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January–June 2021
'Through all aspects of society, be it art,
design, the financial markets, government,
technology, or communications, we are witnessing
unprecedented global transformation — the
result of which is impossible to predict.'
Malcolm McLaren (2009)
January–June 2021
Contents
The Diet Compass 1 Our Hormones, Our Health 14
Bas Kast Dr Susanne Esche-Belke &
Dr Suzann Kirschner-Brouns
Beowulf 2
Maria Dahvana Headley The Just 15
Jan Brokken
Sex at Dawn 3
Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá Monsters 16
Alison Croggon
#ENTRYLEVELBOSS 4
Alexa Shoen The Changing of the Guard 17
Simon Akam
Prosopagnosia 5
Sònia Hernández A Room Called Earth 18
Madeleine Ryan
Repentance 6
Alison Gibbs Little Brother 19
Ibrahima Balde &
The New Climate War 7 Amets Arzallus Antia
Michael E. Mann
The Invention of Miracles 20
Promises to Keep 8 Katie Booth
Joe Biden
Black and Blue 21
Literary Lion Tamers 9 Veronica Gorrie
Craig Munro
Plunder 22
The Beach Caves 10 Menachem Kaiser
Trevor Shearston
Higher Ground 23
The Speechwriter 11 Anke Stelling
Martin McKenzie-Murray
The Walls Came Tumbling Down 24
How We Are Translated 12 Henriette Roosenburg
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
Cop This Lot 25
We See It All 13 Tobias McCorkell
Jon Fasman
Contents
continued
The Chief Witness 26 Rewilding the Urban Soul 32
Sayragul Sauytbay Claire Dunn
A Matter of Death and Life 27 So Tell Me About the Last Time
Irvin D. Yalom & Marilyn Yalom You Had Sex 33
Ian Kerner
The Ghost in the Garden 28
Jude Piesse All That I Remember About
Dean Cola 34
Two-Week Wait 29 Tania Chandler
Luke C. Jackson, Kelly Jackson,
& Mara Wild The Union of Synchronised
Swimmers 35
An Unconventional Wife 30 Cristina Sandu
Mary Hoban
Recent Releases 36
King Richard 31
Michael Dobbs Foreign Rights Sub-Agents 48
POPUL AR HEALTH / POPUL AR SCIENCE JANUARY 2021
Bas Kast The Diet Compass
Translated by David Shaw the 12-step guide to science-based
nutrition for a healthier and longer life
What do people with a particularly long life-span eat?
How can you lose weight efficiently?
Are illnesses in old age avoidable?
Can you ‘eat yourself young’?
Discover the answers to these questions and more in this practical,
science-based guide to eating well and living longer, which has
sold over a million copies worldwide.
When science journalist Bas Kast collapsed with chest
pains, he feared he had ruined his health forever with a diet of
junk food. So he set off on a journey to uncover the essentials of
diet and longevity.
Here, filtered from thousands of sometimes conflicting
research findings, Kast presents the key scientific insights that
reveal the most beneficial diet possible. From analysing how
BAS KAST was born in 1973, and
studied psychology and biol-
much sugar you should consume to looking at the impact of
ogy in Constance, Bochum, and supplements, fasting, and even whether you should drink tea or
Boston. He works as a science coffee, Kast breaks down diet myths to present the key facts you
journalist and author. His pub-
lications include I Do Not Know need to know in clear, accessible language.
What I Want (2012), and And
Suddenly CLICK! (2015).
DAVID SHAW works as a journal-
ist for Germany’s international
broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, as
well as translating from several
languages, including German,
Dutch, Russian, and French. He
lives in Berlin.
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1
JANUARY 2021 EPIC POETRY
Maria Dahvana Beowulf
Headley a new translation
A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the
acclaimed novel The Mere Wife.
A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence
in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A
dragon ends it all.
This radical new verse translation of Beowulf by Maria
Dahvana Headley brings to light elements that have never
before been translated into English. The familiar elements
of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender,
genre, and history — it has always been a tale of entitlement
and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more
powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but
this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting
her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY is a #1 significant shifts lost over centuries, transforming the binary
New York Times bestselling author
and editor, most recently of the narrative of monsters and heroes into a thrilling tale in which the
novels The Mere Wife, Magonia, two categories often entwine.
and Queen of Kings, and the
memoir The Year of Yes. With Kat
Howard she is the co-author of
The End of the Sentence, and with
Neil Gaiman she is the co-editor
of Unnatural Creatures. Her short
stories have been shortlisted for
the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and
World Fantasy Awards, and her
work has been supported by the
MacDowell Colony and by Arte
Studio Ginestrelle. She was raised
with a wolf and a pack of sled
dogs in the high desert of rural
Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn.
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PSYCHOLOGY / HUMAN SEXUALIT Y JANUARY 2021
Christopher Ryan & Sex at Dawn
Cacilda Jethá how we mate, why we stray, and what it
means for modern sexuality
The 10th-anniversary edition of the book that radically
re-evaluates the origins and nature of human sexuality.
Since Darwin’s day, we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes
naturally to our species. Mainstream science — as well as religious
and cultural institutions — has maintained that men and women
evolved in families in which a man’s possessions and protection
were exchanged for a woman’s fertility and fidelity.
In this groundbreaking book, however, Christopher Ryan
and Cacilda Jethá argue that human beings evolved in egalitarian
groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners.
Weaving together evidence from anthropology, archaeology,
primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how
far from human nature monogamy really is.
With intelligence and humour, Ryan and Jethá explain how
CHRISTOPHER RYAN received our promiscuous past haunts our contemporary struggles. They
his PhD in research psychology
at Saybrook Graduate School explore why many people find long-term fidelity so difficult,
in San Francisco, focusing on why sexual passion tends to fade even as love deepens, why
prehistoric sexual behaviour. He
homosexuality persists in the face of standard evolutionary logic,
has taught at the University of
Barcelona Medical School, and and what the human body reveals about the prehistoric origins of
published both scientific and modern sexuality.
popular articles and book chap-
ters on human sexuality.
Shocking, enlightening, and ultimately inspiring, Sex at
Dawn offers a revolutionary understanding of why we live
CACILDA JETHÁ is a practis-
ing psychiatrist, specialising and love as we do.
in psychosexual disorders and
couples therapy. She has done
field research on sexuality for the
‘Sex at Dawn is the single most important book about human
World Health Organization. Ryan sexuality since Alfred Kinsey unleashed Sexual Behavior in the
and Jethá are married and live in Human Male on the American public in 1948.’ Dan Savage
Barcelona.
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3
JANUARY 2021 CAREER / SELF-HELP
Alexa Shoen #ENTRYLEVELBOSS
a 9-step guide for finding a job you like
(and actually getting hired to do it)
Banging your head against the wall with the job search?
#ENTRYLEVELBOSS will help you stop freaking out.
Miserable in your current role but no idea what to do
next? With this book you’ll be able to make a decision,
no personality tests required. Convinced that you are the
most unhireable person on this planet? That’s statistically
improbable — and you’ll be amazed at how employable
you’ll be by the time you have finished reading.
This is personal training for your career, based on a step-by-step
plan that includes:
• All the intel you need about getting hired in today’s world,
in today’s industries, and with today’s tools.
• Hyper-specific advice, including templates for networking
ALEXA SHOEN, born in 1989, is emails, CVs, and cover letters.
the internet’s leading confidant • Straight-to-the-point guidance about what not to do.
for panicking jobseekers and the
CEO of #ENTRYLEVELBOSS: an • A solid dose of humour and emotional support from
online education company that someone who really has been there.
transforms those jobseekers into
hired, happy professionals. She
previously worked in design for The world of work has changed, and getting hired today
Facebook, leading cross-plat- for a job you actually want is going to take a lot more than a
form initiatives to optimise the
neatly typed cover letter and a well-pressed suit. But along with
company’s multi-billion-dollar
advertising business. Before that, all the challenges of the new economy come unprecedented
she was one of the most sought- opportunities, and careers expert Alexa Shoen is here to
after communication consultants
in the European tech industry
unlock them for you.
and advised high-growth
companies in Berlin, London,
and New York. Alexa is also an
acclaimed independent jazz
vocalist. She is originally from
San Diego, California.
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4 BARTHOLOMEW KILLINGLEY
SPACKMAN AGENCY
TRANSL ATED FICTION JANUARY 2021
Sònia Hernández Prosopagnosia
Translated by Samuel Rutter
A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have.
Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren’t made for
her, that the only things she deserves are ugly. It’s why her main
activity, when she’s not at school, is playing the ‘prosopagnosia
game’ — standing in front of the mirror and holding her breath
until she can no longer recognise her own face. An ibis is the only
animal she wants for a pet.
Berta’s mother is in her forties. She feels at least twenty
kilos overweight, and her husband has just left her. She used
to be a cultural critic for a regional newspaper. Now she feels
it is her responsibility to make her and her daughter’s lives as
happy as possible.
A man who claims to be the famous Mexican artist Vicente
Rojo becomes entangled in their lives when he sees Berta faint at
SÒNIA HERNÁNDEZ was born in school and offers her the gift of a painting. This sets in motion an
1976, in Terrassa. Granta named
her one of their ‘Best Young uncanny game of assumed and ignored identities, where the limits
Spanish-Language Novelists’ in of what one wants and what one can achieve become blurred.
2010. A writer and critic, she has
contributed to many publications.
SAMUEL RUTTER is a writer
and translator from Melbourne,
Australia. He has translated
contemporary authors including
Daniel Sada, Hernán Ronsino, and
Matías Celedón, and his work has
been recognised by English PEN.
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5
JANUARY 2021 FICTION
Alison Gibbs Repentance
‘But then we all love this place, don’t we, in our different ways?’
It’s the summer of 1976, and the winds of change are blowing
through the community of Repentance on the edge of the Great
Dividing Range. The old families farmed cattle and cut timber,
but the new settlers, the hippies, have a different perspective on
the natural order and humankind’s place in the scheme of things.
Soon everything will be disturbed. Either the old growth is
coming down or the loggers have to be stopped. And although
not everyone agrees on tactics, no one will escape being drawn
into the coming confrontation.
A tale of a small country town and its rhythms, Repentance
is also the story of modern Australia at one of its flashpoints,
told tenderly and beautifully through the eyes of characters
you won’t forget.
ALISON GIBBS was born in
Kyogle in 1963 and spent her
childhood in the towns and ‘A fierce, fair, and moving novel, so true you can smell the
villages of northern New South rainforest.’ Robert Drewe
Wales. She now lives in Sydney,
where she runs her own writing
consultancy producing copy for ‘Repentance vividly captures the past but speaks urgently to
United Nations agencies and
the not-for-profit sector. Her
readers right now.’ Debra Adelaide
short stories and essays have
been published and broadcast ‘Irresistible, compassionate, and timely.’ Mark Tredinnick
in Australia and the United
Kingdom and have received
numerous shortlistings and ‘Moves like a meditation, reflecting the rhythms of the natural
awards. Repentance is her
landscape that Gibbs writes about so beautifully.’ Deborah
first novel.
Crabtree, Books+Publishing
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6ENVIRONMENT / CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBRUARY 2021
Michael E. Mann The New Climate War
the fight to take back our planet
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil-fuel
companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect
blame and responsibility and to delay action on climate
change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.
Fossil-fuel companies have followed the example of other
industries by deflecting blame or greenwashing. Meanwhile,
they’ve blocked efforts to regulate or price carbon emissions, have
run PR campaigns aimed at discrediting viable alternatives, and
have abdicated their responsibility to fix the problem they’ve
created. The result has been disastrous for our planet.
In The New Climate War, Mann argues that all is not lost. He
draws the battle lines between the people and the polluters —
fossil-fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petro-states. And
he outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations
MICHAEL E. MANN is
Distinguished Professor of
to wake up and make real change. This book will reach, inform,
Atmospheric Science at Penn and enable citizens everywhere to join this battle for our planet.
State. He has received many
honours and awards, including
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for ‘Fossil-fuel companies have, for decades longer than I have
his contribution, along with other been alive, been the largest contributors to the climate crisis
IPCC authors, for alerting the
world to global warming, and
that affects my generation today — all in pursuit of profits
his election in 2020 to the US and growth. In The New Climate War, Michael Mann holds
National Academy of Sciences. them to account, and shows us how we can take the bold steps
He is the author of numerous
books, including The Hockey Stick we must all take together to win the battle to save this planet.’
and the Climate Wars. He lives in Greta Thunberg
State College, Pennsylvania.
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GROUP 7FEBRUARY 2021 BIOGRAPHY / POLITICS
Joe Biden Promises to Keep
on life and politics
President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary
life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s
beloved, influential vice president.
‘I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service.
In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.’
Joe Biden has both witnessed and participated in a momentous
epoch of American history. In Promises to Keep, he reveals what
these experiences taught him about himself, his colleagues, and
the institutions of government.
With his customary honesty and wit, Biden movingly
and eloquently recounts growing up in a staunchly Catholic
multigenerational household in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and
Wilmington, Delaware; overcoming personal tragedy, life-
JOE BIDEN, the 46th president threatening illness, and career setbacks; his relationships with
of the United States, was first
elected to the Senate in 1972, and presidents, world leaders, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle;
served there until 2009, when and his leadership of powerful Senate committees.
he assumed the office of vice
Through these and other recollections, Biden shows us how
president under Barack Obama
for two terms. He grew up in New the guiding principles he learned early in life — to work to
Castle County, Delaware, and make people’s lives better; to honour family and faith; to value
graduated from the University
of Delaware and the Syracuse
persistence, candour, and honesty — are the foundation on which
University College of Law. He he has based his life’s work as husband, father, and public servant.
lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Promises to Keep is an intimate series of reflections from a
politician who surmounted numerous challenges to become one
of America’s most effective leaders and who refuses to be cynical
about politics. It is also a stirring testament to the promise of
the United States.
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8 LITERISTICBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY HISTORY FEBRUARY 2021
Craig Munro Literary Lion Tamers
book editors who made publishing history
Writers, their friends, enemies, editors, and publishers began
to materialise out of cardboard archive boxes. Without any
conscious decision to do so, I found myself setting off in search
of these elusive, eccentric, and often quarrelsome characters.
With his unique and entertaining blend of memoir, biography,
and literary detective work, Craig Munro recreates the lives
and careers of a group of renowned Australian editors and their
authors in a narrative spanning from the 1890s to the 1990s.
Among those encountered on the journey are A.G. Stephens,
who helped turn foundry worker Joseph Furphy’s thousand-page
handwritten manuscript into the enduring classic Such Is Life;
P.R. Stephensen, who tangled with an irascible Xavier Herbert
to tame his unwieldy masterpiece Capricornia; Beatrice Davis,
whose literary soirees were the talk of Sydney, and who insisted
CRAIG MUNRO is an award- Herbert cut his controversial novel Soldiers’ Women in half;
winning biographer and
the founding chair of the and award-winning fiction editor Rosanne Fitzgibbon, who
Queensland Writers Centre. As championed the work of many authors, including the prodigiously
the inaugural fiction editor at the
talented Gillian Mears.
University of Queensland Press,
and later as publishing manager, Throughout it all, in beguiling and elegant style, Craig
he worked with many emerging Munro weaves his own reminiscences of a life in publishing while
writers who have since become
celebrated authors. Craig won tracking down some of Australian literature’s most fascinating
the Barbara Ramsden Award stories. Literary Lion Tamers is a delight for anyone interested in
for editing in 1985, and studied
the world of books and those who create them.
book publishing in Canada and
the United States on a Churchill
Fellowship in 1991. His previous
books include Paper Empires: a
history of the book in Australia,
1946–2005 (co-edited with Robyn
Sheahan-Bright) and Under
Cover: adventures in the art
of editing.
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9FEBRUARY 2021 FICTION
Trevor Shearston The Beach Caves
‘Please. I’m in hell!’ The truth of that was in his face. The rims
of his eyes were red-raw, his hair was matted, he hadn’t shaved
since knocking at her door, when he’d been clean-shaven
— one of the few details she remembered of that blurred
encounter. ‘I know why you’re avoiding me. Whoever told the
cops told you, too.’
It’s 1970, and Annette Cooley is part of a small team working
on an archaeological dig on the New South Wales South Coast
— a site that appears to prove that Aboriginal societies in the
late Holocene were becoming less nomadic, even sedentary. The
discovery is thrilling in its significance, and the atmosphere in the
group is one of charged excitement. The team is led by a husband-
and-wife pair, stars in their field, Aled Wray and Marilyn Herr,
TREVOR SHEARSTON is the
author of Something in the
and working on their sites promises to be the making of Annette
Blood, Sticks That Kill, White as an archaeologist.
Lies, Concertinas, A Straight On a new site, linked to the first, Annette starts to fall for a
Young Back, Tinder, Dead Birds,
and Hare’s Fur. His novel Game, fellow student, Brian Harpur. But there are strange tensions and
about the bushranger Ben Hall, a hidden darkness within the group. Then one of their party
was longlisted for the Miles
Franklin Literary Award and
mysteriously disappears. When police arrive, Annette makes a
shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s decision that will irrevocably mark her life, and Brian Harpur’s.
Literary Awards, the Christina Written in simple, beautiful prose, and with great depth
Stead Prize for Fiction, and the
Colin Roderick Award. He lives in and moral complexity, The Beach Caves is a powerful story
Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains. about jealousy, guilt, the choices we make, and the different
paths our lives could have taken — shadow paths, which
nevertheless leave a trace.
‘An archaeological thriller that has a real sense of lived
experience. Written with beautiful exactitude by a natural writer.’
Joan London
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10FICTION FEBRUARY 2021
Martin McKenzie- The Speechwriter
Murray
In his fiction debut, erstwhile speechwriter and Saturday
Paper journalist Martin McKenzie-Murray takes us
on a frantic, funny, and surreal journey through the
corridors of power.
Toby, former speechwriter to the PM, has reached a new low:
locked behind bars in a high-security prison, with sentient
PlayStations storming the city outside, and the worst of Australia’s
criminals forcing him to ghostwrite letters to their loved ones or
have his spine repurposed as a coat-rack. How did he get here?
From the vantage point of his prison cell, Toby pens his memoir,
trying to piece together how he fell so far, all the while fielding
the uninvited literary opinions of his murderous cellmate, Garry.
What Toby unspools is a tale of twisted bureaucracy, public
servants gone rogue, and the ever-present pervasive stench of
MARTIN MCKENZIE-MURRAY
was The Saturday Paper’s chief
rotting prawns (don’t ask). Realising that his political career is far
correspondent, work for which from the noble endeavour he’d once imagined it would be, Toby
made him both a Walkley and makes a bid for freedom … before the terrible realisation dawns:
Quills finalist. Before that, he
worked as a teacher, speechwrit- it’s impossible to get fired from the public service. Refusing to give
er, Age columnist, and advisor to up (or have to pay for his relocation fee), Toby’s attempts to get
the chief commissioner of Victoria
Police. Elsewhere, his writing
fired grow more and more extreme, and he finds himself being
has appeared in The Sydney propelled higher and higher through the ranks of bureaucracy.
Morning Herald, The Monthly,
Guardian Australia, Meanjin, and
Best Australian Essays. His first
book, A Murder Without Motive:
the killing of Rebecca Ryle, was
shortlisted for the Ned Kelly
Awards for crime writing.
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11FEBRUARY 2021 FICTION
Jessica Gaitán How We Are Translated
Johannesson
People say ‘I’m sorry’ all the time when it can mean both ‘I’m
sorry I hurt you’ and ‘I’m sorry someone else did something I
have nothing to do with’. It’s like the English language gave up
on trying to find a word for sympathy which wasn’t also the
word for guilt.
Swedish immigrant Kristin won’t talk about the Project growing
inside her. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend Ciaran won’t
speak English at all; he is trying to immerse himself in a Swedish
språkbad language bath,
to prepare for their future, whatever the fick that means. Their
Edinburgh flat is starting to feel very small. As this young couple
are forced to confront the thing that they are both avoiding, they
must reckon with the bigger questions of the world outside, and
their places in it.
JESSICA GAITÁN JOHANNESSON
grew up speaking Spanish and
Swedish and currently lives pri-
marily in English. She’s an activist
working for climate justice and
lives in Bath, England. How We
Are Translated is her first novel.
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12CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH 2021
Jon Fasman We See It All
liberty and justice in the age of perpetual
surveillance
An investigation into the legal, political, and moral
issues surrounding how the police and justice system use
surveillance technology, asking the question: what are
citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of
public safety?
The police now have unparalleled surveillance-technology
power at their fingertips. Seamless, persistent, even permanent
surveillance is available — sometimes already deployed, sometimes
waiting for the right excuse. Automatic licence-plate readers allow
police to amass a granular record of where people go, when, and
for how long. Drones provide police with eyes — and possibly
weapons — in the skies. Facial recognition poses perhaps the
most dire and lasting of these threats, while algorithms purport
to predict where and when crime will occur, and how big a risk
JON FASMAN is the Washington
correspondent of The Economist,
a suspect has of re-offending. Tools can even crack your device’s
having previously been South- encryption keys, rending all privacy protections useless.
East Asia bureau chief and Embedding himself with both police and community activists
Atlanta correspondent. In addi-
tion to his work for The Economist, in locales around the United States, Jon Fasman looks at how
he is also the author of two these technologies help police do their jobs, and what their use
novels: The Geographer’s Library
and The Unpossessed City.
means for our privacy rights and civil liberties. Should we expect
Fasman resides in Westchester to be tracked and filmed whenever we leave our homes? Should
County, New York. the state have access to all of the data we generate? Should private
companies? What might happen if all of these technologies are
combined and put in the hands of a government with scant regard
for its citizens’ civil liberties?
Through on-the ground reporting and vivid storytelling,
Fasman explores the moral, legal, and political questions these
surveillance tools and techniques pose.
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GROUP 13MARCH 2021 WOMEN’S HEALTH / POPUL AR HEALTH / SCIENCE
Dr Susanne Esche- Our Hormones, Our Health
Belke & Dr Suzann how we can use the power of our hormones
Kirschner-Brouns to master any stage of life
Translated by Alex Roesch
A handbook for women who want to understand their
hormones and transform their lives for the better.
Hormones affect our health throughout our lives. So why do we
so often assume they are mainly ‘a menopause thing’, and leave it
until hot flushes arrive to start taking them seriously? The truth is
that before the age of 50, many women find that their hormone-
related symptoms just aren’t acknowledged, despite the impact
they can have on almost every aspect of their lives, years before
menopause hits.
Hormone imbalances can cause joint pain, weight gain,
migraines, acne, sleepless nights, loss of libido, and much more.
Medical science has come a long way in recent years, though, and
there are wonderful treatment options available, including HRT,
diet, and exercise. So why don’t more women know about them?
DR SUSANNE ESCHE-BELKE is a
specialist in general medicine, and Why are they still being told that they simply have to put up with
has been combining conventional these conditions?
medical knowledge with the latest
Written by two doctors from their experience as practitioners
findings in stress and integrative
medicine in clinics and in her own and as women, and full of pioneering knowledge from epigenetics,
practice for 20 years. Her focus is stress medicine, nutritional medicine, and modern hormone
on the holistic therapy of female
hormone and immune disorders.
replacement therapy, Our Hormones, Our Health aims to show
women how to live with good health, good humour, and much
DR SUZANN KIRSCHNER-
BROUNS is a doctor and mediator. happiness — no matter what their stage of life.
As a medical journalist and author,
she writes on health issues for
well-known publishers and maga-
zines, and was formerly editor-in-
chief of a gynaecological journal
and the health magazine of Der
Spiegel. They are the co-founders
of the women’s health platform
Less — Doctors for Balance.
ALEX ROESCH is a freelance trans-
lator based in Frankfurt, Germany.
She has an MA in translation from
the University of Bristol and was
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14HOLOCAUST HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY MARCH 2021
Jan Brokken The Just
Translated by David McKay how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of
Jews from the Holocaust
The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped
save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the
greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century.
In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian
branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into
history when he accepted the honorary role of Dutch consul.
In Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, desperate Jewish refugees
faced annihilation in the Holocaust. That was when Zwartendijk
— with the help of Chiune Sugihara, the consul for Japan, and the
Dutch ambassador in Riga, Latvia — chose to break his country’s
diplomatic rules. He opened up a possible route to freedom by
issuing visas to the Dutch colony of Curaçao on the other side
of the world. Thanks to these visas, and Sugihara’s approval
of onward passage, many Jews — up to 10,000 — were able to
JAN BROKKEN is a writer of fic-
tion, travel, and literary nonfic-
travel through Soviet Russia to Vladivostok, further to Japan, and
tion, and his books have been onwards to China.
translated into ten languages. Most of the Jews whom Zwartendijk helped escape survived
The Just is his latest book.
the war, and they and their descendants settled in America,
DAVID MCKAY is an award-
winning literary translator who
Canada, Australia, and other countries. Zwartendijk and Sugihara
lives in The Hague. His recent were true heroes, and yet they were shunned by their own
translations include The Convert countries after the war, and their courageous, unstinting actions
and the classic political novel
Max Havelaar. have remained relatively unknown.
In The Just, renowned Dutch author Jan Brokken wrests this
heroic story from oblivion and traces the journeys of a number
of the rescued Jews. This epic narrative shows how, even in life-
threatening circumstances, some people make the right choice at
the right time. It is a lesson in character and courage.
‘If I had known Jan Zwartendijk’s story before, I would have had
filmed that.’ Steven Spielberg
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15MARCH 2021 NARRATIVE NONFICTION / MEMOIR
Alison Croggon Monsters
a reckoning
This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am
I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum,
meaning an abomination … grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly,
gruesome, horrible …
I was born as part of a monstrous structure — the grotesque,
hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power
that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me,
that shapes the very language that I speak and use and love. I
am the daughter of an empire that declared itself the natural
order of the world.
From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters
is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure
the painful breakdown of a relationship between two sisters. It
explores how our attitudes are shaped by the persisting myths that
ALISON CROGGON is an award- underpin colonialism and patriarchy, how the structures we are
winning novelist, poet, theatre raised within splinter and distort the possibilities of our lives and
writer, critic, and editor who lives
in Melbourne, Australia.
the lives of others. Monsters asks how we maintain the fictions that
we create about ourselves, what we will sacrifice to maintain these
fictions — and what we have to gain by confronting them.
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16MILITARY HISTORY MARCH 2021
Simon Akam The Changing of the Guard
the British Army since 9/11
A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today.
Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has
changed enormously. During this time, the British Army fought
two campaigns, in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable financial
and human cost. Yet neither war achieved its objectives. This book
questions why, and provides challenging but necessary answers.
Composed from assiduous documentary research, field
reportage, and hundreds of interviews with many soldiers and
officers who served, as well as the politicians who directed them,
the allies who accompanied them, and the family members who
loved and — on occasion — lost them, it is a strikingly rich,
nuanced portrait of one of our pivotal national institutions in a
time of great stress.
Award-winning journalist Simon Akam, who spent a year in
SIMON AKAM held a Gap
Year Commission in the British
the army when he was eighteen, returned a decade later to see how
Army before attending Oxford the institution had changed. His book examines the relevance of
University. He won a Fulbright the armed forces today — their social, economic, political, and
scholarship to study at Columbia
Journalism School and in 2010 cultural role. This is as much a book about Britain, and about the
won the professional strand of politics of failure, as it is about the military.
The Guardian’s International
D eve l o p m e n t Jo u r n a l i s m
Competition. He has worked ‘A perceptive, challenging, and passionate book.’
for The New York Times, Reuters, Peter Frankopan
and Newsweek, and his writing
has appeared in publications
including The Economist, GQ, ‘Beautifully written … a must-read for every serious student of
Bloomberg Businessweek,
Outside, The Washington Post,
modern military history.’ Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, former
the Financial Times, the New British ambassador to Afghanistan
Statesman, The Paris Review,
and The New Republic. He co-
hosts the writing podcast Always
Take Notes.
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17MARCH 2021 FICTION
Madeleine Ryan A Room Called Earth
A brilliant debut from a neurodiverse author that explores
a young woman’s magical, sensitive, and passionate
inner world.
A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels
overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to
the people who come into her view, and alternating between
alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware,
sometimes acerbic, and always honest.
And by the end of the night, she’s shown us something radical
about love, loss, and the need to belong.
‘A daring, prismatic novel about seeing and being seen, and
the hunger for universal connection. Madeleine Ryan’s clarity
MADELEINE RYAN is an
Australian writer, director,
of vision imbues the ordinary — a party, strangers, inner-city
and actor. She’s been widely streets — with cosmic significance. I came out of A Room Called
published in Australia and Earth with fresh eyes and a full heart.’ Laura Elizabeth Woollett,
overseas, including in The New
York Times, Lenny Letter, Bustle, author of Beautiful Revolutionary
The Age, The Daily Telegraph,
Vice, SBS, and The Sydney
Morning Herald. She currently
lives in rural Victoria. You can
find her online at madeleineryan.
com. A Room Called Earth is her
first novel.
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18 AGENCYMEMOIR / CURRENT AFFAIRS APRIL 2021
Ibrahima Balde & Little Brother
Amets Arzallus Antia an odyssey to Europe
Translated by Timberlake
Wertenbaker
A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and
illiterate young West African’s odyssey.
Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African
country of Guinea, helps his father sell shoes at a street stall in
the capital, Conakry. At his father’s sudden death, he becomes the
head of the family and picks up various skills, always alone and
away from home, although his dream is to be a truck driver in his
own country.
But when his little brother, Alhassane, disappears, heading
for Europe in a bid to earn money for the family, Ibrahima leaves
everything behind to try to find him and convince him to go back
to their village and continue his education. In an epic journey,
Ibrahima risks his life many times searching for his little brother.
Each waystation that Ibrahima passes through takes him to
After entering the European another world, with different customs, languages, landscapes,
Union without papers, IBRAHIMA
BALDE made his way to the currencies, and challenges to overcome. His willpower is
Basque Country, where, while liv- astonishing, and the friendship and generosity of strangers he
ing in a homeless shelter in Irun,
encounters on the way help him to keep going.
he met Amets Arzallus. Ibrahima
has applied for asylum, and After enduring many trials and tribulations, he learns of
now lives in a Red Cross hostel Alhassane’s fate. Unable to return home, he embarks on the
in Madrid.
journey to Europe himself.
AMETS ARZALLUS ANTIA, a Little Brother gives a voice, heart, and soul, and flesh and
child of refugees, is a renowned
Basque improvisational poet who bones to the seemingly nameless masses of people struggling
works with an association that and dying, trying only to achieve a better life for themselves and
supports migrants.
their families.
TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER
is an award-winning British
playwright.
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Katie Booth The Invention of Miracles
language, power, and Alexander Graham
Bell’s quest to end Deafness
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham
Bell — renowned inventor of the telephone and hated
enemy of the Deaf community.
When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the
world, it was considered miraculous. But few people know that
it was inspired by another supposed miracle: his work teaching
the deaf to speak. The son of one deaf woman and husband to
another, he was motivated by a desire to empower deaf people
by integrating them into the hearing world, but he ended up
becoming their most powerful enemy, waging a war against Sign
Language and Deaf culture that still rages today.
The Invention of Miracles tells the dual stories of Bell’s
remarkable, world-changing invention and his dangerous
ethnocide of Deaf culture and language. It also charts the rise
KATIE BOOTH teaches writing
at the University of Pittsburgh.
of Deaf activism and tells the triumphant tale of a community
Her work has appeared in The reclaiming a once-forbidden language.
Believer, Aeon, Catapult, and Inspired by her mixed hearing/Deaf family, Katie Booth has
Harper’s Magazine, and has
been highlighted on Longreads researched this story for over a decade, poring over Bell’s papers,
and Longform; ‘The Sign for This’ Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools
was a notable essay in the 2016
edition of Best American Essays.
around America. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell’s legacy
Booth received a number of on her family set her on a path that upturned everything she
prestigious fellowships to sup- thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and technology.
port the writing of The Invention
of Miracles, including from the
Library of Congress and the ‘Fascinating. The Invention of Miracles tells the story of how
Massachusetts Historical Society.
Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone was
She was raised bilingually and
biculturally in a mixed hearing/ intertwined with his sincere but misguided passion for teaching
Deaf family. the deaf how to speak. It’s a tale of great love, brilliant innovation,
personal drama, and the unintended consequences of good
intentions.’ Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs
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20 AGENCYMEMOIR / RACISM APRIL 2021
Veronica Gorrie Black and Blue
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police
officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the
Australian police force.
A proud Gunai/Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up
dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching
her friends and family suffer under a deeply compromised law-
enforcement system, Gorrie signed up for training to become one
of the rare few Aboriginal police officers in Australia. In her ten
years in the force, she witnessed appalling institutional racism
and sexism, and fought past those things to provide courageous
and compassionate service to civilians in need, many Aboriginal
themselves.
With a great gift for storytelling and a wicked sense of
humour, Gorrie frankly and movingly explores the impact of
VERONICA GORRIE is a Gunai/ racism on her family and her life, the impact of intergenerational
Kurnai woman who lives and trauma resulting from cultural dispossession, and the inevitable
writes in Victoria. Black and
Blue, a memoir of her childhood difficulties of making her way as an Aboriginal woman in the
and the decade she spent in the white-and-male-dominated workplace of the police force.
police force, is her first book.
Black and Blue is a memoir of remarkable fortitude and
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21APRIL 2021 MEMOIR / HISTORY
Menachem Kaiser Plunder
a memoir of family property and Nazi
treasure
A young writer’s story of his quest to reclaim his family’s
apartment building in Poland — and of the astonishing
entanglement with Nazi treasure-hunters that followed.
Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable
events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author
takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to
reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland.
Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-
time residents of the building and with a Polish lawyer known as
‘The Killer’. A surprise discovery — that his grandfather’s cousin
not only survived the war but wrote a secret memoir while a slave
labourer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex — leads to Kaiser
being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure-
seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook
MENACHEM KAISER holds an to Nazi plunder.
MFA in creative writing from the Propelled by rich, original research, Kaiser immerses readers
University of Michigan and was a
Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest.
writing has appeared in The Wall What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed
Street Journal, The Atlantic, New
property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply
York, and elsewhere. He lives in
Brooklyn, New York. immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation
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of inheritance — material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.
‘Menachem Kaiser is a young writer and storyteller of stunning
talent, originality, and wisdom, and his debut book is gloriously
impossible to categorise — by turns hilarious and profound,
digressive and suspenseful, intimate and sweeping, it stands as an
enviable accomplishment.’ Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of
A Sense of Direction
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22 MIFFLIN HARCOURTTRANSL ATED FICTION APRIL 2021
Anke Stelling Higher Ground
Translated by Lucy Jones
• Winner of the Liepzig Book Fair Fiction Prize 2019
• Winner of the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2019
• Shortlisted for the Franz Hessel Prize 2019
Resi is a writer in her mid-forties, married to Sven, a painter. They
live, with their four children, in an apartment building in Berlin
that is communally owned by Resi’s group of childhood friends
— only Resi and Sven, the token artists of their social circle, are
renting. As the years have passed, Resi has watched her once-dear
friends become more and more ensconced in the comforts and
compromises of money, success, and the nuclear family.
After Resi’s latest book openly criticises stereotypical family
life and values, she receives a letter of eviction. Incensed by the
true natures and hard realities she now sees so clearly, Resi sets
ANKE STELLING was born in 1971,
in Ulm, Germany. She studied at
out to describe the world as it really is for her fourteen-year-old
the German Literature Institute daughter, Bea. As Berlin, that creative mecca, crumbles under the
in Leipzig. Stelling is a multi- inexorable march of privatisation and commodification, taking
award-winning novelist whose
previous works have been much relationships with it, Resi is determined to warn Bea about the
acclaimed. Higher Ground is the lures, traps, and ugly truths that await her.
first of her novels to be translated
into English. Stelling lives and
Written with dark humour and clarifying rage, Anke
works in Berlin. Stelling’s novel is a ferocious and funny account of motherhood,
LUCY JONES has lived in Berlin parenthood, family, and friendship thrust into battle. Lively,
since 1998, where she heads rude, and wise, it throws down the gauntlet to those who fail to
Transfiction, a translators’ collec-
interrogate who they have become.
tive, and runs the Fiction Canteen
reading series. She translates
literary fiction, art texts, plays,
and journalism from German.
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23APRIL 2021 MEMOIR
Henriette Roosenburg The Walls Came Tumbling Down
How do you start a journey when the roads are blocked?
Who can you trust in a country where the Nazi regime has
only just fallen?
This is the story of the liberation of four Dutch political prisoners at
the end of World War II, and about their trek home to Holland …
So, modestly, begins this firsthand account of the adventures of
three women and one man in the hellish aftermath of the war in
Europe. Awakened from the nightmare of prison camp, freed from
the fear of the firing squad that had haunted each of them since
capture, the four compatriots find that they must still navigate
horror itself without food, without papers, without funds. Virtues
are all that remain in their possession, and it is these — nobility,
friendship, honour, strength, pride in their bloody but unbowed
H E N R I ET T E RO O S E N BURG humanity — that guide them home. This is a tale of bravery that
(1916–1972), known as ‘Zip’, was
part of the Dutch resistance
will make you care deeply about its protagonists, and weep tears of
during World War II, collecting wonder at their heroism.
news for the underground press
and helping maintain an escape
route for crashed Allied pilots.
After being arrested in 1944
and condemned to death, she
survived internment in a Gestapo
prison in Germany before being
liberated by the Russian Army in
May 1945. After the war, she emi-
grated to the United States, and
started to work for Life magazine.
She wrote the first draft of what
would later become The Walls
Came Tumbling Down for The
New Yorker.
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24NONFICTION / ESSAYS MAY 2021
Tobias McCorkell Cop This Lot
rewriting the myth of a classless nation
Stories of not belonging in a classless society.
Class intersects with almost every aspect of our lives, from where
we go to school, to what we wear and eat, to how we speak, and
how we make a living. Yet we almost never talk about it, and when
we do, it’s often to make claims about how much Australia loves
its ‘battlers’ and blue-collar underdogs. But what’s it really like to
be economically disadvantaged in this country? To be denied a
place in a rapidly expanding ‘middle class’ as the gulf between the
‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ widens? And is it possible to cross class
lines in a country that barely acknowledges those lines exist?
In Cop This Lot, diverse voices of all ages — from the well-
known to the recently discovered — deliver their stories and
experiences with verve, courage, and humour. Collectively, these
essays challenge Australia’s myths and truths about its national
TOBIAS MCCORKELL is the
author of the novel Everything in
character and delve deeply into the nation’s complex relationship
Its Right Place (Transit Lounge). with social class.
He lives in Coburg. With contributions from: Roger Averill, Timmah Ball,
Shannon Burns, Luke Carman, Felicity Castagna, Zowie Douglas-
Kinghorn, Chris Fleming, Nayuka Gorrie, Rick Morton, Tegan
Moss, Amra Pajalic, Sheila Ngoc Pham, Peter Polites, Alice Pung,
Matthew Sini, and David Sornig.
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25MAY 2021 POLITICS / CURRENT AFFAIRS / MEMOIR
Sayragul Sauytbay The Chief Witness
With Alexandra Cavelius escape from China’s modern-day
Translated by Caroline Waight concentration camps
A daring, frontline account of China’s tyrannical treatment
of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang — where millions are
incarcerated in the largest surveillance state the world has
ever seen.
Born in China’s north-western province, Sayragul Sauytbay
trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil
servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities
incarcerated her. Her crime: being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic
minorities.
When the Chinese government took massive action against
the Uighur and Kazakh minorities, Sayragul Sauytbay’s husband
and children managed to leave for Kazakhstan, but she was denied
an exit visa. She was interrogated, arrested, and forced to work
as an instructor in one of the over 1,200 re-education camps —
SAYRAGUL SAUYTBAY was
awarded the International
modern-day gulags now estimated to systematically incarcerate
Women of Courage Award by three million people.
the US State Department in The conditions at the camp were horrific: brainwashing,
2020. Her key witness accounts
have already created a stir on torture, drugs, and rape. Sauytbay was put to work teaching
the world stage, and have been Chinese language, culture, and politics from morning to night, in
reported by The New York Times,
The Washington Post, and the
the course of which she gained access to highly secret information
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. that revealed Beijing’s long-term plans to undermine and subjugate
ALEXANDRA CAVELIUS is a not only its minorities, but democracies around the world.
freelance author and journalist. In 2018, Sauytbay managed to escape to Europe, where she
She is published in renowned
and her family were granted asylum. Although Beijing is trying
magazines, and is the author of
several political nonfiction books. to get Sauytbay back and she is still threatened by the Chinese
CAROLINE WAIGHT is an award-
secret service, she sees it as her task to bear witness to China’s
winning literary translator work- crimes against humanity. And she wants to warn the world
ing from Danish and German. about Beijing’s plans to seek the subjugation of the free world
in the long term.
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26 ISBN: 9781922310538MEMOIR / POPUL AR PSYCHOLOGY MAY 2021
Irvin D. Yalom & A Matter of Death and Life
Marilyn Yalom
A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his
writer wife after her fatal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to
love and live without regret.
Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom
devoted his career to counselling those suffering from anxiety and
grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his
wife, esteemed feminist author Marilyn Yalom, was diagnosed
with cancer. In A Matter of Death and Life, Marilyn and Irv share
how they took on profound new struggles: Marilyn to die a good
death, Irv to live on without her.
In alternating accounts of their last months together and
Irv’s first months alone, they offer us a rare window into facing
mortality and coping with the loss of one’s beloved. The Yaloms
had numerous blessings — a loving family, a Palo Alto home
IRVIN D. YALOM, emeritus pro- under a magnificent valley oak, a large circle of friends, avid
fessor of psychiatry at Stanford
University School of Medicine, readers around the world, and a long, fulfilling marriage — but
is the author of internation- they faced death as we all do. With the wisdom of those who have
ally bestselling books, including
Love’s Executioner, Staring at
thought deeply and the familiar warmth of teenage sweethearts
the Sun, Creatures of a Day, who’ve grown up together, they investigate universal questions of
and Becoming Myself. MARILYN intimacy, love, and grief.
YALOM’s books include clas-
sics of cultural history such as Informed by two lifetimes of experience, A Matter of Death
A History of the Wife, Birth of and Life is an open-hearted offering to anyone seeking support,
the Chess Queen, and How the
solace, and a meaningful life.
French Invented Love, as well as
her final book, released posthu-
mously, Innocent Witnesses. They
were married for sixty-five years.
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27MAY 2021 BIOGRAPHY / NATURE WRITING
Jude Piesse The Ghost in the Garden
in search of Darwin’s lost garden
The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes
the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory,
family, and the legacy of genius.
Darwin never stopped thinking about the garden at his
childhood home, The Mount. It was here, under the tutelage of
his green-fingered mother and sisters, that he first examined the
reproductive life of flowers, collected birds’ eggs, and began the
experiments that would lead to his theory of evolution.
A century and a half later, with one small child in tow and
another on the way, Jude Piesse finds herself living next door to
this secret garden. Two acres of the original site remain, now
resplendent with overgrown ashes, sycamores, and hollies. The
carefully tended beds and circular flower garden are buried under
JUDE PIESSE is an academic
and writer. She holds an MA
suburban housing; the hothouses where the Darwins and their
in Creative Writing from the skilful gardeners grew pineapples are long gone. Walking the
University of East Anglia and a pathways with her new baby, Piesse starts to discover what impact
PhD in English Literature from
the University of Exeter. She has the garden and the people who tended it had on Darwin’s work.
published widely on nineteenth- Blending biography, nature writing, and memoir, The Ghost
century literature and culture,
including her book about emi-
in the Garden traces the origins of the theory of evolution and
gration literature, British Settler uncovers the lost histories that inspired it, ultimately evoking the
Emigration in Print, 1832–1877 interconnectedness of all things.
(OUP, 2016). Though she grew
up in Shropshire, she did not dis-
cover Darwin’s childhood garden
until she moved to Shrewsbury
with her young family to take
up her first lectureship. She now
works as a lecturer in English
Literature at Liverpool John
Moores University.
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