Dennis Jones & Associates New Title Releases September 2015

I hope you have had a sound year of trading and control of overheads. We had a year of consolidation amid excellent sales of print books out of bookshops as well as the continued growth of sales of digital books.

Our continued positioning as the Australian book distributor seems to be the right positioning for the business as predominantly our content is not easily procured via overseas online businesses. And our books are not underpinned by the discount chains. The reality is that we seem to have book promotion launches and media everyday across Australia. Then again that has some communication demands – I look at our website almost daily to find out about the extent of the media.

I sent the reply back to the Publishers Association about Titlepage (TP). It won’t happen under the current constraints the owners of TP place over that search engine. As a business we could become members of that association if it allowed (as a consequence) our publishers get a free pass under our umbrella. But that is not the case.

Reader's Digest start with us this month as did Hinkler last month. I don’t believe either are members of the Publishers Association and I don’t wish to have to ask them to join that organisation for the purpose of TP listing. A contrary view would be to muster the non TP distributors and engage in another “industry” P&A database for those bookshops who don’t use distributors' sites. There are not many independent book distributors in Australia – I can count four others. If we did this it would be likely to have conjoined P&A from two overseas wholesalers as well. Interesting?

This week saw the departure of Martin Shaw from Readings Carlton. A farewell saw trade luminaries such as Henry from Scribe, Peter (ex MD of Wiley), and a host of others in attendance. Both Henry and Peter represent such rich and complex histories as they have contributed so much to the quality of the industry. Martin Shaw has been publicly acknowledged as a gate keeper and a person of profound engagement with books and authors to the benefit of readers. A function of size allows people like Martin to grow into a role which has had great benefit to his employer and again to the readers and authors who came under his stewardship.

I do remember one presentation to a group where Martin was present with a proposed book jacket which I had approved; it only took a look and some brief words from Martin to have me out of the room, onto the publisher and have the whole jacket redesigned overnight. Good luck to Martin in his next book role overseas. We all have people like Martin in our businesses who are our link people – where would we be without them?

The BEA / IDPF was again most helpful this year in terms of my continued belief in the globalisation of the book business. I recently wrote to Bill McCoy (Executive Director of IDPF) saying we were not destined to the Smithsonian of Digital Content because of our constant relationship with change and opportunity.

I have hopes we can properly make the “Solomon’s Noose” (Melbourne Books) available to the UK trade based on using the Print on Demand services of Lightning Source. We should have both paperback and jacketed hardback for the stores when author Steve Harris makes his promotional visit to Oxford shops in October this year. I have to say that reading Steve’s book made me think of the time I discovered Watkin Tench’s 1788 some years ago. Thank you to Petrarchs in Launceston for their opening order for this book.

Our second half books are amazing. For financial purposes I have to put a budget in to provide some reality to business ownership and it looks like our top books will create a higher level of sales than we achieved in the same period in 2014.

The biggest will be a November release “The Seekers Singing Just for You". This is written with the full cooperation of the members of that group and will be a book for 10’s of thousands of Australian readers.

On a closing note we welcome Andrew Farrell to the ownership group of the company. Andrew has bought a level of intellect and applied skills that has lifted the whole structure and ambit of the venture. Thank you Andrew.

As always, “read plenty and sell more”.

DJ

Words from the Wise

Money & Mindfulness

DO YOU HAVE BIG DREAMS AND BIG PLANS, BUT LACK THE RESOURCES TO PURSUE THEM? DO YOU FIND YOURSELF SAYING “IF ONLY I HAD THE MONEY…” ARE YOU TOO EMBARRASSED TO ASK OTHERS FOR HELP?

In her best‐selling book Daring & Disruptive and its sequel Life & Love, serial entrepreneur Lisa Messenger shared the business insights gathered in more than a decade of success across multiple industries, including how to identify your true purpose, pinpoint your passions and create the working life most only dream of. But, let’s be honest, you need the means to make it all happen.In her latest book, she tackles a topic with a stigma – money! What would you do if money was no object, how can anyone find profit in the impossible and – her personal bugbear ‐ when will “gunnas” stop using lack of money as an excuse for not stepping out of their comfort zone and pursuing their purpose?Mixing advice from mentors, experts and famous role models, with lessons learned in her own entrepreneurial journey, Lisa reveals how she built a global brand, and launched a magazine sold in 37 countries, without having to borrow a single cent from a bank. This is from a woman who, years before, could barely afford to buy toothpaste.In the self‐deprecating manner that has become her trademark style, Lisa shares her own journey, clearly stating she is not a guru when it comes to finances, but has used fresh thinking and creative ideas to fuel a burgeoning business. She will help you appreciate your real value,

Category Self‐help & personal development

Pages 208

Published 01/10/2015

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ISBN 9780994310927

Publisher The Messenger Group

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Money & Mindfulness Playbook

Do you have big dreams and plans but lack the resources to pursue them? Do you find yourself saying “If only I had the money…”? Are you too embarrassed to ask others for help?This Playbook (so called, because hopefully it won’t feel like work) is designed to be read in tandem with Money & Mindfulness: Living in Abundance by Lisa Messenger – an insightful, authentic account of her own money journey and how this serial entrepreneur learned to embrace it for freedom, choice and a platform for good. With exercises, tasks, prompts and plenty of room to unleash your wildest money dreams and ideas, this playbook should be a spring board to help you appreciate your true value, remove blockages, correct wrong mindsets and explore how you can find money the impossible. It will help you crystallise your dreams, map out a life where money is no object, step out of your comfort zone with purpose and help you adopt fresh thinking and creative ideas so you can start living as you want to… in abundance. It’s not rude to talk about money any longer, but essential to be open, honest and raw with yourself to live the life you want. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a creative, a parent, a friend, or all of the above, this playbook is a canvas to help you to design a life you love.

Category Self‐help & personal development

Pages 184


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ISBN 9780994310934

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Daring & Disruptive

DARING AND DISRUPTIVE IS AN INSIGHTFUL AND SOULFUL ACCOUNT OF THE ENTREPRENEUR'S ROLLER-COASTER RIDE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SUCCEED ALMOST AS MUCH AS THEY WANT TO BREATHE...WHO WANT TO MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE AND THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY.After decades of success in multiple industries, Lisa Messenger blends her personal stories with the important business lessons she has learned along the way, from why money is not the only currency to how to fail well. Lisa gives readers a valuable insight into her world, whether you're a budding entrepreneur, seasoned game changer or a corporate ladder-climber dreaming of creating your own gig or making positive change from the inside. This book will help you dig deep, stay on purpose, back yourself, be true to your ideas, and ensure that if you're thrown to the wolves, you'll have the strength to come out leading the pack.Your life is your message to the world. So embrace the journey and live it out loud.

Category Autobiography: general

Pages 208Published 01/09/2014

Binding P/B$ARP $29.95ISBN 9780987097460

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Unleashing the entrepreneur

Daring & Disruptive Playbook

Do you want to unleash your inner entrepreneur? With prompts, exercises and tons of space to brainstorm your creative process, the Daring & Disruptive Playbook (so called, because hopefully it won't feel like work) will guide you through the process of finding your 'why', identifying your purpose and helping you break free of traditional thinking around what a career should look like.

Disclaimer: this isn't like any other business planning template you've ever read. Neither will it spoonfeed you the answers. But, by the final page, you'll have created a manifesto of your dream workday, identified the corner of the world you want to change and how you're going to do it.

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Life & Love Playbook

Do you want to be ambitious but loving, successful but compassionate, driven but feminine - and most of all, happy?How can you find your purpose - and pursue it with dogged determination - whilst still making time for your friends, family, health, community and the simple pleasures that ground you? It is possible and this Playbook will help you discover it. Because... there are enough hours in the week for everything that matters.With exercises, tasks, prompts and plenty of room to unleash your creativity, the Life & Love Playbook is a spring board to help you dig deep into yourself, identify the areas of your life you love, and work out how you can make constructive changes to the rest of it - with kindness.Whether you're an entrepreneur, a creative, a student, a parent, a friend, or all of the above, consider this your canvas - to help you to design a life you love.This Playbook is certainly not a workbook (because it hopefully won't feel like work) and is designed to be read in tandem with Life & Love by Lisa Messenger, a breathtakingly honest account of the entrepreneur's rollercoaster journey. But here, in the Life & Love Playbook, she turns the spotlight on you!

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The Messenger Group



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DO YOU WANT TO BE DELIRIOUSLY, UNAPOLOGETICALLY HAPPY? IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE CALM, CENTRED AND GROUNDED WHILST LIVING IN A BUSY CITY, RUNNING A BUSINESS AND JUGGLING GROWN-UP RESPONSIBILITIES?In her previous book Daring & Disruptive, serial entrepreneur Lisa Messenger, editor-in-chief of The Collective magazine, shared the business lessons she learned after decades of success in multiple industries, including how to identify your true purpose, pinpoint your passions and visualise the work culture you want to exist in. But, Lisa admits that although her world now seems perfect on paper it hasn't always been this way. In Life & Love, she offers insights into the support system, strategies and relationships, which allow her to cope with the emotional rollercoaster of running a profitable, multi-platform start-up. Blending advice from mentors and role models, with lessons that she's learned the hard way, Lisa's personal journey is proof that no mistake is undoable, no relationship is unfixable and no failure is in vain if you have the right attitude and an abundance of gratitude. This is a book about love, joy and happiness, community, authenticity and learning to sink into your femininity even when you're a ball-

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September 2015 NSW AuthorUnlikely Leaders

Unlikely Leaders offers a ground breaking and deeply relevant perspective on leadership.Cathy Burke’s work over two decades with The Hunger Project has given her intimate access to grassroots leaders who are ending hunger in their villages. Though they may be impoverished and non‐literate, these women and men are at the forefront of courageous and effective leadership.With all the reasons why it’s not possible, the poorest of the poor are redefining what is possible. Their actions are changing the world. Learning from them can change ours too.In this book you will:• Discover the Nine Steps of Transformative Leadership• Explore why mindset is key, and how entrenched beliefs can be transformed• Learn how to move from ‘I can’t’ to ‘I can’ to ‘We can’• Challenge your assumptions about what’s limiting you• Engage with our world in an empowering new way

Category Management: leadership & motivation

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ISBN 9780994168108

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Lessons in leadership from the village classroom

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What Cathy Burke has to say should be listened to. ‐ Speciosa Wandira‐Kazibwe, UN Secretary‐General Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Former Vice President Uganda



Author InformationCatherine Burke has been Chief Executive Officer of The Hunger Project Australia since 1998.Cathy has a Bachelor of Arts (English and Politics) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Women’s Studies. She has spent time in the field, leading many trips to Africa and South Asia.

Cathy Burke's unique voice and insights on leadership will influence the way we think about change and culture for years to come. - Jon Williams, Global Leader, People and Organisation, PwC

Cathy Burke is an innovative thinker and passionate agitator for change in the world - Jo Horgan, Mecca Cosmetica Founder and CEO

September 2015 Torquay, VIC AuthorBleed

Category Memoirs

Pages 333


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9780646937649

Wild Man Press


Bill Williams

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Surviving cerebral catastrophe: a tale of the mind, mortality and modern medicine

On a trip to visit Pintubi friends in the remote western desert of central Australia, GP Dr Bill Williams wakes to a nightmare. Gisela, his wife, is felled by a thunderclap headache. What are the possibilities - migraine? neuralgia? or a burst blood vessel in her brain. They are 1500 kilometres from the nearest brain surgeon. Bill has to move fast, really fast.

Will the injury to memory, identity, language and consciousness be profound? Just how plastic is the human brain? Can it really be rewired? Bleed is a rollercoaster ride from dry riverbed to flying doctor, surgeon's knife to intensive care ward and way beyond.

Bill Williams explores the origins and challenges of scientific medicine in a gripping story of narrowly averted tragedy and miraculous endurance, a celebration of human ingenuity and love.

Bleed is a thrilling tale told from both sides of the medical encounter. - Dr Karen Hitchcock

...packed with action and emotion - much too extraordinary to be fiction. - Prof. Frederick Mendelsohn

Author InformationA General Practitioner with over thirty years’ experience, Bill has worked in both clinical and public health spheres in urban, rural and remote locations in Australia and overseas. He currently works as a GP on Victoria’s Surfcoast, with ongoing clinical responsibilities as a primary care physician in Aboriginal communities in the western desert region of the Northern Territory.Bill’s public-health activism grew out of his experiences as a medical student in post-conflict zones in Africa and Latin America. His research, writing and teaching interests include the roots of violence, the health of Aboriginal Australians and the risks associated with the nuclear fuel chain. His recent publications have focused on the role of health professionals in eliminating nuclear weapons and healthy pathways to a secure global energy future. He is a co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and is currently Australian campaign Chair. Bill is past president of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) and former International Councillor of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.Bill collaborated with Gisela Gardener in 1989 on Men: sex, power and survival (Greenhouse), and in 1999 wrote his first novel, Kumanjayi’s country (Central Queensland University Press). He and Gisela have two daughters, Daisy and Lily, with whom they surf and walk and garden whenever they can.



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September 2015 NSW AuthorTwo Women Went to WarA Story of WWI

The battlefields of WWI bring together Genevieve Howard, who becomes an Australian Army nurse, and Madeleine Aspinall, a British ambulance driver. Coming from very different beginnings, the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front provide the violent background to their friendship and the relationships with the men in their lives. Two Women Went to War is a novel about love, war and the complex bonds of friendship. Lives are challenged in numerous ways through the turbulent and dramatic landscapes of WWI and the years that follow.

Category Fiction - War

Pages 336


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$ARP $27.95

ISBN 9781921737176

Lothian Custom Publishing


L. E. Pembroke

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L.E. Pembroke was born and raised in Sydney. This, her second book, reflects her passion for history and the extraordinary stories of ordinary women and men. The next book, Families at War, A Story of WW2, will be published in the first half of 2016.



September 2015 VIC AuthorThe Other Wife

Category Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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ISBN 9781925000009

Hybrid Publishers

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Manfred Jurgensen

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What is the nature of human love? Burt enters his office one day to find a large handwritten folder marked "CONFIDENTIAL". The unexpected package has come from an old university mate: a charming, successful, and well‐loved Australian man named Ted Harris. Twenty‐five years post‐university, Ted seems to have it all: a partnership in a successful law firm, respect, wealth, and the perfect wife. However, as Burt delves deeper into these documents ‐ which turns out to be an intensely personal confessional ‐ he discovers that things are not what they seem, and that Ted harbours a dark and mysterious past relating to his first wife, peculiar Swiss biochemist Yvonne. In The Other Wife, Manfred Jurgensen uses his unique writing style and several narrative voices to examine the internal conflicts of disease, our responsibility for those we care for, and the very nature of this undefinable thing we call love.

The seemingly contradictory senses of menace and sensitivity exist in an uneasy ease in Manfred Jurgensen's writing. ‐Lily Brett

...complex and confident, ambitious, yet always assured as it explores our solitariness in the midst of social life. ‐The Canberra Times

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Manfred Jurgensen is a bilingual poet and novelist of Danish‐German background. He is a multiple‐award‐winning writer whose works have been translated into many languages. He has taught literature at the universities of Melbourne, Monash and Queensland. From 1984–96 he was editor of Outrider, the influential journal of multicultural literature; in 1988, with Robert Adamson he edited the bicentennial Penguin anthology, Australian Writing Now. Over the last twenty years he has also published many novels, plays, film scripts, diaries, essays, short stories, literary criticism and fourteen collections of poetry. He is a prolific translator and advocate of contemporary Australian literature.



September 2015

Ripley's Believe it or Not! 2016

Category Humour

Pages 256


Binding H/B

$ARP $49.99

ISBN 9781609911362

Hinkler Books

Eye‐Popping Oddities


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Jam‐packed with a mind‐boggling selection of incredible facts, crazy stories, jaw‐dropping pictures, lists and interviews, this fantastic book also comes with bonus hidden content that's accessible using our Ripley's Believe it or Not! App. Step right into the world of Ripley's and see it come alive by scanning the special oddSCAN™ logos with a smartphone to reveal exclusive videos, images and more. Organised into thematic chapters, the crazy stories are illuminated with a wealth of amazing images throughout.Published annually, with brand new extraordinary material every year, this interactive series presents the best of Ripley's Believe it or Not!

‐ Co‐ordinated release date with the Publisher‐ Sold more than 30,000 in 2014 during the Christmas period alone‐ Captivating cover with lenticular eyes on the front that follows you‐ All new content, thoroughly researched and verified

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Robert Leroy Ripley was an American cartoonist who created and developed the world‐famous Ripley's Believe It or Not! cartoon strip in the years after the First World War. He travelled the globe in search of unusual objects and stories, and built up an extraordinary collection of everything from shrunken heads to dinosaur eggs and iron maidens. These are now exhibited in Ripley museums around the world, including one in London's Piccadilly Circus. The Ripley's Believe It or Not! annual has become an international bestseller.



01/09/2015

Self‐help & personal development

Etrinity Publishing

Positively Quote Colouring Book Australian designer, illustrator and author Kayleen West created Positively Quote Colouring Book to celebrate life.

As you colour, meditate on beautiful blessings like tomorrows, hope and caring for one another. The intricate illustrations are awaiting your touch of creativity. Relax and enjoy the beautiful pages influenced by art nouveau, period details and famous affirming quotes.

Kayleen has intertwined her own encouraging words and fine decoration, printing them all in softer sepia lines for an authentic artistic finish. A gate fold is also provided to use in between pages to prevent any bleed spoiling your final art. Some designs have blank spaces to add your favourite quotes or a personal message for framed gifts to encourage friends. Or perhaps you would like to hang a reminder yourself. This is truly creative indulgence! Relax and be inspired as you begin colouring today!

Author InformationMelbourne author and illustrator Kayleen West is known as a versatile and prolific artist working in both traditional and digital mediums. She is a Christian mother of 6 children and a devoted toy poodle, Boaz. Her art and books have won awards, medals and commendations. Kayleen’s work hangs in collections all over the world.

She is the author of picture books, Adoptive Father (Etrinity Publishing, 2013) and Without Me? (Wombat Books, 2013). Kayleen is also the illustrator of picture books, Better Than A Superhero (Even Before Publishing, 2014), Celia and Nonna (Ford Street Publishing, 2014) and the soon to be released, We Worship God (Xist Publishing).

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September 2015 Dulwich Hill, NSW AuthorMaterialityBrick and Block in Contemporary Australian Architecture

Category Architecture

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$ARP $99.00

ISBN 9780994165404

Dry Press Publishing


Ron Ringer

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There is a long and ancient historical legacy whereby human beings set out to create buildings that embody form, function, utility, beauty and, dare one say, meaning. Buildings tell us a great deal about how we see ourselves, our aspirations, or how we simply need to stop and gaze in wonder at human creativity.The built environment, as it is usually referred to by architects and urban designers, has always been shaped by the basic need for shelter, but also by other forces. Places of work, worship, education, entertainment, health care, buildings in which we commence and end journeys, shrines, monuments, temples are built for a purpose and require no explanation.With over 850 colour, black & white plates, architectural diagrams, and hand‐drawn illustrations, this book provides insights into the use of brick and block masonry in Australian contemporary architecture.As a collection of case studies, essays and technical articles, it explores the creative endeavour of both the individual and the collective. For the architect/designer: consider the achievement of your colleagues, but know that one, single case study or feature is part of a much wider body of work. For those open to ideas and different perspectives: draw inspiration for future projects. For those who inhabit places of learning: discover the inventive and artful in the use of brick and block masonry. For the general reader: this collection is a snapshot of Australian design that deserves recognition.

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Since 1987 Ron has written numerous educational texts at the invitation of several leading publishers, including Pergamon Press, Macmillan Educational Australia and Pascal Press. In 1989 he commenced work with a major financial service provider where he gained wide experience with compliance, product and legal teams in developing plain language documents, marketing and customer communications.As a business and technical writer and independent professional historian, Ron has completed hundreds of projects for leading financial, retail, educational, and public sector organisations in Australia.Ron Ringer’s first work of institutional history, A History of Elgas Limited (2004) was followed by The Brickmasters: 1788-2008 (2008), The Spirit of SMEC: Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (2012), and Along the Wayside: 50 years of The Wayside Chapel (2014).

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September 2015 Flinders Island, SA AuthorTreasures of Beachcombing

Category Memoirs

Pages 176


Binding H/B

$ARP $34.99

ISBN 9781921496387

BAS Publishing

Details and accounts of beachcombing in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and more..


Ken Martin

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Serious beachcombing requires time, fitness and agility, a keen eye and a minimum amount of hiking gear to make the expedition enjoyable. For an all‐day hike, a large backpack with the requisite lunch, first aid kit, map, water, mobile, rain coat, pocket knife, etc. will all ensure that your efforts are made easier and that there is ample room to carry any booty which is found en route. For the serious and technically minded semi‐professional beachcomber add a hacksaw, a very sharp knife and even some cable ties to strap on your booty. A PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) can add a measure of safety and even a PFD lightweight yoke is not beyond reason. The more gear I take the more confident I am at going it alone and into remote places.

Herein lies a beachcomber's collection, amassed over many years, of some of the better examples of what the oceans have spat forth on many a desolate shoreline along the coastline of south eastern Australia. With five buoys in my collection having originated from Argentina, I can truly claim to have an international collection courtesy of the mighty Southern Ocean.

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September 2015 - New Title Releases

Australian Comedy Films of the 1930sModern, the Urban and the International

Category Films, cinema

Pages 144


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9781876467258

Australian Teachers of Media


Lesley Speed

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Comedy has been a perpetual part of Australian film, in which humour reflects Australia's adaptation in times of crisis, social change and technological advances. This was never more so than in the 1930s, when Australia produced more comedy feature films than in any other decade before 1970. These films of the 1930s embraced the new technology of sound, made local vaudeville performers into movie stars, offered escape from the Depression and revealed a diverse and international Australia. In these films, Australia moves further from Empire and the bush, forges the Digger legend, responds to cultural diversity and views itself as a modern, urban nation. Influenced by Hollywood, Australian comedies of the 1930s adapted international styles to local points of view. Based on research at the National Film and Sound Archive, Lesley Speed's book provides new insight into Australian comedy films of the 1930s and the extraordinary period of social change in which they were produced.



Author InformationLesley Speed is a lecturer and researcher at Federation University Australia. Australian Comedy Films of the 1930s developed from her research as a Scholar in Residence at the National Film and Sound Archive, where she gained access to rarely-seen films, scripts and publicity materials. Lesley’s previous work has been published internationally and focuses on youth films, Australian comedy and other areas of popular screen culture, including generational difference and cultural value. Her PhD from Monash University is about teen comedy films. Lesley has written influential publications about the films of Richard Linklater and Amy Heckerling.

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September 2015 - New Title Releases

The Films of John Hughes

Category Films, cinema

Pages 298


Binding P/B

$ARP $34.95

ISBN 9781876467234

Australian Teachers of Media

A History of Independent Screen Production in Australia


John Cumming

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Sustaining a life long career in any part of the film industry anywhere in the world is hard, but sustaining one in the ever shifting realm of creative, independent, socially engaged, intellectually inspired, formally innovative practice in Australia is especially tough.John Cumming's superb book is not only about the prodigious, exploratory, challenging films, videos and TV programs made by John Hughes ‐ an underrated, canny maverick of our national scene; it is also about what it takes to keep moving and changing with the times, how to negotiate with institutions and collaborate with sympathetic minds from other art forms, how to research and teach and theorise on the spot. Only after that concerted effort can a big picture ‐ involving, in Hughes' case, a multi‐media aesthetic of collage design, and a long view of generations, conflicts and transmissions in social history ‐ be discerned. John Cumming elegantly gives us both this collective history and a fine appreciation by one artist of another ‐ both of them forever struggling in and with the conditions, limits and possibilities of their culture.



Author InformationJohn Cumming is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Deakin University and vice president of the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA). John started making Super-8 films at Swinburne Community School in the 1970s. He has made several short 16 mm films, documentaries and numerous videos. Works from the trilogy Obsession, Recognition and Sabotage (1981–1987) have been included in retrospectives of Australian experimental filmmaking in Madrid (1994), Melbourne (1996, 2004, 2009) and Thessaloniki (2010). In the 1980s he served as secretary and then chairperson of the Independent Film Action Committee (IFAC). John was a member of the Australian crew on Peter Watkins’ epic transnational anti-nuclear film The Journey (1987). In the 1990s John was a member of the editorial committee of Filmnews and worked with a number of community media organisations. He has taught at the VCA, UTS, La Trobe and Melbourne universities and has written for a range of journals and magazines on independent filmmaking and cultural policy in Australia.

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September 2015

Award Winning Australian Writing 2015

The eighth edition of Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. This year, AWAW is proudly launching at the Melbourne Writers Festival, on 30 August at 5pm.

The collection will feature over fifty writers and competitions. It will include a foreword by Elizabeth Flux, freelance writer and editor of Voiceworks magazine. Both established and emerging writers are featured in this year's anthology, including Kevin Gillam, Emmie Rae, Jessica Yu, Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Chloe Wilson, who won The Age Short Story Competition in 2012, and David Campbell, who has published two books of original Australian verse and a collection of short stories, and has been published extensively in Australian short story and poetry anthologies.

Competitions appearing in AWAW 2015 include:

* John Marsden/Hachette Australia Prize* Alan Marshall Short Story Award* ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize* Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction* Above Water creative writing competition* FAWWA Stuart‐Hadow Short Story Competition

Category Anthologies (non‐poetry)

Pages 336


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9781922129734

Melbourne Books


Chloe Brien

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A Smile for Micky

From the horror of a prison camp on the Thai-Burma railway to a

tender act of remembrance in Hobart, A Smile for Micky is a true tale of friendship, endurance, suffering and tribute. Author, Desmond Jackson, was a prisoner of war for three and a half years under the Japanese. Twenty-five years later, he felt compelled to write about events he witnessed during that terrible time: events that no one there could forget.His fellow prisoner, artist and friend, Jack Chalker, painted the watercolours especially for the book.In his foreword to the book, Cameron Forbes, author of Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War, says: "Desmond Jackson is a man of grace and strength, wrote this requiem for Micky Hallam some time ago. The publication of it is to be welcomed. A Smile for Micky is a small gem, beautifully illustrated."Intimately involved as the Medical Officer at the time, Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop said in a letter to the author: "I was deeply interested in your account of that shocking beat-up..."Published posthumously, this is a book with a message that endures from generation to generation: that war is brutal and futile. It epitomizes the cry: Lest We Forget.

A Smile for Micky is a small gem, beautifully illustrated by prisoner of war and artist Jack Chalker. It is an indictment of the behavior of the Japanese and a celebration of Micky Hallam, concluding with a poignant act of remembrance by his mates. ‐ Cameron Forbes

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Biography: Historical/Military

EH Jackson, AH Jackson & P Power


9780646934402

Desmond Jackson

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September 2015

Illustrator Jack Chalker

Capture My Attention

Every minute, every hour, every second, millions of people around the world are posting, commenting and chronically oversharing online. We are constantly inundated with food pictures, selfies, sonogram images, and of course singing goat and LOLcat videos. Just take a look at your Facebook News Feed. So, how can you make your brand stand out among all this chaos? You need creative content. One of the most powerful marketing tools is differentiation, and the best way to have an impact is by being creative. Capture My Attention is your complete guide to creating online content that will attract attention and make you stand out from your competitors. Entertaining and engaging, Capture My Attention provides you with hands‐on strategies and techniques, plus workbook‐style exercises, to instantly generate and create captivating content for your brand. This book will teach you about:

How content connects brand with their audiencesWhat creativity is, and how to apply it to your online content

Overcoming creative fear

The power of emotion in online content

Finding your brand voice and using itEnhancing your content with visuals

Category Business & management

Pages 200


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ISBN 9780994386205

Jordana Borensztajn

How to stand out online with creative content

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Jordana Borensztajn

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Creative Content Consultant. Journalist. Humourist. Social Media Trainer. Speaker. Jordana Borensztajn was built to write this book. Jordana is a former News Corp Australia journalist, she worked as online music editor, content producer and social media manager at Nova Entertainment, she has written and performed sold‐out shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, she speaks at corporate conferences around the world and she runs social media safety programs for schools. When Jordana’s not busy helping others enhance their creativity, online content and social media marketing skills, you’ll either find her taking selfies with miniature dogs, hanging out with the cutest nephew in the world, or dressed as a giant Facebook Like button on the streets of New York.

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September 2015

September 2015 Gladesville, NSW Author

Well Said

Well Said: How to be Heard in Business and Generate Real Influence is a book for anyone wanting to get their own messages across in the most effective way possible, no matter the platform.Whether you are fronting a start‐up, striving as a corporate leader, seeking to grow your brand or fuelling a not‐for‐profit group, this is a practical guide that shares the proven steps to be heard successfully.With 25 original interviews with game changers from different sectors, and nine ‘Action Lists’, you too will easily master the tools and techniques essential to clarify and amplify your ideas, both in the workplace and beyond.

This book covers:• Why speaking is the key to influencing others into action• How to craft your story• Knowing your key audience• Identifying your message• Tips to delivering pitches, speeches, TEDx talks, webinars and more• Choosing the right forum• Deciding the best ways to get your message heard• Using traditional and social media to generate credibility and brand power• Curating your content for real cut‐through

Category Business communication & presentation

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ISBN 9780994269171

Amber Daines

How to be Heard in Business and Generate Real Influence

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Amber Daines has devoted the past 18 years to mastering communications, with a career as a print and TV journalist, PR executive, writer, marketer, fundraiser and media trainer. As CEO of Bespoke Communications, Amber is also a regular presenter and key note speaker.

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Take Charge of Your Money NowThe No. 1 DIY Financial Freedom Plan

Stephen Parr now shares 30 years of professional experience in his book Take Charge of Your Money Now ... ‐ the first in a three book series. An international author, speaker, educator, investment and financial planning specialist, Tauranga based Stephen Parr provides a simple yet effective step by step process to taking control of your money and creating wealth, sharing the secrets and strategies that successful people use to achieve wealth. By reading Take Charge of Your Money Now ... you’ll learn:

✔ How to Think and Grow Rich by re‐focussing your mind✔ How to rapidly take control of the money you earn, instead of it slipping through your fingers.✔ DIY investment strategies that can lower your risk and save you thousands in fees✔ To use the internationally proven six step process of financial planning to write your own financial plan✔ How to avoid common mistakes that hold most people back from achieving their goals✔ Key investment strategies so good that unless you know them, you shouldn’t be investing

Category Finance

Pages 188


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$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9781922118714

Global Publishing Group


Stephen Parr

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Stephen is an author, investor, talented speaker and trainer, and an experienced world traveller. His qualifications have included: Certified Financial PlannerCM, Authorised Financial Adviser, and Registered Professional Trustee. Stephen became one of New Zealand’s first financial planners shortly after his personal share broker offered him a job. In late 1987 he started his own financial advisory company. Before he sold the company over 20 years later, it had achieved national recognition, it was also a regional finalist for the inaugural Financial Services Practice of the Year award. More recently, Stephen has focused on helping people achieve financial success through education founding HighPoint Academy. Stephen has assisted thousands of individuals to boost their financial knowledge. Stephen has Stephen has balanced his financial career with his continuing interests in personal development, forest conservation, adventure travel, community service and philanthropy. His interest in mind development led to him becoming qualified in meditation, and hypnotherapy and certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). With this knowledge he has led courses on self-empowerment and mind development techniques.Stephen Parr is the international author of, Take Charge Of Your Money Now – The No. 1 DIY Financial Freedom Plan and he is currently writing other titles such as Aspiring Millionaire – A Young Person’s Guide to Financial Freedom and Financial Wisdom for Kids – A Parent’s Guide to Bringing Up Money Smart Kids. He is also the creator of a series of educational seminars.Stephen lives in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, with his wife Pamela.



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September 2015 Sydney, NSW Author Motorcycling Adventures

Category Adventure holidays

Pages 256


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9781922118790

Global Publishing Group

A Journey into Australia's Outback with Bikes, Beers, Blokes and Babes


Michael Rohan Sourjah

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Get out and explore this sunburnt country.If you have dreamed about getting out and exploring this vast continent of Australia, then this book is for you.International author, entrepreneur, motorcycle adventurer and motorcycle tour guide, Michael Rohan Sourjah, shares his passion and journey across Australia's outback.The book is filled with wisdom, tips and stories of motorcycling from east to west and south to north of Australia.You'll discover:- About nature's wonders that are scattered across Australia- The key places of interest you should definitely visit in Australia's outback- The excitment of riding a motorcycle in the Australian outback- Essential tips for planning and having a safe journey in this wild and desolate landscape- Where to find accommodation in some of Australia's most isolated places- The joy of Australia's most spectacular scenery and vistas- How to enjoy the Australian outback with bikes, beers, blokes and babes.

Author Information Michael is an international author, speaker, entrepreneur, corporate trainer, consultant, motorcycle adventurer and motorcycle tour organiser. He is recognised as an expert in the fields of Customer Service, Corporate Team Management, Training and Motorcycle Tour Planning.For more than 25 years Michael has worked, managed, trained and consulted in government and corporate sectors and has received numerous awards for his contributions over the years from the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) and Roads and Maritime Services (RMS). He is also the author of the forthcoming book Would You Like A Smile With That? - 50 Instant Ideas For Achieving Exceptional Customer Service By Bringing Zest to Your Workplace.He is recognised as an authority on riding motorcycles in different countries and has travelled over a hundred thousand kilometres on motorcycles in Sri Lanka, the United States of America, Australia and Thailand.Michael’s passion for adventure and motorcycling has lead him to run a world leading international motorcycling adventure company that inspires people to enjoy the freedom and thrill that this form of travel provides. Michael is a founding member of the Ceylon Society of Australia, Australian Aviation Museum Sydney and is also involved in various associations such as the Customer Service Institute of Australia (CSIA), Society of Editors NSW, International Travel Writers & Photographers Alliance (ITWPA), Australian Institute of Emergency Services (AIES) and is a member of the Ulysses (motorcycle) Club in his spare time.Michael lives in Sydney, Australia when he is not travelling and riding motorcycles in Australia and overseas.

September 2015 WA Author Eagles on the Highway

Category Mind, Body, Spirit

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ISBN 9781925152296

Inspiring Publishers

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Life is full of choices. In this sequel to A Butterfly Landed An Eagle, D. Elizabeth Laine urges her family, next generation and generations to come, to remain positive. Instead of attributing blame to everything and everyone else, she challenges Christians and non‐Christians alike not to ask why, but, do something about the negative things in their lives. She highly recommends prayer and optimism.

The retired Nurse draws on her personal and spiritual experiences, first book and avid reading, to plead for three‐dimensional‐growth; body, mind and spirit. She hopes all her readers will listen and act. It is one way or the other. Presented boldly, she hopes her sequel inspires many to embrace the new spiritual concept she proposes, and also become…Eagles On The High Way

…very interesting and enlightening, informative and uplifting. - Siobhan from Exisle Publishing

Author InformationElizabeth (Liz) Laine now D. Elizabeth Laine, is a retired Nurse (RPH, WASON, B.A.Sc. 1998), since 2004. She turned author to help others make informed decisions; when faced with mental illness and family dysfunctions. She writes from a mainly Christian ethos laced with psychology. Her perspective on mental illness has no match for the illness mentioned in the Bible.

Her first book, A Butterfly Landed An Eagle, published in 2010, recorded the mistakes she made. Her hindsight is invaluable as foresight, to protect from and prevent emotional damage; particularly of offspring with a mentally ill parent. The sequel addresses this damage in a psycho-spiritual context. Elizabeth resides in country WA, Australia with her husband.

September 2015 Melbourne, VIC AuthorA Single Breath

Category Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Pages 258


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$ARP $25.00

ISBN 9780994182296

Atlas Productions


Amanda Apthorpe

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When the first hate letter arrives in the days after her patient Bonnie's death, obstetrician Doctor Dana Cavanagh reads it with shaking hands before placing it next to the small news article of the court's verdict: not guilty. Hate letters continue to trickle in, but one stands out from the others—a cryptic message with a tiny marble stone, its origin—Kos, Greece, the birthplace of Hippocrates. She had once proudly sworn his oath, "I will give not deadly medicine." Accompanied by her sister Madeleine, Dana follows the mystery of the letter to Kos. The arrival of two more letters, and the strange appearances of a woman, beckon her to Italy and England. Despairing for her sanity, Dana persists in her crusade to come to terms with being implicated in the death of another.

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A Single Breath is the second fiction title by Melbourne‐based author, Amanda Apthorpe. Amanda studied at the University of Melbourne and holds a PhD and a Masters degree in creative writing. She is a Master of science and a teacher with over twenty‐five years experience. Amanda currently teaches in the Professional Writing and Editing program at the Centre for Adult Education, and is active in the international academic community of writing.



Team Lucas

"I want to stay forever... I want to have you for as long as I can have you Lucas, even if that is a week or a year or a decade.... Just let me get my fill of you and I'll deal with the fallout if, when it happens."

Mia Carter never thought getting suspended from her part‐time job for having attitude could be the best thing to ever happen... maybe.

When Lucas Ainswright‐one of the world's biggest sporting stars‐needs a minder, it just so happens that attitude is what is needed to keep Lucas in line.

Now Mia's job is to manage the sporting world's bad boy and keep him at the top of his game for the season. Game on!

Next in the series: Team Tomás

Category Fantasy romance

Pages 328


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$ARP $19.95

ISBN 9780994182272

Atlas Productions


Ally Adams

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Ally Adams is a journalist who lives in coastal Victoria, Australia with her husband and furry friends. She is a literature major, romance reader and writer.

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September 2015 VIC Author

September 2015

Poetry & Ideas

Category Poetry

Pages 166


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ISBN 9780646940397

Raffaella Torresan

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Raffaella Torresan’s Poetry & Ideas is a very beautiful integration of Raffaella’s dramatic artwork with specially chosen, theme poems, by many of our most notable poets, whose work has been specially chosen by Raffaella for the book. ‐Bruce Dawe

Poets: Jordie Albiston, Eric Beach, John Beaton, Patrick Boyle, Kevin Brophy, Jen Jewell Brown, Edward Burger, Grant Caldwell, Dimitri Cingovski, Jack Charles, Libby Charlton, Domenico de Clario, Jennifer Compton, Robert J Conlon, Eddie Dalton, Bruce Dawe, Jim Dodd, John Flaus, Gary Foley, Sybelle Foxcroft, Anna Gruenz, Lynn Hard, Jennifer Harrison, Kris Hemensley, Matt Hetherington, James Hickey, Jeltje, Marietta Elliott‐Kleerkoper, Komninos, Chris Lawrance, Geoffrey Lehmann, Kerry Loughrey, Patrick McCauley, Maurice McNamara, Ian McBryde, Phil Motherwell, Les Murray, KF Pearson, Nick Powell, John Ridland, Homer Rieth, David Shepherd, Pamela Sidney, Leon Shann, Lish Skec, Alex Skovron, Kerry Scuffins, Steve Smart, Kenneth G Smeaton, Gavin Sanderson, Fiona Stuart, Yvette Stubbs, Colin Talbot, Peter Tiernan, Tim Train, Michael Ward, Lauren Williams.



In the Museum of Creation

Category Poetry

Pages 96


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$ARP $24.95

ISBN 9780734050274

Five Islands Press


Frank Russo

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Nothing escapes Russo’s discerning eye, especially absurdities; with his precise word choice and his unerring ability to see behind masks, each poem leaves the reader with a sense that something essential has been completed. This book is the ideal companion to take into the museum of life. - Sue Woolfe

In this rich and varied collection Russo traverses a vast landscape of museums and places of cultural significance, from the traditional to the virtual. Whether he writes about exhibitions of transgenic art or channels the ghost of Peggy Guggenheim, his poetry captures the unique details of his subjects whilst also being a meditation on both personal and cultural loss. - Avril Alba, Lecturer in Museum and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney.

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Frank Russo was born in Adelaide in 1972 and lives in Sydney. He studied Arts and Law at the University of Adelaide and a Masters in Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is completing a doctorate at the University of Sydney. His writing has appeared in Southerly, Contrappasso, Cactus Heart, Transnational Literature, Weekend Australian, broadcast on ABC FM and Writers Radio and published in anthologies in Australia, the United States and Canada. An early version of his novel manuscript Eating for the Dead was short‐listed for the Vogel/The Australian Literary Prize, a Varuna Fellowship and won the Dante Alighieri Fiction Prize. A subsequent novel manuscript was commended for the Vogel/The Australian Prize and short‐listed for other prizes.

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September 2015 Sydney, NSW Author

September 2015

Fainting with Freedom

Category Poetry

Pages 96


Binding PB

$ARP $25.00

ISBN 9780734050250

Five Islands Press


Ouyang Yu

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Fainting with Freedom displays Ouyang Yu’s characteristic wrestlings with absurdity, the quotidian and the pain of history, while maintaining a distinctly different take on what constitutes ‘the self’. The poems shimmer with language-play - through slippages between English and Chinese, a more illuminating existential truth arises. - John Kinsella

‘Why,’ asks Ouyang Yu in this stunning new collection, is fame ‘never associated with failure?’ From the great consensus challenger of our age, Fainting with Freedom skewers all the truisms we have been forced by culture to hold too dear, its language abundant with the honesty, percipience and pith we know to expect from this major writer. - Nicholas Birns, Editor, Antipodes

Ouyang Yu has mellowed but is by no means tamed. Anger has given way to sadness, occasional bitterness, but also acceptance; his linguistic fireworks explode on the page. This collection cements Ouyang’s position as one of Australia’s most innovative poets. - Wenche Ommundsen

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Ouyang Yu came to Australia at the age of 35. He has since published 75 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and criticism in English and Chinese, including his award-winning novel, The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002); his collection of English poetry, The Kingsbury Tales (2008); his collection of Chinese poetry, Poemnonpoem (2011); his book of creative non-fiction, On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Speaking English, Thinking Chinese and Living Australian (2008); his second novel, The English Class (2010), which won the 2011 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, and was shortlisted for a number of other state literary awards; his book of literary criticism, Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1888-1988 (2008); and his translation in Chinese, The Fatal Shore (2014), winner of the Translation Prize by the Australia-China Council in 2014.Ouyang is now professor of English and the Siyuan Scholar at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China.



September 2015

Heart Starter

Category Poetry

Pages 150


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$ARP $25.00

ISBN 9781922186560

Puncher and Wattmann


John Tranter

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Heart Starter is John Tranter's twenty‐fourth book of poems. It is made up of three parts: some poems related to The Best of the Best American Poetry 2013, some poems related to The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of 'Poetry' Magazine, and thirty or so poems, mainly rhymed sonnets, written by Tranter in recent years. In the case of the first two parts, the author started with loose drafts which borrowed the end‐words of each line of some poems in each of the two books concerned. The poems engage in a typically oblique way with North American poetic culture, and with the world of poetry in general, and sometimes speak harshly about the nature of 'poetic insight'. The formal poems towards the end of the book take a bleak and sometimes humorous look at the contemporary world.

Author InformationJohn Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has published more than twenty books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program Books and Writing; and founding in 1997 the internet quarterly literary magazine Jacket which he published and edited until 2010, when he gave it to the University of Pennsylvania.

The Australia Council awarded him a Creative Arts Fellowship in 1990; some Australian poets "acknowledge his role as innovator and experimentalist"



September 2015 Sydney, NSW AuthorGround

Category Poetry

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ISBN 9781922186751



Martin Langford

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Ground is a meditation on the evolution and nature of Australian spaces. The collection is governed by the tensions which characterise Langford’s work: between the way our spaces are projections of enlargement narratives, and the need to resist them by acknowledging the others with whom we interact. Enlargement narratives place the self at the centre of the world, and share an obsession with a point of arrival which is only meaningful in terms of the story from which it has arisen. Against them, Langford proposes the idea of the dance: by which he means any relationship with another in which neither is privileged—which is based on attention and respect, rather than on the relegation of the other in the face of one’s needs. Loosely chronological, the collection begins by locating us within the natural world, and continues with poems about our disjunctive attempts to rationalise the nature of settlement.There are sequences on the nature of Australian silences, on transitional periods in the nation’s interior life and on the cultural layering of our suburbs. One section explores ways in which Australia has been represented, and another explores what Langford nominates as seven of the Sydney seasons. The collection culminates in a title sequence in which our interactions are conceived as dances. Grounded in ideas, this is, nevertheless, a very lyrical poetry.

Profoundly generous and profoundly important poetry… a truly visionary poet.—Andy Kissane

Luminous, full of air and space, wonderfully paced and constructed… a poetry at once tough and musical, a voice assured in its rhythms, a language both exalted and plain, and a mind that can think to the point of revelation within its chosen figures or images.- Judith Beveridge

Here is a poet who convinces us that poetry matters. - Peter Kirkpatrick

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Martin Langford is a poet, editor, essayist and reviewer whose most recent books are The Human Project and Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788‐2008. Involved in the promotion and organization of poetry events, he has been director of the Australian Poetry Festival, NSW Poetry Development Officer and an active member of the Poets Union and of Australian Poetry Ltd. In recent years, he has been the poetry reviewer for Meanjin. He lives on the northern outskirts of Sydney.



September 2015 Sydney, NSW Author

Everyday Epic

Category Poetry

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$ARP $25.00

ISBN 9781922186775



Anna Kerdijk‐Nicholson

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Anna Kerdijk Nicholson’s most recent book, Possession, won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and was shortlisted for the NSW and the ACT Premiers' Prizes for Poetry. Her first book, The Bundanon Cantos, was mentioned in the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Books of 2003. She was born in Yorkshire (England), emigrating to Australia after studying literature then, as a postgraduate, qualifying as a lawyer. She works as a solicitor in Sydney and has served on the committee of Poets Union Inc and as a director of Australian Poetry.

Everyday Epic is Kerdijk Nicholson's third full‐length collection. It honours the courage of our small C21st selves who battle on—in the face of prejudice, racism, the Intervention, Australia's immigration policy—despite our 'pathetic human‐ness'.

Comments on Kerdijk Nicholson's earlier collections:Skilled ... Writing of poise and flair. Her angles of view are out of the ordinary. - Peter Pierce

Full of sensual awareness and anachronistic leaps of imagery, abundant with things and ideas. - Philip Salom

The Bundanon Cantos is '... a rare and impressive work. - David McCooey



September 2015 Melbourne, VIC AuthorThe Ladder

Category Poetry

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ISBN 9781922186768



Simon West

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The Ladder is Simon West’s third collection of poetry, and his first in four years. Many earlier preoccupations return—the natural environment, Italian art, the dimensions of place. There is a new focus on worldly and artistic responsibility, and finding that ‘certain poise’ of ‘being in between’. At the collection’s heart are the building blocks of language, along with the more literal ones of Rome, where some of these poems were written during a residency at the Whiting studio in 2012.

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Simon West lives in Melbourne. He is the author of First Names (Puncher & Wattmann 2006), shortlisted for the NSW Premiers’ Prize and winner of the William Baylebridge Memorial Prize; The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti (Troubador Publishing, 2009); and The Yellow Gum’s Conversion (Puncher & Wattmann 2011), shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. He is represented in anthologies including Thirty Australian Poets (UQP) and Young Poets: An Australian Anthology (John Leonard Press).



Scott Pickett

Category Cookery / food & drink etc

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ISBN 9780646926308

EBK

A Cook's Story


Scott Pickett /With Rita Erlich

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The Hot Plate is an Australian cooking reality television series set to screen on the Nine Network in 2015. The show consists of state-based restaurants with teams travelling the country to dine in and score each other's restaurants. The restaurants will be judged by UK food writer and critic, Tom Parker Bowles and Melbourne restaurateur Scott Pickett. The upcoming cooking show pits six established suburban restaurants against each other all striving for a leg up in the industry — and an extra $100,000 in the bank, Sydney’s Guillaume Brahimi, The French-born chef, will appear as a special guest judge during all elimination episodes.[2]



Born in Melbourne in 1975, Scott appeared to be a talent from an early age and soon began working as an apprentice chef in various South Australian restaurants. Living on his family farm in a little town called Kangarilla, just outside the wine growing region of McLaren Vale, it was here that Scott first discovered his love of raising (and butchering) animals, growing vegetables, making olive oil and understanding the reality of ‘life on the farm’.At the age of 18, Scott entered the Salon Culinaire, at the time Australia’s largest culinary competition, securing three gold and recognition as ‘one to watch’ by Judge Bruno Cerdan. This helped secure Scott a position at restaurant Paul Bocuse with his mentor, Phillipe Mouchel.Scott followed Mouchel to Langton’s Restaurant and Wine Bar and then Brasserie by Phillipe Mouchel, before stints at Melbourne’s three-hatted restaurant Ondine working under Donovan Cooke. Not one to rest on his laurels Scott travelled to Europe to feed his hunger for classical cooking, spending three years in London as Junior Sous Chef to Philip Howard atinternationally-renowned, two Michelin star restaurant The Square. In 2005 Scott represented his country at the most prestigious cooking competition in the world, the Bocuse D’or, achieving Australia’s best ever result at the time 14th globally.These credentials and such experience placed Scott, a chef with true edge and fervour, at The Point Restaurant Albert Park. Four years later and The Point Restaurant was awarded Two Hats by The Age Good Food Guide 2011 and 2012 and awarded Victoria’s Best Steakhouse 2010 by Restaurant and Catering Australia. The Point was also awarded National honours in 2008 and 2011 by RCA, for its continued commitment to serving some of the country’s finest beef.Scott is ‘the meat man’ and for more than five years was Executive Chef at the helm of one of Australia’s most credited steak restaurants, while also managing to offer an extensive modern European menu enabled by his classical French training. Scott and his team at The Point won noteworthy Australian titles, the Australian Culinary Challenge 2007 and Scott also defended his title at the Fonterra Food Services Culinary Challenge 2010 and won, which saw top chefs from around the country competing for significant cash prizes and national recognition.In 2011 after an extremely successful tenure at The Point, Scott decided to realise his dream and opened his first restaurant venture, The Estelle in Northcote. Having received a coveted Chef’s Hat in The Age Good Food Guide in only its first year, while also being nominated for ‘Best New Restaurant’ the Estelle is definitely a valued addition to Melbourne’s vibrant and eclectic food scene. Two years on the Estelle is popular with locals and destination diners and has retained its One Chef’s Hat at 2014 AGFG.Pickett has recently launched new venture, Saint Crispin at 300 Smith Street, Collingwood in partnership with chef Joe Grbac who also trained at The Square with Philip Howard. At the 2014 Age Good Food Guide Awards Saint Crispin was awarded One Hat and Best New Restaurant 2014, and now Saint Crispin has secured Two Chef’s Hats in the 2015 awards.Scott was also nominated for Chef Of The Year by The Age Good Food Guide 2015, and his head chef of Estelle, Josh Pelham secured Young Chef Of The Year 2015.

As seen on Channel 9's The Hot Plate

A Bitter Harvest Senator William Patterson, wealthy and influential, hides a scandal from his past that could ruin him. Stefan Muller, a young penniless immigrant, seeks a promised new life in a land that does not welcome him. When the senator's cherished daughter Elizabeth falls in love with the impoverished Stefan, it creates a family conflict that threatens to destroy them. From a tumultuous and vibrant Sydney to the lyrical landscape of the Barossa Valley, A Bitter Harvest is an epic saga of prejudice, political turmoil and lasting love from one of Australia's favourite storytellers.

Category Historical fiction

Pages 581


Binding P/B

$ARP $24.95

ISBN 9780143010388

For Pity Sake Publishing


Peter YeldhamAuthor

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Glory Girl London, 1927. The jazz age. Aviators seek to conquer new frontiers in the sky. Former wartime ace James Harrington has his sights set on being the first person to fly from Britain to Australia in a light aircraft. With so much desert and ocean to cross, he's been told it can't be done. Feisty Australian Sarah Carson can help make his dream a reality, but only on the condition that he takes her with him. So begins the flying adventure of a lifetime, until halfway across the world, the plane disappears...Reporting on it all back home is Sarah's boyfriend, Fleet Street aviation correspondent Daniel Anderson, whose job it is to uncover the truth. Where in the world are they? And what is really going on? From Australia's master of the historical blockbuster comes this highly entertaining adventure‐romance about an ambitious and heroic pair. Glory Girl is an unforgettable story about the risks they take and the sacrifices they make for their chance of glory.Category Historical fiction

Pages 383


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ISBN 9780143205593



Peter YeldhamAuthor

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Barbed Wire and Roses They were our golden youth, seeking adventure on foreign battlefields. The First World War, everyone said in 1914, would be over by Christmas, and Stephen Conway rushes to enlist. Leaving behind a new wife and a baby on the way, he soon finds himself in the trenches of Gallipoli. Four horrific years later, Stephen is the only survivor of his platoon, shell‐shocked and disillusioned, and during the heat of battle on the blood‐stained fields of France, he mysteriously disappears.

Stephen's ultimate fate is still a mystery when more than eighty years later his grandson Patrick finds a diary that leads him to Britain and France on a journey to discover what really happened... and finds the truth about his grandfather's fate is even stranger and more shocking than he imagined.

Category Historical fiction

Pages 282


Binding P/B

$ARP $24.95

ISBN 9780143007913



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Norwood: It changed the face of Melbourne

Category Social & cultural history

Pages 172


Binding P/B

NOW $22.95

ISBN 9780987414007

The Publishing Company


Roland Johnson

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HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2014 FELLOWSHIP OF AUSTRALIAN WRITERS (FAW) BARBARA RAMSDEN AWARD

From Johnny Fawkner's party landing on the Yarra in 1835, Melbourne had 55 years of rarely interrupted prosperity. It had come so easily few believed it would end.

But it did end, just as financier, philanthropist and sportsman, Mark Moss was building his testament to his and the city's success. Norwood.

This is a story of that house, its history and its people. But it is also more than that. This is a history of the settlement of Victoria and the rich background to the early formation of Melbourne.

An explosion of advanced cultural and political developments followed on from a remarkable gold rush and its rebellion, to a city, with impressive boulevards, beautiful parks, palatial public and commercial buildings and opulent homes, like Norwood.

Weaving the history of Norwood and its people with the story of Melbourne this is a rare insight into some of the people and events that shaped the early settlement and the growth of Victoria.

In particular it follows the story of Mark Moss and his building of Norwood - often referred to as Moss' folly - at the height of the boom. By tracing the evolution of the city of Melbourne through property acquisition, speculation and development cycles through to the mid 1900's much is revealed. Including the influence of Norwood in the creation of the National Trust (Victoria).

Of Norwood's legacy Robin Boyd said: It changed (the) city's face.

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The author lived in Norwood as a young man from 1947 to 1955. His great uncle owned Norwood from 1917 to 1953. On investigating the house's history he has found many surprises about its colourful past, and its connections with 'Marvellous Melbourne' and has woven these into the fabric of the story.



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Category True crime

Pages 166


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.95

ISBN 9780646552149

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Hammer Bash for Cash

Mark Dixon, Confessions of Chopper Read's Bodyguard


John Sparks /Author Mark Dixon

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Mark Dixon has come a long way. From a bullied private school boy to a talented boxer and kickboxer and street fighter of notorious repute.

Mark has spent a lifetime as a career bouncer and is one of Australia's highest paid pub minders.

He has also worked as a personal bodyguard to some of Australia's most notorious characters, including Chopper Read and Roger Rogerson!

These are his stories.

Mark Dixon is the best bodyguard God ever shovelled guts into. ‐ Mark 'Chopper' Read



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Pilates The Anatomy of Fitness series offers the total fitness experience, with a comprehensive catalogue of step‐by‐step exercises. These user‐friendly titles feature detailed, full‐colour anatomical illustrations of the muscles used in each exercise, so you're always familiar with what your body should be doing. Detailed tips on the correct form and what to avoid mean you'll be exercising effectively and safely.

‐ Information on exercise basics, nutrition and training at home.‐ Comprehensive sections on the different types of exercises or poses.‐ Tailored workouts and routines to suit your fitness and exercise needs.‐Modifications and variations on many of the exercises to simplify or intensify the challenge.‐ Anatomical information and labels to complement the detailed drawings of the body's muscle system that accompany each exercise.

Produced in partnership with Moseley Road, the creators of Hinkler's bestselling Anatomy of Exercise range of titles: over 100,000 titles sold!

Category Exercise & workout books

Pages 192


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$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781743080085

Hinkler Books


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Yoga The Anatomy of Fitness series offers the total fitness experience, with a comprehensive catalogue of step‐by‐step exercises. These user‐friendly titles feature detailed, full‐colour anatomical illustrations of the muscles used in each exercise, so you're always familiar with what your body should be doing. Detailed tips on the correct form and what to avoid mean you'll be exercising effectively and safely.




Pages 192


Binding P/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781743080092

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Core Training The Anatomy of Fitness series offers the total fitness experience, with a comprehensive catalogue of step‐by‐step exercises. These user‐friendly titles feature detailed, full‐colour anatomical illustrations of the muscles used in each exercise, so you're always familiar with what your body should be doing. Detailed tips on the correct form and what to avoid mean you'll be exercising effectively and safely.




Pages 192


Binding P/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781743080078

Hinkler Books


Publisher



September 2015 Hinkler

The Anatomy of series provide a comprehensive and detailed reference into the anatomy of various exercises and body parts.

Discover what goes on beneath the skin and see which muscles you are exercising and stretching. A solid understanding of muscle building and stretching is the key to achieving a healthy back and a supple body.

With full‐colour photographs, clear step‐by‐step instructions for each movement and tips on what to look for, these books provide essential insights into your body and your exercise and stretching routines.

200,000 Anatomy of titles sold to date.

Full‐colour photographs of the muscles inside the body to highlight the impact of the exercise and stretch.

Includes exercise and stretching routines, and a photographic index.


Pages 160


Binding P/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781743088012

Publisher Hinkler Books


Anatomy of a Healthy Back

The Anatomy of series provide a comprehensive and detailed reference into the anatomy of various exercises and body parts.

Discover what goes on beneath the skin and see which muscles you are exercising and stretching. A solid understanding of muscle building and stretching is the key to achieving a healthy back and a supple body.

With full‐colour photographs, clear step‐by‐step instructions for each movement and tips on what to look for, these books provide essential insights into your body and your exercise and stretching routines.

200,000 Anatomy of titles sold to date.

Full‐colour photographs of the muscles inside the body to highlight the impact of the exercise and stretch.

Includes exercise and stretching routines, and a photographic index.


Pages 160


Binding P/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781741843873



Anatomy of Exercise




Take a second to escape from your busy world and clear your mind with these two beautiful titles that will delight and inspire even the most reluctant adult colourer.Each book contains stunning illustrations that are not all simply blank ‐ unlike other colouring books on the market, these titles contain a range of activities (drawing, colouring, freehand) with a range of different themes; some are partly coloured, some leave the colour scheme up to your imagination. With no text to direct you, there is no need to be intimidated ‐ what you do is up to you! So relax and enjoy.

Category Painting & art manuals

Pages 96


Binding P/B

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488930300



Art Therapy Colouring Book

Take a second to escape from your busy world and clear your mind with these two beautiful titles that will delight and inspire even the most reluctant adult colourer.

Each book contains stunning illustrations that are not all simply blank ‐ unlike other colouring books on the market, these titles contain a range of activities (drawing, colouring, freehand) with a range of different themes; some are partly coloured, some leave the colour scheme up to your imagination. With no text to direct you, there is no need to be intimidated ‐ what you do is up to you! So relax and enjoy.

Category Painting & art manuals

Pages 96


Binding P/B

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488930362



Art Therapy Colouring Book




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Stylish and modern in design, the Perfect Puzzles series is the ideal way to sharpen your wits.

Suitable for people of any skill level, featuring stylish cover art and popular puzzles, these books are oozing with appeal!

Each title in the series features over 150 puzzles!

These gorgeous books feature popular puzzle formats.

Great gift item at a great value price!

Category Puzzles & quizzes

Pages 192


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781743631201

Hinkler Books


Publisher

Sudoku

Stylish and modern in design, the perfect puzzles series is the ideal way to sharpen your wits.






Pages 192


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781743631218

Hinkler Books


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Word Search 1

Stylish and modern in design, the Perfect Puzzles series is the ideal way to sharpen your wits.






Pages 192


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781743631188

Hinkler Books


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Word Search 2

Stylish and modern in design, the perfect puzzles series is the ideal way to sharpen your wits.






Pages 192


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781743631195

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Traditional Five‐Minute Tales

Enchanting and magic worlds are only a moment away with these stunning treasury titles. These illustrated stories, songs and rhymes have been adapted from traditional sources. Little faces will light up as they discover these timeless classics and come to love the well‐known characters who have delighted children for generations. Proven content that will be refreshed and redesigned to give another life to theses cherished titles. Featuring classic stories, songs and rhymes that have been faithfully retold. Gorgeous gift format with padded hardcover, thick paper stock, head and tail bands and ribbon marker that will clearly convey the value of these titles.

Category Picture books

Pages 192


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781742819723

Hinkler Books


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Bedtime Tales



Pages 192


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781742819686

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Nursery Rhymes



Pages 192


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781742819709

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Classic Fairytale Stories



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$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781742819716

Hinkler Books


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Christmas Carols & Stories

Enchanting and magic worlds are only a moment away with these stunning treasury titles. These illustrated stories, songs and rhymes have been adapted from traditional sources. Little faces will light up as they discover these timeless classics and come to love the well‐known characters who have delighted children for generations. Total sales of Hinkler's treasuries have exceeded 850,000 copies globally. Proven content that will be refreshed and redesigned to give another life to theses cherished titles. Featuring classic stories, songs and rhymes that have been faithfully retold. Gorgeous gift format with padded hardcover, thick paper stock, head and tail bands and ribbon marker that will clearly convey the value of these titles.


Pages 192


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781742819693

Hinkler Books


Publisher


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1/10 Melrich Road, Bayswater, Vic 3153ABN 37 064 871 665

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Thomas Floor Puzzles ABC

Children will love learning with Thomas and Friends in these great kits! Each set contains:-A 28 piece large floor puzzles-A poster of the puzzle at actual size, for reference-A 16 page colouring book

With big pieces that are great for little hands, these adorable puzzles are an ideal way for childrento develop essential early learning skills in fun and exciting way!

Category Interactive & activity books &

PagesPublished 01/09/2015

Binding Pack$ARP $16.99ISBN 9781743677520

Hinkler Books


Publisher

Thomas Floor Puzzles Number

Children will love learning with Thomas and Friends in these great kits! Each set contains:-A 28 piece large floor puzzles-A poster of the puzzle at actual size, for reference-A 16 page colouring book

With big pieces that are great for little hands, these adorable puzzles are an ideal way for childrento develop essential early learning skills in fun and exciting way!




Hinkler Books


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Learning is fun with Thomas and Friends Write, Slide & Learn! Your child will love helping Thomas solve puzzles and complete activities that will encourage development of essential reading, writing, comprehension and numerical skills. Children can fill in the blanks on the write-and-slide pages and slide the tab to check their answers, then complete the fun activities that will help advance their skills. Wipe-clean pages and an erasable pen allow for repeated practice.




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Thomas Write Slide Learn ABC & Words

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Numbers, Colours and Shapes

Learning is fun with Thomas and Friends Write, Slide & Learn! Your child will love helping Thomas solve puzzles and complete activities that will encourage development of essential reading, writing, comprehension and numerical skills. Children can fill in the blanks on the write-and-slide pages and slide the tab to check their answers, then complete the fun activities that will help advance their skills. Wipe-clean pages and an erasable pen allow for repeated practice.




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The Wheels on The Bus

The bestselling titles from Kate Toms and Clare Fennell in a great paperback format! The pages are easy for little hands to turn and large enough to read out in a group. Lively illustrations, together with gentle humour and charming rhymes will engage and amuse little ones and adults alike.


Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781782356592

Hinkler Books


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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star



Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781782356585

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Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781782356646

Hinkler Books


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The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

Old MacDonald had a Farm



Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781782356622

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Incy Wincy Spider



Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781782356608

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Daisy The Doughnut Fairy



Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781783936038

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Annie the Apple Pie Fairy



Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781783937493

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Lola The Lollipop Fairy



Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781783936045

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Izzy the Ice‐cream Fairy



Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781783936052

Hinkler Books


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Camilla the Cupcake Fairy



Pages 28


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781783936021

Hinkler Books


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My Baby Record Book Pink Your baby's first year is an exciting and precious time. Create a lasting keepsake of each treasured milestone with My Baby Record Book.

With traditional nursery rhymes to share and space for photographs, My Baby Record Book is a unique memento that your family will cherish.

Capture your baby boy's special moments in this beautiful blue book, or your baby girl's memories in this pretty pink book. Or keep it gender‐neutral with the sweet yellow book.

Each year, 133 million babies are born and every parent around the world wants a keepsake of the special moments in their newborn's life.

With three different cover colour schemes, you won't be at a loss for what to buy whether it's a boy, girl, or a surprise!

Great and affordable gift idea, perfect for the parents‐to‐be.

These adorable record books have already sold a combined 120,000 copies and are now better than ever.

Category Gift books

Pages 48


Binding H/B

$ARP $12.99

ISBN 9781743678718

Hinkler Books


Publisher

My Baby Record Book Blue Your baby's first year is an exciting and precious time. Create a lasting keepsake of each treasured milestone with My Baby Record Book.







Category Gift books

Pages 48


Binding H/B

$ARP $12.99

ISBN 9781743678695

Hinkler Books


Publisher

My Baby Record Book Yellow Your baby's first year is an exciting and precious time. Create a lasting keepsake of each treasured milestone with My Baby Record Book.







Category Gift books

Pages 48


Binding H/B

$ARP $12.99

ISBN 9781743678701

Hinkler Books


Publisher




On the Farm

These engaging Bingo! Games will entertain and engage children while reinforcing familiar concepts and teaching simple words. Children will develop word‐picture matching skills as they play, matching the bright images on the spinner to those on their game boards. 4 game boards, turn spinner, 36 game cards and 16‐page book. Develops skills in understanding first concepts and picture‐word recognition. Great home learning tool that parents and children can use together. Games build hand‐eye co‐ordination and aid problem solving skills.

Category Interactive & activ

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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488900549

Hinkler Books


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Things That Go

These engaging Bingo! Games will entertain and engage children while reinforcing familiar concepts and teaching simple words. Children will develop word‐picture matching skills as they play, matching the bright images on the spinner to those on their game boards. 4 game boards, turn spinner, 36 game cards and 16‐page book. Develops skills in understanding first concepts and picture‐word recognition. Great home learning tool that parents and children can use together. Games build hand‐eye co‐ordination and aid problem solving skills.


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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488900488

Hinkler Books


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Spelling Fun

Featuring sturdy, self‐correcting jigsaw cards, these Match and Learn games are perfect for improving problem‐solving skills and entertaining through educational play. The cards feature bright images and teach children key basic skills and first concepts. Develops skills in understanding first concepts and picture‐word recognition. Great home learning tool that parents and children can use together. Games build hand‐eye coordination and aid problem‐solving skills.


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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488900365

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Word Sounds



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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488900426

Hinkler Books


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Learn the Alphabet



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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488900303

Hinkler Books


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Let's Count Numbers



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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488900242

Hinkler Books


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These colourful 28-piece jigsaw puzzles reinforce key early learning concepts and feature sturdy card pieces, perfect for little hands.

The puzzle sets also contain a wall poster to use as a handy reference and a bright 16-page book reinforcing important early concepts.

Updated content and new look for one of Hinkler's bestselling preschool learning ranges.

Great home learning tool that parents and children can use together.

Jigsaw puzzles build hand-eye co-ordination and aid problem solving skills.




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Learn the Alphabet

Floor Puzzle









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Let's Count Numbers

Floor Puzzle









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Learn First Words

Floor Puzzle









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My First Animals

Floor Puzzle




Baby Animals

Children will love these fun classic Memory Match games, which build memory skills, improve hand‐eye co‐ordination, teach word‐picture recognition skills and reinforce familiar first concepts.

The 40 cards feature fun, bright images that will entertain and engage children. Match the pairs to win!

Develops skills in understanding first concepts and picture‐word recognition.


Games build hand‐eye co‐ordination and aid problem solving skills.


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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488902345

Hinkler Books


Publisher

Memory Match

First Words

Children will love these fun classic Memory Match games, which build memory skills, improve hand‐eye co‐ordination, teach word‐picture recognition skills and reinforce familiar first concepts.

The 40 cards feature fun, bright images that will entertain and engage children. Match the pairs to win!





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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488902406

Hinkler Books


Publisher

Memory Match

Wild Animals

These fun Dominoes sets feature two games in one: a picture‐matching game that will build matching and word recognition skills, and traditional dominoes to teach number recognition, patterns and counting skills.

With bright, engaging photographs, little ones will love matching thepictures as they reinforce familiar concepts and learn new words.





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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488902550

Hinkler Books


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Dominoes

On The Farm

These fun Dominoes sets feature two games in one: a picture‐matching game that will build matching and word recognition skills, and traditional dominoes to teach number recognition, patterns and counting skills.

With bright, engaging photographs, little ones will love matching thepictures as they reinforce familiar concepts and learn new words.





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Binding Pack

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488902451

Hinkler Books


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Dominoes




Easy‐to‐Read Fairytales Sing along, read along and have a rollicking good time with the Easy‐to‐read Fairytales book and audio CD.

The fun book is beautifully illustrated and contains all your favourite classic fairytale stories and songs for everyone to enjoy. Perfect for playtime or in the car, the CD will have little ones singing along in no time.

Classic fairytales, beautifully illustrated and packaged with an all‐new audio CD.

Family‐friendly content, suitable for home or on the go.

Reinforce learning with words, images and music.

Category Novelty, toy & die‐cut books

Pages 96


Binding H/B

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781743527818

Hinkler Books


Publisher

Sing‐A‐Long Nursery Rhymes Sing along, read along and have a rollicking good time with the Easy‐to‐read Fairytales book and audio CD.

The fun book is beautifully illustrated and contains all your favourite classic fairytale stories and songs for everyone to enjoy. Perfect for playtime or in the car, the CD will have little ones singing along in no time.

Classic fairytales, beautifully illustrated and packaged with an all‐new audio CD.


Reinforce learning with words, images and music.

Category Novelty, toy & die‐cut books

Pages 96


Binding H/B

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781743088524

Hinkler Books


Publisher

Sing‐A‐Long Christmas Carols Sing along and share the magic and music of Christmas with the Sing‐Along Christmas Carols book and audio CD.

The fun book is beautifully illustrated and contains classic Christmas carols and stories for everyone to enjoy. Perfect for home, in the car, or anywhere that needs the holiday spirit. Includes traditional carols such as Jingle Bells and Silent Night, plus stories such as 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens. The CD contains Christmas carols for everyone to sing along to. Perfect for the holiday season.

Classic Christmas carols, beautifully illustrated and packaged with an all‐new sing‐along audio CD.


Celebrate the holiday season with words, images and music ‐perfect for all ages.

Category Interactive & activity books & packs

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Binding H/B

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781743088517

Hinkler Books


Publisher




My Incredible Sticker Atlas This bumper sticker atlas book is both entertaining and educational. Kids will have lots of fun learning about the world as they find the right places for over 1,100 stickers. This beautifully illustrated full‐colour book also contains four gigantic fold‐out wall posters each measuring 600 x 918mm.

4 books in 1!

Full colour throughout.

Includes over 1000 stickers plus 4 giant wall posters.

Foil highlight on front cover.


Pages 48


Binding H/B

$ARP $16.99

ISBN 9781741842449

Hinkler Books


Publisher

Disney Secret Diary Frozen Share your secrets with your favourite Frozen characters!

Girls will be thrilled with this gorgeous Secret Diary. There's so much to do with Elsa and Anna, and best of all you use your magic pen so no one else can read your secrets.


Pages 96


Binding H/B

$ARP $16.99

ISBN 9781743637708

Hinkler Books


Publisher

My Giant Christmas Sticker and Activity Ideal for keeping children entertained for hours over Christmas, bursting with fun and educational puzzles and activities.

This fun‐filled festive sticker activity book full of stickering, puzzles, games, doodling and colouring pages. My Giant Christmas Sticker and Activity book will add an extra special element of sticking puzzling fun as children get into the Christmas spirit.

A giant collection of Christmas fun.

Over 150 fantastically festive stickers and press‐outs.

The perfect stocking filler for boys and girls.


Pages 72


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781742817521

Hinkler Books


Publisher




Wise Guys

Category Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage)

Pages 155


Binding P/B

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9780987277091

Collective Wisdom Publications

A boy’s guide to life


Sharon Witt

Publisher

Author

Sometimes when we are younger, we go through some great times, but also some tough times too. Whether that be problems with friends, school, family or coping with change, this book is written especially for you‐ to help you in your journey in growing up to be all that you were created you to be.

Topic covered include:

‐Families‐Dealing with friendships‐Managing Social media and the Internet‐Coping with bullying‐Dealing with school issues‐Strategies for coping with tough times‐Coping with anxiety and stress‐Making mistakes



September 2015 Mt Evelyn, VIC Author

Author InformationSharon Witt is a dynamic educator, author and speaker who has worked with thousands of young people across Australia. She has been a secondary teacher for over eighteen years and holds her Masters Degree in education. She has spent many years developing innovative curriculum that engages and impacts the lives of the adolescents she works with. Sharon has authored 6 books for young people including the best selling Teen Talk Series. She is also the author of Surviving High School.

Sharon is a gifted and energetic communicator and regularly runs workshops and parent seminars in schools and youth events across Australia. She regularly comments in the print media and appears regularly on national television on Channel 9’s Mornings with Kerri-Anne.

Sharon lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband Andrew and incredibly awesome children Josh and Emily.

Girl Wise

Sometimes when we are younger, we go through some wonderful times, but also some tough times too. Whether that be problems with friends, worrying about how you look or just feeling a bit down in the dumps- this book is written especially for you- to help you in your journey!

Girlswise is a new series of books written especially for young girls in the tweenmarket (ages 7-12 years).Often when girls are younger, they need an extra dose of encouragement. Girlwise- A Guide to being YOU! Explores the importance of girls being created as unique individuals of great value and worth.


-Discovering your own unique gifts and talents-Self Esteem-Creating your own personal space

Category Personal & social issues (Children's /





Sharon WittAuthor

Publisher

A guide to being you

Girl Wise

Sometimes when we are younger, we go through some wonderful times, but also some tough times too. Whether that be problems with friends, worrying about how you look or just feeling a bit down in the dumps- this book is written especially for you- to help you in your journey!

Girlswise is a new series of books written especially for young girls in the tween market (ages 7-12 years).Often when girls are younger, they need an extra dose of encouragement. Girlwise- A guide to friends! Explores the importance of girls developing healthy friendships and how to deal with friendships issues as they arise.


-How to make new friends-Building strong and healthy friendships






Sharon WittAuthor

Publisher

A girl's guide to Friends

Girl Wise

Our bodies are an amazing gift and have been created to do incredible things. Part of growing up, means learning to appreciate and care for our bodies in order to keep them healthy and growing.

Girl wise- A Guide to taking care of your body, is the third in the series of books written especially for young girls in the tween market (ages 6-12 years).

Topics covered include:-Understanding the different Body Systems-Caring for your body-Keeping Active and eating well-Maintaining a Healthy Body Image-Introduction to Puberty-Managing Stress






Sharon WittAuthor

Publisher

A guide to taking care of your body

Girl Wise

Sometimes when we are younger, we go through some wonderful times, but also some tough times too. Whether that be problems with friends, school, family or coping with change, this book is written especially for you- to help you in your journey in growing up to be all that you were created you to be.

Girl wise- A Girl's Guide to Life is the fourth title in a series of books written especially for young girls in the tween market (ages 7-12 years).

Topics covered include:

-Families-Dealing with friendships-Managing Social media and the Internet-Coping with bullying-Dealing with school issues-Strategies for coping with tough times






Sharon WittAuthor

Publisher

A girl's guide to life



Also Available by Sharon Witt

Ringle Tingle Tiger The Ringle Tingle Tiger isThe ruler of the night.

He lurks in shapes and shadows,Where he waits to claw and bite!

Follow the terrible, ever-stalking Ringle Tingle Tiger through the fearsome jungle until he finally springs ...This rollicking rhyme, filled with fascinating jungle creatures, has a message that will help all children face the things they fear - and conquer them!

Delightful rhyming verse tells a pacy story of bold deeds and fears overcome. A little boy who longs to be a hero has to face his terror of the dark and what lurks there as he sets out to slay the dreaded Ringle Tingle Tiger. Illustrated with stunning three-dimensional paper sculptures. Ages 3+.

Canberra writer, performer and workshop presenter Mark Austin has faced many of his own 'tiger' by parachuting, bungee-jumping and working with children.


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Binding P/B

$ARP $24.95

ISBN

Mark Austin

Height | Width

9780994321206

Mark Austin

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Author



September 2015 ACT Author

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