ONE MORE CHAPTER
WELCOME TO OUR READING GUIDE
When you step into your local bookstore, you will find the best new books that will have you reading late into the night, always saying “just one more chapter”. There is something for everyone, from page-turning fiction and brilliant biographies to tempting cookbooks and exciting books for kids. If you don’t find what you are looking for on the following pages, there’s plenty more in store and our booksellers are more than happy to help you find something you’ll love. HAPPY READING!
THREE WILD DOGS AND THE TRUTH
Markus Zusak
Hardback RRP $36.99
10 September release, advance orders welcome What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs? The answer can only be chaos: there are fights, public shamings, property trashing, bodily injuries, purest comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that needs to be seen to be believed.
There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love - and the joy and recognition of family.
From one of the world's great storytellers comes a tender, motley and exquisitely written memoir, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty straight to our doors and into our lives, and change us forever.
RUNNING WITH PIRATES
Kári Gíslason
Paperback RRP $34.99
At the age of eighteen, Kári Gíslason arrives on the island of Corfu after a life-altering encounter with his father in Iceland. Three decades later, he returns to settle a debt. Full of warmth and colour, this engaging memoir by the co-author of Saga Land is all about freedom, adventure and fathers and sons.
Allen & Unwin
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMURS
Tim Husband with Deborah Kane Paperback RRP $34.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome When Life Gives you Lemurs is a story of courage, generosity and the tender power of animals to heal broken humans. 'A compelling story, beautifully told'Richard Glover
Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of nonfiction from Allen & Unwin. For details go to www. indies.com.au/competitions
COMING SOON
INTERMEZZO
Sally Rooney
Paperback RRP $34.99
24 September release, advance orders welcome
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
WING
Nikki Gemmell
Paperback RRP $34.99
2 October Release, advance orders welcome Four days. Four girls. One teacher. What happened? An explosive, contemporary literary thriller from international bestselling author Nikki Gemmell.
‘Taut, timely and mysterious - and a beautiful evocation of the power and centrality of female friendship.' - Kathryn Heyman
Thames & Hudson Aust
KITCHEN SENTIMENTAL
Annie Smithers
Paperback RRP $34.99
27 August release, advance orders welcome
The memoir of a beloved cook, told through the kitchens and recipes that shaped her. Annie Smithers takes us on a journey through every significant kitchen in her life, both domestic and professional, sharing with engaging honesty her personal development, her surprisingly complex relationship with food, and the lessons she has learned along the way.
ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS WILL BE
Thomas Mayo
Paperback RRP $19.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome Thomas Mayo investigates ‘what's next?’ for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed Voice to Parliament referendum. On writing the book Mayo said: ‘The book starts with the ingredients for hope, it will cover the lessons from the past, and ultimately, Always Was, Always Will Be is about the future we want to see – one where there is justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.’
DUSK
Robbie Arnott
Paperback RRP $34.99
8 October Release, advance orders welcome
In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. In the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd, out of work and money, hear about a bounty on Dusk and reluctantly join the hunt. As they close in on their prey, they're forced to reckon with conflicts both ancient and deeply personal.
Picador Australia
Hardie Grant
Picador Australia
Faber Fiction
GREAT NEW FICTION
DEATH AT THE SIGN OF THE ROOK
Kate Atkinson
Paperback RRP $34.99
27 August release, advance orders welcome Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson’s signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodie’s most outrageous and memorable case yet. Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of our favourite Kate Atkinson novels. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
IF YOU GO
Alice Robinson
Paperback RRP $34.99
When Esther wakes with a breathing tube down her throat, she has no idea where she is or how she got there. In terrible physical condition, Esther is tended to by Grace, the only other person in the building. Suspicious of Grace, Esther takes drastic action to escape. But there are certain facts about the reality of her situation that she will need to uncover first.
HIGHWAY 13
Fiona McFarlane
Paperback RRP $32.99
A gripping, provocative work by one of our finest writers, the internationally acclaimed author Fiona McFarlane. In overlapping stories, Highway 13 explores the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. A brilliant and illuminating account of loss and its extended echoes across an entire society.
ART HOUR AT THE DUCHESS HOTEL
Sophie Green
Paperback RRP $32.99
The Duchess Hotel might just be the place to help the four women rediscover who they are and bring some spark back to their lives. Over canvas, conversation and creativity they will learn that you should always hold onto your dreams and that new friends can give you the courage to live life on your own terms.
Enter now for your chance to WIN a personalised signed copy of Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
THE GLASSMAKER
Tracy Chevalier
Paperback RRP $34.99
A captivating work of historical fiction which is both a love story that moves through six centuries but also a love story to the art of glassmaking. Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are everlasting as their glass.
Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of our favourite Tracy Chevalier titles. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Paperback RRP $32.99
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.
TELL ME EVERYTHING
Elizabeth Strout
Hardback RRP $34.99
10 September release, advance orders welcome A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me
Everything is by the Booker Prize shortlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton
THE FISTS OF THE FATHER
Daniel Tamone
Paperback RRP $32.99
Ted 'Little Boy Blue' Taylor has replaced his estranged father Ron – a disgraced former heavyweight champion on the cusp of an unexpected comeback –as the darling of Australian boxing. In the heart of western Sydney, three generations of men in a family of champion boxers are trapped in a cycle of violence.
THE HONEYEATER
Jessie Tu
Paperback RRP
$32.99
Young academic and emerging translator Fay takes her mother on a package tour holiday to France to celebrate her birthday. On their last night in France, Fay receives the shattering news that her former lover has suddenly died. Back in Sydney, Fay seeks solace from her mentor, Professor Samantha Egan-Smith, who offers her a spot at a prestigious translation conference in Taipei.
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year.
HERE ONE MOMENT
Liane Moriarty
Paperback RRP
$34.99
29 August release, advance orders welcome If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently? It all begins on a flight from Hobart to Sydney. The flight will be smooth. It will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off the plane. But almost all of them will be changed forever.
Because on this ordinary flight, something extraordinary happens. 'A lady', unremarkable until she isn't, predicts how and when many of the passengers are going to die. For some, death is far in the future; for others, it is very close.
A brilliantly constructed story that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world.
Hachette Australia
THE DEATH OF DORA BLACK: A PETTICOAT POLICE MYSTERY
Lainie Anderson
Paperback RRP $32.99
28 August release, advance orders welcome Adelaide, 1917. The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks might look more like a schoolmistress than a policewoman, but don't let that fool you. She's a household name, wrangling wayward husbands into repentance, seeing through deceptive clairvoyants, and rescuing young women (whether they like it or not) with the help of a five-foot cane and her sassy junior constable, Ethel Bromley. When shop assistant Dora Black is found dead on a city beach, Miss Cocks and Ethel are ordered to stay out of the investigation and leave it to the men. But when Dora's workmate goes missing soon after, the women suspect something sinister, and determine to take matters into their own hands.
Allen & Unwin
Macmillan Australia
Affirm Press
Viking
Echo
Doubleday
Borough Press
Allen & Unwin
Hachette
Wildfire
Canongate Trade
THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE
Matt Haig
Paperback RRP $32.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.
Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed.
Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of our favourite Matt Haig novels. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
THE OXENBRIDGE KING
Christine Paice
Paperback RRP $34.99
Tender, endearing, lyrical, surprising, and magical, The Oxenbridge King is a delight, a true original. Inspired by the discovery of the bones of Richard III beneath a car park in England, award-winning poet Christine Paice has fashioned a beautiful, singular, warm, endearing, and funny novel that weaves in and out of time and space and possibility. The Oxenbridge King is a tender and wise meditation on what survives of us when we're gone, and how, in the end, love and family are everything.
MORE NEW FICTION
THE INSTRUMENTALIST
Harriet Constable
Paperback RRP $32.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome Anna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent. Her best hope lies in her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi. But as Anna Maria’s star rises, not everyone is happy. Because Anna Maria’s shining light is threatening to eclipse that of her mentor.
BY ANY OTHER NAME
Jodi Picoult
Paperback RRP $34.99
20 August release, advance orders welcome
What if the greatest writer of all time isn't who we think he is? New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult brings to life the woman many believe was the real playwright behind the work of William Shakespeare alongside a contemporary story of a New York author suffering the same fate of being silenced.
Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of our favourite Jodi Picoult novels. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
THE FIRST FRIEND
Malcolm Knox
Paperback RRP $34.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
A tour de force set in 1938 in Stalinist Soviet Union, this chilling black comedy it is at once a satire and a thriller, a survivor's tale in which a father has to walk a tightrope every day to save his family from a monster and a monstrous society.
'Crackling with energy, irony, wit and terror, The First Friend is a timely and cautionary reminder of the stifling, murderous logic of strong man politics.' -
THE VOYAGE HOME
Pat Barker
Paperback RRP $34.99
27 August release, advance orders welcome The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls. After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with
the spoils of battle. As the fleet returns one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone's fates forever.
ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK
Chris Whitaker
Paperback RRP $32.99
A missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller, and an epic love story - with a unique twist on each. 'Impeccably crafted, deeply emotional, entirely shattering. I was captivated from page one.' - Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
BEAR
Julia Phillips
Paperback RRP $29.99
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor — a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth 'Thrilling and propulsive, glorious, and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer.’ - Ann Patchett
THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY
Elif Shafak
Paperback RRP $34.99
13 August release, advance orders welcome
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. A dazzling feat of storytelling that spans centuries, continents and cultures. From the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees
Text Publishing
THE EMPUSIUM
Olga Tokarczuk
Paperback RRP $34.99
24 September release, advance orders welcome
The Nobel Prize-winner's latest work is a riveting, humorous tale of mystery that takes misogyny to task. As in her acclaimed novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Tokarczuk blends horror story, comedy, folklore, and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.
THE LAST TRACE
Petronella McGovern
Paperback RRP $32.99
What if you're scared you committed a crime but can't remember? From the bestselling author of Six Minutes and The Liars comes an unputdownable thriller about the secrets we keep from each otherand ourselves.
Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of our favourite Petronella McGovern novels. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
Bloomsbury
4th Estate
Tim Winton Allen & Unwin
Hamish Hamilton
Orion
Scribe
Viking
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
BIRD
Courtney Collins
Paperback RRP $32.99
A masterful and profoundly moving novel about a girl determined to live on her own terms, no matter the cost. Bird is an unforgettable story of hope and resilience from one of Australia's most exciting emerging writers. 'An evocative, enchanting storyteller.' - Holly Ringland, author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
IN THE MARGINS
Gail Holmes
Paperback RRP $34.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
In this tender and powerful work of imagination, the life of a remarkable woman who wrote and lived in the margins in a time where women's voices went unheard is restored to history. Beautifully written and deeply moving, In the Margins is a testament to the way literature can illuminate our inner lives and set us free when the world around us is covered in darkness.
BIG TIME
Jordan Prosser
Paperback RRP $34.99
A fast-paced and totally punk novel that’s an antifascist ode to the power of pop music, wrapped up in an unforgettable, psychedelic road trip. You’ll be hooked from page one. Go ahead, dive in. ‘A rollicking ride told by a master storyteller.’ The Age
THE GAMES GODS PLAY
Abigail Owen
Paperback RRP $34.99
4 September release, advance orders welcome
In a contemporary world where Olympus hovers above San Francisco and people still worship the Greek gods, the twelve capricious gods and goddesses chose a mortal champion to compete for them in a series of Labours. Only one mortal will survive.
Hades choses Lyra, a resourceful young thief. Cursed with bad luck by Zeus as a baby, Lyra is no stranger to the struggle for survival, but when she and Hades fall in love, the stakes are higher than ever.
WOO WOO
Ella Baxter
Paperback RRP $32.99
Darkly funny, intense and unsettling, Woo Woo is an astonishing and unflinching dissection of creativity and obsession, love and passion, vengeance and rage. Nothing will prepare you for this literary firestorm from the author of the internationally acclaimed debut New Animal
THE END AND EVERYTHING BEFORE IT
Finnegan
Kruckemeyer
Paperback RRP $34.99
A debut novel from one of Australia's most internationally celebrated playwrights, The End and Everything Before It is a kaleidoscopic story about the way love and loss shape a community. 'Bursting with wisdom and poetry, this novel reminds us that storytelling is a moral force-and a salve to every lost soul.'Ceridwen Dovey Text Publishing
THE MIRES
Tina Makereti
Paperback RRP $34.99
The Mires is a tender and fierce novel that asks what we do when faced with things we don’t understand. Is our impulse to destroy or connect?
‘The Mires is about the monsters we’ve created and the power we have to stop them. A truly magnificent novel.’ – Shankari Chandran, author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
Enter now for your chance to WIN a fiction pack from Ultimo Press. For details go to www.indies. com.au/competitions
A WRECK OF SEABIRDS
Karleah Olson
Paperback RRP $34.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome Ren has returned home to be with his dying father. Briony is stuck there waiting for her missing sister Sarah. Sarah is with Aria, stranded on a desolate island far off the coast. The longer they’re trapped, the less alone they seem. How many secrets have been swallowed by the brooding sea?
CHERRYWOOD
Jock Serong
Paperback RRP $34.99
4 September release, advance orders welcome
From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.
Edinburgh, 1916: A rich Scottish industrialist, Thomas Wrenfether, impulsively embarks on a mad scheme to build a paddlesteamer out of dubiously sourced European cherrywood on the other side of the world, in booming Melbourne, Australia. But nothing goes according to plan.
Melbourne, 1993: Martha is a clever, lonely and frustrated lawyer. One night, on impulse, she stops at a strange pub in Fitzroy, The Cherrywood, for a bottle of wine. The mysterious building and its inhabitants make an indelible impression, and she slowly begins to deduce odd truths about the pub.
DIRRAYAWADHA
Anita Heiss
Paperback RRP $32.99
From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes another groundbreaking historical novel about resistance, resilience and love during the frontier wars. Anita Heiss is breathing new life into the Australian historical epic. Dirrayawadha (Rise Up) shows the resistance leader Windradyne as the remarkable figure he was and surrounds him with fascinating figures otherwise lost to history. With irresistible imagination and verve, as well as a deep desire for truth telling, Anita Heiss’s novels are re-peopling our past.
Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of Anita Heiss novels, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray and Dirrayawadha. For details go to www.indies.com. au/competitions
THE GIRL WITH THE VIOLIN
Shelley Davidow
Paperback RRP $32.99
In 1989 a young JewishAustralian violinist is on a chance-of-a-lifetime scholarship to Berlin. Germany is on the verge of change as the wall is torn down, and she is swept along by the events. Under the guidance of her renowned violin teacher and the grandson of a Nazi, she begins a composition in memory of her grandmother who died in the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Second World War, and Susanna is inspired to retrace her final footsteps.
Allen & Unwin
4th Estate
Simon & Schuster
Ultimo Press
Fremantle Press
Hachette Australia
Ultimo Press
GIRL FALLING
Hayley Scrivenor
Paperback RRP $34.99
Finn and Daphne have grown up together, bonded by both having lost a younger sister to suicide, they've always had a close - sometimes too close - friendship. Now in their twenties, their lives have finally started to diverge: Daphne is at university and Finn works in the Mountains, falling in love with a beautiful newcomer called Magdu. Unused to sharing Finn, Daphne starts to act up in ways that will allow her to maintain the control over her best friend she's always relished. Then, one fateful day, Finn, Daphne and Magdu all go rockclimbing - and Magdu falls to her death. Is it suicide, or a terrible accident - or something more sinister?
17 YEARS LATER
J.P. Pomare
Paperback RRP $32.99
The violent slaughter of the Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation.
The family's young live-in chef, Bill Kareama, was swiftly charged with murder and brought to justice.
Seventeen years later, truecrime podcaster Sloane Abbott tracks down prison psychologist TK Phillips, who was once a fierce campaigner for an appeal. As Sloane and TK attempt to uncover the truth, evidence emerges that casts new light on the Primroses - and who might have wanted them dead. Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of our favourite J.P. Pomare thrillers. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
THRILLING READS
JASPER CLIFF
Josh Kemp
Paperback RRP $34.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome When Toby Bowman vanishes, his brother Lachlan retraces a road trip to the last place Toby phoned from - a remote town called Jasper Cliff. There, Lachlan finds himself marooned at the dying town's pub, and soon learns that his brother is just one of many to have gone missing in recent years. An outback gothic thriller from the Ned Kelly award-winning author, Josh Kemp.
Australia
STORM CHILD
Michael Robotham
Paperback RRP $32.99
Some memories are buried for a reason… The compulsively readable new thriller by the bestselling and awardwinning master of crime. The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven's mission is to guide her to something near normality. But when a new tragedy unfolds, Evie's nightmares come roaring back...
THE CRAG
Claire Sutherland
Paperback RRP $32.99
While walking on an isolated track in the Wimmera, rock-climber Skye discovers the body of a young woman. The body has injuries that suggest a rock-climbing accident, but it's been found more than 5km from the nearest cliffs at Mount Arapiles. Police ask Skye to help them navigate the rock climbing world as they try to unravel what happened. Skye is thrilled but thrill turns to fear as it becomes clear there is a killer on the loose. In the isolated crags of the mountain, stark beauty can conceal horrific truths.
THE COMMUNITY
Christine Gregory
Paperback RRP $34.99
A murder. A disappearance. A sinister network. Investigative journalist Lars Nilsson has moved to Steels Creek for a quiet life, leaving behind a public fall from grace and the crime reporting he was once feted for. But when a body is found floating in a nearby waterhole and hours later his best friend’s daughter is reported missing, Lars is compelled to investigate.
THE CREEPER
Margaret Hickey
Paperback RRP $34.99
For the last decade, a small mountain town has been haunted by the horrific murders of five hikers. Also found dead near the scene was Bill ‘Creeper’ Durant, a loner, hunter, and known for stalking campers... Conclusion: murdersuicide. Case closed.
But as the ten-year anniversary of the massacre draws near, Detective Constable Sally White finds herself questioning. Was Durant victim... or killer?
A TOWN CALLED TREACHERY
Mitch Jennings
Paperback RRP $34.99
A deadbeat dad. A curious boy. A journo drowning in the past and a brutal murder in a town full of secrets. As they stumble their way to answers, can the truth ever be found in a town called Treachery? 'One of a kind... A comingof-age story, a crime investigation and a gripping dark drama brought to life with affection, humour and sharp insight' - Malcolm Knox
A DEATH IN CORNWALL
Daniel Silva
Paperback RRP $34.99
Master spy Gabriel Allon returns with another cleverly plotted whirl through the worlds of art and espionage, taking us from the dramatic cliffs of a sleepy Cornish village to the hushed corridors of finance, fraud and political power plays. Daniel Silva always delivers action and elegance in equal measure. Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of Daniel Silva thrillers. For details go to www.indies.com. au/competitions
LIARS
James O'Loghlin
Paperback RRP $32.99
Quirky coastal crime from Australia’s funniest former criminal lawyer. When Joe Griffiths returns from Sydney after six years of drug addiction, jail and, eventually, rehab, Barb offers him a job, hoping to help him turn his life around. However, when another new resident of Bullford Point is murdered, Joe becomes the prime suspect.
ALL YOU TOOK FROM ME
Lisa Kenway
Paperback RRP $32.99
Set between the Blue Mountains and a Sydney hospital, Lisa Kenway’s All You Took From Me is a thriller brimming with great characters and nail-biting tension. 'Truly exciting. It’s a rare treat to read a book that I am still thinking about long after the last page' Shelley Burr, author of Wake and Ripper
Fremantle Press
Macmillan Australia
Hachette Australia
Affirm Press
HarperCollins
Ultimo Press
Bantam Australia
HarperCollins
Hachette
Echo
Transit Lounge
TRUE LIFE STORIES
JILYA
Tracy Westerman
Paperback RRP $34.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome Aboriginal trailblazer Dr Tracy Westerman shares her powerful story about how she went from humble beginnings in the remote Pilbara to become one of Australia’s foremost psychologists. Jilya is a story of pure determination, of what it takes to create change when the odds are stacked against you. It is a story of one woman’s love for her people.
CHARLES TODD'S MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
David Dufty
Paperback RRP $34.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering that nearly went terribly wrong. Engineer Charles Todd promised that he could string up wires on poles from Adelaide over 3,000 kilometres to an undersea cable in Darwin harbour in just eighteen months. A wild gamble that became an epic race against time.
UNCONVENTIONAL WOMEN: THE STORY OF THE LAST BLESSED SACRAMENT SISTERS IN AUSTRALIA
Sarah Gilbert
Paperback RRP $39.99
Discover the liberation of six women, who went from a secluded convent life to one of freedom and choice. The personal accounts of the six nuns and ex-nuns in Unconventional Women are unusually candid, giving a rare insight into the world of the convent, and exploring their changing relationship with both God and the world.
GOING UNDER
Seana Smith
Paperback RRP $32.99
4 September release, advance orders welcome From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career in the media, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world. Going Under is her story of addiction and of her ultimate escape.
KLIM
Michael Klim
Paperback RRP $34.99
28 August release, advance orders welcome As one of Australia's most celebrated athletes, Michael Klim's impact extends far beyond the pool. From his beginnings in communist-era Poland to becoming one of his adopted country's greatest sporting heroes. From the heights of Olympic glory to the depths of personal adversity, KLIM is a testament to the power of passion, perseverance and the unsinkable human spirit.
WARRA WARRA WAI
Darren Rix & Craig Cormick
Paperback RRP $34.99
4 September release, advance orders welcome We know the European story from diaries, journals and letters. For the first time, this is the other side. Who were the people watching the Endeavour sail by? What sense did they make of this strange vision? And what was the impact of these first encounters? The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed.
THE BRAVEST SCOUT AT GALLIPOLI
Ryan Butta
Paperback RRP $34.99
The amazing true story of Harry Freame, who was raised as a samurai in Japan before becoming an Anzac and saving many lives as a scout at Gallipoli, only to be overlooked and mistreated by his nation after the war. The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli is a fascinating and immersive investigation into a grievous historical wrong.
A THOUSAND MILES FROM CARE
Steve Johnson
Paperback RRP $34.99
A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles From Care tells the 30 year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother's brutal murder in Manly. Over the course of three decades, he embarked on an arduous quest to find out what really happened to Scott.
Melbourne University Press
MY BROTHER JAZ
Gideon Haigh
Paperback RRP $24.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it feels to lose someone, and yourself, even as the rest of the world turns, and you struggle to keep up. A profoundly moving memoir on grief and resilience.
YOUNG HAWKE
David Day
Hardback RRP $49.99
From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative years of Australia's most charismatic leader, who became a political legend. Drawing on a decade of extensive research and interviews with those who knew Hawke best, this gripping biography is a must-read for anyone interested in the first fifty years of Bob Hawke, our last truly colourful political leader.
A PERIODIC TALE
Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
Hardback RRP $45.00
4 September release, advance orders welcome How did a shy Polish immigrant kid - Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki - evolve into the fabulously eccentric Dr Karl? In this long-awaited memoir, you will learn that it's okay to not take a linear path through life, and that by following our curiosities and our passions, we can bend the universe to our liking. Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of three Dr. Karl titles. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
Hachette Australia
HarperCollins
Affirm Press
Scribner Australia
HarperCollins
Allen & Unwin
Melbourne University Press
Ventura Press
THE DICTIONARY STORY
Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston
Hardback RRP $24.99
4 September release, advance orders welcome
The much-anticipated new picture book from the bestselling and award-winning creators of A Child of Books Dictionary wishes she could tell a story just like the other books. So one day she decides to bring her words to life. But what will she do when everything gets out of control, all in a jumble, and her characters collide causing the most enormous tantrum to explode. How on earth will she find sense in all this chaos? Her friend Alphabet knows exactly what to do and sings a song that brings calm and order to Dictionary’s pages once again. Age: 3+
TOO SCARED TO SLEEP! A TALE OF TWO SNAILS
Shaun Micallef & Jonathan Bentley (Illus)
Hardback RRP $24.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome Tucked up inside their tree-trunk house, two small snails are too scared to sleep – and their father is running out of patience! But is it just the wind spooking them … or is there something lurking outside? A tale from the brilliant mind of comedian Shaun Micallef and illustrated by the award-winning Jonathan Bentley. Age: 3+
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JONTY GENTOO: THE ADVENTURES OF A PENGUIN
Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Illus)
Hardback RRP $26.99
1 September release, advance orders welcome
Jonty is a young gentoo penguin who longs to find his true home at the South Pole. One night, he sneaks out of the zoo and sets off on an amazing adventure, all the way to Antarctica (with an accidental detour via the North Pole. Age: 2+
WE LIVE IN A BUS
Dave Petzold
Hardback RRP $26.99
27 August release, advance orders welcome
Life is full of surprises when you live in a bus. Everywhere is your home and every day brings something new. Join one family as they enjoy life on the road - camping under the stars, listening to nature, and making new friends along the way. Age: 3+
THESE LONGLOVED THINGS
Josh Pyke & Ronojoy Ghosh (Illus)
Hardback RRP $19.99
Where do they go, these long-loved things?
These stories told, these songs we sing? Once a memory is made, it remains. Even when it is forgotten. From the creators of Family Tree, comes this moving story of love, loss and the power of shared memories. Age: 3+
SKY COUNTRY
Aunty Patsy
Cameron & Lisa Kennedy
Hardback RRP $27.99
Using some traditional language, this extraordinary children’s picture book, filled with stunning illustrations, retells an ancient story of creation that describes two Ancestral Beings who came down from the Milky Way to create the Trouwerner (Tasmanian) landscape. Age: 5+
IMAGI-NATION
Jack Manning Bancroft & Bronwyn Bancroft
Hardback RRP $26.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
‘I want to build a country, a new country with no borders …’
Welcome to IMAGINATION: The world is yours to make. Explore the limitless nature of our thoughts, dreams and creativity in this empowering new picture book from mother–son powerhouse pair Bronwyn Bancroft and Jack Manning Bancroft. Age: 5+
I WONDER: A BOOK OF QUESTIONS WITH NO ANSWERS
Philip Bunting
Hardback RRP $25.99
I wonder if there is life out there … I wonder what love is … From the meaning of life to a cure for the hiccups, this book explores a few of the things that lie just beyond the edges of our understanding. Questions to which we have no answers (yet). Age: 4+
WORDS THAT TASTE LIKE HOME
Sandhya Parappukkaran & Michelle Pereira (Illus)
Hardback RRP $26.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
Words That Taste Like Home is a heartwarming picture book about how language can connect us to our culture and hold on to the people we love.
Rohan loves spending time with his grandmother. But when he moves to a different country and learns a new language, words from his first language start slipping away until one day there are none left.
How will Rohan find the words to tell his grandmother a story again? Age: 3+
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Hardie Grant
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ADVENTURES UNLIMITED: THE LAND OF LOST THINGS
Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Bill Hope Paperback RRP $16.99
13 August release, advance orders welcome
Hey, you - yes, YOU! Remember the time we went to the Land of Lost Things to look for my lucky rabbit's foot and then we got lost too? That was one of our most exciting, surprisingly and knuckle-headed adventures ever. What? You don't remember? Well, have I got a story for you! It all started like this... Age: 8+
MAGICALIA: RACE OF WONDERS
Jennifer Bell
Paperback RRP $17.99
When her dad is kidnapped by a woman with a giant hamstoceros, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores. Using a powerful bestiary called Magicalia, the friends must become conjurors themselves, before following a trail of clues in a race to rescue Bitsy’s dad. Age: 8+
THE AUDITION: STAGE STARS MUSICAL THEATRE CLUB
Penny McNamee
Paperback RRP $16.99
Millie Von Trapp has always been too much. Talks too much. Fidgets too much. Daydreams too much. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t really have any friends.
But when she discovers a theatre club called Stage Stars, all that begins to change. Age: 9+
HIDE AND SEEK: WOLF GIRL, BOOK 11
Anh Do, illustrated by Lachlan Creagh
Paperback
RRP $16.99
Gwen and her pack have made it out of Moon City, but the Braxans are right behind them. They have found the perfect place to hide – but someone else is hiding there too… Age: 8+
HI FROM OUTER SPACE
Fiona Katauskas
Paperback RRP $17.99
With a whispery hiss, the spaceship touched down on the grass. A door opened. A ramp extended. An alien slid forward. 'TAKE. ME. TO. YOUR. LEADER.'
A laugh-out-loud fish-outof-water story (if that fish was an alien visiting Earth to complete his school project) from an award-winning cartoonist and bestselling children's author. Age: 8+
BRAVEPAW AND THE HEARTSTONE OF ALLURIA: BRAVEPAW 1
L.M. Wilkinson, art by Lavanya Naidu
Paperback RRP $16.99
Walker Books
CHRONICLES OF A LIZARD NOBODY
Patrick Ness, illustated by Tim Miller
Paperback RRP $16.99
4 September release, advance orders welcome Zeke and Daniel have just been made hall monitors by Principal Wombat. This has nothing to do with the fact that they are monitor lizards. And never mind the fact Alicia, the only other monitor lizard in the school, is also a hall monitor. Somehow, the three hall monitors must impose order on arrogant lions, excitable seals and super-relaxed pandas. And worst of all, there is Pelicarnassus! A pompous giant pelican and the son of a major supervillain, who inexplicably has it out for the lizards. Can the hall monitor lizards protect their school from all manner of outlandish threats? A hilarious middle-grade adventure from the master storyteller Patrick Ness. Age: 9+
3 September release, advance orders welcome Titch has always longed for adventure - just like the gallant mouse hero Bravepaw in all her favourite stories. But she is the smallest mouse in her family, living in a peaceful village where nothing exciting ever happens until DIRE TROUBLE comes to the Plateau! Can Titch ever hope to live up to the legend of Bravepaw? Age: 7+
FALLEN STAR (DRAGONS VS WOLVES, BOOK 1)
Glenn Dakin
Paperback RRP $18.99
A young wolf learning to hunt, Rana is teased for being a daydreamer, while Fenn, her brother, is seen as a cheeky show-off. But when Rana survives a perilous encounter with a fire-breathing dragon, she is made spokeswolf for the pack. Age:9+
ROSWELL JOHNSON SAVES THE WORLD!
Chris Colfer
Paperback RRP $17.99
Eleven-year-old Roswell Johnson is obsessed with space and life beyond our planet. So, when he's accidentally abducted in a spaceship, it feels like his biggest dream has come true - aliens are real! But with a sinister General and his evil army of Reptoids planning to attack Earth, Roswell must team up with an eccentric gang of alien adventurers. Can they save Earth from invasion? Age: 9+
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CUCUMBER MADNESS! CAT ON THE RUN EPISODE 2
Aaron Blabey
Paperback
RRP $16.99
Vanished!
The World’s #1 Cat Video Star has disappeared! Or has she? As a diabolical mystery unravels around her, Princess Beautiful is plunged into a terrible world where ‘trending’ isn’t a thing, danger lurks around every corner, and cucumbers are no laughing matter. Age: 7+
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SCORPION'S CURSE: SKYDRAGON, BOOK 8
Anh Do, illustrated by James Hart
Paperback
RRP $16.99
Amber and her insects are back in a thrilling adventure with old friends and new villains! After a battle with the mighty Scorpios, Amber finds herself in a race against time to find a cure for a curse. Age: 8+
FOREST SECRETS: POW POW PIG, BOOK 6
Anh Do, Illustrated by Peter Cheong
Paperback
RRP $16.99
3 September release Pow Pow and the Z Team are just trying to get home (and save the world), but first they have to find a path through the forests of Ancient Japan. Age: 6+
Pan Australia
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Unwin
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
TEEN READS INSPIRED
THE HEART OF THE WORLD: ISLES OF THE GODS, BOOK 2
Amie Kaufman
Paperback RRP $24.99
27 August release, advance orders welcome
They fell in love in the shadow of war. But can their love withstand the ambitions of the gods? Magic and sacrifice will collide as lovers and gods, enemies and allies vie for the fate of the world in this heart-pounding sequel to The Isles of the Gods, which Stephanie Garber called 'deliciously diabolical and full of heart', from the New York Times bestselling author of the Illuminae Files and the Aurora Cycle Age: 12+ Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of our favourite Amie Kaufman books. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
RECKLESS
Lauren Roberts
Paperback RRP $24.99
After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King, and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she’s running from the one person she had wanted to run to. Be swept away by the second heart-racing instalment in this bestselling, dagger-to-the-throat romantasy trilogy taking the world by storm. Age: 14+
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YOUR TIME IS UP
Sarah Naughton
Paperback RRP $19.99
1 September release, advance orders welcome Zaina never meant to get involved. The plan was always to focus on her exams and make her dad proud. None of this is what she’d planned for. Chanelle never made it to the exam; Nero’s convinced he saw something last night and Ysla can’t stop crying. Age: 12+
I'M NOT REALLY HERE
Gary Lonesborough
Paperback RRP $19.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
A wonderful coming-ofage queer romance from the award-winning author of The Boy from the Mish Jonah is the new kid in a country town. When he joins the local footy team to be closer to his crush, Harley, it feels like a fresh start – but he still has to navigate new friendships, an unresolved past, and the same body image issues he's always had. Age: 14+
IMMORTAL DARK
Tigest Girma
Paperback RRP $24.99
11 September release, advance orders welcome
A lost heiress. A soulless vampire. A secret drenched in blood. Kidan Adane is the heiress to a fallen House of humans bound to vampiric creatures known as draniacs. When her sister is kidnapped Kidan must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family in this dangerously romantic dark academia debut.
SUNDERWORLD
VOL 1: THE EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPOINTMENTS OF LEOPOLD BERRY
Ransom Riggs
Paperback RRP $29.99
27 August release, advance orders welcome
Seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry is seeing weird things around Los Angeles. Every hallucinatory moment seems plucked from a cheesy 1990s fantasy TV show called Max's Adventures in Sunderworld - and that's because they are. Not a good sign. How do you battle darkness when no one believes in you - not even yourself? Age: 14+
SONGLIGHT
Moira Buffini
Paperback RRP $29.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Songlight is an extraordinary debut from a renowned screenwriter. A cinematic masterpiece in storytelling and the explosive first book in the Torch trilogy. Age: 14+
OTTOLENGHI COMFORT
Yotam Ottolenghi
Hardback RRP $65.00
3 September release, advance orders welcome
In his much-anticipated new book, Yotam Ottolenghi brings his inspiring, flavour-forward approach to comfort cooking, delivering new classics that taste of home. Weaving memories of childhood and travel with over 100 irresistible recipes, Ottolenghi COMFORT is a celebration of food and home – of the connections we make as we cook, and pass on from generation to generation. Ebury Press
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BROCCOLI & OTHER LOVE STORIES
Paulette Whitney
Hardback RRP $45.00
A celebration of 55 food plants: their stories, cultivation, culinary gifts and surprises from a Tasmanian market gardener who is inspired equally by chefs, herbalists, and fellow gardeners as by the seasonal goings on in her own farm kitchen.
Murdoch Books
THE GOOD FARM COOKBOOK
Scott Gooding and Matilda Brown
Flexibound RRP $39.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome The Good Farm Cookbook brings you sustaining and flavourpacked food that is good for your body and for the planet. With the authors' combined expertise in nutrition and regenerative farming – and, simply, good food – thoughtfully reflected in each meal, these 80 recipes guide you to mindfully source your ingredients with a reverence for their origins.
Thames & Hudson Aust
THE MEDICINAL GARDEN
Caroline Parker
Hardback RRP $49.99
Discover the healing power of your very own medicinal garden with edible recipes for cakes, biscuits, salads, soups, teas and many more. The book features easy, natural remedies for your skin, gut, muscles, heart and mind with recipes for oils, tinctures, compresses, steams and washes for health and healing.
Allen & Unwin
Age: 13+
Lothian Children's Books
Murdoch
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Simon & Schuster
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LIVING NON-FICTION
THE FISHMONGER'S SON
Anthony Yotis & Laura di Florio Yotis
Flexibound RRP $44.99
Anthony Yotis and Laura di Florio Yotis know good seafood, and they know how to make it more accessible for home cooks.
The Fishmonger's Son is an invaluable collection of information, advice and includes 70 delicious family recipes, from burgers, bao and tacos to pies, pasta and more.
Enter now for your chance to WIN a cookbook pack from Plum. For details go to www.indies.com. au/competitions
MAGGIE'S RECIPE FOR LIFE
Maggie Beer with Professor Ralph Martins
Hardback RRP $49.99
With over 200 delicious recipes and the latest scientific research, bestselling author Maggie Beer and leading Alzheimer’s researcher Professor Ralph Martins show us how to eat and live well to promote optimum brain health to help fight one of the most debilitating diseases of our later years. This updated edition contains 13 new recipes from the ABC TV series Maggie Beer’s Big Mission
SOFRA: LEBANESE RECIPES TO SHARE
Karima Hazim Chatila & Sivine Tabbouch
Hardback RRP $49.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome Sofra (Lebanese Arabic): gathering for eating and drinking, feast. Through traditional family-style spreads, mother-daughter duo Karima Hazim and Sivine Tabbouch present a collection of generous and nourishing dishes, perfect for sharing, in Sofra, a love letter to Lebanon.
TARTS ANON
Gareth Whitton with Catherine Way Hardback RRP $45.00 Tarts Anon does one thing exceptionally well – tarts – and in this cookbook the team behind the legend reveal the secrets to making the perfect one for every occasion. Tarts Anon: Sweet and Savoury Tart Brilliance is your guide to baking a stunning tart, every time.
Fern Press
NEXUS
Yuval Noah Harari
Paperback RRP $39.99
10 September release, advance orders welcome
From historian and author Yuval Noah Harari, comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. He considers the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And addresses the urgent choices we face as AI threatens our very existence.
Murdoch Books
MILK
Matthew Evans
Paperback RRP $34.99
Milk is lauded as the 'perfect' food or lambasted as not fit for human consumption and a toxic planet killer, depending on who you trust. Milk is a powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods. 'A revelation. Educational, relevant and eye-opening.' - Nagi Maehashi, RecipeTin Eats
LIVING ON EARTH
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Paperback RRP $34.99 14 August release, advance orders welcome Peter Godfrey-Smith undertakes a grand tour of the history of life on earth. He visits Rwandan gorillas, returns to coral reefs, considers the impacts of language, and weighs the responsibilities our unique powers bring. Humans are products of the Earth but are also an acting force within it. Earth's future is in our hands. Enter now for your chance to WIN a set of his previous titles, Metazoa and Other Minds. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
La Trobe University Press
Allen & Unwin
THE KNOWLEDGE GENE
Lynne Kelly
Paperback RRP $36.99
3 September release, advance orders welcome
Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher uncovers the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene. Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated, becoming critical in the journey that transformed our earliest ancestors into fully modern humans.
SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOUR KIDS?
Norman Swan Paperback RRP $34.99
So You Want to Know What's Good for Your Kids? is a one-stop handbook that you can trust to clear away all the unnecessary advice, allowing you to focus on what makes the difference for kids. Norman Swan replaces myths, half-truths and misconceptions with practical knowledge on topics that parents agonise about. A must-have for every parent.
Enter now for your chance to WIN a Dr Norman Swan pack. For details go to www.indies.com.au/ competitions
BINA: FIRST NATIONS LANGUAGES, OLD AND NEW
Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams & Felicity Meakins
Paperback RRP $37.99
This is the incredible story of the resilience and recovery of Australia’s First Nations languages, from the earliest exchange of words between colonists and First Nations people to today's reclamations. It is a creative and exciting introduction to a vital and dynamic world of language.
NUKED
Andrew Fowler
Paperback RRP $35.00
Uncover the origins of the AUKUS agreement and the deception that transpired. Through first-hand interviews and careful research, awardwinning journalist Andrew Fowler details the botched operation that severely compromised Australia's ability to defend itself.
BREAKING THE BOSS BIAS
Catherine Fox
Paperback RRP $34.99
Despite the surge of women into university, jobs and sitting in federal parliament, why are men still overwhelmingly running the show? In Breaking the Boss Bias, Catherine Fox sounds the alarm. It’s time for a new way to lead and to unlock the talent being wasted from boss bias.
Hachette Australia
Melbourne University Press
NewSouth Publishing
Plum
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Quadrille
Hardie Grant
William Collins
GIFTS & TRAVEL
HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 2025
Edited by Campbell Mattinson
Paperback RRP $45.00
A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine Companion 2025 brings readers the latest wine ratings, regions, best varietals, winery reviews and a curated selection of the best wines in Australia. It’s the essential guide to the country’s best drops, an ideal gift for any wine lover. Enter now for you chance to WIN six wines from the 2024 major award winners. For details go to www.indies.com.au/competitions
Lonely Planet
THE JOY OF BIRDWATCHING
Lonely Planet
Hardback RRP $44.99
Soar through this unique guide to birdwatching, which celebrates 60 enchanting bird species and where to find them.
Packed with expert insights, trip planning tips, beautiful photography, and a further 120 ideas for birding experiences that explore the simple moments of joy, mindfulness and attentiveness found in watching birds go about their day.
Text Publishing
THE TREE COLLECTORS
Amy Stewart Hardback RRP $49.99
In The Tree Collectors, Amy Stewart brings us fifty captivating stories of people who spend their lives in pursuit of rare and wonderful trees and are transformed in the process. Stewart fills this lively compendium with her own watercolour portraits of these extraordinary people and their trees. A stunning tribute to a devoted group of nature lovers.
Lonely Planet
DREAM TRIPS
Lonely Planet
Hardback RRP $60.00
1 September release, advance orders welcome Tick off the biggest bucket list trips with this definitive guide to 100 of the world's greatest travel adventures. See Norway's dazzling aurora borealis; dive into the heart of the Coral Triangle; tour Japan's epic temples and cities - with spectacular photography, itineraries and travel expert tips to get you there!
EXPLORE AUSTRALIA 2025
Hardie Grant Explore
Flexibound RRP $55.00
Explore Australia 2025 is the country's longestrunning and most-trusted travel guide. This comprehensive guidebook makes planning your next trip easy. Including entries for more than 700 towns and cities, all divided into major holiday region entries that include a destination overview, a handy map, summary of top attractions, major festivals and events, alongside photos showcasing featured places.
DK
ART, ANNOTATED
DK
Hardback RRP $65.00
3 September release, advance orders welcome Your expert guide to 500 of the world's greatest works of art. art, annotated spans more than 3,000 years of paintings, sculptures, and prints. Combining stunning reproductions of each work of art with precise annotations and visual analysis, it is an expertly curated and comprehensive selection of the finest art ever created.
For your chance to win, simply tell us in 25 words or less, which book has kept you reading late into the night, always saying “just one more chapter”. To enter and view full terms and conditions go to www.indies.com.au/competitions. Competition closes 31 October 2024.
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