AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Damascus Christos Tsiolkas
The stunningly powerful new novel from the author of The Slap.
Description 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of fathers and violate men before the eyes of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly in the streets and the Judeans stone us. We are hunted everywhere and we are hunted by everyone.
We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?'
Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church. Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focusing on characters one and two generations on from the death of Christ, as well as Paul (Saul) himself, Damascus nevertheless explores the themes that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer: class, religion, masculinity, patriarchy, colonisation, refugees; the ways in which nations, societies, communities, families and individuals are united and divided - it's all here, the contemporary and urgent questions, perennial concerns made vivid and visceral.
In Damascus, Tsiolkas has written a masterpiece of imagination and transformation: an historical novel of immense power and an unflinching dissection of doubt and faith, tyranny and revolution, and cruelty and sacrifice.
About the Author Christos Tsiolkas is the author of six novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for his novel, The Slap, which was also announced as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year. His Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781760875091 fifth novel, Barracuda, was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the inaugural Voss Literary Prize. He is also a Format: Paperback - C format playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Preston, VIC
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 In Darkness Visible Tony Jones
Intriguing, gripping and believable, Tony Jones has used worldwide political history to create a second sensational thriller.
Description 'A political thriller in the Robert Harris mould.' - Jennifer Byrne on The Twentieth Man
In 2005, Marin Katich, living in Croatia under an alias, is being watched. Before the year is out, he has been assaulted, arrested, charged with serious war crimes and locked up in Scheveningen Prison in The Hague, waiting for his case to come before the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
In Sydney, Anna Rosen, a freelance journalist, is sent photos on her computer of a man she knows to be dead-gunned down in a brutal ambush in Bosnia over a decade ago. A man she'd once loved but who had betrayed her. Is it possible that the photos really are of Marin Katich? And if so, what the hell had happened in 1992?
From Croatia to The Hague to Bosnia and Herzegovina to Sydney, Anna and Marin's intertwined history fuels her determination to tear apart, piece-by-piece, his secrets, while continuing to keep her own.
In a dangerous pursuit of justice and revenge, navigating the murky world of national and international secret agencies and those who would still be warlords, Anna fights for what she believes in and for those she loves.
Tony Jones blurs the lines between fiction and political reality, creating a page-turning, intriguing and gripping thriller.
'Extremely readable, fascinating and very cleverly done.' - AustralianCrimeFiction.org on The Twentieth Man
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781760295011 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format After a cadetship at the ABC, Tony Jones joined Four Corners as a reporter in 1985, and then went to Dateline at SBS in Dimensions: 234x153mm 1986. He subsequently was an ABC foreign correspondent, for a time in London and later in Washington, through which Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense time he covered the war crimes in Bosnia. Today he hosts Q & A on Monday nights. He is married to fellow ABC Bic2: Crime & mystery journalist, Sarah Ferguson. The Twentieth Man, his bestselling first thriller, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2017 to Illustrations: acclaim. His second novel, published in 2019, is In Darkness Visible. Previous Titles: Author now living: Point Piper, NSW
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
Winner of the 2019 International Man Booker Prize
Description Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional, slave-owning society, slowly redefining itself after the colonial era, to the crossroads of its complex present.
Elegantly structured and taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.
'Complex and tangled ... the glimpses into a culture relatively little known in the west are fascinating.' The Guardian
'A book to win over the head and the heart in equal measure, worth lingering over ...' Bettany Hughes, Man Booker International Judge
'A beautifully achieved account of lives pulling at the edges of change.' The Irish Times
'Blends the rhythms of daily life with magic and legend.' Muhammad Barrada
'Delivers the reader immediately into the world of the marginal, forgotten, most subaltern sectors of society.' Ibrahim al- Hajari
About the Author Jokha Alharthi is the author of two previous collections of short fiction, a children's book, and three novels. She completed a PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry in Edinburgh, and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. She has been shortlisted for the Shaikh Zayed Award for Young Writers and won the prize for best Omani novel for Celestial Bodies. Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781760529413 Format: Paperback - C format About the Translator: translated by Professor Marilyn Booth of the Oriental Institute and Magdalen College, Oxford Dimensions: 234x153mm University, who received a translation grant from the Anglo Omani Society. Translated from the original Omani novel Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Sayyidat al-Qamar. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Oman
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Starting From Now Fleur McDonald
A suspenseful novel of rural life and real country issues from our genuine Voice of the Outback, author of the bestselling Where the River Runs
Description 'Engaging, complex, enlightening and authentic...' Mrs B's Book Reviews on Without a Doubt
When twenty-five year old journalist, Zara Ellison receives her mother's ominous text message, 'Call me when you can', Zara knows it's not good news. Her brother is seriously unwell on their family farm 400 kilometres away and Lynda Ellison needs Zara's help at home.
Two weeks later, Zara has left her much-loved city life and is unpacking boxes in her new, rather empty house in Barker. She'd been right in the thick of reporting on an explosive court case in Adelaide. Animal welfare activists had stormed a farm determined to do damage, but it had all gone wrong and one man had lost his life. The case threatened to divide city and country. And there'd been one mysterious man present who, over the five days of the trial, had come to Zara's curious notice. He seemed to have no reason to be there, no-one knew him, nor could she find out anything about him.
With her job on the Farming Journal, and an introduction to Detective Dave Burrows, his friendly wife Kim and Dave's second-in-charge, Senior Constable Jack Higgins, Zara's stint in the country isn't as quiet as she'd feared. If only there was a miracle cure for her brother.
After more terrible farming accidents and reports of unidentified drones flying over farmlands, Zara is shocked by a chance sighting of that mystery man from the courtroom and by witnessing Jack Higgins in a role she'd never have believed. What is the significance of the mystery man and what is Jack playing at?
Wrapped in a love of family, friendship, crime and mystery, Starting From Now is another compelling and enjoyable novel from the authentic voice of Fleur McDonald.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529284 Format: Paperback - C format 'Where the River Runs is a novel I highly recommend. This delightful cast of characters deliver a cracking story from start Dimensions: 234x153mm to finish.' - Theresa Smith Writes Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 'Without a Doubt is another fabulous romantic suspense - high on the suspense - novel. I really enjoy Dave's character; Illustrations: he's a normal, down to earth guy, strong, tough and caring. Highly recommended. 5 stars.' - Reading Writing and Previous Titles: Riesling Author now living: Esperance, WA
About the Author Fleur McDonald has lived and worked on farms for much of her life. After growing up in the small town of Orroroo in South Australia, she became a jillaroo before spending twenty years farming 8000 acres, east of Esperance,Allen WA. & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Wrong Callahan Karly Lane
For readers of Rachael Johns and Fiona Palmer, The Wrong Callahan begins Karly Lane's sparkling CALLAHANS OF STRINGYBARK CREEK trilogy.
Description 'I can't wait to revisit Stringybark. The Wrong Callahan embodies Karly Lane's passionate rural voice, reminding us of the value she is to Australian fiction. A must buy for all Aussie readers.' - Mrs B's Book Reviews
THE CALLAHANS OF STRINGYBARK CREEK - Book 1
It had been two long years since Lincoln Callahan had stood in front of the gates to Stringybark Creek. He was in the army then - a lifetime ago. Linc had always been the unsettled Callahan, looking for danger, the one who couldn't wait to leave the family farm.
Linc's little brother, Griffin, was the dependable son, the one who stayed at home, the one who did the right things. And, now, the one who has feelings for rebellious city girl, Cash Sullivan.
When Linc locks eyes with Cash at a family dinner, their swift attraction floors him. But Cash is his brother's girlfriend ... what is he thinking?
As Linc, Griff and Cash form an uneasy triangle, each of them have personal demons to face before they can open their hearts.
'A very enjoyable read and a good introduction to the Callahan family. I'm definitely looking forward to the next book and seeing what happens...I really liked the setting and the small community and the way the love triangle played out.' - 1 Girl 2 Many Books
'Character driven stories are a strength for Lane, she always makes sure that we get inside the heads of her characters Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760876234 and work out what really makes them tick.... a well-paced tale of love, betrayal, family, PTSD and small town Format: Paperback - B format communities.' - Beauty and Lace Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Romance About the Author Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Karly Lane lives on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four children and wife of one very patient Illustrations: mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most - being a mum and writing stories Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW set in beautiful rural Australia.
Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses, Six Ways to Sunday and Someone Like You. The Wrong Callahan is the first in an exciting new trilogy, the Callahans of Stringybark Creek, followedAllen by Mr Right& Unwin Now AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Springtime: A Ghost Story Michelle de Kretser
A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
Description Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the shadowy depths of the garden. She wore a wide hat and a trailing pink dress; a white hand emerged from her sleeve. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stilled.
When Frances met Charlie at a party in Melbourne he was married with a young son.
Now Charlie and Frances live in Sydney with her dog, Rod, and an unshakeable sense that they have tipped the world on its axis. Everything is alien, unfamiliar, exotic: haunting, even.
A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story by Miles Franklin Literary Award-winner Michelle de Kretser.
About the Author Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a book reviewer. She is the author of The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, which won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The Lost Dog, which was widely praised by writers such as AS Byatt, Hilary Mantel and William Boyd and won a swag of awards, including: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal. The Lost Dog was also shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize's Shadow Youth Panel. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her fourth novel, Questions of Travel, received 14 honours, including winning the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her latest novel, The Life to Come, is the winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2019 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize.
Price: $14.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781760876708 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 175x110mm Extent: 92 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Dulwich Hill, NSW
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Great Divide L.J.M. Owen
A city detective hunts a killer through a fog of lies in small town Tasmania.
Description Twisted Secrets. Hidden Victims. Monstrous Crimes.
In the rural Tasmanian town of Dunton, the body of a former headmistress of a children's home is discovered, revealing a tortured life and death.
Detective Jake Hunter, newly arrived, searches for her killer among past residents of the home. He unearths pain, secrets and broken adults. Pushing aside memories of his own treacherous past, Jake focuses all his energy on the investigation. Why are some of the children untraceable? What caused such damage among the survivors?
The identity of her murderer seems hidden from Jake by Dunton's fog of prejudice and lies, until he is forced to confront not only the town's history but his own nature...
About the Author Dr L.J.M. Owen has degrees in archaeology, forensic science and librarianship. She speaks five languages and has travelled extensively through Europe and Asia. L.J. was inspired to write the Dr Pimms series by the neglected women's stories she discovered between the cracks of popular archaeology. Three books in this series have been published by Echo Publishing. L.J.'s new novel, The Great Divide, introduces a new story world and characters. L.J. is also the Festival Director of the Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival, a celebration of literature and literacy in southern Tasmania, and divides her time between Canberra and southern Tasmania.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760685829 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Huon Valley, Tas
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Echo AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Find Me Andre Aciman
In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name revisits his characters' complex lives in the years after their first meeting.
Description In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.
About the Author Andre Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, and most recently Enigma Variations, now out in paperback. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Call Me By Your Name (Film tie-in) Andre Aciman
The film tie-in edition to the already highly acclaimed Luca Guadagnino-directed film of one of the great love stories of our time.
Description Call Me By Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest Oliver during a restless summer on the Italian Riviera.
Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them. What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration, and an experience that marks them for a lifetime.
For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing they both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.
About the Author Andre Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Conde Nast Traveler, The Paris Review, Granta as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. His first novel, Call Me By Your Name, was published in 2008 and Eight White Nights was published in 2011. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his family in Manhattan.
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Atlantic PBS AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Out of Darkness, Shining Light Petina Gappah
The hotly-anticipated second novel by Petina Gappah follows the epic journey of Dr Livingstone's corpse through nineteenth-century Africa.
Description This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own country.
The wise men of his age say Livingstone blazed into the darkness of their native land leaving a track of light behind where white men who followed him could tread in perfect safety. But in Petina Gappah's radical novel, it is those in the shadows of history - those who saved a white man's bones; his dark companions; his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - whose voices are resurrected with searing intensity.
This final, fateful journey across the African interior is lead by Halima, Livingstone's sharp-tongued cook, and three of his most devoted servants: Jacob, Chuma and Susi. Their tale of how his corpse was borne out of nineteenth-century Africa - carrying the maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation - has the power of myth. It is not only symbolic of slavery's hypocrisy, but a portrait of a world trembling on the cusp of total change - and a celebration of human bravery, loyalty and love.
About the Author Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009. Her first novel, The Book of Memory, was published in 2015, and was longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Book of Memory Petina Gappah
The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly, longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
Description Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. Memory is an albino woman, languisihing in prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of. Facing the death penalty, she tells the story of the chain of events that brought her there. But is everything exactly as she remembers it?
About the Author Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 An Elegy for Easterly Petina Gappah
A stunning new voice from Zimbabwe, with an unforgettable collection of powerfully moving stories.
Description A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlour brings unexpected riches; a politician's widow quietly stands by at her husband's funeral watching his colleagues bury an empty coffin.
Petina Gappah's characters may have ordinary hopes and dreams, but they are living in a world where a loaf of bread costs half a million dollars, a country expected to have only four presidents in a hundred years; and a place where poeple know exactly what will be printed in the one and only daily newspaper because the news is always, always good.
In her spirited debut collection, Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah brings us the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe's regime whilst also battling issues common to all people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams and the yearning for something to anchor them to life.
About the Author Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. She lives with her son Kush in Geneva, where she works as counsel in an international organisation that provides legal aid on international trade law to developing countries. She is currently completing her first novel, The Book of Memory.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Saving Agnes Rachel Cusk
A new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk's debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Description Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award
Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. Life and love go on without her, but with a little facade she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear.
About the Author Rachel Cusk is the author of ten novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. In 2015, Cusk's version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Temporary Rachel Cusk
A paperback edition of The Temporary in a stunning new look.
Description Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he finds he is bound by chains of consequence from which it seems there is no escape. The Temporary paints a merciless portrait of the cut and thrust of modern romance, work and life.
About the Author Rachel Cusk is the author of ten novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. In 2015, Cusk's version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Bradshaw Variations Rachel Cusk
A paperback edition of The Bradshaw Variations in a stunning new look.
Description Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the ageing Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.
About the Author Rachel Cusk is the author of ten novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. In 2015, Cusk's version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 In the Fold Rachel Cusk
A beautiful new paperback edition of the highly-acclaimed novel by Rachel Cusk, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Description When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. Years later, when he marries the strong-willed, beautiful Rebecca, he is secretly hoping to create his own version of that free-thinking family, but after the birth of their first child, their marriage begins to flounder. The chance to escape once more to his friend's country house comes as a welcome relief, until he discovers a family changed, and his own romantic notions of country life begin to disintegrate...
About the Author Rachel Cusk is the author of ten novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. In 2015, Cusk's version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Armistice: A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace Carol Ann Duffy
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy chooses 100 poems to commemorate the Armistice of 1918, and themes of peace and truce more generally - now in paperback.
Description The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search for truce and ceasefire. In 100 poems, our most cherished poets of the Great War speak alongside those from other conflicts and cultures, so that we hear some of the lesser-heard voices of war, including wives, families, those left behind. These poems of war and peace memorialise the horror and the tragedy of conflict. At the same time, in armistice, they become a record of renewal and a testimony to hope.
About the Author Carol Ann Duffy won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poemswas published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.
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Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956 Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K Steinberg and edited by Karen Kukil
The essential read for any fan and scholar of Sylvia Plath - now in paperback.
Description Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers.
In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence, most of which has never before been published and is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, including family, friends and professional contacts, with inimitable wit and verve. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Her endeavour to publish in a variety of genres had mixed receptions, but she was never dissuaded. Through acceptance of her work, and rejection, Plath strove to stay true to her creative vision. Well-read and curious, she offers a fascinating commentary on contemporary culture.
Leading Plath scholars Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own line-drawings, the editors masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose.
This selection of early correspondence marks the key moments of Plath's adolescence, including childhood hobbies and high school boyfriends; her successful but turbulent undergraduate years at Smith College; the move to England and Cambridge University; and her meeting and marrying Ted Hughes, including a trove of unseen letters post-honeymoon, revealing their extraordinary creative partnership.
About the Author Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571329014 contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Format: Paperback - C format Poetry. Dimensions: 235x157mm Extent: 1440 pages Bic1: Diaries, letters & journals Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 - 1963 Sylvia Plath
The second, and final, volume of this landmark edition of Sylvia Plath's correspondence - now in paperback.
Description Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words.
The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Leading Plath scholars Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950 -1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose.
This later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; starting a family; and buying a house. Throughout, Plath's voice is completely, uniquely her own.
About the Author Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571339211 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x157mm Extent: 1088 pages Bic1: Diaries, letters & journals Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Topeka School: Export Edition Ben Lerner
A radical new take on the American family saga from a bona fide American literary genius, the acclaimed author of Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04.
Description 'A novel of exhilarating intellectual inquiry, penetrating social insight and deep psychological sensitivity...the future of the novel is here'- Sally Rooney
Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field. A renowned debater and orator, an aspiring poet, and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight lifting - one of the cool kids, he's also one of the seniors who brings the loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene, with disastrous effects.
Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is a riveting story about the challenges of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a startling prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the tyranny of trolls and the new right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.
About the Author Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award) and Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the iconic essay The Hatred of Poetry. In 2011, he became the first American to win the Munster Prize for International Poetry. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781783785728 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Topeka School 8 copy pack A&U Point of Sale
Includes 8 copies of The Topeka School, plus free reading copy.
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Granta AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner
Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation.
Description Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry.
About the Author Born in Kansas in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Munster State Prize for International Poetry. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College. This is his first novel.
Price: $17.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781847086914 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 10:04 Ben Lerner
Shortlisted for the Folio Prize and internationally celebrated by critics and readers alike, here is a dazzling and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.
Description In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.
In prose that Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious. cracklingly intelligent. and original in every sentence', Lerner's new novel charts an exhilarating course through the contemporary landscape of sex, friendship, memory, art and politics, and captures what it is like to be alive right now.
About the Author Born in Kansas in 1979, BEN LERNER is the author of three books of poetry, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Munster State Prize for International Poetry. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College. His first novel was Leaving the Atocha Station.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781847088932 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Art of Dying Ambrose Parry
The second gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, co-written by bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman.
Description Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances.
Simpson's protege Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher are determined to clear their patron's name. But with Raven battling against the dark side of his own nature, and Sarah endeavouring to expand her own medical knowledge beyond what society deems acceptable for a woman, the pair struggle to understand the cause of the deaths.
Will and Sarah must unite and plunge into Edinburgh's deadliest streets to clear Simpson's name. But soon they discover that the true cause of these deaths has evaded suspicion purely because it is so unthinkable.
About the Author Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland. Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of over twenty novels. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years' experience, whose research for her Master's degree in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which this series, which begun with The Way of All Flesh, is based. The Art of Dying is the second book in the series.
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Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786896704 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Historical fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Animals (film tie-in) Emma Jane Unsworth
Some friendships are wild at heart...Now a major new film starring Holliday Grainger.
Description 'There's no ceremony for friendship, is there?' 'Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.'
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change when Laura gets engaged to the man of Tyler's nightmares. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up mean growing apart?
About the Author Emma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything. Her short story 'I Arrive First' was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012. In 2019, the film adaptation of Animals, directed by Sophie Hyde and starring Holliday Grainger, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781838850333 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Book of Mercy Leonard Cohen
One of Leonard Cohen's best loved volumes of poetry; a personal and powerful collection, popular since its original publication over thirty years ago
Description The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the greatest writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of the last hundred years.
About the Author Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Let Us Compare Mythologies Leonard Cohen
The passionate and accomplished debut collection of poetry from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen
Description First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.
An unprecedented debut published to immediate acclaim, new generations of readers will now rediscover not only the early work of one of our most beloved writers, but poetry that resonates loudly with relevance today.
About the Author Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781786896889 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Flame Leonard Cohen, introduction by Adam Cohen
The final collection of poetry and prose from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen, introduced by his son Adam Cohen.
Description THESE POEMS AND NOTEBOOKS ARE THE LAST WORD FROM THE LATE, GREAT LEONARD COHEN
The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems and writings, selected and ordered by Cohen in the final months of his life. The book contains an extensive selection from Cohen's notebooks, featuring lyrics, prose pieces and illustrations, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinker.
An enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen's storied literary career, The Flame showcases the full range of Leonard Cohen's lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funny. By turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for more.
About the Author Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781786893130 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Rembrandt's Whore Sylvie Matton, translated by Tamsin Black
A fictional account of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's mistress and confidante, published on the 350th anniversary of the artist's death
Description A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to become a servant in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest confidante, filling the void in his life resulting from the death of his wife and two of their children. But Hendrickje is fated to discover the hypocrisy and fickleness of Amsterdam society.
In sensuous prose, Matton paints a powerful fictional portrait of this impassioned relationship against the backdrop of a turbulent era of Dutch history.
About the Author Sylvie Matton is the author of three novels and four works of non-fiction. She has been an actress and screenwriter. With her husband, the artist and film-maker Charles Matton, she worked for two years on a feature-length film on the life of Rembrandt, which was premiered in Britain in 2001. She lives in France.
Tamsin Black is a freelance translator and lives in Switzerland. She studied French literature in London and Paris, where she was awarded various prizes and scholarships. Rembrandt's Whore was her first translation of a work of fiction.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781786898678 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Dog Poems Various
'I am his Highness's dog at Kew;/ Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you?' - Alexander Pope
Description To Flush, My Dog
Loving friend, the gift of one, Who, her own true faith, hath run, Through thy lower nature; Be my benediction said With my hand upon thy head, Gentle fellow-creature ...
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Since prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boundless inspiration. Dogs offer comfort and amusement to their owners; they provide solace when we're sad, entertaining antics when we're bored and affection every day. To poets in particular, these beloved creatures are the most bountiful muses, as they bark, yip, hunt, fetch, growl and slumber, reflecting back at us our most heartfelt tenderness and often rewarding us with unconditional love we scarcely deserve. Dog Poems offers a litter of verses in celebration of our most faithful companions by some of the greatest poets of all time.
About the Author Renowned poets spanning a great range of eras and styles, all writing in praise of the dog. Including poems from Lord Byron, Pablo Neruda, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Thomas Hardy, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Elizabeth Bishop, Alexander Pope and Ogden Nash, there will be something for every taste - so long as you love dogs.
Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781788163651 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Poetry anthologies (various poets) Bic2: Dogs as pets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Cat Poems Various
'I control the mice with a cat, but how shall I control the cat?' - Franz Kafka
Description You Know How a Cat
Will Bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your
feet so each morning I bring you a poem that
I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute
to your beauty & a promise of my love.
- James Laughlin
Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.
About the Author Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781788161732 Beloved poets spanning a great range of eras and styles, all writing in praise of the cat. Including poems from Charles Format: Paperback Baudelaire, Elizabeth Bishop, Stevie Smith, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, Rainer Maria Rilke and W. Dimensions: 178x111mm B. Yeats, there will be something for every taste - so long as you love cats. Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Cats as pets Bic2: Poetry anthologies (various poets) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Melmoth Sarah Perry
From the author of the bestselling The Essex Serpent comes a darkly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times.
Description OBSERVER BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
Oh friend, take my hand - I've been so lonely!
One winter night in Prague, Helen Franklin encounters her friend Karel, half-mad with fear.
He has come into possession of a mysterious old manuscript, filled with testimonies that speak to Helen from 17th- century England, wartime Czechoslovakia, the sweat-soaked streets of Manila and 1920's Turkey. All of them tell of being followed by a tall, silent woman in black, bearing a terrible message.
Helen reads its contents with intrigue, but everything in her life is about to change.
About the Author Sarah Perry is the author of The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. She has been the UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence in Prague and a Gladstone's Library writer-in-residence. Her work has been translated into twenty languages.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788160674 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry
2016's literary sensation, a thrilling and unforgettable historical novel of love and intrigue now out in paperback.
Description The number one bestseller and British Book Awards Book of the Year
London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge.
On arrival, rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for superstition, is enthralled, convinced that what the local people think is a magical beast may be a yet-undiscovered species. As she sets out on its trail, she is introduced to William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar, who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours, but thinks they are a distraction from true faith.
As he tries to calm his parishioners, Will and Cora strike up an intense relationship, and although they agree on absolutely nothing, they find themselves at once drawn together and torn apart, affecting each other in ways that surprise them both.
The Essex Serpent is a celebration of love, and the many different shapes it can take.
About the Author Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD in creative writing from Royal Holloway, and has been the writer in residence at the Gladstone Library and the UNESCO World City of Literature Writer in Residence in Prague. Her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Folio Prize, and won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2014. She lives in Norwich. Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781781255452 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Historical fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Tell it to the Bees Fiona Shaw
A secret love which has a whole town talking ... and a small boy very worried.
Description Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean Markham, her life is turned upside down. Charlie tells his secrets to no one but the bees, but even he can't keep his mother's friendship to himself. The locals don't like things done differently. As Lydia and the doctor become closer, the rumours start to fly and threaten to shatter Charlie's world.
About the Author Fiona Shaw lives in York. After giving birth to her two children, she suffered a postnatal breakdown. She wrote powerfully about her experience of the nightmare of depression in her best-selling non-fiction debut, Out of Me, shortlisted for the MIND prize.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780955647666 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Sinner Martyn Waites
Tom Killgannon is back in this explosive new thriller from award-winning and bestselling author Martyn Waites
Description THE TENSE NEW THRILLER FROM THE 'MASTER OF SINISTER' (ANGELA CLARKE), FOR FANS OF CHRIS CARTER.
Tom Killgannon, ex-undercover police officer and now in witness protection, is recalled to active service by a local police task force, headed by DS Sheridan. His mission is to befriend notorious child killer Noel Cunningham and find out where he buried the bodies of his final two victims.
The catch? Tom has to obtain that information from within Blackmoor prison itself.
Undercover and with back-up, Tom soon runs into danger.
In the prison is convicted gangster Dean Foley. He used to run Manchester's biggest gang, until Tom's testimony put him away for life. He recognises Tom, and so begins a cat-and-mouse game as Tom fights for survival before Foley can get his revenge.
But why can't Tom reach DS Sheridan and what is the real reason he has been sent to Blackmoor prison?
'Waites is one of the best crime writers we have' MARK BILLINGHAM
'Martyn Waites is already crime fiction royalty' STEVE CAVANAGH
'A deftly-plotted thriller with a dark heart and a real emotional punch' SIMON KERNICK on The Old Religion
'A guaranteed thrill-ride' SARAH PINBOROUGH on The Old Religion Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781785765506 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Martyn Waites was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama and Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items worked as an actor for many years before becoming a writer. He has been nominated for every major British crime fiction Bic2: Crime & mystery award and won the 2014 Grand Prix du Roman Noir Award for his novel, Born Under Punches. He has enjoyed Illustrations: international commercial success with eight novels written under the name Tania Carver and also writes Doctor Who Previous Titles: audio adventures for Big Finish. Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Nursery Asia Mackay
THEY AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET . . .
Description ASSASSIN. MOTHER. WIFE. MEET THE NEW HEROINE FOR OUR TIMES.
'Brilliant and funny' HUGH GRANT
'Witty and original' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!' MARIAN KEYES
Lex Tyler is trying to have it all.
But being a working mother is so much more difficult when you're a secret agent for an underground branch of the security services.
Platform Eight have been tasked with tracking down and eliminating the traitor in MI6 who has been selling information to the highest bidder through a headhunting website for the criminal underworld that connects intelligence operatives with all manner of bad people with a simple right swipe. Deals get made. Secrets get sold. Missions fail, and agents die.
Lex's own home life is not much easier. With a husband who rings her in the middle of a gunfight to complain she's yet again forgotten to pick up his dry-cleaning, and a two-year-old daughter who has a newfound love of biting, surviving both the Terrible Twos and a traitor might just be too much for one exhausted mother to handle.
Red Sparrow meets Mick Herron in this gripping and witty page-turner about having it all, keeping it all and surviving it all.
About the Author Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785765643 A half-Chinese, half-Scottish Londoner, Asia studied Anthropology at Durham University, after which she started a career Format: Paperback - B format in television. She presented and produced lifestyle programmes in Shanghai before moving back to London, where she Dimensions: 198x129mm worked for Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as Project Manager on their round the world motorbike documentaries. Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) She started writing Killing It on maternity leave and undertook a Faber Academy course to help her finish it. Asia lives in Bic2: Thriller / suspense London with her husband, four young children and two dogs. Killing It was her debut novel. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Killing It Asia Mackay
Move over, James Bond - meet Lex Tyler - an assassin just back from maternity leave. As dextrous with a breast pump as she is with a gun, here is one badass heroine you won't forget.
Description Every working mum has had to face it. The guilt-fuelled, anxiety-filled first day back in the office after maternity leave. But this working mum is one of a kind.
Meet Alexis Tyler. An elite covert agent within Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Her first project back is a high-stakes hit of global significance and the old boys network of government espionage is far from ready for the return of an operational mother. But woe betide anyone who ever tells Alexis Tyler 'you can't'.
She will have it all. Or she'll die trying...
And yes, she damn well will be home for bath time.
About the Author A half-Chinese, half-Scottish Londoner, Asia studied Anthropology at Durham University, after which she started a career in television. She presented and produced lifestyle programmes in Shanghai before moving back to London, where she worked for Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as Project Manager on their round the world motorbike documentaries. She started writing Killing It on maternity leave and undertook a Faber Academy course to help her finish it. Asia lives in London with her husband, four young children and two dogs. Killing It is her first novel.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785764530 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 False Prophet James Hazel
Charlie Priest is back, and this time it's personal. The new page-turning thriller from the author of The Mayfly and The Ash Doll
Description Evil is in the blood
When the body of a young woman is found with a nail through her head and a strange symbol drawn in blood next to her, the police are baffled. But as the body count rises, they soon realise they might have a serial killer in their midst.
Meanwhile lawyer Charlie Priest is wrapped up in a case disputing an ancient artefact. As links appear between Priest's case and the murder victims, it is soon uncovered that this case is just about to become personal, and someone is determined to keep their secret, whatever the cost.
About the Author Before turning his hand to writing, James Hazel was a lawyer in private practice specialising in corporate and commercial litigation and employment law.
He was an equity partner in a regional law firm and held a number of different department headships until he quit legal practice to pursue his dream of becoming an author.
He has a keen interest in criminology and a passion for crime thrillers, indie music and all things retro. James lives on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds with his wife and three children.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Live a Little Madeleine Reiss
Two sisters. Two different lives. One hell of a ride . . .
Description Lottie has always followed the rules, her life is comfortable and she is - finally, finally - marrying her long-term, reliable, boyfriend Dean.
Tina is carefree, wild and, maybe, just a little bit careless. She doesn't understand Lottie's obsession with settling down with 'dull Dean', there's so much to explore in the world.
The two sisters have drifted apart, living in different countries until the death of their older sister, Mia. Mia was the glue that held them together, made them a family and without her Lottie and Tina realise how little they know each other.
Desperate to remedy this, Tina convinces Lottie to cancel her hen do, fly halfway around the world and set out on a road trip across the US, just the two of them.
But Tina has one more thing up her sleeve to shake up Lottie's life - she must say yes to everything Tina suggests, no matter what.
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'Gorgeous and Emotional' Fern Britton
'I found it deeply moving and couldn't stop reading' Susan Lewis
'An emotional, romantic and gentle read about love and family; I'm glad I got the chance to be introduced to author Madeleine Reiss' A Spoonful of Happy Endings
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785770920 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Madeleine Reiss was born in Athens. She worked for some years in an agency for street performers and comedians and Dimensions: 198x129mm then as a journalist and publicist. She has two sons and lives in Cambridge with her husband and her younger son. Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Romance Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Your Own Kind of Girl Clare Bowditch
ARIA Award-winning singer and actress Clare Bowditch confronts her inner critic in this no-holds-barred memoir.
Description Your Own Kind of Girl is a memoir. But it's?so?much more than that: it's a call to arms for women everywhere, to start talking about the things we never talk about but should.
Clare Bowditch's childhood and early adulthood were punctuated with grief, anxiety and disordered eating - reaching a critical point in her early twenties. In telling her own story, she wants to ask: Why do we put immense pressure on ourselves as women? What kind of nirvana do we think we'll achieve when we're 'skinny'? What language do we give to the ubiquitous anxieties so many of us harbour but don't quite know how to talk about?
At turns witty, incisive and devastating, Your Own Kind of Girl is a revealing memoir, an empowering call to arms, and a rallying cry for anyone who needs to shout down their inner critic.
About the Author Clare Bowditch is a best-selling ARIA Award-winning musician (Best Female Artist), Logie-nominated actor (for TV show Offspring), Rolling Stone Woman of the Year, popular broadcaster, speaker and mother of three. She is also the founder of Big Hearted Business, a love project designed to support creative people in their businesses, and business-people with their creative thinking. As a musician, she's toured extensively with people like Leonard Cohen, Paul Kelly, John Butler, Cat Power and Gotye. The person she enjoys touring the most with is her drummer, and husband, Marty Brown.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Beauty Bri Lee
A powerful meditation on beauty and body image from the author of Eggshell Skull.
Description You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal.
In recent decades women have made momentous progress fighting the patriarchy, yet they are held to ever-stricter, more punishing physical standards. Self-worth still plummets and eating disorders are more deadly for how easily they are dismissed.
In Beauty Bri Lee explores our obsession with thinness and asks how an intrinsically unattainable standard of physical 'perfection' has become so crucial to so many. What happens if you try to reach that impossible goal? Bri did try, and Beauty is what she learned from that battle: a gripping and intelligent rejection of an ideal that diminishes us all.
About the Author Bri Lee is a writer and editor whose work has been published in The Monthly, Harper's Bazaar Australia,?The Saturday Paper, Crikey,?The Guardian,?Griffith Review, i-D,?VAULT Art Magazine, and elsewhere.?She regularly appears on The Drum on ABC TV, various ABC Radio National programs, and often gives talks on writing, law, feminism, fashion, pop culture, and art.?As the Founding Editor of the quarterly print periodical Hot Chicks with Big Brains, Bri commissioned and published diverse non-fiction about women and their work from 2015 to 2018.
Her first book,?Eggshell Skull, was published by Allen & Unwin in June 2018.?It was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in non-fiction, winning the 2019 People's Choice Award, and also won the 2018 People's Choice at the Nib Awards for research in writing, and the 2019 ABIA for Biography of the Year. Eggshell Skull has also been shortlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards and longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize.
In 2016 Bri was the recipient of the inaugural Kat Muscat Fellowship, and in 2017 was one of Griffith Review's Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760876524 Queensland writing fellows. In 2018 Bri received a Commonwealth Government of Australia scholarship and stipend to Format: Paperback work on her second book at the University of Queensland. For this work she also received a Lord Mayor's Emerging Artist Dimensions: 178x138mm Fellowship to spend 4-6 weeks in New York City in early 2019.?She has received numerous other fellowships, Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Literary essays residencies, and mentorships, most recently the 2018 Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award at the Queensland Bic2: Feminism & feminist theory Literary Awards. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Witches Are Coming Lindy West
The firebrand New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Shrill - now a Hulu series starring Aidy Bryant - provides a brilliant and incisive look at how patriarchy, intolerance, and misogyny have conquered not just politics but American culture itself.
Description From the very moment powerful men on top started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations have been raging from every corner: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head: FINE, IF YOU INSIST. THIS IS A WITCH HUNT. WE'RE WITCHES, AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.
In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West suggest that Americans reckon with the dark truths that they've long left unexamined. She writes, ""We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form--like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'-- white American voters and the electoral college and a few Russian troll farms shoved an incompetent, racist con-man into the White House.""
West unpacks the complicated, and sometimes tragic, journey and politics of not being a white man in the 21st century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics. At once side-splittingly funny and irresistibly thought-provoking, The Witches Are Coming provides all the kindling to burn America's restrictive and outdated social norms to the ground. Lindy West lights the match.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Heart and Soul: My story Paul Gallen
The no-holds-barred autobiography of the legendary Cronulla Sharks and NSW State of Origin team captain.
Description Paul Gallen's career in rugby league is extraordinary. For his club, his state and his country he's given everything he's got, and then some. He's captained his club, The Cronulla Sharks, to their first every premiership, he's led the NSW Blues to a drought-breaking series win in 2014, and he's played more than 30 tests for his country. In every game Gallen has left nothing in tank, giving his heart and soul for his team and his teammates. Yet his career has also known controversy, with Gallen's take-no-prisoners style polarising both media and fans, and his captaincy of the Sharks making him both a figurehead and a target in the club's darkest days during the long-running ASADA investigation into peptide use.
Gallen's autobiography is a frank, open and heartfelt account of the great highs and lows of his 18 years playing rugby league's highest level. It's a story as powerful and fascinating as the man himself.
About the Author Paul Gallen is a professional rugby league player. He's captained the Cronulla Sharks and the NSW State of Origin team, and be vice captain of the Kangaroos. Gallen is also a heavyweight boxer, with a number of professional fights under his belt.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Golden Era: The extraordinary two decades when Australians ruled the tennis world Rod Laver with Larry Writer
Rod Laver's fascinating account of the extraordinary two decades when Australia ruled the tennis world.
Description Between the 1950s and 1970s Australia was the world's tennis superpower, producing players who dominated the grand slam events and the tour in both the amateur and professional eras. Of all of our players, none were more successful, famous or influential than Rod Laver whose two singles Grand Slams have never been equalled in men's tennis.
The Golden Era is Rod's account of those great years. As a participant and eye witness, he captures the excitement and drama of the great wins, and gives us genuine insight into the Australian champions who gave us so many victories. Written with all of Rod's incredible tennis knowledge, and with key interviews from Frank Sedgman, Ken Rosewall, the late Lew Hoad, Mal Anderson, Ashley Cooper, Roy Emerson, Fred Stolle, John Newcombe and Margaret Court The Golden Era is the definitive story of a quarter century of Australian tennis domination that will almost certainly never be repeated.
About the Author Rod Laver is the only male player in the world to have won the coveted Grand Slam twice (winning all four Open titles in a calendar year). Australia's premier tennis venue, the Rod Laver Arena, was named in his honour and he continues to be one of, if not the most respected former player in the world. He lives in California.
Larry Writer is the author of the Ned Kelly Award-winning Razor: Tillie Devine, Kate Leigh and the Razor Gangs; the William Hill Prize shortlisted Dangerous Games: Australia at the 1936 Nazi Olympics; Pitched Battle: In the Frontline of the 1971 Springbok Tour of Australia; Bumper: The Life and Times of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell; and Never Before, Never Again: The Story of St George's 11 Straight Rugby League Premierships, 1956-66. He has also collaborated with tennis legends Rod Laver, John Newcombe and Margaret Court and rock star Chrissie Amphlett on their memoirs. Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781760529109 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 576 pages Bic1: History of sport Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: California, USA
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Winx: The full story of the world's best racehorse Andrew Rule
In Winx: The full story of the world's best racehorse, Andrew Rule, her owners, her breeder, her trainer and her rider tell the real story behind the story of the world's greatest racehorse. Now with bonus material detailing the thrilling final chapters of her career.
Description Winx joins Phar Lap and Bradman in the history books: a national sporting idol and the world's best racehorse.
4 COX PLATE VICTORIES The only horse in history 33 CONSECUTIVE WINS Australian record holder 25 GROUP 1 WINS World record holder
'A deft writer with a sense of humour. It's Rule's access to the Winx camp that adds the X-factor.' Stephen Romei, The Australian
'Superb' Max Presnell, The Sydney Morning Herald
'Excellent' The Age
'One of the most remarkable and enjoyable sporting stories in my lifetime.' Bruce McAvaney
'She just exploded,' Bowman recalls of that moment, the wonder not dimmed by time and retelling. 'She put the race to sleep in three strides. It was like a fairy tale. A star was born that day.' She wins that first Cox Plate by nearly five lengths,
Price: $32.99 $36.99 running away. The performance makes her name. A win with X factor. ISBN: 9781760876104 Format: Paperback - C format Australia's world champion racehorse Winx has become a sporting giant, transcending racing in the same way that Dimensions: 234x153mm Muhammad Ali transcends boxing and Bradman transcends cricket. She is described by her trainer, Chris Waller, as a Extent: 504 pages Bic1: Horse racing supreme athlete -- a world-class sprinter with a freakish ability to dominate longer distances 'like Usain Bolt running in Bic2: 1500-metre races'. She is the Phar Lap of the modern age, and one of the greatest racehorses in 300 years of Illustrations: thoroughbred racing. In Winx: The Authorised Biography, Andrew Rule, her owners, her breeder, her trainer and her rider Previous Titles: Author now living: Both: Melbourne tell the real stories behind the world's greatest racehorse.
'I am proud and humbled to work with Andrew Rule and Allen & Unwin on this important book that details the life of a very special horse.' Chris Waller, Trainer Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Absolutely Bleeding Green: The Raiders story David Headon
The story of the Canberra Raiders football club, from the early days of community games to the prominent role the club plays in today's national league competition.
Description 'There is no team that gives pleasure to the sporting public like the Canberra Raiders.' - Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
The Canberra Raiders' spectacular grand final win against the Balmain Tigers in 1989 is widely regarded as Australian rugby league's greatest ever decider. For a fledgling club this was an extraordinary and unexpected achievement, heralding a sequence of years that produced two more premierships and two near-misses. The Raiders' trademark adventurous style of play was welcomed by all lovers of the game. Attacking football was back in vogue.
David Headon tells the story of a unique football team that entered the Sydney competition in 1982 with little fanfare and plenty of pessimism, despite the fact that league had been an integral part of communities across the Limestone Plains for nearly a century. From this firm base, the Raiders emerged to make their mark.
Absolutely Bleeding Green recounts the big wins and heart-wrenching losses as it follows the players through their Raider careers, revealing how the club was able to build exceptional team spirit, even in difficult times. It includes interviews with players past and present, with coaches and administrators, as well as with families and supporters who are so proud of the distinctive lime green jersey.
'This terrific book tells the story of a unique club that changed my life forever, just as the Raiders changed rugby league forever.' - Mal Meninga, rugby league Immortal, Canberra Raiders Hall of Fame
About the Author David Headon is a Canberra-based historian and cultural consultant, and a regular commentator on cultural, political and social issues on ABC radio. He is a Foundation Fellow at the Australian Studies Institute of the ANU, and recipient of a Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781760875084 Centenary Medal in 2001. He is editor of The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing, and with Lex Marinos of League of a Format: Hard Cover Nation, and author of several other books on Australian history, culture and sport. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Sports teams & clubs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Sh*t Towns of Australia Rick Furphy and Geoff Rissole
The hilarious guide to the shittest towns in Australia.
Description From dusty desert sh*tholes to free-range bogan breeding grounds, to the bin-chicken playgrounds of our megacities, Sh*t Towns of Australia is a guide to the concrete, fibro and methamphetamine wastelands that we like to call home.
From Coober Pedy to Canberra, from Ballarat to Broken Hill, from Logan to Launceston, Sh*t Towns takes us through the veritable f*ck-tonne of crappy towns and cities that make up the 'Lucky Country' - profiling all the best places not to visit or, heaven forbid, live.
The sixty towns and cities reviewed in this volume have been carefully selected using an exacting set of scientific criteria developed at the prestigious University of Nimbin, combined with extensive field research, a desire to offend, and where possible a sense of humour.
About the Author Rick Furphy and Geoff Rissole are two of Australasia's leading self-appointed experts on sociology, travel and culture. After cutting their teeth as investigative reporters for regional newspapers such as the Asbestos Times and the Gawler Growler, Furphy and Rissole released their bestselling debut Sh*t Towns of New Zealand, which won the Poolitzer Prize, the Poobody Award and the Nobel Prize for Shiterature. The pair's work has attracted controversy - including one district mayor suggesting they be shot - but in the spirit of other true Aussie rebels like Ned Kelly, the Eureka diggers and Swino the pig, Rick Furphy and Geoff Rissole refuse to let naysayers deter them from their vital work.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781988547244 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 160x150mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Mt Albert, Auckland NZ Forrest Hill, Auckland NZ
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Sh*t Towns of New Zealand Number Two Rick Furphy and Geoff Rissole
More laid-back Kiwi humour from the team that devised the bestselling Sh*t Towns of New Zealand.
Description Based on the hugely popular Facebook page 'Shit Towns of New Zealand' this is a detailed catalogue of shit towns and cities across Aotearoa. Naturally, the first volume was received as a literary masterpiece, taking home the prestigious Poolitzer Prize, the Poobody Award and the Nobel Prize for Shiterature.
The only people upset by the book were the residents of towns that we had missed out. There was only one course of action: we compiled all the towns and suburbs that should probably have been in the first book, added in a bunch of additional material for Kiwis and visitors alike, and did a number two.
As well as hitting more towns, this book is an opportunity to share some of the eloquent fan mail that we have received from the erudite residents of the towns we have reviewed (names may have been altered).
This is Shit Towns of New Zealand Number Two; a complete compendium of New Zealand's crappiest towns ... continued.
About the Author Rick Furphy and Geoff Rissole are two of Australasia's leading self-appointed experts on sociology, travel and culture. After cutting their teeth as investigative reporters for regional newspapers such as the Asbestos Times and the Gawler Growler, Furphy and Rissole released their bestselling debut Sh*t Towns of New Zealand, which won the Poolitzer Prize, the Poobody Award and the Nobel Prize for Shiterature. The pair's work has attracted controversy - including one district mayor suggesting they be shot - but in the spirit of other true rebels like Ned Kelly, the Eureka diggers and Swino the pig, Rick Furphy and Geoff Rissole refuse to let naysayers deter them from their vital work.
Price: $19.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781988547237 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 160x150mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Mt Albert, Auckland NZ Forrest Hill, Auckland NZ
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Big Book of Australia's War Stories: A collection of stories of Australia's iconic battles and campaigns from the Boer War to Vietnam Jim Haynes
A unique collection of poignant, horrific, sad and sometimes dryly humorous stories and tales about wartime experiences of Australian's on the front lines, in the air and on the sea.
Description Here are the stories of Australia's iconic battles and campaigns from the time of federation to the Vietnam War. Some are still household names, although their historical significance may be a mystery to most Aussies. Others are barely remembered now, but are part in our history and deserve to be retold.
Most importantly, this collection demonstrates the extraordinary courage, resilience, stoic humour, personal heroism and sacrifice that created the legend of the Aussie digger, soldiers, sailors and airmen who did things their own way and earned the undying respect of both their allies and their enemies.
These are the stories that explain Australia's wartime reputation. Fifteen years before Gallipoli, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writing of stoic Australian courage, would say, 'When the ballad makers of Australia seek for a subject, let them turn to Elands River'. Of Gallipoli, a British officer called the cheerful, insubordinate Aussies 'the bravest thing God ever made'. And before the Normandy invasion, Field Marshall Montgomery's chief of staff remarked, before the Normandy invasion, 'I only wish we had the Australian 9th Division with us this morning'.
About the Author Before becoming a professional entertainer, song writer and verse writer in 1988, Jim Haynes taught writing, literature, history and drama in schools and universities from outback NSW to Britain and back again. He is the author of many Great Australian titles, including horse racing, yarns and unknown true stories. He is one of the country's most prolific and successful Australian authors. He was awarded an OAM in 2016 for 'service to the performing arts as an entertainer,
Price: $32.99 $36.99 author, broadcaster and historian'. ISBN: 9781760875619 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: True war & combat stories Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Kensington, NSW
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Australian Musical: From the beginning Peter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston
The definitive history of a century of musical theatre in Australia, including behind the scenes stories of achievement and disaster, fully illustrated in colour.
Description Musical theatre has a special place in the hearts of Australians. Whether it is The Boy from Oz, Bran Nue Dae or Muriel's Wedding, we love to see Australian stories on the big stage with all the glamour, energy and vibrancy a musical can offer.
However magical they are on stage, performances leave behind few traces. Australia has a rich, hidden history of achievement in musical theatre which is now largely forgotten. Drawing on their long careers in musical performance, and extensive research in public and private collections, Peter Wyllie Johnston and Peter Pinne have compiled a definitive account of the history of musical theatre in Australia.
From small amateur performances in the early days, to international achievements, to the new wave of Australian musicals from the 1990s right through to the explosion of creativity in the 21st century, they recount the emotional roller- coaster of successes and disappointments of one of the most demanding art forms. Also included is an authoritative guide to over 300 Australian musicals.
Richly illustrated with colour photos from the early days to the present, The Australian Musical is a book to treasure for years to come, and an invaluable resource for anyone involved with theatre and music.
'This history helps to cement my relationship with Australian musical theater, which is in for the long haul.' - TED CHAPIN, President, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
'This fine book is surely the family tree of the Australian musical - an impressive study and fascinating read.' - REG LIVERMORE AO
'Groundbreaking . . . strips away assumptions and misconceptions about Australian musicals, and exposes their true Price: $79.99 $95.00 ISBN: 9781760529666 history for the first time' - from the introduction by MARK MADAMA, Associate Professor of Musical Theatre, University of Format: Hard Cover Michigan Dimensions: 280x235mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Musicals About the Author Bic2: Australasian & Pacific history Peter Wyllie Johnston is a musician and writer, Director of the Australian Music Theatre Research Institute (TAMTRI) and Illustrations: Associate Professor with honorary status at the University of Melbourne. His publications include From the Melburnian Previous Titles: Author now living: None (2011), The Nick Enright Songbook (2014), Morag Beaton-Her Life and Her Art (2019) and more than 200 articles on music. He is the composer of the music and lyrics of Moses-the Spirit of Freedom, the additional book of Joanna White's Girl in Pink, and the music, lyrics and book (with literary contributions by Trent O'Bryan) of Tamarama.
Peter Pinne is one of the most prolific creators of Australian stage musicals, with credits including Prisoner--CellAllen & BlockUnwin H AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Aboriginal Australians: A history since 1788 Richard Broome
The highly regarded history of Australia's First Nations people since colonisation, fully updated for this fifth edition.
Description 'In this book Richard Broome has managed an enviable achievement. The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in his typical lucid and imaginative style . This is an important work of great scholarship, passion and imagination.' - Professor Lynette Russell, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University
In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society.
Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying over two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology and violence. He also tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation, and traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of a settler society to a more central place in modern Australia.
Broome's Aboriginal Australians has long been regarded as the most authoritative account of black-white relations in Australia. This fifth edition continues the story, covering the impact of the Northern Territory Intervention, the mining boom in remote Australia, the Uluru Statement, the resurgence of interest in traditional Aboriginal knowledge and culture, and the new generation of Aboriginal leaders.
About the Author Richard Broome is Emeritus Professor of History at La Trobe University. One of Australia's most respected scholars of Aboriginal history, he is also author of the prize-winning Aboriginal Victorians.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781760528218 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Australasian & Pacific history Bic2: Indigenous peoples Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Malvern East, VIC
A&U Academic AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Feel Good Guide Matilda Green
Matilda shares what she's learned about how to look after yourself every day, and especially in times of stress and worry.
Description When Matilda Green, bestselling author of The Lazy Girl's Guide to Living a Beautiful Life, found herself facing some hard times, she knew she needed to do something to boost her happiness and her self-esteem. But what? So she set out on a journey of discovery, embracing gratitude, mindfulness and meditation techniques, and learning how to be kind to others and to herself.
In The Feel Good Guide Matilda pulls together everything she has learnt and shares her own experiences, in the hope that it will help others too. This practical resource, full of helpful tips and real talk, comes complete with an action plan in every chapter to get your own journey kick-started.
As Matilda says, this isn't so much about changing who you are as it is about loving who you are. It's about celebrating yourself, embracing and being proud of the person you have grown to be, and finding the right tools to help you remember just how awesome you really are.
About the Author Matilda Green is the author of The Lazy Girl's Guide to Living a Beautiful Life which was published in late 2017 and quickly became a bestseller. She is a very popular media personality, having won The Bachelor NZ in 2015. She has almost 200,000 followers on social media and is well known for being fit and healthy and for loving the outdoors. She doesn't take herself too seriously and is keen on maintaining a balanced lifestyle.
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781760633639 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 250x205mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Auckland, New Zealand
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Towards the Mountain Sarah Myles
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster, this is the first book on that tragedy written by one of the affected families.
Description On 28 November 1979 an Air New Zealand plane crashed into the lower slopes of Mount Erebus in broad daylight while on a sight-seeing trip to Antarctica, killing all 257 souls on board. This was New Zealand's greatest peacetime tragedy.
Not only was the crash deeply shocking for our small country (it is said that everyone knew of someone on board) but the legal and political aftermath wreaked its own trail of debris. The poor conduct of airline management in the months that followed the crash was described as 'a litany of lies' by a Royal Commission of Inquiry who found the airline at fault rather than the pilots. In the aftermath, the stories of the families involved were forgotten, until now.
Sarah Myles has researched extensively into the recovery and identification process that brought her grandfather and so many others home. She weaves through this her family's traumatic experiences and her own memories of that time, discussing the legacy of grief and the possibility of hope.
About the Author Sarah Myles is a Wellington-born writer. Her book is about her grandfather's journey home to New Zealand following the Erebus Disaster, and is also a reflection on the legacy of grief, and the possibility of healing, forty years on. Sarah's research has taken her around the country, and provided an opportunity for her to meet the very people who worked so hard to bring her grandfather home.
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781988547268 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Singing the Trail: The story of Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand John McCrystal
Beautifully illustrated with a selection of fascinating maps, Singing the Trail is the story of New Zealand through its maps and the explorers of many kinds who made those maps in all their variety.
Description The very first maps were oral maps made by early Polynesian and Maori settlers which were waypoints, described as 'survey pegs of memory', lists of places in songs, chants, karakia and stories that showed direction.
Hundreds of years later, the Dutch Abel Tasman sailed here and made the first attempt at a physical map; followed more than 100 years later by Cook, whose map was much more detailed as he circumnavigated the country.
Once the detail of the coastline was filled in, more detailed maps of the interior were made by those in search of resources to exploit.
A clever look at New Zealand history and also at the intriguing tradition of map making.
About the Author John McCrystal lives in Wellington with his partner, two children and a large, indefatigable dog. He has been working as a freelance writer since 1996, contributing to most of New Zealand's leading newspapers and magazines. Since publishing his first book in 1999, a biography of businessman Bob Owens, he has written, co-written or ghost-written over 50 non- fiction titles on a diverse range of subjects, including biography, social history, travel, sport and economics. He has also published a handful of short stories (some of which attracted national awards), a single radio play and (with broadcaster Graeme Hill) produced the very popular radio series, 'Shipwreck Tales'. Maps and charts have been a lifelong fascination.
Price: $54.99 $59.99 ISBN: 9781760633592 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 280x250mm Extent: 276 pages Bic1: Historical geography Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Karori, Wellington NZ
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Christmas Catalogue 2019 Point of Sale
Pack of 50 brochures. Features superstar titles from Allen & Unwin NZ from Cilka's Journey to Michael Connelly, stocking stuffers and beautiful illustrated books. A great bag stuffer and for using at bookstore events around Christmas time. Will also be distributed via The NZ Listener and the NZ Woman's Weekly.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Choose Your Own Apocalypse With Kim Jong-un & Friends Rob Sears
The world is going to hell in a handcart; at least with this book by bestselling author of The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump, you get to choose how it ends.
Description There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of global doom, YOU decide how humanity perishes.
Will we be turned to grey goo by Elon Musk's nanobots? Driven collectively insane by Russia's most potent memes? Or smashed to atoms by someone sitting on the wrong button in North Korea?
In this book, YOU will meet the leaders with the future of civilisation in their hands. And YOUR wits and judgement will decide how we all inevitably die. Or then again, maybe, just maybe, with a little positive thinking, YOU will find a way to keep us all safe long enough to expire of old age and global warming instead. Just don't get too hopeful. On every page of Choose Your Own Apocalypse with Kim Jong-un & Friends, the end of your choice is most definitely nigh.
About the Author Rob Sears has written comedy and fiction for McSweeney's and is the author of the hit humour titles The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Life Coach. He lives in Finsbury Park with his wife Grace.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781786898647 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Vladimir Putin: Life Coach Rob Sears
Be the dictator you've always dreamed of being, with this handy guide to life inspired by everyone's favourite autocrat.
Description What can the rise and reign of this century's most feared politician teach us about life, work and love? Rob Sears shows how the machinations that enabled Putin to dominate the Kremlin and undermine the United States of America could also help you take control of your mundane life. How would you like to ruin your enemies by sharing compromising material about that time they didn't wash their hands? Or annex territory by claiming the stationery cupboard at work as your personal empire? Fancy hacking democracy at the parent-teacher association to ensure you're a shoo-in for social secretary? Or serving up a cold dish called revenge in a high street restaurant?
Filled with stories from Putin's extraordinary time in power, and ideas and illustrations to help you emulate him on a small scale, Vladimir Putin: Life Coach is the ultimate guide to releasing the pseudo-elected, judo black-belt, 5D chess-playing autocrat inside each and every one of us.
About the Author Rob Sears is a creative director at McCann Erickson advertising agency, has written comedy and fiction for McSweeney's and (with his brother) wrote a sitcom for Audible starring Kevin Eldon, Felicity Montagu and Mitch Benn. He is the author of the hit humour title The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump. He lives in Finsbury Park with his wife.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781786894694 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Simon's Cat: It's a Dog's Life Simon Tofield
A brand new story from the much-loved Simon's Cat as he goes over to the bark side
Description While patrolling his territory, Simon's Cat dips into the lives of the many dogs in his neighbourhood, including crazy poodles, a lovestruck bulldog and a pack of mischievous puppies. With characteristic style and wit, Simon Tofield's brilliantly observed illustrations capture the comical capers of different dog breeds, and some a-meow-sing encounters with their feline counterparts.
About the Author Simon Tofield is an award-winning animator and cartoonist. He has had a lifelong interest in animals, beginning as a child, when his uncle gave him a plastic pond which quickly filled with wildlife. Simon was given his first cat when he was nine and now has four rescue cats, who are the mischievous inspiration for his work.
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Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786897008 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 163x219mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Pimp: The Story Of My Life Iceberg Slim, introduction by Irvine Welsh
The perennial cult classic, introduced by Irvine Welsh
Description In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the streets.
A seething tale of brutality, cunning and greed, Pimp is a harrowing portrait of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and a rich warning from a true survivor.
About the Author Robert Beck, who used the moniker Iceberg Slim, was a major-league pimp during the '40s and '50s. He decided to leave the pimping game having served his third and final stretch in jail. He moved to Los Angeles where he straightened out and began a career as a writer. Pimp was originally published in 1967.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786896124 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Who am I, again? Lenny Henry
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the UK's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.
Description A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense of humour, he conducts a jam session of memories - growing up in the Black Country, puberty, school, friendship, family secrets and unashamed racism. With his mother's mantra of 'H'integration' echoing in his ears, Henry set out on a glittering career - but at every stage wondering: Am I good enough? Is this what they want? Who am I, again? This book answers those questions.
About the Author Lenny Henry has been a comedian since the age of 16. He has risen from being a cult star on children's television to one of Britain's best-known and most celebrated comedians, as well as a writer, radio DJ, TV presenter, co-founder of Comic Relief, and award-winning actor. Henry has a PhD in Media Arts, and in 2015 was awarded a knighthood for services to charity and drama. In 2018, BBC One aired The Lenny Henry Birthday Show to celebrate his career so far.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9780571342600 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Graphic novels: literary & memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Who Am I Again 10 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes 10 copies of Who Am I, Again? and free reading copy.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By David Mitchell
From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, fatbergs to food banks: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in.
Description ** THE NEW BOOK FROM THE AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND WRITER **
'A quintessentially British, well-bred master of wry...Pure, guilt-free pleasure.' - Guardian
David Mitchell's bestselling Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse, published back in 2014, must really have made people think - because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from digging up Richard III to breaking up fatbergs, from Big Society to food banks, from twerking to stabbing. It's probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
But if you're up for it all the same, why not dive into this brilliantly observed and witty analysis of the farce of recent years? As facts are downgraded to opinions, as customers are preyed upon by algorithm-wielding websites, voters by targeted lies, cinema-goers by superheroes and children by measles, David Mitchell negotiates a path between the commercialisation of Christmas and the true spirit of Halloween. Incisive, hilarious and disappointingly truthful, no other writer is better placed to take on the dumbfounding times we live in.
About the Author David Mitchell is a comedian, actor, writer and the polysyllabic member of Mitchell and Webb. He won BAFTAs for Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look, and has also starred in Jam and Jerusalem, Ambassadors, Back and as Will Shakespeare in Ben Elton's Upstart Crow. He writes for the Observer, chairs The Unbelievable Truth, is a team captain on Would I Lie To You?, can't drive and co-owns a house.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781783351978 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour collections & anthologies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Guardian Books AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life David Mitchell
A collection of the funniest and most brilliant journalism from the much-loved comedian and writer.
Description What's wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? Why is every film and TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are we so reliant on perpetual diversion that someone has created chocolate toothpaste? Is there anything to be done about the Internet?
These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell as he delights us with a tour of the absurdities of modern life - from Ryanair to Downton Abbey, sports day to smoking, nuclear weapons to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made of cats. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious nation.
About the Author David Mitchell is a comedian, actor, writer and the polysyllabic member of Mitchell and Webb. He won BAFTAs for Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look, and has also starred in Jam and Jerusalem, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff and Ambassadors. He writes for the Observer, chairs The Unbelievable Truth, is a team captain on Would I Lie To You? and has been in two films, neither of which made a profit.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781783350575 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, etc. Jeff Tweedy
The story, in his own words, of one of the century's most feted singer-songwriters: Jeff Tweedy, the man behind music by Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and Tweedy.
Description Through his pioneering work in the legendary country-punk band, Uncle Tupelo, to his enduring legacy as the creative force behind the unclassifiable sound of Wilco, Jeff Tweedy has weaved his way between the underground and the mainstream - and back again.
Funny, disarming, and deeply honest, his memoir casts light on his unique creative process and the stories that shaped his life and career, from a childhood spent in Illinois to the release of No Depression in the early 90s - which set the blueprint for alt-country - and later working with Mavis Staples and, posthumously, Woody Guthrie.
About the Author Jeff Tweedy was born in Belleville, Illinois, in 1967. He has been releasing music as Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and Tweedy since 1967.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571330515 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Rock & Pop music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy Rachel Cusk
A paperback edition of The Last Supper in a stunning new look.
Description When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusk's sharp and humane perspective.
About the Author Rachel Cusk is the author of ten novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. In 2015, Cusk's version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571351633 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Running with Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion Christopher McDougall
Bestselling author of Born to Run rehabilitates a donkey to winning success.
Description When barefoot running guru Christopher McDougall takes in a neglected donkey, his aim is to get Sherman back to reasonable health. But Sherman is ill-tempered, obstinate and uncooperative - and it's clear his poor treatment has made him deeply fearful of humans. Chris knows that donkeys need a purpose - they are working, pack animals - and so when he learns of the sport of Burro Racing or running with donkeys, he sets out to give Sherman something worth living for.
With the aid of Chris's menagerie on his farm in rural Pennsylvania, his wife Mika and their friends and neighbours including the local Amish population, Sherman begins to build trust in Chris. To give him a purpose, they start to run together. But what Sherman gains in confidence and meaning is something we all need: a connection with nature, the outdoors, with movement. And as Chris learns, the side benefits of exercise and animal contact are surprising, helping with mental and physical health in unexpected ways.
About the Author Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and author of the international bestseller Born to Run, which is currently being adapted into a film, and Natural Born Heroes. He runs with Sherman among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788162272 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Marathon & cross-country running Bic2: Animals & society Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen Christopher McDougall
The international bestseller and word of mouth sensation!
Description At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100- mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long.
With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.
About the Author Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and is now a contributing editor for Men's Health. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Outside and Men's Journal.
Price: $24.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781846684227 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance Christopher McDougall
From the man who brought you Born to Run: a radical new approach to fitness
Description When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special.
To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging, outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of heroism. They listened to their instincts, replaced calories with stored bodily fat and used their fascia, the network of tissue which criss-crosses the body, to catapult themselves to superhuman strength and endurance.
Soon McDougall was in the middle of a modern fitness revolution taking place everywhere from Parisian parkour routes to state-of-the-art laboratories, and based on the know-how of Shanghai street-fighters and Wild West gunslingers. Just as Born to Run got runners off the treadmill and into nature, Natural Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to dump the gym membership for cross-training, mud runs and free-running.
About the Author Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and author of the international bestseller Born to Run, an anthropological study of endurance, fitness, and what makes ultra-runners tick. He does his own running among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781846684579 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Sports & outdoor recreation Bic2: Sports & outdoor recreation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life Ryan Holiday
Slowing down will get you ahead - powerful new wisdom from the bestselling author of Ego is the Enemy.
Description Throughout history, there's been one indelible quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focussed and calm in a constantly busy world.
This quality, valued by every major school of thought from Buddha to Seneca, John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche, is urgently necessary today. And, Holiday shows, it is entirely attainable. Just as Winston Churchill used bricklaying as a time to recharge and reflect, or Oprah Winfrey learned deep empathy from her quiet childhood, we can all benefit from stillness to feed into our greater ambitions - whether winning a battle, building a business, or simply finding happiness, peace and self-direction.
Filled with wisdom and examples from historical and contemporary figures, this book shows how to cultivate this quality in your own life. Because stillness is not merely inactivity, but the doorway to the self-mastery, discipline and focus necessary to succeed in this competitive, noisy world.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy and The Daily Stoic among other books on marketing, culture and the human condition. His work has been translated into over 30 languages and has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Fast Company.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781788162050 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 181x138mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Management: leadership & motivation Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage Ryan Holiday
A modern guru who shows the way to turn problems into opportunities - in business and marketing, Ryan Holiday has done it all, seen it all, and now he's here to show you the way.
Description We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a- lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, showing that what blocks our path actually opens one that is new and better.
If the competition threatens you, it's time to be fearless, to display your courage. An impossible deadline becomes a chance to show how dedicated you are. And as Ryan discovered as Director of Marketing for American Apparel, if your brand is generating controversy - it's also potentially generating publicity.
The Stoic philosophy - that what is in the way, is the way - can be applied to any problem: it's a formula invented more than 2,000 years ago, whose effectiveness has been proven in battles and board rooms ever since. From Barack Obama's ability to overcome obstacles in his election races, to the design of the iPhone, the stoic philosophy has helped its users become world-beaters.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is a media strategist for notorious clients like Tucker Max and Dov Charney, and worked on the publicity campaign for Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Work Week. After dropping out of college at nineteen, he went on to advise bestselling authors and multi-platinum musicians. He is the Director of Marketing at American Apparel and his strategies are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube and Google. His first book, Trust Me I'm Lying was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. He currently lives in New Orleans.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781781251492 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Business strategy Bic2: Business strategy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent Ryan Holiday
A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.
Description It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and all ages. Its name? Ego, and it is the enemy - of ambition, of success and of resilience.
In Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday shows us how and why ego is such a powerful internal opponent to be guarded against at all stages of our careers and lives, and that we can only create our best work when we identify, acknowledge and disarm its dangers. Drawing on an array of inspiring characters and narratives from literature, philosophy and history, the book explores the nature and dangers of ego to illustrate how you can be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success and resilient in your failures.
The result is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture that tends to fan the flames of ego, a book full of themes and life lessons that will resonate, uplift and inspire.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying, Growth Hacker Marketing and The Obstacle is the Way. His books have been translated into seventeen languages and his writing has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company. He was director of marketing at American Apparel for many years, and his strategies in growth hacking and advertising are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube and Google.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781781257029 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Entrepreneurship Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life Michael Rosen, illustrated by Charlotte Trounce
It's time we all got serious about play.
Description These days, we seem to have less and less time for play. At school, children are focused on exams, while at home we're all glued to our phones and iPads.
Here, Michael Rosen shows us why we need more play in our lives. He explores the influence of play on everyone from Shakespeare to Dickens and Dali, delving into the history of play via puns, nonsense, improvisation and physical toys. He also explains why play is a core part of child development, proven to bolster creativity and resilience.
Above all, play should be fun - and this book is full of silliness and laughter. Every chapter features exercises and prompts for creative indoor and outdoor play for all the family, with specially designed pages for scribbling, word play and more, illustrated by Charlotte Trounce.
About the Author Michael Rosen is one of the best-loved figures in the children's book world, renowned for his work as a poet, performer, broadcaster and education campaigner. His bestselling books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen's Sad Book and Totally Wonderful Miss Plumberry.
Michael Rosen's Book of Play is published in association with Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788161909 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 201x135mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Child & developmental psychology Bic2: Popular psychology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Breaking and Mending: A junior doctor's stories of compassion and burnout Joanna Cannon
Burnout, recovery, and the journey to become a doctor
Description 'A few years ago, I found myself in A&E. I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well, or even changed my expression for months. I sat in a cubicle, behind paper-thin curtains... and I shook with the effort of not crying. I was an inch away from defeat... but I knew I had to carry on. Because I wasn't the patient. I was the doctor.'
In this powerful memoir, Joanna Cannon tells her own story as a junior doctor, and the stories of many others like her, facing the extraordinary and sometimes daunting landmarks along the way: from the first shock of holding another person's life in your hands, to moments of crisis and loss. In a profession where weakness remains a taboo, this book will bring this tension to life with vivid, human stories, and hope for how we can better care for those we rely on to care for us - as well as crucial lessons on mental health at work for all of us.
About the Author Joanna Cannon is the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, which was published in 15 countries, and sold over 250,000 copies in the UK alone. Jo's love of narrative had always drawn her to psychiatry, but it wasn't until her thirties that she decided to go back to university to study medicine. Before specialising in psychiatry, she rotated through a series of hospital jobs, from the chaos of A&E to the handkerchief quiet of palliative care.
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. wellcomecollection.org
Price: $27.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781788160575 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Popular science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Great State: China and the World Timothy Brook
The last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traitors
Description China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power could not move past coastal enclaves. Thus, China remained China through the Ming, the Qing, the Republic, the Occupation, and Communism.
But, despite the desires of some of the most powerful people in the Great State through the ages, China has never been alone in the world. It has had to contend with invaders from the steppe and the challenges posed by foreign traders and imperialists. Indeed, its rulers for the majority of the last eight centuries have not been Chinese.
Timothy Brook examines China's relationship with the world from the Yuan through to the present by following the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating the spaces where China met and meets the world. Bureaucrats, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, invaders, migrant workers, traitors, and visionaries: this is a history of China as no one has told it before.
About the Author Timothy Brook was Shaw Professor of Chinese at Oxford when he first saw the Selden Map, and is now professor of history at the University of British Columbia. The author of eight books on Chinese history, including Vermeer's Hat and Mr Selden's Map of China, which are both published by Profile.
Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781781258286 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics Jonathan Sumption
Judges are meant to interpret laws but, increasingly, they make them.
Description In the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered from gridlock. In democracies, laws and policies are just as soon unpicked as made. It seems that Congress and Parliaments cannot forge progress or consensus. Moreover, courts often overturn decisions made by elected representatives.
In the absence of effective politicians, many turn to the courts to solve political and moral questions. Rulings from the Supreme Courts in the United States and United Kingdom, or the European court in Strasbourg may seem to end the debate but the division and debate does not subside. In fact, the absence of democratic accountability leads to radicalisation. Judicial overreach cannot make up for the shortcomings of politicians. This is especially acute in the field of human rights. For instance, who should decide on abortion or prisoners' rights to vote, elected politicians or appointed judges?
Expanding on arguments first laid out in the 2019 Reith Lectures, Jonathan Sumption argues that the time has come to return some problems to the politicians.
About the Author Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption, is a British judge and historian. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from 2012 to 2018. He has written several books of Medieval history including The Age of Pilgrimage, the Albigensian Crusade, and four books on the Hundred Years War, the third of which, Divided Houses, won the 2009 Wolfson History Prize. His previous books were published by Faber & Faber.
Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788163729 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Letters from Tove Tove Jansson, edited by Boel Westin and Helen Svensson and translated by Sarah Death
A revelation and a gift for all Tove Jansson (and Moomin) fans
Description ""I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts..."" - Letter to Eva Konikova, 1946
Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. To read these letters is both an act of startling intimacy and a rare privilege.
Penned with grace and humour, Letters from Tove offers an almost seamless commentary on Tove Jansson's life as it unfolds within Helsinki's bohemian circles and her island home. Spanning fifty years between her art studies and the height of Moomin fame, we share with her the bleakness of war; the hopes for love that were dashed and renewed, and her determined attempts to establish herself as an artist.
Vivid, inspiring and shining with integrity, Letters from Tove shows precisely how an aspiring and courageous young artist can evolve into a very great one.
About the Author Tove Jansson (1914-2001) was the acclaimed Finnish artist and author who gained world renown as the creator of the Moomin stories. Professor Boel Westin was the author of Tove Jansson: Life, Words, Art (Sort of Books, 2014) and Helen Svensson was Jansson's last editor at Schildts. Both were her trusted friends.
Sarah Death is an award-winning translator from Swedish.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781908745729 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Diaries, letters & journals Bic2: Literature, books & writers (Children's/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Sort of AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Surfacing Kathleen Jamie
A new collection of writing from the prize-winning author of Findings and Sightlines
Description Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farmers are uncovered. In a grandmother's disordered mind, memories surface of a long-ago mining accident and a 'mither who was kind'.
In this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archeological sites and mines her own memories - of her grandparents, of youthful travels - to explore what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. As always she looks to the natural world for her markers and guides. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself.
Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.
About the Author Multi-award winning poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie (1962 - ) was born in the west of Scotland. She has written three works of non-fiction: Among Muslims (2002), an acclaimed travel narrative; Findings (2005) and Sightlines (2012), both ground-breaking collections of nature and travel writing. She lives in Fife and is a Professor of Creative Writing at Stirling University.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781908745811 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Travel writing Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Sort of AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society Frans de Waal
Empathy is not just a human trait--it is a key element of many species' success.
Description 'Kindness and co-operation have played a crucial role in raising humans to the top of the evolutionary tree ... We have thrived on the milk of human kindness.' Observer
'There is a widely-held assumption that humans are hard-wired for relentless and ruthless competition ... Frans de Waal sees nature differently - as a biological legacy in which empathy, not mere self-interest, is shared by humans, bonobos and animals.' Ben Macintyre, the Times
Empathy holds us together. That we are hardwired to be altruistic is the result of thousands of years of evolutionary biology which has kept society from slipping into anarchy. But we are not alone: primates, elephants, even rodents are empathetic creatures too.
Social behaviours such as the herding instinct, bonding rituals, expressions of consolation and even conflict resolution demonstrate that animals are designed to feel for each other. From chimpanzees caring for mates that have been wounded by leopards, elephants reassuring youngsters in distress and dolphins preventing sick companions from drowning, with a wealth of anecdotes, scientific observations, wry humour and incisive intelligence, The Age of Empathy is essential reading for all who believe in the power of our connections to each other.
About the Author Frans de Waal is a Dutch-born biologist and one of the world's most respected primatologists. In 2007 Time magazine selected him as one of the World's 100 most influential people. He currently works at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University, Atlanta.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788164443 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Fucking Good Manners Simon Griffin
The author of Fucking Apostrophes takes on another of life's biggest irritations.
Description This is not a book about how to be posh. We have some slightly bigger issues to deal with these days.
We've all got a million things to do and are constantly connected to millions of other people all doing a million other things, so the faster we get things done the better, right? Wrong. Among all the busyness and confusion it seems we've forgotten a few of the basics in life, like the ability to treat one another with respect, dignity and some fucking good manners.
Enter Simon Griffin, author of Fucking Apostrophes.
From the entry-level stuff like saying please, thank you and sorry; manspreading on public transport and double-lane queuing at airports, to those that require just a little bit more thought, such as correct urinal protocol in public toilets, making tea rounds in the office and online public displays of affection, Simon imparts rules and advice to living life in a way that makes it just a bit better for everyone. With some liberal use of rude words thrown in to emphasise the point.
With chapters on driving, social media, the environment, getting on with your neighbours, and the best manners for a trip to the cinema, this is the perfect gift for a manners enthusiast, or those in need of a gentle (but sweary) nudge in the right direction.
About the Author Simon Griffin has been a writer for nearly 40 years, but it's only in the last two that people have actually used their own personal money to buy what he's written. In 2016 his book Fucking Apostrophes became an international best-seller, featuring in the Guardian, BBC Radio 5Live and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Leeds, where he uses slightly less vulgar words to earn a living as a freelance copywriter. See more at www.simon-griffin.com.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785785511 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x110mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Parties, etiquette & entertaining Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Fucking Good Manners 20 copy pack A&U Point of Sale
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Icon AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Fucking Apostrophes Simon Griffin
The bestselling hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English.
Description Apostrophes are a f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly.
Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers - wont to insert and remove apostrophes at will, for visual effect - this is a light-hearted, pocket-sized guide to getting the f'ing things right.
Simon Griffin lets off steam so that we don't have to, showing precisely why 'Rhianna and Jennifer's photos were all over the internet' is quite different to 'Rhianna's and Jennifer's photos' or what words apostrophes are replacing in sentences such as 'He'd like you to buy him some cocaine', or 'They've got it all on camera.'
Elegantly produced, this is the perfect gift for any pedant, as well as an indispensable guide in all our moments of grammar-related frustration.
WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE!
About the Author Simon Griffin is the founder of copywriting agency Hyperbolic (www.thisishyperbolic.com) and lives with his wife and two children in Leeds. He currently has no plans to learn how to touch type and can happily write whole paragraphs without realising he's left caps lock on.
Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781785781414 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 158x104mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Gift books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking it All with Rene Redzepi, the World's Greatest Chef Jeff Gordinier
A mouth-watering memoir of four years with Noma's chef-proprietor Rene Redzepi in search of the world's most thrilling food
Description Feeling stuck in his life, New York Times food writer Jeff Gordinier met Rene Redzepi, the Danish chef whose restaurant, Noma, has been repeatedly voted the best in the world.
A restless perfectionist, Redzepi was at the top of his game but looking to shutter his restaurant and set out for new places, flavours and recipes.
This is the story of their four-year culinary adventure. In the Yucatan jungle, Redzepi and Gordinierseek the perfect taco and the secrets of mole. On idyllic Sydney beaches, they forage for sea rocket and wild celery. On a boat in the Arctic Circle, a lone fisherman guides them to - perhaps - the world's finest sea urchins. Back in Copenhagen, Redzepi plans the resurrection of his restaurant on the unlikely site of a garbage-filled empty lot.
Hungry is a memoir, a travelogue, a portrait of a chef, and a chronicle of the moment when daredevil cooking became the most exciting and groundbreaking form of artistry.
About the Author Jeff Gordinier is the food and drinks editor of Esquire and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. A product of Southern California and a graduate of Princeton University, he wrote 2008's X Saves the World and co-edited Here She Comes Now (Icon, 2016). He lives north of New York City.
Price: $35.00 $39.99 ISBN: 9781785785856 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: TV / celebrity chef cookbooks Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Corrupt Bodies- EXPORT EDITION: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue Peter Everett, Kris Hollington
Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organised crime.
Description In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't believe his luck.
What he didn't know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins.
Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don't ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems and worked alongside Scotland Yard's Murder Squad - including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler.
This is a thrilling tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.
About the Author Peter Everett is the former mortuary superintendent of Southwark Mortuary; he has dealt with over 12,000 deaths, 400 of which were cases of murder. Everett since became a journalist and now runs a TV production company.
Kris Hollington is a bestselling author and ghostwriter; several of his books have been adapted for TV.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781785785979 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Mountbattens Andrew Lownie
A new biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, from the award-winning author Andrew Lownie.
Description A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the royal family taking the Mountbatten name, Dickie Mountbatten's career included being Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War Two and the last Viceroy of India.
Once the richest woman in Britain and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, Edwina Mountbatten emerged from World War Two as a magnetic and talented charity worker loved around the world.
From the prize-winning and bestselling historian, Andrew Lownie, comes a nuanced portrayal of two very unusual people and their complex marriage to mark the 40th anniversary of Lord Mountbatten's assassination by the IRA.
From British high society and the South of France to the battlefields of Burma and the Viceroy's House, this is a rich and filmic story whose characters include all the key figures of the Second World War. From Churchill and Montgomery to Roosevelt and Eisenhower; the Royal Family, including the Duke of Windsor, George VI, the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles; to Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Salvador Dali, George Gershwin, Grace Kelly and Merle Oberon.
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Praise for Stalin's Englishman, a Guardian Book of the Year, Times Best Biography of the Year and Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year:
'An abundance of vivid detail... a matchless and splendidly exciting read' Times 'Complicated, revelatory: a superb biography more riveting than a spy novel'Sunday Telegraph
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781788702607 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President Dimensions: 234x153mm of the Union, before taking his Masters and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Biography: royalty and former visiting fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, he has run his own literary agency since 1988. A trustee of the Bic2: Campaign for Freedom of Information and President of The Biographers Club, he has written for the Times, Telegraph, Illustrations: Wall Street Journal, Spectator and Guardian and formerly served in the Royal Naval Reserve. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Crown 2 Robert Lacey
The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant.
Description In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and the effect they had not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them. From the Suez Canal Crisis and the US/Russia space race to the Duke of Windsor's collaboration with Hitler and the rumoured issues with the royal marriage, the book will provide a fascinating insight into the two decades that the show covers, revealing the truth behind the fiction on-screen.
Extensively researched and complete with beautifully reproduced photographs, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of The Queen.
About the Author Robert Lacey is the historical consultant to The Crown, having previously worked with the show's creator, Peter Morgan, on his Oscar-winning movie The Queen. As a renowned British historian and the author of numerous international bestsellers, including Majesty, his pioneering biography of Queen Elizabeth II, Robert has been writing about the Queen and her extraordinary life for more than 40 years. He is the ideal companion to explain and reveal the secrets of her long reign. www.robertlacey.com
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788702805 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: pages Bic1: Biography: royalty Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: UK
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Almost Perfekt: How Sweden Works and What We Can Learn From It David Crouch
Everything you ever wanted to know about the almost perfekt country... For fans of Stig Abell, Helen Russell and anyone who wants to know how the world really works.
Description Sweden
A country that defies the laws of economic gravity. A land with high wages, strong unions and generous welfare. A dream location for business and a bastion of social responsibility, coming out on top for childcare, equality and quality of life.
Perfect.
Or is it?
Having lived in Sweden for six years, journalist David Crouch has a unique perspective as an outsider looking in on one of the world's most successful yet divided countries. Based on more than 70 interviews with leading figures in Swedish industry and politics, Almost Perfekt is a journey through Swedish society and what sets it apart from the world today.
How does Sweden manage unemployment? What makes it so good for business? And how is it dealing with immigration?
With political and economic upheaval threatening to pull Europe apart, discover the reality of how Sweden works and what we can learn from it.
About the Author British freelance journalist David Crouch moved to Sweden in 2013, settling in Gothenburg on the west coast. Previously, he was a news editor at the Financial Times in London. Now reporting mainly for the Guardian, he also teaches Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788701563 investigative journalism at Gothenburg University. In a previous life, he acquired a D.Phil. in sociology. In another Format: Paperback - C format previous life, he was a writer and editor in Moscow. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Economics, finance, business & management Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Not Afraid: The Evolution of Eminem Anthony Bozza
The follow-up to the bestselling Whatever You Say I Am, chronicling the last 15 years of Eminem's life, based on new, exclusive interviews with the rapper, his friends, family and associates
Description In 1999, a former dishwasher from Detroit became the most influential music artist in the world. He was a fish out of water, a white artist creating powerful art in a black medium, telling stories with verbal dexterity, nimble wit and an honest that shocked the world.
Eminem changed the landscape of music and pop culture as we know it.
Then, in 2006, at the height of his fame and as one of the biggest-selling artists of all time, Eminem all but disappeared. Beset by non-stop controversies, bewildering fame, a debilitating drug problem and personal tragedies, he became a virtual recluse, withdrawing to his Detroit area compound. He struggled with weight gain and a prescription pill addiction that resulted in an overdose that nearly took his life.
Over the next five years, he got sober, relapsed and finally got clean, before triumphantly returning to the top.
Rhyme and Reason picks up where rock journalist Anthony Booza's bestselling Whatever You Say I Am left off, capturing Eminem's ""wilderness years"" in his own words and through the insights of those closest to him. Chronicling the music, personal and spiritual growth of one of music's most enduring and enigmatic artists, this is an intimate portrait of an incredibly private man known by many to be the greatest rapper alive.
About the Author Anthony Bozza is the author of several New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling books, including Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem, Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac (with Mick Fleetwood), Tommy Land (with Tommy Lee) and Slash: The Autobiography (with Slash).
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788701204 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Hell Is Round the Corner Tricky
'I was never interested in being the richest dude on the planet. My attitude was, I'm gonna turn music upside down. I'm gonna make a sound that nobody's heard before.' The autobiography of one of the most original artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years.
Description Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature technique - layered, eerie, downtempo hip-hop coupled with deep, questioning lyrics - took the UK by storm in the early 1990s and was part of the sound that defined the post-rave generation. This unique, no-holds barred autobiography is not only a portrait of an incredible artist - it is also a gripping slice of social history packed with hair-raising anecdotes and voices from the margins of society. Tricky examines how his creativity has helped him find a different path to that of his relatives, some of whom w ere bare-knuckle fighters and gangsters, and how his mother's suicide has had a lifelong effect on him, both creatively and psychologically. From the Bronx to Berlin, via Paris and LA, Tricky has continued to push himself in new directions as a performer.
With his unique heritage and experience, his story will be one of the most talked-about music autobiographies of the decade.
About the Author Born in 1968, into the poverty-stricken West Knowle area of Bristol, to an Anglo-Guyanese mother and Jamaican father, Adrian Thaws didn't have the easiest start in life. Environmental influences, particularly his mother's suicide, made a deep imprint on the boy who would grow up to become the artist and performer known as Tricky. Over the course of his career as a solo artist, he has released 13 studio albums, selling over 2 million copies worldw ide. His debut album Maxinquaye (1995) was nominated for the Mercury prize and sold over 800,000 copies worldwide. He is admired internationally by some of the biggest names in music. He currently lives and records in Berlin.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788702294 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Brilliant Maps: An Atlas for Curious Minds Ian Wright
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas.
Description Which nations have North Korean embassies? What percentage of young people live with their families? Which country lists volleyball as its national sport? How much does it cost to get a pint around the world? And where can you find lions in the wild?
Revelatory, thought-provoking and fun, Brilliant Maps is a unique atlas of culture, history, politics and miscellanea, compiled by the editor of the iconic Brilliant Maps website. As visually arresting as Information is Beautiful and as full of surprising facts and figures as any encyclopaedia, Brilliant Maps is a stunning piece of cartography that maps our curious and varied planet.
For graphic design enthusiasts, compulsive Wikipedia readers and those looking for the sort of gift they buy for someone else and wind up keeping for themselves, this book will change the way you see the world and your place in it.
About the Author Ian Wright runs Brilliant Maps, one of the most popular and most-visited cartographic sites on the internet. In addition to being a cartophile, he's also a keen walker. In 2015, he combined these two passions to become the first person to walk all of the new expanded London Tube Map. Originally from Canada, he now lives in the UK.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781846276613 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 245x190mm Extent: 232 pages Bic1: World atlases / world maps Bic2: Historical maps & atlases Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Make It Scream, Make It Burn Leslie Jamison
From the author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others
Description 'Intelligent, compassionate, and so fiercely, prodigiously brave. This is the essay at its creative, philosophical best' Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries on THE EMPATHY EXAMS
A profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and obsession, Make It Scream, Make It Burn is a book about why and how we tell stories. It takes the reader deep into the lives of strangers - from a woman healed by the song of 'the loneliest whale in the world' to a family convinced their child is a reincarnation of a lost pilot - and asks how we can bear witness to the changing truths of others' lives while striving to find a deeper connection to the complexities of our own.
About the Author Widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams as well as the novel The Gin Closet. Raised in Los Angeles and educated at Harvard, she now lives in New York.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781783781553 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Literary essays Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Warrior: A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain Edoardo Albert, Paul Gething
1400 years, 206 bones, 1 extraordinary story...
The never-before-told story of a nameless Anglo-Saxon warrior and the bloody life he led.
Description Warrior tells the story of forgotten man, a man whose bones were found in an Anglo-Saxon graveyard at Bamburgh castle in Northumberland. It is the story of a violent time when Britain was defining itself in waves of religious fervour, scattered tribal expansion and terrible bloodshed; it is the story of the fighting class, men apart, defined in life and death by their experiences on the killing field; it is an intricate and riveting narrative of survival and adaptation set in the stunning political and physical landscapes of medieval England. Warrior is a classic of British history, a landmark of popular archaeology, and a must-read for anyone interested in the story of where we've come from.
About the Author Eduardo Albert is a writer from London. Paul Gething is the lead archaeologist at the renowned Bamburgh castle dig. They are the authors of Northumbria: The Lost Kingdom.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781783784424 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Archaeology Bic2: British & Irish history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Granta 149: The New Europe II Sigrid Rausing
Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.
Description Issue 149 will be titled 'New New Europe', marking the UK's departure from the EU, and will feature a range of commissioned pieces from respected writers on the state of Europe today. This harks back to the 1989 issue 'New Europe', which was themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin wall.
About the Author Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and the memoirs Everything is Wonderful and Mayhem.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781909889286 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: pages Bic1: Anthologies (non-poetry) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy Julian Baggini
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished, now in paperback.
Description 'There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer
In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought.
One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the same time. These early philosophies have had a profound impact on the development of distinctive cultures in different parts of the world. What we call 'philosophy' in the West is not even half the story.
Julian Baggini sets out to expand our horizons in How the World Thinks, exploring the philosophies of Japan, India, China and the Muslim world, as well as the lesser-known oral traditions of Africa and Australia's first peoples. Interviewing thinkers from around the globe, Baggini asks questions such as: why is the West is more individualistic than the East? What makes secularism a less powerful force in the Islamic world than in Europe? And how has China resisted pressures for greater political freedom?
Offering deep insights into how different regions operate, and paying as much attention to commonalities as to differences, Baggini shows that by gaining greater knowledge of how others think we take the first step to a greater understanding of ourselves.
About the Author Julian Baggini's books include Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, the bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten, Do They Think You're Stupid?, The Ego Trick, Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783782307 The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think, and Freedom Regained, all published by Granta Books. He has written Format: Paperback - B format for various newspapers, magazines, academic journals and think tanks. His website is microphilosophy.net. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Popular philosophy Bic2: History of Western philosophy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 A Small Illustrated Guide to the Universe Ella Frances Sanders
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders that rule our universe, our world, and our daily lives, from the New York Times bestselling creator of Lost in Translation
Description Have you ever found yourself wondering what we might have in common with stars, or why the Moon never leaves us? Thinking about the precise dancing of planets, the passing of time, or the nature of natural things?
Our world is full of unshakeable mystery, and although we live in a civilisation more complicated than ever, there is simplicity and reassurance to be found in knowing how and why.
From the New York Times bestselling creator of Lost in Translation, this is a delicately existential, beautifully illustrated, and welcoming exploration of the universe - one that examines and marvels at the astonishing principles, laws, and phenomena that we exist alongside, that we sit within.
About the Author New York Times bestselling author Ella Frances Sanders is the writer and illustrator of two previous books, Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World and The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World, which have both been translated into eight languages. She currently lives and works in London, without a cat.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781788702140 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 190x140mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
535 AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Raw Speed: The Autobiography of the Three-Times World Speedway Champion Tai Woffinden
Description Triple Speedway World Champion and former captain of the Great British speedway team, Tai Woffinden is one of the sport's biggest stars.
Following in his late father's footsteps, Tai Woffinden made his name as a notable Speedway rider. Known for his speed on the tracks and his quirky tattoos, Woffinden is a popular figure within the sport. He has over 55,000 followers on Twitter, where he posts frequent pictures of himself and fiancee Faye, whom he married in late 2016.
With a vast array of titles to his name, including youngest ever World Champion, achieved at the age of twenty-three, Woffinden has come a long way from his Scunthorpe roots. However, he has not been without his share of struggles. In 2010, Woffinden lost his father to cancer, which, combined with internal issues within his team, resulted in a difficult season. His autobiography provides an eye-opening insight into the life of one of speedway's most exciting talents.
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Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781786062789 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Autobiography: sport Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
John Blake AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Peaky Blinders: The Real Story: The true history of Birmingham's most notorious gangs Carl Chinn
A fascinating insight into the true story behind Birmingham's most notorious gang, The Peaky Blinders
Description The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of their flat caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities led by a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.
But who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist?
Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, has spent decades searching them out. Now he reveals the true story of the notorious Peaky Blinders, one of whom was his own great grandfather and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in back-street Birmingham.
In this gripping social history, Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War. The story continues after 1918 as some Peaky Blinders transformed into the infamous Birmingham Gang. Led by the real Billy Kimber, they fought a bloody war with the London gangsters Darby Sabini and Alfie Solomon over valuable protection rackets extorting money from bookmakers across the booming postwar racecourses of Britain.
Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including rarely seen images of real Peaky Blinders and interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham's underworld and fact behind its fiction.
About the Author Price: $22.99 $24.99 Professor Carl Chinn MBE Ph.D. is a social historian with a national profile, writer, public speaker, and teacher. An off- ISBN: 9781789461725 course bookmaker himself until 1984, he is the son and grandson of illegal bookmakers in Sparkbrook, and the great- Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm grandson of a member of the so-called Peaky Blinders gang, whilst his mother's family were factory workers in Aston. His Extent: 320 pages writings are deeply affected by his family's working-class background and lifein the back-to-backs of Birmingham and he Bic1: True crime believes passionately that history must be democratised because each and every person has made their mark upon Bic2: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Illustrations: history and has a story to tell. Previous Titles: Author now living:
John Blake AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler Douglas Thompson, Christine Margaret Sloane
Description In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.
Following Christine Keeler's death in December 2017, it is now possible to update her book to include revelations that she did not wish to be published in her lifetime. The result is a revised and updated book containing material that has never been officially released, which really does lift the lid on just how far the Establishment will go to protect its own.
Published to coincide with the BBC's major new six-part TV drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler, starring Sophie Cookson as Keeler and James Norton as Stephen Ward
About the Author Douglas Thompson (Author) Douglas Thompson is the author of more than twenty books. A biographer, broadcaster and international journalist, he is a regular contributor to major newspapers and magazines worldwide. His books, published in a dozen languages, include the television-based anthology Hollywood People and a series of bestselling biographies. He divides his time between London and Los Angeles.
Christine Margaret Sloane (Author) Christine Keeler, who died in December 2017, was the beautiful young model at the very centre of the sex-and-spying scandal that brought down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the so-called 'Profumo Affarir'.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781789461374 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Regional & national history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
John Blake AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Double Agent: My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA Kevin Fulton
The shocking true story of life as a double agent inside the IRA
Description Early on a Saturday morning in August 1998, a car was parked in Omagh's high street. By the afternoon, the pavements had filled with shoppers, and then explosives packed inside the vehicle detonated. The force of the blast blew babies across the street, and tore the limbs from children. One body was identified only by its fingerprints. It was the worst single atrocity of the Troubles. Only it could have been avoided.
Kevin Fulton had infiltrated the IRA. When news came to him of the planned attack, he handed the information on to his handlers. It was ignored. This is just one of the revelations in this, the most significant book ever to be published about the ongoing war in Northern Ireland. Unsung Hero is a nail-biting, controversial and explosive book; it will profoundly change the way the Troubles are viewed, and it will cause a stir in the highest echelons of government.
About the Author Born into a Catholic family in Newry, County Down in 1960, Kevin Fulton became a British soldier at the age of 18 and was soon recruited to be an agent. He infiltrated the IRA and remained there for 15 years, supplying inside information to the security forces before having to flee Northern Ireland after his safety was compromised in 1994. Kevin Fulton is a pseudonym as the author still cannot be identified for security reasons.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781789461343 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Autobiography: historical, political & military Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
John Blake AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Find Me Andre Aciman
In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name revisits his characters' complex lives in the years after their first meeting.
Description In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name lets us back into his characters' lives years after their first meeting
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.
About the Author Andre Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, and most recently Enigma Variations, now out in paperback. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571356829 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Out of Darkness, Shining Light Petina Gappah
The hotly-anticipated second novel by Petina Gappah follows the epic journey of Dr Livingstone's corpse through nineteenth-century Africa.
Description This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own country.
The wise men of his age say Livingstone blazed into the darkness of their native land leaving a track of light behind where white men who followed him could tread in perfect safety. But in Petina Gappah's radical novel, it is those in the shadows of history - those who saved a white man's bones; his dark companions; his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - whose voices are resurrected with searing intensity.
This final, fateful journey across the African interior is lead by Halima, Livingstone's sharp-tongued cook, and three of his most devoted servants: Jacob, Chuma and Susi. Their tale of how his corpse was borne out of nineteenth-century Africa - carrying the maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation - has the power of myth. It is not only symbolic of slavery's hypocrisy, but a portrait of a world trembling on the cusp of total change - and a celebration of human bravery, loyalty and love.
About the Author Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and her first novel, The Book of Memory, was longlisted for the 2015 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571345328 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Frolic and Detour Paul Muldoon
The stirring, mindful and deeply humane new collection of poems from Paul Muldoon
Description Frolic and Detour is a book that is at once engaged and engaging, woven with subtle threads of history and geography that represent not only our profound interconnectedness but the fragility of those very connections. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the Irish Rising, hunting with eagles, the house wren, to the day-to-day assault of twenty-first-century America, Frolic and Detour reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling. It also reminds us why, in his review for the New York Times of Selected Poems 1968-2014, Dwight Garner described it as 'a compact, powerful book, filled with catharses you didn't know you needed'.
About the Author Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He is the author of twelve books of poetry including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9780571354498 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Art of Dying Ambrose Parry
The second gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, co-written by bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman
Description Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances.
Simpson's protege Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher are determined to clear their patron's name. But with Raven battling against the dark side of his own nature, and Sarah endeavouring to expand her own medical knowledge beyond what society deems acceptable for a woman, the pair struggle to understand the cause of the deaths.
Will and Sarah must unite and plunge into Edinburgh's deadliest streets to clear Simpson's name. But soon they discover that the true cause of these deaths has evaded suspicion purely because it is so unthinkable.
About the Author Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland. Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of over twenty novels. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years' experience, whose research for her Master's degree in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which this series, which begun with The Way of All Flesh, is based. The Art of Dying is the second book in the series.
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Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781786896698 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x162mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Historical fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 PURGATORY: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray Dante Alighieri, Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray's remarkable interpretation of Dante's La Divina Commedia continues, translated and decorated
Description In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to reach Heaven. In this sublime version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in his own unique idiom.
Lyrical, modern and illuminatingly illustrated, this remarkable edition yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.
About the Author Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures.
In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'
Price: $35.00 $39.99 ISBN: 9781786894731 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x144mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Sinner Martyn Waites
Tom Killgannon is back in this explosive new thriller from award-winning and bestselling author Martyn Waites
Description LEE CHILD MEETS STUART MACBRIDE IN THIS TENSE THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE OLD RELIGION.
In prison not everyone is guilty . . .
Tom Killgannon, ex-undercover police officer and now in witness protection, is recalled to active service by his handler, DS Sheridan. His mission is to befriend notorious child killer Noel Cunningham and find out where he buried the bodies of his victims. The only problem is that Tom has to obtain that information from within Blackmoor prison itself. Undercover and with only DS Sheridan knowing he is there, Tom soon runs into danger.
In the prison is convicted gangster Dean Foley. He used to run Manchester's biggest gang, until Tom's testimony put him away for life. He recognises Tom, and so begins a cat-and-mouse game as Tom fights for survival before Foley can get his revenge.
But why can't Tom reach DS Sheridan and what is the real reason that he has been sent to Blackmoor prison?
'Spectacular' LEE CHILD
'Martyn Waites is already crime fiction royalty' STEVE CAVANAGH
'The master of sinister' ANGELA CLARKE
'Martyn Waites at his dark and chilling best' EVA DOLAN on The Old Religion
About the Author Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781785765490 Martyn Waites was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama and Format: Hard Cover worked as an actor for many years before becoming a writer. He has been nominated for every major British crime fiction Dimensions: 234x153mm award and won the 2014 Grand Prix du Roman Noir Award for his novel, Born Under Punches. He has enjoyed Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items international commercial success with eight novels written under the name Tania Carver. Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Topeka School Ben Lerner
A radical new take on the American family saga from a bona fide American literary genius, the acclaimed author of Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04
Description Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field. A renowned debater and orator, an aspiring poet, and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight lifting - one of the cool kids, he's also one of the seniors who brings the loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene, with disastrous effects.
Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is a riveting story about the challenges of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a startling prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the tyranny of trolls and the new right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.
About the Author BEN LERNER was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award) and Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the iconic essay The Hatred of Poetry. In 2011, he became the first American to win the Munster Prize for International Poetry. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781783785360 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Who am I, again? Lenny Henry
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the UK's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.
Description A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense of humour, he conducts a jam session of memories - growing up in the Black Country, puberty, school, friendship, family secrets and unashamed racism. With his mother's mantra of 'H'integration' echoing in his ears, Henry set out on a glittering career - but at every stage wondering: Am I good enough? Is this what they want? Who am I, again? This book answers those questions.
About the Author Lenny Henry has been a comedian since the age of 16. He has risen from being a cult star on children's television to one of Britain's best-known and most celebrated comedians, as well as a writer, radio DJ, TV presenter, co-founder of Comic Relief, and award-winning actor. Henry has a PhD in Media Arts, and in 2015 was awarded a knighthood for services to charity and drama. In 2018, BBC One aired The Lenny Henry Birthday Show to celebrate his career so far.
Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9780571342594 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Graphic novels: literary & memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By David Mitchell
From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, fatbergs to food banks: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in.
Description ** THE NEW BOOK FROM THE AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND WRITER **
'A quintessentially British, well-bred master of wry...Pure, guilt-free pleasure.' - Guardian
David Mitchell's bestselling Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse, published back in 2014, must really have made people think - because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from digging up Richard III to breaking up fatbergs, from Big Society to food banks, from twerking to stabbing. It's probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
But if you're up for it all the same, why not dive into this brilliantly observed and witty analysis of the farce of recent years? As facts are downgraded to opinions, as customers are preyed upon by algorithm-wielding websites, voters by targeted lies, cinema-goers by superheroes and children by measles, David Mitchell negotiates a path between the commercialisation of Christmas and the true spirit of Halloween. Incisive, hilarious and disappointingly truthful, no other writer is better placed to take on the dumbfounding times we live in.
About the Author David Mitchell is a comedian, actor, writer and the polysyllabic member of Mitchell and Webb. He won BAFTAs for Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look, and has also starred in Jam and Jerusalem, Ambassadors, Back and as Will Shakespeare in Ben Elton's Upstart Crow. He writes for the Observer, chairs The Unbelievable Truth, is a team captain on Would I Lie To You?, can't drive and co-owns a house.
Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781783351961 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour collections & anthologies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Guardian Books AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 What Happened? Hanif Kureishi
The new and essential collection of Hanif Kureishi's finest literary essays and fiction.
Description 'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William Boyd
Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and much-loved-author. From social media to the ancient classics, from appraisals of David Bowie to Georges Simenon to Keith Jarrett, this is the latest literary 'event' in a unique body of work that displays Kureishi's characteristic boundless curiosity and wit. What Happened? is as much about the very fact of Kureishi's catholic appetite for culture as his observations and insights themselves, and any new book in his oeuvre is a justification for celebration.
About the Author Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King's College London. His novels include The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, The Black Album, Intimacy, The Last Word and The Nothing.
His screenplays include My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Le Week-End. He has also published several collections of short stories.
Kureishi has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the PEN/Pinter Prize, and is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His work has been translated into thirty-six languages. He is professor of Creative Writing at Kingston University.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571352050 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Literary essays Bic2: Short stories Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment Amelia Gentleman
A searing portrait of Britain's hostile environment by the Orwell Prize-winning journalist.
Description Paulette Wilson had always assumed she was British. She had spent most of her life in London working as a cook; she even worked in the House of Commons' canteen. How could someone who had lived in England since being a primary school pupil suddenly be classified as an illegal immigrant?
It was only through Amelia Gentleman's tenacious investigative and campaigning journalism that it emerged that thousands were in Paulette's position. What united them was that they had all arrived in the UK from the Commonwealth as children in the 1950s and 1960s. In The Windrush Betrayal, Gentleman tells the story of the scandal and exposes deeply disturbing truths about modern Britain.
About the Author Amelia Gentleman is a reporter for the Guardian newspaper. She was named journalist of the year (Press Gazette) and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism award for her reportage on the Windrush scandal, which led to the downfall of the Home Secretary and the government loosening its 'hostile environment' policy for migrants. She has also won the Orwell Prize and Feature Writer of the Year in the British Press Awards. Previously, she was Delhi correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, and Paris and Moscow correspondent for the Guardian. @ameliagentleman
Price: $45.00 $49.99 ISBN: 9781783351848 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Refugees & political asylum Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Guardian Books AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Running with Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion Christopher McDougall
Bestselling author of Born to Run rehabilitates a donkey to winning success.
Description When barefoot running guru Christopher McDougall takes in a neglected donkey, his aim is to get Sherman back to reasonable health. But Sherman is ill-tempered, obstinate and uncooperative - and it's clear his poor treatment has made him deeply fearful of humans. Chris knows that donkeys need a purpose - they are working, pack animals - and so when he learns of the sport of Burro Racing or running with donkeys, he sets out to give Sherman something worth living for.
With the aid of Chris's menagerie on his farm in rural Pennsylvania, his wife Mika and their friends and neighbours including the local Amish population, Sherman begins to build trust in Chris. To give him a purpose, they start to run together. But what Sherman gains in confidence and meaning is something we all need: a connection with nature, the outdoors, with movement. And as Chris learns, the side benefits of exercise and animal contact are surprising, helping with mental and physical health in unexpected ways.
About the Author Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and author of the international bestseller Born to Run, which is currently being adapted into a film, and Natural Born Heroes. He runs with Sherman among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
Price: $45.00 $49.99 ISBN: 9781781258262 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Sports & outdoor recreation Bic2: Marathon & cross-country running Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue Peter Everett, with Kris Hollington
Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organised crime.
Description In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't believe his luck.
What he didn't know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins.
Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don't ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems and worked alongside Scotland Yard's Murder Squad - including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler.
This is a thrilling tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.
About the Author Peter Everett is the former mortuary superintendent of Southwark Mortuary; he has dealt with over 12,000 deaths, 400 of which were cases of murder. Everett since became a journalist and now runs a TV production company.
Kris Hollington is a bestselling author and ghostwriter; several of his books have been adapted for TV.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781785785528 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Mortuary practice Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Mountbattens Andrew Lownie
Drawing on four years of research around the world, a new biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, from the award-winning author Andrew Lownie.
Description A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the royal family taking the Mountbatten name, Dickie Mountbatten's career included being Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War Two and the last Viceroy of India.
Once the richest woman in Britain and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, Edwina Mountbatten emerged from World War Two as a magnetic and talented charity worker loved around the world.
From the prize-winning and bestselling historian, Andrew Lownie, comes a nuanced portrayal of two very unusual people and their complex marriage to mark the 40th anniversary of Lord Mountbatten's assassination by the IRA.
From British high society and the South of France to the battlefields of Burma and the Viceroy's House, this is a rich and filmic story whose characters include all the key figures of the Second World War. From Churchill and Montgomery to Roosevelt and Eisenhower; the Royal Family, including the Duke of Windsor, George VI, the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles; to Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Salvador Dali, George Gershwin, Grace Kelly and Merle Oberon.
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Praise for Stalin's Englishman, a Guardian Book of the Year, Times Best Biography of the Year and Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year:
'An abundance of vivid detail... a matchless and splendidly exciting read' Times 'Complicated, revelatory: a superb biography more riveting than a spy novel'Sunday Telegraph
Price: $44.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9781788702560 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President Dimensions: 234x153mm of the Union, before taking his Masters and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Biography: royalty and former visiting fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, he has run his own literary agency since 1988. A trustee of the Bic2: Campaign for Freedom of Information and President of The Biographers Club, he has written for the Times, Telegraph, Illustrations: Wall Street Journal, Spectator and Guardian and formerly served in the Royal Naval Reserve. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 The Crown 2 Robert Lacey
The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant.
Description In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and the effect they had not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them. From the Suez Canal Crisis and the US/Russia space race to the Duke of Windsor's collaboration with Hitler and the rumoured issues with the royal marriage, the book will provide a fascinating insight into the two decades that the show covers, revealing the truth behind the fiction on-screen.
Extensively researched and complete with beautifully reproduced photographs, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of The Queen.
About the Author Robert Lacey is the historical consultant to The Crown, having previously worked with the show's creator, Peter Morgan, on his Oscar-winning movie The Queen. As a renowned British historian and the author of numerous international bestsellers, including Majesty, his pioneering biography of Queen Elizabeth II, Robert has been writing about the Queen and her extraordinary life for more than 40 years. He is the ideal companion to explain and reveal the secrets of her long reign. www.robertlacey.com
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781911600862 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: UK
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Not Afraid: The Evolution of Eminem Anthony Bozza
The follow-up to the bestselling Whatever You Say I Am, chronicling the last 15 years of Eminem's life, based on new, exclusive interviews with the rapper, his friends, family and associates
Description In 1999, a former dishwasher from Detroit became the most influential music artist in the world. He was a fish out of water, a white artist creating powerful art in a black medium, telling stories with verbal dexterity, nimble wit and an honest that shocked the world.
Eminem changed the landscape of music and pop culture as we know it.
Then, in 2006, at the height of his fame and as one of the biggest-selling artists of all time, Eminem all but disappeared. Beset by non-stop controversies, bewildering fame, a debilitating drug problem and personal tragedies, he became a virtual recluse, withdrawing to his Detroit area compound. He struggled with weight gain and a prescription pill addiction that resulted in an overdose that nearly took his life.
Over the next five years, he got sober, relapsed and finally got clean, before triumphantly returning to the top.
Rhyme and Reason picks up where rock journalist Anthony Booza's bestselling Whatever You Say I Am left off, capturing Eminem's ""wilderness years"" in his own words and through the insights of those closest to him. Chronicling the music, personal and spiritual growth of one of music's most enduring and enigmatic artists, this is an intimate portrait of an incredibly private man known by many to be the greatest rapper alive.
About the Author Anthony Bozza is the author of several New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling books, including Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem, Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac (with Mick Fleetwood), Tommy Land (with Tommy Lee) and Slash: The Autobiography (with Slash).
Price: $45.00 $49.99 ISBN: 9781788701198 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 Hell Is Round the Corner Tricky
'I was never interested in being the richest dude on the planet. My attitude was, I'm gonna turn music upside down. I'm gonna make a sound that nobody's heard before.' The autobiography of one of the most original artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years.
Description Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature technique - layered, eerie, downtempo hip-hop coupled with deep, questioning lyrics - took the UK by storm in the early 1990s and was part of the sound that defined the post-rave generation. This unique, no-holds barred autobiography is not only a portrait of an incredible artist - it is also a gripping slice of social history packed with hair-raising anecdotes and voices from the margins of society. Tricky examines how his creativity has helped him find a different path to that of his relatives, some of whom w ere bare-knuckle fighters and gangsters, and how his mother's suicide has had a lifelong effect on him, both creatively and psychologically. From the Bronx to Berlin, via Paris and LA, Tricky has continued to push himself in new directions as a performer.
With his unique heritage and experience, his story will be one of the most talked-about music autobiographies of the decade.
About the Author Born in 1968, into the poverty-stricken West Knowle area of Bristol, to an Anglo-Guyanese mother and Jamaican father, Adrian Thaws didn't have the easiest start in life. Environmental influences, particularly his mother's suicide, made a deep imprint on the boy who would grow up to become the artist and performer known as Tricky. Over the course of his career as a solo artist, he has released 13 studio albums, selling over 2 million copies worldw ide. His debut album Maxinquaye (1995) was nominated for the Mercury prize and sold over 800,000 copies worldwide. He is admired internationally by some of the biggest names in music. He currently lives and records in Berlin.
Price: $45.00 $49.99 ISBN: 9781788702225 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 2019 A Footballer's Life Robbie Fowler
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Price: $45.00 $49.99 ISBN: 9781788701105 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Football (Soccer, Association football) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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