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HIGHLIGHTS 2019
Welcome to Brio Books’
2019 Highlights Catalogue
Within, you’ll find spirited reading for young and
old – from the latest in literary fiction, to hilarious
activity books for kids, from invigorating popular
mathematics, to compelling memoir.
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
BRIO BOOKS
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CONTENTS
Make a Home to Love
Anna-Carin McNamara ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������6
The F.A.R.T. Files
Dr Rob Bell �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������8
Carter Brown 'Al Wheeler' Books 3 and 4
Carter Brown �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������10
Signs From Spirit Paperback Edition
Mitchell Coombes �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������12
Adam Spencer’s mini book of numbers
Adam Spencer ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������14
The Orphancorp Trilogy
Marlee Jane Ward �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������16
Meet Me in Milan
Hedley Derenzie �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������18
Adam Spencer’s Top 100 B+ format
Adam Spencer ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������20
H E D L E Y DE R E N Z I E
Her Kind of Luck
Michelle Balogh ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������22
Viva La Novella VII �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������24
At the Edge of the Solid World
Daniel Davis Wood .......................................................................................26
New Oracle Cards
Mitchell Coombes �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������28
The Fantastica Prize ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������30
The Prime Suspects
Adam Spencer ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������32
A Number of Things
Adam Spencer ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������34
MAKE A HOME
TO LOVE
Anna-Carin McNamara
18 ANNA-CARIN MCNAMARA
On the subject of surplus ‘stuff’, I would like to present you with
some statistics I first about read in a book called Organizing
from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern. The statistics are
American, but Australians are no different.
Have you ever picked up an interior design magazine, • We waste nine million hours per day searching for
misplaced items (American Demographics Society).
drooled over the beautiful, stylised spaces, put it • The average executive wastes six weeks per year
searching for missing information in messy desks and
back down, looked around your home and thought,
files (The Wall Street Journal).
• Cleaning professionals say that getting rid of excess
clutter would eliminate 40 per cent of the housework
‘How on earth do I do that?’ Would you like a home in an average home (National Soap & Detergent
Association).
of which you can be proud? A home that you are • Real estate agents regard ‘first impression’ improve-
ments such as decluttering closets to be one of the
smartest ways to speed the sale of a home and fetch a
happy to return to every single day? A home that better price (New York State Association of Realtors).
I thoroughly recommend Morgenstern’s book for the invalu-
you truly love? If so, then this book is for you. able information and methodology it contains. These figures
cannot lie. Many of us are guilty of excess clutter, which takes
up as much headspace as it does floor and surface space, and
Make a Home to Love takes you through ten simple clouds our vision of our personal sanctuaries.
steps that will help you to review your house and
turn it into a home you can love and be proud of for 46 ANNA-CARIN MCNAMARA
years to come. Written by Swedish-born interior
designer Anna-Carin McNamara, the book offers LAUNDRY
practical, accessible advice on how to turn any The laundry can be small. It can be a cupboard in a wall, lit-
erally a door that you open and there’s a washing machine, a
abode into a stylish Scandinavian sanctuary.
dryer, a bench and a sink and that’s it. Mine is tiny. As such,
it’s not often prioritised. But I’m including it here because it
relates directly to the ritual of washing clothes, folding them,
and putting them away. Many people do this every day of their
lives, and as such it should be as pleasant—and logical—an ex-
perience as possible.
Praise for Make a Home to Love
I actually love laundries. When I design a laundry I try to make
sure there’s natural lighting, it’s well ventilated, and there’s
enough room to stand comfortably, with access to a work sur-
face. There must be somewhere that you can hang clothes when
it’s raining and you can’t put everything in the dryer. Even just
a rod in the ceiling with hangers will do. If you have room, the
laundry should be in an accessible position in the house and
not necessarily always tucked back in the worst spot. You are
spending a lot of time there, after all.
‘Make a Home to Love teaches you how to create Acknowledging your daily routines and rituals forms a critical
part of your home review. Japanese organising consultant and
author Marie Kondo introduced us to the fine art of cherishing
a home you love – one that you love spending time
in every day – so that you can excel in all areas of
your life, because your home and the spaces you
spend time in influence your productivity,
creativity and inspiration.’ Anna-Carin McNamara is a Swedish-born interior
—Kristina Karlsson, founder of kikki.K. designer with a Master’s degree in Interior Design
from the Royal College of Art in London. She is
‘Anna-Carin’s work reflects the quality, elegance the founder and director of Anna Carin Design
and clean details of Swedish design, and draws (ACD), a Sydney-based interior design studio that
on the earthy warmth of her rural heritage.’ specialises in high-end Scandinavian interiors. Her
—House of Home Forsa Rug Collection for Designer Rugs, inspired
by her Swedish roots, was a finalist in the 2014
‘Anna-Carin McNamara demonstrates a profound Good Design Awards. Anna-Carin’s work has ‘The question
of what you want
eloquence in her narrative ... Having made Sydney been featured in many publications, including to own is actually
her home, her kinship and admiration for local the question of
Vogue Living, Belle, Home Beautiful and Australian how you want
materials are inspired by her years in Sweden House & Garden. She is currently developing
to live your life.’
April 2019
and provide both utility and humilty in her work.’ Category: Interior design
further products under the ACD brand and the Imprint: Xoum
—The Local Project Format: Hardback RRP $34.99
studio is working on a wide range of projects in
ISBN: 9781925589771
both Australia and Scandinavia. Make a Home Rights: World
Marie Kondo
to Love is her first book. She lives in Sydney.
6 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 7
THE F.A.R.T. FILES
Book 2
Dr Rob Bell
Sommerton High is in lockdown! A fiendish prankster
is on the loose! Someone has planted a fake bomb in
the playground and the whole school is freaking out!
Of course it doesn’t take the police long to
realise it’s a fake. But two days later a series of
petty thefts rocks the neighbourhood. Who’s
behind it all? And why target Sommerton High?
Meet the Forensic Amateur Research Team – or
F.A.R.T. for short. This crack squad is made up of
Sam Tran: unofficial team leader, Madison ‘Maddie’
Litchfield: tech whiz, Arlia Humphreys: new kid at
school (possibly a spy), and Declan Peterson: science
guru (prone to accidents). Oh, and Dan Tran, Sam’s
little brother, who regularly brings everyone lunch.
Using their intuition, wits and some surprising
knowledge of physics and chemistry, this unlikely mob
of misfits sets about finding the prankster thieves!
Dr Rob Bell has a Bachelor of Science with Honours
and a PhD in materials chemistry from the University
of Queensland. He says that his love of science (and
particularly the environment) came from growing up
on a pineapple farm, where he became passionate
about the impact that humans have on our world
and its natural resources. Dr Rob has worked as a
Science Education Officer for the CSIRO, teaching
students about science in the lab and at schools,
May 2019
and spent nearly 11 years hosting the Network Category: Children’s fiction,
Ten kids science show Scope. These days he runs ages 8–12
Imprint: Xoum
a science education website while writing his new Format: Paperback RRP $14.99
series of books for kids aged eight to twelve: The ISBN: 9781925589726
Rights: World
F.A.R.T Files. He lives with his family in Brisbane.
8 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 9
CARTER BROWN
‘Al Wheeler’ Books 3 and 4
Alan Geoffrey Yates (aka Carter Brown) was a
literary phenomenon. He wrote westerns under the
pseudonym Todd Conway; romances under Caroline
Farr and science fiction under Paul Valdez. He even
found the time to write books under various versions of
his own name as well as other pseudonyms including
Dennis Sinclair and Sinclair MacKellar. But it was
his pseudonym Carter Brown who was to become
the international bestselling pulp fiction sensation.
Born in England, Yates married and settled
in Australia in 1948. He worked as a film
technician, a salesman and in public relations
for Qantas before taking up writing full-time.
Early success in the 1950s meant that he was
contracted to produce one short novel and two longer
novels each and every month. He was truly prolific
with 322 published Carter Brown novels and was
a huge international success with reportedly 150
Praise for Carter Brown
million books sold, second only to The Bible in terms
of the number of languages they were translated ‘At his peak in America, Carter Brown was
into. There was a comic book series, the ‘Carter selling 350,000 copies a book a year and in
Brown Murder Mystery Hour’ on radio, three French Australia we were doing 30,000—40,000 a book
films, a Japanese TV series, and a French literary ... so you can see how he built up to 100 million
award for ‘The most whiskies drunk in a single copies. Yates was bigger than big … it was
novel’. Carter Brown was also rumoured to have difficult to find a country he wasn’t published
been one of John F Kennedy’s favourite authors. in.’ —Lyle Moore, Horwitz Publications
In the early 1980s, Yates and Richard O’Brien
of The Rocky Horror Show fame wrote a musical ‘Pulp fiction, in its most innocent form, was written
of the Carter Brown novella, The Stripper, for eternally adolescent males. It featured guns,
described in the parlance of the day as ‘the gals and wise-acre cops with a penchant for
girl who says it all from the neck down’. corny, hard-boiled dialogue. The most astonishing
Yates died in 1985 in Sydney. In 1997, he was thing about the Carter Brown stories is the
posthumously awarded a Ned Kelly, Australia’s fact that he could weave his way through this
leading literary award for crime writing, phalluscentric age of fiction without his work
for his lifelong contribution to the art. becoming misogynistic. Possibly this is because
In June 2019, Brio will rerelease more classic ‘Al the author himself was incapable of such behaviour.’
Wheeler’ novellas by the legendary Carter Brown. —Richard O’Brien, Rocky Horror creator
June 2019
Category: Children’s fiction, ages 8–12
Category: Crime fiction
Imprint: Xoum
Imprint: CB
Format: Paperback RRP $14.99
Format: Paperbacks RRP $24.99 each
ISBNs:ISBN: 9781925589726
9781922057372 / 9781922057396
Rights:Rights: World
World ex US/Canada
10 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 11
SIGNS FROM
SPIRIT Paperback edition
Inspiring true stories
from the afterlife
Mitchell Coombes
We can all learn to notice signs from Spirit. Just like a
friend who sends an emoji to your mobile phone to say
‘hello’, ‘smile’, or ‘I’m thinking of you’, our departed
loved ones say ‘hi’ or ‘I’m here’ using our memories,
mother nature, uncanny events, songs, feelings or
even words from a stranger to deliver their message.
In the paperback edition of Signs from Spirit, readers
from all walks of life share with Mitchell Coombes
their enchanting, heart-warming and breath-taking
stories about the moment their departed loved
ones sent a much-needed sign. From messages in
dreams, feather-like touches and signature scents,
through to radios bursting into song and the wonders
of nature – Spirit reaches out to all in amazing,
wonderful, and sometimes life-changing ways.
The bonus ‘Meditation Analysis Dictionary’
features a collection of over one hundred signs,
including colours and numbers. Together with
Spirit, celebrity medium Mitchell Coombes
interprets the meaning of these signs to provide
the special messages each may hold for you.
Mitchell Coombes is Australia’s most trusted
psychic medium and the author of the bestselling
books Sensing Spirit, Sensing Psychic and Signs
from Spirit. Coming from a long line of gifted
psychics, Mitchell first recalls seeing spirits as
a toddler. Soon after, his Nanna taught him to
read tea leaves, and at the age of twelve Mitchell
inherited a set of tarot cards that had belonged to
his departed uncle – an accomplished astrologer.
June 2019 Children’s fiction, ages 8–12
Calling on his remarkable psychic gifts to reveal Category:
Category: Mind, body, spirit
Imprint: Xoum
Xoum
the future and communicate with the Spirit Imprint:
Format: Paperback RRP $19.99
$14.99
Format: Paperback RRP
World, Mitchell has helped people from all walks ISBN: 9781925589818
9781925589726
ISBN:
Rights: World
World
of life. He lives on the NSW Central Coast. Rights:
12 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 13
ADAM SPENCER’S
MINI BOOK OF
NUMBERS
Adam Spencer In 1996, while doing a Maths PhD at Sydney Uni,
Adam Spencer won the Melbourne International
Comedy Festival Raw Comedy Championship.
Our very own Sultan of STEM, Crusader of
He went on to host the triple j breakfast show
Calculus, Prince of Pi – Adam Barrington
with Wil Anderson before graduating to 702
Spencer – is back in 2019 with more teasing,
ABC Sydney where he hosted the breakfast
tantalising and tricky maths games, puzzles
show for eight years. His TV credits include The
and quizzes for young and hungry minds.
Scared of square roots? Petrified of Pythagoras? Glasshouse, Good News Week, The Project, Q&A
Frightened of factorials? Let Australia’s funniest and, with Dr Karl, Sleek Geeks. He is the author
mathematician enthral and entertain as he of several wickedly popular and side-splittingly
dymystifies numbers in this bumper new edition. funny mathematics books and lives in Sydney.
Adam Spencer’s Mini Book of Numbers follows
on from the bestselling Enormous Book of Numbers
(2015), Number Crunchers (2016), and The Number
Dectective (2018), and is guaranteed to keep
kids aged 6—12 occupied for hours on end.
Praise for Big Book of Numbers
‘Funny, informative and, even better for dummies like
me, all the answers are in the back!’ —Wil Anderson
‘Every bright young mind in Australia should read
Adam Spencer’s Big Book of Numbers – and we
oldies would benefit too.’ —Peter FitzSimons
‘Even the page numbers will start to look fascinating
once you’ve read this book!’ —Amanda Keller
‘A brilliant introduction to the world of numbers. Funny
yet with hidden depths, like its author.’ —Brian Cox
July 2019
Category: Children’s activity,
ages 6–12
Imprint: Xoum
Format: Paperback RRP $19.99
ISBN: 9781925589849
Rights: World
14 Brio Books 2019
THE MARLEE JANE WARD
ORPHANCORP
TRILOGY
Marlee Jane Ward
A sharp-edged coming-of-age trilogy with
a sassy protagonist. Think Never Let Me
Go meets Orange is the New Black. WELCOME TO
’An intimate, heartfelt story set in the darkest of places.
Welcome to Orphancorp
I can’t stop thinking about these characters.’ Kij Johnson
Mirii Mahoney is an orphan who can’t remember
life outside the walls of Orphancorp. If she can just
keep out of trouble, she’s going to taste freedom for
the first time, but she’s fighting against the system,
against the other kids, and against herself.
A heartfelt, brutal, funny, and diverse
story that is pacey, fresh and timely.
Psynode
Having barely made it out of Orphancorp alive, Marlee Jane Ward is a writer, reader and weirdo
Mirii’s search for the most important babe in her living in Melbourne. She grew up on the Central
life, Vu, continues. Vu has been taken to ‘Psynode’, Coast of New South Wales and studied Creative
a secret facility operated by the megacorp Allnode. Writing at the University of Wollongong. She
After wrangling her way into the Allnode likes dreaming of the future, cats, and making
warehouse as a picker, Mirii meets Rowe, the an utter spectacle of herself. You can find her
daughter of one of Allnode’s execs, who may just be short stories in the Hear Me Roar Anthology,
the perfect person to help her with the mission. Interdictions and Mad Scientist Journal. Her
But life at Allnode is far from cushy and novella Welcome to Orphancorp won the 2015
Mirii has to battle her way through the dangers Seizure Viva La Novella Prize and the 2016 Victorian
of her new job, the corps that she knows are Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction.
watching her and get to Vu before it’s too late. Its sequel, Psynode, was published in 2017.
Prisoncorp (2019)
Mirii has been caught – along with the friends
who were helping her find her partner, Vu.
Being in prison is just like her revisiting her
childhood in Orphancorp – only worse. Under
August 2019
the beating heat of a desert sun, the prisoners Category: YA fiction/dystopia
fight for food, water and a safe place to sleep. Imprint: Seizure
Our heroine begins to question her urge to fight Format: Paperback RRP $19.99
ISBN: 9781925589542
back and rebel as all it seems to do is lead her and Rights: World
the people she cares for deeper into trouble.
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MEET ME
IN MILAN
Hedley Derenzie
Four years after her disastrous search for love in Paris
(the alleged ‘city of love’), Hedley Derenzie is ready
to give it another go. Determined to break out of her
comfort zone of singledom, she engages professional
help in the form of a psychologist before deciding the
best form of therapy would be to take herself to Italy.
Early on in her travels, Hedley meets a man
who captures her attention and before she knows
it she’s jetting around the country, dining at
fabulous restaurants and living the life of Riley
(that’s if Riley were a woman in her late thirties
looking for love). So what if this man is older (as in
a lot older) and reminds her of her father? Hedley
can’t help but wonder – could he be the one?
Meet Me in Milan is a funny, honest and
raw memoir about Hedley’s ongoing quest for
love, this time in the land of la dolce vita.
Praise for Finding Paris by Hedley
Derenzie
‘Hedley Derenzie writes with startling resonance
about the rocky road to self-discovery after it dawns
on her that she alone is the common denominator
in her heartbreaks. A love story told with raw
emotion, heart and great optimism.’ —Jacinta
Tynan, journalist and author of Mother Zen
H E D L E Y DE R E N Z I E
Hedley Derenzie is a Sydney-based writer
whose work has appeared Nature & Health,
The Huffington Post and Thought Catalog,
among other publications. She is the author August 2019
Category: Children’s fiction, ages 8–12
of several books, including two on public Category: Memoir
Imprint: Xoum
Imprint: Xoum
Format: Paperback
speaking; Write Way Home, a personal guide Format: Paperback RRP
RRP $14.99
$29.99
ISBN: 9781925589726
to unlocking creativity; and Finding Paris, the ISBN: 9781925589825
Rights: World
World
Rights:
first in her travel/romance memoir series.
18 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 19ADAM SPENCER’S
TOP 100 B+ format
Adam Spencer
Which number terrifies Ogdokontaheptaphobes?
Why would you watch the same clock for 14 years?
And have you met the 23-million-digit prime?
The answers to all of these questions – and much,
much more – are in Adam Spencer’s Top 100.
Bursting at the seams with puzzles, quizzes,
games, numerical trivia and fun, this nicely
priced B+ format edition of the 2018 bestseller is
the ultimate book for maths nerds – and anyone
with an inquiring mind. Whether you’re 8 or 80,
strap your thinking cap on, grab a pencil and get
ready to count down from 100 to 1 with Australia’s
favourite – and funniest – mathematician.
Praise for Big Book of Numbers
‘Funny, informative and, even better for dummies like
me, all the answers are in the back!’ —Wil Anderson
‘Even the page numbers will start to look fascinating
once you’ve read this book!’ —Amanda Keller
In 1996, while doing a Maths PhD at Sydney Uni,
Adam Spencer won the Melbourne International
Comedy Festival Raw Comedy Championship.
He went on to host the triple j breakfast show
with Wil Anderson before graduating to 702
ABC Sydney where he hosted the breakfast
show for eight years. His TV credits include The August 2019
Glasshouse, Good News Week, The Project, Q&A Category: Science
Imprint: Xoum ‘If you find this book boring,
and, with Dr Karl, Sleek Geeks. He is the author Format: Paperback RRP $26.99
of several wickedly popular and side-splittingly ISBN: 9781922267023 you should be in a clinic!’
Rights: World
funny mathematics books and lives in Sydney. —John Cleese on Big Book of Numbers
20 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 21HER KIND
OF LUCK
Michelle Balogh
A violin prodigy. A Guinness World-Record-
Holder. An ASIO target. A grandmother ...
Michelle Balogh was depressed, unemployed
and rudderless when she moved into her step-
great-grandmother Shan-Yi’s Sydney flat.
Recently deceased, Shan-Yi had been part of
her family since before Michelle was born and
staying at the glamourous art deco apartment
was meant to help Michelle back on her feet.
However, the experience did more than just give
Michelle respite. She found an extraordinary trove
of letters, diaries and papers that told of her great-
grandmother’s unique life – one of adventure and
heartache, trans-Atlantic travel and espionage.
Part memoir, part biography and part historical
reconstruction, Her Kind of Luck is about
the luck we find – and the luck we make for
ourselves. Through careful research, Michelle
Balogh paints an unforgettable picture of her
great-grandmother, while coming to terms
with her own choices and responsibilities.
Michelle Balogh is a freelance writer and illustrator.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Music
from the University of New South Wales, and in
2014 she completed a Master of Arts in Creative
Writing at UTS. Her work has been shortlisted for
the Children’s Book Council of Australia Aspiring
Writers’ Mentorship, and highly commended
in the University of New South Wales literary
journal. Following graduation, she pursued a
brief career in beauty and lifestyle writing, before
August 2019
discovering that the stories she wanted to tell Category: Memoir
were closer to home. Her short work of memoir Imprint: Brio
Format: Paperback RRP $29.99
and imaginative biography, ‘Shan-Yi’, on which ISBN: 9781925589856
Her Kind of Luck is based, was shortlisted for the Rights: World
Scribe Nonfiction Prize in 2016. She lives in Sydney.
22 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 23VIVA LA NOVELLA VII
Seizure’s innovative Viva La Novella Prize is in its seventh year. The Prize has reinvigorated interest in short-form
fiction and it has been an honour to publish the breakout works of fourteen talented new authors.
Each year the competition gets more and more attention – particularly after Marlee Jane Ward won the 2016
Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for her novella Welcome to Orphancorp and when The Fish Girl by Mirandi
Riwoe was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Queenland Literary Award, Fiction Prize in 2018.
In 2018, for the first time, we had Kiwi winners with Avi Duckor-Jones and Anna Jackson showing off the writing
talents of our antipodean neighbours.
Viva La Novella is now firmly established as a launchpad for new authors who want to publish fresh and edgy
works in an accessible format.
In 2019, we will be thrilled to announce two brilliant new titles and introduce two new voices to the world of
literature.
September 2019
Category: Children’s fiction, ages 8–12
Category: Literary fiction/novella
Imprint: Xoum
Imprint: Seizure
Format: Paperback
Paperbacks RRP$14.99
RRP
Format: $17.99 each
ISBN: 9781925589726
ISBNs: 9781925589870 / 9781925589894
Rights: World
World
Rights:
24 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 25AT THE
EDGE OF THE
SOLID WORLD
Daniel Davis Wood
In a snowbound village in the heart of the Swiss
Alps, a husband and wife find their lives breaking
apart in the days and months following the death
of their firstborn. On the far side of the world, in
their hometown of Sydney, a man on the margins
of Australian society commits an act of shocking
violence that galvanises international attention.
As the husband recognises signs of his own
grief in both the survivors and the perpetrator,
his fixation on the details of the case feeds into
Daniel Davis Wood was born in Sydney and is
insomnia, trauma, and an obsession with the
currently based in Birmingham, England. In a
terms on which we give value to human lives.
previous life, he taught literature and history at the
At the Edge of the Solid World is a compulsive,
compelling and lyrical novel, told with extraordinary Arts Educational Schools in London and at the Ecole
empathy and emotional intelligence. It is the story d’Humanité in Hasliberg Goldern, Switzerland. He
of a child’s life cut short after just one day. Of a holds a PhD in English on the jurisprudential legacy
mother and father bereft at the loss of the future of the nineteenth century frontier in American
they’d imagined. Of an unspeakable crime, public literature and popular culture. In addition to
outrage, anguish on the streets and a media frenzy teaching and conducting research, he co-edited
that engineers heroes and villains, martyrs and the academic journal Antithesis and edited and
scapegoats. Most of all, it is a profound meditation on published a collection of essays on the work of the
the nature of loss, the resilience and fragility of the American writer Edward P. Jones. Currently he is
family unit and the stories we tell to explain the world. editor at Splice, a small press based in the UK.
Praise for Daniel Davis Wood
‘[Blood and Bone] ... fulfils two objectives: shedding
light on a dark past, and exploring intellectual
and aesthetic problems that the writing of such
a story might create. [It] is grounded in factual
material and Wood has filled the gaps with
imagined scenes and conversations, but the September 2019
tale is made seamless by a tight structure and a Category: Literary fiction
Imprint: Brio
hypnotic style.’ —The Sydney Morning Herald Format: Paperback RRP $29.99
ISBN: 9781922267009
Rights: World
26 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 27MITCHELL COOMB E S
NEW ORACLE
CARDS Mitchell Coombes is Australia’s most trusted
psychic medium and the author of the bestselling
Mitchell Coombes books Sensing Spirit, Sensing Psychic and Signs
from Spirit. Coming from a long line of gifted
psychics, Mitchell first recalls seeing spirits as
Mitchell Coombes’ new Oracle Cards offer insightful
answers and spiritual guidance on your love life, a toddler. Soon after, his Nanna taught him to
career, health, family, finances and more. Each of read tea leaves, and at the age of twelve Mitchell
the 52 cards in this unique deck features a beautiful inherited a set of tarot cards that had belonged to
design to help you tune into your intuition and his departed uncle – an accomplished astrologer.
awaken your psychic senses. With the help of the Calling on his remarkable psychic gifts to reveal
September 2019
Category: Mind,
Children’s
bonus guidebook, you’ll discover the meaning the future and communicate with the Spirit Category: body,fiction,
spirit ages 8–12
Imprint: Xoum
of each card and learn how to give yourself and World, Mitchell has helped people from all walks Imprint: Xoum
Format: Paperback RRP $14.99
Format: Boxed cards RRP $24.99
others accurate and insightful readings. of life. He lives on the NSW Central Coast. ISBN: 9781925589726
ISBN: 9781925589917
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28 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 29THE
FANTASTICA
PRIZE
Fantastica’s inaugural prize celebrates science
fiction, not fantasy. Anything high-tech, low-tech
or even no-tech. Stories set on a generation ship,
on a futuristic terra firma or on a planet a million
light years away. Works that start with a bang, blow
readers’ minds and subvert their expectations.
The winner will receive $2000 and print and digital
publication through Fantastica. They will have their
manuscript carefully shepherded to publication by
an editor and the Fantastica team. The winning
novel will be professionally designed with our usual
flair and unleashed in digital and printed form in
bookshops, on our website and eBook retailers.
October 2019
Category: Children’s fiction, ages 8–12
Category: Science fiction
Imprint: Xoum
Imprint: Fantastica
Format: Paperback
Paperback RRP $14.99
RRP
Format: $29.99
ISBN: 9781925589726
ISBN: 9781925589986
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30 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 31THE PRIME SUSPECTS
Adam Spencer
A group of seven numerical mischief makers has turned
the world of numbers on its head! It’s up to you to solve the
puzzles, find the clues and get to the bottom of the mystery.
After the runaway bestsellers Enormous Book of Numbers
(2015), Number Crunchers (2016), and The Number Dectective
(2018), Australia’s funniest maths dude is back with another
bumper activity book for young and eager minds.
Perfect for ages six and up, Adam Spencer’s The Prime Suspects
is chock full of quizzes, code-breaking challenges, facts and games
that will keep kids both large and small entertained for hours on end.
A group of seven
numerical mischief
makers turn the
We've got
him (or her)
Crossnumbers! world of numbers
on its head.
on the run!
1
2
8 x 9
3 4
5
6
7 8
9
Across Down
2. Two consecutive numbers to give 72. 1. Get 57 from the digits of 193.
3. Make 10 with the factors of 21 using only one3. Make 10 using the factors of 21
basic operation. using three basic operations.
5. Make 33 using the 2nd and 5th prime numbers. 4. Two consecutive odd numbers
6. The largest number you can make using the to get 143.
digits 1234. 8. 24 12 8 6 4 3 2 1 – Using only
7. Make 44 using the three largest factors of 24. two factors of 24, make 48.
9. Two consecutive numbers to give 30.
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November 2019
Category: Children’s activity,
ages 6–12
Imprint: Xoum
Format: Paperback RRP $19.99
ISBN: 9781925589931
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32 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 33A NUMBER
OF THINGS
Adam Spencer
Get ready for another nailbiting nerdfest as
Australia’s funniest mathematician returns in 2019
with a rollicking romp through the world of science,
technology, numbers and all things geeky!
This terrific new fully illustrated title follows on
from the bestselling Big Book of Numbers (2014),
World of Numbers (2015), Time Machine (2016),
The Number Games (2017), and Top 100 (2018). It’s
packed full of fascinating facts, tantalising trivia,
brainbusting puzzles, and much much more.
Praise for Big Book of Numbers
‘Funny, informative and, even better for dummies like
me, all the answers are in the back!’ —Wil Anderson
‘Every bright young mind in Australia should read
Adam Spencer’s Big Book of Numbers – and we
oldies would benefit too.’ —Peter FitzSimons
‘Even the page numbers will start to look fascinating
once you’ve read this book!’ —Amanda Keller
In 1996, while doing a Maths PhD at Sydney Uni,
Adam Spencer won the Melbourne International
Comedy Festival Raw Comedy Championship.
He went on to host the triple j breakfast show
with Wil Anderson before graduating to 702
ABC Sydney where he hosted the breakfast
November 2019
show for eight years. His TV credits include The Category: Science
Glasshouse, Good News Week, The Project, Q&A Imprint: Xoum
Format: Paperback RRP $34.99
and, with Dr Karl, Sleek Geeks. He is the author ISBN: 9781925589924
of several wickedly popular and side-splittingly Rights: World
funny mathematics books and lives in Sydney.
34 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 35www.briobooks.com.au
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