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China Rich GirlfriendKevin Kwan

A wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and theoutrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor,discovers her birthfather. From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians.

Description Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing,secret emails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu,engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birth father. 

On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over themoon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in thesalons of Paris and a fiance willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the factthat her birth father, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her down the aisle. Until: a shocking revelation drawsRachel into a world of Shanghai splendour beyond anything she has ever imagined.

Here we meet Carlton, a Ferrari-crashing bad boy known for Prince Harry-like antics; Colette, a celebrity girlfriend chasedby fevered paparazzi; and the man Rachel has spent her entire life waiting to meet: her father. Meanwhile, Singapore's ItGirl, Astrid Leong, is shocked to discover that there is a downside to having a newly minted tech billionaire husband. Aromp through Asia's most exclusive clubs, auction houses and estates, China Rich Girlfriend brings us into the elitecircles of Mainland China, introducing a captivating cast of characters and offering an inside glimpse at what it's like to begloriously, crazily, China-rich.

About the AuthorWriter Kevin Kwan was born and raised in Singapore and lives in New York City. He has worked in magazine publishingand as a creative consultant to publishers and authors. China Rich Girlfriend is the follow-up to Kwan's best-selling CrazyRich Asians.

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Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99)ISBN: 9781760110406Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: 416 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FA Popular FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living: New York City, US

Crazy Rich AsiansKevin Kwan

Thwarted love, scheming snobs, obscene wealth and haute couture - it's all here in a fabulous novel aboutwhat it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich. An absolutely wicked treat!

DescriptionCrazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and thegossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home hisABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.

When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humblefamily home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn'tknow is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and thatwith one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into aworld of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose familypractically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman whohas very strong feelings about who her son should - and should not - marry.

Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian jetset; aperfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese;and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.

'Crazy Rich Asians is an unputdownably funny, original, modern novel. An outrageous satire of the Asian squillionaire set,this book is like a Chinese Dallas meets Pride and Prejudice. The combination of gold homewares, couture, private jets,absurd social rules and snobbery is utterly hilarious. I actually couldn't put this book down to eat or to watch DowntonAbbey.' - Plum Sykes, bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes

About the AuthorWriter Kevin Kwan was born and raised in Singapore and lives in New York City. He has worked in magazine publishingand as a creative consultant to publishers and authors. Crazy Rich Asians is his first novel.

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Allen & Unwin

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781760113728Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 384 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: F FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles: Boy Under the Table (Allen & Unwin, 2012);

Three Hours Late (Allen & Unwin. 2013);Secrets in Silence (Allen & Unwin, 2013)

Author now living: Pymble, NSW

Hush, Little BirdNicole Trope

A celebrity wife. A damaged young woman. How did they both end up in prison and what is the secret theyshare? White-knuckle reading from the queen of domestic suspense.

DescriptionBirdy thought she would have to wait until she was free again to see Rose, but now Rose has been convicted of ashocking crime and she and Birdy will be together. Birdy has been saving all her anger for Rose. It is Rose who shouldhave protected her and kept her safe. Birdy was little but Rose was big and she knows Rose could have saved her.

This is a story about monsters who hide in plain sight and about the secrets we keep from ourselves. It is about childrenwho are betrayed and adults who fail them. This is the story of Birdy who was hurt and Rose who must be made to pay.

A provocative and compassionate read from the queen of white-knuckle suspense and searing family drama. You won'tbe able to put it down.

About the AuthorNicole Trope is a former high school teacher with a Masters Degree in Children's Literature. In 2005 she was one of thewinners of the Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development. In 2009 her young adult novel titled I Ran Away First wasshortlisted for the Text Publishing Prize. The Secrets in Silence is Nicole's third novel. Her previous titles include theacclaimed The Boy Under The Table and Three Hours Late.

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Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781743314746Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: 288 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FA Popular FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living: Pymble, NSW

The Boy Under the TableNicole Trope

Being a mother was all-consuming. There were so many mistakes you could make, so many ways to lose achild.

Description'I found The Boy Under the Table impossible to put down once I had started - the pace is unrelenting and the story isutterly engrossing. The conclusion is tinged with both hope and sadness and I held my children a little tighter and a lotlonger when I had finished. The Boy Under The Table is a confronting story, but one that is well worth reading.' - GreatAussie 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 shebreaks all her own rules when she agrees to go home with a customer. What she finds in his house will change her lifeforever. Across the country Sarah and Doug are trapped in limbo, struggling to accept the loss that now governs theirlives. Pete is the local policeman who feels like he is watching the slow death of his own family. Every day brings a freshhell for each of them. Told from the alternating points of view of Tina, Sarah, Doug and Pete, The Boy Under the Table isgritty, shocking, moving and, ultimately, filled with hope. A harrowing glimpse into the real world behind the headlines, thisis 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 yourfaith 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 AuthorNicole Trope is a former high school teacher with a Masters Degree in Children's Literature. In 2005 she was one of thewinners of the Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development. In 2009 her young adult novel titled I Ran Away First wasshortlisted for the Text Publishing Prize.

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Allen & Unwin

Price: $9.99 (NZ$12.99)ISBN: 9781742379401Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 146x113mmExtent: 48 pagesMain Category: Y Children'sSub Category: YB Picture Books, Activity Books & Early

Learning MaterialIllustrations: full colour throughoutPrevious Titles: Doug: The Life of a Teenage Body Snatcher

Siggy and Amber Tumble Turn The BirdsvilleMonster And many more

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The Night Before Mother's DayDoug MacLeod, illustrated by Judy Horacek

A hilarious poem and cartoons about a mother anticipating the joys of Mother's Day, from two outstandingAustralian creators.

Description'Twas the Night before Mother's Day, Mum lay awake. The sense of excitement Was too much to take...

'For this your Mother brought you into the world?' - Rachel Berger 'Doug MacLeod has always made me laugh. Not somuch from his writing as his dress sense and various speech impediments.' - Shaun Micallef

About the AuthorDoug MacLeod is one of Australia's leading writers of comedy, and has been part of the creative teams that haveproduced popular TV shows such as Kath and Kim, The Comedy Company and Fast Forward. He has written 26 booksincluding the award-winning bestseller, Sister Madge's Book of Nuns, The Birdsville Monster, and Spiky Spunky My PetMonkey. His most recent novels for children include The Life of a Teenage Body Snatcher, Siggy and Amber, TumbleTurn, Kevin the Troll and The Clockwork Forest.

Judy Horacek is an Australian cartoonist, artist, writer and children's book creator. Her cartoons have been pinned up ondoors and walls all over the world. She is also sometimes a visiting artist for school children and an after-dinner speakerfor grownups. Her books include cartoon collections including Lost in Space and the best-selling picture book by MemFox Where is the Green Sheep?

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A & U Children

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781760113209Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 304 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: F FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living: Ocean Shores, NSW (near Byron Bay)

Harry MacRussell Eldridge

A beautiful coming-of-age story set in a year of political turmoil in South Africa. Tom and Millie are best friends,relying on each other to make sense of what's going on in their lives and in the lives of their families. Despite alife that is not always safe, Tom and Millie learn who and what is important.

Description'I can't help feeling the lane where we lived had something to do with it all. As though these families had been put therefor a reason... it was so still, like everyone was holding their breath a lot of the time.'

Tom and Millie are best friends who live in a quiet lane on the edge of town. They rely on each other to make sense ofwhat's going on in their lives and in the lives of their families - especially Harry Mac's.

Harry Mac, Tom's dad, is a man of silences and secrets. And now Tom is involved in one of those secrets.

At school, Tom sits through lessons on the arms race and President Kennedy, waiting until he can be back on the lanewhere life is far more interesting: why does a black car drive slowly up the lane every night? And what did Harry Macmean when he wrote in his newspaper 'people disappear in the night'? A series of shocking events and discoveries leadTom closer to the truth, but threaten to tear his world apart.

Set within a fascinating period of South African politics, this is a coming-of-age story full of heart, soul and hope, in thetradition of Jasper Jones and To Kill a Mockingbird.

About the AuthorRussell is South African by birth and lives in Byron Bay.

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Price: $23.99 (NZ$28.99)ISBN: 9781742372624Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: 408 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FA Popular FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles: Rhubarb (2004), The World According To Warren

(2007)Author now living: Fremantle, WA

Jasper JonesCraig Silvey

Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel -thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsiders and secrets, and what it really means to be a hero.

DescriptionLate on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startledby an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town ofCorrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So whenJasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress.

Jasper takes him through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper'shorrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fearand suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on hiszealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.

And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from themyth, and why white lies creep like a curse. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why thetruth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.

'If we see a more entertaining, heartfelt piece of Australian literature in the next 12 months, it will be a rare year indeed -an Australian To Kill a Mockingbird.' - The Monthly

'It's genius.' - West Australian

'... impossible to put down ... There's tension, injustice, young love, hypocrisy ... and, above all, the certainty that Silveyhas planted himself in the landscape as one of our finest storytellers.' - Australian Women's Weekly

'Jasper Jones confronts inhumanity and racism, as the stories of Mark Twain and Harper Lee did. Silvey's voice isdistinctive: astute, witty, angry, understanding and self-assured.' - Weekend Australian

'Jasper Jones is a riveting tale, studded with laugh-out-loud and life-affirming moments yet underpinned by a clear-eyedexamination of human weaknesses and misdemeanours.' - Adelaide Advertiser

About the AuthorCraig Silvey grew up on an orchard in Dwellingup Western Australia. He now lives in Fremantle, where at the age of 19he wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, published by Fremantle Press in 2004. In 2005, Rhubarb was chosen as the 'One Book'for the Perth International Writers' Festival, and was included in the national Books Alive campaign. Silvey also received aSydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Award. In 2007, Silvey released The World According To Warren, a picture

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Allen & Unwin

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781760112684Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: 464 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FA Popular FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles: Change of Heart; Nineteen Minutes; The Tenth

Circle; Vanishing ActsAuthor now living: New Hampshire, USA

Harvesting the HeartJodi Picoult

The story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Written with astonishing clarity andevocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love and vulnerability.

Description'Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel.' New York Times BookReview

Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who took off when she was five. Now, having left her father behind inChicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. Buther mother's absence, and shameful memories of her past, make her doubt both her maternal ability and her sense ofself-worth.

Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness by searching for her mother and facing her own insecurities, Jodi Picoult craftsan absorbing novel peopled with richly drawn characters. Any mother - or child - cannot help but relate to the issues andemotions explored within this powerful and moving book.

'Reminiscent of Sue Miller's The Good Mother, Harvesting the Heart has a voice all its own.' Chicago Tribune

About the AuthorJODI PICOULT is the author of twenty novels. Her most recent, Leaving Time, The Storyteller and Lone Wolf, have allbeen number one on the Australian and New Zealand fiction bestseller lists. Jodi lives in New Hampshire with herhusband and three children. Read more about Jodi on her website: www.jodipicoult.com.au

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Keeping FaithJodi Picoult

Mariah White is worried when her seven year old daughter Faith adopts an imaginary friend to help her copewith the aftermath of a messy divorce. She's even more worried however when her daughter says this invisiblefriend is God, and female.

DescriptionAt her controversial and compelling best, Jodi Picoult explores the moment when boundaries break down, and when theonly step left to take is a leap of faith.

As Mariah White struggles with depression her seven-year-old daughter Faith seeks solace in a new friend-a friend whomay or may not be imaginary. Faith talks to her 'Guard' constantly and begins to recite passages from the Bible-a bookshe's never read. After a succession of visits to psychiatrists, all of whom conclude Faith is not hallucinating, theunimaginable starts to seem possible: perhaps Faith may actually be seeing God. When Faith's cachet is enhanced byreported miracle healings and alleged stigmata, she is touted as a prophet.

Amidst the gathering storm of controversy, most disruptive of all is the arrival of two men: one a renowned televisionatheist who plans to debunk Faith's claims and help boost his flagging ratings, and the other her divorced father whosefear for his daughter's safety leads him to battle for custody. As Mariah finds herself fighting to keep her daughter, shehas to push past her own insecurities and stand up for herself and her competence as a parent.

Keeping Faith explores a family plagued by the media, the medical profession, and organised religion in a world whereeveryone has an opinion but no one knows the truth.


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Second GlanceJodi Picoult

An intricate and volatile tale of love and suspense in which an unsolved, decades old murder haunts a smallNew England town. In Jodi Picoult's eeriest and most engrossing work yet, this is a story about the things thatcome back to haunt us, literally and metaphorically.

Description'Picoult has an uncanny knack of dreaming up moral dilemmas that you cannot ignore.' Sunday Express

When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things beginto happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal investigator, is asked to get involved. He's a desperate drifter who's takenup ghost hunting in an effort to cross paths again with his fiancee, who died in a car crash eight years ago, but he has yetto experience anything even remotely paranormal. Then Ross meets Lia . . . As a seventy-year-old murder case isreopened, a shocking secret about a crime of passion long past is revealed.

In Second Glance, Picoult pits science against the supernatural, and examines why we tend to think of science asobjective, when it is always at the mercy of those who interpret it. Is fate any more reliable than coincidence? And is loveany less real just because it has no scale of measurement?

Jodi Picoult's eeriest and most engrossing work yet, this is a story about the things that come back to haunt us - literallyand metaphorically.


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Allen & Unwin

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781760112769Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: 608 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FA Popular FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles: Change of Heart (2008); Nineteen Minutes

(2007); The Tenth Circle (2006); Vanishing Acts(2005)

Author now living: New Hampshire, USA

Handle with CareJodi Picoult

Explores the moral dilemmas faced by the parents of a severely disabled child. When faced with the reality ofa child who will be disabled, at which point should an obstetrician counsel termination? Should a parent havethe right to make that choice? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love?

DescriptionWhat rights do parents or doctors have to terminate a life? How disabled is too disabled? As a parent, how far would yougo to save someone you love?

Willow O'Keefe is born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which means she will suffer hundreds ofbroken bones as she grows, and a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to cover medical expenses, her motherCharlotte decides to file a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician for the compensation which might ensure alifetime of care for Willow.

But it means that Charlotte has to say in a court of law that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she'd knownabout the disability in advance. And the obstetrician she's suing isn't just her physician - she's her best friend.

Handle with Care is an absorbing narrative which also questions the basis of medical ethics and of personal morality.

‘Picoult has become a master - almost a clairvoyant - at targeting hot issues and writing highly readable page-turnersabout them . . . It is impossible not to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to think, hard, about right and wrong.'Washington Post


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Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99)ISBN: 9781925267297Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: 432 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FF Crime & MysteryIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The DropMichael Connelly

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases morefiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.

DescriptionHarry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given threeyears before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have towait long. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which points the finger at a 29-year-old convicted rapistwho was only eight at the time of the murder. Then a city councilman's son is found dead - fallen or pushed from a hotelwindow - and he insists on Bosch taking the case despite the two men's history of enmity. The cases are unrelated butthey twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in thecity for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of thepolice department.

About the AuthorMichael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending theUniversity of Florida. After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale,Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewingsurvivors of a major airline crash. They wrote a magazine story which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize forfeature writing. The magazine story also moved Connelly into the upper levels of journalism, landing him a job as a crimereporter for the Los Angeles Times,, and bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had written. Afterthree years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch.The novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred in Los Angeles, was published in 1992 andwon the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly has followed WC that up with 26more novels. His books have been translated into 31 languages and have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Shamus,Dilys, Nero, Barry, Audie, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France),

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The Last Coyote: A Harry Bosch NovelMichael Connelly

After being put on involuntary stress leave for attacking his boss, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is drawn toinvestigate a 30 year old crime - his mother's murder case.

DescriptionMichael Connelly's fourth novel cuts to the very core of Harry Bosch's character, as he is drawn to investigate a thirty-year-old unsolved crime: the murder of his mother.

Harry's life is a mess. His house has been condemned because of earthquake damage. His girlfriend has left him. He'sdrinking too much. And he's even had to turn in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is suspendedindefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation.

At first Bosch, resists the LAPD shrink, but finally he recognizes that something is troubling him, a force that may haveshaped his entire life. In 1961, when Harry was eleven, his mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever even accusedof the crime.

Harry opens up the decades-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It's clear thatthe case was fumbled. His mother was a prostitute, and even thirty years late the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable.Someone powerful was able to keep the investigating officers away from key suspects. Even as he confronts his ownshame about his mother, Harry relentlessly follows up the old evidence, seeking justice or at least understanding. Out ofthe broken pieces of the case he discerns a trail that leads upward, toward prominent people who lead public lives high inthe Hollywood hills. And as he nears his answer, Harry finds that ancient passions don't die. They cause new murderseven today.

About the AuthorA former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of the Harry Bosch thrillerseries as well as several stand-alone bestsellers, including the highly acclaimed legal thriller, The Lincoln Lawyer.

Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 31languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards.

He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.

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The ReversalMichael Connelly

Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case.

DescriptionWhen Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knowssomething strange is going on. Mickey's a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like thiswould be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killerwho spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one ...

Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as hislead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he's been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to haveto dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago.




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Echo Park: A Harry Bosch NovelMichael Connelly

Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before.

DescriptionIn 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case waselevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch wasassigned the case. But the 22-year-old woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn't crack.

Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of twoheinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One ofthose murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and tomake sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death.

In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought for thirteen years. Bosch's whole being as acop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have ledthem to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.




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The Black Echo: A Harry Bosch NovelMichael Connelly

The first ever Harry Bosch novel - the book that started it all.

DescriptionLAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call out on his pager. A body has beenfound in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. At first sight, it looks like a routine drugs overdose case, butthe one new puncture wound amidst the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced.

To make matters worse, Harry Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam, runningagainst the VC and the fear they all used to call the Black Echo. Bosch believes he let down Billy Meadows once before,so now he is determined to bring the killer to justice.




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Michael Connelly

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9780571316465Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 222x140mmExtent: 128 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FC Literary FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Festival of InsignificanceMilan Kundera

2015 sees the publication of the first new novel in over twelve years from International literary heavyweight,Milan Kundera.

DescriptionThe Festival of Insignificance follows four middle-aged men in modern-day Paris over the course of a couple of weeksduring which all of them have time to reflect on their lives and the various ways in which they are, or have been made tofeel, insignificant.

Alain's mother abandoned the family when he was just ten; he finds consolation in his 20-year-old girlfriend in the fullknowledge that the two of them are so distant in age that they can have very little in common.

Charles works as catering staff at swanky cocktail parties hosted by people he detests, along with his friend Caliban, afailed actor nicknamed after the only role he ever had any success with - the two of them spend these tedious eveningspretending to be from far-flung lands, making up grammatically complex languages so as to maintain the pointless ruse.

Ramon likes to dazzle others with his wit and to mock the failings of others but ultimately lives a lonely life.

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated bythe reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival ofInsignificance.

About the AuthorMilan Kundera, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was a student when the Czech Communist regime was established in1948, and later worked as a labourer, jazz musician and professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studiesin Prague. After the Russian invasion in August 1968, his books were banned. In 1975, he and his wife settled in France,and in 1981, he became a French citizen. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere,Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, andImmortality, and of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recentnovels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Noveland Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.

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Milan Kundera Backlist 20 Copy Poster PackPoint of Sale

Includes 2 copies of 10 Kundera novels: Slowness, Ignorance, Farewell Waltz, Laughable Loves, Book ofLaughter and Forgetting, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Identity, Joke and Life is Elsewhere plusa two-sided Kundera backlist and Festival of Insignificance poster.

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Faber Paperback

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9780571317738Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 320 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FC Literary FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

I Saw A ManOwen Sheers

A powerful contemporary literary thriller: a mesmerising exploration of lies, guilt and sorrow. The event thatchanged all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner -thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door.

DescriptionThe event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner -thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door.

After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship with theNelson family next door. Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters seem to represent everything Michael fears hemay now never have: intimacy, children, stability and a family home. Despite this, the new friendship at first seems tooffer the prospect of healing, but then a catastrophic event changes everything. Michael is left bearing a burden of griefand a secret he must keep, but the truth can only be kept at bay for so long.

Moving from London and New York to the deserts of Nevada, I Saw a Man is a brilliant exploration of violence, guilt andattempted redemption, written with the pace and grip of a thriller. Owen Sheers takes the reader from close observation ofthe domestic sphere to some of the most important questions and dilemmas of the contemporary world.

About the AuthorOwen Sheers has written two collections of poetry, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill. His non-fiction includes The DustDiaries and Calon: A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby. His novel Resistance has been translated into ten languagesand was made into a film in 2011. His plays include The Passion and The Two Worlds of Charlie F. He has been a NYPLCullman Fellow, Writer in Residence for the Wordsworth Trust and Artist in Residence for the Welsh Rugby Union.

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Faber Fiction

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9780571287758Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x156mmExtent: 300 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FF Crime & MysteryIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

London RainNicola Upson

The latest instalment of Nicola Upson's much-loved series starring Josephine Tey.

DescriptionMay, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king.

Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots - but adultery,treachery and pent-up jealousies stalk the corridors of Broadcasting House.

At the height of the Coronation celebrations, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose is called in to investigate themurder of one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters. A second victim - his mistress, and the play's leading actress -suggests that the motive lies close to home, but Josephine suspects that the killings are linked to a decade-old scandal.

With Archie's hands tied by politics, and his attention taken by another, seemingly unrelated death, it is left to Josephineto get to the truth. As her relationship with Marta Fox reaches a turning point, she is forced to confront at first-hand thedeadly consequences of love, deceit and betrayal.

Rich in the atmosphere of coronation London and the early days of Broadcasting House, the sixth novel in Nicola Upson's'Josephine Tey' series sets an audacious, deeply personal crime against the backdrop of one of the most momentousdays in British history.

About the AuthorNicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. Her debut novel, An Expert inMurder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey - one of the leading authors ofBritain's Golden Age of crime writing. She lives with her partner in Cambridge and spends much of her time in Cornwall.

JULY 2015

Faber Fiction

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9780571316670Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 304 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FF Crime & MysteryIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

In My HouseAlex Hourston

This unsettling debut novel tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two very different women.

DescriptionIn the queue for the toilets at Gatwick, a teenage girl catches 57-year-old Margaret Benson's eye in the mirror and mouthsthe world help. Margaret's reaction leads to the dramatic rescue of the teenager from her trafficker and Margaret becomesa hero.

But when the story gets picked up by the papers, Margaret is panicked by the publicity, as well as the strange phone callsshe begins to receive. Meanwhile Anja makes contact. She wants to thank her rescuer, but she also quickly insertsherself into Margaret's lonely life. As their friendship develops, so do questions: who is Margaret hiding from, and whatare Anja's true motives? And what is the cost of living a lie?

About the AuthorAfter fifteen years writing strategy for advertising agencies, Alex Hourston took a break to go back to university and herfirst love, books. She completed a Masters in English and started a PhD, but put it aside when the idea for this novelsurfaced. Alex lives outside Brighton with her family. She is working on her second novel, an exploration of infidelity andemotional inheritance.

JULY 2015

Faber Fiction

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9780571296781Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x156mmExtent: 608 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FL Science FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

StalloStefan Spjut

A terrifying supernatural thriller for fans of Let the Right One In, The Passage, and Salem's Lot.

DescriptionIn the Summer of 1978, a young boy disappears without trace from a cabin in the Dalecarlian woods of Sweden. Hismother claims he was abducted by a giant.

The previous year, in the Sarek National Park, Laponia, a wildlife photographer takes a strange picture from his smallairplane, of a bear running over the marshes. On its back sits a creature. It looks like a small monkey, but thephotographer claims he has taken his first picture of a troll.

Twenty-five years later, and back in Laponia, Susso runs a web page dedicated to searching for creatures whoseexistence have not yet been proven: the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot. But Susso's true obsession is Trolls.When an old woman claims that a small furry animal has been standing outside her house, observing her and her fiveyear old grandson for hours, Susso picks up her camera and leaves for what will become a terrifying adventure into theunknown.

Because what if there really are trolls out there, and they're taking our children?

About the AuthorStefan Spjut (b. 1973) has worked as a literary critic and culture editor. His debut novel Fiskarens garn (Fisherman'sYarn) was published in 2008. He lives in Stockholm and has two children, a girl and a boy. He holds a black belt intaekwondo and considers himself a reprobate MMA-junkie.

JULY 2015

Faber Fiction

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99)ISBN: 9780571311705Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 304 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FC Literary FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Actors AnonymousJames Franco

From acclaimed Hollywood actor/director James Franco, a dark, genre-bending work that mixes memoir andpure invention in an audacious examination of celebrity, acting and the making of fiction.

DescriptionInspired by Alcoholics Anonymous's 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, Actors Anonymous is a dark, genre-bending work thatmixes memoir and pure invention in an audacious examination of celebrity, acting and the making of fiction.

Actors Anonymous is unsettling, funny and personal - a series of stories told in many forms: a McDonald's drive-thruoperator who spends his shift trying on accents; an exchild star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospitalvolunteers putting a camera in the hands of a patient obsessed with horror films; a vampire-flick starlet who discovers acryptic book written by a famous actor, who may have killed his father and gone on the run.

The book contains profound insights into the nature and purpose of acting. Franco mercilessly turns his 'James Franco'persona inside out while, at the same time, providing a fascinating meditation on his art, along with nightmarish tales ofexcess. 'Hollywood has always been a private club,' he writes. 'I open the gates. I say welcome. I say, Look inside.'

Franco's writing is vivid and disturbing, but what distinguishes his work is the great compassion he extends towards hischaracters, who he presents in all their raw humanity, while at the same time providing insight into their deeper selves.

About the AuthorJames Franco is a modern-day Renaissance man: as an actor he won the Golden Globe award for his portrayal of JamesDean in a tv bio-pic of the actor's life and has appeared in such diverse films as Pineapple Express and Milk; he plays thelead in Danny Boyle's new film 127 Hours and portrays Allen Ginsburg in Howl; he has collaborated with an artist calledCarter in conceptual film piece and has shown his work at the Deitch Projects in New York; over the course of the last twoyears he has been awarded degrees in English Literature from UCLA, in Creative Writing from Columbia, in Film-makingfrom NYU and has been accepted in the English PH.D program at Yale.

JULY 2015

Faber Paperback

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9780571288656Format: PaperbackDimensions: 228x178mmExtent: 208 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FX Graphic NovelsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Through the WoodsEmily Carroll

A fantastically dark and timeless graphic debut, for fans of Grimm Tales, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boyand the works of Neil Gaiman.

Description'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.'

Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.

These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll.

Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there...

About the AuthorEmily Carroll was born in London, Ontario in June of 1983. In addition to the many short online comics found at herwebsite http://www.emcarroll.com/, her work has been featured in numerous print anthologies. She currently lives with herwife Kate and their large orange cat in Stratford, Ontario.

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Faber Paperback


Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot Diaz

A literary triumph - winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

DescriptionThings have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet butdisastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. PoorOscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the ancient curse that has haunted his family for generations,dooming them to prison, torture, violent accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love.

With dazzling energy and insight Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar, his runaway sister Lola, theirbeautiful mother Belicia, and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back.

Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao presents an astonishing vision ofthe endless human capacity to persevere - and to risk it all - in the name of love. A literary triumph, this novel confirmsJunot Diaz as one of the funniest, warmest and most exciting writers of our time.

About the AuthorJunot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and received hisMaster of Fine Arts Degree from Cornell University. His collection of short stories, Drown, was described as 'a dazzlinglytalented first book' by Independent on Sunday. He teaches creative writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

JULY 2015

Faber Paperback


HumorStanley Donwood

The stories of Stanley Donwood collected for the first time in one beautiful and collectible volume.

DescriptionThere was disaster coming; that was blindingly obvious. Life had been almost ridiculously easy, and now things weregoing to get worse. Much, much worse. I couldn't believe that I had ever thought otherwise. I couldn't believe that I'd everthought that there could be any other outcome.

Stanley Donwood's fictional universe is one in which anything can happen, and frequently does. Disappearances (people,things) are everyday. Relationships are unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. It's the kind of world (the kind of book) inwhich you might walk into a room only to find, that room, has ... no ... floor.

A substantial selection of Stanley's fiction over the past ten years or so, Humor shows a contemporary master of themicro narrative. Apocalyptic, funny, unsettling and hallucinogenic in their intensity, Stanley Donwood's stories present aseries of haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.

About the AuthorStanley Donwood is an artist. He has produced record covers for Radiohead and exhibited worldwide.

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Faber Fiction


HumorStanley Donwood

The stories of Stanley Donwood collected for the first time in this beautiful limited edition.

DescriptionThere was disaster coming; that was blindingly obvious. Life had been almost ridiculously easy, and now things weregoing to get worse. Much, much worse. I couldn't believe that I had ever thought otherwise. I couldn't believe that I'd everthought that there could be any other outcome.

Stanley Donwood's fictional universe is one in which anything can happen, and frequently does. Disappearances (people,things) are everyday. Relationships are unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. It's the kind of world (the kind of book) inwhich you might walk into a room only to find, that room, has ... no ... floor.

A substantial selection of Stanley's fiction over the past ten years or so, Humor shows a contemporary master of themicro narrative. Apocalyptic, funny, unsettling and hallucinogenic in their intensity, Stanley Donwood's stories present aseries of haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.

About the AuthorStanley Donwood is an artist. He has produced record covers for Radiohead and exhibited worldwide.

JULY 2015

Faber Fiction

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99)ISBN: 9780571310661Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 197x130mmExtent: 48 pagesMain Category: WTL TravelSub Category:Illustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

HollowayRobert Macfarlane, Dan Richards illustrated by Stanley Donwood

A beautiful piece of nature writing, illustrated with spectacular etchings of woodland scenes.

DescriptionHolloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harroweddeep down into bedrock.

In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. Theyfound their way into a landscape of shadows, spectres and great strangeness. Six years later, after Deakin's early death,Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. The book is about thosejourneys and that landscape.

About the AuthorRobert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places and The Old Ways. Stanley Donwood is anartist. He has produced record covers for Radiohead and has exhibited worldwide. Dan Richards is a writer. Hisfirst book,The Beechwood Airship Interviews, features champagne, arson, cold baths, demolition and chainsaws.

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Faber Modern Classics 18 Copy PackPoint of Sale

Includes 3 each of An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, The New York Trilogy, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter andVenice, and 2 each of Look Back in Anger, The Hawk in the Rain and Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man.

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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Faber Modern ClassicsP. D. James

Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with FaberModern Classics.

DescriptionMeet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her firstassignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge studentfound hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordeliasoon realises it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.

About the AuthorP. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh andCordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), AnUnsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen inspired DeathComes to Pemberley (2011).

James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, includingthe Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, wasawarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors,and stood down from this role in 2013.

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Faber Paperback

Price: $12.99 (NZ$15.99)ISBN: 9780571322763Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 128 pagesMain Category: DD Plays, PlayscriptsSub Category: DD Plays, PlayscriptsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern ClassicsJohn Osborne

Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with FaberModern Classics. With an introduction from Michael Billington and eulogy from David Hare.

DescriptionLook Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironingboard on a London stage. John Osborne's play launched the 'angry young men' movement, writers from working ormiddle class background who had become disillusioned with British society, were sick of contemporary theatre'sescapism, and wanted their work to reflect life as they knew it.

The play tells the story of a love triangle between Jimmy, an intelligent and educated man of working class background,his upper-middle-class wife Alison, and her superior and disdainful best-friend Helena. Jimmy hates his wife'sbackground, almost as much as he hates himself. Dark and savage, Look Back in Anger makes readers and audiencesre-examine what was once called 'the good life'.

About the AuthorJohn Osborne was born in London in 1929. Before becoming a playwright he worked as a journalist, assistant stagemanager and repertory theatre actor. Seeing an advertisement for new plays in The Stage in 1956, Osborne submittedLook Back in Anger. Not only was the play produced, but it was to become considered as the turning point in post-warBritish theatre. Osborne's protagonist, Jimmy Porter, captured the rebelliousness of an entire post-war generation of'angry young men'. His other plays include The Entertainer (1957), Luther (1961), Inadmissible Evidence (1964), and APatriot for Me (1966). He also wrote two volumes of autobiography, A Better Class of Person (1981) and Almost aGentleman (1991) published together as Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise. His last play, Deja Vu (1991),returns to the characters of Look Back in Anger, over thirty years later. Both Look Back in Anger and The Entertainerwere adapted for film, and in 1963 Osborne won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Tom Jones. John Osbornedied on 24 December 1994.

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The New York Trilogy: Faber Modern ClassicsPaul Auster


DescriptionThe New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers.The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve anew genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. It is a riveting work of detective fiction worthy of RaymondChandler, and at the same time a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. In eachstory the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimatelybecomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. The New York Trilogy is the modern novel at its finest: atruly bold and arresting work of fiction with something to transfix and astound every reader.

About the AuthorPaul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in the United States in 1947. He is the author of twelve novels: The NewYork Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr Vertigo, Timbuktu, TheBook of Illusions, Oracle Night, The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark. He is married withtwo children and lives in Brooklyn.

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern ClassicsMario Vargas Llosa


DescriptionMarito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer, before his life is tornapart by two arrivals. The first is his recently divorced Aunt Julia, with whom he begins an affair which he must hide fromhis family. The second is Pedro Camacho, an eccentric scriptwriter whose radio dramas are keeping the whole cityenthralled. This hilarious and mischievous novel interweaves the story of Marito's life with Pedro Camacho's increasinglyinsane tales to masterfully depict both Peru and the act of growing up in the 1950s.

Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a perfect introductionto one of South America's most popular and lauded writers.

About the AuthorMario Vargas-Llosa was born in Peru is 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels,including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in theCathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Faber Paperback

Price: $12.99 (NZ$15.99)ISBN: 9780571322817Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 64 pagesMain Category: DC PoetrySub Category: DC PoetryIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Hawk in the Rain: Faber Modern ClassicsTed Hughes


DescriptionThis multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in thenatural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competitionand the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become Britain's Poet Laureate in 1984 until his death in 1998.

Including many of Hughes' best-known poems, such as 'The Jaguar', 'The Thought- Fox' and 'Wind' - now stapes ofBritish poetry anthologies - Hawk in the Rain is the foundation of Hughes' reputation as one of the twentieth-century'sgreatest poets.

About the AuthorTed Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber &Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book ofthe Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid (1997) and BirthdayLetters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

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Faber Poetry


Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man: Faber Modern ClassicsSiegfried Sassoon


DescriptionGeorge was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of warthreatens his way of life. A touching depiction of pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is also acoming-of-age story which follows George from a shy and awkward childhood, through shiftless adolescence, to an officerjust beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare.

Written after Siegfried Sassoon's return from the First World War but looking back at happier times, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was published anonymously in 1928. Already established as a poet, this was Sassoon's first attempt atfiction - and Faber & Faber's first bestseller.

About the AuthorSiegfried Sassoon was born in 1886. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write thepoems for which he is remembered. Apart from the War Poems of 1919, he published eight volumes of verse during hislifetime. But it is as a novelist and autobiographer that he is perhaps better known. Sassoon's semi-autobiographicaltrilogy, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936),was outstandingly successful.

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Faber Paperback

Price: $12.99 (NZ$15.99)ISBN: 9780571322794Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 336 pagesMain Category: WTL TravelSub Category: WTL TravelIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Venice: Faber Modern ClassicsJan Morris

A new Faber Modern Classics edition of one of the great books of travel writing.

DescriptionOften hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully-written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particulartemperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its architecture, its bridges, its tourists, its curiosities, its smells,sounds, lights and colours, there is scarcely a corner of Venice that Jan Morris has not investigated and brought vividly tolife.

Jan Morris first visited the city of Venice as young James Morris, during World War II. As she writes in the introduction,"itis Venice seen through a particular pair of eyes at a particular moment - young eyes at that, responsive above all to thestimuli of youth." Venice is an impassioned work on this magnificent but often maddening city.

About the AuthorJan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with herpartner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books includeCoronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell theTrumpets), and Conundrum. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books,several volumes of collected travel essays and, more recently, the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. AWriter's World, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003. Hav, hernovel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Arthur C.Clarke Award. Her most recent book, Contact!, about the people she encountered on her many travels, was published in2009.

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Young Chekhov: Platonov; Ivanov; The SeagullAnton Chekhov, edited by David Hare

A trilogy of plays - Platanov, Ivanov and The Seagull - in contemporary adaptations by David Hare.

DescriptionYoung Chekhov contains a trilogy of plays by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, written as he emerged as the greatestplaywright of the late nineteenth century. The three works, Platanov, Ivanov and The Seagull, in contemporaryadaptations by David Hare, will be staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2015.

About the AuthorAnton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of aserf. After graduating in medicine from Moscow University in 1884, he began to make his name in the theatre with theone-act comedies The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding. His earliest full-length plays, Ivanov (1887) and The WoodDemon (1889), were not successful, and The Seagull, produced in 1896, was a failure until a triumphant revival by theMoscow Art Theatre in 1898. This was followed by Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard(1904), shortly after the production of which Chekhov died. The first English translations of his plays were performedwithin five years of his death.

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Faber Plays

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781782394129Format: Paperback - Demy formatDimensions: 210x148mmExtent: 352 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FC Literary FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Himmler's CookFranz-Olivier Giesbert

The international bestseller, Himmler's Cook tells the tale of a woman who witnessed the very worst of the 20thcentury but never lost her passion for love, life, good people and fine food.

DescriptionAged 105, Rose has endured more than her fair share of hardships - the Armenian genocide, the Nazi regime, and thedelirium of Maoism.Yet somehow, despite all the suffering, Rose never loses her joie de vivre. Quirky and eccentric,Himmler's Cook is a picaresque tale of survival, as Giesbert depicts Rose's unique life experiences - cook for Himmler,confidante to Hitler, and friend of Simone de Beauvoir. The novel tells the epic tale of an inspiring, resilient Marseillaisechef who embodies the sentiment of what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

About the AuthorFranz-Olivier Giesbert is a French author, journalist and television presenter. He has worked for Le Nouvel Observateur,Le Figaro and Le Point and he appears on literary and cultural television shows on a range of channels.

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Atlantic



Himmler's Cook 8 Copy PackPoint of Sale

Includes 8 copies of Himmler's Cook, plus a free reading copy.

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Atlantic

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781782392347Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x156mmExtent: 400 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FL Science FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Mother of EdenChris Beckett

From a rising star of British Science Fiction comes a richly imagined, thought-provoking sequel to Dark Eden,winner of the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Description'We speak of a mother's love, but we forget her power. Power over life. Power to give and to withhold.'

Generations after the breakup of the human family of Eden, the Johnfolk emphasise knowledge and innovation, theDavidfolk tradition and cohesion. But both have built hierarchical societies sustained by violence and dominated by men -and both claim to be the favoured children of a long-dead woman from Earth that all Eden knows as Gela, the mother ofthem all.

When Starlight Brooking meets a handsome and powerful man from across Worldpool, she believes he will offer an outletfor her ambition and energy. But she has no idea that she will be a stand-in for Gela herself, and wear Gela's ring on herown finger.

And she has no idea of the enemies she will make, no inkling that a time will come when she, like John Redlantern, willchoose to kill...

About the AuthorChris Beckett is a university lecturer living in Cambridge. He has written over 20 short stories, many of them originallypublished in Interzone and Asimov's. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Story competition, 2009, for The Turing Test,as well as the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013, for Dark Eden.

http://www.chris-beckett.com

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Mother of Eden 8 Copy packPoint of Sale

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Corvus

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781848874640Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x131mmExtent: 400 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FL Science FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Dark EdenChris Beckett

A marooned outpost of humanity struggles to survive on an alien world: sci-fi as it ought to be from British sci-fi's great white hope.

DescriptionYou live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of Angela and Tommy. You shelter beneaththe light and warmth of the Forest's lantern trees. Beyond the forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold sobitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among you recount legends of a world wherelight came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross between worlds. One day, the Oldest say,they will come back for you.

You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of two marooned explorers. You huddle,slowly starving, beneath the light and warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien,sunless world.

You are John Redlantern. You will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. You will be the first toabandon the old ways, the first to kill another, the first to venture in to the Dark, and the first to discover the truth aboutEden.

About the AuthorChris Beckett is a university lecturer living in Cambridge. He has written over 20 short stories, many of them originallypublished in Interzone and Asimov's. In 2009 he won the Edge Hill Short Story competition for his collection of stories,The Turing Test.

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Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781782395683Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x156mmExtent: 400 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FV Historical FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Silent HoursCesca Major

A story of love and loss inspired by heartrending true events in the Unoccupied Zone of wartime France.

DescriptionAn epic, sweeping tale set in wartime France, The Silent Hours follows three people whose lives are bound together,before war tears them apart:

Adeline, a mute who takes refuge in a convent, haunted by memories of her past;

Sebastian, a young Jewish banker whose love for the beautiful Isabelle will change the course of his life dramatically;

Tristin, a nine-year-old boy, whose family moves from Paris to settle in a village that is seemingly untouched by war.

Beautifully wrought, utterly compelling and with a shocking true story at its core, The Silent Hours is an unforgettableportrayal of love and loss.

About the AuthorCesca Major read history at Bristol University. She went on to work in television as a researcher and presenter for fouryears before becoming a history teacher. Her first real writing success came in 2005 when she was runner up in the DailyMail Writing Competition for the best opening paragraph to a novel. She has won, or been placed, in some short storycompetitions since then including the annual competitions for: Women and Home, Wells Festival of Literature, Grace Dieuand has also had a short story published in the Sentinel Literary Magazine. She reads widely and has written regularreviews and features for the popular women's fiction website www.novelicious.com. She currently works as ahousemistress at a secondary boarding school in Berkshire. She lives in Bradfield with her husband and their brood of ex-battery chickens.

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UnmannedDan Fesperman

From the widely acclaimed author of The Prisoner of Guantanamo and The Double Game comes a grippingdescent into the hidden world of drone warfare.

DescriptionAs an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout - drunk and alone in atrailer in the Nevada desert, haunted by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life from the Predator drone he'piloted'. Reluctantly, Cole teams up with three journalists seeking to discover the identity of the anonymous intelligenceoperative who called the shots in that ill-fated mission.

But in a surveillance culture, even the well-intentioned must sometimes run for their lives. Especially when they're trackingleads to the very heart of that culture - in intelligence, in the military, and among the unchecked private contractors whostand to profit richly from the advancing technology ... Technology not just for use 'over there', but for right here, rightnow.

About the AuthorDan Fesperman is a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun and a published author of several thrillers. The plots wereinspired by the author's own international assignments in countries such as Yugoslavia and Afghanistan.

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Return to FourwindsElisabeth Gifford

From the author of Secrets of the Sea House comes the mystery of a runaway bride. Can a century of familysecrets be unravelled in time to bring her back? For fans of Kate Morton and Rachel Hore.

DescriptionOne house. Two families. A lifetime of secrets.

At Fourwinds they gather: Alice and Ralph, Patricia and Peter, to celebrate the marriage of their children. The marquee ison the lawn, breathing in and out in the summer heat. But the bride is nowhere to be seen.

As both families are drawn together, the past floods through the corridors of the old house. What secret has Ralph beenkeeping from his wife? What is it about Alice's wartime encounter with Peter that has haunted her ever since? And whatcould have caused Sarah to vanish without a word to any of the people she loves?

Moving from the orange groves of Valencia and the spacious houses of the British countryside to the post-war slums inthe north, Return to Fourwinds is a sweeping, lyrical story of the things we tell and the things we keep to ourselves. IsSarah's disappearance a culmination of the pressures that have kept the two families apart? Or can they work together tobring her back to Fourwinds?

About the AuthorElisabeth Gifford grew up in a vicarage in the industrial Midlands. She studied French literature and world religions atLeeds University. She has written articles for The Times and the Independent and has a Diploma in Creative Writing fromOxford OUDCE and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway College. She is married with three children. They livein Kingston upon Thames.

www.elisabethgifford.com

www.facebook.com/elisabethgiffordauthor

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Things We Have in CommonTasha Kavanagh

Sue Townsend meets Zoe Heller in this dark, twisted and heartbreakingly vulnerable tale.

DescriptionYasmin would give anything to have a friend . . .

And do anything to keep one.

The first time I saw you, you were standing at the far end of the playing field. You were looking down at your brownstraggly dog, but then you looked up, your mouth going slack as your eyes clocked her. Alice Taylor. I was no different. Iused to catch myself gazing at the back of her head in class, at her silky fair hair swaying between her shoulder blades.

If you'd glanced just once across the field you'd have seen me standing in the middle on my own, looking straight at you,and you'd have gone back through the trees to the path quick, tugging your dog after you. You'd have known you'd givenyourself away, even if only to me.

But you didn't. You only had eyes for Alice.

About the AuthorTasha Kavanagh worked in film editing for ten years, on features including Twelve Monkeys, Seven Years in Tibet andThe Talented Mr Ripley. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. She has published several childen's books underher maiden name, Tasha Pym. She lives in Hertfordshire with her family. Things We Have in Common is her first novel.

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AnimalsEmma Jane Unsworth

Sometimes friendship is the only true love story.

Description'There's no ceremony for friendship, is there? If you go ahead with this wedding then you realise that what you're actuallysaying is that your friendship with me is not meaningful and durable. That,' she sipped her wine victoriously, 'is the logicalconclusion.'

'Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.'

Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change. Can their friendship survive? Or willgrowing up mean growing apart?

About the AuthorEmma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything,(Hidden Gem, 2011) and was shortlisted for the 2012 Portico Prize. Her short story 'I Arrive First' was included in TheBest British Short Stories 2012 (Salt). She lives in Manchester.

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Ham On RyeCharles Bukowski, introduction by Roddy Doyle

The autobiographical coming-of-age modern classic by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century.

DescriptionWith introduction by Roddy Doyle

'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen

Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth-century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widelyconsidered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into his youth through the prism ofhis alter-ego Henry Chinaski, who grew up to be the legendary Hank Chinaski of Post Office and Factotum.

About the AuthorCharles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, itsmost influential and imitated poet. At the forefront of American counter-culture, his Beat Generation writing is widelycelebrated. He was born in Germany in 1920 to an American soldier father and a German mother and was brought to theUnited States at the age of three. He grew up in Los Angeles and lived there for the majority of his life. During his lifetimehe published more than forty-five books, including novels such as Factotum and Post Office. He died in 1994 shortly aftercompleting his last novel, Pulp.

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I'm JackMark Blacklock

A bold and original debut novel about John Humble, the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer.

DescriptionIn this provocative novel Mark Blacklock portrays the true and complex history of John Humble, aka Wearside Jack, theRipper Hoaxer, a timewaster and criminal, sympathetic and revolting, the man hidden by a wall of words, a fiction-spinnerworthy of textual analysis. In this remarkable work, John Humble leads the reader into an allusive, elusive labyrinth ofinterpretations, simultaneously hoodwinking and revealing.

I'm Jack is a riveting novel about truth, lies, prison and shame. It is also a profound and furious love letter to Sunderland.It is a puzzle, a hoax, a multi-voice portrait and a virtuoso assemblage of textual elements. I'm Jack announces the arrivalof a radically talented and innovative novelist.

About the AuthorMARK BLACKLOCK has a doctorate in 4th Dimensionality and lives in London.

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Lucky UsAmy Bloom

A thrilling and resonant novel from the author of Away, about loyalty, ambition, and the pleasures and perils offamily, set in 1940s America.

DescriptionWhen Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soondiscover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent,Iris and Eva become one another's family. Iris wants to be a movie star; Eva is her sidekick. Together, they journeyacross 1940s America from scandal in Hollywood to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island, stumbling,cheating and loving their way through a landscape of war, betrayals and big dreams.

About the AuthorAMY BLOOM is the author of three collections of stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out (published by GrantaBooks), Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, and two novels: Away,(published by GrantaBooks) and Love Invents Us. She is the University Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University.

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AwayAmy Bloom

An extraordinary story of young Lillian Leyb and her long odyssey across America.

DescriptionAway is the extraordinary story of an accidental hero, young Lillian Leyb. Her family murdered in a Russian pogrom, inwhich her three-year-old daughter Sophie vanished, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In1920s New York she is taken under the wing of both Reuben and Meyer Burstein, the family Impresario and his matinee-idol son. But then Lillian's cousin Raisele arrives with news of Sophie. Driven by wild hope, Lillian sets off on an odysseyacross America, travelling from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Skid Row and up to Alaska, along the fabledTelegraph Trail.

Away is storytelling at its finest - epic in sweet, intimate and psychologically acute, big hearted, witty and unsentimental.

About the AuthorAmy Bloom is the author of two collections of stories, Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, anovel, Love Invents Us, and a non-fiction book, Normal. A practising psychotherapist, Bloom teaches creative writing atYale University.

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DustYvonne Adhiambo Owuor

An audacious and beautiful novel that is both a unique family saga and a spellbinding story of the country ofKenya

DescriptionKenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and theirfather bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya. But the peace they seek is hard to find:the murder has stirred deeply buried memories of colonial violence, of the killing-sprees of the Mau Mau uprising, and theshocking political assassination of Tom Mboya in 1969. When a young Englishman appears, searching for his missingfather, another story, of love, or at least a connection, begins. This is a spellbinding state of the nation novel about Kenya,showing how the violence of the past informs the violence and disorder of the present. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor'smemorable characters; Ajany's mother, deranged with grief and past violations, the Trader, embodying the timelessnomadic traders of Sudan, and Odidi himself, who transcended his past, came to success, and then a tragic end, areenchanting. Owuor reveals to us a new Kenya, a Kenya of bloodshed but also of modernity, suffused with a spirit worldonly half-remembered. This is a country where the characters listen so acutely for what is not said, and for the voicesfrom the distant and recent past.

About the AuthorYVONNE ADHIAMBO OWUOR was born in Kenya. Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, she has also receivedan Iowa Writer's Fellowship. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's and other publications, and she has been a TEDxNairobi speaker and a Lannan Foundation resident. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.

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The End of DaysJenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky

A story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman: an intoxicating masterpiece of anovel that kneads Time and History like dough.

DescriptionWho are we when we are born? Who are we when the hour of our death comes? What changes? What remains? Bytracing the five possible lives lived and the five deaths of one woman whose life spans, or fails to span, the twentiethcentury, the magical, magisterial author of Visitation exposes the machinations of what we call 'fate' - actually inexplicableand undetermined, an interplay of culture and history, of family and personal entanglements.

The protagonist never grows up, suffocates in her cradle. Or perhaps not? Dies as a lover. Or doesn't after all. Diesbetrayed. Highly honoured. Or forgotten by everyone. Or perhaps not? Erpenbeck takes us on a journey through themany lives that could be contained in one single life - starting off in a small Galician town in about 1900 and going toVienna and Stalin's Moscow before ending up in present-day Berlin. She interrogates the impact of the political on thepersonal, and as she tackles this theme she draws on a uniquely German narrative impetus: the ongoing need to reckonwith its past and its place in recent history.

About the AuthorJENNY ERPENBECK is the author of Visitation (2010) and The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), bothpublished by Portobello. Her fiction is published in fourteen languages.SUSAN BERNOFSKY has translated works byRobert Walser, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori, Yoko Tawada, Ludwig Harig and Franz Kafka. She is the author ofForeign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe and is currently at work on a biography of Robert Walser. Hertranslation of The Old Child and Other Stories was awarded the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize.

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Sister NoonKaren Joy Fowler

By the bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Sister Noon is the story of Lizzie Hayes,whose dull life is about to be shaken up by a mysterious and powerful woman.

Description'Words were invented so lies could be told' Mary Ellen Pleasant

San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions, home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild Westlingering in the imagination, and even the behaviour, of some residents. Lizzie Hayes, a seemingly docile, middle-agedspinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies' Relief and Protection Society Home, or the Brown Ark. Shedoesn't know it, but she's waiting for the spark that will liberate her from convention.

When the wealthy and well-connected but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark with an orphan intow, Lizzie is drawn to them both. It is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her mysterious past andrumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie's rebellious nature.

Based on real historical figures, San Francisco in the gilded age is brought vibrantly to life in Karen Joy Fowler'sentertaining, evocative and sinister novel.

About the AuthorKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselveswas shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and has sold over half a million copies. www.karenjoyfowler.com For an extract, reading guide, video interview and more visit www.waacbo.com

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We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesKaren Joy Fowler

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014

By the author of worldwide bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club: you can't choose your family, but they canmake choices for you. Big, life-defining choices. Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Description***Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014***

Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tellyou too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves, round about page 77, what it is that makes her unhappy familyunlike any other.

Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are nowgone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. And it was this decision, made byher parents, to give Rosemary a sister like no other, that began all of Rosemary's trouble. So now she's telling her story:full of hilarious asides and brilliantly spiky lines, it's a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back tothe beginning. Twice.

It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it,and if, when you're telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern - it's pretty hard to resist - don'tworry. One of the few studies Rosemary doesn't quote says that spoilers actually enhance reading.

About the AuthorKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteenweeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler's previous novel, SisterNoon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, was a New York TimesNotable Book, as was her second novel, The Sweetheart Season.Fowler's short story collection Black Glass won theWorld Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn't See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. We are allCompletely Beside Ourselves won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Fowler and her husband, who have twogrown children and five grandchildren, live in Santa Cruz, California.

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Saint MazieJami Attenberg

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundownBowery district of New York City during the 1920s and '30s.

DescriptionMeet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundown Bowery districtof New York City. She spends her days taking tickets, chatting with drunks and eccentrics, and chasing out thetroublemakers. After closing up, the nights are her own, and she fills them with romance and booze aplenty - even duringProhibition.

When the Great Depression hits, and homelessness soars, Mazie opens The Venice to those in need, giving them shelterand dimes for food and booze, and earning the nickname 'Saint Mazie'. Inspired by Joseph Mitchell's essay about Maziein Up in the Old Hotel, acclaimed author Jami Attenberg's novel honours an extraordinary life and heralds a completelyoriginal approach to writing historical fiction.

Weaving together fictionalised diaries, writings and interviews, Attenberg has constructed an utterly convincing portrait ofMazie Philips, which is also a deeply moving portrait of New York as it passed through the First World War, Prohibition,the boom of the '20s, and then the terrible depression of the '30s.

About the AuthorJami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and the novels, The Kept Man and The Melting Season.Her last book, The Middlesteins, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was published in ninecountries. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at www.jamiattenberg.com and follow her @jamiattenberg.

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The MiddlesteinsJami Attenberg

A moving, hilarious, and deeply perceptive novel of universal themes: family, love and greed.

DescriptionEdie and Richard have been married for over thirty years, living in the Chicago suburbs. Everyone who knew them -eventheir own children Robin and Benny agreed that Edie was a tough woman to love, but no one expected Richard to walk out on her, especially not in her condition. Edie is fifty-nine years old, she weighs 300 pounds, and her doctors have toldher she'll die if she doesn't stop eating.

As Richard is shut out by the family and seeks solace in the world of internet dating, Robin is dragged back from the cityand forced to rebuild a relationship with her mother. Meanwhile Benny and his neurotic wife Rachelle try to take control ofthe situation. But have any of them stopped to think about whether Edie really wants to be saved?

Written with sly humour, warmth and great insight, The Middlesteins is a novel about what it means to be part of a family.

About the AuthorJami Attenberg is the author of two previous novels and a collection of short stories. She has written for The New YorkTimes, The Rumpus, Salon, and numerous other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online atjamiattenberg.com or follow her @jamiattenberg

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Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781908745293Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FC Literary FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

EncirclingCarl Frode Tiller, translated by Barbara J. Haveland

What happens when the only memories you have are someone else's?

DescriptionDavid Hugsar has lost his memory so his psychiatrist places an advertisement in a newspaper inviting friends andrelatives to share their memories of him. The resulting letters, reminiscences and scenes offer an encircling narrative thatreveals more about the intersecting young lives - the secret ambitions and bid for popularity among young Norwegians ina backwater town - than about David himself, the enigma at the heart of the novel.

Adolescent sexuality, boredom, filial guilt, violence and love; the frustrations of life in a small-town rock band; drugs andcigarettes, all find their place in these chronicles of Norwegian provincial life. Carl Frode Tiller's Encircling exploresmasculinity in crisis with the adroitness of a new Raymond Carver.

About the AuthorCarl Frode Tiller (b.1970) has won the European Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Norwegian Critics' Prize forhis novels.He has also written three plays and a number of short stories. He has a master's degree in history, and plays inthe rock band Kong Ler. He lives in Trondheim.

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Sort Of

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99)ISBN: 9781846689840Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 272 pagesMain Category: F FictionSub Category: FV Historical FictionIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Sun is GodAdrian McKinty

Based on true events, The Sun is God is dark, outrageous and hugely entertaining -- historical crime fiction atits very best.

DescriptionIt is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island, working a small, and failing, plantation.He should never have told anyone about his previous existence as a military foot policeman in the Boer War, but a manneeds friends, even if they are as stuffy and, well, German, as Hauptmann Kessler, the local government representative.

So it is that Kessler approaches Will one hot afternoon, with a request for his help with a problem on a neighbouringisland, inhabited by a reclusive, cultish group of European 'cocovores', who believe that sun worship and eating onlycoconuts will bring them eternal life. Unfortunately, one of their number has died in suspicious circumstances, and Kesslerhas been tasked with uncovering the real reason for his demise. So along with a 'lady traveller', Bessie Pullen-Burry, whois foisted on them by the archipelago's eccentric owner, they travel to the island of Kabakon, to find out what is reallygoing on.

About the AuthorAdrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. In 2000 he relocated to Denver, Colorado where he taughthigh school English and began writing fiction. His debut Dead I Well May Be [9781846686993] was shortlisted for the2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. His first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 SpinetinglerAward and its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street [9781846688195] was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award. In2009 Adrian moved to Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.

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After Me Comes the FloodSarah Perry

What if you walked out of your life only to find another one was already waiting for you?

DescriptionOne hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind.

He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomeslost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house.

Its residents welcome him with open arms - but there's more to this strange community than meets the eye. They all knowhim by name, they've prepared a room for him, and claim to have been waiting for him all along.

As nights and days pass John finds himself drawn into a baffling menagerie. There is Hester, their matriarchal, controllinghost; Alex and Claire, siblings full of child-like wonder and delusions; the mercurial Eve; Elijah - a faithless formerpreacher haunted by the Bible; and chain-smoking Walker, wreathed in smoke and hostility. Who are these people? Andwhat do they intend for John?

Elegant, gently sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes The Flood is a haunting and hypnotic debut novelby a brilliant new voice.

About the AuthorSarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and grew up in a deeply religious home. Kept apart from contemporary culture,she spent her childhood immersed in classic literature, Victorian hymns and the King James Bible. She has a PhD increative writing at Royal Holloway which she completed under the supervision of Andrew Motion. She has been writer inresidence at the Gladstone Library and is the winner of a Shiva Naipaul award for travel writing. She lives in Norwich.

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SlownessMilan Kundera

Slowness by Milan Kundera manages to be both a heady tale of seduction and romance and, at the sametime, a formidable display of existential analysis.

DescriptionSlowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him througha midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by more than two hundred years, interweave andoscillate between the sublime and ridiculous.

As Kundera's readers would expect, Slowness is at the same time a formidable display of existential analysis. Slowness(and rapidity), discretion (and exhibitionism) are the principal concepts, and those which are to the reader like vital keysfor understanding life in our contemporary world.

About the AuthorMilan Kundera, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was a student when the Czech Communist regime was established in1948, and later worked as a labourer, jazz musician and professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studiesin Prague. After the Russian invasion in August 1968, his books were proscribed. In 1975, he and his wife settled inFrance, and in 1981, he became a French citizen. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere,Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, andImmortality, and of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recentnovels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Noveland Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.

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IgnoranceMilan Kundera

Ignorance by Milan Kundera is a literary masterpiece set in contemporary Prague, from the hugely acclaimedCzech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

DescriptionIn Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex andemotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece.

A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlierwhen they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almostas soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence 'their memories nolonger match.' We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced thesame thing. But this is just an illusion as the memory records only 'an insignificant, minuscule particle' of the past, 'and noone knows why it's this bit and not any other bit.' We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, and we refuse to see it. Onlythose who return after twenty years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded byobserving the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Milan Kundera has taken these dizzying concepts of absence, memory,forgetting, and ignorance, and transformed them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonicand moving work.


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Farewell WaltzMilan Kundera

Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a compelling and blasphemous lightness,which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.

DescriptionKlima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief nightat a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father.

And so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Klima's beautiful, jealouswife, the nurse's equally jealous boyfriend, a fanatical gynaecologist, a rich American, at once Don Juan and saint, and anelderly political prisoner who, just before his emigration, is holding a farewell party at the spa are all drawn into this blackcomedy, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness which makes us understand that themodern world has taken away our right to tragedy.


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Laughable LovesMilan Kundera

Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera is a collection of seven masterful short stories which were banned upontheir appearance in 1968.

DescriptionLaughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. Theseven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and stratagems employed by womenand especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. Sexualattraction is shown as a game that often turns sour, an experience that brings with it painful insights and releasesuncertainty, panic, vanity and a constant need for reassurance. Thus a young couple on holiday start a game of pretencethat threatens to destroy their relationship, two middle-aged men go in search of girls they don't really want, a young manrenews contact with an older woman who feels humiliated by her ageing body, an elderly doctor uses his beautiful wife toincrease his attraction and minister to his sexual vanity. In Laughable Loves, Milan Kundera shows himself, once again,as a master of fiction's most graceful illusions and surprises.


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Book of Laughter and ForgettingMilan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is the most secret of the acclaimed Czech writer'snovels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera.

Description'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyageleading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding ofwhich recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and aboutPrague, about Prague and about the angels.'

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera's novels. This new translation is the first to be fullyauthorized by Milan Kundera.


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Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera

One of the most important and affecting novels written in the twentieth century.

DescriptionIn this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in whicheverything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. We feel, says the novelist, 'the unbearablelightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitablyintertwine.

Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedyand tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It offers a wide range of brilliant and amusingphilosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. In this classic novel Kundera draws together theCzechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of anumber of heartbreakingly familiar characters.


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ImmortalityMilan Kundera

Immortality, by Milan Kundera, the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightnessof Being: 'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard

DescriptionThis breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of lifewithout losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once everytwenty years or so.

'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, GQ


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IdentityMilan Kundera

Identity - by the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist Milan Kundera - is a novel which only provides furtherevidence of the astonishing literary, philosophical and psychological gifts belonging to the author of TheUnbearable Lightness of Being.

DescriptionSometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist,and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple where our existence is given meaning byour perception of a lover, and theirs of us.

With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Kundera has placed such a situation and theresulting wave of panic at the core of the novel. In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets inmotion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality.Profound, sad and disquieting but above all a love story, Identity provides further proof of Kundera's astonishing gifts as anovelist.


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JokeMilan Kundera

The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, of which Salman Rushdie wrote 'It is impossible to do justice here to thesubtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The author of The Joke is clearly one of the best tobe found anywhere.'

DescriptionThe Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literaryreputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised translation is the definitive edition of his work.

'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The author of TheJoke is clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie, Observer


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Life is ElsewhereMilan Kundera

Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera is an intriguing early novel from the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist andauthor of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

DescriptionA budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takesus through the young man's fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de force, alive with wit, eroticism and ideas.


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The Death of Lucy KyteNicola Upson

'Who is Lucy Kyte?' Macdonald shrugged. 'Your guess is as good as mine. Lucy Kyte is a mystery.'

DescriptionWhen bestselling crime author Josephine Tey inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full ofsecrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother's life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committednear the cottage a century before. Yet this old crime - dubbed the Red barn murder - still seems to haunt the tight-knitvillage and its remote inhabitants.

As Josephine settles into the house, she knows that something dark has a tight hold on the heart of this small community.Is it just the ghosts of the Red Barn murder, or is there something very much alive that she needs to fear?

Trapped in this isolated community and surrounded by shadows of obsession, abuse and deceit, can Josephine untanglehistory from present danger and prevent a deadly cycle beginning once again?

About the AuthorNicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as afreelance journalist, and is the author of two non-fiction works and the recipient of an Escalator Award from the ArtsCouncil England. Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character isJosephine Tey - one of the leading authors of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. She lives with her partner inCambridge and spends much of her time in Cornwall.

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Two For SorrowNicola Upson

Third in the gripping new golden age detective series featuring Josephine Tey.

DescriptionLondon, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. More than thirty years later, Josephine Teysets out to write a novel about Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious Finchley baby farmers. Meanwhile, herfriend, Inspector Archie Penrose, is investigating the sadistic murder of a young seamstress, found dead in the Motleysisters' studio, amid preparations for a star-studded charity gala.

The girl's death seems to be the result of a long-standing domestic feud, but Archie is unconvinced; and when a secondyoung woman is involved in a horrific accident soon afterwards, the search begins for a vicious killer who will stop atnothing to keep the past where it belongs.

About the AuthorNicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as afreelance journalist, and is the author of two non-fiction works and the recipient of an Escalator Award from the ArtsCouncil England. Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character isJosephine Tey - one of the leading authors of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. She lives with her partner inCambridge and spends much of her time in Cornwall, which was the setting for her second novel, Angel with Two Faces.Two for Sorrow is the third book in the Josephine Tey series, followed by Fear in the Sunlight.

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Fear in the SunlightNicola Upson

Hitchcock meets Josephine Tey in this wonderfully atmospheric murder mystery.

DescriptionSummer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortiethbirthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine's novel, A Shilling forCandles, and Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertained - and expose theirdeepest fears.

But things get out of hand when one of Hollywood's leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near thevillage. The following day, as fear and suspicion take over in a setting where nothing - and no one - is quite what it seems,Chief Inspector Archie Penrose becomes increasingly unsatisfied with the way the investigation is ultimately resolved.Several years later, another horrific murder, again linked to a Hitchcock movie, drives Penrose back to the scene of theoriginal crime to uncover the shocking truth.


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An Expert in MurderNicola Upson

From a great new talent in British crime writing, this is the first in an engrossing new series that cleverly blendsfact and fiction.

DescriptionAn Expert in Murder is the first in a new series which features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its leadcharacter, placing her in the richly-peopled world of 1930s theatre which formed the other half of her writing life. It'sMarch, 1934, and Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to celebrate what should be the triumphant final week of hercelebrated play, Richard of Bordeaux. However, a seemingly senseless murder puts her reputation, and even her life,under threat.

Cleverly blending fact and fiction, An Expert in Murder is both a tribute to one of the most enduringly popular writers ofcrime and an atmospheric detective novel in its own right.


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Angel with Two FacesNicola Upson

The second in the enthralling historical crime series featuring Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey.

DescriptionInspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his family home in Cornwall so she can recover from thetraumatic events depicted in An Expert in Murder. Josephine welcomes the opportunity, especially since Archie's home isnear the famous Minack open-air theatre perched on the cliffs overlooking the sea. However, Josephine's hopes ofexperiencing a period of rest are dashed when her arrival coincides with the funeral of a young man from the village whohad drowned when his horse inexplicitly leapt into the nearby lake.

When another young man disappears and the village's curate falls from the cliffs of the Minack Theatre onto the rocksbelow, Josephine and Archie begin to suspect the involvement of a cold blooded murderer.

As Josephine and Archie try to unravel the mystery, they begin to see death as an angel with two faces - one gazing atthe violence in the present, the other looking back to the crimes hidden in the past.


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I Saw A ManOwen Sheers

A powerful contemporary literary thriller: a mesmerising exploration of lies, guilt and sorrow. The event thatchanged all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner -thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door.

DescriptionThe event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner -thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door.

After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship with theNelson family next door. Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters seem to represent everything Michael fears hemay now never have: intimacy, children, stability and a family home. Despite this, the new friendship at first seems tooffer the prospect of healing, but then a catastrophic event changes everything. Michael is left bearing a burden of griefand a secret he must keep, but the truth can only be kept at bay for so long.

Moving from London and New York to the deserts of Nevada, I Saw a Man is a brilliant exploration of violence, guilt andattempted redemption, written with the pace and grip of a thriller. Owen Sheers takes the reader from close observation ofthe domestic sphere to some of the most important questions and dilemmas of the contemporary world.

About the AuthorOwen Sheers has written two collections of poetry, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill. His non- fiction includes The DustDiaries and Calon: A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby. His novel Resistance has been translated into ten languagesand was made into a film in 2011. His plays include The Passion and The Two Worlds of Charlie F. He has been a NYPLCullman Fellow, Writer in Residence for the Wordsworth Trust and Artist in Residence for the Welsh Rugby Union.

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Faber Fiction

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In My HouseAlex Hourston

This unsettling debut novel tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two very different women.

DescriptionIn the queue for the toilets at Gatwick, a teenage girl catches 57-year-old Margaret Benson's eye in the mirror and mouthsthe world help. Margaret's reaction leads to the dramatic rescue of the teenager from her trafficker and Margaret becomesa hero.

But when the story gets picked up by the papers, Margaret is panicked by the publicity, as well as the strange phone callsshe begins to receive. Meanwhile Anja makes contact. She wants to thank her rescuer, but she also quickly insertsherself into Margaret's lonely life. As their friendship develops, so do questions: who is Margaret hiding from, and whatare Anja's true motives? And what is the cost of living a lie?

About the AuthorAfter fifteen years writing strategy for advertising agencies, Alex Hourston took a break to go back to university and herfirst love, books. She completed a Masters in English and started a PhD, but put it aside when the idea for this novelsurfaced. Alex lives outside Brighton with her family. She is working on her second novel, an exploration of infidelity andemotional inheritance.

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All Over Ireland: New Irish Short Storiesedited by Deirdre Madden

The fifth volume of new Irish short stories, in a series established by the late David Marcus.

DescriptionAll Over Ireland, edited by Deirdre Madden (Molly Fox's Birthday, Time Present and Time Past), continues the tradition offeaturing the work of both new and established writers, including Colm Toibin, Mary Morrissy and Eoin McNamee. Thesediverse and accomplished stories, by turns dazzling, thoughtful and startling, bring new ideas and energy to the form andrichly enhance the tradition of Irish fiction.

About the AuthorDeirdre Madden is from Toomebridge, Co. Antrim. Her novels include One by One in the Darkness, Authenticity, MollyFox's Birthday and, most recently, Time Present and Time Past. She has twice been shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Sheteaches at Trinity College, Dublin, and is a member of the Irish Arts Academy, Aosdana.

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The Red LionPatrick Marber

Patrick Marber's brilliant new play The Red Lion premieres at the National Theatre in June 2015.

DescriptionPassion. Loyalty. Salvation.

Small time semi-pro football, the non-league. A world away from the wealth and the television cameras. A young playertouched with brilliance arrives from nowhere. An ambitious manager determines to make him his own. And the old soul ofthe club still has dreams of glory.

A haunting and humorous new play about the dying romance of the great English game - and the tender, savage love thatpowers it.

About the AuthorPatrick Marber was born in 1964. He began his career as a stand-up comedian and writer in 1986. He cowrote andappeared in a number of radio and television programmes including The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You. In1995 his first play, Dealer's Choice, premiered at the National Theatre in a production he also directed. Since then he haswritten plays and screenplays including After Miss Julie, Closer, Howard Katz, Don Juan in Soho, Notes on a Scandal andLove You More. He lives in London with his wife and their three children.

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Faber Plays


Moira Buffini: Plays 2: Dinner; Dying for It; A Vampire Story; Welcometo Thebes; HandbaggedMoira Buffini

A superb collection of plays by award-winning writer Moira Buffini.

DescriptionDinner

'A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next . . . For thosewith strong stomachs, Dinner offers a delicious feast of comedy and the macabre.' Daily Telegraph

Dying for It

'A subversive Russian classic: one that addresses the ultimate question of "why live?"' Guardian

'The play, freely adapted by Moira Buffini, presents a glorious gallery of comic types.' Independent

Welcome to Thebes

'It's thrilling. Moira Buffini's strange and daring play is moving, wise, funny, horrifying . . . Full of resonances you weren'texpecting, jokes you didn't see coming . . . It raises huge questions with wit.' The Times

Handbagged

Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre

'A phenomenon.' Sunday Telegraph

'Perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.' Guardian

About the AuthorMoira Buffini's plays include Blavatsky's Tower (Machine Room), Gabriel (Soho Theatre), Silence (Birmingham Rep),Loveplay (Royal Shakespeare Company), Dinner (National Theatre and West End), Dying for It, adapted from TheSuicide by Nikolai Erdman (Almeida), A Vampire Story (NT Connections), Marianne Dreams (Almeida Theatre) andWelcome to Thebes (National Theatre). She lives in London with her husband and children.

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How to Hold Your BreathZinnie Harris

An epic look at the true cost of principles and how we live now.

DescriptionBecause we live in Europe. Because nothing really bad happens. The worst is a bit of an inconvenience. Perhaps notsuch a good mini break. But really in the grand scheme of life, not so bad.

Starting with a seemingly innocent one night stand, this dark, witty and magical play by Zinnie Harris dives into our recentEuropean history.

An epic look at the true cost of principles and how we live now, How to Hold Your Breath premiered at the Royal CourtTheatre in February 2015.

About the AuthorZinnie Harris is an award-winning British playwright, screenwriter and director currently living in Edinburgh.

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A Double Sorrow: Troilus and CriseydeLavinia Greenlaw

Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award.

DescriptionWhen Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the mostcaptivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from the opening lineof that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs.

Set against the Siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whosetraitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners.In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will beuniversally condemned and looks instead to a temporary measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promisingTroilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks she soon realises theimpossibility of her promise to Troilus, and in despair succumbs to another.

Lavinia Greenlaw's pinpoint retelling of this heart-wrenching tale is neither a translation nor strictly a 'version' of Chaucer'swork, but instead creates something new: a sequence of glimpses from the medieval poem that refine the psychologicaldrama of the classical story through a process of detonation or amplification of image and phrase into original poems. In aseries of skillfully crafted seven-line vignettes, the author creates a zoetrope that serves to illuminate the intensity withwhich these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shatteringread - contemporary and timeless - that builds into an unforgettable telling of this most heartbreaking of love stories.

About the AuthorLavinia Greenlaw was born in London where she has lived for most of her life. She studied seventeenth- century art at theCourtauld Institute, and was awarded a NESTA fellowship to pursue her interest in vision, travel and perception. Herpoetry includes Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has alsopublished novels and works of non-fiction which include The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel:William Morris in Iceland. She has won a number of prizes and held residencies at the Science Museum and the RoyalSociety of Medicine. Her work for BBC radio includes programmes about the Arctic, the Baltic, Emily Dickinson andElizabeth Bishop.

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Mother of EdenChris Beckett

From a rising star of British Science Fiction comes a richly imagined, thought-provoking sequel to Dark Eden,winner of the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Description'We speak of a mother's love, but we forget her power. Power over life. Power to give and to withhold.'

Generations after the breakup of the human family of Eden, the Johnfolk emphasise knowledge and innovation, theDavidfolk tradition and cohesion. But both have built hierarchical societies sustained by violence and dominated by men -and both claim to be the favoured children of a long-dead woman from Earth that all Eden knows as Gela, the mother ofthem all.

When Starlight Brooking meets a handsome and powerful man from across Worldpool, she believes he will offer an outletfor her ambition and energy. But she has no idea that she will be a stand-in for Gela herself, and wear Gela's ring on herown finger.

And she has no idea of the enemies she will make, no inkling that a time will come when she, like John Redlantern, willchoose to kill...

About the AuthorChris Beckett is a university lecturer living in Cambridge. He has written over 20 short stories, many of them originallypublished in Interzone and Asimov's. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Story competition, 2009, for The Turing Test,as well as the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013, for Dark Eden.

http://www.chris-beckett.com

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Saint MazieJami Attenberg

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundownBowery district of New York City during the 1920s and '30s.

DescriptionMeet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundown Bowery districtof New York City. She spends her days taking tickets, chatting with drunks and eccentrics, and chasing out thetroublemakers. After closing up, the nights are her own, and she fills them with romance and booze aplenty - even duringProhibition.

When the Great Depression hits, and homelessness soars, Mazie opens The Venice to those in need, giving them shelterand dimes for food and booze, and earning the nickname 'Saint Mazie'. Inspired by Joseph Mitchell's essay about Maziein Up in the Old Hotel, acclaimed author Jami Attenberg's novel honours an extraordinary life and heralds a completelyoriginal approach to writing historical fiction.

Weaving together fictionalised diaries, writings and interviews, Attenberg has constructed an utterly convincing portrait ofMazie Philips, which is also a deeply moving portrait of New York as it passed through the First World War, Prohibition,the boom of the '20s, and then the terrible depression of the '30s.

About the AuthorJami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and the novels, The Kept Man and The Melting Season.Her last book, The Middlesteins, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was published in ninecountries. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at jamiattenberg.com or follow her @jamiattenberg.

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Things We Have in CommonTasha Kavanagh

Sue Townsend meets Zoe Heller in this dark, twisted and heartbreakingly vulnerable tale.

DescriptionYasmin would give anything to have a friend . . .

And do anything to keep one.

The first time I saw you, you were standing at the far end of the playing field. You were looking down at your brownstraggly dog, but then you looked up, your mouth going slack as your eyes clocked her. Alice Taylor. I was no different. Iused to catch myself gazing at the back of her head in class, at her silky fair hair swaying between her shoulder blades.

If you'd glanced just once across the field you'd have seen me standing in the middle on my own, looking straight at you,and you'd have gone back through the trees to the path quick, tugging your dog after you. You'd have known you'd givenyourself away, even if only to me.

But you didn't. You only had eyes for Alice.

About the AuthorTasha Kavanagh worked in film editing for ten years, on features including Twelve Monkeys, Seven Years in Tibet andThe Talented Mr Ripley. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. She has published several childen's books underher maiden name, Tasha Pym. She lives in Hertfordshire with her family. Things We Have in Common is her first novel.

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Canongate Trade

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781760110093Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 336 pagesMain Category: B Biography/autobiographySub Category: BM MemoirsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living: Wellington Point, QLD

Here Comes the SunJeremy Oxley and Mary Oxley Griffiths

An inspirational and heart-wrenching memoir of fame, schizophrenia, struggle and love by Sunnyboysfrontman Jeremy Oxley and his wife Mary Oxley Griffiths.

DescriptionJeremy Oxley was diagnosed with schizophrenia aged 22, at the height of his fame as singer of the popular bandSunnyboys. Terrified and in denial, he tried to hide his diagnosis from family, band mates and friends, who attributed hiserratic and sometimes terrifying behaviour to drug and alcohol abuse.

Following harrowing experiences with the woeful mental health services of the day, Jeremy took himself off hisprescription drugs and self-medicated with alcohol, gradually alienating friends and family alike till he became a hermitliving in a small town in New South Wales, shut off from any kind of life or support.

A Sunnyboys fan, Mary Griffiths was a nurse who had been widowed for five years with young twin boys. After beingshocked to discover how Jeremy was living, she and her sons determined to find him and help him. At their first meeting,Mary was able to see through Jeremy's illness and recognise signs of the sensitive, beautiful and frightened man within.Her boys instantly loved him and he in turn was immediately calm around them.

Jeremy's willingness to get well under Mary's guidance was driven by a deep desire to have the things we all mostly takefor granted: a loving family, security, and control of his health and life. Slowly, painfully, but together, Jeremy and Maryput everything into reclaiming his life and building a family.

That struggle is told here for the first time by Mary and Jeremy, whose distinctive voices trace Jeremy's remarkablejourney from darkness to the light, and from the depths of despair to hope and love. It will move and inspire all who readit.

About the AuthorJeremy grew up in the northern NSW coastal town of Kingscliff before moving to Sydney when he finished school toattend Alexander Mackie Art School. Within that first year, he dropped out of art school to play music full time, formingSunnyboys with his brother Peter, school friend Bil Bilson and Richard Burgman. Sunnyboys enjoyed rapid success withhits 'Happy Man' and 'Alone With You' from their debut album, which quickly went 'gold'. The band toured relentlessly andput out three albums until the band's sudden demise following Jeremy's diagnosis with schizophrenia at 22. For the nextten years, Jeremy lived in Sydney, dabbling in music, trying to keep busy, but was plagued by the crippling effects of hisillness. In the mid 1990s he moved to the country to enjoy a quieter life and began painting prolifically. In 2008, he metMary, who helped him become successfully medicated for the first time and he slowly rebuilt his life. In 2011, the couplemarried. In 2012, the original band reformed and have been enjoying great success once again.

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Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99)ISBN: 9781743319383Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 352 pagesMain Category: WS SportSub Category: WS SportIllustrations:Previous Titles: The Australian Book of True Crime (Pier 9, 2011);

Bumper: the life and times of Frank 'Bumper'Farrell (Hachette, 2011); The Australian book ofheroism; (Pier 9, 2010); Razor: Tilly Devine,Kate Leigh and the razor gangs (Pan Macmillan,2009)

Author now living: Woollahra NSW

Dangerous Games: Australia at the 1936 Nazi OlympicsLarry Writer

A team of 33 Australian athletes competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Poorly prepared and withlimited support, they bravely faced formidable competition. Larry Writer recreates their experience so vividlywe can imagine ourselves in the famous stadium surrounded by swastikas.

Description'Larry Writer has delivered a gem in Dangerous Games' - Roland Perry, author of Bill the Bastard

'Writer has faithfully recreated the 1936 Olympics - the most controversial in history... Hitler, the host, represented thedarkest evil...those Australians, the purest innocence.' - Harry Gordon, author of Australia and the Olympic Games

This is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes left Australia in May 1936 to compete in the Hitler Olympics inBerlin. Believing sporting competition was the best antidote to tyranny, they put their qualms on hold. Anything to be partof the greatest show on earth.

Dangerous Games drops us into a front row seat at the 100,000-capacity Olympic stadium to witness some of the finestsporting performances of all time - most famously the African American runner Jesse Owens, who eclipsed the bestathletes the Nazis could pit against him in every event he entered. The Australians, with their antiquated training regimesand amateur ethos, valiantly confronted the intensely focused athletes of Germany, the United States and Japan. Behindthe scenes was cut-throat wheeling and dealing, defiance of Hitler, and warm friendships among athletes.

What they did and saw in Berlin that hot, rainy summer influenced all that came after until their dying days.

About the AuthorLarry Writer is an award-winning author with an interest in sport, history and crime.

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Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99)ISBN: 9781760112097Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 392 pagesMain Category: B Biography/autobiographySub Category: BM MemoirsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living: Randwick, NSW

The World At My Feet: The extraordinary story of the record-breakingfastest run around the EarthTom Denniss

The truly remarkable story of Tom Denniss' record-breaking circumnavigation of the world on foot.

DescriptionIn 2013, Australian Tom Denniss became the fastest person to circumnavigate the world on foot. His epic journey lastednearly two years, and for each of the 622 days it took him to run around the planet, Tom completed the equivalent of amarathon or more. Based on distance alone his feat was an extraordinary act of endurance, but along the way Tom alsosurvived a near-death experience on an ice cliff as he was running over the top of the Andes, was chased by dogs,snakes and suspicious border police, narrowly avoided lethal cars and buses, suffered in 60-degree heat and sub-zeroblizzards, tore through 17 pairs of runners, and raised tens of thousands of dollars for Oxfam. He also experienced anamazing diversity of scenery, culture, food and people as he traversed New Zealand, North and South America, Europefrom the Atlantic to the Bosphorus, and Australia from Fremantle to Sydney.

The World at My Feet is his account of an incredible 26,232 kilometre run, and a vivid insight into an adventure of trulyglobal proportions.

About the AuthorTom Denniss works for Oceanlinx, a company he founded in 1997. The company has developed a technology to convertthe energy in ocean waves into electricity. The technology has recently reached cost-competitiveness with other forms ofrenewable energy, and the company's first fully commercial wave energy plant is expected to be operating by late 2013.Tom Denniss has a PhD in Mathematics and Oceanography, as well as a First Class Honours degree in Science and adegree in Mathematics. Besides his employment at Oceanlinx, he has worked as a high school teacher, a universitylecturer, and an investment banker. Tom is also a former professional musician, having played to audiences in eightdifferent countries, a former professional rugby league player, and an amateur artist.

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Allen & Unwin

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99)ISBN: 9781760111076Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 320 pagesMain Category: HB HistorySub Category: HBJM Australasian & Pacific HistoryIllustrations: 8 colour pics in 4pp section + 12 b&w pics in

8pp sectionPrevious Titles: Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian

stories (Allen and Unwin, 2014); Great AnzacStories (Allen and Unwin, 2013); The Soldiers'Press: Trench Journals in the First World War(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); A Century of SilentService (Boolarong Press 2013); Outlaw heroes

The Savage Shore: Extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy fromthe early voyages of discovery to AustraliaGraham Seal

Remarkable stories from the dangerous early voyages to Australia - long before Captain Cook claimed it forthe English - reveal a very different history than the triumphal British version we learnt at school.

DescriptionThe search for the great south land began in ancient times and was a matter of colourful myth and cartographical fantasyuntil the Dutch East India Company started sending ships in the early seventeenth century.

Graham Seal tells stories from the centuries it took to discover Australia through many voyages by the Dutch, Spanish,Portuguese, French and Macassans. Captain Cook arrived long after the continent had been found. This is a grippingaccount of danger at sea, dramatic shipwrecks, courageous castaways, murder, much missing gold, and terrible loss oflife. It is also a period of amazing feats of navigation and survival against the odds.

We now know the Dutch were far more active in the early exploration of Australia than is generally understood, and weremost likely the first European settlers of the continent.

'It is great to have a book that covers the whole, truly amazing, story of the maritime discovery of Australia. It also addsgreat insight into the mostly tragic clash of cultures between the Europeans and indigenous people.' - John Longley AM,Chair of the Duyfken Foundation

About the AuthorGraham Seal is Professor of Folklore at Curtin University, and a leading expert on Australian cultural history. He is authorof the bestselling Great Australian Stories and Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories.

JULY 2015

Allen & Unwin

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781760290269Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: 240 pagesMain Category: HB HistorySub Category: HBJM Australasian & Pacific HistoryIllustrations:Previous Titles: Frost, Lucy, and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, eds,

Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives. MelbourneUniversity Press, Carlton 2001. Winner of the2004 Kay Daniel Prize.

Frost, Lucy, ed., Wilde Eve: Eve Langley's Story. Random HouseAustralia, Sydney 1999.

Abandoned Women: Scottish convicts exiled beyond the seasLucy Frost

From the crowded tenements of Edinburgh to the Female Factory nestling in the shadow of Mt Wellington,dozens of Scottish women convicts were exiled to Van Diemen's Land with their young children. This is a richand evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago.

Description'Her superb research and sympathetic reconstructions of nineteenth-century Scotland and Australia bring to life a long-forgotten but fascinating group of women.' - Siân Rees, author of The Floating Brothel

In the early nineteenth century, crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, and familiessplintered. Orphan girls, single mothers and women on their own all struggled to feed and clothe themselves. For some,petty theft became a part of life. Any woman deemed 'habite & repute a thief' might find herself before the High Court ofJusticiary, tried for yet another minor theft and sentenced to transportation 'beyond Seas'.

Lucy Frost memorably paints the portrait of a boatload of women and their children who arrived in Hobart in 1838. Insteadof serving time in prison, the women were sent to work as unpaid servants in the houses of settlers. Feisty Scottishconvicts, unaccustomed to bowing and scraping, often irritated their middle-class employers, who charged them withinsolence, or refusing to work, or getting drunk. A stint in the female factory became their punishment.

Many women survived the convict system and shaped their own lives once they were free. They married, had childrenand found a place in the community. Others, though, continued to be plagued by errors and disasters until death.

About the AuthorLUCY FROST has spent a career researching and writing about nineteenth-century women. She is the author of NoPlace for a Nervous Lady and other books on women's experience.

JULY 2015

Allen & Unwin

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781760111793Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 304 pagesMain Category: D LiteratureSub Category: DQ Anthologies (non-poetry)Illustrations:Previous Titles: Australia's Best Unknown Stories, Best

Australian Bush Stories, Best Australian RacingStories, Best Australian Sea Stories, BestAustralian Trucking Stories, Best AustralianYarns, Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids, GreatAustralian Book of Limericks

Author now living: Kensington NSW

The Best Gallipoli Yarns and Forgotten StoriesJim Haynes

A unique collection of poignant, horrorific, sad, and sometimes dryly humorous, stories and yarns from bloodybattlefield of Gallipoli.

DescriptionThey were shipped like sheep when the dawn was grey; And as the ships left Mudros Bay They squatted and perchedwhere'er they could, And they laughed and swore as we knew they would. Knew they would- Knew they would; Theylaughed and swore as we knew they would. -Henry Lawson

When 26,000 Anzac troops went ashore at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, most were going into battle for the first time. Theseare their yarns, poems and recollections... their stories of recruitment, their memories of life in the trenches, their accountsof the fighting and their evocations of coming home. Here are the stories of Australian nurses tending the wounded, theLight Horsemen who had to leave their mounts in Egypt, and the strange bond between the Australians and their Turkishenemy.

This is a collection full of poignancy, horror and sadness, as well as dry Aussie humour from one of Australia's mostsuccessful storytellers. It reminds us that Gallipoli was more than a military campaign. These are the forgotten stories andyarns that give heart to the Anzac legend.

About the AuthorJim Haynes is one of Australia's best known storytellers. Before becoming a professional entertainer, song writer andverse writer in 1988, Jim taught writing, literature, history and drama in schools and universities from outback NSW toBritain and back again. He is the author of many 'Best Australian' titles, including books trucking, unknown stories andhorse racing. He is one of the country's most prolific and successful authors.

JULY 2015

Allen & Unwin

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781760113056Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x128mmExtent: 248 pagesMain Category: B Biography/autobiographySub Category: BM MemoirsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living: Sydney, NSW

My Mother, My Father: On losing a parentedited by Susan Wyndham

Some of Australia's best known writers share their wise and searingly honest experiences of losing a parent.

DescriptionThe loss of a parent is an experience that we all face without any training - relating to a parent through old age andillness; going through the actual death in different circumstances and whether we can help parents to have a good death;the emotional aftermath - shock, grief, relief, the effect on families; funerals, wills and other rituals; clearing out the houseand keeping memories alive; recovery and carrying on with life; the longer-term changes in us and our relationship withour parents.

Edited by Sydney Morning Herald literary editor, journalist and writer Susan Wyndham, My Mother, My Fatheris acollection of stories from 14 remarkable Australian writers, sharing what it is to feel loss, and all the experiences andmemories that create the image of our parents. Contributors include Helen Garner, David Marr, Tom Keneally, GerardWindsor, Susan Duncan and Caroline Baum.

These stories are intimate, honest, moving, sometimes funny, never sentimental, and always well written.

About the AuthorSusan Wyndham is the literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. In her career as a journalist she has been editor ofGood Weekend magazine, New York correspondent for The Australian and a deputy editor of the Herald. She is theauthor of Life In His Hands: The True Story of a Neurosurgeon and a Pianist, and has edited and contributed to severalother books.

JULY 2015

Allen & Unwin

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781742375885Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 496 pagesMain Category: V Health/fitnessSub Category: VFXB Pregnancy, Birth & Baby CareIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living: Narara, NSW

Dream Baby Guide: Sleep: The essential guide to sleep managementin babiesSheyne Rowley

Australia's 'Baby Whisperer' provides all the information parents and carers need to help their baby sleep well.

DescriptionSheyne Rowley is known as Australia's Baby Whisperer because of the highly successful program she's developed tohelp parents assist their babies to be calm, content and happy.

In this concise, easy-to-read book, Sheyne outlines the skills your baby needs for good sleep, which include: learning tocope with being put into their cot awake, acceptance of parental guidance, the ability to cope with parents leaving theroom before they go to sleep and learning to be comfortable in their own space.

Your child's sleep will be transform by Sheyne's tried and tested strategies showing you how to:

- identify your child's individual sleep needs, which might be low, average or high.

- communicate with your baby so you can ask them to go to sleep without tears and tantrums.

After years of working closely with thousands of families, Sheyne's first book, Dream Baby Guide, was absolutelycomprehensive. This new condensed version is perfect for exhausted, time-poor parents desperate to show their babyhow to sleep - and have some blissful slumber themselves.

About the AuthorHaving loved, cared for and understood babies since her little sister was born, Sheyne Rowley went on to study EarlyChildhood Development. She became Chief Program Coordinator in the 0-2 room at the ABC TV childcare centre beforemoving to the UK where she worked with families with multiple births. In the UK Sheyne discovered that children behavequite differently in their own homes, and that it is their home life, routines and family experiences that shape theirbehaviour. After returning to Australia, Sheyne eventually set up her Sleep Baby Sleep Service and seven years later shecannot keep up with the demand for her services.

JULY 2015

Arena



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JULY 2015

Allen & Unwin

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781783350575Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 304 pagesMain Category: WH HumourSub Category: WH HumourIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons fromModern LifeDavid Mitchell

A collection of the funniest and most brilliant journalism from the much-loved comedian and writer.

DescriptionWhat's wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks inthat sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they bestopped from stopping them? Why is every film and TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are we so reliant onperpetual diversion that someone has created chocolate toothpaste? Is there anything to be done about the Internet?

These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell as he delights us with a tour of the absurdities of modern life -from Ryanair to Downton Abbey, sports day to smoking, nuclear weapons to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made ofcats. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes ItWorse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious nation.

About the AuthorDavid Mitchell is a comedian, actor, writer and the polysyllabic member of Mitchell and Webb. He won BAFTAs for PeepShow and That Mitchell and Webb Look, and has also starred in Jam and Jerusalem, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff andAmbassadors. He writes for the Observer, chairs The Unbelievable Truth, is a team captain on Would I Lie To You? andhas been in two films, neither of which made a profit.

JULY 2015

Faber Paperback



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JULY 2015

Faber Paperback

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00)ISBN: 9781783350643Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 234x156mmExtent: 352 pagesMain Category: HB HistorySub Category: HB HistoryIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Swimming with the Sharks: A journey through the alarming world ofhigh financeJoris Luyendijk

A journey into the dark heart of haute finance and shows us why we have every reason to fear another crash.

DescriptionIf you could peer inside a megabank what would you see? Cigar-smoking, sharp-suited Swimming with the Sharksstriding about the Square Mile like it is the Olympic village? Joris Luyendijk shows us that the truth is very different.Speaking to over two hundred City insiders he sets out to understand the secretive, complex world of finance.

Protected by anonymity, they are refreshingly frank about what they do all day and what makes them tick. They talk abouttheir hopes, fears, how they see themselves and the rest of us and whether they believe things have really changed sincethe crash in 2008.

What emerges is a picture of fear and deep dysfunction. From the toxic short-termism of the 'hire and fire' culture, totechnological and mathematical opacity, life-changing rewards in the face of minimal punishments and megabanks thatknow they are too big to fail, Luyendijk warns we have the blueprint for a new scandal, debacle or even crash.

Unique in scope and access, this is an eye-watering examination of how the City really works and why we should all feelalarmed.

About the AuthorJoris Luyendijk was born in Amsterdam. He is a writer, journalist and author of Hello Everybody!: One Journalist's Searchfor Truth in the Middle East. In 2011 Luyendijk was as ignorant of a 'CDO' or any other maddening financial acronym asyou or I. The Guardian asked him to look at the world of finance from a beginner's perspective and chart his learnings -the hugely popular Banking Blog was the result of this investigation. Follow him on @JLbankingblog.

JULY 2015

Guardian Books

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99)ISBN: 9780571298358Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 216x153mmExtent: 304 pagesMain Category: HP PhilosophySub Category: HP PhilosophyIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Walking AwaySimon Armitage

The sequel to Armitage's bestselling travel book Walking Home.

DescriptionNot content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller andprize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but throughthe very opposite terrain and direction far from home.

In Walking Away Simon Armitage swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west,once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distantcommunities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finsh.

From the surreal pleasuredome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out tothe Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we'vecome to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers.

About the AuthorSimon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. He has publishedten collections of poetry, is the author of two novels as well as the bestselling memoir, All Points North. In 2010 hereceived the CBE for his services to poetry.

JULY 2015

Faber Non Fiction

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99)ISBN: 9780571249893Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x126mmExtent: 250 pagesMain Category: WTL TravelSub Category: WTL TravelIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Walking HomeSimon Armitage

Join Simon Armitage on his heroic, hilarious and moving feat to walk the Pennine Way without a penny in hispocket.

DescriptionIn 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached fromsouth to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackleit the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain, across lonely fells and into the howling wind, he would bewalking home, towards the Yorkshire village where he was born.

Travelling as a 'modern troubadour' without a penny in his pocket, he stopped along the way to give poetry readings invillage halls, churches, pubs and living rooms. His audiences varied from the passionate to the indifferent, and hisreadings were accompanied by the clacking of pool balls, the drumming of rain and the bleating of sheep.

Walking Home describes this extraordinary, yet ordinary, journey. It's a story about Britain's remote and overlookedinterior - the wildness of its landscape and the generosity of the locals who sustained him on his journey. It's about facingemotional and physical challenges, and sometimes overcoming them. It's nature writing, but with people at its heart.Contemplative, moving and droll, it is a unique narrative from one of our most beloved writers.

About the AuthorSimon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient ofnumerous prizes and awards, he has published ten collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (2001), Seeing Stars(2010), his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007) and more recently The Death of King Arthur(2012). A broadcaster and presenter, he also writes extensively for television and radio, is the author of two novels andthe bestselling memoir All Points North. In 2010 he received the CBE for services to poetry.

JULY 2015

Faber Paperback

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9780571307791Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 256 pagesMain Category: KC EconomicsSub Category: KC EconomicsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Consolations of Economics: How We Will All Benefit from theNew World OrderGerard Lyons

In The Consolation of Economics, Gerard Lyons, the chief economic adviser to Boris Johnson, outlines afascinating and refreshing examination of the changing global economy. He predicts stronger economic growthand a rise in life expectancy, income and educational standards.

DescriptionIn the next twenty years the world economy will enjoy one of its strongest periods of growth. Greater innovation andtechnical change will increase opportunities. Life expectancy, income and educational standards will rise. The West'sshare in the global economic cake may get smaller, but there will be more cake than ever before.

These are the predictions of Gerard Lyons, a leading international economist who spent nearly thirty years working in theCity. He is now the chief economic adviser to the Mayor of London. Over the last quarter-century he has been ahead ofthe game in predicting the major economic trends that we now take as a given.

The Consolations of Economics is a lucid and accessible expert's attempt to look objectively at the changing globaleconomy - what is happening and what it means. He shows how we can embrace change, rather than hide from it. Theresults are fascinating, refreshing - and unusually cheering.

About the AuthorGerard Lyons is an expert on the world economy, macro-economic policy and financial markets. He spent twenty-sevenyears in the City and meeting politicians, policymakers and investors across the globe. Now he is Chief Economic Adviserto Boris Johnson. He is widely credited with accurate forecasts before the financial crisis, and in 2010 and 2011Bloomberg ranked him number one global forecaster (out of over 360). He has been a regular on international TV andwritten press columns across the globe.

JULY 2015

Faber Paperback

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781782113430Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x152mmExtent: 368 pagesMain Category: JFF Current AffairsSub Category: JFF Current AffairsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of the GunIain Overton

A fast-paced, fascinating and hard-hitting investigation of the gun's lifespan and into our hugely complexrelationship with firearms and their undeniable impact.

DescriptionEVERY MINUTE, OF EVERYDAY, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE IS SHOT

There are almost one billion guns across the globe today - more than ever before. There are 12 billion bullets producedevery year almost two bullets for every person on this earth. And as many as 500,000 people are killed by them ever yearworldwide. The gun's impact is long-reaching and often hidden. And it doesn't just involve the dead, the wounded, thesuicidal and the mourning. It involves us all.

Gun Baby Gun takes the award-winning investigative journalist Iain Overton on a shocking and eye- opening journey toover 25 countries. Meeting people affected by guns from all walks of life porn starlets who appear as snipers in XXX films,Zionist anti-terror gun trainers, El Salvadoran gangland killers -he unearths some hard truths about the terrible realities ofwar and gun crime. Harrowing and sobering, it's a riveting expose that anyone with even the smallest interest in how theworld really works will want to read.

About the AuthorIain Overton is Director of Investigations at the London-based charity Action on Armed Violence and an award-winninginvestigative journalist who has worked in over eighty countries around the world. Reporting from the killing zones ofColumbia, Iraq and Somalia, as a filmmaker he directed documentaries for the BBC, ITN and Al Jazeera, as well asworking with the Guardian, the Independent and the Sunday Times. His journalism has won a Peabody Award, twoAmnesty Awards and a BAFTA Scotland, among others. He was also founding editor of the Bureau of InvestigativeJournalism. Gun Baby Gun is his first book.

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www.gunbabygun.com

JULY 2015

Canongate Trade

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781782115182Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 220x174mmExtent: 344 pagesMain Category: WZG Gift BooksSub Category: WZG Gift BooksIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Complete Peanuts 1991-1992: Volume 21Charles Schulz, introduction by Tom Tomorrow

The latest in Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Tom Tomorrow.

DescriptionLove takes many shapes and shades in The Complete Peanuts: 1991-1992. Charlie Brown's interest in the Little Red-Haired Girl is rekindles; Linus fails to impress Lydia; Sally hoorays for Hollywood; Marcie pines for the World War I FlyingAce, who becomes lost in his cups (of root beer); Peppermint Patty and Marcie try to make Charlie Brown choosebetween them; and Snoopy is dangerously obsessed . . . with cookies.

About the AuthorCharles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputationworldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.

Tom Tomorrow is the creator of the weekly political cartoon, This Modern World, which appears in approximately 80newspapers across the U.S., and several websites. His work has appeared in publications including The New YorkTimes, The New Yorker, Esquire, The Economist, among others.

JULY 2015

Canongate Trade

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781782115199Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 217x173mmExtent: 344 pagesMain Category: WZG Gift BooksSub Category: WZG Gift BooksIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994: Volume 22Charles Schulz, introduction by Jake Tapper

The latest in Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Jake Tapper.

DescriptionIn the 22nd volume of The Complete Peanuts, you'll see the whole gang waiting . . . and waiting . . . and waiting for a busthat never comes. Charlie Brown finally hits a game-winning home run - off Roy Hobbs's great-granddaughter? Linuslobbies the White House to nominate Snoopy for a Supreme Court seat (alas, it goes to Ruth Bader Ginsburg instead),Woodstock discovers his long-lost grandfather's diary, detailing a hard life in captivity (i.e., a birdcage).

About the AuthorCharles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputationworldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.

Jake Tapper is an American journalist and author. He is the Chief Washington Correspondent and anchor of the CNNweekday television news show The Lead with Jake Tapper.

JULY 2015

Canongate Trade

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9780857868572Format: Paperback - Demy formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 368 pagesMain Category: WB Food And DrinkSub Category: WBA General Cookery And RecipesIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Edible Atlas: Around the World in Thirty-Nine CuisinesMina Holland

'A fascinating project, telling some fantastic stories about a broad range of cuisines. Mina's style is engagingand illuminating and the food cries to be cooked' - Yotam Ottolenghi

DescriptionWinner of UK's Best Culinary Travel Book in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2015

The Edible Atlas is a book for intrepid cooks. Mina Holland takes you on a journey around the globe, demystifying theflavours, ingredients, techniques and dishes at the heart of thirty- nine different cuisines. Learn to recreate dishes from aSouth Indian Coconut Fish Curry to a zingy Ceviche, from a yoghurty Jordanian Mansaf to the ultimate Caribbean JerkChicken. Including words of wisdom from the world's most seasoned food experts - such as Yotam Ottolenghi, Jos.Pizarro and Giorgio Locatelli - The Edible Atlas is as comfortable in the kitchen as it is at your bedside.

About the AuthorMina Holland is Editor of the Guardian's Cook supplement and a food and drink writer. Travelling and living (and eating)abroad inspired her to write about what and why people eat as they do around the globe. The Edible Atlas is her firstbook; it has been shortlisted for the 2015 Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award and won the 2015 Gourmand WorldCookbook Awards Best Culinary Travel Book in the UK.

www.minaholland.com

Twitter @minaholland

JULY 2015

Canongate Pbs

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99)ISBN: 9781846274923Format: Paperback - C formatDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 384 pagesMain Category: HR ReligionSub Category: HRE BuddhismIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha's DaughtersChristine Toomey

Part travelogue, part history, part spiritual enquiry, The Saffron Road tells the story of the women - past andpresent, in the East and the West - who choose to become Buddhist nuns.

DescriptionEvery year, thousands of women choose to become Buddhist nuns. As they make this commitment, they become part ofa long tradition of spirituality that stretches back through the centuries and now embraces the radical possibility that thenext Dalai Lama could be a woman. In The Saffron Road, award- winning journalist Christine Toomey follows in thefootsteps of earlier generations of nuns to trace the historical spread of the religion, from a solitary order in a remote areaof India in the 6th century BC to 1950s San Francisco, where the Beat Generation first popularised Zen philosophy, to theglobally- renowned practitioners of mindfulness of today.

Combining travelogue, history, interviews, and personal reflection, The Saffron Road opens the door on the rarelyglimpsed world of ritual and discipline, reflection and enlightenment.

About the AuthorCHRISTINE TOOMEY has been a foreign correspondent and feature writer for the Sunday Times for more than 20 years,reporting extensively from Latin America, the Middle East and throughout Europe. She has investigated the sinking ofRussia's Kursk nuclear submarine and the mass murder of women in Guatemala, reported from Kosovo and Bosnia onthe fate of children born to women raped during the Balkans wars, tracked down a wanted Nazi war criminal, and lived fora week with the two wives of a Hamas politician in the West Bank. She has received several prizes for her journalism,including two Amnesty International Awards for Magazine Story of the Year.

JULY 2015

Portobello Trade

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781846275869Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 288 pagesMain Category: JFF Current AffairsSub Category: JFF Current AffairsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek CrisisYannis Palaiologos

A riveting examination of the political, social and cultural forces behind Greece's recent great financial crisis,and its effect on the Greeks and Greece today.

DescriptionSince the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention.Observers around the globe have watched with morbid fascination as the country has repeatedly flirted with political andfinancial chaos, as one failed rescue programme has followed another, as extremism spread and its official creditorsbickered about the causes of its inability to recover.

How did a prosperous, seemingly advanced economy in the heart of Europe collapse so precipitously? And why has itproved so hard for it to stand on its feet again? These are the central questions running through The 13th Labour ofHercules. Through a series of compelling stories - from a cancer sufferer depending on charitable health care, to theFinancial Minister charged with clearing up tax evasion, to the union bosses fighting mass unemployment and theworkings of a prejudiced, corrupt government - it brings to life the social, cultural and political forces that left Greecedefenceless when the global economic hurricane came, and the vicious interplay between economic depression,institutional failure and social breakdown since the country's Great Crisis began.

About the AuthorYANNIS PALAIOLOGOS is a features reporter for Kathimerini newspaper in Athens, Greece. He grew up and went toschool in Athens, and studied PPE and post-graduate philosophy at New College, Oxford.

JULY 2015

Portobello Pbs

Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781847088420Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 240 pagesMain Category: HP PhilosophySub Category: HPX Popular PhilosophyIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Empathy Exams: EssaysLeslie Jamison

A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence andsentimentality from an exciting new American talent.

DescriptionThe subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellonsmeeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories aboutinjury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act of describing.

About the AuthorLESLIE JAMISON grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has alsoworked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is currentlystudying for a PhD at Yale University, where she is writing a dissertation on poverty and degradation in twentieth centuryAmerican writing. Her first novel, The Gin Closet, was published in 2010.

JULY 2015

Granta Paperbacks

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9781905881895Format: Paperback - Demy formatDimensions: 210x145mmExtent: 256 pagesMain Category: D LiteratureSub Category: DQ Anthologies (non-poetry)Illustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Granta 132: EmotionsSigrid Rausing

Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding newfiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.

DescriptionFrom Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue ofGranta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. Granta's Best of Youngissues, released decade by decade, introduce the most important voices of each generation - in Britain, America, Braziland Spain -and have been defining the contours of the literary landscape since 1983.

Granta does not have a political or literary manifesto, but it does have a belief in the power and urgency of the story andits supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real. As the Observer wrote of Granta: 'In its blend of memoirs andphotojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against thewindow, determined to witness the world.'

Contributors have included Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Saul Bellow, Fatima Bhutto, Roberto Bolano, A.S. Byatt, Anne Carson, Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Bruce Chatwin, Robert Coover, Edwidge Danticat, Lydia Davis,Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, Mavis Gallant, A.M. Homes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Martha Gellhorn, Nadine Gordimer,Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen King, Milan Kundera, Doris Lessing, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro,Haruki Murakami, Alice Oswald, Adrienne Rich, Salman Rushdie, Karen Russell, W.G. Sebald, Zadie Smith, GeorgeSteiner, Edmund White, Joy Williams and Jeanette Winterson.

About the AuthorSigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is theauthor of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful,which has been translated into four different languages.

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Granta

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781847083470Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 320 pagesMain Category: B Biography/autobiographySub Category: BM MemoirsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His DaughterMaria Venegas

Moving between New York and Mexico, between past and present, this is an unblinking reckoning with adifficult legacy - and an unforgettable introduction to a powerful new literary talent.

DescriptionMaria Venegas had been estranged from her father for fourteen years when she finally made the journey back from theUS to Mexico to visit him in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. As they begin spending summers andholidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fence posts, he starts to share stories with her, tales of a dramaticlife filled with both intense love and brutal violence - from the final conversations he had with his own father and hisextradition from the US for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at age twelve.

In spare, gripping prose, Venegas traces her own life and her father's through the stories she inherited from him andgradually comes to understand the violent undercurrent that has shaped them both.

About the AuthorMARIA VENEGEAS was born in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated illegally to the US at four years old.Bulletproof Vest was excerpted in Granta and in the Guardian in 2009. Her short stories have also appeared inPloughshares and Huizache. She lives in New York.

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Granta Paperbacks

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781847086303Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 352 pagesMain Category: WN Natural HistorySub Category: WN Natural HistoryIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of PlacePhilip Marsden

From an award-winning travel writer, this is an evocative journey around some of the country's most ancientsites and ritual places, and a profound exploration of the relationship between man and the landscape.

DescriptionNearly as old as the hills themselves are the man-made monuments that dot their slopes: the cairns, burial chambers,and stone circles that seem to mark out, in some mysterious way, man's relationship to the landscape. We do not knowwhat impulse drove our earliest ancestors to cluster boulders and prop slabs against the skyline, but as successivegenerations have stood before these strange stones and pondered their origins, such sites have been imbued withsignificance and overlaid with myth.

In Rising Ground, Philip Marsden sets out on foot to explore the power of the landscape and the continuing hold it hasupon our imagination. Starting in Bodmin Moor and moving westward along the narrowing Cornish peninsula to Land'sEnd with a growing awareness of the great ocean beyond, Marsden travels an ancient route of pilgrimage towards thesetting sun, rehearsing the soul's passage after death. Along the way, he seeks out others whose have felt similarlycompelled by the landscape, from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the inventors of the Arthurian legends to Tudortopographers and 18th century antiquarians; and from Romantic scholars to post-industrial poets, abstract painters, andnew-age seekers. As he camps on clifftops, criss-crosses the moors, and digs around in the archives, Marsden reflectson the spirit of place, asks how we are shaped by our connection to the landscape, and takes us right to the heart of whatit means to belong.

About the AuthorPHILIP MARSDEN is a writer and journalist. He is the author of several works of travel writing and non-fiction, includingmost recently The Levelling Sea and The Barefoot Emperor, and a novel, The Main Cages. He is a Fellow of the RoyalSociety of Literature. He lives in Cornwall with his wife and children.

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Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00)ISBN: 9781781251409Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 234x153mmExtent: 416 pagesMain Category: PDZ Popular ScienceSub Category: PDZ Popular ScienceIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Life's Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the GeneticCodeProfessor Matthew Cobb

This thrilling account shows how discovering DNA has fundamentally influenced the way we think of life andaffected every aspect of our lives.

DescriptionLife's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough hashad far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms themost striking proof of Darwin's hypothesis that all organisms are related, holds tremendous promise for improving humanwell-being, and has transformed the way we think about life.

Matthew Cobb interweaves science, biography and anecdote in a book that mixes remarkable insights, theoretical dead-ends and ingenious experiments with the pace of a thriller. He describes cooperation and competition among some of thetwentieth-century's most outstanding and eccentric minds, moves between biology, physics and chemistry, and shows thepart played by computing and cybernetics. The story spans the globe, from Cambridge MA to Cambridge UK, New Yorkto Paris, London to Moscow. It is both thrilling science and a fascinating story about how science is done.

About the AuthorMatthew Cobb is Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester where his research focuses on the sense of smell,insect behaviour and the history of science. His books include The Egg & Sperm Race and acclaimed accounts of theFrench Resistance during the Second World War and the liberation of Paris in 1944.

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Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9781781252147Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 192 pagesMain Category: KJ Business/managemntSub Category: KJMB Management: Leadership & MotivationIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership SuccessGeoff Smart, Randy Street and Alan Foster

Imagine you could find a tried and tested formula to boost your performance as a leader. Well now you can:welcome to the world of Power Score.

DescriptionWhether on the sports field or in the boardroom, leaders and teams intuitively know what it feels like when things aregoing well. But how do you measure this: are things really as good as they seem, or is there room for improvement? Andwhat should leaders really focus on to make a difference? Based on the most comprehensive leadership data evercollected through interviews with over 15,000 leaders, Power Score reveals the startlingly simple method every leadercan use to immediately improve their team's performance - and their own. It starts with asking the question 'Are werunning at full power?' and goes on to ask all the questions you need to ask yourself and your team. The answers mightsurprise you.

Breaking performance down into a team's Power score - Priorities (goals), Who (the people helping you achieve them)and Relationships (leading and managing those people) - Smart, Street and Foster's intuitive guide will explain how youcan use your score to increase your impact, help your team to perform better and enjoy your career to the full. Whetheryou're a CEO managing hundreds of people, a sports coach running a struggling team, or a manager with a team of justone or two Power Score will help you attain 100 per cent.

About the AuthorGeoff Smart is Chairman & Founder of ghSMART, an advisory firm that helps leaders to run their organisations at fullpower. He is author of two New York Times bestselling books, Who and Leadocracy. Geoff earned a PhD in psychologyfrom Claremont Graduate University, where he was mentored by Peter F. Drucker. Randy Street is Managing Partner ofghSMART and co-author of Who. An internationally acclaimed public speaker, he earned his MBA from Harvard BusinessSchool. Alan Foster is a consultant at ghSMART. Alan studied economics at Cambridge University and earned his MBAfrom INSEAD in France.

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At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by SurpriseMichael Brooks

From the author of 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, the radical new discoveries that will transform how wesee the world.

DescriptionThe atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed outof hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Thingsthat Don't Make Sense, investigates the new wave of unexpected insights that are shaping the future of scientificdiscovery.

Through eleven radical new insights, Brooks takes us to the extreme frontiers of what we understand about the world. Hejourneys from the observations that might rewrite our history of the universe, through the novel biology behind our will tolive, and on to the physiological root of consciousness. Along the way, he examines how the underrepresentation ofwomen in clinical trials means that many of the drugs we use are less effective on women than men and more likely tohave adverse effects, explores how merging humans with other species might provide a solution to the shortage of organdonors, and finds out if there is such a thing as the will to live.

When we think about science, we often think of iron-clad facts. But today more than ever, our unshakeable truths havebeen shaken apart. As Michael Brooks reveals, the best science is about open-mindedness, imagination and a love ofmind-boggling adventures at the edge of uncertainty.

About the AuthorMichael Brooks is the author of the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense [9781861976475]. Heholds a PhD in quantum physics, is a consultant at New Scientist and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman.

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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing ScientificMysteries of Our TimeMichael Brooks

Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.

DescriptionEven today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past,similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Copernicus torealise that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse. In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense Michael Brooksmeets thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs.

Is ninety six percent of the universe missing? If no study has ever been able to definitively show that the placebo effectworks, why has it become a pillar of medical science? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an aliencivilization? Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures theexcitement and controversy of the scientific unknown.

About the AuthorMichael Brooks, who has a PhD in quantum physics, is a consultant for New Scientist. His writing has appeared in theGuardian, Independent, Observer and THES.

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The Secret Anarchy of Science: Free RadicalsMichael Brooks

Scientists present themselves as cool, logical and level-headed, but the truth is they will do anything: takedrugs, steal, lie and even cheat - in the pursuit of new discoveries.

DescriptionFor more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooksexplains, the truth is very different: many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines thanlibrarians.

This thrilling exploration of some of the greatest breakthroughs in science reveals the extreme lengths some scientists goto in order to make their theories public. Fraud, suppressing evidence and unethical or reckless PR games are sometimesnecessary to bring the best and most brilliant discoveries to the world's attention. Inspiration can come from the mostunorthodox of places, and Brooks introduces us to Nobel laureates who get their ideas through drugs, dreams andhallucinations. Science is a highly competitive and ruthless discipline, and only its most determined and passionatepractitioners make headlines - and history. To succeed, knowledge must be pursued by any means: in science, anythinggoes.

About the AuthorMichael Brooks is the author of the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense. He holds a PhD inquantum physics, is a consultant at New Scientist and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman.

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Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to GlobalPhenomenonElizabeth Wilson

The only comprehensive narrative history of the world's most international sport.

DescriptionTennis's gladiatorial beauty, its stylish duelling and fashionable court-wear make it a romantic's dream. Ever since youngmen and women first came together to play on vicarage lawns, this most Victorian of games has always had a peculiarlypassionate undercurrent - love even makes it into the scoring system. And passion in other forms - the rivalry of Federerand Nadal, and John McEnroe's legendary angry outbursts.

Beyond the romance, tennis has always been a barometer of the times. French star Suzanne Lenglen was a celebritytrailblazer, Jimmy Connors channelled punk, and Henman Hill is unrecognisable from the days when the All England Clubostracised working-class Fred Perry - and the great English tennis champion who is now more famous as a leisureclothing brand than a sportsman.

Love Game is the must-have companion for tennis fans during Wimbledon 2015. It tells the story of tennis' journey fromupper-middle-class hobby to global TV spectacle, taking in the innovators and trendsetters, the great players, heroes andiconoclasts, and the politics, class wars and culture clashes of what could rightfully be called the 'beautiful game'.

About the AuthorAn independent researcher and writer best known for her commentaries on feminism and popular culture, ElizabethWilson is currently Visiting Professor at the London College of Fashion. She is the author of several non-fiction books,and her novels The Twilight Hour (9781852424770), War Damage (9781846686504) and The Girl in Berlin(9781846688270) are also published by Serpent's Tail.

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Serpents Tail

Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99)ISBN: 9781846689802Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 201x134mmExtent: pagesMain Category: B Biography/autobiographySub Category: BM MemoirsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Lights of Pointe-NoireAlain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson

A moving meditation on home, home-coming and belonging from Francophone Africa's most important writer.

DescriptionAlain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When at lasthe returns home to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's south-eastern coast, he finds a country that in someways has changed beyond recognition: the cinema where, as a child, Mabanckou gorged on glamorous American culturehas become a Pentecostal temple, and his secondary school has been re-named in honour of a previously despisedcolonial ruler.

But many things remain unchanged, not least the swirling mythology of Congolese culture which still informs everyday lifein Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou though, now a decorated French-Congolese writer and esteemed professor at UCLA, findshe can only look on as an outsider at the place where he grew up. As Mabanckou delves into his childhood, into the life ofhis departed mother and into the strange mix of belonging and absence that informs his return to Congo, he slowly buildsa stirring exploration of the way home never leaves us, however long ago we left home.

About the AuthorAlain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo. An award-winning novelist, poet and essayist, Mabanckou currently lives inLA, where he teaches literature at UCLA. His four novels African Psycho, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar and Tomorrow IWill Be Twenty - a fictionalised retelling of Mabanckou's childhood in Congo - are all published by Serpent's Tail. TheLights of Pointe-Noire was selected for an English PEN Award, and in 2015 Mabanckou was listed as a finalist for theMan Booker International Prize.

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Serpents Tail

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9781848318441Format: Paperback - Demy formatDimensions: 204x132mmExtent: 288 pagesMain Category: VS Self-help/personal DevelopmentSub Category: VSPM Assertiveness, Motivation & Self-esteemIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

The Invisible Woman: Taking on the Vintage YearsHelen Walmsley-Johnson

Sixty is the new forty, we're constantly told. Or is it that seventy is the new fifty?

DescriptionSixty is the new forty, we're constantly told. Or is it that seventy is the new fifty?

Yet fashionable clothes shops cater for little but elfin twenty-year-olds; magazines carry little but articles about appearingyounger. Heaven forbid you try to apply for a job...

Older women are permitted to be either part of the slippers and cardigans brigade, or to cling desperately to their youthand insist on being 'young at heart'. Can't there be a third way? A way to age with grace, security, beauty and adventure,and a way to keep your identity against a growing tide of voices telling you how you'd be happier if only you looked tenyears younger.

Covering topics from family, finances and work to cosmetics, fashion and sex, The Invisible Woman - which is alsoHelen's Guardian column nom de plume - is a new sort of book about ageing; one that teaches us not how to avoid it, buthow to enjoy it, grow with it, and thrive.

About the AuthorHelen Walmsley-Johnson is the author of the Guardian's 'The Vintage Years' column, which has 65,000 regular readers.Now 58, Helen relocated to London aged 45, worked for Cameron Mackintosh and the Telegraph, before joining theGuardian as Alan Rusbridger's PA for seven years. She is a passionate believer that there's nothing middle-of-the-roadabout being middle-aged.

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And Some Fell on Stony Ground: A Day in the Life of an RAF BomberPilotLeslie Mann, introduction by Richard Overy

A visceral, affecting fictionalised report of a bombing mission, from a former tailgunner shot down overGermany.

DescriptionIn June 1941, Flight Sergeant Leslie Mann, a tail gunner in a British bomber, was shot down over Germany and taken intocaptivity.

After the war, wanting to record the experiences of the RAF's 'Bomber Boys', he wrote down his inner thoughts andfeelings as a fictional narrative, recently brought to the attention of Imperial War Museums.

Visceral, shocking and unglamorous, it transmits as rarely before the horrors of aerial warfare, the corrosive effects offear, and the psychological torment of the young men involved. Although presented as fiction, the book's solid basis inlived experience makes it ring true - the sights, sounds, smells, and above all the emotional strain are intensely evokedwith a novelist's skill.

Providing a unique glimpse into a deadly profession and a traumatic time, And Some Fell on Stony Ground is afascinating historical artefact in its own right. This compelling story is introduced and placed in context by historianRichard Overy, author of the acclaimed book, The Bombing War (Allen Lane, 2013).

About the AuthorLeslie Mann was born in Penang in 1914, the son of a police inspector. The family later moved to the UK, and Lesliestarted work as a sound engineer at Elstree Studios. He enlisted in the RAF in 1938, and married in 1939. As a reargunner and wireless operator with 51 Squadron at Dishforth, Yorkshire, he flew in Whitley bombers. He was shot down ona raid over Dusseldorf on 20 June 1941: all five crew were captured. Repatriated by the Red Cross in 1943, he worked forPathe News and later became a correspondent in the Korean War and a cameraman in Kenya during the Mau Mauuprising. He then moved to the BBC, for whom he worked as a senior news executive until retirement. He died in 1989.

Richard Overy is an award-winning historian. His book, The Bombing War, was described by Richard J. Evans in theGuardian as 'the most important book published on the history of the second world war this century'.

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The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small hasTransformed Our LivesBrian Clegg

Acclaimed popular science author Brian Clegg demonstrates how quantum physics underpins everyday life.

DescriptionThe stone age, the iron age, the steam and electrical ages all saw the reach of humankind transformed by newtechnology. Now we are living in the quantum age, a revolution in everyday life led by our understanding of the very, verysmall. Today, technologies based on quantum physics account for 30 per cent of US GDP, and yet quantum particlessuch as atoms, electrons and photons remain enigmatic, acting totally unlike the objects we experience directly. Weirdquantum behaviour is also essential to nature. From the mechanism of the Sun to quantum biology in our eyesight,photosynthesis in plants and the ability of birds to navigate, quantum effects are key.

Quantum physics lies at the heart of every electronic device, every smartphone and laser, and now quantumsuperconductors have moved out of the lab to make levitating trains and MRI scanners possible, while soon superfast,ultra-secure quantum computers may be a reality.

Acclaimed popular science author Brian Clegg brings his trademark clarity and enthusiasm to a book that will give theworld around you a new sense of wonder.

About the AuthorScience writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge University and specialises in making the strangest aspects ofthe universe, from infinity to time travel and quantum theory, accessible to the general reader. He is editor of www.popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, The UniverseInside You, Dice World and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide.

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Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9781848879584Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 656 pagesMain Category: B Biography/autobiographySub Category: BG Biography: GeneralIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Victoria: A LifeA. N. Wilson

The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain's best biographers.This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman.

DescriptionWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother offorty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a rulershrouded in myth and mystique an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain's longest reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventionalwomen who ever lived, and the story of her life continues to fascinate.

A. N. Wilson's exhaustively researched and definitive biography includes a wealth of new material from previously unseensources, to show us Queen Victoria as she's never been seen before. It explores the curious set of circumstances that ledto Victoria's coronation, her strange and isolated childhood, her passionate marriage, Prince Albert's pivotal influence, herwidowhood and subsequent intimate friendship with John Brown, all set against the backdrop of this momentous epoch inBritain - and Europe's - history. Victoria is a towering achievement; a masterpiece of biography by a writer at the height ofhis powers.

About the AuthorA. N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire and was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the RoyalSociety of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.

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Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9781848879294Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 368 pagesMain Category: HB HistorySub Category: HBG World HistoryIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Waterloo: A New History of the Battle and its ArmiesGordon Corrigan

A brilliant new military history of the Battle of Waterloo, which details the campaign and battle, its armies andtheir commanders, and brings fresh insight to this epic conflict.

DescriptionFought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle ofWaterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revolutionary and later imperial Franceand her enemies. A decisive defeat for Napoleon and a hard-won victory for the Allied armies of the Duke of Wellingtonand the Prussians led by the stalwart Blucher, it brought about the French emperor's final exile to St Helena and clearedthe way for Britain to become the dominant world power.

A former soldier, Gordon Corrigan is the author of an acclaimed military biography of Wellington and has walked thebattlefields of the Napoleonic era many times. He is perfectly placed to offer a robust, clear and gripping account of thecampaign that surveys the wider military scene before moving on to the actions at Quatre Bras and Ligny and then thefinal, set-piece confrontation at Waterloo itself. He is also well qualified to explore, often in fascinating detail, the relativestrengths and frailties of the very different armies involved French, British, Dutch, Prussian and German - of their variousarms - infantry, artillery and cavalry -and of their men, officers and, above all, their commanders.

Wellington remarked that Waterloo was 'a damned nice thing', 'nice' meaning uncertain or finely balanced. He was right.For his part, Napoleon reckoned 'the English are bad troops and this affair is nothing more than eating breakfast'. He waswrong, and this splendid book proves just how wrong.

About the AuthorGordon Corrigan was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962. He was awarded the MBE(military) in 1996 and retired from the Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1998. He is a member of the British Commission for MilitaryHistory, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. He is the author ofa number of books of military history including Sepoys in the Trenches; Mud, Blood and Poppycock; Blood, Sweat andArrogance; The Second World War; and A Great and Glorious Adventure.

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Atlantic Pbs

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9780857898524Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 560 pagesMain Category: B Biography/autobiographySub Category: BG Biography: GeneralIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Havel: A lifeMichael Zantovsky

This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Vaclav Havel,author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.

DescriptionVaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher-king, an internationally successful playwright who became a political dissidentand then, reluctantly, a president. His pivotal role in the Velvet Revolution, the end of Communism and the birth of amodern, west-facing Czech Republic makes him a key figure of the twentieth century. He was a character of greatcontradictions, a courageous visionary who put his life at risk, a leader who inspired great loyalty; yet a man wracked withdoubt, self-criticism, depression and despair. Above all he was an intellectual and artist, always true to himself, someonewho never lost a profound sense of the absurd.

Michael Žantovsky was one of Havel's closest friends. They met as dissidents under Communism, and when a frail Havelwas released from prison in May 1989 just months before the Velvet Revolution it was Žantovsky who carried his bag forhim; during Havel's first presidency Žantovsky was his press secretary, speech writer and translator, and their friendshipendured until Havel's death in 2011. He is therefore uniquely placed as Havel's biographer; a rare witness to this mostextraordinary life.

About the AuthorMichael Žantovsky is the current Czech Ambassador to the Court of St James. He was among the founding members ofthe movement that coordinated the overthrow of the communist regime. In January 1990 he became the spokesman,press secretary and advisor to his lifelong friend, President Vaclav Havel. He has combined a career in politics and theforeign service with work as an author and translator into Czech of many contemporary British and American writers.

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How to Be Normal: A Guide for the PerplexedGuy Browning

From the bestselling author of Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade and Never Push When You Can Pull comesa new volume of answers to life's most troublesome questions.

DescriptionNormal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None ofthem! In fact you're probably the most normal of the lot and, let's face it, even you're not that normal.

All normal people believe they are a little bit different, a little bit unique and a little bit special. On the other hand no onewants to be abnormal, so it's a fine line to tread. Happily, this brilliantly funny book shows everyone exactly how to beuniquely normally normal.

Is it normal to:

... hold the banister with both hands? ... find the green man at crossings mildly attractive? ... drive a shopping trolley onthe right? ... be afraid of aggressive hand dryers? ... wonder what coconut milk is actually for?

Find out the answers to these and a million other perfectly normal questions in another beautifully funny, surprisingly wiseand consistently heart-warming book from the best-selling Guy Browning.

About the AuthorGuy Browning is a humorist, after-dinner speaker and film director. He wrote the 'How To...' column in the Guardian from1999-2009. Before that he wrote about office politics and social climbing. He currently lives in Kingston Bagpuize inOxfordshire. He is the co-writer of the Sidestroke cartoon in the Sunday Times.

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Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9780571297726Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 272 pagesMain Category: WS SportSub Category: WSQ CyclingIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Shadows on the Road: Life at the Heart of the Peloton, from US Postalto Team SkyMichael Barry

In Shadows on the Road, Michael Barry explores the dreams and passions of cycling in this beautiful, movingand controversial account of life at the heart of the Peloton, from US Postal to Team Sky.

DescriptionIn 2012, veteran cyclist Michael Barry announced his retirement from the sport. Weeks later he testified against his formerteam mate Lance Armstrong, as part of the USADA investigation.In a stunning piece of writing, Barry explores the dreamsand passion of a young, idealistic cycling fan from Toronto, what it was like to go on to ride as a teammate alongside suchgiants of the sport as Lance Armstrong, Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome, and how those dreamswere compromised early on in his career by a sport in crisis.

But it is also the story of his eleven years riding clean, before and after his time in the notorious US Postal Team. Whatwas it like to head for Europe at such a young age, and what was it like to escape the environment of doping, to try andstart again, all the time aware that past actions may one day catch up with him? Offering an elegiac insight into the lifeand mind of a professional sportsman - the pressures, sacrifices, fears, crashes, injuries and neuroses - Shadows on theRoad is a must-read for cycling and sports fans alike.

About the AuthorMichael Barry had a fourteen year career as professional cyclist, riding for several of the top professional teams, includingAmerican Postal and, most recently, Team Sky. A three time Olympian, he performed in all of the premiere races andfinished all of the Grand Tours including the Tour de France. He has written for numerous publications including the NewYork Times, The Times of London, and the Toronto Star, written two books, Inside the Postal Bus and Le M.tier, and co-authored a third, Fitness Cycling.

JULY 2015

Faber Paperback

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00)ISBN: 9781782113423Format: Hard CoverDimensions: 240x162mmExtent: 368 pagesMain Category: JFF Current AffairsSub Category: JFF Current AffairsIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of the GunIain Overton

A fast-paced, fascinating and hard-hitting investigation of the gun's lifespan and into our hugely complexrelationship with firearms and their undeniable impact.

DescriptionEVERY MINUTE, OF EVERYDAY, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE IS SHOT

There are almost one billion guns across the globe today - more than ever before. There are 12 billion bullets producedevery year almost two bullets for every person on this earth. And as many as 500,000 people are killed by them ever yearworldwide. The gun's impact is long-reaching and often hidden. And it doesn't just involve the dead, the wounded, thesuicidal and the mourning. It involves us all.

Gun Baby Gun takes the award-winning investigative journalist Iain Overton on a shocking and eye- opening journey toover 25 countries. Meeting people affected by guns from all walks of life porn starlets who appear as snipers in XXX films,Zionist anti-terror gun trainers, El Salvadoran gangland killers -he unearths some hard truths about the terrible realities ofwar and gun crime. Harrowing and sobering, it's a riveting expose that anyone with even the smallest interest in how theworld really works will want to read.

About the AuthorIain Overton is Director of Investigations at the London-based charity Action on Armed Violence and an award-winninginvestigative journalist who has worked in over eighty countries around the world. Reporting from the killing zones ofColumbia, Iraq and Somalia, as a filmmaker he directed documentaries for the BBC, ITN and Al Jazeera, as well asworking with the Guardian, the Independent and the Sunday Times. His journalism has won a Peabody Award, twoAmnesty Awards and a BAFTA Scotland, among others. He was also founding editor of the Bureau of InvestigativeJournalism. Gun Baby Gun is his first book.

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JULY 2015

Canongate Trade

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99)ISBN: 9781846685729Format: Paperback - B formatDimensions: 198x129mmExtent: 560 pagesMain Category: HB HistorySub Category: HB HistoryIllustrations:Previous Titles:Author now living:

Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one manMatthew Engel

Matthew Engel takes the road less travelled through England's historic counties.

DescriptionEngland, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historicEnglish counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more ofhistory: still a unique slice of a nation that has not quite lost its ancient diversity.

He finds the well-dressers of Derbyshire and the pyromaniacs of Sussex; the Hindus and huntsmen of Leicestershire; thegoddess-worshippers of Somerset. He tracks down the real Lancashire, hedonistic Essex, and the most mysterioushouse in Middlesex. In Durham he goes straight from choral evensong to the dog track. As he seeks out the essence ofeach county - from Yorkshire's broad acres to the microdot of Rutland - Engel always finds the unexpected.

Engel's England is a totally original look at a confused country: a guidebook for people who don't think they need aguidebook. It is always quirky, sometimes poignant and often extremely funny.

About the AuthorMatthew Engel is a journalist and author. He has written for the Guardian and Financial Times, among other publications,and was the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for twelve years. His books include Eleven Minutes Late: A TrainJourney to the Soul of Britain and Extracts from the Red Notebooks.

JULY 2015

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