Autumn Reading Guide 2018

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Welcome to our Reading Guide We are thrilled to share with you

this fantastic hand-picked selection of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and gift titles coming out this Autumn.

As an independent bookseller, we are motivated by a love of books and reading and we are proud of our great range, personalised service and loyal customers. If you don’t find what you are looking for on these pages, we’d be happy to help you find an alternative or place a special order.

Happy Reading!

GERALD MURNANE: COLLECTED SHORT FICTION

Gerald Murnane

Paperback RRP $ 34.95

Hailed in Publishers Weekly as 'a monumental achievement from one of Australia’s most important writers’, this collection brings together Murnane’s shorter works of fiction, including ‘The Interior of Gaaldine’, a story which holds the key to the long break in Murnane’s career, and points the way towards his later works, from Barley Patch to Border Districts.

ELIZABETH MACARTHUR: A LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

Michelle Scott Tucker Paperback RRP $ 32.99

In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning.

HEART TALK

Cleo Wade Paperback RRP $ 24.99

A beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade - the artist, poet, and speaker who has been called 'the Millennial Oprah' by New York magazine.

Creative inspiration and life lessons through poetry, mantras, and affirmations – perfect for fans of the bestseller Milk and Honey.

BUTTERFLY ON A PIN

THE FIRE THIS TIME

Alannah Hill

Jesmyn Ward

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

May release, advance orders welcome One of Australia’s most successful fashion designers, Alannah Hill bares her soul in this brilliant memoir. Hilarious and heartbreaking, Butterfly on a Pin is not only the story of her (potholed) road to success, but a fiercely intelligent and funny tale of overcoming adversity and daring to dream. With insight and honesty, Alannah reminds us that what doesn’t kill us doesn’t necessarily make us stronger.

Paperback RRP $ 24.99

May release, advance orders welcome In this ground-breaking New York Times bestselling anthology of essays and poems on race in America, Jesmyn Ward brings together the most important voices of a new generation. Eighteen influential thinkers wrestle with the past, present, and future of American race relations and the Black experience.

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics in May, Virago will release twelve stunning deluxe paperbacks.

Rediscover these classics by authors like Nora Ephron, Mary Renault, Patricia Highsmith and many more.

ALL PRICED AT $19.99 EACH

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ON BORROWED TIME

Robert Manne

Paperback RRP $ 34.99

In On Borrowed Time, Manne applies his brilliant mind to the topics that have shaped our world over the last five years.

This provocative and challenging book features essays on Donald Trump's alleged links to Russia, Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership, the ideas driving Islamic State, and a searing critique of Jonathan Franzen's views on climate change activists.

SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW

Wendy Mitchell

Paperback RRP $ 24.99

In 2014, at the age of fiftyeight, Wendy was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's.

What lay ahead was scary and unknowable. Somebody I Used to Know is a book about holding on to what is most important in life. The first of its kind, it chronicles the cruel ways that Alzheimer's dissembles a life as well as the surprising ways that it heightens the everyday – and even magnifies love.

THE BIRDS AT MY TABLE

Darryl Jones

Paperback RRP $ 27.99

Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers. Why do people do this? Does the food even benefit the birds?

The Birds at my Table takes a global swoop from 30,000 feet down to the backyard bird feeder and pushes our understanding of the many aspects of bird feeding back up to new heights.

WIN A SET OF VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS To celebrate 40 years of the Virago Modern Classic, one lucky customer will have a chance to win a set of 12 classic titles VALUED OVER $230 For your chance to win, simply purchase a book from this catalogue at your local independent bookseller, and tell us what is your favourite book by a female author and why.

Go to the competition page at www.indies.com.au to view full terms and conditions and enter your details.

Competition closes 31 May 2018.

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THE SHEPHERD'S HUT

Tim Winton Hardback

THE PASSENGERS

TANGERINE

Eleanor Limprecht

Christine Mangan

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

A war bride and her granddaughter are on a cruise from San Diego, California to Sydney, Australia. During the journey back to the country of her birth, Sarah tells her granddaughter Hannah the story of her life. A luminous novel about love by a rising star of Australian literature.

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

The perfect read for fans of Daphne du Maurier and Patricia Highsmith, Tangerine is a gripping psychological literary thriller, so evocative of 1950s Tangier, and so cleverly plotted that it will leave you absolutely breathless. Soon to be a major film starring Scarlett Johansson and produced by George Clooney.

THE DEATH OF NOAH GLASS

MACBETH

Gail Jones

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father’s death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect.

Set in a dark, rainy northern town, Nesbo's Macbeth pits the ambitions of a corrupt policeman against loyal colleagues, a drugdepraved underworld and the pull of childhood friendships. Get ready to helter-skelter through the darkest tunnels of human experience.

EVERY NOTE PLAYED

Natasha Lester

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

How much will a young Parisian seamstress sacrifice to make her mark in the maledominated world of 1940s New York fashion?

Crossing generations, society's boundaries and international turmoil, The Paris Seamstress is the beguiling story of the relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter as they attempt to heal the heartache of the past.

Jaxie dreads going home.

His mum’s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one’s ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for.

In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There’s just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt.

Enter now for your chance to WIN a signed copy of The Shepherd’s Hut. For details go to the competition page at www.indies.com.au

Jo Nesbo

THE PARIS SEAMSTRESS Paperback RRP $ 29.99

RRP $ 39.99

Lisa Genova

From the bestselling author of Still Alice comes a powerful and heartbreaking exploration of regret, forgiveness, freedom – and what it means to be alive.

‘Only Lisa Genova could bring such honesty and grace to the war against ALS. Searing writing and a must-read.’ Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand.

THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART

Holly Ringland Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Following a family tragedy, young Alice Hart is taken in by her grandmother, who teaches Alice the language of Australian native flowers: a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. In her early twenties, Alice’s life is again thrown into upheaval when she suffers a devastating betrayal. Fleeing to the central Australian desert, she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man. An enchanting and captivating novel about the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

Special Offer: Purchase a copy of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and receive FREE Gift Wrap. *While stocks last

DEAR MRS BIRD

AJ Pearce Paperback RRP $ 24.99

THE ONLY STORY

THE POWER GAME

Julian Barnes

Meg Keneally

Hardback RRP $ 32.99

First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of fiction’s greatest mappers of the human heart.

Australian author

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

In this, the third in the Monsarrat series, Hugh Llewelyn Monsarrat and his trusty housekeeper, Mrs Mulrooney, are sent to remote Maria Island to solve the murder of Bart Harefield, the detested cutter skipper responsible for bringing supplies and correspondence to the island.

Titles marked with this symbol are available in Bolinda audio format

London, 1940. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to stay cheerful despite the Luftwaffe making life thoroughly annoying for everyone. Emmy dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent and when she spots a job advertisement in the newspaper she seizes her chance - but after a rather unfortunate misunderstanding, she finds herself typing letters for the formidable Henrietta Bird, the renowned agony aunt of Woman's Friend magazine.

An irresistibly funny, charming and moving debut from a sensational talent!

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WARLIGHT

Michael Ondaatje

New Fiction

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

May release, advance orders welcome A mesmerising new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient.

It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war.

14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn’t know or understand in that time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection, and imagination – that is told in this magnificent novel.

BEFORE I LET YOU GO

Kelly Rimmer

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Your sister needs you.

But her child needs you more... A moving page-turner with a heartpounding dilemma: Your sister or her baby. Who do you choose? Fans of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes will love Australia's Kelly Rimmer, internationally bestselling author of The Secret Daughter.

A SHOUT IN THE RUINS

Kevin Powers CIRCE

Madeline Miller Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Circe is the daughter of Helios, the sun god, and Perse, a beautiful naiad. Yet from the moment of her birth, she is an outsider in her father's halls.

Named after a hawk for her yellow eyes and strange voice, Circe must find her own path...

Madeline Miller breathes life once more into the ancient world, with the story of an outcast who overcomes scorn and banishment to transform herself into a formidable witch. This is a magical, intoxicating epic of family rivalry, power struggles, and a celebration of female strength in a man's world.

THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ

Heather Morris Paperback

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

May release, advance orders welcome Following his hugely celebrated debut, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield, this time, just before and after the Civil War. A stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and that ultimately what will survive of us is love.

THE EVERLASTING SUNDAY

Robert Lukins

Paperback RRP $ 29.95

During the freezing English winter of 1962, seventeenyear-old Radford is sent to Goodwin Manor, a home for boys who have been ‘found by trouble’.

Drawn immediately to the charismatic West, Radford soon discovers that each one of them has something to hide.

THE PUNISHMENT SHE DESERVES

Elizabeth George

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Award-winning author Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series. In The Punishment She Deserves, Lynley and his pugnacious and deeply loyal Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers find themselves up against one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered.

THE LIDO

THE FORTRESS

Libby Page

S.A. Jones

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

May release, advance orders welcome A joyous feel-good debut novel about community, friendship and outdoor swimming, The Lido is an uplifting novel about the importance of friendship, the value of community, and how ordinary people can protect the things they love. Perfect for fans of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Literary speculative fiction about a self-sustaining city called The Fortress, whose all-female civilisation, The Vaik, exist alongside our contemporary world. Men may enter The Fortress as supplicants to atone for their behaviour but only after they agree to live by The Fortress’ rules.

An absorbing, confronting and moving novel about consent, power, love and fulfilment.

RRP $ 29.99

The incredible story of the real-life Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Lale Sokolov, and the woman he loved. Meeting Gita in the camp gives Lale renewed purpose to survive and help others through struggle and suffering. This story, full of beauty and hope, is based on years of interviews before Lale died. It is heart-wrenching, illuminating, and unforgettable. “Morris climbs into the dark miasma of war and emerges with an extraordinary tale of the power of love” - Leah Kaminsky

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THE UNEXPECTED EDUCATION OF EMILY DEAN

Mira Robertson

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

In 1944 Emily Dean is dispatched from Melbourne to stay with her father’s relatives in rural Victoria. Feeling lonely and isolated, Emily can’t wait to go home.

But things start to improve when she encounters Claudio, the Italian prisoner of war employed as a farm labourer. A delightfully wry novel about desire, deceit and self-discovery.

MRS.

Caitlin Macy

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

A sharp portrait of three women set in the rarified world of New York’s Upper East Side.

‘Brilliant. Macy’s tale … gallops to its explosive conclusion. I was dazzled by her ability to see into the very hearts of her fascinating characters; I absolutely loved it.’

Kate Atkinson

Australian Literature

THE LUCKY GALAH

Tracy Sorensen Paperback

THE LEBS

FLAMES

Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Robbie Arnott

Paperback RRP $ 27.99

As far as Bani Adam is concerned, Punchbowl Boys is the arse end of the earth. Though he's a Leb and they control the school, Bani feels at odds with the other students, a romantic in a sea of hypermasculinity. A confronting new novel from award winning Michael Mohammed Ahmad.

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

May release, advance orders welcome A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-threeyear-old sister, Charlotte— who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire. The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family.

IN THE GARDEN OF THE FUGITIVES

LITTLE GODS

Ceridwen Dovey

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives an email from her old benefactor, Royce. Beyond their murky shared history, both have lost beloveds, one to an untimely death, another to a strange disappearance. And both are trying to free themselves from deeper pasts.

A rare, original and stunning novel about a remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free. With echoes of Jasper Jones, Seven Little Australians and Cloudstreet, this is a novel about the mess of family, about vengeance and innocence lost.

A STOLEN SEASON

Justine Ettler

Rodney Hall

May release, advance orders welcome Cathy's relationship with drink, and Tomas, draws her deep into a whirlpool of events as mysterious, tense and seductive as Prague itself. Bohemia Beach is an edge of your seat ride, a compelling story of addiction, passionate love and the power of art. It heralds the return of one of Australia's most distinctive authors.

It's 1969 and a remote coastal town in Western Australia is poised to play a pivotal part in the moon landing.

I'm in my cage on the Kelly's back verandah.

I sit here, unheard, underestimated, biscuit crumbs on my beak. But fate is a curious thing.

For just as Evan Johnson's story is about to end (and perhaps with a giant leap), my story prepares to take flight...

A magnificently original debut novel about fate, Australia and what it means to be human... that just happens to be narrated by a galah called Lucky.

Jenny Ackland

BOHEMIA BEACH Paperback RRP $ 29.99

RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

From the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award comes a novel moving, disturbing and compelling in equal measure. Hall presents the interwoven story of three people experiencing a period of life they never thought possible and, perhaps, should never have been granted at all...

THE BOOK OF COLOURS

Robyn Cadwallader Paperback RRP $ 32.99

May release, advance orders welcome From the author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress comes a novel set in medieval London, where three very different people are drawn together to create a magnificent illuminated manuscript, a Book of Hours. Even though the commission seems to answer the aspirations of each one of them, their own desires and ambitions threaten its completion. This is a story about creativity and connection, and our instinctive need to understand our world through the pages of a book.

THE MAKING OF MARTIN SPARROW

Peter Cochrane Paperback RRP $ 32.99

WHAT THE LIGHT REVEALS

THE BOOKSHOP OF THE BROKEN HEARTED

Mick McCoy

Robert Hillman

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

An Australian family living in Moscow during the Cold War. Where is home, what is a family and what does it mean to belong? Told with suspense and rich in characterisation and surprising plot twists, Mick McCoy’s novel has all of the moral complexity and the psychological intensity of an Ian McEwan novel.

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer, but he’s doing his best. He can’t have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. Enter Hannah Babel, quixotic smalltown bookseller: the second Jew—and the most vivid person—Tom has ever met.

May release, advance orders welcome Martin Sparrow is already struggling when the Hawkesbury’s great flood of March 1806 lays waste to him and his farm. The ex-convict is confronted with a choice. He can buckle down, or he can heed the whispers of an earthly paradise on the far side of the mountains, and strike out for a new life.

Rich, raw, strangely beautiful and utterly convincing, The Making of Martin Sparrow reveals Peter Cochrane – already one of our leading historians – as one of our most compelling novelists.

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THE RÚIN

Dervla McTiernan

Thrilling Reads

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Galway 1993: Young Garda Cormac Reilly is called to a scene he will never forget: two silent, neglected children are waiting for him at a crumbling country house. Upstairs, their mother lies dead.

Twenty years later, a body surfaces in the icy black waters of the River Corrib. Detective Reilly is thrown back into the cold case that has haunted him his entire career – what links the two deaths, two decades apart?

THE TEMPTATION OF FORGIVENESS

THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

Donna Leon

A.J. Finn

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

May release, advance orders welcome When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. Following various contradictory leads, Brunetti navigates his way through a world of mysterious informants, underground deals and secret longstanding scam networks with his fellow Commissario, Claudia Griffoni.

It’s been months since Anna last left her home. Anna’s lifeline to the real world is her window, where she watches her neighbours.

One evening, a scream rips the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she must uncover the truth. But if she does, will anyone believe her? Can she even trust herself?

THE GREATER GOOD

ONE WAY

THE GIRL IN THE WOODS

Tim Ayliffe

S.J. Morden

Camilla Lackberg

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

May release, advance orders welcome Nothing is more dangerous than a man who can fall no further, except a battered war correspondent chasing the story of a lifetime - one he may not live to tell...

‘Who needs Jason Bourne when you can have John Bailey?’ Chris Bath

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Frank Kittridge is serving life for murder, one of eight selected to build the first permanent base on Mars. While they work, the accidents seem to multiply…but maybe they aren’t accidents at all.

A murder mystery set on the frozen wastes of Mars. Eight astronauts. One killer. No way home.

John Julius Norwich Hardback RRP $ 45.00

From frowning Roman generals and belligerent Gallic chieftains, to Charlemagne, through Marie Antoinette and the storming of the Bastille to Vichy, the Resistance and beyond, France is the perfect introduction to the country that has inspired the rest of the world to live, dress, eat - and love - better.

A four-year-old girl disappears in the woods outside Fjällbacka. Thirty years ago, a girl went missing from the same spot, and was later discovered, murdered.

Then, two teenage girls were found guilty of the killing.

Could it be a coincidence that one of the girls has just returned to Fjällbacka?

SUNBURNT COUNTRY

NEW POWER

Joëlle Gergis

Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms

Paperback RRP $ 34.99

An unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been with us for millions of years, and what climate change looks like in our own backyard.

Sunburnt Country highlights the impact of a warming planet on Australian lifestyles and ecosystems and the power we all have to shape future life on Earth.

CAN YOU DIE OF A BROKEN HEART?

MONASH'S MASTERPIECE

Dr Nikki Stamp

Peter FitzSimons

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

In the vein of Gut and The Brain That Changes Itself, a gripping exploration into the inner workings of the heart and how emotions and lifestyle affect every beat, from Australian heart and lung surgeon Dr Nikki Stamp.

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Non-Fiction

FRANCE

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Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 35.00

May release, advance orders welcome The Battle of Le Hamel - the Allied triumph masterminded by Sir John Monash. What happened in those 93 minutes changed the way the Allies fought battles, becoming the blueprint for modern warfare.

Peter FitzSimons brings this Allied triumph to life, and tells this magnificent story as it should be told.

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Paperback RRP $ 32.99

In this indispensable guide to navigating the 21st century, two visionary thinkers reveal how the nature of power has changed - and how 'new power' is re-shaping the world. 'New power' is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It works like a current, not a currency and like water or electricity, it is most forceful when it surges.

DEEP TIME DREAMING: UNCOVERING ANCIENT AUSTRALIA

Billy Griffiths

Paperback RRP $ 34.99

Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Deep Time Dreaming investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia.

True Stories

THE WASP AND THE ORCHID

Danielle Clode RATHER HIS OWN MAN

TWO GENERATIONS

Geoffrey Robertson

Anne Connor

Hardback RRP $ 45.00

In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia’s inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights throughout the world.

SKIN IN THE GAME: THE PLEASURE AND PAIN OF TELLING TRUE STORIES

Sonya Voumard

Paperback RRP $ 27.99

Voumard recounts with aplomb her passionate but questioning relationship with journalism. There’s a disastrous 1980 university encounter with Helen Garner which forms the seed for her fascination with the dynamics of the interview and culminates in her connecting again with Garner more than three decades later to work out what went so wrong. There are the insights of a career played out against the changing nature of journalism including the author’s time as a Canberra correspondent.

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

When Anne Connor discovers a dark secret in her father’s past two decades after his death, she begins a journey to uncover the lasting effects of secrets on her family, and the greater impact of the Second World War on northern Australia, in this imaginative and intimate memoir.

STAYING: A MEMOIR

May release, advance orders welcome As children, Jessie Cole and her brother Jake ran wild, free to roam their rainforest home as they pleased. But when Jessie was on the cusp of adolescence, tragedy struck, and her happy, loving family fell apart.

This heartbreaking memoir asks what happens to those who are left behind when someone takes their own life.

Cindy Wockner

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Jacqui Lambie

Outspoken, unexpected and refreshingly honest – this is the candid memoir of Jacqui Lambie, from her time in the Army, her struggles to raise two children as a single mother on welfare, her son’s ice addiction, and her time in the Australian Parliament through to her resignation from the Senate.

LILLIAN ARMFIELD

James Jeffrey

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

For the young James Jeffrey, the day his parents split was like the splitting of the atom. Life took on a seismic instability filled with madness and strain and vendetta and daftness and acts of love, both beautiful and misguided. Yet, what could have been a calamitous upbringing turned instead into an education.

FINDING MY PLACE

Anne Aly Paperback RRP $ 32.99

In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to federal parliament.

She was also probably the first parliamentarian to have seen Zoolander 23 times. Told with warmth, humour and insight, Finding My Place is an irresistible story by an irrepressible woman who has already made her mark internationally and in public life.

A CERTAIN LIGHT

Cynthia Banham Paperback RRP $ 32.99

MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMUS Paperback RRP $ 32.99

In 1922, a 48-yearold housewife from Blackburn delivered her first paper, on native Australian orchids, to the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Over the next thirty years, Edith Coleman would write over 300 articles on Australian nature and would solve the mystery of orchid pollination that had bewildered even Darwin.

Zoologist and award-winning writer Danielle Clode sets out to uncover Edith's story, sharing along the way Edith's lyrical and incisive writing and her uncompromising passion for Australian nature and landscape.

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

REBEL WITH A CAUSE

This is the intimate, and untold, story of Andrew and Myuran; of their childhoods and what turned them to drugs, what happened in their ten years in Kerobokan Prison, the numerous legal appeals, the political fallout, and the growing worldwide pleas for mercy that saw vigils held around Australia.

RRP $ 39.99

Jessie Cole

THE PASTOR AND THE PAINTER Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Hardback

Leigh Straw

In this fascinating unknown story of Australia's first female detective, Leigh Straw tells the vivid and gripping story of Lillian Armfield and her groundbreaking career policing the mean streets of Sydney during the throes of the most dramatic years of crime in the city - the infamous 1920s Razor Wars.

Written for her young son so that he would know what happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham's inspiring family memoir uncovers a true picture of what survival means. 'This book tells a story that I tried to write many times before, but couldn't. For a long time, it was too painful to tell. It is also one I hadn't known how to tell. It had to be more than a story about surviving a plane crash, a random event without intrinsic meaning.'

This catalogue is printed on paper which is fully PEFC Certified (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification scheme), a program which promotes the sustainable management of forests.

In addition, the paper is Australian Made with 92% of the energy used coming from renewable sources providing an environmentally friendly paper with a low carbon footprint. The pulp was bleached using totally Chlorine Free (TCF) process. This Catalogue is produced in accordance with the environment ISO 14001 Standard

Lovely Picture Books GO GO AND THE SILVER SHOES

Jane Godwin & Anna Walker Hardback RRP

$

24.99

From the much-loved picture-book partnership comes this sparkly story of one independently minded little girl, and the unexpected, precious ways life sometimes works.

When Go Go is allowed to buy the most beautiful shoes ever, she decides she will wear them EVERYWHERE! Even to the creek, where she and her brothers go adventuring.

But - Oh no, Go Go! - that's when a terrible thing happens . . . Age: 5+

THE SILVER SEA

Alison Lester & Jane Godwin Hardback RRP

19.99

$

Take a journey beneath the waves in this magical adventure created by much-loved Australian authors Alison Lester and Jane Godwin along with the young people at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. Their sparkling collaboration explores the hidden treasures of our seas and celebrates the joy of adventure – and of returning home. Age: 2+

Jackie French & Bruce Whatley

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

I remember when rain stopped, When day by day the water dropped, All across a sunbleached land, Drought spread its withered, deadly hand.

From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire and Cyclone comes Drought–a moving story about the devastating effects drought has on many Australians and their farms. Age:4+

Lara Bunting

Hardback RRP $16.99

It is no laughing matter when you are the most serious bird in the borough.

Kookaburras love to laugh.

They laugh when it is sunny, or rainy, or windy.

They laugh for no reason at all. When one serious kookaburra decides to flee the jokers, and goes to find a more suitable flock, he finds that perhaps he might just be in the right place after all. Age: 4+

SQUARE

THE LAST PEACH

Mac Barnett

Gus Gordon

Hardback

Hardback

RRP $ 24.99

RRP $ 24.99

May release, advance orders welcome Every day, Square brings a block out of his cave and pushes it up a steep hill. When Circle floats by, she declares Square a genius, a sculptor! But now Circle wants a sculpture of her own, a circle! Will the genius manage to create one? Even accidentally? Age: 5+

DROUGHT

KOOKABURRAS LOVE TO LAUGH

One fine summer's day two bugs discover the most beautiful peach of the season and are faced with a dilemma... Who should eat it? From internationally award-winning picture book creator Gus Gordon comes this delightful story about friendship and sharing. Age: 4+

A-Z OF AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS

THE HOLE STORY

Jennifer Cossins

Hardback

Hardback RRP $ 26.99

From the award-winning creator of A-Z of Endangered Animals comes a stunning nonfiction picture book for boys and girls with a love of animals and a thirst for all things encyclopaedic.

This exquisite full-colour picture book is packed with interesting facts and is perfect for young conservationists and students with a keen interest in the world around them. Age: 7+

Kelly Canby RRP $ 24.99

One day Charlie finds a hole. A hole of his very own! He picks it up and pops it in his pocket. But it doesn’t take Charlie long to realise that a hole in your pocket is not a good thing to have... Age: 4+

WITH MY DADDY: A BOOK OF LOVE

Jo Witek DIG, DUMP, ROLL

Sally Sutton

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

Crash-a-rumble, Smasha-grumble! What’s at work? Here’s a clue: It will clear the ground for you. Bulldozer! Coming through!

This follow-up to the bestselling classic Roadworks will delight tiny truck enthusiasts. Visual clues and an interactive text invite little ones to guess what kind of vehicle is at work. Age: 2+ Special Offer: Purchase a copy of Dig, Dump, Roll and receive a FREE hard hat. *While stocks last.

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Gifts, Reviews & Specials

THE STORY OF TANTRUM O'FURRILY

Cressida Cowell & Mark Nicholas (Illus)

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

Tantrum O'Furrily's kittens are hungry and doubt that a story can ease a stray cat's rumbling stomach. However, they soon learn that stories are powerful, and that if you're courageous you might find a saucer of milk at the end of that story. A lyrical new text from the bestselling author Cressida Cowell, with striking illustrations Mark Nicholas. Age: 3+

Hardback RRP $ 21.99

With my Daddy is the next chapter in the bestselling Growing Hearts series.

A little girl honours her dad and all the fun they have together in this sweet companion to In My Heart. This little girl loves spending time with her dad. They ride bikes and swim in the pool. They can imagine exciting adventures, or just lounge around on a hot day.

Being with her dad makes her feel safe and comforted. And when she gets too scared, or too angry, nothing calms her down better than a big hug from dad. Age: 2+

For Kids of All Ages FROM NERD TO NINJA!: NINJA KID, BOOK 1

WHEN THE MOUNTAINS ROARED

FEARLESS FREDERIC

Anh Do

Jess Butterworth

Paperback RRP $16.99

Paperback RRP $15.99

Paperback RRP $14.99

A vivid, warm and atmospheric adventure set in the mountains of India, about a girl who is determined to protect the wild leopards of the mountain from poachers, perfect for fans of Katherine Rundell. Age: 9+

Nelson's a nerd! Unfit, uncool...totally awkward!

But when he wakes up on his tenth birthday, he discovers he's a NINJA! THE LAST NINJA ON EARTH! How's he going to save the world when he can't even get his undies on the right way?! Age: 7+

KENSY AND MAX 1: BREAKING NEWS

THE LONG CLASS GOODNIGHT

Jacqueline Harvey

Sammy J

Paperback RRP $16.99

Twins Kensy and Max Grey’s lives are turned upside down when they are whisked off to London, and discover their parents are missing. So many things don’t add up: their strange new school, the bizarre grannies on their street, the coded messages they keep finding and the feeling that, all around them, adults are keeping secrets. Age: 9+

When the river rises and the city of Paris begins to disappear under water, Frederic decides to help those who can’t help themselves. Frederic will have to battle an escaped zoo animal and fight off pickpockets and looters but, as the waters subside, can he find justice for his father? A story of friendship and heart-racing adventure – a perfect follow up to the acclaimed The Boy and the Spy. Age: 8+

BRINDABELLA

Paperback RRP $16.99

Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner (Illus)

What would happen if the end-of-school bell never rang? The Long Class Goodnight is the first title in a hilarious new middle grade fiction series by award-winning comedian, Sammy J. “Fresh, funny and fantabulisticesque. My clocks all stopped when I read this book!” – John Marsden Age: 8+

Paperback RRP $16.99

From an extraordinary novelist and an awardwinning illustrator comes this lyrical and unforgettable story about a boy and the untameable wildness of a hand-reared joey. Age: 8+

STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT

WAIT

Beck & Matt Stanton

SHOUT OUT TO THE GIRLS: A CELEBRATION OF AWESOME AUSTRALIAN WOMEN

Ben Brooks

Hardback RRP $19.99

For the Grown-Ups: ‘Wait!

Just wait!’ You find yourself saying this all the time, right? Well, we’re sorry to say, but you’re gonna hate this book! Once you and the kids start reading it, you can’t do anything else until it’s finished. You’ll just have to ... wait. And the kids will love it! Age: 4+

Felice Arena

Hardback RRP $ 35.00

A beautiful and inspiring collection of stories about boys who changed the world without killing a single dragon or saving a single princess. Packed with stories of adventure and wonderment, it will appeal to those who need the courage to reject peer pressure and go against the grain. It will educate, encourage and entertain! Age: 10+

Hardback RRP $ 29.99

Shout-outs to 50 awesome Australian women with easy-to-read biographies of their incredible achievements. From Cathy Freeman to Turia Pitt, Edith Cowan to Julia Gillard, Mum Shirl to Vali Myers, plus rally car drivers, molecular biologists and more, this book is a celebration of women in all fields, from all walks of life, and from Australia’s past and present. Age: 6+

Bestselling Kids Series

MESSY WEIRD: WEIRDO, BOOK 10

THE NEW KID!: TINY TIMMY, BOOK 7

Anh Do

Tim Cahill

THE RACE TO KANGAROO CLIFF: A SCHOOL SHIP TOBERMORY ADVENTURE Alexander McCall Smith & Ian McIntosh (Illus)

Paperback RRP $14.99

Paperback RRP $12.99

Paperback RRP $16.99

Paperback RRP $14.99

May release, advance orders welcome

Age: 6+

Age: 7+

Age: 9+

Age: 8+

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Age guides are approximate. Ask for more personalised advice in-store.

FRANKIE FISH AND THE GREAT WALL OF CHAOS

Peter Helliar

THE BURNING MAZE: THE TRIALS OF APOLLO, BOOK 3 Rick Riordan Paperback RRP $ 22.99

The Independent Bookseller’s Autumn Reading Guide

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SMALL SPACES

Sarah Epstein

Teen & YA

Paperback RRP $19.99

Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival.

At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn't real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory's never spoken about the week she went missing. As disturbing memories resurface, Tash starts to see Sparrow again. And she realises Mallory is the key to unlocking the truth about a dark secret connecting them. Age: 14+

A COURT OF FROST AND STARLIGHT

Sarah J Maas

Paperback RRP $16.99

May release, advance orders welcome Feyre, Rhys and their companions are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly changed world beyond. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated – scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.

A companion tale to the bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Age: 14+

THE FATES DIVIDE

Martyna Angell Hardback RRP $ 49.99

Leading food blogger and bestselling author Martyna Angell offers 180 endlessly flexible recipes that can be adapted to support your individual wellbeing, no matter your age or stage in life. All recipes can be gluten-free and sugar-free, with options for vegetarians, vegans, paleo-friendly, dairy-free, fodmap and more. The delicious recipes in this beautifully designed and photographed book can help you cook for a crowd or just for yourself, confident in the knowledge you can cater to all health issues without compromising on flavour.

Ellie Marney

Paperback RRP $19.99

Paperback RRP $19.99

Bo Mitchell has little on his mind except school, footy and friends. Rory Wild has grown up on a nearby commune and is attending a 'normal' high school for the first time.

Bo is determined to find out everything about her, even her secrets... Age: 13+

WHISPER

OBSIDIO

Lynette Noni

Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Paperback RRP $19.99

For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes… Subject SixEight Four, ‘Jane Doe’, has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word. Life at Lengard follows a strict, torturous routine that has never changed. Until now. Age: 14+

THE WHOLESOME COOK: RECIPES FOR LIFE'S SEASONS

WHITE NIGHT

Veronica Roth

In the second book of the Carve the Mark duology, globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth reveals how Cyra and Akos fulfill their fates.

The Fates Divide is a richly imagined tale of hope and resilience told in four stunning perspectives. Age: 14+

Inspired

Paperback RRP $ 22.99

From bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes the exciting finale in the Illuminae Files trilogy.

With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heroes will fall, and hearts will be broken. Age: 14+

THE GARDEN APOTHECARY: THE HAPPY GUT

Reece Carter

Paperback RRP $ 39.99

May release, advance orders welcome Powered by the latest research into the gut-brain axis, naturopath and Herb Nerd Reece Carter offers you gentle remedies and effective ‘food as medicine’ recipes to help you manage indigestion, IBS, reflux and mood, maintain happy gut bacteria and set you on the pathway to everyday gut health.

MAZI: MODERN GREEK FOOD

Christina Mouratoglou & Adrien Carré Hardback RRP $ 39.99

Tired of outdated perceptions of Greek food, Mazi is on a mission to revolutionize Greek cuisine.

With a strong emphasis on sharing feasts of small dishes, Christina Mouratoglou and Adrien Carré bring a trendy tapas vibe to recipes exploding with flavor, making Mazi's food intrisically edgy, cool, and completely delicious.

AMELIA WESTLAKE

Erin Gough

JAPAN: THE COOKBOOK

Paperback RRP $19.99

When worrying incidents at an elite private school go unnoticed, sworn enemies Harriet and Will embark on a grand feminist hoax to expose them – and develop feelings for each other in the process.

A ferociously funny queer rom-com about politics, privilege, and privateschool hoaxes, from award-winning Australian author Erin Gough. Age: 13+

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Nancy Singleton Hachisu

Hardback RRP $ 59.95

THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO; THE ASK AND THE ANSWER; MONSTERS OF MEN

Patrick Ness

Paperbacks RRP $17.99 each

Special anniversary editions, with striking new cover designs, to celebrate 10 years of the Chaos Walking trilogy. Soon to be a major motion picture!

Age: 14+

The Independent Bookseller’s Autumn Reading Guide

An accessible and sumptious collection of recipes from one of the world’s most respected and beloved culinary cultures.

Japan: The Cookbook has more than 400 sumptuous recipes by acclaimed food writer Nancy Singleton Hachisu. The dishes soups, noodles, rices, pickles, one-pots, sweets, and vegetables - are simple and elegant.

Living SOPHIE'S PATCH

Sophie Thomson

Paperback RRP $ 35.00

This beautiful, inspirational and fun gardening book is bursting with practical ideas, projects and great advice from popular Gardening Australia presenter Sophie Thomson.

Featuring the Patch, her own ‘work in progress’ garden, Sophie shares her experience and knowledge, as well as her passionate belief that gardening can help save the world.

IMAGINARIUM

Sibella Court

Hardback RRP $100.00

May release, advance orders welcome From award-winning Australian interior stylist Sibella Court, Imaginarium is the ultimate large-format picture book of style and design inspiration, featuring more than 300 glorious photographs. Immersing you in a world of travel, nature, interiors, art and curiosities, Imaginarium will fuel your imagination for your own creativity, design and adventures.

LEAF SUPPLY

Lauren Camilleri & Sophia Kaplan

Hardback RRP $ 49.99

A beautiful, practical book on choosing and caring for over 100 easy-to-find houseplants, as well as inspiring plant styling advice and more. Camilleri and Kaplan run a Sydney-based houseplant delivery company, also called ‘Leaf Supply’, and they want you to love indoor gardening and growing as much as they do!

Gifts & Travel THE MUSEUM OF LOST ART

Noah Charney

Hardback RRP $ 39.95

May release, advance orders welcome True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recovery.

From the bestselling author of The Art of Forgery, this exciting read spans the centuries and the continents.

AUSTRALIA'S ULTIMATE BUCKET LIST

Jennifer Adams & Clint Bizzell

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

We all have those bucket list destinations in Australia – the places in our own backyard that we plan to visit one day. Australia's Ultimate Bucket List is your guide to the most iconic and diverse destinations across this stunning country that you really should see in this lifetime.

DESPERATELY SEEKING BANKSY

Xavier Tapies

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

With illuminating commentary from street art expert Xavier Tapies, and detailed maps to track down Banksy’s works, this beautifully produced book is the definitive guide to the work of the world’s most famous – and elusive – graffiti artist. Banksy’s subversive genius and astute political commentary are on full display. “People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish……..but that is only if it’s done properly” Banksy

THE FLOWER EXPERT

SUNDAYS IN PARIS

Fleur McHarg

Yasmin Zeinab

Hardback RRP $ 49.99

Fleur McHarg lives and breathes flowers and colour. She is a florist in the true, traditional sense of the word. Fleur believes in letting flowers be the stars of the show by working with the natural shape of a flower or branch. When it comes to beauty, you can’t beat nature – but you can learn how to showcase it for startling impact.

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

In the past visitors to Paris were confronted with an abundance of closed signs on a Sunday. Recently, the city has evolved and a lively Sunday scene has emerged. Sundays in Paris is a guide to the city featuring the best places to eat, drink and explore—any day of the week.

BIRDS IN THEIR HABITATS: JOURNEYS WITH A NATURALIST

Ian Fraser Paperback RRP $ 39.95

This is a book of the discovery of birds and the remarkable landscapes in which they live. Written with humour and personal insight, Birds in Their Habitats is a collection of stories of one man’s bird watching journey through four continents, from unfamiliar places like the Chonos Archipelago of southern Chile, to the familiar surrounds of the Australian backyard. Discover fascinating aspects of birdlife and the sometimes strange world of the people who spend a life absorbed in them.

HEART LINES

Gemma Troy

Hardback RRP $19.99

heart lines presents Australian Instagram sensation Gemma Troy’s poetry, one gorgeous verse at a time as she reflects on themes of love and pain, femininity and joy, and matches each delicate poem on the page with a beautiful object from nature.

EVERY DAY A WORD SURPRISES ME & OTHER QUOTES BY WRITERS

Phaidon Editors

Hardback RRP $ 29.95

Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new book. Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by writers through the ages and across the globe, Every Day a Word Surprises Me is the ideal keepsake for readers, writers, and everyone who appreciates the exquisite power of words.

AMAZING ARCHITECTURE: SPOTTER'S GUIDE

Lonely Planet

Paperback RRP $14.99

The next in the Spotter’s Guide series reveals the greatest man-made structures around the world, from cloud-piercing skyscrapers and ancient sites hidden in dense forests, to famous holiday homes and churches chiselled into mountain faces. Marvel at over 100 of the world’s coolest constructions and where to see them.

Gifts, Reviews & Specials

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INDIE BOOK AWARDS

2018 WINNERS

Australian Independent Bookseller

Australian independent booksellers have announced Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend as the Indie Book Awards 2018 Book of the Year. The Indie Book Awards, celebrating their tenth year, are chosen by the country’s independent booksellers who select their favourite Australian books published in the previous calendar year.

The individual category winners, in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Debut Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Children’s and Young Adult, were also announced. From these six category winners the independent booksellers selected the best of the best – the Indie Books Awards 2018 Book of the Year.

WINNER

Judges’ Comments: ‘From the very first page the reader is immersed in the world of Morrigan Crow.

Her journey of discovery of herself and the world around her is simultaneously scary, hilarious, intriguing and exciting. From the fabulous Fenestra, the talking Magnificat through to the evil Mr Jones, Jessica Townsend weaves a story that never falters. A wonderful book for readers of any age.’

INDIE BOOK AWARD 2018

‘Nevermoor is the best debut novel I have read in a long time! Jessica Townsend's descriptive writing immerses you in her fantasy world so entirely, the reader feels transported to the city of Nevermoor as they turn the pages. Imaginative and adventurous, as a bookseller this is a book I love putting this book into young readers hands.’

& CATEGORY WINNER CHILDREN’S

CATEGORY WINNERS

CATEGORY WINNER FICTION

CATEGORY WINNER NON-FICTION

CATEGORY WINNER DEBUT FICTION

CATEGORY WINNER ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION

CATEGORY WINNER YOUNG ADULT

The Choke by Sofie Laguna

Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason

Wimmera by Mark Brandi

Native: Art and Design with Australian Plants

by Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters

Wilder Country

by Mark Smith

Judges’ Comments: A punch in the guts that deals expertly with issues of poverty, class and male violence. We see 70s Australia through the eyes of 10 year old Justine, whose voice is exquisitely and heartbreakingly rendered as she tries to navigate the unforgiving adult world around her.

Judges’ Comments: This book delivers on so many levels – as travelogue, as comprehensive collection of Icelandic tales, as historical and geographical guide and as a very personal search for identity.

Defying all genres, this book is as unique as it is delightfully rich.

Judges’ Comments: A powerfully atmospheric story of friendship and tragedy in small town Australia. Brandi masterfully crafts the story so the reader feels the ominous threat building throughout the narrative, knowing what is coming but powerless to stop it.

Judges’ Comments: Raw, gritty, suspenseful and Judges’ Comments: terrifying this is dystopian fiction at Australian plants are given a serious its most realistic. Set in Australia and practical treatment in Native, post a major epidemic that has making this a treasure trove of wiped out most of the population, the wisdom of some very skilled this imagined future is made real by gardeners, designers and artists. the authenticity of characters and the emotions they experience as they struggle to survive.

Recent Indie Bestsellers Fiction

Non-Fiction

Children’s & YA

1 The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

1 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

2 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

2 The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

3 The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan

3 Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

4 The Only Story by Julian Barnes

4 Lost Connections by Johann Hari

5 The Dry by Jane Harper

5 The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein

3 Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

by Jessica Townsend

6 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

6 Silent Invasion: China’s influence in Australia

by Clive Hamilton

4 Wonder by A.J. Palacio

7 Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece

by Stephen Fry 8 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman 9 Force of Nature by Jane Harper 10 Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

7 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari 8 Maggie's Recipe for Life by Maggie Beer & Professor Ralph Martins 9 Korea: Where the America Century Began

by Michael Pembroke 10 5 Ingredients – Quick & Easy Food by Jamie Oliver

Source: Nielsen BookScan

1 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo 2 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Volume 2

by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

5 The Dog Man and Cat Kid: The Adventures of Dog Man, Book 4 by Dav Pilkey 6 From Nerd to Ninja!; Ninja Kid, Book 1 by Anh Do 7 Shout Out to the Girls: A Celebration of Awesome Australian Women 8 Bad Dad by David Walliams 9 The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 12

by Jeff Kinney 10 Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

by Oliver Jeffers

Prices listed in this catalogue as RRP refer to the publisher’s recommended retail prices. While every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of price and availability, these may be subject to change without notice by publishers. In most cases, any title not currently in stock can easily be ordered in at your request. All special prices and offers are valid from 26/3/18 to 30/6/18 unless otherwise stated or stock has sold out.