April 2015 Reading Guide

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April 2015 NEW RELEASES

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Welcome to our Better Read Than Dead April reading guide!

Autumn is finally starting to fall on Sydney. The cooler weather is creeping up on us and it’s time to say goodbye to balmy breezes and beach reads, but that just means we now get to snuggle up under blankets with some brilliant new books!

In the last couple of weeks we’ve received torrents of new releases from the Australian publishers and we’re so pleased to introduce them to you here in our April reading guide.

We’ve handpicked the most exciting and compelling books from a range of genres and categories that are guaranteed to satisfy your every reading whim this month.

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Scott’s Pick The Shore | Sara Taylor | $32.99 Read the first chapter of this novel and you’ll be hooked. Every chapter in this stunning novel has the density and heft of a short story. Taylor bounds through time as she described members of a loosely connected island community. Her willingness to play with genre is reminiscent of David Mitchell, as is her crackling prose. This is a book that constantly surprises, rich with fascinating characters.

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Fiction “We guarantee you won’t be able to stop thinking about it!”

The Girl in the Read Coat | Kate Hamer | $29.99 If you loved Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and are looking for a new psychological thriller to sink your teeth into, meet The Girl in the Red Coat. Chapters alternate between mother Beth and daughter Carmel following Carmel’s disappearance on the way to a local storytelling festival, and these perspectives play off each other to create incredible suspense. You will not be able to put this book down and, even if you manage to do so, we guarantee that you won’t be able stop thinking about it!.

An incisive and timely satire, Welcome to Braggsville is the story of D’Aaron Davenport and his three friends (the self-styled ‘four Indians’) who plan to stage a ‘performative intervention’ in protest of the civil war reenactments (recently re-branded Patriot Days) that are held annually in D’Aaron’s rural home town. Johnson’s sense of humour is razor-sharp and the book employs styles ranging from Southern Gothic to tragicomic, combining to create a literary coming-of-age story for a new generation.

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Welcome to Braggsville | T. Geronimo Johnson | $29.99

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Fiction The Four Books | Yan Lianke | $29.99 Lianke’s most powerful novel to date, The Four Books is a potent allegory for the grotesque persecution enacted during The Great Leap Forward. An author, scholar, musician, theologian, and technician undergo re-education in the ninety-ninth district of a labour camp to restore their revolutionary zeal. As well as a searing indictment of one China’s most controversial periods, The Four Books is also a poignant tale of camaraderie, love, and faith.

Signs Preceding the End of the World | Yuri Herrera | $19.99

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Herrera is one of Mexico’s leading novelists and Lisa Dillman has done an excellent job of translating his concise, arresting prose and haunting imagery into English. This short novel is narrated by the fierce Makina, who is smuggled over the Mexican border into the US to search for her missing brother and pass on two messages: one from her mother, the other from the criminal underground. A simple quest, in Herrera’s hands, becomes an intense exploration of transformations and transgressions as well as a dark portrait of mythologised North America. This one packs a punch.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Caroll and Vivienne Westwood | $45.00 This timeless children’s classic is perfectly matched to the whimsical and slightly twisted but quintessentially British sensibilities of the iconic Vivienne Westwood. Westwood has designed striking and stylish cover for this new addition as well as a collection of end papers.

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Fiction The Bird’s Child | Sandra Leigh-Price | $32.99 This debut is like nothing else in Australian fiction at the moment.

Set in 1920s Newtown, this stunningly original and mesmerising novel is embroidered with all the whimsy and charm of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus and the dark magic and allure of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Price’s vividly ornate and provocative writing is just the icing on the cake of this delectable and haunting read.

Leonora: Novel | Elena Poniatowska | $27.99

The Life of Houses | Lisa Gorton | $26.95 Acclaimed poet Gorton brings the full force of her literary gifts to bear with this classical yet contemporary examination of Australian life. She introduces us to a prominent family living in a small coastal town in South-Eastern Australia, and her dynamic prose perfectly expresses the minutiae of the inhibited, sometimes unhappy and rapturously fascinating lives of these characters in a way that is reminiscent of Henry James and Patrick White.

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Legendary Mexican novelist Poniatowska uses her impeccable prose to bring Leonora Carrington back to life more vividly than a professional biographer ever could. Leonora is the exhilarating story of this débutante-turned-surrealist-painter that doubles as a whirlwind tribute to the wider themes of creative struggle and artistic revolution.

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“It has drawn comparisons to Tarantino’s films...so there will still be bloodshed!”

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Blood On Snow | Jo Nesbo | $32.99 The new standalone thriller from the author of the acclaimed Harry Hole series tells the story of Olav, a contract killer, or ‘fixer,’ who works on behalf of organised crime bosses in Oslo and is tasked with assassinating the boss’s wife–who he happens to be madly in love with. Olav’s narration is surprisingly empathetic, thanks to his enormous capacity for compassion which transforms this dark story into an unexpectedly meditative exploration of love and death. It has drawn comparisons to Tarantino’s films, though, so there will still be bloodshed!

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Crime fiction Falling in Love | Donna Leon | $29.99 When the melodramatic soprano Flavia Petrelli faces the increasingly frightening attentions of an anonymous stalker, she turns to her old friend Commissario Brunetti for help. Brunetti must then enter the psyche of an obsessive fan before anyone comes to harm. This is another lush and exciting Venetian mystery from one of the crime fiction genre’s masters.

Kolymsky Heights | Lionel Davidson | $19.99

The Discreet Hero | Mario Vargas Llosa | $29.99 The latest endeavor of Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa is this story of gentle Felicito Yanaque, a Peruvian small-businessman who becomes the victim of blackmail and Ismael Carrera, who owns a booming insurance agency and is planning to do something about his good-for-nothing sons. Both men try to lead their lives in their own ways and by their own lights. The prose is witty and lyrical, and the competing disparate perspectives within the novel intersect to create a satisfying and cohesive whole that is thoroughly enjoyable to read.

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Johnny Porter is a rebel. He’s a loner, an outdoors-man and a scholar with a gift for languages, accents, and disguises. In Kolymsky Heights he is summoned to a Russian research station in the brutal Siberian wasteland, which is harbouring a dark, scientific secret that could be the world’s salvation–or its destruction. A spy thriller that is sure to enthrall readers of John le Carré and Graham Greene, it has been lovingly reprinted and repackaged for the first time in well over a decade.

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Cooking The River Cottage Australia Cookbook | Paul West | $45.00

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Featuring many of the dishes that Paul and his dog Digger have created during their first three years at the old dairy, this is a must-have for fans of the show as well as a tremendous source of inspiration and reference for anyone who is passionate about cooking sustainably and ethically.

The book also features a preface by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and a sprinkling of his recipes throughout, which is an added bonus for the original show’s fans.

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Cooking From China to Vietnam: A food journey along the Mekong River | Luke Nguyen | $40.00 If you’ve been following Luke Nguyen’s travels along the Mekong River on television, make sure you nab yourself a copy of all the recipes he’s picked up along the way. Nguyen trekked through rainforests and mountains and immersed his self in the cultures of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to further his knowledge and appreciation of South East Asian cuisine.

And, in turn, he fosters ours! As an added bonus, this cookbook features stunning photography and wonderful anecdotes from his time in the region.

The stylish and funky new volume from Sydney’s wackiest pâtissier features some of the most elegant food photography we’ve ever seen. These mouthwatering desserts are impossibly impressive but not impossible to make thanks to the assured direction of Adriano Zumbo.

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The Zumbo Files | Adrian Zumbo | $49.99

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“These mouth-watering desserts are impossibly impressive...”

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Cooking “Teplitzky’s mantra that cooking should be fun is wholeheartedly embraced on every page” The Best of Gretta Anna | Gretta Anna and Martin Teplitzky | $49.99 Gretta Anna Teplitsky is to Australian cuisine what Julia Childs is to American cuisine. She introduced generations of home cooks to the joys and tastesensations of French cooking. Teplitzky’s mantra that cooking should be fun is wholeheartedly embraced on every page, and when you’re being guided by such capable hands, it really is!

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Spice I Am: Home Style Thai Recipes | Sujet Saenkham | $39.99

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The keenly anticipated cookbook from the head chef at Sydney’s beloved restaurant Spice I Am is finally here! This beautiful volume offers recipes and helpful advice on where to source and how to select ingredients. With this book on your shelf, takeaway will become a thing of the past as you’ll be whipping up Thai classics and Spice I Am’s hit dishes all by yourself in no time.

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Biography One Life: My Mother’s Story | Kate Grenville | $29.99 When Grenville’s mother died, she left behind many fragments of memoir and Grenville began to piece together the story she left behind. This story spans a century of tumultuous change and upheaval and, in many ways, echoes the experience of many mothers and grandmothers of that era as they followed newly opened paths to emancipation and enfranchisement.

In other ways, however, Nance’s story was extraordinary: she successfully ran a business in a time where it was unusual for women to express interest in anything beyond the domestic; she laid the bricks for her home; she discovered the secrets of her husband’s life as a revolutionary. Grenville fans will be delighted by the depth of research and insight in this latest offering.

The story of a young journalist traveling to China in search of ancient treasure secreted away during the emergence of communists and the Cultural Revolution–or so the family folklore goes–sure sounds like an Indiana Jones-style adventurememoir. However there’s more to it than that.

Through his exploration of Chinese history and culture, Hsu’s interest in his ancestry is sparked and it is this insight and intimate perspective that makes for compelling reading.

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The Porcelain Thief | Huan Hsu | $29.99

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Biography “...she wants us to feel as lost, at times, as she feels living the perpetual dark.”

Girl in the Dark | Anna Lyndsey | $27.99 Anna Lyndsey is the pseudonym for a woman with severe photo-sensitivity–an allergy to light–and this memoir is essentially a collection of her diary entries. The choice to tell her story in such a fragmentary way is purposeful: she wants us to feel as lost, at times, as she feels living in the perpetual dark. While this can be muddling, her writing is so staggeringly beautiful and immersive that it makes our stumble through a long, dark tunnel well worth the effort.

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The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland | Robert DouglasFairhurst | $39.99

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The works of Carroll are whimsical and charming, yet they are laced with sophisticated and intriguing philosophical and mathematical allegory, and Carroll himself has always been shadowed by questions about his relationship with the many children that he befriended, wrote about and photographed. In The Story of Alice Douglas-Fairhurst doesn’t just trace the history of the iconic Wonderland stories, he also explores a fascinating and dynamic part of history that saw an enormous shift in attitudes to childhood, art and sexuality.

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Biography Ransacking Paris: A Year with Montaigne and Friends | Patti Miller | $29.95 Miller grew up on Wiradjuri land in Central New South Wales, but she’s always had a dream to live and write in Paris. When Smith was finally able to fulfill that dream, she turned to famous writers for company. Montaigne, Rousseau, de Beauvoir were all writers who were intent on knowing the self, and their spirits accompany Miller through the streets and into the cafes of Paris. They even talk with her about love, suffering, desire, motherhood, memory and the writer’s journey. This is a lush memoir of a lauded local writer as well as a tribute to the ever-inspiring Paris.

It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War | Lynsey Addario | $29.99

Stammered Songbook: A Mother’s Book of Hours | Erwin Mortier | $19.99 The first word Mortier’s mother misplaced was ‘book.’ So begins a sensitive and harrowing account of his mother’s descent into dementia. As language slowly leaves her, Mortier tries to gather the fragments of who she is before she becomes someone who ‘no longer knows who she is, where she is, or what will happen.’

Personal experience, exquisitely related, elevates this exploration of memory and humanity to a staggering dedication of love from a son to a mother.

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It’s What I Do is the memoir of the celebrated photographer Lynsey Addario. It chronicles her search for truth through almost every twenty-first century theatre of war, and the impact her career has had on the other facets of her life. Addario’s story is truly extraordinary, as she has dedicated her career to present amazing photographic expressions of conflict in order to affect political change. Her work forms the basis for a powerful and engrossing read.

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Poetry Waiting For the Past | Les Murray | $24.99 Very few poets have shaped the landscape of Australian poetry as much as Murray has. This new volume is his first in five years, and with it he continues to utilise his molten prose to renew and transform our sense of language.

“Fans will recognise a few famous favourites...”

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Sentenced to Life | Clive James | $32.99

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James celebrates what is memorable and worth treasuring in our lives with this new collection of poetry. Although several are touched with regret, they never devolve into self-pity or selfcongratulation. Fans will recognise a few famous favourites but are sure to appreciate their placement alongside some new and lesser-known verses, all of which testify to the vital talent that still courses through James’ ailing body.

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Poetry Fergus’ Picks Elahroo (Long Ago) | Lionel G. Fogarty | $25 A basic function of written and spoken English has been to spread ‘white instructions’ across the world, even (and especially) via conscientious disownment of that script’s lethal import. Murri man Fogarty has a keen ear for the tricks of our mother tongue—a mongrel tongue, the noise of which ‘bad’ breeding humanises the colonial machinery for better or worse. In Fogarty’s poems his blood and the language of England are turned into each other’s elementary particles. On every page Fogarty x-rays semantic baggage for hidden genius and hot-wires syntax for quick getaway. The reader experiences a kind of telepathy, via which black lives lived on and off country, and lost in custody (which form of murder defines this nation for all time), make their presence felt.

Published late in 2014, this now widely-celebrated book of prose poetry conveys what it’s like to be racially marked—i.e., to be anyone, but especially to be black—in contemporary America, to be wired to that nation’s nervous system and to be ‘the kind of body that can’t hold the content it is living.’ Rankine narrates in the grammatical second-person (‘you,’ ‘your’) throughout, so that the data of experience arrive directly at the issue’s distributed heart. The sense of how racial identity besets a person in daily life—an accumulation of signals, often injurious though fleeting and barely noticed—tallies with big news events such as shootings by police and openly racist reactions to the spectacle of blacks in positions of power. Rankine’s lyric thought models optimism via close attention to these and other instances of racism’s half-oblivious drive.

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Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | $34.99

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The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favourite Board Game | Mary Pilon | $32.99 Most of us believe the popular rags-to-riches story of the unemployed man who sold his game to the Parker Brothers and lived happily off the royalties for the rest of his life. The truth, however, is much darker and more intriguing. It involves Abraham Lincoln, a pioneer feminist and—as per usual—the Quakers. This shocking true account of Monopoly’s history is a frightening reflection of the cut-throat nature of big business in 20th century USA as well as a nuanced read for fans of Monopoly and/or economic philosophy.

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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps | Nikolaus Wachsmann | $29.99 This is likely to become the definitive book on the protean operations and purposes of the infamous concentration camps established by the Third Reich during the ‘30s and ‘40s. Wachsmann draws on an enormous amount of documentary evidence, some of which has only recently been translated or made available, as well as multitudinous personal accounts to clearly and authoritatively elucidate how these camps operated, and to dispel the myths surrounding the function of Hitler’s prisons.

Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential living philosopher, and in his new book he tackles the topic of how we give and the challenges of charity. It’s easy to alleviate guilt by donating thoughtlessly to causes that pull at the heartstrings, but Singer asks his readers to consider– with brutal honesty–how we can best apply our altruistic impulse in order to make the greatest difference to our sad, sorry world.

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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically | Peter Singer | $23.99

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Non-fiction Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution | Mona Eltahawy | $29.99 This manifesto is furious and incendiary, yet undeniably hopeful. Eltahawy first came to public attention in 2011 with her controversial piece, ‘Why Do They Hate Us,’ written after she was assaulted by male police during the Egyptian revolution.

Headscarves and Hymens calls for outrage and action against Muslim men on behalf of women, and details the dire need for radical change, sexual revolution and an overthrow of the regimes and structures that systematically abuse women in the Middle East.

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In the All-Night Cafe: A memoir of Belle and Sebastian’s formative year | Stuart David | $29.99

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In the All Night Café is a charming and evocative account of the early years of Belle and Sebastian.

Stuart David was not just a founding member of the band, but is also an acclaimed novelist. This account, set against the vivid background of the early 90s music scene in Glasgow begins with the fortuitous meeting of the two founding members in a course for unemployed musicians and follows their riotous adventures up until the recording of their beloved and breakthrough album, Tigermilk.

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Non-fiction Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses For an Old Tool | Jennifer Jacquet | $39.99 If you’ve devoured Jon Ronson’s exploration of public shaming then you’re sure to enjoy Jacquet’s take on the subject. Shame has always been a huge part of the ethical framework of many human societies, but has it become antiquated? Could it be better utilised to demand conscientiousness from individuals, co-operations and governments? Jacquet believes so, and puts forth a compelling argument: that when shaming is well-targeted and judiciously applied, it can be a powerful force for good.

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens State Security | Sarah Chayes | $32.99

The New Prophets of Capital | Nicole Ashcoff | $19.99 The creation of myth has always been a crucial aspect in the maintenance of any kind of social institution. With this inflammatory book, Ashcoff takes aim at some of the leading figures in business–Bill and Melinda Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, and Oprah Winfrey, to name a few–and lodges the accusation that although these ‘prophets’ decry inequality and injustice, their actions buttress the systems that causes the systemic inequality which lies at the root of so much unhappiness.

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Corruption in the developing world is endemic and shockingly often ignored by foreign intervention, much to the detriment of those societies–and ours by extension. Chayes, a former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, illustrates how corruption in these areas leads to an enormous lack of faith and hope, and leads residents to turn to other, more dangerous means in order to redress the injustices they face. Chayes’ work manages to be both scholarly and engaging, a rare combination, and is a must-read for anyone interested in foreign affairs.

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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination | JK Rowling | $22.99 This tiny little book contains something almost as powerful as a horcrux. JK Rowling delivered an inimitable commencement speech at Harvard in 2008 and it’s transcribed here in print for the first time. Rowling spoke about her own post-graduate years, the opportunities that emerge from failure and, of course, the importance of imagination–especially when you have little else to sustain you.

Not only is this a great present for any recent graduates in your life, but all sales of this book help to support the children’s organisation Lumos.

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Graphic Novels The Sculptor | Scott McCloud | $29.99

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David Smith strikes up a deal with Death. The deal is that for the rest of his life, David is able to sculpt whatever he wishes. However that life will only last 200 days. Of course the question becomes, ‘To what should David dedicate his final 200 days?’ and the answer is astounding.

McCloud literally wrote the book on how comics work (Making Comics, Understanding Comics) and he brings his rich understanding of the medium and story-telling to the fore with The Sculptor.

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Graphic Novels Death of the Artist | Karrie Fransman and Friends | $45.00 Following in the footsteps of Shelley and Byron, Fransman led four friends from her long-gone university days to the misty moors of the peak district for a week’s stay in 2013. What followed was a hedonistic celebration of creativity. Each of the friends was charged with presenting a story in the form of a comic, and these stories were to be inspired by the death of the artist. The results are presented in this collection, which explores themes of creation and destruction– particularly how we sacrifice our inner-artists for the sake of ‘growing up.’

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Reg Saunders: An Indigenous War Hero | Hugh Dolan | $19.99

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Graphic novels are dismissed by many readers for their lack of literary cache, despite the fact they offer a unique storytelling experience that is highly engaging and impactful. However this littleknown story of the first Indigenous soldier to be made into an officer, retold in an action-packed graphic format, demands a wide readership. The fast-paced story follows Reg Saunders as he grows from a promising young soldier to a decorated war hero and, finally, to an influential Aboriginal rights advocate.

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Are you sick of watching a TV screen or the wall while you run on the treadmill? Meet McDougall and join the revolution of running amongst nature! McDougall’s follow up to the bestselling Born to Run was inspired by the story of Churchill’s Dirty Tricksters, a motley crew of academics and poets who used their instincts, their wit and their fascia (the network of tissue that crisscrosses the body) to rocket themselves to near super-human levels of strength and endurance, and help resist the Nazis on the island of Crete. Talk about fitspirational.

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Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance | Christopher McDougall | $27.99

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