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Mike Allsop
Sarah Bailey
NEW ZEALAND
Ben Hobson
Peter Corris AUGUST 2019
Jeff Apter
new books
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WHERE THE DEAD GO
Sarah Bailey
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760529321 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
Four years after the events of Into the Night, DS Gemma
Woodstock is on the trail of a missing girl in a small coastal town
The Dark Lake introduced DS Gemma Woodstock and her
troubled past. Into the Night saw Gemma spread her wings and
move from her hometown of Smithson to Melbourne, taking on
a high-profile case that had the whole country captivated. Now
Gemma is back, a little older and a little wiser, having moved to
Sydney for a promising new job with the homicide squad—and a
promising new relationship with fellow detective Mac Gilchrist.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tries to settle down, it
seems the world has other plans for her.
The aftermath of a personal tragedy finds her in the coastal town
of Fairhaven with her son Ben in tow, investigating the brutal
murder of a seventeen-year-old boy and the disappearance of his
girlfriend. Navigating Ben's grief, her hostile co-workers and an
unexpected pregnancy, Gemma struggles to keep it together as
the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. She certainly can't trust
anyone in Fairhaven and she starts to suspect that she and Ben
are in serious danger . . .
Sarah Bailey is the author of the award-winning Gemma
Woodstock trilogy that began with The Dark Lake and Into the
Night. She lives in Melbourne.
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SNAKE ISLAND
Ben Hobson
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760527235 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
The perfect combination of a great thriller and a beautifully
written literary novel
Vernon and Penelope never want to see their son Caleb again.
Not after he bashed his wife and ended up in gaol. A lifetime of
careful parental love wiped out in a moment. But when Vernon,
a retired teacher, hears that Caleb is being regularly visited and
savagely beaten by a local criminal as the police stand by, he
knows he has to act. What has his life as a father been if he turns
his back on his son in his hour of desperate need? He realises
with shame that he has grievously failed Caleb. No longer. To stop
the beatings, Vernon plans to approach Ernie Cahill, father of the
man bashing Caleb, and head of the local drug-dealing operation.
The Cahills run the town and the cops, but Vernon is determined
to fix things in a civilised way, father to father. If he shows
respect, he reasons, it will be reciprocated. But how wrong he is.
And what hell will he bring down on his family?
Reading like a morality tale Western but in a starkly beautiful
Australian setting, Snake Island is a propulsive literary thriller
written with great clarity and power. It will take you to the edge
and keep you there long after the final page is turned.
Ben Hobson is the acclaimed author of To Become a Whale. He
lives in Brisbane.
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SEE YOU AT THE TOXTETH LADY IN THE LAKE
The best of Cliff Hardy and Corris on crime Laura Lippman
Peter Corris
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9781760875633 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
A stunning, multi-voiced novel tackling race,
A selection of stories featuring the legendary PI, gender politics and the volatility of mid '60s
plus unpublished writing by Peter Corris on crime America—from one of today's most interesting
crime writing voices
For almost four decades Peter Corris was known
as 'the godfather of Australian fiction' and Cliff Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago.
Hardy has been Australia's favourite private Aside from her parents and the two sons she left
investigator since his first case in 1980. This behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn't
selection of stories starts with Cliff's early days hard to understand why: it's 1964 and neither the
driving round in his battered Falcon, drinking at police, the public nor the papers care much when
the Toxteth Hotel and taking on cases that leave Negro women go missing.
him as battered as his car. As Cliff becomes older
and wiser, he prefers to use his head more than Maddie Schwartz—recently separated from her
his fists, but the cases are as tricky as ever. To husband and working her first job as an assistant
further celebrate Peter Corris's legacy, editor at the Baltimore Sun—wants one thing: a byline.
Jean Bedford has also included a selection of When she hears about an unidentified body
his insights into the world of crime and crime that's been pulled out of the fountain in Druid
writing, along with his 'ABC of Crime Writing'. Hill Park, Maddie thinks she is about to uncover a
From Adultery to Yeti, via Gumshoe, Hitman and story that will finally get her name in print. What
The Mob, this entertaining compendium gives a she can't imagine is how much trouble she will
fascinating insight into Corris’s vast knowledge cause by chasing a story that no one wants her
of the genre. to tell.
Peter Corris (1942–2018) was the author of nearly Laura Lippman has been awarded every major
ninety books, forty-two of them featuring the prize in crime fiction. She lives in Baltimore, New
legendary Cliff Hardy PI. Orleans and New York City.
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THE SUN ON MY HEAD THE DIRTY DOZEN THE WARLOW EXPERIMENT
Geovani Martins Lynda La Plante Alix Nathan
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‘A blaze of heat, love and risk that will leave The fifth book in the Tennison series 1792. Herbert Powyss is set on making his
you reeling’ – DBC Pierre follows Jane Tennison in the early years name as a scientist studying the effects
of her policing career. She is the first of prolonged solitude on another human
The Sun on My Head is a collection of female detective to be posted to the Met's being. The only man desperate enough to
thirteen short stories set in Rio's largest renowned Flying Squad as part of an apply is John Warlow, a semi-literate farm
favela, Rocinha. The collection gravitates internal experiment aimed at calming a labourer who needs to support his wife and
around the childhoods and teenage years team that likes to dub themselves the 'Dirty six children. Cut off from nature and the
of boys who, as well as having to deal with Dozen'. Determined to prove she's as good turning of the seasons, Warlow soon begins
the anguish and difficulties inherent to their as the men, Jane discovers that a gang is losing his grip on sanity. Powyss may have
age, struggle with the violence involved in going to carry out a massive robbery. But set events in motion, but he is powerless
growing up on the less favoured side of the she doesn't know who they are, or where to prevent their explosive and devastating
'Broken City'. This is a spellbinding collection and when they will strike . . . conclusion.
about masculinity, corruption, guilt, poverty
and resilience. Lynda La Plante is the creator of the Alix Nathan is the author of His Last Fire and
ground-breaking Prime Suspect series and The Flight of Sarah Battle. She lives in Wales.
Geovani Martins was discovered during the author of over thirty-seven bestselling
creative writing workshops at Flup, the novels.
literary festival of the Rio favelas. 5
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NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER DEEP RIVER CHANCES ARE
Kevin Barry Karl Marlantes Richard Russo
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It's late one night at the Spanish port of In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Three older men convene on Martha's
Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Vineyard, friends since meeting in college
are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A Finland, the three Koski siblings—Ilmari, Matti in the sixties. They couldn't have been more
lover has been lost, a daughter has gone and the politicised young Aino—are forced different then, or even today. But each man
missing, their world has come asunder—can to flee to the western edges of the United holds his own secrets, in addition to the
it be put together again? Night Boat to States. The brothers face the excitement monumental mystery that none of them has
Tangier is a novel drenched in sex and death and danger of pioneering this frontier stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day
and narcotics, in sudden violence and old wilderness. But while they are tearing down weekend here in 1971. Now, forty-five years
magic, but it is obsessed, above all, with the ancient trees, Aino is striving to build up later, three lives and that of a significant
mysteries of love. A tragicomic masterwork the country's first radical union movements. other are displayed in their entirety as
from a multi-award-winning writer, it is both Deep River is a stunningly expansive family the distant past confounds the present. A
mordant and hilarious, lyrical yet laden with saga of anguish, reinvention and courage. gripping story about the abiding yet complex
menace. power of friendship.
Karl Marlantes is the bestselling author of
Kevin Barry is the award-winning author of Matterhorn. He lives in Washington. Richard Russo is the author of seven novels
Beatlebone and City of Bohane. He lives in including Empire Falls, for which he received
Ireland. the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives
6 in Maine.
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THE FAR FIELD HUDSON'S KILL A GRAVE FOR TWO
Madhuri Vijay Paddy Hirsch Anne Holt
GROVE PRESS CORVUS CORVUS
9781611854824 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781786498168 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781786498502 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
An elegant, epic debut novel that follows Golden Hill meets Gangs of New York in The first instalment in a new crime series.
one young woman's search for a lost figure the second book in this sweeping historical Selma Falck's career as a lawyer has hit
from her childhood, a journey that takes her crime series set in 19th century New York. rock bottom. That is until Norway's best
from Southern India to Kashmir and to the Violence simmers on every street as black female skier approaches her prior to the
brink of a devastating political and personal and Irish gangs fight for control. When Winter Olympics desperate to clear a doping
reckoning. With rare acumen and evocative a young girl is found brutally murdered, charge. When a male skier is found dead,
prose, The Far Field masterfully examines Marshal Justy Flanagan and ally Kerry it becomes clear to Selma that something
Indian politics, class prejudice and sexuality O’Toole must find the killer before a mob more serious is at risk. As she encounters
through the lens of an outsider, offering a takes the law into their own hands. Finding corruption, hidden enmity and shady
profound meditation on grief, guilt and the their way into a shadowy community on the connections, the pattern of recent crimes
limits of compassion. city fringes, they encounter a treacherous and ancient sins becomes undeniable.
web of political conspiracy and criminal As Selma's race against time begins, she
enterprise and must fight to save not only realises that more lives are at stake . . .
Madhuri Vijay was born in Bangalore.
the city, but themselves.
Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female
Paddy Hirsch is the author of The Devil’s crime writer and its former Minister for
Half Mile (Lawless New York 1). Born in Justice.
Ireland, he now lives in Los Angeles.
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FLÈCHE ISOLDE THE STRANGE CASE OF
Mary Jean Chan Irina Odoevtseva DR. JEKYLL AND
MR. HYDE
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from the multi-prizewinning Hong Kong her brother Nikolai and her boyfriend Andrei
poet deftly examines relationships at enjoy Cromwell's company in restaurants An unabridged version of the classic gothic
once conflictual and tender. Themes of and jazz bars after he follows Liza back novella and gripping exploration of the
multilingualism, queerness, post-colonialism, to Paris—until his mother stops giving him duality of human nature, with dazzling
psychoanalysis and cultural history emerge money. As the group falls deeper into its modern illustration and design from
by means of an imagined personal, maternal haze of alcohol, their darker drives begin to award-winning illustrator, Tina Berning. The
and national biography, spoken by a take over. First published in 1929, Isolde is a Classics Reimagined series is a library of
polyphony of female voices. The result is a hypnotically dark classic of love, deceit and stunning collectors’ editions of unabridged
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Irina Odoevtseva (1895–1990) was a Russian
resist owning the whole collection.
novelist, poet, translator and memoirist.
Mary Jean Chan is editor of Oxford Poetry
and a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a
at Oxford Brookes University. Born in Hong Scottish writer of both fiction and non-
8 Kong, she now lives in London. fiction.
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BEYOND THE DAY THE LIES BEGAN THE PARTISAN HEART
REASONABLE DOUBT Kylie Kaden Gordon Kerr
Elliot Rook QC: Book 1
Gary Bell PANTERA PRESS MUSWELL PRESS
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9781526606136 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION Secrets have a habit of rising to the surface, The death of his wife has left Michael Keats
especially in small towns. Two couples, four bereft; the subsequent discovery of her
ironclad friendships, the perfect coastal adultery devastates him. Michael resolves
Elliot Rook is the epitome of a highly
holiday town. Wife and mother Abbi, town to discover the identity of her lover. That
successful, old-Etonian QC. Or so everyone
cop Blake, schoolteacher Hannah and journey leads him to northern Italy where
believes. In fact, he is an ex-petty criminal
local doctor Will are caught in their own he becomes embroiled in a story of passion
with a past he keeps secret. Until now. A
tangled webs of deceit. When the truth and treachery amongst the Partisans and
young woman of Middle Eastern origin has
washes in to their beachside community, villagers during the darkest days of World
been found murdered and Billy Barber,
so do the judgements: victim or vigilante? War II. As Michael gets closer to the truth,
a violent football hooligan and white
Who will forgive, who will betray? Not all he realises that some secrets should never
supremacist, stands accused. Barber insists
relationships survive. Nor do all residents. be told. Weaving superbly between 1999 and
that Rook defend him or he will expose him,
A domestic noir-thriller with a distinctly 1944, this is an enthralling story of passion
bringing crashing to the ground the career
Australian flavour. and betrayal.
Rook has spent his life building. The truth is
there for the finding. But at what cost?
Kylie Kaden is the author of Losing Kate and Gordon Kerr is a highly regarded non-fiction
Missing You. She lives in Queensland. author. He lives in the UK and France.
Gary Bell is an acclaimed British QC with a
previous criminal conviction.
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THE DARK SACRED COURTNEY'S WAR
CLOCKMAKER'S NIGHT Wilbur Smith,
DAUGHTER Michael Connelly David Churchill
Kate Morton
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A story of intrigue, mystery and thievery, of At the end of a long night, Detectives Renée An epic story of courage, betrayal and undying
art, love and loss—from the international #1 Ballard and Harry Bosch cross paths for the love that takes the reader to the very heart of
bestselling author whose novels have sold over first time. The latest thriller from the master of a world at war.
11 million copies worldwide. crime, includes an extract of the forthcoming
The Night Fire.
THE TWENTIETH UNSHELTERED
MAN Barbara Kingsolver
Tony Jones
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Terrorism, politics and betrayals collide in A testament to the strength of the human
this unputdownable, fast-paced thriller from spirit—this is the novel for our troubled times
a highly recognisable political insider and from the author of the Orange-prize-winning
journalist. The Lacuna.
10HIGH ADVENTURE
ALLEN & UNWIN
Mike Allsop
A&U NEW ZEALAND
9781760633622 | $36.99 | | PB | TRAVEL
What happens when a confirmed adventurer becomes a father?
Airline pilot, Everest mountaineer and extreme marathon
competitor Mike Allsop has always been an adventurer and, once
he and wife Wendy had children, he realised he needed to find a
way of incorporating his adventures into family life. Mike knew he
needed to keep exploring, to keep filling up his 'emotional tank',
but he also knew there had to be something in it for everyone.
So Wendy and Mike devised a plan, whereby he would take each
child on a one-on-one trip to Everest when they turned seven.
They then went as a family to Everest, leaving the day before
the devastating earthquake of 2015 killed several Sherpas and
friends. Mike's philosophy has always been that part of each
adventure is giving back to the locals, so the Allsops fundraised
to gather money to buy a new house for one of the widows.
Now as each child grows older, they get to choose another
challenge with their dad. Maya wanted to return to Everest
and there she broke the record for the world's highest stand-
up paddle-boarding. Ethan climbed Kilimanjaro and played the
highest board game. These family traditions have created really
strong bonds, and Mike believes that the thing kids love the most
is one-on-one time. Mike Allsop is an ordinary family man proving
that anybody can accomplish extraordinary things.
Mike Allsop is a dynamo—pilot, mountaineer, ultra-marathoner,
motivational speaker, author of High Altitude, husband and father
of three children. He is one of a handful of athletes who ran seven
marathons in seven days on seven continents, raising NZ$75,000
for New Zealand charity KidsCan. Mike lives in Auckland. 11LAWLESS
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Kimberley Motley
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760633035 | $32.99 | | PB | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The extraordinary story of the US woman who became the first
foreign lawyer to practice in Afghanistan
In the summer of 2008, Kimberley Motley quit her job as a
public defender in Milwaukee to join a US government sponsored
'capacity building' program that helped train lawyers in wartorn
Afghanistan. She was 32 years old at the time, a former Mrs.
Wisconsin and mother of three who had never travelled outside
the United States. What she brought to Afghanistan was a
toughness and resilience that came from growing up as an
African American in one of the most dangerous cities in the US,
a fundamental belief in everyone's right to justice and a kick-ass
approach to practicing law that was to make her a legend in the
archaic, highly conservative legal environment of Afghanistan.
Through sheer force of personality, ingenuity and perseverance,
she became the first foreign lawyer to practice in Afghanistan,
let alone the first woman. Her legal work swiftly morphed
into a personal mission—to bring 'justness' to the defenceless
and voiceless. Her radical approach has seen her successfully
represent both Afghans and Westerners, overturning sentences
for men and women who've become subject to often appalling
miscarriages of justice. Lawless is both an extraordinary woman's
story and a legal non-fiction thriller.
Kimberley Motley was the recent subject of the critically
acclaimed documentary Motley's Law. She is also known for
her work in returning two Australian children taken illegally to
Afghanistan by their father.
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The man who made AC/DC
Jeff Apter
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760528751 | $36.99 | | PB | BIOGRAPHY
The first in-depth biography of Malcolm Young, from the author of
High Voltage
Malcom Young was the founder and the driving force of
AC/DC, a man who possessed what many have called 'the
greatest right hand in rock and roll'. That riff-producing mitt
provided the muscle behind such signature songs as 'Highway to
Hell', 'Back in Black', 'A Long Way to the Top' and many others,
helping AC/DC survive shifting musical trends and numerous
in-house dramas to stand tall as the biggest rock band on the
planet.
This first biography to focus exclusively on Malcolm tells of his
remarkable rise from working class Glasgow and Sydney to the
biggest stages in the world. One of eight, Young always seemed
destined for a life in rock and roll: his brother George was a key
member of Australian legends. The Easybeats, and his brother
Angus, the oldest schoolboy in the world, stood alongside
Malcolm in AC/DC for the best part of 40 years. Malcolm lived
hard and fast, enduring incredible hardship when the band first
started, surviving the terrible loss of Bon Scott and suffering
numerous personal demons including alcoholism. It was a series
of severe health problems that led to his death in 2017, aged
just 64, from complications arising from dementia. Yet without
Malcolm Young, there would have been no AC/DC—it's as simple
as that.
Jeff Apter is the bestselling author of more than twenty music
13 biographies and is a former staffer at Rolling Stone. 13ALLEN & UNWIN
WOMEN, MEN AND THE
WHOLE DAMN THING
David Leser
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781925266108 | $32.99 | | PB | GENDER STUDIES
The water-cooler book of the #MeToo era
In February 2018, the Good Weekend cover story
by David Leser—'Women, Men and the Whole
Damn Thing'—had an unprecedented response A PRIMER
from readers all around the world. The public FOR FORGETTING
reaction to the article was extraordinary here Lewis Hyde
and overseas and included hundreds of personal
messages from readers and publishers urging CANONGATE
David to expand his story.
9781786897428 | $39.99 | | HB | PERSONAL
David Leser explores his own psyche and role DEVELOPMENT
in the patriarchy, and how history has brought
us to the #Metoo movement, and its eruptions What if forgetfulness were seen not as
of female anger worldwide. Where did we go something to fear but as a path to peace
wrong? How do we navigate relationships now. and forgiveness? A Primer for Forgetting
And where to from here? is a remarkable experiment in scholarship,
autobiography and social criticism. It
David Leser is a prominent Australian journalist, forges a new 'history of forgetfulness' by
author, public interviewer and writing mentor. assembling fragments of art and writing
He is the recipient of numerous awards for his from the ancient world to the modern,
journalism and his recent memoir, To Begin to weighing the potential boons forgetfulness
Know, was short-listed for the 2015 National might offer as a philosophical and political
Biography Award. force. It also turns inward, using the author's
own life and memory to extol the virtues of
a concept too long taken as an evil.
Lewis Hyde is the former Director of
14 Creative Writing at Harvard, and the author
of The Gift.ALLEN & UNWIN
FLASH COUNT DIARY THE KREMLIN THE MESSENGER
A new story about the menopause SCHOOL OF NEGOTIATION Shiv Malik
Darcey Steinke Igor Ryzov
GUARDIAN FABER
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9781786898111 | $39.99 | | HB | HEALTH & FITNESS 9781786896070 | $32.99 | | HB | MANAGEMENT
Every reporter knows the first rule of
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. Negotiating is something that we all do, journalism: never betray your source.
As she struggled to understand what whether at work or at home. But what But what if it's your source who betrays
was happening to her, she slammed up if we come across someone who just you? The Messenger is about the unlikely
against a culture of silence and sexism. won't give in? How do we say 'no' without friendship between a repentant jihadist
Some promoted hormone replacement compromising a deal? Using the official and a journalist. Full of twists and turns,
therapy, others encouraged acceptance, Kremlin method, Igor Ryzov guides us this troubling real-life thriller probes
but there was little that offered a path to through the most effective techniques in where we place our faith as it lays bare the
understanding menopause in an engaged negotiating terms that satisfy both parties— deceits pedalled to us by governments and
way. Flash Count Diary is a brave, brilliant from knowing how to get information, to terrorists alike. It questions how we, the
and unprecedented examination of how to read your counterpart and defuse wider media and the nation came to be so
menopause. It is a deeply feminist book, tension. With practical examples, The afraid. This is investigative journalism and
honest about the intimations of mortality Kremlin School of Negotiation will offer the storytelling of the highest order.
but also an argument for the ascendency, tools you need to master any deal.
beauty and power of the post-reproductive Shiv Malik is an investigative correspondent
years in women's lives. Igor Ryzov is a business coach for for the Guardian.
companies across Russia. The Kremlin
Darcey Steinke is the author of the cult School of Negotiation won a 2016 PwC 15
classic Suicide Blonde. award.ALLEN & UNWIN
FRIED & JUSTIFIED THE MEANING OF PAIN A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAN
Hits, myths, break-ups and breakdowns in What it is, why we feel it, and how to My unlikely year in Poland
the record business 1978–98 overcome it Ben Aitken
Mick Houghton Nick Potter
ICON
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Not many Brits move to Poland to work in
The list of bands and artists Mick Houghton Nearly half of us at some point will suffer a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back
worked with in an illustrious career in the chronic pain. The standard treatment is wanting to be a Member of the European
music business reads like a Who's Who of either medication or surgery. But chronic Parliament. Ben Aitken moved to Poland
some of the greatest, most influential and pain often has less to do with twisted in 2016 to understand why the Poles were
downright dysfunctional cult groups of the muscles and more to do with far deeper- leaving. This candid, funny and off-beat
post-punk era and beyond. It is Mick's knack rooted anxieties. This fascinating book book is the account of his year on the
of attracting so-called difficult and troubled explores biology, evolution, anthropology road travelling the country as an unlikely
artists that makes Fried & Justified such an and contemporary behaviour to examine immigrant. It is a bittersweet portrait of an
amusing, honest and insightful tale. This is a our relationship with pain and presents a unsung country, challenging stereotypes
gonzo tour through the glory years of indie new understanding of its causes and how to that Poland is a grey, ex-soviet land, and
rock’n’roll and acid house by one of the best- manage them. It shows us how to spot the revealing a diverse country rightfully proud
loved characters in the music business. signs and break the vicious cycle of stress, of its colourful identity.
pain and anxiety before the damage is done.
Mick Houghton is a renowned music writer, Ben Aitken is a British travel writer and
publicist and author of I've Always Kept A Nick Potter is a leading expert on pain and author of Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a
16 Unicorn and Becoming Elektra. an osteopath with over 25 years' clinical Small Island.
experience.ALLEN & UNWIN
ESCAPE FROM EARTH INFAMY NEED FOR THE BIKE
A secret history of the space rocket The crimes of Ancient Rome Paul Fournel
Fraser MacDonald Jerry Toner
PROFILE BOOKS
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9781781259702 | $45.00 | | HB | HISTORY 9781781253854 | $39.99 | | HB | HISTORY
‘I ride to rest and to tire myself out; I ride
Escape from Earth is the untold story of From its brutal games to its depraved to do myself good and to do myself harm.’
the engineers, dreamers and rebels who emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless Starting with the childhood joy of learning
started the American space programme. wars, Rome is an empire with a bad to ride a bike, Need for the Bike goes on
In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, reputation. Join this detective hunt to to relate the agony of climbing, the angst
founder of what became Nasa's Jet uncover the extent of Rome's crimes. Meet of crashing and all the other universal
Propulsion Laboratory. It's a wild ride. Jack a gallery of villains. Discover the problems moments and feelings that all cyclists will
Parsons, Malina's chemistry-expert research that most exercised its long-suffering recognise. A cycling classic, its witty and
partner, was a bed-hopping occultist with citizens. Explore the temptations of excess insightful truths bikes and riding come as
delusions of grandeur. Armed with hitherto and find out what desperation can make close as any book has to an encapsulation of
unpublished letters, journals and documents, a pleb do. What do we see when we look why we all need the bike.
MacDonald reveals what we didn't know—a at Rome? A hideous vision of ancient
story of soaring ideals entangled in the most corruption—or a reflection of our own Paul Fournel is a French writer, poet,
human of complications: infidelity, betrayal, troubled age? publisher and cultural ambassador.
treason, lies, spies, movies, sex-magic and
socialism. Dr Jerry Toner is Director of Studies in
Classics at Cambridge University and is the
Fraser MacDonald is a lecturer in Human author of How to Manage Your Slaves and 17
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