The Last Lullaby: The Hammarby Series Book 3
Gerhardsen, Carin
$26.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin (General Uk) 512pp
29 July 2015 9781405914093
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Inspector Conny Sjöberg and his police colleagues are perplexed by the brutal killing of a family in their Stockholm
apartment.
With no clues, the murder inquiry starts with working out how was it possible for the mother, who worked as a
cleaner, to afford a multi-million dollar property?
An under-strength team - with officers ill, injured or mysteriously missing - is not Conny's only problem. From a
woman he cannot get out of his head, to a shocking revelation about his own past, everything is threatening to
compromise the hunt for this heartless killer . . .
Eros: Europa Editions
Krausser, Helmut; Mitchell, Mike
$35.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin 352pp
29 July 2015 9781933372587
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A reclusive millionaire living with an enigmatic past invites an unnamed writer to stay with him and ghostwrite his
autobiography. But the story he recounts turns out to be a dazzling fabrication, the fruit of madness and erotic
obsession.
The First Execution: Europa Editions
Starnone, Domenico; Sugaar, Anthony
$30.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin 160pp
29 July 2015 9781933372662
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When retired teacher Domenico Stasi learns that Nina, his former student, has been accused of armed conspiracy,
he agrees to help her by doing a simple task, but in doing so he becomes inexorably involved with her and her
cause.
The Have-Nots: Europa Editions
Hacker, Katharina; Atkins, Helen
$30.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin 352pp
29 July 2015 9781933372419
Carton Qty: 36
Jakob and Isabelle meet at a party on September 11. They marry and move to London, where Jakob takes the post
of a colleague killed in the World Trade Center attack. But the couple's relationship, like the world they once knew
and the happiness they once shared, proves more fragile with each passing day.
The Jerusalem File: Europa Editions
Stone, Joel
$30.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin 176pp
29 July 2015 9781933372655
Carton Qty: 42
Levin, retired from the security services, lives alone in Jerusalem. Adrift, he agrees to follow a friend's wife and
discover her secret lover. When she turns to Levin with an unexpected request, his own moral universe is called into
question.
The Lost Sailors: Europa Editions
Izzo, Jean-Claude; Curtis, Howard
$30.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin 240pp
29 July 2015 9781933372358
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The men aboard an impounded freighter in the port of Marseilles are divided - should they wait for the money
owed to them, or accept thier fate and look for work on another ship? This may be Captain Abdul Aziz's last
commission and he is determined to save his ship and do the right thing by the men aboard.
A Sun for the Dying: Europa Editions
Izzo, Jean-Claude; Curtis, Howard
$30.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin 224pp
29 July 2015 9781933372594
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Jean-Claude Izzo digs deep into what makes men weep.-Time Out New York Rico has neither a roof over his head,
nor a steady income on which to depend. He has, in effect, been banished to society's margins. When a friend and
fellow clochard dies of exposure after a night spent in the Paris metro, Rico decides to flee the northern cold for his
beloved south-for Marseilles and the Mediterranean. From the celebrated author of the Marseilles Trilogy, this is
both an affecting on-the-road novel and a tender exploration of love's power to both heal and destroy.
Tierra del Fuego: Europa Editions
Coloane, Francisco; Curtis, Howard
$30.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin 176pp
29 July 2015 9781933372631
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These nine stories of adventure, exploration and voyage are peopled with ravenous explorers, fortune hunters,
foreign revolutionaries, ill-fated seafarers, intrepid ship's captains, and ruthless smugglers.
Timeskipper: Europa Editions
Benni, Stefano; Shugaar, Antony
$35.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin 400pp
29 July 2015 9781933372440
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A young boy is given a magical gift: an internal 'duoclock' that allows him to see the future. Timeskipper sees and
foresees the big events of his era, from postwar reconstruction to the birth of television. These events are offset by
his own experiences: first love, first job, and wild adventures with oddball acquaintances.
The Worst Intentions: Europa Editions
Piperno, Alessandro; Goldstein, Ann
$30.00 (B+ 210x138mm Demy 8vo) Penguin 320pp
29 July 2015 9781933372334
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This novel charts the astounding rise and equally astounding fall of the Sonninos as seen through the eyes of the
youngest heir to the Sonnino dynasty. This is a boisterous, passionate story of adventure, sex and betrayal in the
opulent neighbourhoods of contemporary Rome.
Cecile is Dead: Inspector Maigret Book 20
Simenon, Georges
$21.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin Classics 192pp
29 July 2015 9780141397054
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Barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully, in spite
of the care she took to be friendly and pleasant. Those black dresses . . . that ridiculous green hat!
For six months the dowdy Cécile has been coming to the police station, desperate to convince them that someone
has been breaking into her aunt's apartment. No one takes her seriously - until Maigret unearths a story of
merciless, deep-rooted greed.
'Simenon tells us that though life is beautiful, it is often appalling.' New Yorker
Marina Bay Sins
Humphreys Neil
$24.00 (Misc P/B) Marshall Cavendish 240pp
29 July 2015 9789814634564
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Throughout his career, Singapore's bestselling author Neil Humphreys has successfully mixed biting wit with pitchblack satire to highlight the hypocrisy that lies beneath Asia's sanitized, swinging city. In both fiction and non-fiction,
he has shone a light into Singapore's darkest corners to create riveting stories that both captivate the reader and
provoke the conscience. Now, in his new novel Marina Bay Sins, he has taken a parang to some of Asia's most
sacred cows.
Detective Inspector Stanley Low is having a really bad day. His bipolar condition is already ruining another session
with his psychiatrist when a sadistic sex murder-suicide at Singapore's most prestigious hotel plunges him back into
a sordid underworld he was desperate to leave behind.
As the case spirals out of control, Inspector Low encounters self-help celebrity couple Yue Liang and Jimmy Chew.
She's a desperate singer willing to do whatever it takes to break the US market. He's a motivational speaker
embroiled in a financial crisis. Neither of them can get their story straight. Meanwhile, a South African CEO cannot
control his addiction to Asian women, an elusive Indonesian businessman plays pimp for exiled military generals, a
government minister is determined to protect foreign 'talent' and an imprisoned loan shark pushes Low to the brink
of a nervous breakdown.
Fuelled by his uncontrollable mania, Inspector Low goes undercover once more and returns to a world that the
Asian metropolis refuses to acknowledge: a world of gambling addiction, crime syndicates, international money
launderers, immoral celebrities and corrupt politicians, all living in Asia's cleanest city.
The Map of Chaos
Palma Felix J
$38.00 (Royal P/B 234x147/153mm) Scribe Publications 592pp
29 July 2015 9781925106633
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky returns with the final installment in
the bestselling, award-winning trilogy that The Washington Post called 'a big, genre-bending delight. Palma writes
with shrewdness and glee.'
When the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagonist of The Map of Chaos does
all he can to speak to her one last time and confess the secret he didn't dare tell her while she was alive. A session
with the most renowned medium of all time seems to offer the only solution, but the experience unleashes terrible
forces that bring the world to the brink of disaster. Salvation can only be found in The Map of Chaos, an obscure
book that he is desperate to find. In his search, he is given invaluable help by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll,
and of course by H.G. Wells, whose Invisible Man seems to have escaped from the pages of his famous novel to sow
terror among mankind. They alone can discover the means to save the world and to find the path that will reunite
the lovers separated by death.
Proving once again that he is 'a master of ingenious plotting' (Kirkus Reviews), Félix J. Palma brings together a cast of
real and imagined literary characters in Victorian-Age London when spiritualism is at its height. The Map of Chaos is
a spellbinding adventure which mixes impossible loves, nonstop action, real ghosts, and fake mediums in an
explosive cocktail that is sure to captivate readers all over the world.
Until the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead
Russell, Sean Thomas
$26.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin (General Uk) 528pp
29 July 2015 9780241952078
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'Not a hundred yards distant, the night opened in a blossom of orange flame and roiling smoke.'
Ordered to the West Indies where they are to harass French colonial shipping, Captain Charles Hayden and HMS
Themis rescue a pair of Spanish castaways en route. This is lucky for the Spaniards but less so for Hayden who soon
finds that his guests are not quite what they claim.
Caught between the French, predatory privateers and a vainglorious British commander, Hayden discovers that the
Caribbean is a lawless sea with many squalls to sink the unwary seaman. Survival depends on rapidly identifying
friend and foe - but which are the two castaways still aboard Themis?
This is the gripping fourth tale in the epic maritime adventures of Charles Hayden, a masterpiece to rival the stories
of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O'Brian.
A Lady of Good Family
Mackin Jeanne
$32.00 (B+ 210x138mm Demy 8vo) Nal 384pp
29 July 2015 9780451465832
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From the author of The Beautiful American comes a richly imagined novel about historical figure Beatrix Farrand,
one of the first female landscape architects.
Raised among wealth and privilege during America's fabled Gilded Age, a niece of famous novelist Edith Wharton
and a friend to literary great Henry James, Beatrix Farrand is expected to marry, and marry well. But as a young
woman traveling through Europe with her mother and aunt, she already knows that gardens are her true passion—
planning them, nurturing them, digging deep into their soil, and cultivating their lush greenery.
This highborn woman with unconventional views and a distrust of marriage escapes the dictates of society to
become the most celebrated female landscape designer in the country. Despite her association with muchacclaimed men in her field such as Frederick Law Olmsted, the genius behind New York's Central Park, her path is
not easy. How she becomes a woman for whom work and love, the earthly and the mysterious, are held in delicate
and satisfying balance is the story of her unique determination to create beauty and serenity while remaining true
to herself.
Beatrix's journey begins at the age of twenty-three in the Borghese Gardens of Rome, where she meets beguiling
Amerigo Massimo, an Italian gentleman of sensitivity and charm—a man unlike any she has known before . . .
Praise for The Beautiful American
'Readers will rank [it] right up there with The Paris Wife . . . A brilliant, beautifully written literary masterpiece . . .
' New York Times bestselling author Sandra Dallas
'Will transport you to expat Paris . . . and from there take you on a journey through the complexities of a friendship .
. . breathes new life into such luminaries as Man Ray, Picasso, and, of course, the titular character, Lee Miller, while
at the same time offering up a wonderfully human and sympathetic protagonist in Nora Tours.' Suzanne Rindell,
author of The Other Typist
'Leaves its essence of love, loss, regret, and hope long after the novel concludes.' Erika Robuck, author of Fallen
Beauty
'Achingly beautiful and utterly mesmerizing . . . Sure to appeal to fans of Paula McLain's The Paris Wife and Erika
Robuck's Call Me Zelda, or indeed to anyone with a taste for impeccably researched and beautifully written
historical fiction.' Jennifer Robson, author of Somewhere in France
'An engaging and unforgettable novel. I couldn't put it down.' Renee Rosen, author of Dollface
'An exquisitely imagined and beautifully rendered story of the talented, tragic, gorgeous Lee Miller.' Becky E.
Conekin, author of Lee Miller in Fashion
Man at the Helm
Stibbe, Nina
$26.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin (General Uk) 256pp
29 July 2015 9780241967805
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'If a lone female is left, especially if divorced, without a man at the helm, all the friends and family run away'
When their parents split up nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and brother move with their mother to a slightly
hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother immediately takes to drinking and compulsive playwriting none of which impresses villagers already deeply suspicious of an attractive divorcée. Desperate to fit in, Lizzie and
her sister hatch a plan: secretly invite any suitable (and even unsuitable) men to meet (and hopefully marry) their
mother . . .
A winner, brilliant, hilarious, uplifting. It even trumps Love, Nina. I can't remember a book that made me laugh
more.' Observer
'A comedy classic. If you loved I Capture the Castle you will love this. I laughed hard, page after page.' The Times
'Very, very funny . . . hilarious.' Independent on Sunday
'Uniquely entertaining, brilliant.' Independent
'A joyous read, full of wit and charm . . . a glorious cast of characters.' Sunday Express
'Funny, brilliant.' Daily Telegraph
Radish: Penguin Specials
Yan, Mo
$12.99 (A Fmt 181x111 Mm) Penguin 96pp
11 May 2015 9780734310798
Carton Qty: 192
During China's collectivist era in the later 1950s, a rural work team set to repair a river floodgate receives a new
labour recruit: Hei-hai, a skinny, sorry, silent boy. Assigned to pump the bellows at the worksite forge, Hei-hai
proves indifferent to pain or suffering, but eerily sensitive to the beauties of the natural world. As the worksite
becomes embroiled in human jealousy and strife, Hei-hai's eyes remain trained on a world that only he can see,
searching for wonders that only he understands. One day, he finds all that he has been seeking embodied in the
most mundane and fragile of objects: a radish.
'That dark-skinned boy with the superhuman ability to suffer and a superhuman degree of sensitivity represents the
soul of my entire fictional output. Not one of all the fictional characters I've created since then is as close to my soul
as he is.' Mo Yan, 2012 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
'Pungent, potent, absurd, moving, and alive, this early Mo Yan novella carries his unmistakable stamp. Survival is
ignoble, and power blunt, but glimpses of the transcendent are possible: Radish captures the human condition with
aching force.' Gish Jen, author of Mona in the Promised Land
An Astronaut's Life
Dechian Sonja
$37.00 (Royal Pb 230x152 Mm) Text 224pp
29 July 2015 9781922147929
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It's a good father-daughter moment for them. When they finally spot Venus through the telescope, they share a
similar sense of looking at something larger than their lives. It's a whole different planet, and when it fills the
viewfinder Catherine stops thinking about the rain and feels what it might be like to inhabit a different life.
Invasive technology, rampant consumerism, the destruction of the natural world: this extraordinary collection
explores the most urgent issues of our time.
In sparkling prose, Sonja Dechian's profound, moving and wry stories speak to our deepest yearning for
connection—and the inevitability of our isolation. From a terrorist cell of cyber-bullying victims working to
annihilate the digital memory of their humiliation, to a pandemic that leaves grieving parents battling for the media
spotlight, these affecting tales invite us to examine our inability to control the world around us—or our own desires.
An Astronaut's Life is a beautiful debut from a sharp, intelligent new voice in Australian writing.
Stepdog
Navarro Mireya
$48.00 (Royal H/B 230x152mm) Putnam 256pp
29 July 2015 9780399167799
Carton Qty: 12
Lots of dogs eat shoes, bite people, destroy furniture . . . but Eddie tried to destroy a marriage.
After more than three decades of happy single womanhood, Mia Navarro wasn't really looking to change her
relationship status. The idea of being a step-anything to anyone was foreign to her, something she never thought
about . . . Until she fell in love with Jim and agreed to marry him. As it turns out, the marriage is pretty wonderful,
the stepkids were, well, typical pre-teens, the weather in Los Angeles perfect. But life is not spotless. The spots
belong to Jim's mutt, Eddie. Possessive and jealous, Eddie behaves like Jim's mistress—if a mistress could bark and
compete for space on his beloved's lap. As time goes on, a full-on war ensues. Mia slams the door in Eddie's face,
cordons off the house into dog- and wife-territories, and leaves the back door open . . . by, er, accident, of course.
She even tries to leave Eddie behind in California when she and Jim abruptly relocate to New York. But in the end,
it's clear that not even a wife can come between man and dog. As Eddie ages, Mia softens, and as with any new
family struggling to blend, the two must make peace with each other.
Ultimately, Stepdog is a triumphant story about finding love at an unexpected stage in life and the many unforeseen
obstacles—not only of the four-legged variety—that can get in the way on the road to happily ever after.
'I adore this book. Alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching, Stepdog is an extraordinary chronicle of romance,
marriage, blended families, career juggling, and an obstreperous dog, written with a journalists' eye for detail, and a
novelists' insight for character. Mireya Navarro is a wonderful writer who reminds us that in the end, love and
compassion conquers all – even a cantankerous canine.' Bruce Feirstein, bestselling author and contributing editor,
Vanity Fair
'In Stepdog, Navarro reminds us that our companions (human and animal) challenge our assumptions, force us to
compromise and give us plenty of opportunities for hard lessons. A charming, funny, poignant memoir about love,
life and family.' Esmeralda Santiago, author of When I Was Puerto Rican and Conquistadora
Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas
Kwang Han Fook & Fernandez Warren & Tan
$40.00 (P/B and Flaps) Marshall Cavendish 456pp
29 July 2015 9789814677622
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Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015 at the age of 92. This book, which was first published in 1998, tells
the story of his life from when the Japanese occupied Singapore in 1941 until 1998 when he was Senior Minister.
Based on 13 exclusive interviews held over 30 hours, this book chronicles the events, people and political fortunes
that were to shape Lee's view of the world, as well as the path he set for the transformation of Singapore. It delves
into the choices he made, the political turnings he took, the insights gained and lessons learnt, some of which were
expounded to the authors for the first time, with wit, wisdom, candour and vivid recollection.
Written by three leading journalists from The Straits Times.
The Fly Trap
Sjoberg, Fredrik
$26.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin (General Uk) 288pp
29 July 2015 9781846147784
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'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?'
Fredrik Sjöberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of them, in fact. This beguiling bestseller is his unique
meditation on collecting hoverflies. It is also about living on a remote Swedish island, blissful long summer nights,
lost loves, unexpected treasures, art, nature, slowness, and how freedom can come from the things we least expect.
I often return to The Fly Trap, it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature that reveal sudden
insights into one's life. Sometimes I almost think that he wrote it for me.' Tomas Tranströmer
'Charming, witty and original.' Patrick Barkham, Guardian
'Delightful . . . a humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjöberg writes with infectious passion.' Paul Binding,
Independent
'Laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it.' Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times
The Voice: My Story
Warren Ray with Webster Andrew
$36.00 (Royal Pb 230x152 Mm) Nero 320pp
29 July 2015 9781863957496
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Ray 'Rabbits' Warren is the legendary voice of Australian sports commentary. People tell him he must have drunk a
bottle of scotch and smoked a packet of cigarettes every day to have the voice that he has. That's not the case – at
least, not anymore . . .
The son of a railway worker, Ray placed his first bet on a horse called Playboy at the age of just six, and won. A
lifelong love of the track – and the punt – was born.
During his remarkable broadcasting career, which has now spanned almost five decades, Ray has called three
Melbourne Cups, Commonwealth and Olympic Games swimming, and countless rugby league matches alongside his
mates Fatty, Sterlo and Gus.
Here, for the first time, Ray reveals the man behind the microphone. He speaks of the great highs and devastating
lows of his career and life in the same way he calls every sporting event: with great passion, colour and candour.
The Australian Victories In France in 1918
Monash John with foreword by Haigh Bruce
$50.00 (Royal H/B 230x152mm) Black Inc 352pp
29 July 2015 9781863957458
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'From the far-off days in 1914, when the call first came, until the last shot was fired, every day was filled with
loathing, horror, and distress … Yet it had to be, and the thought always uppermost was the earnest prayer that
Australia might forever be spared such a horror on her own soil.'
– John Monash
First published in 1920, The Australian Victories in France in 1918 immediately garnered glowing praise as one of
the most entertaining and informative accounts of war ever written. It is now recognised as one of the most
important records of World War I, revealing the critical role Australians played on the Western Front.
General Sir John Monash, regarded as the best allied commander of World War I, records his experiences leading a
series of victories that turned the tide of the war, from the defence of Amiens, to the battle of August 8th and the
breaking of the Hindenburg Line. He reveals the challenges he faced in leading tens of thousands of troops, and the
decision-making and innovations in the field that led to their success.
Republished in full, this edition features a new foreword by Bruce Haigh, colour reproductions of the original maps
that were hand-drawn under Monash's supervision, and new photos. It also includes a memo from General
Rawlinson congratulating Monash on the performance of the Australian Corps: 'I feel that no mere words of mine
can adequately express the renown that they have won for themselves and the position they have established for
the Australian nation not only in France but throughout the world.'
War Classics
Monash John
$95.00 (Paper Lami Cover and Slipcase) Black Inc 0pp
29 July 2015 9781863957465
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Monash in his own words …
War Letters of General Monash
This collection of extraordinary, intimate letters from General Sir John Monash to his wife and daughter, records his
experiences throughout World War I, from landing at Gallipoli to leading decisive victories on the Western Front.
Monash writes with remarkable insight and candour. Republished in full for the first time since the 1930s, this
collection includes an introduction and historical notes by A.K. Macdougall, new photos of Gallipoli and the Western
Front, and additional letters, including Monash's moving final letter to his wife before the Gallipoli landing.
The Australian Victories in France in 1918
First published in 1920, this famous work by General Sir John Monash, regarded as the best allied commander of
World War I, immediately garnered glowing praise as one of the most entertaining and informative accounts of war
ever written. It is now recognised as one of the most important records of World War I. This edition features a new
foreword, stunning photos, and colour reproductions of the original maps that were hand-drawn under Monash's
supervision.
Presented here in a collectors' slipcase, the War Classics, offer unparalleled insight in the role of Australians in
World War I, and into the experience of one of Australia's greatest leaders, General Sir John Monash.
War Letters of General Monash
Monash John
$50.00 (Royal H/B 230x152mm) Black Inc 320pp
29 July 2015 9781863957441
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Long before this letter can possibly reach you, great events which will stir the whole world and go down in history
will have happened, to the eternal glory of Australia and all who have participated. – John Monash, 24 April 1915
These extraordinary, intimate letters from General Sir John Monash to his wife and daughter, record his experiences
throughout World War I, from landing at Gallipoli to leading decisive battles on the Western Front. Monash
describes with great candour the challenges of ordering the lives of tens of thousands of troops and meeting with
various dignitaries, including King George.
Regarded as the best allied commander of World War I, Monash writes with remarkable insight, providing one of
the most moving personal accounts ever written of an Australian soldier at war.
This edition, reprinted in full for the first time since 1935, contains newly discovered letters, including Monash's
moving final missive to his wife before the Gallipoli landing. With an introduction and notes by historian A.K.
Macdougall, and new photos, this volume provides unparalleled insight into the experience of Australians in World
War I.
'In the eyes of many Monash was the greatest Allied Field Commander of World War I. His leadership of the
Australian Army Corp in 1918 was exemplary.' – John Howard
'As a writer, Monash has a great eye.' – Les Carlyon
'His was the most brilliant leadership ever shown in any activity by an Australian.' – Bob Carr
'Monash wrote 75,000 letters and this war correspondence selection reflects a calm, rational mind and
demonstrates succinct descriptive skills to rival any professional writer. He wrote in real-time without revision,
sometimes during battles. This leaves us with a potted personal history of one of two biggest wars by the most
outstanding and eloquent General of the conflict, who did more than anyone else to win and end it.' – Roland Perry
Common People: The History of An English Family
Light, Alison
$30.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin (General Uk) 352pp
29 July 2015 9780141039862
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Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors?
Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series
of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond.
Epic in scope and deep in feeling, Common People is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following
the lives of the migrants who travelled the country looking for work. Original and eloquent, it is a timely rethinking
of who the English were - but ultimately it reflects on history itself, and on our constant need to know who went
before us and what we owe them.
'Outstanding. A masterclass in how family history can illuminate our communal past. Dirty, tragic but joyous.' Mail
on Sunday
'Excellent. A deeply researched and fascinating double story: an elegy for lives usually beneath notice but also an
objective record of what it meant to be itinerant working class through two centuries of change.' Sunday Telegraph
'An exquisite look back at Light's own family history. Barely a page goes by without something fascinating on it.'
Independent on Sunday
'Deeply absorbing. Light does an excellent job of conjuring up the fascinating squalor of the docks, the beer shops
and brothels and the adventure of the sea. I'll want to read it twice.' Spectator
'Remarkable, haunting. Light writes beautifully. Part-memoir, part thrilling social history of the England of the
Industrial Revolution, but above all a work of quiet poetry and insight into human behavior. It is full of wisdom.' The
Times
'By turns mesmeric and deeply moving: a poetic excavation of the very meaning of history.' Daily Telegraph
The English and their History
Tombs, Robert
$38.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin (General Uk) 1024pp
29 July 2015 9780141031651
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The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived
in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can
be traced back to the earliest years of their history.
Since those precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune, their political,
economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes the history of
the English and its meanings, from the earliest beginnings in wetlands and monasteries to the cosmopolitan energy
of today's England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory
government, language, law, religion, ever-changing relations with other peoples, and the diverse and sometimes
conflicting ways the English have understood their own history.
This book, the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, presents a challenging modern
account, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division, and yet also
the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.
'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.' Dominic
Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the Year
'As ambitious as it is successful . . . Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit, a vast and delightful
book.' Ben MacIntyre, The Times, Books of the Year
'Superb . . . pithy and punchy, a tremendous achievement, and deserves to become the standard history for years to
come.' Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times
'A stupendous achievement . . . a story of a people we can't fail to recognize: stoical, brave, drunken, bloodyminded, violent, undeferential, yet paradoxically law-abiding . . . I found myself gripped.' Daniel Hannan,Spectator
'It's the perfect pick-me-up. In fact I could hardly put it down . . . an outstanding work.' Robert Colls, Literary Review
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923
Foster, R F
$30.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Penguin (General Uk) 496pp
29 July 2015 9780241954249
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Vivid Faces surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth,
radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love. Determined to reconstruct the world and defining themselves
against their parents, they were in several senses a revolutionary generation.
The Ireland that eventually emerged bore little relation to the brave new world they had conjured up in student
societies, agit-prop theatre groups, vegetarian restaurants, feminist collectives, volunteer militias, Irish-language
summer schools, and radical newspaper offices. Foster's book investigates that world, and the extraordinary people
who occupied it.
'Will change the way we see the entire way we see the 1916 Rebellion in Ireland . . . he has created a template for
future historians.' Colm Tóibín, Guardian, Books of the Year
'Terrific . . . Foster's prose is urbanely precise and he can pin down character as memorably as Yeats.' John
Kerrigan, Guardian
'Roy Foster's superb portrait of Ireland's revolutionary generation mines a rich seam of letters, diaries, articles,
books and later recollections to create a compelling cultural history of the men and women, the ideas and passions,
that forged a rebellion . . . There will doubtless be many more books to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, but
none, I suspect, more stimulating and important than this one.' Ben Macintyre, The Times, Books of the Year
'A powerful account of idealists going to war . . . Roy Foster has achieved what few have managed: an account of
the Irish revolution that captures its quixotic ardour without succumbing to it . . . a wonderful book.' Gerard
DeGroot, The Times
An Economy is Not a Society: Winners and Losers in the New Australia
Glover Dennis
$26.00 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Redback 176pp
29 July 2015 9781863957472
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In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this
really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?
If the high priests of economics wish to take credit for the growth in Australia's economy over the last three
decades, they must also wear the blame for the social destruction that has accompanied it – the devastation of
once prosperous industrial centres and the suburbs they sustained, as factories closed and workers were forced to
abandon their trades. The social costs of this 'economic modernisation' have been immense, but today are virtually
ignored. The fracturing of communities continues apace.
An Economy Is Not a Society is a passionate and personal J'accuse against the people whose abandonment of moral
policy-making has ripped the guts out of Australia's old industrial communities, robbed the country of productive
capacity, reversed our national ethos of egalitarianism and broken the sense of common purpose that once existed
between rulers and ruled. Dennis Glover argues that those in power – on both the Right and the Left – must
abandon the idea that a better society is purely about offering individuals more dollars in their pockets. What we
desperately need is a conversation about the lives, jobs and communities we want for ourselves and our families.
Only in this way can our broken political system begin to be repaired.
The Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat: Penguin Special
Davies, Sally C
$12.99 (A Fmt 181x111 Mm) Penguin (General Uk) 112pp
29 July 2015 9780241969199
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Resistance to our current range of antibiotics is the new inconvenient truth. If we don't act now, we risk the health
of our parents, our children and our grandchildren.
Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in
1943, we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections. We are so familiar with these
wonder drugs that we take them for granted. The truth is that we have been abusing them: as patients; as doctors;
as travellers, in our food.
No new class of antibacterial has been discovered for twenty-six years and the bugs are fighting back. If we do not
take responsibility now, in a few decades we may start dying from the most commonplace of operations and
ailments that can today be treated easily.
This Penguin Special, by Professor Dame Sally C. Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England, is vital in raising
awareness for the future helath of our children and our grandchildren.
Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
Becker Jo
$37.00 (B+ 210x138mm Demy 8vo) Penguin Press 496pp
29 July 2015 9780143127239
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A groundbreaking work of reportage by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jo Becker, Forcing the Spring is the
definitive account of five remarkable years in American civil rights history, when the United States experienced a
tectonic shift on the issue of marriage equality. Focusing on the historic legal challenge of California's ban on same-
sex marriage, Becker offers a gripping, behind-the scenes narrative told with the lightning pace of a great legal
thriller. Taking the reader from the Oval Office to the Supreme Court ruling, from state-by-state campaigns to an
astounding shift in national public opinion, Forcing the Spring is political and legal journalism at its finest.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
'[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion
shifted with the speed of a bullet train . . . Becker's most remarkable accomplishment is to weave a spellbinder of a
tale that, despite a finale reported around the world, manages to keep readers gripped until the very end.' The
Washington Post
Modern Romance: An Investigation
Ansari, Aziz; Klinenberg, Eric
$48.00 (Royal H/B 230x152mm) Allen Lane 304pp
29 July 2015 9780241211830
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People today have more romantic options than at any point in human history, and thanks to social media,
smartphones and online dating, our abilities to connect with these options are staggering. Yet we also have to face
new and absurd dilemmas, such as what to think when someone doesn't reply to your text but has time to post a
photo of a pizza on Instagram. But this transformation of our romantic lives cannot be explained by technology
alone. Whereas once most people would find a decent person who probably lived in their neighbourhood and
marry by the age of 23, today we spend years of our lives on a quest to find our soulmate.
While Ansari has long aimed his comedic insight at modern relationships, here he teamed up with award-winning
sociologist Eric Klinenberg to research dating cultures from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Paris, crunch the quantitative
data and interview some of the world's leading social scientists. The result is an unforgettable tour of the romantic
landscape.
Oktoberfest Cookbook
Skowronek Julia
$30.00 (Paper Lami Cover) Dorling Kindersley 144pp
29 July 2015 9780241216811
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Delve into the well-loved dishes from the beer tents and food stalls of the largest beer festival in the world,
Oktoberfest.
The Oktoberfest Cookbook transports you to Munich with snacks and soups, meaty and vegetarian mains, sweet
desserts and funfair treats, all with an accompanying beer. Includes 50 recipes for traditional Bavarian dishes from
homemade liver pate spread, to venison ragout with creamy juniper sauce, and Magenbrot, to gingerbread biscuits.
Also includes invaluable 'Wiesn knowledge, like Oktoberfest etiquette or how to get a seat in a beer tent.
Whether you are looking forward to an Oktoberfest holiday, would like to re-live memories of the last one, or treat
yourself and your friends to a Baverian party, this book has exactly what you need.
Mungo's Cryptic Crosswords: From The Saturday Paper
MacCallum Mungo
$12.99 (B Fmt 198x129 Mm / /lge Crown 8vo) Black Inc 128pp
29 July 2015 9781863957489
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Be delighted, be infuriated, be inspired – but above all be entertained! This is the ultimate puzzle book: a year's
worth of Mungo MacCallum's cryptic crosswords from The Saturday Paper. Includes a new preface from the
crossword maestro himself.
Thrown
Howley, Kerry
$38.00 (Royal Pb 230x152 Mm) Hamish Hamilton 288pp
29 July 2015 9780241207277
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In this darkly funny work of literary reportage, narrated by an excitable, semi-fictionalized graduate student named
Kit, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters - one a young prodigy, the other an
aging journeyman. Acclaimed essayist Kerry Howley follows these men for three years through the bloody world of
mixed martial arts as they starve themselves, break bones, fail their families and form new ones in the quest to rise
from remote Midwestern fairgrounds to packed Vegas arenas. With penetrating intelligence and wry humor,
Howley exposes the profundities and absurdities of this American subculture.
Time magazine's #2 best book of nonfiction, 2014
'Thrown does what all literature aspires to do - to bring us into a community, a universe, we did not know we cared
about and in the end leave us shattered and revealed.' Los Angeles Times
'The most fascinating book I've read this year. The precision of Howley's prose reminds me of Joan Didion or David
Foster Wallace: she's so involved with the fight, it's as if she were trying to eat it with words. Howley writes like
someone who's been flayed, all nerve endings exposed, no barriers between her and the world around her.' Time
'The fight book of our generation has landed. Thrown is a fantastic debut.' The Week
'Three years in the lives of two Midwestern cage fighters as seen through the eyes of a neurotic academic. A poetic
portrait of a bloody American subculture, and a knockout of a nonfiction debut.' O, The Oprah Magazine
'A truly gripping account of the insular world of MMA-the history, the personalities, the injuries, the money, the
white-hot fighters and the foundering ones . . . Howley stepped into the cage and stepped out of it with something
new and stunning.' Salon
'Easily the best inside-fights book ever written.' Deadspin
Mighty Fighting Hawks
Blake, Martin
$60.00 (Miscell H/B) Michael Joseph 272pp
29 July 2015 9780143799672
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The rare feat of winning back-to-back flags in 2013 and 2014 cemented coach Alastair Clarkson's men as a truly
great team and Hawthorn FC as a great club.
At the end of the 2004 season Hawthorn was an unholy mess, with no coach, no chief executive and no captain.
Enter Clarkson, who established a club culture based on endurance, courage, mateship and sacrifice and in 2008,
won the first of his three premierships. It was an unlikely win since Geelong was clearly the best team of the year.
All premierships are different, and if the 2013 flag was about redemption – following the 2012 loss to the Sydney
Swans – the 2014 flag was about resilience. After a season where injuries, illness and the absence of Lance Franklin
dominated the headlines, the Hawks shook off their arch rival Sydney in a stunning victory against the odds. Under
Clarkson, there is always a way to win.
From Jeff Kennett's reign to the defection of Franklin; from Sam Mitchell standing down as captain to make way for
Luke Hodge to the key roles of Jarryd Roughead and Cyril Rioli, this is the story of the team that Alastair Clarkson
built, in a decade of success.
'This club is here to stay and we plan to be a juggernaut of the AFL.'
—Andrew Newbold, president of Hawthorn Football Club, 28 September 2014
Life and Football
Brown, Jonathan
$50.00 (Royal H/B 230x152mm) Michael Joseph 352pp
29 July 2015 9780143799771
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Three premiership wins, three-time club best and fairest winner, two-time All Australian and winner of the Coleman
Medal: Jonathan Brown knows footy, and he knows success.
Browny's head-first on-field leadership style, coupled with an outstanding highlights reel, earned him the respect of
the entire football community. This tell-all account will take you behind the scenes of his extraordinary career. From
growing up in country Victoria, to becoming the pride of Brisbane, to his devastating decision to retire mid-season,
this former captain has seen it all – and he has stories to tell.
A formidable player and a man's man, Browny is the people's champion.
Baker IDI Healthy Cholesterol Diet and Lifestyle Plan
Baker IDI
$40.00 (Misc P/B) Penguin 256pp
29 July 2015 9780143571926
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Almost one-third of adult Australians have high blood cholesterol, which puts them at increased risk of heart
disease and stroke. This is because too much LDL (or 'bad') cholesterol in the blood can cause atherosclerosis, which
gradually clogs blood vessels until the blood isn't able to get where it needs to go. Yet few Australians really
understand what cholesterol is, let alone how to achieve and maintain healthy levels. Fortunately, this can be as
simple as making the small changes to your diet and lifestyle that are outlined in this book, sometimes in
conjunction with medication as recommended by your doctor.
Here, the internationally renowned Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute tells you everything you need to know
about cholesterol – including what causes it, complications, medication and strategies for reducing it. This is
accompanied by more than 80 simple, flavourful recipes to set you on the right track for reducing your LDL blood
cholesterol levels. The Baker IDI Healthy Cholesterol Diet and Lifestyle Plan will help you manage your cholesterol
and improve your health.
The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of
Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back
Elliott Clark
$55.00 (Royal H/B 230x152mm) Viking 336pp
29 July 2015 9780525426561
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In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a
rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single
day. At times he couldn't walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he would never fully
recover. After eight years, the cognitive demands of his job, and of being a single parent, finally became more than
he could manage. As a result of one final effort to recover, he crossed paths with two brilliant Chicago-area
research-clinicians—one a specialized optometrist, the other a cognitive psychologist—working on the leading edge
of brain plasticity. Within weeks the ghost of who he had been started to re-emerge.
Remarkably, Elliott kept detailed notes throughout his experience, from the moment of impact to the final stages of
his recovery, astounding documentation that is the basis of this fascinating book. The Ghost in My Brain gives hope
to the millions who suffer from head injuries each year, and provides a unique and informative window into the
world's most complex computational device: the human brain.
'Inspiring . . . A professor of artificial intelligence loses much of his higher function after an auto accident. Numerous
specialists diagnose a concussion and tell him to 'get over it'—no small assignment for a professor and single father.
He is ultimately referred to a neuro-optometrist who studies both the visual and the non-visual roles of the retina
for the brain. Through exercises and progressive changes of glasses, his visual and mental function are restored and
his professional and personal life regained. Read it, first weep, then smile broadly!' Daniel Federman, former dean,
Harvard School of Medical Education and past president of the American College of Physicians
'A must read for anyone in emergency medicine, trauma care, neurology, and primary care, as well as concussion
sufferers and their families. It has made me a better clinical instructor and diagnostician by improving my index of
suspicion for brain injury, helped me provide better advice to patients and their loved ones, and motivated me to
develop a better standard of care in my practice.' Ted C. Shieh, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., Clinical Instructor in Emergency
Medicine, RUSH Medical College, Chairman of Emergency Medicine and Immediate Care, DuPage Medical Group
'I have diagnosed more than 600 Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) cases over thirty years of practice, and know
firsthand the devastating effect they can have on virtually any family. Dr. Clark Elliott does an incredible job of
captivating his reading audience and then skillfully introduces them to the altered world of a MTBI patient. His
comprehensive and creative analysis of this pathological epidemic is uniquely insightful, accurate, scary—and most
importantly encouraging—for those who are afflicted with this disorder.' Michael P. Szatalowicz, D.C., A.O., Whiplash
Trauma Specialist
Masters of Wisdom: The Mahatmas, Their Letters, and the Path
Abdill Edward
$30.00 (B+ 210x138mm Demy 8vo) Tarcher 288pp
29 July 2015 9780399171079
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In the late nineteenth century, Russian noblewoman and occult philosopher Madame H.P. Blavatsky enthralled the
world with revelations of an ancient 'secret doctrine' behind the major faiths and a cosmic theology that united the
insights of religion and science.
Blavatsky said she was operating under the guidance of hidden Masters of wisdom, or mahatmas, who led her to
reveal forgotten wisdom to modern people.
The mythos of Blavatsky's Masters left a deep mark on Western culture and spawned more than a century of
debate: Were the Masters real? What did they teach? Are they reachable today?
Now, independent scholar of religion Edward Abdill provides an authoritative, historically reliable, and delightfully
readable study of the background and ideas of the Masters – in particular highlighting their message and its
enduring relevance.
Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road
Levi Scott C
$37.00 (B Fmt H/B 206x133mm) Allen Lane 208pp
29 July 2015 9780670087303
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London: A Travel Guide Through Time
Green, Matthew
$40.00 (B Fmt H/B 206x133mm) Michael Joseph 336pp
29 July 2015 9780718179762
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Dr Matthew Green explores the sights and sounds of London through history. This is a fascinating and unique guide
to the capital that takes the reader off the beaten track and into unexplored territory. Whether you are a tourist
looking for an alternative way to see the city, or a Londoner that wants to learn more about the world around you,
this is a must-have guide.
London Overground: A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line
Sinclair, Iain
$48.00 (Demy H/B 216x135mm) Hamish Hamilton 272pp
29 July 2015 9780241146958
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'A walk around the circuit of the elevated railway, that accidental re-mapping of London, in a single day.'
The completion of the full circle of London Overground in December 2012 provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to
walk the shifting territory of the capital.
With thirty-three stations and thirty-five miles to tramp - plus inevitable and unforeseen detours and false steps Sinclair embarks on a marathon circumnavigation at street level, tracking the necklace of garages, fish farms,
bakeries, convenience cafés, cycle repair shops and Minder lock-ups which enclose inner London.
Here he encounters traces of writers gone or nearly forgotten, uncovers evidence of careless erasures and
incongruous overlappings, follows signs of decay hijacked by official rejuvenation and generally slips between the
cracks of the approved and over-capitalized.
In London Overground, this new railway - which turns out to be not new at all - provides new inspiration for Iain
Sinclair and a brilliant extension to his previous expeditionary epistles, Lights Out for the Territory andLondon
Orbital.
Tom Clancy's Under Fire
Blackwood Grant
$70.00 (Royal H/B 230x152mm) Michael Joseph 512pp
29 July 2015 9780718181864
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On a routine intelligence mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., meets his oldest friend, Seth Gregory. As they part, Seth
gives Jack a key and a perplexing message.
The next day Jack is summoned by two men who claim Seth has disappearedwith funds for a vital intelligence
operation. Insisting Seth has turned, they leave Jack with a warning: If you hear from Seth Gregory, call us
immediately.
But they don't know Jack. He won't abandon a friend.
Jack soon finds himself lost in intrigue, lies, and betrayal where no one is who they seem to be - not even Seth.