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FICTION TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD Eowyn Ivey $32.99 paperback Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska’s hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska, and its rich natural resources, to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy. To the Bright Edge of the World is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century, sure to appeal to fans of A Place Called Winter. BUY HERE THE LAST DAYS OF NEW PARIS China Mieville $29.99 paperback A thriller of war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction. BUY HERE SELECTION DAY Aravind Adiga $29.99 paperback Manju is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he hates his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented brother and is fascinated by CSI and curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn’t know. Everyone around him, it seems, has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. BUY HERE
HERE I AM Jonathan Safran Foer $32.99 paperback This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington DC, three sons watch their parents’ marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Jonathan Safran Foer asks us - what is the true meaning of home? Can one man ever reconcile the conflicting duties of his many roles - husband, father, son? And how much of life can a person bear? BUY HERE THE WINDY SEASON Sam Carmody $29.99 paperback A young fisherman is missing from the crayfish boats in the West Australian town of Stark. There’s no trace at all of Elliot, there hasn’t been for some weeks and Paul, his younger brother, is the only one who seems to be active in the search. Taking Elliot’s place on the boat skippered by their troubled cousin, Paul soon learns how many opportunities there are to get lost in those many thousands of kilometres of lonely coastline. Fierce, evocative and memorable, this is an Australian story set within an often wild and unforgiving sea. BUY HERE The North Water Ian McGuire $32.99 paperback 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the services, his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship’s surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 BUY HERE
THE TOYMAKER Liam Pieper $29.99 paperback Adam Kulakov likes his life. He’s on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he can reasonably hide from them. A mistake threatens to bring Adam’s world tumbling down around him. Everything he’s spent a lifetime building will be threatened, as will everything Adam and his family think they know of the world. BUY HERE BARKSKIN Annie Proulx $32.99 paperback From the Pulitzer Prize winning author comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests. BUY HERE THE UNDERGOUND RAILROAD Colson Whitehead $29.99 paperback From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. BUY HERE
AN ISOLATED INCIDENT Emily Maguire $32.99 paperback When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. An Isolated Incident is a psychological thriller about everyday violence, the media’s obsession with pretty dead girls, the grip of grief and the myth of closure, and the difficulties of knowing the difference between a ghost and a memory, between a monster and a man. BUY HERE THE MEMORY STONES Caroline Brothers $27.99 paperback The Memory Stones tells the story of the Disappeared, thousands of Argentinians who fell victim to the violence of the period. Depicting the despair and hope of one family as it seeks to rebuild after unimaginable loss, it is a devastating portrait of a country that has come face to face with terror, and the long dark shadow it leaves behind. BUY HERE HOMEGOING Yaa Gyasi WAS $32.99 NOW $29.69 paperback A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer. BUY HERE
CRIME NOTHING SHORT OF DYING Erik Storey $29.99 paperback Clyde Barr has been on the run for sixteen years. Now he’s back in the Colorado wilderness, hoping for some peace and quiet. Then he receives a frantic phone call for help from his sister.. But the line goes dead. She’s been taken. Clyde doesn’t know where Jen is. He doesn’t know who has her. He doesn’t know how much time he has. All he knows is that nothing short of dying will stop him from saving her… BUY HERE THE BLACK WIDOW Daniel Silva WAS $32.99 NOW $29.99 paperback #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another spellbinding international thriller—one that finds the legendary Gabriel Allon grappling with an ISIS mastermind. From its shocking opening to its explosive denouement in Washington, D.C., The Black Widow reveals itself as Silva’s most timely and powerful novel yet. BUY HERE LOVE YOU DEAD Peter James $29.99 paperback Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is feeling the pressure from his superiors, his previous case is still giving him sleepless nights, there have been major developments with his missing wife Sandy, and an old adversary is back. But worse than all of this, he now believes a Black Widow is operating in his city. One with a venomous mind . . . and venomous skills. Soon Grace comes to the frightening realization that he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is. BUY HERE
DEVOUR L. A. Larkin $29.99 paperback Their greatest fear was contaminating an ancient Antarctic lake, buried beneath the ice for millions of years. They little knew the catastrophe they were about to unleash. Welcome to the high octane world of investigative journalist Olivia Wolfe. From the poppy palaces of Afghanistan and Antarctica’s forbidding wind-swept ice sheets, to a top-secret military base in the Nevada desert, Wolfe’s journey will ultimately lead her to a man who would obliterate civilisation. She must make an impossible choice: save a life - or prevent the death of millions. BUY HERE BLACK WATER LILIES Michel Bussi $32.99 paperback Giverny. During the day, the home of the famous artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his waterlilies. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village. This is the story of thirteen days that begin with one murder and end with another. Entangled in the mystery are three women: a young painting prodigy, the seductive village schoolteacher and an old widow. All three of them share a secret. BUY HERE WILDE LAKE Laura Lippman $29.99 paperback Luisa ‘Lu’ Brant is the newly elected - and first female state’s attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her revered father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death. The more she learns about the case, the more questions arise. BUY HERE
POLITICS & CULTURE IN OTHER WORDS Goenawan Mohamad; Jennifer Lindsay (trans) $34.99 paperback Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia’s foremost literary figures and public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays, from 1968 to 2014, demonstrates the breadth of his perceptive and elegant commentary on literature, faith, mythology, politics, history and Indonesian life. With almost 100 short essays, most taken from his popular columns in Tempo, the Indonesianlanguage news weekly, In Other Words shows a writer committed to Indonesia but grappling with universal themes and struggles, offering a fascinating insight into questions that concern us all. BUY HERE QE: FIRING LINE James Brown $22.99 journal In this vivid, compelling essay, James Brown looks to history, strategy and his own experience to explore these questions. He examines the wars we have chosen to fight in the past - from Gallipoli and Timor, to Afghanistan and Iraq - and asks: did we get the decision right?What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to go to war? Where might we go to war in the future? Will we get that decision right? BUY HERE WARRIOR Libby Connors $32.99 paperback The fascinating story of the young warrior Dundalli, one of the great Aboriginal resistance fighters of the colonial frontier and a compelling portrait of life in early Brisbane. BUY HERE
POSITION DOUBTFUL: Mapping landscapes and memories Kim Mahood $29.99 paperback Since the publication of her prize-winning memoir Craft for a Dry Lake, in 2000, writer and artist Kim Mahood has been returning to the Tanami desert country where, as a child, she lived with her family on a remote cattle station. The land is timeless, but much has changed: the station has been handed back to its traditional owners; the mining companies have arrived; and Aboriginal art has flourished. This is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Position Doubtful offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia. BUY HERE DARK MONEY Jane Mayer $35.00 paperback Dark Money brilliantly illuminates a shady corner of US politics. New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer exposes the network of billionaires trying to buy the US electoral system – and succeeding. Led by libertarian industrialists the Koch brothers, they believe that taxes are a form of tyranny and that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom. Together, they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars influencing politicians and voters, and hijacking American democracy for their own ends. Dark Money is essential reading for anybody interested in the future of democracy. BUY HERE NOT QUITE AUSTRALIAN: How Temporary Migration Is Changing the Nation Peter Mares $32.99 paperback Not Quite Australian is packed with fresh insight and challenging new ideas for understanding Australia’s growing culture of temporary migration. BUY HERE
SALTWATER Cathy McLennan $32.95 paperback When Cathy McLennan first steps into Townsville’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service as a young graduate she isn’t expecting a major murder case to land on her desk. The accused are four teenage boys whose family connections stretch across the water to Palm Island. As she battles to prove herself in the courtroom, Cathy realises that the truth is far more complex than she first thought. She starts to question who are the criminals and who are the victims. Saltwater tells the compelling story of one lawyer’s fight for justice amongst the beauty and the violence of this tropical paradise. BUY HERE THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN David W. Cameron $35.00 paperback A compelling account of Australia’s bloodiest and most significant battle of the Vietnam War, in time for the battle’s 50th anniversary, by criticallyacclaimed war writer David Cameron who brings to life the events of this famous battle as it unfolded minute by minute, hour by hour. BUY HERE THE DEATH OF HOLDEN Royce Kurmelovs $32.99 paperback Holden is one of the few brands that has an emotional grip on Australia. It’s the choice of patriotic rev heads and suburban drivers alike. The impending closure of the Holden factory in Adelaide is not just the end of a business - it’s the end of an era, of a story, and of a great Australian dream. BUY HERE
44 DAYS Michael Veitch $32.99 paperback The epic World War II story. In March and April 1942, RAAF 75 Squadron bravely defended Port Moresby for 44 days when Australia truly stood alone against the Japanese. This group of raw young recruits scrambled ceaselessly in their Kittyhawk fighters to an extraordinary and heroic battle, the story of which has been left largely untold. Michael Veitch, actor, presenter and critically acclaimed author, brings to life the incredible exploits and tragic sacrifices of this courageous squadron of Australian heroes. BUY HERE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IN 100 OBJECTS Toby Creswell $49.99 hardback From Captain Cook’s globe to Mabo’s map, and Melba’s frock to Cathy Freeman’s running suit, this is Australia’s history told through a gallery of things. Toby Creswell has curated an illustrated popular history of Australia accumulated through the review of 100 fascinating man-made objects. A book that can be read from cover to cover, or dipped into at any point, History of Australia in 100 Objects is a fresh, popular take on Australia’s history. BUY HERE THE WATER KINGDOM Philip Ball $35.00 paperback A secret history of China – a fresh new way of thinking about a people, and civilisation. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China’s past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and energy of the country and its people. BUY HERE
YIJARNI: TRUE STORIES FROM GURINDJI COUNTRY Erika Charola & Felicity Meakins (ed) $39.95 paperback On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. While it is well known that the Walk Off was driven by the poor treatment of Aboriginal workers, what is less well known is the previous decades of massacres and killings, stolen children and other abuses by early colonists. Told in both English and Gurindji these compelling and detailed oral accounts of the events that Gurindji elders either witnessed or heard from their parents and grandparents, will ignite the interest of audiences everywhere. BUY HERE PLAY ALL Clive James $35.95 hardback Between 1972 and 1982, Clive James wrote a weekly column about television for the London Observer. In his encounter with the seductions of serial viewing, James, always at pains to banish the phony boundary between “high” and “low” culture, grapples with the new mythology that marks the stories now being told on television. BUY HERE
DARK EMU: Black Seeds Agriculture or Accident? Bruce Pascoe $39.99 paperback Bruce Pascoe puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. BUY HERE TROUBE: On Trial in Central Australia Kieran Finnane $29.95 paperback Trouble goes into the ordered environment of the courtroom to lay out in detail some of the dark disorder in Alice Spring’s recent history. Finnane contemplates local prejudices and sensitivities, political and administrative divisions and reforms, and reveals the connections and aspirations of individuals in the wider community who offer a unique insight into this place and its people. Kieran Finnane is a founding journalist of the Alice Springs News, established in 1994. BUY HERE
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign Mark Di Stefano $27.99 paperback What a Time to be Alive: is the ugly and un-sanitised diary behind the curtain of the double dissolution election campaign. Mark Di Stefano finds out what is happening behind the scenes and how the two campaigns manufacture, massage and manipulate their parties, policies and principles. The exposure of the unscripted moments with political leaders, their overworked staff and secretive minders, shows how the sausage that is this Australian election, is made and reveals what is really inside. BUY HERE
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BIOGRAPHIES HACK IN A FLAK JACKET Peter Stefanovic $29.99 paperback For almost ten years Peter Stefanovic was Channel 9’s foreign correspondent in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. During that time he witnessed more than his fair share of death and destruction - all while putting his own personal safety very much in the firing line. His time spent covering these world events has opened his eyes to the human condition - and in many ways affected him personally. This is not just Peter’s account of working in front of the camera, but also of the toll to him personally, when he suffered a near breakdown while always trying to deliver the news. BUY HERE THE HATE RACE Maxine Beneba Clarke was $32.99 NOW $29.99 paperback Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke’s life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street. Except for this one, glaring, inescapably obvious thing. The Hate Race is a powerful, funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia. BUY HERE THE SUMMER OF ‘82 Dave O’Neil $29.99 paperback The summer in which Dave finished school and waited ten weeks to find out whether he’d make it into uni or have to get that trade his dad kept banging on about. The Summer of ‘82 is the hilarious and heartfelt story of a boy becoming a man in suburban Australia. BUY HERE
FAR AND AWAY Andrew Solomon $35.00 paperback In 1991 Andrew Solomon rode a tank into Red Square in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the coup after Gorbachev’s resignation. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban; in 2014 he travelled to Myanmar to meet ex-political prisoners as the country slowly, fitfully pushed towards freedom. Far and Away tells these and many other stories of profound upheaval. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter. BUY HERE NO MAN IS AN ISLAND Adele Dumont $32.99 paperback In 2010, 24-year-old Sydneysider Adele Dumont volunteered to teach English to men in immigration detention on Christmas Island. She didn’t expect to find the work so rewarding or the people she met so interesting. So when she was offered a job working at Curtin detention centre near Derby in Western Australia, she took it. No Man is an Island makes the issue of immigration detention accessible to far more interested Australians than newspaper articles. It is the story about immigration detention all Australians need to read. BUY HERE BRETT WHITELEY Ashleigh Wilson $49.99 hardback When he died in 1992 Brett Whiteley left behind decades of ceaseless activity. Written with unprecedented behindthe-scenes access, and handsomely illustrated with classic Whiteley artworks, rare notebook sketches and candid family photos, this dazzling biography reveals for the first time the full portrait of a mercurial artist. BUY HERE
THE SHEPHERD’S LIFE James Rebanks $24.99 paperback Some people’s lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks’ isn’t. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District in northwest England for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years. James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd’s year, offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land that most of us have lost. An International bestseller. BUY HERE HAMILTON HUME Robert Macklin $32.99 paperback While English-born soldiers, sailors and surveyors have claimed pride of place among the explorers of the young New South Wales colony, the real pathfinder was a genuine native-born Australian. Robert Macklin, tells the heroic tale of this young Australian man who outdid his English ‘betters’ by crossing the Blue Mountains, finding a land route from Sydney to Port Phillip and opening up western New South Wales. BUY HERE ALL THIS IN 60 MINUTES Nicholas Lee $32.99 paperback The hilarious inside story of life on the road as a 60 Minutes cameraman. All This in 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilarious memoir of Nicholas Lee’s time with the show - of the crazy days of unlimited expense accounts, of late nights and bleary mornings, the fun and fear on the road. BUY HERE
NOT JUST BLACK AND WHITE Lesley Williams & Tammy Williams $32.95 paperback Inspired by her mother’s quest to reclaim her stolen wages, a teenage Tammy Williams enter a national writing competition with an essay about injustice. Winning first prize takes Tammy and Lesley to Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch and ultimately to the United Nations in Geneva. Along the way, they find courage they never thought they had, and friendship in the most unexpected places. BUY HERE VAN GOGH’S EAR Bernadette Murphy $35.00 paperback Why did Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear? Why would an artist at the height of his powers commit such a brutal act? Who was the mysterious ‘Rachel’ to whom he presented his macabre gift? Was it just his lobe, or did Van Gogh really cut off his entire ear? This compelling detective story presents exclusive revelations about the greatest mystery surrounding one of the world’s most famous artists. BUY HERE IN SICKNESS, IN HEALTH... AND IN JAIL Mel Jacob $29.99 paperback The funny, insightful and moving account of what happens to a close, loving middle-class family when the father is unexpectedly thrown in jail. BUY HERE
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FOOD & COOKING FEED THE MAN MEAT Oscar Smith $35.00 hardback Since the dawn of man, we’ve been putting hunks of meat over the fire and salivating while the roasty, meaty cooking smells draw a hungry crowd. This book is your guide to getting the absolute best out of your grill – whether it’s a modest charcoal bucket or a gas-burning beast with all of the bells and whistles – we’ve got the ultimate recipes for the manliest of gatherings. BUY HERE THE EAT REAL FOOD COOKBOOK David Gillespie $39.99 paperback For nearly ten years, David Gillespie has warned us of the dangers of sugar, and Australia has listened. More recently he has alerted us to the other toxin in our food supply: seed oil. Most processed food - from French fries to yoghurt to spreadable butter - contains one or both of these ingredients, so the question is: how do we eat real food? The Eat Real Food Cookbook is your guide to saying ‘no’ to the food the manufacturers want you to eat and ‘yes’ to the sort of food that will help you manage your weight and the long-term health of your family. BUY HERE GREAT AUSTRALIAN BEER GUIDE James Smith $29.99 hardback Are you a home-brewing legend or a draught devotee? Or do you think dubbels and tripels are just spelling mistakes? Regardless of how much you know about beer or what you like to drink, this all-new 2017 edition of The Great Australian Beer Guide is perfect for anyone who has ever enjoyed a pint. BUY HERE
HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 2017 James Halliday $39.99 paperback Keenly anticipated each year by winemakers, collectors and wine lovers, the Halliday Wine Companion is recognised as the industry benchmark for Australian wine. The 2017 edition has been completely revised to bring you up-to-the-minute information. In his inimitable style, Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes, each with vintage-specific ratings and advice on optimal drinking as well as each wine’s closure, alcohol content and price. BUY HERE THE NATURAL COOK Matt Stone $39.99 paperback A new kind of food revolution - kind to the planet, good for your body and for your soul. Matt Stone, one of Australia’s brightest young chefs, is a passionate advocate of zero-waste cooking and ethical food, and an even bigger fan of a cracking meal. Whether it’s a nourishing breakfast, a quick weeknight meal or a feast for friends, Matt shows how creating sustainable food that’s full of flavour is easier than you think. BUY HERE LAND OF FISH AND RICE Fuchsia Dunlop $49.99 hardback Exquisite recipes from Shanghai and the Lower Yangtze region, by internationally renowned Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop. Most of the recipes contain readily available ingredients and you will soon see how simple it is to create some of the most beautiful and delicious dishes you’ll ever taste. This is an important new work about one of China’s most fascinating culinary regions. BUY HERE
HOUSE & GARDEN EARTH USER’S GUIDE TO PERMACULTURE Rosemary Morrow; Rob Allsop (Illustrator) $64.95 paperback A simple guide for living a more sustainable lifestyle, Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture illustrates how to assess and design a permaculture garden of any size, whether you live in a small city apartment; a house with a garden; on acreage in the country; or anything between or beyond! BUY HERE CASE STUDY HOUSES Elizabeth Smith $24.99 paperback Modernist experimental homes. Prototypes for everyone The Case Study House program (194566) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. This compact guide includes all of the Case Study Houses with over 150 photos and plans, BUY HERE THE BOX Architectural Solutions with Containers James Smith $29.99 hardback Shipping containers are the most conspicuous symbol of the globalised world economy - 20 or 40 feet of pure steel reduced to the essentials. They are robust, standardised, inexpensive, universally available, and quickly assembled. Whether as single units, piled on top of each other, or placed in a row, covered or cut open contemporary architecture uses containers as extremely versatile elements for a great variety of contexts. Their esthetic of practicality accommodates minimalistic temporary solutions, experimental design concepts, as well as highly demanding and complex building structures. BUY HERE
XS SMALL HOUSES BIG TIME Lisa Baker $70.00 hardback Rising rents, the desire for a simpler life, the aim for sustainability, or the wish to posses a relocatable home: these are just a few reasons why the market for tiny houses has become increasingly popular. Even though there are many regional variations, all residences of this type share a major feature - on an area of up to 60 sqm they provide all necessities of life. Enthralling room concepts and spatial solutions are presented in this volume. BUY HERE HOUSE RULES: An Architect’s Guide to Modern Life Deborah Berke $89.99 Hardback An inspiring guide for home owners and those aspiring to build a house, House Rules addresses such timely factors as environmental sustainability and innovative construction techniques. Drawing on these examples of her user-friendly contemporary designs, Deborah Berke demonstrates how to craft a serene space for modern living. Photographs of compelling details richly illustrate her principles, underscoring both the poetry and practicality of her ideas. BUY HERE THE FLORILEGIUM: Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Celebrating 200 Years Colleen Morris; Louisa Murray $65.00 paperback The Florilegium Society at The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney has published the Florilegium to celebrate the 200 year history of Australia’s first botanic garden. Each of the 87 paintings by invited established botanical artists has a full colour plate and is accompanied by a botanical description and text describing its place in the history of the Gardens through the collectors, the botanists, horticulturalists and changing horticultural fashions. BUY HERE
THE AUSTRALIAN NATIVE BEE BOOK Tim Heard $35.00 The Australian Native Bee Book describes native bees generally and provides a complete guide to keeping Australian native stingless bees. It is richly illustrated with over 500 photos, drawings and charts to increase accessibility and aid learning. It is written by an expert who has spent his lifetime intimately engaged with these unique creatures. BUY HERE MALADIES & REMEDIES Steve Price $42.00 paperback This self-published book is a rare gem. Maladies & Remedies is a detailed collection of tropical and medicinal plants from Australia and around the world. The book includes herbal medicine used by Aboriginal people in the tropics, and from all other tropical cultures for millennia with detailed drawings. BUY HERE NATIONAL BIRDS OF THE WORLD: Avian Emblems of the World Ron Toft $12.99 hardback BARGAIN PRICE National Birds is a unique celebration of the world’s many and varied species of birds adopted by nations. Birds are one of the most popular and visible forms of all wildlife and are inextricably linked with the development of human cultures all around the world. Both a comprehensive listing and guide book, National Birds provides a range of information from species data to how these birds have been used and abused through the ages. It recounts tales of how they came to be adopted and presents a wide range of official and cultural contexts where they appear from feathers in tribal costumes to stamps and currency. BUY HERE
THE BEE FRIENDLY GARDEN: Easy ways to help the bees and make your garden grow Doug Purdie $39.99 Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over. They love to live in urban environments, where it’s a short flight path from one type of plant to the next. But conventional gardens that favour lawns and pesticides over flowers and edible plants are scaring the good bugs away. The Bee Friendly Garden is a guide for all gardeners great and small to encouraging bees and other good bugs to your green space. BUY HERE
DOUG PURDIE AT AVID READER MONDAY 5 SEPTEMBER - BOOK HERE THE GENIUS OF BIRDS Jennifer Ackerman $35.00 paperback Elegantly blending science and travelogue, Ackerman’s extraordinary story provides a new appreciation for the talents of birds and what birds can reveal about our changing world. Incredibly informative and beautifully written, The Genius of Birds richly celebrates the triumphs of these surprising creatures. BUY HERE BRISBANE ART DECO: Stories of our Built Heritage Kimberley Wilson (Editor) $34.95 paperback Our built heritage plays an important role in the ongoing story of our city. Modern cities such as Brisbane embraced Art Deco style in its architecture as it swept the world during the interwar period. This publication documents and celebrates a selection of our favourite residential and commercial examples. Written contributions from a range of authors are complemented by stunning modern photography and historic archive imagery, taking readers on a journey through this fascinating era. BUY HERE
SPORT & ADVENTURE STROKE OF GENIUS Gideon Haigh $39.99 hardback Australia’s favourite cricket writer on how one player – and his photograph – changed a sport and a nation. Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend – revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records. Man and photograph have entranced Gideon Haigh since childhood, and in Stroke of Genius he explores both the real Victor Trumper and the process of his iconography. BUY HERE RUNNING MAN Charlie Engle $32.99 paperback A compulsively readable, remarkably candid memoir from world class ultramarathon runner Charlie Engle chronicling his globe-spanning races, his record-breaking run across the Sahara Desert, and how running helped him overcome drug addiction and an unjust stint in federal prison. BUY HERE MORE MOANING Karl Pilkington $29.99 paperback After going on a journey of discovery in The Moaning of Life, the enlightened one - otherwise known as Karl Pilkington - finds himself back on the road. In his search for the answers to life’s big questions, Karl turns his attention (reluctantly) to the juicy subjects of art, identity, the body, waste, time and how to live your life. BUY HERE
WONDER TRAIL Steve Hely $32.99 paperback Steve Hely, writer for 30 Rock, The Office and American Dad!, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, The Wonder Trail is the story of Steve’s riotous journey from Los Angeles to the bottom of South America. So, who should read this book? People taking trips, people who aren’t taking trips, people who like trips, people who don’t like trips, and people who want to be entertained, delighted, and informed should all enjoy this book. BUY HERE GRIFFITH REVIEW 53: OUR SPORTING LIFE Julianne Schultz (ed) $27.99 paperback Sport lies at the heart of what it means to be Australian. Featuring a blend of outstanding essays, memoir, fiction and photography, Our Sporting Life will bring insider reports from major sporting events and minor sporting communities; it will investigate the links between sport and business, sport and culture, sport and social cohesion; the life of the athlete and the passion of the spectator. BUY HERE A HISTORY OF FOOTBALL IN AUSTRALIA Roy Hay & Bill Murray $27.99 paperback Football has a long and fascinating history in Australia stretching back to the mid-19th century. It is a rich history, closely related to one of the main themes in this country’s development: immigration and the problems of integration of successive generations into a rapidly evolving national identity. This history tells the story of the game in a lively and provocative account. BUY HERE
BARGAINS WALKING TO HOLLYWOOD Will Self WAS $19.99 NOW $9.99 paperback Walking to Hollywood is an extreme satire on celebrity, in which the narrator believes that everyone he meets is played by a famous actor, and that only he can solve the mystery of who murdered the movies. BUY HERE CYCLE CHIC Mikael Colville-Andersen WAS $29.95 NOW $14.99 hardback
THE CONVALESCENT Jessica Anthony WAS $29.95 NOW $9.95 paperback ‘My story begins one thousand one hundred and eleven years ago, across another continent, in another age.’ This is the story of Rovar Ákos Pfliegman, a man with no relatives and no friends. No church, no office, no warm and embracing community. No formal education, no achievements, and no aspirations. The last remaining descendant of a line of the worst sort of losers on the planet. It is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia, USA . . . and also, somehow, the story of 10,000 years of Hungarian history. BUY HERE THE GIRAFFE’S NECK Judith Schalansky WAS $19.99 NOW $9.99 paperback
A colourful compendium of snapshots of everyday bike-riders from around the world who are redefining mobile fashion and emphasizing the fun of city cycling. BUY HERE THE FISH LADDER: A JOURNEY UPSTREAM Katharine Norbury WAS $29.99 NOW $9.99 paperback Part travelogue, part memoir, this deeply moving story of selfdiscovery - told through journeys on foot along the glittering rivers of Britain - is nature writing at its finest. BUY HERE
A startling, inventive novel by one of Germany’s most original authors. Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin’s evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens and scorning her colleagues for indulging in ‘favourites’. However, as people move West in search of work and opportunities, the school’s future is in jeopardy and the Lohmark is forced to face her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive. BUY HERE
THE DIEMENOIS: being the correct and true account of the sensational escape, seclusion, and cruel demise of a most infamous man J. W. Clennett WAS $39.95 NOW $24.95 hardback Little is known about the French Tasmanian colony of la Ville de Baudin. Less still about its most mysterious colonist, the enigmatic Henri Maurice Claudet. In this brilliant stretch of the imagination, J. W. Clennett brings an alternative history of the early colonial Australia to life as a stunning graphic novel. BUY HERE
BARGAINS RIVER COTTAGE LIGHT AND EASY: Healthy recipes for every day Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall WAS $49.99 NOW $14.99 hardback Ever lack the time or inspiration to cook a nourishing meal after a hectic day? Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall delivers up 170 flavourhitting wholesome delights with zero compromise on taste for all occasions. Each recipe is dairyfree and wheat-free, and all are guaranteed to bring a fresh energy and vitality to your everyday cooking and eating. Delicious, health-giving food doesn’t have to be time-consuming and complicated. Quick, easy and healthy recipes from River Cottage: all dairy-free and gluten-free, and irresistibly delicious. BUY HERE STARTING AT ZERO: HIS OWN STORY Jimi Hendrix WAS $49.99 NOW $12.99 hardback It didn’t take long after Jimi Hendrix’s death for the artist to become a myth of music. He has been surrounded by a shroud of intrigue since he first came into the public eye, and the mystery has only grown with time. Much has been written and said about him by experts and fans and critics, some of it true and some of it not; Starting at Zero will set the record straight. This is Hendrix in his own words. An intimate, posthumous memoir from one of the great gods of rock and roll. BUY HERE
ONE WILD SONG: A Voyage in a Lost Son’s Wake Paul Heiney WAS $32.99 NOW $9.99 After his son committed suicide aged only 23, television presenter Paul Heiney decided to set sail on a voyage to Cape Horn to connect with his son’s ‘voice’. Not only a hugely challenging experience physically, this turned out to be an emotional journey of much more importance. BUY HERE THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS Michel Faber WAS $29.99 NOW $4.98 paperback Author of the bestselling The Crimson Petal and the White returns after twelve years with an all-out masterpiece about love and the search for meaning in an unfathomable universe. BUY HERE CITIZEN EMPEROR: Napoleon in Power 1799 1815 Philip Dwyer WAS $39.99 NOW $12.99 hardback Napoleon’s legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular imagination. This second volume of Philip Dwyer’s ambitious, definitive work separates myth from history to offer us anew one of history’s most charismatic and able leaders. BUY HERE
1,339 QI FACTS TO MAKE YOUR JAW DROP John Lloyd, John Mitchinson & James Harkin WAS $22.99 NOW $9.99 hardback From the QI team, a brand new buffet groaning with mouthwatering, bite-sized, impossibly addictive nuggets of information. The QI Facts books are the quintessence of QI: four short, funny and surprising facts on each page, themed around everything from numbers and names to geography and history. With more facts than ever, this is the perfect gift to make you laugh, think and tell your mates about. BUY HERE
‘Writing about yourself is a funny business… But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.’ Bruce Springsteen
CHAPTER AND VERSE IS THE COMPANION ALBUM TO SPRINGSTEEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY BORN TO RUN AND INCLUDES FIVE UNRELEASED TRACKS
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By turns impassioned, funny, joyous and astonishing, the boy behind the curtain reveals an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. The Boy Behind the Curtain $45.00 hardback PRE-ORDER HERE DUE 3 OCTOBER
TIM WINTON AUTHOR EVENT TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER BOOK HERE
‘The time I have spent writing this book has caused me a lot of pain. Sometimes because of what I have remembered about my childhood and sometimes because of what I couldn’t remember. It is funny how your mind blocks things out when those things can hurt you. There are a lot of things I wish I didn’t remember...’ Jimmy Barnes
This is the story of how James Swan became J immy B arnes Working Class Boy $45.00 JIMMY BARNES AUTHOR hardback PRE-ORDER HERE EVENT MONDAY 10 OCTOBER DUE 19 SEPTEMBER BOOK HERE
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FELICITY MEAKINS & BRENDA CROFT - Yijarni Yijarni: True stories from Gurindji Country compelling and detailed oral accounts of Gurindji elders that will ignite the interest of audiences everywhere. BOOK HERE
MARK Di STEFANO What a Time to Be Alive BuzzFeed’s political editor Mark Di Stefano speaks with John Birmingham about What a Time to be Alive: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign. BOOK HERE
MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
RICHARD FIDLER Ghost Empire
SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER
Ghost Empire is a revelation: a beautifully written ode to a lost civilization, and a warmly observed father-son adventure far from home. BOOK HERE
TIM WINTON The Boy Behind the Curtain Sarah Kanowski is in-conversation with Tim Winton discussing his collection of personal memoirs, The Boy Behind the Curtain an intimate and rare view of his imagination. BOOK HERE
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CLEMENTINE FORD Fight Like a Girl Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, and exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women. BOOK HERE
JIMMY BARNES Working Class Boy Working Class Boy is the story of how James Swan became Jimmy Barnes. Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny. BOOK HERE
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MONDAY 10 OCTOBER
GIFTS & THINGS GENTLEMEN’S HARDWARE BIKE REPAIR KIT $29.95 presented in a vintage style tin Get back “on your bike” with this kit that includes tyre levers, multifunction bike tool, rubber solution, bone wrench, metal rasp, patches and instructions for patching up your bike. BUY HERE SCRABBLE MUGS $19.95 Looking for a nice gift for your word freak dad? Get him this ceramic Scrabble mug. The Scrabble letter mugs are a wonderfully retro reminder of the world famous board game. Each mug features a Scrabble letter on the front with it’s score. Choose your dad’s initials or spell out his name. BUY HERE GIFT VOUCHERS Can’t decide what to get dad then the best bet is an Avid Reader Gift Voucher. It’s the thought that counts. $20, $30, $50, $75, $100 and $200 gift vouchers available. He will love making his own choice. BUY HERE
BOTTLE OPENER KEYRING $15.95 Let Dad impress his mates while drinking al fresco: open bottles with your keys (or what, at first glance, looks like a standard door key). Key Bottle Opener is a modern design classic! BUY HERE
NO JOCKS BUT WE DO HAVE SOCKS! SOCKSMITH RANGE $24.99 We just had to throw some socks in for you. From the Socksmith range dad can wear these soft, comfortable cotton-blend socks all day long. Really, we’re serious. BUY HERE
HOW IT WORKS SERIES - $19.99 hardbacks Fun series featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. BUY HERE
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