Summer Reading Guide 2016-17

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Margaret Atwood

Alice Hoffman

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Shakespeare’s play of magic and illusion The Tempest reimagined by one of the world’s great literary innovators. Acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own.

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A soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to define herself and the power of love, family and fate.

Shelby is an ordinary girl until an extraordinary tragedy changes her life. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when lives are turned inside out?

The Birdman’s Wife

Melissa Ashley Hardback RRP $ 32.99 A woman overshadowed by history steps back into the light... Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before.

But her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. The Birdman’s Wife at last gives voice to a passionate and adventurous spirit who was so much more than the woman behind the man.

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The Atomic Weight Of Love

Tom Keneally

Elizabeth J. Chruch

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Tom Keneally pulls no punches in this timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy.

This riveting novel is an exploration of faith as well as an examination of marriage, of conscience and celibacy, and of what has become one of the most controversial institutions, the Catholic Church.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Melissa Ashley is a writer, poet, birder and academic who tutors in poetry and creative writing at the University of Queensland.

What started out as research for a PhD dissertation on Elizabeth Gould became a labour of love and her first novel, The Birdman’s Wife.

Inspired by her heroine, she studied taxidermy as a volunteer at the Queensland Museum.

Melissa lives in Brisbane.

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Crimes of the Father

A stunning debut novel set in 1940s and 1950s America that follows the journey of a driven, spirited young woman whose scientific ambitions are subverted by the expectations of her era. An enthralling story of ambition and sacrifice, revolutions – both big and small – and the late-blooming of an unforgettable woman.

The Best of Adam Sharp

Cousins

Graeme Simsion

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99 On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It’s the lifestyle he wanted, but something’s missing. A novel about love, music and coming to terms with the past, from the author of the international bestseller The Rosie Project.

Salley Vickers Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident, which ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Weaving darkness and light, Cousins takes us from WW2 to present day, exploring the recurrence of tragedy, the nature of transgression, and the limits of morality and love.

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Australian Stories The Art Of Cycling

My Family’s Keeper

Cadel Evans

Brad Haddin

Hardback RRP $ 49.99

Hardback RRP $ 39.99

The much-anticipated autobiography of the greatest Australian cyclist of all time.

Famous in the sport for his meticulous preparation and an athlete who prided himself on his ability to leave it all on the road, Evans writes about the triumphs, the frustrations, the training, the preparation, the psychology of the sport, his contemporaries, the legends, and his enduring love of cycling.

December release, advance orders welcome My Family’s Keeper is the extraordinary story of how one of cricket’s toughest competitors and his family dealt with a very private struggle, and a reminder of how teamwork and strong partnerships matter in life as much as they do in sport -- especially when you want to beat cancer. Special Offer: Purchase a copy of My Family’s Keeper for your chance to WIN signed wicket keeper gloves. For details go to the competition page at www.indies.com.au.

Paul Keating: the big-picture leader

Troy Bramston Hardback RRP $ 49.99

The Best Australian Essays; Stories; Poems Edited by Geordie Williamson; Charlotte Wood; Sarah Holland-Batt Paperbacks RRP $ 29.99/ $ 29.99/ $ 24.99 These three collections bring together the best that Australia has to offer in short stories, poetry and essays, bringing together Australia’s most striking literary talents and presenting an enthralling mix of evocation and ideas. These collections comprise of agile, hardhitting non-fiction, exciting and standout poetry, and unpublished and enchanting works of literature.

Margaret Court: The Autobiography

Margaret Court Hardback RRP $ 44.99 Margaret Court’s long-awaited autobiography explains what lit a fire in the poor girl from Albury and made her the greatest champion tennis has seen and the fierce woman she is. Today, a controversial figure for often hard line religious views, Margaret’s extraordinary career record spans 64 major titles overall.

Paul Keating blazed a trail of reform with a vision for Australia’s future that still attracts ardent admirers and the staunchest critics.

Drawing from extensive interviews and Keating’s personal files, this book chronicles, analyses, and interprets Keating’s life, and draws lessons for a Labor Party and a country still reluctant to embrace his legacy.

Anything Is Possible

Cosentino Paperback RRP $ 35.00 Australia’s premier illusionist - a magician to his fingertips, a man who constantly challenges our notions of what is possible.

Anything is Possible is his thrilling and inspiring story, a rich and wonderful fully illustrated book, packed with magical history and influences, some simple magic tricks, and insights into some of Cosentino’s greatest illusions. Special Offer: Purchase a copy of Anything is Possible for your chance to WIN 1 of 2 magic kits. For details go to the competition page at www.indies.com.au.

Full Bore

William McInnes Paperback RRP $ 32.99 William McInnes, one of Australia’s best-loved entertainers and authors, takes a look at the Aussie obsession with sports and pop culture. A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William’s inimitable take on these Aussie stories that both make us cringe with recognition and laugh with warm affection.

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The House on the Hill

Susan Duncan Paperback RRP $ 34.99 The third memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. As the inconstancies of age slow her down, Susan Duncan writes with honesty about discovery and forgiveness, and what it takes to rework shrinking boundaries into a new and rich life.

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The Boy Behind the Curtain

Tim Winton Hardback RRP $ 45.00 The remarkable true stories of The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. By turns impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing, this is Winton’s most personal book to date, an insight into the man who’s held us enthralled for three decades and helped us reshape our view of ourselves. Behind it all, from risk-taking youth to surprise-averse middle age, has been the crazy punt of staking everything on becoming a writer.

Working Class Boy

Jimmy Barnes Hardback RRP $ 45.00 A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn’t an accolade or cliche that doesn’t apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and ‘Barnesy’, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan. Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood.

It is a memoir burning with the frustration and frenetic energy of teenage sex, drugs, violence and ambition for more than what you have.

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Blood Mystic

George Gittoes Paperback RRP $ 44.99 George Gittoes defies categorisation as his life defies belief.

Equal parts artist and warrior, he is worldfamous for waging war on war with art, circus, photography and film. As the danger grows, George reflects deeply on a life less ordinary - his boyhood being groomed as a gangster, his escape to New York, the Yellow House art revolutions, crazy brave adventures in outback Australia, ghetto America, jungle Nicaragua, war-torn Cambodia, badlands Baghdad, hollow Bosnia... and beyond.

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New Fiction Days Without End

Sebastian Barry Paperback RRP $ 32.99 ‘I am thinking of the days without end of my life...’

Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America’s past, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten.

Moonglow

Michael Chabon Hardback RRP $ 39.99 December release, advance orders welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” A gripping, poignant, tragicomic, scrupulously researched and wholly imaginary transcript of a life that spanned the dark heart of the twentieth century.

Swing Time

Zadie Smith Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them.

Two brown girls dream of being dancers – but only one has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either…

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The Heart of Henry Quantum

The Woman on the Stairs

Pepper Harding

Bernhard Schlink

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

In the vein of The Rosie Project and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, comes a sweet, funny, and touching debut from author Pepper Harding that shows how the seemingly insignificant events of one single day that can change our lives forever — and if we are lucky, change them for the better.

Silent Music

Conclave

Jane Hawking

Robert Harris

Paperback RRP $18.99

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

From Jane Hawking, author of Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything. A coming-of-age novel about the unpredictable nature of human behaviour and about taking control of one’s destiny. A timeless portrait of post-war Britain, as well as a lyrical paean to hope and aspiration.

Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, over one hundred Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.

They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.

The Girl From Venice

The Nix

Martin Cruz Smith

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 32.99 A WWII love story set against the romance and danger of occupied Venice.

Cenzo is a world-weary fisherman, determined to sit out the rest of the war until he gets involved with Guilia - an Italian Jew on the run. They are thrust into the world of wartime politics, where everyone has their own agenda and nowhere is safe.

Nathan Hill A gloriously ambitious, witty and deeply touching debut novel of fifty years of America and of American radical protest, the story of a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own.

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The German Girl

Graham Norton

Armando Lucas Correa

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

A small Irish town is the setting for a dark discovery that threatens to bring to light the long held secrets of its inhabitants.

Graham Norton’s masterful debut is an intelligently crafted story of love, secrets and loss, employing his acerbic wit to breathe life into a host of loveable characters.

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December release, advance orders welcome A tale of obsession, possession and a mystery painting from the internationally bestselling author of The Reader. The Woman on the Stairs is an intricately-crafted, poignant and beguiling novel about creativity and love, about the effects of time passing and the regrets that haunt us all.

December release, advance orders welcome A stunningly ambitious and beautiful debut novel, perfect for fans of Sarah’s Key and All the Light We Cannot See. This is the story of twelve-year-old Hannah’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they had been promised in Cuba is an illusion.

Summer Reads

The Good People

Hannah Kent The Spy

The Better Son

Paulo Coelho

Katherine Johnson

Hardback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

December release, advance orders welcome Told through Mata Hari’s final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and paid the price. A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men, until paranoia consumed a country at war.

On the Blue Train

Kristel Thornell Paperback RRP $ 29.99 What did happen to Agatha Christie during her mysterious eleven-day disappearance just as she was on the cusp of fame?

In this entrancing novel of creativity and grief, Kristel Thornell combines fact and fantasy to reconstruct Agatha Christie’s retreat from a life that had become too difficult. With verve and sensitivity, Thornell imagines what Christie could not write.

1952. Tasmania. A labyrinthine underworld of dangerous tunnels becomes the perfect escape for two brothers from their abusive, shell-shocked father. One goes missing and the lie told haunts the other brother for the rest of his life. A richly imaginative, universal story about the danger of secrets, the beauty in forgiveness and the enthralling power of Tasmania’s unique landscapes.

Today Will Be Different Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Eleanor Flood is going to clean up her act, only change into yoga clothes for yoga, which today she will actually attend, and be a better version of herself. But then, as it always does, life happens. The new novel from Maria Semple, author of bestselling Where’d You Go, Bernadette.

The Ice-Cream Makers

Joy Callaway

Ernest van der Kwast & Laura Vroomen

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

The Art Of Keeping Secrets

Rachael Johns Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Felicity, Emma and Neve have been best friends since their sons started high school together and share everything…or so they thought. When the tight hold they have kept on their secrets for years begins to slip, they must face the truth. Perhaps some secrets weren’t made to be kept.

In the year 1825, in a remote valley between the mountains of southwest Ireland, three women are brought together by strange and troubling events. Nóra Leahy has lost her daughter and husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of her four-year-old grandson, Micheál. Nóra hires a fourteen-yearold servant girl, Mary, who hears whispers in the valley of the creature causing grief to fall upon the widow’s house. Alone and hedged in by rumour, they seek out the only person in the valley who might be able to help Micheál, old Nance Roche.

Maria Semple

The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

December release, advance orders welcome Devastated after being jilted by the boy next door, Ginny Loftin turns to writing in an attempt to rewrite their story with a better ending. It is among the painters, musicians, actors and other writers she meets at a Fifth Avenue salon that she finds new purpose and a second chance at love. A richly told historical novel of family loyalties, loss and artistic desires.

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99 In the far north of Italy lies the valley of the icecream makers: about a dozen villages where, for generations, people have specialised in making ice cream, including the Talamini family, until eldest son Giovanni Talamini breaks with tradition. A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue.

The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

P.D. James Hardback RRP $ 24.99 A collection of 4 short stories, published together for the first time in an elegant hardback edition.

From the title story about a strained country-house party on Christmas Eve, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, and two cases for James’s poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh. Each is a treat of masterfully atmospheric storytelling, always with the lure of a mystery to be solved.

Goodwood

Holly Throsby Paperback RRP $ 29.99 Goodwood is a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone. It’s a place where it’s impossible to keep a secret. In 1992, when Jean Brown is seventeen, a terrible thing happens. Two terrible things. Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood’s most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes home.

A delightful debut novel of secrets and small town obsessions from Australian musician and songwriter, Holly Throsby.

The Wonder

Emma Donoghue Paperback RRP $ 29.99 An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story.

Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, The Wonder is a psychological thriller about a child’s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.

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Rather Be the Devil

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Ian Rankin Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Some cases never leave you. For John Rebus, forty years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. Murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there, Maria’s killer has never been found… In a tale of twisted power, deep-rooted corruption and bitter rivalries, Rather Be the Devil showcases Rankin and Rebus at their unstoppable best.

Kill the Next One

Signal Loss

Federico Axat

Garry Disher

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

December release, advance orders welcome After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Ted McKay is contemplating suicide when he is presented with a unique proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? Ted believes this suicidal daisy chain is a perfect solution, until his reality begins to unravel. Kill the Next One is a gripping psychological thriller where nothing is as it seems.

Magpie Murders

The Chemist

Anthony Horowitz

Stephenie Meyer

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life.

Hidden in the pages of the manuscript lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition and murder.

The gripping seventh novel in Garry Disher’s celebrated Peninsula Crimes series sets up new challenges, both professional and personal, for Inspector Challis and Sergeant Destry. Signal Loss sees Challis and Destry on the hunt for a serial rapist who leaves no evidence, while Australia’s ice epidemic starts encroaching on their beat.

The Wrong Side of Goodbye

The gripping new thriller from international bestselling author Stephenie Meyer. An ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.

In this tautly plotted novel, Meyer creates a fierce and fascinating new heroine with a very specialised skill set.

Michael Connelly Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA’s darkest secrets in this new gripping thriller.

Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance.

From Page to Screen Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

J.K. Rowling Hardback RRP $ 39.99

When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt’s fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone...

Inspired by the original Hogwart’s textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. Also available Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts I & II (Special Rehearsal Edition).

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The Light Between Oceans

Red Dog: True Blue

M.L. Stedman

Louis de Bernières

Paperback RRP $ 22.99

Paperback RRP $19.99

The award-winning and bestselling The Light Between Oceans took the world by storm with its powerful tale of a lighthouse keeper and his wife. One of the most successful Australian novels in recent years, The Light Between Oceans is now a major motion picture starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachael Weisz.

December release, advance orders welcome In this charming prequel to the much-loved Red Dog, Louis de Bernières tells the moving story of a young boy and his Granpa, and the charismatic and entertaining dog whom so many readers hold close to their hearts. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jason Isaacs and Bryan Brown.

The Girl on the Train

Inferno

Paula Hawkins

Paperback RRP $ 22.99

Paperback RRP $ 22.99 The global sensation and runaway bestseller, now a major film starring Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux and Allison Janney. Troubled commuter Rachel is drawn into the lives of the seemingly perfect couple she watches from the train.

Dan Brown Inferno follows Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code in the global phenomenon series featuring Robert Langdon.

In Inferno, the famous symbologist is drawn into a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. Now a major movie starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones and directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard.

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True Life Stories Songs of a War Boy Nujeen

George Lucas

Nujeen Mustafa/ Christina Lamb

Brian Jay Jones

Paperback RRP $ 29.99 An inspiring tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war. Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. This is her story, told with Christina Lamb - bestselling co-author of I Am Malala.

The Riviera Set

Mary S. Lovell Paperback RRP $ 35.00 A portrait of high society in the twentieth century, told through the stories of the guests of Maxine Elliott and Prince Aly Khan at the Château de l’Horizon in Cannes. Mary Lovell tells her story of high society behaviour with tremendous brio and relish. This book has all the charm and fascination of her bestselling The Mitford Girls and The Churchills.

Roger Rogerson

Duncan McNab Paperback RRP $ 32.99 The gripping and graphic true story of Sydney’s underbelly. Author Duncan McNab said of the trial and the writing of the book: ‘I’ve been following Roger Rogerson’s career - on both sides of the law - for over 30 years. He’s one of the most corrupt and evil men in Australian criminal history, and finally the full story can be told.’

My Story

Michael Clarke Hardback RRP $ 44.99 My Story is the real Michael Clarke, standing up and speaking out for the first time.

Bucking the conventions of traditional biography to go hard at the big issues, Clarke speaks fearlessly and poignantly about the scandals, rumours and explosive moments of his life; revealing the amazing truths, private pain and personal triumphs that no one realised.

Paperback RRP $ 35.00 December release, advance orders welcome George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones is the first comprehensive telling of the story of the iconic filmmaker and the building of his film empire, exploring for the first time the life and work of a fiercely independent creator who became one of the most influential filmmakers and cultural icons.

Deng Thiak Adut, Ben Mckelvey Paperback RRP $ 32.99 The true story of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, man of hope. This is the inspiring story of a man who has overcome deadly adversity to become a lawyer and committed worker for the disenfranchised, helping refugees in Western Sydney. It is an important reminder of the power of compassion and the benefit to us all when we open our doors and our hearts to those fleeing war, persecution and trauma.

A Life in Parts

Bryan Cranson Paperback RRP $ 32.99 A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir - both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft - from Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history’s most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad. Cranston has much to say about innate talent, its benefits, challenges, and proper maintenance, but ultimately A Life In Parts is about the necessity and transformative power of hard work.

Who gave you permission?

Manny Waks, Michael Visontay Paperback RRP $ 35.00 The story of a man who shattered a powerful code of silence, the battles he has fought, the vindication he has earned, and the extraordinary toll it has taken. Manny’s journey to expose child abuse in the Jewish community reminds us of the difference one man can make, and the price he has to pay.

Keeping On Keeping On

Alan Bennett Hardback RRP $ 49.99 Alan Bennett’s third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On follows in the footsteps of Writing Home and Untold Stories, each published ten years apart. This latest collection contains Bennett’s peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre, a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.

I Am Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson Hardback RRP $ 45.00 The long-awaited, poetic, and candid memoir by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys - a journey deep into the mind of a musical genius, covering the highs and lows of his seven decades in intimate detail. Whether he’s talking about his childhood, his bandmates, or his own inner demons, Wilson’s story, told in his own voice and in his own way, unforgettably illuminates the man behind the music, working through the turbulence and discord to achieve, at last, a new harmony.

Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen Hardback RRP $ 49.99 Springsteen has devoted the past seven years to writing the story of his life, with the same honesty, humour and originality found in his songs. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, the rise of the E Street Band, the struggles that inspired his best work. A book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptised in the holy river of rock and roll.

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Lovely Picture Books Somewhere Else

Gus Gordon Hardback RRP $ 24.99

Molly and Mae

Danny Parker & Freya Blackwood (Illus) Hardback RRP $ 24.99 Friendship is like a train journey. There are happy moments, boring moments and exciting moments; sharp turns, bumpy tracks and smooth sailing.

There is anger and loneliness, and there is forgiveness. The thread of friendship runs through everything, like rail tracks through the countryside.

Brilliantly rendered by CBCA Winners Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood, Molly and Mae is a portrait of the shared adventure of the onward journey of friendship and life. Age: 3+

George has no interest in exploring the world, or so he tells everyone when they invite him along on their adventures, until his friend Pascal digs a little deeper and discovers the real reason George won’t leave home… From award-winning author and illustrator Gus Gordon comes this irresistible story about a duck called George, the possibility of adventure, and taking risks. Age: 0+

The Book of Bees

Piotr Socha Hardback RRP $ 35.00 A large format, beautifully illustrated book on one of the most amazing animals on earth: the humble bee. How do bees communicate? What does a beekeeper do? This book answers all these questions and many more, tracking the history of bees from the time of the dinosaurs to their current plight! Age: 7+

Gwendolyn!

Radio Rescue!

Juliette MacIver & Terri Rose Baynton

Jane Jolly, illustrated

by Robert Ingpen

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

A PENGUIN in the JUNGLE? In the jungle there are jaguars, monkeys and parrots aplenty, but there are no penguins. None at all.

Because penguins do not live in the jungle, except for ... GWENDOLYN! A story about friendship, adventure and finding your home. Age: 3+

Radio Rescue! is a beautifully illustrated flap book that takes us back to the origins of communication in the outback. Robert Ingpen’s illustrations evoke scenes of station life and convey the excitement at the arrival of the new pedal radio.

A sister book to the award-winning Tea and Sugar Christmas, with the same author and illustrator.

Age: 5+

Mulga’s Magical Musical Creatures

Mulga Hardback RRP $19.99 Guitar-playing fishes?

Gorillas on drums? Fluting kangaroos? Join Mulga in his dreamy jungle jam session, where magical animals play sweet tunes from night till day.

With a style that is entirely and unmistakably Mulga, this fun and colourful story will delight readers of all ages with its fantastically quirky creatures. Age: 3+

Sonja Danowski Hardback RRP $ 29.99 A heartwarming tale by the extraordinary author/ illustrator Sonja Danowski.

A young boy’s generosity toward animals in need reaps great rewards.

Tony donates his much-loved soft toy animals to the animal shelter to help raise money. It really touches his mum’s heart later that night when Tony misses his toys. She offers her old soft toy as a replacement and he embraces it with such love that his mum rewards him in a way that he could never imagine. Age: 5+

The Patchwork Bike

The Fabulous Friend Machine

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Nick Bland

Hardback RRP $ 26.99

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

What’s the best fun in the whole village? Riding the patchwork bike we made! A delightful story from multi-awardwinning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van T Rudd. Age: 5+

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Little Night Cat

Popcorn is, quite simply, the friendliest chicken at Fiddlesticks farm! When she finds a Fabulous Friend Machine in the barn, she sets about making some brand new friends. But behind the screen of the Fabulous Friend Machine, maybe her new friends are not so friendly after all... A cautionary tale from the globally best-selling Nick Bland. Age: 4+

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We Found a Hat

Jon Klassen Hardback RRP $ 24.99 Hold on to your hats! From the Kate Greenaway-winning creator of I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat comes the much-anticipated conclusion to the celebrated hat trilogy. Two turtles have found a hat. The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles. And there is only one hat...

Evoking hilarity and sympathy, the shifting eyes tell the tale in this perfectly paced story in three parts, highlighting Jon Klassen’s visual comedy, deceptive simplicity and deliciously deadpan humour. Age: 3+ Also available are the first two books in the bestselling series by Jon Klassen, I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat.

For the Very Young Oi Dog

Kes Gray Hardback RRP $ 24.99 The absurdly funny follow up to Oi, Frog!, will have children rolling around with laughter. Frog is changing the rules...Dogs no longer sit on frogs. Phew! Dogs now sit on logs - and everyone else is going to have to sit somewhere different too. Will cats want to sit on gnats? Will spiders like sitting on gliders?

Will whales be happy to sit on nails? And, most importantly, where is FROG going to sit? Age: 3+

Pig the Elf

Alison Lester

Aaron Blabey

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

Hardback RRP $16.99

December release, advance orders welcome From the bestselling author of Kissed by the Moon and Imagine, comes a book to be cherished by children and parents everywhere. Hello little babies, welcome to the world. From the precious early days of a baby’s life to those first tentative steps, so much changes over a year. A warm and tender picture book for families everywhere. Age: 0+

Home in the Rain

Penguin Problems

Bob Graham

Jory John

Hardback RRP $ 24.99 From multi-award winning author-illustrator Bob Graham comes a tender, touching story of family life, perfect for sharing when a new baby is on the way. A beautifully observed celebration of the way inspiration can, and often does happen in the most ordinary and unlikely of places. Age: 3+

Hello Little Babies

Hardback RRP $ 24.99 Little Penguin has problems: his beak is cold; there’s snow everywhere; the water smells salty; he waddles; he looks the same as everybody else. No – it’s not easy being a penguin! This book is sure to tickle all funny bones, and will elicit appreciative sighs from the adults reading it aloud, too! Age: 3+

Welcome

Ducks Away!

Barroux

Mem Fox

Hardback RRP $19.99

Hardback RRP $19.99

When Polar Bear and his friends are swept away from their icy home, they hope to find refuge in a new land. But when they are turned away from one new place after another, they start to doubt that they will ever find somewhere they will be made welcome.

Award-winning French artist Barroux has crafted a powerful and relevant global story. Age: 3+

Everyone’s favourite Pug is here to spread some holiday cheer!

The multi-award winning Aaron Blabey delivers another fabulous story for shared reading, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud! No one loves Christmas more than Pig. And the world’s greediest Pug will stay up all night to get his presents! Age: 3+

Thelma the Unicorn, Boxed Set with Plush; Pig the Fibber, Boxed Set with Plush Boxed Sets RRP $ 29.99 each Also available from Aaron Blabey are two fantastic boxed sets featuring a mini-edition of the bestselling story along with a gorgeous plush toy.

Choose from Thelma the Unicorn or Pig the Fibber.

Age: 3+

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Five little ducks went out one day… over the bridge, and away!

From the powerhouse team that brought you the bestselling This & That. Mem Fox cleverly spins the classic ‘Five Little Ducks’ rhyme for a modern audience, accompanied by Judy Horacek’s signature illustration style, Ducks Away! is sure to be a hit. Age: 2+

Blue Sky, Yellow Kite

Janet A. Holmes & Jonathan Bentley (Illus) Hardback RRP $ 24.99

Thank You, Mr Panda

What do they do with all the poo from all the animals at the zoo?

Steve Antony Hardback RRP $ 24.99 December release, advance orders welcome Mr Panda is happy to help his friends prepare for a special surprise - IF they remember to say thank you! Mr Panda and friends are back for a third hilarious story about the importance of good manners! Age: 3+ Exclusive offer: Purchase a copy of Thank You, Mr Panda and receive a FREE plush. *While stocks last.

Anh Do Hardback + CD RRP $19.99

When Daisy steals William’s yellow kite, both children have to learn to deal with their choices as they grapple with guilt, fear, forgiveness and understanding. Internationally acclaimed illustrator Jonathan Bentley’s boldly poignant interpretation both complement and highlight the complex emotions of Janet A. Holmes’ striking story. Age: 3+ Exclusive offer: Purchase a copy of Blue Sky, Yellow Kite and receive a FREE print. *While stocks last.

What do they do with all the poo, from all the animals at the zoo? The hippos, the tigers, the kangaroos—what do they do with all that poo?

A hilarious story with lots of gross-out gags and popy surprises from the hugely popular and bestselling author Anh Do. Age: 3+

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Sharing Magical Times Ruby Red Shoes Goes To London

Kate Knapp Hardback RRP $19.99 December release, advance orders welcome A brand new and covetable picture book in the muchloved Ruby Red Shoes series. Ruby and her grandmother love to travel and now they are in London, the home of red buses, red telephone boxes and red letter boxes. No wonder Ruby’s red shoes feel especially at home in this wonderful city! Age: 3+

A Child of Books

The Song from Somewhere Else

Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston

A.F. Harrold & Levi Pinfold (Illus)

Hardback RRP $ 27.99

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

From Oliver Jeffers and typographical fine artist, Sam Winston, comes an inspiring and lyrical picture book about a little girl who sails her raft ‘across a sea of words’ to arrive at the house of a small boy. There she invites him to come away with her on an adventure. Oliver’s elegant art is combined with Sam’s astonishing typographical landscapes – beautifully shaped from excerpts of children’s classics and lullabies. Age: 5+

The Tales Of Mrs Mancini

Mary Poppins Up, Up and Away

Natalie Jane Prior & Cheryl Orsini (Illus)

Helene Druvert

Hardback RRP $19.99 From the creators of The Fairy Dancers comes a new collection of stories.

The Tales of Mrs. Mancini tells the story of a cat who, together with her human friend, Filippina, runs a cake shop full of delectable treats. A collection of three fully illustrated short stories celebrating friands and friendship! Age:4+

The Beach at Night

Zog and the Flying Doctors

Elena Ferrante & Mara Cerri (Illus)

Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Illus)

Paperback RRP $19.99

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

A fully illustrated, dark, profound and beautiful picture book from the extraordinary Elena Ferrante. Inspired by one of Ferrante’s earlier novels, The Lost Daughter, this is a bewitching fable for all ages. Accompanied by full-colour illustrations by Mara Cerri, The Beach At Night is a beautiful picture book narrated by a doll named Celina. Age: 6+

Hiding Heidi

Carlie Gibson & Tamsin Ainslie (Illus)

Hardback RRP $ 24.99

Beautifully illustrated, this delightful rhyming tale about five gourmand mouse sisters who go to market and the youngest sister, Cecile, who sets up her very own delicious pie stall with food fit for a Queen. For readers of Ruby Red Shoes and the award winning Cleo Stories. Age: 5+

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Meet the Flying Doctors: Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout and, of course, their trusty ‘air ambulance’, Zog the dragon, in this fabulously original sequel to the best-selling Zog. There’s much to do, as they fly around tending a sunburned mermaid, a distressed unicorn and a sneezy lion. Age: 2+

The Sisters Saint-Claire

Hardback RRP $19.99

Fiona Woodcock

Heidi and her friends LOVE to play hide and seek but Heidi always wins - she has an amazing gift for concealing herself but sometimes being hard to find can be hard to take. An atmospheric, enchanting story of friendship which encourages thoughtfulness, kindness and appreciation of your friends´ talents as well as your own. Age: 2+

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A poignant, darkly comic and deeply moving story about the power of the extraordinary, and finding friendship where you least expect it. Written by the author of the critically acclaimed The Imaginary and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Levi Pinfold, this is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl and Neil Gaiman. Age: 8+ Special Offer: Purchase a copy of The Song from Somewhere Else for your chance to WIN 1 of 6 Prints signed by Levi Pinfold. For details go to the competition page at www.indies.com.au.

Hardback RRP $ 26.99 Following the huge success of Paris Up, Up and Away!, Helene Druvert is back with a new laser-cut book featuring scenes from Pamela L. Travers’ much-loved Mary Poppins novels. This charming book takes readers on a thrilling adventure through London with the most amazing of all nannies Mary Poppins, as a guide. Age: 5+

Wormwood Mire

Judith Rossell Hardback RRP $ 22.99 The thrilling and magical sequel to the multi-award-winning Withering-BySea. When Stella Montgomery returned to the Hotel Majestic cold and wet but exhilarated by adventure, the Aunts were furious.

Now they are sending Stella away to the old family home at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two strange cousins and their governess. Secrets abound, and Stella must be brave once more if she’s to find out who - or what - she really is...

Age:9+ Also available book one Withering-By-Sea.

Fantastic Worlds Mechanica

Odd and the Frost Giants

Lance Balchin

Illuminature

Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell (Illus)

Hardback RRP $ 24.95 In this field guide from the future, dashing explorer—Miss Liberty Crisp—details amazing creatures known as Mechanica: human-created wildlife designed to replace extinct species. Wildlife that will not remain harnessed by humankind. Amazing and beautiful steampunk-inspired illustrations bring this cautionary tale to life. Welcome to the world of Mechanica. Age: 7+

Rachel Williams & Carnovsky (Illus)

Hardback RRP $ 29.99

Hardback RRP $ 35.00

A thrilling, wintry Nordic epic from the truly magical combination of Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell, weaving a tale of legend, magic and adventure which will grip and enchant readers from beginning to end. This rich and layered tale of courage is told with humour and in breathtaking style. Age: 10+ Special Offer: Purchase a copy of Odd and the Frost Giants for your chance to WIN 1 of 10 Prints. For details go to the competition page at www.indies.com.au.

Smuggler’s Curse

Discover the dark and mysterious creatures of the night, whose super-sensory powers allow them to live and survive in the shadows, then switch the lens to step into daylight, where the heat of the sun supercharges the secret lives of creatures big and small. Finally, use the third lens to reveal the luscious plant life of every habitat as you travel through a jungle, a reef, grasslands, woodland and uncover a world that never sleeps with Milan-based design-duo, Carnovsky. Age: 5+

The Book of Whispers

Norman Jorgenson Paperback RRP $16.99

Kimberley Starr Paperback RRP $19.99

Red Read’s life takes a surprising – and alarming – turn when his mother sells him to an infamous smuggler.

From terrifying encounters with cut-throat pirates, to battling the forces of nature in a tropical typhoon, to dining with head-hunting guerrillas, Red is in for a hair-raising adventure that may cost him his life.

Tuscany, 1096 AD. Luca, young heir to the title of Conte de Falconi, sees demons, and must it a secret or risk another exorcism. The winner of the 2015 Text Prize is an epic story of the battle between good and evil, set during the Crusades and featuring an unforgettable teen hero and heroine. Age: 10+

Seven Signs, Book 2: Carnage

Age: 9+

Magnus Chase Book 2: Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor

Ranger’s Apprentice The Early Years Book 2: The Battle of Hackham Heath

Rick Riordan

Paperback RRP $14.99 The DARE Award winners’ have been caught in a deadly battle of wits with a mysterious enemy who isn’t afraid to kill. Now one of them is missing, presumed dead and two are in trouble with the law.

Can the remaining four DARE winners unravel the Second Sign—seven new symbols—and stop The Signmaker’s destructive plan before the countdown ends? Also available Skyfire: The Seven Signs, Book 1. Age: 10+

John Flanagan

Paperback RRP $ 22.99 In the exciting new instalment in Rick Riordan’s bestselling Magnus Chase series, set in the Percy Jackson universe, Thor’s hammer has fallen into enemy hands.

If Magnus Chase and his friends can’t retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenceless against an onslaught of giants. Age: 13+

Michael Adams

Paperback RRP $18.99 What really happened at Hackham Heath that made Halt a hero to the entire Kingdom?

The origin story of how Halt came to be Araluen’s most famous Ranger – and how war will shape the future of the next generation – will thrill Ranger’s Apprentice fans and new readers alike.

Age: 13+

NOVELTY & GIFT Tales From Outer Suburbia, Book and Jigsaw Puzzle

Alison Lester’s Wonderful World

Alison Lester

Shaun Tan

Paperback RRP $19.99

Boxed Set RRP $ 35.00

Pick up your pencils, pens and crayons, and colour the pictures from the stories you’ve enjoyed over the years - Imagine, Magic Beach, Kissed by the Moon, Noni the Pony and more. Age: 6+

This very special book and jigsaw puzzle set includes the internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning Tales From Outer Suburbia and a jigsaw of the The Tuesday Afternoon Reading Group.

Jigsaw comprises 750 pieces. Age: 10+

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

Little Yellow Digger, Book and Jigsaw

Smart Phone Movie Maker

Betty Gilderdale

Hardback RRP $ 29.99

Boxed Set RRP $ 24.99 When digging out a drain, the little yellow digger gets stuck in the mud.

So they bring in a bigger digger... Is it a DIGSAW? No, it’s a Little Yellow Digger JIGSAW! Build your very own jigsaw puzzle of this much-loved, hard-working little digger. Age: 5+

Bryan Michael Stoller A fun and practical guide to making films using your smartphone, featuring expert tips and techniques, plus instructions on how to edit and add special effects to your films. Age: 7+

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Non-Fiction for Kids Adam Spencer’s Number Crunchers

Adam Spencer Paperback RRP $19.99 After the runaway bestseller Adam Spencer’s Enormous Book of Numbers, Australia’s funniest maths dude is back with another bumper activity book for young and eager minds!

Packed full of games, puzzles, quizzes – along with heaps of stuff to draw, cut out, decipher and decode – this is the perfect book for kids aged 8 and above. They won’t believe numbers could be this much fun! Age: 8+

Australia: Illustrated

Girl Stuff 8-12

Tania McCartney

Paperback RRP $ 24.99

Kaz Cooke

Hardback RRP $ 29.99 Australia. Big. Beautiful.

Diverse. Vibrantly illustrated, this glorious tribute to this wide brown land not only celebrates the more ‘typical’ Australian flora, fauna and landmarks, but also showcases the everyday quirks and idiosyncrasies that make Australia unique. Age: 4+

Early Girl Stuff 8–12 is the essential younger girl’s guide to puberty and the pre-teen years, with everything you need to know about being a pre-teen, from Kaz Cooke, author of Girl Stuff for teens. Fits under your pillow and is written with the help of medical and other experts. Age: 8+

The Cities Book Hardback RRP $ 29.99

Hello Atlas

How Cities Work Hardback RRP $ 24.99

Ben Handicott & Kenard Pak (Illus)

Lonely Planet The Cities Book, takes readers on an incredible world tour through 86 of the world’s greatest cities and is full of load of mind blowing facts.

Age: 8+ In How Cities Work, discover surprising city spaces with perforated flaps that let you see what’s going on behind closed doors, and big gatefolds that reveal what’s going on under the street. Age: 5+

Hardback RRP $ 32.99 Travel through each continent and read simple greetings in different languages - some of which you might have heard of, like French, Chinese and Arabic, and some that you might not have! If you want to hear what they sound like, use the QR code to access hundreds of authentic recordings. Age: 4+

For Older Readers The Unforgettable What’s His Name

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 11: Double Down

The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation

Paul Jennings & Craig Smith (Illus)

Jeff Kinney

Shannon and Dean Hale

Paperback RRP $14.99

Hardback RRP $19.99

Paperback RRP $14.99 An action-packed adventure about a boy who just wants to blend in. Even before all this happened I had never been like the other kids. I tried not to be seen. I’d climb a tree or hid among the bins, no one could find me. ‘Where’s What’s His Name?’ they’d say.

The story of a boy with an unusual problem, including fantastic look-and-find colour illustrations. Age: 8+

The Bad Guys Episode Four: Apocalypse Meow Paperback RRP $12.99 The Bad Guys Slipcase Boxed Set RRP $ 39.99

Aaron Blabey It’s a ZOMBIE KITTEN APOCALYPSE! Should you panic? Should you cry?

Should you poop your pants? NO! Just sit back and watch the fur fly as the world’s baddest good guys take on Mad Marmalade’s meowing monsters! Age: 7+ The Bad Guys: Bad Box, features all four episodes in this side-splitting adventure. Age: 6+

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The latest book in the phenomenally successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

The pressure’s really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so Greg concocts a brilliant plan to get his mum off his back. Will doubling down on this plan just double Greg’s troubles? Age: 7+

Timmy Failure: The Book You’re Not Supposed to Have

Stephan Pastis Hardback RRP $17.99 Timmy Failure returns once more in the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling series. This book was never meant to exist. Timmy’s detective log was stolen, and if this book gets out, Timmy will be grounded for life. Because while Timmy was meant to be focusing on schoolwork, he was continuing his detective work in a garden shed. Age: 9+

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After battling monsters all night, a sleepy Princess in Black decides that she needs a vacation. But just as Princess Magnolia is about to take a nap on her hammock, she hears a “ROAR!” Seriously?

A monster? On the perfect beach? Impossible!

Could a sea monster really ruin this vacation for the Princess in Black? Age: 5+

Hotdog, Book 1

Anh Do Paperback RRP $12.99 The new series from the best-selling and awardwinning author of WeirDo, Anh Do! Meet Hotdog, the sausage dog, and his friends! There’s Kev, the goofy cat, who’s always dressed up in some silly costume, and Lizzie, the gutsy lizard, who eats bug burgers for breakfast!

Together they’re going on a mad adventure! Age: 5+

For Kids of All Ages Art Play

Marion Deuchars Paperback RRP $ 27.99 Marion Deuchars has created a surprising and engaging range of activities and games organised into seven sections of Drawing, Colour, Shapes, Paint, Paper, Printing and Pattern.

Each section is not only a great opportunity to play, but also helps to shape and form artistic ability and confidence. Age: 7+

JK Rowling & Jim Kay (Illus)

Richard Roxburgh

Hardback RRP $ 59.99

Artie and his best friend Bumshoe have stumbled upon a Cave-of-Possibly-StolenStuff, and along with it a gang of shady characters including scary Mary, fang-toothed Funnel-web and the devious Mayor Grime. Artie and Bumshoe’s attempt to solve the mystery sparks a chaotic chain of events that involves kidnapping, puppy-dog cutlets and pioneering the sport of the bungee- wedgie. Age: 8+

J.M. Barrie

Paperback RRP $16.99

Odyssey

Homer Hardbacks RRP $ 44.99 each Two classic adventures, superbly illustrated by Manuela Adreani, in exquisite large format editions. The stunning illustrations bring new life to J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of Peter Pan and Homer’s epic poem, Odyssey, is interpreted as never before through the illustrator’s expressive touch. Age: 7+

101 Books to Read Before You Grow Up

Bianca Schulze THE MIDNIGHT GANG; There’s a Snake in my School!

David Walliams & Tony Ross (Illus) Paperback/Hardback RRP $19.99/ $ 24.99 David Walliams has taken the literary world by storm and his books have sold more than 13 million copies worldwide.

Now he is back with yet another heart-warming, jaw-achingly funny, rollicking read, with illustrations by artistic genius Tony Ross. Age: 8+ Also available from David Walliams is a hilarious and delightfully naughty picture book, sssssuperbly illustrated by the artistic genius Tony Ross. Miranda loves to be different, and on Bring-your-pet-toschool Day she introduces everyone to her very DIFFERENT pet… Penelope the Snake, with uproarious consequences. Age: 4+

Book two in the stunning illustrated series. Breathtaking scenes, dark themes and unforgettable characters - including Dobby and Gilderoy Lockhart - await inside this fully illustrated edition. With paint, pencil and pixels, award-winning illustrator Jim Kay conjures the wizarding world as we have never seen it before.

Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this inspired reimagining will captivate fans and new readers alike, as Harry and his friends, now in their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Age: 9+

Peter Pan

Morris Gleitzman From Australia’s funniest and best-loved children’s author, Snot Chocolate is a collection of short stories in the popular style of Morris’s Give Peas a Chance and Pizza Cake - except, of course, even funnier! In the title story, a kid struggles to save the career and reputation of a parent afflicted with chronic unconscious nose-picking. Age: 8+

Artie and the Grime Wave Paperback RRP $16.99

Snot Chocolate

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Paperback RRP $17.99 101 Books to Read Before You Grow Up provides a comprehensive list of kidfriendly books for children to read before they grow up.

This must-read review list acts as an interactive journal where kids can document the books they read, why they like them, and how they rate them. Age: 6+ Also available 101 Movies to See Before You Grow Up.

MOVIE MAGIC VOLUME ONE Hardback RRP $ 39.99 Featuring all eight Harry Potter movies and the upcoming movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, this magical book is the ultimate insider’s guide to the films from J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World for young fans. Filled with lift-the-flaps, stickers and other engaging inserts, this engrossing book overflows with captivating facts about the movie magic used to create a world fit for witches and wizards. Age: 10+

WINTER AT HOGWARTS Hardback RRP $ 24.99 Winter at Hogwarts A Magical Colouring Set – an interactive colouring set featuring everything needed for Harry Potter fans to explore the colour of the winter season and share it with friends and family. Age: 8+

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness Meet... the Flying Doctors

George Ivanoff & Ben Wood (Illus) Hardback RRP $ 24.99 Meet…the Flying Doctors is the newest in a picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia’s history. The Royal Flying Doctor Service provides emergency and primary health care across Australia. This is the story of how the life-saving service was created and grew to become an Australian icon. Age: 7+

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

Hardback RRP $ 34.99 In this special collector’s edition, discover Patrick Ness’s original prizewinning illustrated novel and the remarkable story behind the book and film. Full of never before published material and haunting pictures, this stunning edition gives a fascinating and unique insight into the making of both the book and film. Age: 12+

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Teen Reads Gemina

Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Paperback RRP $ 22.99 The saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the space station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of BeiTech’s assault. Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter, Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. The fate of everyone on the Hypatia is now in their hands.

Holding Up The Universe

Stealing Snow

Jennifer Niven

Paperback RRP $16.99

Paperback RRP $19.99 When Jack and Libby unfairly find themselves in group counselling, they’re both angry, and then surprised. Because the more time they spend together, the less alone they feel.

Because sometimes when you meet someone, it changes the world - theirs and yours. From the bestselling author of All the Bright Places. Age: 14+

Age: 13+

Our Chemical Hearts

Krystal Sutherland Paperback RRP $19.99 John Green meets Rainbow Rowell in this irresistible story of first love, broken hearts, and the golden seams that put them back together again. A brilliant debut that is equal parts humour and heartbreak, Krystal Sutherland’s Our Chemical Hearts is a potent reminder of the bittersweet bliss that is first love.

Paperback RRP $19.99 A novel about growing up... and blowing up A ridiculously funny, super honest, and truly moving exemplar of the absurd and raw truths of being a teenager in the twenty-first century-and the heartache of saying good-bye.

‘Aaron Starmer skillfully welds sharp humor, deep loss, and roaring escapades. Truly the smartest and funniest book about spontaneous combustion you will ever read.’ - John Green.

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The Diabolic

Kathleen Glasgow

S.J. Kincaid

Paperback RRP $19.99

Paperback RRP $19.99 Nemesis is a Diabolic - a ruthless, powerful humanoid with a single task: protect your charge at all costs.

Sent in place of her charge as a hostage to the galactic court she must keep her true abilities a secret or risk everything. Amidst all the danger, action and intrigue, her humanity just might be the thing that saves her life and the empire. Age: 14+

Reckless, Book 3: The Golden Yarn

Zeroes, Book 2: Swarm

Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan & Deborah Biancotti Paperback RRP $19.99

Aaron Starmer

A powerful, contemporary reimagining of The Snow Queen - with a heroine destined for acts of icy darkness, to become a villain, a queen and ultimately a hero.

Seventeen-year-old Snow lives within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate NY. Deep down, she knows she doesn’t belong there, she has no memory of life outside, except for the strangest dreams. Age: 13+

Girl in Pieces

Charlotte Davis is in pieces.

At eighteen she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget it.

The thick glass of a mason jar cuts deep and the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. A deeply moving portrait of pain and survival. Age: 15+

Age: 14+

Spontaneous

Danielle Paige

A terrific sequel to Zeroes with a cracking pace that raises the stakes in this brilliant and unique superheroes series. It’s the holiday season, but the celebration at the Zeroes’ underground nightclub is blown apart when two strangers with new powers take to the dance floor.

The Zeroes pursue them, only to discover that they’re fleeing an even more sinister power-wielder, Swarm. Age: 12+

Hardback RRP $ 24.99 December release, advance orders welcome The third book in Cornelia Funke’s bestselling Mirrorworld series. Jacob, Fox and Will are on the trail of the Dark Fairy, and this time their journey beyond the Mirrors takes them deep in to the East – into the realm of Russian folklore. Also available in the Reckless series, Living Shadows Book 1 and The Petrified Flesh Book 2.

Age: 9+

Maze Runner: Fever Code

The Beginning Woods

James Dashner

Malcolm McNeill

Paperback RRP $18.99

Paperback RRP $16.99

A prequel to the worldwide Maze Runner phenomenon, The Fever Code is the book that holds all the answers.

How did WICKED find the Gladers? Who are Group B? And what side are Thomas and Teresa really on? Lies will be exposed. Secrets uncovered. Loyalties proven. You’ll never see the truth coming! Age: 14+

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Cornelia Funke

The Vanishings started without warning. People disappearing into thin air - just piles of clothes left behind. Each day, thousands gone without a trace. To solve the mystery Max must leave this world and enter the Beginning Woods. A realm of magic and terror, life and death. But can he bear the truth – or will it destroy him? Age: 9+

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History & Military The Story of Australia’s People, Volume 2

Geoffrey Blainey Hardback RRP $ 49.99 In Volume II of The Story of Australia’s People, Geoffrey Blainey continues his account of the history of Australia from the early Gold Rush to the present day, completing the story of our nation and its people. Compelling, ground-breaking and brilliantly readable, this is the culmination of the lifework of Australia’s most prolific and wide-ranging historian.

Under Full Sail

More than one million Australians can trace their heritage to the migrant ships of the mid-to-late 19th century. Rob Mundle is back on the water, with a ripping story that starts on the sea, aboard a clipper ship charging across the Southern Ocean, laden with passengers heading for Melbourne in response to the lure of gold.

Revolution

Peter Ackroyd

Paperback RRP $ 34.99

Paperback RRP $ 34.99

Graeme Henderson Paperback RRP $44.99 Swallowed by the Sea tells the stories of Australia’s greatest and most tragic shipwrecks, lost in raging storms, on jagged reefs, under enemy fire, or through human error, treachery or incompetence. Alongside historical paintings and photographs of original objects, the book includes colour underwater photographs of the dive sites and what remains of the wrecks today.

From The Edge

Mark McKenna Paperback RRP $ 34.99 From the Edge recounts four extraordinary and largely forgotten stories, including the epic 700km walk of shipwreck survivors to save their shipmates and the ever-changing story of James Cook’s time in Cooktown in 1770. These explorations of the central dramas in Australian history may hold the key to understanding this land and its people.

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Hardback RRP $ 45.00

Greg Mitchell

Swallowed by the Sea

David Hunt

Rob Mundle

The Tunnels

A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring the harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunnelling beneath the Berlin Wall, The Tunnels is a propulsive read which captures the hopes and fears of everyday Berliners, the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police, and the political tensions of the Cold War.

True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia

The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd’s enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory.

Ackroyd takes readers through the creation of the great pillars of English State to a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation.

Victory at VillersBretonneux

Peter FitzSimons Hardback RRP $ 49.99 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of VillersBretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the entire battle.

After four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance.

Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant

Peter Brune, Neil McDonald Hardback RRP $ 49.99 December release, advance orders welcome Chester Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Valiant for Truth charts Wilmot’s exceptional life as he reported key events of the twentieth century. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and Peter Brune unite to tell the story in this, the first full biography of one of the most important correspondents of WWII.

In this side-splitting sequel to his bestselling Girt, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm and sheep. Lots of sheep. Learn how Truganini’s death inspired the Martian invasion of Earth. Discover the role of Hall and Oates in the Myall Creek Massacre. And be reminded why you should never ever smoke with the Wild Colonial Boy and Mad Dan Morgan.

Victoria

Julia Baird Hardback RRP $ 49.99 The extraordinary story of the world’s most influential, intriguing and surprising ruler, Queen Victoria.

Julia Baird, one of Australia’s most admired and respected journalists and commentators, has crafted a provocative and authoritative new biography of Queen Victoria which will make us see her in a new light. Victoria is truly the woman who made the modern world.

Passchendaele

Paul Ham Hardback RRP $ 45.00 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front.

The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war: blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, terrified soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle. What happened at Passchendaele was the expression of the ‘wearing-down war’, the war of pure attrition at its most spectacular and ferocious.

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.

Adam Spencer’s Time Machine

Popular Science

Adam Spencer Paperback RRP $ 34.99 Following the runaway success of his Big Book of Numbers and World of Numbers, Adam Spencer is back with a fascinating – and fun! – romp through history. Starting with the big bang and ending in the present day (with a few glimpses of the future for good measure) Time Machine is a history book unlike any other. Jampacked with quotes, quizzes, anecdotes and trivia, Adam’s latest book is the ultimate compendium for curious minds.

Evolution: A Visual Record

Robert Clark Hardback RRP $ 49.95 Through 200 stunning and revelatory images, awardwinning photographer Robert Clark reawakens us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth. One of the most important foundations of science is made clear and exciting to everyone, from the near mystical to the historic; the recently understood to the simply astonishing.

The Doctor

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Hardback RRP $ 34.99 Our timeless Lord of Science, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, transcends history and space in his unstoppable quest to unearth scientific truths: from the theories of time travel, movie audiences emitting chemicals to Bitcoin, dirty data, immortal jellyfish and how hot tea cools you down.

Fight Like A Girl

Clementine Ford

Now in its sixth year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 brings together knowledge and insights from Australia’s brightest thinkers as they explore the intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects and challenges our perceptions of the world and how we exist within it.

David Bodanis

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Dava Sobel January release, advance orders welcome Dava Sobel, bestselling author of Longitude, returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science.

The Glass Universe chronicles the history of Harvard College Observatory’s “human computers”: in the midnineteenth century, the Observatory began employing women as calculators to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night.

More Non-Fiction Murder at Myall Creek

Mark Tedeschi QC Paperback RRP $ 32.99 The story of one of Australia’s worst mass murders and the nation’s unsung civil rights hero, John Hubert Plunkett.

In 1838, 11 Europeans were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek. Plunkett’s forensic brilliance and his belief in equality before the law were pitted against the majority of society.

What do We Want?: The Story of Protest in Australia

Don Watson

Clive Hamilton, foreword

by Germaine Greer

Hardback RRP $ 45.00

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Paperback RRP $ 29.99

The Glass Universe

From the bestselling author of E=mc², Einstein’s Greatest Mistake is an intimate and enlightening biography of the celebrated physicist, that reveals how much we owe Einstein today – and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.

A Single Tree

A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson’s awardwinning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent, with the pieces representing a vast array of experiences, perspectives and knowledge. A Single Tree is an essential companion to its brilliant predecessor.

Edited by Jo Chandler

Einstein’s Greatest Mistake Paperback RRP $ 35.00

Paperback RRP $ 29.99 Online sensation, fearless feminist heroine and scourge of trolls and misogynists everywhere, Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of Australian women and girls. Her incendiary debut Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, and exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women.

Fight Like A Girl will make you laugh, cry and scream. But above all it will make you demand and fight for a world in which women have real equality and not merely the illusion of it.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2016

Paperback RRP $ 39.99 In What Do We Want?

Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia. He includes dedicated chapters on the peace movement, women’s liberation, Indigenous rights, gay rights and the environmental movement, and examines how these movements have confronted the ugliness in Australian society and caused epoch defining shifts in social attitudes.

The Independent Bookseller's Summer Reading Guide

Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead

Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pinkner, Matt Ridley & Alain de Botton Paperback RRP $16.99 As part of the Munk Debates series, held in Toronto biannually, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and bestselling author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, giving us an entertaining and thought-provoking face-off between four of the world’s most renowned thinkers.

The Barefoot Investor

Scott Pape Paperback RRP $ 29.95 December release, advance orders welcome This is the only money guide you’ll ever need. This book will show you how to create an entire financial plan that is so simple you can sketch it on the back of a serviette … and you’ll be able to manage your money in 10 minutes a week.

Cooking Up a Feast Appetites

Anthony Bourdain Hardback RRP $ 49.99 This is Anthony Bourdain’s interpretation of a normal cookbook. Illustrated with photography that somehow manages to be both strangely beautiful and utterly grotesque, this cookbook – spanning the first ten years of a career - is a home-cooking, home-entertaining cookbook like no other.

Samarkand: Recipes and stories from Central Asia and the Caucasus

Caroline Eden, Eleanor Ford Hardback RRP $ 49.99 Over hundreds of years, many ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other’s cuisine and leaving their culinary stamp.

This love letter to the region contains personal travel essays, photographs and showcases 100 delicious recipes – expertly adapted for the home cook.

Provence to Pondicherry

Tessa Kiros Hardback RRP $ 49.99 Tessa Kiros, renowned for her exquisite food and travel books, takes us on a fascinating journey across the globe to explore French culinary influences in far-flung destinations. Through 150 recipes, Tessa looks the region’s cuisine, from lobsters cooked in rum and butter in Guadeloupe, to the traditional Provencal fish stew bouillabaisse.

Shannon Martinez & Mo Wyse Hardback RRP $ 48.00 Smith & Daughters: A Cookbook (That Happens to be Vegan) ignores convention in favor of plant-based creativity in the kitchen.

Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse set out to build a restaurant that’s fun and full of life with a rock and roll vibe, and where good food is served – that happens to be vegan.

Neil Perry’s Good Cooking

Donna Hay

Neil Perry

Hardback RRP $ 55.00

Hardback RRP $ 49.99 Good Cooking features over 110 simple yet sophisticated recipes that will entice you into the kitchen and inspire you to cook. They draw on culinary influences both global and local to create amazing flavours for every occasion, with seasonal produce always taking the starring role.

The Zen Kitchen

Rick Stein

Hardback RRP $ 49.99

Cadiz, Palermo, Copenhagen and more... Rick Stein goes in search of good food in fabulous locations, and all of them just a quick hop, skip and a jump from the UK. Rick Stein’s Long Weekends will accompany the second half of the TV series, airing from October 2016.

Hardback RRP $ 69.99 If you love to bring family and friends together around your table, enjoy setting the table, cooking up a storm and anticipating the pleasure of good food and conversation, this new recipe book from much-loved Australian cookery icon Stephanie Alexander’s will become a fast favourite. In The Cook’s Table, Stephanie shares 25 of her favourite menus for entertaining family and friends, from special occasions to menus inspired by her travels. This must-have guide to entertaining includes 130 new tried and tested recipes.

Australian Fish and Seafood Cookbook

John Susman, Anthony Huckstep, Sara Swan and Stephen Hodges Hardback RRP $ 79.99

The definitive guide to cooking great fish.

Written by the most respected authorities on seafood in the country, this landmark publication contains all you need to know about selecting and preparing over 60 types of fish and seafood, including catching methods, notes on sustainability, flavour profiles and cooking guidelines. More than 130 recipes showcase the delicious potential of the vast array of seafood available, and clear step-by-step photography illustrating the key techniques takes all the guesswork out of cooking seafood at home.

Luke Nguyen’s Street Food Asia

Luke Nguyen

Rick Stein’s Long Weekends Hardback RRP $ 55.00

Stephanie Alexander

Smith & Daughters

Basics To Brilliance

Australia’s most trusted and best-selling cookbook author, Donna Hay, wants to take you from basics to brilliance. Her new book Basics to Brilliance is a luxurious hardback featuring beautiful photography and over 200 recipes. This is your ultimate guide to being brilliant in the kitchen and a book you will want to treasure forever.

The Cook’s Table

Adam Liaw

The new cookbook from Adam Liaw, one of Australia’s favourite foodie celebrities and former winner of Masterchef. The Zen Kitchen is a cookbook of easy-to-prepare Japanese recipes and philosophies for the home kitchen to guide you and your family to healthier, more enjoyable meal times.

Hardback RRP $ 60.00 Join Luke Nguyen on his latest adventure through the bustling and fragrant backstreets of Asia. Through Saigon and Jakarta, to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, Nguyen uncovers the hidden locations and secret eats of four very different cities and their street food cultures. Vibrant local personalities, colourful photographs and stories about the most unique dishes lead us through one of the world’s richest and most fascinating food traditions.

Win a library of 100 books. See page 2 for details.

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Margaret Preston: Recipes for Food and Art

Inspired Living Explorers’ Botanical Notebook

Lesley Harding Paperback RRP $ 45.00 Celebrated for her vibrant and distinctive pictures of indigenous flowers, artist Margaret Preston was an equally colourful and outspoken personality. For Preston, the building blocks of such a culture were not to be found in the Australian pastoral landscape tradition, but in the home and garden. Drawing on recipes from handwritten books found in the National Gallery of Australia and richly illustrated with Preston’s paintings, prints and photographs this book sheds new light on the fascinating private life of a much-loved Australian artist.

Bruce Gray, Stanley Breeden, and Kaisa Breeden Hardback RRP $ 45.00 High on the hills of the Atherton Tablelands in far north Queensland stands a glasshouse built by orchid expert Bruce Gray. Whether from South America, India or Madagascar, tropical species thrive here.

Award-winning photographers Stanley and Kaisa Breeden capture the plants in rich, detailed images. Step into the orchid house to discover this extraordinary and diverse world.

Various Botanists

Anna Johnson & Richard Black

Hardback RRP $ 39.99

Hardback RRP $70.00

This splendid book traces the journeys of more than 80 pioneering botanists including Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders and Darwin, who explored the unknown world and collected thousands of unusual plants. Their stories - accompanied by maps, photographs, drawings and engravings - all work to reproduce the spirit of the quest and the discovery of plants.

Into the Orchid House

Frida Kahlo At Home

Phaidon Editors

Hardback RRP $ 49.99

Hardback RRP $79.95 A fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants.

Plant combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. This stunning compilation includes iconic and previously unpublished work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators.

Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artisans Hardback RRP $ 60.00

Matt and Lentil Purbrick Paperback RRP $ 45.00 In Grown & Gathered, Matt and Lentil Purbrick’s first book, they tell you all that they know about growing, gathering, nurturing and cooking your own food. This inspiring guide to real food and life’s fundamentals features over 100 delicious, nourishing and creative wholefood recipes, practical how-to guides and adventures.

Matt and Lentil celebrate good food, ecological farming, trade without money and living well to rediscover a more traditional way of living and eating. Exclusive Offer: Purchase a copy of Grown & Gathered and receive a FREE produce poster. *While stocks last.

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There is a new desire for unique objects made by hand and the imperfections associated with the marks of the maker; and pottery is the vehicle that so aptly captures this authenticity. Clay surveys the unique happenings of over 50 studio potters, primarily Australian, but also some potters from around the world.

Suzanne Barbezat Fully illustrated, Frida Kahlo at Home features Frida’s paintings together with archive images and family photographs, as well as objects and artefacts she collected. Photographs of the surrounding landscape provide an insight into how these places shaped this much-loved artist and how the homes and landscapes of her life related to her work.

Food Trails

Lonely Planet Hardback RRP $ 34.99 Food Trails continues Lonely Planet’s 52 Perfect Weekends series by exploring destinations famed for their food and drink.

Discover 52 amazing itineraries for delicious days out in places such as Puglia, Paris, Melbourne and New Orleans with recommendations for where to stay, what to do and of course what to eat.

Paul Bangay’s Country Gardens

Loose Leaf

Paul Bangay

Hardback RRP $ 45.00

Hardback RRP $79.99 Look behind the gates of twenty exclusive country estates from the Mornington Peninsula to The Hamptons in this magnificent book showcasing the work of internationally acclaimed garden designer Paul Bangay. Feast your eyes on these to-die-for gardens, each of which features Paul’s distinctive simplicity and elegance, as he writes of his deeply personal relationship with each property and its owners.

Win a library of 100 books. See page 2 for details.

Living in the Landscape explores new and exciting relationships between landscape and design.

The complexities of the Australian landscape with its beautiful but often harsh geographical and topological physicality, questions of sustainability and climate change, and an understanding of the Indigenous relationship to landscape are all thoughtfully considered.

Plant: Exploring the Botanical World

Amber Creswell Bell Grown & Gathered

Living in the Landscape

Wona Bae & Charlie Lawler Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler invite you to see the natural world in an entirely different way with her unique sculptures and installations showing the many ways we can bring the beauty of nature into our homes and lives. Includes a number of practical projects in making items such as wreaths, hanging plants and natural sculptures.

More Great Gifts Envelope Poems

The Odditorium

Emily Dickinson

David Bramwell & Jo Keeling

Hardback RRP $ 22.95 Emily Dickinson (1830– 1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. It is among the makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson’s later writings that we find the envelope poems. Intensely alive, these poems are charged with a special poignancy—addressed to no one and everyone at once. This is a gorgeous gift-sized edition.

Reg Mombassa: Landscapes

Reg Mombassa Hardback RRP $ 75.00 A stunning retrospective of one of Australia’s most beloved and celebrated artists. Reg Mombassa’s work has been a part of the fabric of Australia’s pop culture for nearly 40 years with his irreverent take on life down under, earning him a place as one of Australia’s most influential and prolific fine artists.

Hardback RRP $ 32.99 The Odditorium is a fascinating, quirky and beautifully illustrated gift book from the creators of the award winning Ernest Journal. Celebrating curiosity and adventure, it explores the obsessions, achievements and failures of lesser-known but utterly remarkable individuals who exemplify the human spirit through their stories of invention, trickery, subversion and survival.

On Reading

Steve McCurry

A celebration of the timeless act of reading – as seen through the lens of one of the world’s most beloved photographers. Steve McCurry’s mesmerizing images of the universal human act of reading are an acknowledgement of – and a tribute to – the overwhelming power of the written word.

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2016

How to Pack For Any Trip Paperback RRP $19.99

Russ Radcliffe

Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture. The new edition of Lonely Planet’s bestselling The Travel Book is better than ever. Also available is Lonely Planet’s How To Pack For Any Trip. No matter what trip you’re planning, the tips, techniques and advice in this book will help you unleash the packing pro within.

Paperback RRP $ 29.99 One of Australia’s most turbulent and tumultuous years in politics as observed by Australia’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists, edited by Russ Radcliffe and featuring works by First Dog on the Moon, Dean Alston, Bruce Petty, Bill Leak, Matt Golding, and many more.

Hardback RRP $ 34.99 Step into Robert Ingpen’s magical world with this book of wonderful images that have made Robert a worldwide household name for children’s illustration. Here you will find his own autobiographical tales, illustrator’s notes, original sketches and illustrations from his award-winning publications. Robert’s astonishing creative vision has breathed life into more than one hundred books and delighted countless children around the world throughout his remarkable career as an illustrator. Wonderlands is a fitting celebration of Robert Ingpen’s work as a master illustrator and storyteller.

Frantumaglia: Bits and Pieces of Uncertain Origin

Elena Ferrante Paperback RRP $ 29.99 Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time.

Frantumaglia is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of the elusive Elena Ferrante’s letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journalists, and responses to readers’ questions. For fans of Ferrante, and for fans of writing, this is essential reading.

Absolutely on Music

Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa Hardback RRP $ 45.00

Alexander McQueen: Unseen

Fucking Apostrophes

Robert Fairer

Simon Griffin

Hardback RRP $ 95.00

Hardback RRP $16.99

Never previously published, Robert Fairer’s photographs of Alexander McQueen’s collections on the catwalk and back stage offer a unique insight into the work of one of the world’s most captivating fashion designers, from his debuts in the 1990s to his final collection in 2010.

Robert Ingpen

Hardback RRP $ 85.00

The Travel Book 3rd Edition Hardback RRP $ 80.00

Lonely Planet

Wonderlands: The Illustration Art of Robert Ingpen

A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English.

Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers - wont to insert and remove apostrophes at will, for visual effect - this is a light-hearted, pocket-sized guide to getting the f’ing things right.

An intimate conversation about music and creativity between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor Seiji Ozawa. Transcribed from lengthy conversations about the nature of music and writing, here they discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from record collecting to pop-up orchestras, and much more.

The Independent Bookseller’s Summer Reading Guide

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Award Winners 2016 The Natural Way of Things

The Glorious Heresies

Black Rock White City

Charlotte Wood

Lisa McInerney

A.S. Patric

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $19.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

WINNER OF 2016 INDIE BOOK OF THE YEAR and WINNER OF 2016 STELLA PRIZE Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted.

WINNER OF 2016 BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland’s postcrash society. Biting, moving and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies explores salvation, shame and the legacy of Ireland’s twentiethcentury attitudes to sex and family.

WINNER OF THE 2016 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD Black Rock White City is an essential story of Australia’s suburbs now, of displacement and immediate threat, and the unexpected responses of two refugees as they try to reclaim their dreams. It is a breathtaking roar of energy that explores the immigrant experience with ferocity, beauty and humour.

The Memory Artist

The Sympathizer

Resurrection Bay

Katherine Brabon

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Emma Viskic

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 22.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99

WINNER OF 2016 AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL LITERARY AWARD Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev’s repressive rule over the Soviet Union. Through recollections and observation, Pasha walks through the landscapes of history, from concrete tower suburbs, to a summerhouse during Russia’s white night summers, to haunting former prison camps in the Arctic north.

Pasha’s search to find meaning leads him to assemble a fractured story of Russia’s traumatic past.

WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

WINNER OF 2016 NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST FICTION and WINNER OF 2016 DAVITT AWARD FOR BEST ADULT NOVEL Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. As Caleb delves into the investigation of a friend’s murder, he uncovers unwelcome truths about his murdered friend – and himself.

BEST OF 2016 The Last Painting of Sara De Vos

Everywhere I Look

The Dry

Dominic Smith

Helen Garner Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 32.99 A dazzling and mesmerising story that charts the collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth.

Spanning fifteen years of work from one of Australia’s greatest writers, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life.

Jane Harper

A brutal crime rocks a town suffering the worst drought in a century. When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds are reopened.

The Shepherd’s Life

The Course of Love

Truly Madly Guilty

James Rebanks

Alain de Botton

Liane Moriarty

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Paperback RRP $ 24.99 The Shepherd’s Life offers a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land that most of us have lost.

The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, James Rebanks and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations.

From the first thrill of lust, to the joys and fears of real commitment, to the deep problems that surface slowly over two shared lifetimes, this is the story of a marriage. Playful, wise and profoundly moving, The Course of Love is a delightful return to the novel

by Alain de Botton.

Clementine is haunted by regret. It was just a barbeque. They didn’t even know their hosts that well, they were friends of friends. They could so easily have said no. But she and her husband Sam said yes, and now they can never change what they did and didn’t do that Sunday afternoon.

The 78-Storey Treehouse

Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton (Illus) Paperback RRP $14.99 Join Andy and Terry in their spectacular new 78-storey treehouse. They’ve added 13 new levels including a drive-thru car wash, a combining machine, a scribbletorium, an ALL-BALL sports stadium, Andyland, Terrytown, a high-security potato chip storage facility and an openair movie theatre. Age: 6+

Talking to My Country

Stan Grant Hardback RRP $ 29.99 Talking To My Country is that rare and special book that talks to every Australian about their country - what it is, and what it could be. It is not just about race, or about indigenous people but all of us, our shared identity. Direct, honest and forthright, Stan is talking to us all.

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 7/11/2016 to 31/1/2017 unless otherwise stated or stock has sold out.