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SHUGGIE BAIN - Winner of the Booker 2020STUART DOUGLASISBN: 9781529019285Title: SHUGGIE BAIN - Winner of the Booker 2020Author: STUART DOUGLASFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA heart-wrenching debut novel set in Thatcher-era Glasgow: Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist with a powerful and important story to tell.Imprint: PicadorRRP: $32.99Price: $32.99UNDERLAND : A Deep Time JourneyMACFARLANE ROBERTISBN: 9780141030579Title: UNDERLAND : A Deep Time JourneyAuthor: MACFARLANE ROBERTFormat: PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLE'Into the underland we have long placed that which we fear and wish to lose, and that which we love and wish to save . . . 'From the vast underground mycelial networks by which trees communicate to the ice-blue depths of glacial moulins, and from North Yorkshire to the Lofoten Islands, Robert Macfarlane traces a voyage through the worlds beneath our feet.He reaches back into the deep history of the planet, through the layers of rock and ancient buried objects, and forward to the future, the legacy of the anthropocene and the world we bequeath our descendants.Underland is Macfarlane at his dazzling best - the lyrical, the political and the philosophical come together in this profound exploration of the relationship between landscape and the human heart.Imprint: Penguin BooksRRP: $22.99Price: $22.99CHILDREN OF ASH AND ELM : A History of the VikingsPRICE NEILISBN: 9780241283981Title: CHILDREN OF ASH AND ELM : A History of the VikingsAuthor: PRICE NEILFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLE A new history of the Vikings - told from their own perspective rather than that of their victimsThe 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This book, the most wide-ranging and comprehensive assessment of the current state of our knowledge, takes a refreshingly different view. It shows that the Viking expansion began generations before the Lindisfarne raid, and traces Scandinavian history back centuries further to see how these people came to be who they were.The narrative ranges across the whole of the Viking diaspora, from Vinland on the eastern American seaboard to Constantinople and Uzbekistan, with contacts as far away as China. Based on the latest archaeology, it explores the complex origins of the Viking phenomenon and traces the seismic shifts in Scandinavian society that resulted from an economy geared to maritime war. Some of its most striking discoveries include the central role of slavery in Viking life and trade, and the previously unsuspected pirate communities and family migrations that were part of the Viking 'armies' - not least in England.Especially, Neil Price takes us inside the Norse mind and spirit-world, and across their borders of identity and gender, to reveal startlingly different Vikings to the barbarian marauders of stereotype. He cuts through centuries of received wisdom to try to see the Vikings as they saw themselves - descendants of the first human couple, the Children of Ash and Elm. Healso reminds us of the simultaneous familiarity and strangeness of the past, of how much we cannot know, alongside the discoveries that change the landscape of our understanding. This is an eye-opening and surprisingly moving book.Imprint: Allen LaneRRP: $59.99Price: $59.99DOGS BEST FRIEND : A Brief History of an Unbreakable BondGARFIELD SIMONISBN: 9781474610742Title: DOGS BEST FRIEND : A Brief History of an Unbreakable BondAuthor: GARFIELD SIMONFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEOne of the first words we learn. Perhaps the best friend we'll have. An animal so much part of our lives that we speak to it like a child and spend small fortunes on its wellbeing and wardrobe. Dogs and humans: in the last 200 years no inter-species relationship has developed so fast nor come so far. Dogs accompany us in every walk of life, usually three times a day. How and why did this relationship begin? How has it changed over the centuries? And who's getting the upper hand? DOG'S BEST FRIEND investigates this unique bond by revisiting some of the most important milestones in our shared journey. It begins with the earliest visual evidence on ancient rock art, and ends at the laboratory that sequenced the first dog genome. En route we encounter the first Labradoodle in Australia, a misguidedly loyal Akita in Japan, an ill-fated Poodle trainer in the United States, and a hilariously disobedient Romanian rescue dog named Kratu at the Birmingham NEC. We will also meet Corgis and Dorgis at the Palace, the weightless mutniks of the Soviet space programme, a Dalmatian who impersonates Hitler, and an owner who claims his Border Collie can remember the names of more than a thousand soft toys. If you own or once owned a dog, you will know that our relationship can be as rich, complicated and rewarding as the relationship we have with other humans, and the book reflects this diversity with the aid of trainers, breeders and psychologists. Above all, it explores the extraordinary ability of dogs to enhance so many aspects of our lives. DOG'S BEST FRIEND is as entertaining as it is informative, as eccentric as it is erudite, and all told with Simon Garfield's irrepressible gift for witty and insightful storytelling.Imprint: Weidenfeld & NicolsonRRP: $32.99Price: $32.99TRIOBOYD WILLIAMISBN: 9780241295960Title: TRIOAuthor: BOYD WILLIAMFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives.As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio's private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.From one of Britain's bestselling writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions- what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?Imprint: Viking BooksRRP: $32.99Price: $32.99LIVING SEA OF WAKING DREAMSFLANAGAN RICHARDISBN: 9781760899943Title: LIVING SEA OF WAKING DREAMSAuthor: FLANAGAN RICHARDFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEIn a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful story about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.Imprint: KNOPFRRP: $32.99Price: $27.99COMEDY OF ERROR : Why Evolution Made Us LaughSILVERTOWN JONATHANISBN: 9781922310095Title: COMEDY OF ERROR : Why Evolution Made Us LaughAuthor: SILVERTOWN JONATHANFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEWhat is humour? Why do we laugh? And how can we be funnier?Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes - the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Can you train yourself to be funnier? And why does explaining a joke make it less amusing rather than more so?In The Comedy of Error, Professor Jonathan Silvertown explores the science and philosophy behind why we laugh, and shows that understanding how humour really works can provide endless entertainment.Imprint: Scribe PublicationsRRP: $29.99Price: $29.99BOX 88CUMMING CHARLESISBN: 9780008200374Title: BOX 88Author: CUMMING CHARLESFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEAn organisation that doesn't exist.A spy that can't be caught. 1989: The fall of the Berlin Wall is imminent and the Cold War will soon be over. But for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency known only to an inner circle of MI6 and CIA operatives, the espionage game is heating up.Lachlan Kite, recruited straight from an elite boarding school, is sent to France the frontline of a new secret war. Kite is tasked with gathering intelligence on a mysterious Iranian businessman implicated in the tragic Lockerbie bombing. But what he uncovers is even more deadly 2020: MI5 hear rumours of BOX 88's existence and go after Kite only for Iranian intelligence to get to him first. Taken captive and subjected to torture, Kite is presented with a simple choice: reveal the truth about what happened in France thirty years earlier or watch his family die.Past and present merge, as MI5 and BOX 88 are caught up in a race against time to save Kite.Imprint: Harper CollinsRRP: $29.99Price: $29.99PARWANA : Recipes and Stories from an Afghan KitchenAYUBI DURKHANAIISBN: 9781760524357Title: PARWANA : Recipes and Stories from an Afghan KitchenAuthor: AYUBI DURKHANAIFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: BACK IN STOCK SOONInterwoven with traditional Afghan recipes is one family's story of a region long afflicted by war, but with much more at its heart. Author Durkhanai Ayubi's parents, Zelmai and Farida Ayubi, fled Afghanistan with their young children in 1985, at the height of the Cold War.When their family-run restaurant Parwana opened its doors in Adelaide in 2009, their vision was to share with the world their family memories through the delights of Afghan cuisine, infused with Afghanistan's rich historical culture and traditions of generosity and hospitality, to offer a more complete picture of the country they had left behind.These fragrant and flavourful recipes have been in the family for generations and include rice dishes, dumplings, curries, meats, Afghan pastas, chutneys and pickles, soups and breads, drinks and desserts. Some are everyday meals, some are celebratory special dishes. Each has a story to tell.Imprint: Murdoch BooksRRP: $45.00Price: $39.99IN SEARCH OF THE WOMAN WHO SAILED THE WORLDCLODE DANIELLEISBN: 9781760784959Title: IN SEARCH OF THE WOMAN WHO SAILED THE WORLDAuthor: CLODE DANIELLEFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man and sailed on the 1766 Bougainville voyage as the naturalist's assistant. For over two centuries, the story of who this young woman was, why she left her home to undertake such a perilous journey and what happened when she returned has been shrouded in uncertainty. Biologist and award-winning author Danielle Clode embarks on a journey to solve the mysteries surrounding Jeanne Barret. From archives, herbariums and museums to untouched forests and open oceans, Clode's mission takes her from France and Mauritius to the Pacific Islands and New Guinea to reveal the previously untold full story of Jeanne's life as well as the achievements and challenges of her famous voyage. This book is an ode to the sea, to science and to one remarkable woman who, like all explorers, charted her own course for others to follow.PRAISE FOR IN SEARCH OF THE WOMAN SAILED THE WORLD'Clode conjures a spellbinding tale of gender, empire, natural history - and the lure of the ocean.' Yves Rees 'Seamlessly weaving together memoir, history and science ... a fascinating and deeply affecting exploration of voyaging, women's lives, and the stories we tell and the stories we don't.' James Bradley 'Biologist, historian, writer, Clode once again demonstrates the connectedness of everything - animals, land, people, plants, sea, sky - at a time when, more than ever, we should be acutely aware of it.' Gay Lynch'A joy to read, simple yet elegant, it whispers in your ear like the sea murmuring from within a shell.' Kristen Weidenbach'Danielle Clode unties the knots of myth and weaves a fascinating story of discovery; Jeanne Barret is one of history's most enigmatic explorers.' Nick Brodie'Clode brings a scientific rigour and a celebration of natural history to the biography of this important woman.' Stephanie ParkynImprint: PicadorRRP: $34.99Price: $34.99ADELAIDE HILLS GARDENSMCCABE CHRISTINEISBN: 9781760760601Title: ADELAIDE HILLS GARDENSAuthor: MCCABE CHRISTINEFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEThe Adelaide Hills charts the evolution of gardening in Australia. And though anchored deeply in history, many of its gardens have their sights set firmly on the future.Old oak, elm and ash trees, planted long ago after memories of English gardens, live alongside stringybark eucalypts and native bush gullies, fruit-bearing orchards and wineries. All have thrived on the region's good rainfall, cool climate and natural springs.Over time, the Hills has weathered storms, droughts and fires. In response to these changing conditions, gardens, too, have changed. Heavily forested slopes have, in many cases, given way to veggie patches, free-ranging chickens and sheep, while Victorian rose and rhododendron hordes have made room for climate-compatible native flora.Encompassing twenty gardens, taking in grand Victorian estates and repurposed municipal water tanks alike, with evocative stories by Christine McCabe and sublime photography by Simon Griffiths, this book is a testament to the power of gardens to adapt, delight and restore.Imprint: Thames & Hudson PublishingRRP: $80.00Price: $80.00BEES AND THEIR KEEPERSMOLLER LOTTEISBN: 9781529405262Title: BEES AND THEIR KEEPERSAuthor: MOLLER LOTTEFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift.Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Moller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and habits. With a light touch she uses her encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject to shed light on humanity's understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present. A humorous debunking of the myths that have held for centuries is matched by a wry exploration of how and when they were replaced by fact. In her travels Moller encounters a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring beekeepers on the Danish island of L so, and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond, as well a host of others as passionate as she about the complex world of apiculture both past and present.Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry - Sweden's Gardening Book of the Year 2019, shortlisted for the August Prize 2019Imprint: MACLEHOSERRP: $39.99Price: $39.99ART BOOKISBN: 9781838661342Title: ART BOOKFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEUpdated for only the third time in its 16-year history, this new edition of the award-winning landmark publication has been refreshed with more than 40 important new artists, including many previously overlooked and marginal practitioners. The new edition spotlights more than 600 great artists from medieval to modern times. Breaking with traditional classifications, it throws together brilliant examples from all periods, schools, visions, and techniques, presenting an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich, multifaceted cultureImprint: PHAIDONRRP: $59.95Price: $49.99ATLAS OF BRUTALIST ARCHITECTUREISBN: 9781838661908Title: ATLAS OF BRUTALIST ARCHITECTUREFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEThe Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture's most powerful movements, more than 850 Brutalist buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organized geographically into nine continental regions. Much-loved masterpieces in the UK and USA sit alongside lesser-known examples in Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond - 102 countries in all, proving that Brutalism was, and continues to be, a truly international architectural phenomenonImprint: PHAIDONRRP: $100.00Price: $79.99HALLIDAY POCKET WINE COMPANION 2021HALLIDAY JAMESISBN: 9781743796917Title: HALLIDAY POCKET WINE COMPANION 2021Author: HALLIDAY JAMESFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA compact and easy-to-navigate newcomer to the Halliday Wine stable, the Halliday Pocket Wine Companion distils key elements of the annual guide, curating a best of the best both by value and ratings across the country’s key wine regions. While value can be difficult to define with wine, it’s a big part of the decision when it comes to choosing a bottle. Here we’ve put it front and centre by only featuring the wineries and wines with special value ratings from the Wine Companion 2021.James Halliday is recognised as Australia’s most respected wine critic, and his annual guide is considered the industry benchmark for Australian wine. The Halliday Pocket Wine Companion gives wine lovers access to his insights in a small package that is easy to read, use and carry. It includes tasting notes, ratings and advice on best-by drinking. Just as with the full guide, it is a compelling proposition for self and gift purchasers.Imprint: Hardie Grant BooksRRP: $22.99Price: $22.99WOLF HALL TRILOGYMANTEL HILARYISBN: 9780008424510Title: WOLF HALL TRILOGYAuthor: MANTEL HILARYFormat: BOXED SETPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA boxed set of hardback editions of the bestselling and award winning trilogy: Wolf Hall, Bringing Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the LightHilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy - Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light - traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power in Henry VIII's Tudor England. It offers a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.Imprint: Fourth EstateRRP: $139.99Price: $139.99BOY ON FIRE : The Young Nick CaveMORDUE MARKISBN: 9781460759646Title: BOY ON FIRE : The Young Nick CaveAuthor: MORDUE MARKFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEThe first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark MordueA deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is the story of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become.As well as a powerfully compelling biography of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is also a fascinating social and cultural biography, a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark river and ghost gums of Wangaratta, to the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb, right through to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet and the manic, wild energy of nights at the Crystal Ballroom.Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement..Imprint: Fourth EstateRRP: $39.99Price: $34.99INVENTION OF MEDICINE : From Homer to HippocratesFOX ROBIN LANEISBN: 9780241277058Title: INVENTION OF MEDICINE : From Homer to HippocratesAuthor: FOX ROBIN LANEFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEMedicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented.Robin Lane Fox's remarkable book puts their invention of medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the first doctors known to have been active in the Greek world. He examines what we do and do not know about Hippocrates and his Oath and the many writings that survive under his name. He then focuses on seven core texts which give the case histories of named individuals, showing that they belong far earlier than previously recognised. Their re-dating has important consequences for the medical awareness of the great Greek dramatists and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Robin Lane Fox pieces together the doctor's thinking from his terse observations and relates it in a new way to the history of Greek prose and ideas.This original and compelling book opens windows onto many other aspects of the classical world, from women's medicine to street-life, art, sport, sex and even botany. It fills a dark decade in a new way and carries readers along an extraordinary journey form Homer's epics to the grateful heirs of the Greek case histories, first in the Islamic world and then in early modern Europe.Imprint: Allen LaneRRP: $49.99Price: $49.99TROYFRY STEPHENISBN: 9780241424599Title: TROYAuthor: FRY STEPHENFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEThe story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between allies, whose consequences become tragedies.In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and despair. It is these human passions, written bloodily in the sands of a distant shore, that still speak to us today.Imprint: Michael JosephRRP: $35.00Price: $29.99PALACE LETTERS : The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough WhitlamHOCKING JENNYISBN: 9781922310248Title: PALACE LETTERS : The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough WhitlamAuthor: HOCKING JENNYFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEWhat role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history And why weren't we told Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the letters between the queen and the governor-general about the dismissal have been locked away for decades in the National Archives of Australia, and embargoed by the queen potentially forever. This ruse has furthered the fiction that the queen and the Palace had no warning of or role in Kerr's actions.In the face of this, Professor Jenny Hocking embarked on a four-year legal battle to force the Archives to release the letters. In 2015, she mounted a crowd-funded campaign, securing a stellar pro bono team that took her case all the way to the High Court of Australia.Now, drawing on never-before-published material from Kerr's archives and her submissions to the court, Hocking traces the collusion and deception behind the dismissal, and charts the private role of High Court judges, the queen's private secretary, and the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Fraser, in Kerr's actions, and the prior knowledge of the queen and Prince Charles.Hocking also reveals the obstruction, intrigue, and duplicity she faced, raising disturbing questions about the role of the National Archives in preventing access to its own historical material and in enforcing royal secrecy over its documents.Imprint: Scribe PublicationsRRP: $32.99Price: $32.99COLLECTED STORIES OF SHIRLEY HAZZARDHAZZARD SHIRLEYISBN: 9780349012957Title: COLLECTED STORIES OF SHIRLEY HAZZARDAuthor: HAZZARD SHIRLEYFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLECollected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories. Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard's short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, 'at once surgical and symphonic' (New Yorker), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. In an interview, Hazzard once said, 'The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature'. Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising and deeply felt.Imprint: VIRAGORRP: $39.99Price: $39.99SING ME THE SUMMERGODWIN JANEISBN: 9781925972924Title: SING ME THE SUMMERAuthor: GODWIN JANEFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLESplash into summer with this glorious love letter to the seasons. Combining Jane Godwin's sparkling text and Alison Lester's whimsical watercolours, Sing Me the Summer celebrates those precious everyday moments that stay with us forever.Imprint: Affirm PressRRP: $24.99Price: $24.99MY SUBURBAN FARMCOSTA AINSLEEISBN: 9781922400253Title: MY SUBURBAN FARMAuthor: COSTA AINSLEEFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEWhile most Australians live in capital cities, at one time or another we all covet the charm and slower pace of country living. A tree change isn't feasible for most suburbanites, so why not combine the best of both worlds at home?My Suburban Farm is a gorgeous guide to injecting the rustic romance, craft aesthetic and homegrown joy of rural life into your own suburban nook. From the rewards of growing your own veggies to the meditative delights of craft, this book celebrates everything handmade and homegrown, with Ainslee Costa, the creator of the hugely popular My Suburban Farm Instagram account.- Craft tips, in everything from candle-making to silversmithing- Stunning photography- Recipes - preserving and making the most of homegrown produce- Amazing results from a can-do attitude- Advice on how to mix and match for that soothing country aestheticImprint: Affirm PressRRP: $35.00Price: $35.00LOVING COUNTRY : A Guide to Sacred AustraliaPASCOE BRUCE / SHUKUROGLOU VICKYISBN: 9781741176483Title: LOVING COUNTRY : A Guide to Sacred AustraliaAuthor: PASCOE BRUCE / SHUKUROGLOU VICKYFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLELoving Country is a book that inspires ultimate respect for Mother Earth and the role of her custodians. While readers are encouraged to discover the sacred country of Australia in an open-minded and sensitive manner, the intention of this book is to foster communication and understanding between all peoples and country, to bring about a range of environmental and social changes. Co-authors Bruce Pascoe and Vicky Shukuroglou hope to empower communities to tell their own stories, and for people to honour them and the country from which they have grown. Beautifully designed, all of the writing and photography in Loving Country has been created in consultation with communities. From the ingenious fish traps at Brewarrina and the rivers that feed the Great Barrier Reef, to the love stories of Wiluna and the whale story of Margaret River, there is so much to celebrate and admire about the oldest continuing culture in the world. For those who want to do more than a whistle-stop tour of Australia, this book offers some keys to unlock and reveal the heart of this loving country.Imprint: EXPLORERRP: $45.00Price: $39.99ALWAYS ADD LEMON : Recipes You Want to Cook | Food You Want to EatALVAREZ DANIELLEISBN: 9781743795439Title: ALWAYS ADD LEMON : Recipes You Want to Cook | Food You Want to EatAuthor: ALVAREZ DANIELLEFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLE'Danielle loves to cook and it shows in every page of this inspirational, beautiful book. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from her recipes and her wise, thoughtful approach.' - David Tanis'I am delighted by this cookbook.' - Alice Waters'Danielle is one of my very favourite cooks.' - Skye Gyngell'Hospitality, kindness and consistency are the attributes that embody the work of Danielle Alvarez.' - Josh NilandAlways Add Lemon is the highly anticipated first book from one of the most exciting young chefs cooking in Australia today, Danielle Alvarez. Taking the lessons, skills and tastes acquired working alongside some of the best chefs in the world, Danielle translates formidable kitchen smarts into an inspiring collection of recipes and projects for nourishing, vegetable-forward, seasonal food.Become acquainted with the basics from home made cheeses to vinegar pickles to brioche before delving into Summer vegetable panzanella, Duck pot pie and Roasted pineapple with salted caramel and rum. With more than 100 recipes paired with creative and foundational projects Always Add Lemon is guaranteed to delight anyone with a skerrick of kitchen ambition and a free afternoon.Imprint: Hardie Grant BooksRRP: $50.00Price: $50.00GLAMOUR BOYS : The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat HitlerBRYANT CHRISISBN: 9781526630551Title: GLAMOUR BOYS : The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat HitlerAuthor: BRYANT CHRISFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA story of unsung bravery at a defining moment in Britain's history'A fascinating, beautifully written story I had never heard before' Hugh GrantWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told. In the early 1930s, a group of young, queer British MPs visited Berlin on a series of trips that would change the course of the Second World War. As Hitler rose to power, they watched the Nazis arrest their gay and Jewish friends, send them to concentration camps and murder them. These men were some of the first to warn Britain about Hitler, repeatedly speaking out against their government's policy of appeasing him. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hated them. Branding them 'the glamour boys', he had them followed, harassed, spied upon and derided in the press. They suffered abuse, innuendo and threats of de-selection. At a time when even the suggestion of homosexuality could land you in prison, the bravery these men were forced to show in their personal lives gave them extraordinary courage in public. Adept at hiding their true nature, some became talented spies, while others witnessed the brutality of Hitler's camps first hand. Four of them died in action. And without them, this country would never have faced down the Nazis. Based on years of archival research, this is a story of unsung bravery at a defining moment in Britain's history.Imprint: Bloomsbury PublishingRRP: $29.99Price: $29.99CRY FROM THE FAR MIDDLE : Dispatches from a Divided LandOROURKE P JISBN: 9781611854565Title: CRY FROM THE FAR MIDDLE : Dispatches from a Divided LandAuthor: OROURKE P JFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEP.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about the upside of being 'woke' (and unable to get back to sleep); 'Sympathy vs. Empathy,' which considers whether it's better to have an idea of how people feel or to bust their skulls to get inside their heads; 'A Brief Digression on the Additional Hell of the Internet of Things' because your juicer is sending fake news to your FitBit about what's in your refrigerator; and many more.A couple of extra perks include a quiz to determine where you stand on the spectrum of 'Coastals vs. Heartlanders' and a 'An Inauguration Speech I'd Like To Hear:' ask not what your country can do for you. Ask me how I can get the hell out of here. Featuring extensive coverage from the 2020 campaign trail, this is P.J. at his acerbic best.Imprint: Grove PressRRP: $29.99Price: $29.99AFRICOLA : Slow food fast words cult chefWELGEMOED DUNCANISBN: 9781760523862Title: AFRICOLA : Slow food fast words cult chefAuthor: WELGEMOED DUNCANFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEDuncan's approach to food is fearless, take-no-prisoners, bold and exciting, inspired by his South African heritage. If his multi-awarded, South Australian-based restaurant Africola was a type of music, it would be a full-on mash-up of Kwaito meets Euro pop meets black metal. His food is cooked on fire, in embers or ashes, in ovens, or cast iron pots - from whole smoked pig South African/Australian style, to homemade biltong, hot smoked mackerel and horseradish, whole roasted cauliflower with tahini sauce, and the world's greatest roast potato recipe for complete idiots. Duncan's words aren't pretty, and he's refreshingly honest about the highs and lows of his industry and the people within it, delivering home truths for cooks and chefs alike. These recipes include an amazing array of meats, as well as seafood and a slew of intensely flavourful, veg-forward dishes. There is also a culinary encyclopaedia of ferments, condiments and pickles - adding richness and complexity to any dish - along with a solid pastry section and a bunch of ridiculous cocktails. Come party with us #youbuygold #africolasoundsystem #afropunkozImprint: Murdoch BooksRRP: $49.99Price: $49.99INFINITE SPLENDOURSLAGUNA SOFIEISBN: 9781760876272Title: INFINITE SPLENDOURSAuthor: LAGUNA SOFIEFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLELawrence Loman is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is ten, an experience of betrayal takes it all away, and Lawrence is left to deal with the devastating aftermath. As he grows into a man, how will he make sense of what he has suffered? He cannot rewrite history, but must he be condemned to repeat it? Lawrence finds meaning in the best way he knows. By surrendering himself to art and nature, he creates beauty - beauty made all the more astonishing and soulful for the deprivation that gives rise to it. Infinite Splendours is an extraordinary novel, incandescent with love and compassion, rich in colour and character. The power and virtuosity of Laguna's writing make it impossible for us to look away; and by being seen, Lawrence is redeemed. And we, as readers, have had our minds and hearts opened in ways we can't forget.Imprint: Allen and Unwin PublishersRRP: $32.99Price: $29.99DRESSMAKERS SECRETHAM ROSALIEISBN: 9781760982027Title: DRESSMAKERS SECRETAuthor: HAM ROSALIEFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEIt is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and celebrations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittance in a second-rate Collins Street salon. Her talents go unappreciated, and the madame is a bully and a cheat, but Tilly has a past she is desperate to escape and good reason to prefer anonymity.Meanwhile, Sergeant Farrat and the McSwiney clan have been searching for their resident dressmaker ever since she left Dungatar in flames. And they aren t the only ones. The inhabitants of the town are still out for revenge (or at least someone to foot the bill for the new high street). So when Tilly s name starts to feature in the fashion pages, the jig is up. Along with Tilly s hopes of keeping her secrets hidden...Imprint: PicadorRRP: $32.99Price: $29.99FIRE FLOOD AND PLAGUECUNNINGHAM SOPHIE [ED]ISBN: 9781761040405Title: FIRE FLOOD AND PLAGUEAuthor: CUNNINGHAM SOPHIE [ED]Format: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEWriters, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a year.Including original pieces from Lenore Taylor, Nyadol Nuon, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Lucashenko, Billy Griffiths, Jess Hill, Kim Scott, Brenda Walker, Jane Rawson, Omar Sakr, Richard McGregor, Jennifer Mills, Gabrielle Chan, John Birmingham, Tim Flannery, Rebecca Giggs, Kate Cole-Adams, George Megalogenis, James Bradley, Alison Croggan, Melanie Cheng, Kirsten Tranter, Tom Griffiths, Joelle Gergis and Delia Falconer.Imprint: VintageRRP: $29.99Price: $29.99ART IN COUNTRY : A Treasury for ChildrenBANCROFT BRONWYNISBN: 9781760507305Title: ART IN COUNTRY : A Treasury for ChildrenAuthor: BANCROFT BRONWYNFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEGorges that plummet into serpentine shadows ...Cloaks of white that drape the rocky crags of snowy mountains ...In this magnificent celebration of country, Bronwyn Bancroft uses colours, shapes, patterns and words to explore the awe-inspiring beauty of the Australian continent, and to express the depth of her feelings for it.The Art in Country: A Treasury for Children is an essential addition to any young Australian's library, and a perfect introduction to the many wonders that this country has to offer. This is a treasury to be cherished by all who love this land.Imprint: Egmont BooksRRP: $29.99Price: $29.99PROMISED LANDOBAMA BARACKISBN: 9780241491515Title: PROMISED LANDAuthor: OBAMA BARACKFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracyIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency-a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation's highest office.Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune's Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective-the story of one man's bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of "hope and change," and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama's conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.Imprint: Viking BooksRRP: $65.00Price: $54.99DECAMERON PROJECT : 29 New Stories from the PandemicISBN: 9781398502147Title: DECAMERON PROJECT : 29 New Stories from the PandemicFormat: HARD COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron.When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it.In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron”: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables.In March of 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine created The Decameron Project, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as our current pandemic first swept the globe. How might new fiction from some of the finest writers working today help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis will affect the art of fiction?These twenty-nine new stories, from authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and David Mitchell vary widely in texture and tone. Their work will be remembered as a historical tribute to a time and place unlike any other in our lifetimes, and offer perspective and solace to the reader now and in a future where coronavirus is, hopefully, just a memory.Imprint: SCRIBNERRRP: $35.00Price: $35.00ANIMALS MAKE US HUMANKAMINSKY LEAH / KENEALLY MEGISBN: 9781760899813Title: ANIMALS MAKE US HUMANAuthor: KAMINSKY LEAH / KENEALLY MEGFormat: TRADE PAPER COVERPublishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA response to the devastating 2019-20 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia's unique wildlife and highlights its vulnerability. Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world- seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a thresher shark; watching bats take flight at dusk, or birds making a home in the backyard; or following possums, gliders and owls into the dark.Hopeful, uplifting and deeply moving, this collection is also an urgent call to action, a powerful reminder that we only have one world in which to coexist and thrive with our fellow creatures. By highlighting the beauty and fragility of our unique fauna, Australia's favourite writers, renowned researchers and acclaimed photographers encourage readers to consider it in a new light.Featuring- Barbara Allen, Robbie Arnott, Tony Birch, James Bradley, Mark Brandi, Geraldine Brooks, Anne Buist, Melanie Cheng, Claire G. Coleman, Ceridwen Dovey, Chris Flynn, Nayuka Gorrie, Dan Harley, Ashley Hay, Toni Jordan, Leah Kaminsky, Paul Kelly, Meg Keneally, Tom Keneally, Cate Kennedy, David Lindenmayer, Ella Loeffler, Maia Loeffler, Jen Martin, Angela Meyer, Sonia Orchard, Favel Parrett, Marissa Parrott, Bruce Pascoe, Jack Pascoe, Sue Pillans, Nick Porch, Holly Ringland, Euan Ritchie, Antoinette Roe, Kirli Saunders, Graeme Simsion, Tracy Sorensen, Shaun Tan, Lucy Treloar, Karen Viggers, Emma Viskic, John Woinarski, Clare Wright.And photographers- Tim Bawden, Kristian Bell, Rohan Bilney, Justin Bruhn, Andrew Buckle, Matt Clancy, Amy Coetsee, Craig Coverdale, Angus Emmott, Jayne Jenkins, Vivien Jones, Sue Liu, Michael Livingston, Caleb McElrea, Nick Monaghan, Richard Pillans, Gillian Rayment, Linda Rogan, David Maurice Smith, Steve Smith, Colin Southwell, Georgina Steytler, Wayne Suffield, Heather Sutton, Peter Taylor, William Terry, Patrick Tomkins, Matt Wright.Imprint: Penguin BooksRRP: $29.99Price: $29.99As the new COVID restrictions are being rolled out we will be CLOSING our doors to the public fo.. 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