Bone China Laura Purcell

AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Bone China Laura Purcell

A Daphne Du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset

On the Cornish coast, Morvoren House plays host to two young women who - forty years apart - are both faced with sinister tales of fairy possession. Are these merely stories told by the superstitious and ill-educated or is there something dark lurking beneath Morvoren House?

Description 'Laura is a masterful writer, her deliciously gothic stories so skilfully woven that you can't get them out of your head even if you wanted to' Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars

A Daphne Du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home. Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last -

About the Author Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for Bloomsbury, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and was the winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, while Laura's gothic chiller The Corset was acclaimed as a 'masterpiece' by readers and reviewers alike. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781526602527 laurapurcell.com Format: Paperback - Demy format @spookypurcell Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Offing Benjamin Myers

From the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole comes a powerful new novel about an unlikely friendship between a young man and an older woman, set in the former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay in the aftermath of the Second World War

Description An Observer Pick for 2019 One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing out to sea. Staying with Dulcie, Robert's life opens into one of rich food, sea-swimming, sunburn and poetry. The two come from different worlds, yet as the summer months pass, they form an unlikely friendship that will profoundly alter their futures.

About the Author Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His novel The Gallows Pole received a Roger Deakin Award and won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Beastings won the Portico Prize for Literature and Pig Iron won the Gordon Burn Prize, while Richard was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. He has also published poetry, crime novels and short fiction, while his journalism has appeared in publications including, among others, the Guardian, New Statesman, Caught by the River and New Scientist. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. benmyers.com / @BenMyers1

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar Kate Saunders

M.C. Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the charming Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders' Victorian lady detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford scholar who is soon to be the heir to a fortune

Description It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years.

Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return. Since then, there have been several sightings of his lonely, ragged figure. Ten years ago a friend spotted him in a gypsy camp, where it was rumoured he was learning great secrets that would one day astound the world. Mrs Rodd uses her search as an opportunity to reconnect with a couple from her past, but then a violent murder is committed and Scotland Yard are called to investigate. Mrs Rodd's old friend Inspector Blackbeard doesn't want to hear any nonsense about gypsies or secrets. Mrs Rodd, however, is convinced that something very sinister is lurking in this peaceful landscape.

About the Author Kate Saunders is an author and journalist. She has worked for The Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan amongst others, and has contributed to Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Start the Week. She has written numerous books for adults and children, including the bestselling Night Shall Overtake Us, and her follow on to E Nesbit's Five Children and It stories, Five Children on the Western Front, which won the Costa Children's Book Award in 2014. The Secrets of Wishtide, the first book in the 'Laetitia Rodd Mysteries', was published by Bloomsbury in 2016. She lives in London.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Red Birds Mohammed Hanif

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

Description A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy - Red Birds is an incisive, unsparing critique of war and of America's role in the destruction of the Middle East. It combines modern and ancient farcical traditions in thrilling way' Guardian American pilot Major Ellie has crashed his plane in the middle of a desert. Lucky for him there's room for him at the very refugee camp he was supposed to bomb.

Teenage Momo doesn't see it that way: the camp is a trap, not a refuge. His brother's missing, his parents are in a rage, and an aid worker won't stop trying to interview him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind.

Savage, irreverent and deliciously dark, Red Birds is a masterful unravelling of intertwined fates in a forgotten war-scape and a brilliant satire about satire about the absurdity of war and the impossibility of peace.

About the Author Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel. His second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Prize. He writes regularly for the New York Times, BBC Urdu, and BBC Punjabi. He currently splits his time between Berlin and Karachi. Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781408897164 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 French Exit Patrick deWitt

A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers

Description A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers

'My favourite book of his yet' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

'Pure joy' Mail on Sunday

'Buoyantly insane' New Yorker Frances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged, toddler-brained son Malcolm is no help. Cutting their losses, they grab their cat, Small Frank, and head for the exit. Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self-destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters. Brimming with pathos, warmth and wit, French Exit is a riotous send-up of high society and a moving story of mothers and sons.

About the Author Patrick deWitt is the author of The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General's Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He also is the author of Ablutions, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and Undermajordomo Minor. The Sisters Brothers is being adapted for film by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), to star Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, for release in 2018. Born in British Columbia, Canada, deWitt now resides in Portland, Oregon.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 All the Dirty Parts Daniel Handler

From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler, a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.

Description From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler, a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man. Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. 'Let me put it this way,' he says. 'Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex.'

Cole fantasizes about whomever he's looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls, which is beginning to earn him a not-quite-savory reputation around school. This leaves him adrift with only his best friend for company, and then something startling starts to happen between them that might be what he's been after all this time and then he meets Grisaille. All the Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison, Daniel Handler gives us a tender, brutal, funny, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. 'There are love stories galore,' Cole tells us, 'This isn't that. The story I'm typing is all the dirty parts.'

About the Author Daniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates, The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and Why We Broke Up, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children, including the thirteen- volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco.

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Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Lyrics Volume 2 Alexander Pushkin

The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed.

Description The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed. This volume, part of Alma's series of the complete poetic works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems Pushkin wrote during his time in St Petersburg as a young intellectual and his subsequent stay in the Caucasus and the Crimea, and includes many significant poems of his early maturity, such as 'My Homeland', 'Something or Nothing?' and 'A Storm', each presented in a verse translation opposite the original Russian text. Enriched with notes, pictures and an appendix on Pushkin's life and works, this will be essential reading for anyone wishing to delve deeper into the Russian bard's genius.

About the Author Alexander Pushkin (1799 1837) was a dramatist and poet, penning such influential works as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov. He is now considered the father of modern Russian literature.

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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

Unfinished at the time of his death, The Canterbury Tales is widely regarded as Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest and most influential works in English literature.

Description 'And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.' Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper. The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and deception of 'The Miller's Tale' and the story of chivalry and courtly romance told by the Franklin. Unfinished at the time of his death, The Canterbury Tales is widely regarded as Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest and most influential works in English literature.

About the Author Considered the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340 1400) led a fascinating life that included being imprisoned and ransomed in France and embarking on a host of diplomatic missions that took him across Europe and exposed him to new literary influences. Best known for Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Ignited a Movement Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

The thrilling untold story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story

Description 'We were determined, from the start, to give a voice to the voiceless.' KANTOR AND TWOHEY

On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that changed the world forever. For months Kantor and Twohey had been having confidential discussions with top actresses, former Weinstein employees and other sources, learning of disturbing, long-buried allegations. The journalists meticulously picked their way through a web of decades-old secret payouts and non-disclosure agreements, pressed some of the most famous women in the world and some unknown ones to risk going on the record, and faced down Weinstein, his team of high-priced defenders, and even his private investigators.

In this book, Kantor and Twohey relive in real-time what it took to break the story and give an up-close portrait of the forces they were up against. They describe the experiences of the women who spoke up for the sake of other women, for future generations, and for themselves. Their stories have never been told in this way before.

About the Author Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are prize-winning investigative reporters for the New York Times. For their exposure of sexual harassment and misconduct across industries, they were awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

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BLM Circus AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 She Said 8 Copy Pack

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life Nir Eyal

From the bestselling author who taught us how to get users Hooked on technology, an indispensable guide to how we can combat our addiction to technology and master the skill of the century: becoming indistractable.

Description 'Highly engaging and practical advice for identifying the root causes of our inattention and brilliant solutions for conquering them, so we can live better lives' Mark Manson, internationally bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

'If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into practice' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind

What would life look like if we followed through on our intentions? A former Stanford lecturer and behavioural designer, Nir Eyal spent over a decade researching the psychology behind habit-forming products. The result was his international bestseller, Hooked. Now, the man who identified the habit has delivered the cure. Eyal describes how to manage the discomfort that drives distraction, and explains why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off your devices. With a four-step, research-backed model, Indistractable lays bare the secret to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of you. Empowering and optimistic, this is the book that will allow you to control your time and attention and live the life you really want.

About the Author Nir Eyal spent years in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned the techniques described in Hooked to motivate and influence users. He has taught courses on applied consumer psychology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and at Fortune 500 companies. His writing on technology, psychology and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, the Atlantic, TechCrunch and Psychology Today.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise Katherine Rundell

An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell.

Description Katherine Rundell Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive essay is for adult readers.

About the Author Katherine Rundell is the bestselling author of five children's novels, for which she has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize amongst many others. She spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance literature and is learning, very slowly, to fly a small aeroplane.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber Intelligence Agency John Ferris

The first authorised history of GCHQ, celebrating 100 years of Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, written with unprecedented access to classified archives

Description 'In different permutations, codebreakers combined penetrations of eye and mind, the pedantry of grammarians, the logic of philosophers and the flair of chess grandmasters.'

For a hundred years GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters has been at the forefront of British secret statecraft. Born out of the need to support military operations in the First World War, and fought over ever since, today it is the UK's biggest intelligence, security and cyber agency and a powerful tool of the British state.

Famed primarily for its codebreaking achievements at Bletchley Park against Enigma ciphers in the Second World War, GCHQ has intercepted, interpreted and disrupted the information networks of Britain's foes for a century, and yet it remains the least known and understood of British intelligence services.

It has been one of the most open-minded, too: GCHQ has always demanded a diversity of intellectual firepower, finding it in places which strike us as ground-breaking today, and allying it to the efforts of ordinary men and women to achieve extraordinary insights in war, diplomacy and peace. GCHQ shapes British decision-making more than any other intelligence organisation and, along with its partners in the Five Eyes intelligence partnership, has become ever more crucial in an age governed by information technology.

Based on unprecedented access to documents in GCHQ's archive, many of them hitherto classified, this is the first book to authoritatively explain the entire history of one of the world's most potent intelligence agencies. Many of the major international episodes of the last century including the retreat from empire, the Cold War and the Falklands become fully explicable only in the light of the secret intelligence record. Written by one of the world's leading experts in intelligence Price: $34.99 $36.99 and strategy, Behind the Enigma reveals the fascinating truth behind this most remarkable and enigmatic of ISBN: 9781526605474 organisations. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 704 pages About the Author Bic1: Prose: non-fiction John Ferris is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary, where he also is a Fellow at the Centre for Military and Bic2: Illustrations: Strategic Studies. He received a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He has published four books and Previous Titles: numerous academic articles on diplomatic, intelligence and military history, as well as contemporary strategy and Author now living: intelligence.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century Frank Dikotter

From the Samuel Johnson prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling exploration of the cult of personality that surrounded eight twentieth century dictators

Description Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.

No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.

In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikutter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders?

This timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny.

About the Author Frank Dikutter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He is married and lives in Hong Kong.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Trim, The Cartographer's Cat: The ship's cat who helped Flinders map Australia Matthew Flinders, Gillian Dooley, Philippa Sandall

A fun and quirky gift book about a much-loved ship's cat: Trim, who helped Flinders map and lap Australia

Description Not many ships' cats have even one memorial statue, let alone six. But Trim does, including one outside Euston Station in London, proudly unveiled by Prince William on the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders's death 19 July 2014. Trim was the ship's cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803. He lived quite the adventurous life. As a small kitten he fell overboard while at sea but managed to swim back to the vessel and climb back on board by scaling a rope. This cemented his position as Flinders's beloved companion, and together they survived a voyage around the world, the circumnavigation of Australia and a shipwreck. When Flinders was imprisoned by the French in Mauritius in 1803 Trim shared his captivity until one day he mysteriously disappeared which heartbreakingly Flinders attributed to his being stolen and eaten by a hungry slave. Trim, The Cartographer's Cat is an ode to this much-loved ship's cat, which will warm the heart of any cat lover. The first part of the book reproduces Flinders' own whimsical tribute to Trim, written while in captivity in the early 1800s, with added 'friendly footnotes' to provide some background to Flinders's numerous literary allusions and nautical terms. Next the book discusses where Flinders was when he wrote his tribute and why, and what his letters and journals from that time tell us about his 'sporting, affectionate and useful companion'. Finally, we learn what Trim's views on all of this might have been, in a fun and fanciful observation on his premature epitaph.

Accompanying all of this are beautiful maps, historical artworks, quirky original illustrations by Ad Long and excerpts from Flinders' original script, showing his beautiful handwriting. This book will make a unique and treasured gift for Flinders fans, Trim fans and cat lovers around the world.

About the Author Matthew Flinders RN, an English navigator, cartographer and captain of Investigator, carried out the first circumnavigation of Australia. His A Voyage to Terra Australis, is a story of discovery, achievement and tragedy, self-sacrifice and devotion. Price: $24.99 $26.99 While not a best seller back in 1814, a first edition (3 vols) will now set you back about $85,000.00. A household name in ISBN: 9781472967220 Australia, he is also well known amongst maritime history fans in the UK and Europe. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University. She has been studying and writing about Bic1: Maritime history Matthew Flinders for nearly two decades, since she became Special Collections Librarian at Flinders University. Philippa Bic2: Illustrations: Sandall is a writer. Her latest book is Seafurrers, The Ships' Cats Who Lapped and Mapped the World. Ad Long is an Previous Titles: illustrator. He cobbles together images using old photographs, etchings or paintings as a starting point. The idea is to Author now living: create a picture that looks like it might almost be a record of the actual events in a story - but is very clearly not.

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Mudlarking Lara Maiklem

A Guardian and Financial Times Pick for 2019 From the London Mudlark comes one of the season's most-anticipated non-fiction titles: a captivating and revelatory history of London and its people, told through objects found along the banks of the River Thames.

Description Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour

Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about London and its lost ways of life. Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it meets the sea in the east, Mudlarking is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, what Lara calls 'the longest archaeological site in the world'.

About the Author Lara Maiklem moved from her family's farm to London in the 1990s and has been mudlarking along the River Thames for fifteen years. She now lives with her family on the Kent coast within easy reach of the river, which she visits as regularly as the tides permit. This is her first book. Twitter: @LondonMudlark / Instagram: @london.mudlark

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Into the Hands of the Soldiers David Kirkpatrick

A poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individuals. A FINANCIAL TIMES AND AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Description A poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individuals

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR

'This will be the must read on the destruction of Egypt's revolution and democratic moment' Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights Watch

'Sweeping, passionate ... An essential work of reportage for our time' Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages and social classes shook off millennia of autocracy, then elected a Muslim Brother as president. New York Times correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick arrived in Egypt with his family less than six months before the uprising first broke out in 2011. As revolution and violence engulfed the country, he lived through Cairo's hopes and disappointments alongside the diverse population of his new city. Into the Hands of the Soldiers is a heartbreaking story with a simple message: the failings of decades of autocratic rule are the reason for the chaos we see across the Arab world. Understanding the story of what happened in those years can help readers make sense of everything taking place across the region today from the terrorist attacks in North Sinai to the bedlam in Syria and Libya.

About the Author David D. Kirkpatrick is an international correspondent based in London for the New York Times. From 2011 through 2015 he was the Cairo bureau chief. He has also been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and a contributing editor for New York magazine. Into the Hands of the Soldiers is his first book. Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408898499 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 204x135mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide Warren Berger

From the bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question, hundreds of questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face at work, in our relationships, and beyond.

Description From the bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question, hundreds of questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face at work, in our relationships, and beyond.

When we're confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions in the face of uncertainty. But the questions must be the right ones; the ones that cut to the heart of complexity or enable us to see an old problem in a fresh way. In The Book of Beautiful Questions, expert 'questionologist' Warren Berger shares illuminating stories and compelling research on the power of inquiry. Drawing from the insights and expertise of psychologists, innovators, effective leaders, and some of the world's foremost creative thinkers, he presents the essential questions readers need to make the best choices when it truly counts, with a particular focus in four key areas: decision-making, creativity, leadership, and relationships. The powerful questions in this book can help you: - Identify opportunities in your career or industry - Generate fresh ideas in business or in your own creative pursuits - Check your biases so you can make better judgments and decisions - Do a better job of communicating and connecting with the people around you Thoughtful, provocative, and actionable, these beautiful questions can be applied immediately to bring about change in your work or your everyday life.

About the Author Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world's foremost innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers to learn how Price: $22.99 $24.99 they ask questions, generate original ideas, and solve problems. He is the author of several books, including the ISBN: 9781632869579 bestseller A More Beautiful Question. His writing appears regularly in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, the New Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm York Times, Psychology Today, and other publications. He lives in New York. Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Neurosciences Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem David Kynaston, Francis Green

A rigorous, compelling and balanced examination of the British private school system and the lifetime inequalities it entrenches

Description 'Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation' John O'Farrell

Britain's private, fee-paying schools are institutions where children from affluent families have their privileges further entrenched through a high-quality, richly-resourced education. Engines of Privilege contends that, in a society that mouths the virtues of equality of opportunity, of fairness and of social cohesion, the educational apartheid separating private schools from our state schools deploys our national educational resources unfairly; blocks social mobility; reproduces privilege down the generations; and underpins a damaging democratic deficit in our society. Francis Green and David Kynaston carefully examine options for change, while drawing on the valuable lessons of history. Clear, vigorous prose is combined with forensic analysis to powerful effect, illuminating the painful contrast between the importance of private schools in British society and the near-absence of serious, policy-shaping debate.

About the Author Francis Green is Professor of Work and Education Economics at the UCL Institute of Education. He is the author of ten books and 150 papers, and is a recognised authority on the economic and social effects of private schooling in the past and present. He works frequently as an advisor to the the OECD, the European Union and the World Bank, as well as to the UK government. David Kynaston has been a professional historian since 1973 and has written twenty books, including on the City of London and cricket, as well as a series aiming to cover the history of post-war Britain (1945 79), 'Tales of a New Jerusalem'. He is currently an honorary professor at Kingston University.

Price: $27.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781526601278 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Galliano: Spectacular Fashion Kerry Taylor

The ultimate visual guide to the work of Galliano, trailblazing fashion designer and artist

Description Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the first detailed guide to the work of one of fashion's greatest talents. Though the designer's otherwise glittering career has been punctured by years out of the limelight, his catalogue of work remains astonishing. Written by internationally renowned fashion expert Kerry Taylor, this beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched book looks in depth at John Galliano's collections from his 1984 graduate show at Saint Martins to his triumphant renaissance at Maison Margiela in 2015. With never-before-seen images of rare designs from private couture archives, close ups revealing the intricacies of garments, and iconic runway shots showing the designer's most innovative creations in motion, this visually rich book examines his revolutionary designs in unprecedented depth. In addition, original interviews with the designer as well as the people who worked closely with him throughout his career shed new light on both the clothes and the context in which they were created. A must-have for fashion lovers, collectors and researchers alike, Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the ultimate overview of the work of a design genius.

About the Author Kerry Taylor is one of the world's leading experts on vintage fashion and couture and is the owner of the premier auction house, Kerry Taylor Auctions, specializing in vintage fashion, fine antique costume, and textiles. She is the author of Vintage Fashion & Couture: From Poiret to McQueen.

Price: $90.00 $99.00 ISBN: 9781474277846 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Fashion & textiles: design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Lateral Cooking Niki Segnit

The groundbreaking new book that reveals the principles underpinning all recipe creation, from the author of the bestselling The Flavour Thesaurus

Description

'You could cook from it over a whole lifetime, and still be learning' Nigella Lawson

'A rigorous, nuts-and-bolts bible of a book' Jay Rayner, Observer 'Lateral Cooking...uncovers the very syntax of cookery' Yotam Ottolenghi

'Astonishing and totally addictive' Brian Eno

The groundbreaking new book that reveals the principles underpinning all recipe creation, from the author of the bestselling The Flavour Thesaurus

Do you feel you that you follow recipes slavishly without understanding how they actually work? Would you like to feel freer to adapt, to experiment, to play with flavours?

Niki Segnit, author of the landmark book The Flavour Thesaurus, gives you the tools to do just that. Lateral Cooking is organised into 77 'starting-point' recipes, reducing the phenomenal variety of world cuisine down to its bare essentials and then building it back up again. So, under 'Bread', we learn that flatbreads, oatcakes, buckwheat noodles, chapattis and tortillas are all variations on one theme. A few simple tweaks and you can make soda bread, scones or cobbler. And so on, through breads and batters, broths, stews and dals, one dish leading to another.

Lateral Cooking is as inspirational and entertaining a read as it is a practical guide. Once you have the hang of each starting point, a wealth of flavour possibilities awaits, each related in Niki's signature combination of culinary science, history, chefs' wisdom and personal anecdote. You will realise that recipes that you had thought were outside of your Price: $45.00 $49.99 ISBN: 9781408856895 experience are reassuringly similar to things you've made a dozen times before. It will give you the confidence to Format: Hard Cover experiment with flavour, and adapt with the seasons or the contents of your fridge. You will, in short, learn to cook 'by Dimensions: 272x177mm heart' and that's where the fun really begins. Extent: 612 pages Bic1: General cookery & recipes Bic2: Gift books About the Author Illustrations: Niki Segnit's first book, The Flavour Thesaurus, won the Andre Simon Award for best food book, the Guild of Food Writers Previous Titles: Award for best first book, and was shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards. It has been translated into thirteen Author now living: languages. On BBC Radio 4, she has contributed to The Food Programme, Woman's Hour and Word of Mouth, and her columns, features and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times and Prospect magazine. She lives in London with her husband and two children. Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Little Book of Rum Tips Andrew Langley

50 invaluable tips for rum lovers

Description Packed with straightforward advice from how to pour and store rum to how to mix and match it with food, this ingenious little book will help maximise your appreciation of the drink you love. Uncover a range of rum cocktails, from Pina Colada or Cuba Libre to Dark 'n Stormy and the infamous Hurricane, guaranteed to impress your friends and family. Sup the wisdom of The Little Book of Rum Tips.

About the Author Andrew Langley is a knowledgeable food and drink writer. Among his formative influences he lists a season picking grapes in Bordeaux, several years of raising sheep and chickens in Wiltshire and two decades drinking his grandmother's tea. He has written books on a number of Scottish and Irish whisky distilleries and is the editor of the highly regarded anthology of the writings of the legendary Victorian chef Alexis Soyer.

Price: $9.99 $10.99 ISBN: 9781472973313 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Little Book of Cider Tips Rosie Cheeks

50 invaluable tips for cider drinkers

Description From how to make cider to how to buy the best ciders around, Eve Cox shares 50 ingenious tips within this perfect pocket book. With recipe suggestions, such as a cider apple sauce, cider bread or cider jelly, and ideas for cider cocktails (cider punch anyone?), in this little book you will learn how to get the best from the ciders you stumble across.

About the Author

Price: $9.99 $10.99 ISBN: 9781472973597 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Alcoholic beverages Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Little Book of Vodka Tips Andrew Langley

50 invaluable tips for vodka drinkers

Description From Harvey Wallbangers to Cosmopolitans, and from the classic 007 Martini to a brooding Black Russian, this little book is packed full of your favourite vodka cocktail recipes, as well as surprising food pairings and recipes for cooking with vodka. With ideas and tips for how best to store, serve and taste, you're sure to quench your thirst for vodka knowledge!

Price: $9.99 $10.99 ISBN: 9781472973337 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Alcoholic beverages Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Little Book of Prosecco Tips Andrew Langley

50 invaluable tips for the Prosecco lover

Description For Prosecco drinkers everywhere, this delightful little book is packed full of helpful tips for how to store, chill and serve your bottles of liquid gold, as well as numerous ideas for delicious Prosecco cocktails. Within these pages you can also find handy suggestions for other sparkling wines to look out for and ideas for how to add some pizzazz to your table with some unlikely but brilliant recipes for cooking with Prosecco.

Price: $9.99 $10.99 ISBN: 9781472973320 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Alcoholic beverages Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Massive Attack's Blue Lines Ian Bourland

Blue Lines spliced together decades of American hip-hop and soul with the British postcolonial underground, creating, in a moment, the genre of trip-hop.

Description In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its marauding bass lines, angular guitars, and psychedelic effects, Blue Lines built on the Caribbean soundsystems and nascent rave scene of the 1980s while also looking ahead to the group's signature blend of epic cinematics and lush downtempo. In the process, Blue Lines invented an entirely new genre called trip hop and launched the career of a rapper named Tricky. Ultimately, Blue Lines created the sonic playbook for an emerging future: hybrid, digital, cosmopolitan, and rooted in the black and immigrant communities who animated the urban wreckage of the postindustrial city. Massive Attack envisioned an alternate future in sharp counterpoint to the glossy triumphalism of Brit Pop. And while the group would go on to bigger things, this record was both a warning shot and a definitive statement that sounds as otherworldy today as on the day of its release. As Blue Lines's iconic flame logo spun on turntables the world over, Massive Attack and their spaced-out urban blues reimagined music for the 1990s and beyond.

About the Author Ian Bourland is Assistant Professor of Art History at Georgetown University, USA.

Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781501339691 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 152 pages Bic1: Music reviews & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Wild Tchoupitoulas' The Wild Tchoupitoulas Bryan Wagner

Presents The Wild Tchoupitoulas as an album that serves as a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound, drawing on carnival tradition stretching back almost a century, and adapted songs from the Mardi Gras Indians.

Description The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound. From 'Hey Pocky A-Way' to 'Big Chief Got a Golden Crown,' the album draws on carnival traditions stretching back a century, adapting songs from the Mardi Gras Indians. Music chanted in the streets with tambourines and makeshift percussion is transformed throughout the album into electric rhythm and blues accented funk, calypso, and reggae. The album bridges not only genres but generations, linking the improvised flow from group leader George Landry, better known as Big Chief Jolly, to the stacked harmony vocals by his nephews Aaron, Art, Charles, and Cyril--the core members of the soon-to-be-formed Neville Brothers, playing together here for the first time. With production from Allen Toussaint and support from The Meters, the city's preeminent funk ensemble, The Wild Tchoupitoulas brings an all-star brigade, pressing these old anthems into new arrangements that have since become carnival standards. In the process, the album helped to establish the terms by which processional second-line music in New Orleans would be commercialized through the record industry and the tourist trade, setting into motion a process that has raised more questions than it has answered about autonomy, authenticity, and appropriation under the conditions of a new cultural economy.

About the Author Bryan Wagner is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His books include Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery (2009), The Tar Baby: A Global History (2017), and The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupe: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love (2019).

Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781501333361 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 152 pages Bic1: Music reviews & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach Roshanak Kheshti

Focuses on the highest-selling classical music recording of all time and explores the significance of gender to the album's phenomenal success.

Description So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has examined the importance of spy technology, the Cold War and Carlos's gender to this critically important innovation.

Through a postcolonial lens of feminist science and technology studies, Roshanak Kheshti engages in a reading of Carlos's music within this gendered context. By focusing on Switched-On Bach (the highest selling classical music recording of all time), this book explores the significance of gender to the album's--and, as a result, the Moog synthesizer's--phenomenal success.

About the Author Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and affiliate faculty in the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781501320286 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Hole's Live Through This Anwen Crawford

A positive, feminist reading of Hole's landmark 1994 album and its controversial creator, Courtney Love, which explores womanhood, desire, disgust, self-destruction, survival, and fame.

Description Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This, awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners.Live Through This arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier Nirvana's Nevermind had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called Riot Grrrl had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riotgrrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band.Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on?

About the Author Anwen Crawford is an Australian writer. She is the music critic for The Monthly magazine, and her essays have appeared in publications including Frieze, Overland and Loops: Writing Music.

Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781623563776 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 167x122mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Talking Heads' Fear of Music Jonathan Lethem

A virtuoso performance by a writer at the peak of his powers, tackling one of his great obsessions: Talking Heads.

Description It's the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs 'The Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music' - and everything spins outward from that one moment.

Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece - edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the band would take in the future. Lethem transports us again to the New York City of another time - tackling one of his great adolescent obsessions and illuminating the ways in which we fall in and out of love with works of art.

About the Author Jonathan Lethem is one of the most acclaimed American novelists of his generation. His books include Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City. His essays about James Brown and Bob Dylan have appeared in Rolling Stone. He is Roy Edward Disney Professor in Creative Writing at Pomona College, US.

Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781441121004 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 163x120mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather Christopher Dewdney

A kaleidoscopic and fact-filled journey through our atmosphere and weather

Description Shortlisted for a Science Writers and Communicators of Canada award We live at the bottom of an ocean of air 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth's atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer. Shrink the earth to the size of a basketball and our atmosphere would be as thick as a layer of food wrap 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. 18 Miles is a kaleidoscopic and fact-filled journey through our atmosphere and weather. Author Christopher Dewdney reveals to us the invisible rivers in the sky that affect how our weather works, and the rollercoaster of our climate. He details the history of weather forecasting, looking at weather events from ancient history to the present day, and introduces us to the eccentric and determined pioneers of science and observation whose efforts gave us the understanding of weather we have today.

Throughout history, humanity has been obsessed with the weather and the atmosphere. We have been determined to find reliable ways to predict our seemingly unpredictable weather, and in the 21st century, faced with the challenges of climate change, it is more important than ever that scientists are able to study our atmosphere and work out how and why humanity has affected it. From the roaring winds of Katrina to the frozen oceans of Snowball Earth, 18 Miles provides an entertaining and in-depth look at the very air we breathe.

About the Author Christopher Dewdney is the author of five books of non-fiction and eleven books of poetry. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award, he won first prize in the CBC Literary Competition for poetry and was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize, given in recognition of his contribution to Canadian Literature. His non-fiction book, Acquainted With The Night: Excursions into the World After Dark, was nominated for both a Governor General's Literary Award and the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction, and was published in six countries. Fascinated by weather phenomena from a young age, Dewdney lives in Toronto, where he teaches writing at York Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472969880 University. Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sigma AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff Lydia Pyne

Is the distinction between 'real' and 'fake' as clear cut as we might think?

Description We all think we know how to define what is a fake and what is the real thin , even if we ca t necessarily do the identification ourselves, but is that distinction as clear cut as we might think?History is full of things that are rea and not rea at the same time, and these things can thrive for decades, even centuries, as genuine fakes. But why are they interesting and important in the early 21st century? The social history, scientific background, and cultural context of these genuinely fake objects have played significant roles in helping to develop and spread very real knowledge about the world and have done so in curious and unexpected ways.Over the course of nine chapters, historian Lydia Pyne will look at nine things that fall onto this middle ground, including art forgeries, fake fossils, nature documentaries and faked text. Pulling materials and case studies from historical archives, extensive in-person interviews, and museum collections into each chapter,Genuine Fakeswill encourage readers to think about all the genuinely fake things that they engage with every day. Authenticity shapes how we evaluate history, representation, intellectual property, copyright, and even language. Amid worries of fake new and alternative fact , the question of authenticity has taken on particular urgency in this century.Genuine Fakeswill challenge three commonly held notions:1) the convention that a thing is either fake or not;2) that not-real things– fakes– are, by definition, bad;3) that fakes have nothing to teach us about understanding the real world.It will show audiences that authenticity is a continuum, one tha’s told story after story.Genuine Fakesis a collection of stories about how science and society come together to create genuinely fake things, and the knowledge that is created because of them.

About the Author Lydia Pyne is a writer and historian, interested in the history of science and material culture. She has degrees in history and anthropology and a PhD in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University. Her field and archival work has ranged from South Africa, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, and Iran, as well as the American Southwest.She is the author ofBookshelf(Bloomsbury 2016);Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils(Viking 2016); and the co-author, with Stephen J. Pyne, of The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and theInvention of the Pleistocene(Viking 2012.) Her writing has appeared inThe Atlantic,History Today,Time,The Scientist,Nautilus,The Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472961839 Appendix,Lady Science, andElectric Literatureas well as The Public Domain Review; she is currently a visiting researcher Format: Paperback - Demy format at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Lydia lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an avid Dimensions: 0x0mm rock climber and mountain biker. Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sigma AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Mah-Jong Gwyn Headley, Yvonne See

Contains all you need to know about the game, including equipment, rules, techniques and playing tips. Providing information on how to find a club and meet new people to participate with, this book also includes colour photos and illustrations, top tips and interesting facts.

Description The Know the Game series is firmly established as the leading introduction to a huge range of sports and games. For 50 years they have been the first step into a new sport or game for many people, children and adults alike. The series has now been relaunched in a new format with a modern design - making the best even better. The aim has been to make the books more accessible, and they are now packed with colour photos and illustrations, top tips and interesting facts. Each book contains everything you need to know about the sport or game, including equipment, rules, techniques and training tips. There's even information on how to find a club and meet new people to play the sport or game with. And having been written and endorsed by the game's professional body, you can be sure that you are getting the best information available.

About the Author Each book is written and endorsed by the professional associations.

Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781472970091 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x129mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Indoor games Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sigma AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists Celia Brayfield

The first book about a generation of women writers who challenged the world.

Description In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached audiences of millions around the world, paved the way for profound social changes and laid the foundations of second-wave feminism. After Delaney came Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster; an extraordinarily disparate group who were united in their determination to shake the traditional concepts of womanhood in novels, films, television, essays and journalism. They were as angry as the Angry Young Men, but were also more constructive and proposed new ways to live and love in the future. They did not intend to become a literary movement but they did, inspiring other writers to follow. Not since the Brontes have a group of young women been so determined to tell the truth about what it is like to be a girl. In this biographical study, the acclaimed author, Celia Brayfield, tells their story for the first time.

About the Author Celia Brayfield is an author whose nine novels range from modern social fiction to international bestsellers. Her subjects are mostly women, working through changes in themselves and the world, and other themes are the psychogeography of London suburbs, media overshadow and British ex-pats abroad. This is her fifth non-fiction book and her earlier work includes a study of celebrity culture, travel writing and classic writing guides. She teaches Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her first career was as a journalist, working mostly for The Times and the Evening Standard. Born in North London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and briefly studied French language and literature at Grenoble University. She has one daughter and lives in Dorset.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781448217496 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Biography: literary Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Reader AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas HaveShaped the World James Bernard Murphy, Graeme Garrard

A one-stop guide to the essential thinkers in political philosophy, from Confucius via Marx to Nussbaum, this book shines the light of political reason into the darkest corners of our troubled modern times

Description 'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news and the hysteria to explore the timeless questions posed and answers offered by a diverse group of the 30 greatest political thinkers who have ever lived.

Are we political, economic, or religious animals? Should we live in small city-states, nations, or multinational empires? What values should politics promote? Should wealth be owned privately or in common? Do animals also have rights? There is no idea too radical for this global assortment of thinkers, which includes: Confucius; Plato; Augustine; Machiavelli; Burke; Wollstonecraft; Marx; Nietzsche; Gandhi; Qutb; Arendt; Nussbaum, Naess and Rawls. In each brief chapter, the authors paint a vivid portrait of these often prescient, always compelling political thinkers, showing how their ideas grew out of their own dramatic lives and times and evolved beyond them. Now more than ever we need to be reminded that politics can be a noble, inspiring and civilising art. And if we want to understand today's political world, we need to understand the foundations of politics and its architects. This is the perfect guide to both.

About the Author Graeme Garrard has taught political thought at Cardiff University, UK since 1995 and at the Harvard Summer School, USA since 2006. He has lectured at colleges and universities in Canada, the United States, Britain and France for 25 years. He is the author of two books: Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment (2000) and Counter- Enlightenments: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (2006).

James Bernard Murphy is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA where he has taught Price: $32.99 $34.99 since 1990. His next book is entitled Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood (University of Pennsylvania ISBN: 9781472961785 Press, 2020). Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Social & political philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Continuum AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Weirder Maths: At the Edge of the Possible Agnijo Banerjee, David Darling

The follow-up to the highly successful Weird Maths takes us deeper into the wonderful weirdness of mathematics. The voyage of discovery continues -

Description Since there is something rather than nothing, could nothing exist? Can you make the perfect labyrinth? Does a quantum event have to be observed before it's 'real'? Just when you thought things couldn't get any stranger, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee's journey into the mathematical wilderness reveals 'bubble maths' has been studied since the second century, the counterintuitive world of quantum can be described perfectly by mathematics and the idea that maths and art couldn't be further apart is utter nonsense. From centuries-old conundrums to eccentric geniuses like Evariste Galois (he failed the entrance exams at Ecole Polytechnique twice because he couldn't explain how he'd arrived at his correct answers) to how the strangest maths connects to the everyday, Darling and Banerjee transform the bewildering into the beautiful, delighting us once again.

About the Author David Darling is a science writer and astronomer. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling Equations of Eternity, and the popular online resource The Worlds of David Darling. He lives in Dundee, Scotland.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786075086 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x128mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Mathematics & science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 A Rebel's Journey: Mostafa Sho'aiyan and Revolutionary Theory in Iran Peyman Vahabzadeh

The first in-depth study of Iran's maverick liberation theorist of the twentieth-century

Description Following the 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Mossadeq and restored the rule of the Shah in Iran, Mostafa Sho'aiyan became a key figure on the country's militant left. From a life underground he contributed significantly to the study of Iranian history and politics, and developed a unique theory of revolution. A Rebel's Journey provides fascinating insights into the life and work of this singular theoretician. Peyman Vahabzadeh sets Sho'aiyan's thought in the context of his time and place, and explores how his revolutionary theory might contribute to today's expanding movements for social justice and liberation.

About the Author Peyman Vahabzadeh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where his research focuses on the power of collective action and social movements. He is the author of Violence and Nonviolence and editor of Iran's Struggles for Social Justice, among other works in English and Persian. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Price: $59.99 $64.99 ISBN: 9781786076205 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Particle at the End of the Universe Sean Carroll

The definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the greatest science story of our time a Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist

Description Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN's Large Hadron Collider don't happen without incredible risks and occasional skullduggery. In the definitive account of this landmark event, Caltech physicist and acclaimed science writer Sean Carroll reveals the insights, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs discovery, and takes us on a riveting and irresistible ride to the very edge of physics today.

About the Author Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. In addition to the Royal Society Winton Prize, he has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics. He lives in Los Angeles. Follow him @seanmcarroll and read his blog at preposterousuniverse.com.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781786076069 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Research methods: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Cyber Sufis Robert Rozehnal

A groundbreaking study of how religion is practised in the digital age

Description The Internet has changed every aspect of life in the modern world, providing us with myriad new ways to communicate, work and learn. For a growing number of people it is also transforming the way they practise their religion. In America today, online spaces serve as critical alternatives for tech-savvy Muslims seeking a place to root their faith, forge religious identity, and build communities. With a particular focus on the Inayati Order in North America, a branch of the oldest and most prominent Sufi order in the West, Robert Rozehnal explores the wider trends emerging where digital and religious worlds meet. He examines how the Cyber Sufis are revolutionising internal communication, spiritual pedagogy and public outreach, and looks ahead to the future of digital Islam in the age of Web 3.0. The first introductory roadmap to navigating this new landscape, Cyber Sufis will be a vital resource for students and general readers interested in how the Internet is reshaping religious practice in the twenty-first century.

About the Author Robert Rozehnal is Associate Professor of Religion Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies at Lehigh University. He is the author of Islamic Sufism Unbound, the editor of Piety, Politics and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam, and numerous articles. He serves as the national co-chair of the Islamic Mysticism group at the American Academy of Religion.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781780747583 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Religion: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 V&A Design Notebook (Cole Black) V&A

Featuring separate sections of high-quality ruled, coloured plain, graph and bullet-grid paper, our new notebooks invite today's creatives to plan, think, note and sketch or just write a few lists.

Description The V&A is home to 5,000 years of human ingenuity in art, design and performance. Among its treasures are notebooks, working sketches and pattern books from artists and designers of all kinds, from Leonardo da Vinci to William Morris, and Eileen Gray to Beatrix Potter. Featuring separate sections of high-quality ruled, coloured plain, graph and bullet-grid paper, our new notebooks invite today's creatives to plan, think, note and sketch or just write a few lists. And by purchasing a V&A Design Notebook, you are giving back to the museum, helping to keep our collection free and open to all, inspiring the artists and designers of the future. Features: Ruled, graph and bullet-grid sections Coloured plain pages Pattern-printed endpapers Lay-flat binding Ribbon marker Elastic closure The distinctive endpapers have been adapted from Kaleidoscope, ornements abstraits (Paris 1926), a magnificent portfolio of Art Deco designs in the National Art Library at the V&A. French artists Ad. and M.P. Verneuil used the form of the nineteenth-century pattern book to create 87 different pattern templates for textile designers to transfer to fabric.

About the Author The V&A Museum is located in Kensington, London.

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V&A Publications AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 V&A Design Notebook (Constable Grey) V&A

Featuring separate sections of high-quality ruled, coloured plain, graph and bullet-grid paper, our new notebooks invite today's creatives to plan, think, note and sketch or just write a few lists.

About the Author The V&A Museum is located in Kensington, London.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781838510015 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Stationery items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

V&A Publications AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 V&A Design Notebook (Albertopolis Red) V&A

Featuring separate sections of high-quality ruled, coloured plain, graph and bullet-grid paper, our new notebooks invite today's creatives to plan, think, note and sketch or just write a few lists.

About the Author The V&A Museum is located in Kensington, London.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781838510022 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Stationery items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

V&A Publications AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 V&A Design Notebook (Victorian Chartreuse) V&A

Featuring separate sections of high-quality ruled, coloured plain, graph and bullet-grid paper, our new notebooks invite today's creatives to plan, think, note and sketch or just write a few lists.

About the Author The V&A Museum is located in Kensington, London.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781838510039 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Stationery items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

V&A Publications AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Japanese Netsuke Julia Hutt

'You will have a moment of quiet delight and a mood of introspection to carry you away.' Edmund de Waal

Description Prized by collectors from East to West, Japanese netsuke are tiny objects of wonder that originated as utilitarian accessories for traditional Japanese dress. Over the centuries these small carved toggles, designed to hook over the top of the kimono sash, evolved into high-fashion depictions of all aspects of Japanese life. In this richly illustrated and highly accessible book, Julia Hutt draws on the V&A's world-famous netsuke collection to explore the origins and techniques of this captivating art form.

About the Author Julia Hutt is Curator of Japanese Art in the Asian Department at the V&A. Edmund de Waal is a world-renowned ceramics artist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781851779222 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Industrial / commercial art & design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

V&A Publications AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Livingstone's London Ken Livingstone

Ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone celebrates his home town

Description As a passionate Londoner, Ken Livingstone has seen London change dramatically over the last 60 years. From playing on bomb sites in an era where St Pauls was the tallest building in the city to 2018 where the gleaming towers of the Shard and Walkie Talkie dominate the skyline, thanks to new building rules introduced by his administration. With a witty and worldly eye he takes a look at his home town; the people, places and the politics that have shaped the landscape. On this personal journey he shares his views on every aspect of the city from his favourite tube line and most loved architecture to anecdotes about fellow politicians and the triumphs and disasters encountered running the largest metropolis in Europe.

About the Author Ken Livingstone was born into a working-class family in South London. In his early 20s he became interested in politics, swiftly rising through the Labour party to run the GLC. He went on to become MP for Brent and wrote a popular restaurant column for the Evening Standard. In 2000 he became the inaugural Mayor of London and served two terms. He was praised for integrating London's transport networks, improving social justice and supporting minority rights. In 2005 he led the team which brought home the Olympics and was widely lauded (even by opponents) for his leadership following the 7/7 bombings the day after. He lives in North West London with his family and dog Coco.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781999613570 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 180 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Muswell Press AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 2020 Verso Radical Diary Verso

The best-selling radical diary is back!

Description The 2020 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner is a beautifully designed week-to-view planner where you can keep track of your coming year. Alongside illustrations, it features significant dates in radical history, drawn from events such as the English Civil War and Castro's victory march in Havana, and touches on the lives of characters such as Rosa Luxemburg and Gil Scott Heron, and includes movements such as #blacklivesmatter and the Suffragettes.

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Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781788735902 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us David Bromwich

The most incisive account of why Trump happened, and where we can go from here

Description American Breakdown is the brilliant political diary of one of America's leading essayists, David Bromwich, whose work has drawn wide appreciation for its incisive portraits and accurate prognosis. From his analysis of the Cheney-Bush co- presidency, in which foreign policy was reduced to permanent war, and Barack Obama's practice of reconciliation without truth, Bromwich chronicles the emergence of Donald Trump the demagogue of a culture of corruption from which all traces of political interest and candour have dropped away. An unsparing account of the degradation of American democracy, the book leads off with a new introduction on the prospects for change during the new Democratic Congress.

About the Author David Bromwich is the Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, and the author most recently of The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke and Moral Imagination.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788737265 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 For a Left Populism Chantal Mouffe

What is the 'populist moment' and what does it mean for the left?

Description We are seeing the rise of a populist moment around the world on both the left and the right. Movements like Bernie Sander, Jeremy Corbyn, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have emerged in the midst of the neoliberal crisis. In this book, leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a left populist strategy that could bring together the manifold struggles against subordination, oppression and discrimination. In redrawing political frontiers, this 'populist moment' points to a 'return of the political' after years of postpolitics. This return may open the way for authoritarian solutions through regimes that weaken liberal-democratic institutions but it could also lead to a reaffirmation and extension of democratic values.

About the Author Chantal Mouffe is the Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her books include Gramsci and Marxist Theory, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau), Dimensions of Radical Democracy, The Return of the Political, The Democratic Paradox, On the Political, Agonistics, and Podemos: In the Name of the People (with Anigo Errejon).

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786637567 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Edward Said Dominique Edde

An intimate account of Sa d's thought

Description In this personal portrait of Edward Sa d written by a close friend, Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most famous texts, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Eddy interweaves in her original biography accounts of the genesis and content of Sa d's work, his intellectual development and her own reflections and personal recollections of their friendship, which began in 1979 and lasted until Sa d's death in 2003. Throughout she traces the connection between personal history and theoretical options, illuminating the evolution of Sa d's thinking. Both specialists of Sa d's work and newcomers will find much to learn in this rich portrait of one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals.

About the Author Dominique Edde was born in Lebanon and is the author of numerous novels, including Kite (2012), Kamal Jann (2014) as well as The Crime of Jean Genet (2016) and a book of interviews with the psychoanalyst Andre Green.

Price: $34.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781788734110 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Biography: literary Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Anything But Mexican: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles's Barrios Rodolfo F. Acuna

New updated edition

Description Mexicans and other Latinos comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles and are the largest ethnic group in California. In this completely revised and updated edition of a classic political and social history, one of the foremost scholars of the Latino experience situates the US's largest immigrant community in a time of anti-immigrant fervor. Originally published in 1996, this edition analyses the rise and rule of LA's first-ever Mexican American mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, as well as the harsh pressures facing Chicanos in an increasingly unequal and gentrifying city.

About the Author Rodolfo F. Acuna is the founding chair of the Chicana/o Studies department at California State University at Northridge - the largest Chicana/o Studies Department in the United States. He has authored twenty-two books, including three children's books, and Voices of the U.S. Latino Experience; Corridors of Migration: Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600 -1933; and Occupied America: A History of Chicanos.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781786633798 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Hispanic & Latino studies Bic2: Hispanic & Latino studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Academic AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Security Principle Frederic Gros

The genealogy of the idea of security from ancient Greece to the war on terrorism

Description In The Security Principle, French philosopher Frederic Gros takes a historical approach to the concept of 'security', looking at its evolution from the Stoics to the social network. With lucidity and rigour, Gros's approach is fourfold, looking at security as a mental state, as developed by the Greeks; as an objective situation and absence of all danger, as prevailed in the Middle Ages; as guaranteed by the nation state and its trio of judiciary, police and military; and finally 'biosecurity', control, regulation and protection in the flux of contemporary society. In this deeply thought-provoking account, Gros's exploration of security shines a light both on its past meanings as well as its present uses, exposing the contemporary abuses of security and the pervasiveness of it in everyday life in the Global North.

About the Author Frederic Gros is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris XII and the Institute of Political Studies, Paris. He was the editor of the last lectures of Michel Foucault at the College de France. He has written books on psychiatry, law and war as well as the best-selling A Philosophy of Walking. He lives in Paris.

Price: $34.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781784787158 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Political science & theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Wittgensteins Antiphilosophy Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels

The leading continental philosopher takes on the standard bearer of analytical philosophy.

Description Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the 'linguistic turn' in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the 'antiphilosophy' of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence-showing what cannot be said, after accepting the limits of language and meaning-Badiou argues that this mystical act reduces logic to rhetoric, truth to an effect of language games, and philosophy to a series of esoteric aphorisms. in the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein's antiphilosophy, Badiou sets out and refines his own definitions of the universal truths that condition philosophy. Bruno Bosteels' introduction shows that this encounter with Wittgenstein is central to Badiou's overall project-and that a continuing dialogue with the exemplar of anti-philosophy is crucial for contemporary philosophy.

About the Author Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ee cole normale superieure and the College international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781844672240 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 197x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Illustrated Edition J.K Rowling

Picture the magic discover J.K. Rowling's wizarding world with glorious full-colour illustrations by Jim Kay, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal

Description An extraordinary creative achievement by two extraordinary talents, Jim Kay's inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling's classic series has captured a devoted following worldwide. This stunning new fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire brings more breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters to life including Cedric Diggory, Fleur Delacour and Viktor Krum. With paint, pencil and pixels, Kay conjures the wizarding world as we have never seen it before. Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this full-colour edition will captivate fans and new readers alike as Harry, now in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, finds himself competing in the legendary Triwizard Tournament and facing death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards -

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Jim Kay won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012 for his illustrations in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. He studied illustration at the University of Westminster, and worked in the Library & Archives of Tate Britain and then as an assistant curator of botanical illustrations at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew before returning to producing art full-time. After a Price: $65.00 $74.99 ISBN: 9781408845677 one-man exhibition at Richmond Gallery he was approached by a publisher and his freelance career began. Alongside his Format: Hard Cover illustration work, Jim has produced concept work for film and television, and contributed to the group exhibition Memory Dimensions: 0x0mm Palace at the V&A Museum in London. The Illustrated Edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) to international acclaim. Bloomsbury has commissioned Jim to illustrate all seven books in J.K. Rowling's classic series. Bic2: Jim lives and works in Northamptonshire with his wife. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Illustrated Goblet of Fire 12 Copy Pack

Contains 12 copies of the Goblet of Fire Illustrated and an A2 Poster and postcard set.

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BLM Potter AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Illustrated Goblet of Fire 24 Copy Pack

Contains 24 copies of The Goblet of Fire plus A2 Poster, Standees, Postcard set.

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BLM Potter AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game Kuro

A lavishly illustrated card game set during the events of Kingdom of Ash, the epic climax to the best-selling Throne of Glass series from Sarah J. Maas, with two players working together over the course of multiple games to overcome the challenges faced by Aelin Galathynius.

Description Aelin Galathynius has given up her freedom for the sake of her people. Held captive by the Queen of the Fae and tortured for information, her only companions are a silent prisoner and her own mind. The image of her mother, her lover, her friends. The embers of her memory, and a voice, deep inside... 'You will not yield.' Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game is a two-player co-operative card game set during the events of Kingdom of Ash, the epic climax to Sarah J. Maas' Throne of Glass series. Working together, you must delve into the memories of the young queen and help her face her inner demons before she is overwhelmed. Be warned each challenge you face is more complex than the last, testing the bond between you and your partner to its limit. Players: 2 Ages: 14+ Playing Time: 45 minutes Contents: 97 oversized cards, rulebook

About the Author Sarah J. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Court of Thorns and Roses series, as well as the Throne of Glass series. Her books are published in over thirty-six languages. A New York native, Sarah lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, son, and dog. www.sarahjmaas.com - www.facebook.com/theworldofsarahjmaas - Instagram: therealsjmaas

Coralie Jubenot is a self-taught French artist who worked many years with traditional mediums before transitioning to a career in digital art. Passionate about character design, she draws her influences from both comic book art and

Price: $39.99 $42.99 Renaissance painting. ISBN: 9781472837974 Kuro is a Japanese game designer and founder of the Japanese small-press publisher Manifest Destiny. Recent games Format: Boxed include Seventh Hero, The Ravens of Thri Sahashri, and Ars Alchimia. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1 pages Bic1: Board games Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Embers of Memory 8 Copy Pack

Contains 8 copies of Embers of memory: A Throne of Glass Game + free copy

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 En Pointe Chloe Bayliss

A true story of hope, hardship and never giving up on your dreams from Doctor Doctor's Chloe Bayliss

Description 'Have you ever had an addiction? An obsession? Have you ever wanted something so much that you can't imagine your life without it? For me, that's dance.' This is a story about never giving up on your dreams, no matter what life throws at you. Chloe Bayliss was born to perform and thanks to a lot of hard work and determination, she's on her way to being a ballerina. At sixteen, she gets accepted into an international dance school and everything she dreamed of is about to come true. But then overnight a mystery illness takes Chloe from starring in Swan Lake to clinging to life in a hospital bed.

Never in her wildest dreams could she have imagined the hurdles she would face but also how she would eventually triumph. Against all odds, she finds a whole new way to flourish, and despite the challenges she faces, Chloe never stops dreaming big.

En Pointe is the real-life story of how an aspiring ballerina became an inspiring young actor after overcoming a life- threatening illness.

Miracles really can happen, even if they're not the ones you asked for.

About the Author Helpmann Award nominee and finalist in the prestigious 2016 Heath Ledger Scholarship, Chloe Bayliss is one of Australia's most notable emerging actresses with numerous credits across stage and screen, including her role in the Logie Award nominated drama Doctor Doctor.

Chloe has an extensive background in dance and choreography, having graduated from the National College of Dance with a Diploma of Dance and Performance. Her life as a dancer has taken her all over America and she now extends her Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781925700756 knowledge to students and performers throughout Australia by taking workshops, teaching and judging dance Format: Paperback scholarships. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction Chloe's love for storytelling began when she first stepped onto the stage at just three years old. Since then she has been Bic2: entertaining people and telling stories through dance, theatre, TV and film. She is now excited to share more of her Illustrations: stories through a different format books! Previous Titles: As a patron of charity group Hanka and Red Cross Blood Service ambassador, Chloe hopes to spark conversation Author now living: around a number of matters she is passionate about, using her own story of overcoming hardship to inspire and bring awareness to others living with ongoing medical conditions in Australia.

BLM Pantera AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 En Pointe 8 Copy Pack

Comprising 8 copies of En Pointe, plus a free reading copy

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Whisper Lynette Noni

Whisper is a compelling story about a young girl held captive in a secret underground facility and the risks she must take to harness the power of her voice. The unforgettable new series from Lynette Non.

Description 'Lengard is a secret government facility for extraordinary people,' they told me. 'It's for people just like you.'

I believed them. That was my mistake.

There isn't anyone else in the world like me. I'm different. I'm an anomaly. I'm a monster.

For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes - Subject Six-Eight-Four, 'Jane Doe', has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word.

Life at Lengard follows a strict, torturous routine that has never changed.

Until now.

When Jane is assigned a new and unexpectedly kind evaluator, her resolve begins to crack, despite her best efforts.

As she uncovers the truth about Lengard's mysterious 'program', Jane discovers that her own secret is at the heart of a sinister plot -. And one wrong move, one wrong word, could change the world.

About the Author Critically-acclaimed author Lynette Noni grew up on a farm in outback Australia until she moved to the beautiful Sunshine Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781925700992 Coast and swapped her mud-stained boots for sand-splashed flip-flops. She has always been an avid reader and most of Format: Paperback - Demy format her childhood was spent lost in daydreams of far-off places and magical worlds. At a time when the YA fiction market was Dimensions: 207x136mm battling vampire love triangles, Lynette decided to start writing the stories she wanted to read. Four books and countless Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) accolades later, Lynette's popularity within the YA fiction market continues to skyrocket. Bic2: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Pantera AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 We're Going on an Elf Chase: Board Book Martha Mumford

Join the fun as four bunnies set off on an exciting lift-the-flap Christmas adventure. Help the bunnies chase elves, watch out for penguins, polar bears and reindeer and get ready for bed before a BIG SURPRISE! A gorgeously festive board book from bestselling Laura Hughes, perfect for little hands!

Description Christmas is coming! Come and join the fun as four little bunnies set off on an exciting lift-the-flap adventure. With ten little elves hidden under the flaps of this gorgeously festive board book, you'll have to run, run, run if you're going to catch them all! There are lots of Christmassy obstacles along the way, from clippy-cloppy reindeer and roaring polar bears to flippy-flappy penguins. Can you help the bunnies get home in time for bed? There will be a BIG SURPRISE waiting for them in the morning! Stuffed with festive frolics, this is the perfect Christmas gift. From the bestselling Laura Hughes, illustrator of We're Going on an Egg Hunt and Hop Little Bunnies, this jolly board book is full of wintry magic and perfect for little hands!

About the Author Laura Hughes is an exciting young London-based illustrator. Originally from Bath, she studied illustration at Kingston University and, since graduating, she has created artwork for children's books, cards, stationery and homeware. We're Going on an Egg Hunt was Laura's first book for Bloomsbury. Martha Mumford has loved children's books forever. Her mother was a librarian, which gave her access to a wonderful array of books from a very early age. She has written four Royal Baby picture books for Bloomsbury. Martha lives in Berkshire with her husband and young daughters.

Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781526606303 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 24 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 We're Going on an Elf Chase Martha Mumford

Join the fun as four bunnies set off on an exciting lift-the-flap Christmas adventure. Help the bunnies chase elves, watch out for the obstacles penguins, robins, polar bears and reindeer and get into bed before a BIG SURPRISE! From bestselling illustrator Laura Hughes.

Description We're going on an elf chase. Come and join the fun. Can we catch them all? YES! Run, run, run! Four bunnies set off on a jolly Christmas lift-the-flap adventure to find ten little elves hidden under the flaps. You'll have to run, run, run if you're going to catch them all! And there are lots of obstacles along the way, from clippy-cloppy reindeer to roaring polar bears and flippy-flappy penguins. Stuffed with festive frolics, this is the perfect Christmas gift. From the bestselling Laura Hughes, illustrator of We're Going on an Egg Hunt and The Birthday Invitation

Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781408872413 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 253x255mm Extent: 24 pages Bic1: Educational strategies & policy Bic2: Educational strategies & policy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 We're Going on an Elf Chase Martha Mumford

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408872420 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 262x261mm Extent: 24 pages Bic1: Health psychology Bic2: Health psychology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Girl and the Dinosaur Hollie Hughes

The wishing stars burn bright tonight, the air is thick with dreams, And a deeply sleeping dinosaur is waking up, it seems . . .

Description A masterpiece of storytelling with evocative and stunning illustrations, destined to be read for years to come.

The wishing stars burn bright tonight, the air is thick with dreams, And a deeply sleeping dinosaur is waking up, it seems . . .

In a town by the seaside, Marianne is often seen foraging on the beach. But she isn't playing with children her own age. Instead Marianne is alone, and digging for dinosaur bones to build a special sort of companion. Then, one night, she goes to sleep wishing with all her heart that her dinosaur might come to life . . . A very rare and special book where the words and pictures take you on a magical journey far beyond the page.

About the Author Hollie Hughes is a hugely talented picture book author. Having three children of her own, she is perfectly tuned in to the reading habits and tastes of young children. She is the author of The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth, as well as the glorious Princess Swashbuckle. Hollie lives in Essex with her family. Sarah Massini studied Graphic Design in Manchester and followed careers in corporate design and children's book design before settling down to pursue her life-long dream of illustrating books. Sarah's first picture book for Bloomsbury was Kiss It Better by Smriti Prasadam-Halls. She lives in Sussex with her husband Peter, her son Mathew and her mad terrier Tess.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408880524 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Girl and the Dinosaur 8 copy pack

Contains 8 copies of The Girl and the Dinosaur + free reading copy

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Price: $183.92 $199.92 ISBN: 9781472998026 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Midnight Ninja Sam Lloyd

Even night ninjas need to sleep - but not until they've been on a secret night-time mission! Bedtime reading fun from the bestselling author/illustrator of Calm Down, Boris, Mr Pusskins and First Day at Bug School.

Description Meet this little boy and his pussycat called Ginger. He's got a great big secret. At bedtime he's NIGHT NINJA! Everyone is tucked up in bed, except for Night Ninja and his sidekick Ginger. The ninja emergency bell has rung and they're off on a secret mission. There's no time for these heroes to sleep until they've solved the mystery of the missing socks. Even reluctant sleepers will enjoy bedtime with this action-packed adventure showing that heroes need their sleep too. Bedtime reading fun from the bestselling author/illustrator of Calm Down, Boris, Mr Pusskins and First Day at Bug School.

About the Author Sam Lloyd is the bestselling illustrator of Calm Down, Boris (Templar) and has sold over half a million books in the UK alone. She is also the illustrator of Dino-Baby, Dino-Mummy and Dino-Daddy, the Yikes! series and First Day at Bug School for Bloomsbury. Sam lives in Brighton.

Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781408884836 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Midnight Ninja Sam Lloyd

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408884843 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Wild Animals: A Mix-and-Match Book Sophie Corrigan

Lift the panels to mix, match and make wonderfully wacky wild animals with Sophie Corrigan's hilarious creature creations!

Description A chameleon has a long, sticky tongue and a tiger has bright orange fur. But what would happen if you mixed them together with a zebra's stripey bottom? You'd get a CHIGRA! ROAR! Lift the panels to mix, match and make wonderfully weird wild animals with Sophie Corrigan's brilliantly funny creature creations! Mix together a toucan, a gazelle and a zebra to create a TAZRA! Or match up a tiger, an orangutan and an elephant to create a TANGUANT! What sound will it make? What wacky wild animals will YOU find? Each panel is the perfect size for small hands - hours of toddler animal fun guaranteed.

About the Author Sophie Corrigan is a freelance illustrator with a first-class Illustration degree from the University of Central Lancashire and has recently earned a Distinction for her Masters Degree in Children's Book Illustration. When she's not drawing, she spends her time going to shows, watching nature programmes, hanging out with her pet axolotls and cockatiels and occasionally making cute things from wool.

Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781408894101 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x202mm Extent: 24 pages Bic1: Picture books Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 1, 2, BOO!: A Spooky Counting Book Paul Howard

A brilliantly fun and colourful counting book with a spooky twist, based on Paul Howard's bestselling picture book I Went Trick-or-Treating. Packed with silly skeletons and creepy spiders, it's perfect for little monsters at Halloween!

Description We went trick-or-treating and we saw ... When a brother and sister go trick-or-treating, they compete to see who find the most bizarre and brilliant things. As they try to count all the hair-raising creatures, everything escalates until - It's time for the Halloween feast! HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! A new take on an old favourite, children will love learning to count with this funny rhyming story packed with ghosts, skeletons, dancing monsters, spooky bats and much, much more! From the illustrator of the bestselling The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, this is a brilliant and accessible board-book version of Paul Howard's laugh-out-loud Halloween picture book, I Went Trick-or-Treating.

About the Author Paul Howard studied a graphic design course that specialised in illustration, and worked at the Natural History Museum before becoming a full-time illustrator. Amongst other books, he illustrated the enormously popular The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and wrote and illustrated Bugville (both published by Egmont). Paul has produced several books with Bloomsbury, including the hilarious I Went to the Supermarket, I Went to See Santa and I Went Trick-or-Treating. Paul now lives in Belfast with his wife and children.

Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781526612052 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 22 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Afterwards A.F Harrold

A powerful and poignant story about friendship from the magnificent pairing of A.F. Harrold and Emily Gravett, the creators of the critically acclaimed and award-winning The Imaginary. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl

Description Fact: Ember and Ness are best friends. There's nothing more to say about it. It is what it is. It is what will always be. Ember and Ness. Then Ness dies. It is sudden and unexpected and leaves Ember completely empty. How can this be? When Ember finds a way into the Afterworld, she determines to bring Ness back. Because that's what friends do isn't it? They rescue each other. They help. They never give up. Ember and Ness. That don't change. A powerful, poignant, darkly comic and deeply moving story about friendship at its most extraordinary.

About the Author A.F. Harrold is an English poet who writes and performs for adults and children. He spends his time showing off on stage, writing poems and books, and stroking his beard (it helps churn the ideas). He is the author of the Fizzlebert Stump series and the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal longlisted The Imaginary, illustrated by Emily Gravett. He lives in Reading with a stand-up comedian and two cats. Emily Gravett was born in Brighton. After leaving school with few qualifications, she spent eight years living on the road before getting a place on the BA illustration course at Brighton University. She won the Macmillan Prize for Illustration with Wolves, which was published to great acclaim in August 2005, winning many prizes and marking the beginning of an international career creating extraordinary books for children. She lives in Brighton with her daughter, partner and two rats.

Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781408894347 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Princess Ponies 11: Season's Galloping Chloe Ryder

Enter a land of magical ponies in this chapter book series that features illustrations throughout and comes with a collectible charm!

Description The enchanted island of Chevalia, where ponies rule, has finally had its magic restored, thanks to human Pippa and pony Princess Stardust. Her task complete, Pippa returned to our world . . . but her friends in Chevalia are never far away. On Christmas, Pippa receives a surprise visit from flying pony Cloud, who has bad news--someone has stolen the beautiful silver horseshoes from Chevalia's big Christmas tree! Pippa rushes to Chevalia and teams up with her best friend, Princess Stardust, to track them down. But when the search for the thief starts to make Stardust suspicious of her own friends and family, Pippa realizes that listening to and helping others might be more important than missing decorations. Can the friends come together to return the Christmas spirit to the holiday? Pippa's adventures in magical Chevalia are brought to life with delightful illustrations, and the book includes a special collectible charm.

About the Author Chloe Ryder lives on a farm for thoroughbred and rescue horses. When she's not caring for the horses, she rides them across the hills surrounding her house. Chloe is one of the very few who know the true location of the magical island Chevalia. She is also the alter ego of Julie Sykes, award-winning author of over 60 books for children. Julie lives in Hampshire with her family and their pet wolf.

Price: $9.99 $11.99 ISBN: 9781547601929 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Children's USA AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Uncle Gobb and the Plot Plot Michael Rosen

The third uproarious adventure in a wild and wacky series about Malcolm and his AWFUL Uncle Gobb, from the comic pairing of Michael Rosen and Neal Layton

Description The third uproarious adventure from the comic pairing of Michael Rosen and Neal Layton sees Malcolm and his awful Uncle Gobb return, each with a cunning plot ... This time, there is a plot. That's the plot of the story. Or is it? The plot of the story could also be that Uncle Gobb has an evil plot. And his plot is about a plot. A plot of land. Are you following? Good! The plot of land is behind Malcolm's school and it is where Uncle Gobb wants to set up his own rival Dread Shed School of Facts. Oh no! Malcolm is going to need to come up with his own plot to stop Uncle Gobb's plot. So maybe that, in fact, is the actual plot of this story. You'll just have to read this book to find out! A bonkers book about standing up for yourself, from two crazily creative people. Sure to delight fans of Andy Stanton and Tom Gates.

About the Author Michael Rosen is a hugely successful author of every sort of children's book picture books, poetry, fiction and non-fiction. He frequently appears on radio and gives talks on children's literature. Michael was the Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009 and has won the Eleanor Farjeon Award. He lives in London. Visit michaelrosen.co.uk. Neal Layton has illustrated more than 60 books to date, working with authors such as Michael Rosen and Cressida Cowell, as well as writing his own books. His fresh and spontaneous illustrations have earned him numerous awards, including the Smarties Prize and the prestigious Gold Award, and his books are currently in print in more than 16 languages worldwide. Neal lives in Southsea with his wife and two daughters. Visit neallayton.co.uk.

Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781408873953 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Some Places More Than Others Renee Watson

From New York Times bestselling author Renee Watson comes a heartwarming and inspiring middle grade novel about finding deep roots and exploring the past, the present, and the places that make us who we are

Description From New York Times bestselling and multi award-winning author Renee Watson comes a heartwarming and inspiring middle grade novel about finding deep roots and exploring the past, the present, and the places that make us who we are. 'Some of the places I am still getting to know, some of these places I have known all my life. All of these places made me, are making me.'

All Amara wants for her birthday is to visit her father's family in New York City Harlem. She can't wait to finally meet her Grandpa Earl and cousins in person, and to stay in the brownstone where her father grew up. Maybe this will help her understand her family and herself in a new way. But New York City is not exactly what Amara thought it would be. It's noisy, crowded, confusing, and her cousins can be mean. Plus her father is too busy working to spend time with her and too angry to fix his relationship with Grandpa Earl. Amara can't help wondering, even if she does discover more about where she came from, will it help her know where she belongs?

About the Author RENEE WATSON is the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author of the novels Piecing Me Together, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, and two picture books: Harlem's Little Blackbird and A Place Where Hurricanes Happen. Renee is the founder of I, Too Arts Collective, a non-profit committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative arts. She lives in New York City. reneewatson.net; @harlemportland (Instagram); @reneewauthor (Twitter)

Price: $15.99 $17.99 ISBN: 9781526613684 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Some Places More Than Others Renee Watson

A heartwarming and bright-eyed middle grade novel from Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renee Watson, exploring a father-daughter relationship and Harlem--its history, culture, arts, and people.

Description All Amara wants for her birthday is to visit her father's family in New York City--Harlem to be exact. Her wish comes true when her dad decides to bring her along on a business trip from Portland to NYC. She can't wait to finally meet her cousins in person, and stay in the Harlem brownstone where her father grew up. Maybe this will help her understand her family--and herself--in new ways. Plus, she wants to visit every landmark from the Apollo to Langston Hughes's home, and spend quality time with her dad. But New York the city is not exactly what Amara thought it would be. Crowded subways, suffocating sidewalks, and a father who is too busy to spend time with her. However, as she learns more and more about Harlem--and her father and his family history--she realizes how, in some ways more than others, she can connect with him and this other home and family.

About the Author RENEE WATSON is the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author of the novels Piecing Me Together, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, and two picture books: Harlem's Little Blackbird and A Place Where Hurricanes Happen. Renee is the founder of I, Too, Arts Collective, a nonprofit committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative arts. She lives in New York City. www.reneewatson.net @harlemportland (Instagram)

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781681191089 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The M Word Brian Conaghan

From Costa award winner Brian Conaghan comes an unforgettable novel about grief and healing that is full of humour, warmth, love, sadness and perseverance.

Description A conker's tough and shiny and it can withstand a whole load of hard knocks. That's Maggie Yates all over. And the latest in a long line is her mum losing her job. They didn't have a lot to begin with and now Mum's taken to not opening the curtains and crying in secret. But Maggie has a plan to cheer her up - find her a fella. And if he's got a bit of cash to splash on treating them, all the better. Best friend Moya's there every step of the way. You're surfing a rainbow if you think someone like that exists round here, she smiles. But I'll help.

But at the back of her mind Maggie knows that Mum's crying is more than sadness. That there are no easy fixes. And that, though she talks to her every day, Moya died six months ago. How many hits before a conker splits in two?

About the Author Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. For many years Brian worked as a teacher and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland. His first YA novel, When Mr Dog Bites, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2015 and his second, The Bombs That Brought Us Together, won the Costa Children's Book Award in 2016. We Come Apart, a verse novel co-authored with Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan, won the UKLA Book Award. His latest novel, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers, published in June 2018 to critical acclaim.

Price: $15.99 $17.99 ISBN: 9781526608154 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The M Word Brian Conaghan

From Costa award winner Brian Conaghan comes an unforgettable novel about grief and healing that is full of humour, warmth, love, sadness and perseverance.

About the Author Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. For many years Brian worked as a teacher and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland. His first YA novel for Bloomsbury, When Mr Dog Bites, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2015 and his second, The Bombs That Brought Us Together, won the Costa Children's Book Award in 2016. We Come Apart, a verse novel co-authored with Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan, won the UKLA Book Award. His latest novel, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers, has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781408871560 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Red, Cherry Red Jackie Kay

A gorgeous new gift edition of this poetry collection, from award-winning Scottish poet, and current Makar, Jackie Kay. With stunning illustrations by Rob Ryan, this is a must-have for any poetry fan.

Description Perfect for fans of The Gift by Carol Ann Duffy and Rob Ryan, this gorgeous new gift edition is a must-have for any poetry fan.

A powerful poetry collection full of the drama, musicality and lyricism that Jackie Kay is famed for.

Exploring the themes of identity and age, this collection includes poems about the old days and the new days, and the places associated with an older generation, who often live dreamlike, isolated existences not only geographically, but also in the memory.

Nature and the elements play a big role too: trees, the moon, the sea, fire. Jackie's style is one moment witty, the next melancholic, or gently surreal - and in this brilliant reissued collection, her poems are infused with warmth and colour: in particular, the colour RED.

About the Author Jackie Kay is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays. Born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white couple. Kay's awareness of her different heritages inspired her first book of poetry, The Adoption Papers, which won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year and a commendation from the Forward Poetry Prize judges. Subsequent collections have gone on to win numerous awards. In 2006 Jackie was awarded an MBE. In 2007 she picked up the decibel Writer of the Year prize as part of the British Book Awards. Jackie is the current Makar National Poet for Scotland. She currently lives in Manchester.

Rob Ryan was born in Cyprus. He studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art in London where he specialised in Printmaking. Rob has exhibited widely across the UK and internationally and has written and illustrated Price: $17.99 $19.99 ISBN: 9781526614841 several books This Is For You, A Sky Full Of Kindness and a trilogy of children's books. He lives and works in London, Format: Hard Cover UK. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Poetry (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 One Person, No Vote (YA edition) Carol Anderson

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Congressman John Lewis.

Description In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans as the nation gears up for the 2018 midterm elections.

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Price: $29.99 $31.99 ISBN: 9781547601073 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Big Bad Biteasaurus: A Bloomsbury Young Reader Malachy Doyle

Big Bad Biteasaurus frightens all of the other dinosaurs with his big, bad bite. But the day has come for him to be nice, even if it means a trip to the dentist! Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description Big Bad Biteasaurus is the biggest baddest bully. He frightens all the other dinosaurs with his big, bad bite. Until one day the other dinosaurs have had enough. Big Bad Biteasaurus is going to have to be nice even if it means a trip to the dentist! This roaringly funny story from award-winning author Malachy Doyle is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from David Creighton-Pester and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: Purple Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Malachy Doyle lives in Ireland on a tiny island off the coast of Donegal, with his wife, cats, dogs, hens and ducks. Before writing children's books, he worked in advertising and as a teacher for children with special needs. Malachy has written over a hundred books and is the best-selling author of The Hound of Ulster and Rama and Sita: The Story of Diwali. David Creighton-Pester is an illustrator and designer from Hamilton, New Zealand. Inspired as a child by picture books, animation and all things arty, he spent endless hours drawing crazy characters and coming up with silly stories. He is passionate about illustrating for children, especially picture books, and is particularly excited by the opportunity to bring fun, imagination and fantastically silly scenarios that expand the realms of reality to kids around the world.

Price: $9.99 $11.99 ISBN: 9781472962508 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 It's Too Scary! A Bloomsbury Young Reader Adam Guillain

It's Jun's first time at the fair and his big sister Lin is excited to go on the roller coaster. But Jun isn't so sure about the big ride and doesn't want to go on anything scary. Will he overcome his fears and ride the roller coaster? Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description From Hook a Duck and dodgem cars to teapot rides and roller coasters, there's lots of fun to be had at the fair. But Jun's never been to the fair before and he doesn't want to go on anything scary. Can his older sister Lin help him get over his fear of big rides? This fun-filled adventure from award-winning authors Adam and Charlotte Guillain is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Sharon Davey and relatable characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: Turquoise Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Adam and Charlotte Guillain sometimes write together and sometimes on their own. Their book Spaghetti with the Yeti was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Oscar's First Book Prize and the Sheffield Book Award and Treats for a T. Rex won a GOLD Practical Pre-School Award. Sharon Davey was born to a strong northern family and spent all family occasions under the table drawing characters and tying people's shoelaces together. With a brief departure into set and costume design, lasting 15 years, Sharon has always drawn, created and illustrated. If she's not at her desk working you can find her drinking tea and baking cakes.

Price: $9.99 $11.99 ISBN: 9781472962546 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Cavegirl: A Bloomsbury Young Reader Abie Longstaff

Aggie has heard that Gron has a piece of amber that would be perfect for Mum's birthday. But getting the amber may be harder than Aggie thought, especially when a wild boar turns up... Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description Aggie needs to get a present for her Mum's birthday and Gron has a piece of amber that would be perfect! But getting the amber may be harder than Aggie thought, especially when a wild boar appears... This prehistoric adventure from well-loved author Abie Longstaff is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves are for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Shane Crampton and fun characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: Turquoise Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Abie Longstaff is the eldest of six children and grew up in Australia, Hong Kong and France. She knows all about squabbling, chaos and bossing younger sisters around so she logically began her career as a barrister. She started writing when her children were born and lives in Hove with her family. Abie writes for children from picture books to older fiction and is best known for the Fairytale Hairdresser series. Shane Crampton was born in St. Andrews, Scotland and spent her childhood years growing up there, as well as in Aberdeen and the Shetland Islands, before moving to sunny (sometimes) Cornwall where she still lives with her husband, four sons and their two ridiculous dogs. Shane was encouraged from an early age to embrace her creativity as much as possible by both parents and graduated from Falmouth University with a BA (Hons) in Illustration. Her work is a mash-up of scribbling, painting and digital techniques.

Price: $9.99 $11.99 ISBN: 9781472962768 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Get a Move On! A Bloomsbury Young Reader Ben, Bailey

It's Monday morning and everyone's rushing to get ready. But Maxine has still got a puppet show to put on and marmalade toast to eat. She really needs to get a move on! Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description It's Monday morning and there's chaos at Maxine's house. Dad's got ketchup on his sleeve and has lost his yellow sock. Mum can't get the car to start. But there's time for a puppet show and maybe even a third piece of marmalade toast, right? Maxine has really got to get a move on! This hilarious story from rapper, actor and comedian Ben Bailey Smith is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Mette Engell and hilarious characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: Purple Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Ben Bailey Smith started his career as a UK-based rapper known as Doc Brown before diversifying and moving into mainstream TV and film acting, stand up comedy, screen writing and children's books. He has a host of notable television performances under his belt including roles in Law & Order and Miranda as well as the British children's show 4 O'Clock Club. Mette Engell is a self-taught children's illustrator. She grew up in the northern part of Zealand, the largest island in Denmark. She has always loved coming up with stories and characters, so after her first child was born, she picked up her pencil and hasn't put it down since. Today she lives by the ocean with her husband and their three kids, two cats and a lionhead bunny in a blue house filled with art supplies, picture books and Lego.

Price: $9.99 $11.99 ISBN: 9781472961228 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Pumpkin Power: A Bloomsbury Young Reader Patricia Cleveland-peck

Cinderella wasn't the only one the fairy godmother helped. You see, Cinderella had a friend called Perkin and he was given seven seeds that turned out to be rather magical... Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description You've probably heard the story of Cinderella; how her father married for the second time and how his wife was a nasty, mean woman. But did you know Cinderella had a friend called Perkin who worked in the garden? She wasn't the only one the fairy godmother helped. You see, it all started with seven, big seeds... This magical retelling of a classic fairytale from bestselling author Patricia Cleveland-Peck is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features magical illustrations from Hannah Marks and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: Gold Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Patricia Cleveland-Peck lived in France and Ireland before settling in rural Sussex. She has published fourteen children's books and has also written adult books and plays. She now works as a travel journalist and, with a young granddaughter, she returned to the world of children's books with the bestselling You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus. Hannah Marks was born in Derby, England and grew up in the Midlands. She is a self-taught illustrator and often draws inspiration from anything vintage as well as completely random thoughts that drop into her head... which is usually after eating cake. She now lives in Hertfordshire with her husband, children and a (bonkers) kitten.

Price: $9.99 $11.99 ISBN: 9781472961198 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Manju's Magic Wishes: A Bloomsbury Young Reader Chitra Soundar

Manju wants to get a present for her Mum's birthday so when she and Cumin her cat find Grandma's magic lamp, Manju is sure she can wish for something great. The trouble is, the genie has other ideas... Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description Manju wants to get a present for her Mum's birthday but Cumin her cat isn't sure about the toy elephant or robot. So when they find Grandma's magic lamp, Manju is granted seven wishes to find the best present. But each wish starts to go wrong and soon the house is filled with a rock band, aliens and pirates! Can Manju and Cumin wish for the perfect gift? This magically humorous tale from storyteller Chitra Soundar is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Veronica Montoya and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: Purple Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Chitra Soundar is an Indian-born British writer and storyteller. She grew up with stories from myths and epics from India and is inspired by its diverse culture and natural beauty. Chitra has over 30 books in print worldwide and regularly goes into schools to tell stories and conduct workshops. Her book Pattan's Pumpkin was long-listed for the North Somerset Teacher's Book Award and chosen as a book in the Power of Reading series by CLPE. Veronica Montoya is an illustrator from Alicante, a little city in the south east of Spain. She has loved drawing and painting for as long as she can remember and thinks her main influences come from childhood inspirations. Veronica studied Fine Arts in Valencia and has two masters on Digital Creation and 2D Animation. If she's not illustrating, you can find her Price: $9.99 $11.99 walking by the sea with her little dog. ISBN: 9781472959713 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 I Am Not A Frog: A Bloomsbury Young Reader Maggie Pearson

Princess Imelda has come up with a great way to escape from the palace and see the world. However the king and queen are soon convinced that she's been turned into a frog. Will Imelda ever be able to make it back home? Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description Princess Imelda has come up with a way to escape from the boring old palace and see the world. But while she's gone, the king and queen are convinced that she's been turned into a frog. When the magician they've hired to change her back turns out to have a sinister plan, Imelda will have to do everything she can to prove that she is not a frog! This fairytale with a twist from highly successful author Maggie Pearson is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Natalia Moore and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: Lime Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Maggie Pearson has held a variety of jobs including being a barmaid, librarian and freelance journalist, and she now pursues a career as a highly successful children's writer. Her first novel, Owl Light, was short-listed for the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award and her more recent Shadow of the Beast was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal. Maggie is a lover of books, cryptic crosswords, going to the theatre and foreign travel. Natalia Moore is a qualified art teacher and a professional illustrator. Her work has been published in the UK, Amsterdam, South Korea and the United States. Natalia enjoys drawing from real-life and is never without her sketchbook.

Price: $9.99 $11.99 ISBN: 9781472959768 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Friendly Pirates: A Bloomsbury Young Reader Saviour Pirotta

Pirates Adam, Amy and Ali want to go to the big city but their ship is at the bottom of the ocean. So they climb on board a ship sailing past their island and hide in a hamper that's filled with tutus! They're in for an adventure filled with sea monsters and ballet dancers will they ever make it ashore? Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description The pirates Adam, Amy and Ali are tired of their quiet life on Cutlass Island and wish that they could go and live in the exciting, big city. So when they spot a ship, they climb on board and hide in a hamper filled with costumes... and tutus! Soon they're on an adventure filled with sea monsters, ballet dancers and a swindling pirate. Will they ever make it ashore? This swashbuckling, adventure-filled tale from bestselling author Saviour Pirotta is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Erica Salcedo and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: Purple Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Saviour Pirotta is originally from Malta and now lives in Scarborough, Yorkshire. He is the author of nearly one hundred titles, ranging from non-fiction about pirates to short novels. He is the author of The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths which has been published successfully around the world in countries as diverse as Italy, Greece, Brazil and Korea. Erica Salcedo studied Fine Art at Castilla-La Mancha University, before going on to study for a masters in Graphic Design. She uses a mixture of techniques to create her illustrations from hand-drawing to digital manipulation and always remembers to add a pinch of humour. She lives in Cuenca, Spain. Price: $9.99 $11.99 ISBN: 9781472959805 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Picture storybooks Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Golden Horseman of Baghdad Saviour Pirotta

A thrilling adventure set in Baghdad during the Golden Age of Islam from bestselling author Saviour Pirotta.

Description Written by bestselling author Saviour Pirotta, this fast-paced story is set in the Islamic Golden Age when Baghdad was the largest and most dazzling city in the world. Perfect for fans of thrilling adventure. Thirteen-year-old Jabir is hoping to save his family from being made homeless by finding work in Baghdad. Famished after his long journey to the city, Jabir is caught stealing bread and sent to prison. Luckily, one of the guards there notices that he has a gift for carving wooden models and he is released on the orders of the grand caliph Harun al Rashid himself. In return Jabir must carve twelve golden horsemen, a gift from the caliph to the emperor Charlemagne. But someone is determined to stop Jabir from completing the work and he will stop at nothing, not even arson, to achieve his aim. Can Jabir and his friend Yasmina finish the horsemen or will Jabir be sent back to prison? This exciting and readable adventure story is packed with great characters and insight into Islamic civilisation and the historic culture of the Middle East circa AD 900, a period which is now studied in the National Curriculum. The Flashbacks series offers dramatic stories set in key moments of history, perfect for introducing children to historical topics.

About the Author Saviour Pirotta is originally from Malta and now lives in Scarborough, Yorkshire. He is the author of nearly one hundred titles, ranging from non-fiction about pirates to short novels, as well as stories for children's magazines. He is the author of The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths which has been published successfully around the world in countries as diverse as Italy, Greece, Brazil and Korea.

Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781472955999 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x129mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise Katherine Rundell

An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell.

Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781526610072 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Epic Tales of Triumph and Adventure Simon Chesshire

An exciting and captivating collection of true tales about daring women and men from all over the world.

Description Prepare to meet 66 exceptionally brave adventurers in this celebration of monumental achievements from around the world. Mountaineers, conquerors, explorers, sailors, pilots and many others who accomplished amazing feats of bravery and triumph are waiting to be discovered in Simon Cheshire's outstanding, Epic Tales of Triumph and Adventures, vibrantly illustrated by Fatti Burke. These are the astonishing true stories of just a few of the world's most daring men and women who defied all odds to achieve their goals and make their dreams come true. Drive across the world, avoiding danger around every corner, with Aloha Wanderwell on The Million Dollar Wager, dive to the deepest depths of the dark and unexplored ocean with Jacques Piccard, climb to the highest peak of Mount Everest with Junko Tabei or tumble over Niagara Falls in a barrel with Annie Edson Taylor. There is no adventure too big or small for this fearless group of men and women! This collection of outstanding adventurers is sure to inspire the next generation of courageous risk takers. With bright and vibrant artwork from the effortlessly talented Fatti Burke, Epic Tales of Triumph and Adventure will make you want to reach for the stars - and don't let anyone stand in your way!

About the Author Simon Cheshire is known for his mystery and science fiction. He has also written non-fiction about writing for children, including Bloomsbury's How to Write a Story. He has a degree in Philosophy and Psychology and lives in Warwick with his wife and family. Fatti Burke is an illustrator with a combined love of mapmaking and travel. She loves creating beautiful and exciting things, including the award-winning Irelandopedia and Facts!: One for every day of the year. Originally from Co. Waterford, Fatti now lives and works in Amsterdam.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781526601124 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Brain-fizzing Facts: Awesome Science Questions Answered Emily Grossman

Why is your elbow called your funny bone? How could you escape the grip of a crocodile's jaw? Which animal can breathe through its bottom? And how do these things all link together? Science expert and STEM Ambassador Emily Grossman uncovers the answers to these and many of the weirdest, mind-fizzingly awesome and FUNNY science questions!

Description Why is your elbow called your funny bone? How could you escape the grip of a crocodile's jaw? Which animal can breathe through its bottom? And how do these things all link together? This brilliant book by the science expert Dr Emily Grossman will have eyebrows raised and jaws dropping as it uncovers the amazing scientific explanations behind all sorts of questions that can pop into our heads. Can an egg bounce? How can a giraffe's ridiculously long neck contain the same number of bones as a human's? How much does the Internet weigh? Written by science superstar and STEM Ambassador Emily Grossman, this book will answer all science questions you may or may not have wondered about. Each section in the book is linked to the one before it, creating a fantastically interactive structure, where a question answered brings up new curiosities and surprises. This is the perfect book for children who love learning about science or who need an extra nudge when it comes to STEM subjects. After all, who wouldn't want to find out how a hippo can use its own sweat as sunscreen?!

About the Author Emily Grossman loves science: she's an expert in molecular biology and genetics with a PhD in cancer research. She is a broadcaster, author, educator and trainer and has been a guest speaker on Sky News. She has been named as the second Honorary STEM Ambassador for her work in education and has become a YouTube sensation thanks to her video How to Stop Yourself Being Ticklish. Emily is known for being on a regular panel of science experts for Sky 1's fact- based panel show, Duck Quacks Don't Echo, hosted by Lee Mack. Alice Bowsher is a talented London-based illustrator and animator. She is the illustrator of the Natural History Museum's Jungle, Ocean, Forest, African Animals.

Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781408899175 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 234 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The If Machine, 2nd edition: 30 Lesson Peter Worley

Fully updated with new developments in the theory and practice of teaching philosophy, this new edition of the bestselling book, The If Machine, presents 30 clear, ready-to-use plans to teach philosophy in the classroom with children aged five to 13.

Description Fully updated edition with five brand new sessions and bonus features. Fully updated with new developments in the theory and practice of teaching philosophy, this new edition of the bestselling book, The If Machine, presents 30 clear, ready-to-use plans to teach philosophy in the classroom with children aged five to 13. Each tried-and-tested session offers an imaginary situation, followed by a series of questions to encourage children to challenge key philosophical ideas such as values and ethics, gender and identity, and existence and beauty. With a star system indicating the level of difficulty, this practical book by Peter Worley, founder of The Philosophy Foundation, outlines Peter's philosophical enquiry method, which he has developed over 20 years of teaching. This fantastic resource also includes a new hints and tips section, as well as a troubleshooting table with guidance and links to further resources about how to deal with common problems such as unanimity. Accompanied by a companion website featuring an introduction to the philosophy that inspired the ideas, The If Machine is a must-have resource for all classrooms.

About the Author Peter Worley is the co-CEO and co-founder of The Philosophy Foundation, a UK charity that specialises in teaching philosophy in primary and secondary schools. He is Resident Philosopher at six state primary schools in London, has over 20 years' experience in teaching and regularly gives talks and presentations about philosophy in schools. Peter is also a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London and President of SOPHIA, the European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children. Follow Peter on Twitter: @the_if_man.

Price: $39.99 $41.99 ISBN: 9781472969088 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 How Are You Feeling Today? Activity and Sticker Book Molly Potter

This delightful activity book, based on Molly Potter's bestselling title How Are You Feeling Today?, is filled with engaging activities that help children deal with their emotions in a positive way. Useful tips for parents and carers feature at the front of the book. Ideal for helping children understand and cope with different feelings, it includes stickers for that extra level of interaction and engagement.

Description This delightful activity book, based on Molly Potter's bestselling title How Are You Feeling Today?, is filled with lively illustrations and engaging activities about dealing with a whole range of emotions, from excitement and happiness to shyness and jealousy. We all have feelings; sometimes they feel comfortable and sometimes they feel uncomfortable. Can you sort them out and work out which emotion is which? And can you fill in a dot-to-dot boredom buster and draw a fluffy, smiling, happy monster? Use this book to explore how you are feeling and complete the activities with the colourful stickers! With useful tips for parents and carers about delivering emotional literacy at the front of the book, this activity and sticker book will help children get to grips with their emotions on a daily basis.

About the Author Molly Potter taught for 11 years in middle schools as a class teacher, science and PSHE coordinator. She then worked for several years as a SRE (Sex and Relationships Education) development manager, delivering teacher training and supporting primary schools in the development of their SRE programme and policy and many other aspects of PSHE. Molly now works as a teacher in a short-stay school with children that have been or are at risk of being excluded from mainstream schools putting much of her PSHE experience into practice. Sarah Jennings has been illustrating children's books since graduating in 2013. At a young age, she discovered a love of drawing and has been scribbling and sketching ever since. Sarah enjoys combining traditional and digital techniques to create her illustrations and particularly loves designing characters. She currently lives in London and works from her home studio in the company of her very cheeky three-legged cat.

Price: $8.99 $10.99 ISBN: 9781472966735 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: School/community relations & school/home relations Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Supporting Students with Numeracy Patricia Babtie

Dyscalculia experts Patricia Babtie and Sue Dillon present 100 ideas to help students with numeracy difficulties grasp the core skills required in the secondary curriculum, not just in maths but in other subjects including science, computing and geography. With tips for improving study skills, revision and exam techniques as well as using multi-sensory teaching, 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Supporting Students with Numeracy Difficulties is a must-have resource in every secondary classroom.

Description Dyscalculia experts Patricia Babtie and Sue Dillon present 100 ideas to help students with numeracy difficulties grasp the core skills required in the secondary curriculum, not just in maths but in other subjects including science, design and technology, computing and geography. Around 25 per cent of secondary school students have severe numeracy difficulties. These students are often anxious and fearful about using maths arising from a repeated failure to learn. This impacts their overall attainment. Patricia and Sue show how numeracy difficulties can be overcome using multi-sensory teaching and helping students with their study skills, revision and exam techniques. This dip-in-and-out book provides activities and games to encourage students to explore numerical ideas and discover underlying patterns across the secondary curriculum. These ideas help to develop an understanding of maths concepts and see their relevance in everyday life. 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Supporting Students with Numeracy Difficulties contains adaptable ideas that are relevant across the curriculum. It will help build confidence in learners, making it a must-have resource for all schools.

About the Author Patricia Babtie is a SEN teacher, lecturer and author who specialises in dyscalculia and numeracy difficulties. She has worked at Emerson House, a specialist centre in London, and in state and independent schools. She has written numerous books about numeracy difficulties, including bestsellers The Dyscalculia Assessment and The Dyscalculia Solution, presented at conferences and provided CPD training in the UK and internationally. Sue Dillon is currently Head of Learning Support in the middle and upper schools at Thomas's Battersea, London. She Price: $22.99 $24.99 has been Head of Learning Support for 12 years and specialises in teaching maths to pupils with learning difficulties. Sue ISBN: 9781472961099 Format: Paperback regularly delivers CPD training at her own school and other schools and organisations in London, and has advised on Dimensions: 0x0mm books written by Patricia Babtie and Jane Emerson. Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Numeracy strategies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Arts in Primary Education Kenya Ghislaine

Drawing on interviews with successful school leaders, case studies and her own extensive experience working in the education departments of the Courtauld Gallery, the National Gallery and Somerset House, Ghislaine Kenyon shows the importance of embedding the arts in primary schools. Using simple, inexpensive and practical ways to integrate the arts across the primary curriculum, The Arts in Primary Education is ideal for helping develop a whole-school arts curriculum to enrich learning and raise attainment in all subject areas.

Description Studying the arts, including visual arts, music, dance, drama and literature, has numerous benefits across the primary curriculum. A truly creative curriculum has the power to motivate and energise pupils; it develops creative and critical thinking, problem solving, language, and fine motor skills. But what is the best way to invest in and improve arts education across a school? Drawing on interviews with successful school leaders, case studies and her own extensive experience working in the education departments of the Courtauld Gallery, the National Gallery and Somerset House, Ghislaine Kenyon presents simple, inexpensive and practical ways to integrate the arts across the primary curriculum.

The Arts in Primary Education shows how resources already present in schools, such as picture books or the outdoor environment, can be used to develop a creative culture. With a focus on long-term initiatives including partnerships with art institutions and the training and personal development of teachers, the book also presents clear and accessible explanations of the benefits of integrating the arts across a school. Backed by research and evidence and complete with images and descriptions of artworks, this guide is ideal for helping develop a whole-school arts curriculum to enrich learning and raise attainment in all subject areas.

About the Author Ghislaine Kenyon began her career as a primary school teacher before working in the education departments of numerous art galleries in London, including the Courtauld Gallery. She subsequently became Head of Education at the National Gallery and then Head of Learning at Somerset House. Ghislaine now delivers CPD and INSET training to teachers in primary schools in London and Birmingham. Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781472961051 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Curriculum planning & development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Just Great Teaching: How to tackle the top ten issues in UK classrooms

Ross Morrison McGill, bestselling author of Mark. Plan. Teach. and Teacher Toolkit, pinpoints the top ten key issues that schools in Great Britain are facing today, including marking and assessment, teacher wellbeing, student mental health, and behaviour and exclusions. Using research collected from ten primary and secondary schools, Ross provides strategies, ideas and techniques for how these issues can be tackled most effectively.

Description Ross Morrison McGill, bestselling author of Mark. Plan. Teach. and Teacher Toolkit, pinpoints the top ten key issues that schools in Great Britain are facing today, and provides strategies, ideas and techniques for how these issues can be tackled most effectively. We often talk about the challenges of teacher recruitment and retention, about new initiatives and political landscapes, but day in, day out, teachers and schools are delivering exceptional teaching and most of it is invisible. Ross uncovers, celebrates, analyses and disseminates best practice in teaching. This is supported by case studies and research undertaken by Ross in ten primary and secondary schools across Great Britain, including a pupil referral unit and private, state and grammar schools, as well as explanations from influential educationalists as to why and how these ideas work. Ross explores the issues of marking and assessment, planning, teaching and learning, teacher wellbeing, student mental health, behaviour and exclusions, SEND, curriculum, research-led practice and CPD. This book inspires readers to open their eyes to how particular problems can be resolved and how other schools are already doing this effectively. It is packed with ideas and advice for all primary and secondary classroom teachers and school leaders keen to provide the best education they possibly can for our young people today.

About the Author Ross Morrison McGill, aka @TeacherToolkit, is the most followed teacher on Twitter in the UK. His practical, inspiring lesson ideas are what make him so successful. His 5 Minute Lesson Plan is used by teachers all over the world! In 2015 he was listed in the Debrett's 500 as one of the 'most influential people in Britain'. He is the bestselling author of 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Lessons, Teacher Toolkit and Mark. Plan. Teach., and is currently studying Price: $27.99 $29.99 for a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. ISBN: 9781472964236 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Education Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Reeds Marine Surveying Thomas Ask, Valerio de Rossi

Covers the latest in marine surveying technology, and aimed at students of marine surveying, professional marine surveyors, boatyard operators and technically-minded boat owners.

Description Reeds Marine Surveying is aimed at students of marine surveying, professional marine surveyors, boatyard operators and technically-minded boat owners, and covers the latest marine surveying technology, including analysis of the mechanical behaviour of materials, failure analysis, stress concentration, fatigue and fracture, corrosion, wood-damaging organisms, polymer chemistry, and the composition and characteristics of common plastics, metal, alloys and composite materials.

This new edition expands its scope to include coverage of surveying topics relevant to ships and class surveying and includes more examples of common problems and the practical elements of surveying, as well as be updated throughout in line with technological developments, guidelines and best practice.

Reeds Marine Surveying has been in print for nearly twenty years and excellently serves the community of marine surveyors by providing technically robust presentations of this discipline. It extends the inquiry of inspection and safety beyond anecdote and into foundation principles and technologies.

About the Author Dr Thomas Ask is Professor of Industrial Design at Penn College, USA and Principal of Ask and Associates. Previous positions include Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Marine Technology) at the Technical University of Malaysia, Vice President of Engineering at Odin Systems International, and Senior Engineer at Ingersoll Rand. Dr Ask has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois, an MA in Liberal Studies from Excelsior College, USA, a Doctorate of Professional Studies in Industrial Design from Middlesex University, and a Graduate Management Certificate from Cornell University, USA. He is also a licensed Professional Engineer (USA).

Dr Valerio De Rossi is Marine Manager for an international offshore drilling contractor based in Dubai, UAE. With a career Price: $79.99 $84.99 ISBN: 9781472960122 spanning over 28 years in the maritime and offshore oil and gas industry, Valerio De Rossi has held position such as Format: Paperback - Demy format Ship's Captain, Offshore Installation Manager, Marine Superintendent and Marine Consultant. Dr De Rossi is a licensed Dimensions: 0x0mm Master Mariner, has a MSc in marine operations and safety management and a Doctorate of Professional Studies in Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Marine engineering Marine Safety Management, both from the Middlesex University in London (UK). He is also a Chartered Marine Bic2: Technologist (UK) and Member of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 RSPB Spotlight Sparrows Amy-Jane Beer

RSPB Spotlight: Sparrows is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist

Description Sparrows are often considered familiar to the point of invisibility, but the recent steep decline in numbers of both native British species is a reminder that these unassuming chatterboxes deserve a little more attention.

Of all the true sparrow species found worldwide, only two occur in the British Isles. Globally, the story of the House Sparrow is one of dramatic expansion: from humble origins in the Middle East where they spread, along with agriculture, to become the most widely distributed bird on the planet. The smaller, more active Tree Sparrow has also spread extensively, following the domestication of rice rather than wheat, and both species have been heavily persecuted in recent years. In Spotlight Sparrows, Amy-Jane Beer examines the causes behind the decline of these familiar species, and explores their biology and life cycle, social behaviour, and the significant role that sparrows play in human culture, from Shakespeare and Edith Piaf to Captain Jack Sparrow. The Spotlight series introduces readers to the lives and behaviour of our favourite animals with eye-catching colour photography and informative expert text.

About the Author Amy-Jane Beer has written more than 30 books about science and natural history including Cool Nature and The A Z of Wildlife Watching. Her expertise has also seen her edit at a number of wildlife publications including Animals, Animals, Animals and Wildlife World magazine. Beer is a Country Diarist for The Guardian, and is a feature writer for BBC Wildlife magazine, BBC Countryfile and the Yorkshire Post.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781472955937 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 RSPB Spotlight Frogs and Toads Jules Howard

RSPB Spotlight: Frogs and Toads is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos and features succinct, detailed text written by Jules Howard, an acknowledged expert on these amphibians.

Description They were bestowed with magical properties in folklore, they were sought after as ingredients of witches' broth, and they are comic characters that have invaded popular culture, from Kermit the Frog to Toad of Toad Hall. Frogs and toads are charismatic members of Britain's wildlife. But what do you really know about them? Scratch beneath the surface, and you will discover some of nature's weirdest creatures, amphibians whose ecology we are only now coming to understand. Spotlight Frogs and Toads is a compelling account of Britain's four native amphibian species: the Common Frog, the Pool Frog, the Common Toad and the rare and secretive Natterjack Toad. New research suggests that, in the next ten years, three out of four UK species are likely to be listed as threatened. Revealing a host of secrets, including how they migrate, what they eat, and how they got to the UK in the first place, Jules Howard inspires us all to look down, rather than up, in spring. The Spotlight series introduces readers to the lives and behaviour of our favourite animals with eye-catching colour photographs and informative expert text.

About the Author Jules Howard is a UK-based wildlife expert, zoology correspondent, science writer, blogger and presenter. He writes for the Guardian, BBC Wildlife Magazine and on radio and regularly contributes to the BBC. Part of the freshwater conservation sector for more than ten years, Jules has been involved in creating hundreds of pond projects, specialising in accessible educational ponds that offer people opportunities to see, study and discover the wildlife beneath. Jules is also a patron of Froglife, the national wildlife charity.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781472955814 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Gemstones: Identifying and using the world's most fabulous gems Judith Crowe

Identify your gemstone and find out all about it.

Description Discover the treatments, imitations, pricing, cuts, sources, and appraisal of gems. Jewellers and designer goldsmiths, lapidaries and gem cutters, stone setters, gemologists, geologists, collectors and people who buy and sell jewellery at antique fairs and on the internet, this book is for anyone who has ever had a gemstone and wanted identification and information. Featuring a mix of gemstones and gem-set jewellery, it puts gems in context and contains historical context for those buying and selling antique and vintage gem-set jewellery, including details of the stones typically found in Georgian, Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco settings. Packed with fascinating gemological details and up-to-minute data on more than 70 of the most exquisite gemstones, and written by leading expert, Judith Crowe, learn the common pitfalls in identifying stones and clarify areas of confusion and misidentification.

About the Author p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica} Judith Crowe has been a teacher, gem-dealer, and bespoke jeweller for nearly 20 years, and designs and produces one-off pieces of gem-set jewellery. This is her second book on gemstones, her first book The Jeweller's Directory of Gemstones is widely used by the trade, collectors, and jewellery lovers.

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781912217854 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Precious metal, precious stones & jewellery: artworks & design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Herbert Press AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Atlas of the Blitzkrieg: 1939-41 Robert Kirchubel

Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, this stunning, slip-cased collection of cartography offers a detailed insight into the German Blitzkrieg that overran Europe in the early years of World War II.

Description In August 1939, Nazi Germany launched its infamous Blitzkrieg invasion of Poland, bringing about the outbreak of World War II. Faced with highly tactical and accelerated attacks aimed at disrupting the line of defence and encircling vulnerable troops, Allied forces broke under pressure. Within the space of a year, France had been invaded and occupied, while the forces of Great Britain had retreated headlong back across the Channel. Further campaigns in the air and at sea sought to subdue the British Isles, while more lightning-fast attacks in 1941 overran Yugoslavia and Greece, leaving the bulk of Continental Europe under Nazi control. Though the dominance of the Blitzkrieg method was to be challenged in the latter part of the war, as Allied forces found methods of disrupting the attacks and dominating the battlefields, its unparalleled success in the early years of the conflict brought Europe to its knees.

Featuring 107 detailed maps, this impressive atlas shows, in intricate detail, the fighting and physical challenges faced by the German attackers and Allied defenders. This will be a treasure for World War II enthusiasts and collectors alike.

About the Author Robert Kirchubel has had a keen interest in the history of World War II all his adult life. He has already contributed work to World War Two in Europe and World War Two in the Pacific, and The International Military Encyclopaedia. He has previously compiled the Atlas of the Eastern Front for Osprey. He lives in Lafayette, Indiana.

Price: $79.99 $84.99 ISBN: 9781472834997 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Battle of Berlin 1943-44: Bomber Harris' gamble to end the war Richard Worrall

This illustrated study explores, in detail, the controversial Battle of Berlin, RAF Bomber Command's costly, brutal attempt to prove that strategic bombing alone could bring an end to World War II.

Description Throughout late-1943 into early-1944, an epic struggle raged over the skies of Germany between RAF Bomber Command and the Luftwaffe. This campaign had been undertaken by the Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, and was baptized 'The Battle of Berlin'.

The Berlin campaign was a hard, desperate slog. Struggling against dreadful and bitter winter weather, Bomber Command 'went' to Berlin a total of sixteen times, suffering increasingly severe losses throughout the winter of 1943/44 in the face of a revitalized German air-defence. The campaign remains controversial and the jury, even today, is ultimately undecided as to what it realistically achieved. Illustrated throughout with full-colour artwork depicting the enormous scale of the campaign, this is the story of the RAF's much debated attempt to win the war through bombing alone.

About the Author Dr Richard Worrall teaches at the Department of History, Politics & Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, and has taught history for over ten years, most recently in Singapore, and previously at the London School of Economics and Manchester Metropolitan University. His PhD from the University of Oxford focused on British strategic and military history, and he also holds an MA in Imperial and Commonwealth History from King's College London, and a BSc in International History from the LSE.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472835222 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 British Escort Carriers 1941-45 Angus Konstam

This is the fully-illustrated story of the Royal Navy's escort carriers which battled against deadly U-Boats during the Battle of the Atlantic, giving vital air cover to the convoys that kept Britain alive in World War II.

Description In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain's maritime lifeline. Facing a shortage of traditional aircraft carriers and shore-based aircraft, the Royal Navy, as a stopgap measure, converted merchant ships into small 'escort carriers'. These were later joined by a growing number of American-built escort carriers, sent as part of the Lend-Lease agreement.

The typical Escort Carrier was small, slow and vulnerable, but it could carry about 18 aircraft, which gave the convoys a real chance to detect and sink dangerous U-Boats. Collectively, their contribution to an Allied victory was immense, particularly in the long and gruelling campaigns fought in the Atlantic and Arctic. Illustrated throughout with detailed full- colour artwork and contemporary photographs, this fascinating study explores in detail how these adaptable ships had such an enormous impact on the outcome of World War II's European Theatre.

About the Author Angus Konstam hails from the Orkney Islands, and is the author of over 100 history books, 60 of which are published by Osprey. This acclaimed author has written widely on naval history, from Sovereigns of the Seas and Piracy: The Complete History to his most recent bestseller, Jutland 1916: Twelve Hours to Win the War. A former naval officer and museum professional, he worked as the Curator in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London and the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida. He now works as a full-time author and historian, and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781472836250 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 D-Day Jack Chambers

D-Day is a vibrant and evocative graphic novel exploring the events of the pivotal Normandy Landings from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground.

Description 6 June, 1944: a vast armada stands off the coast of Normandy; in the pre-dawn gloom gliders carrying British airborne troops approach their target. The first shots are about to be fired in 'the Great Crusade' to free Europe from Nazi occupation and thousands of troops will fight their way ashore in the teeth of deadly machine-gun and artillery fire from the German defenders. D-Day is about to begin. The Normandy landings are brought alive in this electrifying graphic novel that tells the story of that Longest Day through the eyes of the men who were there. Discover an epic struggle as the Allies sought to overwhelm the German defenders by land, sea and air, who in turn battled desperately to drive the invasion back into the sea. Covering the full range of events from the earliest airborne assault through the struggle on the beaches and the desperate effort to establish a bridgehead inland, D-Day blends an authentic historical narrative with master illustration to reveal the full story of the day that changed the course of World War II.

About the Author From Norwich, UK, Jack Chambers is a writer, podcaster, and musician. His work has been published in the British Showcase Anthology, and $#%@ Flingers. When not writing or playing RPGs, Jack plays bass in the Norwich-based metal band, Monster City.

Raised on a steady diet of B-movies, science fiction, fantasy, and comic books, Erik Hendrix has become a mad-scientist creator and world-builder in his writing career. These days, he spends most of his time project managing and editing comics when he's not writing. He currently resides in Southern California with his wife, Amanda, son, and two pups. Esteve Polls started working in comics in 1965 at 15 with a soccer-themed title for a Scottish publisher, and never stopped working. In recent years, his work has included El Zorro and The Lone Ranger for Dynamic Forces.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472838780 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 332 pages Bic1: Graphic novels Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Desperate Sunset: Japan's kamikazes against Allied ships, 1944-45 Mike Yeo

In a last desperate bid to stave off defeat, Japan's High Command launched the terrifying kamikaze attacks. This fully illustrated book examines Imperial Japan's last throw of the dice.

Description Fully illustrated throughout, Desperate Sunset examines the development and evolution of the kamikaze using first-hand accounts, combat reports and archived histories. By the middle of 1944, Imperial Japan's armed forces were in an increasingly desperate situation. Its elite air corps had been wiped out over the Solomons in 1942 43, and its navy was a shadow of the force that had attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. But the Japanese had one last, desperate, card to play.

The Japanese High Command decided that the way to inflict maximum damage on the superior enemy forces was to get the poorly trained Japanese pilots to crash their explosive-laden aircraft onto their target, essentially turning themselves into a guided missile. The kamikazes announced themselves in the immediate aftermath of the Leyte Gulf naval battles, sinking the USS St. Lo and damaging several other ships. The zenith of the kamikaze came in the battle of Okinawa, which included ten kikusui (Floating Chrysanthemum) operations which involved up to several hundred aircraft attacking the US fleet.

About the Author Mike Yeo is a Singaporean aviation enthusiast and a keen student of aviation history and the Pacific War who is currently based in Melbourne, Australia. He has studied World War II military aviation, with a particular focus on the Pacific War campaign. He is a freelance military/defence journalist specialising in the Asia-Pacific region, and has written for Shephard Media, the United States Naval Institute, Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, Aviation International News, Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter and Asian Military Review.

Price: $69.99 $74.99 ISBN: 9781472829412 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Dornier Do 17 Units of World War 2 Chris Goss

Illustrated throughout with detailed artwork, this book examines the Do 17, also known as the 'Flying Pencil', a common and feared sight in the European skies, including over southern England during the Battle of Britain.

Description Initially designed as a high-speed mail aeroplane and airliner, the Do 17 first made an appearance as a military aircraft in the Spanish Civil War, both as a bomber and in reconnaissance roles. In the early stages of World War II, it, together with the Heinkel He 111, formed the backbone of the German bomber arm over Poland, France, Belgium and the Low Countries, and saw action in almost every major campaign in this period. However, by the start of the Battle of Britain, the Do 17's limited range and small bomb load meant that it was ripe for replacement by the Ju 88. Though it performed well at lower altitudes, the model suffered heavy losses during raids, particularly during the Blitz and were increasingly phased out. This fully illustrated study uses detailed full-colour artwork and authoritative text from an expert author to tell the full operation story of one of Nazi Germany's best light bombers from the early years of World War II.

About the Author Chris Goss is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who has studied the 1939 45 air war over north-west Europe for many years, specializing in Luftwaffe air operations. He has amassed a substantial collection of original wartime material and photographs as a result of interviews and extensive correspondence with veterans and their families. Chris has written more than 22 books such as Bloody Biscay, Brothers in Arms and The Luftwaffe's Blitz, that have been critically acclaimed for their research and been published in Swedish, Hungarian, Spanish and Czech as well as in English. He has already written several books for Osprey. He lives in Buckinghamshire, UK.

Chris Davey has illustrated more than 70 titles for Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces, Combat Aircraft and Elite Units series since 1994. Based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and one of the last traditional airbrush artists in the business, he has become the artist of choice for both USAAF fighters and RAF subject matter, proving his undoubted skill when dealing with large aircraft subjects such as the Halifax and Sunderland.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472829634 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Hunt the Bismarck: The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship Angus Konstam

A brand-new narrative account of one of World War II's most exciting chase stories, the pursuit of the legendary German battleship, Bismarck.

Description Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinobung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany's largest battleship in May 1941.

Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armoured protection earned her the reputation of being unsinkable. This claim was finally put to the test in May 1941, when she sortied into the Atlantic and fought the legendary battle of the Denmark Strait, destroying HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy. Bismarck was now loose in the North Atlantic. However, damage sustained in the battle limited her ability to roam at will, while the Royal Navy deployed the Home Fleet to revenge the Hood. The stage was set for the greatest chase story in the history of naval warfare.

Drawing on a wealth of first-hand accounts, and intertwining extensive research into a fast-paced narrative, this is the most readable and accurate account of Bismarck's epic voyage ever produced.

About the Author Angus Konstam is a well-established historian, and the author of over 80 books, 60 of which are published by Osprey. These include the Osprey campaign title Bismarck 1941, and several New Vanguard titles covering British warships of World War 2. His other naval books include Jutland: Twelve Hours to Win the War, The Battle of North Cape, Sovereigns of the Sea, Battleship Bismarck and History of Piracy. A former naval officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, he is now a full-time author, specialising in maritime and military history. He lives in Edinburgh, UK.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472833860 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Second World War Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Jet Prototypes of World War II: Gloster, Heinkel, and Caproni Campini'swartime jet programmes Tony Butler

From the Heinkel He 178 to the Caproni Camini N.1, this is the authoritative illustrated guide to the revolutionary aircraft that led to start of the military jet age.

Description While World War II raged, pioneering aircraft and engine designers were busy developing the world's first practical jet- powered research aircraft to test and prove the new technology. This book examines the aircraft that paved the way for Germany's Me 262 and Britain's Meteor - the world's first jet fighters. Throughout the war, Germany, Italy and Britain engaged in top-secret jet programmes as they raced to develop the airpower of the future. Various experimental aircraft were trialled in order to achieve the goal of producing an effective engine and fighter that could harness the potential of the jet power. These included the German Heinkel He 178 research aircraft and Heinkel He 280 jet fighter prototype, the famed British E.28/39 research aircraft built by Gloster Aircraft as well as the stillborn E.5/42 fighter and E.1/44 Ace fighter prototype, and finally the remarkable Italian Caproni-Campini N.1/CC 2 research aircraft. Illustrated throughout with full-colour artwork and rare photographs, this fascinating study examines the fore-runners to the military jet age.

About the Author Tony Buttler joined High Duty Alloys in 1974 as a metallurgist and for nearly 20 years was involved in the testing of aluminium and titanium airframe and engine components. After leaving HDA, he earned his Masters degree in Archives and Library Studies at Loughborough University, and in 1996 began his career as an aviation historian. He has since written 30 books and numerous articles, and has become particularly well known for his work on prototypes and secret projects. He lives in Worcestershire, UK.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472835987 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51 Bill Yenne

General Douglas MacArthur ended World War II controlling one of the most powerful air forces in the world. This new history traces its development from its origins in the Philippines through to its eventual victory in the skies over Japan and its key role in the Korean War.

Description General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventh) under his command possessed 4,004 combat aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft and 922 transports. After being humbled by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, MacArthur and his air chief General George Kenney rebuilt the US aerial presence in the Pacific, helping Allied naval and ground forces to push back the Japanese Air Force, re-take the Philippines, and carry the war north towards the Home Islands. Following the end of World War II MacArthur was the highest military and political authority in Japan, and at the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 he was named as Commander in Chief, United Nations Command. In the ten months of his command his Far East Air Forces increased dramatically and saw the first aerial combat between jet fighters.

Written by award-winning aviation historian Bill Yenne, this engrossing book traces the journey of American air forces in the Pacific under General MacArthur's command, from their lowly beginnings to their eventual triumph over Imperial Japan, followed by their entry into the jet age in the skies over Korea.

About the Author Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen non-fiction books, as well as ten novels. His work has been selected for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List. He is the recipient of the Air Force Association's Gill Robb Wilson Award for the 'most outstanding contribution in the field of arts and letters (as an) author whose works have shaped how thousands of Americans understand and appreciate airpower.' He lives in California, USA.

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472833235 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Second World War Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Nieuwpoort 1600: The First Modern Battle Bouko de Groot

A highly illustrated study of the battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600, one of the key engagements of the Eighty Years War. It will appeal to all enthusiasts of 16th and 17th century warfare and the development of military strategy generally.

Description The Eighty Years' War began as a limited Dutch rebellion seeking only religious tolerance from their Spanish overlords, but it quickly escalated into one of the longest wars in European history. Spain's failed invasion of 1599 and the mutinies that followed convinced Dutch leaders that they now should go on the offensive. This campaign pitted two famous leaders' sons against each other: Maurice of Nassau and Archduke Albert VII. One led an unproven new model army, the other Spain's 'unbeatable' Tercios, each around 11,000-men strong. The Dutch wanted to land near Nieuwpoort, take it and then march on to Dunkirk, northern home port of the Spanish fleet, but they were cut off by the resurgent and reunited Spanish army. The two forces then met on the beach and in the dunes north of Nieuwpoort. This book uses specially commissioned artwork to reveal one of the greatest battles of the Eighty Years' War one whose influence on military theory and practice ever since has been highly significant.

About the Author Bouko de Groot has a BA in Art History and an MA in Egyptology. He has served in the army and is a published author of a number of academic, popular scientific and business journalistic articles. When not writing about current affairs, he continues to study and write about military history. He is Dutch and currently lives in The Hague. Peter Dennis was inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn, leading him to study Illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472830814 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Sioux Warrior vs US Cavalryman: The Little Bighorn campaign 1876 -77 Ron Field

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and full-colour maps, this absorbing study investigates the origins, fighting techniques, and battlefield performance of the combatants on both sides during the Black Hills War of 1876 77.

Description Following the discovery of gold deposits, in December 1875 the US Government ordered the indigenous population of the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota and Wyoming, the Sioux, to return to the Great Sioux Reservation. When the Sioux refused, the US Army sent forces into the area, sparking a conflict that would make Lieutenant Colonel George Custer, Chief Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and others household names around the world.

Examining a series of engagements in the Black Hills War, including Rosebud, Little Bighorn, and Slim Buttes, this fully illustrated study assesses the forces fighting on both sides in this momentous campaign, casting light on the origins, tactics, armament, and battlefield performance of the US Cavalry and their Sioux opponents at the height of the Indian Wars.

About the Author Ron Field is an internationally acknowledged expert on US military history. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1982, he taught History at Piedmont High School in California from 1982 to 1983, and was then Head of History at the Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water, UK, until his retirement in 2007. In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in Washington, DC, and was awarded its Emerson Writing Award in 2013. He lives in Gloucestershire, UK.

Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializes in detailed historical reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, the Ancient Greeks, Roman battle tactics, several 19th-century American subjects, the modern Chinese Army, and a number of books in the Fortress series. Price: $32.99 $34.99 He lives in East Sussex, UK. ISBN: 9781472831880 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank James Kinnear, Stephen L. Sewell

A highly illustrated study of the T-55 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War.

Description The T-55 is one of the most iconic weapons created by the Soviets during the Cold War and also one of the most widely deployed weapons in history. Like its younger brother, the T-54, the T-55 enjoyed a long career in the Red Army and even into the early days of the reformed Russian Army. Under their control it saw very little combat use or deployments, but it was widely sold to other nations and participated in many of the wars and combat operations from the mid-1960s to the present. The T-55 has been employed in almost every conflict in the Middle East and Africa from its introduction into service. Even today the tank is still employed by both sides in the Syrian Civil War, and they are also in service with Kurdish forces in the struggle against ISIS in the northern part of Iraq. Containing more than 400 stunning contemporary and modern photographs, and written by two experts on Soviet armour, this authoritative book tells the complete story of the T-55, one of the most widely produced tanks of all time.

About the Author Stephen L. 'Cookie' Sewell was born in New York State and is a retired US Army Chief Warrant Officer and Department of the Army intelligence analyst. He was trained in the Vietnamese and Russian languages and has been an active Russian linguist since 1974. He has also been an enthusiastic scale modeller since the age of 5 and has built numerous models of armoured vehicles, specializing in Russian, Soviet and American tanks and armoured vehicles. He was the founder of the Armor Model and Preservation Society in 1992. While author of numerous intelligence articles, he has also written extensively on American and Soviet armour and provided a great deal of information to other authors on topics that include Korean and Vietnamese air war activities. He lives in Aberdeen, Maryland.

James Kinnear was born in Great Britain and has researched the topic of Soviet and Russian military hardware since his first visit to the Soviet Union as a young teenager. He subsequently lived and worked in the post-Soviet Russian Federation and the other states of the former Soviet Union throughout the entire period of post-Soviet 'stability', the two decades between the Soviet Union being considered a military threat and the Russian Federation finding itself again Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472838551 categorized as such in recent history. James has written hundreds of articles on Soviet and Russian technology. He is a Format: Hard Cover formal contributor to IHS Jane's defence yearbooks and has published books on Soviet military technology with Dimensions: 0x0mm Barbarossa, Darlington, Osprey and Tankograd. He now lives in the Algarve, Portugal. Extent: 196 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 1.9092e+09 Robert Forsyth

A fully illustrated study into the fighting between the Tempest V and Fw 190D-9, two aircraft that represented the cutting edge and pinnacle of British and German piston-engined aircraft in the late years of World War II.

Description Arguably two of the finest piston-engined fighters ever built, the Tempest V and Fw 190D-9 raised the bar in terms of aircraft design and operational capability during World War II. The long-nosed 'Dora 9', designed by Kurt Tank, first appeared in the skies over the Western and Eastern Fronts in the late summer of 1944. Fast, and with an exceptional rate of climb, it quickly bettered almost every fighter that the RAF, USAAF and Soviet Red Air Force could field. The Hawker Tempest V entered service in early 1944, initially proving itself a stalwart performer when it was deployed to intercept V1 flying bombs over southern England. From the autumn of 1944, the Tempest V also equipped squadrons of the 2nd Tactical Air Force, operating in support of the Allied armies advancing across north-west Europe. It became a potent ground-attack aircraft, armed with underwing rockets, but also a first-class interceptor when pitted against the Luftwaffe's advanced Fw 190D-9 and Me 262. Featuring full colour artwork, this book describes in fascinating detail combats between the Tempest Vs of No 274 Sqn and the Fw 190D-9s of I. and III./JG 26 between February and April 1945.

About the Author Robert Forsyth is an author, editor and publisher, specializing in military aviation and military history. Born in Berkshire, England, he is the author of several books on the aircraft and units of the Luftwaffe, an interest he has held since boyhood. His articles have appeared in The Aviation Historian, Aeroplane Monthly, Aviation News and FlyPast and he is a member of the Editorial Board of The Aviation Historian. He lives in East Sussex, UK.

Jim Laurier is a native of New England, growing up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000, and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in these volumes. He lives in Keene, New Hampshire.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472829252 Gareth Hector is a digital artist of international standing as well as an aviation history enthusiast. Gareth completed the Format: Paperback battlescene artwork and cover artwork for this volume. He lives in Perthshire, UK. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus: 3rd Century BC Nicholas Sekunda

Fully illustrated story of the army of the Greek king who fought both Rome and Carthage in the 280s 270s BC, and gave the world the phrase 'a Pyrrhic victory' for a success so costly that it counts as a defeat.

Description Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire. After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion, in particular against the region's rising power: Rome. Gathering both Greek and Italian allies into a very large army (which included war-elephants), he crossed to Italy in 280 BC, but lost most of his force in a series of costly victories at Heraclea and Asculum, as well as a storm at sea. After a campaign in Sicily against the Carthaginians, he was defeated by the Romans at Beneventum and was forced to withdraw. Undeterred, he fought wars in Macedonia and Greece, the last of which cost him his life. Fully illustrated with detailed colour plates, this is the story of one of the most renowned warrior-kings of the post-Alexandrian age, whose costly encounters with Republican Rome have become a byword for victory won at unsustainable cost.

About the Author Nicholas Sekunda was born in 1953. After studying Ancient History and Archaeology at Manchester University, he went on to take his PhD in 1981. He has taken part in archaeological excavations in Poland, Iran, and Greece, and participated in a research project on ancient Persian warfare for the British Institute of Persian Studies. He has published numerous books and academic articles, and is currently teaching at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Torun, Poland. Peter Dennis was inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn, leading him to study Illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781472833488 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Glorious First of June 1794 Mark Lardas

A highly illustrated account of the first and largest fleet action between the navies of Great Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Description As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its Caribbean colonies and the United States, the French government decided to organize a massive convoy to bring the New World's bounty to France. However, in order to succeed in their mission, the French Navy would have to make a deadly crossing over the North Atlantic, an ocean patrolled by the Royal Navy, the most powerful navy force in the world, whose sailors were eager to inflict a damaging defeat on Revolutionary France and win their fortune in prize money.

Illustrated throughout with stunning full-colour artwork, this is the full story of the only fleet action during the Age of Fighting Sail fought in the open ocean, hundreds of miles from shore. Taking place over the course of a month, the inevitable battle was to be a close-run affair, with both sides claiming victory. To the French, it was le Bataille du 13 prairial, a notable day in their new, scientific Revolutionary calendar. For the British, it was the Glorious First of June.

About the Author Mark Lardas holds a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, but spent his early career at the Johnson Space Center doing Space Shuttle structural analysis, and space navigation. An amateur historian and a long-time ship modeler, Mark Lardas is currently working in League City, Texas. He has written extensively about modeling as well as naval, maritime, and military history. Edouard Groult grew up inspired by watching historical documentaries with his father and developed a fascination for historical and fantasy art. Following art studies in both Paris and Belgium he worked as a concept artist in the videogame industry and in recent years has also undertaken historical commissions while working as a freelancer for historical magazines. He lives and works in Oxford, UK.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472834843 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Long March 1934-35: The rise of Mao and the beginning of modern China Benjamin Lai

This study tells the epic story of how a routed group of Chinese Communists marched tens of thousands of miles with Mao on a journey that would lead to their eventual triumph and rule of the whole of China.

Description Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek routed the Chinese Communists and some 80,000 men, women and children left their homes to walk with Mao Zedong into the unknown. Mao's force had to endure starvation, harsh climates, and challenging terrain whilst under constant aerial bombardment and threatened by daily skirmishes. The Long March survivors had to cross 24 rivers and 18 mountain ranges, through freezing snow and disease-ridden wilderness to reach their safe-haven of Yan'an. In military terms, the Long March was the longest continuous march in the history of warfare and it came as a terrible cost after one year, 6,000 miles and countless battles, fewer than 4,000 of the original marchers were left. Illustrated with stunning full-colour artwork, this enthralling book tells the full story this epic display of resilience, and shows how, from the desert plateau of Yan'an, these survivors would grow the army that conquered China 14 years on, changing history forever.

About the Author Benjamin Lai was born in Hong Kong, educated in the UK, and went on to serve as an officer in the British Territorial Army in the 1980s and 1990s. Fluent in both Chinese and English, he currently works as a development and business consultant in China.

Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializes in detailed historical reconstructions and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, the Ancient Greeks, Roman battle tactics, several 19th-century American subjects, the modern Chinese Army, and a number of books in the Fortress series. His work features in exhibitions and publications throughout the world. He lives in East Sussex, UK.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472834010 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Royal Dragoon Guards: A Regimental History, 1685-2018 Peter Macfarlane

A regimental history of the Royal Dragoon Guards, who have fought in all of Britain's major wars, and have an operational service record spanning more than three centuries.

Description The Royal Dragoon Guards have a long and distinguished history dating from 1685. Originally raised as regiments of horse and dragoons, they were subsequently designated as the 4th, 5th and 7th Dragoon Guards and the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. They fought in all of Britain's major wars from the late 17th century onwards, charging at Blenheim with Marlborough's cavalry, at Waterloo with the Union Brigade, and at Balaklava with the Heavy Brigade. In the 19th century, they also saw service in India and Africa. All four regiments served in France and Flanders during the First World War and one regiment fired the first British shot on the Western Front. They were then amalgamated into two regiments the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. Both regiments were mechanised shortly before the Second World War, in which they played a leading role in the D-Day landings. In 1992, the two regiments amalgamated again to form the Royal Dragoon Guards. Recent conflicts have taken the regiment to Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing a record of operational service covering more than three centuries. This regimental history of the Dragoons tells their story as it played out across the centuries, exploring their role in both major and minor conflicts of the last 300 years. The title examines the development of the regiment up to the present day and highlights key figures across its history. The text is supported throughout with photographs and illustrations.

About the Author Peter Macfarlane was commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1989. He served with the regiment and its successor, the Royal Dragoon Guards, in Germany and Britain and on active service in Northern Ireland and Iraq. He was asked by the Colonel of the Royal Dragoon Guards to write this short history in order to record the regiment's exploits for new generations. He lives in the UK.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472838599 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Now publishing in paperback, this is a vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly approach the Japanese Home Islands against fearsome opposition, notably from the suicidal Japanese airmen: the kamikaze.

Description The United States Navy won such overwhelming victories in 1944 that, had the navy faced a different enemy, the war would have been over at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

However, in the moment of victory on 25 October 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting a frightening enemy that had been unimaginable until it appeared. The kamikaze, 'divine wind' in Japanese, was something Americans were totally unprepared for a shocking violation of every belief held in the West. The attacks were terrifying. Regardless of the damage inflicted on an attacking aeroplane, there was no certainty of safety aboard the ship until that aeroplane was completely destroyed, as the crew of the USS St. Lo tragically learned.

From best-selling author Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, Tidal Wave combines expert research and first-person accounts to tell the story of the naval campaigns in the Pacific from Leyte Gulf to the end of the war a period in which the US Navy would fight harder for survival than ever before.

About the Author Thomas McKelvey Cleaver is the author of the well-received and best-selling Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15, a history of the US Navy's top-scoring carrier air group in World War II, published by Casemate. He is additionally the author of F4F and F6F Aces of VF-2 published by Osprey, and also the author of Pacific Thunder, a history of the first year of the fast carrier offensive in the Pacific War, published by Osprey in 2017. He lives in Encino, California, USA.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781472825490 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game Kuro

Osprey Games AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Embers of Memory 8 Copy Pack

Contains 8 copies of Embers of memory: A Throne of Glass Game + free copy

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Price: $319.92 $343.92 ISBN: 9781472998095 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Gaslands: Refuelled: Post-Apocalyptic Vehicular Mayhem Mike Hutchinson

A set of revised and expanded wargaming rules for the exceptionally popular post-apocalyptic vehicle game, Gaslands.

Description Shoot, ram, skid, and loot your way through the ruins of civilisation with Gaslands: Refuelled, the tabletop miniature wargame of post-apocalyptic vehicular mayhem. With all-new material including expanded and enhanced perks, sponsors, vehicle types, and weapons. Gaslands: Refuelled contains everything a budding wasteland warrior needs to build and customise their fleet of vehicles in this harsh post-apocalyptic future. With a host of options for scenarios, environmental effects, and campaigns, players can create their own anarchic futures.

About the Author Mike Hutchinson is a passionate gamer and model-maker who wrote his first wargame at the age of 15. He lives in the inexplicably named village of Old Wives Lees in Kent with his wife, a library of games, and a menagerie of beasts. David Auden Nash was born in Indiana, USA. He graduated with a BFA from DAAP at University of Cincinnati, and has been working in the illustration and design since 2008. He works primarily on board, card, and role-playing games, as well as books and video games.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472838834 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse: Seasons Ash Barker

An expansion to the popular tabletop miniatures game, Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse, bringing a host of new challenges for players to face as they try to survive in the nightmarish near-future.

Description Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse: Seasons brings an all new campaign to the skirmish-scale miniatures game of survival horror, taking players through the changing seasons and the challenges this brings to their Groups of survivors. As well as rival gangs and mindless zombies, your Group will have to deal with hunger, thirst, warmth, and the many other problems that can't be stopped with a well-placed bullet. Featuring a host of new character types, scavenge tables, scenarios, and even rules for using bicycles, motorbikes, and snowmobiles, this expansion is essential for a survivor during the last days.

About the Author Ash discovered miniatures in 1988 in the back of the classic Fighting Fantasy adventure books. These tiny, perfect worlds and their heroic inhabitants would capture his imagination for the next 30 years. Since 2001 he has worked in the wargames industry. In June 2015 he founded Guerrilla Miniature Games, a YouTube channel that specializes in bringing a spotlight to all miniature games, great and small. Arthur Asa is an artist from Monterrey, Mexico. From an early age he displayed a disposition for art and story-telling, fueled by manga, motion pictures, and his teenage love for Dungeons and Dragons. When not illustrating Arthur enjoys MMA, cooking, music, and role-playing games. He really, really tries to enjoy comics and film. He doesn't enjoy wasting his time, at all.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472838841 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Traditions of Death and Burial Helen Frisby

An illustrated introduction to rites and traditions relating to death, funerary rites and commemoration, from Medieval times to the present day.

Description Death has been a source of grief and uncertainty for humanity throughout history, but it has also been the inspiration for a plethora of fascinating traditions. The covering of mirrors to prevent the departed spirit from seeing itself; the passing bell rung to assist the soul to heaven; the 'sin eater' who sat beside a coffin eating and drinking to 'absorb' the corpse's sins all of these were common approaches at one time or another. Yet in the modern day, death has become more clinical than spiritual, something kept hidden behind closed doors. This beautifully illustrated history explores English approaches to death and burial from the medieval era to the present day, exploring ancient customs which have long since lapsed, those such as lighting candles that have survived until the present day, and new approaches such as eco-burials, which are changing how we relate to death, dying and the dead.

About the Author Helen Frisby is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Bristol, and also works at UWE, Bristol. Her PhD was on Victorian funerals, and she continues to research, write and speak on the history of death, dying and bereavement. She's also currently researching the occupational lore of gravediggers. Helen is a Council member of the Folklore Society, and Secretary of the Association for the Study of Death & Society. She lives in Bristol, UK.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781784423773 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East Soner Cagaptay

The first overview of Turkey's dangerous role in the contemporary Middle East

Description Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan -- the first biography of President Erdogan -- provides a masterful overview of the power politics in the Middle East and Turkey's place in it. Erdogan has picked an unorthodox model in the context of recent Turkish history, attempting to cast his country as a stand-alone Middle Eastern power. In doing so Turkey has broken ranks with its traditional Western allies, including the United States and has embraced an imperial-style foreign policy which has aimed to restore Turkey's Ottoman-era reach into the Arabian Middle East and the Balkans. Today, in addition to a domestic crackdown on dissent and journalistic freedoms, driven by Erdogan's style of governance, Turkey faces a hostile world. Ankara has nearly no friends left in the Middle East, and it faces a threat from resurgent historic adversaries: Russia and Iran. Furthermore, Turkey cannot rely on the unconditional support of its traditional Western allies. Can Erdogan deliver Turkey back to safety? What are the risks that lie ahead for him, and his country? How can Turkey truly become a great power, fulfilling a dream shared by many Turks, the sultans, Ataturk, and Erdogan himself?

About the Author Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, USA.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788317399 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

I.B. Tauris AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 March of the Moderates: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics Richard Carr

The untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way'.

Description Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way'e- by analysing how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton won power and ultimately how they lost it. Using newly unearthed archives and interviews with key players, he investigates the relationship between the administrations and sheds new light on big events such as the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the handover to George W. Bush, and the controversial Iraq War.

About the Author Richard Carr is a Senior Lecturer in History and Politics at Anglia Ruskin University. His 2017 biography of Charlie Chaplin was longlisted for a Kraszna-Krausz book prize. In 2019-20 he serves as a Theodore C. Sorensen Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, and a Bordin-Gillette Fellow at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788317344 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

I.B. Tauris AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey Kaya Genc

Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey, a country split between East and West, a rich past and an unpredictable, dangerous future.

Description Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genc travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are imprisoned, he walks the streets of the famous Ottoman neighbourhoods, telling the stories of the ordinary Turks who live among the contradictions and conflicts of Anatolia, one of the world's oldest civilizations. The Lion and the Nightingale presents the spellbinding story of a country whose history has been split between East and West, between violence and beauty - between the roar of the lion and the song of the nightingale.

Weaving together a mixture of memoir, interview and his own autobiography, Genc takes the reader on a contemporary journey through the contradictory soul of the Turkish nation.

About the Author Kaya Genc is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Salon, Guernica Magazine, Sight & Sound, The Millions, The White Review and TIME Magazine, among others. His first novel, L Avventura was published in 2008. Kaya has a PhD in English literature and is the Istanbul correspondent of The LA Review of Books as well as a contributing editor at Index on Censorship. He has written a history of Turkish literature for Harvard University Press, and is the author of Under the Shadow (I.B.Tauris, 2017), an account of the Gezi Park uprisings and the coup attempt of December, 2016. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Price: $36.99 $40.99 ISBN: 9781788314961 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

I.B. Tauris AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender Monica Germana

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary study examines the iconic women of Bond films and books from the point of view of style, body and gender.

Description Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls. Like Coco Chanel, fashion's 'eternal' mademoiselle, these 'Girls' are synonymous with an unconventional and dynamic femininity that does not play by the rules and refuses to sit still; far from being the passive objects of the male gaze, Bond Girls' active bodies instead disrupt the stable frame of Bond's voyeurism. Starting off with an original re-assessment of the cultural roots of Bond's postwar masculinity, the book argues that Bond Girls emerge from masculine anxieties about the rise of female emancipation after the Second World War and persistent in the present day. Displaying parallels with the politics of race and colonialism, such tensions appear through sartorial practices as diverse as exoticism, power dressing and fetish wear, which reveal complex and often contradictory ideas about the patriarchal and imperial ideologies associated with Bond. Attention to costume, film and gender theory makes Bond Girls: Body, Gender and Fashion essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, media and cultural studies, and for anyone with an interest in Bond.

About the Author Monica Germana is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing: Fiction Since 1978 (2010).

Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9780857855329 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: History of fashion Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Fundamentals of Graphic Design Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris and Nigel Ball

This book introduces students to graphic design as a discipline. With topics ranging from what graphic designers do through an overview of the history and key elements of graphic design to chapters on the graphic design process, formats and the production process, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design is authoritative and down-to-earth with over 200 illustrations. For this updated second edition, the authors have included a new section focusing on digital design tools and have updated throughout to cover design for apps and the Web.

Description Introducing students to the field of graphic design through inspirational examples and clear, practical advice, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design has been fully updated to reflect the changes in today's technologies and graphic design practice. With a new section expanding the coverage of digital design tools and new material on social media, apps plus more on design for the Web, the book gives students a unique overview of what graphic designers do and how they work, historical influences on the field, and coverage of design thinking and the production process.

About the Author Gavin Ambrose teaches at Brighton University and is a practicing graphic designer. He is the author of many highly regarded books for students covering all areas of design including The Layout Book, The Production Manual, Fundamentals of Typography and Design Genius among others. Paul Harris is a freelance writer and editor. His work has appeared in magazines and journals in both the US and Europe. He is a co-author and collaborator on numerous books on design. Nigel Ball is course leader for graphic design at the University of Suffolk, UK.

Price: $53.99 $59.99 ISBN: 9781474269971 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Graphic design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Design: The Key Concepts D. J. Huppatz

'Design: The Key Concepts' provides an accessible introduction to design thinking, services, context, interaction, experience, and systems.

Description Design is everywhere. It shapes not only our present but also our future. An essential introductory guide, Design: The Key Concepts covers fundamental design concepts: thinking, service, context, interaction, experience, and systems. Each concept is situated within a broad context, enabling the reader to understand design's contemporary practice and its relationship to issues such as new technology, social and economic development, globalization, and sustainability. Concepts are also explained by use of concise, illustrated case studies of contemporary objects, spaces, systems, and methods such as Uber, the iPhone, Kickstarter and IKEA. Chapter summaries and supporting discussion questions make this an engaging and accessible introduction for students and those new to the field. An annotated bibliography provides direction for further reading.

About the Author D. J. Huppatz is Senior Lecturer of Architecture and Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781350068148 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: History of art / art & design styles Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Retail Design Stephen Anderson and Lynne Mesher

Examining the processes and strategies for designing retail space, this book guides the students through the retail design process, providing strategies that can produce an effective space that will attract the consumer and will be appropriate for the product, brand, customer and retailer.

Description What is it that attracts the consumer to enter a retail space? How can the interior design of a space affect whether a consumer comes through the door or walks past? Designing retail interiors is a complex process and the aim of the designer is to find ways to entice, excite and enthrall the consumer. Starting with a brief history of the retail environment, the author covers the spectrum of retail sectors and sites followed by a look at branding and identity. The student is then led through the more detailed aspects of the environment itself including lighting, climate, sound, and ergonomics, ending with the ways that spaces can be organized depending on the sector and the merchandise. The penultimate chapter covers the details of the physical elements such as the facade, the fixtures and fittings and the final chapter on consumer psychology pulls together the elements of retail design and how they affect consumer behavior. This second edition of Retail Design is fully updated with four new international case studies, end of chapter summaries and exercises for the student, plus the new chapter on consumer psychology. With more diagrams and plans and over 40% new illustrations, the new edition will be an even more valuable resource for any interior design student interested in the retail environment.

About the Author Lynne Mesher iand Stephen Anderson are lecturers at the University of Portsmouth

Price: $47.99 $52.99 ISBN: 9781474289252 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 184 pages Bic1: Industrial / commercial art & design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Exiles: Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London Daria Santini

Explores the lives of German-speaking, mostly Jewish, emigres in London and their impact on British culture, focusing on the artistic scene of London in 1934 when these characters made their presence truly felt.

Description London, 1934. Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner dominated the British theatre scene, poet and director Berthold Viertel shot two successful films for Gaumont British; two great actors from the Weimar era, Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner, become well-known faces in English-speaking cinema and the Hungarian journalist Stefan Lorant launched the first ever continental-style illustrated magazine for the British newspaper market. Exploring a phase in the history of Anglo-German relations during which the emigres from Hitler's Germany were making their influence felt in Britain, Daria Santini traces their presence in London from around 1933 to 1935 when these characters made their presence truly felt, all while the Nazi threat loomed on the horizon.

About the Author Daria Santini was born in Rome and studied in Italy and Germany. In 1992 she moved to London, where she still lives. She was Lecturer in German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford for fifteen years until 2010. Between 2000 and 2002 she was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in German Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilian- Universitat in Munich. Since leaving academia, Daria has worked as an independent scholar and writer. Her specialist fields are 18th-19th-and 20th-century literary studies as well as cultural history & biography.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788316903 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: European history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in the Elizabethan Garden Jane Whitaker

In this richly illustrated work, Jane Whitaker explores these gems of Elizabethan England, focusing on the gardens of the Queen and her leading courtiers.

Description The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No leading courtier would be without his great house, no great house was complete without its garden. In this richly illustrated work, Jane Whitaker explores these gems of Elizabethan England, focusing on the gardens of the Queen and her leading courtiers. Drawing on the cultural and horticultural sources of the day, as well as evidence surviving on the ground, she recreates these lost gardens, revealing both the rich and Renaissance culture that underlay them and the sumptuous world of the Elizabethan aristocracy. The result is an evocation of one of the most opulent reigns in English history and an entertaining and informative study of one of the most interesting periods of garden history.

About the Author Jane Whitaker is a writer, lecturer and consultant on garden history. She holds a PhD in garden history from the University of Bristol, UK, and is co-author (with Timothy Mowl) of The Historic Gardens of Hampshire (2015).

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788311199 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600 Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Leaving the Arena: A Story of Bar and Bench David W Keene

A memoir by Sir David Keene offering an insight into his career in both Bar and Bench.

Description The Rt. Hon. Sir David Keene has had a long and distinguished career both at the Bar and on the Bench. From being called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, taking silk and becoming chairman of the Planning Bar to the High Court and Court of Appeal, Sir David has been involved in a number of fascinating cases over the course of his career, from the Stanstead Airport inquiry to the McDonald libel appeal. In Leaving the Arena, Sir David reveals the story of his life from childhood to retirement. This memoir reveals the daily life of Keene as a law student at Oxford to working in the chambers, standing as a prospective candidate for Labour and becoming a QC before retiring after 9 years in the Court of Appeal. This fascinating account is a must-read for anyone with an interest in law.

About the Author Sir David Keene was educated at Hampton Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first in Law, before being called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1964. As a barrister, he specialised in planning and public law. In 1974 he fought both that year's General Elections as a Labour candidate. In his legal career, he progressed to becoming a QC, in which capacity he obtained planning permission for London City Airport and Blue Water Park shopping centre and subsequently was appointed as a judge of the High Court and then of the Court of Appeal. He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol.

Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781788318266 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Autobiography: business & industry Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Cassius Dio Jesper Majbom Madsen

An introduction to the historical writing and political ideas of the important Roman historian Cassius Dio.

Description This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was no political agenda behind the work, and that Dio's principal value to us is as a reliable copyist, who mediated the works of other, and better sources.

This introduction to his life and work offers a different picture. Here, Dio is presented through his Greek cultural lens as a politician with a clear vision for how Roman politics and government should be organized. Carefully selected examples will be the starting points for fresh critical analysis of Dio's work and its legacy, both in antiquity and through to the Enlightenment.

The book assumes no familiarity with Cassius Dio, his writing or context. All text will be translated and suggested further reading will point readers towards avenues for more detailed study.

About the Author Jesper Majbom Madsen is Associate Professor in Greek and Roman History at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. His research interests range from historiography of the Roman Empire, and Greece under Roman rule, to Greek and Roman writers' views on Roman power. He has co-edited Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician (2016).

Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781350033375 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Ancient history: to c 500 CE Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 Steven Moore

A comprehensive history and controversial reappraisal of the world's most popular and innovative literary form.

Description Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800 from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only worthy of attention in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a 'zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms' (Booklist).

About the Author Steven Moore (Ph.D. Rutgers, 1988) is the author of several books and essays on modern literature. From 1988 to 1996 he was managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction/Dalkey Archive Press, and for decades he has reviewed books for a variety of journals and newspapers, principally The Washington Post. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Price: $44.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9781628929713 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1024 pages Bic1: Literary studies: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field Manuel DeLanda

Manuel DeLanda's latest intervention in the contemporary philosophy of science.

Description Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization and hybridization through the fields and subfields of chemistry. The strategy followed uses a series of chemical textbooks, separated from each other by fifty year periods (1750, 1800, 1850, and 1900), to follow the historical formation of consensus practices. The three chapters deal with one subfield of chemistry in the century in which it was developed: eighteenth-century inorganic chemistry, nineteenth-century organic chemistry, and nineteenth-century physical chemistry. This book creates a model of a scientific field capable of accommodating the variation and differentiation evident in the history of scientific practice. DeLanda proposes a model that is made of three components: a domain of phenomena, a community of practitioners, and a set of instruments and techniques connecting the community to the domain.

Philosophical Chemistry will be essential reading for those engaged in emergent, radical and contemporary strands of thought in the philosophy of science and for those scholars and students who strive to practice a productive dialogue between the two disciplines.

About the Author Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. He began his career in experimental film, later becoming a computer artist and programmer. He is now Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Price: $23.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781474286404 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 248 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Ignited a Movement Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

The thrilling untold story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story

Description 'We were determined, from the start, to give a voice to the voiceless.' KANTOR AND TWOHEY

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781526603302 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Sociology: sexual relations Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Circus AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life Nir Eyal

'If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into practice' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind

Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781526610225 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber Intelligence Agency John Ferris

The first authorised history of GCHQ, celebrating 100 years of Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, written with unprecedented access to classified archives

Description 'In different permutations, codebreakers combined penetrations of eye and mind, the pedantry of grammarians, the logic of philosophers and the flair of chess grandmasters.'

Based on unprecedented access to documents in GCHQ's archive, many of them hitherto classified, this is the first book to authoritatively explain the entire history of one of the world's most potent intelligence agencies. Many of the major international episodes of the last century including the retreat from empire, the Cold War and the Falklands become fully explicable only in the light of the secret intelligence record. Written by one of the world's leading experts in intelligence Price: $64.99 $69.99 and strategy, Behind the Enigma reveals the fascinating truth behind this most remarkable and enigmatic of ISBN: 9781526605467 organisations. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 704 pages About the Author Bic1: Prose: non-fiction John Ferris is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary, where he also is a Fellow at the Centre for Military and Bic2: Illustrations: Strategic Studies. He received a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He has published four books and Previous Titles: numerous academic articles on diplomatic, intelligence and military history, as well as contemporary strategy and Author now living: intelligence.

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Bone China Laura Purcell

A Daphne Du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset

Description 'Laura is a masterful writer, her deliciously gothic stories so skilfully woven that you can't get them out of your head even if you wanted to' Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars

A Daphne Du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset

About the Author Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for Bloomsbury, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and was the winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, while Laura's gothic chiller The Corset was acclaimed as a 'masterpiece' by readers and reviewers alike. Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781526602534 laurapurcell.com Format: Hard Cover @spookypurcell Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Raven Books AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Offing Benjamin Myers

Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781526611314 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century Frank Dikotter

From the Samuel Johnson prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling exploration of the cult of personality that surrounded eight twentieth century dictators

Description Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.

This timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny.

Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781408891629 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: General & world history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar Kate Saunders

M.C. Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders' Victorian detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford academic.

Description M. C. Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders's Victorian detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford academic.

In 1851, private detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services. Mrs. Rodd's neighbor Jacob Welland is a reclusive, rich gentleman dying of consumption, and he wants Mrs. Rodd to find his brother, who has been missing for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was a scholar at Oxford, brilliant, eccentric, and desperately poor when he disappeared from the university. Friends claim to have seen him since, in gypsy camps and wandering around the countryside. But the last sighting was ten years before when Joshua claimed to be learning great secrets from the gypsies that would one day astound the whole world. Mrs. Rodd travels to Oxford and begins to search for the wandering scholar. But as she investigates, Mrs. Rodd discovers something dark and extremely dangerous lurking in the beautiful English countryside. For readers of James Runcie, Alexander McCall Smith, and M. C. Beaton, Laetitia Rodd and the Mystery of the Wandering Scholar is a delightful new mystery about Victorian England and an indomitable female detective.

About the Author Kate Saunders is an author and journalist who has worked for the London Times, the Sunday Times, and Cosmopolitan. She has written numerous books for adults and children, including Five Children on the Western Front, which won the Costa Children's Book Award. The Secrets of Wishtide was the 2016 debut of the Laetitia Rodd Mystery series. Saunders lives in London.

Price: $32.99 $35.00 ISBN: 9781408866894 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather Christopher Dewdney

A kaleidoscopic and fact-filled journey through our atmosphere and weather

About the Author Christopher Dewdney is the author of five books of non-fiction and eleven books of poetry. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award, he won first prize in the CBC Literary Competition for poetry and was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize, given in recognition of his contribution to Canadian Literature. His non-fiction book, Acquainted With The Night: Excursions into the World After Dark, was nominated for both a Governor General's Literary Award and the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction, and was published in six countries. Fascinated by weather phenomena from a young age, Dewdney lives in Toronto, where he teaches writing at York Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472969897 University. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sigma AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff Lydia Pyne

Is the distinction between 'real' and 'fake' as clear-cut as we might think?

Description 'Lively, thought-provoking and consistently surprising. Lydia Pyne is the real deal.' Ed Yong, author of New York Times bestseller I Contain Multitudes Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their beloved blockbuster documentaries are staged? Can people move past assuming that a diamond grown in a lab is a fake? What happens when a forged painting or manuscript becomes more valuable than its original? This is a book about genuine fakes the curious and complex objects that provoke these very sorts of questions. Genuine fakes fall into the space between things that are real and things that are not; whether or not we think that those things are authentic is a matter of perspective. Unsurprisingly, the world is full of genuine fakes full of things that defy simple categorisation. From stories of audacious forgeries to feats of technological innovation, historian Lydia Pyne explores how the authenticity of eight genuine fakes depends on their unique combinations of history, science and culture. The stories of art forgeries, fake fossils, nature documentaries, synthetic flavours, museum exhibits, Maya codices and Palaeolithic replicas show that genuine fakes are both complicated and change over time. Drawing from historical archives, interviews, museum exhibits and science fiction as well as her own research, Pyne brings each genuine fake to life through unexpected and often outrageous stories. Genuine Fakes will make readers think about all the unreal things they encounter in their daily lives, and why they invoke the reactions surprise, wonder, understanding or annoyance that they do.

About the Author Lydia Pyne is a writer and historian, interested in the history of science and material culture. She has degrees in history and anthropology and a PhD in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University, and is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her field and archival work has ranged from South Africa, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan and Iran to the American Southwest. Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472961822 Lydia's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, History Today, Time, The Scientist, Lady Science and Electric Literature as Format: Hard Cover well as The Public Domain Review, and her previous book was Seven Skeletons, the story of human origins. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sigma AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2020 Kendall Carter

Using tables devised by practical ocean navigators, here is an established resource of annual astro-navigation tables for yachtsmen, giving all the information on how to navigate by the sun, moon, planets and stars. This book, together with a sextant, will enable sailors to navigate confidently and safely when out of the sight of land.

Description Reeds Astro Navigation Tables is an established book of annual astro-navigation tables compiled specifically for the needs of yachtsmen. It contains all the information the ocean-going sailor needs (without the bulk) in order to navigate by the sun, moon, planets and stars, using tables devised by practical ocean navigators. This book, together with a sextant, will enable sailors to navigate confidently and safely when out of the sight of land. The book continues to feature the well-received additions of the past couple of years, including forms to help determine True Altitude (for the sun, planets and stars), Calculated Altitude (using the versine formula) and Azimuth (using the ABC Tables), as well as a pro forma for calculating Intercept. With 8 extra pages and an improved layout, there is plenty of space for making notes and calculations.

About the Author Kendall Carter was the pilot for HMS Ark Royal between 1991 and 1994, and also ran the Royal Navy's Navigation School. He was later harbour master for Portsmouth Harbour, and is now based in Australia, where he acts as a consultant for the Port Authority of New South Wales (Sydney).

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472968609 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Reeds Western Almanac 2020 Perrin Towler, Mark Fishwick

The Reeds Western Almanac is ideal for any boater lucky enough to cruise and race in the superb waters off the coast of Western Scotland or Ireland. It offers ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format.

Description The Reeds Western Almanac covers the coastline from Cape Wrath to Padstow as well as the whole of Ireland, and is ideal for any boater lucky enough to cruise and race in the superb waters off the coast of Western Scotland, Ireland or Western England. It offers ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format. Completely updated for 2020, topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information, communications, Mayday and distress procedures. The spiral binding allows the Almanac to be opened flat on the chart table and the large type size and clear layout makes information easy to read even in adverse conditions. It is the complete guide for both Irish and Scottish mariners as well as those cruising the UK west coast. Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac. co.uk 'There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them.' Sir Chay Blyth

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Price: $69.99 $75.00 ISBN: 9781472968555 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Reeds Nautical Almanac 2020 Perrin Towler, Mark Fishwick

Reeds Nautical Almanac 2020 is the indispensable annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen. With over 45,000 annual changes to the print edition and the option of accessing the whole Almanac in digital form, it is regarded as the bible of almanacs for anyone going to sea around the whole of the UK and the North Atlantic from Denmark to Gibraltar.

Description Reeds Nautical Almanac is the indispensable trusted annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen and motorboaters, and provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the whole of the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, Northern Morocco, the Azores and Madeira. The 2020 edition continues the Almanac's tradition of year on year improvement and meticulous presentation of all the data required for safe navigation. Now with an improved layout for easier reference and with over 45,000 annual changes, it is regarded as the bible of almanacs for anyone going to sea. The 2020 edition is updated throughout, containing over 45,000 changes, and includes: 700 harbour chartlets; tide tables and tidal streams; buoyage and lights; 7,500 waypoints; invaluable passage notes; distance tables; radio, weather and safety information; first aid section. Also: a free Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac. co.uk

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Price: $99.99 $105.00 ISBN: 9781472968494 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 267x195mm Extent: 1104 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Reeds Looseleaf Almanac 2020 (inc binder) Perrin Towler, Mark Fishwick

The Reeds Looseleaf Almanac is a versatile system that combines almanac and pilotage information. The unique looseleaf format, bound inside a durable binder which stays open on the chart table, lets the user tailor the Reeds Almanac to their needs. The contents are identical to the bound version.

Description The Reeds Looseleaf Almanac provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands, and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, including the Azores and Madeira. This is a versatile system that combines almanac and pilotage information in a convenient looseleaf form. The unique looseleaf format, bound inside a durable binder which stays open on the chart table, lets the user tailor the Almanac to their needs by complementing the contents supplied with whatever information they may want to add or take out. The looseleaf format makes information access quick and easy whilst allowing the navigator to refresh it with the annual update pack. Includes 700 harbour chartlets, Harbour facilities, Tide tables and streams, 7,500 waypoints, International codes and flags, Weather, Distance tables, Passage advice, Area planning charts, Rules of the road, Radio information, Communications, Safety, Mayday and distress procedures, and Documentation and Customs. The 2020 edition is updated throughout, containing over 45,000 changes, and includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac. co.uk 'There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them' Sir Chay Blyth 'The big, bold, extravagantly comprehensive king of Almanacs' Yachting World 'On every cruising boat you'll find one of these. Don't start your engines without it' Motor Boat and Yachting 'The bible of almanacs' Classic Boat

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Price: $110.00 $120.00 ISBN: 9781472968579 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1104 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Reeds Eastern Almanac 2020 Perrin Towler, Mark Fishwick

The Reeds Eastern Almanac is designed specifically for anyone visiting the UK east coast and the Dutch and Belgian coastlines. It offers ready access to essential information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format.

Description The Reeds Eastern Almanac covers the UK east coast from Ramsgate to Cape Wrath including the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and from Niewport to Delfzjil and Helgoland. It is the complete guide for North Sea mariners, offering ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format. Completely updated for 2020, topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information around UK and European waters, communications, Mayday and distress procedures. The spiral binding allows the Almanac to be opened flat on the chart table and the large type and clear layout makes information easy to read even in adverse conditions. This handy volume is ideal for anyone cruising the North Sea. Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac. co.uk 'There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them.' Sir Chay Blyth

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Price: $69.99 $75.00 ISBN: 9781472968531 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Reeds Channel Almanac 2020 Perrin Towler, Mark Fishwick

The Reeds Channel Almanac offers cruising and racing yachtsmen ready access to essential navigation and pilotage information covering the south coast of England from the Scillies to Dover, the Channel Islands and northern France from Calais to L'Aberildut.

Description The Reeds Channel Almanac covers the south coast of England from the Scilly Isles to Dover, the Channel Islands and northern France from Calais to L'Aberildut, offering cruising and racing yachtsmen ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format. Completely updated for 2020, topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information, communications, Mayday and distress procedures - in fact everything the cruising yachtsman needs to know. The spiral binding allows the Almanac to be opened flat on the chart table and the large type size and clear layout makes information easy to read even in adverse conditions. This handy volume is ideal for anyone cruising the length of the English Channel. Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac. co.uk 'There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them.' Sir Chay Blyth

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Price: $69.99 $75.00 ISBN: 9781472968524 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 The Wildlife Pond Book: Create Your Own Pond Paradise for Wildlife Jules Howard

This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right outside your back door

Description Ponds are vital oases for nature. They are nursery grounds, feeding stops and bathing spots. They are genetic superhighways and vibrant ecosystems each brimming with life, interactions and potential. And they are for everyone. In The Wildlife Pond Book, Jules Howard offers a fresh perspective on ponds and encourages gardeners to reach for a garden spade and do something positive to benefit our shared neighbourhood nature. As well as offering practical tips and advice on designing, planting up and maintaining your pond, Jules encourages readers to explore the wildlife that colonises it with a torch, a microscope or a good old-fashioned pond-dipping net. With a foreword by award-winning wildlife-gardening author, Kate Bradbury, this helpful new guide includes a section outlining the hundreds of organisms that may turn up in your pond and is packed with creative ideas that have been tried and tested by author Jules Howard, an avid pond-builder, prolific pond-dipper and passionate voice for freshwater conservation for more than fifteen years. So, no matter how big your outdoor space is, The Wildlife Pond Book is the guide you need to create your very own haven for nature.

About the Author JULES HOWARD is a UK-based wildlife expert, author, science-writer and presenter. He writes about zoology and wildlife conservation and is a regular contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine, BBC Science Focus magazine and the Guardian. Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world, partly by tapping into the wonder of ponds.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472958327 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Wildlife: aquatic creatures Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Guide to Garden Wildlife (2nd edition) Richard Lewington

Description Even the smallest garden can be an important haven for wildlife, and this essential guide will enable everyone to explore this wealth on their back doorstep. It covers all the main animal groups including pond life likely to be found in a garden in Great Britain and Ireland. Detailed descriptions and information on life history, behaviour and occurrence are provided for over 500 species of animals and insects, as well as practical information on creating a pond for wildlife, making nestboxes and feeding birds. Presented in an accessible, easy-to-use format, and richly illustrated throughout, this guide is a perfect gift for anyone interested in their garden wildlife.

About the Author Over almost forty years, Richard Lewington has built up a reputation as one of Europe's finest wildlife illustrators. He first became interested in butterflies as a child when he inherited a cabinet of insects from his father. He studied graphic design at the Berkshire College of Art, and since leaving in 1971 has specialised in natural-history illustration. His meticulous paintings of insects and other wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, including Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Collins Butterfly Guide, Field Guide to Dragonflies of Britain and Europe, Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Ireland and Guide to Garden Wildlife. He was, for many years, the principal artist on the multi-volume series, The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also designed and illustrated wildlife stamps for a number of countries, including a set of ten stamps of British butterflies for Royal Mail in 2013.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472964830 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Wildlife: general interest Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Flora of the Mediterranean: An Illustrated Guide Christopher Gardner, Basak Gardner

A unique window on the floral wonders of the Mediterranean world, with 600 stunning colour photographs accompanied by descriptions of the species, plant families and their distribution.

Description The Mediterranean a land of blues skies, warm sunshine, rugged mountains and azure seas. Yet this familiar image conceals another Mediterranean a secret landscape populated by a dazzling variety of wild flowers and plants, from spectacular orchids and ancient olive trees to delicate snowdrops and hardy cacti. Following on from their widely acclaimed Flora of the Silk Road, Chris and Basak Gardner present a stunning selection of 600 of the finest wild flowers that grow in the Mediterranean regions of the world. Travelling across five continents Europe, North America, Africa, South America and Australia the authors reveal the rich botanical profusion that makes up the flora of the Mediterranean regions of the world. For each region, a succession of the most outstanding flowers is featured, from the spectacular and exotic to the beautiful yet familiar, with each plant presented in its natural habitat. Beginning with the countries of the Mediterranean Basin, the reader is taken along the rugged Atlas Mountains, through Andalucaa and Italy, to arrive at the amazing botanical richness of Greece, southern Anatolia and Jordan. In California and Chile the journey is through flowering deserts, snow-capped peaks and towering forests of redwood and monkey puzzle trees, beside a coast lapped by the Pacific Ocean. The ancient landscapes of Southern Australia provide a truly remarkable assemblage of astonishing flora, whilst the Western Cape of South Africa is home to an unimaginable diversity of flora. The accompanying text provides descriptions of the species, plant families and their distribution, as well as offering guidance to those wishing to photograph plants in the wild. With 600 stunning colour photographs, and presenting a breadth of flora never before brought together in a single volume, the authors offer a unique window on the floral wonders of the Mediterranean world.

About the Author Chris and Basak Gardner are authors of the acclaimed Flora of the Silk Road (I.B.Tauris, 2014). They have led specialist botanical and wildlife tours worldwide for nearly two decades (www.viranaturatours.com). Both are professional botanists with extensive experience in identifying and photographing flowers. Basak was head of the herbarium at Nezahat Gokyigit Botanic Garden in Istanbul, whilst Chris is also an experienced garden designer and co-author of the successful book, Price: $79.99 $84.99 ISBN: 9781472970268 The Plant Hunters (1998). Chris has been accorded the distinction of having a flower named after him Bellevalia chrisii - a Format: Hard Cover species he discovered whilst leading a tour with Basak in the Anti-Taurus mountains of Turkey. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Trees, wildflowers & plants Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven Joe Shute

A Shadow Above chronicles the return of the raven and the people who have made that comeback possible.

Description For millennia, we have tried to explain ourselves using the raven as a symbol. It occupies a unique place in British history and has left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape.

The raven's hulking black shape has come to represent many things: death, all-seeing power, the underworld, and a wildness that remains deep within us. Legend has it that the fate of the nation rests upon the raven, and should the resident birds ever leave the Tower of London then the entire kingdom will fall.

While so much of our wildlife is vanishing, ravens are returning to their former habitats after centuries of exile, moving back from their outposts at the very edge of the country, to the city streets from which they once scavenged the bodies of the dead.

In A Shadow Above, Joe Shute follows ravens across their new hunting grounds, examining our complicated and challenging relationship with these birds. He meets people who live alongside the raven in conflict and peace, unpicks their fierce intelligence, and ponders what the raven's successful return might come to symbolise for humans in the dark times we now inhabit.

About the Author JOE SHUTE is an author and journalist with a passion for the natural world. He studied history at Leeds University, and currently works as a senior staff feature writer at The Telegraph. Before joining the newspaper, Joe was the crime correspondent for The Yorkshire Post. He lives with his wife in Sheffield, on the edge of the Peak District.

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Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781472940292 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Birds of Ecuador and Galapagos Clive Byers

A neat series of truly portable guides designed for the nature-loving traveller.

Description Although it is one of South America's smallest countries, Ecuador is home to nearly 1,600 species of birds. This is thanks to the huge variety of habitats created by the Andes. The country is a birder's paradise and an increasingly popular tourist destination. Areas such as Tandayapa, Mindo and La Selva are renowned for their birdwatching potential and boast such dramatic species as Toucan Barbet, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Andean Condor, Giant Conebill and Ocellated Tapaculo, plus an array of brightly coloured manikins, cotingas, tanagers and hummingbirds. Offshore, the Galapagos Islands provide one of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles.Two hundred and fifty-two of Ecuador and the Galapagos' most interesting and spectacular birds are featured in this concise and easy-to-use guide. Illustrated with clear colour photography and brief but authoritative descriptions the Pocket Photo Guides highlight the species of birds and animals from each region that the traveller is most likely to see, as well as those that are genuinely endemic (only to be seen in that country or region) or special rarities. The genuine pocket size allow the books to be carried around on trips and excursions and will take up minimal rucksack and suitcase space.

About the Author Clive Byers works freelance as an artist and illustrator, photographer, writer, lecturer and guide. His enthusiasm has led him in pursuit of birds throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. He has led many trips to various parts of the world, including every country in South America. He has also provided artwork for fieldguides covering the Indian Subcontinent, South-East Asia and many other regions. He illustrated A Guide to the Warblers of the Western Palearctic and has contributed illustrations to a number of journals and books.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781472974488 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Helm Ornithonoly AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart Stephen Moss, Laurie Campbell

A sumptous book chronicling a year in the life of the landscapes and wildlife of the Scottish Highlands.

Description In the very north of Britain, far from the bustling cities and picturesque countryside to the south, likes Western Europe's most magnificent wilderness: the Scottish Highlands.This is a land shaped by the flow of ancient ice, where snow-capped mountains tower over ink-black lochs, Golden Eagles soar over heather-clad moors, and Red Deer stags engage in mortal combat for the right to win a mate. Along the coast, sea cliffs and offshore islands teem with millions of seabirds, while the seas themselves are home to Basking Sharks, Orcas and Bottlenose Dolphins.The Highlands may, at first sight, seem bleak and desolate, but they are also filled with hidden wonders, from the ancient Caledonian pine forests to the vast Flow Country, and from the sheer granite cliffs of Handa to the mysterious depths of Loch Ness.In this lavish book, Stephen Moss's thoughtful, authoritative text, accompanied throughout by spectacular photographer Laurie Campbell, follows a year in the lives of a stellar cast of wild animals as they live, feed, breed and die in this beautiful, yet unforgiving landscape - a land where only the toughest survive.

About the Author Stephen Mossis a naturalist, author and TV producer. His TV credits includeSpringwatch,Birds Britannia, andBritain s Big Wildlife Revival, while his books includeWild Hares and Hummingbirds

About the Author Marie-Jose Gransard teaches a course, 'Venice in Literature', in Cannaregio and conducts tours of the city. She has worked with Hilary Spurling on her biography of Matisse and with Anthony Holden for his biography of Lorenzo da Ponte. She divides her time between Venice and London.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781788318839 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Alexandria: A History and Guide E.M. Foster

With a novelist's pen, Forster brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco- Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and the greatest library the world has ever known was built.

Description In the autumn of 1915, in a 'slightly heroic mood', E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring 'the magic, antiquity and complexity' of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a 'funk-hole'. With a novelist's pen, he brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and the greatest library the world has ever known was built. Threading 3,000 years of history with vibrant strands of literature and punctuating the narrative with his own experiences, Forster immortalised Alexandria, painting an incomparable portrait of the great city and, inadvertently, himself.

About the Author E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was perhaps the most quintessential of English novelists. From the stifling drawing rooms of Howard's End to the dust and dark undercurrents of Passage to India, he captured the spirit of his time in a way that has made his six novels unforgettable and much-loved classics.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781838605896 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Crossword Lists & Crossword Solver Anne Stibbs Kerr

This bumper volume provides crossword puzzlers with an aid to successful crossword completion. Over 100,000 potential solutions include technical terms, place names and compound expressions

Description Anyone who regularly tackles challenging crossword puzzles will be familiar with the frustration of unanswered clues blocking the road to completion. Together in one bumper volume, Crossword Lists and Crossword Solver provides the ultimate aid for tracking down those final solutions. The Lists section contains more than 100,000 words and phrases, listed both alphabetically and by number of letters, under category headings such as Volcanoes, Fungi, Gilbert & Sullivan, Clouds, Cheeses, Mottos and Archbishops of Canterbury. As intersecting solutions provide letters of the unanswered clue, locating the correct word or phrase becomes quick and easy. The lists are backed up with a comprehensive index, which also guides the puzzler to associated tables - e.g. when looking for Film Stars; try Stage and Screen Personalities. The Solver section contains more than 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names, technical terms, compound expressions, abbreviations and euphemisms. Grouped according to number of letters - up to fifteen - this section is easy to use and suitable for all levels of crossword puzzle. At the end a further 3,000 words are listed by category, along with an index of unusual words.

About the Author Anne Stibbs Kerr has edited a range of crossword reference books. She is a certified crossword addict.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472968050 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 896 pages Bic1: Crosswords Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Information AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender Monica Germana

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary study examines the iconic women of Bond films and books from the point of view of style, body and gender.

Price: $150.00 $165.00 ISBN: 9780857856432 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: History of fashion Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Design: The Key Concepts D.J. Huppatz

'Design: The Key Concepts' provides an accessible introduction to design thinking, services, context, interaction, experience, and systems.

About the Author D. J. Huppatz is Senior Lecturer of Architecture and Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Price: $130.00 $143.00 ISBN: 9781350068155 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: History of art / art & design styles Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2019 Cassius Dio Jesper Majbom Madsen

An introduction to the historical writing and political ideas of the important Roman historian Cassius Dio.

The book assumes no familiarity with Cassius Dio, his writing or context. All text will be translated and suggested further reading will point readers towards avenues for more detailed study.

Price: $120.00 $132.00 ISBN: 9781350033368 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Ancient history: to c 500 CE Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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