Monthly Highlights September 2015

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MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER

GREAT NEW FICTION FOR DAD GO SET A WATCHMAN

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB

Harper Lee Hardback RRP $ 45.00

David Lagercrantz Paperback RRP $ 32.99

The recently discovered sequel To Kill a Mockingbird. Set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout is dealing with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she spent her childhood.

BROKEN PROMISE Linwood Barclay Paperback RRP $ 29.99 From the New York Times bestselling author of No Safe House comes an explosive novel about the disturbing secrets of a quiet small town. When David Harwood moves back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, he comes across a family secret of epic proportions, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

She’s back! The call comes in late at night: a superhacker has gained access to top secret U.S. intelligence. There must be something deeper at the heart of this, maybe even the scoop that Millennium magazine so desperately needs. A tangled web of truth that someone is prepared to kill to protect.

The chilling new psychological thriller from one of the most brilliant Australian crime authors of today.

A mother and her teenage daughter are found brutally murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her Prince.

MAKE ME (JACK REACHER 20)

Anthony Horowitz Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Lee Child Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Mother’s Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover.

Reacher expects to find a lonely tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing private investigator, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people.

TENNISON

SURVEILLANCE

DEVASTATION ROAD

Lynda La Plante Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Bernard Keane Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Jason Hewitt Paperback RRP $ 29.99

In 1973 Jane Tennison, aged 22, leaves the Metropolitan Police Training Academy to be placed on probationary exercise in Hackney where criminality thrives. We witness her struggle to cope in a male-dominated environment, learning fast to deal with shocking situations with no help from her superiors. Then comes her involvement in her first murder case.

A ruthless online activist group called Kittehsaurus Rox has hacked into top-secret Cabinet information and gone public with it.

Journalist and cyber-expert Kat Sharpe is chosen by KSR to break news of their operations, and overnight she becomes the media sensation.

But she can’t shake the feeling that something doesn’t add up.

Jonathan Franzen Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Michael Robotham Paperback RRP $ 29.99

TRIGGER MORTIS

James Bond is back where he belongs. Anthony Horowitz’s new novel is a thrilling tour de force, sure to delight fans of the original 007 novels and new readers alike. It also features previously unseen material written by Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming.

PURITY

CLOSE YOUR EYES

A deeply compelling story for fans of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong. Spring, 1945: A man wakes in a field in a country he does not know. Injured and confused, he sets out on an extraordinary journey in search of his home, his past and himself.

Purchase a copy of Devastation Road and receive a free copy of The Dynamite Room. *While stocks last.

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1st September release, advance orders welcome Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity and that her relationship with her mother is hazardous. But she doesn’t know who her father is or why her mother chose to live with an invented name. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in secrets – including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. The highly anticipated new novel by the Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Corrections and Freedom.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections and How to be Alone. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in the New Yorker and Harper’s, and he was named one of the best writers under 40 by the New Yorker.

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Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons Millie Marotta’s Animal Kingdom by Millie Marotta All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book by Johanna Basford The Little Book of Calm Colouring: Portable Relaxation

by David Sinden & Victoria Kay The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Specials by Anna Funder A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones Women I’ve Undressed: A Memoir by Orry-Kelly Blindsided by Michael Lynagh & Mark Eglinton A Letter to My Children by Christopher Pyne Halliday Wine Companion 2016 by James Halliday Playing on by Michael Sexton & Neil Sachse Wind/Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami The Healthy Life by Jessica Sepel When We Were Young and Foolish: A Memoir

by Greg Sheridan The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop

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BIOGRAPHIES & NON-FICTION ATMOSPHERE OF HOPE: SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS Tim Flannery Paperback RRP $ 29.99 Acclaimed author and scientist Tim Flannery argues that Earth’s climate system is approaching a crisis. In the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Summit, Atmosphere of Hope provides both a snapshot of the trouble we are in and an up-to-the-minute analysis of some of the new possibilities for mitigating climate change that are emerging now.

COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK

POLITICAL VISION Andrew Chapman Hardback RRP $ 49.95 Political Vision provides a behindthe-scenes view of Australian politics from the 1970s to the present; from Whitlam to Abbott. Its unforgettable images frame the past and provide an unflinching look at the election process while reflecting upon the changing face of the political landscape in Australia over four decades.

GUDINSKI Stuart Coupe Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Brett Morgen & Richard Bienstock Hardback RRP $ 39.99

Known to many as GODinski, Michael Gudinski is unquestionably the most powerful and influential figure in the Australian rock’n’roll music business and has been for the last four decades. This is the real story of the man behind the bands and a backstage pass to forty years of Australian rock music.

The riveting companion book to the highly anticipated documentary about the life of Nirvana frontman and grunge legend Kurt Cobain, featuring expanded exclusive interviews with the family and friends who knew him best and never-seen-before photographs and artwork. It is the ultimate book for fans of Nirvana and of Kurt, who remains a fascinating icon of popular culture.

BLINDSIDED

HEROES OF THE SKIES

Michael Lynagh Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Michael Veitch Paperback RRP $ 34.99 Michael Veitch once again has captured the memories of the brave, lucky men who survived the unsurvivable.

The risks of not returning from flying missions in WWII were extremely high so the stories are uniquely heroic, almost unbelievable. But these were ordinary men in extraordinary situations and they record their stories for future generations.

It’s the unthinkable for anyone - to be blindsided by a life-threatening illness in the prime of life, with no prior warning and no time to prepare loved-ones for a life after you. On April 16th, 2012 Michael Lynagh - retired Rugby great - suffered a serious stroke. He was just fortyeight years old and everything about life and how he viewed it changed in an instant.

QUARTERLY ESSAY 59: FACTION MAN, BILL SHORTEN’S PATH TO POWER David Marr Paperback RRP $ 22.99 21st September release, advance orders welcome Marr’s Quarterly Essay profiles of Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott ignited firestorms of media coverage and were national bestsellers. In Quarterly Essay 59, he turns his enquiring mind toward Bill Shorten. This controversial and brilliant new essay looks at the making of Shorten.

WHAT MY DAUGHTERS TAUGHT ME Joseph Wakim Paperback RRP $ 32.99 When Joseph Wakim’s wife died of breast cancer, his three daughters were only eleven, nine and four. Despite friends, family and strangers telling him he would need help to bring up his daughters, Joseph did the job his way, trusting that he - and the girls would know what to do.

CERTAIN ADMISSIONS: A BEACH, A BODY AND A LIFETIME OF SECRETS Gideon Haigh Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Certain Admissions is Australian true crime at its best, and stranger than any crime fiction. It is real-life police procedural, courtroom drama, family saga, investigative journalism, social history, archival treasure hunt - a meditation, too, on how the past shapes the present, and the present the past.

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WAR CLASSICS John Monash Slipcase RRP $ 79.99

Presented in a collectors’ slipcase, the War Classics, offer unparalleled insight in the role of Australians in World War I, and into the experience of one of Australia’s greatest leaders, General Sir John Monash. Includes War Letters of General Monash and The Australian Victories in France in 1918. Also available as two separate volumes each priced at $ 45.00 RRP.

FLESH WOUNDS Richard Glover Paperback RRP $ 29.99 A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Part poignant family memoir, part rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is a book for anyone who’s wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet.

The answer: ‘No’. There is always something stranger out there.

WATERFRONT Duncan McNab Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia’s ports have been our opening to the world.

They are also the breeding ground for many of Australia’s most notorious criminals, and a magnet for local and overseas criminal syndicates.

Waterfront is the story of the crimes, the politics, the characters and the corruption in our nation’s ports.

COOKING, GIFTS & MORE DUDE FOOD

HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 2016

Dan Churchill Paperback RRP $ 24.99 Dan Churchill began cooking for his family when he was twelve years old. Over the years, his friends realised how much their mums and girlfriends loved the fact that he could cook, and they asked Dan for his help. He wrote the recipes in this book for his friends, and revised them until they were foolproof. Packed with helpful tips and shortcuts, as well as beautiful photographs, this book will turn any dude into a cook.

James Halliday Paperback RRP $ 39.95 The Halliday Wine Companion is the most authoritative and entertaining guide to Australian wine.

Keenly anticipated by winemakers, faithful collectors and wine lovers alike, the 2016 edition has been completely revised and updated to bring you up-to-the minute information including tasting notes, details on wineries and information about the winemakers themselves.

THE SHEARERS Evan McHugh Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Expert outback chronicler Evan McHugh – author of bestselling titles such as The Drovers and Outback Heroes – brings to life the toil, tumult and toughness of the shearing life. From legendary figures such as blade shearing record-holder Jack Howe, to today’s young guns, these characters have influenced the social landscape and folklore of the country.

THE HUXTABURGER BOOK Daniel Wilson Hardback RRP $ 29.95 A Huxtaburger is no ordinary burger. In The Huxtaburger Book Daniel Wilson, co-owner and chef behind the hugely popular Huxtaburger outlets, presents the elements that make up the ultimate burger. The Huxtaburger Book will change everything you thought you knew about burgers, and will arm you with all you’ll need to know to make cultworthy burgers at home.

AUSTRALIAN BUSH PUBS

A YEAR OF PRACTICULTURE

Craig Lewis & Cathy Savage

Rohan Anderson Hardback RRP $ 49.95

Hardback RRP $ 49.99 From the authors of Australia’s favourite bush camping and 4WD guides comes a striking review of Australia’s iconic bush pubs. No-one is in a better position to know which are the country’s most extraordinary bush pubs. Lavishly illustrated with striking full-colour photographs, Australian Bush Pubs features an eclectic collection of the outback’s historic watering holes.

Rohan Anderson left his job in the city for a simpler life on the land. Over the years he has developed his own principle of practical living. Practiculture is a lifestyle choice. It’s about direct involvement in the day to day elements of living, and the rewarding choice to grow, hunt and forage beautiful, healthy, sustainable food.

MASTERCHEF: THE MASTERS AT HOME Various, photographs by David Loftus Hardback RRP $ 45.00 Ever wondered what chefs love to cook when they’re in their own kitchen?

Away from the intensity and heat of restaurant service, what food makes them happiest on a weekend off? 30 globally renowned chefs have each shared three recipes for their favourite weekend treats in this special MasterChef collection.

THE LITTLE VEGGIE PATCH CO. DIY GARDEN PROJECTS Mat Pember Paperback RRP $ 45.00 Practical projects for small-space edible gardening and backyard fun from the much-loved Little Veggie Patch co. The book has 6 chapters — Kids, Recycled/Upcyled, X-Factor, Vertical Gardening, Gardening Basics and Kitchen. There are 40 practical projects for gardens big and small, with each chapter including a break-out patch favourite feature project.

ANIMORPHIA

SUPERHERO DAD

MUNGO’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS: FROM THE SATURDAY PAPER

Timothy Knapman, Joe Berger (Illus) Hardback RRP $ 22.99 A vibrant, humorous and warmhearted celebration of all the incredible things dad can do. He might not have a superhero mask or wear his pants outside his trousers, but his super snores can be heard miles away, he tells super jokes and can even make monsters go away at bedtime!

Mungo MacCallum Paperback RRP $ 9.99 Be delighted, be infuriated, be inspired – but above all be entertained! This is the ultimate puzzle book: a year’s worth of Mungo MacCallum’s cryptic crosswords from The Saturday Paper, plus a preface from the maestro himself.

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NICE NOSING YOU Elke Vogelsang Hardback RRP $ 29.95 From acclaimed animal photographer Elke Vogelsang comes a charming, personal collection of portraits of her three dogs-Noodles, Scout, and Loli. Nice Nosing You presents Elke’s expressive portraits of her much-loved dogs; a collection compiled over two years in what became a personal and touching project for Elke and her husband, Carsten.

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Kerby Rosanes Paperback RRP $19.95 Welcome to this weird and wacky colouring challenge. There are pictures to colour in, drawings to complete, spaces to scribble in and hidden treasures to find in these super-detailed doodles by artist Kerby Rosanes. Featuring unique and intricate ink drawings of incredible animals, shape-shifting aliens and breathtaking scenes.

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FROM EXPLORE AUSTRALIA COASTAL AUSTRALIA Nick Rains Hardback RRP $ 39.95 From the cauldron of seas around subantarctic Macquarie Island to the Kimberley’s tidal flats, Nick Rains’s photographs evoke the varied, yet always majestic, beauty of Australia’s coastline. With a selection of photographs spanning his photography career, Nick takes us on a journey across the different aspects of our coastline.

COUNTRY AUSTRALIA Nick Rains Hardback RRP $ 39.95 While the majority of Australians live close to the coast, the heart of our nation is still in the country. Country Australia encourage us to ‘go bush’ and see the varied and spectacular scenery of Australia, from the characters drinking in the local pub in a remote opal-mining town to the desolate windmill of a long-abandoned farm.

GREAT FATHER’S DAY GIFTS FROM AFFIRM PRESS DOWN UNDER Trevor Conomy Paperback RRP $ 29.99 ‘Down Under’ made Men at Work the biggest band on the planet in the early 1980s. The band split soon after, but ‘Down Under’ never stopped working. Decades later, ABC’s Spicks and Specks innocently revealed a similarity between the song’s flute riff and an old nursery rhyme about a laughing Kookaburra. It sparked an epic legal stoush that shook the music world.

THE SUPPOSITORY OF ALL WISDOM Andrew Thompson & Andrew Weldon Hardback RRP $ 24.99 Inspired by Tony Abbott’s immortal verbal overreach, The Suppository of All Wisdom is a hilarious, fully illustrated guide to the words and expressions we most often mangle, muck up and just don’t quite understand. You’ll be amazed at how many supposably well-educated speakers make mistakes – from schoolteachers, to newsreaders, to Rhodes Scholar prime ministers.

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