APRIL 2016 Marshall's Law Ben Sanders
Marshall Grade is back, still trying to escape the remnants of his old life. The gritty, explosive new novel from the bestselling author of American Blood is a white-knuckle ride that will have you ducking for cover!
Description 'It's easy to see what the fuss is about. Sanders' prose is sharper than a switchblade...It's like Raymond Chandler, Lee Child and Elmore Leonard rolled into one.' Sydney Morning Herald
Ex-undercover cop Marshall Grade is hiding out in New York City when he learns that federal agent Lucas Cohen has survived a kidnapping. Cohen was Marshall's ticket into witness protection, and his captors have a simple question: where's Marshall now?
Marshall's undercover work gave him a long list of enemies, and the enemy in this case is a corrupt businessman named Dexter Vine. Vine's almost broke, in debt to people even worse than himself, and he wants to settle old scores while he has time. He's hired Ludo Coltrane - a nonchalant psychopath and part-time bar manager - to find Marshall at any cost. Ludo's no stranger to killing, but his associate, the cash-strapped ex-con Perry Rhodes, may prove more of a liability than an asset.
The question is: what has Marshall done to make Dexter want him dead? And are the contacts from his old life - ex- colleague Lana, and the heroin dealer Henry Lee - prepared to help him, or will they just sell him out?
About the Author Ben Sanders is the author of four previous novels: The Fallen (2010), By Any Means (2011), and Only The Dead (2013), all of which were New Zealand fiction bestsellers. Sanders' first three novels were written while he was studying at university; he graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering, but now writes full-time. His first US-based novel, American Blood, was a bestseller in Australia and New Zealand. Ben lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 To Capture What We Cannot Keep Beatrice Colin
Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young Scottish widow and a French engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.
Description In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Emile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family's business and choose a suitable wife. As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, the subject of extreme controversy and a symbol of the future, Cait and Emile must decide what their love is worth.
Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention, Beatrice Colin evokes the revolutionary time in which Cait and Emile live - one of corsets and secret trysts, duels and Bohemian independence, strict tradition and Impressionist experimentation. To Capture What We Cannot Keep, stylish, provocative, and shimmering, raises probing questions about a woman's place in that world, the overarching reach of class distinctions, and the sacrifices love requires of us all.
About the Author Beatrice Colin is the author of four novels for adults. Selected by Richard and Judy for their TV book programme, she has been shortlisted for a British Book Award, a Saltire Award and a Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award. She also writes short stories, screen and radio plays and for children.
Beatrice is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Slow Waltz of Turtles Katherine Pancol
In this bestseller from France and the follow-up to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles, a woman contends with divorce, family trouble, and even murder in her journey to discover who she really is.
Description Forty-something mother of two Josephine Cortes is at a crossroads. She has just moved to a posh new apartment in Paris after the success of the historical novel she ghostwrote for her sister, Iris. Still struggling with her divorce - the result of her husband running off to Kenya to start a crocodile farm with his mistress - she is now entangled too in a messy lie orchestrated by her sister. And just when things seem they can't get any more complicated, people start turning up dead in her neighborhood.
As Josephine struggles to find her voice and her confidence amidst a messy web of relationships and a string of murders, she and those around her must learn to push on with determination, like headstrong little turtles learning to dance slowly in a world that's too violent and moving too fast.
About the Author Katherine Pancol is one of France's best-known contemporary authors, with millions of copies of her books in print in thirty-one languages. She lives in Paris, France.
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles, her first novel translated into English, has been a huge success in France and the rest of Europe where it has sold over 2.5 million copies. The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles has been translated into thirty-one languages. Katherine Pancol lives in Paris, France and updates her blog every week on her website http://www.katherine- pancol.com.
About the Translator William Rodarmor, who also translated Katherine Pancol's The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles in 2013, has translated more than forty books and screenplays and won the Lewis Galantiere Award from the American Translators Association. A retired magazine editor in Berkeley, California, he also edited and translated the anthologies France and French Feast for Whereabouts Press. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760290160 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 432 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles Katherine Pancol
A warmly funny story about love, friendship, betrayal, money, dreams and a little white lie and its hilarious, life- changing consequences.
Description 'A clear-eyed, warmly funny tale.' Kirkus Reviews
This novel is the story of a lie. But it is also a story of laughter and tears, of life itself.
When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Josephine Cortes is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two is forced to make ends meet on her meagre salary as a medieval history scholar.
Meanwhile, Josephine's charismatic sister Iris seems to have it all - a wealthy husband, gorgeous looks, and a tres chic Paris address-but secretly she dreams of bringing meaning back into her life.
And then a dinner party changes the sisters' destinies.
Iris is seated next to a famous book publisher to whom she spins a tale of the 12th century romance she's writing. When Iris charms him into offering her a lucrative deal for her book, she offers her sister a deal of her own: Josephine will write the novel and pocket all the proceeds, but the book will be published under Iris's name.
All is well - until the book becomes the literary sensation of the season.
About the Author Katherine Pancol moved from Casablanca to France when she was five. She studied literature and initially became a French and Latin teacher, before turning to journalism. While working for Paris-Match and Cosmopolitan, she is noticed by an intuitive publisher who encourages her to begin writing. Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760112202 Format: Paperback - B format Her novel The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles has been a huge success in France and the rest of Europe where it has sold Dimensions: 198x128mm over 2.5 million copies. The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles has been translated into thirty-one languages. Katherine Pancol Extent: 464 pages lives in Paris, France and updates her blog every week on her website http://www.katherine-pancol.com. Main Category: F Fiction
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Win, Lose or Draw Peter Corris
A missing teenager, drugs, yachts, the sex trade and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay and Coolangatta. Can Cliff Hardy find out what's really going on?
Description Will one man's loss be Hardy's gain?
'I'd read about it in the papers, heard the radio reports and seen the TV coverage and then forgotten about it, the way you do with news stories.'
A missing teenager, drugs, yachts, the sex trade and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay and Coolangatta.
The police suspect the father, Gerard Fonteyn OA, a wealthy businessman. But he's hired Cliff to find her, given him unlimited expenses and posted a $250,000 reward for information.
Finally there's a break - an unconfirmed sighting of Juliana Fonteyn, alive and well. But as usual, nothing is straightforward. Various other players are in the game - and Cliff doesn't know the rules, or even what the game might be. He's determined to find out, and as the bodies mount up the danger to himself and to Juliana increases.
About the Author Peter Corris has been writing his best selling Cliff Hardy detective stories for thirty years. He's written many other books, including a very successful 'as-told-to' autobiography of Fred Hollows, and a collection of short stories about golf.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760294786 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Before I Go Colleen Oakley
There's just one thing more for Daisy to do - find her husband a new wife. A warm-hearted, funny, life-affirming story about the lengths we'll go to for the ones we love.
Description 'Oakley expertly tugs at the heartstrings with well-rounded characters and a liberal dose of humor.' Publishers Weekly
Daisy is 27-years-old and has only months to live. And, each day, she's finding her way through her lists of what needs to be done.
Her major worry is what her wonderful, charming husband, Jack, will do without her. It's this fear that keeps her up at night, until she stumbles upon the obvious solution. She knows that he won't take care of himself so Daisy has to do it for him: she has to find him another wife.
As she searches with singular determination for the right woman, she begins to realise that her plan to ensure Jack's happiness is much more complicated than she expected.
Life-affirming, authentic, funny and heartbreakingly beautiful, Before I Go is all about love.
'This emotional novel will make readers laugh through their tears.' Kirkus Reviews
About the Author Colleen Oakley is an Atlanta-based writer. Her articles, essays, and interviews have been featured in The New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal, Marie Claire, Women's Health, Redbook, Parade, and Martha Stewart Weddings. Before she was a freelance writer, Colleen was editor-in-chief of Women's Health & Fitness and senior editor at Marie Claire. Before I Go is her debut novel. Oakley’s second novel, Close Enough to Touch, is published in February 2017. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760296261 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 320 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Hester and Harriet Hilary Spiers
Hold on to your tea cups - you're about to fall head over heels for Hester and Harriet, whose quiet and ordered Christmas celebrations are turned upside down with the arrival of their runaway teenage nephew and a young refugee woman and her baby.
Description 'It's a gem of a book. It made me wish Hester and Harriet were my neighbours.' Write Note Reviews
'A great read...the sisters are wonderful characters filled with life.' Good Reading
When widowed sisters, Hester and Harriet, move in together, the only blights on their comfortable landscape are their crushingly boring cousins who are determined that the sisters will never want for company. Including Christmas Day.
On their reluctant drive over to Christmas dinner, the sisters come across a young girl, hiding with her baby in a disused bus shelter. Seizing upon the perfect excuse for returning to their own warm hearth, Hester and Harriet insist on bringing Daria and Milo home with them.
But with the knock at their front door the next day by a sinister stranger looking for a girl with a baby, followed quickly by their cousins' churlish fifteen-year-old son, Ben, who also appears to be seeking sanctuary, Hester and Harriet's carefully crafted peace and quiet quickly begins to fall apart.
About the Author Hilary Spiers writes plays, novels and short stories. She enjoys giving a voice to ordinary women in sometimes extraordinary circumstances.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760295035 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 416 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Hartley's Grange Nicole Hurley-Moore
The inspirational story of a woman pursuing her dreams and taking charge of her future in the face of huge adversity and heartbreak.
Description In one short day Lily Beckett's life falls apart when she loses her dream job in fashion and finds out her boyfriend is having an affair. Totally devastated, she ends the relationship and flees the city.
Lily heads to the country town where she grew up to seek sanctuary with her big sister, Violet, and niece, Holly. But bad luck hits her yet again when she crashes her car on the way. Fortunately a local grazier, Flynn Hartley, arrives on the scene to find her dazed but uninjured.
Gradually Lily's life picks up and she decides to stay put for a while, helping out her sister and renovating the beautiful old shop she inherited but has never had time to focus on. Meanwhile, Flynn showers her with attention, but Lily is aware of his bad-boy ways and isn't willing to risk heartbreak by becoming his next conquest. And yet, he won't give up and insists he's turned over a new leaf.
From bestselling author Nicole Hurley-Moore, Hartley's Grange is an inspirational story about a woman putting her life back together, pursuing her dreams and taking charge of her future.
About the Author Nicole Hurley-Moore grew up in Melbourne and has travelled extensively, whilst living her life through the romance of books.
Her first passion in life has always been her family, but since doing her BA Honours in Medieval Literature, she has devoted her time to writing historical romance.
Nicole is a full time writer who lives in the Central Highlands of Victoria with her family, where they live in the peaceful Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760295059 surrounds of a semi-rural town. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages
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Arena APRIL 2016 Everybody's Fool Richard Russo
The great American master Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to the characters who made Nobody's Fool (1993) a contemporary classic.
Description Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, is still married to Zach and running Hattie's lunch counter, though she's increasingly distracted by her former son-in-law, fresh out of prison and intent on making trouble. Police chief Doug Raymer is obsessing over the identity of the man his wife might have been about to run off with before she died in a freak accident, while local wiseguy Carl Roebuck might finally be running out of luck.
Add a funeral, an escaped cobra, a collapsed building and a lot of beer to the equation and you have a novel which is a pure pleasure to read - genuinely funny, enormously heartfelt and imbued with the warmth and wisdom that are Richard Russo's stock in trade.
About the Author Richard Russo is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and On Helwig Street, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760295332 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 496 pages
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A&U UK APRIL 2016 Nobody's Fool Richard Russo
A much-needed new edition of Richard Russo's warm-hearted tale of a down-at-heel loser who gets a chance to change his luck.
Description Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.
Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has a new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humour and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool is storytelling at its most generous.
About the Author Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two collections of stories, and On Helwig Street, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries. He lives in Maine.
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A&U UK APRIL 2016 Someone is Watching: A gripping thriller from the queen of psychological suspense Joy Fielding
The dark and twisted new psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author.
Description The Girl on the Train meets Rear Window in this gripping novel from a queen of psychological suspense.
Bailey Carpenter is a smart and savvy private investigator, until a horrific attack leaves her trapped at home in her Miami high-rise apartment, crippled by paranoia. Everywhere she looks, she sees the face of her attacker. Including in the apartment directly opposite her. Where someone is watching.
A tour de force from a master of psychological suspense, Joy Fielding's devilish and gripping novel will have you holding your breath until the very end.
About the Author Joy Fielding is the New York Times bestselling author of Charley's Web, Heartstopper, Mad River Road, See Jane Run, and other acclaimed novels. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.
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Zaffre APRIL 2016 Sacrifice: A Chilling Psychological Thriller Hanna Winter
The chilling first novel in the Lena Peters series from an exciting voice in crime fiction.
Description The international bestseller for fans of Nicci French, Sophie Hannah and Karin Slaughter.
He must hunt her down. Kill her. Destroy her . . .
In her very first case, criminal psychologist Lena Peters is confronted with a killer on a murderous vendetta. And though she is unaware, Lena will play a prominent role in his deadly mission, because Lena knows what makes killers tick - she also knows all about obsession, for she has been close to the edge herself.
For now she is the hunter, but soon she will become the hunted.
About the Author Hanna Winter lives in New York and works as a freelance writer. Her first thriller, The Children's Trail, was published in 2010 by Ullstein Taschenbuch and became an instant bestseller.
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Manilla APRIL 2016 Sacrifice 8 copy pack
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Manilla APRIL 2016 Spare Me the Truth: An explosive, high octane thriller CJ Carver
When everything you know turns out to be a lie, who can you trust? The explosive thriller from much-loved crime veteran C.J. Carver.
Description Dan Forrester, piecing his life back together after the tragic death of his son, is approached in a supermarket by a woman who tells him everything he remembers about his life - and his son - is a lie.
Grace Reavey, stricken by grief, is accosted at her mother's funeral. The threat is simple: pay the staggering sum her mother allegedly owed, or lose everything.
Lucy Davies has been forced from the Met by her own maverick behaviour. Desperate to prove herself in her new rural post, she's on the hunt for a killer - but this is no small town criminal.
Plunged into a conspiracy that will test each of them to their limits, these three strangers are brought together in their hunt for the truth, whatever it costs. And as their respective investigations become further and further entwined, it becomes clear that at the centre of this tangled web is a threat more explosive than any of them could have imagined. Spare Me The Truth is the gripping new thriller by the multi-awarding winning C.J. Carver.
About the Author CJ Carver was born in the UK and grew up on one of the country's first organic farms, before a holiday in Australia at age 22 turned into a ten-year stay. She is a keen car enthusiast, having entered numerous rally challenges around the world, and she is the author of seven works of crime fiction. Her new novel, Spare Me The Truth, publishes in Spring 2016.
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Zaffre APRIL 2016 Brand Sierra Cartwright
For fans of Sylvia Day and E L James, this is the second in the internationally bestselling contemporary romantica series The Donovan Dynasty - in print for the first time.
Description He wants her subject to his will. She's scared she may never want to get away.
The first time Sofia McBride meets the strong and determined Cade Donovan, he warns her to keep her distance. She tells herself to heed his words, but she's stunned to realise her depth of attraction to this intimidating man. She knows she should stay away from him, but try as she might, she's unable to resist him or his sexy, erotic demands. The deeper she becomes ensnared, the more she realises she may never want to escape.
All his life, enigmatic rancher Cade Donovan has chosen women who don't expect too much from him. But when a storm strands him with Sofia, his lovely, won't-take-no-for-an-answer event planner, all his dominant and protective instincts flare. Cade wants everything she has to offer, but he soon discovers Sofia's beauty hides a determination he hasn't counted on. Her untamed responses send him on a journey that will banish his demons and change them both forever.
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Born in Manchester, England and raised in the US, Sierra Cartwright is the acclaimed author of more than twenty erotic romances. She was previously published with Harlequin/Silhouette under a different pseudonym, and won numerous awards as well as a coveted spot on the USA Today bestseller list.
Cartwright has been interviewed by USA Today, featured on the Mail Online and she did a segment for the Orlando Fox affiliate with Chase Cain for her inclusion in the Clandestine Classics collection by Totally Bound which received worldwide coverage.
She's a multiple CAPA nominated author who was delighted by the success of With This Collar, the first book in a six- book series Mastered from Totally Bound. With This Collar reached No.1 on the Amazon UK chart and No.3 in the Amazon US chart. More recently, Bind, the first in a three-book series The Donovan Dynasty has also reached No.1 on the Amazon US chart. Winner of the 2013 Best BDSM Book of the Year award (Over the Line), the 2014 LASR Book of Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781784307974 the Year award (In The Den), and the 2015 Golden Flogger (Crave). Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Totally Bound APRIL 2016 The Golden Legend Nadeem Aslam
From the acclaimed author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Blind Man's Garden, a brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel set in contemporary Pakistan - about a community consumed by religious intolerance.
Description When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the crossfire and dies before she can confess to him her greatest secret. Under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the city's mosques and, in a country where the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. Against this background of violence and fear, two outsiders - the young Christian woman Helen and the mysterious Imran from Kashmir - try to find an island of calm in which their love can grow.
In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror - a story of corruption, resilience, and the hope that only love and the human spirit can offer.
About the Author Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan and now lives in England. He is the author of four previous novels, most recently The Blind Man's Garden. His work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and won the Kiriyama and Windham Campbell prizes and the Lannan and Encore Awards. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Faber Fiction APRIL 2016 The Wasted Vigil Nadeem Aslam
A devastatingly moving and beautiful novel of family secrets, forbidden love and the tragedy and consequences of war.
Description A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora Mountains. Marcus's daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus's wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born.
In the days that follow, further people arrive at the house: two Americans who have spent much of their adult lives in the area; a young Afghan teacher; and a radicalised young man intent on his own path. And Nadeem Aslam paints a moving, beautiful and powerful portrait of a land and a people torn apart through love and war.
About the Author Nadeem Aslam is the author of three previous novels, Season of the Rainbirds (1993), Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) - longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize, and awarded the Kiriyama Prize and the Encore Award - and, most recently, The Wasted Vigil, described by A. S. Byatt as 'unforgettable ... tragic and beautifully written'. Born in Pakistan, he now lives in England.
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Crash Land Doug Johnstone
An adrenaline-charged thriller from the Kindle-bestselling author of Gone Again and Hit and Run.
Description Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off Orkney. But then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce, stepping in to save her from some unwanted attention, and his life is changed forever.
Set against the brutal, unforgiving landscape of Orkney, Crash Land is a psychological thriller steeped in guilt, shame, lust, deception and murder.
About the Author Doug Johnstone is the author of a number of acclaimed thrillers, including Gone Again, Hit and Run and, most recently, The Jump. He is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter and musician, and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh.
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Faber Fiction APRIL 2016 Apple Tree Yard Louise Doughty
Released to coincide with the flagship BBC One four-part series, this is the latest edition of Louise Doughty's massive bestselling novel.
Description 'Once you start you can't stop reading. Terrific.' - Helen Dunmore
Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at the Houses of Parliament and, on impulse, begins a passionate affair with him - a decision that will put everything she values at risk. At first she believes she can keep the relationship separate from the rest of her life, but she can't control what happens next. All of her careful plans spiral into greater deceit and, eventually, a life-changing act of violence.
Apple Tree Yard is a psychological thriller about one woman's adultery and an insightful examination of the values we live by and the choices we make, from an acclaimed writer at the height of her powers.
About the Author Louise Doughty is the author of six novels, most recently Blackwater and Whatever You Love, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has won awards for radio drama and short stories, along with publishing one work of non-fiction, A Novel in a Year, based on her hugely popular newspaper column. She is a critic and cultural commentator for UK and international newspapers and broadcasts regularly for the BBC. Apple Tree Yard, her first thriller, was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year. She lives in London. Find out more at www.louisedoughty.com.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571334018 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Girl With A Clock For A Heart Peter Swanson
A reissue of Peter Swanson's The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, re-jacketed in keeping with the bestselling The Kind Worth Killing.
Description First love is deadly.
What if your college sweetheart, the girl of your dreams, suddenly disappeared? Twenty years later she's back, she's in trouble and she says you are the only one who can help her...
About the Author Peter Swanson has won awards in poetry from The Lyric and Yankee Magazine, and is currently completing a sonnet sequence on all 53 of Alfred Hitchcock's films. He has earned degrees in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Price: $12.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9780571331307 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 352 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Ex Alafair Burke
Twenty years ago she ruined his life. Now she has the chance to save it.
Description In this breakout standalone thriller in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, William Landay and Paula Hawkins, a lawyer agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been accused of murder - but begins to suspect that she is the one being manipulated.
Widower Jack Harris has resisted the dating scene since the shooting of his wife by a fifteen-year-old boy three years ago. An early morning run along the Hudson River changes that when he spots a woman who eerily but thrillingly echoes his past. Eager to help Jack find love again, his best friend posts a 'Missed Moment' item online and days later, a woman responds...
Olivia Randall is one of New York City's best criminal defense lawyers. When she gets the phone call informing her that her former fiancee, Jack Harris, has been arrested for a triple homicide there is no doubt in her mind as to his innocence. The only question is who would go to such great lengths to frame him - and why?
For Olivia, representing Jack is a way to make up for past regrets, and the hurt she caused him, but as the evidence against him mounts, she is forced to confront her doubts. The man she knew could not have done this. But what if she never really knew him?
About the Author Alafair Burke's books include the standalone thrillers Long Gone and If You Were Here - an Amazon Best Mystery Novel of 2013 - and her acclaimed series starring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, the most recent of which, Never Tell, was a Kindle bestseller. A former Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon, Alafair is now a Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571328161 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 384 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Viral Helen FitzGerald
The darkest, most gripping novel yet from the acclaimed author of The Exit.
Description So far, twenty-three thousand and ninety six people have seen me online. They include my mother, my father, my little sister, my grandmother, my other grandmother, my grandfather, my boss, my sixth year Biology teacher and my boyfriend James.
When Leah Oliphant-Brotheridge and her adopted sister Su go on holiday together to Magaluf to celebrate their A-levels, only Leah returns home. Her successful, swotty sister remains abroad, humiliated and afraid: there is an online video of her, drunkenly performing a sex act in a nightclub. And everyone has seen it.
Ruth Oliphant-Brotheridge, mother of the girls, successful court judge, is furious. How could this have happened? How can she bring justice to these men who took advantage of her dutiful, virginal daughter? What role has Leah played in all this? And can Ruth find Su and bring her back home when Su doesn't want to be found?
About the Author Helen FitzGerald is the bestselling author of Dead Lovely (2007) and nine other adult and young adult thrillers, including My Last Confession (2009), The Donor (2011), The Cry (2013), which was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize, and The Exit (2015). Helen has worked as a criminal justice social worker for over ten years. She is one of thirteen children and grew up in Victoria, Australia. She now lives in Glasgow with her husband and two children.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571323500 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Hard Cold Winter Glen Erik Hamilton
Former Army Ranger and thief Van Shaw is thrust into a maelstrom of danger as lethal and unpredictable as the war he left behind in this emotionally powerful and gritty follow-up to the acclaimed debut Past Crimes.
Description When an old crony of Van Shaw's late grandfather calls in a favor, he embarks on a journey deep into the remote forest of the Olympic Mountains in search of a missing girl tied to his own criminal past.
Discovering a brutal murder scene, Van finds himself caught between a billionaire businessman on the one side and vicious gangsters on the other. In an attempt to survive Van will have to face some of the toughest questions of his life, not least over his relationship with his iron-willed girlfriend, Luce. But with the clock ticking, a desperate Van may just need every ally he can get, especially as someone prepares to unleash a firestorm on Seattle that could burn them all to ashes.
About the Author Glen Erik Hamilton is a Seattle native and is currently working on a second novel featuring Van Shaw and Seattle's criminal underworld.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571318056 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Long Room Francesca Kay
Set in London in the early eighties, award-winning novelist Francesca Kay's new novel tells the story of a man who falls for the wrong woman.
Description What happens to a man who has his ear pressed to the lives of others but not much life of his own?
When Stephen Donaldson joins the Institute, he anticipates excitement, romance and new status. Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient communists and ineffectual revolutionaries, until the day he is assigned a new case: the ultra-secret PHOENIX. Is PHOENIX really working for a foreign power? Stephen hardly cares; it is the voice of the target's wife that mesmerises him.
This is December 1981. Bombs are exploding, a cold war is being waged, another war is just over the horizon and the nation is transfixed by weekly instalments of Brideshead Revisited. Dangerously in love, and lonely, Stephen sets himself up for a vertiginous fall that will forever change his life.
As beautiful as it is intense, The Long Room is the dazzling new novel from an award-winning writer. With her mastery of the perfect detail, Francesca Kay explores a mind under pressure and the compelling power of imagination.
About the Author Francesca Kay's first novel, An Equal Stillness, won the Orange Award for New Writers and was nominated for the Authors' Club First Novel Award and for Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Europe and South Asia Region). Her second novel, The Translation of the Bones, was longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Oxford.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571322527 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Meeting the British Paul Muldoon
Meeting the British is Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon's fifth collection of poems.
Description Meeting the British is Paul Muldoon's fifth collection of poems. They range from an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare, through a meditation on a bar of soap, to a sequence of monologues spoken by some of the famous, or infamous, inhabitants of '7, Middagh Street', New York, on Thanksgiving Day, 1940.
About the Author Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571330089 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 64 pages
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Faber Poetry APRIL 2016 Human Acts Han Kang
A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize- winning novel The Vegetarian.
Description Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma.
Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award- winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.
About the Author Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Deborah Smith's translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang, The Vegetarian and Human Acts, and two by Bae Suah, A Greater Music and Recitation. In 2015 Deborah completed a PhD at SOAS on contemporary Korean literature and founded Tilted Axis Press. In 2016 she won the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation. She tweets as @londonkoreanist.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781846275975 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Portobello Pbs APRIL 2016 The Vegetarian: A Novel Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
Description Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree.
Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.
About the Author Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Deborah Smith is working on a PhD in Korean literature at SOAS, University of London. She translated The Essayist's Desk by Bae Suah, as well as short stories by Kim Kyung-uk and Kim Ae-ran.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781846276033 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages
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Portobello Pbs APRIL 2016 No Art: Poems Ben Lerner
From the author of the bestselling novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, here is a dazzling collection of award-winning poetry - available for the first time to readers beyond the US.
Description This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public expression. No Art is an exhilarating argument both with America and with poetry itself, in which online slang is juxtaposed with academic idiom, philosophy collides with advertising, and the language of medicine and the military is overlaid with echoes of Whitman and Keats. Here, cliches are cracked open and made new, made strange, and formal experiments disclose new possibilities of thought and feeling. No Art confirms Ben Lerner as one of the most searching and ambitious poets working today.
About the Author Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04. He has published three poetry collections: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award), and Mean Free Path. In 2011, he became the first American to win the Munster Prize for International Poetry. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783782741 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 288 pages
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Granta APRIL 2016 Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy 1) Adrian McKinty
Sean Duffy will do anything to solve this case - including risking his life.
Description Two dead.
One left in a car by the side of a road. He was meant to be found quickly. His killer is making a statement.
The other is discovered hanging in a tree, deep in a forest. Surely a suicide: she'd just given birth, but there's no sign of the baby.
Nothing seems to link the two, but Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy knows the links that seem to be invisible are just waiting to be uncovered. And as a policeman who has solved six murders so far in his career, but not yet brought a single case to court, Duffy is determined that this time, someone will pay.
About the Author Adrian McKinty was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, and grew up at the height of the Troubles. He studied law, politics and philosophy at university. In the early 1990s he moved to New York City where he worked in bars, bookstores and building sites. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia. The first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 Spinetingler Award, its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award, and Sean Duffy Thriller #3, In the Morning I'll be Gone, won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award and was picked as one of the top 10 crime novels of 2014 by the American Library Association. Gun Street Girl (Sean Duffy 4) was shortlisted for the 2015 Ned Kelly Award and the Edgar and the Anthony Awards in the USA. Rain Dogs was shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year and longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Silver Dagger Award.
Price: $12.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9781781258187 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 Under the Visible Life Kim Echlin
How hard would you fight for the things you love?
Description Half Chinese and half Canadian, Katherine Goodnow struggles through a 1950's childhood hostile to all she represents. Then, as a teenager, she discovers jazz, and her life is transformed. Her talent for the piano brings her freedom, adventure, and a sense of purpose, helping her survive unexpected motherhood and her incurable love for the unreliable father of her children.
Half American and half Afghani, Mahsa Weaver is only twelve when, after the death of her parents, she is sent to live with strict relatives in Karachi. Struggling to break free, she escapes to Montreal, but the threads of her past are not so easily severed, and she finds herself forced into an arranged marriage. For Mahsa, too, music becomes her solace and passion, allowing her to dare to dream of a life that is really her own.
When these two women meet in New York, they begin a friendship that will change everything. Vividly rendered and sweeping in scope, Under the Visible Life is a stunning meditation on how hope can remain alive in the darkest of times, if we have someone with whom to share our burdens.
About the Author Kim Echlin lives in Toronto. She is the author of Elephant Winter, Dagmar's Daughter, Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer, and The Disappeared, which was published in seventeen languages, nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781781255803 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 Veronica Mary Gaitskill
Beloved cult novel repackaged to join the Serpent's Tail Classics series.
Description In this seductive and shattering novel, Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modeling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye.
Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly between the glamorous and gritty '80s, when beauty and style gave licence to excess, and the broken world of the decade's survivors twenty years later, Gaitskill casts a fierce yet compassionate eye on the two eras and their fixations.
Veronica masterfully evokes the fragility and mystery of human relationships in a world where love is rife with contradictions. Evocative, raw and entirely unique, Veronica was shortlisted for the prestigious 2005 National Book Award in the USA.
About the Author Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica (nominated for a National Book Award) and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781781255926 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 Ten Days Gillian Slovo
House of Cards meets Homeland in this powerful and unputdownable thriller tracing a riot from its inception through to its fallout. Now available in paperback.
Description It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire.
In this gripping thriller, a death at police hands has repercussions far beyond one family plunged into grief. When violence grips Cathy's estate, the dead man becomes a useful tactic (or an urgent threat) in political games at the highest level. So while lives are at risk on Cathy Mason's estate, across London in Westminster, careers are being made, or ruined. From a Home Secretary's attempts to unseat a Prime Minister, to a new Met Police Commissioner fighting for his job, to families torn apart, Ten Days shows what happens when politics, policing and the hard realities of living in London explosively collide.
About the Author Gillian Slovo is a playwright and the author of thirteen books, including five crime novels, the courtroom drama Red Dust, which was made into a feature film starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and the Orange Prize-shortlisted Ice Road. She co-authored the play Guantanamo - Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, which was staged internationally. Her research for her play The Riots inspired Ten Days. Gillian Slovo was President of English PEN from 2010 to 2013 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was born in South Africa and lives in London.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782116400 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 Really Nice Books 32 copy dumpbin
A collection of some of the nicest books ever published - very nicely priced at just $12.99 each. Price only available in dumpbin (stock stickered).
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
A celebration of literature, love, and the power of the human spirit, this warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining novel is the story of an English author living in the shadow of World War II and the writing project that will dramatically change her life. An international bestseller.
Description A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart.
It's 1946, and as Juliet Ashton sits at her desk in her Chelsea flat, she is stumped. A writer of witty newspaper columns during the war, she can't think of what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance he's acquired a book Juliet once owned - and, emboldened by their mutual love of books, they begin a correspondence.
Dawsey is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and it's not long before the rest of the members write to Juliet - including the gawky Isola, who makes home-made potions, Eben, the fisherman who loves Shakespeare, and Will Thisbee, rag-and-bone man and chef of the famous potato peel pie. As letters fly back and forth, Juliet comes to know the extraordinary personalities of the Society and their lives under the German occupation of the island. Entranced by their stories, Juliet decides to visit the island to meet them properly - and unwittingly turns her life upside down.
Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is sure to win your heart.
'I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one. Treat yourself to this book, please - I can't recommend it highly enough.' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love.
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Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) Mary Ann Shaffer wrote The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she was a retired bookseller and ISBN: 9781741758955 librarian, in her seventies. She died in 2008, just before her book was published. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 276 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: USA
Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Book of Speculation Erika Swyler
A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who discovers that his family labours under a terrible curse - for generations, the women in his family have died on the same date in July. Simon must set out to unravel the mystery of this curse, before his beloved sister suffers the same fate.
Description For fans of The Night Circus comes a sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who discovers that his family labours under a terrible curse.
Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious book from an antiquarian bookseller; it has been sent to him because it is inscribed with the name of Simon's grandmother. The book tells the story of two doomed lovers who were part of a travelling circus more than two hundred years ago. He is fascinated, yet as he reads Simon becomes increasingly unnerved. Why do so many women in his family drown on 24th July? And could his beloved sister, who has suddenly turned up at home for the first time in years, risk the same terrible fate?
As 24th July draws ever closer, Simon must unlock the mysteries of the book, and decode his family history, before it's too late.
About the Author Erika Swyler, a graduate of New York University, is a writer and playwright whose work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Born and raised on Long Island's north shore, Erika learned to swim before she could walk, and happily spent all her money at travelling carnivals. She is also a baker and photographer.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782397649 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 352 pages
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Corvus Pbs APRIL 2016 Mrs Queen Takes The Train William Kuhn
A charming, whimsical story of what happens when a long-serving and long-suffering monarch decides to go AWOL. A richly witty, warm and wonderful novel of responsibilities, escape and friendship.
Description Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is growing increasingly disenchanted after her decades of public service and years of family scandal. One day, the Queen takes things into her own hands and, in a spur-of-the-moment decision, leaves the palace alone and incognito.
An unlikely group of six, including two of the Queen's most trusted household staff members, William and Shirley; one of her loyal ladies in waiting, Lady Anne; an equerry fresh from the battlefields of Afghanistan, Luke; a young equestrienne who minds the horses in the Royal Mews, Rebecca; and Rajiv, an Etonian spending his early 20s behind the counter in an artisanal cheese shop in Mayfair, and moonlighting as a tabloid photographer, are the only ones who know of her disappearance. They vow to find her and bring her back to the palace before MI6 turn her Scottish sojourn into a national crisis.
Capturing the faded but enduring glamour and glory of a seemingly old-fashioned institution, and a woman who wonders if she, too, has become outmoded, this is a charming, witty and poignant novel of responsibilities and freedom.
About the Author William Kuhn is a biographer, historian, and the author, most recently, of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books, an account of the editorial life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He grew lives in Boston, but spent a year with his family in London when he was eleven, and became an Anglophile as a result. He has spent and continues to spend a great deal of time in the UK and also write for a number of British newspapers and magazines. Mrs Queen Takes the Train is his first novel.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743317457 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 384 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs Nick Trout
A sweet, charming and heartwarming novel about a man who inherits his father's failing veterinary practice and the unlikely friendships, adventures, and second chances that develop as he tries to save it.
Description 'A delightful, endearing, and frequently hilarious story of a man who lost his way and found it again through a plate of meatloaf, a frigid Vermont winter, and a pair partially digested, oversized red silk boxer shorts . a story that reminds us of the truth that is hidden away in our hearts: loving our animals is a sure way to heal our souls.' - Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Dr. Cyrus Mills reluctantly returns home to rural Eden Falls, Vermont under dire personal circumstances to revive The Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, the failing veterinary practice of his recently deceased and long estranged father. Under the wing of his new mentor, Doc Lewis, Cyrus - who was previously a reclusive pathologist, far more comfortable with cold clinical facts than living, breathing animals (not to mention their quirky, demanding owners) - begins to learn what it takes to win the hearts of his pet patients and their owners. Cyrus has a simple plan: restore and sell his deceased father's practice as quickly as possible and then leave the hometown that haunts him with difficult memories. Then his first patient, a down-on-her-luck Golden Retriever named Frieda Fuzzypaws, wags her way through the door, and suddenly life gets complicated. With the help of a Black Labrador gifted in the art of swallowing underwear, a terrier whose days are numbered, a Persian cat determined to expose her owner's lover as a gold digger, and the allure of a feisty, gorgeous waitress from the local diner, Cyrus gets caught up in a new community and its endearing and eccentric residents, both human and animal. He grudgingly realizes that he may have misjudged his father and the rift that tore them apart, and if that's the case, coming to terms with the past will be the only way he can face an uncertain future. And perhaps it's not just his patients that need healing.
'Grab this book. I'm not kidding. You're going to love this story. There's romance, redemption, a dog named Frieda and a whole lot more. This is the a book you won't ever want to end.' - Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781760112998 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Dr Nick Trout graduated from veterinary school at the University of Cambridge in 1989. He is a Diplomate of the American Dimensions: 198x128mm and European Colleges of Veterinary Surgeons and is a staff surgeon at the prestigious Angell Animal Medical Center in Extent: 352 pages Boston. He is the author of three books, the New York Times bestseller Tell Me Where It Hurts (2009), Love is the Best Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Medicine (2011), and Ever By My Side (2012); and has been a contributing columnist for The Bark and Prevention Illustrations: magazines. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, two daughters, and their two dogs, Meg, their yellow Labrador, and Previous Titles: Tell Me Where it Hurts; Love is the Best Sophie, their Jack Russell terrier. Medicine and Ever By My Side Author now living: Massachusetts, USA
Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Chocolate Promise Josephine Moon
From Tasmania to Paris and beyond, an enchanting story of the proprietor of a specialist chocolate shop who must learn that some rules are meant to be broken - this real-life fairy godmother must learn to find her own magic. The new novel for readers who love Cathy Kelly and Monica McInerney from the bestselling author of The Tea Chest.
Description 'A Tasmanian twist on the movie Chocolat... inspiring and life-affirming.' Books + Publishing
In The Chocolate Apothecary, chocolate isn't just good for you, it's medicine. And Christmas Livingstone loves nothing more than enticing customers into her shop with her beautiful chocolate creations and gifts for all the senses.
Until one day a stranger arrives at her front door - a dishevelled botanist seeking her help. She really doesn't need Lincoln van Luc walking into her life. Or does she?
Set across Tasmania, Paris and Provence, amid a delicious tangle of freshly picked herbs, flowers and the luxurious scent of chocolate, Christmas Livingstone is about to find out how far in life a list of rules will take her.
'A feast for the senses and a salve for the heart. Devour it as you would a whole bar of chocolate.' Book Birdy
About the Author Josephine Moon's first novel, The Tea Chest, published in 2014, delighted readers with its strong heroine and enchanting story and was a bestseller in Australia and overseas. Her second novel, The Chocolate Promise, first published in 2015 also quickly became a bestseller. A love story with a difference, The Chocolate Promise deals with issues of family, independence, creativity, food and travel.
Josephine lives with her husband, son, and her horses, dogs, chickens, goats and cats on acreage in Queensland. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760292522 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Terms & Conditions Robert Glancy
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen meets The Truman Show and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry in a debut novel about freedom and frustration, success and second chances, and the devils that live in the detail
Description Frank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing memories - of the people around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print. But when Oscar, his brother, takes the family company into business with an inventively cruel corporation** and Alice, his wife, starts to seem oddly unlike the woman he remembers, Frank's world starts to unspool and the terms and conditions that he has lived his life by*** begin to change.
*apparently quite a serious one
**we can't tell you what it's called for legal reasons, but believe us, it's evil
***and which are rarely in his favour
About the Author Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved from Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge. He currently lives in New Zealand with his wife and children.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408852255 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Not Quite Nice Celia Imrie
A gloriously funny and charming debut novel about the joys and challenges of living abroad from one of the nation's best-loved actresses
Description Sunday Times Bestseller
Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a picture-perfect town, just outside Nice.
Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-Sur-Mer is now home to the odd movie star and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of expats. Settling to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall out of several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as nice as it first appeared .
About the Author Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress. She is best known for her film roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee. On stage, she won Best Actress in a Musical for Acorn Antiques: The Musical and was nominated for Best Actress inNoises Off. Celia Imrie's upcoming films are A Cure for Wellness, Year by the Sea and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, all due for release in 2016. Her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, was published in 2011.
www.celiaimrie.info @CeliaImrie
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408846896 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Chocolate Cake for Breakfast Danielle Hawkins
A wry, entertaining story about falling in love with a man whose shirtless picture adorns every second lunchroom wall and then doing your best when the relationship takes an unexpected turn .
Description Helen McNeil is a vet in the small rural town of Broadview. While taking evasive action from a dull girl at a party one night she falls over - and fails to recognise - national sporting hero, Mark Tipene. For some mysterious reason Helen never really grasps, Mark finds this charming and appears the next day at the front counter of the vet clinic to ask her out.
A whirlwind romance follows and everything is going swimmingly until one little hiccup changes everything.
Chocolate Cake for Breakfast is the funny and heart-warming story of the pros and cons of dating a man whose shirtless picture adorns a wall in every second lunchroom in the country, of calving cows and crazy cat ladies, and of doing your best when life takes an unexpected turn.
About the Author Danielle Hawkins grew up on a sheep and beef farm near Otorohanga in New Zealand, and later studied veterinary science. After graduating as a vet she met a very nice dairy farmer who became her husband. Danielle spends two days per week working as a large animal vet and the other five as housekeeper, cook and general dogsbody. She has two small children, and when she is very lucky they nap simultaneously so she can write. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Dinner at Rose's.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760111342 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 368 pages
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Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Dinner at Rose's (A&U) Author now living: Otorohanga, New Zealand
Arena APRIL 2016 Dead good books 32 copy dumpbin
A collection of dead good, twisty, gripping mysteries/thrillers at a dead good price of just $12.99 (price only available in dumpbin). Stock in the bin is stickered.
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy 1) Adrian McKinty
Sean Duffy will do anything to solve this case - including risking his life.
Description Two dead.
One left in a car by the side of a road. He was meant to be found quickly. His killer is making a statement.
The other is discovered hanging in a tree, deep in a forest. Surely a suicide: she'd just given birth, but there's no sign of the baby.
Nothing seems to link the two, but Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy knows the links that seem to be invisible are just waiting to be uncovered. And as a policeman who has solved six murders so far in his career, but not yet brought a single case to court, Duffy is determined that this time, someone will pay.
About the Author Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. After studying at Oxford University he moved to New York City, working in bars, bookstores, building sites and finally the basement stacks of the Columbia University Medical School Library. In 2000 he relocated to Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. His debut Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, while Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award and was longlisted for the 2011 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. His most recent work was Falling Glass. In 2009 Adrian moved to Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781846688232 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 Echo Park (BOSCH TV tie-in) Michael Connelly
Tie-in to Series One of the television series BOSCH: Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before.
Description Season One of the ten-part television series BOSCH, starring Titus Welliver as Detective Harry Bosch, is based on three Harry Bosch thrillers: The Concrete Blonde, City of Bones and Echo Park.
In 1993 Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found - dead or alive - and the case has haunted Bosch ever since.
Thirteen years later, Bosch is in the Open Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two killings is willing to confess to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of his victims, he says, is Marie Gesto.
Bosch begins to crack when he realises that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 which could have prevented the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.
'The finest crime writer working today' - Neil Cross, lead scriptwriter for Spooks and creator of Luther
About the Author Michael Connelly, a former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is the author of 20 acclaimed LAPD Detective Harry Bosch thrillers and several courtroom thrillers featuring 'The Lincoln Lawyer', defence attorney Mickey Haller, as well as stand-alone bestsellers such as The Poet. His first Bosch novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred in Los Angeles, was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly has followed that up with 27 more novels. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, Dilys, Nero, Barry, Audie, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards. Michael lives with his family in Tampa, Florida. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760290993 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages
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Michael Connelly APRIL 2016 The Boy Under the Table Nicole Trope
Being a mother was all-consuming. There were so many mistakes you could make, so many ways to lose a child.
Description 'I found The Boy Under the Table impossible to put down once I had started - the pace is unrelenting and the story is utterly engrossing. The conclusion is tinged with both hope and sadness and I held my children a little tighter and a lot longer when I had finished. The Boy Under The Table is a confronting story, but one that is well worth reading.' - Great Aussie Reads
Tina is a young woman hiding from her grief on the streets of the Cross. On a cold night in the middle of winter she breaks all her own rules when she agrees to go home with a customer. What she finds in his house will change her life forever. Across the country Sarah and Doug are trapped in limbo, struggling to accept the loss that now governs their lives. Pete is the local policeman who feels like he is watching the slow death of his own family. Every day brings a fresh hell for each of them. Told from the alternating points of view of Tina, Sarah, Doug and Pete, The Boy Under the Table is gritty, shocking, moving and, ultimately, filled with hope. A harrowing glimpse into the real world behind the headlines, this is a novel of immense power and compassion-one that will not fail to move all who read it.
'While this could have made for a harrowing read, the book is also littered with the kinds of characters that restore your faith in humanity There's no sentimentality here, just the real and harrowing experiences of a family, and a community, touched by tragedy.' - Reading Bar
About the Author Nicole Trope is a former high school teacher with a Masters Degree in Children's Literature. In 2005 she was one of the winners of the Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development. In 2009 her young adult novel titled I Ran Away First was shortlisted for the Text Publishing Prize.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743314746 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 288 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Restless William Boyd
A tour de force from William Boyd: a thrilling novel that captures the drama of the Second World War, with a remarkable female spy at the centre of the story.
Description What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about her mother, Sally, during the long hot summer of 1976.
For Sally Gilmartin is not what she seems at all. Russian by birth, she was recruited into the British Secret Service in Paris in 1939 and spent the war years as a spy. But once a spy, always a spy. Sally Gilmartin has far too many dangerous secrets, and she has no one to trust. Before it is too late, she must confront the demons of her past. This time though she can't do it alone, she needs Ruth's help.
Restless is yet another tour de force from William Boyd. Exploring the devastating consequences of duplicity and betrayal it is a thrilling novel that captures the drama of the Second World War and a remarkable portrait of a female spy. Full of suspense, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its very finest.
About the Author William Boyd was born in 1952 in Ghana and was brought up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of A Good Man in Africa, which won the Whitbread Literary Award for the Best First Novel in 1981 and a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982; On the Yankee Station (1982), a collection of short stories; An Ice-Cream War, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for 1982 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Stars and Bars; The New Confessions; Brazzaville Beach, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1990 and for which William Boyd was awarded the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year; The Blue Afternoon, which won the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award; The Destiny of Nathalie X, a further collection of short stories, and Any Human Heart. William Boyd is married and lives in London.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780747586203 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x127mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Try Not to Breathe Holly Seddon
A woman's search for the truth about a brutal attack on a teenage girl puts her in danger in this tense, emotionally-charged psychological thriller: perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train or The Book of You
Description You won't be able to put it down. Just remember to breathe.
Alex is sinking. Slowly but surely, she's cut herself off from everything but her one true love - drink. Until she's forced to write a piece about a coma ward, where she meets Amy.
Amy is lost. When she was fifteen, she was attacked and left for dead in a park. Her attacker was never found. Since then, she has drifted in a lonely, timeless place. She's as good as dead, but not even her doctors are sure how much she understands.
Alex and Amy grew up in the same suburbs, played the same music, flirted with the same boys. And as Alex begins to investigate the attack, she opens the door to the same danger that has left Amy in a coma...
About the Author Holly Seddon is a freelance journalist whose work has been published on national newspaper websites, magazines and leading consumer websites. As a mother of four, Holly divides her time between writing articles, walking her miniature Schnauzer and chasing homework-evaders around the room. And then doing some more writing when night falls.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781782396680 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages
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Corvus APRIL 2016 Punishment (Vik & Stubo 1) Anne Holt
Introducing the Vik/Stubo series from the queen of Scandinavian crime writing: Anne Holt.
Description A killer is on the loose. Three children have been abducted. The bodies of two returned to their mothers along with a desperately cruel note:
You Got What You Deserved.
Police Superintendent Adam Stubo is in charge of the investigation, and is convinced there's a crucial detail he's overlooking. In a desperate bid to get some answers, he recruits legal researcher Johanne Vik, a woman with an extensive understanding of criminal history.
With a chance that the third child is still alive the clock is ticking. Can the pair solve the case in time to save her?
The first instalment in the sensationally gripping Vik/Stubo series.
About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781782398714 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages
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Corvus APRIL 2016 The Girl With A Clock For A Heart Peter Swanson
A thriller about love, loss and those memories we hold closest to our hearts.
Description George Foss never thought he'd see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack's Tavern.
When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college freshman from Sweetgum, Florida. She and George became inseparable in their first fall semester, so George was devastated when he got the news that she had committed suicide over Christmas break. But, as he stood in the living room of the girl's grieving parents, he realized the girl in the photo on their mantelpiece - the one who had committed suicide - was not his girlfriend. Later, he discovered the true identity of the girl he had loved - and of the things she may have done to escape her past.
Now, twenty years later, she's back, and she's telling George that he's the only one who can help her.
About the Author Peter Swanson has won awards in poetry from The Lyric and Yankee Magazine, and is currently completing a sonnet sequence on all 53 of Alfred Hitchcock's films. He has earned degrees in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571301911 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FH Thriller / Suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Innocent Blood P. D. James
A stand-alone thriller from P. D. James.
Description Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realise that she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts. Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of selfidentity and the meaning of life.
About the Author P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571253388 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 432 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Road to Sparta: Reliving the epic run that inspired the world's greatest foot race Dean Karnazes
The epic recreation of one of the greatest acts of physical endurance in history, by legendary ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes.
Description In The Road to Sparta famed ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes explores the story of the world's first marathon, all while recreating the historic 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta in one of the most difficult ultra races in the world - the Spartathlon. In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. Pheidippides was hailed a hero, as he saved the development of Western civilization. The run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in history. Karnazes honors Pheidippides and his Greek heritage by completing the treacherous course without the aid of modern endurance nutrition and only eating and drinking what would have been available in 490 BCE. Through vivid description and telling insights, The Road to Sparta offers readers a rare glimpse into the mind-set and motivation of an extreme athlete during his most difficult and personal challenge to date.
About the Author Dean Karnazes is the author of the New York Times bestseller Ultramarathon Man, Run! and 50/50. TIME Magazine called him one of the 'Top 100 Most Influential People in the World,' and he has been featured in Runner's World, TIME, Newsweek, People, GQ, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Washington Post, Forbes, and many others.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760294632 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Road to Sparta 8 copy pack
Includes: 8 copies The Road to Sparta plus free reading copy
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner Dean Karnazes
The inspiring journey of Dean Karnazes, an internationally recognized endurance athlete who has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Includes a new epilogue detailing his training and diet tips.
Description '[Karnazes'] spirited memoir . . . can help mere mortals who want to push past their perceived limits or simply jump-start their sedentary lives.' - Chicago Tribune
WHY DO YOU DO IT? HOW DO YOU DO IT? ARE YOU INSANE?
Dean Karnazes is an internationally recognised endurance athlete who has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. In this remarkable memoir, he recounts the personal events that have led to him becoming an extraordinary athlete. The seeds of his talents were seen early - at the age of nine he rode his bike alone over fifty miles to his grandmother's house. As an adult, he's taken part in a marathon across Death Valley, a 200 mile, twelve-person relay race (which he ran solo, of course) and one of the biggest and most controversial challenges of all - the first marathon ever run to the South Pole.
In Ultramarathon Man, Dean recounts all these races and other unbelievable achievements. He introduces us to the sometimes bizarre emotional and psychological make-up of endurance runners, as well as the peculiar mores surrounding the subculture of ultra-endurance athleticism. The book is filled with fascinating characters and situations from the touching (how his running helped to pull his family back together) to the absurd (organising to meet the pizza delivery man on the highway during his run!).
Dean's story will amaze, fascinate and inspire even the most comfortable couch potatoes. And in a new epilogue, Karnazes answers the two questions he's most often asked: What, exactly, do you eat and How do you train to stay in such good shape?
About the Author Price: $24.95 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781741149579 'Running with Dean Karnazes [is] like setting up one's easel next to Monet or Picasso,' said The New York Times . Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 195x130mm In 2004, Karnazes won the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley - 'The World's Toughest Footrace' - running 135 Extent: 240 pages Main Category: WS Sport miles in 120-degree Fahrenheit temperatures, in 27 hours, 22 minutes, and was named one of GQ 's 'Best Bodies of the Sub Category: WSKC Marathon & Cross-country Running Year.' In 2006 he completed the 'Endurance 50' event, running 50 marathons in 50 consecutive days in the 50 states of Illustrations: 8pp colour insert the US. The president of Good Health Natural Foods - and, according to Sports Illustrated Women , 'one of the sexiest Previous Titles: Author now living: San Francisco men in sports' - Karnazes lives with his family in San Francisco.
Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Crown Street Women's Hospital: A history 1893-1983 Judith Godden
The history of Sydney's pioneering maternity hospital is also a history of medical care for women in Australia, from the days of untrained midwives to alternative birthing units.
Description Crown Street Women's Hospital was the largest maternity hospital in Australia. Situated in the heart of Surry Hills, it was the hospital where the poorest women in Sydney went to have their babies.
Founded in 1893, it took in young women with nowhere else to go, and it had a long history of caring for Aboriginal women and babies, and later also immigrant women. In its final years, 'Crown Street' as it was affectionately known, made a name for itself treating drug-addicted pregnant women. Known from its early years as an innovative institution, some of Australia's leading obstetricians, nurses were proud to work there, and it was the home of many innovations in women's health such as Australia's first alternative birth centre. When the decision was made to close it down, there was a public uproar and demonstrations in the streets.
The history of Crown Street is the history of Sydney's underbelly. From grief over forced adoptions, the steady stream of botched abortions, to the stories of women and babies restored to health, and of the staff and army of volunteers, we see the powerful role this single institution played in the lives of many women across the city.
About the Author Judith Godden is a freelance historian specialising in the history of healthcare. She is a former academic at the University of Sydney and an Honorary Associate in its Department of History. Her previous books are: Lucy Osburn, a lady displaced; Australia's Controversial Matron; Australian Pain Society; and (with Carol Helmstadter) Nursing before Nightingale. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing and active in numerous historical organisations.
Price: $45.00 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781743318409 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages
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Sub Category: HBJM Australasian & Pacific History Illustrations: 128 b/w Previous Titles: Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899, Ashgate, 2011. Australia's Controversial Matron, College of Nursing, 2011. Lucy Osburn, a lady displaced, Sydney University Press, 2006. Author now living: Epping, NSW Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Gotta Love This Country!: Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest Peter FitzSimons
A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style.
Description You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen year olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being reunited with the tom-bowlers his brother threw away forty years ago, and when the dry cleaner down the road is called Drop Your Pants.
Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the generous, the kind and the downright strange in this hilarious and heart- warming collection of stories from daily life and grassroots sporting fields around the country. It's enough for you to puff out your chest and say, Gotta Love This Country!
About the Author Peter FitzSimons is one of Australia's most-loved authors with over twenty bestsellers to his name. As well as writing his weekly Fitz Files for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald, Peter is a regular TV commentator, an ambassador for good causes and a former Wallaby. In July of 2015, he became Chair of the Australian Republican Movement.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760295073 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 272 pages
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Sub Category: WS Sport Illustrations: Previous Titles: Gallipoli, Random House 2014. Ned Kelly, Random House 2013. Eureka, Random House 2012. Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age, Random House 2011. Batavia, Random House 2011. Little Theories of Life, Allen and Unwin 2011. Kokoda, Hachette 2010. Batavia, William Heinemann 2010 Tobruk HarperCollins Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 My Paris Dream: Life, love and fashion in the great city by the Seine Kate Betts
Former editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar recalls her time in Paris - falling in love, finding herself, and being initiated into the world of high fashion.
Description When Kate Betts graduated from Princeton, she was desperate to stand on her own two feet and discover who she really was.
Kate decided to take a leap of faith and move to Paris where she would throw herself into Parisian culture, master French and a find a job that would give her a reason to stay.
After a series of dues-paying jobs, she began a magnificent apprenticeship at Women's Wear Daily and was initiated into the high fashion world at a moment that saw the last glory of the old guard and the explosion of a new generation of talent.
From a woozy yet enchanting Yves Saint Laurent to the mischievous and commanding Karl Lagerfeld, to the riotous, brilliant young guns -- Martin Margiela, Helmut Lang, and John Galliano -- who were rewriting the rules of fashion, Betts gives us a view of what it looked like to a young woman, finding herself, falling in love, and exploring this dazzling world all at once.
Rife with insider information about restaurants, shopping, travel, and food, Betts's memoir brings the enchantment of France to life -- from the nightclubs of Paris where she learned to dance Le Rock, to the lavender fields of Provence and the forests of le Bretagne -- in an unforgettable memoir of coming-of-age.
About the Author Kate Betts is the ultimate fashion insider. In addition to her earlier stints as the former editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar and as #2 editor at Vogue (under Anna Wintour), she is also currently a contributing editor at TIME and The Daily Beast, and reports on fashion for CNN. She lives in New York with her family. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760294175 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014 Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood
Volume II of the acclaimed and 'definitive' Metallica history - for fans of Dirt, Slash and all things heavy metal.
Description From the record-breaking success of 1991's 'Black Album' to the band's reinvention with the Load/Reload albums; from bassist Jason Newsted's shock departure to the group's subsequent meltdown as laid bare in the documentary Some Kind of Monster; from the Lulu album with Lou Reed to their hugely expensive feature film Through the Never, the second half of the Metallica story has been as eventful and controversial as it has triumphant.
About the Author Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood are two of the UK's foremost music writers. A former editor of Kerrang! - the world's biggest weekly music magazine - Brannigan is the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl while Winwood has written for Rolling Stone, the Guardian, Mojo, Kerrang!, NME and the BBC. The first volume of Birth, School, Metallica, Death was published to huge acclaim in 2013.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571295784 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages
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Faber Music APRIL 2016 Birth School Metallica Death: 1983-1991 Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood
The Metallica story - from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia.
Description No music writers have been afforded greater access to Metallica over the years than Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood, two former editors of Kerrang. Having conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with the band, they have between them gained an unparalleled knowledge of the group's history and an insiders' view of how their story has developed: they have ridden in the band's limos, flown on their private jet, joined them in the studio, been invited to the quartet's 'HQ' outside San Francisco and shared beers and stories with them in venues across the globe. There are countless memorable stories about the band never before seen in print, tales of bed-hopping and drug-taking and car-crashes and fist-fights and back-stabbing that occur when you mix testosterone and adrenaline, alcohol and egomania, talent and raw ambition.
Perceptive, emotionally attached, and intellectually rigorous, Birth, School, Metallica, Death will be the essential and definitive story of this extraordinary band. Volume I takes us from the band's inception through to the recording and eve of release of their seminal, self-titled, 1991 album.
About the Author Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood are two of the UK's foremost music writers. A former Kerrang! editor, Brannigan is the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl while Winwood has written forRolling Stone, the Guardian, Mojo, Kerrang!, NME and the BBC.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9780571294152 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 384 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off John Mitchinson, John Lloyd and James Harkin
1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off - a buffet groaning with mouth-watering nuggets.
Description Did you know that: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains; Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced 'Chin chin' and means penis; the water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body; Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs; Saddam's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker; Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog.
1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.
About the Author John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, and now runs Unbound.
Price: $17.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9780571297931 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 170x105mm Extent: 336 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
1,399 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop - the top ten bestseller packed full of outrageously brilliant facts.
Description Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, the QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten.
Pigs suffer from anorexia.
Wagner always wore pink silk underwear.
Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie.
Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn.
It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit.
J.K. Rowling has no middle name.
The first computer mouse was made of wood.
If there are any facts you don't believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on QI's website.
About the Author John Lloyd devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. John Mitchinson was the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase Price: $17.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9780571308958 and Fable, and now runs Unbound. James Harkin is QI's Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the Format: Paperback presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Dimensions: 170x105mm Extent: 368 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
1,411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin, contains all-new facts from the QI team to astonish, delight and enlighten.
Description 1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year's groaning sack of astonishment. Prepare to be knocked sideways...
Orchids can get jetlag.
Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time.
There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie.
Ladybird orgasms last for 30 minutes.
Traffic lights existed before cars.
Sir Bruce Forsyth is four months older than sliced bread.
The soil in your garden is 2 million years old.
If there are any facts you don't believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on qi.com.
About the Author John Lloyd devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. John Mitchinson was the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase Price: $17.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9780571329847 and Fable, and now runs Unbound. James Harkin is QI's Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the Format: Paperback presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Dimensions: 170x105mm Extent: 400 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Fast Diet (The Original 5:2 Diet: Revised and Updated): New Research, New Recipes Michael Mosley & Mimi Spencer
Is it possible to eat well, most of the time and get slimmer and healthier as you do it? With The Fast Diet it is!
Description Two years on from first publication of The Fast Diet, which outlined a radical new approach to weight loss and started a worldwide health revolution, intermittent fasting and the 5:2 programme is still the diet everyone is talking about.
In this fully updated and expanded edition for 2015, Dr Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer revisit the health phenomenon of the decade. This bigger, better version of the original book will include:
New testimonials and case studies from Fast Dieters An update on new science and research presented by Dr Michael Mosley An update on Fast Diet lifestyle presented by Mimi Spencer - getting the best out of your Fast Days in practice Some new recipes plus some Fast Day Favourites - a 'best of' selection from across the Fast books New section on the psychology of dieting - mindfulness, willpower and good habits How to get the most out of incorporating HIT and exercise into your programme An all new Fast Diet planner An improved, user-friendly calorie counter
About the Author Dr Michael Mosley is a British journalist, scientist, producer and TV presenter.
Mimi Spencer is a feature writer and columnist for publications including the Mail and the Evening Standard.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781780722375 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages
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Faber Short Books APRIL 2016 The Fast Beach Diet: The Super-Fast 6-Week Programme to Get You in Shape for Summer Mimi Spencer, foreword by Dr Michael Mosley
From the author of the bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet and Fast Diet Recipe Book - Mimi Spencer presents the super- fast 6-week programme to kickstart your Fast Diet for summer.
Description Based on the original, bestselling Fast Diet, this modified approach will take you off cruise control and give your 5:2 lifestyle a summer-time turbo boost.
The Fast Beach Diet includes:
- A clear six-week plan to encourage fat loss of up to 1kg per week
- New tips and tricks to get you through your Fast Days
- Plateau-busting ideas to jumpstart the 5:2
- A brilliant new HIT exercise programme to maximise your fitness and fat loss - in just five minutes a day
- 25 new calorie-counted summer recipes, and plenty of healthy speed cooking ideas for busy days
With detailed meal plans and extra motivational support, this book will get you beach-fit for 2014. Think of it as a boot camp for the 5:2. For six weeks only.
About the Author Mimi Spencer is a journalist and author. A feature-writer and columnist for titles including the Mail, the Evening Standard, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Observer Food Monthly and Waitrose Food Illustrated. She is the author of Price: $17.99 (NZ$22.99) 101 Things To Do Before You Diet (Transworld 2010). ISBN: 9781780722245 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: V Health/fitness Sub Category: VFMD Diets & Dieting Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Short Books APRIL 2016 Fast Exercise: The simple secret of high intensity training-get fitter, stronger and better toned in just a few minutes a day Dr Michael Mosley with Peta Bee
From the author of the international bestselling The Fast Diet: The simple secret of High Intensity Training: how just 3 minutes a week can help you feel great and live longer.
Description Exercise is good for just about everything - you stay fitter, younger, stronger. But how should you exercise? And how much?
In this book, Michael Mosley and Peta Bee present the truth about exercise, based on cutting-edge research from the leading sports science team at Loughborough University and other studies from around the world which show that short bouts of high intensity training can be significantly more effective than prolonged periods of low-impact exercise.
It is now known that everyone responds differently to exercise. Depending on our DNA, we range from 'super- responders' (viz Olympic athletes) to 'non-responders' (ever felt that you will never get really fit, however much you try?)
In Fast Exercise, Dr Mosley (technically a 'non-responder') teams up with health journalist Peta Bee (a 'super-responder') to explain how to improve the way you exercise - whatever your fitness level. They offer practical, user-friendly advice to help you get better results in shorter time, and present a range of short workouts, so there is something which works for everyone.
About the Author Michael Mosley trained to be a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London, before joining the BBC, where he has been a science journalist, executive producer and, more recently, a well known television presenter. He has won numerous television awards, including an RTS (Royal Television Award) and being named Medical Journalist of the Year by the British Medical Association. He is married to a doctor and has four children.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) Peta Bee is an award winning journalist who writes regularly for The Times, Daily Mail and Sunday Times. She has ISBN: 9781780721989 degrees in sports science and nutrition and is a qualified running coach. Peta won the Medical Journalists' Associations Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm freelance of the Year in 2008 and 2012 and appears regularly on television and radio. Peta has published several books Extent: 208 pages on health and fitness and lives with her family in Berkshire. Main Category: V Health/fitness Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Short Books APRIL 2016 The Fast Diet Recipe Book (The official 5:2 diet): 150 delicious, calorie-controlled meals to make your fast days easy Mimi Spencer with Dr Sarah Schenker
The companion guide to the groundbreaking #1 bestselling The Fast Diet, with 150 delicious and nutritious, low-calorie recipes - illustrated in full colour throughout.
Description Following the #1 bestselling The Fast Diet, this fabulous cookbook offers 150 carefully crafted, nutritious, low-calorie recipes to enable you to incorporate the 5:2 weight-loss system into your daily life.
As revealed by Dr Michael Mosley in The Fast Diet, scientific trials have revealed that if you eat normally for five days a week but reduce your calorie intake for only two days, you will not only lose weight but potentially lower your risk of cancer, diabetes and other age-related diseases.
The recipes here range from simple breakfasts to leisurely suppers and warming winter stews, all expertly balanced and calorie-counted by leading nutritionist Dr Sarah Schenker. There's also a month of meal plans for men and women and Mimi Spencer, co-writer of The Fast Diet, offers a groundbreaking guide to following this diet in a safe, effective and sustainable way - you will never have to worry about planning your fast days again. There are plenty of encouraging tips - including kitchen cupboard essentials and a whole section of speedy meals that can be quickly made for those busier days.
This book offers a wonderful companion guide to the groundbreaking Fast Diet, with recipes so delicious you'll find yourself looking forward to your Fast Days. You'll lose weight, and enjoy doing it.
About the Author Mimi Spencer is a journalist and author. A feature-writer and columnist for titles including the Mail, the Evening Standard, the Guardian, the Spectator, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, and Observer Food Monthly. She is the author of 101 Things To Do Before You Diet. Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781780721873 Dr Sarah Schenker is one of the most high profile and influential nutritionists in the UK. She has been quoted in every Format: Paperback Dimensions: 245x190mm national daily newspaper on numerous diet and health issues as well as appearing regularly on TV and radio, from news Extent: 224 pages programmes to reality shows. Sarah regularly writes for magazines, newspapers and journals. Main Category: V Health/fitness
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Faber Non Fiction APRIL 2016 Fast Cook: Easy new recipes to get you through your Fast Days Mimi Spencer
In response to popular demand, a pocket edition of 120 all-new recipes with the emphasis on simple, convenient, low-cal food to provide the definitive support system for the 5:2 diet.
Description From the author of the bestselling Fast Diet and Fast Diet Recipe Book.
In response to popular demand, a pocket edition of 120 all-new recipes with the emphasis on simple, convenient, low-cal food to provide the definitive support system for the 5:2 diet.
Sections range from Fast Favourites - a collection of calorie-controlled classics - to Lightning Quick Suppers (speed cooking for when you just want to walk in the door and eat in ten minutes flat). There are recipes here for everyone - Freezer Food to Prepare in Advance, Hearty Food for Hungry Days, and Filling Meals for Men, a range of delicious, nutritious dishes for anyone who prefers to eat their 600 calories all in one go.
With each recipe calorie-counted and infinitely adaptable, Fast Cook is the perfect adjunct to the original Fast Diet Recipe Book, offering a whole new repertoire of really fast Fast food to sustain you through the tough, colder months and help you lose weight with ease.
About the Author Mimi Spencer is a journalist and author. A feature-writer and columnist for titles including the Mail, the Evening Standard, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Observer Food Monthly and Waitrose Food Illustrated. She is the author of 101 Things To Do Before You Diet (Transworld 2010) and co-author with Dr Michael Mosley of The Fast Diet.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781780722177 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 194x135mm Extent: 192 pages
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Faber Short Books APRIL 2016 The Bedside Guardian 2016 Claire Armitstead (editor)
A showcase of the best journalism and photography of the previous year from the award-winning newspaper.
Description Has there been such a tumultuous year as 2016 in living memory? The EU referendum in June divided the nation and sent shockwaves through the world. The corridors of Westminster began to resemble a made- for-TV drama: friendships were betrayed, promises broken, and the political landscape was changed for ever.
But even before this we were already on course for a remarkable year. A series of unexpected celebrity deaths; the onward march of Donald Trump; an MP murdered on the streets of West Yorkshire; Wales's shock appearance in a European Cup semi-final - it was a year of surprises, of 'have you heard.?' moments.
As ever, the Guardian's team of award-winning journalists were on hand to make sense of it all, responding with a clear eye and a cool head when everyone else was losing theirs. The paper continued its tradition of trailblazing investigation, from the groundbreaking 'The Web We Want' campaign to the extraordinary revelations contained within the Panama Papers. There was even space for humour - a necessity in a year that at times seemed short of laughs.
Here, in the annual round-up of the paper's best writing of 2016 - from Julian Barnes on Leicester winning the Premier League, Philip Pullman on Brexit, and not forgetting Nancy Banks-Smith on the Archers' Rob and Helen - we take a look back at twelve months that will live long in the memory.
About the Author Claire Armitstead is books editor for the Guardian and the Observer. This year's foreword is written by Sir David Hare, Academy Award-nominated playwright, screenwriter and director.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781783561247 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Guardian Books APRIL 2016 Tails from the Booth: What happens when you put dogs in a photobooth? Lynn Terry
The internet sensation, now in a funny and heartwarming book packed with over one hundred images of dogs of all breeds posing in photobooths.
Description This is what happens when you put dogs in a photobooth:
they smile - they yawn - they snarl - they snog - they frown - they sneeze - they stare - they make friends - they fall out - they strike a pose - they get bored
Photographer Lynn Terry didn't know what to expect when she started taking snaps of dogs in a vintage photobooth to raise awareness for local animal shelters. The photos capture the canines' personalities, their sense of humour, their innate need to socialise and their willingness to improvise. Behind that curtain these posing pups and mischievous mutts become superstars in their own right.
Tails from the Booth is a wondrous collection of dogs enjoying the spotlight.
About the Author Lynn Terry has worked in photography for over twenty years, and has been focusing on animal photography since 2006. She has worked with many local animal shelters to help bring attention to adoptable dogs. Inspired by her interest in vintage photo book shots featuring people, she began a photo booth series of dogs for a local pit bull rescue group. She then custom-built a more suitable photo booth for dogs. This book is the result of many enjoyable hours capturing the fascinating and endearing interaction between the dogs.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782116042 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 228x178mm Extent: 144 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 The Peanuts Guide to Christmas Charles M. Schulz
Christmas has come to the world of Peanuts and the beguiling gang are celebrating in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations.
Description Christmas has come to the world of Peanuts and the beguiling gang are celebrating (and commiserating) in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. The millions of faithful Charles Schulz fans and those who fondly remember our best-loved beagle and his friends will cherish this latest title in our Peanuts Guide to Life series.
About the Author Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
Price: $14.99 (NZ$16.99) ISBN: 9781782113676 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 156x138mm Extent: 80 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 The Genius of Charlie Brown Charles M. Schulz
A brand new series of beautiful small-format themed gift books, featuring the much-loved Peanuts characters.
Description Our favourite lovable loser and owner of the world's most beloved beagle, Snoopy, Charlie Brown shares his outlook on life in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. In his incomparable style, Charlie Brown spends his days battling with the kite-eating tree, yearning for the Little Red-Haired girl, refusing to give in on the baseball field and wrestling with his multiple anxieties.
For the millions of faithful Charles Schulz fans, and those who fondly remember this insecure little boy in his yellow striped shirt, this is the first in a new series to cherish that will see the beguiling Peanuts gang share their sentiments on everything from food to friendship.
About the Author Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
Price: $14.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781782113096 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 158x139mm Extent: 80 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 Life Lessons from Lucy Charles M. Schulz
A brand new series of beautiful small-format themed gift books, featuring the much-loved Peanuts characters.
Description Our favourite cartoon cynic shares her lessons on life in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. In her inimitable style, Lucy spends her days teasing Charlie Brown, offering up psychiatric advice, giving her little brother Linus a hard time and relentlessly pursuing her beloved piano player, Schroeder.
For the millions of faithful Charles Schulz fans, and those who fondly remember the crabby girl in the blue dress, this is the first in a new series to cherish that will see the beguiling Peanuts gang share their sentiments on everything from food to friendship.
About the Author Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
Price: $14.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781782113119 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 158x139mm Extent: 80 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher
The follow-up to the international bestseller and publishing phenomenon Letters of Note.
Description More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.
These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, John Cleese claiming that his fan club had been murdered by Michael Palin's and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.
Including letters from:
Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, John Cleese, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh and many more
About the Author Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs www.lettersofnote.com and www.listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestsellingLetters of Note, More Letters of Note and Lists of Note.www.lettersofnote.com www.shaunusher.com Follow @LettersOfNote on Twitter
Price: $59.99 (NZ$69.99) ISBN: 9781782114543 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 289x210mm Extent: 384 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 Lists of Note compiled by Shaun Usher
The follow-up to the bestselling Letters of Note - this time editor Shaun Usher turns his hand to lists.
Description Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he did with Letters of Note, Shaun Usher has trawled the world's archives to produce a rich visual anthology that stretches from ancient times to present day. From a to-do list of Leonardo da Vinci's to Charles Darwin on the pros and cons of marriage or Julia Child's list of possible titles for what would later become an American cooking bible, Lists of Note is a constantly surprising A-Z of what makes us human.
About the Author Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs www.lettersofnote.com and www.listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestsellingLetters of Note, More Letters of Note and Lists of Note.www.lettersofnote.com www.shaunusher.com Follow @LettersOfNote on Twitter
Price: $59.99 (NZ$69.99) ISBN: 9781782114529 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 289x209mm Extent: 336 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 The Long and the Short of It (International edition): A global guide to finance and investment for those not in the industry John Kay
A clear and practical guide to investment by internationally renowned economist John Kay.
Description This book provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance. It describes the basics of investment and the sophisticated innovations of the modern financial system. It explains how the follies of finance have threatened the stability of the world economy, and describes an environment that is complex and sophisticated, but greedy, cynical and self-interested. This book explains how to put your finances in the only hands you can confidently trust - your own.
Readers will learn everything they need to be their own investment manager. They will recognise their investment options, the institutions that try to sell them, and how to distinguish between fact and fiction in what companies say. They will discover the principles of sound investment and the research that supports these principles. Crucially, they will learn a practical investment strategy and how to implement it.
Leading economist and hugely successful investor John Kay uses his academic credentials and practical experience to lay out the key principles of investment with characteristic clarity and dry humour. This is the only book about finance and investment anyone needs, and the one book they must have.
About the Author John Kay is 'both a first-class economist and an excellent writer' (Financial Times). He is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford and director of several public companies. He contributes a weekly column to the Financial Times. He chaired the UK government review of Equity Markets which reported in 2012 recommending substantial reforms. He is the author of many books including Obliquity [9781846682896] and Other People's Money [9781781254455] both published by Profile Books.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781256770 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages
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Profile Trade APRIL 2016 The Ten Faces of Innovation: Strategies for Heightening Creativity Tom Kelley
The ten personas your innovators can adopt and harness to boost creativity from the bestselling author and ex-general manager of IDEO.
Description Innovation is the lifeblood of every company - the fuel that keeps an organisation going in a tough marketplace. But by its very nature it's hard to plan for, quantify and coach. In The Ten Faces of Innovation Tom Kelley explains how to do it.
Kelley, author of bestselling The Art of Innovation, reveals the strategies that his world-famous design firm IDEO uses to foster original thinking and overcome naysayers who stifle creativity. For Kelley, innovation is all about individuals and teams. He identifies ten key roles developed by IDEO that anyone can adopt in order to innovate in different situations. Ranging from 'the anthropologist' and 'the hurdler' to 'the experience architect' and 'the cross-pollinator', they are all illustrated with real corporate examples and will help you transform the way you work, and show those around you how to do the same. The result is a brilliant and applicable guide to fostering creativity and creating a culture of innovation in any workplace.
About the Author Tom Kelley is the best-selling author of Creative Confidence, The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation as well as a partner at the renowned design and innovation consultancy IDEO. As a leading innovation speaker, Tom has addressed business audiences in more than thirty countries. Tom is an Executive Fellow at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and holds a similar role at the University of Tokyo.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781256152 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Profile Trade APRIL 2016 Future Agenda: Six Challenges for the Next Decade Tim Jones
Identifying and tackling the problems facing all humanity.
Description What challenges does the future hold? In an increasingly interconnected - and increasingly uncertain - world, companies, institutions and governments across the world recognise the vital need to pose this question in order to protect the interests of humanity.
Founded in 2009, the Future Agenda explores key issues facing society over the next decade through 120 workshops held in 45 locations around the world, making it the largest open forum of its kind. The Future Agenda: Six Challenges for the Next Decade contains findings from the second Future Agenda initiative, featuring experts from a vast spectrum of industries.
With essays falling under the themes of People, Place, Power, Belief, Behaviour and Business, this book is essential reading for all concerned by our collective well-being.
About the Author Dr Tim Jones is Programme Director of the Future Agenda global open foresight project. He is also a founder of the Growth Agenda network and leads the Innovation Leaders research project. Tim is an expert in innovation, growth and foresight and advises a wide range of organisations on these matters.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781908990792 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 208 pages
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Third Millennium APRIL 2016 An Auctioneer's Lot: Triumphs and Disasters at Christie's Lord Hindlip
Join the auctioneer extraordinaire on his adventures in the world of art sales.
Description Lord Hindlip presided over London's auction house Christie's during a time of great excitement in the art world. The 1960s, 70s and early 80s saw the wholesale denuding of country houses and ransacking of attics right across the country - yielding genuine treasures and fakes (both cunning and clumsy) in equal measure.
Both memoir and art book, Triumphs and Disasters recounts Lord Hindlip's career through the major works of art that have passed through his hands over the last fifty years. His story charts such extraordinary highs as the sale of Van Gogh's Sunflowers for a then world-record sum, as well as the often hilarious lows, including a wild goose chase across the badlands of rural America which led him to a gun-toting recluse and a cherished pile of tat masquerading as Old Master paintings.
This lavishly produced book is generously illustrated with photographs of all the works of art that came to define Lord Hindlip's tenure as chairman of Christie's.
About the Author Charles Allsopp (Lord Hindlip) was educated at Eton and served in the Coldstream Guards from 1959 until 1962, when he joined the art auction house Christie's. He was General Manager of Christie's New York, then successively director, deputy chairman and chairman of Christie, Manson & Woods in London.
Price: $59.99 (NZ$69.99) ISBN: 9781908990815 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 246x189mm Extent: 256 pages
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Third Millennium APRIL 2016 A Florence Diary Diana Athill
A recently discovered gem from the bestselling author of Somewhere Towards the End and Alive, Alive Oh!: the charming and vivacious diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
Description In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and adventures - eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architectural sights, sampling delicious pastries, eking out their budget and getting into scrapes. Written with an arresting immediacy and infused with an exhilarating joie de vivre, A Florence Diary is a bright, colourful evocation of a time long lost, and a vibrant portrait of a city that will be deliciously familiar to any contemporary traveller.
About the Author Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also published by Granta Books, as are five further volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That, and a collection of letters, Instead of a Book. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She lives in London.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781783783168 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 64 pages
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Granta APRIL 2016 City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Ben Rawlence
A fearless work of reportage that takes the reader inside Dadaab, the world's biggest and most notorious refugee camp, through the stories of the people who live there.
Description To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort.
Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and schoolgirl Kheyro, whose future hangs upon her education.
In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, here is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dadaab home.
About the Author Ben Rawlence is a former researcher for Human Rights Watch in the Horn of Africa. He is the author of Radio Congo, and has written for a wide range of publications including the Guardian, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and Prospect. He lives in the Black Mountains in Wales with his family.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781846275890 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages
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Portobello Pbs APRIL 2016 Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide John Nagle
Sociology: A Graphic Guide traces the discipline's history and explains the intricacies of its major thinkers from Comte and Marx to Baudrillard and beyond.
Description Sociology is interested in the ways people shape the society they live in, and the ways society shapes them. Simply, it is the study of what modern society is and how it functions. In the series' inimitable style, Introducing Sociology traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revolution and the Enlightenment through to globalization, neoliberalism and the fear of nationalism - introducing you to key thinkers, movements and concepts along the way. You will develop insight into the world around you, as you engage your 'sociological imagination' and explore studies of the city, theories of power and knowledge, concepts of national, racial and sexual identity, and much more.
About the Author John Nagle is a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he researches conflict and peace processes, multiculturalism and social movements. His work is widely published in the academic and popular press, and he has provided research consultancy for both the media and international public policy bodies. Piero is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer whose work has been included in the Royal College of Art in London. He has illustrated many Introducing titles.
Price: $12.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781785780738 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 176 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 Monsieur le Vet: My Life with Animals in Rural France Sylvain Balteau
The hilarious, poignant and sometimes bizarre stories of an extraordinary vet in rural France.
Description Sylvain Balteau works as a village vet in the Pyrenees. Equally at home with a sick hamster as with a pregnant Charolais cow, he is permanently on call, immersed in the daily dramas of animals and their people.
Since 2007 he has kept a blog, revealing the hidden side of a vet's work and the rich variety of French rural life. As well as caring for the usual puppies and elderly cats, he tries to save a man's pet piglet and patches up hunting dogs after the annual wild boar hunt. Then he can be found carrying a newborn calf into a remote farmhouse to warm up by the fire, or pleading with a farmer's wife on the verge of a heart attack who insists that the vet see her sick cow first ...
Through his work with their animals, Sylvain gains a privileged insight into the people who live with them. In this profound and unsentimental book, he discovers that, in order to love animals, you can't help but love people as well.
About the Author Sylvain Balteau, 37, has lived in a French village in the Haute-Garonne, at the foot of the Pyrenees, all of his life . He trained as a vet in Toulouse and started keeping a blog of his life in 2007. This is his first book. He speaks English fluently.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785781261 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 The Persuaders: The hidden industry that wants to change your mind James Garvey
Popular philosophical polemic in the tradition of On Bullshit, James Garvey mourns the death of proper debate and reminds us of the value of rational argument.
Description Every day, many people will try to change your mind, but they won't reason with you. Instead, you'll be nudged, anchored, incentivised and manipulated in barely noticeable ways. It's a profound shift in the way we interact with one another.
Philosopher James Garvey explores the hidden story of persuasion and the men and women in the business of changing our minds. From the covert PR used to start the first Gulf War to the neuromarketing of products to appeal to our unconscious minds, he reveals the dark arts practised by professional persuaders.
How did we end up with a world where beliefs are mass-produced by lobbyists and PR firms? Could Google or Facebook swing elections? Are new kinds of persuasion making us less likely to live happy, decent lives in an open, peaceful world? Is it too late, or can we learn to listen to reason again? The Persuaders is a call to think again about how we think now.
About the Author James Garvey works for the Royal Institute of Philosophy and edits The Philosophers' Magazine. He is the author of a number of books, including The Story of Philosophy (with Jeremy Stangroom) and The Ethics of Climate Change. He has written for the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, Huffington Post, New Statesman and the Times Higher Education Supplement, does voluntary work for Thames Reach and Crisis, teaches jiu jitsu, and is an enthusiastic cyclist. James was born in California, grew up in West Virginia and he now lives on a canal boat in London, UK.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785781001 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 Messi vs. Ronaldo - 2017 Updated Edition: The Greatest Rivalry Luca Caioli
The only book available on the greatest player rivalry in football history.
Description In 2009 Real Madrid paid GBP80m, a then record fee, to sign a ready-made superstar in an effort to keep pace with a Barcelona side that had won it all. In doing so, they sparked a rivalry like no other; Messi vs Ronaldo.
The seasons that have followed have been truly spectacular, the battle for supremacy increasing in profile and intensity all the while. Their styles, personalities and footballing allegiances continue to divide opinion, but their dominance of the record books has now put one claim beyond debate - this is football's greatest ever head-to-head.
Acclaimed football writer Luca Caioli draws on invaluable testimonies from those closest to the two stars, with exclusive insights from friends, families, teammates and managers, to tell the inside story of this fascinating rivalry.
About the Author Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of biographies of Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785781292 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language Mark Forsyth
A new cover look for the 5th anniversary of Mark Forsyth's brilliant Sunday Times Number One bestseller.
Description What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces?
The Etymologicon is all about the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.
It's become a classic of writing about the English language. If you're interested in etymology, you need to have read this book!
About the Author Born in London in 1977, Mark Forsyth (a.k.a The Inky Fool) was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller, and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?' has had more than half a million views. He has also written a specially commissioned essay 'The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted' for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary. He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs at blog.inkyfool.com.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785781704 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language Mark Forsyth
A new cover look for all three of Mark Forsyth's brilliant books on words and phrases, on the 5th anniversary of The Etymologicon's publication.
Description A 'delightfully eccentric' (Daily Mail) day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words.
The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist.
From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.
About the Author Born in London in 1977, Mark Forsyth (a.k.a The Inky Fool) was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller, and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?' has had more than half a million views. He has also written a specially commissioned essay 'The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted' for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary. He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs at blog.inkyfool.com.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785781711 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase Mark Forsyth
A new cover look for all three of Mark Forsyth's brilliant books on words and phrases, on the 5th anniversary of The Etymologicon's publication.
Description From the author of the Sunday Times Number 1 bestselling The Etymologicon
'An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of rhetoric...Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly. He also writes beautifully.' - David Marsh, Guardian
In an age unhealthily obsessed with substance, this is a book on the importance of pure style. From classic poetry to pop lyrics and from the King James Bible to advertising slogans, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase - such as 'Tiger, Tiger, burning bright', or 'To be or not to be' - memorable.
In his inimitably entertaining and witty style he takes apart famous lines and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or Oscar Wilde. Whether you're aiming for literary immortality or just an unforgettable one-liner, The Elements of Eloquence proves that you don't need to have anything to say - you simply need to say it well.
About the Author Born in London in 1977, Mark Forsyth (a.k.a The Inky Fool) was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller, and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?' has had more than half a million views. He has also written a specially commissioned essay 'The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted' for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary. He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs at blog.inkyfool.com.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785781728 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 50 Marathons 50 Days: The secrets to super endurance Dean Karnazes
The ultrarunning legend takes on the ultimate test of endurance: running 50 marathons in 50 days.
Description The ultrarunning legend takes on the ultimate test of endurance.
Men's Fitness magazine has hailed Dean Karnazes the fittest man on the planet. Time claimed that he is no mere mortal and Wired declared him the perfect human!
Now, Dean proves them right - again - by conquering what no man has undertaken before: 50 marathons in 50 days. That's 2092 kilometers. And five pairs of shoes, 18 pairs of socks, 1,374,721 heartbeats, and three lost toenails. In 50 Marathons 50 Days, Dean shares his secrets for super endurance. How to adapt quickly to extreme conditions, prevent muscle cramps and overheating, pace yourself when you hit the wall, recover after a gruelling race, and how to stay motivated - against all odds. There's also expert nutrition advice, and a 26-week beginner's marathon training plan. But the essence of this book goes well beyond the incredible story of those 50 races.
Above all, 50 Marathons 50 Days is a fascinating first-hand account of what it's like to push the limits of strength and motivation. It's an inspiring how-to book for anyone looking to go further than ever before towards their goals.
About the Author Dean Karnazes might just be the fittest man in the world, wrote Men's Fitness in 2006. An internationally recognized endurance athlete, Dean's first book, Ultramarathon Man was a New York Times bestseller. Dean has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity through his running and sports career, and recently started his own foundation, Karno Kids.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781742375908 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: WS Sport Sub Category: WSKC Marathon & Cross-country Running Illustrations: 1 x 16pp colour section Previous Titles: Ultramarathon Man (A+U, 2006) Author now living:
Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss Dean Karnazes
The inspiring journey of Dean Karnazes, an internationally recognised endurance athlete who has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits.
Description 'Running with Karnazes is like setting up one's easel next to Monet or Picasso.' The New York Times
In his follow-up to the bestselling Ultramarathon Man, Dean Karnazes is back with more mind-blowing tales of how he pushes his mind and body to limits which are inconceivable to most of us.
In Run! Dean shares the pleasure - and considerable pain - of some of his most memorable adventures, including:
- a gentle 350-mile canter through the surprisingly hilly Australian Outback; - his annual attempts at the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley, California (typical temperature: 45 degrees); and - the notorious 4 Deserts races, a masochist's delight encompassing four separate 155-mile runs across the Atacama Crossing, the Gobi, the Sahara and Antarctica...with rationed water.
Dean's entertaining and endearing stories are sure to inspire both dedicated and vicarious runners alike.
About the Author Dean Karnazes might just be the fittest man in the world, wrote Men's Fitness in 2006. An internationally recognised endurance athlete, Dean's first book, Ultramarathon Man, was a New York Times bestseller. Dean has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity through his running and sports career, and recently started his own foundation, Karno Kids.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781742377933 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BGA Autobiography: General Illustrations: Previous Titles: 50 Marathons 50 Days, A+U 2008. Ultramarathon Man, A+U 2006. Author now living: San Francisco, USA
Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Blind Man's Garden Nadeem Aslam
The war on terror through the lens of one family's experience in this stunning novel from the author of The Wasted Vigil.
Description Love is not consolation, it is light.'From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions can't keep them out of harm's way.From the wilds of Afghanistan to the heart of the family left behind - their blind father haunted for years by the death of his wife, by the mistakes he may have made in the name of Islam and nationhood, Jeo's steadfast wife and her superstitious mother - Aslam's prose takes us on an extraordinary journey.
About the Author Nadeem Aslam is the author of three previous novels, Season of the Rainbirds (1993), Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) - longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize, and awarded the Kiriyama Prize and the Encore Award - and, most recently, The Wasted Vigil, described by A. S. Byatt as 'unforgettable . tragic and beautifully written'. Born in Pakistan, he now lives in England.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571287949 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 480 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Maps for Lost Lovers Nadeem Aslam
A new cover edition of Nadeem Aslam's 2005 critically acclaimed novel, Map for Lost Lovers.
Description In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the closeknit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for murder. Telling the story of the next twelve months, Maps for Lost Lovers opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion, and expresses their pain in a language that is arrestingly poetic.
About the Author Nadeem Aslam is the author of the award-winning novel Season of the Rainbirds (1993). He lives in the UK.Praise for Season of the Rainbirds:'Nadeem Aslam's is a genuinely exciting new voice - lively, confident, uninhibited and ambitious. This is one of the most impressive first novels of recent years.' Salman Rushdie'An exquisitely turned portrait of small- town life on the subcontinent: it is a real treat.' Daily Telegraph
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571313297 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 384 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Season of the Rainbirds Nadeem Aslam
The highly acclaimed and Betty Trask Award winning debut from the author of Maps for Lost Lovers.
Description A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants of a small town in Pakistan are waiting anxiously to see what long buried secrets will come to light. Could the letters have any bearing on Judge Anwar's murder?
In one of the most exquisite fictional debuts of recent years, Nadeem Aslam creates an exotic and timeless world, but one whose traditional rituals of everyday life are played out against an ominous backdrop of faraway civil wars, assassinations, changing regimes, and religious tensions.
About the Author Nadeem Aslam is the author of three previous novels, Season of the Rainbirds (1993), Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) - longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize, and awarded the Kiriyama Prize and the Encore Award - and, most recently, The Wasted Vigil, described by A. S. Byatt as 'unforgettable ... tragic and beautifully written'. Born in Pakistan, he now lives in England and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571313303 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Golden Legend Nadeem Aslam
From the acclaimed author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Blind Man's Garden, a brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel set in contemporary Pakistan - about a community consumed by religious intolerance.
Description When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the crossfire and dies before she can confess to him her greatest secret. Under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the city's mosques and, in a country where the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. Against this background of violence and fear, two outsiders - the young Christian woman Helen and the mysterious Imran from Kashmir - try to find an island of calm in which their love can grow.
In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror - a story of corruption, resilience, and the hope that only love and the human spirit can offer.
About the Author Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan and now lives in England. He is the author of four previous novels, most recently The Blind Man's Garden. His work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and won the Kiriyama and Windham Campbell prizes and the Lannan and Encore Awards. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571330737 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 360 pages
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Faber Fiction APRIL 2016 Faith Healer Brian Friel
Weaving together the stories of a travelling healer, his wife and his manager, Faith Healer is a powerful and haunting work of art by one of Ireland's pre-eminent playwrights.
Description Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling which brings him into conflict with his wife Grace and his manager Teddy. Their competing accounts of past events reveal the fragility of memory and the necessity of stories as a means of survival.
Brian Friel's Faith Healer was first produced at the Longacre Theatre, New York, in April 1979 and was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in June 2016. 'The night of Faith Healer is one that still blazes in recollection for me, as religious experiences of art do. And it became a sort of touchstone for me in understanding not only Mr. Friel's work with a depth I hadn't appreciated before but also for defining the elusiveness of great art and the pain of the artist who creates it.' - Ben Brantley, New York Times
About the Author Born in 1929 in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel was one of Ireland's most prominent playwrights. In addition to his published plays, he has written short stories; screenplays; film, TV and Radio adaptations of his plays; and several pieces of non-fiction on the role of theatre and the artist. He died in 2015.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571333882 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 80 pages
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Faber Plays APRIL 2016 Milk Ross Dunsmore
An emotive and heartfelt play about what sustains us, what makes us sick and what we just can't get enough of ...
Description You know, love is milk, that's what it is.Three couples struggle to meet their basic needs for food, love and survival. As they try to make sense of a changing world, their inner desires and appetites become driving forces that could lead to catastrophe or redemption.An emotive and heartfelt play about what sustains us, what makes us sick and what we just can't get enough of, Milk by Ross Dunsmore premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2016.
About the Author Ross Dunmore trained as an actor at RADA, and has worked extensively in film, television and theatre. As a writer he took an MA in screenwriting at Royal Holloway, University of London, before spending a year studying playwriting with John Burgess, former Head of New Writing at the National Theatre. In 2015 he was chosen as one of the four winners of the Scotland Short Play Award.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571334223 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 96 pages
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Faber Plays APRIL 2016 Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life John Adams
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams is a witty, warm and wise autobiography from the hugely important and admired modern composer of Nixon in China, Shaker Loops, and much besides.
Description 'Sometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself, the harmonies, rhythms, the timbres and tempi, are seeds you have planted. Composing, bringing forth the final formal arrangement of these elements, is often a business of watching them grow, knowing when to nourish and water them and when to prune and weed.'
A book unlike anything ever written by a composer, part memoir and part description of the creative process, Hallelujah Junction is an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John Adams, one of today's most admired and frequently performed composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, Adams has built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy and sincerity of his music, such as his Pulitzer prize-winning memorial for the September 11 attack, On The Transmigration of Souls. Hallelujah Junction isn't so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the musical landscape of his life and times, centred around the three highly controversial operas based on social and political issues he has written in the past twenty-five years - Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer and, most recently, Dr Atomic.
About the Author John Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1947. He is the composer of numerous acclaimed works, including Harmonielehre, Nixon in China, Naive and Sentimental Music, El Nino, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Gospel According to the Other Mary and a memorial for the victims of September 11, On The Transmigration of Souls, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780571231164 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Gingerbread Girl Sheila Newberry
A Christmas novel from the Queen of family saga, Sheila Newberry.
Description All she wanted was a home for Christmas.
London, 1936.
Ill and stuck in hospital at Christmas, seven-year-old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings her the gift of a gingerbread man. But little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her...
As Cora continues her recovery on a farm in the beautiful Norfolk countryside, tragedy strikes her family and she moves back to London with her new guardian, Eliza. Here they live a happy, if simple, life. But as the Second World War approaches and the past comes knocking, everything changes. Will Cora be able to escape the inevitable, or is she destined to repeat her parents' mistakes?
About the Author Sheila Newberry was born in Suffolk and spent a lot of time there both before and during the war. She wrote her first 'book' before she was ten - all sixty pages of it - in purple ink. Her family has certainly been her inspiration and she has been published most of her adult life. She spent forty years living in Kent with her husband John on a smallholding, and has nine children and twenty-two lively grandchildren. They retired back to Suffolk where Sheila still lives today.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785761911 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages
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Zaffre APRIL 2016 Adrift: A Secret Life of London's Waterways Helen Babbs
A beautiful piece of nature / travel writing akin to Robert MacFarlane or Richard Mabey.
Description From deep winter to late autumn, from east to west, Adrift takes the reader on a tour of the people, politics, history and wildlife of London's canals and rivers.
Blending nature writing, social observation and memoir, Helen Babbs invites you on an eye-opening journey into a different side of the city.
From Walthamstow Marsh in the east to Uxbridge in the west, Helen Babbs journeys along London's waterways on a canal boat called Pike, putting down roots for two weeks at a time before moving on. Taking in the River Lea and the Lee Navigation, the Regent's Canal and the Grand Union, she explores the London landscape in all its guises: marshland, wasteland, city centre and suburb.
Adrift charts a year of Helen's life on Pike, exploring the changes wreaked by the seasons as well as by developers, and recounting the practical trials of living aboard. It is a story of mapping and discovery, of escape and opting out, but also of making connections and finding home. Just as the coots and cormorants dodge the detritus of a large city, so too does Helen wend through the beauty and the dirt to reveal an intimate and unusual portrait of London and of life.
About the Author Helen Babbs is a writer and journalist. Her work has been published by the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, New Statesman and Time Out, among others. Helen's first book - My Garden, the City and Me, about urban nature and the glory of growing things - was published in 2011 and nominated for two garden writing awards.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785781278 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 Ride! Ride! Ride!: Herne Hill Velodrome and the Story of British Track Cycling Mark Wellings, foreword by Graeme Obree
The unmissable history of a south London velodrome and track cycling's British history.
Description The early 21st century has been a golden age for British track cycling, with world championship glory for the likes of Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins and Victoria Pendleton, and Olympic medals galore. Tracing the origins of this phenomenal success story, Mark Wellings delves into cycling's chaotic and colourful past to chronicle the rise of the sport through the story of Herne Hill Velodrome, the iconic south London venue.
125 years on from the inaugural race, Herne Hill has played host to many of the most significant moments in British cycling history, from the first Good Friday Meeting in 1903 to the 1948 London Olympics and later the first track rides of a twelveyear- old Wiggins. Writer and historian Wellings, a Herne Hill regular with rare behind-the-scenes access, brings these events vividly to life, while also exploring the lives of those involved, such as 'Champion of Champions' Fausto Coppi, the legendary rivals Tommy Godwin and Reg Harris, the tragic figure of Tom Simpson and the fascinating Graeme Obree.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with key figures and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, Ride! Ride! Ride! is a thrilling circuit of track cycling's history, the story of a unique venue, and a tale of British achievement against all the odds.
About the Author Mark Wellings is a publisher, writer and historian. Born and raised in north-west England, he spent a decade living and working abroad before settling with his family in south-east London - a short ride from Herne Hill Velodrome. A lifelong cyclist, he fell in love with the track the first time he took his young son there and has not looked back: he is now a regular volunteer, spectator and occasional participant. He loves taking his Italian road bikes on iconic rides around Europe, but is usually to be found at the back of the pack on Sunday rides with VC Londres. A risible wheel-sucker, he still dreams of Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) having a double-jump like Reg Harris. ISBN: 9781785781285 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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