SEPTEMBER NEW RELEASES
SEPTEMBER NEW RELEASES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH Tell The Truth Shame The Devil Marlina Marchetta was $32.99 now $29.69
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Part family saga, part crime fiction, and wholly unputdownable. Chief Inspector Bish Ortley of the London Met, divorced and still grieving the death of his son, has been drowning his anger in bottles of Scotch. Something has to give, and he’s no sooner suspended from the force than a busload of British students is subject to a deadly bomb attack across the Channel. Bish’s daughter is one of those on board. Also on the bus is Violette LeBrac. Raised in Australia, Violette has a troubled background. Thirteen years ago her grandfather bombed a London supermarket, killing dozens of people. Her mother, Noor, is serving a life sentence in connection with the incident. But before Violette’s part in the French tragedy can be established she disappears. BUY HERE
Melina Marchetta’s gripping new novel Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil is a cracking fusion of suspense and heart-rending drama.
NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH Neighbourhood Hetty McKinnon was $39.99 now $35.99
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When Hetty McKinnon uprooted her beloved Arthur Street Kitchen from Sydney’s Surry Hills and relocated to Brooklyn, NYC, she left behind legions of devoted fans. These fans found solace in Community, Hetty’s immensely popular cookbook showcasing the delicious, seasonal salads so adored by her customers. Now Hetty is back, with a second cookbook that is equally sure to delight and inspire. Neighbourhood takes its cues from Community and ventures a little bit further. These salad and sweets recipes are inspired by many different places, journeying from Brooklyn to the greater Americas, the Mediterranean, Asia, France, Australia and many other places around the world for inspiration. BUY HERE
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The Easy Way Out Steven Amsterdam $29.99 paperback
FICTION The Rules of Backyard Cricket Jock Serong $29.99 paperback The Rules of Backyard Cricket is a novel of suspense in the tradition of Peter Temple’s Truth. With glorious writing harnessed to a gripping narrative, it observes celebrity, masculinity - humanity with clear-eyed lyricism and exhilarating narrative drive. BUY HERE
In this powerful novel, award-winning author Steven Amsterdam challenges readers to face the most taboo and heartbreaking of dilemmas. Would you help someone end their life? ‘The Easy Way Out is a perfect storm of a novel. Superbly written and instantly engaging, with great characters and a killer (excuse the pun) premise’ - Sydney Morning Herald BUY HERE The Joyce Girl Annabel Abbs $32.99 paperback
Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue $29.99 paperback The American dream is put to the test by the economic disaster of 2007, in this diversely peopled and crisply narrated story follows the trajectories of two Manhattan families, one at the top of the social heap and the other at the bottom. Realistic, tragic, and still remarkably kind to all its characters, this is a special book. BUY HERE Commonwealth Ann Patchett $29.99 paperback Told with equal measures of humour and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a powerful and tender tale of family, betrayal and the far-reaching bonds of love and responsibility. A meditation on inspiration, interpretation and the ownership of stories, it is Ann Patchett’s most astonishing work to date. BUY HERE
James Joyce was her father. Samuel Beckett was her lover. The stunning fictionalisation of the life of Lucia Joyce. Profoundly moving and stunningly written, The Joyce Girl brings to light the untold tale of Lucia Joyce. It will entrance and educate you. You will fall in love with this compelling woman, but she will break your heart too. BUY HERE
The Best of Adam Sharp Graeme Simsion $29.99 paperback A novel about love, music and coming to terms with the past, from the author of the international bestseller The Rosie Project. On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income as an IT contractor and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It’s the lifestyle he wanted, but something’s missing. How far will he go for a second chance? Pub date: 19-Sep BUY HERE
Hide Matthew Griffin $27.99 paperback
FICTION Selection Day Aravind Adiga $29.99 paperback
The story of a hidden life, the story of a secret love. Moving from the end of the Second World War to the present day, a breathtaking debut novel about the decadeslong relationship between a gay couple.
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 cricketobsessed 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. As sensitively observed as The White Tiger (Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008) was brilliantly furious, Selection Day reveals another facet of its author’s remarkable talent. BUY HERE The most exciting novelist writing in English today. A. N. Wilson Nutshell Ian McEwan $32.99 hardback
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The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead $32.99 paperback From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South of the US. BUY HERE Harmless Like You Rowan Hisayo Buchanan $32.99 paperback
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she’s with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy’s womb. Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. BUY HERE KEEP UP TO DATE WITH LATEST FICTION RELEASES SIGN UP TO OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AT WWW.AVIDREADER.COM.AU
Set across New York, Berlin and Connecticut, following the stories of Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki’s son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront his mother who abandoned him when he was only two years old. BUY HERE
An exciting new voice in fiction captures the fragile personal histories of an estranged mother and son. SEE MORE NEW FICTION RELEASES HERE
BIOGRAPHY Celeste: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling Writer Roland Perry $32.99 paperback Courtesan, countess, bestselling author - the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time, The true story of the Countess Céleste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman. BUY HERE Voices from the Air Tony Hill $39.99 hardback
Stroke of Genius Gideon Haigh $39.99 hardback If Victor Trumper is a legend, George Beldam’s ‘Jumping Out’ has become an icon. 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. Together they inspired a profound moral and aesthetic revaluation of the game, and changed the way we think about cricket, art and Australia. BUY HERE Grant and I Forster Robert $35.00 paperback
An untold tale of Australians at war: the first ABC war correspondents and how radio broadcast from the battlefields to those at home waiting for news. The men who brought Tobruk, Kokoda and other Australian battlefronts into Australian homes. BUY HERE
Grant & I is the story of the friendship and collaboration of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, who gave Australia The Go-Betweens, one of our best and most influential bands. As distinctive a writer of prose as he is of songs, Robert Forster is wise and witty, intimate and frank, astute and knowledgeable. There could be no better tribute than Grant & I to this partnership and band who remain loved and revered. BUY HERE
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu Joshua Hammer $32.99 paperback
Sully Chesley B. Sullenberger III; Jeffrey Zaslow $24.99 paperback
To save precious centuriesold Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven and Indiana Jones. Over the past twenty years, journalist Joshua Hammer has visited Timbuktu numerous times and is uniquely qualified to tell the story of Haidara’s heroic and ultimately successful efforts. BUY HERE
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. His cool actions not only averted tragedy, but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide. BUY HERE
Summer of ‘82 The Dave O’Neil $29.99 paperback
BIOGRAPHY Freeing Peter Juris; Greste Greste $35.00 paperback Freeing Peter tells the extraordinary true story of how an ordinary Australian family took on the Egyptian government to get Peter Greste out of prison. BUY HERE
In Sickness, in Health ... and in Jail Melissa 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
Albanese Karen Middleton $34.99 paperback Really, do we need another political memoir of a currently serving MP? Albanese is the moving personal story behind the very public political face of Labor’s Anthony Albanese. A window on the recent turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension, this is the whole story of Anthony Albanese and the remarkable mother, Maryanne, who raised him. This story reveals what shaped the bloke they call ‘Albo’, his climb through politics by playing hard, fast and sometimes loose and how as he and his colleagues wrestled with Labor’s future, he discovered his own past. BUY HERE
This book is about the summer in which Dave O’Neill 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 The Story of Beatrix Potter Sarah Gristwood $35.00 hardback
To this day, Beatrix Potter’s tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert. A famous author who gave it all up to become a farmer. BUY HERE The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo Amy Schumer $29.99 hardback
In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy shares stories about her family, her relationships, her career, good – and bad – sex, recounting the experiences that have shaped who she is today: from the riches to rags story of her childhood to her teenage quest for popularity (and boys) to becoming one of the most sought-after comedians on the planet and an outspoken advocate for women’s rights. BUY HERE
POLITICS & CULTURE Faith Tim Costello $29.99 hardback In a world that is so often challenging, with events that cause us all to wonder what is going on, Tim Costello takes us on a journey through the notion of faith and how we all need to believe in something greater than ourselves, no matter what religious background we are from. In this thoughtful and provocative book Tim explores some of the world’s most challenging issues, including refugees, corruption, war, intolerance, poverty, inequality and global warming. BUY HERE The Idiot Brain Dean Burnett $29.99 paperback From the hugely popular Guardian science blogger, a surprising, funny and mindbending examination of how and why the brain sabotages our behaviour. Unpredictable and entertaining, Burnett’s account gives us up-to-date research and the principles of neuroscience along the way. BUY HERE The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben $29.99 paperback Are trees social beings? Peter Wohlleben draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow and share nutrients. Pub date 19 September. BUY HERE
Yijarni: True stories from Gurindji Country Erika Charola & Felicity Meakins (Eds) $39.95 paperback
On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. This action precipitated the equal wages case in the pastoral industry and the establishment of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. 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 Atomic Thunder Liz Tynan $34.99 paperback
In September 2016 it will be 60 years since the first British mushroom cloud rose above the plain at Maralinga in South Australia. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland. This book is the most comprehensive account of the whole saga. BUY HERE Gratitude Oliver Sacks $22.99 hardback
As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived, and expresses his thoughts on growing old, facing terminal cancer and reaching the end. Oliver Sacks died in August 2015. BUY HERE
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FOOD Lucky Peach Issue 20: Cooks & Chefs Dine Dining III David Chang (Ed) $22.99 journal Lucky Peach is a quarterly journal of food and writing. Each issue focuses on a single theme, and explores that theme through essays, art, photography, and recipes. BUY HERE The Forest Feast Gatherings Erin Gleeson $49.99 Hardback The Forest Feast Gatherings offers 100 innovative vegetarian recipes arranged in a series of artfully designed menus that are tailored around specific occasions and seasons whether a summer dinner party, a laid-back brunch, a vegan and gluten-free gathering, or holiday cocktails. BUY HERE The Sustainable Cook Australian Women’s Weekly $39.99 hardback This book gives guidelines to follow when shopping for food and storing it correctly – there are many efficiencies and savings to be made. Food preparation and slick cooking techniques can also help keep a household sustainable for the future. The recipes are simply delicious with great tips to accompany each one. BUY HERE
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Brisbane Open House Guide Book 2016 $8.00 Paperback
Detailed guide book for the 2016 Brisbane Open house weekend event. 100 Buildings open for free for the public for two days 8 and 9 October 2016. BUY HERE Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian gardens Richard Aitken $49.99 hardback
Drawing on the unparalleled collections of the State Library of New South Wales, Planting Dreams showcases Australian garden making in all its richness and diversity through a stunning and intriguing mix of paintings, sketches, photographs, and prints, from popular culture to high art. BUY HERE An elegant look at the miraculous gardening evolution Indira Naidoo, author of The Edible Balcony 50 Architects 50 Buildings: the Buildings That Inspire Architects Pamela Buxton (Editor) $59.99 hardback
Well-known contemporary architects choose the buildings from around the world that have inspired them and made a big impact on their own work. The book features a range of inspirational buildings from housing estates to castles, coal mines to cathedrals. Includes work by the giants of twentieth-century architecture including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto, as well as lesserknown gems. BUY HERE SEE MORE ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN BOOK HERE
UPCOMING BOOKS Born to Run $49.99 hardback PRE-ORDER HERE
Chapter and Verse $29.99 CD PRE-ORDER HERE
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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
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FIGHT LIKE A GIRL BY CLEMENTINE FORD $29.99 PRE-ORDER HERE DUE OCTOBER
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers. CLEMENTINE FORD AUTHOR EVENT
WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER - BOOK HERE
This is the story of how James Swan became Jimmy Barnes Working Class Boy $45.00 hardback PRE-ORDER HERE DUE 19 SEPTEMBER
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