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Kirsty Manning
Sally Seltmann
Caroline Beecham
Bec Judd
Elle Halliwell
MAY 2018
new books
THE JADE LILY
ALLEN & UNWIN
Kirsty Manning
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760294793 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A sweeping story of friendship, loyalty, love and identity from the
popular author of The Midsummer Garden
In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns
to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm,
when her grandfather is dying. With only weeks left together, her
grandparents begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept
secret for more than half a century.
In 1939, two young girls meet in Shanghai, the 'Paris of the East':
beautiful local Li and Viennese refugee Romy form a fierce
friendship. But the deepening shadows of World War Two fall over
the women as Li and Romy slip between the city's glamorous
French Concession and the desperate Shanghai Ghetto.
Eventually, they are forced separate ways as Romy doubts Li's
loyalties.
After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to
trace her grandparents' past. As she peels back the layers of their
hidden lives, she begins to question everything she knows about
her family—and herself. A compelling and gorgeously told tale of
female friendship, the price of love and the power of hardship and
courage to shape us all.
Kirsty Manning is the author of The Midsummer Garden and
owner of the award-winning Melbourne wine bar Bellota, and the
Prince Wine Store in Sydney and Melbourne.
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LOVESOME
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Sally Seltmann
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760632878 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
An offbeat and beguiling story of finding your own happiness
My warm breath makes a beautiful fog before me. It's times
like this when I feel most alive. I feel free, and at one with the
world and everything around me. It's an invigorating version
of euphoria. But I don't want to always go home alone; I want
someone to come home to.
It's 1995 and 21-year-old Joni Johnson is fresh out of art school
and loving her life. Working at Harland, a French restaurant,
makes her happy—it's as romantic as she is herself. Harland's
owner, Lucy, and chef, Dave, make her evenings both entertaining
and complicated. By day, Joni sets up her easel in her backyard
bungalow, turns on her music and paints. But when Joni's best
friend, Annabelle, arrives on the doorstep one night ecstatic in
love, everything changes. The life Joni has built for herself seems
lacklustre in comparison to Annabelle's rising star. And when
Annabelle makes a beeline for the one man who seems interested
in Joni, it looks unlikely that their friendship will survive. Tender,
funny and romantic, Lovesome is a triumph.
Sally Seltmann is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-
instrumentalist and producer.
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ELEANOR'S SECRET
Caroline Beecham
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760295660 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets
and long-lasting love . . .
London, 1942. When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited
by the War Artist Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer
to realising her dream of becoming one of the few female war
artists. But breaking into the art establishment proves difficult
until Eleanor meets painter Jack Valante, only to be separated by
his sudden posting overseas.
Melbourne 2010. Although reluctant to leave her family at home,
Kathryn can't refuse her grandmother Eleanor's request to travel
to London to help her return a precious painting to its artist. But
when the search uncovers a long-held family secret, Kathryn
has to make a choice to return home or risk her family's future.
Eleanor shows her that safeguarding the future is sometimes
worth more than protecting the past. Eleanor's Secret is at once a
surprising mystery and a compelling love story.
Caroline Beecham is the bestselling author of Maggie's Kitchen.
She lives in Sydney.
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SOMEONE LIKE YOU VOGEL WINNER 2018
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Karly Lane
ALLEN & UNWIN ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760296896 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781760632854 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
‘The tension starts on page one and doesn’t
An intriguing, funny and romantic story about
stop’— The Australian/Vogel Judges
past lives and new beginnings
The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award is
When best-selling author, Hayley Stevens, walks
Australia's most prestigious award for an
in on her husband and her best friend in bed,
unpublished manuscript by a writer under
she knows life will never be the same. One year
the age of thirty-five and has launched the
later, Hayley moves west to a village on the
careers of some of Australia's most successful
Macdonald River. Wanting peace and quiet, she
writers, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville,
has impulsively bought a cottage as a writer's
Gillian Mears, Brian Castro, Mandy Sayer and
retreat. What she didn't expect was the 'gift' of
Andrew McGahan. Many of The Australian/
a donkey named Errol. Nor did Hayley expect
Vogel's Literary Award-winning authors have
to meet her handsome neighbour, Luke Mason,
gone on to win or be shortlisted for other major
when covered in mud trying to drag Errol out
awards, such as the Miles Franklin Award, the
of Luke's dam. Luke seems very familiar to
Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Booker
her and as Hayley gains acceptance into the
Prize.
small community, she becomes afraid of the
inexplicable vision she sees. What does it mean?
This year’s keenly-awaited award will be
And why does Luke refuse to listen? Written with
announced on the 23 April 2018 with copies
warmth and humour, Someone Like You is an
of the winning novel available in stores the
intriguing, funny and romantic story about past
following day.
lives and new beginnings.
Karly Lane is the bestselling author of North
Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's
Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound,
Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes
Were Horses and Six Ways to Sunday. She lives
on the mid-north coast of New South Wales.
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PERFECT MATCH THE LIAR'S GIRL THE PHARMACIST'S WIFE
D.B. Thorne Catherine Ryan Howard Vanessa Tait
CORVUS CORVUS CORVUS
9781782395973 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781782398974 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781786492715 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A dark psychological thriller about a serial Dublin's notorious Canal Killer is ten years When Rebecca Palmer's new husband
killer hunting women through dating apps. into his life sentence when the body of a opens a pharmacy in Victorian Edinburgh,
When his sister is found in a coma after an young woman is fished out of the Grand Alexander tries to pacify her so-called
online date, Solomon can't believe it was Canal. Though detectives suspect a copy- hysteria at his infidelities with a new
an accident. With the police unwilling to cat, they must turn to Ireland's most prolific wonder-drug he calls heroin. The desire to
help, he begins to investigate on his own serial killer for help. He admits he has the profit from his invention leads him down a
discovering a rash of similar cases. There is information the cops need, but will only dangerous path that blurs science, passion
a predator out there working the streets of give it to one person—the girl he was dating and death. He soon discovers that even
London. Solomon sets out to bring him to when he committed his horrific crimes. the most promising experiments can have
justice, putting him on a collision course with Alison Smith must return to the horrors of unforeseen and deadly consequences . . .
a deadly killer who is fiendishly clever and her past, only to find herself in the grip of a A brilliantly observed piece of Victoriana
more twisted than anyone could possibly terrible nightmare. An unmissable, utterly which deals with the disempowerment of
imagine. compelling thriller. women, addiction, desire, sexual obsession
and vengeance.
D. B. Thorne is a digital entrepreneur and Catherine Ryan Howard is the bestselling
author of Distress Signals. She lives in Vanessa Tait is the author of The Looking
acclaimed author of Troll. He lives in the UK.
Dublin. Glass House. She lives in the UK.
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FRIENDS AND TRAITORS AMERICA IS NOT THE THE ONE WHO WROTE
John Lawton HEART DESTINY
Elaine Castillo Nikesh Shukla
GROVE PRESS
9781611855166 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION ATLANTIC
ATLANTIC 9781786492784 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION
1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of 9781786491336 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the
service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to A sprawling, soulful, heart-breaking debut of drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was
Britain, is approached by an old friend—Guy a Filipino family shaped and pulled apart by expecting fame, fortune and a nice girl, not
Burgess, a spy for the Soviets, who says he politics, class, sex, the need to leave and the poverty, loneliness and racism. Neha is dying
wants to come home. MI5 send an agent longing to go back. Illuminating the violent from lung cancer, an invocation to forge a
to de-brief Burgess but the man is gunned political history of the Philippines in the relationship with her brother and widowed
down only yards from the embassy. As the 1980s and 1990s and the insular immigrant father. The problem is, her brother is an
whole plan unravels with alarming speed, communities that spring up in the suburban unfunny comedian and her idiot father is a
Troy finds himself a suspect. And discovers United States, America Is Not the Heart first-generation immigrant. A big-hearted,
that Burgess is not the only ghost who is delivers a powerful, increasingly relevant utterly charming carousel of a novel about
returning to haunt him. novel about the promise of the American three generations of the same family, riven
dream and the unshakeable power of the by feuds and falling-outs, united by fates and
John Lawton has written eight other novels past. fortunes.
in the Inspector Troy series. He lives in the
UK. Elaine Castillo received her MA in Creative Nikesh Shukla is the author of Coconut
& Life Writing from University of London. Unlimited, shortlisted for the Costa First
Novel Award 2010, and hosts a popular
podcast, The Subaltern. He lives in the UK. 7
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HER MOTHER'S THE MADONNA OF WHAT YOU WANT TO
DAUGHTER THE MOUNTAINS SEE
Alice Fitzgerald Elise Valmorbida Kristen Lepionka
ATLANTIC FABER FABER
9781760630621 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9780571336333 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9780571336142 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
1980: Josephine escapes the trauma of her 1923. Maria Vittoria is embroidering a sheet Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé
childhood in Ireland, hoping never to return. for her dowry trunk. Her father has gone thinks she’s having an affair, and hires P.I.
Seventeen years and two children later, to find her a husband. He's taken his mule, Roxane Weary to prove it. When Marin is
Josephine gets a call from her sister to tell a photograph and a pack of home-made shot dead in an apparent mugging, the
her that their mother is dying and wants to sopressa sausage, cold polenta, a little flask police begin to focus on Roxane's client. So
see her. 1997: Ten-year-old Clare is leaving of wine. It's springtime. Fascism blooms as she starts to dig deeper into Marin’s life—
London to meet her grandparents in Ireland crops ripen, the state craves babies just as discovering the woman she’s been following
for the first time. But family secrets can't the babies cry for food. In this sumptuous has a past and a half, including a crew of con
stay buried forever and following revelations and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli artists and a real estate scam that defrauds
in Ireland, Josephine and her family unravel, co l'arna and feel the strain of one woman unsuspecting elderly homeowners. With
perhaps to the point of no return. attempting to keep her family together in Roxane’s client facing a murder indictment,
the most testing of times. it becomes clear that the stakes are as high
as the secrets run deep.
Alice Fitzgerald is a journalist. Born in Elise Valmorbida is an Italian Australian
London to Irish parents, she now lives in writer and creative writing tutor who Kristen Lepionka is the author of The Last
Madrid. currently lives in London. Place You Look. She lives in Ohio.
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PATIENT X WHITE HOUSES THE HALF SISTER
The case-book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa Amy Bloom Catherine Chanter
David Peace
GRANTA CANONGATE
FABER 9781783781720 | $27.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781786891242 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
9780571333462 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor When Diana hears her mother has died,
These are the stories of Patient X in one Roosevelt took up residence in the White she impulsively asks estranged half-sister
of our iron castles. He will tell his tales House. With them went the celebrated Valerie and her nine-year-old son to stay.
to anyone with the ears and the time to journalist Lorena Hickok—Hick to friends—a The night of the funeral, fuelled by wine and
listen. Inspired and informed by the stories straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, years of resentment, the sisters argue and a
of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of Japan's whose passionate relationship with the terrible accident occurs. The foundations of
great writers, David Peace has fashioned idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape a well-ordered life start to crack and the lies
a most extraordinary novel of tales. An the rest of their lives. Filled with fascinating begin to surface, one secret after another.
intense, passionate, haunting paean to one back-room politics, the secrets and scandals And then there's the boy, watching, waiting.
writer, it also thrillingly explores the act and of the era, and exploring the potency of A profound and haunting portrayal of those
obsession of writing itself, and the role of enduring love, it is an imaginative tour-de- who are imprisoned by the past and by their
the artist, both in public and private life, in force from a writer of extraordinary and struggle to find the words which will release
times which darkly mirror our own. exuberant talent. them.
David Peace is the author of Red Riding Amy Bloom is the acclaimed author of Lucky Catherine Chanter is the award-winning
Quartet, GB84 and The Damned Utd. He Us, Away and Love Invents Us. She lives in author of The Well. She lives in the UK.
lives in Tokyo. the US.
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THE LAST HOUR THE GRADUAL HOT PURSUIT
Harry Sidebottom DISAPPEARANCE OF JANE Rebecca Freeborn
ASHLAND
ZAFFRE Nicolai Houm PANTERA PRESS
9781785764226 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781921997853 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
PUSHKIN
A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Sarah is a wannabe journo for Australian
9781782273776 | $24.99 | | HB | FICTION
Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the gossip magazine Women's Choice when she
sun is setting over the centre of the known lands herself the assignment of a lifetime
An American woman wakes up alone in a
world. Footsteps pound up the stairs. He's in Europe. But when Sarah's assignment
tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside
been set up. An enemy is closing in; he is takes a darker turn, she discovers there's
a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her
cornered. He jumps. An assassination in more to this story than meets the eye. Is
phone is dead. She doesn't have a map or
ancient Rome, and 24 hours to expose the she ready to risk everything to get the
a compass or any food. How did she end up
conspirators and save the Emperor. If the scoop? With a missing rockstar, a suspected
here? This beautifully written, compelling
Emperor dies, chaos and violence will ensue. murderer on the run and a race against the
mystery moves seamlessly between the
Gladiator meets Jason Bourne in this thriller clock, Hot Pursuit will take you on a thrilling
woman’s past, and the extraordinary
that will keep you on the edge of your seat. adventure—while imparting the importance
landscape of the Norwegian mountains, as it
of understanding your potential.
gradually unpicks the emotional drama that
Harry Sidebottom lectures in Ancient has led her to this lonely landscape.
Rebecca Freeborn works in media and
History at Oxford and is the author of the
communications for the Australian
Warrior of Rome series, which has sold over Nicolai Houm has published two critically-
government. She lives in Adelaide.
half a million copies worldwide. acclaimed novels in his native Norway.
10THE BABY BIBLE
ALLEN & UNWIN
Bec Judd
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760631307 | $34.99 | | PB | PARENTING
A comprehensive month-by-month guide to pregnancy, birth and
beyond from the media personality and mother of four with her
dream team of experts
What you're not expecting, when you're expecting . . . Bec
Judd has been pregnant quite a lot: three pregnancies, three
deliveries and four gorgeous new-born babies. From carrying a
baby, delivering it, feeding it and raising it, Bec has experienced
almost everything motherhood can throw at you and she wants
to share the secrets and stories that she has learnt along the
way. Not to mention all those things about pregnancy, birth and
motherhood that often come as a complete surprise. Join Bec
and her dream team of experts (an obstetrician, a midwife, an
ultrasound specialist, a women's health physio and a paediatric
sleep specialist) as they take you month-by-month through your
pregnancy. They will share their insider advice on the best ways
to eat for two (or three!), stay in shape and get you and your baby
sleeping well. This gorgeous, comprehensive handbook contains
a wealth of honest, practical and sometimes hilarious advice to
prepare you and your baby for life after birth.
Rebecca Judd is one of Australia's best-known personalities,
working as a television presenter and brand ambassador for some
of the country's biggest companies. Her fashion and lifestyle blog
is one of the most read blogs in Australia.
11A MOTHER'S CHOICE
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Elle Halliwell
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760632779 | $29.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
Falling pregnant with her first child, the well-known fashion
journalist is faced with an impossible choice: deciding between
her baby and her life
On May 1 2016 Elle Halliwell was diagnosed with leukaemia. Days
later just as she was telling friends and family about the grim
diagnosis she found out she was 4 weeks pregnant with her first
child. She was faced with an impossible choice: either terminate
her unborn baby and begin the treatment that gave her the best
chance of survival, or continue with the pregnancy and delay
effective intervention for her cancer, a course that could lead to
her death. Elle chose her baby over herself, a mother's choice.
Her memoir details her illness, her pregnancy and, against all the
odds, the ultimate triumph of giving birth to her son in December
2016. Almost a year later she is still on the road to recovery but
has discovered a new passion for nutrition and healthy living.
Her journey remains hard but the trials of the last year and a half
have made her more determined than ever to live well and regain
her health for the sake of her family and her son. A Mother's
Choice is compelling, moving and inspiring.
Elle Halliwell is one of Australia’s favourite showbiz and fashion
commentators via her weekly columns in The Daily and Sunday
Telegraph and her number one national radio show, Confidential
on Nova. Her story was featured on TV’s 60 Minutes.
12HEADSTRONG THE NAME OF DEATH
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DAUGHTERS The extraordinary true story of the Brazilian
Inspiring stories from the new generation of hitman with 492 deaths to his name
Australian Muslim women
Klester Cavalcanti
Nadia Jamal
ALLEN & UNWIN
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760632328 | $29.99 | | PB | TRUE CRIME
9781760293314 | $29.99 | | PB | BIOGRAPHY
The powerful true-life story of a Brazilian boy
Inside the lives of ordinary Muslim women from who became the world's most prolific killer—now
around Australia, showing how they find ways to a major motion picture
stay true to their faith and to themselves
Julio Santana grew up in a poor fishing family in
How would you feel as a guest about sitting in Brazil. At the age of 17 he killed his first man for
a suburban living room that is for women only? money. In the course of his career as an assassin,
What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman he was to murder more than 490 people.
could not have one outside of a marriage? Could Santana was eventually caught and jailed, but
you stay home to mourn a husband for four Klester Cavalcanti, perhaps Brazil's greatest
months and ten days? Headstrong Daughters investigative journalist, became fascinated
takes us inside the lives of Muslim women in with his story. Over the course of seven years,
Australia today. They are working professionals, Cavalcanti interviewed Santana by phone, and
mothers and students. At home they are finding used his skills as a journalist to trace the path
ways to stay true to their faith as well as of his life and infamous career. The result is an
themselves, navigating the expectations of their extraordinary insight into a killer, and the almost
families and the traditions they brought with unimaginable scale of his crimes. The Name of
them to their new country. But things are not Death has been adapted into a major motion
always what they seem. These candid, moving picture produced by Fernando Meirelles (director
and sometimes surprising stories reveal a side of City of God, Blindness and The Constant
to Australian life that is little known and often Gardener) with global distribution in 2018.
misunderstood. Inspiring, warm and determined,
these women are the new face of Islam in Klester Cavalcanti is considered one of the
Australia. greatest Brazilian investigative journalists.
Nadia Jamal is a former senior journalist with
the Sydney Morning Herald and co-author of
the award-winning Glory Garage: Growing up
Lebanese Muslim in Australia. 13ALLEN & UNWIN
A TOKYO ROMANCE MOTHERS X AND WHY
The naked truth behind gender in the
Ian Buruma An essay on love and cruelty
modern world
Jacqueline Rose Tom Whipple
ATLANTIC
9781782398004 | $29.99 | | PB | MEMOIR FABER
9780571331437 | $24.99 | | HB | GENERAL SHORT BOOKS
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, 9781780723488 | $24.99 | | PB | POPULAR SCIENCE
he found a surreal metropolis in the midst From an important contemporary thinker, a
of an economic boom, where everything daring and provocative look at the role of Were we ever designed to be a monogamous
seemed new and history only remained in mothers in culture, history and the human species? Is it true that all women are
fragments. Through his adventures in the heart. Moving commandingly between pop bisexual? Is testosterone to blame for
world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters cultural references such as Roald Dahl's making men monsters? In a modern world of
with carnival acts, fashion photographers 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood gender neutrality, equality and fluidity, this is
and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, in the ancient world, and to thoughts a book about the place where biology meets
Buruma underwent a radical transformation. about the stigmatization of single mothers, behaviour—and where sexual differences
A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young Mothers delivers a ground-breaking report in our bodies most closely translate into
artist and the fantastical city that shaped into something so prevalent we hardly gender differences in the mind. It explores
him, and a timeless story about the desire to notice. the most surprising questions about the
transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic and differences between the sexes—unpacking
sexual. Jacqueline Rose is a British academic and the central psychology of our relationships.
author of Women in Dark Times.
Tom Whipple is the award-winning science
Ian Buruma is editor of The New York Review
editor of the London Times and author of
of Books and the author of several books.
14 How to Win Games and Beat People.ALLEN & UNWIN
THE IMPERIAL TEA TO THROW AWAY NATURAL CAUSES
PARTY UNOPENED Life, death and the illusion of control
Family, politics and betrayal—the ill-fated
British and Russian royal alliance Viv Albertine Barbara Ehrenreich
Frances Welch FABER GRANTA
9780571342907 | $29.99 | | PB | MEMOIR 9781783784912 | $29.99 | | PB
SHORT BOOKS
9781780723068 | $29.99 | | HB | HISTORY At the launch party for her 2014 memoir, This razor-sharp polemic describes how we
Viv Albertine received news that her mother over-prepare and worry way too much about
Russia and Britain were never natural was dying. After the funeral, Viv made a what is inevitable. One by one, it topples the
bedfellows. But the marriage, in 1894, of series of discoveries that revealed the role shibboleths that guide our attempts to live
Queen Victoria's favourite granddaughter, of family conflicts in propelling her towards a long, healthy life—from the importance
Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas marked the uncompromising world of punk. Part of preventive medical screenings to the
the beginning of an uneasy Anglo-Russian radical reinvention of the memoir form; part concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from
entente that would last until the Russian feminist manifesto; part domestic noir; part dietary fads to fitness culture. But all these
Revolution. Written with Welch's waspish polemic on motherhood; To Throw Away things offer only the illusion of control. How
eye for detail, this is another fascinating, Unopened is an indefinable book exploring to live well, even joyously, while accepting
percipient, revelatory and often quite the nature of intimacy. our mortality—that is the vitally important
hilariously funny book from the master of philosophical challenge of this book.
Russian history. Viv Albertine grew up in Sydney. She was a
member of the cult female punk band The Barbara Ehrenreich is the bestselling author
Frances Welch is the author of Rasputin, The Slits and is the author of the acclaimed of Smile or Die and Nickel and Dimed. She
Russian Court at Sea and Romanov Fantasy. memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, lives in Virginia, USA.
Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys. 15ALLEN & UNWIN
THE COW BOOK CIVILISATIONS CIVILISATIONS
A story of life on a family farm How do we look / Eye of faith Encounters / The cult of progress
John Connell Mary Beard David Olusoga
GRANTA PROFILE BOOKS PROFILE BOOKS
9781783784172 | $29.99 | | PB | NATURAL HISTORY 9781781259993 | $34.99 | | HB 9781781259979 | $34.99 | | HB
The intimate account of a year on his family This companion to the BBC series focuses on This companion to the BBC series focuses
farm in Ireland—and a keyhole history of the arrival of the human figure as a subject on what happened to art in the great Age
man's relationship with the cow, by a Walkley of art and examines the history of beauty of Discovery when civilisations encountered
Award-winning investigative journalist. in civilisation. Beginning with the Jericho each other for the first time. From the
Farming has been in John Connell's family painted skulls from 10,000 years ago, it Spanish who were so baffled by Aztec art
for generations, but he never intended to examines in depth the creativity that gave that they melted the gold treasures they
follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one identity to ancient Egypt, the unprecedented looted, to the reactions of Europeans in
winter, he finds himself back on the farm and art of the Greek revolution, where beauty Africa amidst the Ife and Kongo, it moves
begins to learn the ways of the farmer and and the perfection of the human figure set on to explore how the Japanese remained
the way of the cows. a benchmark for all Western art to come, steadfast to their own artistic identity in
before finally moving to China to examine the face of Dutch influence while India was
the vast army of Terracotta Warriors. changed forever by the arrival of the East
John Connell studied journalism in Dublin
and Sydney and went on to become a India Company.
Mary Beard is a Cambridge professor
lecturer at the University of Technology
of classics and award-winning author of David Olusoga is an Anglo-Nigerian historian
Sydney and a producer with ABC Radio
Pompeii, The Parthenon, Confronting the and producer. He lives in the UK.
National as well as SBS. His work as an
16 investigative journalist lead to multiple
Classics, SPQR and Women & Power.
awards including two Walkley Awards.ALLEN & UNWIN
MEDIEVAL BODIES HISTORY REPEATING RAINFOREST
Life, death and art in the Middle Ages Why populists rise and governments fall Dispatches from Earth's most vital frontlines
Jack Hartnell Sam Wilkin Tony Juniper
PROFILE BOOKS PROFILE BOOKS PROFILE BOOKS
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Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and What causes political instability? How Rainforests are key to the health of our
tortured, gateway to earthly delights and can you tell when your country is headed world—they maintain the water and air
point of contact with the divine, forcibly for turbulence? And what does the best cycles, store carbon and have yielded
divided and powerful even beyond death, social science say we can do about it? This countless numbers of medical drugs. We
there was no territory more contested colourful romp through the history of recent have already destroyed half their area.
than the body in the medieval world. Like a revolutionary moments becomes a profound We need urgently to save the rest. This
medieval pageant, this striking and unusual enquiry into the machinery of social book explains why—and how. It provides
history brings together medicine, art, poetry, unrest. History Repeating answers all these an in-depth, wide-ranging, first-hand
music, politics, cultural and social history, questions and more in pursuit of the holy narrative that not only looks at the state
and philosophy to reveal what life was really grail of political science: how to make things of the world's rainforests today and the
like for the men and women who lived and better without first making them much, implications of their decline, but also at
died in the Middle Ages. much worse. what is being done, and can be done, to
protect them.
Jack Hartnell is Lecturer in Art History at Sam Wilkin is a political risk analyst and
the University of East Anglia. author of Wealth Secrets of the One Percent. Dr. Tony Juniper is Britain's best known
environmental campaigner.
17CONSPIRACY ASTROQUIZZICAL THE FRIGHTENERS
A curious journey through our cosmic family
Ryan Holiday tree
Why we love monsters, ghosts, death & gore
Peter Laws
PROFILE BOOKS Jillian Scudder
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Peter Laws is an ordained Baptist Minister
Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of and author of Purged and Unleashed. He
Trust Me, I'm Lying, The Obstacle Is the Way Jillian Scudder is an astrophysicist and a
popular science blogger. She lives in Ohio, lives in the UK.
and Ego Is the Enemy. He lives in Texas.
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FAIR SHOT BELLA FIGURA THE LITTLE VIET
Chris Hughes Kamin Mohammadi KITCHEN
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how we can combat income inequality, and Vietnam to England, celebrating her love of
culture, and sets down a simple guide to a
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shot. while tantalising the reader's taste buds and
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imagination.
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journalist, writer, broadcaster and author of
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London where she established the renowned 19
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