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MICHAEL CONNELLY
A BOSCH NOVEL
THE WRONG SIDE OFGOODBYE
NOVEMBER 2016n e w b o o k s
Michael ConnellyGai Waterhouse Molly Meldrum Fiona Higgins Fleur McDonald
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MICHAEL CONNELLY
A BOSCH NOVEL
THE WRONG SIDE OFGOODBYE
THE WRONG SIDE OF GOODBYE Michael Connelly
ALLEN & UNWIN9781760293833 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
Unstoppable detective Harry Bosch returns in a new thriller from the #1 bestselling author
Bosch is back . . . with a new badge and a new beat.
Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-eight previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers The Crossing and The Burning Room. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than sixty million copies worldwide. Season 3 of the popular TV series Bosch has recently been announced for production.
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FEARLESS Fiona Higgins
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760294229 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A gripping novel set in Bali about the true nature of courage by the bestselling author of Wife on
the Run
Six strangers from across the world converge on the tropical island of Bali to attend a personal development course designed to help them face their fears. Their backgrounds are as diverse as their fears—which range from flying, public speaking and heights, through to intimacy, failure and death. Friendships and even romance blossoms as the participants are put through a series of challenges which are unusual, confronting and sometimes hilarious. A week of fun in the sun suddenly morphs into something far more serious, however, when the unthinkable happens—a disaster that puts the group in deadly danger and tests the individual courage of every member.
Fiona Higgins is the author of Fearless, Wife on the Run, The Mothers' Group and Love in the Age of Drought. After several years of living in Indonesia, she recently relocated to Sydney.
SAPPHIRE FALLS Fleur McDonald
ARENA9781760112646 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A nail-biting read full of suspense and intrigue from one of Australia's leading rural literature
authors Fiona Forrest is devastated when her husband Charlie commits suicide after the accidental shooting of his mate, Eddie. Though Fiona decides to keep farming their successful property, rumours that she intends to sell keep circulating. When Detective Dave Burrows arrives to sign off on the investigation into Eddie's death, his suspicions are aroused by some strange anomalies at the scene. As Dave becomes increasingly convinced that something sinister is going on, Fiona finds herself dealing with a series of disasters on the farm... By the bestselling author of Crimson Dawn, this suspenseful novel about a woman fighting to preserve her husband's dream and a detective determined to uncover the truth will keep you guessing until the very last page. Fleur McDonald is the best-selling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies, Purple Roads, Silver Clouds, Crimson Dawn and Indigo Storm. She lives in rural Australia.
FIONA HIGGINSFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MOTHER’S GROUP
Bali. A group of strangers. An unspeakable act.
Suspenseful, romantic and
action packed…
Sapphire Falls
FLEURMcDONALD
From the bestselling author of Crimson Dawn
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IN DAYS WITHOUT END Sebastian Barry
FABER9780571277018 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
The twice Booker-shortlisted author returns with a sensational new novel set in mid-19th century
America
Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past, it is a novel never to be forgotten.
Sebastian Barry is the multi-prize winning author of A Long Long Way and The Secret Scripture. He lives in the UK.
THE RETURN OF THE YOUNG PRINCE
A.G. Roemmers and Ollie Brock
ONEWORLD9781780749563 | $19.99 | | HC | FICTION
The only authorised sequel to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince to be cherished by
children and adults alike across the globe
Even princes from faraway planets do not always remain small. Eventually they grow up and— no longer content with their tiny planet—set off once again to explore the universe anew. So the Little Prince, now a teenager, one day returns to Earth and finds himself on a lonely country road in the vast, desolate plains of Patagonia. There he meets the narrator of this novel, who rescues him and takes him on a journey. Slowly the Prince shares the stories of his adventures, and together they begin to explore some of life’s most important questions, taking readers along with them on a wonderful spiritual journey. An inspiring, life-changing book.
A.G. Roemmers is a successful businessman and poet. He lives in Buenos Aires. Ollie Brock is a British translator.
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THE TAO DECEPTION A Tori Swyft thriller
John M. Green
PANTERA PRESS 9781921997464 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
'The Da Vinci Code meets James Bond'—an explosive tale of espionage and international
political intrigue
Today’s conspiracy theory is tomorrow's reality. World leaders are being systematically assassinated by toxic gas delivered by drone. An obscure group of Chinese terrorists claims responsibility. But are the Ten Brothers—a secret circle of China's political, military and business elite—using this as a cover to justify the assassination of China's President as part of a plot to forge a 'new China'? Could their attempt at a rebirth of their nation spell annihilation for the rest of the world? Once again, ex-CIA operative, Dr Tori Swyft finds herself embroiled in the middle of this explosive conspiracy. Can she survive long enough to thwart the Ten Brothers in spite of their repeated efforts to remove her from the picture?
John M. Green is a former lawyer and investment banker, a well-known business writer and author of Nowhere Man, Born to Run and The Trusted. He lives in Sydney.
THE TERRANAUTS T. C. Boyle
BLOOMSBURY9781408881750 | $32.99 | | HC | FICTION
A deep-dive into human behaviour in an epic story of science, society, sex and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today
It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists dubbed the ‘Terranauts,’ have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. Inspired by real events, The Terranauts brings to life an electrifying, pressured world in which connected lives are uncontrollably pushed to the breaking point. With characteristic humour and acerbic wit, T.C. Boyle indelibly inhabits the perspectives of the various players in this survivalist game, probing their motivations and illuminating their integrity and fragility, to illustrate the inherent fallibility of human nature itself.
T. C. Boyle is the bestselling author of the PEN/ Faulkner Award-winning World’s End and The Harder They Come. He lives in California.
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MANILLA9781786580184 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A boy is witness to a horrible crime. Decades later, his girlfriend is kidnapped by an insane serial killer. To save her, he must return to the events of the past. But how can he remember when forgetting was the only way to survive? Fast and furious, this stunning thriller is already a bestseller in Germany and is perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Dean Koontz.
Marc Raabe runs a television production company. He lives in Germany.
JACQUES Tanya Ravenswater
TWENTY 79781785770111 | $19.99 | | PB | FICTION
This is the story of Jacques Lafitte, a young French boy who is orphaned and torn away from everything he knows. For fans of Boyhood, Jacques is a beautiful and touching coming-of-age novel of what makes an ordinary life extraordinary. A story of loss, longing, falling in love and finding a place to call home. And, most importantly, of the power of the relationships that help us along the way.
Tanya Ravenswater writes fiction and poetry for both adults and children. She lives in Ireland.
THE TRAVELLING BAG Susan Hill
PROFILE BOOKS9781781256190 | $24.99 | | HC | FICTION
From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the evil otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories. This is the 'grande dame of English supernatural fiction' at her best, telling characteristically flesh-creeping and startling tales of thwarted ambition, terrifying revenge and supernatural stirrings that will leave readers wide-awake long into the night.
Susan Hill is the award-winning author of The Small Hand, Dolly, Printer's Devil Court and The Woman in Black. She lives in England.
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A selection of short pieces—both fiction and non-fiction—from one of Australia's greatest literary treasures.
A special hardcover gift edition of the much-loved author’s last adult novel—winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction.
When Detective Sean Duffy pulls on a few little threads, the whole Establishment could come undone—the fifth book in the award-winning series.
Stories of immediate power and grace from the National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic.
THE STORY OF A BRIEF MARRIAGE
Anuk Arudpragasam
GRANTA9781783782376 | $27.99 | | HC | FICTION
Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers when an older man asks him to marry his daughter Ganga, hoping that victorious soldiers will be less likely to harm a married woman. Told in meditative, nuanced and powerful prose, this unforgettable literary debut set during the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war, portrays two people's struggle to create a human relationship when being human has become impossible.
Anuk Arudpragasam is currently working towards a doctorate in philosophy. He is from Sri Lanka.
RAIN DOGS Adrian McKinty
NEW IN PAPERBACKSERPENT'S TAIL 9781781254578 | $19.99 |
THE SIMPLEST WORDS A STORYTELLER'S JOURNEYAlex Miller
NEW IN PAPERBACK ALLEN & UNWIN9781760294052 | $22.99 |
FOAL’S BREAD Gillian Mears
SPECIAL EDITIONALLEN & UNWIN9781760294991 | $32.99 |
THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING Colum McCann
NEW IN PAPERBACKBLOOMSBURY9781408869857 | $19.99 |
GAI WATERHOUSE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Gai Waterhouse
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781925266047 | $44.99 | | HC | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Australian horse racing legend tells the full extraordinary story of her life for the first time
Gai Waterhouse has one of the most captivating stories in Australian sport. Her early working life centred around her love of acting, but as the daughter of legendary trainer Tommy Smith racing was in her blood, and she began working for her father at his stables. She married Rob Waterhouse, son of the famous bookmaker 'Big' Bill Waterhouse, bringing together two of Australia's most successful racing dynasties. Yet it was a marriage that also initially prevented her from getting her own trainer's licence, given that Rob had been banned from race courses in the wake of the Fine Cotton betting scandal. For years Gai fought the racing establishment to receive her licence, finally winning the battle in 1992. Almost immediately she won her first Group 1 race, and never looked back.
She's gone on to become one of Australia's greatest trainers, winning over one hundred Group 1 races, and finally the pinnacle of the sport—the Melbourne Cup—in 2013, becoming the first Australian woman to do so. Along the way she's brought some much needed glamour and fun back into racing, creating a cult following among both owners and punters.
Full of energy, passion and drive for success, Gai's life has been a lesson in perseverance, hard work, determination and flair. Now for the first time she tells the full story of her remarkable life.
Gabriel Marie 'Gai' Waterhouse was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2007, and has been described as the 'first lady of Australian racing'.
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AH, WELL, NOBODY'S PERFECT Molly Meldrum
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760294427 | $34.99 | | PB | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A book of hilarious real-life anecdotes from one of Australia's best-loved personalities
Ah, Well, Nobody's Perfect is a funny, eye-opening, nostalgic, warm and utterly compelling collection of Molly's best stories and anecdotes from across his life. They range from his childhood, to his early days as a music journalist, through to his experiences with some of the music world’s biggest names, from Prince, Madonna, David Bowie and Elton John to The Beatles. Like Molly himself, the stories are a unique blend of passion, humour and a little bit of chaos.
Few people have lived such a colourful life as Molly. And no-one tells a story better than him.
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum is best known as the host, talent co-ordinator, on-air interviewer and music news presenter on Countdown from 1974–1987. He is the author of the bestselling Never, Um, Ever Ending Story.
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MARK NICHOLAS
From England to Australia— this love affair with cricket
A BEAUTIFUL GAME Mark Nicholas
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760291747 | $34.99 | | PB | SPORT
A personal journey through cricket shows us why it really is the world's beautiful game
Mark Nicholas, anchor for Channel 9's Test commentary team in Australia and Channel 5's Cricket on Five show in the UK, has a unique knowledge and perspective on the world game of cricket. As both a former player and now a professional commentator, Mark knows all the key figures in the sport and has witnessed first-hand some of cricket's greatest moments. Informed by his own experiences and observations, and filled with wonderful anecdotes, larger-than-life characters and an extraordinary breadth of cricket knowledge, A Beautiful Game shows why Mark is so passionate about the sport, and exactly why cricket really is the world's beautiful game.
Mark Nicholas captained English county side Hampshire to four major trophies before retiring to become a sports feature writer and commentator. He is one of the best-known faces and voices in Australian cricket.
APPETITES Anthony Bourdain
BLOOMSBURY9781408883839 | $49.99 | | HC | FOOD & DRINK
The ‘bad boy’ of cooking’s first cookbook in more than ten years
Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he’s cooking, it’s for family and friends. Appetites boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a tight repertoire—dishes that everyone should know how to cook. The result is a home-cooking, home-entertaining cookbook like no other, with personal favourites from his own kitchen and from his travels, translated into an effective battle plan that will help you terrify your guests with your breathtaking efficiency.
Anthony Bourdain is an American chef, television personality and author of the mega-bestseller Kitchen Confidential.
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THE BIG BASH BOOK 2016-17 Go behind the scenes, meet the teams for the
upcoming season, and relive the best moments
Daniel Lane
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760291419 | $29.99 | | PB | SPORT
Fully illustrated, action-packed companion to the Big Bash League
Get a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the adrenaline-charged KFC Big Bash League—and action-packed Rebel Women's BBL—to learn about the players, their motivations and the pressures they need to overcome to perform in cricket's most dramatic format. After the success of last year's Big Bash Book, edition two is back with all the thrills and spills of the BBL's and WBBL's fairytale season, capturing all the highlights so you can relive the magic and brace for the bumper season ahead.
Daniel Lane is a Sydney-based journalist who has won a number of awards for his coverage of sport.
BLITZ Dan Bilzerian
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760293574 | $32.99 | | PB | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Outrageous photos and the real stories behind them from the King of Instagram
Equal parts man, myth, and legend, Dan Bilzerian is walking, talking wish fulfilment for an ever-growing portion of our society that has grown up in the Internet Age. Blitz offers fans an intimate look into his hard-charging life, through his craziest stories and wildest photos. His stories cover nearly every genre that has worked in print over the last decade: money, guns, gambling, the military, booze, adrenaline, beautiful women and more than anything else, owning the freedom to be the person you want to be and live the life you want to live. As Dan is fond of saying, 'Every choice in life comes with risk. Whether you win or lose is all in the set-up.' Blitz is that one crazy book that goes with confidence where others will not.
Dan Bilzerian is dubbed 'Instagram's Playboy King' with more than 17 million Instagram followers on top of his 10 million Facebook likes.
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PROFILE BOOKS9781781256497 | $49.99 | | HC | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
An engaging, humane, sharp, funny and unforgettable record of life according to the
inimitable writer
Alan Bennett's third collection of prose follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, each published ten years apart. This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre, a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. There's a provocative sermon on private education given before the University at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and 'Baffled at a Bookcase' offers a passionate defence of the public library. The book includes Denmark Hill, a darkly comic radio play set in suburban south London, as well as Bennett's reflections on a quarter of a century's collaboration with Nicholas Hytner.
Alan Bennett is one of the most recognisable British writers of his generation whose prolific output includes television series, cinema films, stage works, short stories and journalism.
FUCKING APOSTROPHES Simon Griffin
ICON9781785781414 | $16.99 | | HC | GIFT BOOKS
‘At last, a book that tells you exactly where to stick your apostrophe . . . funny and useful, the
perfect stocking filler' - Guardian
Apostrophes are a f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly. Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers—wont to insert and remove apostrophes at will, for visual effect—this is a light-hearted pocket-sized guide to getting the f'ing things right. Simon Griffin lets off steam so that we don't have to, showing precisely why 'Rhianna and Jennifer's photos were all over the internet' is quite different to 'Rhianna's and Jennifer's photos' or what words apostrophes are replacing in sentences such as 'They've got it all on camera.' Elegantly produced, this is the perfect gift for any pedant, as well as an indispensable guide in all our moments of grammar-related frustration.
WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE!
Simon Griffin is the founder of copywriting agency Hyperbolic. He lives in the UK.
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AUSTRALIANS A short history
Thomas Keneally
ALLEN & UNWIN9781760292430 | $49.99 | | HC | HISTORY
Australians, Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam, gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Australians: a short history brings these three volumes together to create a masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.
Thomas Keneally AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction, best known for the Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark.
AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE
The campaign in the Middle East, 1916–1918
Phillip Bradley
ALLEN & UNWIN9781760111892 | $39.99 | | PB | MILITARY
Throughout history, mounted troops have been known as elite men of arms and the Australian Light Horse is a part of that legendary tradition. Part cavalry and part infantry, the light horsemen were the embodiment of the digger ethos. Australian Light Horse brings their story to vivid life through the diaries, letters and photographs of those who took part in the bloody battles of the desert campaigns of World War I.
Phillip Bradley is a leading researcher of Australian military history and author of Hell's Battlefield and Charles Bean's Gallipoli: Illustrated.
GREAT AUSTRALIAN JOURNEYS Graham Seal
ALLEN & UNWIN9781760291013 | $29.99 | | PB | HISTORY
A gripping collection of famous and lesser-known journeys by land, sea and air in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These are epics of exploration, survival and tragedy, stories of survival and departure, of mystery and romance, of discovery and loss. Starting with the mythological passage of the rainbow snake, the stories include convict transportation, droving, the pilgrimage of St Mary McKillop, Mark Twain, Kingsford Smith, Mawson, the England-Australia Air race of 1919, and the mysterious disappearance of the Smirnoff diamonds in 1942.
Graham Seal is the bestselling author of Great Australian Stories, Larrikins and Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories.
AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE
The Campaign in the Middle East, 1916–1918
Phillip Bradley
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r o s ly n p e t e l i n
A field guide to effective writing
‘What Roslyn Petelin doesn’t know about clear, precise writing
isn’t worth knowing.’ Leigh Sales, ABC TV
ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHLINES Urzila Carlson
ALLEN & UNWIN9781877505638 | $29.99 | | PB | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Chuckle, laugh and snigger along with Urzila in this fascinating memoir of a life in comedy. Life hasn't always been a bundle of laughs and Urzila talks about her childhood with her abusive dad, growing up in South Africa, her move to New Zealand, coming out, getting married, having children, and her life in comedy. Written with her trademark deadpan humour, this is a great read from a popular comedian.
Urzila Carlson is an award-winning Australasian comedian. She lives in New Zealand.
THE SECRET COLD WAR The official history of ASIO, 1975–1989
John Blaxland and Rhys Crawley
ALLEN & UNWIN9781760293215 | $49.99 | | HC | HISTORY
The Secret Cold War reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of the 1978 Hilton bombing in Sydney and the Combe/Ivanov affair. It also covers the impact on ASIO of the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, and the penetration of ASIO by the Soviet bloc. This book sheds fresh light on little-known secrets of Australia's part in the Cold War, until the collapse of Soviet satellite regimes in 1989 effectively marked its end.
John Blaxland is the author of The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO 1963–75. Rhys Crawley is a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.
HOW WRITING WORKS A field guide to effective writing
Roslyn Petelin
ALLEN & UNWIN9781925266917 | $39.99 | | PB | LANGUAGE
Whether you already write reasonably well or not, this book will exponentially improve your writing. A practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style, it covers social media and writing for online publication, as well as the most common documents in the university and the writing-reliant workplace. How Writing Works should be on the desk of everyone who needs to write: students, professionals in all fields, and creative writers.
Roslyn Petelin designed the award-winning Program in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland.
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1,342 QI FACTS TO LEAVE YOU FLABBERGASTED
John Lloyd
FABER9780571332465 | $22.99 | | HC | GIFT BOOKS
The sock-blasting, jaw-dropping, side-swiping phenomenon that is QI serves up a sparkling new selection of facts. The first pencils were used to draw on sheep. More people work for Walmart than live in Slovenia. The beaded lacewing stuns its prey by farting on it. 'Flabbergasted' was first recorded in a 1772 list of new words alongside 'bored'. The fifth book in the bestselling series is chock full of 1,342 witty, wonderful, weird and downright flabbergasting facts, chosen by the QI Elves.
John Lloyd is a broadcaster responsible for Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder.
LOVE VOLTAIRE US APART A philosopher's guide to relationships
Julia Edelman, illustrated by Hallie Bateman
ICON9781785780998 | $22.99 | | HC | HUMOUR
What would Kant’s sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder? Comedy writer Julia Edelman’s New Yorker article Excerpts from Philosophers’ Breakup Letters was a viral hit. From that same font of wisdom comes a hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge. Brought to life with charming illustrations, Love Voltaire Us Apart is funny, smart and refreshingly original.
Julia Edelman is a New York comedy writer. Hallie Bateman is a freelance illustrator based in Brooklyn.
CREATING FREEDOM Power, control and the fight for our future
Raoul Martinez
CANONGATE9781782111870 | $32.99 | | PB | PHILOSOPHY
Creating Freedom is a radical, revolutionary and highly provocative rethink of freedom that brings together a torrent of mind-expanding ideas, facts and arguments to dismantle sacred myths about free will, free markets, free media and free elections. A highly original exploration of the most urgent questions of our time, it reveals that we are far less free than we think, yet also shows that freedom is something we can create together, and that our survival may depend on us doing so.
Raoul Martinez is a writer, artist and award-winning filmmaker. He lives in London.
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uk £10.99Design by Faber
www.faber.co.uk
We are donating 10p from every book we print to Women and Children First, a charity that works in some of the world’s poorest communities to stop mothers and their babies dying needlessly. Read more and support their work at www.womenandchildrenfirst.org.uk. (Registered charity number 1085096.)
WHERE THE W
ILD MUM
S AREKATIE BLACKBURN
The day Mum didn’t get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her A Wild Thing and Mum said, ‘Cook your own dinner,’ and stomped off upstairs . . .
A tired mum nods off in the bath and finds herself floating across time and space to the island where the Wild Mums live.
Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and try to entice her to join their conga . . . But in all the
excitement, has Mum forgotten who she loves best of all?
This hilarious and touching play on the children’s classic, lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, is for any mother who has longed to escape to an imaginative paradise.
WHERE THE WILD DADS WENT
KATIE BLACKBURN SHOLTO WALKER Because every dad has a wild side!
WHERE THE WILD DADS WENT
Katie Blackburn
FABER9780571332113 | $19.99 | | HB | HUMOUR
In this hilarious homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a 'tired and emotional' dad finds himself drifting off to the place where the Wild Dads went. In a riot of headbanging, air guitar and table football he finds himself at the centre of a great escape, but pretty soon he begins to miss the place he left behind. The perfect gift for new dads or any parent who's ever wanted to run away.
Katie Blackburn is the author of Where the Wild Mums Are. She lives in London.
ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA
Gary Younge
FABER
9781783351350 | $29.99 | | PB | CURRENT AFFAIRS
'Brilliantly reported, quietly indignant and utterly gripping. A book to be read through tears.' - Naomi Klein.
On an average day in America, seven young people, aged nineteen or under, will be shot dead. Another Day in the Death of America tells the stories of the lives lost on one random day—November 23, 2013. This powerful and moving work puts a human face—a child’s face—on the ‘collateral damage’ of gun violence at a time when the gun issue in America is being hotly debated.
Gary Younge is an award-winning Guardian journalist.
CRUSOE'S ISLANDA rich and curious history of pirates,
castaways and madness
Andrew Lambert
FABER9780571330232 | $39.99 | | HC | HISTORY
Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world: Robinson Crusoe, in the South Pacific. This tiny island assumed a remarkable position in British culture, most famously in Daniel Defoe's novel. Crusoe's Island reveals the truth behind the legend of this place, bringing to life the voices of the visiting sailors, scientists and artists, as well as the wonders, tragedy and violence that they encountered.
Andrew Lambert is Professor of Naval History at King's College, London.
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ARIEL A literary life of Jan Morris
Derek Johns
FABER9780571331635 | $39.99 | | HC | BIOGRAPHY
Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places, elegist of the Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious and supple. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described her gender reassignment operation. But as Ariel demonstrates, this is just one of the many remarkable facts about her life. This appreciation of her work and life is published to celebrate her 90th birthday.
Derek Johns was Jan Morris's literary agent for twenty years.
STALIN AND THE SCIENTISTS
A history of triumph and tragedy 1905–1953
Simon Ings
FABER9780571290079 | $49.99 | | HC | HISTORY
An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world. Simon Ings weaves together what happened when a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower. And he shows how Stalin's obsessions derailed a great experiment in 'rational government'.
Simon Ings is an acclaimed SF and non-fiction author. He lives in London.
LOVE IN VAIN Robert Johnson 1911–1938, the graphic novel
J. M. Dupont, illustrated by Mezzo
FABER9780571328833 | $39.99 | | HC | MUSIC
Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that would go on to help shape the birth of rock'n'roll in the 1960s. Beloved of Clapton, Dylan and the Stones, he remains one of the most iconic and mythologised figures in popular music. Love in Vain is a thrilling graphic novel, a fittingly creative and beautiful depiction of the most extraordinary life of this legendary bluesman.
Jean-Michel Dupont is a former music journalist. Mezzo is a respected artist in the French graphic novel world.
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WROTE FOR LUCK Selected lyrics
Shaun Ryder
FABER9780571330935 | $32.99 | | HC | MUSIC
In the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Chief protagonist was Shaun Ryder, a man whose lyrical street swagger in songs like Kinky Afro, 24 Hour Party People and Performance, would come to define a generation. Here collected and edited for the first time are his unforgettable lyrics.
Shaun Ryder is lyricist and singer in Happy Mondays and Black Grape, and author of the bestselling memoir, Twisting My Melon.
SHOCK AND AWE Simon Reynolds
FABER9780571301713 | $49.99 | | HC | MUSIC
As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! Shock and Awe explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, David Essex—all are represented here. This first complete epic history of Glam Rock from 1968–76 charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies and whose influence is still felt today.
Simon Reynolds is a renowned British music writer and author of Rip it Up and Start Again and Retromania.
JANE BOWN: CATS Jane Bown
GUARDIAN BOOKS9781783350872 | $34.99 | | HC | GIFT BOOKS
This is a charming collection of 100 black and white pictures of felines which reveals the same sympathetic eye and wit as the legendary photographer’s portraits. Jane Bown captures the cats sprawling, prowling, lolling, playing, feeding and lounging. House cats, alley cats, show cats and kittens trip and gambol across these pages making this the perfect photographic treat for cat-lovers.
Jane Bown CBE (1925–2014) was a renowned English photographer who worked for The Observer newspaper.
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THE MINDLESS COLOURING BOOK
Molly Manners and Alex Worrall
FABER/SHORT BOOKS
9781780722955 | $19.99 | | PB | GIFT BOOKS
Comedy + mindfulness = smiling + relaxing = smilaxing. This hipster-humour colouring book proves that laughter is still our favourite stress-reliever. Cheeky and charming, this book has a delightful personality, dining out on the notion that you can do something therapeutic for the mind and have fun at the same time.
Molly Manners is a film, TV and commercials director. Alex Worrall is a comedy writer. They live in the UK.
GET A LIFE The diaries of Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood
SERPENTS TAIL
9781781254981 | $34.99 | | HC | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Vivienne Westwood sets down her unique vision of the world in her blog, Get A Life. Here's the cream-of-the-cream from six years of troublemaking. Reading Vivienne's thoughts are as fascinating and provocative as you would expect from Britain's punk dame—a woman who always says exactly what she believes. The beauty of Vivienne Westwood's diary is that it is so fresh and unpredictable. In book form, generously illustrated with her own selection of images, it is irresistible.
Dame Vivienne Westwood is a British fashion designer, activist and co-creator of punk who has influenced millions across the world.
CALCULATING THE COSMOS
How mathematics unveils the universe
Ian Stewart
PROFILE BOOKS9781781257180 | $32.99 | | PB | POPULAR SCIENCE
One of the world's great mathematicians presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from the solar system to the Galaxy and the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it’s all going to end. In an exciting and engaging style, Calculating the Cosmos is a mathematical quest through the intricate realms of astronomy and cosmology.
Ian Stewart is the author of many books including Seventeen Equations that Changed the World and Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries.
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RELEASE YOUR INNER ROMAN BY
MARCUS SIDONIUS FALX Dr Jerry Toner
PROFILE BOOKS 9781781254660 | $29.99 | | HC | HISTORY
At last the Roman self-help book the world has been waiting for. After his acclaimed How to Manage your Slaves, Marcus Sidonius Falx returns with a guide to self-fulfilment the Roman way. He sets out the characteristics that have made the Romans the most successful people in history and shows how following their example will do the same for you. His guide will enhance the value of your life, boost its rewards and enrich its pleasures.
Dr Jerry Toner is Director of Studies in Classics at Cambridge University and is the author of How to Manage Your Slaves and The Ancient World.
PROGRESS Ten problems humanity has almost solved
Johan Norberg
ONEWORLD9781780749501 | $34.99 | | HC | CURRENT AFFAIRS
Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is—financial collapse, unemployment, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. Examining official data from the world’s most trusted organisations, Progress traces just how far we have come in tackling the greatest global problems. None of them have been eradicated, but we now have a good idea of the solutions. Dramatic, uplifting and sure to be divisive, Progress is a call for optimism.
Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy and an internationally acclaimed author. He lives in Sweden.
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?
Geoff Marsh and Vicky Broackes
V&A9781851778911 | $79.99 | | HC | HISTORY
The late 1960s were a time of rapid social and political change. Those few short years of unbridled optimism and experimentation brought to the fore issues that continue to dominate the headlines today. Examining music, fashion, film, design, counterculture, mind-altering experiences, festivals, and politics, this book investigates the cultural upheavals of those revolutionary years and looks at how they changed the way we live today—and shaped the way we imagine the future.
Geoff Marsh is the Director and Vicky Broaches is a curator at the Department of Theatre and Performance of the V&A.
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LE MANOIR AUX QUAT'SAISONS Raymond Blanc
BLOOMSBURY9781408816905 | $95.00 | | FOOD & DRINK
A stunningly illustrated journey through the year at one of the finest hotel-restaurants in the world—including recipes for 120 of Raymond Blanc's most celebrated dishes. Enclosed within a clothbound 'clamshell' presentation case, its pages are gilded with silver, with lavender-scented endpapers adding a final touch of classic French elegance. A must-have for serious chefs and aspiring home cooks alike.
Raymond Blanc is one of Britain's most respected chefs and Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons has been awarded two Michelin stars for the past 26 years.
GENDER MEDICINE The groundbreaking new science of sex-
related diagnosis and treatment
Marek Glezerman
OVERLOOK9780715651148 | $39.99 | | HC | HEALTH & FITNESS
Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed physiological differences to improve the chances for survival that go well beyond the obvious reproductive variances. And yet the medical establishment largely treats male and female patients as though their needs are identical. In fact, medical research is still done predominately on men, and the results are then applied to the treatment of women. This is clearly problematic and calls for the paradigm change of Gender Medicine.
Marek Glezerman, M.D. is President of the International Society for Gender Medicine. He lives in Israel.
VIOLENT BORDERS Reece Jones
VERSO9781786631831 | $29.99 | | PB | POLITICS
Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade. Violent Borders argues that these deaths are the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change, the growth of slums, and the persistence of global wealth inequality.
Reece Jones is a professor of geography at the University of Hawaii, and the author of Border Walls.
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MAPS OF WAR Mapping conflict through the centuries
Jeremy Black
CONWAY PUBLISHING 9781844863440 | $59.99 | | HC | HISTORY
There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onwards, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were involved and later, to use mapping to plan the progress of a conflict. Using contemporary maps, this sumptuous new volume covers the history of the mapping of war on land and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war.
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at Exeter University and the prolific author of more than 100 books.
SHRINKING VIOLETS A field guide to shyness
Joe Moran
PROFILE BOOKS 9781781252635 | $32.99 | | HC | PSYCHOLOGY
Shrinking Violets explores the hidden world of shyness, providing insights on everything from timidity in sharks to the role of texting in love affairs. This outstanding cultural history uncovers the fascinating stories of men and women who were 'of the violet persuasion', from Charles Darwin to Agatha Christie, and finds a hopeful conclusion. To be shy, is not simply a burden—it is also a gift, a different way of seeing the world that can be both enriching and inspiring.
Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and is the acclaimed author of Queuing for Beginners.
IMPERIAL TRIUMPH The Roman world from Hadrian to
Constantine
Professor Michael Kulikowski
PROFILE BOOKS 9781846683701 | $49.99 | | HC | HISTORY
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. This sweeping and action-packed account of one of the world's greatest empires is incisive, readable and authoritative.
Michael Kulikowski is Professor of History and Classics at Penn State University and is the author of Rome’s Gothic Wars.
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WHY DEALS FAIL (AND HOW TO RESCUE THEM) Scott Moeller, Anna Faelten
and Michel Driessen
PROFILE BOOKS 9781781254530 | $32.99 | | PB | BUSINESS
Mergers and acquisitions are part of the fabric of economic life. Using case studies from a wide range of companies, for deals ranging from the highly successful to the downright questionable, Why Deals Fail explores and explains The Three Big Mistakes of Deal-Making through expert advice, stories and lessons. The result is a fascinating insight into why some deals work and why others go awry for anyone interested in how the corporate world works.
Scott Moeller is a Professor in Finance. Anna Faelten is a Corporate Finance advisor and Michel Driessen is a Senior Partner at an international accounting firm.
BANDIT A daughter's memoir
Molly Brodak
ICON9781785781032 | $32.99 | | HC | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aged thirteen, Molly Brodak discovered her father had been arrested for a dozen bank robberies. After years in jail, he defrauded his older daughter and began robbing banks again. Brodak's memoir asks: how do we navigate that most formative of relationships once the bonds of respect and trust have been severed? Confronted with the results of utter recklessness, she finds there can still be space for forgiveness.
Molly Brodak is an award-winning poet. She lives in the USA.
MUSIC FOR LIFE 100 works to carry you through
Fiona Maddocks
FABER9780571329380 | $29.99 | | HC | MUSIC
How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical context, discussing omissions, suggesting alternatives and always putting the music first.
Fiona Maddocks is the Classical Music critic of the Observer.
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The inside story of the real man behind the legend of AC/DC’s wild rocker.
The delightful and internationally bestselling collection of letters, now in a more portable format.
Riddledom101 riddles and their stories
DaviD astle
The life of one of Australia's most intriguing public figures as told to the country's most influential political interviewer.
After Puzzled and Cluetopia, the word master continues on his brain-bending path into the field of riddles.
KEATING Kerry O'Brien
NEW IN PAPERBACK ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760294090 | $34.99 | |
LIVE WIRE Mary Renshaw, John D'Arcy and Gabby D'Arcy
NEW IN PAPERBACK ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760294113 | $22.99 | |
THE WIKILEAKS FILES Julian Assange
NEW IN PAPERBACK VERSO9781784786212 | $26.99 | |
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TYPEWRITER Ian Fleming's James Bond
letters
edited by Fergus FlemingNEW IN PAPERBACK BLOOMSBURY9781408865507 | $19.99 | |
LETTERS OF NOTE Correspondence deserving of a wider audience
compiled by Shaun Usher
NEW IN PAPERBACK CANONGATE9781782119289 | $34.99 | |
RIDDLEDOM 101 riddles and their
stories
David Astle
NEW IN PAPERBACK ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760294083 | $22.99 | |
What Cablegate tells us about the scope of U.S. foreign policy around the world.
The witty and engaging letters of the man who created the world's most famous spy—James Bond.
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• Joy Callaway
• Paul Livingston
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