HGBooks November Kit 2017 by Hardie Grant Publishing

HARDIE GRANT BOOKS NOVEMBER 2017

Renovating For Profit Cherie Barber

Description At last a highly illustrated, practical book that renovators will love.

Cherie Barber is Australia's leading renovation expert with over 21 years of profitable renovations under her belt. Renovating for Profit reveals Cherie’s secrets to success and equips you with all the tips and knowledge you need to renovate and make a profit. Including information on budgeting, time saving ideas, organization and how to successfully use colour and space, Cherie shows you how to avoid common mistakes and make the most out of every renovation project.

Publication Date 1st November 2017

ISBN

• AUD$39.99 / NZ$44.99 Paperback • 9781743793565

Category

• Home Design

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 272 pages

Format

• 210 x 240mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography throughout

Price

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Cherie’s method is a proven, step-by-step approach, personally developed on over 90 renovation projects. With real-life examples and before-and-after pictures, Renovating for Profit will equip you with all the knowledge you need for renovating success!

Renovating For Profit Cherie Barber

Author Details Cherie Barber’s expertise, knowledge and skills in property renovation make her the favourite contributor for anything related to property renovation in the Australian media. She has appeared across all major Australian television networks, live radio, national and suburban newspapers, front covers of countless property investment magazines, the internet, expos, talk show programs and is a regular columnist for Woman’s Day, Australian Property Investor, Burke’s Backyard, Homes+, Handyman, and Renovate magazines. She appears on Sydney’s 2UE radio, is a regular TV presenter for Channel 10’s lifestyle show, The Living Room and is Foxtel’s Lifestyle’s Renovation and Development expert. The Australian media have dubbed her 'Australia’s Renovation Queen'. In the USA she starred in her own TV show, 5 Day Flip, which screened across the US in 2016.

Key Selling Points Cherie is a regular on Channel 10’s The Living Room. Cherie is a regular contributor and feature writer in magazines including: Australian Property Investor, Your Investment Property, Australian Handyman, Real Living, Home Beautiful, Homes +, Lifestyle Home, Home Renovation, and online she contributes to Lifestyle.com.au. Cherie had her own show on US TV, Five Day Flip in 2016 (replayed on Australian TV) and understands the requirements for a world-wide audience. Cherie presents forums across Australia on property renovation throughout every year. Cherie has her own You Tube site. Cherie has appeared on A Current Affair, The Today Show, The Morning Show and is a regular on The Living Room. Cherie has 50,000 subscribers to her renovating course, and 81,500 followers on her new Facebook page. FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Renovating For Profit Cherie Barber

Cherie is the 'go-to' person on renovation for the Australian media. Cherie has a new TV show under discussion. Marketing & publicity: Extracts, interviews, reviews & gift guide mentions across all media channels National author tour Inclusion in HG Christmas genre promotions including First Pages, consumer advertising & competitions Collaboration with Bunnings Advertising on The Living Room on Channel 10 Full page ad in Real Living Subscription drive with Handyman Magazine Market wide consumer prize Co-op available across all sectors Digital assets available to retailers including video, banners & promotional assets Dump bins with bespoke headers cards available Prizes available for key retail groups Featured title at Dymocks (including video content from Cherie) & Collins conferences The Design Files EDM advertising on release Exclusive video series with Real Estate.com In app advertising with Real Estate.com Book trailer available for use at sell-in & in pre-roll campaigns Targeted social media campaign Influencer campaign to Cherie Barberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contacts

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You’ve read The Barefoot Investor, bought your house...now you need Cherie Barber’s Renovating for Profit to grow your wealth!

We all know from that Australia is in the grips of a housing crisis. With the rapid growth in house prices in the main centers, people can’t afford to move and so instead they’re renovating (Financial Post). What does this mean? • Last financial year (15/16) Australian’s spent $7.7 billion dollars on home renovations requiring permits (Deppro.com.au) • 36% of Australians planned to renovate in the financial year ending June 2017, QLDers slightly more with 43% (Australian Financial Review) • The main reasons for wanting to renovate are 1. to improve aesthetics, 2. to improve functionality and 3. increase resale value (Houzz and Home Study) • Research shows 41% of people went over budget in their home renovations, while only 4% came in under budget (Houzz 2013, reported by Forbes) • Figures compiled by property analyst CoreLogic for The Australian showed the percentage of properties owned for less than two years — an indication of flipping — had risen in the past few years, showing that flipping is on the rise

RENOVATING FOR PROFIT by Cherie Barber At last a highly illustrated, practical book that renovators will love! In her first book, Renovating for Profit, Australia’s renovation queen Cherie Barber reveals the secrets of success when renovating your home. She equips you with all the tips and knowledge you need to renovate and make a profit, including information on budgeting, time saving ideas, organization and how to successfully use colour and space. Cherie shows you how to avoid common mistakes and make the most out of every renovation project. Cherie’s method is a proven, step-by-step approach, personally developed during her 21 year renovating career. With real-life examples of the transformations that can be achieved and jaw dropping before-and-after pictures, Renovating for Profit will equip you with all the knowledge you need for renovating success!

DRAFT Pub date: October 19th 2017 RRP: AUD $39.99 / NZ $44.99 Paperback ISBN: 9781743793565 Category: Home Design Imprint: Hardie Grant Books Extent: 242 pages Format: 240mm x 210mm Illustrations: Full colour throughout

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• Cherie presents forums across Australia on property renovation throughout every year to thousands of budding renovators • Cherie has 50,000 subscribers to her renovating course, and 95,000 followers on her new Facebook page • Cherie’s real world experience and humble beginnings ensures she understands what real Australians need when looking to renovate their homes • Home renovation shows like The Block and House Rules are the most watched shows on Australian TV

How CHERIE BARBER became Australia’s Reno Queen Cherie started off at the bottom. At the age of 21, she brought her first home on a 6 lane highway. After realising that she’d never be able to sleep for fear of a truck coming through her window, she decided to she needed to quickly sell her house. Like many first home buyers she had next to no money to do it up. She pulled up the carpets, tidied up the garden and gave the kitchen a lick of paint. She made $40,000 on that house and a life-long passion for flipping houses began. Since then she’s personally flipped more than 90 houses, not including houses she renovates for her countless media appearances. In Cherie’s experience, most Australian’s know that increasing the value of their property is one of the few ways to grow their personal wealth. However, most people don’t know where or how to add value and concentrate on things that will ultimately lose them money. She has also found that most first time home buyers only have $2000 to make changes to their property...and so her company Renovating for Profit was born! Started in 2009, Renovating for Profit is Australia’s most popular renovating course. Over 10,000 Aussie renovators have been through the course to learn the art and science of renovating to build wealth and break the ‘9 to 5’ grind.

Cherie Barber’s star shines brightly • Cherie Barber’s expertise, knowledge and skills in property renovation make her the favourite contributor for anything related to property renovation in the Australian media • She has appeared across all major Australian television networks, live radio, national and suburban newspapers, as well as the front covers of countless property investment magazines • Cherie appears regularly at expos, talk show programs and runs her own successful Renovating for Profit course • Cherie is a regular columnist for Woman’s Day, Australian Property Investor, Burke’s Backyard, Homes+, Handyman, and Renovate magazines • She is a regular TV presenter for Channel 10’s lifestyle show, The Living Room and is Foxtel’s Lifestyle’s Renovation and Development expert. • In the USA she starred in her own TV show, 5 Day Flip in 2016, which is currently being aired on Australian TV (Channel 9 Life) on Monday nights.

HOMES + FEATURE EXTRACT, June 2017

Marketing & publicity: • National author tour • Extracts, interviews & reviews across all media channels • Advertising on The Living Room on Channel 10 • Collaboration with Bunnings • Bespoke POS unit for maximum instore impact • Print advertising Full page ad in Real Living Subscription drive with Handyman Magazine • Digital advertising The Design Files EDM advertising on release Exclusive video series with Real Estate.com In app advertising with Real Estate.com Targeted social media campaign • Market wide consumer prize • Digital assets available to retailers including video, banners & promotional assets • Prizes available for key retail groups • Book trailer on launch • Influencer campaign to Cherie Barber’s contacts

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Finding Fire Cooking at its most elemental Lennox Hastie

Description Finding Fire is an introduction to the endless possibilities of cooking beautiful food with fire.

Author Lennox Hastie, of acclaimed Sydney restaurant Firedoor presents over 90 recipes that allow readers to take their own journey to master the art of simplicity in cookery over the most natural heat source on the planet. Lennox explains the techniques behind creating a good quality fire, and the effect of using different types of wood to enhance the natural flavours of the ingredients. Recipes are divided by food type: seafood, vegetables, fruit, dairy, wheat and bases. Lennox Hastie’s own inspirational story is woven through the history in the book, as he draws on his own international experience to demonstrate how fire is used in so many different cultures. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$60.00 / NZ$64.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781743793008

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 256 pages

Format

• 280mm x 200mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Author Details Lennox Hastie is a UK-born, Europe-trained chef with an Australian father and Scottish mother. He spent time in Melbourne as a boy, but only returned to Australia to open Firedoor with the Fink Group in Sydney's Surry Hills in 2015, which was nominated for Best New Restaurant in the 2016 Australian Gourmet Traveller Awards, currently holds a chef hat in the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide and sits at number 17 on the Australian Gourmet Traveller Top 100 Restaurants list. He first fell in love with fire at Extebarri, in Spain. During his stay there, the restaurant earned its first Michelin star.

Key Selling Points Finding Fire is a book that will change the way people think about cooking over fire.

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Finding Fire Cooking at its most elemental Lennox Hastie

Explores the history and techniques for cooking with fire and how to celebrate the integrity of good ingredients. Recipes are not overly difficult, and follow the format of the menu at Lennox's popular Sydney restaurant, Firedoor, building from lighter to heavier dishes. Stands apart from other grilling books, as it does not focus only on meat, but also on vegetables, seafood and fruits. Firedoor has 17.2k followers on Instagram and is quickly becoming an acclaimed restaurant, most recently reviewed in The New York Times. Marketing & Publicity

Extracts, interviews, reviews & gift guide mentions in food media, including a lead extract in Gourmet Traveller | Extract/interview in GQ | Inclusion in HG Christmas genre promotions including First Pages, consumer advertising & competition | Full page ad in Gourmet Traveller and Smith Journal | Co-op available | Digital assets available to retailers | Feature at Leading Edge national conference (March) in HGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Top 5 in 5 presentation Feature at ABA conference including pull up banner advertising (June) | Targeted social media campaign to foodie audience | Influencer campaign to Lennox Hastieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contacts including W50B & Tourism Australia | Slow Living online/ EDM advertising

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Contents Introduction

Finding fire

013

Firedoor

021

Fire in history and culture

025

Ingredients

031

Mastering the basics

039

Six stages of fire

045

Building a fire

053

Lighting a fire

063

Wood

065

How to use this book

075

Recipes

078

GLOSSARY

246

INDEX

248

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

254

REFERENCES

255

Marron, finger lime, native herbs

124

200+ day dry aged beef rib

175

126

Green beans, roasted almond cream

Baby squid, pickled celery, ink sauce

Duck hearts, celeriac, sour cherry

177

Peas, mint, jamon

Beggar’s chicken

178

129

Calçots, romesco

Oysters, pickled kohlrabi, sea lettuce

Jurassic quail, toasted spelt, grilled grapes

Corn, kaffir lime butter, green chilli

School prawns, chilli, saltbush

130

Pipis, garlic, karkalla

Okra, roasted chilli, ginger and garlic

Beetroot, black sesame

Asparagus, mussel cream, rye

Broccoli, eggplant, fermented chilli brittle

Brussels sprouts, smoked ham hock, potatoes

101

Cherry tomato, stracciatella, black olive

198

Mulberries, blueberries, smoked buttermilk ice cream

201

181

Pineapple, grilled ginger sorbet, thai basil

202

183

Banana ice cream, smoked chocolate, honeycomb

204

132

Bone marrow, sea urchin, purslane

Red mullet, escabeche

135

Lamb rump, borlotti, nettle

184

Blood orange upside-down cake

207

Scallops, lemon curd, dulse

136

Duck á la ficelle

186

208

Sardines, bull’s horn pepper

139

189

Prawns

140

Pork chop, sugarloaf cabbage, kombucha apple

Peaches, almond cream, barley crisp

211

Mussels eclade, fennel and saffron rouille

141

Pork belly, roasted plum sauce

190

Cape gooseberry pavlova, elderflower cream

Goat

192

Coconut, chocolate, cherry granita

212

Blue swimmer crab, rye bread, crème fraîche, lime

145

Rhubarb, vanilla marshmallows

215

Caviar

146

Quinces, mascarpone, pistachio

216

Otoro tuna, fennel, edamame

149

Pear and lemon thyme bellini

217

Lemon pisco sour

217

Grilled ginger daiquiri

Butternut squash, smoked ricotta, pepitas

102

104

Mackerel, bagnet vert, watermelon radish

150

Leaves, guanciale, toasted pecans

153

Piperade, eggs

107

Abalone, black bean, beach herbs

Potato, crème fraîche, bottarga

108

Flathead, kale, radishes

155

Tomato rice

111

John Dory, cabbage, seablite

156

King brown mushrooms, dry-aged beef, celeriac

113

Octopus, radicchio, macadamia

159

Cauliflower, aged tallow, hazelnuts

114

Salt-crusted snapper, potatoes

160

Murray cod, Jerusalem artichokes, rainbow chard

163

Spaghetti squash, kataifi, pickled rose petal

117

Turbot

164

Sweet corn brûlée

118

Eel

166

Cucumbers, dill, horseradish

120

Pumpkin sour

121

Wheat

Ember baked cheese

222

Smoked cream

224

Smoked mascarpone

224

Smoked ricotta

225

Smoked butter

227

Bread

232

Black bread

235

Flatbread, trout roe, crème fraîche

236

Bases

Eggplant, grilled shiitake, wild garlic

Dairy

Fruit

Meat

Seafood

Vegetables Baby cos, anchovies, smoked egg yolk

Chicken stock

240

Salt brine, 5%

240

Tomato water

240

Smoked water

241

Smoked oil

241

Fermented chilli paste

242

Smoked kombucha

242

218

Ginger syrup

243

Poblano caipirinha

218

Elderflower cordial

243

Grilled peach iced tea

219

Salsa verde

244

Chestnut roasted negroni

219

Pil-pil

244

KEY Savoury Sweet Drink Base

Recipes

Blue swimmer crab

rye bread, crème fraîche, lime SERVES 4

Of all the shellfish, crab would ultimately have to be – for me – the most satisfying, as it requires greater effort and a certain determination to prise the sweet goodness from its shell. Nowadays we tend to eat too quickly, with more time spent cooking than eating. With crab the reverse is true, as the speed and simplicity of the cooking enables us to spend more time savouring the experience of eating. With their clean taste and firm texture, blue swimmer crabs make superb eating and require little more accompaniment than some good bread, a little crème fraîche and a quality bottle of wine.

R E C I P E T Y P E savoury

WOOD T YPE apple H E AT medium-intense embers GRILL EQUIPMENT grill racks

Prepare your embers and place the grill racks approximately 20 cm (8 in) over the top.

Place each whole crab, carapace side down, directly on the grill. Brush the crabs with grapeseed oil and cover, placing a metal bowl or tray on top as a lid. Cook for 8 minutes, turn the crabs over, brush generously with oil, then cook for a further 3 minutes. The crab is done when the juices starts to bubble between the front claw and body joint. Remove and allow to cool enough to handle.

One by one, place a crab in a clean dish, and turn onto its back. Carefully place your thumbs in between the flap and the carapace, then press with your thumbs to pop open the carapace. Reserve. Pull away the grey gills, or ‘dead man’s fingers’, at the bottom of the crab and discard. With a sharp, heavy knife, spilt the crab in half. Break the body into smaller sections while removing the tasty white meat. Reserve.

In a bowl, combine the crème fraîche with the dill and lime zest and juice. Season with sea salt and pepper.

Spread the crème fraîche over the bread, and top with crabmeat and a squeeze of lime juice. Serve garnished with dill fronds.

INGREDIENTS 4 x 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) blue swimmer crab (1 crab per person), yielding approximately 100 g (3½ oz) meat from each crab (see Note) grapeseed oil Black bread (page 235) or good-quality rye bread, sliced 400 g (14 oz) crème fraîche 1 tablespoon chopped dill, plus extra to garnish zest and juice of 1 lime, plus extra to squeeze sea salt and black pepper

NOTE When buying crabs, remember they should feel heavy for their size and have their legs and claws intact.

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SEAFOOD

FINDING FIRE

145

Pork chop

sugarloaf cabbage, kombucha apple SERVES 4

The timeless process of dry ageing can be used to improve the flavour and texture of many meats, including pork. At the restaurant we work with our butcher to dry age kurobuta pork loin on the bone for ten days with the skin on. The drying method intensifies the natural flavours, while the fat of the kurobuta pork (essentially a wagyu pig) mellows and melts like butter on the grill.

R E C I P E T Y P E savoury

The combination of pork and apple is an English classic from my childhood. We would collect apples from our tree in the autumn (fall) and my mother would cook them down with just a little sugar to make a rich apple ‘butter’ for our pork. The acid from the naturally fermented kombucha gives this dish a tangy finish.

H E AT

Prepare your embers and arrange the grill rack over the top.

In a large saucepan, combine the cold water, kombucha and sugar. Bring to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar.

Add the apples to the kombucha stock and simmer gently for 8–10 minutes until the apples are tender. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the apples to cool in the liquid.

WOOD T YPE cherry or chestnut

offset, medium-intense embers GRILL EQUIPMENT grill rack

INGREDIENTS 1 litre (34 fl oz/4 cups) chilled filtered water 100 ml (3½ fl oz) kombucha 100 g (3½ oz) sugar

With a sharp knife, score the fat of the pork chops at 1 cm (½ in) intervals.

4 pink lady apples, halved

Offset your embers, banking them up so they are parallel with the grill. Place the chops side by side on the grill, fat side down, adjacent to and 10–15 cm (4–6 in) from the embers. Season the rib side with salt.

4 x 250 g (9 oz) pork loin on the bone, skin on

Allow the fat to slowly render for 8 minutes while caramelising the fat cap on the pork. Rotate the pork and repeat for 8 minutes on the rib side to ensure an even colour on the fat side. Once the pork is golden brown, remove from the grill.

100 ml (3½ fl oz) apple wine vinegar

Adjust your embers so they are 15 cm (6 in) directly below the grill. The embers should be bright orange, burning with intense heat. Place the pork face down on the grill, and season well. Leave for 1 minute before rotating the pork, adjusting the height of the grill if necessary to ensure that the pork is only being licked by flames. Continue rotating until the surface is caramelised to a rich mahogany colour. Turn the pork, season and repeat.

Remove and allow to rest in a warm place for 5 minutes.

Remove the apples from the liquid, remove the cores, and grill for 8 minutes over medium embers until lightly caramelised.

sea salt

1 sugarloaf or pointed cabbage, quartered 60 ml (2 fl oz/¼ cup) olive oil

NOTE Ideally you would want bone-in loins with the backbones removed and the ribs trimmed of meat (or ‘frenched’). These are sometimes called pork racks.

10. Brush the cabbage quarters sparingly with olive oil and grill on a rack over

intense embers for approximately 4 minutes on each side until lightly charred. Remove, season and a drizzle with the olive oil. 11. With a sharp knife, remove the bone from the pork and carve the meat into

8 mm (¼ in) slices. Serve immediately with the grilled apples and cabbage.

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M E AT

FINDING FIRE

189

194

M E AT

FINDING FIRE

195

The Tivoli Road Baker Recipes and Notes from a Chef Who Chose Baking Michael James

Description In The Tivoli Road Baker, British-born pastry chef Michael James and his team share the knowledge that goes into creating standout bread and pastries. The mission is to make these recipes accessible for people who are new to the art while also including tips, ideas and inspiration to challenge more skilled cooks and bakers. Chapters cover basic to advanced bread making techniques, sweet pastries, savoury favorites as well as a handful of British recipes close to Michael's heart, including Cornish pasties. The reader will also learn about the importance of starting with quality produce, offering a small window on the valuable (but mostly unsung role) played by farmers in the growing global appetite for real bread. A beautiful book that shares some of the X-factor that makes its namesake so successful.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$60.00 / NZ$64.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781743793206

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 288 pages

Format

• 290mm x 195mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Chapters are divided into Bread, Viennoiserie, Savoury, Pastry, Seasonal, British Bakery, Basics and Larder.

Author Details Michael and Pippa James run the successful Tivoli Road Bakery in Melbourne's South Yarra. Michael is an accomplished chef and baker, who grew up in Penzance, West Cornwall before moving to London, where he met Pippa over the pass at the two-Michelin starred restaurant Pied à Terre. They moved to Australia in 2004, and opened the Tivoli Road Bakery in 2013. Michael has previously worked at Movida, Bourke St Bakery and Baker D. Chirico.

Key Selling Points The Tivoli Road Baker will appeal to bread and pastry lovers alike. This book makes bread-making feel accessible and achievable for the home cook.

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The Tivoli Road Baker Recipes and Notes from a Chef Who Chose Baking Michael James

A point of difference includes the use of native ingredients in specialty loaves - think Davidson plums, muntries, wattleseed, lemon myrtle and rosella, and the prominence given to the journey from seed to loaf â&#x20AC;&#x201C; emphasising the role of farmers and millers along different parts of the chain in the final product. Tivoli Road Bakery has a substantial 23K Instagram followers. Endorsements featured on the back cover from the who's who in the baking/food world including Chad Robertson (Tartine), Ben Shewry (Attica), Tom Aiken's (Tom's Kitchen), Dan Lepard (internationally renowned baker and author). 6 COPY PACK AVAILABLE at 50% DISCOUNT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; INCLUDES 6 SHEETS OF EXCLUSIVE TIVOLI ROAD WRAPPING PAPER! Marketing + Publicity

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Why did you choose to grow organically? We believe in healthier living through healthier choices. Natural ingredients from organic sources are essential when creating highly nutritious food and true taste. How do your drying methods differ from other methods? We dry fruit outside under the sun, on large racks laid with chicken wire. When the fruit has dried a little, the racks are vigorously shaken so the fruit drops down onto mats laid underneath. It is then dried further on the mats, then we rake over the fruit to remove the branches before it is packed. It’s a very simple, age-old method. We don’t use any sulphur or chemical additives. It’s just great fruit dried by the sun.

Pork, caramelised apple and fennel sausage roll Ingredients 2 teaspoons fennel seeds + extra to sprinkle 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 3 medium brown onions, peeled and diced 4 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped 8 sprigs sage, picked and finely chopped 3 sprigs rosemary, leaves picked and finely chopped

After baking so many sausage rolls at Bourke Street Bakery and seeing them become a cult item, I knew we had to develop our own delicious version to please the crowds. These are often the first lunch item to sell out. These sausage rolls are great for picnics, and they will be a smash hit at your next children’s party. If you like, you could pipe the sausage mix a bit thinner and make smaller slices for party-sized sausage rolls. If using store-bought puff pastry, you may need to adjust the size and produce a different number, depending on the size and shape your pastry is rolled to.

5 sprigs thyme, leaves picked and finely chopped 20 g (¾ oz) unsalted butter 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled and diced in ½ cm (⅛ in) dice 1 tablespoon caster (superfine) sugar 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar 1.2 kg (2 lb 10 oz) pork mince 65 g (2¼ oz) breadcrumbs 12 g table salt 1 egg, lightly beaten for egg washing 1 quantity puff pastry (see page 250)

Toast the fennel seeds in a large, dry frying pan over a low heat for 1–2 minutes, until fragrant. Crush lightly in a mortar and pestle and set aside. Using the same pan, heat the vegetable oil over a low heat. Sweat off the onions and garlic for 8–10 minutes until lightly caramelised, to give a bit of sweetness. Add the toasted fennel seeds, sage, rosemary and thyme and set aside to cool. Wipe out the pan then melt the butter in it over a medium–high heat. Add the apples and toss gently in the butter for 2 minutes, then add the sugar. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, until the sugar is lightly caramelised, then add the vinegar to deglaze the pan. Set aside. Combine the mince, breadcrumbs, salt and apples in a large mixing bowl. Add the onion and garlic mixture and mix it through with your hands for 3–5 minutes, until all the elements are evenly distributed through the mince. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the puff pastry into a sheet roughly 30 × 50 cm (12 × 20 in), and 5 mm (1/4 in) thick. Cut it into four pieces 15 × 25 cm (6 × 10 in), with the long edges towards you. Divide the sausage mix evenly between the four sheets, making a line of filling from left to right a third of the way up each sheet. (At the bakery we use a large piping (icing) bag for this.) Lightly brush the beaten egg along the top edge of each piece, then roll the pastry up from the bottom of each roll, away from yourself, folding it over the sausage mix. Seal the roll on the egg-washed edge so the seam sits underneath the meat. Egg wash the top and sides, then sprinkle with fennel seeds and lightly pierce along the top with a fork. Cut each roll in half, then lay your sausage rolls on a tray lined with baking paper and rest them in the fridge for half an hour. Preheat the oven to 180°C (360°F). Bake the sausage rolls from cold for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat to 160°C (320°F) and bake for a further 30 minutes. Allow the sausage rolls to rest for 10 minutes before eating.

SAVOURY—133

Makes 8 large sausage rolls

Green wheat, borlotti and green bean with goat’s cheese, walnuts and mint Serves 8 as a substantial lunch; 12 or more as part of a larger meal

Green wheat, or freekeh, is wheat that has been harvested before it’s fully dried on the plant, and then roasted. Freekeh refers to the harvesting and drying process, and not the grain, so while it is most commonly wheat, it can be made with any grain. Because the grains are harvested when they’re still green, they retain a lot of their nutritional value and are high in fibre, vitamins and minerals. I like to use a fairly fresh, soft goat’s cheese for this salad, and just break it over the dish before serving.

SAVOURY—151

Borlotti beans have a short season, so it’s special when you get to use them fresh. If they’re out of season, you can substitute with dried beans. Cannellini beans are a good alternative, as they maintain their texture better when dried. Use 250 g (9 oz) dried beans.

Ingredients 100 g (3½ oz) cracked freekeh 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz) green beans, topped 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz) borlotti beans, podded ½ bunch mint, roughly chopped handful parsley, roughly chopped 2 handfuls baby spinach, washed 3 spring onions, finely sliced 200 g (7 oz) shelled walnuts, lightly toasted and roughly chopped juice and zest of 1 lemon 75 ml (2½ fl oz) olive oil 2 teaspoons apple-cider vinegar salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 200 g (7 oz) goat’s cheese

Put the freekeh in a large saucepan and cover with 1.5L (51 fl oz/6 cups) cold water. Bring to the boil and then reduce to a simmer for 30 minutes, until tender. Strain and set aside to cool. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. Blanch the green beans for 2–3 minutes until tender, then remove with a slotted spoon and refresh them in ice cold water. Add the podded borlotti beans to the boiling water and reduce to a simmer, then cook for 45 minutes. Drain and refresh them in ice cold water. Combine the freekeh, beans, herbs, spinach, spring onions, walnuts and lemon zest in a large mixing bowl. Pour over the oil, vinegar and lemon juice, and toss with your hands to mix and coat everything in the dressing. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl (or individual bowls if using), sprinkle the goat’s cheese over the top, then serve.

The Art of Wellbeing Joyous living inspired by nature Meredith Gaston

Description The new illustrated collection of inspirational meditations, inspiring words and plant-based recipes from bestselling author Meredith Gaston.

Building on her uplifting philosophy of thankfulness and gratitude for what we have and enjoy, Meredith shows us how to live well and enjoy a healthy life in her highly anticipated new book, The Art of Wellbeing.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 / NZ$32.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781743793510

Category

• Gift

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 240 pages

Format

• 230mm x 170mm

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations throughout

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Divided into four chapters – Nourish, Comfort, Energize and Blossom – Meredith takes the reader on a beautiful journey to find peace, calm, vitality and healthfulness. Through restorative, plant-based recipes, meditations, yoga practice and other healthful ideas, this book draws on nature to guide us to good health in both mind and body. Meredith’s whimsical, heartfelt illustrations bring these ideas to life, animating a mind-set of happiness and sensitivity, and finding beauty and magic in your daily routine. This is a beautiful gift or self-purchase for anyone looking to find the magic in everyday life.

Author Details Meredith Gaston is an internationally acclaimed Australian illustrator and the author of five internationally successful books. Meredith also exhibits original works in high profile galleries locally and overseas, and collaborates with brands to bring her joyful signature style to commercial and charitable enterprise. Her past collaborations range from a series of exclusive wine labels designed for bestselling winery Mondo Imports, to a stationery and sleepwear range she developed with Sussan Corporation Australia that raised over a million dollars in support of women affected by breast cancer. Meredith lives with her husband on the picturesque Mornington Peninsula in

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Victoria. A generous and idyllic garden with wildlife, fruit trees and an enchanting creek provide her with endless joy and inspiration.

Key Selling Points Meredith Gaston's illustrations are well recognised and loved around the world. This will be Meredith's 6th book. Includes not only inspirational words but simple plant-based recipes, and health and wellness related activities. Meredith has sold over 25k copies across her backlist! 10 COPY PACK AVAILABLE at 50% DISCOUNT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; INCLUDES 10 EXCLUSIVE MEREDITH GASTON GIFT TAGS! Marketing + Publicity

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Nature shows us her immense energy in so many palpable ways, from sunshine to rain, wind to waves, fire to flood to fruit trees in full bloom. When we are in tune with the vital energy of nature we can see ourselves as part of a dynamic and miraculous whole. We may sense our place in a tremendous dance of life in which rest and play are balanced, in which movement frees and exhilarates us, and in which we may feel and express the full potential of our creativity. The energising impact of mindfulness practices is remarkable. We may stimulate the flow of positive, fresh and uplifting new energy anytime and anywhere simply by inhaling and exhaling deeply, going within, shifting our focus in the most positive way we can, and letting go of what no longer serves us. Change begins here. Food is our key fuel, our best medicine, and a constant, energising link back to our earth. May these bountiful, energising inspirations to come uplift and encourage you.

Aim for eight hours sleep a night in a comfortable, dark, device free space where you can really switch off and relax. Try a gentle walk, some reading, yoga, a nice bath, journalling or talking with loved ones to wind down before bed rather than opting for screen-time. Aim to enjoy your evening meal at least two hours before getting horizontal to assist digestion and optimise your comfort. The hours of sleep you can get in before midnight are especially restorative, so wherever possible, really enjoy an early night. If you have trouble falling asleep, you might like the ‘Cabin in the Forest’ meditation from the Comfort chapter. Page... or the Hot Air Balloon meditation page … These may assist you to quieten your mild, release your hurries and worries and enjoy the most energising rest.

Exercise daily to increase your energy levels, health and fitness. Exercise creates more energy, circulates blood around the body, is a natural anti-depressant, helps you to look and feel great, and is central to human life. Many moons ago before modern transportation, we roamed this earth as vital creatures. We hunted, explored, used our hands and used our feet, walked, ran, jumped, and called upon our whole bodies, every day. Movement is not only primal for us, it is essential. When we work up a sweat we strengthen our cardiovascular system and detoxify our bodies. We become stronger, more coordinated and more in touch with all the things that our bodies can do. Exercise should never be punishment. Exercise your body for wellbeing and pleasure. You may have a great routine of movement in place already, but if not, you might like to explore fun options such as yoga, tai chi or pilates, dancing, skipping, skating or swimming. See pp. When it comes to movement, something is better than nothing at all. The incidental movements we make each day all add up too. So choose to walk or ride a bike when possible. Take the stairs. Enjoy a quick light jog around the block or do a few light stretches on your yoga mat. Make time whenever and wherever possible to can to be active, and reap the energising benefits.

be right, or do I want to be happy?â&#x20AC;? This approach provides a powerful breather in any trying moment and allows for more positive, feel-good choices to be made. To practise positive thinking, try the meditations and visualisations in this chapter and throughout the book. The corresponding affirmations make for uplifting daily mantras. For profound impact, these short mantras can be written on your mirror, drawn into your journal, spoken onto a recording for you to listen to, or recited out loud. Keep positive energy flowing and growing in your daily life by listening to uplifting music and tuning into inspirational podcasts. Choose feel-good movies and books to savour. Choose positive speech and thoughtful actions. Create relationships and environments that truly energise and support you. Enjoy your life to the fullest, energised and alive.

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The Champagne Guide 2018-2019 The Definitive Guide to Champagne Tyson Stelzer

Description An updated edition of the internationally acclaimed The Champagne Guide, by the winner of the 2011 Louis Roederer International Champagne Writer of the Year Award for the 2011–2012 edition. The book contains fully independent assessments, with profiles and ratings, of over 100 champagne producers – from the smallest growers to the largest houses. The wines have all been reviewed based on current tastings and the notes are accompanied by full-colour bottle images. The 2018–2019 edition features fully updated information on the distinction between houses and producers and how to avoid corked, stale and lightstruck champagnes. The Champagne Hall of Honour ranks the best producers in Champagne this year and the best champagnes of the year under $60, under $100, under $200, at any price, and the best blanc de blancs, rosé and low-dosage champagnes. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$49.99 / NZ$54.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781743793183

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 368 pages

Format

• 244mm x 171mm

Illustrations

• Coloured design throughout

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The Champagne Guide tells you everything you need to know about how champagne is grown and made and how to buy, open, serve and store champagne, all for less than the price of even a cheap bottle of champagne! His attention to detail is quite extraordinary, almost to the point of obsession. But, then, he is obsessed with Champagne. —James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

Wine snobs jog on—it's all 'bout the bubbly. From Barons de Rothschild to Bollinger, it'll help you pick the best drop. —Cosmopolitan This is the definitive guide to all things Champagne. —Drinks Trade

The Champagne Guide 2018-2019 The Definitive Guide to Champagne Tyson Stelzer Author Details Tyson Stelzer is the author and publisher of thirteen wine books. He writes for Wine Spectator, Decanter, Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine, WBM and Selector. He pens a wine page every month for Style Magazine, is a benchmark wine reviewer for WINE100 and is the wine writer for Barossa Living. He is a contributor to Jancis Robinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Oxford Companion to Wine Third Edition, which names him the most prolific writer in the world on the topic of screw caps. Tyson is also a contributor to the Halliday Wine Companion, reviewing the Australian sparkling wines. As an international speaker, Tyson has presented at wine conferences in the United Kingdom, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. He is a regular judge at wine shows in Australia, and has won many wine-writing awards.

Key Selling Points This is the only up-to-date champagne buying guide in the world. Most of the champagnes and houses reviewed in the book are available worldwide. Previous edition won the 2011 Louis Roederer International Champagne Writer of the Year Award, and The Champagne Guide 2014-15 edition won Best Wine Book of The Year 2014 at the Wine Communicators of Australia Awards. In 2012 Champagne exported more bottles outside of the Europe than ever before and is focusing exports on countries like the United States, Japan, Australia and China. Published just in time for the Christmas festive season and the Spring Racing Carnival. Marketing + Publicity

Editorial and full page ad in Halliday Magazine | Interviews, extracts and reviews across national lifestyle print media and radio. Events nationally â&#x20AC;&#x201C; enquire with your rep | Champagne giveaways with Dan Murphys, Vino Mofo and other wine retailers | Competition to win an exclusive bottle of champagne FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

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ehind an inconspicuous doorway hidden amidst the lush trees of a secret walled garden in the middle of the city of Reims, in the shadows of the fairytale turrets of Pommery, lies a timeless passageway of 106 spiral stairs descending into a mythical, ancient world hiding the very deepest secrets of Champagne. With each step deeper, deeper into the underworld of Charles Heidsieck, the temperature plummets and the chill of expectation rises. The final step falls into a vast subterranean ‘crayère’, a chalk mine of cathedral proportions. Walls of stark, white chalk tower to the surface 38 metres above in a perfect pyramid, looming and dramatic in its cavernous expanse, like a gigantic sculpture of buried ice art frozen in time. Time itself stands still in the silence of this place. Immortalised for 1700 years, the vast chamber reverberates with 3rd century Roman picks, scoring the chalk, carving blocks to build the cities of the ancient world above. Tunnels disappear into oppressive darkness in every direction, whispering with the hushed voices of Middle Age smugglers, squirrelling away their shady chattels in secret drives. Hundreds of interconnected crayères resonate with the century-old cries of children taking refuge as booming echoes of World War I German shells raze Reims to the ground, shaking the stone to the core of the earth. Soft, damp, salty chalk walls are alive with the rich memories of the aeons, inscribed with a record of a dramatic history in centuries of graffiti, bearing names, dates, pictures, manifestos and love notes, as if they were carved yesterday. The air that has breathed through these caverns for millennia is oblivious to the passage of time, too, devoid of any dank, musty, old-cellar heaviness, enlivened with a bewildering freshness, as if somehow rejuvenated by the ancient chalk itself. This chalk is the key to the ageing of champagne and the invisible secret that blesses its vines with vitality and energy. Given birth 90 million years ago under an ocean stretching across the Parisian basin, Champagne’s chalk plunges to depths of hundreds of metres below the surface. It is this chalk that blesses The 3rd century crayères of Charles Heidsieck are among the last remnants of the ancient city of Reims.

its finest vineyards with hydration, freshness and the crystalline mineral texture that infuses grand longevity in its wines. And it is from this chalk that a city is carved under the city. An astonishing maze of more than 250 kilo metres of passages under Reims alone became home to entire communities seeking years of refuge from the ravages of the world wars, transforming drives into schools, churches, hospitals, shops, municipal offices and homes. To the Champenois today, these caverns are more than just an idyllic haven. They are a silent and constant spirit, the sure and strong foundation of a volatile region, the bedrock that firms and sustains all that transpires in the wild and ravaged world above. A symbol of immovable resilience, of enduring continuity, of rock-solid consistency. The ancient chalk has defined generations of Champenois. A people of quiet and resilient strength, of confident assurance in spite of impossible odds, with natural, political and economic climates stacked against them, and of grand ambition to battle the elements and transform austere and acidic grapes into the most celebrated beverage on earth. ‘In Champagne we have the poorest soils in the world,’ reveals Louis Roederer chef de cave JeanBaptiste Lécaillon. ‘It is hard to grow anything here. And we were destroyed by every war. So we have to be resilient. We are survivors. It is not a beautiful place. And yet in spite of all this, we make the wines of celebration, of life and of resilience. All of this suffering has made this possible.’

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Laherte Frères (La-airt Frair)

5/10 3 Rue des Jardins 51530 Chavot-Courcourt www.champagne-laherte.com

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he young Aurélien Laherte describes himself as a farmer, not a winemaker. ‘More than anything, my father and I are trying to respect the soil, expressing the style of the clay and limestone,’ he says. This is the soil of the historic little village of Chavot-Courcourt, on the border of the Côte des Blancs and the Vallée de la Marne. ‘The clay gives us chardonnay that is fruitier than the Côte des Blancs, and the limestone meunier that is finer than the Vallée de la Marne,’ he explains. For a production of less than 120,000 bottles, Laherte Frères boasts a very large portfolio of 12 cuvées that preserve the detail of its terroirs in wines of taut, linear persistence, and at times assertive structure. With a history of grape-growing in the village span ning seven generations, the extended Laherte family accounts for almost one-third of Chavot’s population of 350. The 10 hectares from which the estate sources across 75 parcels in 10 nearby villages have been passed down through the generations, and all are still owned and tended by members of the immediate family. French law dictates registration of the domaine as a négociant-manipulant, but for all practical purposes it should be considered a grower-producer, with the exception of its entry Brut Ultradition NV, for which supply is supplemented with two hectares of purchased fruit.

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A complex array of vineyard parcels span the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay (Chavot, Moussy, Épernay, Vaudancourt and Mancy, with chardonnay, pinot noir and meunier), Côte des Blancs (Vertus and Voipreux, with chardon nay) and Vallée de la Marne (Le Breuil and Boursault, with meunier). In 2014, four hectares of Montagne de Reims vineyards were added to the sourcing pool. ‘We would like our wines to express that they are not from the Côte des Blancs or the Montagne de Reims, but to be expressive of our village,’ Aurélien says. In tasting young vins clairs, the distinctive saltiness of the chalk minerality and the north-facing freshness of Chavot are unique compared with his parcels from

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other villages. The oldest vines have been cultivated here by different generations of the family for more than 68 years. An ecological approach is taken, with half the vine yard holdings managed biodynamically, and the rest essentially organically, ‘to facilitate the natural express ion of the vine and increase its aromatic potential,’ Aurélien explains. He reports seeing increased mineral character in biodynamic plots as vines push deeper into the chalk, encouraged by ploughing by horse in spring and autumn to break up the surface. Natural pesticides and herbicides are used, and yields are limited. ‘When we started with biodynamics in 2005, we found the fruit was cleaner and more consistent during vinification,’ he says. ‘The wines were fruity, held good acidities, and the bottles maintained their freshness for longer after they were opened.’ A vintage wine is made every year, even in the challenging 2010 season. ‘If you work diligently, you don’t need to be afraid of the quality of the vintage,’ he suggests. ‘In Champagne, many people just add more sugar or leave a wine on lees for longer if it’s not right, but for us we simply make the wine.’ Villages, crus and varieties are separated, and matched to the age and style of one of 280 barrels as the musts leave one of two traditional presses. ‘We have lots of complexity in the vineyard, so we try to obtain the same complexity in the winery using different ferment ation vessels,’ explains Aurélien. He considers the matching of parcels to the right vessels to be his most important task in the winery. ‘The work we are doing in the vineyards has increased the potential of our fruit, so we have increased the quantity of oak in the last five years.’ More than 80% of parcels are now fermented and aged in oak, as has been the tradition here for more than 25 years. Barrels vary from four to 40 years of age, and include several large 100-year-old foudres from Alsace for reserve wines. Five small barrels are pur chased each year from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, where they have aged Le Montrachet, no less. Since 2011, pinot noir and meunier have been selectively vinified in barrels used for red Burgundy in the hope of increasing red fruit character and tannins. Two new foudres were acquired in 2014. In 2012, a cellar with capacity for 600,000 bottles was built, and Aurélien challenged his father that it was too big. ‘A cellar is never too big!’ came the response. A

current stock of 250,000 bottles facilitates an average age of three years. ‘It is the work of my generation to increase the ageing of our cuvées, and if I could extend it to four years by the end of my life, that would be an important step,’ declares Aurélien, who aspires to add a month or two of age every year. An increase in production of 10,000 bottles in 2014 equated to an increase of four months of ageing in the cellar. Some lees stirring is performed to build richness. Malolactic fermentation is blocked in most cuvées, but may proceed spontaneously or by design for particular years and varieties. In Laherte’s structured and savoury terroirs, malic acidity makes for a tricky balance in young cuvées with increasing use of small-format oak, all too often resulting in assertive and drying structures. Laherte has trialled some barrels without sulphur, but is not yet convinced. ‘Good acidity and low pH mean we don’t need to use much sulphur, but without any we lose some thing of the soil and the precision of the fruit,’ he says. A unique ‘Le Clos’ vineyard of just 0.3 hectares in Chavot has been planted to seven varieties to preserve the heritage of the estate. ‘We found the lost varieties of our ancestors in our old plots, and we have embarked on a project to recreate champagne with the same taste as 250 years ago,’ Aurélien explained as he showed me through the prized site at the top of the village. Chardonnay, meunier, pinot noir, fromenteau, petit meslier, pinot blanc and arbane are harvested and pressed together, wild yeast fermented in barrel without malolactic fermentation, and blended with a reserve solera of every vintage since 2005 and bottled as ‘Les 7’. Attention to every detail is the key at Laherte, right down to the cork. Every wine has been sealed with DIAM for more than six years. ‘I don’t want to lose all our work to the cork!’ Aurélien exclaims. ‘Our goal is to preserve freshness, fruit and minerality in our wines, and our tests indicate that DIAM is most effective, providing protection against changes in temperature and humidity as our wines travel around the world.’ Aurélien has worked hard to slowly evolve the estate since he began working alongside his father, uncle and grandparents in 2005, and his spirit of experimentation and evolution continues. They now produce 12 cuvées each year, all but two of which are made in tiny volumes of just a few thousand bottles. Each boasts a refreshingly informative back label, detailing villages, assemblage, vinification, dosage and disgorgement date.

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Laherte Frères Extra Brut Ultradition NV 91 points

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2013 base vintage

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Disgorged April 2015

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Laherte Frères Rosé de Meunier Extra Brut NV

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93 points

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Disgorged May 2016

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Vines of average age 25 years, and 40 years for the red wine; 30% saignée macerated fruit,

and Vallée de la Marne; 40% reserves from 2012; fermented in barrels (80%), tanks and foudres;

60% white, 10% red wine; of the white, 40% is 2013 reserves aged in barrels; fermented and

around 50% malolactic fermentation; 4.5g/L dosage

aged for 6 months in vats, foudres and old demi-muid barrels

Cleverly named Ultradition, Aurélien explains, ‘because our work in the vines and the winery now is not traditional. We are trying to do something different.’ It is in this cuvée that he feels they have made their greatest progress in the vines and the barrels and foudres over the past decade, and still have the most potential to improve. ‘People ask which is my favourite wine, and this is it because there is so much that we can do with the blend!’ he discloses. This is certainly a complex expression of an entry cuvée, a characterful and representative take on the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay, with plenty of complexity of red apple and grapefruit. It captures the glassy, chalk mineral texture of the village, with some grip to the structure. Tense malic acidity marks out a long and fresh finish.

Uniting the best of all rosé methods, this is both a saignée and a blended style. Meunier speaks with bright expression of cherry, strawberry and red apple fruit, supported by fine, glassy minerality and bright acid line – a pleasant surprise for meunier. It’s youthful and vibrant, with clean focus and lively, primary expression.

Laherte Frères Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature NV ●

2014 base vintage

60% meunier, 30% chardonnay, 10% pinot noir from 10 villages in the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay

Laherte Frères Les 7 Extra-Brut 05-11 92 points

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2013 base vintage

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2011 base vintage

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Disgorged August 2014

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Single-vineyard Chavot; previously labelled Les Clos; 18% chardonnay, 18% meunier, 17% pinot

blanc, 15% petit meslier, 14% pinot noir, 10% fromenteau, 8% arbane; planted 2003; 60% 2011;

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Reserves from 2012; a blend of four villages, particularly Chavot and Épernay; vinified in foudres

blended at the press; 40% perpetual reserve blend of 2005 through 2010; co-fermented with wild yeast in Burgundy barrels of at least 10 years of age; matured in barrel for 6 months with regular lees stirring; no malolactic fermentation; 4g/L dosage

and 228-litre barrels; zero dosage; 30,000 bottles

The aspiration here is to draw out the salinity of young chardonnay through vinification in barrels and lees contact. Aurélien concedes that it’s very young and hopes to work towards releasing it later. Vibrant malic acidity and salty chalk minerality define a tightly coiled, young, mineral-accented style, contrasting ripe fruit reminiscent of golden delicious apple and grapefruit. Barrel maturation lends some notes of charcuterie complexity. Fine, glassy, mineral texture and a fresh and focused acid line make for a tense, dry finish.It will benefit from a few years for its acidity to soften.

Laherte Frères Rosé Ultradition Brut NV ● 2012 base vintage Australia

88 points

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Disgorged September 2014

An opulent and multidimensional fruit salad anticipated by its recipe, spanning the contrasting expressions of intense fruit presence in citrus and stone fruits of all kinds, star fruit and unripe honeydew. It’s exotic and complex, with a tight grapefruit-like malic acid that pokes out a little on the finish. It’s shed the slight awkwardness of its youth and displays confident, idiosyncratic character and great length. It’s evolving cheerfully and will only get better with more time to mellow. Great to see an NV cuvée sensibly named with a declaration of its vintages.

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50% meunier, 30% pinot noir, 20% chardonnay; 10% red wine from old-vine meunier; 40% reserves from 2011; partial malolactic fermentation; 7g/L dosage

Aurélien finds his blended rosé his most challenging wine to make, with the tannins of red wine clashing with the citrus of chardonnay, hence the blend is predominantly black grapes, including some from his wife’s family in Bouzy. In future it will include a portion macerated on skins. For now, it’s evolved to a medium-crimson hue and has taken on spicy, pepper complexity, while upholding its youthfully tense freshness and fine, glassy, quartz-like mineral texture. The earthy, dusty nuances of 2011 are reflected on the finish.

Aurélien Laherte maintains individual ferments in each of 280 different barrels to build complexity in his cuvées.

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Plant Society Create an Indoor Oasis for Your Urban Space Jason Chongue

Description Plant Societyis your 101 guide on how to care for and decorate your home with indoor plants.

Even if you've killed every house plant in the past, plant cultivator and stylist Jason Chongue will show you that it's really not that difficult to keep them happy. Covering everything from basic plant care and re-potting, to plants suited to pets and propagating, this book will help rid you of your fear of gardening and inspire you to create your very own indoor rainforest.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 / NZ$32.99 Flexibound

ISBN

• 9781743793435

Category

• Gardening

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 192 pages

Format

• 240mm x 190mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

There are profiles of 25 ideal indoor plants, organised from the most low-maintenance species through to the more exotic and labour-intensive plants. On top of this, the book offers styling advice including how to decorate different rooms in your home with plants, as well as suggestions on pots and planters to give your plants more personality. Throughout the book, you'll also find interviews with “plant people” from around the world, who provide an insight into their unique relationships with house plants. Indoor gardening has never been so easy!

Author Details Jason Chongue is a Melbourne-based architect, interior designer and plant cultivator. Jason is one half of The Plant Society, an online social network for gardeners, offering information on greenery and plants for sale. Jason’s mammoth plant collection and unique interiors have been featured in The Design Files, Sunday Life, Sydney Morning Herald, Homelife magazine, Gardening Australia and on ABC's Radio National. He has also been noted by Nine News as a must-follow plant-obsessed Instagram account and was counted in Designsponge’s list of 10 must-follow Instagrammers from Australia and New Zealand.

Plant Society Create an Indoor Oasis for Your Urban Space Jason Chongue

Key Selling Points Specifically targeted to a younger urban demographic, offering advice on how to select, grow and style with indoor plants. Includes information on how to select the right plant for you, plants that are safe for pets, soil recipes for different plant types, and how to propagate plants inexpensively. Contemporary and playful design in flexi format with colourful and instructional images. Extremely informative and accessible â&#x20AC;&#x201C; there is nothing as easy and simple as this on the market. Marketing + Publicity

Interviews, reviews and extracts across national lifestyle and gardening media including Real Living, Inside Out, Gardening Australia, Vogue Living, Belle, Country Style and more | Book feature on The Design Files and The Planthunter | Book launch in Melbourne with influential industry contacts | Plant Society running workshops at Melbourne and Sydney Big Design Markets in December this year, further workshops to be held across Melbourne + Sydney | Book trailer available | Coop available

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Contents INTRODUCTION 7 A life with plants A plant community

CHAPTER ONE: It’s not that difficult

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Black thumb to green thumb 19 Choosing the right plant for you 23 It’s always an experiment 24 Plants and pets 27 Tools and materials 28 Glossary 30 Plant People: Jeska & Dean Herne

CHAPTER TWO: A guide to indoor plants

Tropical houseplants 37 Basic steps to healthy plants 38 Light 40 40 The right light Watering 43 Soil and nutrition 44 Soil formulas 44 Mix your own soil 45 Soil recipes 46 Feeding 47 Temperature 48 Cleaning 51 Choosing the right pot for your plant 52 Repotting for different plant types 54 How to repot 57 Pruning your plants 58 Training your plants 61 Plant People: Christan Summers & Ivan Martinez

CHAPTER THREE: Plant encyclopedia

CHAPTER FOUR: Let’s start multiplying Propagation basics Vessels for water propagation Vessels for soil and seed propagation Indoor greenhouses Propagation techniques

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Plant People: Charles Loh

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CHAPTER FIVE: When things go wrong

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Plant problems Homemade pesticide and fungicide Identifying plant problems Common plant diseases Common pests and antidotes

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Plant People: India & Magnus

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CHAPTER SIX: Styling with plants

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Softening hard surfaces 139 Bringing the outdoors in 141 Layering with plant textures 142 Living room 144 Dining room 149 Bedroom 152 Bathroom 158 Office/Desk 163 Meeting and reception areas 166 Styling with a range of plants 169 Floor plants 170 Table plants 172 Windowsill plants 175 Shelf plants 176 Plant and pot styling 179 Giving your plant a personality 180 Plant People: Christina Symes & Jessica Stewart

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Index 186

Thank you

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About the author

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It’s not that difficult I learnt how to care for plants early on in my life, largely thanks to my grandmother, who gave me plant cuttings from a very young age. I practised propagating and growing plants of all sorts. Some flourished and some didn’t but whether they survived or not, I learnt to observe and understand what plants need. Sometimes they just need their own space, otherwise they shut down. The message here is, don’t give up just because you kill a plant. Even the most talented gardeners have regular casualties. I’ve certainly killed my fair share of plants, usually as a result of my tendency to overcare. In other words, I can be a bit heavy-handed with the watering can (I’ve even been scolded by a nursery owner in Los Angeles for overwatering my fiddle-leaf figs). But as every gardener knows, you live and learn from the casualties because they remind you never to deprive them again, or in my case, to deprive them a little more! Indoor gardening is all about experimenting and continuous trial and error to see which plants will grow indoors. If we can mimic a microclimate, we can begin growing all kinds of plants in our homes.

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CHAPTER SIX Styling with plants

Bedroom We spend a large portion of our lives in our bedroom but it is often the last place we consider when introducing plants into our homes. Your bedside table is perfect for a compact plant that will help aerate the air while you sleep. Textural plants like devil’s ivy, Philodendron and Monstera make a nice addition to your bedroom and are a great thing to look at when you first wake up.

GOOD BEDROOM PLANTS Arrowhead plant (Syngonium), begonia, devil’s ivy (Epipremnum aureum), fruit salad plant (Monstera deliciosa) peace lily (Spathyphyllum), rubber plant (Ficus elastica), wax plant (Hoya).

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Even a single bedside plant can enrich your bedroom. If you like keeping your space minimal, choose a specimen plant with interesting foliage, such as variegated or patterned leaves. Use a pot that is neutral in colour so you don’t detract from the plant.

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PICTURED (FROM LEFT): LUCKY BAMBOO (DRACAENA), CARICA PAPAYA (BABACO CARICA), DEVIL'S IVY (EPIPREMNUM AUREUM), CABBAGE TREE (CUSSONIA), CAST-IRON PLANT (ASPIDISTRA ELATIOR 'SHOOTING STAR'), ZANZIBAR GEM (ZAMIOCULCAS).

S T Y L I N G T I P : Plants are great for styling in your bedroom. Use them alongside beautiful bed linen to create a softer space. Delicate leaves will create beautiful shadowing. Try incorporating interesting plant hangers to allow your plants to drape down over your bed. Graphic pots are great for relating back to your artwork.

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Table plants 2 SMALL PLANTS THAT ADD LIFE TO YOUR TABLETOPS Chinese money plant (Pilea peperomioides), peacock plant (Calathea), prayer plant (Maranta leuconeura), watermelon peperomia (Peperomia agryreia), wax plant (Hoya) and plants from the asparagus fern family.

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R A D I A T O R P L A N T (Peperomia) With a wide range of foliage options, radiator plants make great textural table plants (see page 85).

T R A C T O R S E A T P L A N T (Ligularia reniformis) These glossy kidney-shaped leaves create the perfect simple backdrop when accompanied with a more colourful or textured plant.

W A X P L A N T (Hoya) If you are wanting to soften the edge of your table try draping a wax flower plant on or over the tabletop (see page 81).

B R A Z I L I A N E D E L W E I S S ( Sinningia

bullata) The unusual crinkled foliage emerges from a visible bulb.

VARIEGATED MONSTERA

Highly sought after and extremely rare, it makes for a table plant you can appreciate close up.

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Surfing Australia A Complete History of Surfboard Riding in Australia Phil Jarratt

Description The definitive guide to Australia's surfing history, published in conjunction with Surfing Australia. Australian surf culture is over a century old, and it still hasn't grown up. From its roots as an illegal pastime to its current incarnation as a professional sport, surfing's enduring appeal has always been the carefree, quintessentially Australian lifestyle that goes with it. Australian surf culture has always had competing impulses of chaos and order. For every Boot Hill Gang there is a Surf Life Saving Association; for every tragic drug disqualification, a World Title winner. From Tommy Tanna, Alick Wickham and Freddie Williams's pioneering surf lifestyles to the hedonism of 1950s beach culture, the Coolangatta Kids of the 1970s, to the eventual professionalised machine that surfing in Australia has now become, this is the complete, no-holds-barred history of both sides of the story. With forewords by Mark Richards and Layne Beachley, Australia's World Champion surfers, this book is the definitive history of surfing in Australia. Publication Date 1st November 2017

Key Selling Points

Price

• AUD$45.00 / NZ$49.99 Flexibound

This is officially endorsed by Surfing Australia the peak body for surfing in Australia.

ISBN

• 9781743793688

The most up-to-date history of surfing in Australia.

Category

• Sport & Fitness

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 344 pages

Format

• 270mm x 230mm

Illustrations

• full colour throughout

With up-to-date Australian surfing results and featuring every surf club in Australia. Packed full of photographs from every era of Australian surfing. Previous edition sold over 5K copies. Marketing & Publicity

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Surfing Australia A Complete History of Surfboard Riding in Australia Phil Jarratt

Extracts, interviews, reviews & gift guide mentions in sport/surfing media | Full page ad in Tracks magazine | Co-op available | Digital assets available to retailers | Sport genre poster available | Advertising with Tracks online | Advertising with The Roar | Sport genre book trailer, EDM & competition | Targeted social media campaign to surfing audience Influencer campaign to Phil Jarratt's contacts

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CLUB HISTORIES OPPOSITE: KU RR AN U LL A WAHIN ES ALL- GIRL SU RF CLU B , 19 65

CLUB HISTORIES NSW

BLACKSMITHS BOARDRIDERS

ALL GIRLS SURFRIDERS

Blacksmiths Boardriders (BBR) aims to provide a surfing environment that encourages participation, self-improvement and technical refinement. BBR provides an atmosphere that fosters friendship and family surfing cultures in a small beachside community. Members meet for monthly club contests and social interaction.

ESTABLISHED 1992, LENNOX HEAD

The All Girls Surfriders Club has now grown to include a longboard division and a ‘senior beginners’ group. The All Girls Surf Showdown is an annual competition that attracted 100 entrants in its first year. ANGOURIE BOARDRIDERS CLUB ESTABLISHED 1965, ANGOURIE

In early 1965, a group of enthusiastic locals formed the Angourie Surfriders Club, which lapsed some time in the late 1970s. The Angourie Boardriders Club took its place in 1985. This active and focused club runs monthly competitions from February to December. AVOCA BEACH BOARDRIDERS CLUB ESTABLISHED 1974, AVOCA BEACH

Around 1974, a core group, including Bruce Turner, Rob Kercher, Wayne Lyndon and Grant Fuller, decided to form a club. Wayne Lyndon was the original president. The Avoca Boardriders manage to have a competition every month. BAR REEF BOARDRIDERS ESTABLISHED 1971, NEWCASTLE

The Bar Reef Boardriders runs the Australia Day Surf Classic as well as a number of other contests and community events throughout the year. The club is not just for serious surfers, with the membership embracing males and females aged from grommets as young as eight to 60-year-olds. BAY AREA BOARDRIDERS

ESTABLISHED 1972, PORT STEPHENS

Bay Area Boardriders is based in the Port Stephens area. Age groups are from under 12s to over 50s. Comps are on the first Sunday of each month, with social nights and camping trips throughout the year. BERRY BOARDRIDERS BERRY

BLACK HEAD LONGBOARDERS CLUB ESTABLISHED 1998, FORSTER AREA

Club competitions are on the second Sunday of each month from February to November. An inter-club comp is held each year against closest neighbour Salty Malibu Club. This is a friendly club, not overly competitive. Members enjoy the surf and socialising each month. BLACK ROCKS BOARDRIDERS ESTABLISHED 2017, TWEED COAST

BLACKSMITHS

BONDI BOARDRIDERS ESTABLISHED 1980S, BONDI

Bondi Boardriders (BBR) now proudly hosts an eight-contest series annually for over 180 members, with seven divisions catering for all ages. BBR alumni include world champions Cheyne Horan and Pauline Menczer. BBR’s goal is to bring out the champion in everyone. BONDI GIRLS SURFRIDERS ESTABLISHED 1999, BONDI

The goal of the Bondi Girls Surfriders (BGSR) is to be an inclusive club where all girls are welcome no matter what level or ability. The club meets on the first Saturday of every month for graded competitions for juniors, adult beginners, longboards and advanced shortboards. A philanthropic club, BGSR have raised funds for local charities over the years and continue to support the other local boardriding clubs with their events too. BONDI LONGBOARD CLUB ESTABLISHED 1995, BONDI

It all started as more and more longboards started appearing out in the line-up. There were new faces and old faces all having fun together. The club founders were Garry Parkinson, Tony O’Brien and David Byron. Other original members that helped organise and develop the club were John Campbell, Karl Kristie, Hymie Munitz, Russell Fox and Steve Leslie. Joanne East and Karen Largey have been the administrative backbone. BOOMERANG BEACH BOARDRIDERS ESTABLISHED 1997, BOOMERANG BEACH

The Boomerang Beach Boardriders was started by Gary Hughes and a bunch of keen local surfers, but it was Gazza who remained President for the first 18 years until his retirement. The club runs monthly comps with seven divisions made up of male, female, young and the young at heart. The open division is still considered the blue ribbon event that all in the club aspire towards, but more and more focus is being directed to nurturing the junior divisions. BROULEE BOARDRIDERS CLUB ESTABLISHED 1980, BROULEE

This is a combined club, comprised of women’s, shortboard and longboard divisions that operates within the structure of the local surf life saving club. The club has a small but strong membership.

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SURFING AUSTRALIA

CHAPTER 11

TH E AUSTR ALIAN SU RFERS WHO MADE TH E B IGG EST IM PACT IN HAWAII AT TH E START OF TH E 1970S WERE Q U EENSL AN D’ S PE TER DROU YN AN D PAU L N EILSEN AN D NARR AB EEN ’ S TERRY FITZG ER ALD. DROU YN (LEF T ) AN D FITZG ER ALD (B ELOW ) TAKE ON B IG SU NSE T WITH ST YLE AN D FL AIR .

Sons of Beaches

amateur world title for the next six years. The surfers who reached their peak between the end of the amateur world titles and the beginning of a professional world tour four years later became known as the ‘black hole surfers’.10 Australians like Paul Neilsen, Terry Fitzgerald and Michael Peterson fell into this category. There were already some events on the world calendar considered prestigious enough to matter, even though they were not sanctioned world championships — Australia had the Bells Beach Classic, South Africa had the Gunston 500 — but primarily the world of surfing looked to the contests held in the world’s greatest surfing playground, Hawaii.

THE ROCK

Although the longest running Hawaiian event the Makaha International died a natural death in 1971, there was a growing season of events on the North Shore, where the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational had been running at Sunset Beach since 1965. By 1972, the Smirnoff Pro-Am had also become established on the North Shore, and alongside it the Pipeline Masters and the Hang Ten American Pro. All of these contests offered cash prizes, and the Smirnoff had a purse of $5000, making it the richest event in the world when Paul Neilsen won it in November 1972, having crashed his way into the event by telling organiser Fred Hemmings that it was an ‘insult to Australia’ not to have invited the national champion. With a podium finish in the Hang Ten as well, Neilsen was a much bigger name in world surfing at that point than official world champion Jimmy Blears. Just turned twenty-one, Neilsen was already a respected old-hand in Hawaii, unlike the rest of the Australian team who made their way to the North Shore on the way home from the San Diego championships. Michael Peterson and Rabbit Bartholomew ducked out on the rest of the team and booked their own flights to Hawaii, arriving in the middle of the night with little money and no clues. They told a taxi driver to take them to Rocky Point, thinking their must at least be a shelter shed there, like at home at Kirra Point. Dumped in the darkness at the edge of the jungle nearly sixty dollars lighter, they camped among the coconut palms and surfed perfect waves by themselves until taken in by North Shore ‘haole’ (white) locals Owl Chapman and Sammy Hawk.11 The rest of the Australians arrived almost a week later, still wearing their green and gold team board shorts. Rabbit and MP, by now almost locals, watched from a discreet distance as Col Smith tackling Pipeline on a hopelessly inadequate surfboard, was pitched over the falls and almost broke his back. Some of the Aussies never came to terms with the highenergy North Shore. Others, like Rabbit, Ian Cairns, Peter Townend and Mark Warren went on to excel there. While the rest of the Australians straggled home in small groups, Michael Peterson stayed on, living on handouts and occasional cheques from his mother. He was never able to produce the kind of surfing that made his name in Australia, he became fitter and more aggressive in the water than at any other stage of his career. When he flew home in January 1973, he was lean, hungry and ready to pounce.

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CHAPTER 17

Pathway to the Future

CHAPTER 17

PATHWAY

THE OLYMPIC DREAM

TO THE FUTURE

In August 2016 the 90 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted unanimously to accept surfing as one of four new sports (alongside skateboarding) to be trialled at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. While under IOC rules, acceptance for Tokyo doesn’t guarantee that surfing will remain an Olympic sport – lame waves, for example, could see it dumped after one outing; such shortlived appearances happened in years gone by to tug-of-war and hot air ballooning – the unanimous vote from international sport’s toughest administrators was a clear indication that surfing’s time had come. As a result, many of the International Surfing Association’s one hundred member nations found themselves suddenly awash with government funding for the first time in their history. In Australia, however, while the Olympic acceptance was celebrated, there was no wild rush to prepare. Surfing Australia (SA) had been preparing for this and other challenges for more than five years. ‘With the Olympics on board now,’ says SA chief executive Andrew Stark, ‘our focus is on world titles every year and Olympics every four years. You only get the opportunity to be part of a sport’s first Olympics once in a lifetime, if at all, so we’re completely dedicated to winning gold in both men and women. We’re going to have a huge crack at that, and we’re already set up for it’. Stark, who is approaching the milestone of his first decade in the job, has masterminded a long-term strategic plan for Surfing Australia. This plan has encompassed remarkable growth and a reassessment of its corporate objectives to extend the appeal of the organisation from the elite athletes through the ranks to the youngest ‘grom’, just starting out on the grand adventure of surfing. This shift is reflected in a subtle change in SA’s vision statement, from ‘becoming a mainstream, commercially sustainable sport’ to ‘strengthen our sport and connect with all surfers’, and perhaps even more tellingly, a new purpose, which is ‘to create a healthier and happier Australia through surfing’. When Stark says of the race for inaugural surfing gold at Tokyo 2020, ‘we’re already set up for it’, he is referring to the state of the art Hurley Surfing Australia High Performance Centre (and its attendant sports science department) on the Tweed Coast of Northern NSW, which was under construction when the first edition of this book went to press. But the centre represents only one aspect of the advances that Surfing Australia has made since 2012, impacting the hopes and aspirations of vast numbers of Australia’s 1.3 million surfers, as the new SA mantra suggests. And Stark is at pains to emphasise that commitment:

NSW CENTR AL COASTER MACY C ALL AG HAN: WORLD J U NIOR CHAM PION AT 1 6

It’s really important that we retain our roots and our culture and don’t get lost in the mainstream of Olympic sport. It’s all very exciting right now, but we can’t afford to lose the essence of who we are. Five years ago we were all about making surfing a sustainable sport, now we’re about creating a healthier and happier Australia through surfing. We realised we weren’t one of the big broadcast rights sports, like AFL or NRL, and we weren’t one of the big Olympic sports, like swimming, cycling or athletics, but we have this niche area in which surfing will make you a healthier and happier person. We know this is true, and the more people we get involved, the more obvious that becomes.

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110 Best Australian Albums Toby Creswell

Description An updated version of the highly controversial 100 Best Australian Albums, 110 Best Australian Albums opens up the debate once more, with 10 new albums mixing up the rankings and providing you with the ultimate, most up-to-date list of Australian music. The book names the best Australian albums of the last 60 years, placing each album in order (from 1 – 110) and discussing why each album deserves its place. It tells the story behind the making of the album, where the album fits in the artist's career and the album's impact on the local and world stage. The entries feature interviews with the artists and the producers/managers involved in the recording and the release of the album.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$45.00 / NZ$49.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781743793619

Category

• Music/Video/Film

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 280 pages

Format

• 260mm x 235mm

Illustrations

• Full colour artwork throughout

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Author Details John O’Donnell served time as music editor at Rolling Stone (Australia) and as editor of Juice magazine before crossing to the dark side in the mid ’90s, starting the internationally successful Murmur label (Silverchair, Something For Kate, Jebediah). In 2002, he became CEO of EMI Music Australia/NZ. He jumped ship in 2008 to write this book and pursue other life adventures, returning to EMI in 2013. His favourite album of all time changes constantly. This week it is either Tonight’s the Night by Neil Young, Tusk by Fleetwood Mac or Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Toby Creswell has been writing about popular culture for 30 years. After editing the Australian edition of Rolling Stone for 10 years he co-founded the magazine publishing house Terraplanet. He has written numerous books: 1001 Songs (Hardie Grant), Love Is in the Air, Notorious Australians, Too Much Ain’t Enough, The Real Thing (with Martin Fabinyi) and 1001 Australians. He has been involved in writing and producing documentaries for many years, including The Great

110 Best Australian Albums Toby Creswell Australian Albums series, the feature-length concert film Cannot Buy My Soul and a biopic on Johnny O’Keefe, The Wild One. He was executive producer of the Paul Kelly documentary Stories of Me. He played the Vox Continental on the seminal 45 ‘Cool in the Tube’. Craig Mathieson covers contemporary music and film for The Age, Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald. A former editor of Juice magazine, contributor to London’s New Music Express and film critic for The Bulletin, he has been writing about Australian music since 1989. His previous books on the subject are Hi Fi Days, The Sell-In and Playlisted: Everything You Need to Know About Australian Music Right Now.

Key Selling Points The ultimate guide to Australian music: a listing of the 110 best Australian albums of all time. Entries span music genres and decades, from Oztralian folk and international stars to modern classics and singer-songwriters. Features original album artwork and background info on bands and the creation of the album, including tracklisting, music label and chart position. Includes artist contributions by Peter Garrett, Brad Shepherd, Nick Launay, Paul Dempsey, Deniz Tek, Rick Rubin, Kevin Mitchell, Tim Rogers, Richard Clapton and Nick Cave. Previous edition sold 10K copies! Marketing + Publicity

Extracts, interviews, reviews & gift guide mentions in music/lifestyle media | Collaboration with Northside Records | Inclusion in HG Christmas promotions including First Pages, consumer advertising & competitions | Co-op available | Book prizes available to retailers | Window display at selected independents | Collaboration with Spotify including 110 Best Australian Albums playlist, in-app advertising & free subscription offer | Digital advertising with Smith Journal | Digital assets available to retailers | Targeted social media campaign to music audience | Influencer campaign to author contacts

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The 110 Best Australian Albums

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SIA WE ARE BORN Monkey Puzzle/Inertia Produced by Greg Kurstin Released: June 2010 Highest Chart Position: 2

efore she was ‘Titanium’, Sia Furler was tender, tenacious and telling. We Are Born, the Adelaide born and bred singersongwriter’s fifth studio album, was the final record she cut before going into exile as a songwriter for hire and guest vocalist, a fruitful period – creatively and financially – that would not only lead to co-writes and credits with Beyoncé (‘Pretty Hurts’), Rihanna (‘Diamonds’) and David Guetta’s aforementioned smash, but would also set up the next chart-topping phase of her offbeat career. Whatever Sia was trying to put behind her, it’s not We Are Born. The record is easily her best, an under-appreciated masterclass in how pop music can chart the deepest of currents. ‘We made it through the darkness to the light,’ Sia sings on ‘The Fight’, an opening track that sets the tone for the album. The tracks brim with an appreciation of life that allows for the joyous to be marked by foreboding, and for the darkened depths to come with an acknowledgement that you can still climb upwards to salvation. The arrangements pivot from minor key melancholy to maximalist choruses, notably on ‘Clap Your Hands’, where the rapid fire vocal and vintage disco groove effortlessly reach a celebratory high. Alternating songwriting sessions between long-time bassist and collaborator Samuel Dixon and American producer Greg Kurstin, Sia hits every note she reaches for. She was 34 when the album was released. Prior to We Are Born, Sia had built a profile that began with her fronting Adelaide acid jazz band Crisp before decamping for London and establishing a steady partnership with the moody English electronic duo Zero 7. Between 2001 and 2006 she appeared on their first three studio albums and toured with them, while also establishing her own profile with solo albums that explored jazz (2001’s grief-bound Healing is Difficult) and acoustic and electronic textures (2004’s Colour the Small One). If We Are Born cuts between genres so effortlessly, merging and

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TRACKLISTING

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

The Fight Clap Your Hands Stop Trying You’ve Changed Be Good To Me Bring Night Hurting Me Now

08 Never Gonna Leave Me 09 Cloud 10 I’m In Here 11 The Co-Dependent 12 Big Girl Little Girl 13 Oh Father 14 I’m In Here

mapping them, it is because of how eclectic Sia’s music had been in the previous decade. The sweet ’60s melody and ’80s drum machine rhythm of ‘Hurting Me Now’ is indicative of the record’s stylistic ease (lesser artists were concurrently trying, and failing, to stretch the same sound across an entire album). With ‘Stop Trying’, Sia hits on the buoyant bass and truth-telling of early Pretenders, complete with echoes of James Honeyman-Scott’s guitar, as she sings about the joy of acceptance as opposed to the struggle to be understood. A recurring trait on We Are Born is that it’s emotionally inclusive, filled with a personal warmth that marks Sia’s remove from the era’s burgeoning pop divas. The only imposition it’s determined to make is a move towards the dancefloor. It’s readily apparent why Sia was so quickly ushered into the songwriting sessions with superstars, because behind the intimate mood was a mastery of structure. If you put aside the surreptitious verses and the etched choruses, We Are Born celebrates the importance of the bridge: the girl group playfulness (and confession) that opens ‘The Co-Dependent’ spirals off into airy confirmation, while the clipped funk of ‘The Fight’ ascends into a hook-laden pre-chorus that shoots the song off into the orbit. An Australian songwriter and performer has rarely displayed such a mastery of pop music – simultaneously classical in craft and idiosyncratic in voice – and with Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi adding economical inducement, the pieces easily flow from one to the next, with Sia’s soulful, salty upper register as the linkage. The opening keyboard vamp and glinting percussion of ‘You’ve Changed’ may well be the centrepiece, although the swelling, stratospheric climb of ‘Cloud’ is just as crucial, because it’s a manifesto for where Sia would find herself in the coming years. But before she found love in a hopeful place for Rihanna and swung from that ‘Chandelier’, Sia was already at her peak.

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NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS TENDER PREY

TRACKLISTING

01 The Mercy Seat 02 Up Jumped The Devil 03 Deanna 04 Watching Alice 05 Mercy

06 07 08 09 10

City Of Refuge Slowly Goes The Night Sunday’s Slave Sugar Sugar Sugar New Morning

Mute Produced by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Released: September 1988 Highest Chart Position: N/A

or Nick Cave, Tender Prey would prove to be a watershed moment. Musically, the album drew a firm and clear line under his earlier, more abstract and angular blues work with The Birthday Party and the earlier Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds albums (From Her to Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead and Your Funeral ... My Trial) and it opened the way to the more direct, classic approach he would pursue wholeheartedly on his subsequent album The Good Son and beyond. And on a personal level, it was a turning point as well – because it had to be. Cave hit rock bottom in 1987 during the recording of Tender Prey. His heroin use was consuming him and during the album’s recording he was busted in London for the second time for possession. Shortly after the album was released, Mick Harvey, Cave’s then longtime musical partner in both The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, explained, ‘Tender Prey was the record that was most affected by drugs ... That’s why it was recorded in five studios in three countries over six months. Nick was so out of it he was having to do every vocal over and over again. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Nick would disagree. Nick wouldn’t recognise that it had started impinging on his creativity.’ Cave, however, will admit that the album was recorded under ‘the most chaotic situations; there was very little interaction between the group at all’. What is amazing is how incredibly potent and paradoxically cohesive Tender Prey is despite this messy backdrop. The album starts dramatically with Cave’s masterpiece ‘The Mercy Seat’, a chilling self-portrait of a prisoner about to be executed that juxtaposes the electric chair with the throne of God. Across its epic 7 minutes, 17 seconds, the track builds and swirls around itself via an insistent, militaristic backbeat, Mick Harvey’s icy piano, Cave’s Hammond organ and crazed, unsettling strings and guitars. The vocal is controlled and powerful, excellently capturing the

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character’s desperation and righteousness. ‘The Mercy Seat’ would later be covered by the great Johnny Cash as a sombre piano and guitar reflection, on his 2000 album American III: Solitary Man. Given that Cave’s first musical memory is as a child watching The Johnny Cash Show on TV and that he himself covered three Johnny Cashassociated tracks on his 1986 covers album Kicking Against the Pricks, this was clearly a life/career highlight for Cave. Tender Prey would make it onto this list on the strength of ‘The Mercy Seat’ alone, but elsewhere Cave and The Bad Seeds are also in dazzling form. The album’s second single, ‘Deanna’, is a ’60s psych-rock nugget which borrows from the traditional hymn ‘Oh Happy Day’ and takes it into macabre territory via garage organ and drums and a fantastically loose Cave vocal narrating a Natural Born Killers boy-and-girl killing spree. ‘City of Refuge’ is another great, simple repetitive song that plunders the past – this time it’s a Blind Willie Johnson blues – and yet again The Bad Seeds do it with undeniable attack, making the track their own. Elsewhere, Cave falls just on the right side of affectation on the drunken ‘Up Jumped the Devil’ but ‘Sugar Sugar Sugar’ is perhaps one repetitive rant too many. As he would do to greater lengths on subsequent releases, Cave indulges his penchant for gloomy piano-led ballads on ‘Watching Alice’, the beautiful crooner ‘Slowly Goes the Night’ and the dramatic ‘Mercy’, where Cave pokes fun at himself and the media, singing ‘My death, it almost bored me/So often was it told’. But Cave didn’t die. In fact, quite the opposite. He got his shit together post Tender Prey and went on to record great albums like The Good Son, The Boatman’s Call, the sprawling double-disc Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus and Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! as well as writing acclaimed film scripts and novels. Today, Nick Cave is rightly regarded as one of Australia’s most important artists, in any field, of all time.

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Tim Rogers on Tex, Don & Charlie If memory serves, every review of this record, on release, ran with motifs of outlaws, bad guys in sober reflection, yak yak cliché, all of which I found immensely attractive, and I listened to only the hooks, the mood, and thought, well hell, maybe I can live a frivolous buck o years and come up smelling sweet with a record like this when my balls drop and I get a tone in my voice. What a twat. I’ve come back to Sad But True after a couple of years being fortunate enough to work and bugger around a bit with the titular three. I brought up the cliché thing as an introduction because this record is made by men who, by their own design or the laziness of others, are misrepresented at worst, or just underrated. Yep, I said it. Don Walker’s my favourite songwriter. Sometimes I can’t separate my unctuous love of his playing style, taste in suit jackets and general style from his writing nous. I came to Chisel and Catfish late, probably around the same time as Sad But True. On a song as potentially familiar as ‘Sitting in a Bar’, he can throw in the line about ‘the cool of a small town mall’ and I’m zapped into Townsville or such, without any geographical jingoism, and outta more well-worn territory. Similarly, ‘Everybody’s walkin’ like a duck/in the daylight comin under the door’. You’re in customary territory, but in unique company. The deal brokered with God for ‘The Girl with the Bluebird’, in Don’s parlance, is, similarly, his pact, and no-one’s before or after. It won’t even take ’til the second sentence of anybody talking of ‘Perko’ to start on with his presence, physical or otherwise. Touring and recording with him I got to see folks acting like six kinds o jerk off around him. My two strongest memories are that there’s always music playing from his room, always selections I didn’t see coming, and that he’s a comic genius. That he’s one of the world’s great singers seems to get lost in the cooing about his … thing. He said that all the bands he was ever in started as a laugh that suddenly got serious. It’s the way he throws off ‘Oh, it’s you ...’ in ‘Fake that Emotion’ where the other shoe falls for me on this record. From then I’m in, nothin doesn’t ring right, true or more blue. With him, too, it’s easy to get lost in the delivery and style. He’s a freakin one of a kind singer who just happens to write with all heart, hurt and, when you least expect it, humour. Watching Charlie Owen play guitar still makes me feel like a bedwetter. He contorts around that thing like it’s his supernatural repose. How many gunslingers can you say have their own sound? ... Heard Charlie firstly through his Tendrils records with Joel Silbersher. Was struck then how melodic his playing is and how he entwines with a singer like a finger dialling hair. Look, I’m doing it, getting lost in the style, spittin clichés ... Folks who can play in combos, bands, ensembles for years and maintain, or even amplify, their generosity, tact and verve floor me every time. There’s enough dull witted sourpusses out there who’ll chew your ear off about their grudges about time in the Game. Everyone knows Charlie’s the man, could fry yer brain, but he’s in it for the song, for the show, and his playing on Sad But True damn near puts the stamp on that regal behaviour. T, D and C’s second studio record All Is Forgiven is still my favourite of theirs, but coming back to this record after living a bit myself, spending many a night talking through with these men about fatherhood, writing, rooting, Iran, art galleries, Adelaide, football, and the finer things in life have me coveting it. True. Charlie Owen, Tex Perkins, Don Walker

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Tim Rogers (You Am I)

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Overheard The art of eavesdropping Oslo Davis

Description Cartoonist Oslo Davis listens in to real people saying real things – and it’s hilarious.

Every week since 2007, Oslo Davis has been eavesdropping on people in the city of Melbourne, Australia, and recording what he hears in a cartoon for The Age newspaper. His wry observations have earned him a cult following, and ten years on he has become a beloved fixture. Now, for the first time, his Overheard cartoons have been collected in a hilarious compilation, with chapters covering Family Matters, Modern Life, Relationships, The Daily Grind, Friends Like These and What The. Transported through the city by Oslo’s nimble pen, we listen in to the daughter telling her mother not to interfere in party preparations, the fat man pondering what is least bad to eat, and the hipster commenting on what is truly hip. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781743793640

Category

• Humour

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 144 pages

Format

• 210mm x 167mm

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations throughout

Overheardis a hysterical collection with universal appeal.

Author Details Oslo Davis is an illustrator, artist and cartoonist, whose work appears regularly in The Age newspaper, The Monthly, Art Guide Australia, Meanjin and the Readings Monthly. He has also drawn for the New York Times and the Guardian, among many others. He has been commissioned by state galleries, libraries, and universities; awarded a Creative Fellowship and is a former Walkley Award winner. He has authored a number of books, most recently the colouring book This Annoying Life.

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Overheard The art of eavesdropping Oslo Davis

This collection of cartoons captures ordinary conversations in hilarious situations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and finds comedy in the everyday. Timeless and relatable, no matter where you are in the world. Perfect as a humorous impulse buy. Marketing + Publicity

Full PR schedule with interviews, extracts and reviews across national media | Competition to win an original signed Oslo Davis print | Posters available | Animated book trailer available

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OVERHEARD

F A M I LY

CITY STREET Monday 2:00pm ‘It’s Costco Janice: the wedding gift superstore!’

SHOPPING STRIP Tuesday 1:00pm ‘If Santa brings the kids craft then I end up making craft, and I hate craft.’

OVERHEARD

MODERN LIVING

PIER Saturday 4:00pm ‘Somebody put Vera’s cheesecakes in with the bait.’

FOODTRUCK Saturday 6:30pm Her: ‘How hot is hot?’ Him: ‘It’s hot but not hot hot.’ Her: ‘So, it’s like, not hot hot hot?’ Him: ‘Yeah, something like that.’

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Coming To My Senses The makings of a counterculture cook Alice Waters

Description The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant.

In Coming to My Senses Alice retraces the events that led her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue and the tumultuous times that emboldened her to find her own voice as a cook when the prevailing food culture was embracing convenience and uniformity. Moving from a repressive suburban upbringing to Berkeley in 1964 at the height of the Free Speech Movement and campus unrest, Alice was drawn into a bohemian circle of charismatic figures whose views on design, politics, film, and food would ultimately inform the unique culture on which Chez Panisse was founded. Publication Date 5th September 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 / NZ$44.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781743793862

Category

• Auto/Biography

Imprint Extent

• Hardie Grant Shared Local • 304 pages

Format

• 210mm x 140mm

Illustrations

• Mainly text with photo section

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Dotted with stories, recipes, photographs, and letters, Coming to My Senses is at once deeply personal and modestly understated, a quietly revealing look at one woman’s evolution from a rebellious yet impressionable follower to a respected activist who effects social and political change on a global level through the common bond of food.

Author Details Alice Waters is the executive chef, founder, and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkely, California. In 1995 Alice founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which advocates for a free school lunch for all children and a sustainable food curriculum in every public school. She has received the French Legion of Honour, WSJ Magazine Humanitarian Innovator Award, and three James Beard Awards. Alice is Vice President of Slow Food International and the author of 13 books. Her most recent books are My Pantry, The Art of Simple Food, 40 Years of Chez Panisse,

Coming To My Senses The makings of a counterculture cook Alice Waters

and In the Green Kitchen. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Key Selling Points Alice Waters is an internationally recognised chef, author and food activist. Coming to My Senses is her long-awaited memoir.

Her memoir will appeal to both food lovers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and fans of her very particular style of cooking and hospitality at the now iconic Chez Panisse â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and readers who are interested in the dynamic social change occurring in parts of America in the '60s and '70s.

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Made to Last A Compendium of Artisans, Trades & Projects Vanessa Murray

Description In a world full of mass production and copyright infringement, there is a movement emerging that is focused on sourcing unique and independently created products that are made to last. This title is a celebration of these unique products and the tradespeople behind their creation. Made to Last showcases some of the weird and wonderful products being created today – from whiskey tumblers to mushroom knives, men’s shoes and bamboo bikes – with profiles of their makers and related DIY projects that invite readers to act on their inspiration and get making themselves. These DIY suggestions are as varied as the products themselves, from how to treat and care for wood furniture to making your own canvas lunch bag. The book’s own beautiful design ensures that it, too, is truly made to last.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$59.99 / NZ$64.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781741175240

Category

• Craft/DIY

Imprint

• Explore Australia

Extent

• 272 pages

Format

• 283mm x 216mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Author Details Originally hailing from New Zealand, Vanessa Murray is a freelance writer and journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Smith Journal and Dumbo Feather magazines, and The Age and Herald Sun newspapers. She has also contributed to a number of Hardie Grant publications, including Connect With Nature. Vanessa recently launched her own communications agency called Big Talk.

Key Selling Points With a sophisticated design and hardback format, this book is 'made to last' as much as the products featured within the pages. DIY projects are interesting and varied from how to make a wheelbarrow to making an heirloom

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Made to Last A Compendium of Artisans, Trades & Projects Vanessa Murray

laptop (using open source software). Targeting an audience who seek out bespoke and independently created products. Comparative titles: The Craft and the Makers (Gestalten), Made By Hand (Black Dog Publishing). The point of difference with this book is that it also offers DIY projects alongside the profiles, and it celebrates products made purely by hand or with the help of modern technologies. Capitalises on the trend for sustainably produced, long lasting products. Marketing + Publicity

Inclusion in Hardie Grant Armchair Travel genre campaign | Advertising in Australian Traveller, International Traveller & Smith Journal | Genre book trailer, EDM & competition promoted across HG social channels | Australian Traveller advertorial | Targeted social media campaign | Influencer campaign to travel bloggers | Sponsored posts with travel Instagrammers | Giveaways with travel blogs | Collaboration with Urban Traveller | Collaboration with Lost & Found Traveller | Book trailer, available for pre-roll campaigns | Editorial coverage in Dumbo Feather, Habitus, Green Magazine, Australian Country, Country Style, Smith Journal, Slow Magazine, Real Living, and Inside Out | Collaboration with Lost Trades Fair | Collaboration with Craft Victoria | Collaboration with Finders Keepers Market | Co-op available across all sectors

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WA R R E W R A P S Beekeeping Beeswax is incredible. It’s abundant, doesn’t dissolve or change its properties in water, and its chemical makeup is so stable that it lasts thousands of years. Humankind has harnessed its properties in many ways throughout history: in skin balms, beauty treatments and medicines; for candle, soap and crayon making; for embalming and waterproofing; and for food preservation, as these beeswax-infused food wraps attest. Made by dipping pieces of vintage or recycled cotton fabric in a fortifying mixture of beeswax, pine resin and jojoba oil, they can be used to cover and wrap food – think sandwiches, cheese, bread and the like – time and time again. They’re made by two homesteading mamas in the green outskirts of Sydney, Australia, who keep their own bees and harvest their own wax.

MEASUREMENTS

Extra small: 14 × 14 cm (5.5 × 5.5 in); Small: 20 × 20 cm (7.9 × 7.9 in); Medium: 26 × 26 cm (10.2 × 10.2 in); Large: 33 × 33 cm (13 × 13 in); Extra large: 43 × 43 cm (16.9 × 16.9 in)

M AT E R I A L S

Beeswax, pine resin, jojoba oil, 100% cotton fabric

K E Y TO O L S

Chisel, clothes pegs, cooking pot, iron, lint brush, pinking shears, mortar and pestle, string

K E Y M AC H I N E S

Stovetop

T I M E TO M A K E

4 hours (batch of 140 wraps)

L I F E S PA N

1 year +

E M I LY G I M E L L A R O A N D TA N I A D I C K S O N —

Backyard beekeepers [Wilton, Australia]

Friends Emily Gimellaro and Tania Dickson know a thing or two about bees. The buzzy creatures pollinate a third of what we eat, communicate via dance and, as these women will enthusiastically tell you, produce many amazing things. Emily and Tania make amazing things, too: lip balms, salves and moisturisers, sunscreen, food wraps, furniture polish, spoon butter, candles. Of all the things they’ve managed to produce from beeswax, it’s the reusable food wraps that they have decided to pursue commercially. ‘We try and minimise single-use plastic as much as possible at home, and it’s nice to make something that encourages others to do the same,’ says Tania. The wrap making process is relatively simple. They start by cutting the fabric to size with pinking shears, which stops the fabric Made to last

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from running. They give each piece a good shake, and remove any excess fluff with a lint brush. Then the fabric is ironed and piled neatly, ready for waxing. To prepare the wax mixture, the pair chisel the beeswax into manageable chunks and grind the pine resin in a mortar and pestle. These, along with the jojoba oil, are melted in a big pot on the stovetop. The mixture is then carefully poured into a purposebuilt receptacle. ‘We hold the wraps in our fingers to dip them in the wax mixture. We’ve found we’re more accurate with our fingers than with pegs! Once they’re dipped we peg them on the lines we have strung up across the shelves and cupboards in our workroom. The wax dries incredibly quickly; within a few minutes, they’re ready for folding and packaging,’ explains Emily.

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Emily and Tania spent about four months refining their production processes to make them as streamlined and sustainable as possible. As well as enabling them to simply dip a swathe of fabric in the mixture (rather than the more intensive pouring and brushing used in the smallerscale oven production method), the custom dipping receptacle minimises stovetop time, and therefore energy use. It also eliminates the reams and reams of baking paper demanded by the oven method, which irked them. Wrap-making also allows Tania and Emily to indulge in one of their favourite pastimes: second-hand fabric shopping. ‘We visit opportunity shops and vintage stores, buy bulk seconds or offcuts online, and even get some from our mothers, who are both quilters and often have spares. We have a huge stash of fabrics in our work cupboards, and we love sifting through them to choose patterns for the batch we’re about to start working on,’ says Tania. ‘We love the variety in our fabrics. The only must is that the fabric must be 100 per cent cotton. We’re experimenting with botanical dyes at the moment,’ adds Emily. They named their wraps Warre Wraps, as an homage to the type of hives they keep their bees in. A warré (pronounced war-ray) hive is a vertical top bar hive that is made from identical boxes fitted with top bars and stacked one on top of the other. It’s designed to mimic one of a bee colony’s favourite hive-making spots: a hollow tree. Warré hives are cheap and easy to build, closer to nature than other hive types, and great for smaller spaces – like Emily’s backyard, where she keeps them in the chicken run. Emily’s hive is home to 60,000 or so bees, who produce 3–4 kg (6–8 lb) of wax a year. And then there’s the annual honey harvest – all 40 kg (88.2 lb) of it, which the family eat, share with friends and trade. ‘I chose to bee keep in a warré hive because I feel that it is the closest way to nature for the bees. I love how gentle the bees are because they are busy building their own comb. There are no plastic frames, no queen excluders, no feeding sugar syrup. It’s just bees in a box doing their thing,’ says Emily.

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CARING FOR YOUR REUSABLE FOOD WRAPS

H OW TO

Use your reusable food wraps in place of plastic wrap for anything except raw meat, greasy food or acidic food. Between uses, rinse the wraps in cool soapy dishwater, wipe them clean with a cool damp cloth and let them air dry. Store them in a cool place out of direct sunlight – either on a clean shelf in your pantry or in a container. It’s okay to gently fold them to fit in a container if need be.

make reusable food wraps I NGR EDI ENTS —

100% cotton fabric – size and pattern of your choice

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Water (for double boiling)

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1 cup beeswax (chunked or pastilles)

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¼ cup tree resin (pine is good)

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2 tablespoons jojoba oil TOOLS

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Pinking shears or sharp scissors

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Oven

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Medium-sized cooking pot

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Mason jar

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Clean paintbrush (or pastry brush)

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Newspaper or an old towel

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Pegs

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Coathanger or indoor clothesline

METH OD

1. Cut your fabric to size – the sizing of the Warre Wraps is a great guide. You can use any scissors for this, but pinking shears are best as their zigzag cut prevents the fabric from fraying. 2. Heat your oven to 150°C (300°F). 3. Half fill the cooking pot with water, then set it on the stove to boil. 4. Place the beeswax, resin and jojoba oil in the mason jar, put the lid on tightly, then immerse the jar in the water. When the water is boiling the mixture in the jar will start to melt. 5. While this is happening, line a baking tray with the waxed paper and lay a single piece of fabric on the tray. 6. When the mixture has fully melted, put on oven gloves, remove the hot jar from the boiling water, and carefully drizzle the beeswax mixture over the fabric. It will harden quickly, but you’ll have a chance to smooth out the wax at the next stage, so don’t worry too much if it’s a bit uneven at this stage. 7. Place the tray in the oven for a couple of minutes to reheat the beeswax. Pull the tray out and use the paintbrush to spread the mixture evenly over the cotton’s fibres, then return the tray to the oven. 8. Lay some newspaper over your work area, then remove the tray from the oven. Use two clothes pegs to pick the fabric up at the corners and hold it over the newspaper while any excess wax drips off. 9. Peg the fabric on an old coathanger or clothesline. 10. Let your wrap dry for a few hours before using. PR O TI P

The compostable baking paper used to line the oven tray can be re-used again and again while you make different wraps, as the wax it catches will melt and be absorbed across many pieces of fabric.

We try and minimise single-use plastic as much as possible at home, and it’s nice to make something that encourages others to do the same.

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-PIEC G R E Y T H R E EC H E C K E W I N D O W SUIT PA N E Tailoring There’s an old joke that a good tailor will get to know your body better than your wife or lover, and in many ways, it’s true. A bespoke suit fitting is an intimate affair. Your tailor will want to hear about what you plan to do in the suit, measure you top to toe, and observe your body shape and posture. This snappy three-piece suit comprises a jacket (single-breasted, two buttons, peaked lapels, slanted pockets with flaps); waistcoat (single-breasted, six buttons, peaked fronts); trouser (classic cut, plain-fronted, buckle side adjusters on the waistband). It was handmade by tailors Robert and Daniel Jones of Sydney, whose bespoke suits are crafted using a full floating canvas construction. This means that canvas lines the interior of the jacket and waistcoat. It’s a hallmark of quality that helps the suit drape well on your body, and ensures it will last.

MEASUREMENTS

Made to measure

M AT E R I A L S

Cotton thread, lightweight 8½ oz Italian-woven super 150s pure Australian wool, unpolished horn buttons, wool and horsehair inner canvassing and linings, YKK metal zippers

K E Y TO O L S

Measuring tape, sewing needles, small thread clippers, tailor’s chalk, tailor’s shears, tailor’s square, thimble

K E Y M AC H I N E S

Buttonhole machine, pressing machines, sewing machines

T I M E TO M A K E

50 hours

L I F E S PA N

20 years +

DA N I E L J O N E S —

Bespoke tailor [Sydney, Australia]

Daniel Jones was 19 years old when he joined his father, Robert, in the family tailoring business. Daniel is the third-generation tailor in his family. His father taught him the art of cutting in the traditional English style, but over the years, Daniel has developed his own, more modern approach to making bespoke men’s suits. This shows in his awareness of international fashion trends, and his social media presence. The first step in making a suit is meeting with the client. This meeting lasts for as long as it needs to; Daniel likes to learn as much about his clients as he can. After the meeting, a pattern is made and cut. ‘The pattern will be drafted onto the chosen cloth and our cutter cuts the suit to the requirements. The inner canvassing and linings are also cut at this stage to ensure all pieces fit like a puzzle. Then we select the right shoulder padding and under collar for our client’s shoulder and neck shape,’ says Daniel. Made to last

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‘It’s important to get the initial cutting right as this will affect the end result. There’s no coming back from a poorly cut suit.’ Each piece of the pattern is then basted (loosely sewn) together to form the shell of the suit coat. It’s sewn together by hand and then shaped by hand according to the client’s measurements and their posture details. The client is then invited to come in for fitting. ‘We take the suit back to the cutting bench re-cut it in line with the adjustments made at the first fitting. It’s then sewn together, and the pockets and buttonholes are finished.’ This requires hundreds of stitches throughout the inner canvassing and for the buttonholes, and is the most time-consuming part of the suit-making process. It’s fine, detailed work that requires patience and a steady hand. Then it’s time for second fitting, and any final adjustments. The suit is pressed and then there is a final appointment, where Daniel

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Homecamp Stories and Inspiration for the Modern Adventurer Doron Francis

Description Live the dream of the great outdoors, or be inspired by those who do.

Have you ever wanted to quit your job and take off on a motorcycle journey from Alaska to Argentina? Do you dream of moving out of your city apartment and into a shipping container house in the middle of the forest? Are you yearning to drink your coffee on the top of a mountain rather than in your office? Take a journey into the great outdoors with Homecamp, where you’ll meet the people who left their old lives behind to follow the dream of the great outdoors, and be inspired to do the same yourself.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$59.99 / NZ$64.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781741175035

Category

• Travel

Imprint

• Explore Australia

Extent

• 272 pages

Format

• 283mm x 216mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography throughout

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This beautifully designed book includes the story of a graphic designer who lives in his Volkswagen van, a woman in California who started a female motorbike and camping festival, and a couple who run a yoga and surfing retreat in India. Alongside stunning photography, it offers how-to guides for enjoying life in the natural world, covering everything from finding the perfect campsite to wild food foraging and making the best campfire coffee brew. Whether you want to feel the thrill of the outdoor adventure from the comfort of your armchair, or to go out and really explore the beauty of the natural world yourself, Homecamp is the book for you.

Author Details Doron and Stephanie Francis launched Homecamp in 2014, an online business that sells beautifully crafted products to help people enjoy the outdoors in style and comfort. The business has since grown into a separate events company called Under Sky, offering premium outdoor experiences and pop-up glamping accommodation for corporate gatherings and festivals. Doron and Stephanie go out into nature as often as they can and feel most at home when on the road.

Homecamp Stories and Inspiration for the Modern Adventurer Doron Francis They have also been profiled in two books, Camping Out in the Wild (GALINDO Publishing) and New Identities (Gestalten).

Key Selling Points Taps into the growing trend and market for glamping and specialised outdoor experiences. Offers a reprieve from today's digitally-fatigued world with stories and photographs from outdoor adventurers in incredible locations. Includes profiles on people from around the globe, such as a Russian photographer who ventures into wild landscapes, a Norwegian film documentary maker, and an American who travels around the country in a VW van selling excellent coffee. Large format and sophisticated design â&#x20AC;&#x201C; perfect as a beautiful gift or coffee table book. Comparative titles: Camping Out in the Wild (GALINDO Publishing), The Great Wide Open (Gestalten), 365 Nature (Hardie Grant). Marketing + Publicity

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Inclusion in Hardie Grant Armchair Travel genre campaign | Advertising in Australian Traveller, International Traveller and Smith Journal | Genre book trailer, EDM & competition promoted across HG social channels | Australian Traveller advertorial | Targeted social media campaign | Influencer campaign to travel bloggers | Sponsored posts with travel Instagrammers | Giveaways with travel blogs and targeted retailers | Collaboration with Urban Traveller | Collaboration with Lost & Found Traveller | Book trailer available for pre-roll campaigns | Inclusion in Hardie Grant Christmas genre promotions including First Pages and consumer advertising | Digital assets available for retailers | Sydney publicity tour | Editorial coverage in frankie, The Design Files, Broadsheet, Time Out, Gourmet Traveller, Australian Traveller, International Traveller, Wild Magazine, Smith Journal, Real Living, Inside Out, MiNDFOOD, Fairfax's Traveller, News Corp's Escape, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, Good Weekend and Stellar | Pop-up Homecamp events

Sharing coffee and connection

Erik Gordon didn’t try his first cup of coffee until he was twenty-two years old and partway through a bike journey across America. It wasn’t a big decision: he was cold and the coffee was warm. But when Erik took his first sip, he was floored. Suddenly he could see why communities gather and connect over this simple brew. He decided that this was what he was meant to be doing: making coffee and creating connections with America’s outdoor community of climbers, hikers and riders – a bunch of people who also live life doing the things they love. So Erik bought a Volkswagen van and started Carabiner Coffee. He now travels the country in it, selling good coffee, good coffee beans and living his version of the good life. There is no greater accomplishment than living a journey that is totally and completely yours. For me, that means travelling the country in an old VW van called Ol’ Blue, spreading love through simple cups of coffee. Coffee has the power to bring people together, and it’s my mission to use that connection to inspire people to take a chance and believe in the dream that keeps them up at night. When I had my first cup of coffee, I was a dirtbag climber in search of the life of adventure I had always wanted. I drank a cup of coffee to keep warm on a cold coastal day, and it opened my eyes to new possibilities. From then on, travel and coffee and living a free life were connected in a way that I couldn’t seem to shake. A few years later, after moving to Colorado, I started to learn the coffee trade inside and out. I soon gained enough knowledge and confidence to set out on my own coffee journey. I knew it also needed to be focused on nature and experiencing wild places. I found Ol’ Blue through an online listing a few states away. After a couple of months of talking with the seller, I made my final offer without ever having driven or seen the van in person. Over the following months, I turned it into a home and a coffee shop on wheels. When I finally drove Ol’ Blue out of town and over a freezing mountain pass, toes numb and fingers white, I couldn’t help but smile. I’d put myself into a position where I had no other option but to embrace the journey. You always hear people talking about wanting to live a life with no maps or limits, and this was it. This was my chance. This was my dream.

Some days the van breaks down and I don’t make it to where I’m going. But I still find myself smiling. I’m here, I’m alive and I’m spending my days exactly the way they were meant to be spent, spreading love the best way I know how – through a damn good cup of coffee. ..........X

“You always hear

people talking about wanting to live a life with no maps or limits, and this was it. This was my chance. This was my dream.

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Erik Gordon bought a van, converted it into a coffee shop/home on wheels, and hit the road to epic adventure. He drives around the West Coast of the United States, selling coffee to other outdoors folk and dreamers who like making new friends over a hot cup of joe.

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Q&A

Wild creations

Chef and adventurer Sarah Glover grew up in one of Australia’s wildest places, surfing the turbulent waves of Tasmania, nibbling on berries from the bushes she passed. Fresh, local produce was always on her table and blooming in her backyard. With wilderness so close, she didn’t have to go far for adventure. The thrill of far-flung adventures was what drew her to the mainland, where she met people who inspired her love of surfing, travel and cooking for people. As she made her way up the coast of Australia, then on to New York City and back again, she helped open restaurants and design menus, learning about cooking along the way. She opened her own sweets shop in Bondi Beach, Australia, in 2009, spending her days in the surf and pouring herself into cooking and sharing. The more people she met, the more she found that most of them hadn’t grown up as wild as she had – had never known the joys that come from cooking outdoors with family and friends. So she wrote her Wild Adventure Cookbook, dedicated to the art and pleasures of cooking outdoors and over the campfire with good friends, local ingredients and the good that comes of letting nature inspire you. You grew up in Tasmania – what was your childhood there like, and how did it influence your love of food and the outdoors?

What drew you to pack your bags and go up the coast of Australia, then over to America? What continues to drive you to go on adventures?

Growing up on the island, I never thought twice about having fresh raspberries at my beck and call, or apricots that oozed with every golden, sun-filled bite. My backyard was full of fresh produce, which I could eat whenever my tummy grumbled, and the wild outdoors were at my doorstep. It wasn’t so much of an influence as a way of living. You went outside on the weekends; you surfed rugged beaches and lit fires to keep warm.

I am a thrill seeker – I can’t help myself. I’m always trying to find a new challenge and hurdle to jump over, because it’s an adrenalin rush. I just like creating and being on the road – it stimulates my creativity. I go home to sleep and rest, then I go out again.

It wasn’t until I moved to the mainland that I started to realise that my experience having access to local, fresh produce was a rarity for most. How does surfing inspire you? Surfing is my time to clear my mind. It allows me to stop thinking about what I need to do or be and to just laugh and have fun. Fun and laughter are medicine – they motivate me. The friends I have met through the ocean have become lifelong mates who inspire me to be authentic.

You’ve worn many professional hats over the years, both food related and not. What keeps drawing you back to food? I like to talk, to hear people’s stories and share my passion with them. For me, cooking is about that exchange. Food is what I can offer people. I think it’s that I get to be creative with my hands. Food is something that nourishes and brings people together. It is a necessity of life, and I want to deliver it in a way that inspires people to gather. The campfire is a nonjudgmental environment – people take off their shoes and just relax.You don’t find people looking at their phones around a fire! (continued on page 168)

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Explore Australia by Camper Trailer Lee Atkinson

Description Explore Australia by Camper Trailer is a curated guide to the very best places to visit with a camper trailer. Unlike a caravan or motorhome, camper trailers can travel on rough outback tracks and to remote national parks. This book is the first comprehensive guide specifically for travelling with a camper trailer, and features reviews of more than 320 camper trailer sites – a mix of bush camping in national parks, free camping, station stays and caravan parks. Covering 50 regional areas around the country, there’s also information on what to see and do once you’ve picked the perfect base camp, including scenic daytrips, local attractions, walks and fishing spots. Detailed maps and colourful photos make this book everything you need to plan the perfect camping holiday or camper trailer road trip.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 / NZ$44.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781741175332

Category

• Travel

Imprint

• Explore Australia

Extent

• 352 pages

Format

• 263mm x 210mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Lee Atkinson is one of Australia’s most experienced travel writers, and two-time winner of the prestigious Australian Society of Travel Writers Best Adventure Travel Story award. She has been writing about her adventures on and off the road for Australian newspapers, magazines and travel guides since 1991. She is the author of Explore Australia’s Driving Holidays Around Australia, and is a contributor to the Explore Australia Camping Around Australia guide and the road-tripping bible Explore Australia. This is her fourteenth book. See www.leeatkinson.com.au.

Key Selling Points While various guidebooks exist for caravanners, four-wheel drivers and people camping with a tent, this is the very first book dedicated to travelling around Australia with a camper trailer. Camper-trailer travel is booming! Between March 2016 and March 2017, there were almost 140,000 new or renewed camper trailer registrations across the country (10,000 more than the

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Explore Australia by Camper Trailer Lee Atkinson

previous year). Camper trailers appeal to families wanting more mod-cons than a tent, and grey nomads who want to get off-road and discover places that caravans and motorhomes cannot access. Author spent 11 months on the road researching this book, and has personally visited all of the 320+ campsites reviewed.

Marketing + Publicity

Editorial and advertising coverage in long lead publications including Camper Trailer & Australia Magazine, Caravanning Australia, RAC Magazines and Caravan & Motorhome | Editorial coverage in short lead publications including Fairfax's Traveller lift out, News Corp's Escape lift out | Digital advertising on Camper Trailer Australia, The Grey Nomads | Co-op available across all sectors | Camper Trailer standee to be distributed via the reps | Inclusion in Hardie Grant Christmas genre campaign including First Pages | Targeted social media campaign | Digital marketing material provided on request | Book trailer rolled out to target market and retailers | Subs drive with RAC publications | Collaboration with Ray's Tent City | Collaboration with Mitsubishi | Collaboration with Mars Campers | Appearance at the 2018 Victorian Caravan, Camping & Touring Supershow in February | Publicity Tour to Brisbane

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Kew

9 Grants Beach

North Haven

Watson Taylors 22 Lake

Lake Cathie Bonny Hills

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crystals that sparkle in the sunlight in the cliﬀs, Diamond Head is just one of several attractions in Crowdy Bay National Park, between Taree and Laurieton. There are long stretches of next-to-deserted beach, rocky wildflowerstrewn headlands laced with walking trails, rock pools,

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Mungo Brush is a large, shady lakeside camping and picnic spot with electric barbecues and picnic tables, where pelicans fish in the shady shallows as black swans glide by, and opportunistic goannas prowl the grassy clearing once the visitors have packed up for the day. Children can splash about in the clear shallows and it’s a great place to jump in a canoe for a leisurely paddle around the edge of the lake. Mungo Brush Rainforest Walk is an easy 30-minute loop through littoral rainforest – keep an eye out for koalas. Other animals you’ll probably see are wallabies, possums, bandicoots, gliders, echidnas, and lots of birdlife.

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deserted surf beaches, spectacular headlands and treefringed lakes of Myall Lakes National Park – just an hour’s drive north of Newcastle – attracts thousands of people during the height of the holiday season. During these times almost every available corner becomes someone’s idea of paradise – whether it be paddling a kayak, camping on a shady lakeside beach, waterskiing, bushwalking, four-wheel-driving on the beach, fishing, sailing, swimming, surfing or picnicking. But visit the park on a summer weekday, or an autumn or spring weekend out of school holidays, and you’ll be sharing this piece of water wonderland with only a handful of others.

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Remember when you were a kid, when summer, and the beach, seemed to go on forever? Life’s still like that on the New South Wales mid-north coast – it’s pretty much one long stretch of beach all the way, sprinkled with laid-back holiday and fishing villages, lighthouses and languid waterways. In this part of the world, from the Great Lakes near Forster north to Coffs Harbour, the definition of the good life is a crowd-free cove and fresh fish and chips. Set up camp beside the sea or explore the back roads that wind through the hinterland. Chances are, just like when you were little, you won’t want to leave.

Myall Lakes National Park, the 15m-high Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse stands on a dramatic headland east of Seal Rocks village. Completed in 1875, it’s perfect for whale watching between May and November. There is also a path here that leads to a lookout over Seal Rocks, a collection of rocky islets that are home to the northernmost colony of Australian fur seals; bring your binoculars for a better view. It’s only 28km as the crow flies (or by mountain bike) from Mungo Brush, but to get there by vehicle you’ll need to head back to the Pacific Highway via the Bombah Point ferry to Bulahdelah and then turn onto the Lakes Way (the back road to Forster). 61km from Mungo Brush.

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Why go? Australia’s outback is a place of endless surprises, an ethereal place where the bush stories and famous pioneer legends fail to prepare you for its stark, sometimes cruel beauty. It’s a place where red, yellow and orange sand dunes bake under a relentlessly blue sky, dry riverbeds thread their way across the vast gibber plains and wildlife congregate at waterholes in the evening cool. It’s harsh, unforgiving, ancient and so beautiful that it will sear itself into your memory, calling you back again and again. Explore jump-up country The far north-western corner of New South Wales is a great introduction to the outback, where red dust plains studded with saltbush and mulga seem to stretch on forever. After rain, the dry plains transform into a sea of green. Spend some time exploring Sturt National Park with its striking jump-ups, flat mesalike mountains that rise dramatically from the surrounding plains. Gorge Loop Rd is a driving loop around Mt Wood Homestead and shearers quarters, across gibber and Mitchell grass plains, Twelve Mile Creek Gorge and old pastoral remains, and Jump-Up Loop Rd is a scenic drive with great views of the plateau and the granite-strewn plains. 4WD is recommended to explore the best of the park. Sturt National Park is just north of Tibooburra. Wander Milparinka’s deserted streets The architect of the Sydney GPO designed Milparinka’s imposing sandstone courthouse; it has, along with the police station, barracks and lockup, been restored and filled with historic displays. The pub has rooms and still serves cold beer, but the rest of the town is an atmospheric ruin. 40km south of Tibooburra.

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Enjoy free art with your beer in Tibooburra One of our last true frontier towns, Tibooburra is a great place to stretch the legs and soak up some of the local tall tales at the hotel – the walls of the Family Hotel (the one-storey one) are covered in murals painted by artists Clifton Pugh, Russell Drysdale, Eric Minchin and Rick Amor. Legend has it that Pugh was stranded in town during rain in 1969 and started painting the walls to pass the time. Check out the sculpture of explorer Charles Sturt’s whaleboat in Pioneer Park before you leave town. 100km east of Fort Grey in Sturt National Park.

Base camp Sturt National Park

Lat. -29.087, Long. 141.209 There are four camping grounds in the park and each has picnic tables, free gas barbecues and toilets. Dead Horse Gully is set among large granite boulders not far from Tibooburra; Olive Downs is on top of the Jump-Ups; and Mt Wood is near historic Mt Wood Homestead, on the eastern side of the park. Fort Grey is in the western part of the park among the sand dunes and near the shores of the ephemeral Lake Pinaroo. Explorer Charles Sturt built a stockade here in 1845, although little remains today. BYO water and be aware that no wood fires are permitted in the park. Be in three places at once If you’ve ever found yourself wishing you could be in more than one place at the same time, you’re in luck; at Cameron Corner, 140km northwest of Tibooburra by 4WD, you can put one foot in New South Wales and the other in Queensland, and wave your arms around in South Australia, all at the same time. The point where the three states meet is marked with a post, and has become a favourite photo stop for most outback travellers. There’s not much at Cameron Corner – just the Corner Store on the Queensland side, where you can get

The Dingo Fence at Cameron Corner, where three states meet a cold beer and a snack, fuel, basic mechanical gear and souvenirs. Stop and chat with the owners, who can fill you in on local road conditions. It also has powered and unpowered caravan sites. The real reason to head out this way, though, is the red desert scenery of the surrounding Strzelecki Desert. If you are lucky enough to be here after the rain has been and gone, the dunes are carpeted in wildflowers.

Follow in the footsteps of Burke and Wills Australia’s most famous explorers, Burke and Wills, set oﬀ from Melbourne in a blaze of glory in 1860, intent on being the first to cross the continent from south to north. Six months later they made it to the Gulf of Carpentaria, but they never made it home, dying on the banks of Cooper Creek, near Innamincka, in the far north-east of South Australia. Burke and Wills had left a back-up party at Cooper Creek while they headed north to the Gulf, with instructions for them to wait for three months before leaving. They gave up after 18 weeks, leaving a cache of food buried beneath what is now known as the Dig Tree, missing the exhausted explorers’ return by hours. It’s a mystery why Burke and Wills starved here; Cooper Creek teems with life and is a beautiful place to camp, swim and paddle (you can hire canoes and kayaks at the Innamincka Hotel). Wills’s grave is about 25km west of the town, a memorial to Burke is along the creek to the east, and the Dig Tree is 55km from town, just across the Queensland border on a

private station called Nappa Merrie – you can visit the site and bush camp there, but you have to pay a small fee to enter the station.

Base camp Cooper Creek

Lat. -27.765, Long. 140.686 The tragic death of the ill-fated explorers has unjustly given this beautiful watercourse a bad reputation. Despite being called a creek (Charles Sturt named the river in 1845, noting at the time in his journal that ‘I would gladly have laid this creek down as a river, but as it had no current I did not feel myself justified in so doing’), the Cooper is a wide, clean waterway that attracts a wealth of birdlife to its almost constant water supply and is one of the few carp-free rivers in Australia. Anglers often pull in good bream, catfish and yellowbelly (golden perch). It’s a wonderful place to camp and there are good camping sites on the south side of Cooper Creek in the Innamincka Town Common, including Policemans Waterhole, Ski Beach, King’s Site, Minkie Waterhole and Wills’ Grave, although there are no facilities. There are also

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Why go? The roads, tracks and wheel ruts that spear through the Western Desert between the Red Centre and the west coast – the Great Central Road and the Gunbarrel Hwy, Sandy Blight Junction Track and Gary Junction Rd, all built by legendary surveyor and road maker Len Beadell in the 1950s and ’60s – are about as remote as you can get. They’re not to be taken lightly: you need to be well equipped and self-sufficient, and have a vehicle in tip-top shape. However, spending time in the desert is an experience you won’t soon forget. These really are the ultimate roads less travelled. Free camp wherever you want One of the best things about travelling these remote desert tracks is that you don’t have to go very far oﬀ the road to find a pleasant place to camp, and you certainly don’t need to book. We’ve included a few special spots worth seeking out along various tracks in the following pages, but in most places you can bush camp in cleared areas within 50m of the road anywhere you like, as long as you bury your toilet waste, make sure any fires are well extinguished before you leave, and do not disturb any Aboriginal artefacts you may find.

Tackle the legendary Gunbarrel Highway This rough 826km track that traverses the edge of the Gibson Desert between Wiluna and Warburton lives up to its legendary status. Len Beadell built it in 1955–58 as part of the infrastructure for rocket testing; it was the first east–west road link across central Australia. Beadell was (in)famous for making his roads as straight as possible, hence the name Gunbarrel, although ‘highway’ is a bit of a misnomer: Beadell was well known for his practical

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jokes – you’ll pass numerous survey markers left by Beadell, nailed to trees, cemented into rusty 44-gallon drums and half-buried beside the road. These days the trademark hand-stamped aluminium plates are replicas, as most of the originals were souvenired years ago. His original theodolite is on the top of Mt Beadell, about twothirds of the way along the track. Allow up to five days – most of the time you’ll probably average around 20km per hour – and carry extra fuel as the only fuel available is at Carnegie Station, 335km east of Wiluna and 500km west of Warburton. Technically the Gunbarrel starts at Carnegie, and the really rough stuﬀ doesn’t happen until after Mungilli Claypan, a further 150km east, but thereafter it’s bone-shattering corrugations, deep ruts, rocks, tyre-impaling mulga stakes and deep, gelatinous bogholes. The sublime beauty of the desert landscape makes it all worthwhile. The Gunbarrel is not for everyone – you need a sturdy, lightweight oﬀ-road trailer – but if you’ve got the right rig, and like a challenge, it’s the ultimate outback adventure drive.

Base camp North Pool, Wiluna

Lat. -26.446, Long. 120.148 It’s a common misconception that deserts are dry, desolate places; some of the most majestic waterfront campsites in the country are beside waterholes in the middle of the desert. North Pool, near Wiluna, is at the start (or finish, depending on which way you travel) of two of the outback’s most notorious long-haul desert tracks: the Gunbarrel Hwy and the Canning Stock Route. There’s only enough room for a few camper trailers, and the only facility is a rubbish bin, but it really is an oasis and birdlife is prolific. 20km north of Wiluna, 10km off the Canning Stock Route.

North Pool, near Wiluna on the Canning Stock Route

Base camp Mingol Camp

Lat. -25.910, Long. 122.357 Another great spot to pull up for a night is this old stockman’s camp beside a small but pretty billabong on Wongawol Station. It’s still in use and, unlike most camping areas beside the track, which are really just clearings in the bush, this one is furnished with camp beds and a lean-to shelter. It’s free to camp here, but working stockmen get first dibs at the beds if they are there.

Base camp Mungilli Claypan

Lat. -25.401, Long. 124.265 Sit back and watch the wild camels lope past as the setting sun paints the sky crimson and purple. There’s no shade, but at least the claypan is level, and it’s beautiful in a wow-we’re-theonly-people-around-for-hundreds-of-miles

kind of way. You can also camp at Carnegie Station if you are in desperate need of a shower. See www.carnegiestation.com.au. Follow the tracks of Australia’s last true explorer Warakurna is home to the Giles Weather Station, which was set up in 1956 in order to forecast weather conditions suitable for nuclear weapons testing and rocket testing programs at Woomera. The site was selected by Len Beadell, who, with the help of his Gunbarrel Road Construction Party (which Beadell called the ‘Gunbarrel Bush Bashers’), bulldozed more than 6500km of roads through virgin and sometimes unexplored territory in the centre of Australia to service the Woomera rocket range and Maralinga nuclear bomb test sites between 1947 and 1963. His grader, which trundled across more than 30,000km making these roads, is on display beside the weather station; it’s open for tours and features original murals painted by Beadell, who was also a talented cartoonist, on the walls.

Drive Australia’s most lonely road The Sandy Blight Junction Road is one of Beadell’s lesser-known tracks (and is quite possibly Australia’s most lonely road), but it’s also one of his most scenic. The track got its name after Beadell contracted the eye disease ‘sandy blight’

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Cheese The essential guide to cooking with cheese, over 100 recipes Michel Roux

Description At once simple and complex, comforting yet sophisticated, with its myriad types of texture and taste, cheese is a dream ingredient for a chef. And in the passionate, skilled hands of a master, it forms the cornerstone of not only some of the greatest but some of the most delicious dishes in the world. In Cheese, Michel Roux guides us expertly through classic recipes and techniques. He offers a multitude of inventive ways to cook with cheese from all over the world, from everyday staples to artisan cheeses.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 / NZ$32.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781849499668

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 256 pages

Format

• 231mm x 176mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography throughout

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Celebrating not only French cuisine, Cheese offers recipes from various world regions. Delectable melt-in-the-mouth cheese straws, Normandy onion soup, fresh Greek salad, lobster gratin, pheasant with gorgonzola polenta, the perfect soufflé, orange cheesecake… from cow’s milk, to goat’s and ewe’s, hard cheeses and soft, all benefit from Michel’s unique touch and huge respect for his ingredients. Authoritative, accessible and utterly inspiring, Cheese is the definitive book on the subject and an essential guide for home cooks and chefs alike.

Author Details Michel Roux is a legendary chef and one of the world's greatest experts on French cuisine. At his renowned restaurant, The Waterside Inn at Bray, he has held three Michelin stars for over three decades. His career has been hugely successful ever since he opened his first restaurant, the acclaimed Le Gavroche in London, with his brother Albert in 1967. He holds countless other culinary honours and he was awarded an OBE in 2002 and the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur

Cheese The essential guide to cooking with cheese, over 100 recipes Michel Roux

in 2004. He has written many successful books, including Eggs (2005), Pastry (2007), Sauces (2009), Desserts (2011) and The Essence of French Cooking (2014), published by Quadrille.

Key Selling Points The new cheese bible for chefs and home cooks everywhere. Over 100 simple and versatile recipes. Michael Roux is one of the world's most awarded chefs.

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Cheese MICHEL ROUX

CANAPÃ&#x2030;S 10

SOUPS 32

STARTERS & SNACKS 46

SALADS 58

FISH & SHELLFISH 74

MEAT, POULTRY & GAME 102

RICE, PASTA & BREAD 126

VEGETABLES 148

GREAT CLASSICS 162

10 DESSERTS 192

Sautéed prawns with feta and basil Serves 4

8 raw king prawns in shell, about 60g each 150ml light olive oil 1 small red pepper, cored, deseeded and cut into julienne 4 small basil sprigs 150g feta, cut into 1.5cm cubes A pinch of ground Espelette pepper Sea salt 1 lemon, cut into wedges, to serve

Simple and full of flavour, this rustic dish is a feast for the eyes as well as the palate. You’ll need to use fingers to shell the prawns, so provide finger bowls and plenty of napkins. Rinse the prawns under cold running water, drain and gently pat dry using kitchen paper. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat. When it very hot, add the prawns and sprinkle them lightly with salt. Cook for 1 minute, then quickly turn them over with tongs or a fork and add the red pepper. Cook for 30 seconds, then add the basil sprigs and cook for another 30 seconds. Scatter over the feta cubes and dust with the Espelette pepper. Cook, turning the prawns with a palette knife, for a final minute. Transfer to a large dish and serve at once, with lemon wedges.

Feta is the best known and most popular of all Greek cheeses. Made from sheep’s or goat’s milk, this creamy soft white cheese is traditionally kept in brine, which gives it a unique salty taste and crumbly texture. In 2002 feta was given protected origin status and it can now only be produced in Greece, though similar cheeses are made in other countries.

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Parmesan soufflés Serves 8

For the dishes

Don’t be afraid of making soufflés, they are easier to master than you might think. My advice is to be bold and just go for it. The variations below are all delicious, but this Parmesan version is certainly the lightest of them all.

75g butter, softened 50g Parmesan, freshly grated For the soufflés 40g butter 40g plain flour 500ml milk 2 pinches of cayenne pepper 10 medium free-range eggs, plus an extra 2 yolks 180g Parmesan, freshly grated Sea salt and freshly ground pepper

Generously grease 8 individual soufflé dishes, 10cm in diameter and 6cm tall, using the softened butter. Add the grated Parmesan to one of the buttered dishes, then rotate the dish, tilting it over a second dish so that you coat the insides of the first dish and the excess drops into the second. Repeat this process with the remaining dishes until they are all coated. To prepare the soufflés, melt the butter in a small pan. Add the flour and cook, stirring with a small balloon whisk, for 2 minutes to make a roux. Gradually stir in the cold milk and, still stirring with the whisk, bring to the boil over a medium heat. Simmer for 1 minute, then pour the béchamel into a bowl. Add a little salt and pepper and the cayenne, then whisk in the 12 egg yolks. Cover with cling film and set aside in a warm place. Preheat the oven to 200°C/Gas 6. In a very clean bowl, whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt to semi-firm peaks. Without delay, whisk a third of the whites into the warm béchamel. Now, using a spatula or large spoon, very gently fold in the rest of the whites, while showering in the grated Parmesan with your other hand; stop mixing as soon as the mixture is just combined.

Variations

For Cheddar soufflés, replace the Parmesan in the soufflé mixture with 200g Cheddar and use 80g for lining the dishes. For Gruyère or Comté soufflés, use 240g cheese for the mixture, and 80g for the dishes.

Using a spoon, generously fill the dishes to 1.5cm above the rim. Gently smooth the tops using a small palette knife, then run the tip of a knife around the inside of each rim to detach the mixture from the dish and allow for a good rise. Line the base of a roasting tray with baking parchment and stand the soufflé dishes in the tray. Pour near-boiling water from the kettle into the tray to come halfway up the soufflé dishes and bake in the oven for 8 minutes. Remove from the oven and lift the soufflé dishes out onto warmed plates. Serve immediately… they don’t like to sit around.

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Catalonia Recipes from Barcelona and Beyond José Pizarro

Description Located in the northeast of Spain, Catalonia borders France’s Pyrenees mountains and has a heritage and scenery like no other place in the world. In Catalonia, José Pizarro travels from the impressive Gaudi architecture in buzzy Barcelona, to the Roman and Greek ruins in Girona and secluded beaches in Costa Brava to create some of the best-loved dishes from the Catalonian region at home. Starting in the markets, José revels in the fresh meat, fish and vegetables, with dishes including classic Patatas Bravas, a delicious Duck Egg and Mushroom Stew, and a Rabbit Rice, typical of the region. From a Roast Chicken with Langoustines, Baby Squid with Mint that’s perfect for spring, to a wintery Civet of Venison with Ceps and Mash, and the delicate Hazelnut and Plum cakes, José’s interpretation of the regional flavours will inspire you to get into the kitchen. Set to the backdrop of stunning location photography, Catalonia will make you feel truly transported to this special region. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$49.99 / NZ$52.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781784881160

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Hardie Grant London

Extent

• 256 pages

Format

• 247mm x 198mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography

Author Details José Pizarro is an award-winning chef and bestselling author. He worked at Meson de Doña Filo in Madrid before coming to London, where he co-founded the Brindisa restaurants with the Eyre Brothers. He now runs the successful tapas and sherry bar ‘José’ and restaurant ‘Pizarro’ in Bermondsey Street and 'José Pizarro' on Broadgate. His first book, Seasonal Spanish Food won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award and was nominated for the IACP and Cordon Bleu awards. Basque was one of Observer Food Monthly's 'Books of 2016'.

Key Selling Points A major new contribution to regional Spanish cookery.

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Catalonia Recipes from Barcelona and Beyond José Pizarro

Authentic recipes that can be easily recreated at home. Gorgeous location photography from on of the world's must-see foodie destinations.

The man with the knowledge, pedigree and heritage. —Tom Kerridge A must-by book from a great Spanish cook. —James Martin Pizarro is the master of Spanish food. —Thomasina Miers When it comes to capturing the flavours of Spain, Jose does it so well, and so naturally! —Monica Galetti ALSO AVAILABLE: Basque 9781784880262

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Meat

The inspiration for this recipe came from Carlos at Mas Rabiol in L’Empordà, Girona, where they make a trotter burger without any bread, and use just the meat. However, this idea sprang to mind, and it is one of the best sliders I have ever eaten.

Trotter sliders Makes 14–16 sliders (6–8 burgers) 3 pig’s trotters 1 onion, roughly chopped 1 carrot, roughly chopped 1 celery stalk, chopped 1 bay leaf handful of parsley stalks handful of black peppercorns 400 g (14 oz) minced (ground) pork 2 garlic cloves 2 tablespoons finely chopped oregano small handful of chopped parsley sea salt and freshly ground black pepper olive oil for frying

Put the trotters with the vegetables, herbs and peppercorns in a large pan of cold water. Bring to the boil and then simmer very gently for 4 hours until really tender. Drain and discard the liquid, vegetables, herbs and peppercorns. When cool enough to handle, remove the skin from the trotters. Pick all the meat and fat from the bones and put in a bowl. Discard the bones and gristle. Finely chop the skin and add to the meat. Add the garlic, oregano and parsley to the meat mix and combine well with lots of seasoning. Shape into 6–8 burgers or 14–16 small sliders. Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes. Heat a layer of oil in a pan and fry the burgers until golden brown all over and piping hot. Toast the buns and spread with alioli and romesco sauce. Serve the burgers in the buns and eat straight away.

to serve mini brioche buns or slider buns 1 quantity alioli (page xx) 1 quantity romesco sauce (page xx)

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Fish

This recipe comes from Head Chef Aleix at my restaurant Pizarro – he’s a great Catalan chef, and has given me lots of ideas for this book. People would normally use salted cod in Catalonia, but we use fresh cod and cure it ourselves with plenty of good sea salt. Don’t use table salt as it has lots of chemicals in it. At Pizarro we serve this with the spinach dish on page xx, which goes really well.

Bacalao a la llauna, spinach & piquillo peppers Serves 6 1.2 kg (2 lb 10 oz) chunky cod loin, skin left on 750 g (1 lb 10 oz/2⅓ cups) coarse sea salt 2–3 tablespoons plain (all-purpose) flour 250 ml (8½ fl oz) light olive oil, plus extra for frying 4 garlic cloves, finely sliced 2 teaspoons pimentón 50 ml (2 fl oz) sherry vinegar 3 piquillo peppers, drained, opened out and halved 1 tablespoon olive oil 120g (4 oz) raisins 3 tablespoons pine nuts 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) baby spinach

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Put the cod in a plastic container, cover completely with the salt and set aside for 20–30 minutes. Rinse and dry then cut into 6 pieces and dust all over with flour. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/Gas 4). Heat the light olive oil in an ovenproof pan – not too hot – and add the fish. Cook on the hob for 5 minutes, turning halfway through, until lightly golden. Remove with a slotted spoon onto a plate lined with kitchen paper. Add the garlic to the oil and fry gently for a minute then add the pimentón and vinegar. Return the fish to the pan and lay the piquillo peppers on top. Put in the oven for 5–6 minutes until the fish is just cooked (when it is just opaque and a thin knife inserts without resistance). Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the raisins and pine nuts until the pine nuts are starting to turn golden, then add the spinach and quickly sauté until just starting to wilt. Divide between six warmed plates, top each with a piece of fish and pepper and spoon over the sauce. Serve with lots and lots of bread.

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Tuscany Simple meals and fabulous feasts from Italy Katie Caldesi Description A culinary ode to the beautiful Tuscan region and its many delicacies. From the minute they look out of their window in the morning to their last nightcap at the bar, Tuscans, like most Italians, are thinking about food. In Tuscany, Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi take readers on a culinary journey through a Tuscan day, to discover the delicacies of the region and the stories behind them. The book opens with a section on 'skills from the Tuscan kitchen', immersing us in the very place that it all begins, and teaching you the foundations of Tuscan cooking: the essential stocks, sauces and flavor bases. We are then taken through breakfast, lunchtime, aperitivo and dinner, with pasta and gnocchi, secondi, contorni and a dolce for every single month of the year. Set against a backdrop of undulating hills, Tuscanytakes you on an adventure across this diverse landscape, exploring the traditions and cooking techniques that make this food so extraordinary.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017

Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi are the owners of London’s Caffé Caldesi, Caldesi in Campagna in Bray, and the Marylebone La Cucina Caldesi cooking school. They are undisputed experts in Italian food and have taught alongside some of the biggest names in Italian cuisine, including Gennaro Contaldo, Ursula Ferrigno and Valentina Harris. This is their tenth cookbook.

Price

• AUD$49.99 / NZ$52.00 Hardback

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9781784881191

Category

• Food & Drink

Italian-experts Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi head to Tuscany to discover its regional delicacies and mix of cultures and cuisines.

Imprint

• Hardie Grant London

Extent

• 272 pages

Format

• 247mm x 198mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography

Florence, the capital city of the Tuscan region, is the most popular tourism destination in Italy. Giancarlo Caldesi is from Tuscany and the book contains recipes from family and friends. Specially shot on location for an intoxicating mix of landscape/cityscape and food photography.

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‘Just wait, be patient... turn the heat to low and let the flavours develop.’ The Slow Tuscan life – how to make food taste Tuscan The rhythm of life in Tuscany is slower than Rome or the Northern cities but faster than Sicily, and many people visit or move here just for this pace. And the way Tuscans cook is also slower and calmer. In lessons from Tuscan chef Antonella Secciani, I learnt to slow down even more. ‘Just wait, be patient,’ she told me as we made a ragu. ‘Turn the heat to low and let the flavours develop.’ She showed me the level of heat over which the ragu should be made. The surface should merely ‘quiver or tremble’ in the pot. This will reduce the sauce, concentrating the flavour to the ultimate umami experience that gathers in the bottom of the pan waiting for a piece of meat or bread to scrape up the intense flavour. This is Tuscan cooking. She doesn’t recommend putting the pan in the oven, using a slow cooker or a pressure cooker; the flavour won’t develop in the same way. In the chapter ‘The Heart of the Tuscan Kitchen’ we share the skills and tips we have learnt over the years for making food really taste Tuscan. It reflects how Marietta ran her kitchen where she made pasta, stock, tomato sauce and ragu, preserved fruits, dried herbs and cooked beans. The Tuscan kitchen is a frugal one and many of the recipes in this book cost very little to make. These kitchen skills are as relevant today as they ever were, and should never have fallen out of fashion.

INTRODUCTION

C R O S T I N I C O N F I C H I E M A S C A R P O N E O R I C OT TA

fig & mascarpone or ricotta crostini with honey SERVES 2 PEOPLE 2 thick slices country style bread 125 g (4 oz/Â˝ cup) ricotta or mascarpone 2 ripe figs or other fruit, washed and trimmed 50 g (2 oz) shelled walnuts, roughly chopped mild runny honey such as acacia, for drizzling

B R E A K FA S T

We have a lovely old photograph of Giancarloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father Memmo picking figs with our Giorgio when he was little. Giorgio is carrying a little basket and looking up at his grandfather with joy as he fills it with ripe figs from the tree outside his house. Do use the ripest figs when in season, when they are naturally sweet and jammy. Alternatively, use berries, peach or nectarine slices, or persimmon. Even without the bread, this is a wonderful concoction. Most hotels in Italy will offer fresh ricotta, fruit and honey and some have nuts on offer, so I often rustle this up for a healthy breakfast when staying away from home. Toast the bread on both sides. Spread the cheese thickly on one side. Now slice or squash the figs, if really ripe and jammy, on top, scatter over the walnuts and drizzle with a little honey.

TA G L I AT E L L E A L L A P O L PA D I G R A N C H I O

tagliatelle with crab and cream SERVES 4 AS A MAIN / 6 AS A STARTER a large handful of parsley, roughly chopped, plus 2 tablespoons finely chopped 1 garlic clove ½–1 fresh red chilli, finely chopped (to taste), or ¼ teaspoon dried chilli flakes salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 15 cherry tomatoes, halved 100 g (3½ oz) brown crabmeat and 300 g (10½ oz) white crabmeat 100 ml (3½ fl oz/scant ½ cup) prosecco or white wine 4 tablespoon double (heavy) cream 1 quantity of fresh tagliatelle (see page XXX) or 320 g (11½ oz) dried pasta

I always like to buy fresh crab meat when I am by the coast in the UK or Italy. The combination of a little dark meat with the white is superb and gives a richer texture and fuller flavour than the white alone. The strength of the crab can then take the kick of chilli as well as the mellowing effect of the cream. Serve this sauce with dried pasta such as linguine or with fresh tagliatelle. Make a battuto with the 2 tablespoons of parsley, the garlic, chilli, a pinch of salt and pepper by finely chopping them together on a board with a sharp knife (see page XXX). Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a low heat and fry the battuto for 3 minutes, until the garlic just starts to soften but doesn’t burn. Add the cherry tomatoes and crab and fry for a couple of minutes, then increase the heat and pour in the prosecco or white wine and allow it to evaporate for a few minutes until the strong smell of alcohol has gone. Pour in the cream and shake the pan to blend it into the sauce. Taste and season with salt and pepper as necessary. Remove from the heat and set aside. Cook the pasta until just al dente. Take 2 tablespoons of water from the pasta saucepan and add it to the sauce in the frying pan. Drain the pasta and put this in too. Add the roughly chopped parsley and toss or stir through briefly. Serve straight away in warmed bowls.

LUNCHTIME

C A P E L LO D I F R AT E

large ravioli filled with spinach & an egg yolk

SERVES 6 PEOPLE FOR THE FILLING 200 g (7 oz) spinach cooked and squeezed dry 30 g (1 oz / ⅛ cup) fresh ricotta 30 g (1 oz) freshly grated Parmesan ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg ¼ teaspoon salt freshly ground black pepper, to taste 6 egg yolks or 6 quail’s eggs FOR THE SAUCE 150 g (5 oz) salted butter 18–20 sage leaves salt and freshly ground black pepper 30 g (1 oz) pine nuts, toasted 25 g (1 oz) finely grated Parmesan, to serve

PA S TA & G N O C C H I

These large filled ravioli, named after the shape of a monk’s hat, make a stunning dinner party dish as the egg yolk oozes out as you eat them. Do practise before you make them for friends however, as you have to learn to be gentle with them in the cooking and serving. We use an 11 cm (4¼ in) pastry cutter but you could instead draw a knife around a small 10–12 cm (4–5 in) diameter saucer to make the circles of pasta. Use the leftover egg whites to make Marietta’s pannacotta on page XXX.

Start by making the filling. Finely chop the cooked spinach on a chopping board or in a food processor. Put it into a bowl with the ricotta, Parmesan, nutmeg, salt and pepper and mix together thoroughly. Taste and adjust the seasoning as necessary. Cover and set aside until required. Roll out half the pasta at a time following the instructions on page XXX [X-REF PASTA LUNGA RECIPE HERE?] to the width of the pasta machine. Lay onto a floured board and cut the length in half. Don’t get flour onto the pasta on the top side. Use your 11 cm (4½ in) cutter to lightly make 3 circles, these will be the size of your finished cappello di frata. Use a spoon to place 3 equal heaps of half of the filling into the circles. Lightly press the filling outwards

leaving a 1 cm (½ in) border around each mound with a well in each one large enough for the yolk. Put one egg yolk or one quail’s egg into each well. Lay the other length of pasta on top and press down, pushing out the air and sealing the edges down. You shouldn’t need water to stick the pasta together if there is no flour between the edges that are stuck down, but if it is dry brush lightly with water to help it stick. Use your cutter to cut through the layers of pasta right through to the board. Set aside on a floured plate and make up the rest. Leave on a floured plate for no longer than 2 hours in the fridge. To cook, bring a large pan of salted water to a rolling boil. Make the sauce by melting the butter in a large frying pan. Add the sage leaves,

a pinch of salt, a few twists of pepper and toasted pine nuts and fry for a couple of minutes. Add a ladleful of pasta cooking water and stir well. Keep the sauce warm but not bubbling while you cook the pasta. Gently lower the Cappelli di Frate into the boiling water, and stir gently to make sure they don’t stick to one another. Cook for 4 minutes for a soft yolk and 6 minutes for firm. When cooked, remove the cappelli gently with a slotted spoon and put them into the warm butter and sage sauce. Shake the pan to coat the pasta and serve immediately in warm bowls with the sauce and grated Parmesan.

PA S TA & G N O C C H I

The Modern Kitchen Objects that changed the way we cook, eat and live Tim Hayward

Description The kitchen is the heart of the home – it's where we spend leisure time as a family, where we feed ourselves and where we entertain our friends. The average western family spends more money on the kitchen than they do on a car or a holiday.? We fill our kitchens with objects and tools that reflect our needs, tastes and desires. There is nowhere else in daily domestic life where design impinges quite as much as in the kitchen. Every item in the kitchen has its own story. Through 100 familiar objects, The Modern Kitchen maps the progress and development of this functional yet also wildly aspirational space. Why do the Le Creuset casserole dish and the wooden salad bowl exert such a cultural hold over us? How did the AGA become the symbol of gentrification? Has the accumulation of electrical appliances led us to cook and eat differently? Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 / NZ$42.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781787130906

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 224 pages

Format

• 234mm x 153mm

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations and photography throughout

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As well as studying the individual objects that have had such a huge impact on the way we live now, The Modern Kitchen examines kitchen design, economics and gender politics. Embodying notions about class, gender, wealth and health, the home kitchen remains a neat insight into our beliefs, tastes, aesthetics and aspirations – the portrait of our domestic lives.

Author Details A major star of food writing, Tim Hayward is a writer, broadcaster and restaurateur. He writes a column and restaurant reviews for the Financial Times and his features have appeared in the FT, the Guardian and the Observer Food Monthly amongst others. He is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme and a panellist on The Kitchen Cabinet. He won the Guild of Food Writers award for Food Journalist of the Year in 2015 and was the Fortnum and Mason Food Writer of the Year for 2014. Tim is the author of Food DIY (2013), The DIY Cook (2015) and Knife (2016).

The Modern Kitchen Objects that changed the way we cook, eat and live Tim Hayward

Key Selling Points Another great giftable reference book from Tim Hayward. 100 classic objects, from Le Creuset casserole and stripped pine table to Philippe Starck lemon squeezers and chicken bricks. Taps into the current mood of nostalgia and seeking comfort.

This is possibly the coolest book I have ever seen. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tom Kerridge on Knife Tim Hayward is the most serious cookery writer I know. Whatever he writes, I will buy. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Len Deighton (thriller/spy novel author and cookery writer)

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CONTENTS I N T R O D U CT IO N H I ST O RY O F T HE F IT T ED KIT CHEN ‘ B AT T E RIE’ THE OBJECTS THAT MAKE THE KITCHEN 1. P R E PARAT IO N GARLIC PRESS PEPPER GRINDER PESTLE & MORTAR WHISKS THE KITCHEN SCALE TORTILLA PRESS PASTA SHAPERS CHAKLA & BELAN MINCER MOULI MILL SIEVES GRATERS KNIFE LEMON SQUEEZER CHOPPING BLOCK SALT PIG PASTA MACHINE BLENDERS TIN OPENERS POTATO PEELER HAND HELD MIXER THE KENWOOD CHEF

24 28 30 32 34 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72

“ T H E K NO CKER’S T HRO U GH” T H E K I T CHEN: ENVIRONMENT

74 76

2. C OO KING COPPER PANS WOK STEAMERS THE MASALA DABBA SPICE RACK SALAD SPINNER SILICON SPATULA DOUBLE BOILER THE WOODEN SPOON SPRINGFORM BAKING TIN ELECTRIC RICE COOKER SLOW COOKER CAST IRON SKILLET PRESSURE COOKER SANDWICH TOASTER

THE MODERN KITCHEN

80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 100 102 104 106 110 112

THE NON-STICK FRYING PAN EGG POACHER EGG TIMER CASSEROLE/POT PRESTIGE KITCHEN TOOLS DEEP FAT FRYER ENAMEL CHICKEN ROASTER KETTLE SOUS VIDE

114 116 118 120 124 126 128 130 132

T HE KIT CHEN: MATERIALS

134

3. S T O RAGE OLIVE OIL JUG CANISTERS KNIFE BLOCK GARLIC POT KILNER JAR BISCUIT BARREL FLOUR SIFTER BREAD BIN

142 144 146 148 150 152 154 156 158

T HE KIT CHEN: ADVERTISING AND ASPIRATION

160

T HE KIT CHEN: APPLIANCES

164

4. S ERV ING SALAD BOWL & SERVERS JELLY MOULD TEAPOT FONDUE SET CHICKEN BRICK CORKSCREW COFFEE MACHINES TOAST RACK BUTTER DISH GRAVY BOAT TIERED CAKE-STAND ‘BRIDGE’ SANDWICH CUTTERS PYREX™

170 172 174 178 180 182 184 186 190 192 194 196 198 200

T HE KIT CHEN: ERGONOMICS

202

T HE F U T U RE O F T HE KIT CHEN

206

BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

210 214 220

GARLIC PRESS T H E G A R L I C P R E S S may be one of the simplest items in the kitchen drawer but it’s also one of the most socially divisive. The basic model is a two-piece alloy casting that enables the user to exert a little extra leverage on an individual garlic clove. A key benefit is that one doesn’t need to peel the clove before crushing. The garlic press minimises handling of the clove and therefore prevents the smell lingering on fingers. The garlic press was an obvious choice for Habitat’s earliest homeware range, being cheap, functional, a classic of French design and unfamiliar to an older generation. For many, the garlic press was almost representative of the store – a tiny metal synecdoche – and it certainly fitted well with the aspirations of young customers, keen to experiment with exotic foreign flavours. A garlic press costs pennies and should be a labour-saving boon in any kitchen, but it didn’t appeal to everyone. The Elizabeth David, at her most magisterial, wrote: I regard garlic presses as both ridiculous and pathetic, their effect being precisely the reverse of what people who buy them believe will be the case. Squeezing the juice out of garlic doesn’t reduce its potency, it concentrates it, and intensifies the smell. I have often wondered how it is that people who have once used one of these diabolical instruments don’t notice this and forthwith throw the thing into the dustbin. The tension of clashing prejudices is palpable in her rage. It’s distasteful to smell like a Marseille docker, yet there’s a kind of naff, lower-middle class daintiness in avoiding it. Time-pressed professional chefs would simply crush garlic with the side of their blade. A cheap ‘gadget’ that subtly promised a degree of garlic avoidance was a lovely, wide-open target…and an instant shibboleth. One is not usually required, as a cook, to hold strongly partisan opinions on gadgets. The egg slicer leaves most of us unmoved, the cherry stoner is much of a muchness – but, as in the most bitterly fought politics, once an authoritative opinion is expressed, a line is drawn in the sand. It is impossible not to choose sides. Not only can whipping out a garlic press cause a sharp intake of breath in even the most non-judgemental of cooking companions, but thousands of words of blogs and columns have been written on both sides of the debate. Some cooks swear they can detect a ‘metallic taste’ in garlic that’s been through the crusher. Sources from gangster movies to food scientists are quoted in support of shaving, grating or mincing with salt, and the briefest of online searches will turn up dozens of side-by-side comparisons. The ‘Garlic Press Schism’ will stay with us as long as there are cooks. For a product designer, it would hard to see it as anything but a brilliant piece of kit, but for the rest of us, the garlic press must remain, forever, a signifier. You, and quite possibly I, might have a garlic press in our kitchens. I wish you well with it, but, if you value your reputation, never show it to anyone else. 6

THE MODERN KITCHEN

THE STOVETOP COFFEE M ACHINE C O M M E R C I A L E S P R E S S O machines were patented in the 1880s in Turin. They were originally designed to serve large numbers of workers, perhaps in a canteen or outside the factory gates, with consistently good coffee at high speed. This was achieved by pressurising water and steam to blow through a measured dose of coffee. The term ‘espresso’ puns on the notions of speed, pressure and ‘expression’ of flavours. The ‘moka pot’ was designed by Luigi de Ponti for the Bialetti company in 1933 and brought espresso – or, at least, an acceptable simulacrum – into the domestic kitchen. This was the peak of Italian Futurism where design and fine art were influenced by speed and new technologies like aircraft and tanks. The big espresso machines were gleaming, steaming, chrome-trimmed hymns to the power of technology, but the stout little stovetop ‘Dalek’1 was a more apposite symbol of the period: a cheap, mass-produced machine, creating an amphetamine-like fuel for the proletariat using steam and cast aluminium alloy. Water boils in the lower vessel, the steam creating enough pressure to force hot water up through the grounds. The coffee produced is concentrated, oily and has a desirable ‘crema’, just like a commercial espresso but is extracted at lower pressures. Sold as the ‘Moka Express’, this simple device – three castings and a couple of pieces of pressed stainless steel – brought foolproof espresso into millions of Italian homes. As the espresso craze spread around the world in the 1950s and 60s, the ‘stove-top’ moka pot went with it, an unchanged design classic that spoke of Italian sophistication and peerless industrial design. Even today, a ‘Bialetti’ on the stove imparts a certain cachet. The coffee it produces is instantly recognisable as ‘Italian-style’. The Moka Express was easy to copy and Renato Bialetti, the proprietor of the company, spent many years defending the original design. A trademark, a cartoon version of the man himself, was applied to every authentic pot and, so serious was his commitment to its design that, when he died aged 93 in 2016, his children packed his ashes into a large Moka Express before placing him in the family tomb. More sophisticated than the Bialetti was the stove top ‘percolator’, originally patented in the USA in the 1880s. The percolator blows the boiling water up over the coffee, allows it to drip through under gravity, and then repeats the action. This ‘recycling’ process extracts maximum value from fewer grounds, producing a stronger and often more bitter brew. The heat of the process also drives off many of the volatile compounds in the coffee, creating a delicious smell at the expense of complexity of flavour. Until speciality coffeemaking went global in the 21st century, extra-strong, ‘perked jet-fuel’ defined the American national taste. 1

Bialettis are often nicknamed ‘Daleks’ in the UK. Deep in the realms of both SF and coffee nerdery it has been separately suggested that the designers of both the stovetop coffee maker and the Doctor Who aliens were inspired by the costumes of Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe.

THE MODERN KITCHEN

Lagom The Swedish art of eating harmoniously Steffi Knowles-Dellner

Description Lagom: n. just the right amount, balanced, harmonious.

This beautiful, fresh cookbook offers genuine insight into how Swedes eat and cook – with recipes that fit around the seasons, occasions, times of day, and appetite. Eating and cooking in tune with 'lagom' means embracing food that is good for body and soul, unfussy, delicious and sustaining, and all in harmony. The Swedes understand that balance is everything – that you crave comforting food when a bitter wind is howling outside, that refreshing, lighter meals suit hot, hazy days, that a mid-morning bun is good for morale, and that a long, sociable lunch with friends and family on a Sunday is the most rewarding way to end the weekend.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$45.00 / NZ$47.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781787130371

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 192 pages

Format

• 253mm x 201mm

Illustrations

• Colour photography

Steffi Knowles-Dellner is a Swedish food stylist, cookery writer and blogger who has lived and worked in Stockholm, Brussels, New York, Florence and the UK. Her blog, Always So Hungry, was recently highlighted as one of the UK's top food blogs by The Sunday Times Magazine and shortlisted for the Good Housekeeping Food Award in 2015. She develops recipes for several Scandinavian brands, teaches Nordic cooking classes and is often interviewed about Scandinavian food in the press and on the radio.

Key Selling Points Lagom is the next huge trend – and it relates much more to the Australian lifestyle than the wintery hygge ever did. IKEA has launched a 'Live Lagom' project to encourage everyone to live sustainably, to use resources with moderation and to think more kindly at home – to live by the maxim of 'just the right

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Lagom The Swedish art of eating harmoniously Steffi Knowles-Dellner

amount'. A unique insight into the food culture of Sweden, from the smörgåsbord table of open sandwiches, to Fredags mys ('cosy Fridays') and the irresistible idea of lördagsgodis – a single day for eating sweets!

This is possibly the coolest book I have ever seen. —Tom Kerridge on Knife Tim Hayward is the most serious cookery writer I know. Whatever he writes, I will buy. Len Deighton (thriller/spy novel author and cookery writer)

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The Poptail Manual Over 90 delicous frozen cocktails Kathy Kordalis Description Love cocktails? How about popsicles? Enter poptails, the icy-cool alcoholic beverage you can enjoy on a stick! In The Poptail Manual, Kathy Kordalis shares over 90 of the tastiest frozen cocktail creations that will revolutionise the way you enjoy your favourite spirits. Why not keep cool on a hot summer’s with the lip-smacking Limoncello Basil Pops or for a little taste of elegance, give the floral-infused Elderflower & Rosé Spritz Pop a go. Enliven your senses with the tongue-teasing Firecracker, the perfect balance of cool and spicy, or soothe your taste buds with the creamy, cooling White Russian. Combining the freshness of a sorbet with the pleasure of a glass of alcohol, these gourmet boozeinfused ice pops are just the thing to impress your guests at a party. Stylish, fun and guaranteed pleasure, The Poptail Manual is the perfect addition to the mixologists library of party tricks!

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$22.99 / NZ$24.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781784880934

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Hardie Grant London

Extent

• 128 pages

Format

• 162mm x 162mm

Illustrations

• Full colour Illustrations throughout

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Kathy Kordalis is a London-based food-stylist and recipe writer. She has worked in the food industry for years and her experience includes managing the Divertimenti Cookery School and training as a chef at the Leiths School of Food and Wine. Her approach to food is light, relaxed and accessible, drawing inspiration from her classical training in London, along with her Australian and Mediterranean heritage. It's all about sharing with friends and family, and coming up with new recipes to excite them!

Key Selling Points The popsicle for grown ups! Fun and exciting way to enjoy your favourite cocktail. Huge hit at festivals and the perfect partytime treat. All recipes use premium alcohol, fresh fruits and natural ingredients only. A great companion to The Mixers Manual.

If your poptail mould has built-in stick holders, you can slide the sticks in as soon as the mixture is poured, then freeze. If your moulds don’t have stick holders, simply freeze the pops for about 30–60 minutes, then insert the sticks. This will help the stick stand up straight. The best way to release the popsicles from the moulds is to flip them over and run them under warm water (not hot!).

The time it takes to freeze pops varies and depends on both the recipe and your freezer. Read the recipe before starting and prepare your poptails at least 12–24 hours before serving.

ALCOHOL IN POPS When composing a poptail, avoid using more than 20 per cent alcohol or a ratio of four parts water to one part alcohol for the recipe – any more and the pops won’t freeze and will fall apart when unmoulding. Alcohol does actually freeze, just not at the temperatures that home freezers are kept at. Ethanol, the alcohol found in beer, wine, and liqueurs, has a melting point 22

of –114°C (–173°F) . That melting point represents the temperature at which ethanol passes from a frozen solid to a liquid state. Most home freezers maintain temperatures between –23°C (–9°F) and –18°C (0°F) in order to properly store food. Since this is much warmer than –114°C (–173°F), ethanol will remain liquid. However, the rest of the poptail ingredients will still freeze, so you can enjoy a solid frozen treat! 23

LIMONCELLO BASIL POPS

MELON, LIME & MINT TEQUILA POPS

INGREDIENTS

1 GALIA MELON, PEELED AND DESEEDED (APPROX. 330 G/11½ OZ CLEANED WEIGHT) 2 LIMES (1 JUICED AND 1 SLICED INTO 16 HALF MOONS) 150 ML (5 FL OZ) TEQUILA • 1 LARGE HANDFUL MINT 100 ML (3½ FL OZ) LIGHT AGAVE SYRUP

420 ML (14 FL OZ) BOILING WATER 4 TBSP XYLITOL • ZEST AND JUICE OF 3 LEMONS 120 ML (4 FL OZ) LIMONCELLO • PINCH OF SALT 16 BASIL LEAVES 2

MEASURING JUG

SERVES 8 These bold, zingy popsicles made with Italian Limoncello and basil are a fun ending for your summer parties.

EQUIPMENT

ZESTER

8 POPSICLE MOULDS & STICKS

BLENDER

EQUIPMENT

DIGITAL MEASURING 8 POPSICLE SCALES JUG MOULDS & STICKS 3

METHOD

Pour the boiling water from the kettle into a jug and mix in the xylitol to dissolve. Let it cool, then stir through the lemon zest and juice, Limoncello and salt. Divide the mixture between the moulds, then slide 2 basil leaves into each one. Place the lid on the tray, and insert the sticks. Freeze for 12–14 hours, until solid.

INGREDIENTS

SERVES 8 Blending fresh melon, a squeeze of lime and a kick of tequila, these promise to be a truly refreshing treat.

METHOD

Blitz the melon and lime juice in a blender to form a purée. Strain into a jug through a fine mesh sieve to remove any seeds and bits. Stir in the tequila, mint and agave syrup. Divide the mixture between the popsicle moulds and freeze for 30 minutes. Place the lid on the tray, and insert the sticks. Freeze for a further 12–14 hours, until solid.

GREEN TEA & WHISKEY

ENGLISH GARDEN POPS

INGREDIENTS

120 ML (4 FL OZ) GIN 500 ML (17 FL OZ) APPLE AND ELDERFLOWER JUICE JUICE OF 1 LIME 1 SMALL CUCUMBER, THINLY SLICED LENGTHWAYS 8 MINT LEAVES

4 GREEN TEABAGS 500 ML (17 FL OZ) HOT WATER 100 ML (3½ FL OZ) AGAVE SYRUP 100 ML (3½ FL OZ) WHISKEY 2

DIGITAL SCALES

EQUIPMENT

SERVES 6 Green tea and whiskey is as popular in China as gin and tonic is in England. It is loaded with antioxidants and nutrients that have powerful effects on the body. 46

6 SILICON 6 WOODEN MEASURING MUFFIN CASES SPOONS JUG 3

EQUIPMENT

DIGITAL MEASURING 8 POPSICLE SCALES JUG MOULDS & STICKS

METHOD

In a heatproof glass jug, infuse the green tea in the hot water. Add the agave syrup and leave for 1–2 hours. Discard the tea bags, stir in the whiskey and pour into the muffin cases. Place on a tray in the freezer for 1 hour. Remove from the freezer and put a wooden spoon in each case, then freeze for a further 12–14 hours, until solid.

INGREDIENTS

SERVES 8 With a hint of elderflower and cool cucumber, this pop is made for long, hot summer nights spent in a garden.

METHOD

In a jug, mix the gin, apple and elderflower juice and lime juice. Place 1–2 strips of cucumber in each popsicle mould and add a mint leaf to each. Divide the mixture between the moulds, place the lid on the tray and freeze for 30 minutes before sliding in the popsicle sticks. Freeze for a further 12–14 hours, until solid. 47

Bruce Springsteen Album by Album Ryan White

Description For over forty years, Bruce Springsteen has stood astride the rock 'n' roll stage like a musical colossus, his 18 studio albums – from the 1973 debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to 2014's High Hopes – the testament of a life dedicated to music-making and committed songwriting. This book examines every stage of his musical career, discussing influences, lyrics, popularity, politics and all other aspects of Springsteen's music.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 / NZ$45.00 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781780978352

Category

• Music/Video/Film

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 288 pages

Format

• 255mm x 222mm

Illustrations

• 250 colour and B/W photographs

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Ryan White is a music critic and journalist. A long-time fan of Bruce Springsteen, his first music article was a cover story on the Devils & Dust tour. He appears regularly on radio shows including Live Wire! And Oregon Public Broadcasting's Think Out Loud program speaking about the week's cultural events and has twice been voted one of America's best writers by the Society for Features Journalism. Originally from Michigan, he now lives in Portland, Oregon.

Key Selling Points A retrospective and chronology of each of Springsteen's studio albums. Includes many previously unpublished photographs. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were named the top global touring act of 2016 by Billboard and Pollstar, selling over 2 million tickets in 2016 alone.

Born to Run 1975

“The bottom line is, in addition to making a great record, he also made the record he needed to make at that point. That didn’t happen by accident.” Jon Landau

ou could get away with calling the Real Paper just a weekly publication. But Jon Landau wasn’t just another critic. He was in charge of Rolling Stone’s review section. He was of a group—with Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Paul Williams, and a few others—that made rock criticism mean something. And Landau had produced records—by the MC5 and Livingston Taylor. Labels courted his opinion. Landau’s words had weight, and he knew it. What he was far less certain of in the spring of 1974 was what, if anything, any of that meant. Springsteen had his own questions. “What do you do when your dreams come true?” he asked in the 2005 documentary Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run. “What do you do when they don’t?” “Is love real?” Less poetic but far more immediate was one more: How are we going to pay all these bills? “Oh, we owe like a mint,” Springsteen said to Williams in an October 1974 interview. The pattern that had established itself in 1973 hadn’t changed as the midway point of the next year approached. The crowds grew in numbers and enthusiasm. Reported cases of the vapors reached near epidemic proportions in the critical community. Records barely sold and radio lagged except in a few key markets with activist DJs. To the roiling internal conflicts, Springsteen could add the pressures of being in charge. The boss, if you will. All or none of these things could have been on his mind in early April when he wandered outside Charlie’s Place during a four-night Boston stand. In the front window was the largely ecstatic Real Paper review of The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. Springsteen braced himself against the cold and started to read. “Impassioned and inspired street fantasy.” That was good. Weak drumming and poor production? Not as much. One problem had already been fixed. After an altercation in February between Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez and Mike Appel’s brother, Springsteen had fired Lopez. Ernest “Boom” Carter, a friend of pianist David Sancious, was now behind the kit. Springsteen was still standing in front of the review when a voice asked him what he thought. It was Landau, who had written the review. They spoke for a few minutes, and more after the show. And the next day on the phone. Springsteen wanted to know more about production. “That was the beginning,” Landau said, many years later. The beginning of more than either could possibly know. So they weren’t strangers, and Landau had an idea what was in store when Springsteen returned

“Everyone saw a little of their hopes and dreams in that record.” Roy Bittan

to Boston on May 9 to open for Bonnie Raitt at the Harvard Square Theater. Two shows that night, and Springsteen would have his full set. Landau decided to hit the late one, went home, sat down, and let it all out. “It’s four in the morning and raining,” is how Landau led a piece that would yield arguably the most famous line in the history of rock criticism. “I’m twenty-seven today, feeling old, listening to my records, and remember that things were different a decade ago.” You can almost hear Springsteen’s voice singing words not yet written: So you’re scared and you’re thinking That maybe we ain’t that young anymore “Through college, I consumed sound as if it were the staff of life,” Landau wrote. “… Whether it was a neurotic and manic approach to music, or just a religious one, or both, I really don’t care.” It really didn’t matter. Seventeen is carefree. Twentyseven is worried. Landau made music his business, and so it became a business. He was sick (Crohn’s disease), and enduring a crumbling marriage. Then consider what had happened during the ten years in question, from the Beatles in 1964 to 1974’s continued mess in Vietnam and the growing Watergate scandal in Richard Nixon’s White House. “Nobody was that young anymore,” Springsteen said in a 2005 taping of VH1’s Storytellers. Landau walked into the Harvard Square Theater disillusioned. He left rededicated. On May 22, Real Paper readers picked up Landau’s column, and there it was: “I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.”

Making shapes with Clarence Clemons at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, November 18, 1975. This was the E Street Band’s first overseas performance.

Born to run

1975

He did hear one piece of music for the very first time. Springsteen unwrapped a work-in-progress that set out in search of answers to his questions, a muscled-up mission statement titled “Born To Run.” In Springsteen, Landau saw someone who could take every glorious feeling he’d had about rock, and make it feel new again. There was a purity in this man’s belief, and “Born To Run” was the most pure expression yet. What Landau wrote was “almost Dickensian, with its spoofing allusion to the spiritual resurrection of Scrooge,” Dave Marsh wrote in Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story, “but other versions made it seem as though Landau were attempting to write advertising copy.” What the other versions got wrong, almost always, was the phrasing. Even Springsteen’s website is mistaken: “I have seen the future of rock and roll,” it reads. It’s a small but important distinction. Not that direct quotations couldn’t be turned into advertising copy. The pros at Columbia Records read Landau’s “Loose Ends” column and saw promotional future. They ran up television spots re-emphasizing the first two records while a man with a Serious TV Voice read “rock and roll future.” One poster, highlighting Landau’s copy, featured Springsteen’s image juxtaposed godlike against a brilliant blue sky and puffy white clouds. No longer the Next Dylan, Springsteen was the Next Savior. This is the kind of thing that can drive a publicity-averse guy a little nuts. And it did. It also gave him a shot of confidence at an important moment, when he needed to know it meant something to someone other than himself. That connection was real and meaningful, but the rest was marketing at its most infuriating. The design team could put his head in the clouds, but those vacations in the stratosphere were going to have to wait. “Gotta have your feet on the ground if you’re going to make it,” he told the Storytellers crowd. “Can’t be fantasy land.” The making of Born to Run was anything but. With the spotlight back on his career, and the label behind him, he needed a new record. In Songs, Springsteen described the words of “Born To Run” coming to him as he sat playing guitar in his tiny rental house in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Maybe he’d seen it painted on a car cruising the circuit in Asbury Park some Saturday night. Maybe it came from some old movie he’d caught on television.

Duo portrait by Eric Meola from the Born to Run photo shoot.

Born to run

1975

Kinfolk Entrepreneur, The Nathan Williams

Description In The Kinfolk Entrepreneur, author Nathan Williams introduces readers to 35 creative business owners around the globe, offering an inspiring, in-depth look behind the scenes of their lives and their companies. Pairing insightful interviews with striking images of these men and women and their workspaces, The Kinfolk Entrepreneur makes business personal. The book profiles both budding and experienced entrepreneurs across a broad range of industries (from fashion designers to hoteliers) in cities across the globe (from Copenhagen to Dubai to Tasmania). Readers will learn how today’s industry leaders handle both their successes and failures, achieve work-life balance, find motivation in the face of adversity, and so much more.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price Was $65.00 • AUD$49.99 Hardback ISBN

• 9781579657581

Category

• Non Fic General

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 368 pages

Format

• 203.2 x 279.4mm

Illustrations

• 200 colour photographs

Nathan Williams is the author of The Kinfolk Table and the editor in chief of Kinfolk, a lifestyle magazine published quarterly by Ouur studio. Founded in 2011, Kinfolk maintains a vibrant contributor base from Copenhagen to Cape Town and hosts hundreds of global events each year that bring the community together.

Key Selling Points Proven track record: The Kinfolk Table and The Kinfolk Home collectively have nearly 200,000 copies in print and have been translated into 6 languages. In addition to Kinfolk’s ever-growing magazine circulation, the brand has doubled their social media following since the publication of The Kinfolk Home. Kinfolk is the #1 lifestyle brand on social media: they’re now at over 1.3 million Instagram followers and 350,000 Facebook fans. #kinfolk is posted about once a minute. This book is perfect for both the aspirational millennial and the appreciator of elegant chic. It has

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Kinfolk Entrepreneur, The Nathan Williams

the right package for a growing audience: more and more creatives are embracing their entrepreneurial spirit and forging their own paths in business. It will appeal to readers who are more likely to pick up a design magazine than a dense business book. Major marketing campaign: The book will launch with a major campaign around Kinfolkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful social media presence. ALSO AVAILABLE: The Kinfolk Table 9781579655327 ALSO AVAILABLE: Kinfolk Home 9781579656652

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A RCHI TEC T U RE M E X I C O

Frida Escobedo Fresh from earning a degree in architecture and urbanism from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 2003, Mexican architect Frida Escobedo cofounded her first studio, Perro Rojo, at age twenty-four. Upon going solo in 2006, she quickly began racking up awards and recognition for her work, and it wasn’t long before she found herself flying back and forth and designing in both the United States and Mexico. Whether it’s a hotel, gallery, or public space, Frida’s work carries energy—a bold blend of modernism and Mexican tradition—without adhering to one specific style. Fourteen years after she graduated, Frida is beginning to feel a bit weary of having to deal with the “practical” side of architecture: budgets, deadlines . . . all of which she considers too cold and calculated. “Architecture isn’t an easy discipline. It takes a lot from you and it’s not the most lucrative career. It’s challenging to try to keep a practice with projects you believe in that also covers the payroll every month,” says Frida. Still, the creative process makes juggling the logistics of running a business worth the effort. “There’s a period when you get a eureka moment that’s filled with adrenaline, then you start doubting if it’s really a good idea at all, and then you believe in it again! I usually take my time and evaluate every aspect of a situation, which could make me appear indecisive. But there are definitely certain moments when I don’t think before I jump. But I don’t think it’s adrenaline as much as it’s passion. I associate adrenaline with risk or competition, whereas passion is about endurance and resilience.” While attending the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Frida received her first public commission, to build La Tallera Siqueiros cultural center in Cuernavaca, Mexico, which has become one of her best-known creations. Around the time that Frida graduated, she applied to Jóvenes Creadores for a grant that allows budding architects to work for one year on a project with the guidance of a well-established practice. Frida was mentored by Mauricio Rocha: “He taught me the importance of staying true to your values, being patient, and remaining resilient. He also challenged me to prove my capacities and abilities. Mauricio became a mentor to me, and we continue to be very good friends to this day,” she says. Other mentors in Frida’s life lie a little closer to home: “I admire the 02

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profession: hoteliers

business name: piermont

location: tasmania, australia

established: 1992

Juan Maiz Casas & Marie von Haniel Entrepreneurial endeavors can be difficult to pull off in remote locations. In Tasmania, however, isolation only serves as a boon for Marie von Haniel and Juan Maiz Casas—the couple behind Piermont Retreat. Operating Piermont undoubtedly comes with its challenges; the nearest town on either side is 40 minutes away. But Juan and Marie believe that the demands of owning a business in rural Tasmania are less an impediment than an opportunity to flex some entrepreneurial muscle. They see running Piermont as a chance to build on the vision of Marie’s father, who founded the company, and say that entrepreneurship is in their blood. “It would be pretty much impossible for me to go and work for someone else’s company. I can’t stop thinking about what’s next,” Juan explains. “It’s a 24/7 exercise. It’s quite exhausting, actually.” The couple has created a resort that meets their exacting standards in sustainable design. As Marie says, “We see ourselves as part of the environment and believe we have a right to be there. In the long term, our impact isn’t huge because we’re building something that doesn’t need replacing for another 200 years. That was my father’s philosophy too.” Sustainability extends beyond architecture for this entrepreneurial couple. Juan and Marie’s three children are already thinking about whether they might like to stay in the family business. “It’s not our dream that one of the kids will take over,” Juan explains. “If it happens, great. But right now, we’re getting the business up to a size where it can run well without us having to be so hands-on. As the kids get older and need more experiences than Swansea can offer, we’ll need to be a bit more mobile.” Conscious of their own needs as much as their children’s, Juan and Marie know that operating a hotel may not work for them forever: “There’s a burnout period in hospitality. There are only so many years you can face guests. It’s not as hard as, say, a dairy farm, but we’re tied to this place.” Marie’s advice to those just beginning an entrepreneurial journey is simple. “Look after your employees and do your homework,” she says. Juan says firmly: “You have to do it yourself because no one will do it for you. When you really want something, no one else will go the miles on your behalf. You’re the only person who can get you there.” 304

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The Executive Marcie Hans

Description This is me. I am an executive. Executives are important. They go to important offices and do important things. I am an executive. A parody of the early sixties executive set, The Executive invites everyone to get in on the joke.

Key Selling Points Following the popularity of Ladybird’s ‘How To’ series, this is a parody of executive culture which pokes fun at the conformism that dominated the 1960s corporate workplace. Now more relevant than ever – corporate culture is taking over the world (Trump!) and the time is ripe for a parody of all things business. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$9.99 / NZ$11.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781782438182

Category

• Humour

Imprint

• Michael O'Mara

Extent

• 48 pages

Format

• 178mm x 122mm

Illustrations

• B/W integrated illustrations throughout

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THIS IS ME. I am an executive. Executives are important. They go to important offices and do important things. Colour my underwear important.

THIS IS MY TRAIN. It takes me to my office every day. You meet lots of interesting people on the train. Colour them all grey.

50 Queers Who Changed the World A celebration of LGBTQ+ icons Dan Jones Description Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queers Who Changed the World is a tribute to some of the most inspirational people of all time. LGBTQ people are some of the coolest in history – legendary figures such as Freddie Mercury, Virginia Woolf, Laverne Cox, Harvey Milk and Audre Lorde have made an unforgettable impact. Queer subculture has had an enormous influence on style, music, art and literature – the queer community were the first to vogue, throw shade and say YAS to life before it hit the mainstream. From Oscar Wilde, who defended his homosexual relationships in court, to RuPaul acting as an ambassador for drag on network television, queer people have fought to express their identities and make a difference. This book will celebrate the lives, work and unique perspectives of the icons who changed the world. Elegantly illustrated and packaged, these stories make utterly inspirational reading. Publication Date 1st November 2017

Author Details Dan Jones is a journalist and editor based in London. Formerly the shopping editor at i-D, Time Out’s Shopping & Style editor, and most recently Senior Men’s Editor at ASOS, Dan is currently a style consultant, working with brands like Topman and Swatch, and publishers like Conde Nast. He is the author of The Mixer’s Manual and Man Made.

Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781784881344

Category

• Gift

Imprint

• Hardie Grant London

Extent

• 112 pages

Format

• 185mm x 135mm

The only stylish gift book like it on the market.

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations throughout

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.

Key Selling Points

Elegantly packaged, affordably priced. FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

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A Beautiful Composition of Broken r.h. Sin Description The new highly anticipated book by instapoet r. h. sin. A Beautiful Composition of Broken is inspired by some of the events expressed artistically by Samantha King in the bestseller Born to Love, Cursed to Feel. It serves as a poetic documentary of the lives of people who have been mistreated, misunderstood, and wrongfully labeled in a way that limits them in this world. The author’s most personal volume yet, A Beautiful Composition of Broken builds a conceptual bridge between r.h. Sin’s earliest work and his forthcoming series, Planting Gardens in Graves.

Author Details Born in New Brunswick, NJ, and later moving to Florida, r.h. Sin comes from a place where a life of pain is the norm and destruction is a constant. Through an early love for reading and writing, r.h. Sin was able to pull away from some of the social distractions that plagued so many of his peers. After returning to the northeast and moving to New York in pursuit of love, the young modern poet found that and much more. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$32.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781449490164

Category

• Poetry

Imprint Extent

• Andrews McMeel Publishing • 480 pages

Format

• 178mm x 127mm

Illustrations

• Text only

Key Selling Points Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel and Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Volume Two are both bestsellers in African American poetry. Whiskey II has sold 86,000 copies in ten months. r.h. Sin's Twitter has 627,000 followers, including Jim Gaffigan and Calvin Reid of PW; his Instagram has 619,000 followers, including Rhonda Rousey (social stats: 4/11/17). Phenomenal fan engagement! ALSO AVAILABLE: Whiskey, Words and a Shovel ISBN 9781449488062 ALSO AVAILABLE: Whiskey, Words and a Shovel II ISBN 9781449480356 ALSO AVAILABLE: Whiskey, Words and a Shovel III ISBN 9781449484590

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Minecraft Master Builder Toolkit Create your own Minecraft masterpieces Carlton Books Description Become a Minecraft master builder with this incredible step-by-step guide to creating 15 amazing Minecraft masterpieces! There are Quick, Intermediate and Master builds – created especially just for this book – plus tricks and tips from expert Minecrafters to help you improve your construction skills. From igloos to aircraft carriers, rollercoasters to sky fortresses, this truly interactive guide will inspire every Minecrafter to stretch their imagination to the limit!

Author Details Juliet Stanley is a former teacher and educational publishing specialist. She is also a keen Minecrafter who can break down complex builds into easy-to-understand steps. Jonathan Green is a writer of speculative fiction, with more than 65 books to his name. He has written for Doctor Who, Sonic the Hedgehog, Robin of Sherwood and LEGO.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$15.99 / NZ$19.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781783122905

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 72 pages

Format

• 270mm x 216mm

Illustrations

• 4-colour illustrations throughout

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A first-of-a-kind addition to the Minecraft market, with expert advice that reveals the Minecraft masters' tricks of the trade. Simple-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for 15 awesome Minecraft buildings, divided into five themes: Forest, Ocean, Snow, Sky and Mountain. Unique content – the 15 constructions have been specially created by expert Minecrafters just for this book. Each build is rated a Quick, Intermediate or Master Build; a list of materials is provided for each project, plus guidance on how long each build will take. Tutorials include the following builds: forest camp, underwater base, rollercoaster, castle, treehouse, sky fortress, ice hotel, aircraft carrier, mushroom house, igloo and more! Full of fascinating Minecraft facts, figures and trivia, it also includes hints and tips on how to master the game.

CONTENTS Welcome to the Wonderful World of Minecraft! Tooled Up! Un-box Your Build

FOREST FUN Woodland Weirdoes Easy build: Camp ion Intermediate build: Mushroom Mans Master build: Treetop Lodge

RIDE THE WAVES Ocean Lowdown Easy build: Water Ride se Intermediate build: Underwater Ba Master build: Aircraft Carrier

SKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S THE LIMIT Flying High Easy build: Plane Intermediate build: Sky Fortress Master build: Skyscraper

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The Rules of Cool Easy build: Igloo Intermediate build: Polar Outpost Master build: Ice Hotel

ON TOP OF THE WORLD Mountain Must-haves Easy build: Farm Intermediate build: Rollercoaster Master build: Castle Glossary

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CAMP DIFFICULTY

EASY

STEP 3

TIME

1 HOUR

Seal each end of the structure with oak wood planks to create a snug inside space. Fill the back of the shelter with nine blocks to create a solid wall. At the front use seven blocks, leaving an entrance two blocks high and one wide.

camp Let’s get started on your ﬁrst build. This k is great when you want to make your mar on a new world but don’t have much time. ’re It’s an ideal shelter in a forest biome – you erial to surrounded by trees, so what better mat ts and build with? You’ll also have plenty of plan ify animals around you, so you could even mod several this camp to make a small farm or build shelters to create your ﬁrst village.

MATERIALS

STEP 1 First form a simple tent shape with seven rows of oak wood planks. Each row should be seven blocks long. If you want a more colourful camp, you can use wool blocks to build your shelter instead.

STEP 5

Now for some home comforts… Start with ﬂooring – 7x5 carpet blocks should cover it! Select a bed from decorative items in your inventory, so you can rest after a day’s hard crafting! For bedside tables, use two planks.

STEP 4 Surround your entrance with two upturned stairs, two sticks and three oak wood slabs for the porch roof. Torches will help you ﬁnd your way home at night and keep nasty visitors away when you’re in Survival mode.

STEP 6 Protect yourself (and pets or crops) with a sturdy fence. Use oak fences, leaving a four-block gap for your gate. Stack another row on top for extra security.

EXPERT

TIP!

STEP 2 Strengthen the walls of your shelter with oak wood stairs. You’ll need eight rows of these, each made up of seven blocks. Place these on the outer edges of your shelter. Now it’s really starting to take shape!

STEP 7 Build your gate from four planks and a door from the redstone section of your inventory. Four fences on top of the doorway will ﬁnish it oﬀ. Torches will help stop woodland weirdoes spawning nearby!

HOME GROWN

Customize your camp with extra features, like a pig pen or pond. Grow carrots to lure pigs to your camp and feed them. They also give you a great energy boost when in Survival mode.

FOREST FUN

MMUASNHSRIOONOM DIFFICULTY

INTERMEDIATE

STEP 4

BUILD TIME

2 HOURS

STEP 3 Now build the walls up until they are 18 blocks high. Add a few extra columns going part way up the walls, as shown, to give your mushroom mansion a more natural shape. Make sure these columns are diﬀerent lengths.

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STEP 5 Now build your roof base from cyan hardened clay. Start oﬀ three blocks under the top of the stem and create a large ring around the top of your mushroom stalk. Add two more rings on top, each one smaller than the one below to form steps as pictured.

STEP 1 Craft your circular foundation as shown here using white hardened clay. At the widest point it should be 13 rows across. Build quartz-block walls on the outer edges as pictured, but make sure you leave a gap for the entrance.

EXPERT

TIP!

STEP 2 Build the walls four blocks high, leaving a space three blocks tall for the entrance. To add texture, build a line of blocks around the base with one more block on top of this in each corner, as shown.

Do the same working from the top down so you have columns of diﬀerent lengths hanging down. This means the stem of the mushroom is slightly wider at the top and the bottom, with the narrowest point in the middle.

STEP 6 Pay special attention to the way the mushroom curves. You will need to lose blocks in each corner as you build upwards, like this.

Every mansion needs a few balconies! Build these into the stem using acacia wood slabs and fence. Then light everything up with torches inside the rim of your roof and at the entrance.

12 Sleighs of Christmas Sherri Duskey Rinker

Description Santa's sleigh is in bad shape, but his elves have the solution –12 solutions, in fact! Sherri Duskey Rinker’s buoyant rhyme and Jake Parker's accessible comic-inspired art give this turbocharged and rocket fueled spin on the 12 Days of Christmas both childhood exuberance and ageless Christmas warmth.

Author Details Sherri Duskey Rinker is the author of #1 New York Times bestsellers Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream Train. Find out more about her at SherriDuskeyRinker.com.Jake Parker is an illustrator based in Utah, who, for the last 15 years, has worked on everything from animated films to comics to picture books, including The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. Find him at MrJakeParker.com. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price Was $29.99 • AUD$21.99 Hardback ISBN

• 9781452145143

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 40 pages

Format

• 279 x 241mm

Illustrations

• Full-colour throughout

Key Selling Points A NEW HOLIDAY MUST-HAVE: Two tremendous hooks in one! This funny, engaging new take on the Twelve Days of Christmas will be the perfect holiday gift purchase for the energetic picture book audience. BROAD APPEAL: The millions of fans of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and its powerful vehicles will delight in this detail-filled, dynamic picture book with loads of horsepower and a sweet Christmas-y heart from the same author. READ-ALOUD GOLD: The fun-to-read rhyme, the energy on each page, and the broad humour of this book will have even the children most antsy for Christmas morning glued to their seats. UP-AND-COMING ARTIST: Jake Parker will be recognizable to many booksellers from his

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12 Sleighs of Christmas Sherri Duskey Rinker

stand-out picture books The Little Snowplow, The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, Little Bot and Sparrow, and his young graphic novel Missile Mouse. 12 COPY PACK AVAILABLE at 50% DISCOUNT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Includes counter pack that can hold up to 10 copies!

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Mandarins and Mavericks Martin Summons

Description

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$59.99 / NZ$64.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781743793695

Category

• Reference

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 400 pages

Format

• 240mm x 180mm

Illustrations

• Full-colour

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Mandarins and Mavericks tells a great Australian story of drive and endeavour on the part of the people who built and sustained the company Western Mining Corporation from its origins in 1933. Drawing on meticulously kept archives as well as the voices of many of the individuals involved, the book traces the company’s progress throughout its seventy-two years – from its humble start in a corporate world very different from the one we know today to its eventual ranking as one of Australia’s leading exploration, mining and processing conglomerates. WMC produced mineral wealth from local gold, copper, iron ore, bauxite, alumina, nickel, uranium, talc and fertilisers. It also undertook an array of exploration activities and investments overseas. that involved numerous ventures, both profitable and not so profitable. It was, however, the value inherent in WMC’s long-standing and substantial bauxite and alumina interests back home that would ultimately reshape the company’s corporate structure. This was realised in 2002 when shareholders approved a demerger to split the company’s assets into two separate entities, effectively marking the beginning of the end of WMC as a publicly listed company in its own right. A bidding war ensued and an orderly takeover by BHP Billiton finally saw the company name and its familiar share market code disappear from the ASX Official List on 29 June 2005.

Author Details After completing a BA in Media Studies and Sociology at Swinburne University of Technology in the 1970s, Martin Summons started a career in journalism with The Weekly Times and then The Land, which evolved into an interest in finance writing for AAP, Reuters, The Australian and Australian Business and, later, as a stockbroking research editor. His other publications include Water the Vital Element, 150 years of Shepparton’s Progress (2010); and Turning Points, The Story of Geoff Handbury (2012).

Mandarins and Mavericks Martin Summons

Key Selling Points The book presents the long and enterprising history of WMC publicly and in detail for the first time. It tells the inside story of a highly energised corporation that has been described by former Australian prime minister John Howard as a metaphor for the growth of our overall economy. The company was 'built on people', and a great many of these people remain loyal to its memory and have long awaited this historic publication; they make up a portion of the market. The demerger of WMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assets into Alumina and Resources in 2002 received much publicity and culminated, several years later, in a takeover by mining giant BHP Billiton. Many Australians will be intrigued to know the details leading up to and including the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demise.

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The Master Gardener A Biography of T. R. Garnett Andrew Lemon

Description

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$60.00 / NZ$64.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781743793824

Category

• Auto/Biography

Imprint

• Hardie Grant Books

Extent

• 432 pages

Format

• 234mm x 153mm

Illustrations

• Black and white plates

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Tommy Garnett, creator of the famous Garden of St Erth at Blackwood, Victoria, became one of Australia’s best-known garden writers, a rational crusader for plants, gardens and gardeners, birds, nature conservation and the environment. Few of his devoted readers knew anything of his life before the garden – the experiences that informed the wise, crisp, erudite, playful newspaper columns and books. Half of his long life – he died in 2006 aged 91 – was as an Englishman, half as an Australian. He was an innovative, controversial, successful head of two world-famous schools, England’s Marlborough College and Australia’s Geelong Grammar. Had he been a snob he could have boasted of his family’s literary connections or rattled off long lists of distinguished students, staff and colleagues who acknowledged his influence – poets, cricketers, princes, scholars, ornithologists, scientists, artists. Nor did he boast of his own sporting triumphs (first-class cricketer, British Eton Fives champion) or of his tough war years as a ground-based RAF squadron leader, decorated for service behind enemy lines, in Bengal and Burma. Born into wealth, thrown into penury, surviving as a scholarship boy, finding the love of his life after the war, Garnett was a man of accomplishment and wisdom, forever open to new insights and to new experiences. Australia reaped the benefit.

Author Details Andrew Lemon is a multiple award-winning Australian historian, best known for his three volume History of Australian Thoroughbred Racing (joint winner of the 2009 Australian Society for Sports History biennial book prize). He has written biographies, local, company and school histories, and co-authored Poor Souls, They Perished on Australia’s worst shipwreck (1986 FAW Wilke Prize). His book A Great Australian School: Wesley College Examined (2004) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Award. In 2005 the University of Melbourne awarded him the degree of Doctor of Letters for his published work. In 2012 he was a John H. Daniels research fellow at the

The Master Gardener A Biography of T. R. Garnett Andrew Lemon National Sporting Library and Museum, Virginia USA. He is immediate past president of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

Key Selling Points TR Garnett was the creator of much-publicised Garden of St Erth, developed across the abandoned gold-rush township of Simmons Reef, near Blackwood, Victoria. The Garden of St Erth was one of Victoria’s first private gardens to be opened year-round to the public in the 1980s, attracting thousands of visitors a year: now part of the successful Diggers Club network of gardens. This book is about an Englishman who became an Australian and soon knew more of the country, its birds, plants, gardens and landscapes, than most people who lived their whole lives in Australia. TR Garnett was a rational crusader for the natural world: his wisdom and insights remain crucially relevant today. TR Garnett was an innovative head of two world-famous schools in the second half of the twentieth century – one in England, one in Australia – where his ideas on raising children to responsible young adults were realistically progressive, with much to say still to modern parents and educators. In Australia in particular, Garnett had to overcome strong hostility to his innovations, later hailed as successes. Garnett as headmaster of Geelong Grammar was entrusted to the Australian education of Prince Charles at Timbertop in 1966. This carefully crafted book offers insights into traditional British Public School education, the place of independent schools in modern Australia and the nature and extent of British influences on Australian culture. FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

David Tanis Market Cooking

Themes and Variations, Ingredient by Ingredient David Tanis

Description This book is about seeking out the best ingredient and exploring the best ways of cooking it, pulling from all the world’s great cuisines. So whether it’s Louisiana Dirty Rice, Persian Jewel Rice, Chinese Sticky Rice, Arroz Valenciana, or Italian Risotto, you learn the qualities of each ingredient (the long and the short of it!) and the best methods and recipes for showcasing what makes it special. Surprises abound in this vast recipe collection (over 60 percent of which are vegetarian or vegetable-based), such as Tanis’s unexpected happy nod to the value of leftovers: he offers scores of suggestions to morph them into dishes every bit as delicious as the meal in which they originally appeared.

Author Details

Publication Date 15th November 2017 Price

• AUD$79.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781579656287

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 480 pages

Format

• 250.825mm x 190.5mm

Illustrations

• 300 colour photographs

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David Tanis has worked as a professional chef for over three decades, and is the author of several acclaimed cookbooks, including A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes, which was chosen as one of the 50 best cookbooks ever by the Guardian/Observer (U.K.) and Heart of the Artichoke, which was nominated for a James Beard Award. Tanis lives in Manhattan and has been writing the weekly City Kitchen column for the Food section of the New York Times for nearly six years.

Key Selling Points ·Pitch-perfect food, plus terrific cooking lessons: Recipes for updated classics that reflect the casual way we eat today, paired to lessons that improve our skill sets ·Makes better and happier cooks: Tanis teaches how to pick out the best ingredient, understand its salient attributes, and prepare it in ways that bring out all aspects of its flavour ·Tanis shows the way: With that wise, unflappable voice and fuss-free approach, he fosters familiarity and comfort

Flank Steak Tagliata with Salsa Verde

agliata is Italian for sliced steak. You’ll find it on nearly every Italian restaurant menu. But it’s easy to make at home, and a great choice for an unfussy meal. (Sometimes it’s also a good way to make one steak feed two.) Often tagliata is served simply with arugula leaves, shaved Parmesan, lemon, and olive oil, but a bright, acidic salsa verde, the Italian green herb sauce, adds bolder flavor. Make the salsa verde with as many herbs as you like, starting with parsley and adding mint, basil, marjoram, and/or even a touch of rosemary. Flank steak makes a great tagliata. It’s relatively inexpensive and easy to cook. Skirt steak and sirloin are also good options, but if you’re feeling flush, go with a thick rib-eye. While purists season tagliata only with salt, I’m inclined to make it highly seasoned, using lots of coarsely crushed black pepper as well as garlic and rosemary. Here is the method for cooking the steak in a cast-iron skillet, but grilling over coals is also a good option. 1 flank steak (about 2 pounds) Salt Black peppercorns A few sprigs of rosemary 6 garlic cloves, sliced 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 5 ounces arugula A chunk of Parmesan, for shaving Salsa Verde (recipe follows) 1 lemon, cut into wedges Put the flank steak on a baking sheet and season on both sides with salt. Put a generous handful of peppercorns on a cutting board and crush them by pressing firmly with the bottom of a saucepan (or use a mortar and pestle or a spice mill to achieve a very coarse grind). Measure 1 tablespoon of the crushed pepper and sprinkle on both sides of the steak. Strip the leaves from the rosemary sprigs and sprinkle the meat evenly on both sides with the rosemary and garlic slices. Drizzle the olive oil over both sides of the steak, then massage it with your hands to distribute the seasonings,

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Black Beans with Chorizo and Squid

his spicy dish of black beans and squid is both dramatic-looking and whimsical. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been fond of white beans and calamari in salads and pastas. Having only black beans on hand one day was serendipitous. It turns out that black bean broth has a richness (and color) uncannily similar to squid inkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a sensational discovery. Chorizo, garlic, olive oil, and hot pepper also play an important role in this success story. FOR THE BEANS

1 cup dried black beans, picked over for stones and debris and rinsed 1 medium onion, halved and each half stuck with a clove 1 medium carrot, peeled A bay leaf A small rosemary sprig Salt FOR THE SQUID

1 pound cleaned squid bodies and tentacles Salt and pepper 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1/4 pound Spanish chorizo, cut into 1/2-inch dice 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper, or more to taste 1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/2 cup herbed bread crumbs (see page 000; optional) Put the beans, onion, carrot, bay leaf, and rosemary in a large saucepan, add cold water just to cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to maintain a simmer, skim any rising foam, and cook gently for 30 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon salt and continue cooking until the beans are tender, about 30 minutes more. Remove from the heat and let the beans cool in their liquid. (The beans can be cooked up to 2 days in advance and refrigerated in their liquid.)

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Scandinavian Christmas Trine Hahnemann

Description In Scandinavia the whole period of Christmas, from the first Sunday in Advent to New Year's Day, is marked by festivals and celebrated in traditional but beautifully contemporary style. Hygge, the Danish word for cosiness, is about being inside with candles, great comfort food and lots of cakes and sweets. The first week of December is baking week – enough has to be made to last the whole Christmas period. Jars of decorated cookies, gingerbread houses and clogs filled with little presents rub shoulders with simple wreaths, trees and tables decorated with white candles and fresh greenery. Brunches, cocktail and tea parties, lunches and dinners are celebrated with a mixture of traditional goodies and delicious modern recipes. Duck and pork rule on Christmas Eve, fish, ham and seasonal vegetables on Christmas Day. Sweets, biscuits, puddings and other treats abound – all washed down with gluwein and fruity cocktails.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 / NZ$31.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781787130913

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 144 pages

Format

• 235mm x 215mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography

In this glorious book, illustrated with evocative photographs, Trine Hahnemann provides a cornucopia of 70 Christmas recipes showing us how we, too, can decorate our homes and make delicious dishes to celebrate Christmas the Scandinavian way.

Author Details Trine Hahnemann is an expert on and ambassador for modern Scandinavian food and she cooks, writes and lectures on the subject around the world. She has written ten cookbooks in her native Danish and five in English, including the bestselling Scandinavian Baking and Scandinavian Comfort Food. Trine lives between Copenhagen and London, but travels constantly around the world to bring Scandinavian food and cooking to a wider audience.

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Scandinavian Christmas Trine Hahnemann

·The popularity of the Scandinavian lifestyle continues to grow, and it's never more apparent than in the run-up to Christmas ·This new edition of the bestselling Scandinavian Christmas book features a new, contemporary cover design ·Trine Hahnemann is a preeminent author of Scandinavian cookery books, and her recipes are foolproof

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I started making this when my children were small. Over the years, I have learned to make a double portion every time, because a lot of it is eaten before it ever leaves the kitchenâ&#x20AC;Ś YOU WILL NEED 2 tbsp corn oil 150g popcorn kernels salt about 500g Tempered Chocolate, to cover (see page 22)

Heat the oil in a large pot and add the popcorn. Cover with a lid and reduce the heat. Wait for the kernels to pop; when the pot goes silent, they are done. Uncover, pour the popcorn into a large bowl and sprinkle with salt, then leave to cool. When cool, mix in the tempered chocolate and put on a tray lined with baking parchment. Leave to set for about 30 minutes. Break into pieces. Use them to fill cellophane bags, tied with coloured ribbon, or serve in bowls at a party.

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Red cabbage salad

Serves 8

I often serve this as an alternative to hot vegetable dishes; it seems more modern somehow, and is wonderfully crunchy. Remove and discard the core and the thick central ribs from the cabbage and finely shred the leaves. Cut the pears into wedges and mix with the cabbage. Roughly chop the walnuts and mix with the salad. Whisk together all the ingredients for the dressing and mix it with the salad just before serving. Do not let the salad sit, because red cabbage goes soft very quickly.

Brussels sprouts with clementines

Serves 8

Brussels sprouts boiled to death is my idea of hell, so I just sauté them with chilli to make this warm salad with clementines. You need some vegetables during the festive season to digest all that wonderful, but heavy, Christmas food!

YOU WILL NEED For the salad 1 small red cabbage, about 600g 4 pears 150g walnuts For the dressing 2 tbsp walnut oil 3 tbsp cider vinegar salt freshly ground pepper

YOU WILL NEED 1kg Brussels sprouts 6 clementines 1 tsp salted butter 1 red chilli, finely chopped salt freshly ground black pepper

Remove the outer leaves from the Brussels sprouts and cut off the bases. Cut them into very thin slices. Rinse and leave to drain in a colander. Peel the clementines, cut them into slices and cut the slices in half. Melt the butter in a saucepan and sauté the sprouts for two minutes. Add the chilli and clementines and sauté for further two minutes. Remove from the heat, season and serve.

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Artisanal Kitchen, The Holiday Cocktails Nick Mautone

Description The newest addition to the Artisanal Kitchen series, Holiday Cocktails provides dozens of foolproof ideas for successful entertaining at home, including the basics of cocktail making, choosing the right drink for the right occasion, and serving cocktails for a crowd. It’s packed with easy-to-follow recipes for seasonal favorites, from nogs to grogs, as well as classics with a twist that work year-round, such as old-fashioneds and martinis, coffee-based drinks to serve in lieu of dessert, and even nonalcoholic cocktails that are a treat unto themselves. This is the perfect book to pull off the shelf year after year when you want to make any occasion a little more festive.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$27.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781579658038

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 96 pages

Format

• 177.8mm x 139.7mm

Illustrations

• 25 colour photographs

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Nick Mautone runs a food management and consulting company. Previously, he managed a series of restaurants, including New York’s Gotham Bar and Grill and Gramercy Tavern. Mautone has been featured in the New York Times, Food & Wine, and on the CBS Early Show. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

Key Selling Points ·A wide range of recipes covering holiday favorites, like Thanksgiving Nog, Hot Spiked Cider, and Mimosa, as well as festive suggestions for new favourites like Chestnut Hot Chocolate and French 75 ·A versatile book for many different occasions, including Bloody Marys for holiday brunches, mulled wines and ciders for Thanksgiving dinners, and mimosas and Manhattans for New Year’s parties ·A smartly designed, handy package with beautiful photos

Artisanal Kitchen, The Holiday Cookies Alice Medrich

Description Holiday Cookies is the newest addition to the Artisanal Kitchen series, providing dozens of foolproof recipes for cookies, bars, and savories of all textures, from simple holiday classics like Vanilla Bean Tuiles and Great Grahams to the more decadent Caramel Cheesecake Bars and Chunky Hazelnut Meringues. There are even some delicious savouries that can double as hors d’oeuvres at the holiday buffet like Crunchy Seed Cookies and Salted Peanut Toffee Cookies.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$27.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781579658045

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 96 pages

Format

• 177.8mm x 139.7mm

Illustrations

• 25 colour photographs

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Alice Medrich is the winner of five James Beard Foundation Awards, most recently Best Baking & Dessert Book of the Year for her tenth cookbook, Flavor Flours (November 2014). She received her formal training at the prestigious École Lenôtre in France and is widely credited with popularizing chocolate truffles in America. Medrich writes for Food52.com and teaches online baking courses at Craftsy.com. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Key Selling Points ·A handy book of the best holiday recipes and popular favorites like Rocky Road Bars and Sticky Pecan Bites all in one place ·Caters to all tastes and expertise levels: Flavoured with chocolate, caramel, fruits, and nuts, these versatile recipes come together for beginners and expert bakers alike ·Fail-proof recipes from a distinguished author – Medrich is a tireless recipe tester and baking technician who won’t stop until a recipe is perfect, from ingredients to techniques

Artisanal Kitchen, The Party Food

Susan Spungen

Description A collection of recipes that makes entertaining easy for any occasion – whether it’s a cocktail hour, a brunch, a dinner party, or an elaborate holiday feast. Recipes for Lobster Salad, Tarragon Roasted Chicken, Potato Gratin, and Chocolate Soufflé make for an easy-to-make foolproof dinner menu that even complete novices can master; cheat sheets like Ten Quick Hors d’Oeuvres and Five Entrée Salads make entertaining a crowd cheaper and easier than ever; and recipes for high-stakes holiday meals like Roasted Fillet of Beef or Roasted Turkey Parts elevate the classic crowd-pleasers to dishes that guests will rave about for months.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$27.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781579658052

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 96 pages

Format

• 177.8mm x 139.7mm

Illustrations

• 25 colour photographs

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Susan Spungen is a celebrated cook, food stylist, recipe developer, and author. She was the founding food editor and editorial director for food at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia from its launch until 2003, and is now a contributing editor at More magazine. Her work as a culinary consultant and food stylist can be seen in many feature films, including Julie & Julia; Eat, Pray, Love; and Labor Day.

Key Selling Points ·Tried-and-true recipes that will make any party better, including no-assembly snacks, foolproof roasts, and no-fail pie crusts ·Fully planned menus: Sample menus for many different occasions, as well as tips on how to devise your own menu ·Expert author: Spungen is a food stylist to the stars, having worked on movies like Julie & Julia and Eat, Pray, Love

A Beautiful Mess Weekday Weekend

How to live a healthy veggie life…and still eat treats Emma Chapman

Description This is a funny and relatable narrative vegetarian cookbook for home cooks of all skill levels from the extremely popular blog A Beautiful Mess. Eighty yummy-healthy recipes for accessible meals from a trusted source are organized into 'weekday' – five days without refined flours, sugars, alcohol, and dairy – and 'weekend' – indulgent, full-flavored foods. More than 75 bright, naturally lit photos show plated food and some Beautiful Mess style and ambiance. Intended for an audience that’s not feeding a family every night, these recipes serve two.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781452154718

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 304 pages

Format

• 254mm x 184mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography throughout

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A Beautiful Mess (abeautifulmess.com) is a women's lifestyle company focused on creating happiness every day through a homemade lifestyle. The blog-with 1.5 million readers-shares home decor projects, recipes, and crafts, as well as bits of the authors' life in the Midwest (Missouri and Tennessee). Emma Chapman and Elsie Larson are the entrepreneurial sister team behind the lifestyle blog A Beautiful Mess. Their previous books include A Beautiful Mess Photo Idea Book and Happy Handmade Home.

Key Selling Points ·For the million+ fans of the DIY blog, newlyweds and fledgling cooks who are finding their feet in the kitchen, and recreational cooks looking for inspiration for weeknight cooking ·Bright, stunning, and useful, with the tactile appeal of a 3-piece case and a fabric spine ·Strategic thinking about weeknight cooking, more than 80 creative, vegetarian recipes for home cooks, beautiful visuals, and charming narrative and visual style ·A Beautiful Mess has 1.5 million readers, have released their own app with over 1 million downloads, and have 494k followers on Intsagram

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savory dill and apple salad sandwich SERVES ONE

I put together this refreshing combo all the time for myself as a quick workday lunch. It’s fast, crunchy, savory, and really delicious. If I’m really hungry I eat this entire serving between two toasted slices of whole grain bread. If I’m feeling less hungry or I’m eating this along with something else (like carrot sticks and hummus—yum!), then I’ll just eat half of this over one piece of toast as a kind of open-faced sandwich. This works well too if you are feeding two people at once.

1/2 crisp apple such as Granny Smith, cored and cubed

In a bowl, combine the apple, almonds, onion, dill, lemon juice, mayo, celery seed, and mustard and stir to combine and coat everything well. Season with salt and pepper.

1/4 cup [30 g] slivered almonds 1 Tbsp chopped red onion 1 Tbsp chopped fresh dill

Pile the salad on one of the slices of bread, arrange lettuce leaves and cuke slices on top, and close the sandwich up with the second bread slice. Press gently to help everything hold together. Cut in half and serve immediately, or no more than a few hours after it’s assembled.

1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice 1 heaping Tbsp mayonnaise, storebought (no sugar added) or homemade (page XX) 1/2 tsp celery seed 1 tsp yellow mustard (no sugar added) Salt and freshly ground pepper 2 slices whole-grain bread, toasted if you like Lettuce leaves and sliced cucumbers for topping

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This meal reminds me a lot of avocado rolls, which I love. But if you want to add more steamed or lightly sautéed veggies, or a fried egg on top go for it!

3/4 cup [150 g] black rice

Preheat the oven to at 350°F [180°C].

8 oz [230 g] extra-firm tofu

Meanwhile, steam the black rice according to the package directions.

1 Tbsp arrowroot powder (see page XX) 1 Tbsp sesame oil

Drain the tofu from the liquid in its package. Place on a plate lined with a double thickness of paper towel. Place another paper towel on top of the tofu, then a second plate on top of that. Finally, place something heavy on top, like a large can of tomatoes (or whatever you have on hand). Let the tofu drain under pressure for 10 minutes. Remove the tofu from the paper towels and weights and cut into small cubes, about xx inch [xx cm]. Transfer to a large zippered plastic bag or a bowl, sprinkle with the arrowroot, and toss so to coat well. (I prefer the zippered bag technique.) Spread the dusted tofu on a baking sheet, transfer to the oven, and bake until slightly hardened and the edges begin to look crispy, 25 to 35 minutes.

2 Tbsp soy sauce 1/8 tsp garlic powder 1/8 tsp ground ginger 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes 1 ripe avocado, pitted, peeled, and sliced 1 sheet nori, sliced (use kitchen shears or scissors to get superthin pieces) 1 Tbsp sesame seeds, toasted (see page XX)

Just before the tofu and rice are both ready, in a microwave-safe bowl, stir together the sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic powder, ginger, and red pepper flakes. Microwave on high for 30 seconds, or just until hot. (You could also do this in a small saucepan on the stovetop.) To assemble the sushi bowls, divide the steamed black rice between 2 large individual serving bowls. Arrange the sliced avocado, baked tofu, nori, and sesame seeds on top, dividing them evenly. Pour the sauce over everything and serve immediately.

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black rice sushi bowls

Little Gingerbread House

Recipes, Templates, and Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating 8 Festive Mini Houses Jennifer Carden

Description Make one of these 8 adorable mini-gingerbread houses and decorate for the holidays. You’ll find step by step instructions to make a traditional house, an adobe style house, a wintery A-frame, fantasy hexagon house, and even a trio of extra mini houses (great to use as place cards on your holiday dinner table). And don’t forget the animal friends whose adorable versions of their homes include a chicken coop, birdhouse, and of course, a dog house. The 32 page booklet contains recipes for making the gingerbread walls (including a gluten free recipe) and royal icing, the edible 'glue' that holds them together. Also included are tons of decorating ideas and a recipe for fondant which is perfect for creating landscaping essentials like bushes and flower pots. Four reusable food safe templates (for cutting out the gingerbread components) are tucked into a portfolio along with the recipe booklet. Gorgeous photos throughout offer lots of ideas and jumping off points for your own decorations. Whether you want to build one little house or create a whole winter wonderland of mini homes, you’ll find all the ideas you need to celebrate the season your way. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$27.99 All Kits

ISBN

• 9781452136554

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 32 pages

Format

• 229mm x 229mm

Illustrations

• 20-25 full colour photos

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Author Details Jennifer Carden writes about food and develops recipes for a number of magazines and corporate clients as well as doing all the food styling in her husband's photographs. Matt Carden is a photographer whose work has appeared in NapaStyle catalog and on corporate packaging. Their previous work includes Mini Pretty Baking Kit, the photos in the Chef Olivia Cookie Cutter Kit,The Toddler Café, and photography for Wookie Pies and Ice Sabers. Matt and Jen run an art gallery out of an adorable vintage camper just north of San Francisco which is devoted to food related topics and features Matt's large scale photos in addition to other food-inspired artists.

Key Selling Points

Little Gingerbread House

Recipes, Templates, and Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating 8 Festive Mini Houses Jennifer Carden

SPEAKS TO THE EXISTING TREND: It appeals to the widening range of baking book consumers and also the segment of consumers who only bake and decorate during the winter holidays. For mums and kids, it's memory-making. For young crafty bakers, it's a perennial indulgence of festive nostalgia and crafty self-expression. REUSABLE: This is a holiday topic of perennial interest and the house designs and kit's templates offer years of gingerbread house decorating fun which will create the kind of traditions families love to maintain. GOING SMALL: Small houses are appealing to those who might be intimidated by decorating a more conventionally sized house. They will take less time and the smaller size is appealing to small hands, making this the perfect family affair. The focus on the small size makes this stand out from other kits on the market.

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What’s better during the holiday season than a gingerbread house? Adorable mini gingerbread houses!

Contents Introduction • 3 Before You Begin • 3 Basic Recipes • 5 Adorable Adobe • 9 Christmas House • 11 Classy Chicken Coop • 15 A Trio of Tiny Houses • 19 Fantasy Hexagon House • 20 A Pair of A-Frame Getaways • 23 Cozy Cardinal Cottage • 26 Darling Doghouse • 29

I’ve always loved gingerbread houses, but one house was never enough for me—I wanted a whole neighborhood of houses. I started making them smaller so that I could have more of them. Instead of laboring for days on one mansion, I built several houses in different architectural styles. In the following pages, you’ll find step-by-step instructions and templates for making ten different mini houses, from a classic Christmas-themed house covered with candy decorations to a unique midcentury modern home. There is a special little hexagon house that looks like something from a fairy tale. And because animals are part of the family, too, I’ve included an adorable doghouse, a birdhouse, and the cutest chicken coop ever. Making little gingerbread houses is so much fun! If you are like me, you’ll bake, assemble, and decorate all the houses herein

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to create your own little gingerbread village. Or, just make one and decorate it to look like your own house. Even better, throw a holiday gingerbread house–making party and have your friends share in the fun. It’s simple to make and assemble a few houses ahead of time and set them out on a large table. Put out bowls of candy decorations and pastry bags filled with royal icing for your guests to decorate and create their own unique houses. Serve some festive bubbly drinks and seasonal snacks for everyone to enjoy while the decorations dry enough for the houses to be taken home. The only limits for you and your guests are your imaginations. There is no need for fancy decorating supplies—all you need is a few simple tools (that you probably already have), decorating tips in a few shapes and sizes, and an assortment of candy and sprinkles. Refer to the photos for inspiration or create your own decorations.

Let’s get started!

Before You Begin The Little Gingerbread House Timeline The optimum amount of time you need to create these houses is three days. But don’t let that intimidate you! The actual time you’ll spend in the first two days isn’t very much—just some mixing, cutting dough pieces, and baking. The majority of your time will be spent on decorating. And that’s the really fun part, so be sure to set aside plenty of time for that. The most important thing to remember is that your basic house should be assembled and completely dry before you start decorating.

3. Bake the gingerbread pieces and let cool completely on a wire

Day One: About 2 hours (plus refrigeration time)

5. Make any royal icing decorations not piped directly onto the

rack. Store the pieces on a baking sheet at room temperature, wrapped in plastic wrap. 4. Mix the Classic Thick Royal Icing (page 7). This is the

“glue” that will hold your house pieces together. Be sure to read the ingredients list carefully and make enough for your project. Some houses require a double recipe.

gingerbread, as specified in your recipe. These need 1 day to dry. 1. Make the gingerbread dough, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and

refrigerate for at least 4 hours or freeze (see pages 5 and 6). 2. Roll out and cut up the dough, using the templates specified

in your recipe.

Day Two: Up to 2 hours (plus drying time) 1. Make the fondant (see page 7), if using homemade. Store

at room temperature. 3

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Adorable Adobe A house of mud never tasted so good! You’ll need a small flower-shaped cookie cutter to make the cactus flowers. T EM PLAT ES

Day One

[A] Cut 4 (1 House Front, 1 Back, and 2 Sides)

1. On a floured work surface, roll out the

[B] Cut 1 (House Roof) [F] Cut 1 (Ladder) I NG R ED I ENTS

1 recipe Basic Gingerbread Dough (page 5), chilled 1 recipe Classic Thick Royal Icing (page 7) Green food coloring gel 3 red Nerds, or as needed ½ cup [40 g] white fondant, homemade (page 7) or store-bought 4 yellow Nerds, or as needed Light blue food coloring gel 2 Tbsp chocolate sprinkles 1 clear or yellow gumdrop 5 small Tootsie Rolls ¼ cup [50 g] gold sanding sugar ¼ cup [50 g] clear sanding sugar 1 white speckled malt ball or gumball S PEC I A L EQ U I PM ENT

Ateco #7 round tip ½-in [12-mm] flower-shaped cookie cutter One 10-by-14-in [25-by-35.5-cm] cardboard cake board

dough to a thickness of ¼ in [6 mm]. Cut the number of house pieces you need using templates A, B, and F as specified (left). Cut out the window in the House Front as shown in the photo (left), but not in the House Sides or Back. Cut out the squares in the Ladder to create rungs. Bake the pieces following the recipe on page 5 and let cool completely on a wire rack. Store the pieces on a baking sheet at room temperature, wrapped in plastic wrap. 2. Cover a baking sheet with a piece of

parchment paper. Using a permanent marker, draw large and small cactus shapes on the parchment, using the photos on pages 8 and 10 for reference. Draw several more than you need to allow for breakage. Flip over the parchment. 3. Place just over half of the thick royal

icing in a small bowl. Cover the remaining icing with plastic wrap and refrigerate. Add green food coloring to the bowl of icing, a few drops at a time, mixing well, until you reach the desired color. Fill a pastry bag with the tinted icing and attach the Ateco #7 round tip (or the tip of your choice). 4. Pipe the icing along the lines of the

cactus shapes you drew, filling them in with straight vertical lines to mimic a saguaro cactus (see photos). Add 2 or

3 red Nerds to each smaller cactus while still wet, for the cactus berries. Pipe out a few small freehand green lines and squiggles, to use later for the potted plant (see photo for reference). Set aside. 5. On a work surface sprinkled with

powdered sugar, roll out about 2 Tbsp of the white fondant to about J inch [4 mm] thick. Cut out 4 small flowers with a cookie cutter. Gently attach 1 or 2 to each larger cactus while the icing is still wet. Add a yellow Nerd to the center of each white flower with a dab of royal icing. Let the cacti dry uncovered on a parchment-lined baking sheet for at least 4 hours, or up to overnight. Day Two 6. Assemble the house: Spoon the rest

of the thick royal icing into a pastry bag. Using the #7 round tip, pipe lines of icing on the side edges of the House Front, Back, and Side ginger bread pieces, and attach them to form a square. Secure with pins (see photo, page 11). Pipe icing along the top edges of the square and place the House Roof piece on top. Pin in place. Let the assembled house dry for at least 4 hours or overnight. When dry, remove the pins. 7. On a work surface lined with parch-

ment paper, mound 1 Tbsp of fondant, 9

These teeny houses make adorable place cards for your holiday dinner table, or a cute addition to a goodie bag. They are quick to make and need only simple decoration with a little icing and a few sprinkles. This recipe makes three but you can double or triple the gingerbread dough recipe to make more. If you do make more than three be sure you buy enough sprinkles to decorate all your houses. T EM PLAT ES

[E] Cut 6 (Front and Back) [P] Cut 6 (Sides) [J] Cut 6 (Roof)

sheet at room temperature, wrapped in plastic wrap. Day Two

I NG R ED I ENTS

1 recipe Basic Gingerbread Dough (page 5), chilled 1 recipe Classic Thick Royal Icing (page 7) Sprinkles of your choice One 7-oz [200-g] bag unsweetened shredded coconut Sanding sugar in color of your choice (optional) 2 red-and-white candy canes 2 tsp white fondant, homemade (page 7) or store-bought Black food coloring gel Brown food coloring gel S PEC I A L EQ U I PM ENT

Ateco #6 or #7 round tip One 10-by-14-in [25-by-35.5-cm] cardboard cake board

2. Spoon 1 cup [120 g] thick royal icing

into a pastry bag and attach the Ateco #6 or #7 round tip. Pipe lines of icing along the side edges of a House Front, House Back, and two House Sides. Attach to create a square and pin to secure. Repeat for the other two houses. Pipe lines of icing along the upper edges of the front, back, and sides of the houses and carefully place two Roof pieces on top of each house so that the pieces meet at the peak. Pin to secure. 3. Using a small, blunt knife, spread thick

icing over each roof, leaving a border of gingerbread about ¼ in [6 mm] wide showing around the edges. Pipe a line of icing along the ridgeline of the roof, where it peaks.

Day One 4. Place one of the houses on a clean work 1. On a floured work surface, roll out the

dough to a thickness of ¼ in [6 mm]. Cut the number of house pieces you need using templates P, E, and J as specified (above). Bake the pieces following the recipe on page 5, but reduce the baking time to 7 to 8 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack. Store the pieces on a baking

surface. Scatter sprinkles all over the roof and tap off any excess. Repeat with the other two houses. 5. Decorate the sides, fronts, and backs

of the houses by spreading them with icing and sprinkling with more sprinkles or with shredded coconut or sanding sugar. Let dry completely.

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6. In a small bowl, mix about ¼ cup [30 g]

of the white icing with 1 tsp water to make Thinnest Royal Icing (page 7). Place the cake board on a large piece of aluminum foil and turn up the edges to catch any drips. Pour the thinned icing over the cake board, covering it completely. Position the decorated houses on the icing-covered cake board and sprinkle the board with shredded coconut. 7. Complete the landscaping: Cut the

candy canes into short lengths and stack them in a little “woodpile.” Place it next to one of the little houses. To make the ax head, put 1 tsp of fondant on a piece of parchment, add a few drops of black food coloring, and, wearing rubber gloves, knead together until dark gray, adding more food coloring if needed. Mold the piece into a thick rectangle and pinch the tip to create a sharp ax edge. Set aside. For the ax handle, take the remaining 1 tsp of fondant, add a few drops of brown food coloring, and knead together until dark brown, adding more food coloring if needed. Mold the piece into a short rope with one end a little thicker than the other. Attach the ax head to the ax handle with a little water. Position the ax next to the woodpile. 8. Let the decorated houses and land-

scape dry completely, at least 4 hours. Remove any remaining pins. 19

Baco

Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles Josef Centeno

Description This is the cookbook of the season from the chef credited with capturing the multicultural flavours of Los Angeles on a plate. Here are 130 recipes from Josef Centeno, chef and owner of five acclaimed restaurants – Bäco Mercat, Bar Ama, Orsa & Winston, Ledlow, and P.Y.T. Centeno is known for innovative, delicious culinary mash-ups and this book is inspired by foods served at the restaurant, with recipes simplified and written for competent home cooks, with Centeno’s simple mantra at its core: 'Follow inspiration.'

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$65.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781452154688

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 320 pages

Format

• 279mm x 203mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography throughout

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Josef Centeno is the chef-owner of four acclaimed restaurants in downtown Los Angeles: Bäco Mercat, Bar Amá, Orsa & Winston and Ledlow. Josef's tasting menus at a restaurant called Opus in Koreatown were famously groundbreaking: you could order as many courses as you wanted for $10 each. And when he opened Lazy Ox in Little Tokyo, it was the first restaurant that shifted critical attention to downtown Los Angeles. Betty Hallock is a food writer who formerly was an editor in the LA Times' award-winning Food section. As deputy food editor and a founding editor of the Daily Dish blog, she helped direct food and drink coverage, writing and editing stories about restaurants, cooking, cocktails, business trends, and more.

Key Selling Points AUTHOR IS WELL KNOWN IN FOOD WORLD: Centeno is a chef on the rise who is getting national attention and exposure: Bäco Mercat was one of Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants in 2012 and Esquire's Best New Restaurants in 2012.

You can substitute the walnut-miso bagna cauda with creamy dill dressing (page XX), or serve both. NOTE:

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15 Brussels sprouts, halved 1/2 large head cauliflower, broken into bite-size florets 1 bunch broccolini, trimmed 2 Tbsp olive oil, plus more for garnish ½ tsp kosher salt 8 small carrots, peeled and halved lengthwise 1 small ripe avocado, peeled, pitted, and cut into thin wedges 6 French breakfast or watermelon radishes, halved or quartered lengthwise, depending on size 1/2 Asian pear, cored and cut into thin wedges 1 tsp finely chopped fresh parsley 2 tsp finely chopped chives 1/2 lemon Flaky sea salt Fresh black pepper 1/2 cup [85 g] walnut-miso bagna cauda (page XX), warmed

Heat the oven to 500°F [260°C]. Put the Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and broccolini on a baking sheet, add the 2 Tbsp olive oil, and toss to coat. Sprinkle with the kosher salt. Roast until tender but still snappy and browned in spots, about 15 minutes.

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You eat a crudités platter like this when you feel like celebrating. It features the best fruits and vegetables possible, some served raw and others roasted, so that you get different textures and temperatures. It’s easy to riff on these by using what’s in season. I like a fall-winter mix of Asian pears, Brussels sprouts, broccolini, radishes, and certain varieties of avocado. In the spring, I incorporate asparagus, carrots, artichoke hearts, English peas, grapefruit, or even strawberries. In the summer, it’s stone fruit and mulberries, cucumbers, haricots verts, maybe pickled okra. For dipping: herbal vinaigrettes, spicy sauces, or bright creamy dressings. Bagna cauda is the warm Piedmontese dip typically made with garlic, anchovies, olive oil, and butter. The version served here is enriched with miso, walnuts, and sesame paste.

Crudités with walnut-miso bagna cauda

To serve, arrange the roasted vegetables, carrots, avocado, radishes, and Asian pear on a platter and sprinkle with the parsley and chives. Drizzle with more oil and squeeze the juice from the lemon over the top. Season with flaky sea salt to taste and a few grinds of black pepper. Serve immediately with the bagna cauda on the side.

This dish has evolved over several years, as it has been tweaked and tweaked and tweaked again—now it’s a signature dish at Bäco Mercat. It started as sashimi of hamachi (amberjack) garnished with gremolata and bacon as part of a tasting menu. Over time, the sashimi became crudo, and the bacon and gremolata were replaced with yuzu juice and dashi. Adjika (the spicy pepper sauce of Abkhazia and Georgia), punctuated by herbs and chiles, was added later. The avocado adds melt-in-your-mouth creaminess, a nice contrast to the crispy potato croquette. See the note on page XX about bottled shiro dashi, which can be substituted for the dashi concentrate. High-quality bottled yuzu juice is available at Japanese markets and online. Tonburi is the seed of the Japanese broom cypress tree. Sometimes called land caviar, the seeds are used as a garnish for their nutty, earthy (quinoa-like) flavor. The jarred seeds are available at select Japanese markets and online. NOTE:

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Hamachi crudo with adjika, yuzu-dashi vinaigrette, avocado, and potato croquettes

SERVES 4

10 oz [280 g] sashimi-grade hamachi (amberjack) or yellowtail fillets, cut into large dice 3 tsp dashi concentrate (page XX) 3 tsp yuzu juice 1 Tbsp olive oil 1 tsp finely chopped shallot 1 tsp finely chopped fresh chives 1 tsp grated lemon zest 1 tsp tonburi (optional) 1 ripe avocado, peeled, pitted, and cut into large dice 1 tsp fresh lime juice 1/2 tsp kosher salt Fresh black pepper 2 Tbsp adjika vinaigrette (page XX) 8 to 12 potato croquettes (page XX), kept warm 2 Tbsp crème fraîche (page XX) Several pale celery leaves for garnish Flaky sea salt cont’d

Rainbow trout is delicate and flaky, its lean meat a great match for rich brown butter balanced with lots of Meyer lemon and briny-fruity green olives. The flavors remind me of a North African tagine of chicken braised with lemons and olives—but it’s much quicker cooking, and the edges of the fish get nicely browned and crispy. Serve it with couscous tossed with herbs and topped with butter, a little piment d’Espelette, and orange zest, or with a crisp salad of kale, shaved fennel, cauliflower, and apple (page XX). N O T E : You can ask at the fish counter for your trout to be scaled, dressed, and butterflied.

SERVES 2 TO 4

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Panfried rainbow trout with brown butter, Meyer lemon, green olives, and chives

1 Meyer lemon, peeled 3 Tbsp fresh Meyer lemon juice 2 whole rainbow trout, about 8 oz [230 g] each, scaled and butterflied Salt Fresh black pepper 2 Tbsp avocado or olive oil 5 Tbsp [75 g] butter, cut into slices 1/4 cup [35 g] green olives, preferably Castelvetrano 1/2 cup [28 g] chopped fresh chives 1/4 cup [60 g] curry leaf Meyer lemon pickle (optional)

Cut the Meyer lemon into a fine dice and transfer to a bowl along with its juices. Add the 5 Tbsp [75 ml] Meyer lemon juice and set aside. Pat the trout dry, inside and out, with paper towels and season the flesh side of each butterflied fish with 1 pinch of salt and 2 grinds of black pepper. Set aside. Heat 1 Tbsp of the oil in a large heavy-bottomed frying pan over medium-high heat until hot and shimmering. Carefully place one trout in the pan, skin side down, and sear (slightly tilting the pan now and then to ensure even oil distribution) until the skin has crisped and the fish becomes opaque at the edges, 2 to 3 minutes. Very carefully turn the fish over with a spatula and cook the other side just until lightly browned, 30 to 40 seconds. Transfer to a platter, skin side up, and let rest. cont’d

Drink More Fizz!

100 of the world's greatest champagnes and sparkling wines to drink with abandon Jonathan Ray

Description This new book by leading wine writer, Jonathan Ray, teaches you everything there is to know about fizz by covering the 100 best types, and explaining the key facts so that you can become a bubbly expert. There are so many sparkling wines from all over the world that there's something out there to suit every budget, taste and occasion. Wines featured in this delightfully fun book include types of Champagne, prosecco, cava, crémant, the dazzling rare and precious sparkling ice wine, and everything in between. With characteristic humour and accessibility, Jonathan takes you through the stories and qualities behind the wines and producers, and even gives recipes for some extra-special Champagne cocktails.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 / NZ$26.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781787130791

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 176 pages

Format

• 220mm x 150mm

Illustrations

• Colour illustrations and photography

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Jonathan Ray is drinks editor of the Spectator. Prior to this he was drinks editor of GQ and spent many years as wine editor of the Daily Telegraph. He was also the anonymous Bar Spy for Imbibe magazine. He is the author of several books on wine – translated into over a dozen languages and with combined sales of almost 300,000 copies. As well as his regular drinks columns, he has written on food, travel, lifestyle and many other subjects for the Spectator, the Guardian, Decanter, the New Statesman, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.

Key Selling Points Contains heaps of Australian and New Zealand content In the same bestselling package and style as Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine Ideal gift book for Christmas

ayala brut nature France JJ

bernard-massard cuvée de l’écusson brut nv Luxembourg J

Bob Bob Ricard, in London’s Soho, is one of my favourite restaurants. I spend a silly amount of time there when I should be working. BBR is Russian-owned and no expense has been spared with the David Collins-designed décor. Indeed, it’s rather like dining in a devilishly decadent Orient Express (albeit a stationary one), each table cocooned in its own elegant private booth. The food is excellent, a sort of modern Russian/English combo with some classic comfort food thrown in (“Who’s having the Chicken Kiev? And the Beef Wellington?”); the service is warm and efficient and the wine list extensive and uncharacteristically fairly priced. Best of all, each table has a button that says ‘Press for Champagne’. Now that’s exactly the sort of button I like to have within constant and easy reach. And clearly I’m not alone, for Bob Bob Ricard claims to pour more champagne than any other restaurant in the UK. And the brand they pour most of is the extremely toothsome Ayala, sister house to the mighty Bollinger. I don’t reckon Ayala gets the recognition it deserves. This might be because it’s largely an on-trade rather than an offtrade brand or it might be because the brand was seriously in the doldrums in the Nineties. Founded in 1860 (it’s one of the original grandes marques), the house of Ayala is a small one, employing just 15 people and, having been bought by the Bollinger group in 2005, it has happily rediscovered its mojo and is right back on cracking form. In its heyday, during the early 19th century, Ayala pioneered a style of champagne that was drier than usual and it’s no surprise that today the Ayala Brut Nature, the driest style of all, is as good as it is. A blend of 40 per cent Chardonnay, 40 per cent Pinot Noir and 20 per cent Pinot Meunier, aged for four years on the lees, it has no added sugar (dosage) at all and where some non-dosage champagnes can be lean and acidic, this is just gloriously tasty. It’s pure, clean and refreshing with plenty of citrus and white stone fruit and an ever so slightly savoury finish. You won’t find a better example. 54

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I’ve only been to Luxembourg once and it rained non-stop, despite being the height of summer. I might just as well have stayed in England. It just so happened that I had arrived, completely unplanned, on the eve of Luxembourg’s National Day – Grand Duke Henri’s Official Birthday – and despite the driving rain, the city was fully en fête with stalls, stages and pop-up bars on every street and in every square. I dumped my bags in the hotel and went for a wander. I stopped under a dripping parasol and, in an effort to restore my flagging spirits, ordered a glass of crémant, the Luxembourgish sparkling wine that everyone drinks. And, blow me, it was utterly, completely, overwhelmingly delicious! Why had nobody told me that Luxembourg crémant – made in the traditional Champagne method – was so good? Creamy, toasty, fruity and zesty, it was better than many champagnes I’ve had. And, as I later discovered, Luxembourg’s Alsace-like still wines are equally toothsome. The brand I drank most during the course of the long weekend was Bernard-Massard, and so taken with it was I, that I made a special detour to visit the family-owned winery in Grevenmacher, slap-dab on the Luxembourg/ German border. I hadn’t realised what a big business it was, producing some 3.5 million bottles a year. I tasted several of the range, but the one I kept coming back to was the Cuvée de l’Écusson Brut NV. It’s an absolute delight, launched in 1971 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the winery and now a regular on the list. As I say, it’s made in the traditional method but from a slightly different blend than you would find in Champagne, namely Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Riesling and Pinot Blanc and it’s wonderfully elegant with buttery, creamy fruit and a fine acidity. And bizarrely, given that everything else in Luxembourg seems to be eye-wateringly expensive, it’s very well priced.

wines a – z

2014

inniskillin sparkling vidal icewine

is it worth it?

Ontario JJJJ

Think of the world’s most celebrated wine regions and I’ll bet you twenty quid you don’t think of Ontario. Yes, that Ontario. You know, the one in Canada. Well, they make cracking wines there these days, specifically in the south of the province in the Niagara Peninsula which lies on the same latitude as northern California to the west and Rome to the east and now boasts around 85 wineries. The summers are bakingly hot and the winters are savagely cold but, thanks to the moderating influence of Lakes Ontario and Erie and the protection of the Niagara Escarpment, the area is ideal for cultivating grapes. You will find crisp Rieslings, soft, characterful Chardonnays, smoky Pinot Noirs and fresh, vibrant, Gamays and Cabernet Francs. The finest wines of all, though, are the remarkable Icewines, Canada’s greatest gift to the world, thanks to which we might even forgive them for foisting Celine Dion and Justin Bieber upon us. God knows they’ve a bit of ground to make up there. Inniskillin, founded in 1975 by Donald Ziraldo and Karl Kaiser, is my favourite producer and if you think Icewine is rare, sparkling Icewine is rarer still. This little beauty is made from fully ripe Vidal grapes left to freeze on the vine through the winter long, after the conventional harvest is in, to be picked only once the temperature has fallen to below -10˚C. This can be as late as the January or February following the regular vintage. This is extreme winemaking, with grapes picked by hand, one by one, in the most inhospitable conditions, and in minuscule amounts – often as little as 5–10% of a normal yield. And if the grapes aren’t pressed immediately, while still frozen, all is lost. A tiny amount will then go through the Méthode Cuvée Close or Charmat Process before emerging as a sumptuously, gloriously sweet sparkler like no other. It’s ridiculously seductive and perfect with rich starters, fine puddings and blue cheeses. Best of all, enjoy it on its own, well chilled, with someone you have designs upon. 56

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The question I am most often asked, especially about expensive wines, is ‘Can it be worth that?’ The answer, when it comes to wines costing thousands of pounds a bottle, is almost certainly not. At least not for us. If you are so wealthy you can afford £3,600 for a bottle of Le Pin as easily as the rest of us stump up for a newspaper, then it is worth it. You’d probably enjoy it very much, not least because you have the intense pleasure and satisfaction of knowing you can afford it. If, by contrast, you or I were bonkers enough to sell a car in order to buy the same bottle, it’s likely we’d be crushingly disappointed. ‘It’s very nice,’ you might think, ‘very nice indeed. But not that incredibly nice: not as nice as a holiday for two in Barbados. And I haven’t got a car any more…’ You can pay £7,000 for a bottle of La Romanée-Conti. Is it 140 times as good as a £50 Burgundy? Or 700 times as good as a generic red Burgundy at a tenner? Would you rather have the one bottle or the £700? It’s not a tricky question. If you have enough savvy and confidence to acquire some classic wines, you can drink great vintages for nothing. Adam Brett-Smith of

Corney & Barrow says that you can buy, say, a case of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the most celebrated of all red Burgundies, when it first comes on the market for several thousand pounds. It will at least double in value as it ages, so in, say, seven years you can sell half the case for what you paid for the dozen and drink the rest yourself. That would be worth it: if you have so much money to tie up and are prepared to take the risk. Of course the principle works at the other end of the scale, too. Just as a book costing £1.99 is no bargain if you don’t read it, and £18.99 is a good price for the new novel by your favourite author, so a really cheap wine can be as much of a rip-off as something much more expensive. My heart always sinks when someone tells me what a minuscule price they paid for something they bought at a supermarket in Calais. It’s probably priced so low because that’s what it’s worth – and in any event the makers have no hope of exporting it. It’s all a matter of taste and circumstance. In this book I mention a bottle of Latour’s BâtardMontrachet. It was so inexpressibly delicious, so head- and mind-fillingly gorgeous, that I rang my daughter to say I had found the wine for her wedding; at least we might run to

wines a – z

Prosecco Cocktails

40 tantalizing recipes for everyone's favourite sparkler Laura Gladwin

Description A collection of 40 delicious cocktail recipes featuring the hugely popular Italian sparkling wine that has taken social drinking by a storm – Prosecco! With its crisp, zesty bubbles and light, fruity flavour, Champagne’s perkier younger cousin is our favourite sparkling wine, hands-down. But what many of us don’t realize is that those easy-drinking qualities we love so much are exactly what makes it a fantastic base for cocktails, too. Prosecco’s sprightly bubbles combine brilliantly with all kinds of liqueurs and spirits, so it’s time to open the drinks cabinet and start experimenting – and Prosecco Cocktails is the perfect companion to get you started. Whether you’re hosting an action-packed hen party or a dainty baby shower, a sunny beachside barbecue or a festive Christmas drinks gathering, an intimate meal à deux or a gossip-fuelled get-together, a fun family celebration or a soignée dinner party, the true joy of Prosecco is that it’s ideal for any occasion.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781849758956

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 64 pages

Format

• 186mm x 123mm

Illustrations

• 50 colour photographs

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Laura Gladwin trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent five years at one of London's biggest party design companies, where she devised spectacular cocktail lists for more than 500 events. She now works as a writer and editor specializing in food and drink, writing for the Good Food Guide and editing high-profile cookery books for chefs including Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi and Heston Blumenthal. She is also the author of Parisian Cocktails.

Key Selling Points ·The perfect affordable gift for Prosecco lovers everywhere

Brunch Cocktails

La Pa eggiata The passeggiata is an excellent Italian tradition of taking an evening stroll along a scenic boulevard, dressed up to the nines, to check out your neighbours. Why not give it a try down your road after breakfast, accompanied by one of these? 75 ml/3 oz chilled pink grapefruit juice 20 ml/Âž oz gin 20 ml/Âž oz Aperol well-chilled Prosecco, to top strip of grapefruit zest, to garnish (optional) MAKES 1

Half-fill a collins glass with ice cubes. Add the pink grapefruit juice, gin and Aperol and stir well. Top with Prosecco and stir very briefly. If you like, squeeze a strip of grapefruit zest over the top and drop it in.

Brunch Cocktails 9

Kir Reali The French have their Kir Royale (sparkling wine with crème de cassis, also nice with Prosecco), and the Kir Reali is the Italian version. All together now: When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore... 10 ml/⅓ oz crème de violette 125 ml/4½ oz well-chilled Prosecco

strip of lemon zest, to garnish MAKES 1

Pour the crème de violette into a chilled Champagne flute and add the Prosecco. Squeeze the lemon zest in half lengthways over the drink so that the essential oils in the skin spritz over it, then drop it in and serve immediately.

Chaise Lоgue This is based on a classic cocktail invented by Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, but is tempered by the decidedly un-Hemingway-like addition of rose water. He would have added twice as much absinthe, but even as it is you might be glad of a lie down on a chaise longue after drinking one! 15 ml/½ oz absinthe (preferably pre-chilled in the fridge) dash of rose water

125 ml/4½ oz well-chilled Prosecco MAKES 1

Pour the absinthe into a chilled Champagne flute and add a dash of rose water. Gently pour over the Prosecco and serve.

Dark Forest Dark, fruity, mysterious… No, I’m not talking about your next romantic assignation, but this delightful sparkler. 15 ml/½ oz Chambord 15 ml/½ oz crème de cassis 1 teaspoon blueberry bursting bubbles (optional), see page 2 well-chilled Prosecco, to top MAKES 1

Put the Chambord and crème de cassis in a cocktail shaker with a handful of ice cubes and shake well. Strain into a chilled Champagne flute and add the bursting bubbles, if using. Top with Prosecco and serve immediately.

Blackbe y Barfly Dark and heady, with a deliciously unexpected tang of balsamic vinegar, this is a perfect late-night reviver. 5 blackberries ½ teaspoon balsamic vinegar 25 ml/1 oz sloe gin well-chilled Prosecco, to top MAKES 1

Put the blackberries in a cocktail shaker with the balsamic vinegar and crush with a muddler until they release all their juice. Add the sloe gin and a handful of crushed ice and shake well. Strain into an old-fashioned glass and top with Prosecco. Serve immediately. 52 Party Drinks

Sloshies Jerry Nevins

Description From the creators of the Kansas City, MO, bar Snow & Co. – named the #1 frozen cocktail bar in the US – Sloshies is the ultimate ode to summer: a book that teaches you how to make snowy, slushy drinks with a hit of booze. The book presents two easy techniques: one requires mixing ingredients in a metal bowl and putting it in the freezer; the other quickly whips up a batch of drinks using an ice cream maker. Both produce gorgeous frozen cocktails (enough to share with friends) with sophisticated flavors and an unforgettable granita-like texture – a far cry from overly sweet traditional blender drinks or those that separate as soon as they hit the hot summer air.

Author Details Jerry Nevins is one of the founders of Snow & Co., which has been named the #1 frozen drink bar in the United States by Paste magazine. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 Hardback

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9780761189466

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 176 pages

·Not your mother's Pina Colada! Modern, on-trend frozen cocktails ·All you need is a freezer! It's this easy: Mix your ingredients in a bowl and stick it in the freezer, stirring occasionally. The result? Perfect frozen drinks, granita-style ·Paste magazine called Kansas City's Snow & Co. the #1 best frozen cocktail bar in America.

Format

• 152mm x 152mm

Illustrations

• Full-colour photographs and illustrations

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tart

MISS SCARLETT You won’t give a damn,

3 3/4 ounces water

either, after tasting

11 1/2 ounces Simple Syrup (see The Building Blocks)

this perfectly Southern concoction of Bulleit

11 1/2 ounces freshly squeezed lemon juice

Bourbon, Stirrings

9 ounces Stirrings Peach Liqueur

Peach, and fresh lemon.

6 ounces Bulleit Bourbon Whiskey 6 ounces whole milk

Garnish lemon twist, red dress stencil, and your favorite draperies

Combine d Place the water, simple syrup, lemon juice, peach liqueur, and whiskey in a medium-size metal bowl and stir. Blend d Add the milk to the bowl slowly, using an immersion blender to emulsify the mixture. Freeze d Pour the liquid into a large freezer bag and place it in the freezer until frozen, approximately 4 hours. Serve d When you’re ready to drink, massage the freezer bag by hand until it’s a wet, slushy consistency. If it’s not breaking up, run the bag quickly under hot water and massage some more.

Red dress stencil

sweet

PURPLE RAIN A transcendent mix

16 1/2 ounces Simple Syrup (see The Building Blocks)

of sweet raspberry

3 3/4 ounces Junior Johnson Midnight

and blueberry with a velvety smooth

Moon Blueberry Infused Moonshine

texture, this frozen

7 1/2 ounces Chambord Liqueur

berry blast is one of

20 1/4 ounces whole milk

our all-time bestsellers

Motorcycle stencil

at Snow & Co. Take our word for it: There’s booze in there, and if you don’t believe us,

Combine d Place the simple syrup, moonshine, and Chambord liqueur in a medium-size metal bowl and stir.

ask one of our patrons.

Blend d Add the milk to the bowl slowly, using an immersion blender to emulsify the mixture.

Garnish

Freeze d Pour the liquid into a large freezer bag and place it in the freezer until frozen, approximately 4 hours.

infused blueberries from moonshine on skewer, motorcycle stencil

Serve d When you’re ready to drink, massage the freezer bag by hand until it’s a wet, slushy consistency. If it’s not breaking up, run the bag quickly under hot water and massage some more.

floral

GANDALF'S STAFF You shall not pass

3/4 ounce water

(up) this IPA-inspired

2 ounces Simple Syrup (see The Building Blocks)

frozen shandy. Elderﬂower always

2 ounces freshly squeezed lemon juice

plays nicely with

12 3/4 ounces freshly squeezed grapefruit juice

twisted grapefruit, and the hoppiness is a gift

2 ounces Thatcher’s Organic Elderﬂower Liqueur

from our Ent friends. If

25 1/2 ounces IPA beer, like Boulevard Single-Wide IPA

you’re looking to work

or New Belgium Ranger IPA

some masterful frozen cocktail wizardry or bring down an evil empire of heat, here’s your weapon of choice.

Garnish grapefruit twist

Combine d Place the ingredients in a medium-size metal bowl and stir. Freeze d Pour the liquid into a large freezer bag and place it in the freezer until frozen, approximately 4 hours. Serve d When you’re ready to drink, massage the freezer bag by hand until it’s a wet, slushy consistency. If it’s not breaking up, run the bag quickly under hot water and massage some more.

Party-perfect Food to Share

Platters, boards and dig-in dinners Kathy Kordalis

Description Entertaining at home doesn’t have to mean hours in the kitchen. Put together a selection of delicious foods, arrange them stylishly on a platter or board and let guests graze at their own pace. This is relaxed food you can whip up after work or during a busy weekend. Kathy Kordalis offers inspired ideas for creating perfect platters to share at home, whether you are serving brunch, lunch, dinner, nibbles with drinks or a feast for a crowd. Within each sharing menu there are lists of things to buy in, dishes that require simple preparation, plus exciting recipes to cook. Ultimately, it’s all about spending time with your guests and enjoying yourself.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781849758628

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 160 pages

Format

• 235mm x 190mm

Illustrations

• 100 colour photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Raised by Greek parents in Sydney, Australia, Kathy Kordalis’ food style is light, relaxed and accessible, drawing inspiration from her Australian and Mediterranean heritage. A graduate of Leith’s School of Food and Wine, Kathy originally moved to London and entered the professional food world in a management role at the Divertimenti Cookery School.

Key Selling Points Includes time-savvy tips, advice on feeding a larger crowd, making ahead and decorating your platters, boards and tables. Features vegetarian, vegan, wheat-free and dairy-free options and healthier twists on classics, but all with a focus on flavour. Party-perfect Biteshas sold over 24,000 copies since publication in October 2014.

CONTENTS Introduction: The Essentials Planning a party Feeding a crowd Making ahead Time savvy tips Chapter 2: Breakfast & Brunch Chapter 3: Lunch Chapter 4: Dinner

SPECIFICATIONS

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Format 235 x 190 mm (7½ x 9 inches) Binding hardback PLC Extent 160 pages Illustrations c. 100 col. photographs Text c. 10,000 words Price £16.99/ $21.95/ Priced higher in Canada Publication date Sept 2017 ISBN 978-1-84975-862-8

UK Ryland Peters & Small 20–21 Jockey’s Fields London WC1R 4BW Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2200 Fax: +44 (0)20 7025 2201 info@rps.co.uk www.rylandpeters.com For UK publicity contact: Maria Hughes Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2232 maria.hughes@rps.co.uk

Roast poussin stuffed with herbed cream cheese, sun-dried tomatoes & olives 1 teaspoon grated Parmesan

TO SERVE

25 g/2 tablespoons softened butter

1 small bunch fresh basil, chopped

FOR THE STUFFING

grated zest of ½ unwaxed lemon

Grilled Courgettes/Zucchini with Basil, Mint & Lemon (page 62)

150 g/5 oz. cream cheese 1 garlic clove, crushed 2 sun-dried tomatoes, chopped 20 g/¼ cup olives, pitted and chopped

10 ml/2⁄3 tablespoon olive oil sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

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Roast Butternut Squash (page 112)

Buffalo mozzarella with peperonata & rosemary ciabatta croutons

serves 2

2 red (bell) peppers

Salsa Rossa (page 64)

a few toothpicks

2 yellow (bell) peppers 2 plum tomatoes

Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F) Gas 6. Take the poussins out of the fridge so that they come to room temperature before cooking. Prepare the stuffing by mixing together all the ingredients and seasoning with salt and pepper. If it is too stiff to work (it shouldn’t be, but each brand can be a little different), loosen it with a dash of double/heavy cream. Lay the birds down so that the cavity is facing you. Carefully use your fingers to prise away the breast skin from the flesh, creating a pocket for the stuffing. Carefully push half the filling under the skin of each bird until it is evenly spread under the skin. Use some toothpicks to close the skin back up. Rub the birds with the softened butter and season all over with salt and black pepper (this will help the skin to crisp up). Roast for 35 minutes, basting them with any juices halfway through. Remove and wrap each bird individually in kitchen foil and leave to rest, breast-side down, for a further 10 minutes before serving with a variety of salads.

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I can’t quite explain why, but there’s something about the look of this dish that really gets me going. The combination of creamy white mozzarella and robust, oily peperonata is a sight to behold. The only thing the combination lacks is crunch, which is where the ciabatta croutons come in. I sometimes break them up and scatter them over the whole of the dish, although you should only do that at the last minute or they’ll get soggy.

The stuffing used for these poussin is a great way of adding extra flavour to the bird and protecting the breast from any risk of drying out. It’s a bit fiddly and requires a robust constitution (in other words, not for the squeamish). 2 oven-ready whole poussins

US Ryland Peters & Small Inc. 341 E 116th St New York NY 10029 Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 Fax: (+1) 646 861 3518

100 ml/1⁄3 cup/6 tablespoons olive oil 3 garlic cloves 1 red onion, sliced 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 1

⁄2 teaspoon salt

⁄2 teaspoon sugar

1 tablespoon capers a handful of cherry tomatoes, halved a bunch of fresh basil small ciabatta loaf 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves ﬁnely chopped 4 balls buffalo mozzarella, approximately 150 g/ 5 oz. each, halved sea salt and freshly ground black pepper rocket/arugula leaves, to serve a handful of toasted pine nuts, to serve

The peperonata takes a while to cook and is (arguably) best served at room temperature, so I suggest making it in advance. Quarter the (bell) peppers and remove the stalk, seeds and any of the white pith. Slice them into thin strips about 1 cm (½ inch) wide. Quarter the tomatoes, remove the seeds and chop them into small cubes. Heat a deep frying pan/skillet over medium heat. Add the olive oil and garlic. Fry the garlic on both sides until golden brown, then remove from the pan and set aside. Add the red onion and cook, stirring frequently, until it is pale and translucent but not yet brown. Add the peppers, fried garlic and bay leaves. Cover and cook, covered, for 15 minutes or so, until the peppers are soft but still holding their shape. Remove the lid and add the diced tomatoes, vinegar, salt and sugar. Cook, uncovered, for a further 10 minutes, then add the capers and cherry tomatoes and take off the heat. The residual heat in the peperonata will soften the cherry tomatoes, but not cook them to a mush. Leave to cool, then add the basil and season with salt and pepper if necessary. For the rosemary ciabatta croutons, preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F) Gas 6. Slice the ciabatta on the diagonal as thinly as you can. Mix the rosemary with a little olive oil and brush it generously onto the ciabatta slices. You want the bread well coated in oil. Season with salt and bake on a wire rack for 5–8 minutes, until golden brown and crisp. Serve the buffalo mozzarella on a bed of rocket/arugula and peperonata, with the ciabatta croutons and pine nuts scattered around.

serves 6–8

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CONTENTS Introduction: The Essentials Planning a party Feeding a crowd Making ahead Time savvy tips Chapter 2: Breakfast & Brunch Chapter 3: Lunch Chapter 4: Dinner

SPECIFICATIONS

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Roast poussin stuffed with herbed cream cheese, sun-dried tomatoes & olives 1 teaspoon grated Parmesan

TO SERVE

25 g/2 tablespoons softened butter

1 small bunch fresh basil, chopped

FOR THE STUFFING

grated zest of ½ unwaxed lemon

Grilled Courgettes/Zucchini with Basil, Mint & Lemon (page 62)

150 g/5 oz. cream cheese 1 garlic clove, crushed 2 sun-dried tomatoes, chopped 20 g/¼ cup olives, pitted and chopped

10 ml/2⁄3 tablespoon olive oil sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

UNCORRECTED PROOFS

Roast Butternut Squash (page 112)

Buffalo mozzarella with peperonata & rosemary ciabatta croutons

serves 2

2 red (bell) peppers

Salsa Rossa (page 64)

a few toothpicks

2 yellow (bell) peppers 2 plum tomatoes

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For US publicity contact: Neha Kesarwani Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 neha.kesarwani@rylandpeters.com

US Ryland Peters & Small Inc. 341 E 116th St New York NY 10029 Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 Fax: (+1) 646 861 3518

100 ml/1⁄3 cup/6 tablespoons olive oil 3 garlic cloves 1 red onion, sliced 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 1

⁄2 teaspoon salt

⁄2 teaspoon sugar

serves 6–8

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Cute Christmas Cookies

Adorable and delicious festive treats Hannah Miles

Description Here you’ll find over 25 cute and kitsch recipes for festive cookies, from traditional favourites to creative recipes, both of which make delightful gifts. There is nothing as cosy as a day spent baking in the festive season – filling the house with the scent of warm, sweet dough and producing delicious treats that raise a smile even before a single bite is taken out of them! Opening with packaging and display ideas, the chapters are then divided into Seasonal Magic, Festive Friends, Deck the Halls, and Gift Cookies – featurinh delightful recipes such as Coconut Snowballs, Reindeer Pretzel Cookies, Christmas Pudding Cookies and Hershey Christmas Kisses.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$22.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781849758888

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 64 pages

Format

• 190mm x 190mm

Illustrations

• 40 colour photographs

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A lawyer and MasterChef finalist, Hannah Miles has developed a second career as a cake maker and food writer. She is the author of Popcorn Treats, Milkshake Bar, Doughnuts, Cheesecake, Sweetie Pie and Naked Cakes. Hannah lives in the UK but is a regular visitor to Brooklyn, NY.

Key Selling Points ·Features easy and achievable recipes, suitable for family fun in the kitchen ·There is an ever-growing appetite for new and novel ideas for homebaking, including cookies with impressive decorative techniques that can be achieved at home with simple equipment ·Queen of cakes Hannah Miles is also the author of Cheesecake, which has sold over 70,000 copies

Hot chocolate cups wi candy cane handles FOR THE COOKIES 125 g/9 tablespoons butter, softened 100 g/3/4 cup icing/

One of the nicest things on a cold frosty day is coming home after a walk for a cup of hot chocolate with melting marshmallows on top. These pretty little cups are inspired by that delightful treat.

confectioners' sugar, sifted 1 egg yolk 180 g/11/3 cups plain/ all-purpose flour, sifted, plus extra for dusting pinch of salt

Whisk together the butter and icing/confectioners' sugar until light and creamy. Whisk in the egg yolk and mix well. Add the flour and salt, and bring together to a soft dough. If the mixture is too crumbly add a little milk to bind the dough. Wrap in clingfilm/plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

a little milk, if needed

Preheat the oven to 180Â°C (350Â°F) Gas 4.

FOR THE FILLING 90 g/31/4 oz. dark/bittersweet chocolate 30 g/1/4 stick butter

On a flour-dusted surface roll out the dough thinly. Cut out six circles using the round cutter and six using the flower cutter. Place the flower cookies on a baking sheet and bake for 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 minutes until lightly golden brown. Press the six smaller round cookies into six of the holes of the greased muffin pan, and press out thinly so that the cups are filled to the top. Line each cookie with a small square of greaseproof paper and fill with baking beans. Bake for 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 minutes until crisp and golden, and then leave to cool completely in the pan. Once cool, remove the baking beans and paper and, using a teaspoon or sharp knife, carefully lift the cookie cups from the pan.

90 ml/1/3 cup double/heavy cream

FOR THE DECORATION 200 g/11/2 cups royal icing/ confectioners' sugar, sifted 6 candy canes 12 mini marshmallows 10-cm/4-inch round cutter 9-cm/31/2-inch flower cutter 6-hole muffin pan, greased baking beans piping/pastry bag fitted with a small round nozzle/tip

Makes 6 14 seasonal magic

In a small mixing bowl, mix the royal icing/confectioners' sugar with 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3 tablespoons water until you have a thick icing that holds a peak. Spoon into the piping/pastry bag and pipe a blob of icing into the centre of each flower cookie. Press a cookie cup on top. Pipe decorative patterns around the rim of the cup. Carefully cut the curved ends off the candy canes for the handles. Attach to the cup with a little icing and leave to set. For the ganache, melt the chocolate with the butter and cream in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water. Whisk together until you have a smooth, thick ganache. Pour into the cups. Decorate with mini marshmallows and leave to set. These cookies are best eaten on the day they are made, due to the ganache. However you can make the cookies 3 days in advance, then fill them the day you serve them.

Santa c kies These festive Santas are decorated using royal icing. Simple diamondshaped cookies give the perfect shape for Santa’s hat and beard.

FOR THE COOKIES 115 g/1 stick butter, softened 60 g/5 tablespoons caster/ granulated sugar 170 g/11/4 cups plain/ all-purpose flour, sifted, plus extra for dusting grated zest of 2 clementines a little milk, if needed

FOR THE DECORATION 400 g/scant 3 cups royal icing/confectioners' sugar, sifted red and black food colouring gels large white snowflake sprinkles, or similar

Whisk together the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Sift in the flour and whisk in with the clementine zest until you have a soft dough, adding a little milk if needed. Wrap in clingfilm/plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) Gas 4. On a flour-dusted surface, roll out the dough to about 5 mm/¼ inch thickness and cut out 10 diamonds with 8 cm/3¼ inch sides using a sharp knife. Transfer them to the baking sheets using a spatula. Reroll the dough as necessary. Bake for 10–15 minutes until the cookies are lightly golden brown. Transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. Whisk the icing/confectioners' sugar with 3–4 tablespoons of water until you have a stiff icing that holds a peak. Set aside two-thirds of this icing. Colour the remaining icing red. Spoon 2 large spoonfuls of red icing into a piping/pastry bag. Spoon 5 large spoonfuls of white icing into another. Take the red icing bag and pipe a fine red line along the top edge of each cookie, following the triangle shape. Take the white icing bag and pipe the outline of the band of Santa’s hat along the base of each red triangle, then pipe a half-egg shape below that to create the outline for Santa’s face.

cocktail sticks/toothpicks

Scrape all of the red icing back into its bowl and about half of the white icing back into its bowl (reserving enough in the piping bag to pipe the beards on later). Add a little water to both the icings so that they are now thin enough to flow. Spoon a little white icing into a small bowl and add enough red to create a pale pink. Flood a little pink icing in the piped half-egg face shape on each cookie. Do the same with the red icing in the hat outline, and then the white icing in the band of the hat outline. Dip a cocktail stick/toothpick into the red icing and swirl to add rosy cheeks. Add some black food colouring to the remaining pink icing and use a cocktail stick/toothpick to add dots for eyes. Finally pipe a white curly beard in the bottom of each cookie. Pipe a small blob of icing to the top of each hat and affix a sprinkle. Allow to set for 15 minutes.

Makes 10

These will store for up to 5 days in an airtight container.

2 baking sheets, greased and lined disposable piping/pastry bags

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Sn scene c kies 60 g/5 tablespoons caster/ granulated sugar 115 g/1 stick butter, softened 170 g/11/4 cups plain/ all-purpose flour, sifted plus extra for dusting 1 tablespoon milk, if needed blue and green food colouring gel 30 g/1 oz. white chocolate, broken into pieces gold sugar star sprinkles icing/confectioners' sugar, for dusting miniature tree cutter baking sheet, greased and lined

Makes 12

Shortbread dough can be coloured, allowing you to create pretty edible pictures. These little starry night scenes with snow and festive trees make a perfect gift, presented in cellophane bags, tied with ribbon. Whisk together the sugar and butter until light and creamy. Add the flour and whisk in. If the mixture is too dry add a little milk until the dough comes together in a soft dough. Divide the dough in half. Colour half with a few drops of blue food colouring. Roll the blue dough into a sausage shape, 15 cm/6 inches in length. Take two-thirds of the remaining uncoloured dough and make it into a semi-circle shape the same length as the blue dough. Press the two doughs together and roll on a flour-dusted surface so that the two doughs come together and you have a sausage of dough which is predominantly blue with a white part at the bottom. Wrap the blue and white dough in clingfilm/plastic wrap and roll it into a cylinder shape. Colour the remaining dough green and wrap in clingfilm/plastic wrap. Chill all the dough in the refrigerator for an hour. Preheat the oven to 180Â°C (350Â°F) Gas 4. Using a sharp knife, slice the cylinder of blue and white dough into 12 rounds and arrange on a baking sheet leaving a small gap between each. On a flour-dusted surface, roll out the green dough very thinly. Using a small tree cutter, cut out small green trees and place on the rounds of cookie dough, positioning them so that the base of the trees are in the white 'snow' and the tops of the trees are in the blue 'sky'. Press down the trees lightly. I suggest two or three trees per cookies for the best effect. Bake for 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 minutes then remove from the oven and leave to cool on a cooling rack. Melt the white chocolate in a heatproof bowl resting over a pan of simmering water. Leave to cool for a few minutes, then using a cocktail stick/toothpick, put small dots of chocolate in the 'sky' and affix sugar star sprinkles in place. Leave the cookies somewhere cool for the chocolate to set before storing them in an airtight container. Dust with icing/confectioners' sugar before serving. These cookies will store for up to 5 days in an airtight container.

46 deck the halls

Cheese & Beer Janet Fletcher

Description Cheese & Beer capitalizes on the rapidly growing audience for craft beer and the enthusiasm these passionate beer fans have for good cheese. Enhanced by the author's reputation as a journalist and cheese authority, the book fills a wide-open niche for consumer guidance in pairing craft beer and cheese.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$34.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781449489595

Category

• Food & Drink

Imprint Extent

• Andrews McMeel Publishing • 128 pages

Format

• 229mm x 209mm

Illustrations

• Full colour photography throughout

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Janet Fletcher is the author or co-author of more than 25 books on food and beverage, including Cheese & Wine (more than 85,000 copies sold); The Cheese Course; and Eating Local. Janet is a former staff food writer for the San Francisco Chronicle whose journalism earned three James Beard Awards and the IACP Bert Greene Award. Her food writing has appeared in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, Saveur, Bon Appétit, Better Homes & Gardens and Food & Wine.

Key Selling Points ·No other book brings beer and cheese together, making it the ideal gift cheese and beer lovers ·Organized by beer style, the book describes the key characteristics, then recommends craft beers and cheeses to match ·A useful chart guides readers to compatible beer styles for all the different categories of cheese

I N T R O D U C T I O N : So Many Choices, So Little Time . . . . . IX Making Marriage Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI Buying, Storing, and Serving Cheese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XVI Storing and Serving Beer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XVIII ALES Amber and Red Ales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 American Pale Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Barley Wine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Belgian-Style Pale Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Belgian-Style Strong Golden Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Bière de Champagne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bitter and Extra Special Bitter (ESB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Brown Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Dubbel (Double) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Holiday Ales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 India Pale Ale (IPA) and Imperial or Double IPA . . . . . . . . . 41 Kölsch and Blonde Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

cOnTe Quadrupel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Saison and Bière de Garde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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Sour Ales: Wild Ale, Lambic, Gueuze, Flanders Red Ale, and Flanders Brown Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Stout, Porter, and Imperial Stout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Tripel (Triple) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Wheat Beer, Witbier, Weissbier, and Hefeweizen . . . . . . . . . 67 LAGERS Amber Lager and California Common . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Bock and Doppelbock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Maibock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 MÃ¤rzen and Oktoberfest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Pilsner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Which Beer with That Cheese? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Beer Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Tents Cheese Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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introduction so many choiCeS, So LitTle tIme Nobody needs convincing that beer and cheese go together. Tangy Cheddar with an India Pale Ale (IPA). Buttery blue cheese with a malty doppelbock. Even nachos and a ballpark lager make the case. But the boom in craft beer and the blossoming interest in artisanal cheese have conspired to inundate us with choices. So many beers, so many cheeses, so little time. If you’re satisfied with a tasty beer in your glass and a favorite cheese on the table, seek no further. But your pleasure will likely spike if you put some thought into the match. When you serve a toasty Märzen that echoes the toffee aroma in aged Gouda, or find a triple-cream cheese that mellows the bitter, roasted notes of a stout, you treat yourself and your guests to an experience. You also give the craft brewer and the artisanal cheesemaker their due by putting their wares in the best possible light. Cheese & Beer aims to boost your enjoyment of both these favorites by steering you to some proven pairings. But, more important, this volume should equip you to continue the journey on your own by familiarizing you with the major beer styles and the kinds of cheeses that complement them. With so many expertly crafted options available to fans of beer and cheese, every day brings the possibility of discovery.

In the pages to come, you will find the world’s beers grouped by style to give you a framework for tasting. Once you know what to expect from amber ale or Imperial stout, you can select compatible cheeses even for brews you have never tasted. A beer’s style—often stated on the label—tells you much of what you need to know: whether the beer is likely to be malty, fruity, or grippingly bitter; fiendishly high in alcohol or easy to drink; smooth as velvet or prickly with carbonation. Style is shorthand you can rely on to steer you to suitable cheeses; or, conversely, with cheese in hand, you can turn to the chart on page 94 to find beer styles that work. But now the disclaimer. With few exceptions, beer styles don’t bow to any laws. Only tradition and convention dictate the appropriate bitterness for an IPA, the typical aromas in a saison, or an acceptable hue for American pale ales. Organizations like the Beer Judge Certification Program and the Brewers Association issue style descriptions as a reference for brewers and competition organizers. But brewers, especially American craft brewers, delight in coloring outside the lines, devising brews that no one has ever attempted and that may not fit neatly anywhere. Attempting to corral the world’s beers into categories is a crazy-making endeavor, as others who have tried it acknowledge. Just when you think you have a workable scheme, you find more beers that refuse to conform.

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Remodelista: The Organized Home Simple, Stylish Storage Ideas for All Over the House Julie Carlson, Margot Guralnick

Description Whether you’re a minimalist or someone who takes pleasure in her collections, we all yearn for an unencumbered life in a home that makes us happy. Remodelista: The Art of Order shows us how, with more than 100 simple and stylish tips, each clearly presented and accompanied by full-colour photographs that are sure to inspire. Readers will learn strategies for conquering their homes’ problem zones (from the medicine cabinet to the bedroom closet) and organising tricks and tools that can be deployed in every room (embrace trays; hunt for unused spaces overhead; decant everything). Interviews with experts, ranging from kindergarten teachers to hoteliers, offer even more ingenious ideas to steal. It all adds up to the ultimate home organising manual.

Author Details

Publication Date 15th November 2017 Price Was $49.99 • AUD$39.99 Hardback ISBN

• 9781579656935

Category

• Home Design

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 272 pages

Format

• 165 x 235mm

Illustrations

• 300 colour photographs

Julie Carlson is the author of Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home and cofounder of inspirational home site Remodelista.com. Previously, she worked at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York before joining the editorial staff of The New Yorker. Julie lives in Brooklyn, New York.Margot Guralnick is the writer/producer of Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home and a member of the Remodelista.com team. She began her career at Sotheby’s auction house and was editor in chief of Travel + Leisure Family.

Key Selling Points Brand authority: Remodelista.com is the go-to, undisputed authority for home design enthusiasts, architects, and designers who clamour to the site for its classic, well-edited aesthetic and signature mix of high/low products. Proven track record: Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home has over 60,000 copies in print and is an evergreen seller.

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Remodelista: The Organized Home

Simple, Stylish Storage Ideas for All Over the House Julie Carlson

A fresh take in the mega-selling organizing category: Marie Kondo has kicked off a decluttering frenzy; this book aligns with her pare-it-down ethos, but as a means to create a home that is not only tidier, but also filled with beauty and personality.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

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Price

â&#x20AC;˘ AUD$75.00 Hardback

ISBN

â&#x20AC;˘ 9781579656522

Contents

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Order in the House

The Best Storage Essentials

Resources

Our Favorite Stores for Storage Supplies xx

1 Introduction v The Remodelista Manifesto vii Universal Storage: Twelve Tactics That Work in Every Room ix Daily Rituals: Eight Habits That Keep Your Stuff in Check xiii

Entryway 3 Living Room x Kitchen x Bedroom and Clothes Closet x Bathroom x Home Office/Work Station x Laundry Room/Utility Closet x

The Remodelista 75 xx Alternatives to Plastics: Better Accessories for All Over the House xx Preparedness Kits: Life-Changing Extras We Swear By xx

Finds from the Hardware Store and Other Specialty Suppliers xx What to Do with Excess Stuff: A Guide to Donating, Recycling, Selling, Swapping, xx Acknowledgments xx Index xx

The Remodelista Organizing Manifesto We believe in better living through organization. Here’s how to get there:

01 Buy fewer (and better) things. Resist impulse and stop-gap purchases. Instead, zero in on quality. And when new objects come into yo house, send others out.

02 Give away stuff you don’t use. This applies to all neglected things in your space, unwanted gifts included. Donate with a clear conscience: someone else will put your castoffs to good use. (See page 000 for a detailed guide to giving away.)

04 Steal ideas from the pros. By “pros” we mean everyone from chefs to stylists. Working with limited space and budgets, these experts know how to come up with novel approaches to storage that work—and can be applied at home, too.

05 Banish plastic whenever possible. Pay attention to the materials in your cupboards, cabinets, and closets. Opt for attractive, planet-friendly alternatives— to stash them out of sight.

06 Tailor your belongings to your quarters. Adopt a space-driven (rather than a stuffdriven) approach. We’ve been conditioned to think bigger is better, but the truth is, more storage is not necessarily a good thing: the more storage space you have, the more things you’ll amass.

07 Be kind to your future self.

03 Seek out simple, time-tested storage essentials.

08 Get comfortable. Too much enforced order is uninviting for occupants and guests alike. Rooms are for living, so make yourself at home.

The Remodelista Manifesto

A surprising array of organizational quandaries can be solved with a well-made basket, tray, or hook. These humble items can—and should—be as elegant as centerof-attention pieces.

Develop habits that lend control (and spare you a lot of wasted time): Put all of your belongings in designated spots, especially your keys, eyeglasses, phone, and wallet.

Universal Storage Twelve Tactics that Work in Every Room You don’t need cavernous closets and acres of built-in cabinetry to have an orderly household. But you do need a designated place for everything. Here are twelve of our favorite organization tricks to deploy all over the house.

tactic 01

Hang It Wish you had more storage? Hooks, pegs, and peg rails are the easiest answer for keeping things organized and on hand. And the beauty of this solution is threefold: hooks can cost next to nothing, they’re good looking (yes, even a simple nail has an honest charm), and they require next to no effort to use, so even the most slovenly family members can be brought on board. Identify places where clutter accumulates—such as your teen’s desk chair piled with clothes—and remedy the situation by adding a few wall or door hooks nearby. Or borrow an idea from the workbench (as well as from Julia Child’s kitchen) and use pegboards to create hanging walls. See pages 000 and 000 for hook and pegboard sources.

Design Tip: When installing hangers, determine the ideal height by measuring the longest item you intend to hang off of them. Here, the soap on a rope has room to air dry, but is several inches above the counter.

Hooks don’t have to be affixed to a wall. Here, a wire rail (intended for use as a curtain rod) serves as a useful place to hang kitchen accessories, including a surprising sinkside soap on a rope.

Universal Storage

It’s as easy to hang a pair of pants as it is to toss them on a chair or on the floor. A Shaker peg rail keeps clothes off the ground.

Handmade Home

Living with Art and Craft Mark; Bailey, Sal Bailey

Description Living with paintings, sculptures, ceramics and textiles – in fact almost anything crafted by hand – will give your home a distinct personality that is welcome in this age of mass production. Handmade Home shows how living with handcrafted pieces is a joyful experience that awakens the senses and brings simple, tactile pleasure to every day. The book begins by looking at The Elements: Colour, Texture, Textiles, Made by Hand and Collecting. Next, The Homes contains 12 inspirational case studies, offering a glimpse into the private spaces of those who love to create or to live with handmade pieces. Each of the carefully chosen locations demonstrates how living with art and craft can bring variety and beauty to every corner of the home

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$44.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781849758611

Category

• Home Design

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 160 pages

Format

• 254mm x 216mm

Illustrations

• 250 colour photographs

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Mark and Sally Bailey’s style has been evolving for over 25 years in their Herefordshire home and business, Baileys Home & Garden. Mark and Sally have worked with Ralph Lauren, Paul Smith, Donna Karan, Liberty, Conran, Takashimaya and Habitat. Their other books are Recycled Home, Simple Home and Imperfect Home.

Key Selling Points 'Without doubt…the best home and garden store in Britain’ Dylan Jones, Editor of GQ. From the authors of Simple Home (more than 20,000 copies sold), Recycled Home (more than 39,000 copies sold) and, most recently, Imperfect Home, more than 6,000 copies sold since publication in October 2014.

THIS PAGE This cosy fireplace with a space to sit and soak up the warmth, is a fine example of contrasting textures. The plaster surrounding the fireplace has been coloured by mixing pigment into the clay; it has then been trowelled on to create extra texture. The polished slate hearth provides a sleek contrast to the rough walls, while a blanket made of shaggy Drenthe Heath wool and a felted cushion soften the blunt edges.

ABOVE LEFT This section

Texture plays an important role in the handmade home. Without a variety of textures, an

of wall has been left bare,

interior will feel strangely one-dimensional and uninspiring. Texture brings richness, depth

showing off its rough-

and warmth to a home and renders it appealing to the senses. However, it’s important to

and-ready stone and lime-

have a considered balance of textures – both the rough and the smooth, the glossy and

based pointing. In front, a daybed has been neatly made up with a beautiful

the crumpled. Too much of one texture without any counterpoint will feel soulless and overwhelming (or in some cases, underwhelming might be a better word) – think of a bland

blue blanket and topped

hotel room full of over-upholstered shiny cushions and bedcovers or an airport lounge full of

with a cushion made from

stark hard edges with nothing to relieve or soften them.

a striped Hungarian linen grain sack. ABOVE RIGHT A hank of natural undyed wool from

Achieving the perfect balance of textures is not an exact science – you need to look, touch and experiment in order to find out what goes where and with what. Mixing up textures encourages you to appreciate the innate properties of different materials. In general, the key is to think opposites – dress a sofa upholstered in coarse undyed linen with a couple of

Claudy Jongstra’s wild and woolly sheep has an appealingly tactile quality

plump, soft cushions, or cover a hard wooden floor with a thick, long-pile rug so you can wriggle your toes in its generous depths.

that makes you want to

Fabric will introduce comfort and warmth into your home. For a welcoming, relaxed vibe,

reach out and stroke it.

place casual piles of folded blankets on the end of a bed or over the back of a chair or sofa.

26 THE ELEMENTS

LEFT A flip-top window seat cunningly doubles as extra storage. Its moulded modern shape contrasts perfectly with the natural wood and basket bowls from Uganda. BELOW LEFT A large painting – ‘Circle’, by Kate Blee – leads on to the bathroom. RIGHT A bright Cappellini red cross cabinet hangs above the roll-top bath, adding a splash of primary colour to the otherwise monochrome bathroom. The edge of a 1950’s Danish chair can just be seen peeking out from behind the door. FAR RIGHT A large canvas by Kate entitled ‘Untitled Map’ fills the wall in this corner of the house. The ‘Sussex University’ chair was designed by Basil Spence. A painting by Sarah Blee sits on top of two stacked chests.

The simple graphic statements made by Kate’s work are reflected

around and added or subtracted to whenever necessary. All vital

with tomes on art and architecture, can be hidden from view by

in the sleek lines of her home. Once through the front door, you

ingredients when you work from home and have three children!

smooth sliding doors. In Kate’s studio there are shelves filled with

would be hard pressed to know that you were in a traditional

Thanks to Charles, the result is a cool and minimal yet family-

neatly labelled files of former projects and notes on current work.

Victorian terraced house, thanks to the clever remodelling of the

friendly home with a ground floor that encompasses Kate’s studio

She has cleverly turned an extra-large stretched canvas to the wall

space by Kate’s architect husband Charles Thomson.

and an open-plan living space.

and uses the wooden supports as narrow shelves that hold rows

Charles’ brief for the design was to create a flexible home with

90 THE HOMES

The house is full of clever storage solutions, including a flip-

the ability to adapt to the requirements of both the family and of

top resin window seat in the kitchen, flanked by slim shelves full of

work; to establish a space where things could easily be moved

well-thumbed cookbooks. In another room the bookshelves, filled

of her abstract paintings and colour experimentations. This elegant house is the perfect backdrop for Kate’s artworks as well as pieces by members of the extended family and Kate’s

LONDON TERRACE

YUKO IS A FREELANCE FOOD STYLIST AND COOKERY BOOK WRITER LIVING AND WORKING IN TOKYO. AS IS OFTEN THE CASE WITH TOKYO LIVING, HER APARTMENT IS VERY SMALL. HOWEVER, THANKS TO YUKOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INNATE SENSE OF STYLE AND THE EXTREMELY WELL-ORGANIZED STORAGE, THE BRIGHT LITTLE APARTMENT FEELS WELCOMING AND SURPRISINGLY SPACIOUS. IT IS REPLETE WITH CLEAN LINES THAT LEND A COOL GRAPHIC EDGE AND GIVE A RESTRAINED MINIMALIST APPEAL; NOT UNLIKE A MONDRIAN PAINTING, IF MONDRIAN HAD SWAPPED HIS PRIMARY COLOUR PALETTE FOR SHADES OF CREAM, BROWN AND WHITE!

TOKYO SPACE A clever, compact Tokyo apartment ABOVE & RIGHT As a cookery writer and food

Yuko has been living in the apartment for eight years, yet in this relatively short time she has

stylist, Yuko has a massive array of plates, dishes and noodle bowls, stacked in

stamped her personality on the place. When she first acquired it, the apartment was in much need of

precarious-looking piles

renovation, which Yuko devised herself. One of the

on all the available shelf

most important requirements was the need for well-

space in her small kitchen.

considered storage, and plenty of it. Thus the

She also has a surprising

apartment boasts many cupboards built deep into

amount of teapots, too. OPPOSITE A couple of

the walls and they are all uniformly finished with beautiful dark wooden doors with extra narrow

classic Hans Wegner Wishbone chairs provide

horizontal slats. These handmade louvred doors

a European element to

have a textural quality that gives added interest to

the minimally furnished

the space. Yuko made sure that all the available

dining arrangements.

space was used, so the geometric-looking

128 THE HOMES

William Yeoward: Blue and White and Other Color Stories William Yeoward

Description In his most personal book to date, William Yeoward reveals his passion for colour, his inspirations and the 'stories' behind his unique use of colour as he takes you on a journey through a dazzling array of beautiful homes. This is William’s fourth book and is the first one to focus on his passion for colour and the sumptuous interiors that can be created by focusing on details and by layering opulent textures, prints and proportions.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$69.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781782494744

Category

• Home Design

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 208 pages

Format

• 292mm x 244mm

Illustrations

• 200 colour photographs

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William Yeoward has a worldwide reputation for designing collections for the home. He has a store on Kings Road, London. William Yeoward Crystal has a showroom in New York, and has been granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment as Supplier of Crystal Glass to HRH The Prince of Wales. William has written several other books, including William Yeoward At Home, William Yeoward’s American Bar and Perfect Tables. He lives in London and Gloucestershire.

Key Selling Points Follow William’s advice for stylish ideas for interiors and entertaining. Photographed in William’s own house and apartment and in close friends' cottages and retreats.

William Yeoward at Home, published 2010, has sold over 11,000 copies; Perfect Tables has sold over 8,500 copies; and William Yeoward on Entertaining has sold over 5,500 copies.

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

This intimate blue haven is the interior of a tiny stone building in my garden in the

OPPOSITE : A comfortable chair is about

country. It is a private, quiet space full of beautiful things, and, inspired by the

as near to the ground as I get when out

garden it looks out to, is filled with leaves and flowers and floral motifs everywhere

for picnic. Memories of ants, grass stains, plastic beakers and dog fights are all

you look. In design terms it tells a story about being bold with scale, about

forgotten in this fabulous setting.

mixing vintage with modern, precious with simple. It is the antithesis of boring,

ABOVE : Candle vases are practical as they

matchy and predictable. The starting point was the vintage indigo linen tablecloth

protect flames from garden breezes. These

with a simple scrolling floral pattern. On the walls is a paper-backed linen printed

are also beautiful, sensual shapes, taken

with a vast scaled-up pattern, no point in being timid. And no point either in

TJ31-1-2017 RPS(Patricia) CB1094 William Yeoward Blue & White W:244mmXH:292mm 175L 128gsm Gold East M/A Magenta

JUST FOR TWO

directly from the 18th Century and heavily inspired by the foliage of the garden fern.

being intimidated by the Palm Beach peacock thrones, which add their own, surprising hit. I’m very keen on humour in decorating. My blue haven is set up here for a very glamorous garden picnic a deux, care and love have gone into every little detail with candles glimmering in crystal on the sideboard and on the table, the table flowers taking a cue from the charming painting. The pink hydrangeas play a role in keeping the eye of the beholder from being too sure about what’s going on here; it’s all about punctuation marks.

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I use my eye to re-examine traditional designs from all over the world, natural forms captured in photos and drawings, historical elements and simple everyday objects.

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What makes a house great for entertaining? A first thought might be

discreet, laid-back sort of way. The floor is covered with traditional

plenty of space for people to mill about, but that can lead to a soulless

coir matting, and the furniture has recognisable traditional forms. So

gathering with the odd knot of wildly animated people who seem to

far, so predictable. But for all the background elements, on entering

have known each other for ever and a silent majority looking in from

this room you know you have stepped straight into today. The rugs

the sidelines, wondering how to break in. The best thing you can do

are totally contemporary and there’s not a hint of anything matching

is force people into small intimate groups, where conversations

or chintzy. Fabrics are plain, striped or geometric, bronze lamps and

flourish, people can be introduced and hang around long enough to

the bronze mirror are modern classics with a twist. They are the

get something started.

punctuation marks in the story.

This country house has an enormous 35ft x 20ft drawing room, and

The palette here is grey/blue and the look is tailored and smart. All

following my very own guidelines for a good party, it is smartly

the elements relate to one another without looking as if they’ve

divided into seating groups, each with a slightly different character,

been forced into submission. The windows are smartly dressed with

but all in some way related. It is a room with a strong architectural

printed linen blinds in a neutral colour with a lovely organic pattern

character, gorgeous panelling and a late Regency marble chimney

back lit by the sun. These discreet blinds let the beautifully

piece that could not be ignored. Walls are painted in soft neutrals

proportioned windows speak for themselves. It is a room totally at

that tell the story of the architraves, cornices and panelling, but in a

ease with itself and fit for purpose.

OPPOSITE : Matching super-comfortable chairs but no matching

OVERLE AF : One of the conversational seating groups presided

upholstery or cushions. The wool rug is a white on blue striped

over by a contemporary bronze mirror. The sofa is in plain linen

check – the reverse pattern appears on fabric used for some of

with a line up of interesting cushions, the armchairs may be the

cushion covers. It’s an inadvertent reference that makes you smile.

same shape but they are all dressed differently in mixtures of

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MODERN COUNTRY

linen and velvet.

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Never forget the importance of red Upstairs are two small bedrooms. One could argue for keeping

ABOVE LEF T: A colourful niche. Punchy fabric throws draw the eye

things simple and plain in an attempt to make the rooms appear

in to the space. Luckily, there is also a cupboard, as storage is an

larger, but my immediate reaction is to spring a surprise by overscaling. Here I’ve used big, bold patterns and lots of them. A couple of nautical references have found their way into this glorious pattern-

issue in this little home.

ABOVE : Hand-embroidered cushions, one patriotic, one reminiscent of waves. Framed on the wall is a pair of woad blue and cream knitted socks. Art is in the eye of the beholder.

fest. The home-made four-poster bed in the smaller of the two

OPPOSITE : The crazy bed even has patchwork on the footboard.

rooms is hung with a fabric that references elaborate knots, and a

There are stripes on the wall and on the rag rug, and also on the

cushion on the comfortably upholstered chair is embroidered with

scarf, lovingly made for the child’s papier-mache rocking horse that just gets a look in on the right hand edge of the photograph.

crossed oars and anchors. It’s a riot of fun, this room, with an emphasis on patchwork and a generosity of comfort. Downstairs, a little sleeping nook leads off the sitting room. With just enough room for a day bed, it’s a good place to retreat for an afternoon nap.

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Mosques

Splendors of Islam Leyla Uluhanli

Description The most comprehensive and authoritative book on mosque architecture and design published in the last decade. While there are a number of important earlier works on mosques such as The Mosque (1994), there is now a need for a beautifully produced volume given people's interest in this important subject. With more than 300 photographs, this is a visually stunning volume profiling historically important examples as well as impressive new mosque designs that are not as widely known.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$140.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847860357

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 304 pages

Format

• 305mm x 254mm

Illustrations

• 300 colour photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Leyla Uluhanli is a prominent interior designer based in Moscow. Prince Amyn Aga Khan is a noted architecture preservationist and a member of the board of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

Key Selling Points CLASSIC ICONIC MOSQUES AND NEW MOSQUES: Featured are the greatest mosques in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Sub-Sahara, the Indian Subcontinent, North America, and Russia including the Great Mosque of Córdoba in Spain and the Imam Mosque of Isfahan, Iran, along with innovative new structures, such as the Abu al-Qabib Mosque in Doha. AUTHORITATIVE: The essayists are the premier experts in their field. GORGEOUS PACKAGE: Glorious new photography combined with Rizzoli's sumptuous production quality make this volume an extraordinary gift.

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The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I (r. 1402–1421), who rebuilt the Ottoman empire after it was shattered following its defeat by Timur at Ankara in 1402, continued in Bursa the tradition of constructing a small mosque complex set on a rise. Built between 1419 and 1421, to the east of the main market area of Bursa, the new mosque compound provided a wide array of services ranging from religious and educational to medical and social. (fig. 13A exterior of the Bursa Yesil Mosque USE Walter Denny image AA_wd_AA353_post_as.tif; fig. 13B Exterior facade window with metal grill, USE Leyla photo, not in Prelude) It served the new quarter of the rapidly expanding Ottoman capital, whose command of the east-west flow of silk between Asia and Europe, had turned it into one of the wealthiest fifteenth-century cities in the world. The architect Haci Ivaz designed the mosque, and the interior tile decorations are signed by Ali bin Ilyas and Mehmed el Mecnun. Badly damaged after the 1855 earthquake, the mosque was restored under governor Ahmed Vefik Pasha in the later nineteenth century by the French architect Léon Parvillée.

The Mosque of Mehmed I, today often called the Yesil Cami, or Green Mosque, due to the color of some of its tile decoration, forms the focus of a kulliye complex, which includes a madrasa, or college, a public bath, an alms-kitchen, the tomb of Mehmed I, and several smaller buildings. Built of sandstone clad in white marble, the mosque is based on the reverse T-design. (fig. 14 Bursa Yesil plan from Archnet) Its layout roughly follows the fourteenth-century Ottoman precedent for royal mosques in Bursa; an upper domed chamber on the south (qibla, or Mecca-facing) side, reached by several steps, serves as the mosque proper; to the north, a lower second domed chamber of equal size, with oculus above and octagonal fountain basin below, acts as the symbolic vestigial courtyard. (fig. 15A Bursa Yesil, interior prayer-hall, fountain with dome, USE Leyla photo no. 19) (fig. 15B Bursa Yesil prayer-hall dome with oculus USE Walter Denny image B_WBD_4746a); The layout, although found in buildings of a relatively small scale, allows for a unity of interior space that was in succeeding centuries to emerge as

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Mosque of Mehmed I / Bursa Yesil Cami and Green Mosque Date, Location

an imperative for Ottoman mosque design. There are vaulted iwan spaces to either side of the lower chamber and separate domed rooms with fireplaces and shelves to either side of the upper chamber. While their function is not fully understood, these rooms were probably employed mainly for religious education as well as a variety of other uses. (fig. 16 Bursa Yesil vaulted iwan space, USE Leyla photo no. 5) On the north side of the mosque the revak was never completed, but a suite of rooms on both the lower and upper levels, together with a balcony giving out on the lower chamber on the second level served as a private prayer-hall for the ruler. (figs. 17A, B, and C Bursa Yesil interior private chamber off of prayer-hall (Sultan’s loge), USE Leyla photo nos. 7, 22, 23) This is the first instance of a distinctive space reserved for royalty in Ottoman architecture that later became a fixture of imperial mosques constructed in Istanbul. One enters the Green Mosque through a splendid carved marble portal with elaborate muqarnas in its recessed archway. (fig. 18A Exterior view USE Leyla no. 13 and fig. 18B Portal USE Leyla no. 14) Beautiful carvings also crown the exteriors of its windows. However, it is the extraordinary tiles, particularly the emerald greens, turquoises, and gold examples, throughout the interior that testify to the brilliance of fifteenth-century Ottoman artistry. Many of these tiles feature entwining floral designs in the intricate cuerda seca technique (that prevents the running of glazes in polychrome designs) and gilding. (fig. 19A prayer-hall with mihrab in view showing cuerda seca tiles, USE Leyla photo no. 2 and fig. 19B corner frame of mihrab showing cuerda seca tiles, USE Leyla photo no. 3) The repertory of designs includes stylized plant forms, calligraphy in a variety of styles, and complex geometric interlacing. Although extensively damaged in 1855 and then virtually rebuilt, and then restored several times since, the Mosque of Mehmed I of Bursa remains one of the most beautiful and richly-decorated of Ottoman royal mosques, and shows that the visual culture of the Ottoman Empire was by the early fifteenth century both fully developed and well supported by royal patronage. © 2017 Rizzoli International Publications. All Rights Reserved.

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Allied Works Architecture: Dwelling Brad Cloepfil

Description A must-have for fans of architects such as Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Howard Backen, whose work was featured in From the Land, and for those who love the interior spaces featured in The Urban House and Brooklyn Modern. Drawing on examples of his own instantly recognizable user-friendly modern design, celebrated architect Brad Cloepfil – principal of celebrated firm Allied Works Architecture – demonstrates how to create a serene haven for modern living.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$110.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847860326

Category

• Home Design

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 224 pages

Format

• 279mm x 254mm

Illustrations

• 200 colour and B/W photographs

Founded in 1994, Allied Works Architecture is a 40-person practice led by Brad Cloepfil from offices in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Guided by principles of craft and innovation, Allied Works creates designs that resonate with their specificity of place and purpose.

Key Selling Points A perfect title for the aesthetically and environmentally conscious: this book features beautiful houses that are built responsibly as well as integrated into their natural surroundings, offering a crucial reconciliation between architecture and nature. Cloepfil is a leading light among contemporary architects, famed for his office complex for Weiden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon, and the renovation of the Huntington Hartford Museum on New York's Columbus Circle into the Museum of Arts and Design. His work has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Dwell, and Architectural Record, among many others.

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Stanfordville, New York

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Dutchess County Guest House

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Through the French Door

Romantic interiors inspired by classic French style Carolyn Westbrook

Description Welcome to the world of designer and decorator Carolyn Westbrook, a world of beautiful French style interiors and chic décor. Carolyn is known for her love of French design, and in Through the French Door she combines her expertise in interiors and her romance with everything French, to show you how to transform your home into something stunning.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017

Known for her brand, The Carolyn Westbrook Home, Carolyn Westbrook is a prominent lifestyle designer who has written many articles for home décor magazines that have been published across the globe. Carolyn has also written numerous other books, including A Romance with French Living and French-Inspired Home. Moreover, Carolyn designs her own furniture, fabrics and accessories. Carolyn is based at The Oaks Plantation in Texas, US.

Price

• AUD$44.99 Hardback

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9781782494881

Reissued with a new jacket, the first edition sold 12,000 copies.

Category

• Home Design

Imprint

• CICO

Extent

• 160 pages

Format

• 254mm x 216mm

Illustrations

• 200 colour photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

French style is one of the most popular and enduring looks for modern interiors.

The French-Inspired Home, also by Carolyn Westbrook, has sold over 16,000 copies since first publication.

Specifications

Inspired Interiors

Binding: Hardcover with jacket Format: 8 ½ x 10 in./ 254 x 216 mm Extent: 160 pages Illustrations: 200 color photographs Price: US $29.95 / Priced higher in Canada / UK £19.99 Publication date: October 2017 Text: 30,000 words

This living area is quite different from the previous family room in size as well as style. Painted in white and decorated in pastel shades, it has a less formal quality about it. Pale floral chintz adorns the Louis XV-style sofa and down cushions. Behind, French doors, which line the walls, lead out to the conservatory. Magnificent chandeliers grace the ceilings throughout this big city house, and this room is no exception. My romance with antique floral oil paintings continues here, where an exquisite oil of old-fashioned pink roses just past their prime is highlighted by one of the crystal sconces. At night, they add a glistening detail to the walls. I do love palms in any room setting. They add

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a graceful delicateness with their draping branches, and remind one of some exotic faraway place.

Text © Carolyn Westbrook Design, illustration, and photography © CICO Books

About the Author For further information, contact:

CICO Books 341 E 116th St New York NY 10029 Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 Fax: (+1) 646 861 3518

CICO Books 20–21 Jockey’s Fields London WC1R 4BW Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2280 Fax: +44 (0)20 7025 2281 sales@cicobooks.co.uk

For US publicity, contact: Neha Kesarwani Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 neha.kesarwani@ rylandpeters.com

For UK publicity, contact: Yvonne Doolan Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2240 yvonne.doolan@cicobooks.co.uk www.rylandpeters.com

Known for her brand, The Carolyn Westbrook Home, Carolyn Westbrook is a prominent lifestyle designer who has written many articles for home décor magazines that have been published across the globe. Carolyn has also written numerous books, including A Romance with French Living and The French-Inspired Home. Moreover, Carolyn designs her own furniture, fabrics, and accessories, which are displayed at shows across the US. Her lines have also previously been stocked by well-known stores, such as Bed, Bath and Beyond.

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Carolyn is based at The Oaks Plantation in Texas. www.rylandpeters.com LEFT A

favored painting of an old-fashioned rose is set off to perfection with an elaborate French sconce, complete with crystal drops and neat fabric lampshades.

RIGHT The

pale pastel colors that abound in this room make for an understated type of grandeur. Providing the living element and a touch of exoticism is a potted palm.

Inspired Interiors

Contents The sensitive mixing of traditional and industrial elements

Introduction 6

Chapter One:

has created a Town and Country kitchen at its finest

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Welcome Home • For the Love of Pink • French Country Living

Here elements of both town and Country styles sit so well together. A distressed wood island is a vintage flea-market find, while the three lamps add an industrial edge.The dark hardwood floor is a practical and hardwearing surface for this busy, convivial space.

LEFT

• Big City House • Town and Country • Black and White • The Making of a Collection

Impeccable and clean, all in white—with the exception of the distressed wood island—this is a dream Town and Country kitchen if ever I have seen one. The island, discovered at a flea market, turned out to be just the right size and have the perfect patina for the space. It serves as a preparation area and a breakfast bar, forming the focal point of the room. Pretty arrangements of asparagus, cabbage, and leeks on top will soon be tomorrow’s dinner but for now they look beautiful as a very unique kind of floral arrangement. Likewise, glass storage jars containing everything from cereal to dog biscuits are decorative

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additions to the countertops. Adding to the character of this vintage kitchen re-do, the kitchen cabinets are practical as well as

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pleasing to the eye, with their glass doors keeping the look light and airy. Like the deep farmhouse sink, the cabinets are traditional in style, but this is offset by the industrial look light fittings suspended over the island and the subway-tile splashbacks.

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A Spring Gathering • An Autumn Harvest Table • A Plantation Christmas Index 156 Acknowledgments 158

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Specifications

Inspired Interiors

ISBN: 978 1 78249 488 1

a graceful delicateness with their draping branches, and remind one of some exotic faraway place.

Text © Carolyn Westbrook Design, illustration, and photography © CICO Books

About the Author For further information, contact:

CICO Books 341 E 116th St New York NY 10029 Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 Fax: (+1) 646 861 3518

CICO Books 20–21 Jockey’s Fields London WC1R 4BW Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2280 Fax: +44 (0)20 7025 2281 sales@cicobooks.co.uk

For US publicity, contact: Neha Kesarwani Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 neha.kesarwani@ rylandpeters.com

For UK publicity, contact: Yvonne Doolan Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2240 yvonne.doolan@cicobooks.co.uk www.rylandpeters.com

Known for her brand, The Carolyn Westbrook Home, Carolyn Westbrook is a prominent lifestyle designer who has written many articles for home décor magazines that have been published across the globe. Carolyn has also written numerous books, including A Romance with French Living and The French-Inspired Home. Moreover, Carolyn designs her own furniture, fabrics, and accessories, which are displayed at shows across the US. Her lines have also previously been stocked by well-known stores, such as Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Uncorrected proofs

Carolyn is based at The Oaks Plantation in Texas. www.rylandpeters.com LEFT A

favored painting of an old-fashioned rose is set off to perfection with an elaborate French sconce, complete with crystal drops and neat fabric lampshades.

RIGHT The

pale pastel colors that abound in this room make for an understated type of grandeur. Providing the living element and a touch of exoticism is a potted palm.

Inspired Interiors

Contents The sensitive mixing of traditional and industrial elements

Introduction 6

Chapter One:

has created a Town and Country kitchen at its finest

Inspired Interiors 10

Welcome Home • For the Love of Pink • French Country Living

LEFT

• Big City House • Town and Country • Black and White • The Making of a Collection

Chapter Two:

Farmhouse Living 124

additions to the countertops. Adding to the character of this vintage kitchen re-do, the kitchen cabinets are practical as well as

Farmhouse Life • The Grounds • A Fisherman’s Cabin

Chapter Three:

Gatherings and Celebrations 142

A Spring Gathering • An Autumn Harvest Table • A Plantation Christmas Index 156 Acknowledgments 158

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Recycled Home Mark Bailey

Description In this beautiful book, Mark and Sally Bailey of Baileys Home Store share their passion for rescued, repaired, reused and recycled pieces. The book begins by taking a look at the many different Elements of the Baileys’ stripped back style including Textures, Storage, Walls & Floors, Lighting and Display. Following on, a section on Rooms shows how well the look can work throughout the home, including offices and children’s rooms. Discover the untapped potential of rescued or repaired objects with Recycled Home.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$44.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781849758796

Category

• Home Design

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 160 pages

Format

• 254mm x 216mm

Illustrations

• 230 colour photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Mark and Sally Bailey’s style has been evolving for over 30 years in their Herefordshire home and business, Bailey’s Home Store. They have recently been working on their own collection of furniture, lighting and homewares while working with designers and architects on various residential and commercial projects. Their other books are Simple Home, Handmade Home and Imperfect Home.

Key Selling Points From renowned retailers Mark and Sally Bailey of Baileys Home Store, who are famous for making well-designed, honest and well-made home essentials that will last a lifetime. An updated edition of the original bestselling title, which has sold more than 26,500 copies worldwide. ‘Without doubt…the best home and garden store in Britain.’ —Dylan Jones, editor of GQ.

tones & textures The decoration of the recycled home can’t really be planned by poring over paint charts and choosing a mild-mannered colour scheme. Instead, be prepared to work with what you’ve got, and be open to the fun of discovering textural treasures that may have been covered up for years. Peel off layers of paint, plaster and dodgy wallpaper – at times you may start to feel a bit like a domestic archaeologist!

textiles Textiles are an easy way to bring recycling into your home. The endless uses for small or large pieces of rescued fabrics embody the principles of recycling â&#x20AC;&#x201C; adapt, repair and reuse. Textiles are also perfect for softening the sometimes hard edges of other recycled elements. A cushion on a wirework garden chair transplanted to your kitchen table or a patchwork bedspread thrown onto a roughly hewn oak bed make comfortable contrasts.

this page This child’s bed, with

up and stitch the good bits together. Linen is a

curlicues reminiscent of Hansel

classic, soft but hardwearing backdrop for more

and Gretel’s gingerbread house,

colourful bedcoverings, which need not necessarily

is made entirely from reclaimed wood: a mismatched patchwork

have started life as bed linen. Use an old embroidered

of floorboards and panelling. The

shawl, a bright crocheted throw or a wonderfully

look is extended to a miniature

warm Welsh woollen blanket. You could even match

table and chair.

(but not too carefully) a patchwork wooden bed by

opposite above Give yourself

sewing together vintage fabric offcuts and segments

sweet dreams with beautiful

of old clothes that are no longer quite wearable.

grown-up mobiles hanging

Lots of layers keep you cosy and provide easy-on-

from your ceiling, such as this

the-eye contrasting colours and textures. When you aeroplane made from a scrap piece of chicken wire.

peel back the covers, fresh, white bed linen is the best finishing touch for a colourful ensemble.

opposite below A gorgeous silk

You need a bedside table to hold your book, the Adjustable lighting is indispensable in the

four-poster, makes a dazzling,

alarm clock and an easy-to-reach light. Make it large

super-sized headrest. The room’s

enough to prevent night-time avalanches, and of a

bedroom. A twist of the dimmer switch is all

monastic simplicity gives it the

height to suit the bed frame you have created. For

you need to transport yourself from day to night.

utter simplicity, use an oak block or wooden fruit

Bedside lamps don’t have to be too pretty, it’s the

crate, or create a patchwork chunky cube from

light they provide that creates the warm glow. So

wood, architrave and skirting-board offcuts.

consider an old French inspection lamp with its

chance to shine.

LINEN IS A CLASSIC, SOFT BUT HARDWEARING BACKDROP FOR MORE COLOURFUL BEDCOVERINGS SUCH AS AN OLD EMBROIDERED SHAWL OR A BRIGHT CROCHETED THROW. metal cage, which is easy to fix wherever you need it most, or soften its look slightly by mounting one on a worn wooden block. A trusty filament bulb on extra-long corded flex can be hung from a nail tapped into the wall, or a hook screwed into the ceiling, for more movable lighting. In an ideal world your bedroom wouldn’t contain much more than your bed and a small table, but this demands extra storage space elsewhere. If you do have a small boxroom, consider vamping it up to create the luxury of a dressing room. A few

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At Home with Dogs and Their Designers Sharing a Stylish Life Susanna Salk

Description This is a unique inspirational book that merges the worlds of dogs and interior design, featuring stylish images alongside practical elements – a great combination that makes this a standout gift book of the season. At Home with Dogs and Their Designers will appeal to everyone who is taken by images of beguiling dogs and puppies in beautiful settings! Twenty-one top interior designers give advice and stylish tips for sharing a home with their canine companions, alongside delightful photography by Stacey Bewkes.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$70.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847860906

Category

• Home Design

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 176 pages

Format

• 232mm x 184mm

Illustrations

• 200 colour photographs

Susanna Salk is a designer and stylist as well the author of many best-selling books that celebrate design – from the personal weekend spaces of style makers in Weekend Retreats to Room for Children which explores design for the junior set. French-born interior designer/architect Robert Couturier opened his New York firm in 1987. His work has been featured in such publications as Architectural Digest and Elle Decor, and he is included on the annual lists of the best designers. Stacey Bewkes' continuing love of design let to the creation of Quintessence, an award-winning on-line guide to the best in style and substance.

Key Selling Points THE AUDIENCE: Anyone who is a dog lover or interior design lover, and for all those who are passionate about both. TOP DESIGNERS: Features great, practical design advice from some of today's leading designers. PRACTICAL ADVICE: Lots of practical advice on maintaining a beautiful home while living with a dog.

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TIPS ON LIVING A STYLISH LIFE On Character Stuff is just stuff. The truth is everything we own is partially gnawed on (whether by Foxy or Simon, who knows). It adds character.

On Collars and Outfits Never a collar for FoxyLady. She is usually in the nude. Think

On Adoption by Any Other Name

odalisque. For rainy weather, her camouflage raincoat gives her an edgy look that says, “Don’t f*ck with me, fellas.” When you’re this beautiful, you have to be tough.

Don’t not adopt a dog from a shelter just because you don’t like its given name. FoxyLady’s name used to be Martha.

On Taking Great Pictures

On Favorite Places to Sleep FoxyLady loves snoozing curled up in her bed in Simon’s office, with one of his old Burberry scarves as he works on his latest page-turner.

Don’t be afraid to get up close and personal, not to mention on all fours. The best pictures are the ones that feel as if they were taken from a dog’s-eye view. FoxyLady always seems to find

On Eating in Style A lady never said no to a nibble of roast chicken.

TIPS ON LIVING A STYLISH LIFE It’s entirely possible to live both with dogs and beautiful things but I think two things have to happen: First, train your dogs. This does not happen overnight, nor is it easy—but if you work at it, it’s definitely in the realm of possibility. Second, relax. Living with dogs also means everything can’t be one hundred percent perfect all the time, so lean into this and just enjoy it. I encourage everyone to really live in their homes—with kids, with dogs, and with company.

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On Training

On Accidents Relax a little. Accidents happen. Pet hair happens. Ease up, and don’t expect perfection. In my opinion, snuggling on the sofa with my dogs is worth it.

On Collars and Leashes For walks, Lola wears a green-striped collar and leash from Harry Barker. She used to wear Louis Vuitton but grew out of it. Mark feels this extravagance was insane anyway, so we did not purchase a second one. Nina’s collar is black-andwhite gingham. She also wears a harness for walks because she never finished obedience classes. Lola can be a bit of a “little monster” because she never stays on the sidewalk. Felix is partial to his blue gingham, which he gets filthy in no time.

Being individuals, dogs have preferences for where they sleep. Lola prefers a little bed that is way too small for her. It is kept in the laundry room. If she’s in a good mood, she’ll snuggle under the covers of our bed, which is simultaneously a treat and an annoyance because she is a snorer. Nina can only sleep if her body is in contact with a human. Felix is not picky and will relax on any type of dog bed situated just about anywhere.

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On Favorite Places to Sleep

On Homemade Food Our housekeeper, Ana, and I make meals for our dogs. They are partial to poached chicken (breast meat only) served with kibble.

Fabulous

The Dazzling Interiors of Tom Britt Mitchell Owens

Description For readers who enjoyed Mario Buatta, Tom Britt's monograph documents the fifty-year career of one of America's greatest designers. Britt's interiors reflect a cleanly tailored and brightly hued modernity, with all the embellishments of refined and luxurious decoration. A must-have addition to Rizzoli's list of books on the modern masters of interior design. Fabulous: The Dazzling Interiors of Tom Britt is a sweeping survey of (and the first book about) the AD100 interior designer's grand way with decoration.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$140.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847860319

Category

• Home Design

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 304 pages

Format

• 305mm x 254mm

Illustrations

• 200 colour & B/W photographs

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Mitchell Owens is the decorative arts editor of Architectural Digest and the former interior-design director of Elle Decor. In addition to writing on subjects ranging from material culture to landscape design to travel for the New York Times, The World of Interiors, Departures, Travel + Leisure, and other publications, he has written two books: In House (2009) and Charlotte Moss Decorates. For over forty years, Thomas Britt has been an icon of the interior design industry both nationally and worldwide. Combined with his bold sense of colour, luxurious use of textures, and an eye for detail, his artistry has created some of the world's most beautiful homes.

Key Selling Points INTERIOR DECORATION: Books on interiors (focusing on the careers of single interior designers, period styles or singular approaches, and those of the residences of tastemakers and trend-setters) are in constant demand by design professionals and devotees of the art of fine living. FIRST BOOK: This will be the first book on the work of Tom Britt.

AT FACETE ELECTRAM IUS, CU EST AUTEM MENANDRI, AD PRO JUSTO PHAEDRUM. VIX AN VEREAR QUAERENDUM, CIBO MALIS ACCOMMODARE MEI ET.

D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO IBU PY T R O U T C T A IS O D N R FO Relevance not reverence was in the forefront of Britt’s mind when a growing young family living not far from St. Louis, Missouri, commissioned the designer to redecorate their eighteenth-century-inflected house— which, to Britt’s surprise, had started out as a relatively humble farmhouse more than a hundred years ago. Gunn & Smith, a St. Louis architecture firm, had twice made alterations to the original building, transforming it into a white-painted brick mansion with French doors topped with fanlights and an entrance porch trimmed with a Chinese Chippendale–inspired railing. With that stylistic invention firmly in mind, Britt had no interest in delivering a rote exploration of landed-gentry elegance. “What this house wanted was style, energy, and color,” Britt once said—and though he intended to bring European antiques into the decorative mix, he also put modern American and Asian art on his shopping list. Ditto capacious rolled-arm sofas and broad-bottomed armchairs (for comfort), carpets both vigorously patterned and gloriously carved (to provide animation and texture), and powerhouse paint colors that, when daringly juxtaposed, would emphasize the rooms’ uses as well as their intended energy. The living room’s bright blend of lemon-yellow walls, Régence armchairs upholstered in lipstick-red velvet, and a smoke-blue sofa and loveseats—complemented by Louise Nevelson prints and a room-size Indian dhurrie in similar color combinations—makes a jazzy setting for cocktails.

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The nearby dining room is its absolute opposite, with walls painted a green so dark that it reads as black, like certain Chinese jades infused with iron ore. It is a murky shade that instantly affects a transformational hush as guests enter the space, where Britt has established a bracing tension by pitting the peaceful old against the dynamic new. At the center of the space stands an obsidian-dark dining table ringed by aristocratic white-and-gold Directoire-style chairs—so far, so chic—but overlooked by a towering, tempestuous silkscreen that is one of avant-garde Chinese artist Qin Feng’s dynamic takes on ancient calligraphy. © 2017 Rizzoli International Publications. All Rights Reserved. 7

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D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO IBU PY T R O U T C T A IS O D N R FO Equally energizing, though in far more subtle tones, is the pool pavilion. There, beneath a beamed and vaulted ceiling, Britt conjures up a tropical vibe—but using only shades of gold, taupe, and coconut brown, as if Coco Chanel had decided to put her smoky stamp on a Caribbean isle. Printed in metallic gold on crisp white, the famous banana-leaf-print cotton that Dorothy McNab designed decades ago for her decorator sister Rose Cumming, causes the upholstered furnishings’ strict silhouettes to melt away into a virtual jungle. That feeling is amplified by the leafy brass chandelier and matching mirror, voluptuous shell-shape plaster sconces, and statuettes in the form of exotic fish that seem to lazily swim atop the kitchen’s cabinets.

Never Stop Designing Spaces

An Emotional Journey Through Ten Places of Italian Life Daniele Lago

Description Lago is a leader in Italian design whose work focuses on creating environments that resonate with the spirit of the inhabitants to enhance their quality of life. Their mindful approach to interior design extends beyond the home to hotels, bed and breakfasts, restaurants, galleries, museums, stores, and offices. Never Stop Designing Spaces is their beautiful visual guide to enhancing one's quality of life through the way we live.

Author Details Daniele Lago, born 1972, is CEO and & Head of Design at Lago, Italy.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$110.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847849994

Category

• Home Design

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 176 pages

Format

• 298mm x 229mm

Illustrations

• 120 colour photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

The roots of Lago hark back to the late 1800s when Policarpo Lago began his bespoke cabinetry practice in country mansions and churches in and around Venice. The lago.it website receives around 2 million hits per year, and the Community Appartamento and company's Facebook page are followed by over 650,000 people. In 2016 Lago received the Best Product award in the kitchens division of the 2016 Milan Furniture Fair awards assigned to the year's finest designs for each division.

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Working with wool is a local specialty.

fabric closes the volumes, completely doing away

In the past, the wool from this area was sold

with the perception of doors and surprising us when

at the markets that supplied the wool mills

it reveals, with a simple gesture, the ample spaces

of the Venetian Republic. Alongside with wood,

inside. The optical illusion is accentuated by the fact

fabric is a popular decorative material for Livigno

that the fabric can cover infinite surfaces and blend

interiors, because of the warmth it brings

in with the architecture of the room. Inside it, the

to the home. Designed by Daniele Lago, Et Voilà

Et Voilà Tree wardrobe is accessorized with shelves

wardrobe integrates fabric as a structural and

and drawers and with a metal rotating clothes

aesthetic element, eliminating what seemed

hanger tree. By adjusting the height of the tree

inescapably essential: the door. It almost seems

junctions and the rotation of the branches, you can

like a magic box with an indefinite surface: taut

optimize space.

A warm, fabric wardrobe that opens with a single gesture.

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TORINO | PIEMONTE

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At the Royal Church of San Lorenzo, when you look up at the big windows of Guarini's bold dome from below, they create what the locals ironically call the “face of the devil.” © 2017 Rizzoli International Publications. All Rights Reserved.

Richard Meier, Architect Vol 7 Richard Meier

Description Meier ranks as one of the absolute superstars of international architects, along with figures such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, and Tadao Ando. This new volume on his most recent work will be of great interest to architects and students of architecture and art. This is Rizzoli's seventh volume in the best-selling, authorized, and definitive series of monographs on the work of Richard Meier, one of America's most important and acclaimed architects.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$180.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847860333

Category

• Home Design

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 408 pages

Format

• 254mm x 254mm

Illustrations

• 200 B/W photographs; 200 colour photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Richard Meier began his career in the early 1960s designing private residential projects whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become icons of modern architecture. Since that time, his international practice has included museums, courthouses, city halls and corporate headquarters, and has received numerous awards, including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. Kenneth Frampton is the author of numerous volumes, essays, and articles of architectural criticism and theory. Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized and award-winning architect and educator.

Key Selling Points Meier is a figure of perennial interest to architects, architecture students, and design aficionados: Richard Meier, Volume 7 is the latest in the successful Rizzoli Series on Meier. In the past decade, Meier has completed numerous international projects, such as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague City Hall and Central Library, and the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, ensuring that his name now carries world-wide recognition.

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Longitudinal section

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Color of Pixar Tia Kratter

Description Bold and beautiful, this volume presents hundreds of film stills from the Pixar archives in a stunning colour spectrum. By viewing these images outside of their usual context, it becomes crystal clear how each frame tells a story. Bound into gorgeous and giftable format, The Color of Pixar encapsulates everything there is to love about the studio – the attention to detail, the playful characters, and the sheer scope of their work over 20 years of iconic feature films.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$55.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781452159201

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 352 pages

Format

• 152mm x 203mm

Illustrations

• Full colour images throughout

John Lasseter is a two-time Academy Award® winner, director, chief creative officer at Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, and principal creative officer at Walt Disney Imagineering. He directed Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Cars, and Cars 2. Tia Kratter joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1993 as a Digital Painter during production of the studio's first feature film, Toy Story. She has subsequently held the Shader Art Director role on A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, Cars, and Academy Award®-winning Brave. Since 2013 Kratter has been managing Pixar University's art and film education classes.

Key Selling Points A NEW PIXAR FORMAT: Smaller trim size than the Art Of series, with tons of pages (352, double the amount in Art Of) this new format is eyecatching and incredibly giftable. SHOWCASE APPEAL: This handsome new format makes an excellent centerpiece for any Pixar fan. Will stand out in a big way, both at retail and in homes. Total eye-candy. COVERS 20 YEARS OF PIXAR: With art from 20 years of Pixar, this title is less release-driven than our Art Of titles.

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The Incredibles, 2004

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Fabergé

Treasures of Imperial Russia Geza Von Habsburg

Description A lavish volume on the most complete Faberge collection in the world, from the famous imperial Easter eggs to precious jewelry, enamels, and Russian silver, showcased in the sumptuous Shuvalov Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Works by Faberge remain a perennially popular subject and this is the most luxurious and comprehensive volume ever published on the subject – a must-have for lovers of Faberge and Russian culture and art.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$180.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847860630

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 436 pages

Format

• 311mm x 241mm

Illustrations

• 350 colour & B/W photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Géza von Habsburg is an internationally known author and authority on Faberge who has served as curator and organizer for a number of Fabergé exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Tatyana Muntyan is chief curator of the Faberge Collection in the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin, and is a leading expert in the field.

Key Selling Points THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF FABERGE IN THE WORLD: The new Faberge Museum in St Petersburg houses the most authoritative collection of precious Faberge eggs, jewels, and objects, enamels, porcelain vases, icons and Russian silver found anywhere – more than 500 priceless objects in all. LUXURIOUS PACKAGE: This lavish 436-page volume reflects the opulence of the collection, brimming with all-new photography of the 500+ Faberge objects, as well as stunning interiors of the magnificent Shuvalov Palace.

FABERGÉ MUSEUM

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FABERGÉ MUSEUM

In 1898, Alexandra Fedorovna was given an egg made in the fashionable “latest” style, Art Moderne. Fabergé was aware of the empress’s love for Art Nouveau, with its floral symbolism and sophisticated and whimsical lines. It was a family tradition: her brother, Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt, was one of the leading patrons of the Jugendstil in Germany. The interiors and furniture of Alexandria, the Lower Dacha in Peterhof and beloved home of the royal family, were executed in the Moderne style. Some of the rooms in the private apartments of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna at the Alexander Palace were redone in the Art Nouveau style by the architect R. F. Meltser. There were vases by Gallé and Lalique in silver rims from Fabergé and many other trifles. However, the Russian nobility, especially in St. Petersburg, was more than reserved in its attitude toward “the latest style,” but the empress stuck to her views almost always and in everything. The egg’s shell is covered in translucent pink enamel over guilloche and ornamented with vertical friezes of diamonds in a rose cut and pearl lilies of the valley with diamond petals. Lilies of the valley, symbols of purity, youth, and innocence, were the favorite flowers of Alexandra Fedorovna, who avoided “any kind of pomp” and dedicated almost all her time to husband and children. The egg’s surprise are miniature watercolor portraits of Nicholas II and two small daughters of the royal family—Olga and Tatiana—in the form of a trefoil that opens on top of the egg when a pearl button is pushed. This is the second Imperial egg with portrait miniatures: the year before Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna received an egg with a surprise heart, which at the push of a button turned into a three-leaf clover with portraits of her son, daughter-inlaw, and her first granddaughter, Olga. The touching egg with its portraits of husband and daughter must have pleased the dreamy and rather rapturous Alix, who was brought up in the spirit of Victorian sentimentality.

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St. Petersburg, 1895-1898

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House of Fabergé, workmaster M. Perkhin

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Gold, silver, diamonds, cut diamonds, ivory, paper, guilloché enamel, watercolor

IMPERIAL & CABINET GIFTS

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Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds, 1953-2016 Chronicle Books

Description With the first Centerfold, the radiant Marilyn Monroe, Hugh M. Hefner masterminded a cultural icon: Playboy’s Playmate of the Month. This stunning volume contains all 734 nude centerfolds from 1954 to 2016, as well as an intro from Hefner and essays from literary luminaries, including Dave Hickey, Robert Coover, and Maureen Gibbon, amongst others. Updated to include an essay by Elizabeth Wurtzel ( Prozac Nation), this collector’s edition captures the entire cultural and aesthetic arc of the Playboy centerfold.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017

Hugh M. Hefner is editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine. Hefner received the 1996 International Publishing Award from the International Press Directory in London and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Society of Magazine Editors at its 1998 ceremonies in New York . Playboy products are sold in over 180 countries and is one of the top 20 brands in the world.

Price

• AUD$120.00 Hardback

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9781452161037

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

WHY NOW? Playboy magazine went 'non nude' in February of this year, marking the end of the archetypal nude centerfold and the end of an era.

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 848 pages

Format

• 343mm x 203mm

Illustrations

• 734 full colour photographs

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CLEAR + ICONIC PUBLISHING: With over 60 years of history, the Playboy Centerfold is a worldwide symbol that is celebrated and revered. GREAT BRAND: Today, there are 29 editions of Playboy published in more than 50 countries with more than 500k subscribers in the US alone. GIFTABLE OPPORTUNITIES: With the end of the nude Centerfold, this is the only volume that houses all 734 Playmate Centerfolds in one beautiful package.

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MISS DECEMBER 1955 JANET PILGRIM

Miss January

LY N N T U R N E R

Peter Gowland Miss February

MARGUERITE EMPEY Russ Meyer Miss March

M A R I A N S TA F F O R D Ruth Sondak Miss April

RUSTY FISHER Sam Wu Miss May

MARION SCOTT Herman Leonard Miss June

G L O R I A WA L K E R Herman Leonard Miss July

ALICE DENHAM

Arthur-James Miss August

J O N N I E N I C E LY

Hal Adams Miss September

ELSA SORENSEN Peter Gowland Miss October

JANET PILGRIM Arthur-James Miss November

BETTY BLUE Hal Adams Miss December

LISA WINTERS Bunny Yeager

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MISS DECEMBER 1964 JO COLLINS PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR

Miss January

S A L LY D U B E R S O N Pompeo Posar Miss February

J E S S I C A S T. G E O R G E Mario Casilli Miss March

JENNIFER JACKSON Pompeo Posar Miss April

SUE WILLIAMS William Figge and Edward DeLong Miss May

MARIA McBANE

William Figge and Edward DeLong Miss June

HEDY SCOTT Ron Vogel Miss July

G AY C O L L I E R Mario Casilli Miss August

LANNIE BALCOM J. Barry Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rourke Miss September

PAT T I R E Y N O L D S Stan Malinowski Miss October

A L L I S O N PA R K S

( P L AY M AT E O F T H E Y E A R ) William Figge Miss November

PAT R U S S O

Pompeo Posar Miss December

DINAH WILLIS Pompeo Posar

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Monograph by Chris Ware Chris Ware

Description For the first time in his twenty-five-year career, multi-award winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Chris Ware presents a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes autobiographical visual monograph, and opens a revealing window into the worlds he inhabits. Similar to Chip Kidd Book One and Shepard Fairey Covert to Overt, this book serves as a personal chronicle of a contemporary iconic illustrator, and is a must-have for those interested in illustration, graphic novels, and pop culture.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$120.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847860883

Category

• Graphic Novels

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 280 pages

Format

• 457mm x 330mm

Illustrations

• 300 colour & B/W photographs

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Chris Ware is an award-winning cartoonist known for Building Stories, his Acme Novelty Library series, and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Ira Glass is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio show This American Life. Art Spiegelman is an award-winning cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. Françoise Mouly is a Paris-born, New York-based designer, editor, and publisher best known as publisher of Raw and as art editor of The New Yorker.

Key Selling Points MEDIA DARLING: Chris Ware is a mainstay in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and countless other print and online publications. STAR-STUDDED COLLABORATIONS: Ware moves through countless art, cartoon, and design circles, and his collaborators include: Chip Kidd, Ira Glass, Charles Burns, Tim Samuels, Art Spiegelman, and Zadie Smith, to name only a few. PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED WORK: The book will contain artwork and personal ephemera that has never before been seen, giving the reader an intimate look into Ware's world.

1999.

Covers for The ACME Novelty Library, issues No. 12, 9, 11, 13 and 14. offset ink on cardstock 8” x 6” 1996—2000.

This page:

Rocket Sam —I Never Stopped Loving You. Ink, colored pencil and white goauche on board 20” x 20”

These pages:

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Pencil sketch The ACME Novelty Library, issue No. 8. colored pencil on board 24” x 20”

Cover of The ACME Novelty Library, issue No. 12. Ink, colored pencil and white goauche on board 23” x 20” 1998.

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Quimby the Mouse Wooden Doll. Wood, wire, rope and paint with miniature hardcover book ~ 8” x 8 x 1.5” 2003.

Design for Quimby the Mouse Wooden Doll. Original printing files

Dimensions variable 2003.

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UNinked book design. Original printing file ~6” x 9” x .5” 2007. Above left: Cover for Virginia Quarterly Review. Original printing file ~6” x 9” 2007. Far left: Unsolved Mysteries of the North American Comic Strip Original printing file 8” x 10” 2007.

Left: Fiction vs. Non-fiction. Original printing file ~2” x 14” 2009. Right: Award. Wood, wire, paint. ~5” x 4” x 6” 2010

Essentially projects ancillary or related to McSweeney’s 13, I continued with what I think of as my “big ass” style for a series of strips about comics, history and literature, as well as the exhibition “UNinked” which I curated for the Phoenix Art Museum. I was especially happy to be able to include the work of Jerry Moriarty, whose “Jack Survives” strips in RAW magazine were the first I read which used the punctuated, endemically loud form of comics to tell stories which were quiet, ineffable and literate. Also one of the only humans to make paintings which one can read as well as look at without any loss of power on either side of the equation, I’m convinced he’s one of the greatest artists alive.

At this point it’s no secret that I find drawing comics very difficult if not painful to do, though my writing about the topic has not been to complain, but to offer an honest view of my own experience for those cartoonists who might be feeling the same and wondering why. As a young artist, I was sure there was something wrong with me when I didn’t laugh my way through the drawing of a page, though now I know that there would be something wrong with me if I did. © 2017 Rizzoli International Publications. All Rights Reserved.

Planets

Photographs from the Archives of NASA Nirmala Nataraj Description This magnificent visual tour of our solar system explores the wonders of space. More than 200 photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with captions detailing the science behind some of the planets’ most extraordinary phenomena. A preface by Bill Nye helps contextualize the images, providing fascinating details on the history of NASA’s pioneering missions and the future of planetary exploration. Anyone with an interest in science, astronomy, and the mysteries of space will delight in this awe-inspiring guide to our cosmic neighborhood.

Author Details Nirmala Nataraj is a New York–based writer and editor with a background in science writing and a focus on the visual and performing arts. She is the author of Earth + Space. Bill Nye the Science Guy is a science educator, television host, actor, writer, scientist, and former mechanical engineer. He is the host of Bill Nye Saves the World, a talk show that will premiere on Netflix in Spring 2017. NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), established in 1958, is the U.S. government's agency of scientific research, technological development, and exploration in space. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$65.00 Hardback

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9781452159362

Category

• Reference

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

BROAD APPEAL: NASA's images of and from space have broad cross-generational appeal. This book will entice baby boomers, millennials, space-loving kids, and everyone in between. The elegant package will appeal to both men and women.

Extent

• 256 pages

Format

• 229mm x 229mm

Illustrations

• 200+ photographs

ON-TREND: Space continues to be big (very big). From the social media frenzy that surrounds new discoveries in our solar system to the ubiquity of the constellations and star-field trend in lifestyle, apparel, and home décor people just really dig space. NOTABLE CONTRIBUTOR: Bill Nye has a large and devoted social media following – 3.8 million on Twitter, 1.4 million on Instagram, 75K on Facebook.

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VENUS TRANSIT Here, Venus’s silhouette can be seen in the top right corner as the planet transits across the face of the Sun. The image was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on June 5–6, 2012. It marks an event that only happens twice within an eight-year span every 105 or 121 years—the next transit will occur in 2117

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A RARE TRANSIT The solar observing satellite Hinode captured this glorious, and rare, view of Venus transiting the Sun in 2012.

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A C LOS E R LOO K AT TH E V E N U S TR A N S IT Venus’s 2012 transit is featured in this rare view. Until 2004, when the first in this pair of transits occurred, no living person had seen a transit of Venus around the Sun with their own eyes; only vague sketches and grainy old photos offered a record of the event. Transit timings were more challenging in the days before telescopes, when poor weather and the natural haziness of Venus’s atmosphere made it difficult for scientists to make proper calculations. In fact, accurate timing of transits didn’t occur until the invention of photography in the late 1800s, when cameras could accurately measure the size of the solar system.

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CLOUDS ON VENUS

This 2007 image of Venus’s clouds was snapped by the MESSENGER Dual Imaging System (MDIS) cameras as the spacecraft approached the planet.

Spinal Tap The Big Black Box The Big Black Box Wallace Fairfax

Description Spinal Tap: The Big Black Box will bring to the public, for the very first time, the story of the band in words, pictures and removable facsimile memorabilia. The book tells the story of the band, from the early days as The Originals, then The New Originals and The Thamesmen before they settled upon Spinal Tap, and then their swift rise to fame and fortune, before their audience becomes "more selective", and crowd sizes dip. On the verge of splitting, the band hit number one in the Japanese charts, and on the story goes. All of Tap's records are reviewed, from the early skiffle sounds of 'All the Way Home' to the deep, meaningful 'Sex Farm', and including the experimental 'Jazz Odyssey', crowd favourite 'Gimme Some Money' and even the ground-breaking 'Break Like The Wind'. This book lets you look at, touch, feel - and maybe even smell - Spinal Tap as you have never looked at, touched and smelled them before.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$49.99 / NZ$55.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781780979717

Category

• Music/Video/Film

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 128 pages

Format

• 260mm x 194mm

Illustrations

• 50 colour and B/W photographs

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Wallace Fairfax was not only the first British journalist to interview Spinal Tap after their triumphant first gig (as Spinal Tap) at London's Music Membrane in 1966, he was also the very first person to buy their debut album. In 1971, Spinal Tap invited Wallace to travel with them around the word to document their rise to the top.

Key Selling Points ·Released in 1984, This is Spinal Tap is still revered by many as the funniest movie ever made ·Dave Grohl called This is Spinal Tap "the only rock movie worth watching" ·Metallica claimed their bestselling 'black album' was an homage to Spinal Tap's classic Smell the Glove

Guitarist. Lead guitarist. Keytarist. Gumby-enthusiast. Car and Driver reader. Oreo obsessive. Nigel Tufnel from England is all those things and, perhaps, even more. Between 1967 and 1984, Tufnel and the rest of the Tap, would have no idea — literally no clue — that their music would change the world of rock ’n’ roll forever… Born to humble and ever-so slightly dingy beginnings in an east London suburb called Squatney in 1947, Nigel Tufnel would be the first to admit that his formative years at school were incredibly rock ’n’ roll. But, sadly, just in the sense that the only toys his family could afford for him to play with were a rock and a bread roll that his mother, Nigella Tufnel (née Smythé) gave him every morning before sending him on his way to St Kensington’s Primary School, a stone’s throw away from his family’s one-up, one-down, three-across, semi-detached 1920s-build council house. Home life for Nigel was tough. His family, in particular his mother, were distinctly unmusical and saw the burgeoning Liverpudlian skiff legroup scene that Nigel and his school friends were beginning to be inf luenced by as a complete waste of time. “Loud, untalented hippies”, is how Nigel’s father, Jim, would describe these guitarbased “noise” bands. If no-one at home understood Nigel, and his new love of chords A through G, life at school was even tougher. He had trouble concentrating and would constantly be sent to detention for looking outside the classroom window, appearing to be staring vacantly at nothing, an activity he was most content and happy to do for most of the day, to the detriment to his education and through school.

tantrums to buy him the guitar after he became worried for his child’s “life choices” when he caught Nigel “masturbating” a tennis racquet in front of a mirror while dressed in his mother’s spandex tights and favourite blouse. If it wasn’t for the Tufnels’ neighbour and St Kensington’s school friend David St Hubbins, then Nigel’s career in music may have been cut short for “family reasons”. David, the boy next door, whose family were more progressive and allowed their child to listen to blues-jazz and jazzblues (between the hours of 3–5pm on Saturdays only, when the rest of the family was out at the shops) and folk music. It was David’s music, blaring out of his bedroom window, that turned Nigel on to the sounds of early rock. The two became firm friends and would spend their afternoons after school sitting on their beds listening to artists such as Honkin’ Bubba Fulton, Little Sassy Francis and Big Little Daddy Coleman (a deaf guitar player), as well as jamming together in a toolshed at the bottom of David’s garden. Fusing all their early blues-jazz and jazz-blues inf luences, David and Nigel wrote their first song, a ballad in D, called “All the Way Home”. From the age of four until he was six, Nigel would get into trouble, even if he rarely understood why and how. Nigel’s school report at the age of five went into great detail — an uncommon practice at that age — about Nigel’s inability to grasp rudimentary curriculum subjects, but explained how he did have a wide understanding and fondness for creative arts such as haberdashery and music. Even his teacher, Miss Morland, was stunned that he could play all the chords on a guitar, including the tough jazzy one, F# Min-diminished, but he was not able to recite the alphabet or two-times table without cheating. After showing an inclination towards “the devil’s music” (as his mum would call it — she still does) Nigel was given his first guitar by his father, a Sunburst “Rhythm King” Fender Telecaster, when he was six. His father gave in to Nigel’s diva-like

NAME: Nigel Tufnel NICKNAME: Tuffers, Nige INSTRUMENTS: Mandolin, piano, backing vocals (“BVs, we call them”) FAVOURITE GUITAR: Sea Foam Green six-string Fender Bass VI (with price tag still attached) FAVOURITE SONG: “Lick My Love Pump” (in D-minor) RIDER REQUEST: Oreos (with the creamy middle removed), non-foldable meat and bread

In 2011, the Nigel Tufnel Day Appreciation Society, and a wider base of Spinal Tap fans, organized a movement to make November 11, 2011 (11/11/11) Nigel Tufnel Day. The theme of the movement was to take whatever you are doing on that day and “turn it up to 11”. The next Nigel Tufnel Day will occur on November, 11 2111.

Derek: “My lawyer has informed me to say that I have nothing but a deep respect and gratitude for the staff of the US Transport Security Agency. Thank you for your service to your country.”

Nigel: “I remember this photo being taken for a shoot we did before the gig in Milwaukee. David had literally just arrived back from a fencing lesson and had no time to get changed.”

“ That’s not to say I haven’t had my visionary moments. I’ve taken acid seventy... five, seventy-six times.” Derek Smalls

Nigel: “Ian and our prop designer talk about the Stonehenge replica we wanted as a set piece. We all thought it was going to be a bit bigger than it turned out … because I’m pretty sure druids weren’t that tiny as a peoples … but I could be wrong, everyone was smaller in those days … and they did have magical powers.”

Elvis The Legend (PRX)

The Authorized Book from Graceland Archives

Description This book tells the personal story of Elvis and his relationships with those near and dear to him and contains more than 150 colour and black and white photographs from the Graceland archives, accompanied by insightful text from an author with a proven Elvis track record. To take you closer than ever before to the King, 30 items of rare memorabilia are carefully reproduced on the page, including personal letters, receipts, telegrams, publicity material and other fascinating items which provide new insight into the life of a legend. There are photographs of Elvis himself, Elvis with friends and family, and all manner of personal artifacts, including guitars, jewelry, clothing, vehicles and more.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$49.99 / NZ$55.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781780979571

Category

• Music/Video/Film

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 192 pages

Format

• 283mm x 245mm

Illustrations

• 150 colour and B&W photographs

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Gillian G. Gaar is a popular music journalist and author who has written and contributed to many books, countless articles for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, and many more.

Key Selling Points ·2017 marks the 40th anniversary of Elvis' death and fans around the world will be celebrating Elvis' life ·Fully authorized by the Elvis Presley Estate and featuring the Elvis and Graceland official branding ·Contains rare photographs, and rare memorabilia and documents from the King's personal archives reproduced on the page

CONTENTS Foreword 6 Introduction 8

From The Deep Country To The Big City

Rising Sun

Movie Making, Music Making

Silver Screen Elvis: The 1950s

Elvis Presley

Silver Screen Elvis: The 1960s

Elvis – The Comeback

Soldier Boy

Elvis Sings Christmas

Elvis

The Comeback

Elvis Is Back!

Viva Las Vegas!

From Elvis In Memphis

100 94

On The Road Again

100

Standing Room Only: The Concert Films

140

Having Fun With Elvis

Index 192

152

Elvis And Hawaii

104

Rock My Soul

Elvis On 45

Down Home Country Boy

162

Rocking The Box: Elvis On TV

114

108

168

Live And In Person

118

State Of Grace(Land)

174

Lending A Helping Hand

178

Elvis Lives On

128

All Dressed Up

186

Put A Nickel In (Elvis’) Jukebox

RISING SUN The songs Elvis recorded for Sun Records laid the foundation for the rest of his career. They also contain some of his most original and innovative work.

he first two records were the acetates he recorded for his own private use, and the four songs — ‘My Happiness,’ ‘That’s When Your Heartaches Begin,’ ‘I’ll Never Stand In Your Way,’ and ‘It Wouldn’t Be The Same Without You’ — were gentle numbers, the kind of sweet songs it’s easy to imagine Elvis singing to his teenage girlfriends. And the plaintive, yearning quality in his vocal is very much present in ‘Harbor Lights,’ recorded at his first professional session with Scotty Moore and Bill Black on July 5, 1954. But it’s with ‘That’s All Right,’ recorded at that same session, where his legend really begins. It’s here that Elvis finally kicks off his restraints and fully gives himself to the music, sounding positively giddy by the last verse. The song was paired with ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky’ on the single, two tracks that complemented each other perfectly: Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s blues number goosed up by a country beat, and Bill Monroe’s country tune jazzed up with the blues. It was a mixing and melding of different musical styles in the same song that typified Elvis’ work at Sun. The next Sun single, ‘Good Rockin’ Tonight’/‘I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine,’ takes the same approach in blending musical genres, and exudes even more confidence. Elvis ushers in Roy Brown’s R&B number ‘Good Rockin’ Tonight’ with an extended “W-e-l-l-l,” before sliding into a jaunty romp, boasting of his prowess as a “mighty mighty man.” He has even more fun on the teasing flip side, which came from a most unusual source — Dean Martin sings it in the film Scared Stiff. There’s an underlying playfulness in all of Elvis’ Sun records, something made explicit on his next single, ‘Milkcow Blues Boogie.’ The song starts off in a slow, meandering fashion, when Elvis brings it to a halt, stating, “Hold it, fellas. That don’t move. Let’s get real, real gone for a change!” Another extended

“W-e-l-l-l…” and the song takes off at a rollicking gallop. Similarly, the flipside, ‘You’re A Heartbreaker,’ is ostensibly a song about a breakup, but Elvis sounds far too jocular to be downhearted about the matter. And he’s undeniably frisky as he asks his former love to return on the next single, ‘Baby Let’s Play House,’ teasing for all he’s worth, and making it sound like its his girlfriend’s loss if she doesn’t change her mind. The B-side, ‘I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone’ holds the distinction of being the first Elvis song to feature drums, and it was the first original number Elvis recorded as well, written by Stan Kesler at Sam Phillips’ request. The musicians first tried it as a slower blues, but ultimately went for an upbeat country arrangement. Kesley also co-wrote Elvis’ last Sun single, ‘I Forgot To Remember To Forget,’ another countryinfluenced song with some clever word play. And the B-side, Junior Parker’s ‘Mystery Train,’ has a driving beat emulating the locomotive of the song coupled with one of Elvis’ most carefree vocals — just listen to him letting out an exuberant “Woo!” at the end. The last song Elvis recorded at Sun was the bluesy ‘When It Rains, It Really Pours,’ a session cut short when the sale of his contract to RCA was announced. Elvis’ time at Sun was over. The tracks he recorded during that historic two year period would be released in various configurations over the years, including the comprehensive collection Sunrise (1999). For anyone with an interest in Elvis, the Sun recordings are essential.

From Memphis To The World When Elvis first walked through the door of the Memphis Recording Service, the first person he encountered was Marion Keisker, Sam Phillips’ assistant. Marion had been a popular radio host in Memphis and Elvis was likely to have heard her before. Now he nervously made small talk with her

RIGHT: As his success grew, Elvis had to get used to signing autographs.

LEFT: Elvis outside his house on Audubon Drive, the first home he owned.

ballad, ‘Without You,’ that he thought might make a good single and on June 26, he had Marion give the young singer a call. Elvis rushed right over, but after going through what Elvis recalled as “Everything I Knew,” Sam felt he wasn’t quite right for ‘Without You.’ Instead, he contacted Scotty Moore, a guitarist in the Starlite Wranglers, and suggested he work with Elvis. So on July 4, Elvis came over the Scotty’s house, where they were joined by bassist Bill Black, another member of the Starlite Wranglers, and played together for a few hours. The trio was back at the Memphis Recording Service the following evening, little suspecting that history was about to be made. After going through the usual roster of ballads, Elvis began cutting up on a song called ‘That’s All Right’ during a break. Bill joined in, Scotty did too, and Sam Phillips knew immediately that he’d found something fresh, new, and above all, different. The original version of ‘That’s All Right’ was a blues number with a touch of swing, but Elvis made it jump like a live wire. A few days later the trio took the opposite approach, turning Bill Monroe’s laid-back ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky’ into something much bolder. The two songs became Elvis’ first record, released a few weeks later in July. It created an instant sensation in Memphis. Elvis was on his way. His first big performance came at the end of the month when “Ellis” Presley (as he appeared on the posters), opened for Slim Whitman at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis. Elvis’ nerves caused his legs to start shaking, which drew a big response from the crowd, leading Elvis to work more carefully on what would become his signature performing style. RISING SUN

365 Days of Art

A creative exercise for every day of the year Lorna Scobie

Description 365 Days of Art is an inspiring journal designed to help readers and budding artists nurture their creativity and explore their feelings through the medium of art. Featuring an activity for every day of the year, from simple tasks like drawing shapes and lines to more considered tutorials such as calligraphy writing and shading, each task is designed to expand your creative skills and spark the artist within.

Author Details Lorna Scobie is a London-based illustrator and designer of cheeky characters and critters. Her clients include NYLON, Hermès, Stella McCartney, Wimbledon Tennis AELTC and ANORAK. Her work has won awards from It's Nice That, Macmillan and Penguin. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Flexibound

ISBN

• 9781784881115

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

Imprint

• Hardie Grant London

Extent

• 352 pages

Format

• 210mm x 160mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

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Key Selling Points Create a beautiful keepsake of your year by drawing and writing in this motivating journal. Specially conceived to encourage self-reflection and mindfulness. 365 different creative tasks for every single day. A book for everyone who has the desire to create. From award-winning illustrator Lorna Scobie.

Explore different materials to discover what you enjoy using. Today, experiment with a chubby pencil crayon to create different marks. These can be waxy, and as they are so thick, are less easy to control than coloured pencils.

They can produce fun results but are also messy. To protect the opposite page, you could attach a layer of tracing paper to this page, once you have finished.

Draw everything you have in your pencil case.

Make these paint splodges in to animals.

132

Sometimes when you are on location, trying to choose a subject to draw can be overwhelming. Visit a garden centre or park. Look at plants individual, rather than seeing a scene as a whole. Focus on drawing one plant at a time.

133 Start with downwards stroke here

Calligraphy practice. This time, use a brush pen to practice â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Once at the top, bring the brush down using a full stroke

upwards stroke

A Million Christmas Cats John Bigwood

Description A Million Christmas Cats is a colouring book designed to be the perfect festive gift for lovers or our feline friends. Its humour and adorable charm will appeal to both children and adults, providing an escape from the stresses of the holiday season to a relaxing world of quirkiness and imagination. Inside are over 30 spreads of unconventional and off-the-wall pussycats, decorated with stress-busting Christmas patterns and motifs. A stunning foiled cover makes this a luxurious yuletide gift!

Author Details John has worked as a designer at Buster Books for a number of years, designing covers and illustrating titles across a range of genres. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$12.99 / NZ$14.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781782437284

Category

• Craft/DIY

Imprint

• Michael O'Mara

Extent

• 64 pages

Format

• 230mm x 180mm

Illustrations

• B/W illustrations throughout

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Key Selling Points A festive colouring book designed for cat lovers and colouring enthusiasts of all ages. Escape from the pressures of modern life to a relaxing world of quirkiness and imagination with the humour and adorable charm of A Million Christmas Cats. Featuring over 30 spreads of unconventional and off-the-wall pussycats, decorated with stress-busting Christmas patterns and motifs. Lulu Mayo is the illustrator behind the bestselling A Million Cats and A Million Dogsbooks.

Exploratorium Lei Melendres

Description Exploratorium is an amazing search and find activity book from acclaimed doodle artist Lei Melendres. Explore thirty fantastical habitats, ranging from enchanted forests, the ocean depths or outer space. Each world contains four or five characters hidden in the immersive doodle environment. Read about the characters, follow the clues, then pick them out of the scene and isolate them in colour before they can hunt down our hero, Robo Boy, who is on a voyage of discovery around each of the weird and wonderful scenes.

Author Details Lei Melendres is a freelance professional doodle artist. He is the founder and creative director of Doodle Arts magazine and has over 50,000 Instagram followers. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$21.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781910552759

Category

• Child Non Fiction

Imprint

• Michael O'Mara

Extent

• 64 pages

Format

• 250mm x 250mm

Illustrations

• B/W illustrations throughout

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Key Selling Points A search and find activity book from doodle artist Lei Melendres (over 50k Instagram followers). There are thirty illustrations of fantastical habitats such as enchanted forests, the ocean depths or outer space. Each world contains four or five hidden characters. Read about the characters, follow the clues then pick them out of the scene and isolate them in colour before they can hunt down our hero, Robo Boy, who is on a voyage of discovery around each of the weird and wonderful scenes!

FOREST HUNT

D e e p i n t h e m y s ti c a l fo re s t , w e i rd c re at u re s l u r k i n t h e t re e s , s t ra n g e b e a s t s h i d e i n t h e u n d e r g ro w t h a n d y o u m i g ht c at c h s i g ht of a o n e - e y e d C y c lo p s o r a z o m b i e - i n - d i s g u i s e a s y o u e x p lo re t h i s u n k n o w n te r ri to r y . H u n t t h e c h a ra cte rs b e lo w a n d colo u r t h e m s o t h e y c a n ’ t e s c a p e a g a i n .

T O M M Y K I D - N ot q u i te a s i n n o ce n t a s h e lo o k s , T o m m y K i d i s a re b e l w i t h a c a u s e – to t ra c k d o w n R o b o B o y , t a k e h i m b a c k to t h e L a b a n d c l a i m h i s b o u n t y . B y q u i te li t e ra l ly s e a rc h i n g H I G H a n d lo w , c a n y o u fi n d T o m m y b e fo re h e fi n d s R o b o ?

S I L E N T S T I T C H - A n o g re of fe w w o rd s , S ti t c h u s e s s i le n ce to h i s ad v a n t a g e w h e n s k u l k i n g o n t h e fo re s t f lo o r . Y o u m i g ht fe e l t h e b u rn of h i s o n e - e y e d u n b li n k i n g g a z e a s h e w at c h e s y o u fro m h i s fa v o u ri te s p ot .

R O B O B O Y - R o b ot e x p e ri m e n t e s c a p e e R o b o B o y i s d o i n g h i s b e s t to s t a y u n d e rco v e r . H e ’ s o n t h e r u n fro m t h e R o b o L a b a n d T o m m y K i d a n d i s a m a s te r of d i s g u i s e , b ut i t w i l l t a k e m o re t h a n c a m o u f l a g e to t h ro w y o u off t h e s ce n t .

TA L L H A T - Ta l l H at i s w e l d e d to h i s fa v o u ri te a c ce s s o r y , w h i c h s h o u l d m a k e s p otti n g h i m i n t h e b u s h e s a b re e z e . B ut h e ’ s n ot a s s i l ly a s h e lo o k s a n d t h e re a re p l e n t y of h i d i n g p l a ce s fo r t h i s fa s h i o n a b le b e a s t w h o j u s t w a n t s to b e l e ft a lo n e .

SEWER SEARCH

N o o n e w o u l d e x p e c t to fi n d t h i s b i z a r re s e le cti o n of o d d i ti e s lo i te ri n g i n a n u n d e r g ro u n d n e t w o r k , b ut t h e d i n g y co rn e rs m a k e t h i s t h e p e r fe ct s u b te r ra n e a n h i d e o ut fo r t h e s e m o n s t ro u s m i s fi t s â&#x20AC;Ś C a n y o u fi n d t h e m ? M E L L O W - A s l a i d b a c k a s h i s n a m e s u g g e s t s , M e l lo w v a l u e s h i s s h ut - e y e a b o v e a l l e l s e a n d h a s m a s te re d t h e a rt of s l e e pi n g w i t h h i s e y e s o p e n . E v e n t h e h a rd e s t f lo o rs m a k e a co m fo rt a b le b e d fo r t h i s ti re d te r ro r . H A I R Y H A R R Y - T h e fi rs t g i a n t s q u i d i n h i s to r y to b e b o rn w i t h lo n g , t h i c k h a i r , H a r r y p ut s h i s s li m e to g o o d u s e s t y li n g h i s c ro w n i n g g lo r y a n d i s oft e n fo u n d c h e c k i n g h i s re f le cti o n i n t h e c lo s e s t s h i n y s u r fa ce .

A L TO - A c h a m pi o n s w i m m e r w h o lo v e s n ot h i n g m o re t h a n s p l a s h i n g , d i v i n g a n d ra c i n g ot h e r m i s fi t s , A lto d o e s n â&#x20AC;&#x2122; t le t d u b i o u s w ate r q u a li t y p ut h i m off h i s h o b b y .

G L O V E R Y - M i s c h i e v o u s m i s fi t G lo v e r y lo v e s j u m pi n g o ut a n d s c a ri n g h e r fe l lo w c re at u re s , s o s p e n d s h e r ti m e l u r k i n g i n d a r k co rn e rs re ad y to p o u n ce .

A Year in Crafts

52 seasonal projects to delight and inspire Clare Youngs

Description A Year in Crafts is packed full of innovative projects that you'll really want to make. Be inspired with 52 beautifully simple step-by-step ideas to get you crafting throughout the year.

Author Details Clare Youngs studied graphic design and has worked in packaging design, illustration, and book jacket design. Her other books include Folded Book Art, Mobile Art, Wall Art, Book Art, Letter Art, Make Your Own Woodland Creatures and Folk Art Needlecraft. She is based in Broadstairs, Kent.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$34.99 Spiral

ISBN

• 9781782494751

Category

• Craft/DIY

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 192 pages

Format

• 244mm x 169mm

Illustrations

• 300 colour photographs and illustrations

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The special spiral binding allows the pages to lie flat, and includes pockets for storing magazine cuttings and other inspirational scraps. Decorate your home for every season or give the projects as birthday gifts throughout the year. Most of the projects require no specialist equipment and can be made in an afternoon.

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FLYING PAPER You will need

I Sheets of white tissue paper I Pencil I Scissors I Scraps of colored tissue paper I Spray adhesive I Silver leaf I Thin card stock (card) I Ruler I Glue stick I Craft knife I Cutting mat I Double-sided tape I String

fish

New Year is an important celebration in the Chinese calendar. It is held between mid-January and mid-February, and is also known as the spring festival. Paper decorations adorn the houses to bring prosperity and good fortune for the year ahead. One of the popular symbols for good luck is the fish motif. I have made these from tissue paper and fruit wrappers. Shimmering with silver leaf, these beautiful decorations will be stunning at any celebration.

1 To make the large fish, fold a sheet of white tissue paper in half lengthwise and draw the shape of a fish in pencil. Make the fold at the bottom of the paper the lower edge of the fish. Cut out the shape. 2 Lightly coat some colored tissue with spray adhesive. Be sure to read the manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instructions when using the spray. Lay some sheets of silver leaf over the glued area. Rub the silver leaf down and then remove the backing paper. Cut out a number of rectangles, squares, and scallop shapes.

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You will need

PAPER

I Templates, page 186 I Tracing paper I Pencil I Thin white card stock (card) I Thin yellow card stock (card) I Scissors I Craft glue I Scraps of paper for the leaves I 1/8 in. (3 mm) hole punch I 12 in. (30 cm) length of

daisies

Paper daisies are easy to make and look gorgeous grouped together in different sizes, bringing some spring sunshine into the home. You can reduce or enlarge the template to make different-sized flowers. Teamed with pretty paper and ribbon, a single flower head makes a lovely decoration to add to giftwrap.

/8 in. (3 mm) doweling for each daisy I Washi tape

1 Use the flower template to trace out the daisy shape and transfer it onto white card stock (card) three times (see page 182). Cut out the shapes.

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2 Cut some 3/8 in. (8 mm) strips from the yellow card stock (card). Cut snips all along the length of the strip, to make a fringe. Make the snips approximately 1/8 in. (3 mm) apart and 1/4 in. (6 mm) in length.

3 Run glue along the uncut edge of the first yellow strip and start to roll it up. Keep it rolled tight, adding more strips until you have a disk of rolled card that measures approximately 1 in. (2.5 cm) across. Use your thumbs to push the fringe out from the center, to fan it out a little. Set aside.

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Flying Creatures Paper Airplane Book Ken Blackburn Description Companion to the bestselling Pocket Flyers Paper Airplane Book, which has 600,000 copies in print, Flying Creatures Paper Airplane Book features 12 models and 69 planes (each model has multiple templates to tear out, fold up, and fly). The fun, colourful planes are designed to resemble fantastic flying animals, both real and imaginary. Each plane comes with step-by-step folding instructions and tips for flight adjustments.

Author Details Ken Blackburn is an aerospace engineer and four-time Guinness World Record holder for paper airplane time aloft (last record 27.60 seconds). He works for the Air Force doing aeuronautical research in Florida.Jeff Lammers is an engineer and entrepreneur based in Kansas. He flies small planes in his spare time.

Key Selling Points

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9780761193807

Category

• Craft/DIY

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 160 pages

Format

• 127mm x 177.8mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

A LITTLE BOOK THAT DELIVERS BIG FUN: This little book is packed with pleasure: 69 full-colour paper airplanes (12 different models) featuring flying creatures that range from birds to bugs to dragons and beyond – all ready to tear out, fold, and fly. Small-sized and impulse-priced, this is a gift for all ages. PAPER AIRPLANE BOOKS SELL! Workman's Pocket Flyers has more than 600,000 copies in print, and World Record Paper Airplane Book has more than 1.2 million copies in print. These books sell year-round to a wide range of ages and retailers. Two new pocket-sized airplane books are a reason to put the series front and centre again. ORIGINAL ART AND PROVEN DESIGNS: Original colour art makes each of these planes something special. And every model is designed by aerospace engineers for ideal flying (Jeff Lammers and Ken Blackburn, four-time world record holder for paper airplane flight, are experts at engineering planes that fly, no matter their size).

STINGRAY stingray swim, it almost looks as though it’s flying through the water. These ocean creatures have “wings” of up to 5 feet across. Your Stingray is a great flyer, too, but it does much better in the air than the sea. It’s good for both straight, longdistance flights and graceful circles around the room.

F lines long on d

Making the Stingray

IF YOU WATCH a

FLYING TIPS

For best flying, use a little up elevator. For right turns bend the back of the right wing tip down, and the back of the left wing tip up. Reverse this for left turns.

12 Flying Creatures Paper Airplane Book

1 2 Fold along line 1 and Fold along line 2 reopen. and reopen.

Fold down along lines 4 and 5.

nose up on 6 Fold line 6.

Flip plane over and Flip plane over and, 3 4 fold along line 3. bringing points A and Reopen. B together, fold as shown.

Fold flaps in along 7 lines 7 and 8. Tuck each flap into top

pocket of nose triangle.

Flip plane over and 8 fold along lines 9 and 10 to form wings.

wing tips down 9 Fold 10 Open as shown. along lines 11 and 12. Flying Creatures Paper Airplane Book 13

SPECTATOR

Making the Spectator WE ALL NEED an

extra set of eyes. Send a pair on a reconnaissance mission around your home. The Spectator is a resilient plane; it’s great for flights across the room, but is equally agile outside. It’s also suitable for doing loops and dives. FLYING TIPS

For the best flights, the plane should form a slight “Y” shape when viewed from the front. If it nosedives add some up elevator. Bend the rudder to the right for right turns, or left for left turns.

14 Flying Creatures Paper Airplane Book

along solid lines as 1 Cut shown.

plane over and fold in 2 Fold along lines 1 through 7. 3 Flip half along line 8.

one wing down along 4 Fold line 9.

5 Fold other wing along line 10. 6 Open plane as shown. Flying Creatures Paper Airplane Book 15

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Pocket Flyers Paper Airplane Book Ken Blackburn Description From Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers, the creators of The World Record Paper Airplane Book and Kids' Paper Airplane Book, which have more than 2.5 million copies in print, comes a new edition of Pocket Flyers Paper Airplane Book, now with a fresh new cover, a new trim size, and more color throughout the book. This collection of 12 Lilliputian-size models for a total of 69 colourful planes includes the Saber, Skyhawk, Talon, Gargoyle, and Dragonfly. The book includes easy-to-follow folding instructions for each model, as well as tips on how to fly smaller aircraft. The portable package and its planes are perfect for small spaces: the hallway, office, den, or classroom (don’t get caught!). The obsessed among us will seek to establish a mini plane world record, while the rest will be content to just fly them from one side of the room to the other.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781523502042

Category

• Craft/DIY

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 160 pages

Format

• 127mm x 177.8mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Ken Blackburn is an aerospace engineer and four-time Guinness World Record holder for paper airplane time aloft (last record 27.60 seconds). He works for the Air Force doing aeuronautical research in Florida.Jeff Lammers is an engineer and entrepreneur based in Kansas. He flies small planes in his spare time.

Key Selling Points THE ORIGINAL MINI PAPER AIRPLANE BOOK IS BACK! Pocket Flyers has over 600,000 copies in print in its first edition. Now it's refreshed – with a new, larger trim size for more visibility and even better flights. A PROVEN FORMULA: Pocket Flyers continues to sell solidly 19 years after its original publication, with particular strength on impulse displays, at gift accounts, and at museums. There's magic in the combination of brightly coloured, specially designed airplanes, the pure fun of foldand-fly, and the impulse-friendly small size (and price point). PURE FUN – PLUS SMART SCIENCE! Written by world record holders in the paper airplane world, these mini planes are designed to fly well. Every plane you fold is a short lesson in aerodynamics.

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

In memory of my father—my mentor, guide, moral compass, hero, and role model for hard work and never growing up. Copyright © 1998 and 2017 by Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced—mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying—without written permission of the publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blackburn, Ken. Pocket flyers paper airplane book/Ken Blackburn & Jeff Lammers. p. cm. ISBN 0-978-1-5235-0148-9 1. Paper airplanes—Juvenile literature. 2. Toy and movable books—Specimens. I. Lammers, Jeff. II. Title. TL778.b58 1998 98-36689 CIP 745.592—dc21 Cover design by Nancy Loggins Gonzalez | Interior design by Nancy Loggins Gonzalez with Erica Heitman Cover and interior photographs by Walt Chrynwski Plane graphics: Dragonfly, B-2 Buzz Bomber, Mummy, and Talon by Shi Chen; Saber by Dan Cosgrove; Rotors by Brad Hamann; Gargoyle by Erica Heitman; Skyhawk by Daniel Pelavin; U147 Circuit Cruiser, Phoenix, Wizard, and Concorde 500 by Mark Reidy. Workman books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk for premiums and sales promotions as well as for fund-raising or educational use. Special editions or book excerpts also can be created to specification. For details, contact the Special Sales Director at the address below, or send an email to specialmarkets@workman.com. Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 225 Varick Street New York, NY 10014-4381 workman.com WORKMAN is a registered trademark of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Printed in [TK] First printing September 2017 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

CONTENTS Welcome to the World of Miniature Aviation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Concorde 500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Rotors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 B-2 Buzz Bomber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Saber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Mummy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 U147 Circuit Cruiser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Talon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Skyhawk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Gargoyle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Dragonfly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Phoenix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Flight Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 The Pocket Flyers Squadron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

CONCORDE 500 a British and French team developed the Concorde, the fastest passenger plane ever built. It could carry 128 travelers across the Atlantic in less than three hours at more than twice the speed of sound. (It traveled about 1,400 miles per hour.) Your Concorde 500 is designed to resemble some of the fastest ground vehicles, Indy racing cars. Use it to set your own air and land records.

Making the Concorde

Fold in on dashed lines (so they are no longer visible); fold away on dotted lines. 500

ABOUT 3 0 YEARS ago,

FLYING TIPS

8 Pocket Flyers

It’s important to keep this plane’s wings symmetrical and in a “Y” shape with the body. With a little up elevator, the Concorde 500 is great for long-distance flights.

1 Fold along lines 1 and 2.

2 Fold along lines 3 and 4.

plane over and fold in half 3 Flip on line 5. Cut tail on solid line.

one wing down on 4 Fold line 6.

plane over and fold other Open plane and push tail up 5 Flip 6 wing on line 7. on line 8. Fold wingtips on lines 9 and 10. Pocket Flyers 9

Space Flyers Paper Airplane Book Ken Blackburn

Description Companion to the bestselling Pocket Flyers Paper Airplane Book, Space Flyers Paper Airplane Book features 12 models and 63 planes (each model has multiple templates to tear out, fold up, and fly). The fun, colourful templates are designed to resemble various kinds of spacecraft. Each paper plane comes with step-by-step folding instructions and tips for flight adjustments.

• AUD$19.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9780761193791

Category

• Craft/DIY

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 160 pages

Format

• 127mm x 177.8mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Key Selling Points A LITTLE BOOK THAT DELIVERS BIG FUN: This little book is packed with pleasure: 63 space-themed paper airplanes (12 different models) to tear out, fold, and fly. Small-sized and impulse-priced, this is a gift for all ages. PAPER AIRPLANE BOOKS SELL! Workman's Pocket Flyers has more than 600,000 copies in print, and World Record Paper Airplane Book has more than 1.2 million copies in print. These books sell year-round to a wide range of ages and retailers. Two new pocket-sized airplane books for Fall are a reason to put the ORIGINAL ART AND PROVEN DESIGNS: Imaginative original colour art makes each of these planes unique and special. And every model is designed by aerospace engineers for ideal flying (Jeff Lammers and Ken Blackburn, four-time world record holder for paper airplane flight, are experts at engineering planes that fly, no matter their size).

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

To my mother—my role model for scientific curiosity, dedication, unconditional love; an amazing cook and best friend. To the spirit of aviation—paper airplanes are where everyone starts. Copyright © 2017 by Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced—mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying—without written permission of the publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available ISBN 978-0-7611-9379-1 Design by Jean-Marc Troadec Front cover photos by Walter Chrynwski Back cover photos by [TK] Workman books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk for premiums and sales promotions as well as for fund-raising or educational use. Special editions or book excerpts also can be created to specification. For details, contact the Special Sales Director at the address below, or send an email to specialmarkets@workman.com. Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 225 Varick Street New York, NY 10014-4381 workman.com WORKMAN is a registered trademark of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Printed in [TK] First printing September 2017 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

CONTENTS Welcome to the World of Miniature Aviation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Star Quest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Aerobot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Ardor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Alien Clipper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 RKO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Spectre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Gemini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Mini World Record Paper Airplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Space Station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Dynamo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Galaxy 500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Cosmojet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Flight log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 The Space Flyers Squadron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0

AEROBOT a robot! It’s both! The Aerobot was inspired by joinedwing planes—which can be thought of as biplanes with wings joined at the tips—a concept being studied NASA. Sometimes the Aerobot develops a mind of its own and rolls and turns as it flies.

Making the Aerobot

Cut on solid lines; fold in on dashed lines (so they are no longer visible); fold away on dotted lines.

IT’S A SPACECRAFT! It’s

FLYING TIPS

10 Space Flyers

You can control how straight the Aerobot flies by adding a paper clip to the nose. No paper clip results in erratic flight; adding one yields a smoother flight.

1 Fold along line 1.

2 Fold along lines 2 and 3.

plane over and fold in 3 Flip half along line 4.

one wing down along 4 Fold line 5.

5 Fold wingtip up along line 6. 6 Fold wing in half along line 7.

plane over and fold along Tuck wingtips together so that lines 6 and 9 are juxtaposed (with 7 Flip 8 lines 8, 9, and 10. 6 above 9). Wings should form a diamond shape above body. Slip a paper clip over the nose. Space Flyers 11

The Gentleman's Handbook

The Essential Guide to Being a Man

Alfred Tong

Description Stylishly illustrated by Jack Hughes, The Gentleman's Handbook is the essential guide to living the gentleman's lifestyle. There's never been a tougher time to be a gentleman. In addition to the general vulgarity of the modern world, he has to contend with all manner of things: the dramas of social media, the practicalities of being metrosexual and still taken seriously at work, and juggling his finances in these cash strapped times. Or does he? Alfred Tong shares his insider tips with every aspiring gentleman, from what to wear and how to keep your clothes looking in top shape, to which jobs to chase after and how to plan the perfect romantic evening, all without breaking the bank.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781784881382

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

Imprint

• Hardie Grant London

Extent

• 176 pages

Format

• 177mm x 140mm

Illustrations

• Black and white throughout

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Alfred Tong is a journalist, trend forecaster and brand consultant. He has written for The Times and the Telegraph, as well as The Face, Time Out, Harper's Bazaar, WGSN and Esquire, where he wrote the 'Style Sleuth' column. He has also consulted for American Express, Ralph Lauren, Nike and Thomas Pink, briefing their PR, design and marketing teams on shifts in male lifestyles, British street style and the future of luxury. Jack Hughes is an illustrator who works extensively across Europe, with his work regularly appearing in the Telegraph, Time Out and other leading publications

Key Selling Points Stylishly illustrated throughout. Second book by the author of the successful The Gentleman’s Guide to Cocktails. Full of Alfred Tong’s tips on living a gentleman’s lifestyle, from food to finances, work to play.

C H A P T E R

THE HALL OF FAME

A GENTLEMAN IS FOREVER. AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE FINEST OF ALL TIME

THE MEDIEVAL KNIGHT The word ‘gentleman’ dates back to medieval times. ‘Gentle’ referred to a man who was a member of the gentry. While he was expected to be a brave warrior, a gentleman also lived by a chivalric code of honour. According to a famous poem of the era, ‘The Song of Roland’, a gentleman strove to ‘respect the honour of women’, ‘refrain from the wanton giving of offence’, ‘eschew unfairness, meanness and deceit’ and ‘at all times speak the truth’. (Fig. 2)

THE RENAISSANCE MAN: BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE A gentleman should never appear to be trying too hard. His brilliance should seem effortless

and natural. The Renaissance author Baldessare Castiglione called this essential quality, ‘spezzatura’. In the ‘Book of the Courtier’, a kind of self help manual for the upwardly mobile Italian aristocrat, he described it as a, “certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or say appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”

The HALL of FAME

Fig 2. The Medieval Knight

The GENTLEMEN’S GUIDE to STYLE

THE REGENCY BUCK: BEAU BRUMMELL A gentleman is never ostentatious. But it was not always so. Before Beau Brummell, men dressed in clothes that would have made Gianni Versace blush, with lots of gold, filigree, braid and frill. Brummell preferred simple outfits distinguished by their flattering cut, in a sober palette of navy, grey, black and buff. He was a stickler for personal hygiene and insisted on bathing regularly and

C H A P T E R

WAK ING UP A TRUE GENTLEMAN IS REVEALED BY HOW HE BEHAVES WHEN THERE IS NO-ONE LOOKING. IS HE WEARING STYLISH PYJAMAS AND A DRESSING GOWN WHEN HE SETTLES DOWN FOR BREAKFAST? IF SO, THEN HE’LL PROBABLY MAKE SURE THAT HE BREAKFASTS WELL. AND THEN YOU CAN BE DOUBLY SURE HE’LL SHAVE PROPERLY, WEAR A NICE FRAGRANCE, COMB HIS HAIR AND SO ON. STYLE BEGINS IN THE MORNING WITH THE NAKED BODY AND ENDS ONLY WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP.

The GENTLEMEN’S GUIDE to STYLE

COFFEE

A good cup of coffee is more difficult than it looks. Coffee bores go to insane lengths for something called the ‘God Shot’ a mythical, perfect shot of espresso. You may well have your own technique but these are the basic principles behind a good cup of coffee.

Beans Where are they from? Beans from different countries and regions have profoundly different qualities and taste. A decent supplier will be able to talk you through it.

water should be filtered first. Make sure you have good quality water.

Strength Ask your supplier how much of the coffee you should use per drink. There will be an optimum water to bean ratio per cup. You should always strive for a consistent strength.

Freshness The date on the tin often refers to when the beans were packaged. What you want to know is the date on which they were roasted or the ‘roast date’. Do not buy anything older than 10 days.

Grinding If coffee is over ground it will taste bitter and if it is under ground it will taste thin. Ask your supplier to grind your beans for you. They won’t remain as fresh for long, but you can always buy beans more frequently.

Water 98% of a cup of coffee is water. New York has great tap water for coffee, whereas in London tap

Waking Up

On demand Always make small amounts of

will kill the flavour.

coffee on demand. Leaving it on a hot plate kills flavour.

Storage Keep coffee somewhere dark,

dry and cool, in an airtight container. Experts recommend

Heat Never add boiling water to

storing it in the freezer. Oxygen and light makes coffee lose its

coffee. The intense heat

BREAKFAST

Even Hunter S Thompson didn’t miss breakfast, calling the meal his ‘psychic anchor’. So there is absolutely no reason why you should

TOP BREAKFASTS OF TOP PEOPLE

himself making sure that it contained his customary whiskey and cigar: “1st Tray. Poached egg, Toast, Jam, Butter, Coffee and milk, Jug of cold milk, Cold Chicken or Meat. 2nd Tray. Grapefruit, Sugar Bowl, Glass orange squash (ice), Whisky soda.”

Winston Churchill On his last BOAC flight to the US as Prime minister, Winston Churchill, found that the airline’s breakfast menu was not up to scratch. So he wrote one out

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Serious Fun in the Wild World of Fashion Giovanna Battaglia

Description Combing the stylish inspiration of Chloe Sevigny and Carine Roitfeld with the accessibility of Parisian Chic, this book will be sought after by today's fashion crowd as a fun, intimate book of ideas and inspiration by a popular international style star. A visual chronicle of Giovanna Battaglia's fascinating life with exquisite photographs, styling advice, and personal anecdotes. Following from the success of her lifestyle column in W and her popular Instagram, this book goes beyond the pictures, offering readers Gio's hilarious and inspiring advice, covering topics from fashion tips, stories from her travels, and advice.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$75.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847858392

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 224 pages

Format

• 254mm x 178mm

Illustrations

• 300 colour photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Giovanna Battaglia is an Italian-born fashion editor, stylist, and creative director living in New York City. Dubbed a 'cyber icon' and 'fashion heroine' by the New York Times, the former Dolce & Gabbana model is currently Contributing Fashion Editor at W Magazine, Senior Fashion Editor at Vogue Japan, and the Creative Director of the Queen of the Night, the lavish cabaret located in the Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub in New York City. Her monthly column in W Magazine chronicles her glamorous style, travels, and inspirations through photos.

Key Selling Points ·As a former Dolce & Gabbana model and current fashion editor, Gio has many years of experience in the industry, making herself and her style tips as well-founded and invaluable. ·A veteran street-style star, Gio is frequently photographed by Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist, Tommy Ton of Jak + Jil, and appears regularly on Style.com and in Garance Doré. ·Prolific monthly columnist for W Magazine; an annual reader base of nearly half a million.

D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO IBU PY T R O U T C T A IS O D N R FO

FIRE, BRICK, CORAL, SCARLET, CADMIUM, BURGENDY, CRIMSON, ELECTRIC RED, RUST, IMPERIAL RED, ROSE, LUST, CARNELIAN, ENGLISH RED, VENETIAN RED, RUBY, REDORANGE, SPANISH RED, AMARANTH, MAROON, LAVA, RASPBERRY, WINE, LIPSTICK, GARNET, MERLOT, CERISE, BLOOD RED, CURRANT, VERMILLION, BLUSH, ROSÉ.

1. THE POWER OF RED FA S H I O N

Red has so many connotations: it’s a religious color, it’s a happy color, it’s a power color, it’s a naughty color, it’s even a warning color—think of stop signs. But no matter what your first association is, it is not a wallflower color. I didn’t wear it much when I was younger. I think I somehow wasn’t ready for it. Red has such powerful and sophisticated connotations that I almost needed to be more mature before I could own it. But now it’s basically my version of black: it’s a go-to. Every time Comme des Garçons puts red in a collection, I have to buy at least one piece! My breakthrough moment came about several years ago when I wore a red Givenchy ensemble to an event. I had actually owned it for a while and been too timid to wear it, but once I did, it was so great! It made me feel like a superhero. But even now that I am comfortable with this hue, I recognize that it is not something you can just throw on.

If you’re wearing a red look, people’s eyes will be drawn to you. It keeps you on your toes, in that sense. You can’t be sloppy or shy—you have to be put together to pull it off.

D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO IBU PY T R O U T C T A IS O D N R FO

5. HAT GIO FA S H I O N

FASHION AS MOSQUITO REPELLANT—

SOMETIMES THE BEST ACCESSORIES

so much better and chicer than DEET!

are just sitting around in the fridge.

WHEN YOU LOVE FLOWERS SO MUCH

MARGHERITA MISSONI & I

you can’t bear to only have them in the vase.

decided to make a balloon couture chapeau.

IF YOU FORGET TO BRING YOUR BATHING SUIT TO THE BEACH,

MARIACHI IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA— if the band doesn’t show up in time, feel free to try on a sombrero and entertain your friends yourself!

an oversized straw hat can be a very elegant substitute.

D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO IBU PY T R O U T C T A IS O D N R FO

8. VINTAGE FA S H I O N

Seeking out great vintage finds is like going on the ultimate treasure hunt. And it’s an addictive one—I’m constantly scouring 1stdibs. For me, it all began when I was a teenager growing up in Italy. There was no “fast” fashion back then, so if you wanted something cool to go dancing in, a vintage piece was way more affordable and often more fun than something contemporary. My passion just grew from there, and, as an adult, I’ve begun to feel more like a collector.

There’s a craftsmanship to vintage that is different than what you might find now. And it’s an easy way to make sure you’re the only one wearing a particular dress to an event! The surprise factor is built in because people are always trying to figure out where something is from.

I find it so amusing when an older piece ends up seeming modern and contemporary to people. Professionally, I’m always so focused on future trends; there’s something really refreshing and unexpected about looking to the past instead of toward the future when I’m getting dressed for myself.

Alice Temperley

English Myths and Legends Alice Temperley

Description Known for her intricate, boho-chic designs worn by the likes of Kate and Pippa Middleton and the Kardashians, Alice Temperley is one of the most sought-after designers on the scene today. Visually stunning and thoughtfully curated, this book is sure to appeal to anyone interested in innovative, contemporary fashion and ideas behind one of the most admired labels of today.

Author Details Alice Temperley is a British fashion designer based in London. Her fashion label Temperley London was launched in 2000. Temperley has been awarded several times including English Print Designer of the Year in 1999 at Indigo, Paris as well as Elle Magazine Best Young Designer of the Year Award in 2004. She was also named one of Britain's top 35 female business leaders in 2006. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$120.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780847848812

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 336 pages

Format

• 241mm x 191mm

Illustrations

• 250 colour and B/W photographs

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Key Selling Points ·Coveted by international celebrities, Temperley's polished yet effortless designs are worn by Kate Middleton, the Kardashians, and Beyonce while her parties and events are covered by Vogue and other glossies ·Over the last 15 years, Temperley London has grown from a single line of ready to wear to encompass a full range of lines, including her Black label with red carpet designs, a bridal division, a more affordable label called Alice and the designer has also launched her own accessories line all of which are sold in both freestanding boutiques and 300 retailers in 37 countries ·Temperley London is well known to receive critical acclaim on a global level. Alice Temperley is a favorite of the international fashion press and has an immense high profile following. Her designs receive consistent exposure in fashion magazines and periodicals and her wedding dresses and gowns are favored by high society brides and the red carpet

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Fiorucci Sofia Coppola

Description A love letter to one of the cult influencers of 1980s style. Published to coincide with revival and rejuvenation of Fiorucci under the creative direction of Sofia Coppola – will find an audience in anyone familiar with the label, 1980s style, as well as a new target market engaged by heavy push for the brand in the next few years. Will share audience with similarly irreverent / bright / 80s and 90s design and fashion icons from Stephen Sprouse to Chloe Sevigny, as well as with fun and interactive design books like Stickers. A playful and evocative celebration of one of the most irreverent labels in fashion.

Author Details Sofia Coppola is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, director, producer, photographer, and actress. She is the Creative Director of Fiorucci. She lives in Paris. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$90.00 Hardback

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9780847860159

Category

• Art/Fashio/Photograph

Imprint

• Rizzoli

Extent

• 192 pages

Format

• 318mm x 241mm

Illustrations

• 150 colour and B/W photographs

·The only official book produced by the brand ·Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the brand, and joining a major publicity / marketing campaign to announce the brand's new creative direction and the opening of a new shop in London ·Fiorucci is now under the creative direction of Sofia Coppola, icon of contemporary style who brings her own audience and attention to the brand's market ·Fun and interactive – as engaging and irreverent as Fiorucci has ever been, with gatefolds, stickers, a fold-out jacket, etc.

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CONTENTS Essay Title by Author

Angels & Love

Space & Time

Cartoons X Fruit & Treats

Pin-up X Flora

The Outdoors

Parties X Stores X Etc...

World Rugby Records Fantastic Fifth Edition Chris Hawkes

Description There is no game on earth quite like rugby: steeped in tradition and supported with fervour, at its best it is a heady mix of brutal physical confrontation, terrifying tackles, deft handling skills, searing pace, pin-point kicking and a gentlemanly handshake at the end of an action-packed 80 minutes. This fully revised and updated fifth edition of World Rugby Records – the first to include the records set at RWC2015 – continues to be a special celebration of rugby excellence, featuring not only a host of records from teams and tournaments around the world, but also the stories behind them and a series of potted biographies on some of the greatest players ever to have played the game.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 / NZ$45.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781787390003

Category

• Sport & Fitness

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 192 pages

Format

• 269mm x 205mm

Illustrations

• 380 colour and black & white

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Chris Hawkes grew up following the Leicester Tigers and played rugby at junior county level before switching his attentions to cricket, playing professionally before moving into publishing. He was editor of the bestselling Cricketer's Who's Who annual for a number of years and has gone on to write a number of books, including, for Carlton, the Rugby World Cup Guide 2007. He lives in London.

Key Selling Points ·Fully revised and updated to include the 2015 Rugby World Cup ·Worldwide, 117 countries play rugby, with more than five million participants ·It is estimated 125 million television viewers watched the 2015 Rugby World Cup final ·Carlton's World Records series has sold more than one million copies worldwide since the first title was published in 2009

Quackery Lydia Kang

Description Journey back to a time when doctors tried to jolt your paralysed muscles awake with a strychnine-laced enema. When a physician wrote you a prescription for the mercury-based 'Thunderclapper' pill to relieve your constipation. When surgeons promised to improve your virility with goat-testicle implants. A tour of medicine’s most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 67 'treatments,' exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favour – some more recently than you might think.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$44.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9780761189817

Category

• Health/Related

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 352 pages

Format

• 203.2mm x 152.4mm

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations and photos throughout

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Lydia Kang, M.D., is a practicing internal medicine physician and author of young adult fiction. Her YA novels include Control, Catalyst, and the upcoming The November Girl. She has gained a reputation as a medical consultant for fiction authors and teaches writers how to accurately maim their literary victims on her blog series, Medical Mondays. Nate Pedersen is a librarian, historian, and freelance journalist with over 400 publications in print and online, including The Guardian, The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Art of Manliness.

Key Selling Points ·Every chapter includes thrilling and disturbing stories and photos that pull you in with outlandish, humorously twisted details ·Quirky medical & science history books sell ·Dr. Lydia Kang is a practicing physician (and YA novelist!) and infuses the stories with medical expertise, while Nate Pedersen is a librarian and historian with a knack for telling history's darker tales

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tube, so the open end with the leech’s hungry mouth may be directed onto the offending tonsil. The leech sinks its tiny, toothy jaws onto the swollen tissue, but the patient hardly feels the bite. After all, the leech’s best offense is to be as inoffensive as possible. Stealth biting is a good thing. There is a ticklish sensation from the squirming. The leech swells larger and larger, until replete with blood. It detaches happily and is yanked away by its tether. The woman feels a trickle of salty blood at the back of her mouth for an hour or more. This gag-worthy scene was incredibly commonplace in history. After all, the leech has been sucking blood out of the human race, with our permission, for a long, long time.

The Origins of Leechcraft

Leeches Of Mercedes-Benz Bites, Leech Pendants, Drunken Cannibal Worms, Leech Fight Club, and the Predicament of Asslessness It is 1850 in London, England. A physician makes a house call on a woman with a nagging sore throat. Clearly, swollen tonsils are to blame. Clearly, decongesting and shrinking them will solve the problem. Clearly, the answer to the problem is…leeches. From a portable earthenware jar, he withdraws a single dark, slimy, squirming leech, about three inches long and slightly thinner than an earthworm. It wriggles briskly from hunger. He pierces the tail end with silkthreaded needle, then pushes the wriggling leech “pendant” into a clear glass

Leeches and bloodletting accomplish the same goal—relieving the body “congested” of blood and inflammation. By bleeding away the “bad” blood, you could potentially bleed away the problem. Any problem. The reasons for leeching were many, including venereal diseases, brain inflammation, epilepsy, hysterics, organ disease and tuberculosis. So who’s responsible for bringing leeches into our lives? You can start with the Egyptians, whose tombs document the earliest use of leeching, for curing fever-borne illness and flatulence (naturally), as far back as 1500 BC. In Homer’s Iliad, Podalirius, one of the sons of Asclepius (see page xxx) was a healer and referred to as a leech. Then there’s the ancient Chinese story claiming leech therapy began when King Hui (d. 430 BC) accidentally swallowed one in his salad and was surprised to find that his stomach ailments improved. But leeching really took off with "Lorem ipsum dolor sit the theories of Hippocrates (c. 370 BC) amet, consectetur adipiscing and, later, Galen in the second century elit, sed do eiusmod tempor

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AD. Both physicians firmly established the idea that bleeding could bring balance to the humors. These distinct bodily elements, considered to be the source of health and disease, drove the theories of western medical care for nearly two centuries afterwards. Around the time of Hippocrates and Galen, we begin to see more and more evidence of leech usage, for everything from removing evil spirits (Themison of Laodicea, Syria) to treating hearing loss (Alexander de Trailles). One TK-century physician even claimed that it “sharpens the hearing, stops tears…and produces a musical voice.” If only we could all just apply a squirmy bloodsucker and become Beyoncé. Sadly, there is no evidence that leeches will make you dance like Channing Tatum.

Lancets and Leeches

First, consider the animal itself. Hirudo A leech has three medicinalis, the lofty Latin name for common jaws, with about medical leech, was born to bloodsuck. It puts 100 teeth per mammals and their one or two or three stomachs jaw, which leaves to shame by having ten stomachs for digesting. behind a mark in The leech is also overachieving in its teeth. It has three jaws, with about 100 teeth per jaw. That’s a 300-tooth bite, which leaves behind a mark in the shape of the Mercedes-Benz car ornament. Unlike lancets, fleams, or bladed scarifications, a leech bite was relatively painless, thanks to its saliva. A genius concoction of chemicals, leech spit thoughtfully contains anesthetics to keep its host comfy and unaware, useful in

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garlic breath, a woman was obviously fertile. Another fragrant variation included having her drink anise in water; if her belly button itched the next day, she’s a baby-making machine raring to go.

Animal Remedies For a successful childbirth, Pliny the Elder (d. AD 90) recommended putting the right foot of a hyena on the pregnant woman to help with the delivery (the left foot would cause death). He also advised drinking powdered sow’s dung to help with labor pains. Maybe the smell helped distract the mother-to-be? Or drinking goose semen (okay—how on earth do they ask the male goose to…or do they just kill the goose and fish out the testicles…never mind) or drinking liquids that flowed from a weasel’s uterus through its genitals. Yum.

Shoe Tampons The Trotula is a historical text on women’s medicine and one of the few attributed to a female physician author, Trota, who lived in 12th century Salerno. She wrote, “If therefore the menses are deficient and a woman’s body is emaciated, bleed her from the vein under the arch of the inside of the foot.” Or for heavy periods, cook a pair of shoes and stuff them into the vagina. Imagine seeing that one written on a prescription pad.

Weasel Nuts The Trotula also gives contraceptive advice: “take a male weasel and let its testicles be removed and let it be released alive. Let the woman carry these testicles with her in her bosom and let her tie them in goose skin….and she will not conceive.” Well. If ever there was a deterrent to sex, it’s undressing a woman and finding a pair of weasel nuts shoved betwixt her cleavage. At least it’s a good weasel contraceptive. Ah, that poor nutless weasel.

Strychnine Of Mercedes-Benz Bites, Leech Pendants, Drunken Cannibal Worms, Leech Fight Club, and the Predicament of Asslessness It is 1850 in London, England. A physician makes a house call on a woman with a nagging sore throat. Clearly, swollen tonsils are to blame. Clearly, decongesting and shrinking them will solve the problem. Clearly, the answer to the problem is…leeches. From a portable earthenware jar, he withdraws a single dark, slimy, squirming leech, about three inches long and slightly thinner than an earthworm. It wriggles briskly from hunger. He pierces the tail end with silk-

What Unites Us

Reflections on Patriotism Rather, Dan

Description At a moment of crisis over our national identity, Dan Rather has been reflecting—and writing passionately almost every day on social media—about the world we live in, what our core ideals have been and should be, and what it means to be an American. Now, in a collection of wholly original essays, the venerated television journalist celebrates what matters most in the United States.

Author Details

Publication Date 15th November 2017 Price

• AUD$49.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781616207823

Category

• Current Affairs

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 176 pages

Format

• 177.8mm x 127mm

Illustrations

• N/A

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With a famed and storied career that has spanned more than six decades, Dan Rather has earned his place as one of the world’s best-known journalists. He has interviewed every president since Eisenhower and, over that time, personally covered almost every important dateline in the United States and around the world. Rather joined CBS News in 1962, and in 1981 he assumed the position of Anchor and Managing Editor of the CBS Evening News – a post he held for twenty-four years. He is now president and CEO of News and Guts, an independent production company he founded that specializes in high-quality nonfiction content across a range of traditional and digital distribution channels.

Key Selling Points One of the most trusted voices in news: As a veteran journalist, Dan Rather has covered most of the major events of the 20th century. A writer with a diverse demographic, whose reach grows daily: as of this writing, his Facebook page has 1.9 million followers (and counting). His near-daily posts about news events often go viral, and his followers range from millennials to baby boomers. A tireless author who is committed to doing everything possible to promote this book.

Crown of Blood (B Format) Nicola Tallis

Description Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold February morning in 1554. Forced onto the throne by the great power players at court, Queen Jane reigned for just thirteen tumultuous days before being imprisoned in the Tower, condemned for high treason and executed. In this dramatic retelling of an often misread tale, historian and researcher Nicola Tallis explores a range of evidence that has never before been used in a biography to sweep away the many myths and reveal the moving, human story of an extraordinarily intelligent, independent and courageous young woman.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$21.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781782438670

Category

• History

Imprint

• Michael O'Mara

Extent

• 376 pages

Format

• 198mm x 129mm

Illustrations

• 8pp colour plate section

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Nicola Tallis is a historian and researcher. She has previously lectured at the University of Winchester and worked with Historic Royal Palaces and the National Trust, as well as at Sudeley Castle, where Lady Jane Grey lived for a time, alongside Katherine Parr. As a researcher, Nicola has worked with many great writers, including Alison Weir and Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Crown of Blood is the result of five years of research on the Grey family and is her first book.

Key Selling Points ·A dramatic and significant retelling of an often misread tale ·Examines evidence that has never before been used in a biography, including Jane’s own letter and prayers, jewel inventory and legal documents ·Challenges popular myths, including the demonization of Jane’s mother and Jane’s own motivations

The Science of Food

An Exploration of What We Eat and How We Cook Marty Jopson

Description In this highly entertaining and accessible book,BBC's The One Show's science and technology presenter and all-round science guy Marty Jopson turns his attentions to things culinary and, more specifically, the everyday miracles that happen in the kitchen. Why does popcorn puff? Why do cakes rise? Why do onions make you cry? Bacteria – good or bad? There are many reactions and cooking processes that we may use everyday but have never really understood. From fascinating facts from microbiology to maximizing the benefits of proteins and vitamins, and the future of food and food production, there is a wealth of information to enjoy here. You’ll never approach the kitchen in the same way again.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 / NZ$26.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781782438380

Category

• Science

Imprint

• Michael O'Mara

Extent

• 224 pages

Format

• 129mm x 198mm

Illustrations

• B/W integrated illustrations throughout

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Marty Jopson has a PhD in Cell Biology and is the resident scientist on BBC One’s The One Show. Marty has been working in television for eighteen years, since his first job building props, and has been performing stage science around the UK for twenty years. His website is martyjopson.co.uk.

Key Selling Points ·From pressure cookers to pasteurisation, fridges to food poisoning, this book has the answers to all your kitchen science questions ·Marty Jopson is a well-known British personality and expert on the science of everyday things ·Marty has presented TV programmes for a host of channels but is best known for his regular appearances on the BBC's The One Show ·Marty hosts science talks around the country and has held talks on his previous book The Science of Everyday Lifeat the Royal Institution

Really Important Stuff My Cat Has Taught Me Cynthia L. Copeland Description Every page of this full-colour gift book pairs a charming photograph with just the right sentiment, offering an inspiring life lesson we can learn from cats: Rub people the right way. Live as if you had eight more lives. Know just how hard you need to nudge. Silence is not the same as indifference. Whether they are hunting, snoozing, playfully wreaking havoc, or showering us with affection, cats have a lot to teach us about living a full life (after all, with nine lives, they have a lot of experience!). As Copeland reminds us, all we have to do is observe with an open heart and mind. Tender, funny, and warm, Really Important Stuff My Cat Has Taught Me is a loving tribute to the feline spirit.

Author Details Cynthia L. Copeland is the author of the instant bestseller Really Important Stuff My Dog Has Taught Me and more than 25 other books, including The Diaper Diaries. Her books have sold over a million copies and have been featured on Good Morning America and recommended by Oprah and Regis Philbin.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781523501489

Category

• Self Help

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 176 pages

Format

• 158.75mm x 177.8mm

Illustrations

• Full-colour photographs throughout

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WIT + WISDOM + FAVORITE PETS: It's a proven sales hit! Really Important Stuff My Dog Has Taught Me is a backlist bestseller with over 200,000 copies in print IMPULSE GIFT: Priced for impulse purchase, packed with inspiration and photos

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• AUD$22.99

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• 9780761181798

Live on the edge Deep within even the most spoiled of house cats resides a feral and fearless wildcat. Despite being creatures of habit with an affinity for comfort, cats crave freedom and adventure. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re true explorers, setting out alone day after day with no fixed destination, driven by curiosity and an innate desire to discover something new. Always on the prowl, ready to pounce, cats take remarkable risks to defend their turf or a beloved friendâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or simply for a thrill. That their behavior frequently defies explanation is part of their mystery and allure. We will never really know the breadth of their adventures, or how fully they live each one of their allotted nine lives.

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Even introverts need a crew. Cats outnumber people on Aoshima Island, one of about a dozen “cat islands” in Japan. In Japanese culture, the cat is considered a good luck charm, said to bring money and good fortune to all who cross their path. Aoshima cats survive on food given to them by locals and tourists.

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Catabunga!

A Get Fuzzy Collection Darby Conley

Description Our tough-as-nails crew has been assembled. Bucky Katt has a plan to take out the ferrets next door, and it will require all of his powers of disguise and stealth to get the job done. Satchel Pooch is going on the offense and channeling his inner assault-broccoli to defeat the vegetables before they defeat him. And Rob, the unofficial peacekeeper, is left to clean up the aftermath before the whole thing becomes an international incident. Packed with intrigue, covert aggression, and domestic warfare, Catabunga! is an all-out battle of wit and words that’s not to be missed.

Author Details Darby Conley lives in Boston, with four cats and three boxes of Band-Aids. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$32.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781449487102

Category

• Humour

Imprint Extent

• Andrews McMeel Publishing • 144 pages

Format

• 203mm x 254mm

Illustrations

• Comic strip

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Key Selling Points ·NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Three Get Fuzzy collections have been New York Times bestsellers ·THE REUBEN AWARD-winning strip was nominated for a 2013 Harvey Award for Best Syndicated Strip or Panel ·MORE THAN 1.3 MILLION Get Fuzzy calendars and more than a million cartoon collections have been sold ·Get Fuzzy appears in 650 newspapers

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What Your Dog's Breed Says About You

A fun look at the peculiarities of pets and their owners Jo Hoare

Description Have you noticed how some dogs look like their owners? Or that certain people are drawn to specific breeds – like curly haired people and Poodles? Do you question whether it’s really worth the money to take your dog to the Paw Seasons groomers or struggle to believe that Tindog (Tinder for dogs) is really a thing? The answers to all these questions and more are revealed in What Your Dog’s Breed Says About You. Contained within are 25 brilliant profiles of the most popular canine companions out there, using a series of character sketches to detail the quirks and foibles of each breed and its owner.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781911026129

Category

• Humour

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 64 pages

Format

• 186mm x 123mm

Illustrations

• 35 colour illustrations

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Jo Hoare is a dog-obsessed freelance journalist and former Style Editor for heat magazine. Jo has written for The Debrief, GRAZIA, AOL and FHM, and has published three books: This is Normcore, The Office: A Survival Guide and Festivals: A Survival Guide. Jo is based in London.

Key Selling Points ·This must-have book for dog lovers features hilarious observations on 25 of the best-loved dog breeds and their owners ·Whether you’re a stickler for obedience training or share your dinner with your loyal companion, you’re sure to recognise some of the traits outlined within

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THE GOLDEN RETRIEVER Shaggy, blond, at times a little smelly but loyal and oh so lovably dim, the Golden Retriever owner… just kidding… The Golden Retriever elicits feelings of love in even those strange people that claim not to like dogs. Walking a Golden Retriever puppy down the street brings about levels of attention comparable to having J-Lo in a diamanté thong on the end of a leash. Even as Retrievers get older (and yes, smellier) people still cross the road to give them a cuddle. The Goldie’s puppy dog eyes are its number one weapon. No matter how severe the roll in fox poop (it’s Chanel No 5 to a GR), how bad the wind in the back seat on a long car journey, how much of the dinner left on the kitchen counter is scoffed before you notice, it’s impossible to tell Retrievers off without feeling like the meanest person in the world as they settle those remorseful chocolate brown peepers on you. That’s not to say this is the only weapon in the Goldie’s emotional arsenal, for they are also blessed

Christmas morning. Not that you’ll see any of this paraphernalia of pamperedness should you visit (well, not if you’re an important guest), for GR owners like to maintain a veneer of strictness, pretending to the outside world that they are very much the masters, with the dog ﬁrmly knowing his place in the family. That the Goldie certainly does, he’s number one by a country mile. A Golden Retriever does have to work hard for his comforts though. The disadvantage of being one of the most photogenic breeds out there is that EVERYONE wants to take your picture and it’s hard work being beautiful all the time. The Goldie’s cuteness

factor also means every child under five will mistake the dog for a soft toy and hang themselves from the animal’s neck as the patient pooch plods around the sitting room wishing they’d all just clear off so he could have a nap in peace. The only downside of a Goldie, as any owner will know, is their adoration of mud versus how difficult it is to clean them up afterward. Like a water-divining expert, the Goldie will find the only patch of grime in an otherwise dry-as-a-bone field and immediately plunge himself headlong into it, resulting in a mud tide line up to the haunches and a pooch that’s now half

with one hell of a smile. Look at any happy Golden Retriever and he’ll be grinning, it’s no surprise really, he’s probably got three different beds at home (all with higher thread counts than the family’s Egyptian cotton bed sheets), his own chair in the living room (covered in blankets obviously, for the GR owner appreciates not every guest might want to come away with what looks like Donald Trump attached to their backside) and a personalized water bowl he “unwrapped” on

When is a mutt not a mutt? When it’s a $1000 dollar “crossbreed” of course. True mutt owners know that the likes of a Cock-a-Mo, Basschund, or Zuchon (yes, these are all real crosses—American Eskimo with Cocker Spaniel, Basset with Dachshund, and Bichon Frise with Shih Tzu if } you don’t believe us) don’t count. A true mutt needs to have more unique threads of DNA in him than the bed sheets of a pay-by-the-hour motel. A favorite pass time of mutt owners is to try and guess the lineage of their pet—those whiskers would suggest there’s definitely some Schnauzer in him. A dash of ginger in a certain light and could his grandmother have been a wayward corgi? And those disproportionately long legs definitely point to some Greyhound. Of course, they could find out once and for all with a DNA test, but where’s the fun in that? The mutt owners themselves vary from right-on types who rail against the elite breeds of the pedigree world to the accidental owners who couldn’t say no when the neighbor’s dog had puppies. By their very nature the looks of a mutt can vary wildly, but among

the mutt-owning community, and unlike anywhere else in the world, ugliness is king. Whereas parents of unfortunate-looking babies seem oblivious to their offspring’s stickingout ears or oddly spaced eyes, the less-than-beautiful-mutt owners are fully aware of their pets’ aesthetic shortcomings and love them more for it. Fewer teeth than legs (even if they don’t have the full complement of limbs in the first place) and bald spots that’d make even Prince William reach for the clippers are as valued in a mutt as a post-1990 birth certificate is valued in Madonna’s boyfriends. And a mutt’s lack of photogenic-ness is no barrier to a significant social media presence, where the dog has all but taken

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over every single one of his owner’s feeds, flashing a toothless grin and wagging his stumpy tail on a daily basis. Is the mutt grateful for all this adoration? Is he hell? The mutt’s cheeky, care not attitude is as much part of him as his indefinable parentage. He will inevitably be full of quirks, from a psychopathic yet completely unexplainable hatred of one particular dog in the park (usually one five time his size) to a fear of butterflies, these traits will be lovingly explained away by his indulgent owner as arising from his anonymous genealogy. That’s not to say the mutt is spoilt though. The sensible owner attitude of not needing a breed with a pedigree that places it 37th in line to the throne or not paying two months rent for a designer pup when there’s plenty that need homes for free carries through to everyday life with their mutt. That means specialist feather beds and organic shampoos make way for hand-me-down blankets and

a squirt of whatever shower gel was 2-4-1 that week. Having said that, the mutt will still be allowed the occasional specially prepared chicken breast and given permission to sleep on the bed if he’s been feeling a little off.

Binding: Hardback PLC Format: 4¾ x 7¼ in./186 x 123 mm Extent: 64 pages Illustrations: 35 color illustrations Price: US $12.95/£7.99 Publication date: April 2017 Text: 15,000 words ISBN: 978 1 911026 12 9 Text © Jo Hoare Design and illustration © Dog ’n’ Bone Books Uncorrected proofs For further information, contact:

Pug Golden Retriever French Bulldog Boxer Bichon Frise Greyhound Spaniels Terriers Rottweiler Mutt German Shepherd Labrador Retriever Chihuahua Poodle Schnauzer Beagle Dachshund St Bernard Shih Tzu Husky

24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62

Index and Acknowledgments

US Dog ’n’ Bone Books 341 E 116th St New York NY 10029 Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 Fax: (+1) 646 861 3518 For US publicity, contact: Neha Kesarwani Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 neha.kesarwani@rylandpeters.com UK Dog ’n’ Bone Books 20–21 Jockey’s Fields London WC1R 4BW Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2280 Fax: +44 (0)20 7025 2281 sales@cicobooks.co.uk For UK publicity, contact: Yvonne Doolan Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2240 yvonne.doolan@cicobooks.co.uk www.rylandpeters.com

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SPECIFICATION 6

THE ISSUES Eau de Dogs Accessories Upstairs, Downstairs Dog Social Media Dog Dating Names Food Grooming Poop-tiquette Hobbies

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Best of Punch Cartoons, The

2000 classics from Britain's funniest satirical weekly Helen Walasek

Description The Best of Punch Cartoons is a superb book. This, the biggest collection of cartoons ever published from the most famous humour magazine of them all, is packed with superb gags and beautiful artwork by some of the world’s finest artists of the past two centuries. The page size is huge, showing the cartoon art off in the best possible manner. And at more than 600 pages, this book is an essential purchase for any fan of cartoons, visual humour or of the legendary Punch magazine.

Author Details Helen Walasek, of Punch Cartoon Library, is the former curator of the Punch collection and editor of The Best of Punch Cartoons and Punch Goes to War. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$69.99 / NZ$75.00 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781853759963

Category

• Humour

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 608 pages

Format

• 292mm x 241mm

Illustrations

• B/W illustrations throughout

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Key Selling Points ·Punch was hugely famous for its great cartoons – this book contains 2,000 of the very best. ·Large format, high quality book. ·Includes cartoons from the greatest cartoonists in history: John Leech, George du Maurier, H.M. Bateman, E.H. Shepard, Fougasse, Pont, Hoffnung, Norman Thelwell, Quentin Blake, Ronald Searle and many other famous names

Embarrassing Ways to Die

The Ultimate Collection of 1001 Daft and Undignified Ways You Can Exit the Stage of Life David Southwell

Description A massive and hilarious collection of true stories chronicling the most bizarre, amazing and absurd ways to die ever brought together. Awe-inspiring examples of stupidity and lack of combine to give you the most incredible cautionary tales about undignified ways you can exit the stage of life. The man who got into a fight with a monkey and lost ... the burglar who thought he was Santa Claus and got stuck in a chimney ... the gangster who danced himself to death – all true reports from across the globe which reveal the most ridiculous ways you can meet your maker. These and hundreds of entertaining and fresh factual accounts are all here in Embarrassing Ways to Die. Death may seem like a serious business, but this is a seriously funny book.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781853759864

Category

• Humour

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 320 pages

Format

• 204mm x 135mm

Illustrations

• Text only

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

David Southwell has written and contributed to many humour books. A regular broadcaster in the UK, Europe and the US, he spent more than 15 years as a journalist and editor before turning full time to writing. He wrote the successful Death by Stupidity.

Key Selling Points ·Follow up to the successful Death by Stupidity ·A comprehensive list of the weirdest ways people have expired ·The laughter generated by strange and ridiculous deaths has already propelled books stemming from the Darwin Awards into the premier league of international best-selling humour books

Wrinklies Joke Book Clive Whichelow

Description This sparkling collection of golden age wit and wisdom is proof-positive that the stereotypes of knitting grannies and doddering granddads just aren't true anymore – if, indeed, they ever were. Senior citizens are not going gentle into that good night. They're still out there, living life to the full, taking selfies, 'silver' surfing the net and showing the rest of us how to grow up and grow old disgracefully. Because as Maurice Chevalier said, "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781853759840

Category

• Humour

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 192 pages

Format

• 198mm x 129mm

Illustrations

• N/A

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Mike Haskins is a comedy researcher and writer of books, jokes and sketches. He has written for comedians Smith & Jones, Hale & Pace and Rory Bremner, as well as for the following television and radio shows: Dead Ringers, It's Been a Bad Week, Smack the Pony, among others. He co-wrote the best-selling Man Walks into a Bar, the successful Laugh, Cackle & Howl Joke Book, and Classic Comedy Quotes.

Key Selling Points ·Filled with jokes, quotes and stories that will strike a chord with anyone from the golden age – you can decide when that was! ·The ideal gift for old timers and grandparents; retirees; anyone with a playful sense of humour ·Perfect for those older family members who have no hope of understanding an iPad or an iPhone – let them revel in their era – as well the 'silver surfers' who understand the 21st century

Wrinklies Wit & Wisdom

Humorous quotes about getting on a bit Rosemarie Jarski

Description Old is the new young! Grey is the new black! Rocking chairs are the new rock 'n' roll! This sparkling collection of wrinklie wit and wisdom is proof-positive that the stereotypes of knitting grannies and doddering granddads just aren't true anymore – if, indeed, they ever were. Senior citizens are not going gentle into that good night. They're still out there, living life to the full, taking on new challenges and showing us how to grow old disgracefully. It's all in here: life, love, the universe, and Viagra. Coffin-dodgers will find lots of laughs, inspiration and 'Yes, that's me!' moments.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781853759857

Category

• Humour

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 192 pages

Format

• 198mm x 129mm

Illustrations

• N/A

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Rosemarie Jarski writes screenplays and compiles anthologies. Her previous publications include Hollywood Wit and Wisecracks.Fathers' Wit was published in 2005 and she has written many books since then. She lives in Cheshire.

Key Selling Points ·Filled with jokes and stories that will strike a chord with anyone from the golden age ·The ideal gift for oldies and grandparents; even mum and dad – this book will make them feel you really understand them ·The ideal gift for those older family members who have no hope of understanding an iPad or an iPhone – let them revel in their era! ·The subject of aging can be taboo, one that your grandparents will feel a sense of release breaking

Old Ones Are the Best Joke Book, The Classic Jokes, One-liners and Puns Mike Haskins

Description This superb collection of 500 of the best jokes, one-liners and puns is filled with nothing but classic rib-ticklers and great gags, all of which have stood the test of time. There are puns, jokes, top tens and all kinds of jokes on all sorts of subjects. There's a section on what makes our overseas cousins laugh – even the Germans!

Author Details Mike Haskins is a comedy researcher and writer of books, jokes and sketches. He has written for comedians Smith & Jones, Hale & Pace and Rory Bremner, as well as for television and radio shows: Dead Ringers and Smack the Pony. He co-wrote the best-selling Man Walks into a Bar, the successful Laugh, Cackle & Howl Joke Book. He lives in Wallasey, Merseyside. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781780979748

Category

• Humour

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 352 pages

Format

• 198mm x 129mm

Illustrations

• N/A

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Key Selling Points ·A comedy gold collection ·Classic funnies for every situation ·Another helping of great jokes, quotes and observations ·Written by top comedy writer Mike Haskins

Lady Stuff

Secrets to Being a Woman Loryn Brantz

Description Home manicure tips, awkward seduction techniques, scoping out the snack table, and – most important – prioritising naps: Lady Stuff reveals these womanly secrets and more. In sections like 'Grooming and Habitat Maintenance,' 'Mating Habits,' and others, these brightly coloured, adorable comics find the humour in the awkwardness of simply existing. Like the work of Sarah Andersen, Gemma Correll, and Allie Brosh, Loryn Brantz’s Jellybean Comics are accessible and funny; lighthearted takes on the author's everyday experiences and struggles being a woman.

Author Details Loryn Brantz is a two-time Emmy Award winner and the author of Feminist Baby. She is a senior writer at BuzzFeed and lives in New York City. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Paperback

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9781449486778

Category

• Humour

Imprint Extent

• Andrews McMeel Publishing • 128 pages

Format

• 203mm x 165mm

Illustrations

• Comic strip

·PLATFORM: Brantz is a successful children’s author and staff writer and illustrator at pop-culture juggernaut, BuzzFeed. She has over 270k Facebook followers. ·RELATABLE, LIGHTHEARTED CONTENT: Themes include the discomfort of wearing strapless dresses, awkward social encounters, and how long into a relationship you can stop shaving your legs. ·MEDIA CONNECTIONS: Loryn’s children’s books have been blurbed by Roxane Gay and actress Rose McGowan. Jellybean Comics run on BuzzFeed regularly and Loryn will be able to promote her book on the site.

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

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Man Caves

Create the Ultimate Male Sanctuary to Get Away From It All Dominic Bliss

Description In need of a spot where you can escape another Sunday afternoon Frozen sing-along with the kids and watch the big game instead? Are you slowly running out of shelf space for that ever-growing comic book collection? If so it’s time to start thinking about setting up a space of your own; a place where you can collect, create or simply spend a few blissful hours away from it all. Every man needs one of these! With ideas for creating over 25 amazing themed man caves, there’s a space to suit all interests. Each entry comes with advice on layouts and the various things you’ll need to fill your cave, plus a guide to the finest pieces of kit money can buy – from home brewing equipment to cigar humidors. Also included is helpful advice on selecting the perfect spot to set up your man cave, working with the space you have, and the essentials every man cave needs.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 / NZ$26.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781911026143

Category

• Humour

Imprint

• CICO

Extent

• 128 pages

Format

• 186mm x 123mm

Illustrations

• N/A

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Dominic Bliss is a journalist with a life-long love of sport. His books include Up For the Challenge, Cycle London, Drinking Games, and Hair of the Dog. Dominic is based in Hampton, Middlesex, UK.

Key Selling Points ·Every man deserves a space of his own to relax and recharge the batteries, and this useful and often hilarious guide will help you to achieve that goal ·Cover over 25 themed caves for all types of guys – gamers, bookworms, whisky lovers, football fans, DJs, gym goers and more ·According to Time magazine, the average male spends 2 hours 30 minutes a day on his hobby

CONTENTS Introduction 6 THE CAVES The Ultimate Oﬃce 12 Wine Cellar 16 Home Brewery 20 Cocktail Bar 24 Sports Cave 28 Artist’s Studio 32 Music Zone 34 Nightclub 36 Pottery 40 Pub 42 Photography Studio 46 Foodie Kitchen 50 Movie Theater 54 Petrolhead’s Garage 58 Cycle Club 62 Home Gym 64 Gamer’s Paradise 66 Model Railway and Model Making 70 Fishing and Hunting 74 Private Member’s Club and Library 78 DIY and Home Improvement 82 The Driving Range 86 Potting Shed 90 The Zoo 92 Nuclear Shelter 96 Stargazing Observatory 100 Casino 104 Barista Café 110 Geek Den 114 Football Fan Zone 120 Index 126 Acknowledgments 128

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SPECIFICATION Binding: Hardback PLC Format: 4¾ x 7¼ in./186 x 123 mm Extent: 128 pages Illustrations: 50 color illustrations Price: US $14.95/£9.99 Publication date: April 2017 Text: 25,000 words ISBN: 978 1 911026 14 3 Text © Dominic Bliss Design and illustration © Dog ’n’ Bone Books

THE HOME GYM Fitness junkies need a home gym where they can sweat, grunt, and kiss their guns while admiring themselves in the mirror. It’s often an activity done alone, although workout buddies will keep you motivated and spot you (that’s body-building speak for encouraging and supporting) while you bench 80kgs on the peck deck. Ambient temperature is crucial in a home gym. In summer, air conditioning or fans will be required. In winter, heating needs only to be minimal—if you get hot, you’re not working out hard enough. Space is at a premium in most man caves so be prudent about which large machines you choose. It’s good to have one cardio machine (perhaps a spin bike) but if you want to get properly aerobic, you can always head outside; or go higher intensity on your exercises. <PMZM IZM \_W [XMKQM[ WN OaU ][MZ[ <PM ÅZ[\ MZZ[ \W_IZL[ IMZWJQK workouts and is leaner. The second concentrates on lifting weights IVL Q[ JMMÅMZ *W\P [XMKQM[ WJ[M[[ W^MZ \PMQZ LQM\[¸IMZWJQK R]VSQM[ keeping the calories limited and weights junkies bulking up with extra protein shakes. From morning to night they wear sports clothing that IKKMV\]I\M[ \PMQZ ÅVM[\ NMI\]ZM[ IVL ZM^MIT[ QUXZM[[Q^M U][KTM OZW]X[ Tattoos and closely cropped haircuts are popular, as is steroid abuse. ?PMV I Å\VM[[ R]VSQM OM\[ QV\W \PM [\ZQLM WN PQ[ _WZSW]\ aW] KIV [XW\ the temporal arteries pulsating angrily on the side of his forehead.

ADVANTAGES OF A HOME GYM It’s always open.

Uncorrected proofs

It’s downstairs/ upstairs/ out the back. Therefore there are no excuses not to work out. You don’t have to wait for the equipment or weights. Get straight in there.

For further information, contact: US Dog ’n’ Bone Books 341 E 116th St New York NY 10029 Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 Fax: (+1) 646 861 3518 For US publicity, contact: Neha Kesarwani Tel: (+1) 646 791 5410 neha.kesarwani@rylandpeters.com UK Dog ’n’ Bone Books 20–21 Jockey’s Fields London WC1R 4BW Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2280 Fax: +44 (0)20 7025 2281 sales@cicobooks.co.uk For UK publicity, contact: Yvonne Doolan Tel: +44 (0)20 7025 2240 yvonne.doolan@cicobooks.co.uk www.rylandpeters.com

THE SET UP • Kettlebells and barbells • Suspension trainer • Bench and rack • Punch bag • Treadmill • Big mirror • Stereo

You can grunt/ roar/ scream to your heart’s content. (Some comMercial gyms even instalL a lunk alarm that goes ofF if you work out too vigorously.) You can wear the tightest or skimpiest workout clothing you like. Pec flys in your Y-fronts? Why not? You choose the music. Girlie pop does not a bufF body create.

The only sweat on the equipment is your own.

MOTIVATIONAL DÉCOR Every gym needs a large mirRor to work out in front of. Yes, it’s vain, but if you can see your muscles bulging as you work out, it wilL encourage you to keEp going.

may include Arnie, Charles Atlas, Bruce Lee, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and a skinNed cartoon human with alL his muscles captioned. But these may NOT include Jane Fonda, Mr Motivator, Richard SimMons or the GreEn GodDesS.

Hang posters of various gym heroes on the walL of your man cave. These

THE MUSIC MAN CAVE You can spot true music fans from a distance. Their torsos are adorned with a T-shirt, normally celebrating some obscure alternative rock band from the 1970s. From their heads will spout long hair (even if they’re balding on the top) either tied in a natty little pony tail or, if they’re ZMITTa ZWKSQVO W]\ TMN\ \W ÆW_ TQSM \PM UIVM WN I [\ITTQWV .ZWU \PMQZ ears spout a large and very expensive pair of headphones, or cans, as they call them. They will remove the latter and place them coolly IZW]VL \PMQZ VMKS[ J]\ WVTa QN ZMY]QZML \W LQ[K][[ \PM ÅVMZ XWQV\[ WN \PM latest Radiohead album with some other music geek. They tend to wear sunglasses even indoors on a cloudy day. Music fans are by their very nature a noisy lot. At all times they’re either listening to loud music or playing loud music on their instruments. For that reason, it’s best if they locate the music man cave at the bottom of the garden or deep in the basement with loads of [W]VLXZWWÅVO WV \PM _ITT[ <PI\ _Ia \PMa KIV KZIVS )+ ,+ ]X \W WV \PM [\MZMW WZ [\Z]U \PW[M BMXXMTQV ZQЄ[ WV \PMQZ MTMK\ZQK O]Q\IZ[ _Q\P total impunity. If music is a crucial enough part of a guy’s life to justify an entire man cave, then it must be played through a quality sound system. Music fans can get quite obsessive about this, dedicating months of their lives into searching out the very greatest diamond styli and waxing lyrical about VMWLaUQ]U UIOVM\[ IVL QVÅVQ\M JIІM []J _WWNMZ[ 2][\ JM []ZM VM^MZ to get one started on the reassuringly warm sound of vinyl.

THE SET UP • Music system (turntable, CD player, never an MP3 player—don’t get them started on sound quality and compression rates— amps, speakers) • Collection of vinyl records • Home recording studio • Listening armchair

GUITARS

CUSTOM ROSEWOOD FENDER TELECASTER

1959 GIBSON FLYING V

1968 FENDER STRATOCASTER

You don’t have to be Eric Clapton to appreciate the

Auction price: $434,750

Estimated value: $1 million

Estimated value: $2 million

beauty of a ﬁne guitar. Even if you can barely strum a

Once owned by: George Harrison

Once owned by: Albert King

Once owned by: Jimi Hendrix

chord, your music man cave still needs some collectible

The original prototype of this guitar was ﬂown across

Gibson manufactured only 17 of these models in 1959,

At Woodstock festival in 1969, Hendrix used his ﬁngers

axes displayed on its walls. Here are some of the highest-

the Atlantic to George Harrison in 1968 in its own

one of which ended up in the dexterous hands of

(and his teeth) to make this guitar sing. It now graces

priced models ever known to man.

airline seat. The Beatle famously played it on the roof of

bluesman Albert King. It’s now owned by Hollywood

a museum specially built by Microsoft co-founder Paul

the Apple Studios in London the following year.

actor Steven Seagal.

Allen who bought it for $1.3 million. The price has

Estimated value: $1 million

1958 GIBSON EXPLORER

1959 LES PAUL SUNBURST

Once owned by: Albert King

Estimated value: $500,000

Auction price: $1 million

Gibson manufactured only 17 of these models in 1959,

Once owned by: Eric Clapton

Once owned by: Keith Richards

one of which ended up in the dexterous hands of

Slowhand, as he was known, bought this guitar, one of

This is the axe that Keef used to record (I Can’t Get

bluesman Albert King. It’s now owned by Hollywood

only a handful manufactured by Gibson in 1958, from

No) Satisfaction in 1965. It’s rumoured it was later stolen

actor Steven Seagal.

a fan in Texas.

from the Rolling Stones guitarist when the band were on

1959 GIBSON FLYING V

since risen.

tour. In 2006 it was bought by a Swedish collector.

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ADVANTAGES OF A HOME GYM It’s always open.

Uncorrected proofs

It’s downstairs/ upstairs/ out the back. Therefore there are no excuses not to work out. You don’t have to wait for the equipment or weights. Get straight in there.

THE SET UP • Kettlebells and barbells • Suspension trainer • Bench and rack • Punch bag • Treadmill • Big mirror • Stereo

The only sweat on the equipment is your own.

MOTIVATIONAL DÉCOR Every gym needs a large mirRor to work out in front of. Yes, it’s vain, but if you can see your muscles bulging as you work out, it wilL encourage you to keEp going.

Hang posters of various gym heroes on the walL of your man cave. These

GUITARS

CUSTOM ROSEWOOD FENDER TELECASTER

1959 GIBSON FLYING V

1968 FENDER STRATOCASTER

You don’t have to be Eric Clapton to appreciate the

Auction price: $434,750

Estimated value: $1 million

Estimated value: $2 million

beauty of a ﬁne guitar. Even if you can barely strum a

Once owned by: George Harrison

Once owned by: Albert King

Once owned by: Jimi Hendrix

chord, your music man cave still needs some collectible

The original prototype of this guitar was ﬂown across

Gibson manufactured only 17 of these models in 1959,

At Woodstock festival in 1969, Hendrix used his ﬁngers

axes displayed on its walls. Here are some of the highest-

the Atlantic to George Harrison in 1968 in its own

one of which ended up in the dexterous hands of

(and his teeth) to make this guitar sing. It now graces

priced models ever known to man.

airline seat. The Beatle famously played it on the roof of

bluesman Albert King. It’s now owned by Hollywood

a museum specially built by Microsoft co-founder Paul

the Apple Studios in London the following year.

actor Steven Seagal.

Allen who bought it for $1.3 million. The price has

Estimated value: $1 million

1958 GIBSON EXPLORER

1959 LES PAUL SUNBURST

Once owned by: Albert King

Estimated value: $500,000

Auction price: $1 million

Gibson manufactured only 17 of these models in 1959,

Once owned by: Eric Clapton

Once owned by: Keith Richards

one of which ended up in the dexterous hands of

Slowhand, as he was known, bought this guitar, one of

This is the axe that Keef used to record (I Can’t Get

bluesman Albert King. It’s now owned by Hollywood

only a handful manufactured by Gibson in 1958, from

No) Satisfaction in 1965. It’s rumoured it was later stolen

actor Steven Seagal.

a fan in Texas.

from the Rolling Stones guitarist when the band were on

1959 GIBSON FLYING V

since risen.

tour. In 2006 it was bought by a Swedish collector.

29/07/2016 15:24

Game of Thrones Tarot Chronicle Books

Description This deluxe box houses a beautifully rendered and wholly original tarot card deck and detailed guidebook. Each of the 78 Major and Arcana cards features a tarot archetype depicted in the likeness of a GoT character, place, or object. Artist and tarot expert Craig Cross has hand cut a lino block for each card, which he then prints and watercolours. Tarot writer Liz Dean’s guide book provides an overview of the deck, how to interpret each card, and how to do a reading.

Author Details Liz Dean is a tarot practitioner of thirty years' standing, and the author of four tarot decks and ten books, including The Ultimate Guide to Tarot and The Art of Tarot. Craig Coss is an award-winning Bay Area fine artist, illustrator, and storyteller with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 Games & Puzzles

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9781452164342

Category

• Puzzles & Games

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 78 pages

Format

• 185mm x 155mm

·Crossover fan base: GoT fan base is huge, and tarot decks consistently sell well ·Incredible art: Craig Cross has perfectly married the traditional tarot archetypes with the likenesses of GoT characters ·Expert writer: Tarot expert Liz Dean delves into the meaning of each card and explains how to conduct a reading in her instructional booklet

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

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Game of Thrones Twin Pins Chronicle Books

Description Featuring the iconic Stark and Targaryen sigil from the hit HBO show, these two enamel pins offer a great way for Game of Thrones fans to declare their allegiance or to add instant flair to an outfit. Nestled inside a box tray with an acetate window, these pins can be worn together or shared with a friend.

Key Selling Points BESTSELLING ICONOGRAPHY: The family sigils for the Stark and Targaryen families are the most recognizable and loved in the GOT world. Merch featuring these icons outsells all the rest.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Kits

ISBN

• 9781452164281

Category

• Stationery

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 0 pages

Format

• 101mm x 101mm

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

BUILT-IN AUDIENCE: There is already a large market of GOT fans and pin enthusiasts – many of whom overlap. The GOT fan base is already buying wearable products to project their fandom, and pin collectors are always looking for new pop culture accessories to add to their collection. BRANDED CONTENT: Unlike the other GOT enamel pins out there, ours is licensed by HBO and the show. It will also have authorized GOT branding and the likeness of the actual show's icons. AWESOME VALUE: Unlike other pins out in stores, ours is packaged in a gifty tray box that makes it a great item for the price point. With two quality pins with every purchase, this is an amazing value.

ALSO AVAILABLE

Price

• AUD$24.99

Price

• AUD$24.99

ISBN

• 9781452159850

ISBN

• 9781452159836

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Lulu Guinness: Gift Wrap Book Lulu Guinness

Description 12 folded sheets of gift wrap in 4 different Lulu Guinness designs. Each sheet size is 594 x 440mm and folded twice with a perforated edge for easy removal. A sticker sheet is included at the back to complete your gift wrapping.

Author Details Lulu Guinness is one of the most important designers in Britain today. Her fashion accessories are critically acclaimed and sold worldwide. The Lulu Guinness intention since 1989 has always been to be slightly outré and push boundaries. Today the brand still abides by the motto, ‘Dare To Be Different’, and their adventurous accessories have become cult favourites around the globe. Lulu Guinness have stores in the UK, Taiwan, China, Thailand and the UAE. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$27.99 / NZ$29.99 Wrapping

ISBN

• 9781787130395

Category

• Stationery

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 12 pages

Format

• 297mm x 220mm

Illustrations

• N/A

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Lulu Guinness: Doll Face Magnetic Jotter Pad Lulu Guinness

Description Shopping lists, reminders and notes are given the Lulu glamorous touch with this Doll Face Magnetic Jotter Pad. Featuring a magnetic snap closure, flip top die-cut cover, sprayed edges and 128 tear-away blank pages adorned with the Lulu Guinness logo in gold.

ISBN

• AUD$16.99 / NZ$18.99 Notepads & Jotters • 9781787130401

Category

• Stationery

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 128 pages

Format

• 170mm x 70mm

Illustrations

• Gold logo on every page

Price

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Lulu Guinness: Boxed Ballpoint Pen Lulu Guinness

Description A covetable, refillable ballpoint pen printed with Lulu’s iconic scattered lips design and encased in a beautiful presentation box. The pen writes in black ink and accepts standard refills.

ISBN

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$21.99 Pencils / Pencil Cases / Pens • 9781787130418

Category

• Stationery

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • pages

Format

• 178mm x 56mm

Illustrations

• N/A

Price

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Science Museum: Set of A5 Paperback Notebooks Science Museum (Great Britain)

Description Part of the periodic table inspired stationery range, this set of 48pp notebooks, one lined and one dot matrix, is a must-have for anyone needing to write daily ideas and reminders (or even sparks of genius).

Author Details The Science Museum, London, welcomes over 3 million people a year, inspiring visitors of all generations to enjoy the wonders of science through interactive and immersive exhibitions. The museum's world-class collection of 300,000 objects forms an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical achievements from across the globe.

Publication Date 1st November 2017

ISBN

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$21.99 Notebooks Paperback • 9781787130623

Category

• Science

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 48 pages

Format

• 210mm x 148mm

Illustrations

• N/A

Price

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Science Museum: Jotter Pad Science Museum (Great Britain)

Description Part of the periodic table inspired stationery range, this jotter pad has 128pp with a flip top cover and magnetic closure, perfect for shopping lists or even the theory of everything.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$16.99 / NZ$18.99

ISBN

• 9781787130630

Category

• Stationery

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 128 pages

Format

• 110mm x 140mm

Illustrations

• N/A

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Science Museum: Periodic Table Fridge Magnets Science Museum (Great Britain)

Description Part of the periodic table inspired stationery range, this set contains 118 magnetic tiles featuring all the periodic elements plus a handful of helpful punctuation symbols to enable you to spell out a huge number of everyday words. Get a reaction by creating fun messages on your fridge while you're waiting for the kettle to boil.

• AUD$24.99 / NZ$26.99 Kits

ISBN

• 9781787130616

Category

• Stationery

Imprint Extent

• Quadrille Publishing Ltd • 118 pages

Format

• 190mm x 190mm

Illustrations

• N/A

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One Line a Day (Celestial) Chronicle Books

Description This stunning new version of our bestselling One Line a Day memory book features a dreamy watercolor cover design by Yao Cheng that shimmers with gold foil stars. Inside, watercolor-washed pages in full-color offer space to record a brief daily thought on the same day over five years – allowing journalers to rediscover past highlights while they reflect on the present. With a ribbon marker, padded cover, and gilded page edges, this handsome diary makes a chic bedside companion and a keepsake gift that will be treasured for years.

Author Details Yao Cheng is an artist and designer. Founded in 2012, Yao Cheng Design is her design studio and online shop, where she sells art prints, stationery, and home goods featuring her modern watercolors. She currently teaches an online series of watercolor classes with Creativebug. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 Notebooks & Journals

ISBN

• 9781452164601

Category

• Stationery

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 372 pages

Format

• 156mm x 95mm

Illustrations

• Full colour interior illustrations

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Key Selling Points Bestselling series: the One Line A Day series has sold over 1 million copies. Refreshes and widens the audience for bestselling content. Rising star artist.

Animal Friendship Notes

20 Different Notecards & Envelopes Ashley Percival

Description Adorable friendships between unlikely pairs of animal pals, rendered in the signature whimsical style of popular illustrator Ashley Percival. A lion and a tiger wearing fair isle sweaters hold hands, a turtle and a leopard skateboard, a polar bear and a seal share a snack. Sweet quirky cards for any occasion.

Author Details Ashley Percival is an illustrator from the United Kingdom. His illustrations have been licensed for a range of products including clothing, homeware, wall décor, art prints, stationery, cards, and album covers. His clients include Ikea, PBS, Papyrus, Monsterthreads, Brainbox Candy, Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Land of Nod, and Oopsy Daisy. His work has been published in Elle Decoration, Uppercase, Ammo, and Paper. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Notecards

Key Selling Points

ISBN

• 9781452158488

Category

• Stationery

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 20 pages

Format

• 141mm x 111mm

Illustrations

• 20 illustrations

·Broadly appealing: Ashley's off-beat drawings appeal to both men and women ·His successful collaborations with mainstream retailers prove that his style has broad commercial appeal ·Animal Friendships Notes stand out from the crowd with a unique colour palette and an unusual menagerie of creatures ·Fresh spin on a successful format

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Letters for the Year Lea Redmond

Description This extra special, extra large book of letters puts a new twist on the bestselling Letters to My ... series. With 52 tear-out-and-send letters to mail to friends and family throughout the year, it’s the perfect gift or self-buy for devoted or aspiring letter writers. A variety of prompts encompass a year’s worth of occasions, from notes of appreciation to just-because hellos. A log at the back helps the user keep track of the letters they send. From the inventive prompts to the colorful, vintage-style designs, Letters for the Year makes letter writing easy and fun.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$34.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781452165967

Category

• Stationery

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 52 pages

Format

• 95mm x 202mm

Illustrations

• Full-colour spot illustrations throughout

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Lea Redmond is a creative consultant and the brains behind the Letters to My ... series, Conversation Dice, World's Smallest Post Service, Connexio, My Museum: A Journal for Sketching AND Collecting, Lucky You!, and Tandem Activity Book. Her creative workshop, Leafcutter Designs, offers curious goods, surprising services, and projects for participation: www.leafcutterdesigns.com.

Key Selling Points ·BESTSELLING SERIES: Overall, the series has sold over 1,000,000 copies ·UNIQUE FORMAT: The original Letters to My ... format has garnered good gift guide coverage ·SERIES REFRESH: This title offers something new and special to the series

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Great Britain & Ireland Atlas 2018 Michelin

Description Full of practical features, the Michelin Great Britain and Ireland Atlas 2018 is the perfect companion for your everyday journey and holiday planning. Updated every year, it gives you clear and accurate information for a safe and enjoyable journey thanks to a detailed mapping scale of 1/300 000. Smart and practical, this atlas includes a route planner, a time and distance chart to help you optimise your journey as well as 52 city plans with QTR codes for an easy access to your smartphone for online mapping and tourist information! Michelin’s safety alerts warn you about dangerous driving areas, such as steep hills, level crossing as well as risk zone subject to tighter speed check. The Michelin Great Britain and Ireland Atlas 2018 also shows tourist sights, leisure facilities, as well as scenic routes so that you can make the most of your journey.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$44.99 / NZ$47.99 Spiral

ISBN

• 9782067217508

Category

• Travel

Imprint

• Michelin

Extent

• 194 pages

Format

• 286mm x 223mm

Illustrations

• N/A

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Key Selling Points ·Detailed mapping with a scale 1/300 000 (4.75 miles to 1 inch) ·Mileage chart and journey times to help you plan your journey ·Key to Map Pages to quickly access your region of interest ·Practical street plan section for an easy navigation in urban areas: 52 town plans embedded in the mapping of their surrounding area ·Easier navigation thanks to the location map featured on top of each page ·An extensive place name index to easily identify the destination of your choice ·Comprehensive and detailed key to symbols used

USA Canada Mexico Atlas 2018 Michelin

Description Whether it's an epic adventure, a short road trip, or a quick jaunt, Michelin's freshly updated, spiral-bound USA, Canada and Mexico Atlas with its clear, accurate mapping helps travellers find their way. This tiled atlas easily complements online navigation, while its big picture and road details aid in advance planning and en route decisions. Included is a section on events and festivals to add local colour to a trip, plus GPS coordinates to 2000+ parks for outdoor fun. Rely with confidence on Michelin’s deluxe atlas.

Key Selling Points

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$44.99 / NZ$47.99 Spiral

ISBN

• 9782067217553

Category

• Travel

Imprint

• Michelin

Extent

• 194 pages

Format

• 286mm x 230mm

Illustrations

• N/A

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

·Covers USA, Canada and Mexico. Scale 1:625,000 – 1:9,018,000 ·Spiral bound for lay-flat convenience ·Six-page travel inspiration section containing Michelin-selected festivals and events across the US and Canada occurring throughout the year, developed from Michelin’s famed travel guides ·12 full pages of GPS coordinates to US and Canadian national, state & provincial parks ·1000+ travel center locations clearly indicated on atlas pages for convenient stops while en route ·GPS-friendly; layout of tiled map pages complements online navigation systems ·Tiled atlas is user-friendly, convenient and logical to use, offering continuity when driving ·More than 240 large-scale city maps for navigating urban areas

Perth City Pocket Map 661 21st ed UBD Gregory's

Description A Perth city map in handy pocket size. Includes: ·Suburban coverage north to Yanchep and Bullsbrook, south to Rockingham and Mt Barker ·Suburbs and localities index ·Suburban Highlights ·1 : 5000 coverage of CBD ·1 : 10 000 coverage of Fremantle ·Index to CBD buildings ·Perth Airport map

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$6.99 / NZ$9.99 Paper Map

ISBN

• 9780731931309

Category

• Travel

Imprint

• UBD Gregory's

Extent

• pages

Format

• 540mm x 750mm

Illustrations

• N/A

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Darwin & Top End Map 590 21st ed UBD Gregory's

Description The 21st edition of the Darwin & Top End touring map is a useful tool when travelling in the area. There are regional touring map covering Darwin in the north, Katherine and Mataranka in the south, and also includes Daly River, Kakadu & Litchfield National Parks. Contains maps and a street index of Darwin & Palmerston city centres and surrounding suburbs; maps of Jabiru, Katherine and Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks, and a regional touring attractions and advertisers index.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$9.99 / NZ$12.99 Paper Map

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• 9780731931323

Category

• Travel

Imprint

• UBD Gregory's

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• pages

Format

• 575mm x 1000mm

Illustrations

• N/A

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Brisbane to Cairns Map 444 5th ed UBD Gregory's

Description The 5th Edition of the Brisbane to Cairns touring map will help you with your travels along the Queensland coast. It includes a Queensland state map highlighting the Bruce Highway from Brisbane to Cairns, strip maps featuring the best of the Bruce Highway, and visitor and touring information.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$9.99 / NZ$12.99 Paper Map

ISBN

• 9780731931156

Category

• Travel

Imprint

• UBD Gregory's

Extent

• pages

Format

• 575mm x 920mm

Illustrations

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A Year of Living Happily

Week-by-week activities to unlock the secrets to a happier way of being Lois Blyth

Description Experience a year of discovering how to swap worry and anxiety for joy and contentment using this guidebook of weekly prompts and activities. Here, Lois Blyth explains what happiness is – and what it is not – and shows how it is within everyone's reach. She details the science of happiness, such as developing a happy brain, and its power to heal and even extend life. Then, she suggests simple activities for each week of the year that will help you reframe your view of the world. Taking on each activity for just a week at a time makes it seems much less challenging, but also, once you've spent seven days consciously doing something new or thinking in a different way, you'll find that week's activity starts to become a habit.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781782494775

Category

• New Age/Inspirational

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 192 pages

Format

• 235mm x 190mm

Illustrations

• 100 colour artworks

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Lois Blyth is a writer of self-help and lifestyle books, several of which have been best-sellers. She is the author of The Power of Gratitude, The Joy of Friendship, The Little Pocket Book of Kindness, The Little Book of Hugs and The Little Pocket Book of Happiness.

Key Selling Points ·A subject matter that has wide appeal – everyone wants to be happy and an annual World Happiness Report was created in 2012 to examine the state of global happiness ·The Secrets of Happiness, by the same author, has sold over 7,000 copies · Follows Anna Black’s A Year of Living Mindfully, over 8,000 copies sold

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THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS

Nor are people in the UK quite as neighborly as they used to be, with 43 percent saying that neighbors are now less friendly than they were ten years ago, and only 22

Scientists have finally proved it—happiness is good for you. Those who are happy or

percent saying their neighbors are friendlier now. But overall, they are a pretty

have an optimistic and positive outlook are far less likely to suffer from clinical

contented bunch. A UK Happiness Formula poll found, in 2005, that 92 percent of

depression. Happiness appears to lead to a longer life, greater health, and increased

people described themselves as either fairly happy or very happy. Only 8 percent said

levels of resilience.

they were fairly or very unhappy; and over 60 percent spoke to up to five friends each week. It seems that the happiest country in the world is Switzerland, followed by Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, and the USA. Britain comes eighth.

Scientific research into the effects of happiness has an impressive pedigree. Aristotle

On the one hand, the statistics are interesting and provide food for thought; they

pondered the causes and impact of happiness as long ago as 322 BC. He suggested

are the stuff of future government policies and social science surveys. On the other

that the pursuit of happiness was an essential part of being human, and a goal in itself.

hand it feels slightly absurd to think that happiness can be measured and verified. Surely

More recently, scientists have discovered something that they call the “Happiness

there can be no completely reliable way to measure people’s feelings?

Paradox”—the more intent you are on pursuing solely your own path to happiness,

It is encouraging to know that governments around the world are now setting

the less likely you are to feel happy; whereas the more willing you are to focus on and help other people with no thought of your own gain, the happier and more content

policies that factor in the importance of happiness, but at the end of the day, no matter

you will be.

what the statistics say, each individual in every house, street, college, and office has the power to determine the collective optimism of a nation as a whole.

There is another paradox: even though the standard of living has increased in most Western countries over the past 30 years, national levels of happiness have not increased at all.

“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”

THE FORMULA FOR HAPPINESS The pursuit of happiness is part of our identity as human beings. For Americans, it is part of national identity too, embedded in the heart of the United States’ Declaration of Independence. The Declaration, signed after a long period of war and disagreement, confirmed the desire of the 13 States to become independent of the British Empire. Part of the US government’s responsibility to the people remains, “to effect their Safety and Happiness.” At government level, the concept of happiness is synonymous with a desire for freedom. In the early 1970s, 34 percent of people in the UK described themselves as “very happy.” By the late 1990s, at a time when the country’s economy was buoyant, the figure had dropped 4 percent. The improved standard of living across the country

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REFLECT… on dealing with negative feelings

RELEASING NEGATIVE FEELINGS A momentary pang of discontent can be a motivator; it might awaken the competitive part of you that shouts, “I want that; I can do that, too.” If it spurs you into action to bring about a change that you definitely want, the impact can be very positive. But if comparisons leave you feeling angry or sorry for yourself, there are a few other solutions to try:

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Pay attention to your body. Notice how you are feeling, and which areas of your body are being most affected. Are you feeling angry, tense, sad, frightened? Are you feeling the sensation in your stomach, your shoulders, your jaw, your heart?

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Take a deep breath and move your body. Shake your arms; jump on the spot; force yourself to smile; go for a run; find somewhere to shout in private, or to cry.

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Do something physical to shift the tension and encourage yourself to relax. (Reaching for a drink, the chocolate, or ramping up the speed while you go for a drive, are not such constructive reactions.)

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Many people find exercise or meditation to be useful—to release physical tension and help focus your mind on what truly has meaning in your life.

THIS WEEK... Make time for self-reflection Consider the following:

steps can you take to change things?

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When will you begin?

The choices that you would have had to make to achieve what you are coveting.

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The aspects of your life or situation that

Do you regret having made alternative

make you happy. What would you not be

decisions? Can you find it within yourself

without? Give yourself space to reflect on

to forgive yourself and move on?

these and be thankful that you are blessed.

The life or situation you have now. What is it that you are dissatisfied with? What

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Two Minute Mornings

A Journal to Win Your Day Every Day Neil Pasricha

Description The choices made in the morning can have a huge impact and this journal encourages readers to “win the day” in just a few minutes each morning. The simple, quick prompts are proven to increase happiness – focusing on gratitude, letting go of stress, and setting a daily intention – and set readers up for success every day.

Author Details Neil Pasricha is the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Equation, the Book of Awesome, and the Journal of Awesome. He's a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time, and founder of the Institute for Global Happiness.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Notebooks & Journals

ISBN

• 9781452163468

Category

• Stationery

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 304 pages

Format

• 159mm x 121mm

Illustrations

• N/A

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Key Selling Points ·Finding ways to be happier continues to be a preoccupation, and this journal provides a daily way to do quick things proven to make people feel happier ·Neil Pasricha shot to stardom as the author of his award-winning blog, 1000 Awesome Things, and the related Book of Awesome and Journal of Awesome. He is the author of several New York Times-bestselling books ·There are plenty of 'daily reflection,' 'goal-setting,' and 'gratitude' journals, but they don't offer the same kind of concrete and proven methods linked to increasing happiness

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I WILL LET GO OF . . . I AM GRATEFUL FOR . . . I WILL FOCUS ON . . .

If you’re not already sold, scientific research supports the positive effect of all these actions too. (More on PAGE TK) So what is Two Minute Mornings?

The difference in my life was both immediate and incredible. The two minutes helped me suddenly “win the morning,” which helped start momentum toward me “winning the day.” Letting go of something stressful helped me avoid mentally revisiting a worry throughout the day. The gratitude helped me be more positive every morning. And by deciding what to focus on I was able to remind myself of my biggest work goal for the day or simply commit to a happiness exercise – a twenty-minute run, buying coffee for a friend, or closing my eyes for a few minutes of deep breathing. I wanted to come through on my morning focus, so I suddenly started making time for those little happiness exercises. Sometimes, on a particularly busy day full of non-stop meetings and appointments, I used the focus sentence to simply remind myself what my high-level goal was that day.

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It’s a simple journal to help you rig the game so you can win it. It’s a quick therapeutic intervention from our futurefocused society to both feel better and get more done. No wonder research shows that a positive mindset results in 31 percent higher productivity, 37 percent higher sales, and 3 times more creativity. All from taking a few moments to let go of something, feel grateful, and bring some focus to your day. Two Minute Mornings is by far the best two minutes of my day, every day. I hope it becomes yours too.

Neil

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WHY IT WORKS

ON LETTING GO

ON CREATING A DAILY FOCUS

Research reported in Science magazine titled “Don’t look back in anger!” by Brassen, Gamer, Peters, Gluth, and Blüch (2012) shows that minimizing our regrets as we age creates greater contentment and happiness. The research also shows that holding on to regrets causes us to engage in more aggressive and risky behaviors in the future. The most healthy and happy people notice mistakes in their lives and then choose to let them go. This written exercise crystallizes that effect and allows those errors in judgment to pass through your mind instead of letting them grate on your mind all day.

The goal of the daily focus is to choose a small exercise to invest in your happiness. See below for proven examples, like exercise, journaling, meditation, or performing acts of random kindness. What about on those crazy busy days? Use the daily focus to write down your high-level goal or simply your most important task of the day so it doesn’t get lost. We left this section vague so you can best use it to align your thoughts on what counts for you. For me, I usually write down “Go for a 20-minute jog” or “Meditate before bed,” but sometimes I write something like “Teach, teach, teach!” (on a day I’m speaking to a lot of people) or “Listen as much as I can” (on a day I’m attending a conference).

ON GRATITUDE

Research by Emmons and McCullough (2003) shows if you write down five gratitudes a week you’re measurably happier over a ten-week period. Research shows the more specific you are the better. We know if people write down “family, food, job” or something similarly vague over and over, it really doesn’t cause an increase in happiness. Our minds don’t relive any specific experience. Try things like: “When Trooper learned to shake a paw,” “The moment I saw Ana bringing me a coffee,” or “How Antonio finally put the toilet seat down,” etc.

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Exercise: Pennsylvania

State University researchers reported in the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology that the more physically active people are, the greater their feelings of excitement and enthusiasm. A University of Texas study by Slatcher and Pennebaker called “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Words” showed that people who journaled for three consecutive days improved their communication, the quality of their relationships, and therefore, their happiness.

Journaling:

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I WILL LET GO OF . . .

I AM GRATEFUL FOR . . .

I WILL FOCUS ON . . .

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I WILL LET GO OF . . .

Writing 20 minutes about a positive experience dramatically improves happiness. Your brain relives it while writing it . . . and while reading it.

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The Angel Tarot

Includes a full deck of 78 specially commissioned tarot cards and a 64-page illustrated book Jayne Wallace

Description International clairvoyant Jayne Wallace presents her first Angel Tarot – a full deck of 78 angel-inspired cards that bring you daily messages and predictions from the angelic realm. Whether you need hope, guidance, love, insight, strength or healing, this unique tarot naturally guides you to intuitively connect with heaven-sent wisdom to find the answers you need. From predicting the future to seeing the past and present with clarity, these cards will show you where your heart and spirit need to go.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 All Cards

ISBN

• 9781782494737

Category

• Puzzles & Games

Imprint Extent

• Ryland Peters and Small • 64 pages

Format

• 160mm x 135mm

Illustrations

• 78 colour artworks

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Jayne Wallace is the founder of Psychic Sisters, a team of 15 clairvoyants working from her concession at Selfridges in London. Jayne has worked as a professional clairvoyant since the age of 17, and her abilities and authentic nature have led her to read for and work with celebrities. Jayne is a renowned spiritual teacher who has taught across the globe.

Key Selling Points · Jayne Wallace is an established author of tarot and angels – The Angel Tarot is a natural progression and synthesis of her knowledge · Angel tarots appeal to the widest potential readership, from those who need a gentle introduction to spiritual and esoteric experience to the tarot aficionado expanding upon their practice. · The Art of Tarot has sold over 253,000 copies and The Golden Tarot has sold over 95,000 copies

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Evening Mantras

For a peaceful now and an inspiring tomorrow CICO Books

Description Bring your day to a calm close, ready for the next, with Evening Mantras. Ending your day well will lead to a better night’s sleep and a more productive tomorrow. This collection of mantras and quotations will inspire you to reflect, appreciate and dream.

Key Selling Points · Companion to Morning Mantras.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781782495390

Category

• New Age/Inspirational

Imprint

• CICO

Extent

• 128 pages

Format

• 146mm x 146mm

Illustrations

• 100 colour photographs

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

I K N O W N O T H I N G W I T H A N Y C E R T A I N T Y, BUT THE SIGHT OF STARS MAKES ME DREAM Vincent Van Gogh

WE DO NOT LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE ... WE LEARN FROM REFLECTING ON EXPERIENCE

THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO BE

GRATEFUL FOR

TRUST IN DREAMS, FOR IN THEM IS H I D D E N T H E G A T E T O E T E R N I T Y. Khalil Gibran

The Book of Crystal Grids

A practical guide to achieving your dreams Philip Permutt

Description Crystals are renowned throughout the world as natural healers. They are also energy-boosters which help enhance our experience of living at every level, and can protect us by detoxifying our physical, emotional and spiritual systems from the stresses and strains of life. Within a crystal grid, their potential is magnified and directed. The Book of Crystal Grids presents all these amazing benefits in a format that’s direct and easy to use. Itis the ultimate practical reference from a highly respected crystal author, healer and teacher.

Author Details Philip Permutt discovered crystals almost 25 years ago after a severe illness. He has been practising as a crystal healer and teacher ever since, and owns and runs The Crystal Healer in St Albans, teaching, healing and selling crystals. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$34.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781782494829

Category

• New Age/Inspirational

Imprint

• CICO

Extent

• 160 pages

Format

• 235mm x 190mm

Illustrations

• 150 colour photographs

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Key Selling Points · Crystal grids have become popular on social media for both their beauty and their function · Philip Permutt is ‘Britain's leading crystal expert’ and a best-selling author: The Crystal Healer has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and The Complete Guide to Crystal Chakra Healing has sold over 30,000 copies worldwide

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THE BENEFITS OF CRYSTAL GRIDS

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쩢 Better meditation, deeper meditation, more insightful meditation

T H E P OW E R O F C RYS TA L G R I D S

쩢 Reducing anxiety, depression, fear, moodiness, stress

ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING THINGS ABOUT CRYSTAL GRIDS IS HOW SIMPLE THEY ARE.

쩢 Destroying self-doubt

PUT SOME CRYSTALS DOWN IN A GEOMETRIC PATTERN WHILE WISHING FOR YOUR DREAMS TO COME TRUE. IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT! AND CRYSTAL GRIDS CAN HELP YOU WITH ANYTHING

쩢 Help in regaining control

AT ALL. IF YOU CAN IMAGINE IT, THEN THE RIGHT CRYSTAL GRID CAN HELP TO MAKE IT

쩢 Better time management

HAPPEN. IT MAY BE SOMETHING PERSONAL AND VERY PRIVATE, SOMETHING TO HELP

쩢 Boosting spiritual awareness

EVERYONE IN YOUR HOME, OR SOMETHING SHARED WITH FRIENDS. IT MAY BE A BOOST

쩢 Improved psychic abilities

FOR YOUR CAREER OR BUSINESS. WHATEVER IT IS, SOLVING YOUR PROBLEM, ENHANCING

쩢 Creating prosperity

YOUR LIFE, AND FULFILLING YOUR DREAM IS JUST A FEW STEPPING STONES AWAY.

쩢 Ripening new skills

CRYSTAL GRIDS CAN BRING:

쩢 Regaining youthful energy and vitality

쩢 Positivity, a positive feeling to everything you do

쩢 Performing at your peak level

쩢 Personal healing, regaining and maintaining health

쩢 Enjoying life more and living your dreams

쩢 Cleansing negativity from your environment

쩢 Freedom for yourself and others

쩢 Focusing your goals

BENEFITS CRYSTAL GRIDS CAN GIVE TO YOUR BUSINESS INCLUDE:

쩢 Fulﬁlling your dreams 쩢 Bringing your ideas into physical form

쩢 More sales, customers, clients, patients, and the ones you actually want

쩢 Multiplying your personal power

쩢 More proﬁt

쩢 Discovering and growing caring, loving, passionate, sexually fulﬁlling relationships

쩢 More openings

쩢 Help for you, your partner, family, and friends in your home

쩢 More creativity 쩢 Finding the right employees

쩢 Release of emotional blocks from the past

쩢 Team building

쩢 Empowering you when you feel there is nothing you can do in a situation

쩢 Creating a calm environment 쩢 Security and safety

쩢 Help in taking your next step in life and moving forward

쩢 Removing negativity from your business premises

쩢 Conﬁdence, improved self-image

쩢 Expanding your business

쩢 Improved cognition, focus, memory, peace of mind 쩢 Clearing the fog in your mind, allowing you to see your ideas clearly

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STRENGTH AND PHYSICAL ABILITY This grid has several aims, all to do with accessing and applying your physical energy. Designed to give you the edge over the competition in any sport, physical competition, or personal challenge, it is built on the sacred geometry of the triangle, which is the strongest shape in nature.

PHYSICAL HEALING

FOCUS STONE

117

Carnelian

FIRST RING CRYSTALS

Aventurine x 3

SECOND RING CRYSTALS

Azurite

STRENGTH AND PHYSICAL ABILITY 117 17

Sunstone

SPORTS 118 Black agate

HEALTH AND HEALING 119 SACRED GEOMETRY

SLEEP 120

Double triangle (see page 147)

Hematite

FERTILITY 121 Dumortierite

Rutilated quartz

AMPLIFIERS

Above: Strength and physical ability, see opposite

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12 Sleighs of Christmas Sherri Duskey Rinker

• AUD$21.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781452145143

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 40 pages

Format

• 241mm x 279mm

Illustrations

• Full-colour throughout

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12 Sleighs of Christmas Sherri Duskey Rinker

UP-AND-COMING ARTIST: Jake Parker will be recognizable to many booksellers from his stand-out picture books The Little Snowplow, The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, Little Bot and Sparrow, and his young graphic novel Missile Mouse.

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Peek-a Who? Boxed Set Nina Laden

Description Three perennially popular board books in one appealing boxed set! The fun rhymes in each book help young readers guess what shapes they see through clever die-cuts on every page, and the final spreads engage readers young and old in a delightful conclusion.

Author Details Nina Laden is the author and illustrator of many children's books ranging from board books to picture books, including The Night I Followed the Dog and Are We There Yet? She lives in Seattle and Lummi Island, Washington.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$32.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9781452166131

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 66 pages

Format

• 127mm x 127mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

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EXCELLENT GIFT: A great baby shower and new baby gift. DISTINCTIVE FORMATS: The die-cuts and the mirrors make these books stand out from other board books, adding perceived value to the package.

TouchThinkLearn: Little Critters Xavier Deneux

Description With its signature format of spreads with raised shaped objects that fit into scooped cutouts on their opposite page, this new TouchThinkLearn book offers youngest learners an opportunity to explore in a hands-on, multisensory way. Seeing the image, tracing its shape, saying its name: these modes of perception combine to stimulate comprehension of essential concepts. Discover a bee and its hive by tracing the raised outline on one side, and the concave shape on the other! Related words on each spread offer parents and children a springboard for further conversation to encourage the language skills crucial to later successful learning. In a format unlike any other, these groundbreaking books translate abstract thought into tangible knowledge.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9781452165943

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 16 pages

Format

• 184mm x 184mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Xavier Deneux trained as a set designer early in his career and since then has applied a lifelong passion for child development to more than 100 books, including the TouchThinkLearn series. He lives in Paris, France.

Key Selling Points PERENNIAL APPEAL: Basic board books introducing first words like these have perennial appeal both in the home and institutional market. STURDY NOVELTY: These sturdy board books have all the appeal of a novelty book without any of the damage concerns. TACTILE EDUCATION: Concepts to be touched, felt, and experienced by the reader. A powerful learning tool relying on a methodology born out in a broad range of educational theory and application: Montessori, Waldorf, and beyond.

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Fly

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Dragonfly

eyes · antennae · thorax abdomen · wings · translucent pond · water · ripple hovering · flitting · darting

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Beetle half circle · wings · antennae · spots · pair · row stripes · legs · chomping · crawling · flying

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TouchThinkLearn: Wild Animals Xavier Deneux

Description With its signature format of spreads with raised shaped objects that fit into scooped cutouts on their opposite page, this new TouchThinkLearn book offers youngest learners an opportunity to explore in a hands-on, multisensory way. Seeing the image, tracing its shape, saying its name: these modes of perception combine to stimulate comprehension of essential concepts. Discover a monkey and its jungle home by tracing the raised outline on one side, and the concave shape on the other! Related words on each spread offer parents and children a springboard for further conversation to encourage the language skills crucial to later successful learning. In a format unlike any other, these groundbreaking books translate abstract thought into tangible knowledge.

Author Details Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$29.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9781452162881

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 16 pages

Format

• 184mm x 184mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

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Leopard

cub · spots · whiskers · paws tree · leaves · clouds · climbing exploring · balancing

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Crocodiles

teeth · jaws · wide open · shut · snout · nostrils mud · watering hole · bellowing · skedaddling · fleeing

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While You Are Sleeping Mariana Ruiz Johnson

Description A wordless picture book that depicts what is happening all around a sleeping child.

Author Details Mariana Ruiz Johnson is the daughter of two book artists. This is her second book to be published in English. She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Key Selling Points PERENNIALLY POPULAR TOPIC: Bedtime books are a steadfast category.

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$27.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781452165998

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 36 pages

Format

• 286mm x 286mm

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations

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FUN TO READ & RE-READ: Readers will pay repeat visits to the stylish illustrations to discover new details and sub-narratives. POPULAR GENRE: Wordless picture books have really come into their own in recent years. Their open-ended quality transcends age categories and inspires interactive and repeat readings. STAND-OUT ART: The art has an eclectic feel to it and adds a casual diversity (both human and interspecies!) to the list. GENEROUS TRIM: A nice value and also perfect for lap-sharing.

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Classic Storybook Fables Scott Gustafson

Description Children and adults alike will delight in reading aloud these enduring and enchantingly told stories, richly illustrated and fabulously reimagined by award-winning artist Scott Gustafson. Stories include 'The Little Red Hen,' 'The Princess and the Pea,' 'The Emperor’s New Clothes,' 'The Ugly Duckling,' and 'Beauty and the Beast.'

Author Details Scott Gustafson is the award-winning author and illustrator of Artisan’s Classic Fairy Tales, Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose, and Classic Bedtime Stories, as well as an illustrated novel for young readers entitled Eddie: The Last Youth of Edgar Allen Poe and many other illustrated children’s books. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$39.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9781579657048

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Workman

Extent

• 84 pages

Format

• 304.8mm x 266.7mm

Illustrations

• 48 full-colour paintings

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Key Selling Points Proven track record: Gustafson’s most recent titles, Classic Bedtime Stories, Classic Fairy Tales, and Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose, together have over half a million copies in print. Award-winning artist: Every Gustafson collection is a winner, from Classic Bedtime Stories (2014 Moonbeam Awards Gold Medal Winner) to Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose (2008 Ippy Silver, Best Children’s Picture Book) to Classic Fairy Tales (Chesley Award for Book Illustration). Attractively priced for year-round gifting: Eight beloved stories—brought to life with 50 original full-color paintings – for just $39.99!

Beauty and the Beast ONCE UPON A TIME there was a very rich merchant who had three d aughters. The girls were all pretty, but the youngest was so striking that even as a child, she was given the nickname “Beauty.” As she grew, the name continued to suit her, so Beauty she remained. She was not only beautiful to look at but a lovely person on the inside as well, and everyone who knew her adored her. Everyone, that is, except her sisters, who were envious of her in every way. Where she was humble and kind, they were proud and cruel. One day, without warning, the merchant lost his fortune. Overnight, the once wealthy family was forced to move from their luxurious mansion in the city to the merchant’s only remaining property: a humble farm in the country. The man went from being a gentleman in fine clothes to being a laborer in the fields. Beauty’s life also changed. The girls’ mother had died when Beauty was a young girl, and now, from early morning until well after dark, she alone cooked, sewed, cleaned, and did the thousand-and-one things it took to keep a household

slept late every morning, then expected Beauty to wait on them hand and foot. The

running smoothly. Even though her new life was hard and often made her sad, she

young men who had come to call when the sisters were rich no longer cared to visit

learned to take pride in her work, and at the end of a long day, she looked forward

proud young women who now were poor.

to resting by the fire, where she would read aloud to her father or play her harp. Her sisters, however, could not adapt to this new lifestyle. When they weren’t wailing and moaning, they were cross and spiteful. Bored with country life, they

Some time after the family’s move to the country, good news arrived. A trading ship that the merchant had invested in, and that was thought to have been lost at sea, had at last returned to port. Anticipating that he would make a profit on

“Ah, so you have daughters, do you?” the Beast growled. “Well, I will spare your life only if one of your daughters will come to take your place. But she must come of her own free will, and before you can go, you must swear to me that if one of them refuses to come, you yourself will return here in seven days.” “I swear!” the frightened man said. The merchant had no intention of letting one of his daughters take his place, but he agreed to go, if only to have a chance to say good-bye to his children. Then, as he turned to go, the Beast stopped suddenly, and in a surprisingly kind voice said, “No guest of this house ever goes away empty-handed. You will find a chest in the room where you slept. Fill it with whatever you want, and I will have it sent to your home.” With that, the Beast left him. In the bedroom, the merchant did indeed find a chest, and next to it were pieces of gold and jewels. “Well,” he thought, “if I am going to die, at least my children will be provided for.” So he placed some gold and jewels in the chest, closed the lid, and went to the stable to get his horse. Suddenly, behind him there was a terrifying roar, and he turned to see a horrible beast about to pounce on him. “How dare you?!” the Beast snarled. “I have saved your life, fed and clothed you, and made you a guest in my house, and you steal the one thing I love the most—my roses! I give you fifteen minutes to make your peace with heaven before I tear you limb from limb!” “Please!” the merchant cried, and he fell to his knees trembling. “Please, my lord, have pity! I took the rose only as a gift for one of my daughters, Beauty. I had no idea—”

As they finished eating, the Beast suddenly joined them. He was more frightening than she had ever imagined, and his terrifying presence filled even that large

She had looked away, but as she answered, her eyes met his. “Yes,” she replied. “Then you are a good daughter,” he said in a quiet voice. The tone of his reply

chamber. The merchant gasped and couldn’t stop himself from crying, for he knew

surprised Beauty, and for a moment she thought perhaps there was some kindness

that the moment he had feared the most was now upon them. Beauty trembled with

deep within the Beast after all. But then he turned to her father.

horror but tried desperately to compose herself for her father’s sake. “So, your daughter came after all,” said the creature as he fixed his beastly gaze upon her. “Tell me, did you come of your own free will?”

“And you,” he said sternly. “You must leave tomorrow morning and never return! Good night, Beauty,” he said, then left as quickly as he had come. This encounter with the monster had left her father weak and exhausted. As he

Mama, Do You Love Me? & Papa, Do You Love Me? Boxed Set Barbara M Joosse

Description A board book duo with the tender and reassuring message that a parent's love is unconditional and everlasting.

Author Details Barbara M. Joosse is the author of many books for children, including Mama, Do You Love Me?, Papa, Do You Love Me?, and I Love You the Purplest. She lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Barbara Lavallee's vibrant watercolour illustrations are well-known for their depictions of the natural world. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9781452166124

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 52 pages

Format

• 156mm x 130mm

Illustrations

• Full colour

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PERENNIAL CLASSICS: Both books were critically acclaimed, receiving starred reviews and best book of the year designations, and became bestselling classics beloved by new parents. Given the continued success of the books (and the fact that Papa has never been released as a board book), this new boxed set will resonate across a wide variety of markets. EXCELLENT GIFT: The perfect baby shower and new baby gift. NEILSEN BOOKSCAN STUDY: Board books and board book boxed sets are growth categories. #weneeddiversebooks: Perfect for the need for more culturally diverse titles, these books were created before the movement and hashtag.

Big Nate: A Good Old-Fashioned Wedgie Lincoln Peirce

Description Need a way to shut up some snooty kid when he gloats about his private school? Looking for the perfect response when your best friend joins the grammar police? Want a quick and easy way to out-snap even the snappiest comeback? Nate Wright has the answer: a good old-fashioned wedgie! Can Chad somehow survive on a diet of kale and soy nuts? Are Jenny and Artur EVER going to break up? And how is Nate supposed to concentrate on baseball when he’s got a crush on his team’s new pitcher? See for yourself! Join Nate and the rest of the crew for another unforgettable round of middle school adventures!

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$16.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781449462307

Category

• Child Fiction

Imprint Extent

• Andrews McMeel Publishing • 176 pages

Format

• 229mm x 152mm

Illustrations

• Cartoon strip

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Lincoln Peirce has been drawing the Big Nate comic strip for more than 20 years. Born in Ames, Iowa, Peirce grew up in Durham, New Hampshire. As a kid, he began creating his own strips in the sixth grade. Peirce taught high school in New York City and has created several animated pilots for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. He lives in Portland, Maine, with his family.

Key Selling Points #9 IN THE BIG NATE SERIES BESTSELLER: Big Nate books have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than three years. More than 9 million Big Nate books have been sold since 2010, including hardcover chapter books, activity books, boxed sets, and comic compilations. (2016). POP STAR: Big Nate is a big hit on Poptropica.com, the web's fastest-growing virtual world for kids. Big Nate Island was the site's biggest launch ever, visited by 2.2 million kids in the first week and more than 30 million since February 2009.

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Baby Chipmunk: Finger Puppet Book Chronicle Books

Description Meet Baby Chipmunk! How does Baby Chipmunk start her day? Where does Baby Chipmunk curl up for a nap? Follow along as she experiences her world, from playtime to snack time. An adorable finger puppet, warm illustrations, and a comforting story about the rhythms of baby chipmunk's day make this perfect for the very youngest readers.

Author Details Yu-Hsuan Huang, also known as Smallx2, is an illustrator and artist from Taichung City, Taiwan, where she lives with her family and cats

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$12.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9781452156125

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 12 pages

Format

• 111mm x 111mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

TRACK RECORD: The Finger Puppet series has sold more than 4 million copies! NEW ARTWORK FOR THE SERIES: This refresh brings an exciting new illustrator and design aesthetic to the bestselling Finger Puppet series, as well as a new prose-driven approach to the text. INTERACTIVE PEEKABOO PLAY: This series beautifully combines reading with interactive play. Die-cuts on every page become peekaboo holes for the finger puppet, or handles for a child to grip as they turn the pages. STURDY: The plush finger puppet is attached to the die-cut hole in the back cover so the puppet cannot be lost. GREAT VALUE: Only $12.99 for a novelty board book with finger puppet!

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Baby Giraffe: Finger Puppet Book Chronicle Books

Description Meet Baby Giraffe! What does Baby Giraffe like to eat? Where does Baby Giraffe play with his friends? Follow along as he experiences his world, from playtime to bedtime. An adorable finger puppet, warm illustrations, and a comforting story about the rhythms of baby giraffe's day make this perfect for the very youngest readers.

Author Details Yu-Hsuan Huang, also known as Smallx2, is an illustrator and artist from Taichung City, Taiwan, where she lives with her family and cats.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$12.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9781452156118

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 12 pages

Format

• 111mm x 111mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

NEW ARTWORK FOR THE SERIES: This refresh brings an exciting new illustrator and design aesthetic to the bestselling Finger Puppet series, as well as a new prose-driven approach to the text. INTERACTIVE PEEKABOO PLAY: This series beautifully combines reading with interactive play. Die-cuts on every page become peekaboo holes for the finger puppet, or handles for a child to grip as they turn the pages. STURDY: The plush finger puppet is attached to the die-cut hole in the back cover so the puppet cannot be lost. GREAT VALUE: Only $12.99 for a novelty board book with finger puppet!

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Travel Matching Game My Little Cities Jennifer Adams

Description This matching game includes 36 cards featuring Greg Pizzoli’s vibrant art, each with a classic symbol of travel from around the globe – modes of transportation, landmarks, and more! Pair suitcases, airplanes, and taxis to develop memory, concentration, and matching skills – while exploring the whole wide world!

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017

Jennifer Adams is well-known for her beloved BabyLit board book series, where she's brought classics from Pride and Prejudice to Alice in Wonderland to life for the youngest children in board book form. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Greg Pizzoli won the Geisel Medal for his first book, The Watermelon Seed, and his subsequent books have continued to garner much commercial and critical acclaim: most recently, his book Tricky Vic was one of ten New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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• AUD$24.99 Games & Puzzles

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ISBN

• 9781452153926

Category

• Puzzles & Games

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

GIFT FOR EVERY TODDLER: While this title uses the illustrator from My Little Cities, this matching game is really for every toddler! Big, bright pictures feature classic images of travel on every card, including text that says what the image is.

Extent

• 36 pages

Format

• 229mm x 229mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

WIDENS THE WORLD: While lovers of the book series will be delighted to supplement the world of the books with this format, the matching game will appeal to gift buyers, parents, and grandparents looking for the perfect gift for every toddler. GLOBAL AWARENESS: Teaching children about different cultures is a hot trend right now. This game can complement the trend at an early age.

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Motor Mix: Emergency Emily Snape

Description Motor-Mix a lifeboat, highway patrol car, snowplow, and more to invent an emergency vehicle all your own! Mix-and-match emergency vehicles to create entirely new constructions. The text – focusing on movement, sound, and location – can be mixed-and-matched as well, resulting in both silly sentences and educational fun.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$16.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9781452148380

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 16 pages

Format

• 178mm x 203mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Emily Snape is an author and illustrator who often finds herself stuck in traffic. The only thing to be done is daydream about a car that releases helicopter blades and can whirl her away. Despite the traffic, she lives in Bloomsbury, London, UK. Rilla Alexander is a world-travelling author and illustrator. She started out drawing pictures while in the backseat of a car in Australia (where she grew up), then flew in a plane to Great Britain and Germany (where she used to live), and has now landed in Portland, Oregon (where she currently lives). Sometimes she even remembers to look out the window!

Key Selling Points VEHICLE SUCCESS: Great new content for the many vehicle-obsessed kids (and parents) out there. 'INFINITE' PLAY: With 521 possible vehicle permutations per book, kids will want to try every combination! Good for hours of entertainment, vehicle obsessed kids and their parents will delight in mix-and-matching their favourite vehicles and reading the funny sounds and sentences that result, making for a playful, interactive bonding experience. INDEPENDENT OR PAIRED PLAY: Great for independent play or play with an adult or sibling who can read the accompanying text.

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Motor Mix: Flight Emily Snape

Description Motor-Mix a gyrocopter, lunar probe, jumbo jet, and more to invent a flying machine all your own! Mix-and-match flying vehicles to create entirely new constructions. The text – focusing on movement, sound, and location – can be mixed-and-matched as well, resulting in both silly sentences and educational fun.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$16.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9781452148397

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 16 pages

Format

• 178mm x 203mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

Emily Snape is an author and illustrator who often finds herself stuck in traffic. The only thing to be done is daydream about a car that releases helicopter blades and can whirl her away. Despite the traffic, she lives in Bloomsbury, London, UK. Rilla Alexander is a world-traveling author and illustrator. She started out drawing pictures while in the backseat of a car in Australia (where she grew up), then flew in a plane to Great Britain and Germany (where she used to live), and has now landed in Portland, Oregon (where she currently lives). Sometimes she even remembers to look out the window!

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Dress Up JoJo Xavier Deneux

Description Jojo loves to play dress-up! What will he be today? Will he be a snowman, a knight in shining armor . . . or maybe even a deep-sea diver? With sturdy movable parts on every page, young readers will have fun joining Jojo on his dress-up adventures. It's the perfect read-and-play book for Halloween . . . and any time of the year!

Author Details Xavier Deneux's chic, bold style and insightful grasp of what makes younger children think, connect, and smile has resulted in over 100 critically lauded books. He is the creator of the My First Slide-&-Play Book and TouchThinkLearn series. He lives in Paris, France.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Board Book

ISBN

• 9791027603060

Category

• Child Fiction

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 10 pages

Format

• 225mm x 173mm

Illustrations

• Full colour throughout

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Lively text and engaging art. Movable part on every spread.

: D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO BU PY T I O U TR C T A IS O D N R

“I am a snowman! Hello, winter!”

Jojo balances on a branch.

Jojo covers himself with snow.

“I am a leopard and light on my feet!”

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Jojo spins around and around. . . .

“I am an alien. Gloo-pi-do-gloop? Gloo-pi-DA-gloop!”

“I am an astronaut and I’m going to the moon!”

Jojo floats in outer space.

My Very Own Checklist: My Busy Day Sophie Bordet-Potillon

Description Young children like to put things in order and do things in sequence. My Very Own Checklist™ is a unique series that shows them how to create structure in their everyday activities through the use of sliding panels and simple checklists. Featuring 24 sliders to check off their successes, the books help build vocabulary and encourage little ones to be self-reliant and develop positive self-esteem. From waking up to giving a good-night hug, My Busy Day takes children through their first steps toward learning to do things on their own!

Author Details A former journalist, Sophie Bordet-Petillon now writes nonfiction books and workbooks for children. She lives in Paris. Peggy Nille cites her own great voyages as contributors to her expressive illustrations. She lives in Chartres, France. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 Hardback

ISBN

• 9791027603015

Category

• Child Picture

Imprint

• Chronicle Books

Extent

• 10 pages

Format

• 279mm x 241mm

Illustrations

• Full colour

Key Selling Points Features 24 sliders to check off their 'successes'! Includes everyday language and activities. Helps build vocabulary and develop picture and word association. Encourages children to be self-reliant. Develops positive self-esteem.

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Morning Checklist

Getting Dressed!

To start the day off right, follow Little Mouse. As you finish each step, slide the panel to the left. See if what you did matches Little Mouse. When all the panels on this pagehave been pushed to the left, you have completed the checklist!

Wake up

Underwear

Eat breakfast

Socks

T-shirt

Wash face

Get dressed

Sweater

Coat

Pants

Brush hair

Shoes I know which is right and which is left!

Put on coat. All done!

Mealtime Checklist

Setting the table!

Are you hungry? At meals, follow Little Mouseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steps.

Wash hands before eating

Help set the table

Put napkin around neck or on your lap

Eat with your mouth closed!

Help clear the table

Wipe any crumbs off your face!

Cup of water

Spoon

Fork. It goes to the left of the plate!

Napkin

Plate

Knife. It goes to the right of the plate!

Ultimate Emoji Sticker Activity Book, The Emojify Your World! Anna Brett

Description The Ultimate Emoji Sticker Activity Book is Carlton Kids' first exploration of the increasing popular universe of emojis. Fun for whole family to enjoy, this 72-page creative activity title has the potential to start a new series of emoji-based titles. With The Ultimate Emoji Sticker Activity Book you can now see the world as you've never seen it before… emojified! The perfect gift for any emoji-mad member in your family which, last time we looked up from our smartphones, was everyone. Packed to the rafters with over 50 creative and educational activity games, it has it all – from emoji history to design your own emoji, and from cut-out emoji masks to emoji sudoko!

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$14.99 / NZ$16.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781783122516

Category

• Child Novelty

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 72 pages

Format

• 270mm x 216mm

Illustrations

• Colour illustrations throughout

Anna Brett has worked in children's publishing for over seven years and has written and edited a huge variety of books. Her experience spans everything from curriculum-based reference to popular culture and books with digital extras, pop-ups and stickers. This means she's used to thinking upside down and back to front when it comes to fun activities for children!

Key Selling Points Emojis are the hottest stars of the small screen, and the world's fastest growing language. Billions of emojis are sent every day, making emojis the new universal language for the digital age. The word 'Emoji' was the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year in 2015. More and more emojis are released every few months, fuelling demand and even more fun. Includes more than 450 reusable emoji stickers. The world will go emoji-mad in August 2017 with the worldwide release of Sony Pictures' The Emoji

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Colour Quest: Cityscapes Michael O'Mara Description Colour Quest Cityscapes takes colour-by-number books to sky-scraping new heights, with 30 incredible skylines and buildings waiting to be revealed. Travel the world exploring the most striking, bold and exotic architecture the world has to offer with 30 single-sided designs to complete.

Author Details John Woodcock is a freelance illustrator who has worked for many UK and international publishers, as well as designers and ad agencies around the world. He lives in Suffolk with his wife, two dogs and a cat.

Key Selling Points

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$22.99 / NZ$24.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781782437987

Category

• Child Novelty

Imprint

• Michael O'Mara

Extent

• 64 pages

Format

• 370mm x 265mm

Illustrations

• Colour by number artworks

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Colour-by-numbers is taken to sky-scraping new heights in Colour Quest: Cityscapes, with 30 incredible skylines and buildings waiting to be revealed. Use colouring pens or pencils to colour the numbered shapes and uncover stunning and intricate artwork hidden on the page. Featuring iconic skylines and landmarks from New York, Rio de Janeiro and Dubai to the Taj Mahal, Sydney Opera House and the Colosseum, readers can travel the world using only a pack of coloured pens or pencils.

Also Available Price

• AUD$22.99 / NZ $24.99

ISBN

• 9781782435990

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History: A Map Colouring Book A World of History to Colour Buster Books Description Children can colour their way through time with this new history of the world colouring book. History: A Map Colouring Book? is the third book in our Map Colouring series, with a brand new illustrator and look. These bright and brilliant maps feature illustrations of everything from famous battles to fantastic inventions and amazing architecture to world leaders. Children can colour in the pictures and learn as they go from the bite-size historical facts accompanying each picture.

Author Details Charlotte Farmer graduated from London's Central St Martins in 2006 with an MA in Communication Design and has been working freelance ever since – drawing, writing and also designing catalogues for a variety of clients.

Key Selling Points Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$24.99 / NZ$26.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781780554310

Category

• Child Novelty

Imprint

• Buster Books

Extent

• 48 pages

Format

• 400mm x 285mm

Illustrations

• Full-colour

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From Shakespeare to Chanel and the first printing press to the siege of Troy, this book is packed with historical facts. Colour the pictures and discover things you never knew in this journey through the history of the world. The last two pages of the book will feature a timeline of the history of the world Illustrated by Charlotte Farmer.

Also Available Price

• AUD$27.99 / NZ $29.99

ISBN

• 9781780553610

The Hundred Years’ War was fought between England and France. It actually lasted 116 years and ended in 1453.

Charlemagne became King of the Franks in 768 CE.

World War I ended when the armistice was agreed on 11th November, 1918.

The Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889 to mark the centenary of the French Revolution Saint Joan of Arc died in 1431.

Paris The Palace of Versailles was first built for King Louis XIII as a hunting lodge in 1624. The first motion picture camera was invented by the Lumière brothers in 1895.

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The first manned hot-air balloon flight was demonstrated by French brothers Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier in 1783.

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FRANCE

The storming of the Bastille in Paris, 1789

Fra nette, Queen of lived 1 7 5 5 —1 7 9 3 .

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King Louis XIV ruled France for over 50 years from 1643 to 1715.

Coco C hanel, a French fashion designer, l i v e d 18 83 —1971.

Henri Matisse, an artist who led the Fauvist movement in the 1900s

General Napoléon Bonaparte lived from 1769 to 1821 and became Emperor of France in 1804. Charles de Gaulle, President of France, lived 1890 —1970.

The first ever Tour de France began on 1st July, 1903.

EUROPE 3

The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is the oldest Islamic monument.

ISRAEL

Jerusalem

Murex shells were used to make purple dye by the Phoenicians.

The Trojan Horse, described in the legend of the siege of Troy.

Ankara

Solomon’s Temple, completed in 957 BCE

Damascus

SYRIA

Süleyman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan, lived 1494 —1566.

TURKEY

The Orient-Express was a luxury train service that operated from 1883 to 1977.

IRAN

Cyrus the Great was King of Persia from 559 to 529 BCE.

Omar Khayyam, mathematician, poet and astronomer, lived 1048 —1131.

Cuneiform script was the most widely used writing system in the ancient Middle East and was first developed around 3500—3000 BCE.

Byzantine jewellery

EUROPE & ASIA

Ziggurat at Ur, built around 2100 BCE

Tehran

The Hittite people established an empire in 1600 BCE.

Richard the Lionheart, King of England, on the Third Crusade, 1189 —1192

‘Abbās I, Safavid Shah of Persia, lived 1571 —1629.

IRAQ

Baghdad

The Church of Mary Magdalene, built in Jerusalem in 1888 by Tsar Alexander III

Osman I is regarded as the founder of the Ottoman Turkish state.

The World in Numbers Buster Books

Description A quirky, full-colour illustrated book jam-packed with over 2,000 fascinating figures and facts, The World in Numbers lets figures do the talking. Each themed, colourful page is crammed with tonnes of fascinating number-led facts. Discover how fast a sneeze travels, how many Earths could fit inside the Sun, the size of a T-rex’s teeth and much, much more. From animals and adventures, to fashion, food, bugs and buildings – there’s something for everyone in this brilliant book.

Author Details

Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$21.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781780554785

Category

• Child Non Fiction

Imprint

• Buster Books

Extent

• 128 pages

Format

• 240mm x 170mm

Illustrations

• Full colour illustrations throughout

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Clive Gifford is an award-winning author with over 150 books published for children and adults including Out Of This World, Wow Science and Discover The Extreme World. His books have garnered much praise and won Children's Choice, NAPPA Gold Star, TES Book of the Year and Smithsonian awards. Marianne Taylor is a writer and editor whose career has been steered from the start by her obsessive interest in the natural world. She has written books on subjects from mountain gorillas and nature photography, to science and wildlife in London. Steve Martin lives in the English Midlands and makes his living from a wide range of writing including children's non-fiction, business communication and developing e-learning materials.

Key Selling Points Jam-packed with over 2,000 fascinating figures and facts. With quirky, humorous illustrations by Andrew Pinder.

The Moon 27.3

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days is how long it takes the Moon to rotate on its axis and to orbit the Earth. This is why we always see the same face of the Moon.

kilometres is the diameter of the Moon. The Earth’s diameter is 12,742 kilometres, making it over 3.5 times bigger.

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degrees Celsius is the maximum temperature of the Moon on its sunny side. That’s hot enough to boil water.

phases of the Moon complete its cycle. These are: new Moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent. The cycle then begins all over again.

of the famous Apollo space missions landed men on the Moon. These were Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

384,400

kilometres is the average distance of the Moon from the Earth.

Lunar Roving Vehicles have carried astronauts across the Moon’s surface.

3.8

centimetres is how much further away the Moon gets from the Earth each year.

years is how long it would take to walk to the Moon at an average walking speed of 4.8 kilometres per hour.

kilometres is the width of the widest craters on the Moon.

29.5

days is how long it takes to get from one full moon to the next. This is called the lunar cycle.

years is the

age of the Moon.

442,500

dollars were paid for just 0.2 grams of Moon dust in 1993.

kilometres is the depth of the Moon’s deepest crater.

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metres is the height of Mons Huygens, the tallest mountain on the Moon (just over half as high as Mount Everest).

seconds is how long it takes for light to travel from the Moon to the Earth.

high tides occur every day on every coastal beach on Earth because of the Moon’s pull on the oceans.

seconds worth of landing fuel was all that remained when Apollo 11 finally touched down on the Moon after a 4-day journey from the Earth.

kilograms of weight on Earth would only weigh 1 kilogram on the Moon.

2,500

golf balls were struck by Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard, while standing on the Moon.

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small step for man, giant leap for mankind. These were the words spoken by an astronaut called Neil Armstrong when he became the first man to walk on the Moon.

72.5 million

kilometres around the Sun is the distance the Earth travels while the Moon makes 1 orbit of the Earth.

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of the moon rock s given as presents ha ve gone mis sing.

per cent of people who took part in a 1988 survey actually thought the Moon was made of cheese!

other moons in the Solar System are bigger than our Moon.

Moons could fit inside the Earth if it was hollow.

Mother and Baby

year is how long a mother earwig spends taking care of her offspring. That’s around half her lifetime.

female is all you need to start a colony of whiptail lizards, because they can reproduce without needing any males.

years of devoted parental care is given to a baby orangutan by its mum.

161

female fur seals in a colony may all have pups fathered by the same male.

per cent of the time, a mother free-tailed bat finds her own baby among the 3,000 that are hanging around in the breeding cave. The rest of the time, she ends up with another bat’s baby.

metres is the length of a newborn blue whale. It weighs 2,700 kilograms. It will grow to 30 metres long and can weigh as much as 81,000 kilograms.

tiny baby Tasmanian devils can be born in a single litter, but the mother only has 4 teats, so most of the babies will starve and only the strongest survive.

1.8

metres is the height of a newborn giraffe.

is the average number of babies produced by an alpine salamander, after her 38-month pregnancy. She starts off with up to 60 babies growing inside her, but the oldest ones eat the rest during the pregnancy.

babies, genetically identical quadruplets, are born in each litter of nine-banded armadillos.

per cent of a whale’s milk is made up of fat.

31.7 34.5

to degrees Celsius is the temperature range at which crocodile eggs need to stay for the babies to be males. If the eggs are any cooler or warmer, they will be female.

egg is all that a female Cuban frog produces, but she takes great care of it.

20,000

baby scorpions can fit on their mum’s back. She carries them around all the time to keep them safe from danger.

eggs, laid by a grey partridge, made up the largest clutch of birds’ eggs ever recorded.

3.5

35,000

eggs may be produced by a female cane toad each time she spawns.

baby emperor penguins can live in a breeding colony. When the mother penguins return from fishing, they each have to find their own baby among all the others.

1,500

years is the length of time a frilled shark’s pregnancy lasts.

litters a year can be produced by a female house mouse, with 7 babies in an average litter.

months is how long baby polar bears may spend in a den, dug into the snow by their mother. They come out for the first time in early spring.

baby seahorses may be born in one go. It is the male that gives birth to them.

species of mammal is known to have males that produce milk. It’s the Dayak fruit bat of Malaysia.

months is how long a bromeliad crab guards and feeds her babies – no other species of crab provides any care at all to their offspring.

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grams is the weight of a newborn giant panda, just 0.13 per cent of its mother’s weight.

centimetres is the length of an adult paradoxical frog. But, as a tadpole, it is much bigger at 16.8 centimetres long.

weeks is the age at which a young quail (a type of small bird) can start having babies of its own.

baby black eagles hatch out in each nest, but the older one almost always kills the younger one.

Gaming Record Breakers

Winning streaks! Highest scores! Most downloads! Clive Gifford

Description Become an expert gamer with all the facts and records about the top consoles and computer games at your fingertips. Discover marathon game sessions, world-record high scores, best-selling games and the most expensive gear available in this must-have gaming guide. It's crammed full of facts, stats and eye-popping full-page images of the most amazing computer games ever made!

Author Details Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of over 150 books for children and adults. These include Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing, winner of the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize in 2014, and Cool Technology, which won the School Library Association Information Book Award 2013. Publication Date 1st November 2017 Price

• AUD$19.99 / NZ$22.99 Paperback

ISBN

• 9781783122974

Category

• Child Non Fiction

Imprint

• Carlton Books

Extent

• 112 pages

Format

• 285mm x 217mm

Illustrations

• Over 150 colour screengrabs and illustrations

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.hardiegrant.com.au/books

Key Selling Points Comprehensively updated for 2017, with all the latest stats and facts about record-breaking games such as Pokemon GO and Super Mario Run. Packed with all-action images from the world's favourite games, this is a dynamic and visually exciting book that will hook every young gamer. Full-page illustrations with bite-size box-outs of text and illustrated stats make this the most accessible book of its type.