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KATE MORTON
HOLLY WAINWRIGHT
HELEN CLARK
TOM GILLING
SEPTEMBER 2018
ROBERT WAINWRIGHT new books
THE CLOCKMAKER'S
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DAUGHTER
Kate Morton
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9781742376523 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
The eagerly awaited new novel from the acclaimed and
internationally bestselling author
My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer,
KATE
no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young
artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe
descends upon Birchwood Manor in rural Oxfordshire. Their plan:
to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and
creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been
MORTON
shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is
missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.
Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young
archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two
From the internationally bestselling author of The Lake House seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-
looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook
THE CLOCKMAKER’S containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a
river. Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And
DAUGHTER who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give
up her secrets?
Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is
a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And
flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who
stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history,
but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's
daughter.
Kate Morton is the author of The Shifting Fog, The Forgotten
Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper and The Lake
House, which have all been #1 bestsellers around the world,
2 selling over 11 million copies. She lives in Queensland.
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2028
… and Australia has gone to hell in a handbasket
Ken Saunders
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9781760631062 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A sharp-witted, uproarious and quirky political farce
of the future we had to have
2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call
a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling
protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died
down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership.
So what could possibly go wrong? The PM is prepared for
everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected—
an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't
play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier
pigeon and has a list of candidates all called Ned Ludd?
Welcome to the Australia of 2028 where parking meters double
as poker machines, radio shock jocks have been automated, the
Communist Party of China has turned itself into a multinational
corporation and ASIO's glory days are so far over that its
resorting to surveillance of a Charles Dickens reading group.
Outrageous, sharp and wickedly funny, 2028 takes us into the
near future where the not very good ideas around today have
become ten years worse.
Ken Saunders is an award-winning writer and the founder of the
satirical Sydneyvision Song Contest. He lives in Sydney.
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HOW TO BE PERFECT
Holly Wainwright
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9781760633486 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Another page-turning, rip-roaring story about mums,
phones and the cult of self-improvement from the bestselling
author of The Mummy Bloggers.
What did you have for breakfast? Was it pure enough? Did it set
you up for a day of grace, positive intentions and bum-selfies
that would make a teenager weep? If not, Elle Campbell is here to
help. She once led an army of ab-tastic mums, but after a public
shaming she's reinvented herself as a mountain-top model of
serenity. Elle presides over an exclusive retreat where women pay
thousands to mimic her extreme lifestyle or die trying.
Abi Black is blogging about her chaotic blended family from her
falling-down farmhouse, trying to keep it together while her ex-
husband is building a financial cult in the shed and her teenage
daughter's YouTube channel is gaining followers for all the wrong
reasons. All Abi wants is to marry her one true love, but the
Internet—and Elle—appear to have other ideas.
Frances Graham has a colicky newborn, an absent husband and a
Whatsapp Mother's Group that's giving her anxiety. If she can just
be more like those fitmums on Instagram things will get better.
If she can scrape enough money together to make it to Elle's
retreat, everything in her life will be just . . . perfect.
Through a world of fake gurus, pretox parties, smug mummies
and influencer angst, How to Be Perfect follows Elle, Abi and
Frankie into the cult of self-improvement that's taken over your
phone—and your breakfast.
Holly Wainwright is Head of Entertainment at Mamamia and hosts
4 a parenting podcast. She lives in Sydney.
THE WOLF HOUR
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Sarah Myles
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9781760632519 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A gripping thriller set in Africa about a young aid worker in
danger and the lengths to which her family will go to save her.
The 'wolf hour': the time we come face-to-face with ourselves.
Thirty-year-old Tessa Lowell has a PhD in psychology and is
working in Uganda to research the effects of PTSD and war
on child soldiers. She joins a delegation travelling across the
Congolese border, deep into the jungle, for peace talks with
Joseph Kony, notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army.
At the camp Tessa meets thirteen-year-old Francis, already an
experienced solider and survivor of violent raids. The talks stall
and the camp is attacked by other rebels who kidnap Tessa,
believing she is a medical doctor and can treat a dying major's
gunshot wound. Isolated in an increasingly volatile situation,
Tessa tries to form a bond with Francis.
In Melbourne, Tessa's parents are notified of the abduction, but
learn there is little government agencies can do. Desperate,
they contact Tessa's brother Stephen, an astute if manipulative
businessman based in Cape Town. He agrees to search for Tessa—
and pursue his own agenda. As Tessa's time runs out, her family
begins to fracture. Should you betray your corrupt brother if
he tries to save you? Should you ruin your son if he destroys
other people's lives? Edge-of-your-seat suspense combines
with a compelling family drama in this story of power, greed and
salvation.
Sarah Myles worked as a nurse travelling through Europe, the
Americas and Africa. She lives in Melbourne.
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SEA PRAYER
Khaled Hosseini
BLOOMSBURY
9781526602718 | $24.99 | | HB | FICTION
A heart-wrenching story from the internationally
bestselling author of The Kite Runner.
On a moonlit beach a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait
for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. He speaks to his boy of
the long summers of his childhood, recalling his grandfather's
house in Syria, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the
bleating of his grandmother's goat, the clanking of her cooking
pots. And he remembers, too, the bustling city of Homs with its
crowded lanes, its mosque and grand souk, in the days before the
sky spat bombs and they had to flee.
When the sun rises, they and those around them will gather their
possessions and embark on a perilous sea journey in search of a
new home.
Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved
novelists in the world, with over 55 million copies of his books
sold in more than 70 countries. He is also a Goodwill Envoy to the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee
Agency and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation,
a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian
assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul,
Afghanistan, and lives in northern California.
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Jodi Picoult
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Fan Favourites collection—exciting new cover editions of some of the #1 internationally bestselling author’s phenomenally popular novels.
MY SISTER'S KEEPER NINETEEN MINUTES THE STORYTELLER
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Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes The startling and poignant story of the Can murder ever be justified? An
to save a child's life even if that means aftermath of a tragic high school shooting. astonishing novel about redemption and
infringing upon the rights of another? forgiveness.
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NORMAL PEOPLE
Sally Rooney
FABER
9780571347292 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
AVAILABLE 12 SEPTEMBER
The eagerly awaited new novel from the
young author of 2017’s most acclaimed debut
Conversations with Friends.
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small
town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there;
they are from very different worlds. When they THE DINNER LIST
both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a
connection that has grown between them lasts
Rebecca Serle
long into the following years. This is an exquisite
A&U UK
love story about how a person can change 9781760528058 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
another person's life—a simple yet profound
realisation that unfolds beautifully over the When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth
course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to birthday dinner she finds at the table
talk about how we feel and it tells us—blazingly— not just her best friend, but also three
about cycles of domination, legitimacy and significant people from her past, and
privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming well, Audrey Hepburn. As the appetizers
tenderness, Sally Rooney's impressive second are served, wine poured and dinner table
novel breathes fiction with new life. conversation begins, it becomes clear that
there’s a reason these six people have been
Sally Rooney is the acclaimed author of gathered together. Delicious but never
Conversations with Friends. She lives in Dublin. indulgent, sweet with just the right amount
of bitter, The Dinner List is a romance for
our times. Bon appetit.
Rebecca Serle is an author and television
writer who recently co-developed the
television adaptation of her YA series
Famous in Love. She lives between New York
and Los Angeles.
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IMMIGRANT MONTANA THE HELICOPTER HEIST SHAME ON YOU
Amitava Kumar Jonas Bonnier Amy Heydenrych
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Immigrant, Montana is the story of AK, an A page-turning thriller based on an Have you ever followed someone online
Indian academic working in America. It is a incredible true story about the spectacular who you think is perfect? Meet Holly. Social
love story, or rather the story of what a man theft of hundreds of millions of pounds. Four media sensation. The face of clean eating.
can fall in love with: in AK's case, literature, young men from the Stockholm suburbs Everyone loves her. Everyone wants to
radical politics and, of course, women. AK's plan an audacious heist—the theft of a huge be her. But when Holly is attacked by a
education is both an intellectual and an haul from the largest cash facility in the man she's only just met, her life starts to
emotional journey. Told with subtle intensity country. But can everyone involved in the spiral out of control. He seemed to know
and luminous intelligence, this tender yet scheme's meticulous planning be trusted? her—but she doesn't know him. What if
provocative book about exile, desire, passion And can they really hope to get away with Holly isn't who she seems to be? A gripping
and restlessness is an explosive, genre- such an enormous crime? psychological thriller that explores the
defying reinvention of the 'immigrant' novel. darker side of social media.
Jonas Bonnier is a novelist, screenwriter and
Amitava Kumar is an Indian academic, writer journalist. He lives in Miami. Amy Heydenrych is an acclaimed writer and
and journalist. He lives in New York. book blogger based in South Africa.
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WASHINGTON BLACK HITS AND MISSES BEFORE HER EYES
Esi Edugyan Simon Rich Jack Jordan
SERPENT’S TAIL SERPENT’S TAIL CORVUS
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AVAILABLE 12 SEPTEMBER
Washington Black—eleven-year-old field
Simon Rich is back with his funniest and An irresistibly propulsive psychological
slave—is selected as personal servant to
most personal collection of stories to date. crime novel with a brilliant premise. When
the eccentric Christopher Wilde—naturalist,
From a bitter tell-all by a horse who made a blind woman is the only witness to an
explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist.
a man famous and then got left behind, to a horrific murder, she becomes the only
Through Wilde, Washington is initiated into
gushing magazine profile of your favourite person who can identify the killer. As the
a world of wonder where even a boy born in
WWII dictator, these stories trawl through police begin hunting the person responsible
chains may embrace a life of meaning. Then
history to skewer our obsession with fame and the bodies pile up, she must lie in wait
Wilde disappears. Based on an infamous
and fortune—all the way from ancient and answer the question that hangs her fate
19th century criminal case, Washington
Babylon to Hollywood. in the balance: why did the killer let her live?
Black tells the story of a world destroyed
and made whole again, where certainty In a town this small, the murderer must be
Simon Rich is the author of Spoiled Brats, close, perhaps even before her very eyes . . .
seems unattainable, and men must remain
has written for Saturday Night Live and The
strangers even to themselves.
Simpsons, and is the creator of the TV series Jack Jordan is the bestselling author of
Man Seeking Woman. Anything for Her and My Girl. He lives in the
Esi Edugyan is the author of the Man Booker
and Orange Prize-shortlisted Half Blood UK.
Blues. She lives in Canada.
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THE KNOWLEDGE TRENTON MAKES FRENCH EXIT
Martha Grimes Tadzio Koelb Patrick deWitt
GROVE PRESS ATLANTIC BLOOMSBURY
9781611855029 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781786494061 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION 9781526601186 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Robbie Parsons is one of London's Abe Kunstler wants his share of the Frances Price, Upper East Side matron
finest, a black cab driver who knows American Dream, which for him is a factory and force of nature, is in dire straits. Her
every street in the city by heart. In his job, a wife and a family. Getting these adult son Malcolm is in a state of arrested
backseat is a man with a gun—who shot things will be harder for Abe than it is for development. And then there’s their cat, who
Robbie's previous customers point- other people, however, because his life is she believes houses the spirit of her late
blank. As the killer eventually escapes to a lie—an invention forged in the heat of a husband, whose gruesome tabloid death has
Nairobi, superintendent Richard Jury is terrible crime. Haunted by his past, terrified rendered them social outcasts. The curious
soon contending with a case that takes of exposure and searching obsessively for trio head for the exit, escape pariahdom
unexpected turns into Tanzanian gem mines, redemption, Abe moves from one ruthless and land in Paris. Brimming with pathos and
a closed casino in Reno and a pub that only act to the next, until even Abe himself isn't wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind tragedy of
London's black cabbies, those who have 'the sure how far he'll go to keep his secret. manners, a riotous send-up of high society
knowledge', can find. and a moving story of mothers and sons.
Tadzio Koelb is a reviewer and essayist for
Martha Grimes was awarded the Mystery The New York Times and The Times Literary Patrick deWitt is the Man Booker-shortlisted
Writers of America's Grand Master Award Supplement. He lives in New York. author of The Sisters Brothers. He lives in
and is the bestselling author of more than the USA.
thirty books.
11GIRL IN
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BETWEEN
Anna Daniels
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9781760528140 | $19.99
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Life can be tricky when you're a girl in
between relationships, careers and cities
. . . and sometimes you have to face some
PRETEND I'M DEAD AUGUST FALLING uncomfortable truths.
Jen Beagin Les Zig
ONEWORLD PANTERA
9781786074294 | $32.99 | | HB | FICTION 9781925700039 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
After a bad relationship, August is trying to
Mona is almost twenty-four, emotionally
adrift and cleaning houses to get by. In
piece his life back together. It’s not perfect THE CRY
that he works in a call centre, can't finish TV tie-in
search of healing, Mona decamps to New his book and is socially challenged. When
Mexico, where she finds a community of August meets Julie, he finally begins to feel Helen FitzGerald
seekers and cast-offs. But always lurking he can be himself. But Julie has a secret,
beneath the surface are her memories of one that threatens to plummet August right FABER
her chaotic, destructive family. The story back into the miseries of his past. August 9780571342945 | $19.99
of Mona 's journey to find her place in the Falling isn't a love story, but one about love, | NEW IN PAPERBACK
world is at once fearless and wonderfully acceptance, the dilemma of loneliness and
strange, true to life and boldly human. finding yourself in the modern world.
Jen Beagin won a 2017 Whiting Award for Les Zig is the author of Just Another Week Coming to ABC TV, the BBC drama filmed
Pretend I'm Dead. She lives in New York. in Suburbia which has been optioned for a in Australia and Scotland; this acclaimed
major Australian TV series. psychological thriller brings a parent's worst
nightmare to vivid life.
12ROCKY ROAD
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Robert Wainwright
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9781760291556 | $32.99 | | PB | BIOGRAPHY
The marvellously strange but true story of the family behind the
famous Darrell Lea confectionery company.
'The answer to our success was family.' In 1935, the Australian
family confectionery company, Darrell Lea, was a sensation.
Delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more
were displayed colourfully and plentifully in line with the family's
motto, 'Stack 'em high, watch 'em fly.'
It was at this time that Montague Lea met the vivacious and
confident Valerie Everitt. Although still a young woman, Valerie
knew exactly what she wanted from life. Monty fell hard for her
and, despite strong family opposition on both sides, they later
married. Valerie was keen to have a family and, despite difficult
pregnancies, Val gave birth to four children. But these children
seemed neither to satisfy her desire for a large family nor her
notions of child rearing. In 1947 she adopted the first of three
more children who were designated to be playmates for her own.
Rocky Road is the story of this chocaholic family and the woman
who dominated. Behind the irresistible sweetness of Darrell Lea
Chocolates lay a family who made bitter sacrifices to succeed at
the candy business.
Robert Wainwright is a senior journalist and author of the
bestselling Sheila.
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SEX, DRUGS AND
THE ELECTORAL ROLL
FIONA My amazing journey from sex worker to Member of Parliament
Fiona Patten
PATTEN
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9781925575132 | $32.99 | | PB | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The incredible story of the tireless fighter, courageous activist and
effective politician who really is making a difference to her world—
in her own inimitable words.
Sex worker, fashion designer, anti-censorship activist, fierce
campaigner, political lobbyist and Member of Parliament—
Fiona Patten's journey to the top has been nothing if eventful.
Frustrated and deeply disappointed with the lack of social
change in censorship, drug law reform, euthanasia and same-sex
marriage, Fiona set up and registered the Australian Sex Party in
2009. The Sex Party led with a strong focus on civil libertarian
and personal freedom issues, with Fiona being the first leader
of a political party to call for a Royal Commission into child sex
abuse in religious institutions.
SEX,DRUGS Contesting the 2014 Victorian State Election, Fiona won an upper
house seat. As one of three crossbenchers, she currently holds
AND THE the balance of power in Legislative Council. Since her election,
Fiona has successfully instigated landmark parliamentary
ELECTORAL inquiries and legislation, including Australia's largest public
inquiry into drug law reform. In August 2017, the Australian Sex
ROLL
Party was dissolved to make way for REASON, a movement of
radical common sense. Her story will amaze and inspire you.
Fiona Patten is a former sex worker, the founder and leader of
My a m a z i ng jou rn ey from sex worke r REASON and a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for
to Me mb e r of Parl i ame nt
the Northern Metropolitan region.
14WOMEN, EQUALITY, POWER
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Selected speeches from a life of leadership
Helen Clark
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9781988547053 | $39.99 | | HB | AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A fascinating insight into Helen Clark's career, throughout which
she has consistently worked for equality and parity,
most particularly for women.
Helen Clark has been a world leader for 35 years, from
first entering parliament in 1982 as a 31-year-old to being
Prime Minister of New Zealand for nine years, to serving as
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme for
eight years.
One of her key focuses throughout this time has been the
empowerment of women and she has paved the way for other
women to step up and lead. An analysis of Helen's speeches
shows that while the position of women has improved over time,
this change is very fragile and that we need to keep working
towards equality for women in many crucial areas.
With a foreword by the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, Women, Equality,
Power is a timely and important book. It also serves as a
celebration of an outstanding leader who continues to strive and
work for change.
Helen Clark is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, and was the
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
from 2009 to 2017.
15THE LOST BATTALIONS
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Tom Gilling
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9781760632342 | $32.99 | | PB | HISTORY
A little-known story of two Australian battalions abandoned in
Java during WWII and the heroes who kept them alive in the worst
of Japan's prisoner of war camps
This is a story of forgotten Australian heroes, the soldiers of two
battalions—the 2/3 Machine-Gun battalion and the 2/2 Pioneer
battalion—who were on their way home from action in the Middle
East to defend Australia from the Japanese when they found
themselves diverted to Java to face the vastly superior Japanese
army sweeping through the Dutch East Indies. Condemned, for
political reasons, by Churchill and the Allied leadership—and by
the Australian prime minister, Curtin—to a hopeless battle, the
outnumbered Australians fought heroically before being ordered
by the Allied high command to join the Dutch surrender.
While their compatriots from the Middle East campaign reached
Australia, the men of the 2/3rd and the 2/2nd were marched into
captivity and to three-and-half-years of hell as prisoners of the
Japanese. For nearly a year, their families in Australia did not
know whether their missing fathers and sons were dead or alive.
Scraps of information began to trickle out about the fate of the
prisoners, many of whom ended up on the infamous Thai-Burma
railway while others endured atrocious conditions as prisoners in
Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Several hundred never returned. The
full horror of what the men endured only came to light after the
wasted survivors were brought home. Some of these men would
be key witnesses in war crimes trial against the Japanese.
Tom Gilling is an acclaimed novelist, with a vast array of non-
fiction to his credit.
16UNBREAKABLE THREADS
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The true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it
really means to be a family
Emma Adams
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9781760633103 | $32.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the
ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like
insurmountable odds.
'Abdul is dignified, defiant even, but his poise is beginning to wear
thin in this place. He needs surgery for a chronic shoulder injury
sustained when he was hit by a car in Kabul. Like the others in
detention with him, he faces an uncertain fate, and years in limbo.
Most of the people in the centre have already had their spirits
broken.'
When psychiatrist and mother of three Emma Adams travels to
Darwin as an observer of conditions for mothers and babies in
the immigration detention centres there, she expects the trip to
be confronting. What she doesn't expect is to return to Canberra
consumed by the idea that she must help a sixteen-year-old
unaccompanied Hazara boy from Afghanistan - Abdul.
The premise was simple: Wouldn't any teenage boy be better off
staying with a family rather than locked behind a wire fence? In
this brutal and bureaucratic system, freedom was a hopeless
dream. Emma and Abdul's connection, and her fight to get him
out and provide him with an Australian home, a family and a
future, forms an important testimony in Australia's appalling
treatment of asylum seekers. Their story is a beacon of hope and
humanity.
Dr Emma Adams is a psychiatrist who specialises in perinatal
and infant psychiatry. Emma is an indigenous Australian and her
husband is the child of Hungarian refugees.
17AFTER THE FIRST SIX WEEKS
Midwife Cath
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Following on from bestseller The First Six Weeks, this is a
comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about
caring for your baby in their first year at home.
'Cath Curtin is the newborn baby guru! A calming voice, a
gentle hand and a wealth of knowledge during one of the most
incredible but terrifying times of your life—new parenthood. To
have Cath's support after the birth of my first son was invaluable
and I don't know how I would have done it without her!' Rebecca
Judd
Cathryn Curtin, known as 'Midwife Cath' has delivered over
10,000 babies throughout her 40-year career. Following on from
the success of The First Six Weeks, this second book will take new
mums and expectant mums though all those pivotal milestones
of their baby’s development through the first year—from birth
through learning to sleep, eat and play, to sitting up, standing
up, crawling and walking. It also includes sought after how-to
illustrations of Cath's famous 'baby wrap'. After the First Six
Weeks will answer all those new parent concerns about caring for
your baby.
Cathryn Curtin was instrumental in the 1980s in setting up birth
centres as an alternative to traditional hospital labour wards. A
well-known expert in the childcare field, she presents a series of
talks all around Australia helping parents solve their parenting
issues.
18TREE SMALL FRY
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A life story A memoir
David Suzuki and Lisa Jobs
Wayne Grady with foreword GROVE PRESS
by Peter Wohlleben 9781611854923 | $29.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
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A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the
'A story that fills us with wonder: the tree keeps daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
its soul and steals our hearts' Peter Wohlleben,
author of The Hidden Life of Trees. Born on a farm and named in a field by her
parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve
All across the planet, trees literally hold the Jobs—Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ childhood unfolded
world together. This is the awe-inspiring in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she
biography of a single tree, from the moment the was young, her father was a rarely present,
seed is released from its cone until, more than mythical figure. Later, Steve Jobs took more of
five hundred years later, it lies on the forest an interest in her, ushering her into a new world
floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses of mansions, vacations and private schools.
and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending. The His attention was thrilling, but he could also be
tree's pivotal role in making life possible for the cold, critical and unpredictable. Part portrait of
creatures around it—including human beings—is a complex family, part love letter to California
lovingly explored. This updated edition of a in the seventies and eighties, Small Fry is an
contemporary natural history classic comes with enthralling book by an insightful new literary
a new foreword by Peter Wohlleben. voice.
David Suzuki is an internationally renowned Lisa Brennan-Jobs lives in Brooklyn.
geneticist and environmentalist and is the author
of many bestselling books. Wayne Grady is one of
Canada's finest science writers.
19ALLEN & UNWIN
BREAKING NEWS AMATEUR THE BEEKEEPER OF
The remaking of journalism and why it A true story about what makes a man SINJAR
matters now Thomas Page McBee Dunya Mikhail
Alan Rusbridger CANONGATE SERPENT'S TAIL
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Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains In the midst of ISIS's reign of terror, an
Politicians openly rubbish the views of 'so unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper.
to fight in a charity boxing match at
called experts'. So how do we hold those Once a trader selling honey, when ISIS
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