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Sophie Hardcastle
Julian Leatherdale
Charity Norman
Emuna Elon
Rob Sturrock
MARCH 2020
Donna Ward new books
BELOW DECK
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Sophie Hardcastle
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760876388 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A heartbreakingly poetic and haunting story about the vagaries of
consent, about who has the space to speak and who is believed
Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life
is mottled grey. Estranged from her parents, and living with her
grandfather who is drowning in sadness, Oli faces the reality of
life beyond university alone. When she wakes on a boat with no
recollection of how she got there, she accepts the help of two
strangers who change the course of her future forever. With Mac
and Maggie, Oli learns to navigate a life upon open ocean and the
world flowers into colours she's never seen before.
Four years later, Oli, fluent in the language of the sea, is the
only woman among men on a yacht delivery from Noumea to
Auckland. In the darkness below deck, she learns that at sea, no
one can hear you scream.
Moving to London, Oli's life at sea is buried. When she meets
Hugo, the wind changes, and her memories are dust blown into
shapes. Reminding her of everything. Below Deck is about the
moments that haunt us, the moments that fan out like ripples
through the deep. So that everything else becomes everything
after.
Sophie Hardcastle is an artist, screenwriter and scholar. She is the
critically acclaimed author of Running Like China and Breathing
Under Water and is co-creator of the online series Cloudy River.
Born in Australia, she now lives and works in Oxford, UK.
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DEATH IN THE LADIES'
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GODDESS CLUB
Julian Leatherdale
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760529635 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Murder and blackmail, family drama and love, all set within the
shady underbelly of 1930s Kings Cross and its glamorous fringe
'Crime's not a woman's business, Joanie. It's not some bloody
game.'
In the murky world of Kings Cross in 1932, aspiring crime writer
Joan Linderman and her friend and flatmate Bernice Becker live
a wild bohemian life. Through a carnival of parties and fancy-
dress balls, Joan also dates her devoted boyfriend Hugh, a war-
wounded, communist poet.
One Saturday night, Joan is horrified to find her neighbour, Ellie,
dead. Determined to prove her worth as a crime writer and bring
Ellie's murderer to justice, Joan decides to investigate the killing
alongside Sergeant Lillian Armfield. But as Joan digs deeper, the
list of suspects grows longer, involving the dangerous underbelly
of the Cross.
Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club is a riveting noir crime
thriller with more surprises than even novelist Joan bargained
for: blackmail, kidnapping, drug-peddling, a pagan sex cult,
undercover cops and a shocking confession.
From the shadows of bohemian and underworld Kings Cross, who
will emerge to tell the real story?
Julian Leatherdale is the author of Palace of Tears and The Opal
Dragonfly. He lives in the Blue Mountains, NSW.
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THE SECRETS OF STRANGERS
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Charity Norman
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760876715 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Five strangers, one cafe—and the day that everything changed
A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for five
strangers whose paths cross in a London cafe—their lives never
to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds
them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets
the eye and as the captives grapple with their own inner demons,
the line between right and wrong starts to blur.
Will the secrets they keep stop them from escaping with their
lives? A compelling, tense and heartfelt drama where the only
thing that's certain is that nothing is as it seems.
Charity Norman is a family law barrister and bestselling author
of See You in September. Born in Uganda to English parents, she
now lives in New Zealand.
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HOUSE ON ENDLESS WATERS
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Emuna Elon
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760877255 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A lyrical and exquisitely moving novel about a writer who embarks
on a transformative journey as he discovers the shocking truth
about his mother's wartime experience
At the behest of his agent, renowned author Yoel Blum
reluctantly agrees to visit his birthplace of Amsterdam to meet
with his Dutch publisher, despite promising his late mother that
he would never return to that city. While touring the Jewish
Museum, Yoel stumbles upon a looping reel of photos offering a
glimpse of pre-war Dutch Jewish life and is astonished to see the
youthful face of his beloved mother staring back at him, posing
with her husband, Yoel's older sister, Nettie . . . and an infant he
doesn't recognise.
This unsettling discovery launches him into a fervent search for
the truth, revealing Amsterdam's dark wartime history and the
underground networks which hid Jewish children away from
danger—but at a cost. The deeper into the past Yoel digs, the
better he understands his mother's silence and the more urgent
the question that has unconsciously haunted him for a lifetime—
Who am I?—becomes. Evocative, insightful and deeply resonant,
House on Endless Waters beautifully illustrates the complex
nature of identity and belonging, and the inextricability of past
and present.
Emuna Elon is an Israeli journalist, women's rights activist and
multi-award-winning author of If You Awaken Love, Inscribe My
Name and Beyond My Sight.
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A THOUSAND MOONS HOUSE OF EARTH AND
Sebastian Barry BLOOD
Sarah J. Maas
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9780571333387 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION BLOOMSBURY
9781526610126 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Follow-up to the much-loved 2016 Costa Book of
the Year Days Without End The #1 New York Times bestselling author
launches her Crescent City fantasy series delving
Even when you come out of bloodshed and into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom
disaster, in the end you have got to learn to live. and the power of love
Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by Half-Fae, half-human, Bryce Quinlan loves her
former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer,
Living with Thomas and John on the farm they selling barely legal magical artefacts; by night,
work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and she parties with her friends, savouring every
loved, forging a life for herself beyond the pleasure Crescent City has to offer. But it all
violence and dispossession of her past. But the comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder
fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the shakes the very foundations of the city and
aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened Bryce’s world. Bryce finds herself dragged into
by a further traumatic event, one which Winona the investigation and paired with an infamous
struggles to confront, let alone understand. Told Fallen Angel whose own brutal past haunts his
in Sebastian Barry's gorgeous, lyrical prose, A every step. As they race to untangle the mystery,
Thousand Moons is a powerful, moving study of they have no way of knowing the threads they
one woman's journey, of her determination to tug ripple through the underbelly of the city,
write her own future and of the enduring human across warring continents and down to the
capacity for love. darkest levels where things that have been
sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir . . .
Sebastian Barry is a multi-award-winning Irish
novelist, playwright and poet who was named Sarah J. Maas is the internationally bestselling
Laureate for Irish Fiction, 2019 – 2021. author of the young adult series Throne of Glass
and A Court of Thorns and Roses. She lives near
Philadelphia.
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THE TEMPLE HOUSE TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE LOW
VANISHING Susan Isaacs Jeet Thayil
Rachel Donohue
GROVE PRESS FABER
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Corie Geller, a retired FBI agent turned Long Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis
Under the repressive gaze of nuns in an elite Island housewife taps into her investigative escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion
Catholic girls' boarding school, two students, past when she begins to suspect that her and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So
Louisa and Victoria, become infatuated with neighbour Pete Delaney is harbouring begins a glorious weekend of misadventure
their young art teacher. That is, until he and criminal secrets. But does Pete really as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city
Louisa disappear. Years later, a journalist have a shady alternate life, or is Corie from its sleek eyries of high capital to the
determined to resolve the mystery of the just desperate to add some spark to her piss-stained streets, encountering a cast
missing pair uncovers a tragic, mercurial humdrum suburban existence? She decides with their own stories to tell, but none of
tale of suppressed desire and long-buried the only way to find out is to dust off her whom Ullis—his faculties ever distorted—is
secrets that will shatter lives. The Temple FBI toolkit and take a deep dive into Pete’s quite sure he can trust. Heady, heartbroken
House Vanishing is a stunning, intensely affairs. This whip-smart suburban mystery and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride
atmospheric novel of unrequited longing, is wickedly witty, bitingly wry and ominously through the darklands of grief towards
dark obsession and uneasy consequences. thrilling. obliteration—and, perhaps, epiphany.
Rachel Donohue has a highly successful Susan Isaacs is the award-winning author of Jeet Thayil is a poet, musician, journalist
career in communications and media thirteen novels including As Husbands Go and Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis.
relations. She lives in Dublin. and Long Time No See. She lives on Long He lives in India.
Island. 7
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THIS MOURNABLE BODY COME AGAIN TOPICS OF
Tsitsi Dangarembga Robert Webb CONVERSATION
Miranda Popkey
FABER CANONGATE
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This psychologically charged novel channels Kate still sleeps with her husband's T-shirt,
the hope and potential of a young girl and but it doesn't smell of Luke anymore. She From the coast of the Adriatic to sun-
a fledgling nation. It leads us on a journey misses him every day. One morning, she soaked California, Topics of Conversation
to discover where lives go after hope has wakes up back at college eighteen years old. follows one woman as she makes her way
departed. Here we meet Tambudzai, living She realises this is the week she will meet through two decades of bad relationships,
in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Luke for the first time. What if the man you motherhood, crisis and consolation,
Harare and anxious about her prospects. At lost could be found again? But then, what if each new episode narrated through the
every turn in her attempt to make a life for he doesn't know he's lost? Come Again is a conversations she has with other women.
herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation time-travelling romance about living in the Full of the uncertainty of the present and the
until the painful contrast between the future moment, love before death, and life before instability of the past, sizzling with enigmatic
she imagined and her daily reality ultimately the internet. desire, it is a seductive exploration of life as
drives her to breaking point. a woman in the modern world, of the stories
Robert Webb is a British comedian, actor, we tell ourselves and of the things we reveal
Tsitsi Dangarembga is the Commonwealth writer and bestselling author of How Not to only to strangers.
Writers' Prize-winning author of Nervous Be a Boy.
Conditions. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe. Miranda Popkey has written for the Paris
Review, GQ and The Cut. She lives in
8 California.
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COBRA QUEEN HITLER’S SECRET THE INLAND SEA
A Pandora English novel 4 Rory Clements Madeleine Watts
Tara Moss
ZAFFRE PUSHKIN
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Autumn 1941. If the tide is going to be turned In the early 19th century, British explorer
In the months since Pandora English left against Hitler, a new weapon is desperately John Oxley traversed the then-unknown
the small town of Gretchenville to live with needed. Posing as a German-American wilderness of central Australia in search of
her mysterious great aunt in a supernatural industrialist, Cambridge history professor water. Two centuries later, his great-great-
Manhattan suburb, her whole world has Tom Wilde is asked to help smuggle a great-great granddaughter spends a final
been turned upside down. Pandora has mysterious package out of Nazi Germany. year in Sydney reeling from her own self-
discovered she is the chosen one, the He soon discovers the shocking truth about destructive obsessions. Reckless and adrift,
Seventh Daughter of a Seventh Daughter, the 'package', and why the Nazis will stop at she prepares to leave. Written with down-
and during the impending Revolution of nothing to prevent it leaving Germany. The to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness,
the Dead, she alone will have the power to truth he has discovered must remain hidden, this is an unforgettable debut about coming
save all life as we know it. But what will she even if it means betraying the country he of age in a world that seems increasingly
do when the moment comes? How can she loves . . . hostile. Watts explores feminine fear, apathy
stand against the army of the dead? and danger, building to a tightly controlled
Rory Clements is the bestselling author of bushfire of ecological and personal crisis.
Tara Moss is the best-selling author of The Nucleus, Nemesis and Corpus. He lives in
Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess and The the UK. Madeleine Watts won the 2015 Griffith
Skeleton Key. She is an Australian/Canadian Review Novella Prize for Afraid of Waking It.
dual citizen. Born in Sydney, she now lives in New York.
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THE LOST FUTURE OF THRESHOLD TORCHED
PEPPERHARROW Rob Doyle Kimberley Starr
Natasha Pulley
BLOOMSBURY PANTERA
BLOOMSBURY 9781526607034 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781925700589 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
9781408885185 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Rob has spent most of his confusing adult A small Yarra Valley town has been
Step back into the enchanting world of The life wandering, writing, and imbibing devastated by a bushfire, and Reefton
Watchmaker of Filigree Street. For Thaniel literature and narcotics in equally vast Primary School principal Phoebe Warton
Steepleton, an unexpected posting to doses. Now, stranded between reckless can't sleep. She's the single mother of
Tokyo can't come at a better moment. The youth and middle age, between exaltation eighteen-year-old Caleb who is accused of
London fog has made him ill and doctor's and despair, his travels have acquired a de starting the fire—on purpose. Phoebe will be
orders are to get out. His brief is strange: facto purpose: the immemorial quest for forced to confront the nature of guilt and
the staff at the British Legation have been transcendent meaning. A dazzling, intimate redemption, and decide what boundaries
seeing ghosts, and his first task is to find out and profound celebration of art and ageing, she is willing to cross to save the son she
what's going on. This extraordinary sequel sex and desire, the limits of thought and the loves. Torched is an explosive, haunting and
takes readers to Japan, where time, destiny extremes of sensation. compelling crime novel about mothers and
and love (and a certain clockwork octopus) sons and the ties that bind them.
collide to electrifying effect. Rob Doyle is the acclaimed author of This is
the Ritual and Here Are the Young Men. He Kimberley Starr is an Australian novelist and
Natasha Pulley is the internationally lives in Ireland. teacher, best known for The Kingdom Where
bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Nobody Dies and The Book of Whispers.
Filigree Street and The Bedlam Stacks. She
lives in the UK.
10THE JADE LILY THE TRUE STORY
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Kirsty Manning OF MADDIE
BRIGHT
Mary-Rose MacColl
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A sweeping story of friendship, loyalty, love The bestselling author of In Falling Snow
A TESTAMENT OF and identity from the popular author of The returns with a spellbinding tale of friendship,
Midsummer Garden. love and loyalty.
CHARACTER
Sulari Gentill
PANTERA
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DOUBT Wilbur Smith with
When his friend Daniel Cartwright dies
and names Rowland as his executor, Fleur McDonald Imogen Robertson
Rowland must divert his plans to return
home to Australia and travel to America.
Daniel was vastly wealthy but appears to
have disinherited his family in favour of
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the questions that surround Daniel's death wrong side of the law in this suspenseful rural worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.
and the mysterious disappearance of James crime novel.
Meredith.
Sulari Gentill is the Australian author of the
Rowland Sinclair Mysteries including All the 11
Tears in China.ALLEN & UNWIN
THE FORGOTTEN DEATH IS HARD A FAMISHED
SISTER WORK HEART
Caroline Bond Khaled Khalifa Nicola White
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A heart-rending, profoundly moving novel A tale of three ordinary people embarking on a The first in a powerful new crime trilogy set
about protecting the ones you love from the dogged, absurd quest through Syria's ongoing in 1980s Dublin exploring the power of the
secrets that will hurt them most. and catastrophic civil war. Catholic church.
THE NARROW BEFORE SHE
LAND KNEW HIM
Christine Dwyer Peter Swanson
Hickey
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A novel of loneliness and regret, the legacy An exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban
of WWII and the ever-changing concept of the wife with a history of psychological instability
American Dream. from the author of The Kind Worth Killing and
Her Every Fear.MAN RAISES BOY
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A revolutionary approach for fathers who want to raise kind,
confident and happy sons
Rob Sturrock
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760875213 | $29.99 | | PB | PARENTING
Written from the front line of modern fatherhood, journalist Rob
Sturrock grapples with the daily challenges of raising boys who
can thrive in the current era
Welcome to Rob Sturrock's journey into parenting. Since the birth
of his daughter, Rob has been passionate about being an active
and present father, but this hasn't always been straightforward.
Struggling with stereotypes, judgement, identity and isolation
while on parental leave, Rob has tried to balance supporting his
wife and newly born children with the societal expectation of
being a breadwinner for his family.
With the arrival of his son, a new set of anxieties was born. In
today's climate, how do you raise a boy? The roar of the #MeToo
movement has meant that men have had to learn to listen, and
to confront their masculinity and what it means to be a man.
Through extensive research and interviews with dads doing
it differently—including Tony Sheldon, Adam Liaw and Bernie
Shakeshaft—he explores a new era of fathering that balances
strength and vulnerability, allowing men to voice their insecurities
and uncertainties, and encouraging them to truly cherish their
families.
Man Raises Boy is at once an insightful and necessary call to
arms for all new fathers, a guiding hand in the maze of love, guilt,
anxiety and joy in fatherhood—and an ordinary dad's beautifully
moving love letter to his son.
Rob Sturrock is a leading father's voice in parenting debates who
has written for Mamamia, Women's Agenda, The Sydney Morning 13
Herald, The Age, the Huffington Post and The Guardian.SHE I DARE NOT NAME
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A spinster's meditations on life
Donna Ward
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760876296 | $29.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human.
She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely
intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a
woman who stands on the threshold of two millennia. Both
manifesto and confession, this moving memoir explores the
meaning and purpose Donna Ward has discovered in a life lived
entirely without a partner and children.
It describes a life lived on the edge of a world built in the shape
of couples and families. Rippling through these pages is the way a
spinster, or a bachelor, or any of us for that matter, contends with
the prejudice and stigma of being different.
With courage and astounding honesty, Donna uncovers the
challenge of living with more solitude than anticipated and what
it is like to walk the road through midlife and beyond alone. And
she reveals how she found home and discovered herself within it.
Donna Ward is a writer, editor and publisher, most recently best
known for her company Inkerman + Blunt.
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Journey through the apocalypse
Cassandra Pybus
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9781760529222 | $32.99 | | PB | BIOGRAPHY
PUBLICITY: CHRISTINEF@ALLENANDUNWIN.COM
The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind
the myth of 'the last Tasmanian'
Cassandra Pybus' ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal
woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island,
just off the coast of south-east Tasmania, throughout the 1850s
and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was
Truganini, and that she was walking over the country of her clan,
the Nuenonne, of whom she was the last.
The name of Truganini is vaguely familiar to most Australians
as 'the last of her race'. She has become an international icon
for a monumental tragedy: the extinction of the original people
of Tasmania within her lifetime. For nearly seven decades, she
lived through a psychological and cultural shift more extreme
than most human imaginations could conjure. She is a hugely
significant figure in Australian history and we should know about
how she lived, not simply that she died. Her life was much more
than a regrettable tragedy.
Cassandra has examined the original eyewitness records to write
an extraordinary account of this lively, intelligent, sensual young
woman’s life. Both inspiring and heart-wrenching, Truganini's
story is now told in full for the first time.
Cassandra Pybus is an award-winning author and a distinguished
historian. She is descended from the colonist who received the
largest free land grant on Truganini's traditional country of Bruny
Island. 15THE XX BRAIN
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The groundbreaking approach for women to prevent dementia
and Alzheimer's Disease and improve brain health
Dr Lisa Mosconi
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9781760875497 | $32.99 | | PB | HEALTH
The first book designed specifically for women to show how
Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia can be reduced by
preventive medicine and lifestyle modifications
Women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with
Alzheimer's Disease and are far more likely to suffer from anxiety,
depression, migraines, brain injuries and strokes. Until now,
medical research has focused on 'bikini medicine', assuming that
women are essentially men with breasts and tubes. The XX Brain
reveals how the two powerful X chromosomes that distinguish
women from men impact women's brains first and foremost. It
reveals ground-breaking research showing that women's brains
age distinctly mostly due to the decline of a key brain-protective
hormone: estrogen.
Taking on all aspects of women's health including brain fog,
memory lapses, depression, stress, insomnia, hormonal
imbalances and the increased risk of dementia, Dr. Mosconi
introduces cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to protect
the female brain, including diet and lifestyle strategies proven
to work for women. She also examines the controversies about
soy and hormonal replacement therapy, gut health and the perils
of environmental toxins. Luckily, it is never too late to take care
of yourself. The XX Brain gives women the first plan to address
the unique risks and strengths of the female brain for optimal,
lifelong brain health.
Dr Lisa Mosconi PhD is director of the Women's Brain Initiative
16 and associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at
Weill Cornell Medical College, and the author of Brain Food.SCHOOL OF RESTORATION
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Alice Achan with Philippa Tyndale
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9781760875121 | $32.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
AVAILABLE MARCH 17
The inspiring story of how one woman emerged from her own
excruciatingly painful past to become, through love and tenacity, a
force of change for thousands of others
Alice Achan was only twelve years old when the Lord's Resistance
Army began to terrorize her peaceful village in northern Uganda.
She spent years on the run before caring for her nieces up to
their deaths from HIV/Aids. Struggling with depression, she took a
teenage girl under her wing, who'd been kidnapped and raped by
the LRA, and now had a baby by her rapists.
Alice went on to establish an organisation called CCF Pader to
house and nurture girls and women who were victims of the
sexual violence that was such a brutal trademark of the LRA's
campaign. Out of this rose The Pader Girl's Academy—the School
of Restoration. It has now helped hundreds of young girls, many
with babies and often HIV as a consequence of their rape and
sexual enslavement. These were girls, women and children
that no-one wanted, yet whose humanity and potential Alice
recognised. The School of Restoration teaches them skills to help
them find work, to raise healthy children, and, above all, gives
them back their identity and dignity.
Written in Alice's powerful yet understated voice, The School of
Restoration is in part about the chaos and devastation of war.
Yet it is also about hope, forgiveness, redemption and the human
capacity to survive and even thrive in adversity.
Philippa Tyndale is a Sydney-based journalist, philanthropist and
key supporter of The Pader Academy. 17ALLEN & UNWIN
SQUARE HAUNTING LIVE MORE THINK LESS HOW TO BE A FASCIST
Five women, freedom and London between Overcoming depression and sadness with Michela Murgia
the wars Metacognitive Therapy
Francesca Wade Pia Callesen PUSHKIN
9781782276159 | $14.99 | | PB | POLITICS
FABER ICON
9780571330652 | $39.99 | | HB | BIOGRAPHY 9781785785542 | $27.99 | | PB | PERSONAL Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable.
DEVELOPMENT Engaging so many people with political
In London during the interwar years, five issues seems to lead only to disagreement.
women's lives intertwined around one So why bother? Doesn't fascism guarantee
How do we let go of negative thoughts we've
address. Mecklenburgh Square was home a more effective and efficient management
held onto which are weighing us down?
to modernist poet H.D., novelist Dorothy L. of the state? This short, bitingly ironic
Live More Think Less presents strategies
Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, historian book explores the logic that is attracting
for regaining control over your thoughts—
Eileen Power and author Virginia Woolf. increasing numbers of voters to right-wing
learning not only how to overcome
From the square, these trailblazing women populism. Ending with a 'fascistometer' to
depression but how to avoid developing it
pushed the boundaries of scholarship, measure the reader's own authoritarian
altogether. A revolutionary Danish bestseller,
literary form and social norms. Taking us inclinations, How to be a Fascist is a
it is the first practical book on metacognitive
into the emotional texture of their lives, refreshingly direct, polemical book that
therapy—a ground-breaking new treatment
this luminous group biography reveals five asks us to confront the fascist in our
for depression—presenting exercises and
unforgettable characters who forged careers governments, in our societies and in our
tips from the therapy room. Dr Pia Callesen
that would have been impossible without own minds.
shows us how to stop depression in its tracks
these rooms of their own.
by living more and thinking less.
Michela Murgia is a prize-winning Italian
Francesca Wade is a prize-winning novelist and politician.
18 Dr Pia Callesen is a Danish therapist and
biographer. She lives in London.
specialist in metacognitive therapy.ALLEN & UNWIN
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While Georgina Landemare saw herself as
ordinary, her accomplishments and the life Funded by a billionaire on a crusade to start
his own far-right insurgency, Cambridge In this passionate, inspiring manifesto,
she lived were anything but. She ended up
Analytica combined psychological research Christiana Figueres, UN Secretary for
cooking for one of the best-known figures
with private Facebook data to make an Climate Change during the Paris Agreement,
in British history, a man to whom food was
invisible weapon with the power to change outlines her vision for a sustainable future
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twentieth century through one woman's life
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and the food she cooked for Prime Minister
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Winston Churchill.
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Christiana Figueres was UN Secretary for
Annie Gray is an historian, cook, broadcaster
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TO THE LAKE DREAMS GOING DARK
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Kapka Kassabova Julia Ebner
Melinda Powell
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the capacity for change. counter them.
Melinda Powell is Director of the Dream
Kapka Kassabova is a poet and award- Research Institute. She lives in the UK. Julia Ebner is a Research Fellow at the
winning author of Border. Raised in Bulgaria, Institute for Strategic Dialogue and
20 she now lives in Scotland. bestselling author of The Rage. She lives in
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