Books in Print Summer Reading Guide

2016– 2017

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The Boy Behind the Curtain

$45 BIP Price $34.95 (hb)

Tim Winton In The Boy Behind the Curtain Tim Winton reflects on the accidents, traumatic and serendipitous, that have influenced his view of life and fuelled his artistic vision. On the unexpected links between car crashes and religious faith, between surfing and writing, and how going to the wrong movie at the age of eight opened him up to a life of the imagination. In essays on class, fundamentalism, asylum seekers, guns and the natural world he reveals some of what unites his life and work.

The Voyages of Captain James Cook

$49.99 (hb)

James Cook and John Hawkesworth In 1766 the Royal Society chose James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage of exploration. That task completed, his ship, the HMS Endeavour, continued to comb the southern hemisphere for the imagined continent Terra Australis. After that came two more voyages for Cook and his crew, followed by Cook's untimely murder by natives in Hawaii. Beautifully illustrated, The Voyages of Captain James Cook reveals Cook's fascinating story through excerpts from his journals, as well as illustrations, photography, and supplementary writings.

Songs of a War Boy

$32.99 (pb)

The House and the Garden at Glenmore Mickey Robertson

$59.99 (hb)

Deng Thiak Adut and Ben Mckelvey Deng Adut describes how, when he was six years old, he was enlisted to fight in the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. He began a harsh, relentless military training and was sent into battle. Deng was rescued from war by his brother John. He lived in refugee camps until he came to Australia as an immigrant. In 2005 Deng enrolled in a Bachelor of Law at Western Sydney University, and is now a lawyer and committed worker for the disenfranchised, helping refugees in Western Sydney.

Twenty-five years ago Mickey Robertson and her husband Larry purchased a collection of historic Georgian farm buildings in country New South Wales. Thus began an emotional journey of restoration and renewal. The natural world and the seasons are an integral part of Mickey’s home and life, and she explores the links between them as she recounts the story of her home’s interiors and her garden. In addition to her ornamental garden, Mickey has built a working, productive organic/biodynamic kitchen garden which is never dormant.

The Story of Australia’s $49.99 (hb) People Volume II: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia Geoffrey Blainey

Paul Bangay’s Country Gardens $79.99 (hb) Paul Bangay

True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia David Hunt

$32.99 (pb)

John Olsen: A Recipe for Art

Full Bore

$32.99 (pb)

Geoffrey Blainey continues his history of Australia from the early Gold Rush to the present day. When Europeans crossed the world to plant a new society in an unknown land, traditional life for Australia’s first inhabitants changed forever. For the new arrivals, Australia was a land that rewarded, tricked, tantalised and often defeated. From the Gold Rush to Land Rights and the Digital Age, Blainey brings to life the key events of more recent times that have shaped the nation.

In this sequel to his best-selling Girt, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, nervous indigenous people and sheep. True Girt introduces Thomas Davey, the hard-drinking Tasmanian governor, and William Nicholson, the Melbournian who gave Australia the steam-powered coffee roaster and the world the secret ballot. Learn how Truganini’s death inspired the Martian invasion of Earth, and be reminded why you should never smoke with the Wild Colonial Boy and Mad Dan Morgan.

William McInnes William McInnes is one of Australia’s best-loved entertainers and authors. A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William’s inimitable take on our sport-obsessed nation, Australian popular culture and the artefacts and memorabilia that both make us cringe with recognition and laugh with warm affection. His trademark humour and anecdotes litter this collection, making it a true delight. These are truly Aussie stories: about us, and about the things - and the people - in our lives.

Look behind the gates of twenty exclusive country estates from the Mornington Peninsula to The Hamptons in this magnificent book showcasing the work of acclaimed garden designer Paul Bangay, whose love affair with country gardens dates back to his childhood. Each of these gardens features Paul’s distinctive simplicity and elegance, as he writes passionately of his deeply personal relationship with each property and its owners. Paul’s spare time is spent at Stonefields, the garden he is building in the Victorian countryside.

$39.99 (hb)

Leanne Santoro and Deborah Edwards John Olsen, one of Australia’s greatest living artists, made a life-changing discovery as a young man: Mediterranean cuisine, ‘the cuisine of the sun’. Fresh seasonal produce and its preparation has been central to his life and a key ingredient in his creativity and his art, from his famous paella paintings to lively sketches in his diaries. The book features some 40 recipes by or loved by Olsen, 30 related paintings, over 50 sketches and drawings, and over 65 photographs of places, family and friends.

Margaret Preston: $45 BIP Price $39.95 (pb) Recipes for Food and Art Lesley Harding Artist Margaret Preston was a colourful and outspoken personality. Less well known is her legacy as a generous and insightful teacher and keen cook. She devoted much of her career to the genre of still life, often painting in the kitchen while keeping ‘one eye on the stew’. Drawing on recipes from handwritten books found in the National Gallery of Australia and richly illustrated with Preston’s paintings, prints and photographs this book sheds new light on the fascinating private life of a much-loved Australian artist.

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Margaret Court: The Life, The Legend

$44.99 (hb)

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Poum and Alexandre: A Paris Memoir

$29.99 (pb)

Margaret Court In 1970 Margaret Court became the first woman in the open era to win the singles Grand Slam. The youngest player to win the Australian Open, she went on to win 64 major titles overall. Yet she is a controversial figure today for often hardline religious views. Margaret Court recounts how she fell hard in retirement. After a period of depression and seclusion, she was reborn in 1991 as an ordained minister. Today, she preaches every Sunday and feeds thousands via her charities.

Catherine de Saint Phalle Poum and Alexandre are two flawed eccentrics. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns and the ominous concierges who dog their footsteps. Their daughter, Catherine, would like to help but she seems to be part of the problem. This is no ordinary childhood, and Catherine’s acceptance of her parents, despite their flaws, shines through, propelling the reader head first into their strange, yet beautiful, Parisian world.

Blood Mystic

Press Escape Shaun Carney

$44.99 (pb)

George Gittoes George Gittoes defies categorisation as his life defies belief. Equal parts artist and warrior, George is world-famous for waging war on war with art, circus, photography and film. He has been shot, stabbed, bombed, beaten, tortured, drowned and jailed. George reflects deeply on a life less ordinary - his boyhood being groomed as a gangster, his escape to New York, the Yellow House art revolutions, crazy brave adventures in outback Australia, ghetto America, jungle Nicaragua, war-torn Cambodia, Baghdad and beyond.

Not All Superheroes Wear Capes $32.99 (pb) Quentin Kenihan

Born with a rare bone disorder, Quentin Kenihan was the subject of a television documentary when he was seven. Australians loved his wit, humour and never-say-die attitude. But by the time he was eighteen, Quentin had an extensive drug addiction. He went to rehab and cleaned up. Now Quentin is determined to live life the best he can. He is a filmmaker, standup comedian, radio host, actor and film critic, all the while showing that living in a wheelchair doesn’t mean staying still.

Rolling Stones: All the Songs

$69.99 (hb)

Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon The Rolling Stones have sold more than 200 million records worldwide. This collection of their 340 released songs provides details from the recording studio, including all of the instruments used. Organized chronologically by album, the book begins with their 1963 eponymous debut album recorded over five days in London, through to their later work with Don Was, who has produced every album since Voodoo Lounge. It is packed with more than 500 photos and behind-the-scenes stories of the artists who contributed to their tracks.

Fight Like a Girl Clementine Ford

$29.99

BiP Price $24.95 (pb)

Online sensation, fearless feminist heroine and scourge of trolls and misogynists everywhere, Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of Australian women and girls. Her incendiary debut Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, and exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women. Crucially, it is a call to arms for all women to rediscover the fury that has been suppressed by a society that still considers feminism a threat.

Nujeen: One Girl’s Incredible $29.99 (pb) Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair Nujeen Mustafa with Christina Lamb

Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. A 16-year-old Syrian girl, she has the courage of a lion. Nujeen tells the story of what it is really like to be a refugee, to have grown up through war and left a beloved homeland to become dependent on others. An inspiring tale of modern migration, escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the first time in her life.

$29.99 (pb)

The digital revolution was one of the best things to happen to Shaun Carney because it ended his career. When he took a redundancy from his job as associate editor and political writer with The Age, he had to stop to consider whether a 55-year old man still had any value. What had he done with his life? Had he made the most of his opportunities? This is a tour through suburban Australian life, journalism, politics and the burdens of family expectations.

Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius David Bodanis

$35 (pb)

Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. He was a fallible genius. David Bodanis traces Einstein’s intellectual development across his professional and personal life, showing how Einstein’s confidence in his own powers of intuition proved to be both his greatest strength and his ultimate undoing.

Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy’s Son Mark Colvin

$32.99 (pb)

Making Headlines Chris Mitchell

$32.99 (pb)

Keeping On Keeping On Alan Bennett

$49.99 (hb)

Mark Colvin is the voice of ABC Radio’s leading current affairs program PM. He has reported on wars, royal weddings and everything in between. In the midst of all this he discovered that his father was an MI6 spy. Light and Shadow is the story of a father waging a secret war against communism during the Cold War, while his son comes of age as a journalist during the tumultuous Whitlam and Fraser years and embarks on the risky career of a foreign correspondent.

As editor-in-chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists in Australia. In Making Headlines he describes the quirks and foibles of some of the most powerful politicians and media executives this country has produced. He still maintains regular contact with past prime ministers, editors and media CEOs. Chris Mitchell’s book is informed by the judgements and thought processes that govern daily newspaper journalism and the battles his papers fought to publish tough stories about the rich and the powerful.

Alan Bennett’s third collection of prose contains his diaries from 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre, a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. The book includes Baffled at a Bookcase, a passionate defence of the public library, and Denmark Hill, a darkly comic radio play set in suburban south London. An engaging, humane, funny and unforgettable record of life according to the inimitable Alan Bennett.

A World Gone Mad: $39.99 (hb) The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren 1939-45

No Job for a Woman Sallyanne Atkinson

$32.95 (pb)

Astrid Lindgren Astrid Lindgren always championed the qualities of courage, hope, love and resistance. Her preoccupation with these qualities was already in evidence in the diaries she kept during the Second World War, long before she achieved her fame. Alongside the day’s political events, Lindgren’s intelligent and perceptive diaries include charming and moving descriptions of her domestic life, as well as of her first writing attempts. It was during this period that she composed Pippi Longstocking, one of the most famous children’s books of the twentieth century.

No Job for a Woman moves from Sallyanne’s wartime childhood in Sri Lanka to her first jobs as a journalist and TV personality. Driven to make a difference in her community, she entered local politics and eventually became the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane. Sallyanne shares the challenges and triumphs of a life devoted to public service in Australia and abroad, including her role in three Olympic bids. This inspiring story reveals how one woman defied the expectations of a generation.

Changing the Game: $35 (pb) Football in Australia through My Eyes

Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 1970s $29.99 (pb) Janine Burke and Helen Hughes (Eds.)

Ange Postecoglou Ange Postecoglou has been at the centre of Australian football for more than thirty years. In this book he shows us the game from the changing room to the boardroom. His story is one of fostering a culture of success, and has coincided with the rise of football in this country. He candidly recounts key moments and meetings in his life, reflecting on how these have shaped his beliefs and practices, and gives frank views on where the game is currently going right and wrong.

Under Kiffy Rubbo’s leadership the George Paton Gallery, at the University of Melbourne, became known as a vital, nationally-recognised centre for contemporary art. Through Kiffy’s visionary and progressive approach, the gallery was transformed into a hub for ideas and discussion, and art-political activism. The contributors, including many significant curators, artists, and critics, explore Kiffy Rubbo’s enduring legacy and the immense role that she played in nurturing Australian visual-art culture at such a crucial time in its history.

Frida Kahlo at Home Suzanne Barbezat

Paul Keating: The Big Picture Leader Troy Bramston

$49.99 (hb)

Frantumaglia: An Author’s Journey Told Through Letters Elena Ferrante

$29.99 (pb)

Fashion is Freedom Tala Raassi

$29.99 (pb)

$49.99 (hb)

Suzanne Barbezat explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, and the places Frida Kahlo called home, on her life and work. La Casa Azul was her birthplace and the home where she grew up, lived with her husband Diego Rivera for a number of years, and also where she died. The book features Frida’s paintings together with archive images and family photographs to provide an insight into how the homes and landscapes of her life relate to her work.

The House on the Hill Susan Duncan

$34.99 (pb)

In The House on the Hill Susan Duncan reaches such an understanding of emotional freedom and moral clarity that she can admit to hidden and often fiendish facts of ageing and, ultimately, to find ways to embrace them. This, in turn, unleashes an overwhelming desire to confront her intractable 95-year-old mother with the secrets of the past before it is too late, no matter the consequences. This is a book about a mother and daughter coming to terms with the forces that shaped their relationship.

Byron’s Women

$39.99 (hb)

Alexander Larman Alexander Larman has undertaken an iconoclastic exploration of the life of Lord Byron, viewed through the prism of nine women with whom he was intimately associated. One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley’s wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead.

Victoria: The Woman Who Made the Modern World Julia Baird

$49.99 (hb)

When Alexandrina Victoria was crowned Queen on 20 June 1837, she was 18 years old and barely five feet tall. By the time of her Diamond Jubilee Procession in 1897, she reigned over 400 million subjects, and had given birth to nine children. Suffrage, anti-poverty and anti-slavery movements can all be traced to her monumental reign, along with a profound rethinking of family life and the rise of religious doubt. Victoria is truly the woman who made the modern world.

Troy Bramston tells the story of a political warrior’s rise to power. Paul Keating saw political leadership as the combination of courage and imagination, a belief that powered his public career and helps explain his extraordinary triumphs and crushing lows. Keating blazed a trail of reform with a vision for Australia’s future that still attracts ardent admirers and the staunchest critics. This book chronicles, analyses, and interprets Keating’s life, and draws lessons for a Labor Party and a country still reluctant to fully embrace his legacy.

In these pages Elena Ferrante answers many of her readers’ questions. She addresses her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives. She discusses her thoughts and concerns as her novels are being adapted into films. She contemplates her relationship with psychoanalysis, with the cities she has lived in, with motherhood, with feminism, and with her childhood as a storehouse for memories, impressions, and fantasies. The result is a vibrant and intimate self-portrait of a writer at work.

Growing up in Iran, where a woman could be punished for exposing her hair in public, Tala was forced to keep her experiments in fashion private. After a raid by religious police, 16-year-old Tala found herself sentenced to forty lashes of a whip – for the crime of wearing a mini-skirt. This punishment fanned the flames of rebellion and led to a new life in the US where she now heads a fashion empire and supports charities that focus on empowering women.

Born to Run

$49.99 BIP Price $39.99 (hb) Bruce Springsteen Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, with the same honesty, humour and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger and darkness that fuelled his imagination. He recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, tells the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows why the song ‘Born to Run’ reveals more than previously realized.

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR I Am Brian Wilson Brian Wilson

HISTORY & WORLD AFFAIRS

$45 BIP Price $39.95 (hb)

As co-founder member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. Derailed in the 1970s by mental illness, drug use, and the shifting fortunes of the band, Wilson came back again and again over the next few decades, surviving and finally thriving. Now, older, calmer and filled with perspective and forgiveness, he weighs in on the sources of his creative inspiration and on his struggles, the exhilarating highs and the debilitating lows.

Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography Phil Collins

$45 BiP Price $39.95 (hb)

Working Class Boy is the story of how James Swan became Jimmy Barnes. It is a memoir burning with the frustration and frenetic energy of teenage sex, drugs, violence and ambition for more than what you have. Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny, Jimmy Barnes’ childhood memoir is the story of migrant dreams both fulfilled and dashed. It is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fuelled the excess and recklessness that would define, and almost destroy, the rock’n’roll legend.

Being Elvis

$35 (pb)

Ray Connolly On the outside Elvis was all charm and sex appeal, confident on stage and supreme in the studio. He should have been free to do whatever he wanted, but the circumstances of his poor beginnings in the American South had left him with a lifelong vulnerability. Being Elvis looks at the most-loved entertainer ever, and finds an unusual boy who grew up to change popular culture; a man who sold a billion records, but who became trapped by his own frailties in the loneliness of fame.

Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon Peter Ames Carlin

$32.99 (pb)

The boy from Queens scored his first hit in 1957, just after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. After a successful career as the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon went out on his own. The grandchild of Jewish immigrants from Hungary, the singer-songwriter has won 15 Grammy awards and been installed into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame twice. Replete with drugs, depression, marriage, divorce, and more, he has also lived one of the most vibrant lives of modern times.

Michael Clarke: My Story Michael Clarke

$44.99 (hb)

Michael Clarke was Australian cricket’s golden boy. The batting prodigy nicknamed ‘Pup’ certainly fulfilled his destiny in an 11-year international career of 115 Tests, 8643 runs and 28 centuries. Yet Michael Clarke also sparked fiercer debate than any other Australian sports star. Was he simply a hard-working, western suburbs kid living every Aussie boy’s dream? Or a 21st century cricketer mired in all the trappings of celebrity? My Story is the real Michael Clarke, standing up and speaking out for the first time.

Moods: The Peter Moody Saga

$32.99 (pb)

Tom Gilling As the new colony of New South Wales grew, rum became both a currency and a source of political strength and instability, culminating in the Rum Rebellion in 1808, and a society of ‘drunkenness, gaming and debaucheries’. Tom Gilling presents a compelling history of the first three decades of European settlement: how the colony was transformed from a squalid and starving convict settlement into a prosperous trading town with a hospital built by private contractors, in exchange for a monopoly on rum.

$35 (pb)

Phil Collins gained fame as both the drummer and lead singer for Genesis and continues to enjoy worldwide success today. Phil Collins’ life has also been rich with experience outside of music, starting with his career as a child actor. He talks honestly about his three failed marriages, his alcoholism and his ill health, but also describes the highs and lows of his career, and what it is like to work with other rock legends from Eric Clapton to Robert Plant.

Working Class Boy Jimmy Barnes

Grog

$34.99 (pb)

Helen Thomas In March 2016 Peter Moody, the man who took Black Caviar to 25 straight victories, walked away from racing. Suspended after he was found to have presented a horse with an illegal level of cobalt, he decided to close his Caulfield stables. Helen Thomas traces Moody’s extraordinary career, and highlights the scandal that engulfed him. She explores his life and achievements: from his time with T.J. Smith to the day he first noticed Black Caviar, and the inquiry that led him to quit the job he loves.

Australians: A Short History Thomas Keneally

$49.99 (hb)

Australians: A Short History combines the three volumes of Thomas Keneally’s history of the Australian people and reintroduces the rich assortment of inspiring and surprising characters who made a young Australia. This is the story of the original Australians and European occupation of their land, through the convict era to the rifts wrought by World War I, the upheavals of the Great Crash and World War II. Then the Menzies era, the nation-changing period of postwar migration and Australia’s engagement with Asia.

Queen Bees

$32.99 (pb)

Siân Evans Six extraordinary hostesses shaped British society in the inter-war years: Lady Astor, Lady Colefax, Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Mrs Ronnie Greville. Queen Bees looks at the lives of these remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses. During the inter-war years they ruled over London society from their dining tables and salons - entertaining everyone from the Mosleys to the Mitfords, from millionaires to maharajahs, from film stars to royalty - and their influence can still be felt today.

Timekeepers $32.99 BIP Price $29.95 (hb) Simon Garfield Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? Timekeepers explores our obsessions with time. It is a vivid exploration of the ways we have perceived, contained and saved time over the last 250 years.

Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth Paul Ham

$45 (hb)

Paul Ham shows how ordinary men on both sides of the conflict endured a constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately, wiped out. Yet the men never broke: they went over the top, when ordered, again and again and again. The book tells the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century.

Under Full Sail

$45 (hb)

Rob Mundle The arrival of the clipper ships cut the journey from England to Australia to just over two months, bringing migrants ‘down under’ in record time. Rob Mundle’s account starts aboard a clipper ship charging across the Southern Ocean, laden with passengers heading for Melbourne in response to the lure of gold. Under Full Sail brims with stories of magnificent ships and fearless characters and the tragic legacy of the many shipwrecks that were so much a part of this era.

HISTORY & WORLD AFFAIRS The History of England Volume 4: Revolution

$34.99 (pb)

Peter Ackroyd The latest volume of Peter Ackroyd’s History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange’s accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the Prince of Wales ruled instead of his mad father, George III, and England was once again at war with France. It was a time which saw England transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux

$49.99 (hb)

Peter FitzSimons On 21st March 1918 the Germans launched the biggest set-piece battle the world had ever seen. The British commander, General Douglas Haig, called upon Australian soldiers to stop the German advance, and save the town of Villers-Bretonneux. If the Australians can hold it then the Germans will not win the war. Then, on Anzac Day 1918, when the town falls to the British defenders, it is again the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the entire battle.

The Tunnels: The Untold Story $34.99 (pb) of the Escapes Under the Berlin Wall Greg Mitchell

In 1962 a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Berlin Wall. They included a legendary cyclist who became East Berlin’s most wanted man and an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English Channel. The Tunnels captures the hopes and fears of everyday Berliners, the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police, and the political tensions of the Cold War.

What do We Want? The Story of Protest in Australia Clive Hamilton

$39.99 (pb)

In What Do We Want? Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia. He covers the peace movement, women’s liberation, Indigenous rights, gay rights and the environmental movement, and examines how these movements have confronted the ugliness in Australian society and caused epoch-defining shifts in social attitudes. He describes protests with scores of thousands marching, as well as vigils, leafleting, street theatre, occupations and myriad other creative forms of protest.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

$35 (pb)

Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. In Homo Deus he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century – from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? How will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers?

The Riviera Set Mary S Lovell

$35 (pb)

The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l’Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years, from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960. After WWII the Chateau changed hands and Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood set and to launch his seduction and eventual marriage to Rita Hayworth.

Going Once: 250 Years of $85 (hb) Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie’s Christie’s

Founded in London in 1766, Christie’s is one of the most important auction houses in the world. From furniture to works of fine and decorative art, vintage cars to clothing and jewellery, the items sold by its auctions hold a mirror to our history and reflect our culture at large. Going Once vividly brings to life the shifts in aesthetic trends, and showcases 250 of the most outstanding objects in its history, including some of the very first pieces sold at the auction house.

The Dragon Behind the Glass

$32.99 (pb)

Emily Voigt Emily Voigt tells the story of the Asian arowana, a predatory fish which dates back to the age of the dinosaurs. Treasured as a status symbol, it is bred on high-security farms in Southeast Asia, and is the object of a thriving black market in the United States. Emily Voigt sets out to find the arowana in the wild, venturing into some of the last remaining tropical wildernesses. She reveals a surprising history with profound implications for the future of wild animals and human beings alike.

Four Princes

$32.99 (pb)

John Julius Norwich Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single decade. Each looms large in his country’s history. John Julius Norwich shows how, against the rich background of the Renaissance and destruction of the Reformation, their wary obsession with one another laid the foundations for modern Europe. He offers the perfect guide to the most colourful century the world has ever known and brings the past to life.

From the Edge: $34.99 (pb) Australia’s Lost Histories Mark McKenna

Mark McKenna uncovers the places and histories that Australians so often fail to see. These remarkable histories—the founding of a ‘new Singapore’ in West Arnhem Land in the 1840s, the site of Australia’s largest industrial development project in the Pilbara and its extraordinary Indigenous rock art, and James Cook’s meeting with Aboriginal people at Cooktown in 1770—lie on the edge of the continent and the edge of national consciousness. McKenna offers a new understanding of the country and its people.

Bruce Postle: Australia Bruce Postle

$29.99 (pb)

Bruce Postle is a multi-award-winning photojournalist. Australia presents 160 of his most iconic portraits of our country from the past 50 years. It is a fascinating insight into the heart and soul of a nation, capturing the essence of what makes our country unique: from first Australians to new arrivals, larrikinism to the Anzac spirit, ghost gums to street protests, the outback to the beach, fashion to flannies and Bob Hawke to a stiff upper lip. Australia has it all.

NON-FICTION Living in the Landscape

$70 (hb)

Anna Johnson & Richard Black As urban life becomes increasingly more demanding, many people are choosing to build away from the city in a way that acknowledges and connects with the landscape. Living in the Landscape explores new and exciting relationships between landscape and design. It examines how architects increasingly use landscape conditions as inspiration and sites for creativity. The complexities of the Australian landscape with its beautiful but often harsh geographical and topographical physicality, questions of sustainability and climate change, and an understanding of the indigenous relationship to landscape are all thoughtfully considered.

Private Gardens of the Mediterranean Jean Mus

$45 (hb)

This volume offers rare access into the most beautiful and unique gardens in the Mediterranean region designed by renowned landscape architect Jean Mus. From lush coastal estates or peaceful countryside havens to green oases in the middle of the city, Jean Mus’s lavish gardens, whether perched above the sea or nestling in the heart of a town, are always perfectly integrated into the surrounding environment. They incorporate a rich spectrum of Mediterranean influences, including pottery, slate walkways, water channels, and regional flora.

Dashing for the Post: $35 (pb) The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

NON-FICTION Wild Beauty

$49.99 (hb)

Vanessa Hunter and Graham Lloyd For years journalist Graham Lloyd and photographer Vanessa Hunter sought out Australia’s wildest, most significant and least known natural phenomena. Wild Beauty offers a glimpse into Australia’s rarely seen wildernesses, many of which are considered the most spectacular of their kind on Earth. This book offers a rare glimpse into the little-known and secret places that shelter endangered species and spectacular landscapes. Wild Beauty is a visual journey, brought to life with stories about the people who fight, preserve and protect these special places.

The Meaning of Birds

$39.99 (hb)

Simon Barnes Nature writer Simon Barnes offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world we live in. As well as exploring how birds achieve the miracle of flight, and what they tell us about the seasons of the year, The Meaning of Birds muses on the uses of feathers, the drama of raptors, the slaughter of pheasants, the infidelities of geese, and the strangeness of feeling sentimental about blue tits while enjoying a chicken sandwich.

A Single Tree Don Watson

$45 (hb)

Around the World in 80 Dinners

$45 (pb)

Amsterdam Style Guide

$39.99 (hb)

Janne Apelgren and Joanna Savill Around the World in 80 Dinners is a gastronaut’s guide for those who book their restaurants before their air fares, and food lovers who want the lowdown on the most exciting places to eat at home and abroad. It takes you into 80 of the world’s best and most timeless dining destinations, and divulges hundreds of food adventures, plus delicious detours and places to stay. It is stuffed with tips and inside knowledge that will help you eat like a local.

Monique van den Heuvel Amsterdam is famed for its canals, galleries and edgy night life, but a new generation is busy establishing design studios, cafes, clothing stores and creative spaces, breathing new life into former industrial areas and quiet neighbourhood streets. Monique van den Heuvel’s book shines a light on small businesses run by people who love what they do. Her advice on favourite places to eat, sleep and shop, as well as insider tips from local business owners, will help you make the most of your visit.

Reg Mombassa: Landscapes

Wonderlands: The Illustration Art $34.99 (hb) of Robert Ingpen

$75 (hb)

Reg Mombassa Reg Mombassa’s work has been part of Australia’s pop culture for nearly 40 years with his irreverent take on life, but it is his unique landscapes that have earned him a place as one of Australia’s most influential and prolific artists. Now over 200 of his iconic landscapes have been brought together for the first time. From his early days in rural New Zealand, and around his adopted Australian home he has been documenting the landscape, tracing its forever-changing geographic and social outlook.

The Art of Dinosaur Designs

$79.99 (hb)

Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy As young art students Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy began selling resin jewellery at Sydney’s Paddington markets. Today they have a business with nine stores around the world including New York and London. Dinosaur Designs is admired around the world for its bold, colourful designs and unique fusion of art and design. Almost every Dinosaur Designs piece is still handmade by artisans in its Sydney studio. With this book Olsen and Ormandy open their studio doors to share their inspirations, ideas and process.

Robert Ingpen Wonderlands is packed with the images that have made Robert Ingpen a household name in the world of children’s illustration. It contains his own autobiographical tales, notes, original sketches and illustrations from his award-winning publications. Robert takes the reader on a journey into the wondrous landscapes of the classics he has illustrated, as well as into the magical landscapes of his own imagination, and the magical scenery of his own beloved Australia. He reveals the places, stories and people that inspired him along the way.

Mad Enchantment: $49.99 BIP Price $44.95 (hb) Claude Monet and the Painting of the Waterlilies

Patrick Leigh Fermor, Edited by Adam Sisman Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before his twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four. His correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, and Diana Cooper. His letters reveal his zest for life, his unending curiosity, his love of language, his exuberance and his tendency to get into scrapes.

A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson’s award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on this continent. There are accounts of journeys, of work and recreation, of religious observance, of creation and destruction. This collection comprises diary extracts, memoirs, journals, letters, histories, poems and fiction. From Dampier and Tasman to Tim Flannery and assorted contemporary farmers, environmentalists and grey nomads, these pieces represent a vast array of experiences, perspectives and knowledge.

Disobedient Gardens

The Travel Book: $80 BIP Price $69.99 (hb) A Journey Through Every Country in the World

Coveteur: Private Spaces, Personal Style

Lonely Planet With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, and a few more principalities and dependencies besides, Lonely Planet’s Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel and the essential travel reference book for every household. Each country is profiled by Lonely Planet’s expert authors and features details of when to visit, what to see and do, and how to learn more about the country’s culture from its film, music, food and drink. Every entry has a map and statistics about the country.

Stephanie Mark TheCoveteur.com is one of the most popular fashion websites, renowned for its portraiture, profiles and beautiful photographs of the closets and homes of the stylish and celebrated jet set. Showcasing celebrities’ favourite clothes, accessories and objects in their private, rarely seen spaces, the book is an intoxicating combination of fashion, interior design, and celebrity voyeurism. The Coveteur examines the creative process and inspiration of 50 of the designers, models, fashion editors and other tastemakers who are defining the fashion zeitgeist of our times.

Christian Lacroix The images in the book will include a significant number of newly discovered drawings and other material, as well as reproductions of paintings and other illustrations. No other information on Vincent Van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook will be disclosed until the international press conference, which will be held in Paris just before the book’s publication on 15th November 2016.

The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology

$24.99 (pb)

Intimate: A Private World of Interiors $80 (hb)

Literary Wonderlands

Lonely Planet A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond. The stories included in this collection span a worldwide spectrum of themes, styles and settings, but all show how travel in its unexpected turns tests and teaches us, making us aware that we are resilient, that we are not alone, and that there is so much love and connection to be had if we open ourselves up to it.

David Hicks David Hick’s aesthetic has been described as ‘new luxury’. Mixing antique finds with modern finishes, the multiaward winning Australian interior designer has a knack for juxtaposing styles and materials whilst always ensuring liveability and smart design are at the core of his work. Featuring the best of his residential projects, this luxurious book offers a glimpse into bespoke designs that capture his holistic approach of considering architecture, interiors and decoration as one. Intimate is a personal look at David Hicks’ world of interiors.

Laura Miller (Ed.) From the advent of the first works of literature writers have used imaginary worlds to entertain their readers and to examine concepts, highlight key issues and consider their personal beliefs about society. This collection draws on texts from around the world, spanning over two thousand years of creative endeavour to offer up enchanting and universally appealing tales of imaginary worlds. Literary Wonderlands is a fascinating read for anyone who has ever been transported to another place through the power of the written world.

New York: Through a Fashion Eye $29.99 (hb)

Art Is the Highest Form $29.95 (hb) of Hope and Other Quotes by Artists

$59.99 (hb)

Michael Cooke and Brigid Arnott Landscape designer Michael Cooke presents five of his superbly designed gardens, which are illustrated by the photographs of co-author Brigid Arnott. The selected landscapes encapsulate the characteristics he considers vital in the making of a truly beautiful, liveable garden. Significantly, they all feature elements of wildness combined with a degree of order. These characteristics lend the gardens great character and texture: the landscapes may be magnificent, but they all have an organic quality, amid a degree of ‘disobedience’ that makes them distinctive and compelling.

The Farm

$39.95 (hb)

Andrew Chapman Australia’s countryside, deeply and richly scarred by human activity, shows the marks of sweat and toil, of lives and generations, of triumphs and failures and of enterprise often slowly decaying with time. These beautiful images captured by Andrew Chapman in The Farm are nostalgic glimpses of a way of life that is vanishing as corporate farming takes over. They are an evocative record of the historic sheds, paddocks and machinery that dot the countryside and of the disappearing landscape of the small farm.

Plant: Exploring the Botanical World

$79.95 (hb)

Phaidon Editors Plant is a fresh and visually stunning survey which celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this compilation of botanically-themed images includes work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.

House of Snow: An Anthology $49.99 (hb) of the Greatest Writing About Nepal Sir Ranulph Fiennes House of Snow is the most comprehensive collection of writing about Nepal in print. It includes over 50 excerpts of fiction and non-fiction inspired by the country’s breathtaking landscapes and rich cultural heritage. Here are explorers and mountaineers, poets and political journalists, national treasures and international stars who have been selected by well-known authors and scholars of Nepali literature, including Samrat Upadhyay, Michael Hutt, Isabella Tree and Thomas Bell. All profits from sales will be donated to charities providing relief from the 2015 earthquakes.

$50 (hb)

Megan Hess Megan Hess has drawn for some of the most prestigious fashion brands around and experienced the incredible style the city of New York has to offer. In her latest book she takes you on an adventure, showing you the best places for a fashionista to eat, sleep, and play – all illustrated in her inimitable, elegant style. Featuring fashion-themed restaurants, hotels, and sites to visit, as well as Megan’s favourite places to shop, this is an insider’s guide to New York for any fashion lover.

Ross King Claude Monet’s water lily paintings are among the most iconic works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. Ross King presents a compelling and original portrait of one of our most popular and cherished artists. Mad Enchantment gives an intimate portrayal of Claude Monet in all his tumultuous complexity, and firmly places his water lily paintings among the greatest achievements in the history of art.

Vincent Van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook

$110 (hb)

$34.99 (hb)

Phaidon Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by artists through the ages and across the globe, this exquisite keepsake is the ideal book for artists, collectors, and armchair enthusiasts. As painters, sculptors, photographers, and other visual artists see and experience the world through a unique lens, Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists shows that their life lessons, private revelations, and frank, often irreverent, opinions and advice on diverse subjects can guide us all.

FOOD & COOKERY

NON-FICTION Steve McCurry: on Reading

$85 (hb)

Steve McCurry Young or old, rich or poor, people everywhere read. This homage to the beauty and seductiveness of reading brings together a collection of photographs taken by Steve McCurry over his nearly four decades of travel. His images of the universal human act of reading are an acknowledgement of the overwhelming power of the written word. Steve McCurry’s book is a celebration of the timeless act of reading, as seen through the lens of one of the world’s most beloved photographers.

Time Travel

$29.99 (pb)

Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

$35 (pb)

Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund Home and Away is an unusual football book. The two authors use football and the World Cup in Brazil as the arena for reflections on life and death, art and politics, class and literature. This exchange of letters opens up new vistas and gives us stories from the lives of two creative writers. We get under their skin and have an insight into their relationships with modern times and football’s place in their lives, and the significance the game has for people in general.

The Sound of Summer

$39.99 (hb)

James Gleick Time Travel begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing his first book, The Time Machine. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.

Jim Maxwell For more than four decades, Jim Maxwell has called the cricket for the ABC. His distinctive voice, dryly understated humour and immense knowledge of the game have been part of the fabric of Australian cricket for generations of listeners. In his memoir he reflects on his life and career, on key cricket moments and on the many characters he has met along the way. The Sound of Summer is a fascinating, warm, nostalgic and uniquely informed view of the game he loves.

Evolution: A Visual Record

Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper $39.99 (hb) and the Shot that Changed Cricket

$49.95 (hb)

Robert Clark Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous ‘finches’ Darwin collected on the Galápagos Islands that spurred his theory); to the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing. These stunning images reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth.

Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

$45 (hb)

Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer and a world-class conductor. Before turning his hand to writing, Murakami ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates his books. In Absolutely on Music he fulfills a personal dream, sitting down with acclaimed conductor Seiji Ozawa, to talk about their shared interest. Here they discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from record collecting to pop-up orchestras, and much more.

The Word Detective

$32.99 (pb)

Gideon Haigh Trumper was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, a symbol of what Australia could become. He lives on in an image that captures him mid-stroke: a daring player’s graceful advance into the unknown, alive with intent and controlled abandon. In Stroke of Genius Gideon Haigh explores both the real Victor Trumper and the process of his iconography. Together they inspired a profound moral and aesthetic revaluation of the game, and changed the way we think about cricket, art and Australia.

The Cook’s Table

$69.99 (hb)

Stephanie Alexander In The Cook’s Table Stephanie shares twenty-five of her favourite menus for entertaining family and friends, from special occasions such as Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, to menus inspired by her travels in France, Italy, Turkey and Peru. This guide to entertaining includes 130 new tried and tested recipes, all accompanied by beautiful images by photographer Mark Chew. Every menu includes a shopping list and detailed timetable for the cook, along with Stephanie’s trusty tips and tricks for hosting the perfect event.

Luke Nguyen’s Street Food Asia

$60 BIP Price $49.99 (hb)

Australian Fish and Seafood Cookbook

$79.99 (hb)

John Susman, Anthony Huckstep, Sarah Swan and Stephen Hodges Written by Australia’s most respected authorities on seafood, this book contains all the information you need about more than 60 types of fish and seafood, including catching methods, notes on sustainability, flavour profiles and cooking guidelines. More than 130 recipes showcase the vast array of seafood available, and clear step-by-step photography illustrating the key techniques takes all the guesswork out of cooking seafood at home. This comprehensive volume will become the benchmark reference for anyone interested in cooking and eating fish and seafood.

Luke Nguyen Through Saigon and Jakarta, to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, Nguyen uncovers the hidden locations and secret eats of four very different cities and their street food cultures. He eats and explores his way through traditional noodle soups and sweet sticky meats, to more adventurous dishes like Stir-fried Embryo Egg with Tamarind and Duck and Banana Blossom Salad. He ventures out at dawn and late into the night to discover street vendors, stallholders and roaming food carts, and captures the energy of each place at their busiest times of the day.

$85 BIP Price $69.95 (hb) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall This is a River Cottage ‘Larousse’ of ingredients. With entries on vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices, meat, fish, fungi, foraged foods, dairy, oils, vinegar and much more, it celebrates more than 350 ingredients that the modern cook might come across. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his team explain which varieties to look for and how best to prepare them, and provide detailed information on seasonality, habitat, alternative names, Latin names, and easy growing instructions for vegetables and herbs. There is also a delicious recipe for every entry.

Salads & Vegetables

Istanbul Cult Recipes

$39.99 (pb)

River Cottage A-Z

$49.99 (hb)

Karen Martini This collection draws on Karen Martini’s ability to team gorgeous produce with cheese, nuts, pastry, legumes, herbs and spices to create stunning and nourishing vegetable-led dishes. Not all of the dishes are vegetarian: Karen uses a wide range of ingredients, such as anchovies, miso, bacon, blue cheese and toasted nuts, to make her vegetable dishes truly sing. Try her whole roasted cauliflower with hot honey and feta dressing; fried eggplant with savoury caramel and toasted peanuts, or tomato and haloumi scrolls.

Pomme Larmoyer Istanbul's love affair with food is reflected in the delicacies on offer at all hours of the day and night and in the fresh, healthy dishes cooked at home. The streets of the city are packed with restaurants, cafes and street vendors - each selling their version of dishes beloved throughout Turkey. Istanbul Cult Recipes invites you to explore an ancient and captivating city through its cuisine - a gastronomic culture spanning centuries and influences, from Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Mediterranean.

Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons

$95 (hb)

The Zen Kitchen $49.99 BIP Price $44.95 (hb)

Mark Nicholas Mark Nicholas has a unique knowledge of and perspective on the game of cricket around the world. As both a former player and now a professional observer and commentator, he knows all the key figures in the sport and has witnessed first-hand some of cricket’s greatest moments. Informed by Mark’s own experiences and observations, and filled with wonderful anecdotes, larger-than-life characters and an extraordinary breadth of cricket knowledge, this passionate and personal book shows exactly why cricket really is the world’s beautiful game.

Raymond Blanc Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons is the only country house hotel in Britain to have held two Michelin stars for more than three decades. This book is Raymond Blanc’s personal tour of Le Manoir through the four seasons. The ultimate host, he lovingly reveals the stories behind rooms that are luxuriously appointed and gardens that are ravishingly beautiful. He has also included one hundred and twenty recipes for the dishes which have earned the restaurant its status as one of the world's legendary gastronomic destinations.

Adam Liaw Japanese food is fast, healthy, easy to prepare and delicious. The secret is simple preparation of good ingredients, which makes Japanese cuisine perfect for the home cook. Adam Liaw guides you through his family favourites like Salt-grilled Salmon, Teriyaki Pork and Mushroom Rolls, Sukiyaki, Sashimi Salad, and Green Tea Roll Cake. With Adam’s accessible style and his belief that cooking is a celebration of food, philosophy and culture, The Zen Kitchen is a practical guide to cooking tasty Japanese family food at home.

Coach

Neil Perry’s Good Cooking

$49.99 BIP Price $44.99 (hb)

La Dolce Vita: $49.99 BIP Price $44.95 (hb) Over 80 Nutritious Italian Recipes

Neil Perry For renowned Australian chef Neil Perry, cooking has always been about one thing: using the best-quality produce. This philosophy guides not only how he cooks in his restaurants, but also the meals he makes at home for family and friends. Good Cooking features over 110 simple yet sophisticated recipes that will entice you into the kitchen and inspire you to cook. They draw on culinary influences both global and local to create amazing flavours for every occasion, with seasonal produce always taking the starring role.

Silvia Colloca In her third cookbook Silvia Colloca embraces the Mediterranean food she grew up with. Italian home cooks are more likely to cook simply, allowing fresh fruit and vegetables, legumes and fish to shine, with sparing use of dairy, meat, animal fats and sugars. The recipes are authentic and nutritious, catering to those with vegan, vegetarian, gluten-, grain-, egg- and dairy-free dietary preferences. Life is for celebrating, and for an Italian, this means offering generous amounts of food that can be enjoyed by one and all.

Provence to Pondicherry: Recipes from France

Italian Street Food

A Beautiful Game

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John Simpson With a sense of humour, an ability to laugh at bureaucracy and an inclination to question the status quo, John Simpson gives life to the colourful characters who worked on the Oxford English Dictionary and to the English language itself. He splices his stories with entertaining diversions into the history and origin of words such as ‘kangaroo’, ‘hot-dog’, and ‘pommie’, not ignoring those swearwords often classed as ‘Anglo-Saxon’. The book will appeal to anyone who uses a dictionary, ‘word people’, history lovers, students and parents.

Darren Lehmann Australia’s head coach Darren Lehmann explains his coaching philosophy, a philosophy fashioned during his playing career alongside some of the game’s alltime greats. He traces his path to the top coaching job in Australian cricket, and delves into the areas of manmanagement, including getting the best out of so-called maverick players. He examines the coach’s pivotal relationship with his captain, dealing with the mental side of the game and the media, the highs and the lows, and the part luck plays in success or failure.

The Art of Cycling $49.99 BiP Price $44.99 (hb)

Showboat: Kobe Bryant

Cadel Evans Famous for his meticulous preparation and as an athlete who prided himself on his ability to give everything, Cadel Evans writes about the triumphs, the frustrations, the training, the preparation, the psychology of the sport, his contemporaries, the legends, and his enduring love of cycling. The youngest winner of a World Cup in mountain biking and the oldest post-War winner of the Tour de France, Cadel Evans is one of only four cyclists to have finished on the podium of all three Grand Tours.

Roland Lazenby Aloof and uncompromising, Kobe Bryant is the grand enigma of American professional basketball. He is easily the most driven player in the history of the sport, the absolute master of study and preparation. But his career has also been one of almost constant conflict: with his teammate Shaquille O’Neal; with Phil Jackson, coach of the championship-winning Lakers team that Kobe led; with his wife Vanessa; and with so many of his contemporaries, opponents and teammates. Showboat unravels the conundrum that is Kobe Bryant.

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Tessa Kiros Tessa Kiros takes us on a journey across the globe, from the Caribbean to India, to explore French culinary influences in farflung destinations. Her journey begins in Provence and explores the Mediterranean region’s links between indigenous ingredients, flavours, materials, and traditions. In each destination, Tessa delves into the history and culinary customs, discovering how French cuisine has become entwined with local ingredients and traditions. The result is an intriguing collection of recipes that will appeal to anyone with an interest in food and culture.

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Paola Bacchia Hidden behind the town squares, away from the touristy restaurants and down little alleyways, are little-known gems offering some of Italy’s tastiest and best-kept secret dishes. Food is often prepared and shared on the streets and in the laneways. Italian Street Food delves into the back streets to bring you some of Italy’s most exciting food. Learn how to make authentic polpettine, arancini, stuffed cuttlefish, cannolis and fritters, and gelati with authentic Italian flavours such as lemon and basil, affogato and aperol and orange.

PICTURE BOOKS Ducks Away!

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CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION A Day with Dogs

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A First Book of Animals

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It Can’t Be True! 2

$29.99 (hb)

Mem Fox and Judy Horacek Five little ducks went out one day... over the bridge, and away! The team who brought us Where is The Green Sheep? and Good Night, Sleep Tight are back with a classic children’s nursery rhyme given the Mem Fox treatment. Perfect for toddlers. (2+)

Dorothee de Monfreid Did you ever wonder what dogs do all day? This beautiful, funny and very French book will explain, as we see life through the eyes of dogs via the seasons, our homes, crafts, sports, the city and the country. Yet another gorgeous book by Gecko Press, one of our favourite indie publishers. (2+)

ˇ Nicola Davies and Petr Horácek Nicola Davies presents a spellbinding treasury of poems about the animal world, illustrated in breathtaking detail by Petr Horacek. Polar bears playing on the ice, tigers hunting in the jungle, fireflies twinkling in the evening sky and nightingales singing in the heart of the woods - there are animals everywhere. From blue whales to bumblebee bats and everything in between, this is a glorious celebration of life in the wild in all its variety and splendour.

Dorling Kindersley With the second volume of It Can't Be True! kids will never look at your jar of honey the same way again once they realise that it took 1,308 honey bees to make it. Or notice a small snail in your garden without thinking of the gargantuan Giant Ghana Snail with its 30cm long shell! An outstanding array of topics and amazing facts will satisfy all readers and cutting-edge visuals make the most astounding facts digestible, and bring statistics to life.

Hello Little Babies

What Do They Do with $19.99 (hb + cd) All the Poo from All of the Animals at the Zoo?

Busy Builders Construction Site

How Super Cool Stuff Works

$24.99 (hb)

Alison Lester From the bestselling author of Kissed By The Moon and Imagine comes a book to be cherished by children and parents everywhere. From the precious early days of a baby's life to those first tentative steps, so much changes over a year and this warm and tender picture book by the divine Alison Lester will be loved by families. (1+)

Oi Dog!

$24.99 (hb)

Anh Do and Laura Wood What do they do with all the poo, from all the animals at the zoo? The hippos, the tigers, the kangaroos – what do they do with all that poo? There is so much poo at the zoo...Where does it all go? Do they mix it into chocolate ice-cream? Sprinkle it on pizza? Stir it in the local swimming pool? With the hilarious bonus recording, you can sing along in search of the stinky truth. (3+)

Somewhere Else

$24.99 (hb)

Kes and Claire Gray and Jim Field The bestselling Oi Frog! had children rolling around with laughter, and Oi Dog! is equally enjoyable. Frog has had enough, he is changing the status quo! Cat insists that there are rules – only mules sit on stools, no one but hares should sit on chairs and however irritating, dogs MUST sit on frogs. 'Well, I'm changing the rules,' said the frog! Hilarity, naturally, ensues. (2+)

Gus Gordon George has no interest in exploring the world. He is far too busy at home baking fine pastries. Or so he tells everyone when they invite him along on their wonderful adventures. But when his friend Pascal digs a little deeper, the real reason George will not leave home is finally revealed… (3+)

Molly and Mae

Penguin Problems

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Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood Friendship is like a train journey. There are happy moments, boring moments and exciting moments. There is anger and loneliness, and there is forgiveness, and the thread of friendship runs through everything, like rail tracks through the countryside. Brilliantly rendered by Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood, Molly and Mae is a portrait of the most delightful and emotionally rich train journey imaginable. (3+)

Jory John and Lane Smith A penguin levels with human readers about what penguin life is really like...Did you ever consider running away to Antarctica? Of course you have! Because it is a land free of worries and responsibilities, or is it? For starters, it is FREEZING. Also, penguins have loads of natural predators. Plus, can you imagine trying to find your mum in a big crowd of identical penguins? This book is sure to tickle all funny bones, and will elicit appreciative sighs from the adults reading it aloud, too. (3+)

Time Now to Dream

Pig The Elf

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Timothy Knapman and Helen Oxenbury When Alice and Jack are out playing, they hear a strange noise. Alice wants to know what it is, but Jack is afraid. He thinks it might be the Wicked Wolf with big, bad claws and snap-trap jaws. Alice takes his hand and they follow the noise into the heart of the forest... what will they discover there? Knapman's powerful narration alongside Oxenbury's spectacular illustrations convey Jack's nervousness and Alice's curious excitement, all the while building toward the reveal of that mysterious sound. (3+)

Aaron Blabey Pig the pug is back in another crazy tale. No one loves Christmas more than Pig and the world's greediest Pug will stay up all night to get his presents if he has to! Fans will not be disappointed as Pig gets up to his usual tricks. (3+)

A Child of Books

Radio Rescue

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Dorling Kindersley A cutting edge guide exploring how incredible new technologies are shaping the modern world. Kids will love the fun laptopstyle cover and layout throughout. Mind-blowing images reveal the secret inner workings of everything from drones and supercomputers to underwater hotels and flying cars. How Super Cool Stuff Works lifts the lid on today's most innovative ideas while also exploring the technology of tomorrow.

LEGO Pop-Up: $39.99 (hb) A journey Through the LEGO Universe

Smartphone Movie Maker

Matthew Reinhart Best-selling pop-up master Matthew Reinhart takes fans on the ultimate journey through LEGO history...with a little help from narrator Professor Wolfgang von Brickhausen, who heads the department of LEGO Studies at Baseplate University. This one-of-a-kind book is positively bursting with intricate pops to marvel at, tabs to pull, wheels to spin, mini accordion books to unfold, maps to discover and much more.

LEGO: $39.99 (hb) 365 Things to Do with LEGO Bricks

Minecraft Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress

Dorling Kindersley An inspiring guide to looking at LEGO bricks in new and exciting ways, 365 days of the year! From LEGO games that take just a few minutes and require a handful of bricks, to inspirational build ideas and activities to keep kids occupied for hours, this book is packed with fun and quirky activities and includes a countdown timer and activity selector, allowing readers to choose an activity at random, to time the activity and race against the clock. Great fun for LEGO fans.

Mojang A medieval-themed building book that is packed with guides, schematics and inspirational ideas to construct, defend and customise your very own castle. Every build in this book is illustrated with a detailed 'exploded' view, so readers can see exactly which blocks are used in the structures, both inside and out. Perfect for Minecrafters aged nine upwards.

101 Books To Read Before $17.99 (pb) You Grow Up: The Must-Read Book List for Kids

Marvel Super Hero Encyclopedia 2016

Bianca Schulze A fun handbook for book lovers and their families to read, check off, and offer their own reviews. This book acts as an interactive journal where kids can document the books they read, why they like them, and how they rate them. Divided into sections by subject, from fairy tales and fantasy to sports and non-fiction, it celebrates the importance of reading and encourages family participation to develop lifelong readers. The perfect reference guide for book lovers of all ages.

Marvel An alphabetical guide to the Super Heroes of the Marvel Universe, from Ant-Man to Hulk to Starlord, with everyone else in between. Learn about their origins, powers, secret identities and deadly foes. With more than 100 heroes and villains this is a book for Marvel fans of all ages.

The Cities Book

Sleeping Beauty: A Silhouette Theatre

$29.99 (hb)

Jane Jolly and Robert Ingpen Jim and his family live happily on their remote outback station. Yet, sometimes Jim feels lonely. Then a strange new radio with pedals arrives and Jim's Mum and Dad can send messages to their neighbours. Jim wants to have a go. 'When you're older,' says Dad. Then something happens that only Jim can deal with. Will he learn how to use the radio in time to save Dad? Ingpen's illustrations evoke scenes of station life in times gone by and the origins of The Flying Doctor Service. (4+)

Lonely Planet Kids Sister title to the bestselling The Travel Book, The Cities Book is packed with facts on city living around the globe and gives kids a flavour of what it is like to grow up in each place featured. From food and festivals, to awesome architecture and amazing history, there is something for everyone. Great photography, beautiful illustrations and hand drawn maps bring each page to life – the perfect gift for curious kids.

We Found a Hat

Ada Twist, Scientist

Guinness World Records 2017

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Andrea Beaty and David Roberts Iggy Peck and Rosie Revere are beloved children's characters, inspiring kids and adults alike to follow their passions. Determined Ada Twist, with her boundless curiosity for science and love of the question "Why?" is destined to join these two favourites. Like her classmates Iggy Peck and Rosie Revere, Ada has always been hopelessly curious. She embarks on factfinding missions and conducts scientific experiments, all in the name of discovery...great fun! (4+)

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Bryan Michael Stoller Smartphone Movie Maker is a complete beginner's guide to making movies with a smartphone. The filmmaker's handbook features expert advice on all aspects of filmmaking, from planning a story to casting, shooting and editing. The box transforms into a film projector with a lens – slot your smartphone into the box and play your film on a large screen (or white wall) for the ultimate cinematic experience. A wonderful gift for creative kids.

Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston In this inspiring, lyrical tale about the rewards of reading and sharing stories, a little girl sails her raft "across a sea of words" to arrive at the house of a small boy. There she invites him to come away with her on an adventure. Guided by his new friend, the boy unlocks his imagination and a lifetime of magic lies ahead of him. This is a gorgeous gift, perfect for readers of all ages, one we cannot recommend highly enough. (5+)

Jon Klassen Hold onto your hats! From the Kate Greenaway-winning creator of I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat comes the muchanticipated conclusion to the celebrated hat trilogy. Two turtles have found a hat. The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles. And there is only one hat. Evoking hilarity and sympathy, the shifting eyes tell the tale in this perfectly paced story in three parts, highlighting Jon Klassen's visual comedy, deceptive simplicity and deliciously deadpan humour. (3+)

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Katherine Sully and Carles Ballesteros Assemble your construction vehicles, slot together your workers and accessories, and get ready to build a school! With a 32page book crammed with facts about construction work, Busy Builders: Construction Site is the ideal way to discover how a building is made from the ground up.

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Guinness Bursting with all-new records on topics as diverse as black holes, domes, owls and killer plants. Want to know the highest anyone has travelled on a skateboard, or the largest loop-theloop completed in a car? Dying to know just how many tricks a cat can do in one minute? The answers to these questions and so much more are right inside.

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Simon & Schuster With eight beautiful silhouette pop-ups, this book tells the classic story of Sleeping Beauty in an enchanting and magical way. Recreating the magic of Lotte Reiniger's early films through remastered film stills and laser-cut paper-work, each spread is intricately detailed and perfectly complements this much-loved classic fairy tale. Simply beautiful.

J K Rowling’s Wizarding World: $35 (hb) Movie Magic – Extraordinary People and Fascinating Places Warner Bros Great for younger Harry Potter fans, this book features all eight movies as well as the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It is the ultimate insider's guide to the films from J K Rowling's Wizarding World. Each page delivers a fun, interactive experience as readers discover how the wizarding world took shape on-screen. Including insights from the actors who played Harry Potter, Professor Dumbledore, Newt Scamander and many more, this book will be a must-have for fans.

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Who Sank the Boat? and $34.99 (hb) Other Stories: A Pamela Allen Treasury Pamela Allen Gather the children together and be captivated by this collection of nine classic stories by award-winning writer and illustrator Pamela Allen. Full of imagination and with moments of hilarity, this treasury contains Who Sank the Boat?, My Cat Maisie, Belinda, Alexander's Outing, and five more tales from a beloved Australian picture book maker. Truly to be treasured, this is the perfect collection to share with children, and to read over and over again.

Ruby Red Shoes Goes to London

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Hardie Grant Egmont Join Christopher Robin and his favourite Hundred Acre Woods Friends – from a donkey that loses his tail to a bear with a giant appetite for honey – in this beautifully illustrated treasury. This hand-picked collection of iconic original stories includes tales from everyone's favourite Pooh, the notoriously bouncy Tigger, Eeyore – the gloomiest animal who always loses his tail – and Piglet, the kindest and smallest of them all.

The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real

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Margery Williams and Sarah Massini When the Velveteen Rabbit first arrives in the nursery, he is snubbed by the other toys. But the Rabbit soon makes friends with the Skin Horse who explains how toys can become 'real', if only they are loved enough. The Velveteen Rabbit longs for this to happen and, over time, he becomes 'real' to the boy who loves him so much. The rabbits in the garden think otherwise – how can Rabbit be real when he can't leap and hop?

The Nutcracker

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E T A Hoffman and Robert Ingpen Robert Ingpen is one of Australia’s most beloved artists, particularly adored for his children’s books that drip with atmosphere and warmth. Here, he takes on The Nutcracker, an endlessly imaginative, deliciously quirky classic tale. Tempered by a strong sense of humour, Hoffmann's story will, like Drosselmeier's magical inventions, delight and enthral adults and children – with gorgeous pictures to match.

The Orchard Ballet Stories for Young Children

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Saviour Pirotta and Brigette Barrager Robert Ingpen is one of Australia’s most beloved artists, particularly adored for his children’s books that drip with atmosphere and warmth. Here, he takes on The Nutcracker, an endlessly imaginative, deliciously quirky classic tale. Tempered by a strong sense of humour, Hoffmann's story will, like Drosselmeier's magical inventions, delight and enthral adults and children – with gorgeous pictures to match.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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J K Rowling and Jim Kay Illustrator Jim Kay conjures the wizarding world of J K Rowling’s second book perfectly in the beloved Harry Potter series. Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this inspired reimagining will captivate fans and new readers alike, as Harry and his friends, back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for another year, seek out a legendary chamber and the deadly secret that lies at its heart. Prepare to be spellbound!

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Kate Knapp The third book in the best-selling Ruby Red Shoes series finds Ruby and her grandmother – inveterate travellers in London, the home of red buses, red telephone boxes and red letter boxes. No wonder Ruby's red shoes feel especially at home in this wonderful city! This lovely book is the best in the series thus far, and is ideal for newly independent readers as well as being perfect to read aloud. (4+)

Hotdog Winnie-The-Pooh Best Friends Treasury

OLDER READERS

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YOUNG ADULT

Fantastic Beasts $39.99 BIP Price $32.99 (hb) ˇ Original Screenplay and Where to Find Them: The J K Rowling When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks the screenwriting debut of J K Rowling. This is epic, adventurepacked storytelling at its very best that will be devoured by both existing Harry Potter fans and those new to the wizarding world. (9+)

A Most Magical Girl

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Kids of Appetite

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David Arnold This is, hands down, our favourite young adult novel of the year. Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell. It begins with the death of Vic’s father. It ends with the murder of Mad’s uncle. The Hackensack Police Department would like very much to hear it. But in order to tell their story, Vic and Mad must focus on all the chapters in between. Full of wonderful characters, this novel is funny, sad and very very cool. No spoilers. (15+)

The Graces

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Anh Do Meet Hotdog, the sausage dog, and his friends. There is Kev, the goofy cat, who is always dressed up in some silly costume, and Lizzie, the gutsy lizard, who eats bug burgers for breakfast! Together they are going on a mad adventure to help a baby bird find its missing mum. They will go to any lengths, and dizzying heights, to find her, but can they handle dirty nappies and karate-chopping roosters along the way? Fun and mayhem from the wonderful Anh Do. (7+)

Karen Foxlee After the rather sudden departure of her mother, Annabel Grey is sent to live with her eccentric aunts in Dickensian London. Unbeknownst to her, the aunts are members of a magical society of wizards and witches and they are horrified to learn that Annabel’s mother has neglected to teach her their craft. Before Annabel has time to decide whether she wants to join them, she is swept into an urgent, dangerous quest, for she is, it seems, a powerfully magical girl. (9+)

Laure Eve Everyone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and their hair. They had friends, but they were just distractions. They were waiting for someone different. All I had to do was show them that person was me. Like everyone else in her town, River is obsessed with the Graces, attracted by their glamour and apparent ability to weave magic. But are they really what they seem? A gripping and surprising thriller. (15+)

The Sisters of Saint-Claire

A Monster Calls: Special Collector's Edition

Highly Illogical Behaviour

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Carlie Gibson and Tamsin Ainslie This is the tale of the sisters Saint-Claire, who lived with their parents Odette and Pierre, Harriet, Violet, Beatrice and Minette. And little Cecile, we must not forget! A delightful rhyming tale about five fabulous French mice who love food, fashion and family, and a story about how greatness can come in any size. A gorgeous book to charm young readers. (4+)

Snot Chocolate and Other Funny Stories

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Patrick Ness and Jim Kay In this special edition, discover Patrick Ness's original prize-winning illustrated novel and the remarkable story behind both book and film. In exclusive essays and interviews, read how Ness created a modern classic, and discover Jim Kay's previously unseen sketches for the book. Go behind the scenes with the actors and director to find out how the film was made. Full of never before published material and haunting pictures, this stunning edition gives fascinating and unique insight into a much-loved tale. (12+)

Wormwood Mire: A Stella Montgomery Intrigue

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Morris Gleitzman A collection of short stories in the popular style of Gleitzman's Give Peas a Chance and Pizza Cake – except, of course, even funnier! In the title story, a kid struggles to save the career and reputation of a parent afflicted with chronic unconscious nosepicking, and that is just the beginning. Outrageous and creative stories to appeal to anyone who loves laughing out loud. (7+)

Judith Rossell When Stella Montgomery returned to the Hotel Majestic cold and wet but exhilarated by the adventure she undertook in 2014's wonderful novel Withering-By-Sea, her Aunts were furious. Now they are sending Stella away to the old family home at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two strange cousins and their governess. Within the overgrown grounds of the mouldering house, dark secrets slither and skulk, and soon Stella must be brave once more if she is to find out who or what she really is. (9+)

The Tales of Mrs Mancini

Alone

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John Corey Whaley Sixteen-year-old Solomon has agoraphobia. When Lisa finds out about Solomon's solitary existence, she comes up with a plan sure to net her a scholarship: befriend Solomon. Treat his condition. And write a paper on her findings. Lisa begins letting him into her life, introducing him to her boyfriend Clark, and telling him her secrets. Solomon begins to open up and expand his universe but all three teens have grown uncomfortably close, and when their facades fall down, their friendships threaten to collapse as well. (15+)

The Diabolic

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S J Kincaid A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you've been created for. Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator's daughter, Sidonia. The two have grown up side by side. When the powermad Emperor learns Sidonia's father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court. She is to serve as a hostage. Now, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her... (15+)

Swarm (Zeroes 2)

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Natalie Jane Prior and Cheryl Orsini A new collection of stories from the team that brought us the very popular Fairy Dancers. The Tales of Mrs Mancini tells the story of a cat who, together with her human friend, runs a cake shop full of delectable treats. Alongside her flair for flan, Mrs Mancini also has a special ability to bring lonely children together. Three illustrated short stories that celebrate both friends and friendship that will appeal particularly to girls. (4+)

D J Brazier The trip of a lifetime – that is what it was supposed to be, but when the small plane taking Sam and his Dad back to the airport crashes in the jungle, Sam is left alone. As time passes with no sign of rescue, Sam has to dig deep to find levels of resolve and resourcefulness he never knew he had. His spirits are lifted by the arrival of an otter cub whose companionship gives him the strength he needs to keep going. Gripping reading! (10+)

Scott Westerfeld and Margo Lanagan It’s the holiday season, but the celebration at the Zeroes' underground nightclub is blown apart when two strangers with new powers take to the dance floor. The Zeroes pursue them, only to discover that they are fleeing an even more sinister power-wielder, Swarm. Meanwhile each of the Zeroes also has their own issues to deal with, and it is up to Flicker to pick up the reins and lead the Zeroes into a terrifying showdown. A terrific sequel in this brilliant and unique superheroes series. (15+)

The Unforgettable What’s His Name $14.99 (pb)

The Call

Words in Deep Blue

Paul Jennings and Craig Smith The wonderful, inventive and legendary Paul Jennings is back with a new book, an action-packed adventure about a boy who just wants to blend in: “Even before all this happened I had never been like the other kids. I tried not to be seen. If I climbed a tree or hid among the bins, no one could find me. 'Where's What's His Name?' they'd say.” Then one weekend he gets his wish, in more ways than one...Includes fantastic look-and-find colour illustrations. (7+)

Peadar O'Guilin Thousands of years ago, humans banished the Sidhe fairy race to another dimension. The beautiful, terrible Sidhe have stewed in a land of horrors ever since, plotting their revenge, and at long last, their day has come. Fourteen-year-old Nessa lives in a world where every teen will be “Called” – at any time – by the Sidhe. Nessa trains with her friends at an academy designed to maximize her chances of survival – and her time is coming...an original, gripping and fascinating story. (14+)

Cath Crowley Words in Deep Blue is the story of Howling Books, where readers write letters to strangers, to lovers, to poets, to words. It's the story of Henry and Rachel. They were best friends once, before Rachel moved to the sea. Now, she is back, working at the bookstore. She is looking for the future in the books people love, and the words that they leave behind. Cath Crowley has created a sweeping story about self-discovery and growing up, filled with complicated and flawed characters. Beautiful. (15+)

The Midnight Gang

The Fever Code (Maze Runner 5)

The Amateurs

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David Walliams When Tom gets hit in the head with a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the children’s ward….But Tom is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime! The Midnight Gang tells a heartwarming and funny story of five children on a hospital ward and on a quest for adventure. It is a story of friendship and magic and of making dreams come true. (7+)

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James Dashner Finally! The story that fans all over the world have been waiting for; how did Thomas and WICKED build the Maze? A prequel to the worldwide Maze Runner phenomenon, The Fever Code holds all the answers. How did WICKED find the Gladers? Who are Group B? And what side are Thomas and Teresa really on? Lies will be exposed. Secrets will be uncovered. Loyalties will be proven. Fans will never see the (amazing) truth coming. (12+)

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Sara Shepard When Aerin was eleven, she idolised her older sister, Helena. But when Helena went into her senior year things began to change. Then, on a snowy winter's day, Helena vanished. Four years later, Helena's body is found but the police have no leads. When Aerin posts on a website called Case Not Closed, two teenagers show up on her doorstep offering to help investigate and she accepts. As their investigation begins, it seems that maybe it is no accident that they are all together, and that maybe the crimes have something – or someone – in common. (15+)

FICTION

FICTION

The Good People $32.99 BIP Price $27.95 (pb)

The Joyce Girl

Hannah Kent Nóra Leahy has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of her afflicted grandson, Micheál. Unable to care for the child alone, Nóra hires a fourteen-year-old servant girl, Mary. They seek out the only person in the valley who might be able to help Micheál. It is said that old Nance Roche has the knowledge, that she consorts with Them, the Good People, and that only she can return those whom they have taken.

Annabel Abbs In 1928, Lucia, the talented daughter of James Joyce, is making her name in Paris as a dancer. When she falls in love with writer Samuel Beckett he is banned from the Joyce family home. Six years later Lucia is sent to psychoanalyst Carl Jung. For years she has kept quiet; now she decides to speak. The Joyce Girl is a portrait of a young woman yearning to be an artist, with a passion for life and rage at being unable to fulfil her talent.

ˇ Martha Hall Kelly New York socialite Caroline Ferriday’s world changes forever when Hitler invades Poland. Across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, works as a courier for the resistance movement. Young German doctor Herta Oberheuser finds herself trapped in a maledominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Their stories cross continents as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.

Goodwood

Today Will Be Different

The Atomic Weight of Love

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Holly Throsby Goodwood is a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone. In 1992, when Jean Brown is seventeen, two terrible things happen. Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood's most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes home. People die in Goodwood, of course, but never like this. They don't just disappear.As the speculation intensifies, Jean, who is keeping secrets of her own, and the rest of Goodwood are left reeling.

The Wonder

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Lilac Girls

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Maria Semple Eleanor Flood is going to clean up her act and be a better version of herself. But then life happens. Eleanor's husband is missing, and their son, Timby, is wearing eye shadow to school and getting into fashion battles on the playground. Just when it seems like things can't get weirder or more in the way of Eleanor's personal transformation, a graphic memoir called The Flood Sisters surfaces, and the dramatic story it tells reveals long-buried secrets and a sister to whom Eleanor never speaks.

Elizabeth J Church In 1941, Meridian Wallace won a place at university to study ornithology. She fell in love with her professor, who was subsequently recruited to Los Alamos to take part in a mysterious wartime project. When Meridian defers her plans to join him, she agrees to give him a year of her life. As the decades pass, Meridian strives to resist the clipping of her wings. Her choice will bring her heartache, but it also opens up unexpected possibilities of freedom, friendship and transformation.

Faithful

The Nix

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Crimes of the Father (pb)

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Tom Keneally Ex-communicated to Canada due to his radical preaching, Father Frank Docherty is now a psychologist and monk. He returns to Australia to speak on abuse in the Church, and unwittingly is soon listening to stories from two people who both claim to have been sexually abused by an eminent Sydney cardinal. Father Docherty finds he must confront each party involved in the abuse and cover-up to try to bring the matter to the attention of the Church itself, and to secular authorities.

The Ice-Cream Makers

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Ernest van der Kwast In the north of Italy lies the valley of the ice-cream makers, where, for generations, people have specialised in making delicious treats. Every spring Giuseppe Talamini and his family set off for their ice-cream parlour in Rotterdam, returning to the mountains in winter. His eldest son Giovanni decides to break with this tradition, but then younger brother Luca approaches him with an unusual request. Now Giovanni faces a dilemma: serve the family’s interests one last time or choose his own path in life.

Swing Time

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Emma Donoghue An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, The Wonder - inspired by European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' - is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is an examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.

Alice Hoffman One night a terrible road accident brings Shelby Richmond’s life to a halt. Her best friend suffers life-changing injuries, and Shelby becomes crippled with guilt, unable to see the possibility of a future she had once taken for granted. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When you lose all hope and sense of worth? Shelby, a fan of dogs, bookshops, and men she should stay away from, experiences both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding oneself at last.

Nathan Hill Samuel Andresen-Anderson has not seen his mother Faye in decades. Then she re-appears, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news and inflames a politically divided country. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets that stretch across generations and all the way back to Norway. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.

Zadie Smith Two brown girls dream of being dancers, but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It is a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them.

Days Without End

Conclave

The Tobacconist

Sebastian Barry After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships, they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges, if only they can survive.

$32.99 BIP Price $27.95 (pb) Robert Harris Cardinal Lomeli fears the worst when he receives an urgent summons to the bedside of the elderly Pope. By the time he gets there, the Pope has died. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.

On the Blue Train

Kristel Thornell What did happen to Agatha Christie during her mysterious eleven-day disappearance? On 4th December 1926 Agatha Christie of London became Teresa Neele, resident of the Harrogate Hydro. With her wedding ring left behind her, and her minimal belongings unpacked, Agatha's lost days began. Lying to her fellow guests about the death of a husband and child, Teresa settled into the anonymity she so fiercely desired. Kristel Thornell combines fact and fantasy to reconstruct Agatha Christie's retreat from a life that had become too difficult.

Robert Seethaler In 1937 seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna. As apprentice to tobacconist Otto Trsnyek, he will supply the great and good of Vienna with their newspapers and cigarettes. Among the regulars is a Professor Freud, whose predilection for cigars will forge a bond between him and young Franz. In a matter of months Germany will annex Austria and the storm of occupation will descend, leaving the lives of Franz, Otto and Professor Freud irredeemably changed.

The Dark Flood Rises

The Woman on the Stairs

The Best of Adam Sharp

The Heart of Henry Quantum

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Margaret Drabble Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. Margaret Drabble asks what constitutes a good death and how we understand it.

Bernhard Schlink For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the woman in the painting, the woman on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an isolated cottage in Australia. Here they must try to untangle the lies and betrayals of their shared past - but time is running out.

Nutshell

Resolution

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Graeme Simsion On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, a good income and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It is the lifestyle he wanted, but something is missing. Two decades ago his part-time piano playing led him into a passionate relationship with Angelina Brown, who had abandoned law studies to pursue her acting dream. Then, out of nowhere, Angelina gets in touch. What does she want? Does Adam dare to live dangerously? How far will he go for a second chance?

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Pepper Harding It is no surprise when Henry Quantum forgets something very important - a Christmas gift for his wife, Margaret. Henry sets off in search of the perfect present for Margaret. On his quest he runs into the former love of his life, Daisy. Margaret, meanwhile, has begun her own affair, seeking an escape from her unhappy marriage. And Daisy, who has made the choice of leaving her husband to strike out on her own, finds herself questioning whether she and Henry belong together after all.

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The Birdman's Wife $32.99 BIP Price $27.99 (hb)

Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold

Ian McEwan Nutshell is a story of murder and deceit, told with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She is still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she is with his brother, the banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. The unwilling witness to the wicked scheme is the novel’s narrator – the unborn baby of Trudy and John. From his mother’s womb, he hears and feels everything.

A N Wilson A N Wilson explores the life and times of Captain Cook and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration. His protagonist is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook's second expedition to the southern hemisphere, and who penned a famous account of the journey. Resolution moves back and forth across time, to depict Forster's time with Cook, and his extraordinary later life, which ended with his death in Paris, during the French Revolution.

Melissa Ashley Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the beauty of birds the world had never seen before. Her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. A woman ahead of her time, she juggled the demands of her artistic life with her roles as wife, helpmate, and mother to an ever-growing brood of children. Elizabeth came into her own as an artist and a bold adventurer who defied convention by embarking on an expedition to the colonies to discover Australia’s ‘curious’ birdlife.

Margaret Atwood This is Margaret Atwood’s new look at Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, revenge and second chances. Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. He is staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge.

The Rules of Backyard Cricket

Cousins

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The Girl from Venice $32.99 BIP Price $29.99 (pb)

Salley Vickers Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life-changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Told through the eyes of three women close to Will, his sister, his grandmother and his aunt, Cousins is a novel weaving darkness and light which moves from the outbreak of WWII to the present day, exploring the recurrence of tragedy, the nature of transgression, and the limits of morality and love.

Martin Cruz Smith Cenzo is a world-weary fisherman, determined to sit out the rest of the war. He is happy to go about his business of fishing in the lagoons of northern Italy. Then one night he rescues a young woman from a Venetian canal. Guilia is an Italian Jew who has managed to escape capture and is determined to find her family. This meeting results in them both taking an entirely unexpected journey, and Cenzo suddenly finds himself thrown headlong into the world of international wartime politics.

Christmas Days: $29.99 (hb) 12 stories and 12 recipes for 12 days

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Jock Serong It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game. Eventually Darren becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety - a man who always gets away with things. Until the day we meet him, middle-aged, in the boot of a car. Gagged, cable-tied, a bullet in his knee. Everything pointing towards a shallow grave.

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Jeanette Winterson The tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a tradition of celebration, sharing and giving. And what better way to do that than with a story? There are ghosts here and jovial spirits. Chances at love and tricks with time. And for the icing on the Christmas cake, there are twelve festive recipes from Yuletides past and present. Red cabbage, gravlax, turkey biryani, sherry trifle and Mrs Winterson’s mince pies. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic.

FICTION Magpie Murders $32.99 BIP Price $27.99 (pb)

Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

Anthony Horowitz When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life. His detective character, Atticus Pund, is renowned for solving crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. As Susan knows only too well, vintage crime sells handsomely. However, hidden in the pages of the manuscript there lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of reallife jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition and murder.

The Wrong Side of Goodbye

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P D James This gift edition contains four of P D James’ best Christmas stories. While she delights in the secrets that lurk beneath the surface at family gatherings, her Christmas stories also provide tantalizing puzzles to keep the reader guessing. From the tale of a strained country-house party on Christmas Eve, to an illicit affair that ends in murder and two cases for James' poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, each story treats the reader to an atmospheric storytelling, always with the lure of a mystery to be solved.

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No Man's Land

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Michael Connelly Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando when he gets the invitation to meet with the aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but after becoming pregnant she disappeared. Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment.

David Baldacci Special investigator John Puller's mother disappeared nearly thirty years ago. New allegations have come to light suggesting that Puller's father - now suffering from dementia and living in a VA hospital - may have murdered his wife. Puller is officially barred from working on the case, but he will stop at nothing to discover the truth about what happened to his mother. When intelligence operative Veronica Knox turns up, Puller realises that there is far more to this case than he had originally thought.

The Ice Beneath Her

The Whistler

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$32.99 BiP Price $29.99 (pb) John Grisham Lacy Stoltz is investigating judicial misconduct by Florida’s one thousand judges. Her cases have been relatively unexciting, until she meets Greg Myers, an indicted lawyer. He is representing a whistle blower who knows of a judge involved in organised crime. Those who help the state recover illegally acquired assets stand to gain a large percentage of them. Myers and his whistle blower friend need Lacy to start an investigation. Is she ready to pit herself against this corrupt judge, whose associates think nothing of murder?

Camilla Grebe A young woman is found beheaded in an infamous business tycoon's home. The businessman, Jesper Orre, scandal-ridden CEO of the retail chain Clothes & More, is missing without a trace. But who is the dead woman? Two months earlier Emma Bohman, a sales assistant for Clothes & More, began a secret affair with Orre. As frightening things begin to happen to Emma, she suspects Jesper is responsible. But why does he want to hurt her? And how far would he go to silence his lover?

Rather Be The Devil $32.99 BIP Price $29.99 (pb) Ian Rankin For John Rebus, forty years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. Murdered in her hotel room, Maria’s killer has never been found. Meanwhile, the dark heart of Edinburgh remains up for grabs. A young pretender, Darryl Christie, is left weakened and vulnerable after a vicious attack. An inquiry into a major money-laundering scheme threatens his position. Is old-time crime boss Big Ger Cafferty biding his time until Edinburgh is once more ripe for the picking?

Signal Loss

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Garry Disher Inspector Challis and Sergeant Destry are on the hunt for a serial rapist, while Australia's ice epidemic starts to encroach on their beat. When the bodies in a burntout Mercedes prove to be a pair of Sydney hitmen, Inspector Hal Challis’ inquiries into a local ice epidemic take a darker turn. Meanwhile, Ellen Destry, head of the new sex crimes unit, finds herself not only juggling the personalities of her team but hunting a serial rapist who leaves no evidence behind.

Staff Favourites This is our selection of the best books we have read in 2016: Deborah Adult Fiction – The Rules of Backyard Cricket – Jock Serong $29.99 (pb) Adult Non-fiction – The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown $19.99 (pb)

Sue Adult Fiction - A Guide to Berlin – Gail Jones $22.99 (pb) Leonie Adult Crime Fiction – The Dry – Jane Harper $32.99 BiP Price $27.95 (pb)

Adult Fiction – Freedom and Music $32.99 BiP Price $27.95 (pb)

Chris Adult Fiction – Barkskins – Annie Proulx $32.99 BiP Price $27.95 (pb) Adult Non-fiction – The Hate Race – Maxine Beneba Clarke $32.99 BiP Price $27.95 (pb)

Karen Children’s Older Reader– Anna and the Swallow Man – Gavriel Savit $19.99 (pb) Adult Fiction – The Toymaker – Liam Pieper $29.99 BiP Price $26.95 (pb)

Cathy Children’s Young Adult Fiction - Kids of Appetite – David Arnold $19.99 (pb)

Lucy Children’s Younger Readers – Bicycling to the Moon $15.99 (pb)

Kristy Adult Poetry - Brand New Ancients – Kate Tempest $22.99 (pb)

Nick Adult Fantasy – The Passage – Justin Cronin $19.99 (pb)

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