Stephanie Parkyn DECEMBER 2019 - Allen & Unwin

Stephanie ParkynMarissa StapleyMolly GreeleySue Peiters-HawkeLorenz WagnerDominic Knight

DECEMBER 2019n e w b o o k s

JOSEPHINE'S GARDENStephanie Parkyn

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760529833 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

PUBLICITY: [email protected]

A captivating story of love, nature and identity based on the true story of the woman who became Napoleon Bonaparte's Empress

of France

France, 1794. In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she was to be guillotined. Within a decade, she'll transform into the scandalous socialite who marries Napoleon Bonaparte, become Empress Josephine of France and build a garden of wonders with plants and animals she gathers from across the globe. But she must give Bonaparte an heir or she risks losing everything.

The lives of two other women from very different social spheres are tied to the fate of the Empress Josephine. Widow Marthes Desfriches is desperate to have a child when she enters a loveless marriage with an adversary of the Empress who despises her botanical ambitions. Anne Serreaux longs for a large family when she marries the man who becomes the Empress’s chief gardener tasked with germinating the first Tasmanian blue gums in Europe. Each of these women face obstacles in their relationships and in their quest to become mothers—experiencing trauma that will put all their lives at risk.

Josephine's Garden is a richly imagined historical novel about identity, obsession, love and marriage, and, ultimately, finding the courage to let go.

Stephanie Parkyn is the acclaimed author of Into the World. She lives in the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand.

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THE LAST RESORTMarissa Stapley

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760875688 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION


'A cult-like couples retreat . . . secrets, lies and psychoses . . . a climax of biblical proportions. A rollicking thrill-ride!' - Robyn

Harding, bestselling author of The Party.

Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. Run by celebrity power couple Drs. Miles and Grace Markell, the 'last resort' offers a chance for partners to repair their relationships in a luxurious setting on the gorgeous Mayan Riviera. Johanna and Ben have a marriage that looks perfect on the surface, but in reality they don't know each other at all. Shell and Colin fight constantly: after all, Colin is a workaholic and Shell always comes second to his job. But what has really torn them apart is too devastating to talk about.

When both couples begin Harmony's intensive program, it becomes clear that Harmony is not all it seems—and neither are Miles and Grace themselves. What are they hiding, and what price will these couples pay for finding out? As a deadly tropical storm descends on the coast, trapping the hosts and the guests on the resort, secrets are revealed, loyalties are tested and not one single person—or their marriage—will remain unchanged by what follows.

Marissa Stapley is a journalist and the acclaimed author of Things to Do When It's Raining. She lives in Canada.

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For lovers of Jane Austen,

this is a poignant, insightful

reimagining of Charlotte Collins

and her life beyond

Pride & Prejudice

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THE CLERGYMAN'S WIFEMolly Greeley

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760877149 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

A moving story of unexpected love inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life, an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its quietness threatens to overwhelm her. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr. Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine. In Mr. Travis' company, Charlotte feels appreciated, heard and seen. For the first time in her life Charlotte begins to understand emotional intimacy and its effect on the heart—and how breakable that heart can be. With her sensible nature confronted, and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman's life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman's wife.

Molly Greeley has had a number of short stories and essays published. She lives in the US.

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LAUNCH CODEMichael Ridpath

CORVUS9781786496997 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

1983: Submarine Lieutenant Bill Guth receives the order to launch nuclear missiles in a retaliatory strike against the USSR. In the chaos that follows, one person on board lies dead . . . 2019: A historian who had tried unsuccessfully to get Bill Guth to talk about the near-apocalyptic incident is brutally murdered. As the layers of history reveal themselves, it becomes clear there is a killer at work who will stop at nothing to keep the secrets of 1983 where they belong.

Michael Ridpath is the million-copy bestselling author of the Fire and Ice series. He lives in London.

RETURN TO STRINGYBARK CREEK

Karly Lane

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760529239 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION


The conclusion to the best-selling Callahans Of Stringybark Creek trilogy

When top-flight journalists Hadley Callahan and Mitch Samuals married two years ago, it was the wedding of the year. But, now, Hadley unexpectedly returns to Stringybark Creek alone to tell her parents one major piece of news while determinedly hiding another even more explosive secret. While in town, the shocking suicide of an old school friend brings Oliver Dawson and Hadley together. Beginning a campaign to raise awareness of rural mental health, Hadley's feelings for Ollie take her by surprise. But her life is so messed up—what future could they possibly have together? Return to Stringybark Creek concludes the Callahan family trilogy with a delightfully irresistible story of loyalty, hope and the importance of staying true to yourself.

Karly Lane is the bestselling author of North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses, Six Ways to Sunday, Someone Like You and the first two books in the Callahans of Stringybark Creek series, The Wrong Callahan and Mr Right Now. She lives on the mid-north coast of NSW.

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MAGNUS AND THE CROSSROADS

BROTHERHOODRobert Fabbri

CORVUS9781838950439 | $39.99 | | HB | FICTION

The complete collection of Robert Fabbri's bestselling Vespasian series about Magnus and the Southern Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood. In these thrilling tales, spanning from the rule of Tiberius through the bloody savagery of Caligula to the coming of Nero, Robert Fabbri exposes a world of violence, mayhem and murder that echoes down the ages.

Robert Fabbri is a film director and author of the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin.

HOW TO PLAY DEADJacqueline Ward

CORVUS9781786493804 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

Ria Taylor is everything to everyone. Wife and mother, the centre of her family. And the manager of a refuge for women whose partners have driven them out of their own homes. But one night, with her husband away, Ria receives a terrifyingly sinister message. Someone is watching her. Someone who seems to know everything about her. As events escalate, and terror takes hold, she knows what she should do—seek help. But Ria is the help.

Jacqueline Ward is a Chartered Psychologist who received an MBE for services to vulnerable people. She lives in the UK.

OLIGARCHYScarlett Thomas

CANONGATE9781786898029 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world of fierce pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the world of the school gets ever darker and even weirder. Wildly frank, funny and full of humanity, this fierce and brilliant novel about power, privilege and peer pressure reminds us how insightful, vulnerable, brilliant and misunderstood teenagers are, never more so than now.

Scarlett Thomas is the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y. She lives in the UK.

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A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR

Curdella Forbes

CANONGATE9781838850401 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

A haunting epic following an unusual couple's mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica, Kingston and England. Beginning in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica's independence from colonial rule, and ending in the era of Brexit and Donald Trump, A Tall History of Sugar's story sweeps between a rural Jamaica scarred by the legacies of colonialism, and an England increasingly riven by race riots and class division.

Curdella Forbes is the Jamaican author of Songs of Silence, A Permanent Freedom and Ghosts.

RABBITS FOR FOODBinnie Kirshenbaum

SERPENT’S TAIL9781788164658 | $27.99 | | HB | FICTION

While dining out with her husband and friends, Bunny—an acerbic, mordantly witty and clinically depressed writer—fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital where she passes time chronicling the lives of her fellow ‘lunatics’. Propelled by razor-sharp comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Rabbits for Food examines what it means to succeed and fail, and shows how art can lead us out of—or into—the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. Binnie Kirshenbaum is the acclaimed American author of On Mermaid Avenue, Hester Among the Ruins, An Almost Perfect Moment and The Scenic Route.

DARKNESS FOR LIGHTEmma Viskic

ECHO9781760685812 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

The third thrilling instalment in the award-winning Caleb Zelic series. After heartbreak and trauma, Caleb Zelic is beginning to rebuild his life. He has a new home, a new business and the chance of a happy love life. But people in power have other ideas. Caleb's double-crossing business partner, Frankie, has something they want, and they're after Caleb to get it. On the hunt for Frankie and information, Caleb is drawn into a world of high-level corruption and dark political deals. The secrets he uncovers could endanger him and everything he holds dear.

Emma Viskic is the author of the critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series including Resurrection Bay and And Fire Came Down. She lives in Melbourne.

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HAPPINESS, AS SUCHNatalia Ginzburg

DAUNT BOOKS9781911547440 | $19.99 | | PB | FICTION

Michele is the beloved only son of a large, dysfunctional family in 1970s Italy. Headstrong and independent, he has disappeared to London without explanation. Back in Italy, his father lies dying. Michele's departure sets forth a series of events that will bring together everyone in his life. The story of the Prodigal Son turned on its head, Happiness, As Such is a short, absurdly funny novel-in-letters about complicated families and missed connections.

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) was an Italian author, political activist and parliamentarian.

THIS IS HAPPINESSNiall Williams

BLOOMSBURY9781526609366 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. Rain is a condition of living. But now, just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity, the rain clouds are lifting. This tender portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs, is a coming-of-age tale like no other. Luminous and lyrical, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do and the transforming light they throw onto our world.

Niall Williams is the author of the Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain. He lives in Ireland.

A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF HEAVEN

Mathangi Subramanian

ONEWORLD9781786076762 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION

Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new, high-rise apartment buildings in one of India's fastest-growing cities—and its community of women who have been abandoned by their men when no male heir was produced. Living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the city government, these women, young and old, support one another sharing whatever they can. This is a story about geography, history and strength, about love and friendship, about fighting for the people and places we love even if no one else knows they exist.

Mathangi Subramanian is an award-winning writer, author and educator. She lives in New Delhi, India.

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E D I T E D B Y

Sue Pieters-Hawke

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REMEMBERING BOBSue Pieters-Hawke

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760527396 | $29.99 | | HB | BIOGRAPHY

A vivid and personal view of the extraordinary person Bob Hawke was, and what he meant to us all.

Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar who also had a deep affinity and understanding for mainstream Australia. He was a passionate ACTU officer and president who also knew how to work with big business. He loved his sport, a drink and a bet, yet was also deeply intellectual in his approach to policy. In an age when our respect for politicians has never been lower, we respected Bob. The huge public outpouring of grief after his death showed that we loved him too. This book, instigated and edited by Bob's eldest daughter, Sue Pieters-Hawke, is a collection of stories and memories about Bob by his friends, colleagues, old political foes and ordinary Australians whose paths crossed that of their everyman Prime Minister. Each of them brings a vivid and personal view of this extraordinary man, that taken together offer a true reflection of the person he was, and what he meant to us all.

Sue Pieters-Hawke was Bob Hawke’s eldest daughter. A royalty on every copy sold will go to The Exodus Foundation, one of Bob Hawke’s favourite charities.

THE BOY WHO FELT TOO MUCHLorenz Wagner

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760529437 | $29.99 | | PB | POPULAR SCIENCE


The inspiring family story behind the radical new autism theory

Kai is different. Kai, the doctors will eventually realise, is autistic. Of course, like everyone on the spectrum, Kai isn't just autistic—he's so much more than that. Kai is Kai. Doctors used to find one case of autism among every five thousand people. Today, according to a study by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the ratio is one in fifty-eight. Scientists speak of an epidemic. Kai may be different, but he is not alone.

Henry, Kai's father, is one of the world's most famous neuroscientists, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the human brain. Nevertheless, when his son began withdrawing, Henry was as helpless as all the other parents. He asked himself the same questions they did: What is autism? How can I help my child? He researched for fifteen years. His findings would upend everything we thought we knew about autism. They would offer us a whole new vantage from which to consider all disorders of the mind. If Henry had just been a scientist, even a great one, he would have failed. He only succeeded thanks to Kai, the boy who changed everything.

Lorenz Wagner is one of the most prominent profile writers and journalists in Europe. He lives in Germany.

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STRAYAN DICTIONARYAvo, Arvo, ScoMo, Mabo and all the essential Strayan words

Dominic Knight

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760529352 | $29.99 | | PB | HUMOUR


Following up on the success of Strayapedia, Dom has put together a dictionary of all things 'Strayan’

From Acca Dacca to trakkie daks, from Avo to Yeah-no, from Bindi to Tinnie, The Strayan Dictionary gives us the definitive definitions to Australia's unique words, names and phrases. Acca Dacca. A nickname for AC/DC which, unusually for an Australian nickname, takes just as long to say as the original. Arvo 1. Afternoon, abbreviated because who can be bothered saying the extra syllables when they're relaxing on a sofa in the arvo? In cases of extreme laconicness, 'sarvo' is used, meaning 'this arvo'.2. How wankers say 'avo'. Blind 1. Highly intoxicated, as in absolutely farken maggoted.2. Unable to see due to problems with one's eyes, rather than just being blind drunk.3. A device for preventing light from entering a room that is highly useful in the event of someone being blind drunk the night before.

Dom Knight is one of the founders of The Chaser and the author of Strayapedia and Trumpedia.

AUSTRALIA'S FUNNIEST YARNS

Graham Seal

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760528454 | $29.99 | | PB | GENRE

PUBLICITY: patriziad@allenandunwin

Whatever the circumstances, Australians have always found something to laugh about, laugh at

or laugh off

Australians traditionally like their humour irreverent, crude and with very sharp teeth. Pioneering, settlement and battling fire, flood and drought have produced yarns of tough cocky farmers, shearers, bush workers, swaggies and dreadful cooks. Much of this humour relates to the resilience and fortitude necessary to endure the realities of rural life. Australians took this sensibility with them to war and to work in the cities, and the tradition continues today. Graham Seal has been gathering traditional stories from country towns and the outback for decades, and here he compiles the very funniest stories he has encountered.

Graham Seal is Professor of Folklore at Curtin University, and a leading expert on Australian cultural history.

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DANGER CLOSEThe Battle of Long Tan, as told by the

Commanders to Bob Grandin

Bob Grandin

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760877262 | $24.99 | | PB | FILM-TIE-IN

AVAILABLE 22 JULY 2019

An account of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam—the Battle of Long Tan—as told by the commanders of the units which made up the Australian fighting force. Reissued to coincide with the film release on 6 August 2019, this was the first time that the six Australian and one New Zealander in direct command of Delta Company shared their memories of this significant battle.

Bob Grandin was an Australian helicopter pilot in Vietnam and is the author of Answering the Call.

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THE REALITY BUBBLEBlind spots, hidden truths and the

dangerous illusions that shape our world

Ziya Tong

CANONGATE9781838850487 | $29.99 | | PB | POPULAR SCIENCE

Animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different. We are blind compared to those that see in infrared, ultraviolet or with 360-degree vision. The Reality Bubble illuminates this hidden world and takes us on a journey to examine ten of the biggest blind spots of modern society and humanity. Fast-paced, utterly fascinating and deeply humane, this vitally important new book proves there is more to the world than meets the eye.

Ziya Tong is the Vice Chair of WWF Canada.

ARBORETUMDavid Byrne

CANONGATE9781786899507 | $39.99 | | HB | THE ARTS

For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the tree diagram. Arboretum is an eclectic blend of science, automatic writing, self-analysis and satire that provides an intimate, enigmatic glimpse into the mind of the legendary musician.

David Byrne is co-founder of rock band Talking Heads and bestselling author of How Music Works. He lives in New York.

BE MY GUESTReflections on food, community and the

meaning of generosity

Priya Basil

CANONGATE9781786898494 | $24.99 | | HB | SOCIETY AND FOOD

We live in a world where some have too much and others not enough, where immigrants and refugees are both welcomed and vilified, and where most of us spend less and less time cooking and eating together. Priya Basil invites us to explore the meaning and limits of hospitality today, and, in doing so, makes a passionate plea for a kinder, more welcoming realisation that we have more in common than divides us.

Priya Basil has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She lives in Berlin.

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I’LL BE YOUR MIRRORThe collected lyrics

Lou Reed

FABER9780571345991 | $49.99 | | HB | MUSIC

Through his many incarnations—from proto-punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant-garde—Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fuelled by precise character studies and rendered with moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo albums, I’ll Be Your Mirror provides a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu.

Lou Reed (1942-2013) was a guitarist, singer and songwriter.

THE HOUSE PARTYAdrian Tinniswood

FABER9780571350964 | $ 22.99 | | HB | HISTORY

The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest and the host, showing what it was really like to spend a weekend with the Jazz Age industrialist, the bibulous belted earl and the bright young thing. It reveals how the great and good partied at mansions such as Knole and Dunham Massey, how Nancy Astor held court at Cliveden, and what a discreet weekend gathering at Winston Churchill's Chartwell might entail. Much like the very best country house party, this glorious book will keep you highly entertained.

Adrian Tinniswood is a celebrated social historian and author of fourteen books of social and architectural history.

OPERATION SWALLOWAmerican soldiers' remarkable escape from

Berga Concentration Camp

Mark Felton

ICON9781785785993 | $29.99 | | PB | HISTORY

Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers saved hundreds of fellow servicemen from being enslaved by the Nazis. It shows a remarkable battle of wills between a young GI thrust into leadership and an SS officer who will stop at nothing to complete his orders. Written from personal testimonies and official documents, it is an escape story replete with courage, sacrifice, despair and salvation that has barely been told before and that the US government tried to suppress for decades.

Mark Felton is the author of Castle of the Eagles and Zero Night, both of which are in development as Hollywood movies.

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NUKING THE MOONAnd other intelligence schemes and military

plots best left on the drawing board

Vince Houghton

PROFILE BOOKS9781788163309 | $24.99 | | PB | GENRE

From bomb-carrying bats to a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon, Nuking the Moon collects the most inspired, implausible and downright bizarre military intelligence schemes that never quite made it off the drawing board. They illuminate a new side of warfare revealing how a combination of desperation and innovation led not only to daring missions and brilliant technological advances but to countless plans and experiments that failed spectacularly.

Vince Houghton is historian and curator at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

REEF LIFEAn underwater memoir

Callum Roberts

PROFILE BOOKS9781788162159 | $35.00 | | HB | POPULAR

Reef Life is a marine science memoir—the story of how one of the world’s pre-eminent marine conservation scientists fell in love with coral reefs. From the moment Callum Roberts first cleared his goggles, he's never looked back, diving and researching all over the world in a thirty-year career that includes Australia's imperilled Great Barrier Reef. His stories are astonishing, lyrical and laced with a wonderful wry humour—and they allow us privileged access to, and understanding of, the science of our oceans and reefs.

Callum Roberts is one of the world's leading oceanographers and the award-winning author of The Unnatural History of the Sea and Ocean of Life.

SHE SPEAKSThe power of women's voices

Yvette Cooper

ATLANTIC9781786499929 | $24.99 | | HB | POLITICS

A powerful celebration of 30 brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages that have inspired change and altered the course of history. From Boudica and Joan of Arc to Margaret Thatcher and Michelle Obama—and including Julia Gillard and Jacinda Ardern—each speech is reproduced in full. This is not only a much-needed celebration of women's speeches throughout history but also proof that powerful and persuasive oratory can be decidedly female.

Yvette Cooper is a British Labour MP.

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VOX POPULIEverything you wanted to know about the

classical world but were afraid to ask

Peter Jones

ATLANTIC9781786498953 | $27.99 | | HB | HISTORY

This witty and engaging tour of the classical world reveals the power and scope of the ideas of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and why they remain so important and influential today. Covering everything from philosophy, history and architecture to language and grammar, it uncovers their astonishing intellectual, political and literary achievements. This fully updated and revised edition is a must-read for anyone who wishes to know more about the classics and where they came from.

Peter Jones is the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka!

HISTORIES OF THE UNEXPECTED: THE TUDORS

HISTORIES OF THE UNEXPECTED: THE VIKINGS

HISTORIES OF THE UNEXPECTED: THE ROMANS

HISTORIES OF THE UNEXPECTED: WORLD WAR II

Sam Willis and James Daybell

ATLANTIC9781786497697 | 9781786497710 | 9781786497734 | 9781786497758

$19.99 | | HB | HISTORY

Everything has a history—even the most unexpected of subjects—and everything links in unexpected ways. Histories of the Unexpected presents a new way of thinking about the past and reveals the everyday world as never before.

Sam Willis and James Daybell are renowned historians.

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CREATE YOUR OWN MIDLIFE CRISIS

Marie Phillips

SOUVENIR PRESS9781788163927 | $24.99 | | HB | HUMOUR

A couple of decades into adulthood, we all ask ourselves ‘how did I get here?’ The decision chain is there, if only you could remember what it was. But until now, you couldn't go back to the start and try for a better result. So here's your chance to try out the paths not taken. Yelpingly funny, horribly relatable, here are the predicaments of modern midlife, transporting you to places that you'll hopefully be able to skip over in the real world.

Marie Phillips is the bestselling author of Gods Behaving Badly and The Table of Less Valued Knights. She lives in the UK.

MY BROTHER, MUHAMMAD ALI

The definitive biography

Rahaman Ali

JOHN BLAKE9781789461718 | $39.99 | | HB | BIOGRAPHY

From Muhammad Ali's brother comes the most intimate biography ever written on the legendary sportsman. Born Cassius and Rudulph Valentino Clay, the two brothers lived, trained, travelled and fought together in the street and in the ring. Rahaman saw Ali at both his best and his worst: the relentless prankster and the jealous older brother, the outspoken advocate and the devoted family man. Offering an insider's perspective on all the well-known stories as well as never-before-told tales, this is an evocative portrait of the legend and the man.

Rahaman Ali was a heavyweight fighter and Muhammad Ali’s only sibling..

LETTER TO MY YOUNGER SELF

Inspiring people on the lessons they've learned, the mistakes they've made and the

relationships that changed their lives

Jane Graham & The Big Issue

BLINK9781788702324 | $34.99 | | HB | MEMOIR

If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? The Big Issue asked that and some of the most brilliant people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport and business responded, including Paul McCartney, Jamie Oliver, Rod Stewart, Margaret Atwood, Buzz Aldrin, Tracey Emin, Michael Palin and Dionne Warwick. Letter to My Younger Self is a moving, inspiring and powerful insight into the wisdom that age brings and how you can use this knowledge to shape your future.

All royalties go to The Big Issue Foundation.

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F2: ULTIMATE FOOTBALLER: THE ALL

NEW F2 BOOK! How to build the perfect player

The F2

BLINK9781788702584 | $29.99 | | PB | SPORT

The F2 have scoured the planet and analysed what ingredients you need to build the perfect footballer—the left boot of Messi, the passing of de Bruyne, the dribbling of Neymar, the finishing of Kane. Now they show you the skills and the drills to emulate your favourite stars. And once you've put it all together, you can compare your ultimate player with Billy and Jez's. Who has the best? You decide!

The F2 are Billy Wingrove and Jeremy Lynch, the world's biggest football social media stars and bestselling authors of F2: World of Football.

THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

PUZZLE BOOKThe Royal Geographical

Society

5359781788702966 | $29.99 | | PB | GAMES & PUZZLES

Pit your wits against the world's greatest explorers. Explore hidden routes, decipher geographical details and discover amazing facts as you work through over a century's worth of geographical wonder. Comprising 50 unforgettable explorer profiles and expeditions retold through a set of increasingly difficult questions, this challenging, informative and entertaining tome is perfect for the most inexperienced geographer to the most veteran explorer.

The world-renowned Royal Geographical Society is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography.

YOUNG REMBRANDTOnno Blom

PUSHKIN9781782275596 | $45.00 | | HB | BIOGRAPHY

How did Rembrandt become Rembrandt? To find out, prize-winning biographer Onno Blom immersed himself in the world, the country, the city and the house in which Rembrandt was born in 1606 and where he spent the first twenty-five years of his life. The result is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man, rich in local and biographical detail, and restless in its efforts to seek out the roots of his genius.

Onno Blom is an award-winning biographer, literary critic and journalist. He lives in the Netherlands.

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FACESProfiles of dogs

Vita Sackville-West

DAUNT BOOKS9781911547464 | $19.99 | | HB | GIFT BOOK

Over the years Vita Sackville-West had many dogs, including Cocker Spaniel Pippin, mother of Virginia Woolf's Spaniel, Pinka and Alsatian Rollo, whose photograph hangs in Sissinghurst Castle. Faces traces the origins and history of forty-four breeds, reflecting on their characteristics with frank humour. Charming and fascinating in equal measure, this collection of profiles is testament to the fact that, 'when one loves dogs, it is difficult not to attribute human qualities to them'.

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was a writer closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group.

HOW TO TEACH PHILOSOPHY TO YOUR

DOGAnthony McGowan

ONEWORLD9781786077950 | $22.99 | | PB | PHILOSOPHY

Taking a lead from his Maltese terrier Monty’s canine antics, McGowan takes us on a hilarious and enlightening jaunt through the major debates of philosophy. Will Kant convince Monty to stop stealing cheesecake? How long will he put up with Socrates poking holes in every argument? In this uniquely entertaining take on morality and ethics, the dutiful duo set out to uncover who, if anyone, has the right end of the ethical stick and who can show how best to live one's life.

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Tim Walker is one of the world's leading photographers. Susanna Brown is a photography curator and writer.

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