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MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER
FATHER ’ S DAY GIFT IDEAS
FICTION FOR DAD CITY OF CROWS
THE LIST
COLOMBIANO
Paperback RRP $ 32.99
Michael Brissenden Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Rusty Young Paperback RRP $ 32.99
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In seventeenthcentury France, desperate to save herself and her only surviving child Nicolas from the plague, Charlotte Picot flees her tiny village in the countryside. But when her son is abducted by slavers, Charlotte resorts to witchcraft and summons assistance in the shape of a malevolent man.
From the brutal battlegrounds of Afghanistan, to the western Sydney suburbs and the halls of power in Canberra, The List is a page-turning thriller where justice, revenge and the war on terror collide. A gripping novel that could become tomorrow’s headlines from awardwinning journalist Michael Brissenden.
ON THE JAVA RIDGE
THE TWENTIETH MAN
Jock Serong Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Tony Jones Paperback RRP $ 32.99
Amid the furious ocean there was no human sound on deck: some people watching the wave, but no one capable of words. On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of tourists are anchored beside an idyllic reef. Close by, the refugee ship Takalar is having engine trouble. The storm now closing in will mean catastrophe for them all.
Tony Jones, one of Australia’s most admired journalists, has written a brilliantly compelling thriller where terrorism, politics and betrayals collide. Taking us from the savage mountains of Yugoslavia to Canberra’s brutal yet covert power struggles in a novel that’s intelligent, informed and utterly suspenseful.
Superbly told and by turns gripping, poignant and darkly comic, Colombiano is the remarkable story of a boy whose moral descent becomes a metaphor for the corruption of an entire nation. Both blockbuster thriller and electrifying coming-of-age story, Rusty Young’s powerful novel is also a meditation on the redeeming power of love.
TABOO Kim Scott Paperback RRP $ 32.99 From the twotimes winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, brutality and mystery about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years.
THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS
A PROMISE TO KILL
OFF RESERVATION
Michael Robotham Paperback RRP $ 32.99
Erik Storey Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Bram Connolly Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Two women from vastly different backgrounds both have a dangerous secret that could destroy everything they hold dear. Both will risk everything to hide the truth, but their worlds are about to collide… The compelling new psychological thriller that will break your heart into tiny pieces, from bestselling author Michael Robotham.
Heroics and horrors in the remote Utah desert –and its besieged clan of American Indians, targets for death by bikie gang criminals. Communications are down, the law beyond reach – and the clock ticks! With audacious courage, steeltrap tactics and fiery fists, can Clyde Barr aid the Clan, beat the bikies – and escape intact?! Edge-of-theseat thriller!
Ultra-tough and ultra-lethal, Australian Commando Captain Matt Rix is one of Special Forces’ most lethal operators. But when a training exercise goes horribly wrong, he is given an ultimatum that brings his world crashing down. There is only one choice left to him and that’s to go ‘off reservation’.
TOP GIFT PICKS HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 2018 James Halliday Paperback RRP $ 39.99
Halliday Wine Companion is recognised as the industry benchmark for Australian wine. The 2018 edition has been revised to bring you up-to-the-minute information. Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes. Also included is information about wineries and winemakers throughout Australia.
WHERE THE WILD DADS WENT Katie Blackburn Hardback RRP $19.99 The perfect gift for new dads - or any parent who’s ever wanted to run away from it all. In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, a ‘tired and emotional’ dad finds himself drifting off to the place where the Wild Dads went. ‘Now party like real men!’ he said. And there was never a manliness like it.
BALCONY OVER JERUSALEM John Lyons Paperback RRP $ 34.99 Leading Australian journalist John Lyons takes readers on a fascinating personal journey of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem with his family, to the fall of dictators and his gripping account of being abducted, blindfolded and interrogated, this is a memoir of the Middle East like no other.
ALL THE BEST BOOKS FROM YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE
BIOGRAPHIES & NON-FICTION DRAGON AND KANGAROO Robert Macklin Paperback RRP $ 32.99 The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today. This is an absorbing account of a vastly underestimated part of Australia’s story: this is our shared history, from an immensely important and entirely new angle.
AUSTRALIAN DESPERADOES
THE VANDEMONIAN WAR
Terry Smyth
Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Paperback RRP $ 34.99 They were the Australians who made American history. In the roaring days of the 1850s California gold rush, San Francisco was the most dangerous town in America, made so by a notorious criminal gang known as the Sydney Coves. The story of the Sydney Coves is littleknown, fascinating and well worth telling.
HIGH VOLTAGE: THE LIFE OF ANGUS YOUNG - ACDC’S LAST MAN STANDING Jeff Apter Paperback RRP $ 34.99
DETOURS Tim Rogers Hardback RRP $ 35.00 Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a harddrinking musician with the soul of a poet; a romantic raconteur and a raffish ne’er-do-well. A memoir of real grace and tenderness, Detours is often impossibly sad and beautiful - but also full of wit and wordplay.
SAM’S BEST SHOT James Best Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Life with a teenage boy on the autism spectrum has its challenges. Fourteen-year-old Sam is a world authority on Harry Potter but can’t get to the corner store on his own. A father and son’s life-changing journey through Autism, adolescence and Africa. Inspiring, entertaining and a beacon of hope for those touched by autism.
High Voltage is the first biography to focus exclusively on Angus Young, the co-founder and the last remaining original member of AC/DC, as well as the face, sound and sometimes the exposed backside of the trailblazing rock band. It tells of his remarkable rise from working-class Glasgow and Sydney to the biggest stages in the world.
THE RAG TAG FLEET Ian Shaw Paperback RRP $ 32.99 The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II. Their bravery, ingenuity and mettle helped turn the tide of the war. For the first time, their story is told.
Nick Brodie In The Vandemonian War acclaimed history author Nick Brodie exposes the largely untold story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen’s Land deploying regimental soldiers and special forces, armed convicts and mercenaries. Historians failed to see through the myths and lies – until now.
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS Matthew Benns Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Written by bestselling author Matthew Benns, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a highly entertaining, rollicking and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks, which will have readers gasping in disbelief at the sheer effrontery of these Aussie crooks and amazed at the gullibility of their victims.
SECRET ARMY Barry Stone Paperback RRP $ 29.99 The story of the ‘Dunsterforce’, a secret force of elite soldiers hand-picked from across the Allied forces, sent to the ethnic powder keg of the Caucasus in 1918 to defend British interests from the Ottomans, Cossacks and Germans. The story of derring do, exotic locations and dangerous encounters.
ON THE WAGON
A LIFE UNDERWATER
Lennox Nicholson
Charlie Veron
Paperback RRP $ 24.99
Paperback RRP $ 35.00
A young recovering alcoholic retraces the journey of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road but with one crucial twist – he’ll try to stay sober. Instead of booze, Benzos and stolen cars, he will rely on the generosity of strangers he meets in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous.
In this extraordinary memoir of revolutionary marine biologist and maverick Australian Charlie Veron, he explores what reefs say about our planet’s past and future, and why it’s critical they be protected. Exhilaratingly eye-opening, provocative, funny and warm, A Life Underwater is an inspiration to the young and the young at heart.
WHAT MANY DADS REALLY WANT ON FATHER’S DAY ARE BOOKS!
MORE GREAT GIFT IDEAS THINGS MY FATHER TAUGHT ME
THE PASSION FOR HOLDEN
Claire Halliday
Joel Wakely
Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Hardback RRP $ 49.99
In Things My Father Taught Me some of Australia’s much-loved comedians, singers, radio and TV personalities, chefs and authors, share their stories about the way their dads shaped their lives. From memories of deep warmth and closeness to stories of difficulty and tragedy – everyone’s story is unique.
Holden the all-Australian car, this book highlights the 69 years of manufacturing. With hundreds of photographs, many never published before, and reference and details about each car model, and personal stories from Holden owners and enthusiasts. This is a book from the heart that goes deep into the passion that Holden engenders!
THIS IS NOT A WINE GUIDE
THE FAIR AND THE FOUL
Chris Morrison
Paperback RRP $ 34.99
Hardback RRP $ 39.99 Award-winning sommelier Chris Morrison believes that your wine decisions should be driven by your own sense of taste - and by the way you like to eat, drink and live. This Is Not A Wine Guide helps readers develop the confidence to choose, purchase, serve, share and ultimately even collect wine.
David Hill Sport in Australia is a national obsession. This book is a riveting, personal take on a subject that so many Australians follow fanatically – a mustread for sports lovers, but also a compelling, revealing account for those who have never quite understood the appeal of our national obsession.
FATHER FIGURES
LIFE OF BRINE
Paul Connolly
Phil Jarratt
Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Paperback RRP $ 29.99
The shape of the family tree has changed irrevocably in recent decades, and there is no such thing as a ‘typical dad’ anymore (though dad jokes, like cockroaches, never seem to die). In Father Figures, twenty of Australia’s brightest and funniest writers share the joys, hazards and mysteries of fatherhood.
THE BUTCHER The Australian Women’s Weekly Hardback RRP $ 45.00 This is a cookbook for meatlovers, with must-have recipes for beef, poultry, pork and lamb, and options of different cuts of meat to suit everyone. You will even learn to make your own sausages! With step-by-step photos, Butcher will show you how to achieve perfection in the art of cooking meat.
Life of Brine is the memoir of Phil Jarratt, one of the world’s bestknown chroniclers of surfing culture whose lifelong pursuit of the perfect wave has placed him in the midst of some of the most exciting moments in surfing’s modern history.
EPIC DRIVES OF THE WORLD Lonely Planet Hardback RRP $ 44.99 Discover the world’s most exhilarating road trips with this beautiful follow up to the bestselling Epic Rides of the World. From the Great Ocean Road to the Blue Ridge Parkway, drives range from easy-going cruises to backcountry adventures. Featuring 50 classic road trips and 200 additional suggestions, travellers will be inspired to hit the open road and explore.
BRAIN FOOD Richard Cornish Paperback RRP $19.99 Brain Food is a collection of the best cooks’ conundrums and their surprising answers. These are some of the burning questions at the heart of every kitchen. Food science, etiquette, mythbusting, history and common sense— there is no subject too big or too small for Richard Cornish to answer in his weekly mustread Brain Food columns.
REV HEAD HOW TO DAD VOLUME 2 Jordan Watson Paperback RRP $19.99 More hilarious stuff from international internet sensation How to DAD. Here, you’ll find some sort-of helpful tips, some pictures, some words and a few crack-up dad tales. I might not be a fancy parenting person, but I am a black belt in Dadding. Yes, that’s a thing. It’s totally a thing. I’m still making silly parenting videos, I’m still non-PC and I’m still a DAD.
Shane Jacobson Paperback RRP $ 29.99 Deadly billycarts, drag racing, driving the world’s rarest, strangest and fastest cars, competing at Bathurst, rallying, and some spectacular crashes – rev heads everywhere will be on the edge of their seats as Shane Jacobson takes us on a wild ride down the highways and byways of his motoring obsession.
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MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER
FATHER’ S DAY G I F T I D E AS
ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hardback RRP $ 26.95 What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.
From the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army, comes a book about science, bombs and what happens to the human psyche when every day that you go to work might be your last.
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ged Australian ‘A band that chan MY BARNES music forever’ JIM
MY BROTHER Juan Martin Guevara
Hardback RRP $39.95 On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Fifty years on, his younger brother, Juan Martin, breaks the silence to narrate his intimate memories and share with us his views of the character behind one of history’s most iconic figures.
COLD WAR GAMES Harry Blutstein Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Cold War Games shows vividly how the USSR and US exploited the Melbourne Olympic Games for propaganda, turning athletic fields, swimming pools and other sporting venues into battlefields in which each fought for supremacy.
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