast of Europe from Denmark to the Gironde. It includes a huge amount of information of value to small craft navigators: Tide tables, tidal streams and tidal gates, Secondary port differences, 2,500+ waypoints, Radio data, Light recognition, Weather information, Principal lights, IALA buoyage, International codes and flags, Sun/moon rise and set plus Emergency information.
About the Author Perrin Towler and Mark Fishwick have been editors of the Reeds Almanacs for many years.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472969415 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Measure For Measure: Third Series William Shakespeare, ed. by Al Braunmuller & Robert Watson
The latest Arden edition of Shakespeare's dark comedy of justice, mercy and the governance of sexual desire.
Description Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes his strict moralistic deputy, Angelo, temporary leader of Vienna, while he disguises himself as a friar to witness all that ensues.
In the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition, with commentary and notes from A. R. Braunmuller, Robert N. Watson explores the recent increased attention to the play and the shifting judgements of key characters such as the Duke and Isabella. He analyses the social foundations of these changes, their validity as readings of the text, and their manifestations in performance. It also explores the play's implications on topics including love, marriage, sexuality, consent, mortality, religion, statecraft, moderation, and theatre itself.
About the Author A. R. Braunmuller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, USA. Robert N. Watson is Associate Dean of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of many award-winning books, including Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance and Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition.
Price: $150.00 $165.00 ISBN: 9781904271420 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Oxford, UK
Arden Shakespeare AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Rough Magic Theatre Company: New Irish Plays and Adaptations, 2010-2018 edited by Patrick Lonergan
This anthology collects recent plays and adaptations from Rough Magic, one of Ireland's most vital and daring theatre companies
Description Celebrating the work of one of Ireland's most daring theatre companies, this anthology gathers five plays by established and emerging playwrights. They include vibrant new adaptations of the world classics Peer Gynt and Phaedra alongside vital new dramas that explore issues of urgent contemporary concern, such as sex and sexuality, emigration and climate change. With contributions from Hilary Fannin and Ellen Cranitch, Arthur Riordan, Sonya Kelly, Morna Regan, and Shane Mac an Bhaird as well as a foreword from Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright - this book is an exciting snapshot of contemporary Irish playwriting. The book operates as a showcase of outstanding new Irish playwriting, blending work by established and emerging playwrights, and also acts as a celebration of one of Ireland's most important theatre companies. And it includes new plays that demonstrate Rough Magic's consistent willingness to push the boundaries of Irish theatre, both formally and thematically, in plays that cover such topics as sex and sexuality, emigration and climate change.
About the Author Patrick Lonergan is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway. He has written or edited six previous publications for Methuen Drama including the books The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh and Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950. With Kevin Wetmore he is co-editor of Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series.
Price: $150.00 $165.00 ISBN: 9781350119789 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Screen Acting Skills: A Practical Handbook for Students and Tutors Roger Wooster and Paul Conway
Screen Acting Skills offers up advice and practical screen acting exercises for students preparing to work in the industry.
Description Screen Acting Skills offers up advice and practical screen acting exercises aimed at students seeking clear, practical exercises to aid them in their study. The book addresses the fact that many screen actors beginning their careers lack the necessary pre-shoot preparation and knowledge of studio protocols that are required of them, and aims to augment existing theoretical and academic studies by offering practical, focussed exercises that can be explored in low-tech workshop situations. Written in an informal, accessible, jargon-free and often humorous style, Screen Acting Skills enables creativity on the studio or workshop floor, allowing young actors to access their own talent, and to discover and hone their skills in preparation for future training and a career. Through the exercises and the overall approach, the reader is offered a fresh, low-tech and yet highly relevant professional approach to early screen acting training and studio work. The book is published alongside online videos of workshops with screen acting students.
About the Author Roger Wooster has worked in theatre, radio and television during his career. In 1990 he moved into academia where he has worked at FE and HE levels teaching performing arts including screen-acting modules. He has given papers at many international conferences and has been widely published in a range of academic journals. His Contemporary Theatre in Education was published in 2006 and in 2016 a major study of educational theatre, Theatre in Education in Britain, was published by Methuen Drama. Paul Conway (PGCE, Diploma in Speech and Drama, Brendan Smith Theatre Academy, Dublin) has spent his career working in film, television, stage and radio as a professional actor, director, devisor and published playwright. As an actor in Ireland he worked on a TV series Inside and was writer director of The Last Shout for Sahara Films. He has also worked for film directors such as Ken Loach, Vinny Murphy, Desmond Davis and Gerald Stembridge. Since moving into academia he has been a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts including screen performance workshops. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the Royal College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. Price: $120.00 $132.00 ISBN: 9781350093041 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Acting techniques Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Paris Fashion and World War Two: Global Diffusion and Nazi Control edited by Lou Taylor and Marie McLoughlin
Demonstrates for the first time that the Parisian couture industry's international trade, manufacturing and cultural links continued unabated throughout the Nazi occupation in WWII.
Description In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of fashion. This pioneering book offers a different story. Arguing that Paris retained its hold on the international haute couture industry right throughout WWII, eminent dress historians and curators come together to show that, amid political, economic and cultural traumas, Paris fashion remained very much alive under the Nazi occupation and on an international level. Bringing exciting perspectives to challenge a familiar story and introducing new overseas trade links out of occupied France, this book takes us from the salons of renowned couturiers such as Edward Molyneux and Robert Piguet, French Vogue and Le Jardin des Modes and luxury Lyon silk factories, to Rio de Janeiro, Denmark and Switzerland, and the great American department stores of New York. Also comparing extravagant Paris occupation styles to austerity fashions of the UK and USA, parallel industrial and design developments highlight the unresolvable tension between luxury fashion and the everyday realities of wartime life. Showing that Paris strove to maintain world dominance as leader of couture through fashion journalism, photography and exported fashion forecasting, Paris Fashion and World War Two makes a significant contribution to the cultural history of fashion.
About the Author Lou Taylor is Professor Emerita in Dress History at the University of Brighton, UK. She played a central role in establishing the discipline of dress history with her two books The Study of Dress History (2002) and Establishing Dress History (2004). Marie McLoughlin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. She lectures in dress history and her research interests include the intersection of fashion with art.
Price: $170.00 $187.00 ISBN: 9781350000278 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Styling Shanghai edited by Christopher Breward and Juliette MacDonald
Bringing together leading international scholars, Styling Shanghai examines Shanghai's status as one of the world's leading fashion cities in the modern and contemporary periods.
Description Styling Shanghai is the first book dedicated to exploring the city's fashion cultures, examining its growing status as one of the world's foremost fashion cities. From its origins as an international treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai has emerged as a global leader in the production, mediation and consumption of fashion. This book reveals how the material and imaginative context of this thriving urban centre has produced vivid interpretations of fashion as object, image and idea. Bringing together contributions by a range of leading international fashion historians and theorists, and drawing on extensive original research, Styling Shanghai offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the mega-city's shifting position as a fashion capital. Rooted in collaboration between leading UK, Australian and Shanghai-based institutions, it considers the impact of local and global textile manufacturing, the representation and marketing of 'Shanghai Style', bodies and gender in the 'Paris of the East', and the challenges of globalization, commercialization and digital communication in contemporary Shanghai.
About the Author Christopher Breward is Director of Collection and Research at the National Galleries of Scotland, UK and Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of Fashioning London (Bloomsbury, 2004) and co-editor of The Englishness of English Dress (Bloomsbury, 2002) and Fashion's World Cities (Bloomsbury, 2006). Juliette MacDonald is Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK and International Dean at Shanghai International College of Fashion and Innovation, Donghua University, China.
Price: $160.00 $176.00 ISBN: 9781350051140 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Fashion design & theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Pornographic Age Alain Badiou, translated by A.J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens
A brutal indictment of the political systems and order of society that defines our current age, and a passionate call to arms for those committed to radical change.
Description With The Pornographic Age, Alain Badiou offers a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become. This short, critical work, is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems which characterize it. Badiou argues that any true radical politics must begin with dismantling the obscene (or pornographic) qualities of neoliberal capitalism. He asks us to hold up a mirror to ourselves and confront the debasement of the political realities in which we live and use the shock with which we must react to galvanize ourselves into action. It is only through this realization, this crucial confrontation with the perversity with which we conduct our daily lives that we can prompt true revolution. Accompanied by extensive commentary by experienced translators and Badiou scholars Bartlett and Clemens, this is philosophical call to arms: Badiou's radical indictment of the current age is an exciting, no holds barred, exploration of both how we live and how we might live.
About the Author Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Universite de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Francois Lyotard. A. J. Bartlett teaches philosophy in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (2011), co-author of Lacan Deleuze Badiou (2014) and What is Impossible: Alain Badiou and Contemporary Philosophy (2016). He is also the co-editor of Badiou: Key Concepts (2010), The Praxis of Alain Badiou (2006) and co-editor and translator of Alain Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury 2014). Justin Clemens is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory (2003), Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy (2013) and, with A.J. Bartlett and Jon Roffe, Lacan Deleuze Badiou (2014). He has edited many academic collections, including translating and editing Alain Badiou's Infinite Thought (Continuum 2003) with Oliver Feltham. Price: $110.00 $121.00 ISBN: 9781350014787 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 How to be a Failure and Still Live Well: A Philosophy Beverley Clack
Challenges contemporary and material constructions of success and failure to suggest that richer accounts of what it means to live well can emerge whilst engaging with the inevitability of loss.
Description In consumer economies, success has increasingly been defined in terms of material attainment and the achievement of status. This model of 'the good life' and its formulas for success ignore the haunting possibility that one may not succeed and as a result be deemed 'a failure'. How to be a Failure and Still Live Well explores that often neglected theme of failure, not just as the opposite of achievement, but also, and more importantly, how it has been conflated with loss: that which haunts all transient, mortal human experience. Understanding loss as a form of failure affects our ability to cope with the everyday losses that permeate existence as a result of the natural processes of ageing, death, and decay. Engaging with loss and thinking about what it inevitability means for our lives and commitments, allows different values to emerge than those connected to success as attainment. Relationships, spontaneity, and generosity are explored as qualities that arise from taking seriously our vulnerability and that form the basis for richer accounts of what it might mean to 'live well'.
About the Author Beverley Clack is Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include: Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle: The Limits of Success, co-edited with Michele Paule (2019); Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction, co-authored with Brian R Clack (3rd edition 2019); Freud on the Couch (2013); Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings, co-edited with Pamela Sue Anderson (2004); Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality (2002); and Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition (1999). From 2012-16 she was City Councillor for St Clements Ward in Oxford, and from 2016-2018 she was a member of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum. She is a member of the Methodist Church's Faith and Order Committee, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Price: $110.00 $121.00 ISBN: 9781350030688 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Social & political philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are Stephen Davies
Richly illustrated with examples from a wide range of cultures and periods Stephen Davies tells the history and reveals the philosophy of the practice of bodily adornment.
Description Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures.
From the decline of the hat, the function of jewelry and popularity of tattooing to the wealth of grave goods found in the Upper Paleolithic burials and body painting of the Nuba, we see that there is no one who does not adorn themselves, their possessions, or their environment. But what messages do these adornments send? Drawing on aesthetics, evolutionary history, archaeology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and gender studies, Stephen Davies brings together African, Australian and North and South American indigenous cultures and unites them around the theme of adornment. He shows us that adorning is one of the few social behaviors that is close to being genuinely universal, more typical and extensive than the high-minded activities we prefer to think of as marking our species religion, morality, and art.
Each chapter shows how modes of decoration send vitally important signals about what we care about, our affiliations and backgrounds, our social status and values. In short, by using the theme of bodily adornment to unify a very diverse set of human practices, this book tells us about who we are.
About the Author Stephen Davies is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is a former President of the American Society for Aesthetics and Vice-President of the International Association for Aesthetics. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy Compass, and Rivista di Estetica, he is a consulting editor for Res Musica and Philosophy of Music Education Review, and he is co-editor for aesthetics in Price: $130.00 $143.00 ISBN: 9781350120990 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Philosophy: aesthetics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction Anthony Uhlmann
A new interpretation of the life and career of J. M. Coetzee, encompassing all his fiction and nonfiction, with special attention to the central ideas that have informed and motivated Coetzee to write.
Description In this major reassessment of J. M. Coetzee, which looks at Coetzee's full writing career thus far, Anthony Uhlmann illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzee's writing. In doing so, Uhlmann makes the case for Coetzee as an important and original thinker in his own right.
Whilst looking at Coetzee's writing career, from his dissertation through to The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), and interpreting running themes and scenarios, style, and evolving attitudes to literary form, Uhlmann also offers revealing glimpses, informed by archival research, of Coetzee's writing process. Among the main themes that Uhlmann draws out from Coetzee's writing, and which remain highly relevant today, are the ideas that there is truth in fiction, or that fiction can provide valuable understandings of real world problems, and there are also fictions of the truth: that we are surrounded, in our everyday lives, by stories we wish to believe are true.
J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction offers a revealing new account of our most significant contemporary writers.
About the Author Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (2006), and Thinking in Literature (Bloomsbury, 2011). From 2008-2013 he was the Editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies. He co-founded the Australian University Heads of English in 2012 and was elected President of this body in 2013. He is the author of the novel Saint Antony in His Desert (2018).
Price: $180.00 $198.00 ISBN: 9781501357473 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives Michael Lawrence
Offers wide-ranging coverage of Indian film stars and stardom, from the 1920s to the present day.
Description Indian Film stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures in India during the 20th and 21st centuries. Indian Film Stars seeks to inspire and inform further inquiries into the histories of film stardom the industrial construction and promotion of star personalities, the actual labouring and imagined lifestyles of professional stars, the stars' relationship to specific aesthetic cinematic conventions (such as frontality and song-dance) and production technologies (such as the play-back system and post-synchronization), and audiences' investment in and devotion to specific star bodies across the country's multiple centres of film production and across the overlapping (and increasingly international) zones of the films' distribution and reception. The star images, star bodies and star careers discussed are examined in relation to a wide range of issues, including the negotiation and contestation of tradition and modernity, the embodiment and articulation of both Indian and non-Indian values and vogues; the representation of gender and sexuality, of race and ethnicity, and of cosmopolitan mobility and transnational migration; innovations and conventions in performance style; the construction and transformation of public persona; the star's association with film studios and the mainstream media; the star's relationship with historical, political and cultural change and memory; and the star's meaning and value for specific (including marginalised) sectors of the audience.
About the Author Michael Lawrence is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Sabu (BFI Publishing, 2014) and the co-editor, with Laura McMahon, of Animal Life and the Moving Image (BFI Publishing, 2015), and, with Karen Lury, of The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016) and, with Rachel Tavenor, of Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture (2019).
Price: $160.00 $176.00 ISBN: 9781844578559 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Film, TV & radio Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
British Film Institute AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century edited by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza
Insightful analysis of the key words that have defined and will define India in the 21st century.
Description What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender and technology, economics and politics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies.
Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, this work differs from it in at least one crucial aspect. It is not single authored. In it, for the first time, more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars form a polyphonic collective, whose sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book explores the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India also presents the world with emancipatory keywords from India.
About the Author Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Peter Ronald deSouza is Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Developing Societies, India.
Price: $150.00 $165.00 ISBN: 9781350039247 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Sociolinguistics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Sonic Fiction Holger Schulze
The first academic overview of one of the most advanced and controversial approaches to sound studies, offering insight into its background, history, the present discourse surrounding it, and its likely future impact.
Description Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction. In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book 'More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction'. Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.
About the Author Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen and Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the author of numerous books including Sound as Popular Culture (2016) and The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Price: $130.00 $143.00 ISBN: 9781501334788 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Theory of music & musicology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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