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1 JAMES HALLIDAY economic history. Wednesday 6 11 STEFAN LASZCUCK as she starts to scrutinise her every August, 6.30pm, Readings action and question her worth. A special event and Antoni Jach will Carlton. Free, but please book on Deeply ashamed of her mistake, she wine tasting with launch Stefan’s 9347 6633. retreats into family life, only to find James Halliday. I Dream of that her husband seems preoccupied TheJames Halliday Magda (A&U, 6 HANIFA DEEN with a younger colleague. Dissection Wine Companion PB, $23.95). Melbourne Univer- is our very own pick for the August 2009 Edition Funny and very sity National CAL Australian Feature. (Hardie Grant, surprising, this Centre of Tuesday 12 August, 6.30pm, PB, Normally novel of brothers, Excellence of Readings Carlton. Free, but $35, Our special price $29.95) family and loss is the winner of the Islamic Studies and please book on 9347 6633. will be available. Friday 1 2007 The Australian/Vogel Literary Readings invites August, 6.30pm, Readings Award. George Harrison is afraid of you to an ‘in 13 CLIVE HAMILTON Hawthorn. $15 includes three the dark. His father is dead and his conversation’ with Clive brings us a wine tastes. Strictly limited places. mother lives in la-la land. Reeling author Hanifa Deen and The Age’s radical reconsidera- Bookings essential: 9819 1917. from a broken heart, and still cop- Religion Editor, Barney Zwartz, tion of the meaning Supported by Annie’s Lane. ing with the trauma of a childhood discussing Deen’s latest book, The of freedom and home invasion, George has retreated Jihad Seminar (UWA Press, PB, morality in the into a private world of sleep where $29.95), and her close encounter modern world in his new book The he dreams about falling in love with with Victoria’s religious hate speech Freedom Paradox (A&U, PB, $35). comedienne Magda Szubanski. law. In 2002, the Islamic Council of He argues that the paradox of 5 Stefan Laszczuk is currently under- BILL KENT Victoria lodged a complaint of modern consumer life is that we are taking a PhD in Creative Writing Australians in Italy: religious vilification against a deprived of our inner freedom by from the University of Adelaide. Contemporary Lives Pentecostal para-church organisa- our very pursuit of our own desires. Monday 11 August, 6pm for and Impressions tion, called Catch the Fire Inc. From He turns to metaphysics to find a 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. Free, edited by Bill the outset, freedom of speech versus source of transformation that lies no need to book. Kent, Ros Pesman freedom from vilification came beyond the cultural, political and and Cynthia Troup under the spotlight. Over time, 11 MICHAEL VEITCH social philosophies that form the (Monash Univer- Deen came to understand that bedrock of contemporary western Michael’s Fly sity e-Press, PB, religious vilification was only one thought. His search takes him to an (Viking, HB, $37.95) will be launched by strand of a more complex story. unexpected conclusion: that we $49.95) is a Professor Ian Donaldson, with a Hanifa Deen is a Melbourne-based cannot be truly free unless we thrilling volume performance by David Eckstein author and social commentator. commit ourselves to a moral life. of true stories from and Jin Shi Tang.Tuesday 5 Wednesday 6 August, 6pm for The implications of this conclusion August, 6.30pm, Readings airmen in the Second World War. 6.30pm start. Yasuko Hiraoka challenge many deeply held beliefs Carlton. Free, no need to book. It’s an amazing exploration into the Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney in modern secular society. lives of the men who fought the Myer Asia Centre, University Wednesday 13 August, 6 war from the air. Including stories GREG CLARK of Melbourne. Grid Reference: 6.30pm, Cinema Nova, Lygon of bravery and fear, moments of A Farewell to Alms: I21. Free, book on 9347 6633. Street, Carlton. Free, but book- terror and relief and vivid details A Brief Economic ings are essential on 9347 6633. History of the World 7 ROSS HONEYWILL of flying under fire, Fly is Michael (Princeton Lamarck’s Evolution Veitch’s second collection of inter- 13 OUYANG YU views with 24 pilots, navigators and University Press, (Pier 9, PB, Supported by gunners – now all in their 80s. HB, $46.95) $29.95) by Ross Asialink, University Monday 11 August, 6.30pm, examines why Honeywill takes us of Melbourne. On Readings Hawthorn. Free, but some parts of the to a time before the Smell of an Oily please book on 9819 1917. world are so rich and others so Darwin, when Rag (Wakefield, poor. Why did the Industrial Jean-Baptiste de 12 JACINTA HALLORAN PB, $27.95) draws Revolution – and the unprecedent- Lamarck created examples from low IN CONVERSATION WITH ed economic growth that came the first theory of evolution, an idea CLARE FORSTER and high culture with it – occur in eighteenth-cen- so powerful it promised to become and from the everyday and the Clare Forster, an tury England, and not at some the great unifying force of science. literary life. Based on the unique biji agent for Curtis other time, or in some other place? Instead, for two hundred years xiaoshuo (pen-notes fiction) genre Brown, will be in Why didn’t industrialisation make Lamarck’s grand idea polarised the and written in an accessible, conversation with the whole world rich – and why scientific establishment and became readable and deliberately un-aca- Jacinta Halloran did it make large parts of the world a byword for discredited beliefs ... demic style, On the Smell of an Oily about Jacinta’s first novel, Dissection even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, until, on the eve of his bicentenary, Rag is a seminal non-fiction book (Scribe, PB, Normally $27.95. Our Gregory Clark tackles these science finally caught up and that creates its own genre in its special price $22.95). Doctor Anna profound questions and suggests a proved him right. Ross Honeywill exploration of cultural, linguistic McBride’s life is starting to unravel. new and provocative way in which is the is CEO of NeoNeighbour- and literary similarities, differences The mother of two boys and a culture explains the wealth, and the hood.com and an authority on the and parallels between the English dedicated GP, she is being sued for poverty, of nations. Gregory Clark influence of genetic and evolution- and the Chinese language in a medical negligence — a case of is chair of the economics depart- ary change. Thursday 7 August, distinctly Australian context. delayed diagnosis. Anna’s day-to-day ment at the University of Califor- 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. Ouyang edits Australia’s only work becomes increasingly difficult nia. He has written widely about Free, no need to book. Chinese literary journal, Otherland,

2 and writes and teaches part-time in childhood and personality of these valuable art materials? Who has China and Australia. Wednesday criminals, and includes interviews loved it? Relinquished it? Carried it Kids Events 13 August, 6.30pm, Readings with the criminals themselves, with them across the world? This 2 LISA GORTON Carlton. Free, but please book on family members and the police and beguiling and multi-layered novel Join us as Antoni 9347 6633. detectives involved. Rochelle illustrates Claire’s place as a talented Jach launches corresponded with every offender young Australian author. Claire Cloudland

in the book, even if they were in Thomas has published short stories (Macmillian, PB, jail, and her search led to some in journals such as Meanjin, $15). After a year fascinating revelations about how Overland and Australian Short 14 of endless rain, ELIZABETH GROSZ criminals are ‘created’. Friday15 Stories. Wednesday 20 August, cities are flooded; World-renowned August, 6.30pm, Readings 6.30pm, Readings Carlton, families are living contemporary Carlton. Free, no need to book. Free, no need to book. on rooftops. Drawn into a world in feminist and the clouds, Lucy finds a strange soci- philosopher Profes- 16 28 YU JIHUI READINGS IN ety of injustice, weird beauty and sor Elizabeth Grosz Prior to the play, PSYCHOANALYSIS danger. A gripping tale for young will deliver the Zhang Da Li and This event – presented with readers! Saturday 2 August, keynote lecture in the Village of Big the Deakin Masters Program 3.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. the Australian Eaters showing at in Psycho-analytic Studies – is Free, no need to book. Centre for Contemporary Arts La Mama at 8pm, part of our regular series discuss- ‘Look who’s Talking’ series, Frank Moore will ing the latest publications in 3 CHRIS McKIMMIE complementing Lyndal Jones’ launch the book of psychoanalysis. Details of this Bring the kids ‘Darwin with Tears’ exhibition. the same title. This month’s speaker, and the book to down to see Chris Grosz, who has written several is the story of young men at be discussed, will be posted on McKimmie read agenda-setting books focusing on university in the 1960s during the our website: www.readings.com. froom his new sexuality and power, will explore Great Famine that followed the au. Please join us for a glass of book Special Kev, the relevance of Darwin’s theory of Great Leap Forward. Saturday wine and informal discussion. the story of Special evolution and the links between 16 August, 4pm, La Mama, Thursday 28 August, 6.30pm, Kev and his animal sexuality and the most Faraday Street, Carlton. Readings Carlton. Free, but no eleventy million elementary forms of architecture Free, no need to book. need to book. cousins. Chris’s two latest books and art. The lecture is presented by are Maisie Moo and Invisible Lucy 19 MELBOURNE WRITERS’ ACCA. Thursday 14 August., FIONA ALLON (2007)) and Brian Banana Duck 6.30pm, Storey Hall, RMIT. FESTIVAL 2008 Join us as journalist Sunshine Yellow (2006, and short- Swanston Street, Melbourne. This year’s festival is and author, George listed for the 2007 CBCA Picture Free, no need to book. Megalogenis based in the heart Book of the Year Awards). Sunday converses with of Melbourne at 3 August, 2pm, Readings 14 RACHEL POWER Federation Square, Fiona about her Hawthorn. Free, no need to book. IN CONVERSATION WITH book Renovation The Federation CLAIRE BOWDITCH Nation (UNSW Square Atrium will be the festival 9 GO GIRL! In The Divided Press, PB, $34.95). hub, with box offices, the Readings ILLUSTRATORS Heart: Art and Renovation Nation asks why we have bookshop, and numerous places We are lucky Motherhood (Red become so wrapped up in our to sit and eat and drink. The enough to have Dog, PB, $30), homes. It explores the ways we are Festival will have outdoor events; with us the author Rachel distorting our lives in the pursuit of free events: live streaming from illustrators of Power interviews prestige and tax-free capital gains as the Edinburgh Festival: children’s Go Girl! fame – conducting a some of Australia’s we play the real estate game with activities: the festival club: walks: ‘How to Draw Yourself as a Go most respected mindless passion. Fiona Allon is a dinners: Big Ideas at the RMIT Girl’ workshop. Places are strictly artists, writers and actors to reveal writer and critic who specialises in Capitol Theatre and of course limited, so book quickly for your the shocking and funny demands the analysis of contemporary Austra- our two keynote addresses - from place in this 45 minute event. of motherhood, and their lian culture and politics. She is a Germaine Greer and Augusten There will be games and give- undimished passion for their work. regular media commentator on Burroughs at the Melbourne Town aways as well! Sonia Dixon will be Thursday 14 August, 6.30pm, current affairs, social issues and Hall. Find out more by visiting appearing at Readings Hawthorn Readings Carlton. Free, but popular culture, and researches and www.mwf.com.au. and Danielle McDonald will be please book on 9347 6633. writes on a broad range of subjects. appearing at Readings Carlton. Tuesday 19 August, 6.30pm, NOTE ON AIIA EVENT Saturday 9 August, Readings 15 ROCHELLE JACKSON Readings Carlton. Free, no need The Australian Institute of Inter- Hawthorn: 10am; Readings Lindy Burns from to book. national Affairs Monthly Forum, Carlton: 12pm. Free, but please ABC Radio 774 where we meet over wine to discuss book at your shop. will launch this 20 CLAIRE THOMAS a book that highlights issues, will fascinating look at Join us for the not be held this month. It will be 23 GO GIRL! criminal minds. launch of Fugitive back in September. Please check AUTHORS Working with Blue (A&U, PB, www.readings.com.au. Chrissie Perry and Meredith leading Australian $29.95). Fugitive Badger, authors of the Go Girl!

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August Special Feature LAYING HER BARE Georgia Blain interviews Jacinta Halloran about her novel Dissection

Melbourne GP Jacinta Halloran won the 2007 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for an earlier version of her first novel, Dissection, which is being launched this month by Helen Garner. That’s two pretty auspicious ways to kick off a writing career. Georgia Blain spoke to Jacinta for the latest in Readings series of Australian Features showcasing new and emerging writers, sponsored by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL).

Each of us has a carefully constructed sense of self. We build it, gradually, from a young age, and try to fortress it against the inevitable small daily chips that chisel back the armour, mistake running through infallibility that we expect from doctors) worry about being and the larger blows that run McBride’s professional life, and others and the consequences of sued. It’s an inevitable aspect the risk of cracking the core. then into her personal life. It those expectations. of an occupation that has In her very taut and lean first is also a thought-provoking become increasingly demand- novel, Jacinta Halloran takes novel, because it is so much Halloran, who is herself a GP, ing and challenging. “Doctors a female GP protagonist, Dr more than just a careful exami- said the impetus for writ- are required to keep up to Anna McBride, and puts her nation of individual self doubt ing Dissection came from an date with an ever-expanding under the microscope as she and suffering. It questions – in article she read about a doctor range of medical information; suffers one such blow. Follow- a much broader sense – the facing a negligence suit. What they have real time constraints ing a case of delayed diagnosis intrigued Halloran was the (especially given the current necessitating the amputation woman’s discussion of the shortage of GPs nationally); of a young man’s leg, McBride “[Dissection] failure of her marriage, which they work essentially in isola- finds herself facing a negligence she attributed to the stress of tion; and as primary caregivers suit. Despite being aware that questions – the impending court case. they are constantly required to her mistake is one any doctor in a much “The details of the negligence be vigilant for the rarer, serious easily could have made, the case in my novel – who did condition among the plethora experience is a shattering one. broader what to whom – are back- of common, more minor com- sense – the grounded, intentionally,” she plaints,” she said. “It’s perhaps The novel is a beautifully said. “I wanted to focus on the unwise to generalise about the executed dissection of a rapidly infallibility that emotions of my protagonist – issues faced by female GPs, but crumbling inner core. With her self-doubt, her terrible guilt I would say that there’s some precision and skill, Halloran we expect from about doing harm, and the loss evidence that women tend to lays McBride bare, examining others and the of equilibrium and confidence spend longer with patients, her as she cracks and disinte- that begins to infiltrate her especially those with mental grates, page by page. It is, at consequences faith in her marriage.” health issues. Many female GPs times, a painful read, a little of those have children and work part- like watching a car crash, as Halloran believes most doc- time: in such a situation one we see the effect of this one expectations.” tors (and particularly female can find oneself ‘giving’ and 4 ‘caring’ full-time, and this can compassion in this depiction. writes in a different way from be very draining. ‘Compassion She is a woman we feel we many novelists – he is always DISSECTION overload,’ it’s sometimes called.” know. One of the other very questioning the function of Jacinta Halloran powerful aspects of the book is language.” Scribe. PB. “If a doctor does become the its understanding of how life Normally $27.95. subject of a negligence case, it’s and human interaction do not With her first novel now Our Special Price $22.95 not just the difficulty of going sit neatly within the expecta- published, Halloran is planning Melbourne GP Dr Anna through the legal formali- tions of the medical and legal her second. “It’s about a mother McBride is suffering under ties – of speaking in a differ- professions. There are rarely and her two daughters who set the weight of a three-year- definitive answers or clear out on a journey – a pilgrimage old malpractice suit. Her rights and wrongs, but we fre- if you like. (I was brought up carefully constructed life quently expect this from our a Catholic and I find religious “Halloran is disintegrating, both doctors – and the law certainly ideas making their way into my personally and profession- believes most demands it when it is called work!) There may be some medi- ally. The tone of the novel upon to judge their conduct. cal themes – life-threatening ill- doctors (and is oddly detached, intensely As Halloran says: “Anna ness and death will feature – but inwardly focused. Anna, a particularly McBride is not a bad person I envisage the novel to be largely perfectionist ill-equipped but neither is she perfect – as concerned with the relationship female doctors) to cope with this one ter- a doctor, wife and mother, between the three women.” worry about she has made mistakes. Hasn’t rible mistake, watches and analyses her every action everyone? I have tried to make She is also still working as a GP. and inaction. The language being sued. Anna a real woman, riddled “I work in a large practice as an of lawyers (neglect, expos- with self-doubt and negativ- employee, so I don’t have the It’s an inevitable ing or covering oneself) ity yet capable of love and added work of running my seeps deep into her con- aspect of an kindness, and I have tried to own practice,” she said. “I try sciousness. As the circum- make her relationships with to write two days a week and occupation that stances of her case are her husband and children also can of course extend this if splashed across the papers, has become real. Relationships are full of I want to. It’s a good balance. her husband seems to be ambivalence – in general life is Writing is a very solitary oc- increasingly infatuated with a younger full of ambivalence, too, and cupation – not only physically work colleague. Certainly, demanding and shades of grey – and I have but mentally – your mind turns he is slipping away from tried to capture this in this in on itself – at least, that’s been challenging.” her. As she takes apart and novel.” my experience to date. It can examines her life, strug- be difficult. So it’s good to get gling not to drown in her ent language, that of the law,” Halloran came to writing to work and think about my own guilty conscience, she Halloran said. “It’s the whole – like many new authors – patients and their lives, their builds a revealing picture of self-analysis that such a suit through a tertiary course. stories, for a change.” engenders. Doctors, by nature, “After doing editing and her life for the reader, piece by meticulous piece. are usually high-achieving and non-fiction writing subjects I Georgia Blain’s latest book self-exacting people, and the felt confident enough to start is the memoir collection Births, Helen Garner will launch concept of harming a patient a novel. [Melbourne writer] Deaths and Marriages Dissection, and Halloran is very confronting to their Antoni Jach was my teacher (Vintage, PB. $24.95). possesses Garner’s knack for sense of self.” This is certainly at this time and he encour- the poetic and telling do- the case with Anna McBride, aged me to enrol in a Masters mestic detail. (For example, who has, until her mistake, of Creative Writing at RMIT, the neglected back lawn is never really questioned either which I did. I am due to finish an early symbol and meta- her profession or her role in it. this MA very soon. Both the phor for their untended Now, she doubts every action RMIT diploma course and marriage.) The detailed il- she takes and every decision the MA provided wonderful lustration of Anna’s profes- she makes, and this doubt eats and very supportive writ- sional life: the ethical and away at any faith she has in her ing environments.” Halloran social elements of working work having worth or value. In also reads widely, naming the as a GP, and the medical the process, which is inevita- Canadian short story writer, details of her patients past bly one of self-absorption, she Alice Munro, experimental and present, are curiously cuts off from her husband and French writer Marie Dar- fascinating, too – an added her children, causing further rieussecq and the Nobel Prize bonus for the reader. This destruction to her sense of self. winner, J. M. Coetzee, as just is a powerful and elegant some of her favourite authors. meditation on the power of Halloran depicts McBride “Coetzee’s prose is always SPECIAL OFFER one mistake to destroy a life perfectly – a middle-aged magnificent – the rhythm Readings is offering Jacinta – and an impressive study woman who suddenly looks beautiful, the words so precise, Halloran’s Dissection of an unravelling mind. in the mirror and sees all her the consciousness and self- (PB, Scribe Publishing) Jo Case is Editor of fallibilities painfully on display. consciousness of his charac- for the special price of Readings Monthly There is also considerable ters so superbly drawn. He $22.95 (normally $27.95).

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6 Melbourne Writers Festival Q & A We speak to MWF Festival Director Rosemary Cameron in the lead-up to the 2008 festival (22-31 August). The 2008 Mel- and Edinburgh will be able to join bourne Writers our interview with Nam Le. Then Festival takes there is the range of other venues place in late August we can access within easy walking (22-31), with an distance of the festival hub. We exciting range of overseas and local are holding events in many city authors and a new home at Federa- venues, including Beer Deluxe tion Square. Jo Case spoke to Festi- and St Pauls Cathedral, to give the val Director Rosemary Cameron in alpha and omega of venue choice. the lead-up to this year’s festival to And of course, Fed Square has so find out what highlights lay in store many cafes that I’m hoping the for Melbourne’s many festival fans. coffee queue will all but disappear! And then we’ll have a huge box- Who are some of the main office in Fed Square from July 18, drawcards for this year’s so we will be on people’s radar in Melbourne Writers’ Festival? a way that we haven’t been able to selecting writers to invite to the Square, right in the heart of the achieve in the past. Germaine Greer is our keynote festival? What catches your eye? city. What new opportunities speaker and I would walk across That’s an almost impossible ques- does the new venue pres- What are you currently reading? hot coals to hear her speak. tion to answer: there are so many ent – and what will it mean for Now that I’ve stopped proofing Augusten Burroughs, too, has a factors at play. Having a new book festival goers? the program every night I can new book out, which is about his is a starting point. Often authors return to the huge pile of books relationship with his father – who There are endless opportunities at don’t want to interrupt their beside my bed. Top of the pile is was mostly absent from Running Fed Square which we haven’t had writing time if they don’t have a the fascinating and controversial With Scissors. Philip Gourevitch before. The most obvious is our new book. The author should be book by Nick Davies, Flat Earth is a brilliant speaker. And we have satellite link between the Edin- published in English. And then, News. Davies who has been UK David Sedaris and David Malouf burgh International Book Festival beyond those rather basic require- Reporter of the Year, has exposed – two of my favourite authors, and our own festival. On Sunday ments, it is a matter of balance. what he sees as the unacceptable who I’ve been trying to get to 24 August, our audience will be corruption of journalism by pro- the festival for many years. Kate able to join an interview with Sir The Melbourne Writers Festival paganda and PR. Atkinson, whose book Behind the has always been known for its Salman Rushdie in Edinburgh Scenes at the Museum entranced focus on ideas and debate. This me many years ago. Paul Keating, year will see Big Ideas @ RMIT of course. Capitol Theatre, a series of ten debates. What kind of themes What are the emerging themes can we expect for this series? for this year’s festival? The series kicks off with Paul Keat- Terror. There are a range of writ- ing, which is fitting, as his prime ers who will be speaking about ministership was synonymous the broader political and cultural with big ideas. We end with a contexts of terror, terrorists, war, fascinating look at the intellectual war crimes and the complex traditions and motivations behind relationship between law, war our new leaders – the Governor- and crime. These speakers include General designate, the Prime Min- Julian Burnside, Gerry Simpson, ister and Treasurer, among others Philippe Sands, Michael Burleigh – all coming out of Queensland. and Philip Gourevitch. Glyn Davis, Julianne Schultz, John Birmingham and Tara June Festival goers attend sessions to Winch look at how Queensland see the writers they know, but has changed, who influenced it, often come out having discov- and the consequences for the na- ered new writers they wouldn’t tion. In between, we have Philip otherwise have heard of. Who Gourevitch on America, Michael are some of the ‘hidden talents’ Burleigh on terror, Orlando Figes of this year’s festival? on Stalin’s Russia, John Pilger Some of the young writers coming on the silence of writers, Susan out of America and Canada are Maushart and others on feminism, very interesting and on the cusp of Philippe Sands on US abuses of great things: Mark Sarvas, Hannah international law, Maude Barlow Tinti, Anya Ulinich, Gil Adam- and others on the politics of son, David Rakoff, and I’d also water and David Sedaris on being include David Francis and Nam David. Le, even though they are both Australians living in the US. This year, the festival moves venues from The Malthouse to What do you look for when the more central Federation

7 Fiction Joseph, are academics. She is work- Salinger’s anti-hero 50 years, get ing on Poussin, he, an archaeologist, him a job at Northcote Bowl scrub- HER FATHER’S has just taken a position at Hong bing wheelie bins and agonising Australian Fiction DAUGHTER Kong University. It is just a few over lost love, and you get the John Clanchy months before the handover of picture. When a wonky rebound LIFE IN SEVEN MISTAKES Hong Kong and Joseph has joined relationship appears to offer him Susan Johnson UQP. HB. $32.95 Guest review his old mentor to research the lost some respite, George can’t help but Bantam. PB. Normally $32.95 After reading tribes of the Talamakan Desert. worry about that too. Throw a Our special price $27.95 this collection, He has become obsessed with the nutty mother into the mix and it’s Staff review I’m regretful work and in the heady days of the difficult to imagine this hapless To paraphrase that I haven’t changeover their research has be- family ever functioning. Laszczuk’s Tolstoy, every read Canberra- come politically charged. For Maya second novel is laced with black unhappy based John the move to Hong Kong is a chance humour but readers will need to family is Clanchy’s to finish her dissertation; a chance wade patiently through some different, stories before, meeting with an elderly man leads murky emotional soup before these but they’re and I’ll be her to the story of a Jewish Russian broken-hearted goofball brothers also the same. steadily making my way through his émigré, Ada Lang, and a strange and are finally dealt a faintly upbeat ‘ SPECIAL PRICE In this darkly backlist. Having a themed collection tragic love story. As she digs out the hand. It’s an ending worth waiting affectionate means that this book will appeal to story of Ada, she and Joseph become for: moving, hopeful and unexpect- comic novel, the adult children those who are perhaps fathers or more and more estranged; he is edly tender. I can almost hear bicker among themselves and daughters; but this is a book for any consumed by his work, undertak- Magda giggling with relief. unite to bitch about their parents; reader, or any observer of family life. ing field trips at a moment’s notice Sally Keighery is Program alternately judge and conspire with The stories are of varying length, becoming more and more disparag- Coordinator of CAE Book Groups each other’s spouses and children including a superb 90-page novella, ing about her work while becoming and obsessively analyse (or stub- ‘Flights of Memory’. In this piece, more convinced of his. The Last Sky, FUGITIVE BLUE bornly ignore) significant incidents Clanchy writes convincingly from set against great social and political Claire Thomas from the past. Bob and Nance have the perspective of 17-year-old Laura, upheavals, is a beautiful and exotic A&U. PB. $29.95 recently moved, post- who leaves Australia for Greece to story of relationships with many A beautiful, retirement, from their North Sydney visit the father she has not seen nor layers. Nelson writes effortlessly and beguiling and home to a beachfront Gold Coast communicated with for 10 years. her work will be worth watching. multi-layered penthouse, where the family have Laura’s insecurities and her desperate Mark Rubbo is Managing novel, Fugitive somewhat unwillingly gathered for search for something familiar - both Director of Readings Blue tells the Christmas. Artist Elizabeth, who is in the landscape and within her story of a young finally finding professional success at father – means the story succeeds on I DREAM OF MAGDA art conservator 49, has a rocky marriage to a resent- many levels. Clanchy demonstrates Stefan Laszczuk and her work ful husband and three children by that he can also cross eras, age and A&U. PB. $23.95 on an unusual different fathers. Her brother, socio economic boundaries: the Guest review ultramarine painting. As she restores the affable Robbo, can’t stand her fathers of the title include a farmer, Last year’s the fragile artwork, she begins to ‘psychobabble’, and wishes everyone mechanic and miner. Older men Vogel winner speculate on its provenance – its would just get along. And heroin reflect on the lives they’ve lived and reminds us that controversial creation in Renaissance addict Nick, the black sheep of the daughters they’ve not known well. breaking up is Venice and reappearance 300 years family, is in jail. Meanwhile, uptight Interestingly, almost despite the hard to do. Left later during a nobleman’s Grand Nance and oafish former business focus on fathers and daughters, the by their Tour of Europe, passing through bigwig Bob have their own bitter- mothers and wives omitted from the respective nineteenth-century Paris before its sweet story that helps to explain title come sharply into view, too. girlfriends, the eventual arrival in Australia as one how the family’s patchwork history Annie Condon is a freelance writer Harrison of the scarce possessions of a unfolded. Over a few eventful days, and reviewer brothers lead a shambolic existence, post-war Greek migrant family. the Barton clan discover some home numb with grief. Matthew retreats Threaded through the painting’s truths about themselves – and the THE LAST SKY into an imaginary tryst with progress is the story of the young ties that bind them. Cleverly construct- Alice Nelson comedienne Magda Szubanski conservator’s own life in contempo- ed, spiked with spot-on satire, warm FACP. PB. $29.95 while younger brother George rary Melbourne, her developing and funny; this is smart, entertaining Staff review shuffles along in a soulless job. passion for her work and the demise fiction with plenty of moments that Shortlisted for last year’s Vogel Unlike his namesake, George is no of her relationship. will resonate with readers. Award, this is Alice Nelson’s first chilled-out Beatle but reminiscent Visit www.readings.com.au to Jo Case is Editor of novel. Maya and her husband, of a less cynical, equally neurotic read our online-only Q&A Readings Monthly Holden Caulfield. Fast forward with Claire Thomas.

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the notion of family in the absence find themselves in possession of a of one, and he is relentlessly bat- valuable book. Does it contain a tling the moral dilemma of how map of divine origin, a map of great to be good when surrounded by interest to a Nazi SS chief? And is evil. He doesn’t know who to trust, Italian prince Junio Vivarini vying and neither does the reader, so this for the book or Montse? becomes a page turner of the high- NVQÖt!ofx!tfsjft! est order. The Good Thief is literary THE ATLAS OF Mjuumf!Cpplt!po!Cjh!Uifnft! fiction with a plot to rival Dickens IMPOSSIBLE LONGING qbjst!mfbejoh! and Stevenson. Tinti’s previous Anuradha Roy Bvtusbmjbo!uijolfst! book is a collection of short stories, Quercus. PB. Normally $29.95 which I am about to seek out. Our special price $24.95 boe!dvmuvsbm!ßhvsft! Louise Swinn is the editorial Staff review xjui!tpnf!pg!uif!cjh! director of Sleepers Publishing Anuradha uifnft!jo!mjgf/ Roy is best THE GONE-AWAY known in WORLD book circles Fbdi!bvuipsÖt! Nick Harkaway as a publisher 21-111.xpse!ublf! Random. PB. Normally $35 at Permanent Our special price $29.95 Black, a small po!b!diptfo!uifnf! Staff review ‘ SPECIAL PRICE Indian jt!qsftfoufe!bt!bo! What can I publishing fnjofoumz!dpmmfdubcmf! say? This imprint that was set up by Roy and ibsecbdl/ novel (by her husband after their controversial none other departures from Oxford University than John Le Press India. Permanent Black Carre’s son) publishes both academic and general BWBJMBCMF is already my trade titles, mostly of South Asian CIAL PRICE BVHVTU ‘ SPE favourite of interest, by authors such as Amitav the year, and Ghosh, Amit Chaudhuri and Partha Cmbodif!eÖBmqvhfu the best debut I have read in many Chatterjee. Roy’s debut novel is a Po!Mpohjoh years. Its 500-plus pages offer so love story and a family saga that many riches I cannot go into too starts when newly married Amulya Cbssjf!Lptlz! many details here. Apocalyptic leaves his privileged life in Calcutta scenery? Check. A wild troupe of to set up a household with his new Po!Fdtubtz ruffians trying to save the world? wife, Kananbala, in the small village Check. Laughter and heartbreak? of Songarh. This is the story of the Hfsnbjof!Hsffs Check. Oh, and did I mention the family’s attempts to adapt, to grow Po!Sbhf ninjas? Think Dickens smoking a and to fulfil their dreams – and their doobie with Vonnegut and Philip ‘impossible longing’ – ever aware of Ebwje!Nbmpvg K. Dick and you’ll get the idea. Amulya’s restless discontent and Po!Fyqfsjfodf It’s more than that, though. This Kananbala’s emotional disintegra- young author has found his own tion. This is a novel that is voice and deserves more than easy remarkable for its evocation of place DPNJOH! comparisons. You are an amaz- and its very human story: that of ing talent if you can weave a plot family, love and misplaced PDUPCFS together consisting of world-saving ambitions. adventure, heartbreaking love and Kabita Dhara is from Epo!Xbutpo insanely funny, engaging charac- Readings Carlton Po!Joejhobujpo ters. And how about those ninjas? This novel is big, freakish and very, THE HAKAWATI very promising. A bit like Lance Rabih Alameddine Boof!Tvnnfst Franklin really. (Is he a ninja?) Picador. PB. Normally $32.95 Po!Mvdl Do yourself a favour and buy this Our special price $27.95 book. You’ll thank yourself for Staff review Hbz!Cjmtpo many years to come. Enough said. I loved this Harry Doorn is from book and Po!Joejhftujpo Readings Malvern could not put it down, Nbmdpmn!Lopy! THE CREATOR’S MAP which made Po!Pctfttjpo Emilio Calderon for a very Text. PB. $32.95 tricky week

This seductive first novel blends ‘ SPECIAL PRICE as I have a political intrigue, love and deceit six-month- SSQ!%2:/:6!fbdi against the backdrop of two of the old who also didn’t want to be put Bmtp!bwbjmbcmf!jo!b! twentieth century’s most significant down. It’s amazing how much hjgucpy!pg!bmm!5!ujumft! conflicts: the Spanish Civil War and reading you can get done jiggling World War II. A Spanish architec- on the spot with baby in a papoose. gps!SSQ!%71/11 ture student studying in Rome and I believe The Hakawati will top my an alluring young librarian, Montse, list for the year’s most inventive,

10 Books witty, adventurous and sexiest reads. THE GUERNSEY It’s pure genius. Hakawati is Arabic LITERARY AND POTATO for storyteller, and the narrator of PEEL PIE SOCIETY this tale is Osama al-Kharrat, a Mary Ann Shaffer young Lebanese man who has A&U. PB. Normally $29.95 returned to present day war-torn Our special price $24.95 Beirut to join his family at his It’s 1946, and father’s deathbed. His story is but Juliet Ashton, A wildly imaginative one thread amid a sumptuous saga a writer of tale of two William of Middle Eastern history and witty Shakespeares: one legend. Fabulous stories of warriors, newspaper of Stratford upon sultans, imps, seductresses, jinnis columns, is Avon in 1582; the and Crusaders; each fable evoking tired of other, would-be AL PRICE Shakespeare scholar the diversity and depth of the Arab ‘ SPECI exploring the Willie Shakespeare world. The Hakawatiis also a story sunny side Greenberg in 1986 about the meaning of storytelling, of life during and after the war. the power and potency of carefully California. Both are One day, Guernsey fr a mer Dawsey in serious girl troubble chosen words. ‘Listen’ is the Adams finds Juliet’s name in a used and being pursued by seductive invitation used by the book and encourages neighbours to government agents: hakawati to begin a story and write to her with their stories – in- the Bard at a time fittingly it is the novel’s last word, cluding the story of the formation when Catholics were as you’ll want to turn back to page of the quirkily named Guernsey being hung, drawn one, and start reading it over again. Literary and Potato Peel Pie and quartered; Willie Sanchia Hovey is on maternity leave Society, while Guernsey was under Greenberg during the from Readings St Kilda German occupation. Entranced by War on Drugs. their stories, and the correspond- A GUIDE TO THE BIRDS ence that first blossomed out of a OF EAST AFRICA mutual love Nicholas Drayson of books, Juliet decides to visit the Viking. PB. $29.95 island and meet her letter writers Guest review – and changes her life forever. A Rose Mbikwa charming and heart-warming story. is a widow – a victim of THE COLLECTOR Kenyan politics OF WORLDS and an ardent Ilya Troyanov birdwatcher. Faber. PB. $32.95 She doesn’t Guest review know it, but Sir Richard she is also the Francis Burton trophy of a wager between two old – explorer, 4HE4WO0EARLSOF7ISDOM classmates. Mr Malik, also widowed, writer, soldier, !,)3/.'//$-!. is passionately in love with her. diplomat – is For Harry Kahn it’s just another %ONISAPOTENTIAL$RAGONEYE ABLETO acclaimed for MANIPULATEWINDANDWATERTONURTURE conquest he is intent on winning. his vivid ANDPROTECTTHELAND"UT%ONALSOHASA The one who counts more birds is translation of DARKSECRETx"ASEDONTHEANCIENTLORES the one who gets to ask her to the two master- OF#HINESEASTROLOGYAND&ENG3HUI 4HE annual Hunt Club Ball. This plot pieces; from Arabic, One Thousand 4WO0EARLSOF7ISDOMANDITSSEQUELARE is hilarious. Characters like Tiger Nights and A Night and from COMPELLINGNOVELSSETINAWORLDlLLED Singh, Mr Gopez, Mr Patel and Sanskrit, The Kama Sutra. High- WITHFALSEIDENTITIES DANGEROUSPOLITICS Benjamin will have you gasping for born, well-travelled and prodi- ANDSEXUALINTRIGUE air. An irresistible novel set against giously multilingual, Burton the streets of urban Nairobi with enlisted in the East India Company 4ABLOID-AN4HE,IFEAND its slums, its corruption and crime, army after expulsion from Oxford. 4IMESOF%ZRA.ORTON Drayson is a witty and fresh writer Career and adventure enabled the 3!.$2!(!,, who knows how to captivate his learning of languages and the &OROVERTHIRTYYEARS HEWASONEOFTHE reader from the outset. He also developing of disguises, through knows how to combine hilarity MOSTPOWERFULMENIN!USTRALIA)N the colonial worlds of India, Arabia %ZRA.ORTONINHERITEDTHENEWSPAPER4RUTH with the tragedy of one of the and Africa. In Iliya Troyanov’s FROMHISFATHER *OHN ANDALONGWITHITS world’s most neglected spots. composition, a legendary Burton STABLEMATETHE$AILY-IRROR MADE%ZRA It’s about Bill Clinton and that adventure is lyrically complement- .ORTONONEOFTHEKEYMEDIAlGURESOFHIS Monica, AIDS, poverty and our ed by local narrators, whose DAY3ANDRA(ALLSTHOROUGHLYRESEARCHEDAND fundamental humanity. A Guide to accounts playfully layer Oriental LIVELYACCOUNTOF%ZRA.ORTONSLIFEGIVES the Birds of East Africa will almost scenes with themes from Burton’s AFASCINATINGINSIGHTINTOTHISINmUENTIAL certainly have you crying with joy epic life. In British India, a !USTRALIANlGURE)NDOINGSO ITTRACESTHEEVOLUTIONOFTABLOID by the end. A fantastic read! Scheherazade-like courtesan NEWSPAPERSANDTHE!USTRALIAINWHICHTHE.ORTONSTHRIVED Dimitri Gonis is a freelance reviewer seduces Burton. In Arabia, Burton makes the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medica, among the first English- TH%STATE men to do so. In East Africa,

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to the source of the Nile. Other it’s a debut. Ruba is ten and lives SIX SUSPECTS and the taste for murder he narrators include Burton himself, with her family in Ein Douwra, Vikas Swarup develops, akin to orgasm. The title writing to the Governor, and the a village outside of war torn Bei- Doubleday. PB. Normally $32.95 of each chapter describes the sign disapproving appraisals of locals rut. Older brother Naji has taken Our special price $27.95 language the soldiers created to and colonials. Burton’s upbringing to collecting spent artillery shells Staff review communicate with each other, a and sophisticated immersion across fired by soldiers in the depleting Vikas language to describe the indescrib- multiple cultures is justly matched forest around their home. Swarup’s first able. They range from the tender, by Troyanov’s geographical resume: He has also been hanging out novel, Q & A, ‘Love Is a Backhanded Stroke to a Bulgarian-born German who with a group of gun-toting older took as its the Cheek’ to the hopeless ‘The Soul grew up in Kenya and journeyed in boys. Her friend Karim is being starting point Has No Sign’. But despite the brutal Burton’s footsteps. treated badly by other children a poor, and the unimaginable, Maloti Ray is a freelance reviewer because he’s a Muslim. As the vio- illiterate My Luck has a capacity for love that

lence waged in Beirut creeps into ‘ SPECIAL PRICE waiter who is never extinguished. This is a pow- HUMAN LOVE their town, Ruba’s father retreats wins a million erful piece of writing, haunting and Andre Makine further into his shell, becoming dollars on a game show and the bleak, but with an uncanny glimmer Hodder. PB. Normally $32.99 physically and emotionally subsequent investigation by the of hope for the human spirit. Our special price $27.95 unavailable due to events that producers of the game show into Michelle Calligaro is from Guest review he has witnessed and feels respon- how someone like him could have Readings Carlton After sible for. Based on the author’s known the answers to their witnessing own experiences, this novel questions. The novel proceeds to look HOW THE SOLDIER his parents’ transplants us into the world at each of the questions he was asked REPAIRS THE deaths of Ruba, a girl on the cusp of and how his specific experiences GRAMOPHONE during adulthood: a world where the equipped him to answer them. Sasa Stanisic Angolan threat of death is very real, the In Swarup’s latest novel, he uses this Weidenfeld & Nicolson. PB. indepen- quest for survival strong. It also same device of looking back from a Normally $32.99 RICE ‘ SPECIAL P dence, Elias begs us to ask the question: what primary event to uncover the way in Our special price $27.95 becomes a happens to those without the which the said event comes to pass. Born in ‘professional revolutionary’. money or means to escape a The six suspects of the title are sus- Višegrad, Through him, we watch socialism’s war zone? pected of the shooting and murder Bosnia and march through Africa, but for Jason Austin is Assistant Books of the rich, spoilt playboy Vicky escaping Elias, revolution embodies not the Buyer at Readings Carlton Rai in the middle of an elite party. during its pursuit of ideology, allegiance or They are: a corrupt businessman, Serbian power, but the fight for humanity BONE BY BONE invasion, an American tourist, an indigenous and the transcendent love that can Tony Johnston tribesman, a Bollywood starlet, a ‘ SPECIAL PRICE Saša Stanišić exist between two people. Whilst Text. 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collection seeks to map the past late medieval cities, the thick social and present of the Australian love networks of the Enlightenment THE FEDERATION PRESS affair with Italy, yielding rich republic of letters, and, finally, the insights into its causes, motivations new digital age. and transformations. Contributors Anger & Indigenous Men include former Australian Andrew Day, Martin Nakata & Ambassador to Italy Rory Steele, History Kevin Howells (eds) poet Peter Porter, contemporary FORCE OF DESTINY artists Euan Heng and Jo-Anne Christopher Duggan This book is for practitioners who wish to develop culturally Duggan, as well as distinguished Penguin. PB. $29.95 appropriate and eff ective programs for reducing anger-related academics and young scholars. The greatness of Italy’s culture and violence perpetrated by Indigenous men. Amongst the diverse range of way of life have had a powerful The book is structured in three parts which: articles and vignettes, Ian Britain attraction for many generations  explores Indigenous perspectives on anger and violence, on both sociological and writes on Donald Friend’s Italian psychological levels  outlines methodologies and processes for collecting meaningful data of visitors. This has created an years, Loretta Baldassar explores the on anger and Indigenous men; and  presents ideas for developing and delivering anger overwhelming sense that Italy is a phenomenon of reverse migration, management programs that meet the needs of Indigenous men. fundamentally benign and easygo- and novelist Lisa Clifford reflects ing country. The Force of Destiny, Contributors include psychologists, counsellors, educationalists and academics from both on her family ties with Italy. Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds. Christopher Duggan’s immensely ISBN 978 1 86287 685 9 RRP $49.95 EVIL PARADISES enjoyable new book, lays waste to Mike Davis & this idea. While sharing everyone’s enthusiasm for Italy as a place, he Marketing Law Bertrand Monk (eds) Peter Gillies & Niloufer Selvadurai strongly distinguishes this from its New Press. PB. $35 political role over the past two cen- Marketing Law covers the laws applying to manufacturing, This is the turies, which has been both vicious packaging, labelling, advertising, promotion, pricing and the sale of perfect and ruinous for Europe as a whole. goods. Topics covered include: companion  copyright, designs, trade marks and patents  unfair selling practices book to Davis’s  confi dential information  potential defamatory liability  product compelling Science quality and liability  trade practices laws and the responsibilities Planet of Slums, of marketers  restrictive trade practices, with specifi c emphasis on the prohibitions on LAMARCK’S which looked arrangements restricting competition, exclusive dealing and misuse of market power. REVOLUTION at the Ross Honeywill ISBN 978 1 86287 699 6 RRP $70.00 nightmarish Pier 9. PB. $29.95 proliferation of slums that mark the www.federationpress.com.au Staff review contemporary city. Evil Paradises, a Australian collection of essays by a range of scientist Ted contributors, looks at the flipside of Steele chanced this equation: the architecturally on nineteenth- designed glittering five-star towers century French and shopping malls of the ultrarich scientist, that create a kind of economic Jean-Baptiste apartheid in cities like Dubai, Lamarck, on a Hong Kong, Cairo and Los long plane flight Angeles. ‘A chilling lesson in how in 1978. Reading Arthur Koestler’s architecture can contribute to ... Janus, he was particularly struck by violence by hiding it beneath the the chapter ‘Lamarck Revisited’. aura of enlightened design.’ In 1809, Lamarck had published – New York Times Philosophie Zoologique, a work in which he anticipated Darwin’s REINVENTING theory of evolution. What struck KNOWLEDGE: FROM Steele about Lamarck’s theory was ALEXANDRIA TO that he posited that characteristics THE INTERNET acquired by an organism during its Ian F. McNeely lifetime could be genetically passed WW Norton. HB. $32.95 on to its progeny. At the time, Lama- A fresh and rck’s theories gained many enemies engaging and he died 20 years later: penniless intellectual and largely unacknowledged. Fifty history of years after Philosophie Zoologique, organised Darwin published On the Origin of knowledge in Species. While Darwin did acknowl- the West, edge Lamarck’s contribution, he featuring a cast disagreed with his idea that acquired of memorable characteristics could be passed on to characters. The authors question the next generation. The ascendancy how history can help us to of Darwinian theory meant that understand the vast changes we are few scientists pursued Lamarck’s now experiencing in the landscape ideas with much vigour. (Although of knowledge, ranging from Austrian Walter Kammerer’s experi- classical Alexandria to the ments with the midwife toad seemed rambunctious universities of the

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26 New Release CDs surely be one of the most keenly hipsters. There is a wonderful sense REAL ANIMAL CD of the Month anticipated local debuts in some of playfulness and humour Alejandro Escovedo FLEET FOXES time. And what a little red belter it throughout the record and with a $24.95 Fleet Foxes is! Not ones to hide their influ- name like theirs and a singer by the For his ninth $24.95 ences, the band’s sound is drowned name of Lovefoxxx, well it’s just studio release, O bearded ones! in joyous sixties beat pop, jangly hard not to love these guys. Oh Escovedo gives Lead the people guitars and a good measure of doo- yeah, and they’ve made one of the us an album full to your land woppy harmonies, all of which party albums of the year. DM of life and hope of indie-folk makes for a record so infectious it’s for the future. melody! This almost criminal. From the irresist- FIGHT OR FLIGHT Slashing guitar work, a killer young hirsute ible hip shakin’ opener Coca Cola 16 Millimeter opening track and great songs five-piece from Seattle calls it and the sleek grove of Witchdoctor, $24.95 are his new signature. After a ‘baroque harmonic pop jams’, but it’s clear that these boys are here to ‘Split me open life-threatening experience and an I think it’s easier just to say Bloody have a blast. It ain’t reinventing the and see my album that tested his mortality, he Good Record. Fleet Foxes have a wheel, it’s just a great pop record. soul,’ sings Tom has definitely moved the bar. You unique sound, vaguely in the same Get out and see them. Hoskins on can clearly hear his San Francisco league as Midlake or My Morning Declan Murphy is from New Face, the punk and pop influences on Sister Jacket; but it is really the harmo- Readings St Kilda opening cut on Lost Soul. Just think Springsteen, nies that drive the songs – echoes 16 Millimetre’s debut album. John Hiatt and Barroom brawler. COMME SI DE RIEN of the Beach Boys, or even Crosby, It’s the perfect introduction to an Alejandro Escovedo, say hello to N’ ETAIT (AS IF NOTHING Stills, Nash & Young. This is extraordinary album. These dark life again. LF HAD HAPPENED) definitely folk for a new generation urban tales will haunt you. Tom’s and a tremendously accomplished Carla Bruni voice is breathtaking – Bowie AN INTIMATE UNIVERSE collection of truly beautiful songs. $29.95 meets Jeff Buckley, capable of be- Wellyn Morgana Keating is from A slightly ironic album title, no? ing both fragile and fierce. $19.95 Readings Hawthorn Now Mrs Sarkozy, the French The standout track is the should- An Intimate President’s wife’s name is splashed be-an-Aussie-classic Saturday Universe gives PRIMARY COLOURS all over the papers as her new al- Night, a tale of ‘tearing through the impression Eddy Current bum becomes global news. Which the maelstrom’, depicting the of being Suppression Ring other president has his wife singing nervous energy of a night on the anything but songs of love and lust about him $25.95 town, capturing the anticipation, a first album. (on record, not As soon as you excitement, desperation and frus- Moody and brooding, melancholic at home)? I loved her first album hear the first tration: ‘I just need some flesh,’ and soaring, both vocally and Quelqu’ Un Ma Dit, but was less track, Memory Tom sings, ‘to feel myself, to feel musically, similarities with 78 enamoured with it’s English lan- Lane, you can all right.’ 16 Millimetre have made Saab come to mind. Let’s not guage follow-up, No Promises. understand why a masterpiece. Australian beauty. compare. The making of a good Happily this is far more like the these blokes Jeff Jenkins is a Melbourne album is its songs. This set of debut: 13 beautiful contemporary having been selling out venues music journalist songs delivers. I am struck by the French classics and one English across the country. Although the melody and structure of the songs. cover of the Bob Dylan song, album does not 100% translate TAKES At six years in the making this You Belong To Me. their full throttle performance Adem album was obviously a labour of Dave Clarke is from energy, it does give you an $29.95 love for Ned Jones. Wellyn reach Readings Carlton indication of the strength of the British singer/ for the stars – and for me, they songwriter songs that underpin the explosive- DONKEY shine pretty bright. Adem was asked ness of an Eddy Current Suppres- CSS Lou Fulco is from Port Melbourne by punters so sion Ring live show. Grab the $26.95 album – then grab one of the often at gigs for MELODIA Cansei de Ser copies of his hottest live tickets in town. Sexy (Tired of The Vines covers that he decided to record an $29.95 James Power is from Being Sexy) hail album of them for this, his third After an Readings St Kilda. from Sao Paulo, outing, Takes. The brief: to cover interesting Brazil and burst only songs recorded between couple of years LISTEN TO LITTLE RED onto the scene a 1991-2001. Loving treatment has involving Little Red couple of years back with a self- been heaped upon songs by Bjork, physical $21.95 titled record which made them the Smashing Pumpkins, Breeders altercations About a year darlings of dance/rock enthusiasts and an amazing mash of Aphex with the press, personal weight ago I began everywhere. And with good reason. Twins’ songs, blending to become blowouts and an alleged break- to notice the Their follow up effort Donkey a mantra of joy. Part of the charm down, Craig Nicholls and his consistency proves it was no fluke, as they of this album is that, layered blokes are back, fit and in-form, with which I deliver another set overflowing with the grand piano and violin, with an album that not only has was being asked with the same sexed-up disco glockenspiel and appalachian the snarl, but also the substance a certain question: Have you seen energy that made its predecessor duolcimer, found objects such that made their debut album such Little Red? I eventually did, several such a treat. Opening track Jager as cups and bike locks fill in the a cracker. First single He’s A Rocker times, and they rocked. So, having Yoga sets the pace perfectly, with percussion. Brilliant. is a great sign that The Vines have forged for themselves a formidable pounding drums and a bassline Jason Austin is from recaptured a bit of that gritty yet reputation as a live act, Little Red which is sure to fill dance floors all Readings Carlton stylish explosiveness that cata- have finally delivered what must over town with slim-hipped indie

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pulted these Sydney boys onto the MEO SUO I EYRUM transformation to the one cover of music mags all around the VIO SPILUM END Radiohead took with their recent Country world. A welcome return for fans (WITH A BUZZ IN release. The beauty and majesty STILL CROOKED of The Vines’ attractively volatile OUR EARS WE PLAY are still present, but the mood has Crooked Still lifted from one of sombre reverence earlier work. JP ENDLESSLY) $25.95 to an open encouragement of wild Sigur Ros At first, you are and happy participation.The record I FLATHEAD Normally $29.95. Our special in admiration of does still have its quieter moments, Ry Cooder price for August $21.95. the wonderful but it is obvious that Sigur Ros $29.95. Deluxe version $34.95 When I saw musicianship have turned a creative and perhaps The last of his the cover of on offer here. psychological corner, and it’s a California Sigur Ros’s Musicians of corner I am very happy to follow trilogy (Chavez new album, distinguished backgrounds form them around. Ravine and My my first Crooked Still and the subtlety Tom Hoskins is from Name is Buddy thought was of their playing shines through. Readings Carlton came prior) Ry ‘I hope it’s summer’. Featuring Blending bluegrass with an Irish Cooder continues his theme of various members of the band traditional tweak, mixed with a exploring the history of the big running stark naked across an MODERN GUILT touch of Alison Krauss, the band American state from around Icelandic highway, the cover is a Beck sings songs of longing and of long mid-last century. Cooder has such drastic and colourful departure $29.95 journeys and faraway lands. Singer a rich history of music storytell- from the band’s previously With the Aoife O’Donavan sings in hushed ing, it is hard to know where fact sombre and minimalist artwork. exception of last tones and therefore delivers ballads and fiction are in his world. On I This departure, however, is not year’s Grammy- to die for. Listen to this album Flathead, he assumes the role of just evident in the cover. For a nominated, in silence and soak it up. the fictitious Kash Buk, a beatnik, band famous for recording in an digital-only A wonderful release!! LF country music nut and salt flat empty swimming pool, it seems single Time- racer. The music itself is mostly that this past summer, Sigur Ros bomb, Modern Guilt is the first new country rockabilly with a touch of filled up the pool, fired up the material Beck has written since the Blues blues, exotica and Latin influ- barbeque and invited their prolific stretch that produced ences. A very enjoyable ride. The friends around. The record is a 2005’s platinum Guero and 2006’s TWO MEN WITH deluxe version from America joyous and exuberant affair, acclaimed The Information. Modern THE BLUES includes a 100-page novella telling tapping into similar sonic and Guilt is a tightly assembled group Wynton Marsalis the story and is packaged very emotional territory as The of songs that range in lyrical tone & Willie Nelson smartly like a hardcover book Arcade Fire and their country- from introspection and social $29.95 ($34.95). DC woman, Bjork. It’s a similar commentary to off-the cuff Willie Nelson has dueted with wordplay and light-hearted many people, but never before has humour. Musically, the album’s ten he been so oddly coupled in record- tracks vacillate between economy ing. Recorded live over two nights and experimentation, hybrid and at The Lincoln Center in New York pop classicism, while consistently last year, this is one of the more manifesting Beck and Danger difficult to categorise albums of Mouse’s shared interest in psych- the past 10 years: is it jazz, blues, rock, folk, electronic minimalism country, pop? This unusual pairing and orchestration. Not Beck’s best have clearly enjoyed themselves in work, but still reliably good. making this and that joy comes Sid Grane is from Readings across in the recording. It’s mostly Hawthorn old classics here, including Bright Lights Big City, Stardust, Georgia on A LOUD CALL my Mind and Ain’t Nobody’s Busi- Holly Throsby ness. SG $24.95 A beautiful third album Folk & World from this ANA HINA Australian Natacha Atlas Mazeeka singer-songwrit- Ensemble er. Recorded in $32.95 Nashville with Lambchop associate Diverse, Mark Nevers, it really is a great step introsepctive, forward from her two previous, acoustic: these slightly more straightforward, are the words albums. With some help from a that come to few bigger name musicians, the mind when sound is fuller and the mood more describing the latest release from upbeat – particularly on the Anglo-Lebanese pop princess standout song here, A Heart Natasha Atlas. Ana Hina is a Divided. She could well be ready to beautiful, quiet mixture of songs take the next step, à la Sarah gleaned from many sources, Blasko. DC including 1950s Egyptian movies, a poem penned by Frida Kahlo set to

28 CDs music (a duet and in my opinion Waterson Carthy, has produced a BAND OF HORSES the highlight) and even a track series of innovative folk albums so Have come a long way in a short Proper Box Sets written by Atlas herself. Backed by far, and has taken a great leap time. Recent visitors to Australia, the Maze eka Ensemble, this forward with this one. From the their two albums are both great: offering showcases her lovely lilting opening, distorted guitar-riffing, Everything All the Time and Cease voice with light arrangements that you know you are in for something to Begin. never overbear, harkening back to different. Carthy has developed into an golden age of Middle Eastern a really good singer and compari- CSS songbirds. I’ll add surprising and sons to Norma Waterson are The best thing to come out of Brazil satisfying to my earlier descriptions inevitable. There’s everything here, since Harry O’Brien ended up at and say enjoy!! from mariachi brass to cellos, Collingwood. The crazy kids who Kevin Clark is from melodian and violin, as well as bass are CSS have also just been here and Readings Carlton and drums. The theatrical spoken- they have a brand new album (see Were $49 .95. Now $34 .95 each word epic Mr Magnifico is the the review in earlier pages here – Proper Records UK produces a INTRODUCING HANGGAI highlight here and features the Donkey). Now is the perfect time to legendary series of amazing value $24.95 aforementioned mariachi brass check out their debut album Cansei 4CD sets from the greatest artists of With Olympic fever about to section. Carthy co-writes most of Der Ser Sexy. the 20th century. And at Readings descend upon us, this may the tunes here with multi-instru- we are happy to present a selection be the time to feature some sounds mentalist Ben Witsky, except for a of their best selling box sets at the from China. This group are part new Rory MacLeod composition The Triffids crazy price of $34.95 each. These ofthe current revival of Mongo- Hug You Like a Mountain. This is a normally retail for $49.95. That’s lian folk music and this album is real genre-breaking album that’s Re-issue CDs 30% off! But these are only available filled with eerie throat singing and impossible to classify – and certainly at this price whilst stock lasts. guttural voices and mysterious and one of the most interesting projects BEAUTIFUL WASTE beautiful instrumental sounds un- to emerge from The Topic label. PB AND OTHER SONGS s Swing De Paris/Django Reinhardt like anything I’ve heard in a long BLACK SWANsBORN Bluegrass Bonanza/Various time. PB HIGHLIFE TIME SANDY DEVOTIONAL Dawn of Doo Wop/Various $44.95 sCALENTURE sIN THE Good News 100 Gospel Greats/Various GAMBLER’S BALLET PINES sTREELESS PLAIN Broke Black & Blue Anthology of SIR VICTOR UWAIFO AND BACK CATALOGUE Blues Music/Various GUITAR BOY SUPERSTAR Lady Sings/Billie Holiday Kila 1970 -76 It’s Easy to Remember/Bing Crosby $29.95 $29.95 Original Soul Sister/Sister Rosetta Long one of my Two more excellent compilations Thank God for the Aria Hall of Tharpe Farewell to Ireland/Various favourite world of long-lost Nigerian classics from Fame! At last, claims that The Time Was/Dave Brubeck music bands, the 70s. Not a month goes by now Triffids are as important as Rolf Early Years/Chet Baker Dublin without at least one or two of these Harris have official acknowledge- Monks Mood/Thelonious Monk seven-piece Kila fantastically produced reissues ment. And with this acknowledge- King of Chicago Blues/Muddy Waters have now had emerging. PB their whole, and very impressive, ment, the concluding instalments Queen Sings/Dinah Washington catalogue released locally. Gambler’s of Liberation’s lavish Triffids reissues King Louis/Louis Armstrong Ballet is their latest release and may can finally be released here (they’ve Piano Power/Oscar Peterson be their best yet, featuring the Sub Pop Specials been available in the UK for ages Boogie Man/John Lee Hooker dynamic instrumental interplay of – imagine that, Australia the last to Come To Jesus/Mahalia Jackson Irish pipes flutes, fiddles, fretted know). Some Folk/Woody Guthrie instruments percussion, dulcimer, The appearance ofBeautiful Waste, Doctor Jazz/Jelly Roll Morton electronic textures and the odd vocal a collection of EPs and B-sides and Dearly Beloved/Ella Fitzgerald track in English and Gaelic. This The Black Swan mean that – aside Handful of Keys/Fats Waller Were $26.95. Now $16.95 each group are talented composers and from some charming pre-Hot Texas Thunderbolt/Lightnin Hopkins The seminal Seattle label Sub Pop don’t strictly play traditional Irish label singles, a couple of tracks on Classic Rockabilly/Various is turning 20 and they want you music, but are informed by it, as compilations, a few fascinating self- Country Folk/Carter Family to join in the celebrations … for well as by a myriad of other released early cassettes, a live album Sax Symbol/Sonny Rollins a limited time, we have some of influences, including classical and and several UK B-sides – anyone Golden Years/Glenn Miller their classic albums (yes we still Eastern sounds, klezmer and African who needs to check that The Triffids Gypsy Jazz/Various call CDs albums) available at the rhythms, all blended beautifully. really deserve to be in that illustrious Way I Feel/Ray Charles crazy price of $16.95 each – that Paul Barr is from Readings Carlton hall with Dragon and Max Merritt Tupelo Mississippi/Elvis Presley is, $10 off. has the band’s entire output on six Flash Early Trane/John Coltrane DREAMS OF BREATHING THE SHINS collections to help them make up With My Little Ukelele In My Hand/ UNDERWATER The beautiful guitar pop group their mind, from the band-out- Various Miss Wonderful/Peggy Lee Eliza Carthy have released three albums. All are of-time arcania of Treeless Plain to Cool Cole King Cole Trio Story/Nat $29.95 worth checking out: Oh Inverted the running-out-of-time dervish King Cole Getting Funky Birth of Eliza Carthy, World, Shutes to Narrow and their desperation of The Black Swan. New Orleans R&B/Various daugher of most recent Wincing the Night Out-takes, piss-takes, cover versions, King of New Orleans Rock N Roll/ British Away. cover-ups, B-sides, the point sides, Fats Domino Jazz & Velvet/Mel traditional and pages and pages and pages of Torme Young Tony/Tony Bennett luminaries IRON AND WINE scribbled clues and red herrings, this Love & Passion/Edith Piaf Martin Carthy The masters of quiet country- is a trove to be treasured. Without All or Nothing At All/Frank Sinatra / and Norma Waterson, is one of a folk-pop have also released three this we’d never have known that Chattanooga Girl/Bessie Smith bunch of younger musicians masterful albums: Creek Drank the Calenture was once to have been Original Guitar Genius/Charlie breathing new life into folk music. Cradle, Our Endless Numbered Days called ‘Holy Water Sports’. Thanks Christian Rockin Memphis (Brand Carthy, a some-time member of and Shepherd’s Dog Liberation! And thanks Arias! ML New!)/Various

29 Alia Vox Sale deluxe digipack including a 133 Classical CDs page booklet in English, Spanish, Readings is also offering 12 best- French, German, Italian and Cata- the set is a collection of smaller seller titles from the Alia Vox range lan which includes the complete Special of the Month works by Chopin, John Field, at the reduced price of $19.95. current Alia Vox catalogue. This is Fauré and Schumann’s Kinder- AUDIVI VOCEM These titles normally retail at the perfect warm-up album to the scenen which Birnie plays with The Hilliard Ensemble $29.95 and are great value at this Savall family and Hesperion XXI’s great musical insight without los- Cat. No. ECM1936 price. Titles include: Elizabethan much anticipated tour of Australia ing sight of charm and simplicity Normally $32.95 Consort Music (AV9804); La Folia later this year for Musica Viva. of these pieces. This set is highly Special price for August $24.95 1490-1701 (AV9805); El Cant de Catherine Koerner is from recommended. Apparently the For more than la Sibilla (AV9806); Missa Bruxel- Readings Hawthorn 30 years, the next set in this new series is to be lensis (AV9808); Bach: Sonaten Hilliard the opening concerto from the für Viola da gamba (AV9812); PURCELL: FANTASIAS Ensemble has Sydney Opera House in 1973 with Ostinato (AV9820); Tous les matins FOR THE VIOLS (1680) been Britain’s Sir Charles Mackerras, the SSO du monde soundtrack (AV9821); Hesperion XX, and Birgit Nilsson. pre-eminent Ninna Nanna: Lullabies (AV9826); Jordi Savall vocal group. With a repertoire Maurice Smith buys classical Marais: Pièces de Viole (AV9828); Alia Vox SACD hybrid ranging from Perotin to Errki- music for the City of Boroondara Vivaldi: La Viola da gamba in AVSA9859 $19.95. Sven Tüür, from Guillaume de Library Service Concerto (AV9835); Boccherini: Another stand-out recording from Machaut to German composer Fandango & Sinfonie (AV9845); Jordi Savall’s Astree/Auvidis period, Heiner Goebbels, this outstanding Orient Occident (AV9848). the Purcell Fantasias were originally group has been the benchmark in Classical Specials released in 1994. These perfor- their field. On this new recording, HANDEL: WATER mances capture some of the special they move effortlessly through TAKEMITSU: PLAYED MUSIC, MUSIC FOR night ambience Savall strives for, these wonderful works of BY JOHN WILLIAMS THE ROYAL FIREWORKS. with a Zen-like quality that would sixteenth-century Latin church Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jordi Savall. be perfectly suitable for meditation. music from Thomas Tallis, London Sinfonietta Alia Vox. SACD hybrid Re-mastered in February this year Christopher Tye and John Cat. No. SK46720. Was $29.95. AVSA9860. $19.95. and available as a SACD hybrid Sheppard. Recorded in the Now $14.95 One of the stand-out recordings (playable on all CD players) at splendid acoustics of Sankt from Jordi Savall’s Astree/Auvidis JOHN WILLIAMS: the temporarily reduced price Gerold, the beauty of this period and part of Alia Vox’s new THE ULTIMATE GUITAR of $19.95. CK recording is unmistakable. Every COLLECTION. and ongoing project to re-release track on this CD is beautifully Cat. No. 5154002000. and re-master the complete back sung and if I had to nominate my Was $29.95. Now $19.95 (2 CDs) catalogue. Never before has NAXOS NEW RELEASES favourites I would say the pieces This month we feature two record- Handel’s Water Music sounded so FOR AUGUST from the Missa Sine Nominee ings by the great Australian classical joyously rustic. Re-mastered in Bach, J.C.: Keyboard Concertos, from Cristopher Tye are the guitarist John Williams. The first February 2008 and available as an Op. 13, Nos. 2, 4 / Bach, J.C.F.: standouts. But in a disc of this recording is the music of Japanese SACD hybrid (playable on all CD Keyboard Concertos, B. C29, C30 quality, you can’t really say that composer Toru Takemitsu. This CD players) at the temporarily reduced The Music Collection, Cat. No. one is better than the other. is a mixture of guitar and orchestra, price of $19.95. CK 8570474 $9.95; Bottesini Col- All in all, one of the outstanding lection: Vol. 2, Duo concertant on guitar and alto flute and solo guitar. INVOCATION A LA NUIT classical releases of the year. This themes from Bellini’s I Puritani, From the opening piece To the Edge Jordi Savall special price is for August only – of Dream for guitar and orchestra, to Double Bass Concertino in C minor, Alia Vox AV9871. 2 CD set. $19.95 limited stock available. the closing Vers, l’arc-en-ciel, Palma Thomas Martin, Matthew Gibson This generously Phil Richards is from for the Oboe d’amore, guitar and Cat. No. 8570398 $9.95. filled 2CD Readings Carlton. orchestra, we are treated to a series Breton, T: Piano Trio in E-major / set has been of pieces that demonstrate what a 4 Spanish Pieces LOM Piano Trio. released to mark wonderful composer Takemitsu is – Cat. No.8570713 $9.95 the tenth anni- SCHUBERT PIANO and in combination with the genius Busoni, F.: Piano Music, Vol. 4 Wolf versary of Jordi SONATAS of John Williams, it makes for a Harden. Cat. No. 8570543 $9.95. Savall’s wonderful Alia Vox label. Tessa Birnie fantastic listening experience. Guitar Recital: Works by Sor, ABC 476 6479 The title, Invocation A la Nuit, is Ibert, Villalobos, Tarrega etc. ‘Australian The second recording is a 2 CD set a tribute to the special qualities of Rafael Aguirre. Cat. No. 8572064 Master’ is a that features a host of well known silence that night creates. Most of $9.95. Guitar Recital: Works by new ABC pieces such as Cavatina, Asturias and the Alia Vox albums were recorded Maw, Rodrigo, Tansman, Ponce. series which Concierto de Aranjuez, to name but between the hours of 1am and Marcin Dyalla. Cat. No. 8572060 will feature a few – and also gems such as Scott 4am, endeavouring to distill some $9.95 Ives, C.: Songs, Vol. 3 prominent Aus- Joplin’s The Entertainer, Gnossienne of this atmosphere during record- Various performers. tralian artists. The first set in this no. 1 by Erik Satie and Enoch ing sessions. The first disc is totally Cat. No. 8559271 $9.95 new series is pianist Tessa Birnie. Sontonga’s Nikosi Sikel’l Afrika. These comprised of vocal music, the Karlowicz, M.: Symphonic Poems, Though New Zealand born, Birnie recordings, 41 tracks over 2 CDs, second is instrumental. The result Antoni Wit. Cat. No. 8570452 settled in Sydney and formed the recorded all over the world, really do is a rich and varied musical journey $9.95 Pilati, M.: Concerto for much admired Sydney Camerata give an excellent musical picture of ranging from the middle ages to Orchestra, Suite for Strings and Chamber Orchestra. Central to the career of John Williams. As with the present day. The tracks are not Piano. Tomas Nemec, Adriano. Cat. her repertoire were the piano any John Williams CD, the playing only taken from the past 10 years No. 8570873 $9.95 Scarlatti, D.: works of Schubert and much of is masterful. So if you are looking for of Alia Vox’s recording history, Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 10. Colleen this three disc set shows what a a place to start your classical guitar but also feature some unreleased Lee. Cat. No. 8570511 $9.95. fine exponent she was of his great collection then these two CDs are recordings and future albums, plus Also available: 2008 Naxos sonatas, and the charming mo- a good place to start. N.B. Both of some examples of the Astree cata- catalogue, with sampler CD. ment musicaux. The final disc of these titles are in limited quantities logue (1975 to 1996). Issued in a (Cat. No. 8572058, $4.95).

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