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JANUARY 2021 Gwendoline Smith Jack Beaumont Sue Williams Laura Bloom NEW ZEALAND Tracie White with Ronald W Davis new books
THE FRENCHMAN
Jack Beaumont
Allen & Unwin
9781760529383 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction
A gripping debut thriller based on the real-life experiences of a
former French intelligence operative.
Alec de Payns is an operative in the secretive Y Division of the
DGSE, France's famed foreign intelligence service. He's the agent
at the sharp end of clandestine intelligence missions, responsible
for thwarting terror plots and disrupting illegal nuclear and
biological weapons programs. The element the missions have in
common is danger—to de Payns, his team and to those who stand
in his way. But increasingly it's not just the enemies of France
that are being damaged by de Payns' actions. His own marriage
is under strain, and at the back of his mind lurks the fear that
haunts every operative with a family—what if they come after my
children?
This is fiction, but based on the experiences of a real French spy.
The knowledge and tradecraft that lie behind Jack Beaumont's
taut plotting and brilliant eye for detail enliven every page,
making The Frenchman all the more plausible, and all the more
frightening.
Jack Beaumont is the pseudonym of a former operative in the
clandestine operations branch of the French foreign secret
service, the DGSE.
ELIZABETH AND ELIZABETH
Sue Williams
Allen & Unwin
9781760631345 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction
The story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes,
combined their courage and wisdom to wield extraordinary
power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony
There was a moment in Australia's European history when two
women wielded extraordinary power and influence behind the
scenes of the fledgling colony.
One was Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of the new governor
Lachlan Macquarie, nudging him towards social reform and
magnificent buildings and town planning. The other was Elizabeth
Macarthur, the wife of John Macarthur, a dangerous enemy of the
establishment, who is herself credited with creating Australia's
wool industry.
These women should, in normal circumstances, have been bitter
foes. But this fascinating work of historical fiction explores what
happens when two women of vision and courage are thrown
together in impossible times.
Sue Williams is a bestselling author and award-winning
journalist. She lives in Sydney's Kings Cross.
THE WOMEN AND THE GIRLS
Laura Bloom
Allen & Unwin
9781760528652 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction
A kind of Monkey Grip meets Nine to Five, The Women and
The Girls explores the price—and the rewards—of family and
friendship in the Age of Aquarius—and at the dawning of the Age
of Divorce
It's 1977, and warm, bohemian Libby Kinsella—stay-at-home
mother, genius entertainer and gifted cook—is lonely. And so
when two other mothers suddenly decide to leave their husbands
and move out, along with their children, she joins them, forming
a household which is part hippy commune, and part strict group
home. Their exes aren't happy about it, though, and neither are
their children.
Set against a backdrop of inner-city grunge, far-out parties and
Abba songs, The Women and The Girls is a funny, questioning and
moving novel about love, work, friendship and freedom.
Laura Bloom is a screenwriter and acclaimed author of
Augustine's Lunch. She lives in the Northern Rivers region of
NSW.
A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES
Sarah J. Maas
Bloomsbury
9781526633453 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction
Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined A Court of Thorns and
Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister,
Nesta
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly and proud, swift to anger
and slow to forgive. And since the war—since being made High Fae
against her will—she's struggled to forget the horrors she endured
and find a place for herself within the strange and deadly Night
Court. The person who ignites her temper more than any other
is Cassian, the battle-scarred, winged warrior who is there at
Nesta's every turn. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian
ignites. And when they are forced to train in battle together,
sparks become flame.
As the threat of war casts its shadow over them once again,
Nesta and Cassian must fight monsters from within and without
if they are to stand a chance of halting the enemies of their
court. But the ultimate risk will be searching for acceptance—and
healing—in each other's arms.
Sarah J. Maas is the global #1 bestselling author of the Throne
of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses and Crescent City series.
Her books have sold nine million copies worldwide and have
been translated into 37 languages. She lives in the USA.
THE ARREST FREEMAN'S LOVE THE NOTHING MAN
Jonathan Lethem Ed. John Freeman Catherine Ryan Howard
Atlantic Atlantic Corvus
9781838952167 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781611854527 | $27.99 | | PB | Literary Essays 9781786496591 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction
The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't The newest issue of this acclaimed series I was the girl who survived the Nothing
a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what exploring the force of love brings together Man. Now I am the woman who is going to
happens when much of what we take literary heavyweights like Richard Russo, catch him . . . You've just read the opening
for granted—cars, guns, computers and Anne Carson, Sandra Cisneros, Louise words of The Nothing Man, the true crime
airplanes, for starters—stops working. This is Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, Tommy Orange memoir Eve Black has written about her
an utterly original yarn about two siblings, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. obsessive search for the man who killed her
the man that came between them, and a Together, the pieces comprise a stunning family nearly two decades ago. Supermarket
nuclear-powered super car. Written with exploration of the complexities of love, security guard Jim Doyle is reading it too,
unrepentant joy and shot through with just tracing it from its earliest stirrings, to the and with each turn of the page his rage
the right amount of contemporary dread, forbidden places where it emerges against grows. Because Jim was—is—the Nothing
The Arrest is speculative fiction at its reason, to loss so deep it changes the colour Man.
absolute finest. of perception. It promises what only love can
bring: a balm of complexity and warmth. Catherine Ryan Howard is the acclaimed
Jonathan Lethem is the award-winning author of Distress Signals, The Liar's Girl
author of The Feral Detective and John Freeman was the editor of Granta and and Rewind. She lives in Dublin.
Motherless Brooklyn. He lives in California. is the author of The Tyranny of Email and
How to Read a Novelist.
THE WINDSOR KNOT SCAR TISSUE GENDER SWAPPED FAIRY
SJ Bennett Ollie Ollerton TALES
Karrie Fransman,
Zaffre Blink Jonathan Plackett
9781838774158 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781788703819 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction
Faber
An exciting new mystery series in which Ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott
9780571360185 | $45.00 | | HB | Fiction
Queen Elizabeth II is a secret amateur escaped the Middle East under a cloud
detective. Windsor Palace, 2016. The and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore.
morning after her ninetieth birthday Scraping a living as a gun for hire and Imagine a world where kings prick their
celebrations, the Queen is shocked to estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted fingers as they sew and princesses race to
discover that one of her guests has been by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the rescue sleeping princes . . . People have
found dead in his room. It quickly becomes pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside—at been telling fairy tales to their children for
clear that his death was no accident, least he's not in Baghdad. But that’s about hundreds of years. These are not retellings
but when MI5 begin to suspect her loyal to change . . . The first Alex Abbott thriller of the classics but the classics with one vital
servants, she knows that they are looking in from the former-Special Forces soldier change—all the genders have been switched.
the wrong place. It's up to the Queen to find turned number one bestselling author. It might not sound like that much of a
the real killer—before they strike again. change, but you'll be dazzled by the world
Matthew 'Ollie' Ollerton is a former Special this swap creates—and amazed by the new
SJ Bennett is an award-winning author of Forces soldier and bestselling author of heroes you're about to discover.
YA fiction. She lives in London. Break Point and Battle Ready. He lives in
the UK. Karrie Fransman creates visual stories and
comics. Jonathan Plackett is a copywriter
and art director. They live in the UK.
AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS CUTTING EDGE POST MORTEM
BLACK Noir stories by women Elliot Rook, QC: Book 2
David Diop Ed. Joyce Carol Oates Gary Bell
Pushkin Pushkin Vertigo Raven Books
9781782275862 | $27.99 | | HB | Fiction 9781782276517 | $24.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781526612397 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction
Alfa and Mademba are two of the many The outdated noir narrative gets a radical Thirteen men have died in a London prison.
Senegalese tirailleurs who fight in the Great feminist update in this fresh anthology Barrister Elliot Rook QC, who risks losing
War under the French flag. When Mademba featuring some of the world's most everything if his secret criminal past is
is mortally wounded, Alfa is alone amidst celebrated female authors including revealed, must defend Charli Meadows,
the savagery of the trenches, far from all he Margaret Atwood, Steph Cha, Edwidge the vulnerable single mother accused of
holds dear. He throws himself into combat Danticat and more. Here, noir queen Joyce smuggling the deadly tainted drugs inside.
with renewed vigour, but soon begins to Carol Oates has curated a wide range of But just as Rook becomes suspicious of
scare even his own comrades. At Night All stylistically diverse stories and poems that those closest to Charli, a note arrives at his
Blood Is Black captures the tragedy of a could not feel timelier. At times wickedly flat. Can Rook keep his criminal past a secret
young man hurtling towards madness and funny, slyly subversive and always gripping, when facing the most dangerous case of his
the little-heard story of the Senegalese who this striking collection places the voices life?
fought for France on the Western Front. historically consigned to noir's edges front
and centre. Gary Bell QC is an acclaimed British
David Diop grew up in Senegal and lives in barrister and former criminal.
France. At Night All Blood is Black won the Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the PEN
Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. America Lifetime Achievement Award.THE ELECTRIC CHARLOTTE PASS THE FOUNDLING
HOTEL Lee Christine Stacey Halls
Dominic Smith
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Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Manilla
9781760878634 | $22.99 | 9781760878955 | $18.99 | 9781838771409 | $22.99 |
A luminous novel tracing the intertwined fates A shocking discovery deep in the Snowy An exploration of families, secrets, class,
of a silent film director and his muse from the Mountains. A killer who will do anything to keep equality, power and the meaning of
award-winning author of The Last Painting of secrets buried. motherhood, from the bestselling author of
Sara de Vos. The Familiars.
THE RICH MAN'S BODY LANGUAGE THE HEAVENS
HOUSE A. K. Turner Sandra Newman
Andrew McGahan
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Allen & Unwin Zaffre Granta
9781760878597 | $24.99 | 9781838770044 | $22.99 | 9781783784868 | $22.99 |
An unputdownable final novel from the Miles Meet Cassie Raven. Goth. Londoner. Mortuary A mind-expanding story of love complicated by
Franklin Award-winning author of The White assistant. time travel.
Earth.THE BOOK OF ANGST
How to understand and manage anxiety
Gwendoline Smith
Allen & Unwin
9781988547695 | $24.99 | | PB | Personal Development
Anxiety, in its many forms, explained in simple, clear language;
plus more detailed advice on dealing with social anxiety
The current world situation is causing a great deal of fear,
concern, insecurity and uncertainty. This state of angst can be
overwhelming. Renowned clinical psychologist Gwendoline Smith
describes the many manifestations of anxiety, giving you an
understanding as well as recommended treatment methods.
She also provides detail about Social Anxiety Disorder which is
often under diagnosed but is, by far, one of the most crippling
of the many anxiety disorders. Written and illustrated in an
accessible and humorous style, The Book of Angst is based on
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and will help you cope with
life.
Gwendoline Smith B Soc Sci, M Soc Sci (hons), Dip Clin Psych
is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger and the author
of bestselling books The Book of Overthinking, The Book of
Knowing and others. She also goes by the name Dr Know and
lives in New Zealand.THE PUZZLE SOLVER
A scientist's desperate hunt to cure Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
and save his son
Tracie White with Ronald W Davis
Allen & Unwin
9781760875695 | $36.99 | | PB | Memoir
Based on a viral article, the gripping medical mystery story of
Ron Davis, a world-class Stanford geneticist who has put his
career on the line to find the cure for chronic fatigue syndrome,
the disease killing his son
For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a
bedroom unable to walk, to eat, to speak. In desperation, Whitney
and his parents went from one specialist to another, and still no
answers. Then, finally, a diagnosis: the mysterious disease myalgic
encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
Today, ME/CFS affects 20 million people around the world. Those
afflicted largely suffer in silence as the disease is little known and
much misunderstood. Often disbelieved, they're abandoned by
family and friends.
In one way, Whitney has been lucky. He could reach out to his
father, a world-renowned scientist, for answers. The Puzzle
Solver follows Ron as he unravels the molecular trail within his
own son's donated blood and genome, to began to find answers.
He confirms this is a biological disease and uncovers new
possibilities for treatments and potentially a cure. At its heart,
The Puzzle Solver is about more than just cutting edge research—
it's about the unbreakable bond between a father and his son,
and the lengths to which a parent will go to save their child's life.
Tracie White is an award-winning journalist and a science
writer for Stanford University. Ron Davis is a professor of
Biochemistry and Genetics at Stanford University.INTIMACY AND SOLITUDE SOUTHEAST ASIA SOLO
Finding new closeness and self-trust in a An introductory history How to work alone (and not lose your mind)
distanced world Milton Osborne Rebecca Seal
Stephanie Dowrick
Bloomsbury Souvenir Press
Allen & Unwin 9781760877132 | $32.99 | | PB | History 9781788164856 | $32.99 | | PB | Personal Development
9781760879556 | $36.99 | | PB | Personal
Development A lively and easy-to-read guide written by More people are working solo than ever
one of the world's pre-eminent historians before but while there is an abundance of
Social distancing under COVID has of the area. The first edition of Southeast advice on success, happiness, business and
thrown us more deeply into our intimate Asia: An introductory history was published productivity, no one addresses a crucial
relationships, and kept us achingly apart in 1979 and immediately filled a need for topic: how to cope with working alone.
from family, friends and others. Stephanie travellers and students. Subsequent editions Drawing on the latest ideas in psychology,
Dowrick's classic Intimacy and Solitude have continued to document with great economics, business and social science, Solo
is the wise guide we need to help us find perception the enormous changes and covers topics from how to best shape your
our personal ground, whatever challenges dramatic growth experienced in the region. surroundings and build a network to how to
we face. This revised and updated edition Clearly written and extensively illustrated, deal with feeling stuck and whether solitude
includes a new introduction and shows how this thirteenth edition remains a classic in might actually help you to thrive. Solo
possible it is to experience the pleasures of the field. teaches you how to work alone—and like it.
self-acceptance—and the joy of satisfying
connections with others. Dr Milton Osborne is a writer and Rebecca Seal is a freelance journalist,
consultant on Asian issues. He is a Non- editor, TV presenter and author based in
Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, is Australia's most resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for London.
successful personal development writer. International Policy, Sydney.DRAWING ON THE THE SCHOOLGIRL THE LANGUAGE LOVER'S
DOMINANT EYE STRANGLER PUZZLE BOOK
Decoding the way we perceive, create and Katherine Kovacic Alex Bellos
learn
Betty Edwards Echo Guardian Books
9781760686635 | $36.99 | | PB | True Crime 9781783352180 | $32.99 | | HB | Puzzles & Quizzes
Souvenir Press
9781788167932 | $45.00 | | HB | Personal Development Melbourne, 1930. 12-year-old Mena Griffiths The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a
was playing in the park when she was lured book of more than 100 surprising and
Research shows that much like being away by an unknown man. Hours later, her entertaining puzzles that celebrate the
right-handed or left-handed, each of us strangled body was found, mouth gagged amazing diversity of words and language.
has a dominant eye corresponding to the and hands crossed over her chest. What Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern
dominant side of our brain. Once you learn followed was years of bungled investigations and even invented languages, this collection
the difference and try your hand at simple and the tragic deaths of three more girls of problems will introduce you to unusual
drawing exercises, you'll gain fresh insights before the murderer was caught. With all the alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies
into how you perceive, think and create. This pace of a thriller, this is the extraordinary, and phonologies, and global variations in
remarkable tour through art, psychology chilling true story of a homicidal maniac simple behaviours like counting, telling
and the creative process is a must-read for with a Jekyll and Hyde personality, and the the time and naming children. Whether
anyone looking for a richer understanding of families shattered when four innocent lives you are a crossword solver, a code-breaker
our minds and ourselves. You'll learn how to were cruelly taken. or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are
not just look but truly see. guaranteed to sharpen your mind.
Katherine Kovacic is the acclaimed author
Betty Edwards is an art teacher and of the Alex Clayton art mystery series Alex Bellos is the bestselling author of
bestselling author of Drawing on the Right including The Portrait of Molly Dean. She Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can
Side of the Brain. She lives in California. lives in Melbourne. You Solve My Problems? He lives in the UK.STRONGMEN FIGURING OUT THE PAST GRANTA 153: SECOND
How they rise, why they succeed, The 3,495 vital statistics that explain world NATURE
how they fall history
Isabella Tree
Ruth Ben-Ghiat Peter Turchin and
Daniel Hoyer Granta
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9781788164764 | $36.99 | | PB | History Profile
9781788161923 | $32.99 | | HB | History Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author
Ours is the age of the strongman. Russia, of Wilding, this nature issue touches on
India, Turkey and America are ruled by men We are used to thinking about history in every continent in the world and features
who, as they have risen to the top, have terms of stories. Yet we understand our award-winning writers, expert scientists
reshaped their countries around them, own world through data: vast arrays of and activists from the frontlines of the
creating cults of personality. And as they do statistics that reveal the workings of our climate crisis including Indigenous elder Rod
so, they employ behaviour established by societies. Drawing on the Seshat project, a Mason and environmentalist Tim Flannery.
figures such as Mussolini, Gaddafi and Hitler. staggeringly ambitious attempt to log each It encapsulates the state of nature and
piece of demographic and econometric our different cultural relationships with it
Strongmen draws on analysis of everything information that can be reliably estimated worldwide.
from gender and sexuality to diplomatic for every society that has ever existed,
strategy to explain who these political Figuring Out The Past does more than tell Isabella Tree is the award-winning author
figures are—and how they manipulate our the story of the past: it shows you the large- of five books. She lives in the UK.
own history, fears and desires in search of scale patterns.
power at any cost.
Professor Peter Turchin and Dr Dan Hoyer
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and are part of the Seshat: Global History
Italian Studies at New York University. Databank Project.VALENTINO ROSSI BEGINNERS AGELESS
The definitive biography The curious power of lifelong learning The new science of getting older without
Stuart Barker Tom Vanderbilt getting old
Andrew Steele
John Blake Atlantic
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Valentino Rossi is an icon: the most For many of us, the last time we learned a
successful and most loved motorcycle racer new skill was during childhood. But could What if we could slow down the process of
of all time, he has transcended MotoGP we benefit from embracing new skills, even ageing—or even stop it? Ageless introduces
to become a symbol of courage, risk and if we're initially hopeless? Tom Vanderbilt us to the cutting-edge research that is
daring. Using exclusive new interviews sets out to find the answer, tasking himself paving the way for a revolution in medicine.
with those who have been part of Rossi's with acquiring several new skills under the It takes us inside the laboratories where
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in-depth book ever written about the Italian juggling, surfing and more. Witty and often cell—DNA, mitochondria, stems cells, our
superstar—a tale of speed, love and loss in all surprisingly profound, Beginners is an immune systems, even age—all in an effort
its adrenalin-charged, high-octane glory. uplifting exploration of the science of brain to forestall or reverse the body's decline. It
plasticity and how we can learn how to learn offers reality-based hope, explaining what is
Stuart Barker is a critically acclaimed and anew. happening as we age and practical ways we
bestselling motorsport author. He lives in can help slow down the process.
the UK. Tom Vanderbilt writes on design,
technology, science and culture, and is Dr Andrew Steele is a British
the author of the international bestseller computational biologist.
Traffic. He is based in New York.HOLLYWOOD SEX POWER
WANTS TO KILL MONEY
YOU Sara Pascoe
Michael Brooks,
Rick Edwards
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An hilarious popular science book from the The award-winning comedian turns her
EAT BETTER FOREVER bestselling authors of Science(ish). attention to the things that really matter to
7 simple ways to transform your diet humans—sex, power and money.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Bloomsbury
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THE ART OF REST THE CROWN 2
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Whittingstall gives you all the tools to
Robert Lacey
modern age
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your life—permanently. And to help it all
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