Theresa Miller has spent decades working as a journalist and now media trainer, coaching people across all industries from CEOs and academics to climate campaigners, entrepreneurs and artists to communicate confidently, clearly and concisely. In Speak Up, she shows you how to successfully share your expertise and experience with an audience whether it's creating an inspiring work presentation or media release, blitzing a job interview or nailing your message on a podcast, panel, TV or radio interview.
'Theresa Miller is very good at what she does: training people to speak in the media. Speak Up is not a substitute for her coaching, but it does provide a step-by-step guide to getting your message across. Miller manages to cover everything, from having an idea to tailoring it for the audience. And it's a quick, easy and informative read.' Richard Aedy, podcaster and former Radio National presenter
'Theresa Miller sets out clearly and concisely how to deliver a speech and handle a media interview. I loved that she not only explained what to do in these situations, but also what not to do. The book is an outstanding guide to public speaking from an experienced practitioner.' Tim Dunlop, speaker and author of Why The Future Is Workless
'Great speakers aren't born, they're made: here's a clear guide for anyone who wants to ditch the nerves and conquer public speaking.' Catherine Fox AM, commentator, award-winning journalist and author of Breaking the Boss Bias: How to get more women into leadership
'Theresa Miller has been working at the media coalface for decades and knows better than most how to cut through the jungle of noise, nonsense, and hollow corporate spin. Speak Up is jam-packed with smart, simple, practical tools to empower even the most reluctant speaker. Far from complicated, great communication ows easily when you understand the core principles of storytelling, as laid out in this highly accessible book. Once read, it's a book you will frequently return to for a pep talk reminder!' Virginia Haussegger AM, award-winning journalist, gender equity advocate and author of Unfinished Revolution: The feminist fightback
'I wish I'd found Speak Up at the beginning of my public speaking journey.' Dr Terri Janke, Indigenous lawyer and author of True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture
'Speak Up is refreshingly practical. Miller doesn't just tell you to "be condent" she provides the actual structures, from the "point, reason, example, so what?" framework to crisis communication protocols tested in real-world situations. Her examples range from scientists explaining pandemic modelling to lawyers navigating media scrutiny, making the advice relevant across a range of areas...Speak Up gives the tools to share your message eectively.' Kim McKay AO, Director and CEO of the Australian Museum
'As a journalist, I've interviewed hundreds of people who know their subject inside out but freeze the moment a microphone appears. Speak Up explains exactly why that happens and, more importantly, how to x it. Theresa Miller writes with the authority of someone who has lived on both sides of the media divide: as a reporter under deadline pressure and as a coach helping people survive those encounters with their credibility intact...What I value most about this book is its honesty. Theresa doesn't glamorise the media or oversimplify public speaking...For journalists, academics, leaders and anyone who believes facts still matter in public life, Speak Up is both a reality check and a generous guide.' Sandra Sully AM, senior journalist and presenter for 10 News First, Sydney and Queensland
]]>Shifting between the personal and the historical with lyrical precision, Raven Mother grapples with the grand scale of global events and the intimate struggles of family and memory.
'In seeking the truth about her grandmother, Messer uncovers far more than a family history. Her thorough journey reveals profound questions of identity, loss, and displacement, while exposing the deep-rooted racism and injustice woven through the world she explores.' Majeda Awawdeh
'With evenhandedness and generosity of spirit, Jane Messer's minutely researched history of dispossession and genocide embraces both her Jewish roots stretching back to Berlin before the Holocaust and, with unflinching clear-sightedness, the story of Palestine. It is a plain-speaking, remarkable and deeply affecting book.' Robert Dessaix
'Raven Mother takes us on a deeply moving journey of discovery. While we have begun to understand how tenaciously the traumas of our parents live on within us, it takes a writer of Messer's calibre to apprehend this phenomenon with such verve, candour and insight. As her travels into her father's past demonstrate so palpably, what we draw from our parents' complex histories can change over time if we are brave enough to face them.' Sara Dowse
'A beautifully etched excursion through muddied layers of history and memories of place, Raven Mother is an unexpected homage to the fault lines of family.' Andrea Durbach
'An important work of enquiry into one of the most contested pieces of land on this earth through one family's story. A fine book illustrating the sorrows and resilience of life and why we must not look away from the suffering of others.' Susan Johnson
'Wise, poignant and beautiful, Raven Mother builds an arch over the here-and-now to connect an individual life with a family and communal past. This is a book that matters. It can only enrich our understanding of the present.' Malcolm Knox
'Messer's search for her grandmother is gripping and forensic, asking difficult questions about history and memory. It is both epic and personal. A moving and beautifully written memoir.' Catharine Lumby
'...poetically beautiful, fascinating, special...so rare in the landscape of writing about IsraelPalestine and JewishArab relations.' Yonatan Mendel
]]>As the daughter of a refugee, she finds herself compelled to write about fractured lives, marginal people and migration.
]]>Penelope Lucas came to Australia in 1805, in her thirties, unmarried she was the first well-educated woman to travel independently from Europe to Australia and looking forward to living on inherited income. While Elizabeth Macarthur was unsurprisingly upset when her husband, John, arrived back from three years in England with a woman she had never heard of, Penelope went on to live with the Macarthurs for over thirty years and became close friends with Elizabeth.
In this revelatory work, Atkinson brings together fifty years of scholarship as he explores the gender dynamics of the Macarthur household and the life of a single woman of means in Georgian England and early colonial Sydney.
'A prodigious feat of historical imagination.' Matthew Allen
'Exquisitely written and meticulously researched.' Alecia Simmonds
'As delicately observational as it is learned...Atkinson writes with the lightest touch.' Alison Bashford
]]>When visitors think of Australia, they expect strange wildlife such as kangaroos, platypus, koalas, and cassowaries. Yet nothing prepares people for the otherworldly landscapes of mallee and mulga woodlands, karri forests, and spinifex and gibber deserts. This illustrated guide covers every major habitat found on the continent together with those of New Guinea and the Solomons. Making the otherworldly understandable, it presents an easy-to-use system for exploring and enjoying habitats by combining wildlife assemblages with descriptions of habitat structure, climate, soils, and botany. Packed with invaluable information, Habitats of Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomons completely redefines how we experience the landscapes and wildlife in this spectacular region of the world.
]]>Charley Hesse is a professional nature guide whose books include (with Iain Campbell, Ken Behrens, and Phil Chaon) Habitats of the World (Princeton).
Phil Gregory is a professional nature guide whose books include (with Richard Allen) Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds (Princeton).
]]>The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution illustrates how, far from being an unchangeable, technical legal contract, the Australian Constitution gives people the power to participate in and decide the shape of government and the policies it adopts. Leading legal academics Rosalind Dixon and William Partlett shed light on what Governor-General John Kerr did not acknowledge about the Constitution when he dismissed the Whitlam government, the tension between Australia's Christian settler-colonial constitutional identity and the recognition of First Nations peoples, the advantages and risks of constitutional change and much more.
At almost 125 years old, Australia's Constitution is one of the oldest in the world, and while this has brought stability, it also gives the Australian people an opportunity to participate in adapting it to changing times.
'If the Voice referendum has taught us anything, it is that there is a huge gap in civic education in this country. This book will foster better understanding of our Constitution and empower Australians to become more informed voters and citizens, which is a win for our democracy.' Jennifer Robinson, Human Rights Lawyer
'The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution is a comprehensive and readable explanation of its history and working. A basic understanding of our Constitution is essential to our representative democracy. It is the legal infrastructure for the operation of our democracy, the maintenance of the rule of law, the limitation of official power and the protection of important freedoms.' The Hon Robert French AC
'An important resource that inspires Australians toward a transformative, genuine sovereign democracy and understanding.' Waskam Emelda Davis, Emeritus City of Sydney Councillor
'The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution brings public power closer to the people. By celebrating the strengths and commitments embedded in our constitutional story, readers are invited to question, to understand, and to participate in the story of our nation, whilst offering a vital understanding of the legal guardrails that have shaped Australia. In Ros and William's skilled hands, we are empowered to claim our role in shaping the future of Australia's democracy.' Liesl Tesch, Member of the Legislative Assembly and double Paralympian
]]>William Partlett is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne Law School and Co-Director of its Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. He is also the Stephen Charles Fellow at the Centre for Public Integrity. Beyond his academic publications, Partlett has written extensively about constitutions for popular audiences in The Conversation, The National Interest, Pursuit, Crikey, and The Age.
]]>In the early days members were vetted, women weren't welcome and having fiction on the shelves raised eyebrows. Libraries today are vibrant cultural hubs open to all and are shaped by the people they serve.
A love letter to libraries everywhere, The Library that Made Me is a book readers will want on permanent loan. It will make you wonder about the library that made you.
]]>Phillipa McGuinness is the editor of Openbook, the State Library of NSW's quarterly magazine, and the Library's Lead, Editing and Publishing. A former non-fiction book publisher, she is the editor of Copyfight, and author of The Year Everything Changed 2001 and Skin Deep: The inside story of our outer selves. A keynote speaker and regular host of literary events, she has written for Griffith Review, Meanjin, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Australian Magazine, The Australian Women's Weekly and The Monthly.
]]>In this striking, highly personal volume, acclaimed cookbook author Nancy Singleton Hachisu introduces readers to the regional chefs and artisans at the heart of Japan's unique food culture. Bringing to bear more than three decades of life in the Japanese countryside and over a decade as a food writer and champion of artisanal Japanese food traditions, she offers unique recipes, spectacular photographs and insightful essays about chefs and producers across Japan.
The 140 recipes created by seven remarkable Japanese chefs use local, seasonal ingredients to deliver intense, sophisticated flavours in an approachable way. Each of these Franco-Japanese, Italianate-Japanese and classic, yet modern Japanese dishes have been meticulously tested in the author's home kitchen. Readers will find here:
Hachisu's passion for food traditions is shared by the chefs and artisans making this book an inspiration for anyone who appreciates food on a deeply personal level. Yet it is also a cookbook to be splashed on, marked up, and used to reproduce the very best that Japanese cuisine has to offer in their own kitchens.
]]>Alice Waters is a chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California.
]]>Embroidery is one of the world's most widely shared forms of creative expression and one of its most varied and diverse. It can be found in every region, yet its visual languages, themes, and techniques vary greatly: some are marked by unique styles and others show influences from neighbouring cultures. The Atlas of World Embroidery examines many distinctive embroidery styles and traditions found across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.
From the quillwork and birch boxes of Indigenous North America to the decorative matyo style of Hungary, the zardozi embroiderers of India, and the satin stitches of Han Dynasty China, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood provides a comprehensive history of embroidery, describing its materials and tools, its designs and symbols, and its uses and makers. Emphasising the visual aspects of embroidery across cultures, the atlas features an unprecedented array of colour images celebrating the art form.
Organised geographically by region and country, and focusing on hand needlework with relevant examples of machine forms, The Atlas of World Embroidery is a beautiful and authoritative exploration of this ancient craft.
]]>Of all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the written word, often serving to visualise, enhance, or respond to a text. Reading Pictures presents a global history of this versatile art form, linking its emergence to modern developments such as the illustrated news, recreational reading, and ad-driven consumer culture.
From the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century to the modernist artistic and cultural movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, D. B. Dowd traces the development of illustration as an integral part of the reading experience. He examines the move from ancient scrolls to pamphlets and book forms, and a return to the scroll in electronic form on smartphones and tablets. His story begins with relief prints and woodcuts in ancient China and Japan before moving to printing and platemaking in early modern Europe. Dowd discusses how book and periodical publishing rose sharply with the innovations of wood engraving and lithography, leading to a boom in cultural literacy; and how the illustrated press reached its zenith between the 1860s and 1960s, as printed entertainment and the news of the world became commonplace in every household, bringing with them advertising, propaganda, and consumer culture.
Richly illustrated with more than four hundred images spanning the iconic to the unexpected, Reading Pictures reframes the story of illustration within the broader histories of race, gender, literacy, and the transmission of cultural memory. It reveals how reading and looking have become increasingly integrated, and that, as images have become ever more prevalent today with the digital revolution, what is meant by literacy has evolved.
]]>Eirene Mort (18791977) and Nora Kate Weston (18801965) were dynamic 'New Women' who made valuable contributions to art in Australia, challenged gender conventions and were determined to be recognised as professional artists in spite of the societal conventions of the time.
Though better known today, Eirene always regarded her work with Nora as collaborative, a sentiment that Double Act embraces, drawing Nora out of the shadows to take equal place in a relationship that the women considered complementary and intertwined.
Structured chronologically, Double Act also includes 'spotlights' on particular artistic themes, such as Eirene's botanical art, the pair's joint creations and Eirene's bookplates. Martin a queer woman herself uses self-reflection as a tool throughout to deepen the impact of this beautiful and moving dual biography.
This book will appeal to readers interested in art, design and social history, including queer history. Martin has drawn on the extensive papers, artworks, photographs and more in the National Library of Australia's collections. The result: a richly illustrated and important biography of the shared lives of Eirene Mort and Nora Kate Weston.
]]>'Dearly beloved', 'say the word', 'the powers that be', 'for ever and ever' these familiar phrases and many more were set down in print for the first time by William Tyndale. For his groundbreaking English translation of the Bible, he deliberately chose to write in a way that could be understood by the widest possible audience.
In the first half of this pioneering exploration of the extraordinary impact Tyndale's writing had on the development of the English language, David Crystal provides an analysis of his prose style, demonstrating its character as a novel genre of 'written speech', and bringing to light the remarkable number of cases where Tyndale is the first recorded user of a word or phrase in English. He also draws attention to the hitherto unrecognised role of Tyndale as an early lexicographer. The second half of the book is a linguistic detective story, devising an innovative lexical and grammatical metric to investigate the often-stated claim that eighty per cent of later biblical translations display Tyndale's influence. The result is a fascinating exploration of the work of the Father of the English Bible.
]]>With the arrival of printing, typesetting and the development of the newspaper industry came terminology that developed into commonly used phrases such as stop the press, front-page news and hit the headlines, and the emergence of the internet generated still more.
This anthology presents a selection of more than 100 words which show the influence of writing, reading and publishing books on our everyday vocabulary over the centuries, telling the stories behind their linguistic origins, and uncovering some surprising twists in the development of their meaning through time.
]]>On the fringes of Bloomsbury, and friends with D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot and many others, Mansfield was at the heart of literary London at its most experimental. By the time of her death in 1923, aged just 34, she had broken boundaries and created new ways of writing that led her literary sparring partner Virginia Woolf to later admit that Mansfield's 'was the only writing I was ever jealous of'.
Based on compelling new research, Gerri Kimber challenges previous conceptions surrounding the author's life, uncovers friendships and relationships formerly barely acknowledged and offers innovative readings of Mansfield's most celebrated stories.
'This is a glorious treat for all Katherine Mansfield enthusiasts. It's a painstakingly researched and stylishly told account of Mansfield's tempestuous life, with much new information, and sensitive analysis of her brilliant short stories.' Dame Jacqueline Wilson
]]>Shifting Sands: A Pocket Essential History of the Middle East makes sense of the shifting sands of Middle Eastern History, beginning with the early cultures of the area and moving on to the Roman and Persian Empires; the growth of Christianity; the rise of Islam; the invasions from the east; Genghis Khan's Mongol hordes; the Ottoman Turks and the rise of radicalism in the modern world symbolized by the Islamic State.
This updated and expanded new edition describes the turmoil of recent years including the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and the bloody and brutal Gaza War that followed.
]]>Centuries before anyone ever thought of keeping a gratitude journal, the Aztecs understood the profound value of being grateful. For generations, specially trained Aztec public speakers presented traditional dialogues at marriages, births, funerals, government ceremonies, and other important occasions. In these dialogues, people of different generations are imagined speaking to each other with mutual respect and gratitude across time, encouraging listeners to be grateful to their contemporaries, elders, and ancestors, as well as the divine, and reminding the living what they owe to future generations. In the late 1500s, one of these Aztec speakers, Pablo of Texcoco, recorded a collection of these dialogues, now known as the Bancroft Dialogues. In How to Be Grateful, Nahuatl- or Aztec-language specialist Frances Karttunen and Camilla Townsend, Cundhill History Prizewinning author of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs, present this fascinating work in an accessible translation that also features the original Nahuatl text on facing pages.
Although Pablo lived under Spanish rule, his parents, grandparents, and elderly teachers recalled the world before the Europeans arrived, and his dialogues, which delight in colorful metaphors and wry humor, offer remarkable insights into preconquest Aztec society, philosophy, and language. Pablo's dialogues tell readers they will be loved and honored today and by future generations if they repay those who have helped them the living, the dead, and the divine. The living should pay these debts by helping their people and ensuring their future by 'paying it forward' as we say today.
]]>Frances Karttunen retired as Senior University Research Scientist at the Linguistics Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, where she established the Early Mesoamerican Languages Project. Her books include The Art of Nahuatl Speech: The Bancroft Dialogues.
Camilla Townsend is the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her books include the Cundhill History Prize-winning Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs.
]]>To feel is to suffer. But do we have to suffer as much as we do? Twenty-five hundred years ago, the Buddha discovered that practices of mindfully observing our feelings and emotions can help us gain some distance from them. In How to Feel, Maria Heim provides new translations of essential early Buddhist teachings on mindfulness meditation and connects them to recent findings in psychology and neuroscience. A superb meditation manual and insightful exploration of psychology, the book also provides a brief introduction to Buddhism and features the original Pali-language texts on facing pages.
Drawing from the Samyutta Nikaya, an early canonical collection, How to Feel introduces Buddhist practices of mindfulness. Using them, we can watch feelings come and go like winds passing through the sky. We can observe what causes our negative emotions and learn to shift our attention to other things. We can see where emotions lead us and learn to redirect them. We will still feel, but, with practice, emotions will have less control over us.
Just as they did in ancient India, the teachings in How to Feel offer today's readers radically new and more enlightened ways to experience emotions.
]]>Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College. She is the author of Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India and one of the translators of How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go (both Princeton).
]]>Having touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of readers, Mark Nepo's wisdom continues to be a daily guide for living life in hard times and good times and, most importantly, living authentically. Presented as a series of sixty-four full-colour, beautifully designed inspiration cards, Mark Nepo's words will help people meet their days and inhabit their lives.
You can use these cards in a variety of ways to receive the benefits from the inspirational text:
The wisdom in The Book of Awakening has empowered millions to change their thinking and their lives. May The Book of Awakening Inspiration Deck motivate you in your journey to creating the life of your dreams.
]]>Today, only three species of elephants survive the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). However, these modern giants represent just a fraction of the vast and diverse order Proboscidea, which includes not only living elephants but also their many extinct relatives. Over the past 60 million years, proboscideans have evolved and adapted across five continents, giving rise to an astonishing variety of forms, from the massive, woolly-coated mammoths of the Ice Age to the diminutive, island-dwelling dwarf elephants.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of proboscidean biology and evolutionary history, shedding light on the remarkable diversity of these extraordinary mammals. It delves into the anatomical characteristics of every known species, from the towering steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) and the shovel-tusked Amebelodon to the semi-aquatic Moeritherium and the enigmatic Deinotherium. Readers will discover how these creatures developed an array of specialised adaptations, including variations in tusk shape and function, highly flexible trunks suited for different feeding strategies, and unique dental structures that allowed them to process a wide range of vegetation.
Accompanied by stunning illustrations by Shu-yu Hsu, Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives brings these ancient giants back to life, offering a visually captivating and scientifically rigorous journey through their evolutionary past. Whether you are a paleontology enthusiast, a student of evolutionary biology, or a researcher in the field, this book serves as an indispensable reference for understanding one of the most extraordinary groups of animals ever to walk the earth.
]]>Marco P. Ferretti is associate professor of paleontology at the University of Camerino in Italy. Specialising in the systematics and evolution of fossil proboscideans, he has authored numerous scientific publications and participated in fieldwork across Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.
Born in 1967 in Taipei, Taiwan, Shu-yu Hsu studied art in college and worked as an illustrator, storyboard artist, and film art director. He also creates paleoart, illustrating and designing figurines of extinct animals, with his work featured in museums worldwide.
]]>Financial literacy gives you the tools to build your personal financial statement... which tells you the story about how you are managing your cash flow. The language of money can be confusing and intimidating. But, like it or not, 'money' in all of its shapes and forms is a part of our daily lives. And the more we understand money, and the language of money, the more power we have over our future. Words are the most powerful tools you can possess. Challenge yourself and your family to master the language of money.
The lessons in this book are simple ones and, like those in Rich Dad Poor Dad, they have guided me over the years. I learned that the path to wealth wasn't about being obsessed with getting the high-paying job or striving for the next promotion and pay raise. I learned that my financial destiny was not dependent upon my boss, a pay raise, the company, the economy, or luck. I learned that I could be in control.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads - his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad - and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.
25 Years...20/20 Hindsight
In the 25th Anniversary Edition of this classic, Robert offers an update on what we've seen over the past 25 years related to money, investing, and the global economy. Sidebars throughout the book will take readers "fast forward" - from 1997 to today - as Robert assesses how the principles taught by his rich dad have stood the test of time.
In many ways, the messages of Rich Dad Poor Dad, messages that were criticized and challenged two decades ago, are more meaningful, relevant and important today than they were 25 years ago.
As always, readers can expect that Robert will be candid, insightful... and continue to rock more than a few boats in his retrospective.
Will there be a few surprises? Count on it.
Rich Dad Poor Dad...
Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich
Challenges the belief that your house is an asset
Shows parents why they can't rely on the school system to teach their kids
about money
Defines once and for all an asset and a liability
Teaches you what to teach your kids about money for their future financial
success
Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads - his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad - and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.
25 Years...20/20 Hindsight
In the 25th Anniversary Edition of this classic, Robert offers an update on what we've seen over the past 25 years related to money, investing, and the global economy. Sidebars throughout the book will take readers "fast forward" - from 1997 to today - as Robert assesses how the principles taught by his rich dad have stood the test of time.
In many ways, the messages of Rich Dad Poor Dad, messages that were criticized and challenged two decades ago, are more meaningful, relevant and important today than they were 25 years ago.
As always, readers can expect that Robert will be candid, insightful... and continue to rock more than a few boats in his retrospective.
Will there be a few surprises? Count on it.
Rich Dad Poor Dad...
Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich
Challenges the belief that your house is an asset
Shows parents why they can't rely on the school system to teach their kids
about money
Defines once and for all an asset and a liability
Teaches you what to teach your kids about money for their future financial
success
A book on technique, style, craft and manners for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design, structure and planning. Enriched by examples of fine prose from great writers including Tim Winton; flush with exercises informed by the author's expertise in both creative writing and functional prose; and written with flair, The Little Red Writing Book is a lively and readable guide to lively and readable writing.
]]>In The Little Green Grammar Book, Mark Tredinnick asks and answers the tough grammar questions big and small with the same verve and authority readers encountered in The Little Red Writing Book. The Little Green Grammar Book does for grammar what The Little Red Writing Book did for style. It will have you writing like a writer in no time.
]]>This is the portrait of a town that punched above its weight: a world-class mining centre that delivered record incomes and productivity, but also a thriving community where unions, managers and miners forged pragmatic partnerships. At the same time, artists, migrants, educators and conservationists created a cultural identity that was fiercely local yet nationally influential, shaping the way the town saw itself and how it was seen from afar.
Honest and nuanced, this is the story of a community both ordinary and extraordinary. Broken Hill was a place of strong social capital, civic pride and opportunity, yet it was also marked by contradictions married women excluded from work, Indigenous people pushed to the margins, and families grieving lives lost underground.
Through lived experience and careful research, McLean captures Broken Hill at its zenith: resilient, inventive and deeply human, a town unlike any other in Australia's history.
]]>This lively correspondence between celebrated poet Gwen Harwood and renowned composer Larry Sitsky, covering their creation of a series of acclaimed and at times controversial operas, gives an insight into a unique collaboration between two highly gifted Australian artists in the second half of the twentieth century. It brings to life the formation of six groundbreaking operatic works while giving a fascinating glimpse into the very different lives of two important Australian cultural figures.
Introduced by acclaimed biographer and scholar Ann-Marie Priest, these letters, collected together for the first time, reveal a dynamic creative partnership. Each chapter charts the development of a different work and offers historical and biographical context. The portrait that emerges is compelling, propulsive and illuminating, as the tensions and emerging affinities between the two artists set the stage for the creation of great works.
Praise for My Tongue is My Own
'Gwen Harwood, that excellent poet and critic, deserves a sympathetic and lively biography. Ann-Marie Priest, to her credit, has just written that book.' - Ann Blainey, winner of 2009 National Biography Award
'This is a big book but it is a genuine thrill to read, a page-turner and a classic expression of the biographical form. It's an astonishing achievement.' - Rick Morton
'A fearless, fascinating account of rule breakers, rule makers and rule enforcers.' - Laura Jean McKay
'Priest gives us the full complexity of the different faces in what seems sometimes to have been a darkly revelatory mirror.' - Peter Craven, Spectator Australia
'...essential reading for anyone interested in Australian poetry and/or the situation endured by creative women before our allegedly more enlightened times.' - The Canberra Times
'An accessible account of Harwood's life, often filtered through and framed by an examination of Harwood's complex relationships.' - The Conversation
'Ann-Marie Priest has captured completely the sprite-like nature of one of Australia's finest poets ...Through these pages, the great poet feels so alive.' - Judges' comments, National Biography Award
'Read this meticulous biography with Harwood's poetry in hand, and chase down every poem that Priest cites.' - The Sydney Morning Herald
'Gwen Harwood's life story shows the familiar tension felt by a gifted poet who is also a dedicated wife and mother, but it is more complex than that division suggests. [A] fine biography.' - Brenda Niall, author of True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack and the multi-award-winning Mannix
'[An] accessible recounting of Gwen Harwood's crowded and emotionally vertiginous life, strengthened by many quotes from her witty correspondence. It should return readers to what matters: her poetry.' - Gig Ryan, award-winning poet
'Absolutely splendid ... [reveals] an extraordinary amount of research.' - Alison Hoddinott, author of Gwen Harwood: The Real and the Imagined World
'Admirably lucid...written with sensitivity.' - Gregory Kratzmann, editor of Gwen Harwood: Selected Poems
'An invaluable addition to the literature' - Sydney Review of Books
'A compelling biography' - Australian Book Review
'Priest's spirited biography does provide the occasion to hope we can be clear-sighted about the love stories and the ghost stories in the work of a poet.' - ArtsHub
]]>An ocean encounter with a shark is one of nature's most awesome experiences. There is no better way to understand sharks than to get up close and personal with great whites, hammerheads, and tiger sharks. The Shark Watcher's Manual provides a complete handbook for encountering and studying these magnificent creatures in the wild. It covers everything the shark enthusiast needs to know about diving, conservation, safety, and photography. Written by a world-renowned authority, this is the essential companion for newcomers to shark watching and seasoned divers, offering an authoritative, fact-filled guide to finding and identifying sharks of all kinds.
]]>Stephanie Berlangieri joined MUMA as Curator Research in 2024. As a curator, researcher and writer, her interests encompass digital technology, labour and mental health, and their impacts on contemporary selfhood and social relations. She is currently an Adjunct Curator at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and has previously held curatorial roles at Carriageworks, Sydney; the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; and the Biennale of Sydney. Recent exhibitions include Desire Is a Machine (IMA, Brisbane, 2025); Image Economies (MUMA, 2025); Duty of Care (IMA and Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2024); Salote Tawale: I remember you; and The National 4: Australian Art Now (Carriageworks, 2023). Stephanie has written for Art Monthly Australasia, ArtAsiaPacific, Artist Profile and Art and Australia.
]]>Carp was originally introduced into Australia in the mid-1800s for ornament and angling, but since its escape into Gippsland and the MurrayDarling Basin, the fish has all but taken over our inland waterways, wreaking ecological havoc in our rivers, lakes and wetlands. In recent years, controversial methods, including a carp-killing virus, have been championed by some and maligned by others. Surprisingly perhaps, there are still carp enthusiasts in Australia who fear what such a virus might do.
Carp in Australia tells the story of how and why one of our most hated species was brought to this country. It explores carp's relatively recent spread throughout our largest inland river system, the MurrayDarling Basin, its impacts on freshwater ecosystems and the attempts to deal with the scourge. Readers are given key insights into the management challenges and possibilities in carp's uncertain future in Australia. Is there hope for eradication, or is this fish here to stay?
]]>Katherine Doyle is an aquatic ecologist with more than 15 years' experience researching the ecology, management and restoration of freshwater and marine ecosystems. Her current research focuses on fisheries management at river infrastructure, such as hydropower and irrigation schemes, as well as on threatened and invasive fish species.
]]>Part mind-bending medical mystery part cutting-edge science Hidden Guests uncovers the astonishing phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of how those cells got there and what they do once they arrive might change everything we know about the immune system, lineage, and identity.
We are all told the same story as children: that we grew from a single cell into a human, that all of our cells came from the first fertilised egg, and that we have one distinct genetic code. But scientists are beginning to challenge that story.
The discovery of microchimerism shows that not all our cells are our own some of them migrated from other bodies. How did they get there? Scientists are still studying their journey, but today we know cells are exchanged in pregnancy, through transplants and blood transfusions, and possibly even through sex. But what does this mean for our daily lives is it really such a big deal if someone else's cell turns up in our bodies? The answer is, as author Lise Barneoud shows in Hidden Guests, that the implications could be earth-shattering.
In Hidden Guests, Barneoud interviews doctors, researchers, and medical experts at the forefront of microchimerism research. She interweaves their fascinating discoveries with the shocking human stories of microchimerism including:
Hidden Guests traces the history of this still emerging science while asking philosophical and probing questions about immunity, biology, evolution, parental testing, criminal forensics, and the concept of individual identity. Barneoud makes the case for expanding our notions of both self and immunity: as ever-changing collectives of cells in relation, we are not unlike ecosystems. And like ecosystems, perhaps, the greater our diversity, the greater our resilience.
'[A] fascinating book...[Barneoud] ruminates on how microchimerism might change our understanding of ourselves.' Sam Kean, Wall Street Journal
]]>Olivia Campbell is a journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats and Sisters in Science.
J. Lee Nelson, MD, published some of the first scientific studies on microchimerism in the 1990s. She heads the Nelson Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, where her team investigates the health consequences of microchimerism.
]]>The only mammals capable of flight, bats are found on every major continent on the planet. They perform crucial roles in the ecosystems they inhabit, from consuming insect pests over agricultural crops and forests to pollinating night-flowering plants, dispersing seeds in tropical biomes, and recycling nutrients and creating natural fertiliser. Many of the world's 1,400 species are threatened or endangered due to habitat destruction, climate change, and persecution arising from harmful myths. This beautifully illustrated guide demystifies these fascinating creatures, blending the latest science with fact-filled profiles of representative species, from the tiny bumblebee bat to the imposing giant golden crowned flying fox. A must for bat lovers everywhere, Bats of the World showcases the extraordinary diversity of this incredible group of animals.
]]>M. Teague O'Mara is Director of Conservation Evidence at Bat Conservation International, Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Southeastern Louisiana University.
]]>Wasps have been around since before the dinosaurs and are one of the world's largest insect groups. More than 150,000 species have been identified, and while the black-and-yellow insect with a cinched waist may be the most familiar, most wasps are tiny parasitoids that use other insects for food. Wasps of the World provides a breathtaking look at the diverse characteristics, habitats, and lifestyles of these extraordinary insects.
]]>Gavin Broad is principal curator in charge of insects at the Natural History Museum in London and associate editor of the European Journal of Taxonomy and Insect Conservation and Diversity.
]]>With more than 160,000 named species, moths are a familiar sight to most of us, flickering around lights, pollinating wildflowers about meadows and gardens, and as unwelcome visitors to our woolens. They come in a variety of colours, from earthy greens and browns to gorgeous patterns of infinite variety, and range in size from enormous atlas moths to tiny leaf mining moths. Moths of the World is an essential guide to this astonishing group of insects, highlighting their remarkable diversity, miraculous metamorphoses, marvelous caterpillars, and much more.
]]>New discoveries are transforming our understanding of the sauropod and prosauropod dinosaurs, revealing startling new insights into the lives and look of these awesome herbivores. The Princeton Field Guide to Sauropod and Prosauropod Dinosaurs provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the mighty plant eaters that ruled the earth for many tens of millions of years. This incredible guide covers some 275 species and features stunning illustrations of sauropodomorphs of many shapes and sizes. It discusses their history, anatomy, physiology, locomotion, reproduction, growth, size, and extinction, and even gives a taste of what it might be like to travel back to the Mesozoic. This one-of-a-kind guide also discusses the controversies surrounding these marvelous creatures, taking up such questions as the extreme size of the biggest land animals of all time and whether the super long-necked sauropods held their heads as high as multistory buildings.
]]>In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed.
Blending scholarly expertise with painstaking detective work, Eric Cline describes the spectacular discovery, the fierce competition among dealers and museums to acquire the tablets, and the race by British and German scholars to translate them. Dating to the middle of the fourteenth century BCE and the time of Tutankhamun's immediate predecessors, Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten, the Amarna Letters are the only royal archive from New Kingdom Egypt known to exist. In them, we learn of royal marriages, diplomatic negotiations, gift-giving, intrigue, and declarations of brotherly love between powerful rulers as well as demands made by the petty kings in Canaan who owed allegiance to Egypt's pharaohs.
A monumental achievement, Love, War, and Diplomacy transports readers to the glorious age of the Amarna Letters and the colonial era that brought them to light and reveals how the politics, posturing, and international intrigues of the ancient Near East are not so unlike today's.
]]>Modern and contemporary art wouldn't exist without the invention of plastics. From sculpture to paint, and photography to film, plastics have shaped every major medium of art. In turn, plastics have revolutionised art conservation, transforming the possibilities of preservation but also producing new challenges for conservators struggling to preserve toxic and degrading material. Hailed as utopian in the twentieth century, plastics today are often understood as pollution and waste a central cause of ecological crisis. Plastics is the first book to address the multifaceted history of plastics from the perspective of artists, art historians, conservators, and environmental scientists.
Plastics demonstrates that this material cannot easily be summarised as toxic or utopian, catastrophic or necessary. Instead, plastics define the modern world in both its possibility and failures. The book also reveals how artists have been a critical overlooked voice in debates about plastics, and how they have offered theories of the material through works that explore its potential and harmfulness.
Presenting a variety of perspectives on the world of plastics through the lens of art, artmaking, art history, and art conservation, Plastics shows why and how coming to terms with this material is critical to understanding not only modern and contemporary art and art conservation but also the crises of the twenty-first century.
]]>David Joselit is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University and the author of, among other books, Art's Properties and After Art (both Princeton).
]]>From cave paintings to contemporary art, Pigments demonstrates how a material understanding of colour opens new perspectives on visual culture and the history of art.
]]>Caroline Fowler is Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts.
Karin Leonhard is professor of art history at the University of Konstanz in Germany.
Ittai Weinryb is associate professor of art history at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City.
]]>Duchamp-isms is a selection of illuminating quotations from Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important figures in the history of modern art. A painter, sculptor, writer, and chess player, Duchamp changed the very definition of art with his 'readymades' everyday objects such as a bicycle wheel or bottle rack that he titled, signed, and presented as art. He provoked critics and the public with works such as the Cubist-Futurist painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) and Fountain (1917), a readymade composed of a men's urinal signed 'R. Mutt'. Prizing the intellectual over the aesthetic, Duchamp inspired later movements like Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Pop Art. Delightful and witty, Duchamp-isms offers rich insights into the mind of a true icon of modern art.
The quotes in Duchamp-isms, drawn primarily from interviews, have been selected and introduced by Francis Naumann, a leading authority on Duchamp, and organised in eight thematic sections: philosophies of art; painting; Dada and Surrealism; the readymades; chess; literary influences; commercialism in art; and philosophies of life and death. The book also features a brief chronology of Duchamp's life and career.
Larry Warsh has been active in the art world for more than thirty years as a publisher and artist-collaborator. He was a founding member of the Basquiat Authentication Committee and is the editor of many books, including Jean-Michel Basquiat's The Notebooks, Ono-isms, Warhol-isms, and Weiwei-isms (all Princeton).
Francis M. Naumann is an art historian, curator, and former art dealer who specializes in Dada and Surrealist art. His books include New York Dada 191525, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Essays on the Art, Life, and Legacy of Marcel Duchamp.
]]>The Sultan's Sex Potions was written by Nasr al-Dn al-Ts (1201-1274), one of the leading scientists of the age, and is part of a group of works devoted to aphrodisiacs as well as sexual practices and positions. Sober and measured in tone, the treatise was intended as a guide for self healing, to be used by those afflicted with various sexual ailments, especially impotence. It was composed at the request of the ruler and so its potions, electuaries, syrups and enemas enjoyed a 'royal warrant of appointment' to arouse the lust for coitus and enhance sexual potency.
This revised edition includes three Arabic manuscripts (Berlin, Cairo and Glasgow), accompanied by an English translation as well as a new introduction to Arabic erotic literature.
]]>Daniel L. Newman is Head of the Arabic Studies Department, Professor of Arabic and Course Director of the MA in Arabic-English Translation and Interpreting at the University of Durham, UK.
]]>This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilisation remarkable for both its unity and diversity.
After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.
'A timely, wide-ranging examination of the Muslim world...Cook's study sheds crucial light on Islamic development across borders and centuries.' Kirkus Reviews
'Cook tours the globe, bringing cultures and customs to life in evocative detail...An accessible history of the Muslim world.' Publishers Weekly
]]>Through personal reflections, scientific insights, and practical exercises, How to Be Hopeful emphasises emotional awareness, community collaboration, and the agency of both humans and non-human species. Some of the practices described in the book include:
A seminal contribution to the field of environmental justice, How to Be Hopeful empowers readers to confront their own emotional landscapes, engage in collective action, envision a sustainable future, and ultimately, cultivate a hopeful and resilient response to the pressing issues of our time.
Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
'How to Be Hopeful is a beautifully executed explanation of why hope is so needed in the environmental space.' Leah Thomas, author of The Intersectional Environmentalist
'Kelsey's nourishing work reminds us that being human and managing complex emotions is a part of the process in healing the Earth and sprouting hope around the world.' Isaias Hernandez, @QueerBrownVegan
]]>In Annah, Infinite, the dominant narratives surrounding Paul Gauguin's famous painting Annah la Javanaise (1893-1894) are turned upside down. The book argues a simple point: what if the portrait is not one of a consenting muse, but a child in pain?
Annah, Infinite questions the colonial power that has defined the infamous subject's unknown history. Through the mythology of Annah, Okka draws attention to the systems of ablenormativity, racism, and sexism that shape what we learn of art history and what we see on museum walls.
Alongside her critique, the author engages with Annah la Javanaise through poetry, fiction, and visual art. A work of emotional heft, Okka asks us to acknowledge the possibility of pain in every single portrait, as well as the possibility of escape.
]]>English is filled with curious, intriguing, and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating, and even hilarious origins behind four hundred of them, including:
Perfect for trivia and language lovers alike, this entertaining collection is the ultimate guide to understanding these baffling mini mysteries of the English language.
]]>This charming account of their travels includes fascinating descriptions of legends and customs, pilchard fishing, ancient monuments, eccentric innkeepers and local cuisine, painting a vivid and affectionate picture of Cornwall as it was nearly 200 years ago.
]]>Henry Brandling (18231897) was a landscape artist and member of the Royal Academy.
Rick Stein is a chef, restaurateur, writer and television presenter. His series Rick Stein's Cornwall aired on BBC One from 20213.
]]>Published to help civilians grow vegetables during the First World War, The Allotment Book is a practical guide to making the most of whatever size allotment you have. Though written more than one hundred years ago, it contains easy-to-follow, reassuring advice, which still feels pertinent today, from an expert who firmly believes that we can all grow crops successfully, whether our allotment is tiny or large. The chapters cover digging techniques, making compost, clearing neglected ground, fertilisers, recommended varieties, a handy month-by-month guide to what to do at the allotment through the year and hints for novice growers. The philosophy of growing could not be more apt for our times: 'There is comfort in the fact that all of us, farmers, allotment-holders, and cottagers are inclined to get all we can from our land during our tenancy, without putting any more into it than we can help.'
Charmingly simple line drawings and diagrams accompany this timeless text, an ideal gift for allotment growers everywhere.
]]>Allan Jenkins is the author of a memoir, Plot 29, and a former editor of the Observer magazine.
]]>Including Gutenberg's watershed Bible, a maths book illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo's observations of mountains on the Moon, Kepler's treatise on a supernova, Robert Hooke's discovery of microscopic honeycomb structures he coined cells, and Maria Sibylla Merian's pioneering studies of metamorphosis, these beautiful books and their enthralling histories, prehistories and legacies chart the fascinating stories of readers, writers, printers, scientists, philosophers and artists, and the part they played in forging the modern world. In addition to highlighting their production and reception, the author traces each book's journey into print, painting a vivid and enthralling picture of remarkable books authored by prodigious minds. This lavishly illustrated volume brings the early print culture of the Renaissance to life and will appeal to lovers of books and history alike.
]]>Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world's most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, John Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-day Haiti to explore a macabre frontier of life and death where corpses are believed to wander or do harm from the grave, and where the vampire is a physical expression of society's inexplicable terrors and anxieties.
In 1732, the British public opened their morning papers to read of lurid happenings in eastern Europe. Serbian villagers had dug up several corpses and had found them to be undecayed and bloated with blood. Recognising the marks of vampirism, they mutilated and burned them. Centuries earlier, the English themselves engaged in the same behaviour. In fact, vampire epidemics have flared up throughout history in ancient Assyria, China, and Rome, medieval and early modern Europe, and the Americas. Blair blends the latest findings in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology with vampire lore from literature and popular culture to show how these episodes occur at traumatic moments in societies that upend all sense of security, and how the European vampire is just one species in a larger family of predatory supernatural entities that includes the female flying demons of Southeast Asia and the lustful yogins of India.
Richly illustrated, Killing the Dead provocatively argues that corpse-killing, far from being pathological or unhealthy, served as a therapeutic and largely harmless outlet for fear, hatred, and paranoia that would otherwise result in violence against marginalised groups and individuals.
]]>In December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. Its goal: to shine a light for the first time on the mysteries of the deep sea. For the next four years, Challenger's naturalists explored the oceans, encountering never-before-seen marvels of marine life. The expedition's achievements are the stuff of legend. It identified major ocean currents and defining features of the seafloor, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Mariana Trench. It measured worldwide sea temperatures and chemistry, creating baseline data for all ocean research since. And, most spectacularly of all, it collected nearly five thousand sea creatures and plants new to science. In The Wake of HMS Challenger, Gillen D'Arcy Wood looks afresh at this legendary scientific odyssey and shows why, 150 years later, its legacy looms larger than ever.
The Challenger's scientists had no way of knowing that the incredible undersea aquarium they were documenting was on the verge of catastrophic change. Off Portugal, they encountered a brilliant starfish now threatened with extinction by microplastics; in St. Thomas, teeming coral habitats that today have been decimated by ocean warming; and at remote Ascension Island, the breeding grounds of the now-endangered green turtle. Lyrical and elegiac, The Wake of HMS Challenger offers a stunning before-and-after picture of our global oceans. It is both a reminder of what we have lost since the Victorian age and an urgent call to preserve what remains of the diverse life and wild beauty of our planet's final frontier.
]]>Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering nineteenth-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica's glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers - James Ross, Dumont D'Urville, and Charles Wilkes - laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.
Today, the white continent poses new challenges, as scientists race to uncover Earth's climate history, which is recorded in the south polar ice and ocean floor, and to monitor the increasing instability of the Antarctic ice cap, which threatens to inundate coastal cities worldwide. Interweaving the breakthrough research of the modern Ocean Drilling Program with the dramatic discovery tales of their Victorian forerunners, Gillen D'Arcy Wood describes Antarctica's role in a planetary drama of plate tectonics, climate change, and species evolution stretching back more than thirty million years. An original, multifaceted portrait of the polar continent emerges, illuminating our profound connection to Antarctica in its past, present, and future incarnations.
A deep-time history of monumental scale, Land of Wondrous Cold brings the remotest of worlds within close reach - an Antarctica vital to both planetary history and human fortunes.
'When we think of Antarctic exploration we think of Scott, Shackleton and Mawson and the tragic golden age of polar exploration. But, as environmentalist Gillen D'Arcy Wood reveals there was a first wave in the late 1830s and '40s. His tale revolves around the voyages of French, American and English explorers Jules Dumant d'Urville, Charles Wilkes and James Ross, all involved in an intensely competitive race to Antarctica. Their stories are touched by triumph and tragedy, the uplifting and the poignant with D'Arcy Wood's descriptions of his subjects and the natural world, evocative and vivid whales 'grazing on the algal film of the ocean's surface like cattle on a meadow'. Woven into this is the history of the region, scientific discoveries, glaciation and climate change, a balancing act D'Arcy Wood carries off with creative poise.' - Sydney Morning Herald, Pick of the Week
]]>Archiving Gaza in the Present brings together voices from Palestine and beyond to document the cultural erasure and to explore how creative and archival practices resist it. Contributions from curators, architects, artists, journalists, lawyers and scholars capture Gaza's once-vibrant cultural life, now turned to rubble.
Featuring rich visual material from fragmented WhatsApp testimonies to forensic documentation and including artworks, maps and photographs, Archiving Gaza in the Present is both a living archive and a call to action. It is a vital resource for understanding Gaza's cultural survival amid destruction.
In partnership with the Arab British Centre.
]]>Dina Matar is Professor of Political Communication and Arab Media at the Centre for Global Media and Communication at SOAS, University of London. She is the chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS, and the founding editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
]]>Donald Trump is not a big thinker, but his 2016 presidential victory presented a grand opportunity for people who are, and it set off a radicalisation and reconfiguration of the American conservative intellectual world. In Furious Minds, Laura Field, who spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, chronicles the rise of the New Right the network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism. This movement includes figures such as Patrick Deneen, Christopher Rufo, Peter Thiel, and JD Vance. Their agenda is built to last, and it has dire long-term implications for liberal democracy.
The New Right has precedents in American history, but it is distinct for its youthfulness, misogyny, and extraordinary successes most notably the elevation of Vance to the vice presidency. The movement which draws together associates of the right-wing Claremont Institute, National Conservatives, Postliberals, and the Hard Right advocates nationalist economics, tight borders, isolationism, and reactionary social values. It helped to strategise January 6th and created Project 2025. But above all, the New Right is engaged in a vast culture war against modern liberal pluralism. It is determined to harness state power and use it in new, illiberal ways, from college campuses to the international scene all driven by the fantasy of restoring a pure America.
Incisive and urgent, Furious Minds tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right and their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals.
'[An] excellent new book.' Michelle Goldberg, New York Times
]]>The Inner Critic, Shame, and the Escaper are players in an internalised drama triangle, acting as perpetrator, victim and rescuer. Together, they create the Shame Triangle, which can trap us in ineffective survival strategies that prevent us from embracing and expressing our true selves.
Through practical exercises and accessible explanations, readers are guided to shift from a state of self-critique to one of self-support-transforming the Shame Triangle to a love triangle. Using parts work, Fern and Cooley open a path to healing and transformation, building a foundation of authenticity and integrity in self and connections, and ultimately creating a more fulfilling life.
]]>David Cooley is a professional restorative justice facilitator, diversity and privilege awareness trainer, and bilingual cultural broker. He is the creator of the Restorative Relationships Conversations model, a process that transforms interpersonal conflict into deeper connection, intimacy and repair. In his private practice, David specialises in working with nonmonogamous and LGBTQ partnerships, incorporating a variety of modalities including trauma-informed care, attachment theory, somatic practices, narrative theory and mindfulness-based techniques.
]]>Miso is produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and koji yeast. Not only is it packed with nutrition and gut-friendly probiotics supporting immunity, digestion, anti-aging and recovery from fatigue it enhances the flavor of any dish you add it to. Use it in miso soups, Japanese and Western-style meals, even snacks and desserts. It boosts umami, tenderises meats and brings a new level of deliciousness to your cooking!
In this beautifully illustrated book, Japanese fermentation expert and cookbook author Misa Enomoto shares her passion for miso a staple in Japanese kitchens for centuries.
She presents 87 delicious recipes based around this incredibly versatile ingredient, including:
Enomoto also shows you how to make your own overnight miso at home along with other popular Japanese fermented seasonings like shio koji. These simple, economical recipes will transform your cooking and improve your health in the process!
]]>The Spanish Civil War was one of the twentieth century's most momentous conflicts.
Nick Lloyd traces this legacy through a series of road trips. Travelling through Catalonia and Aragn, among the last Republican strongholds, he visits battle sites, museums, memorials and more. Speaking with historians, local guides and descendants of International Brigaders, he discovers how places and objects offer clues to a painful past. A Barcelona plaque, metres from the author's home, commemorates the birthplace of Francesc Boix, a photographer whose short but eventful life took him from the Catalan front to the Nuremberg witness box. In Huesca, a dogged journalist builds monuments to his city's wartime resistance, while the preserved ruins of Belchite mark the devastation of fierce street fighting. A journey across the Franco-Spanish border follows the footsteps of the anti-fascist refugees later incarcerated in French concentration camps.
As debates over 'historical memory' highlight enduring political rifts, Lloyd powerfully chronicles how war is remembered or not in Spain and beyond.
]]>In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age. As he and other scholars opened up the history of the classical world in its last centuries to the wider world of Eurasia and northern Africa, they discovered previously overlooked areas of religious and cultural creativity as well as foundational institution-building. A respect for diversity and outreach to the non-European world, relatively recent concerns in other fields, have been a matter of course for decades among the leading scholars of late antiquity.
Documenting both his own intellectual development and the emergence of a new and influential field of study, Brown describes his childhood and education in Ireland, his university and academic training in England, and his extensive travels, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. He discusses fruitful interactions with the work of scholars and colleagues that include the British anthropologist Mary Douglas and the French theorist Michel Foucault, and offers fascinating snapshots of such far-flung places as colonial Sudan, midcentury Oxford, and prerevolutionary Iran. With Journeys of the Mind, Brown offers an essential account of the 'grand endeavour' to reimagine a decisive historical moment.
'Brown] delivers an insightful and detailed chronicle of his life and academic career...A rewarding combination of the personal and the scholarly, this is a valuable resource for students of the ancient world and the early Middle Ages.' Publishers Weekly
'This meticulous and lively account of [Brown's] intellectual development lovingly acknowledges all the scholars from his school days onward whose work helped shape his own...This book offers no less than a template for how to live, in an uncertain world, while surrounded by death and the unraveling of all we know: that is, in generous recognition of our teachers, with boundless curiosity, and buoyed by the delight of lifelong scholarship.' Claire Messud, Harper's
'No historian has evoked more vividly the strange waltz between a transcendent faith and earthly powers in the centuries from Constantine to Muhammad (a period the book's author named 'late antiquity') than Peter Brown. Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History is a gripping new memoir about how he came to do it...A sustained and moving meditation on how historians of any faith cope with the strangeness of its past.' Michael Ledger-Lomas, Los Angeles Review of Books
'An enthralling account of an eminent scholar at work....Journeys of the Mind may well be the most romantic book of the year.' Michael Dirda, Washington Post
]]>Our organisations are stuck. We talk about agility but find ourselves bogged down in bureaucracy. We aspire to innovate but run into systems built to prevent mistakes, not spark breakthroughs. We need to learn and adapt, but we're operating with an outdated playbook built for efficiency and control. And our attempts to fix all this by pouring trillions into huge, top-down transformations make the problems worse.
One of nature's most intelligent and curious creatures, the octopus is everything your organisation needs to be: smart, endlessly adaptable, and highly resilient. Its eight tentacles work in concert, but each can also think for itself. This book shows how to achieve the same balance of cohesion and autonomy and to guide your organisation toward a living, breathing system-one that learns, adapts, and thrives by tapping into the distributed intelligence of its people.le.
One of nature's most intelligent and curious creatures, the octopus is everything your organization needs to be: smart, endlessly adaptable, and highly resilient. Its eight tentacles work in concert, but each can also think for itself. This book shows how to achieve the same balance of cohesion and autonomy and to guide your organization toward a living, breathing system one that learns, adapts, and thrives by tapping into the distributed intelligence of its people.
Drawing on their experience at companies such as Amazon and McDonald's and work with hundreds of global companies, AWS executives Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner show you how to break away from the broken model of transformation and embrace continuous change. They share thirty-six 'antipatterns' conditioned habits that keep us stuck and, in their place, provide 'levers' that create meaningful improvement in months, not years.
The Octopus Organization is your guide to moving beyond rigid structures and nurturing the living, adaptable organisation you aspire to create, and be a part of.
]]>Jana Werner is an enterprise strategist at Amazon Web Services, where she guides the executive teams of Fortune 500 companies in building adaptive customer-centric organizations. Her insights are forged from a career at the intersection of business strategy and technology: leading major digital transformations in financial services, guiding and scaling tech startups to growth and acquisition, and advising on complex global change at DHL. Her academic background in uncertainty dynamics grounds her practical advice for leaders navigating complex environments and building resilient organisations.
]]>A fundamental economic shift is emerging. Goods, services even memorable experiences are no longer enough to attract and keep your customers. Customers are clamoring to change, eager to reach their aspirations and to become better versions of themselves.
Welcome to the Transformation Economy.
To truly compete in today's marketplace, enterprises must create transformative experiences that guide customers to achieve their aspirations, whether that's improving well-being, increasing prosperity, developing knowledge, or finding purpose. These aspirations speak to customers' greatest desires, their dreams for the future, and their conceptions of who they are and who they strive to be.
In this book, bestselling author B. Joseph Pine II builds on his iconic work on the Experience Economy to explain what this new shift means for companies looking to stand out and gain competitive advantage. Using examples from organisations across industries, including Noom, Symplany, Hydrafacial, London Business School, and Johnnie Walker Whisky, Pine provides practical, proven frameworks for organisations to design, create, and guide transformative offerings that help customers reach their greatest aspirations and flourish over the long term.
]]>Constant tech disruption. Unrelenting economic volatility. Radically shifting demographics and work norms. More than ever, we need to innovate amid these daunting global challenges. But do we have the leaders and the leadership it takes to make this innovation happen successfully?
Yes, we do. As preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, Harvard researcher Emily Tedards, and former Microsoft innovation executive Jason Wild show in this powerful book, there are indeed exemplary leaders to learn from and in Genius at Scale, the authors present stories of such leaders in fascinating detail, not only igniting your imagination but providing inspiring and instructive models to follow. Hill's award-winning last book, Collective Genius, began the crucial task of showing how successful innovation doesn't just happen it needs to be led. Now, Genius at Scale breaks new ground, highlighting that moving from generating new ideas to actually scaling them involves co-creation collaborating, experimenting, and learning with others both inside and beyond the boundaries of the organisation. This requires three distinct types of leadership mindset and behaviors:
The authors vividly profile these three types of leaders with individuals from all kinds of companies, across private and public sectors from high tech to hospitals to consumer products who illustrate the mindset and skills needed for leading in a world more uncertain and challenging than ever before.
Genius at Scale provides an essential guide for any current or aspiring leader in mastering the art and practice of innovation.
]]>Emily Tedards is a doctoral student in organizational behavior at Harvard Business School and a doctoral fellow for the Reimagining the Economy Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School.
Jason Wild is the former Global Vice President and CEO of Co-Innovation and Customer Engagement at Microsoft. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President of Transformation and Innovation at Salesforce.
]]>As well as taking you through some football and tennis strategies, Mastering Exchange Betting gives you eighteen rules that if studied and followed will enable you to become fully prepared to take on and profit from the sporting markets.
To profit regularly from the sporting markets a serious, disciplined approach along with careful planning need to be employed. This is where the eighteen rules contained in this book can help as they cover many of the disciplines associated with the financial markets. Many of these rules are overlooked by the average sports bettor and it can almost be guaranteed that unsuccessful traders have overlooked and broken one of these eighteen rules.
]]>Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths. On Pedantry offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning has been a vice in Western culture since the days of Socrates.
Taking readers from the academies of ancient Greece to today's culture wars, Arnoud Visser explains why pretentious and punctilious learning has always annoyed us, painting vibrant portraits of some of the most intensely irritating intellectuals ever known, from devious sophists and bossy savantes to hypercritical theologians, dry-as-dust antiquarians, and know-it-all professors. He shows how criticisms of pedantry have typically been more about conduct than ideas, and he demonstrates how pedantry served as a weapon in the perennial struggle over ideas, social status, political authority, and belief. Shifting attention away from the self-proclaimed virtues of the learned to their less-than-flattering vice, Visser makes a bold and provocative contribution to the history of Western thought.
Drawing on a wealth of sources ranging from satire and comedy to essays, sermons, and film, On Pedantry sheds critical light on why anti-intellectual views have gained renewed prominence today and serves as essential reading in an age of rising populism across the globe.
]]>Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day labourers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children's toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income, including wages. And she suggests that Romans' most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status.
Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today's labourers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.
]]>While Ukraine holds back Russia's onslaught, Moscow has been working hard at rebuilding its army for the next invasion. But for the past 30 years, Britain and Europe have been running down their armed forces and defence industries, thinking that war would never come. Most of the continent banked an increasingly illusory 'peace dividend' while outsourcing defence to the United States.
Now, change in the US and clear intent from the Kremlin have set Europe scrambling to rebuild its defences. But will it be enough, and can it be in time?
In this urgent, vital book, Keir Giles lays out the stark choices facing leaders and societies as they confront the return of war in Europe. If the freedom and prosperity that the continent takes for granted are to be preserved, the sacrifices required will affect everyone, without exception. Above all, Giles calls for new leadership in defence of Europe as the US steps aside and warns that the UK's brief opportunity to set the pace has already been squandered.
'A blistering account of our defence shortcomings.' The Times
'[Giles] elegantly weaves together isolationism in the United States, failures of Europe's leadership, and the collective naivete of the West in understanding the imperialist threat of Putin's Russia.' Foreign Policy
'A powerful warning.' iNews
'A well-written book, offering detailed insights and perspectives on the gravity of Europe's security situation, which will have spillover effects worldwide.' The Strategist
'Timely and excellent.' Australian Financial Review
'[Giles] has some excellent points to make.' Naval Review
'Keir Giles has been warning us for many years of Russia's determination to re-arm, remilitarise and rebuild an empire. Now he offers a stark warning for Europe and the world: the only alternative to planning for a war is planning to lose it.' Anne Applebaum
'A powerful and urgent analysis of Europe's looming security challenges this book is a wake-up call for anyone who cares about the future of the continent.' Eliot Higgins, Director, Founder of Bellingcat
'Russia's intent can no longer be denied but as Keir Giles explains in chilling detail, Europe's defences are lagging behind the threat. This book is a vital call to action to preserve the way of life Europe takes for granted, before it is too late.' Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia
'A forcefully argued, often bitingly vehement attack on the state of European security policy in the wake of Russia's expanded invasion of Ukraine.' Diplomatic Courier
'Keir Giles presents the reader with a disturbing catalogue of Europe's weaknesses, and how Russia is planning to exploit them. As regards Europe and the West in general, Russia is a hostile actor, has always been, and will always be, and collectively, Europe should expect that Russia will exploit to the fullest, not just the vulnerabilities it can create, but the vulnerabilities Europe has created for itself.' Gen John R. Allen, US Marine Corps (Ret), former commander NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
]]>Ho's book is the first official account of how the Golden State Killer was apprehended and put behind bars for life. Ho led an elite team of law enforcement from six California prosecutor's offices, using a newly developed tool known as 'investigative genetic genealogy' to connect DeAngelo to multiple cold cases stretching back nearly a half century.
Many previous narratives about DeAngelo, including two bestselling books and multiple documentaries, focused largely on the killer and his heinous crimes. This book not only provides hundreds of facts and details never revealed to the public about the Golden State Killer's crimes, it also presents the real-life story of the people who worked tirelessly to bring DeAngelo to justice. It also offers the unprecedented authorized perspective of three survivors of DeAngelo's crimes who courageously turned their pain into empowerment and activism. A portion of the book's proceeds will be donated both by the author and Third State Books to Phyllis's Garden, a nonprofit advocating for victims' rights begun in honor of a GSK survivor.
The People vs. the Golden State Killer also recounts Ho's fascinating personal journey, from escaping communist Vietnam with his family as a child to working his way up from an internship to an elite homicide division and eventually becoming one of only ten Asian American district attorneys out of 2,400 nationwide.
'A riveting behind-the-scenes account about the investigation, capture, and prosecution of the Golden State Killer.' Paul Holes, bestselling author of Unmasked
]]>Fifty years after Dag O. Hessen encounters wolverine tracks on a ski trip with his father and follows them until they disappear down a steep passage, he's back to search for the animal that escaped him. His father is long gone but the mountains are still there and somewhere out there is a wolverine, an elusive creature of myth and mystery. In Hessen's imagination, the wolverine is wilderness in animal form, representing everything lost to us in a nature that is being steadily reduced to a tame vestige of its former self. Wolverines have a reputation as vicious gluttons: they've been known to kill a reindeer, bite its head off, and then hang it high up in a tree like a trophy. Yet wolverines can also be shy and playful, skidding down slopes and scaling mountain peaks for no apparent reason perhaps, like humans, just to enjoy the view.
Over the course of a year, Hessen returns to the mountains in every season, but, since the passing of his father and sister, it's no longer just a wolverine that he seeks. As Hessen walks and skis over peaks and valleys on the wolverine's trail, spending his nights in silence with only the starry skies for company, he shares his biologist's deep knowledge of flora and fauna through the changing seasons and in a changing climate. He also draws on literary explorations of humans and nature, wildness versus civilisation, and, of course, wolverines, referencing writers including Thoreau, E. O. Wilson, Jon Krakauer, and Kerstin Ekman.
Wolverine Tracks is a story about time passing, about change and loss in nature and in Hessen's own life. It's also a book about what it means to be human in our tumultuous world, and the joy and power of being in nature.
'Deeply philosophical, addressing the questions that we are all pondering about our place in this world and the degree to which we are part of nature. A book for your bedside table.' Catherine Raven, author of the New York Times bestseller Fox & I
]]>We interact with the financial system every day, whether taking out or paying off loans, making insurance claims, or simply depositing money into our bank accounts. Fixed exposes how this system has been corrupted to serve the interests of financial services providers and their cleverest customers at the expense of ordinary people.
John Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai diagnose the ills of today's personal finance markets in the United States and across the globe, looking at everything from short-term saving and borrowing to loans for education and housing, financial products for retirement, and insurance. They show how the system is 'fixed' to benefit those who are wealthy and more educated while encouraging financial mistakes by those who are aren't, making it difficult for regular consumers to make sound financial decisions and disadvantaging them in some of the most consequential economic transactions of their lives. Campbell and Ramadorai describe how some even opt out of the financial system altogether, relying on unregulated and often shady mechanisms to implement necessary financial functions, with dire consequences for individuals, families, and the economy more broadly.
With the explosive growth of the global middle class, longer lifespans, and greater numbers of seniors managing their money alone, the pitfalls of personal finance now affect billions of people around the world. Fixed proposes concrete solutions that harness the expertise of economists, the power of government, and the speed of technology to restore fairness and trust in our broken system and make it work better for ordinary people.
]]>Tarun Ramadorai is professor of financial economics at Imperial College London. From 2016 to 2017, he served as chairman of the Inter-Regulatory Committee on Household Finance of the Reserve Bank of India.
]]>Fighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world's leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three objectives.
Dani Rodrik provides a bold new vision of globalisation, one in which we accelerate the green transition to achieve a sustainable planet, shore up the middle class to restore democracy's foundations, and hasten economic revitalisation in the developing world to put an end to poverty. The rising tide of authoritarianism has demonstrated our inability to alleviate economic anxieties. Economic nationalism has raised the specter of increased protectionism and deteriorating prospects for economic growth. And automation and other new technologies have undercut the advantages of low-cost, unskilled labour in manufacturing and export-oriented industrialisation. Rodrik reveals how we can restore prosperity through new forms of collaborative public-private action to promote renewables and green industries, middle-class jobs, and enhanced productivity in labor-absorbing services even in the absence of global cooperation. He explains why this new kind of globalisation must also recognise the legitimate desire of governments to pursue their economic, social, and security interests autonomously.
Turning conventional economic wisdom on its head, Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World builds on practices that work while radically transforming those that don't, presenting a grounded, clear-eyed approach to tackling the problems that affect us all, at home and around the world.
]]>In this deeply illuminating book, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield reveal what it will take to build a virtual, functional copy of a person in five steps. Along the way, they take you on a fantastic voyage through the complexity of the human body, describing the latest scientific and technological advances from multiscale modelling to extraordinary new forms of computing that will make 'virtual you' a reality, while also considering the ethical questions inherent to realising truly predictive medicine.
With an incisive foreword by Nobel Prize winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan, Virtual You is science at its most astounding, showing how our virtual twins and even whole populations of virtual humans promise to transform our health and our lives in the coming decades.
]]>Roger Highfield is science director at the Science Museum Group, a member of the Medical Research Council, and visiting professor at University College London and the Dunn School, University of Oxford. They are the authors of Frontiers of Complexity and The Arrow of Time.
]]>Science is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of matter. In this panoramic book, acclaimed historian of science Peter Dear uncovers the roots of such beliefs, revealing how they constitute a natural philosophy that has been developed and refined over the course of centuries and how the world as we have come to know it was by no means inevitable.
In a sweeping, multifaceted narrative, Dear describes some of the most breathtaking accomplishments in the advance of human knowledge, such as Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravitation, Carl Linnaeus's taxonomy, Antoine Lavoisier's new chemistry, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. Challenging the notion that science is only about 'making discoveries', he shows how our world has been formed by people, institutions, and cultural assumptions, giving rise to disciplines ranging from biology and astrophysics to electromagnetism and the social sciences.
Taking readers from the early eighteenth century to today, The World as We Know It reveals how our ideas about our place in the universe were bequeathed to us by individuals, cultures, and a curiosity that knows no bounds.
]]>Barnett Newman (1905-1970), a founding member of the abstract expressionist movement, was a contemporary of such figures as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. He left behind only 118 finished paintings, six sculptures, and 83 acknowledged drawings, yet is often regarded as the greatest painter to have emerged after the Second World War. Barnett Newman is the definitive biography of a charismatic New Yorker who defied the rules and created an art of the sublime.
This landmark book features original research conducted over decades, using scores of interviews, oral histories, and previously unseen correspondence to paint a richly textured portrait of a creative sage who became an exemplar of the artist-citizen. Born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, he grandly aspired to involve himself in every detail of the city's life. He was a crusader for the civil service, ran against La Guardia for mayor, worked as a teacher, wrote poetry, criticism, and manifestos, produced political plays, and promoted other artists all before painting a mature work of his own in his early forties. Newman began with none of the qualities once considered indispensable for a master artist, such as training, apprenticeship, or natural facility. But he possessed a galvanising intellect and a conviction that aesthetic expression is an ecstatic declaration of existence and an assertion of human dignity.
Drawing on previously unpublished sources gleaned from full access to Newman's archives, Amy Newman presents a portrait of a maverick whose works are among the most enduring of the twentieth century and whose influence continues to this day.
]]>Through stunning images that evoke the warmth and effervescence of Barcelona, Jonker takes the reader beyond the surface and into the soul of the city. Readers are invited to explore the city's architectural masterpieces like the Barcelona Cathedral and Antoni Gaud's Sagrada Familia, the winding alleys of the Gothic Quarter, and the peaceful waterfront along the Mediterranean coast, as well as lesser-known corners of the city that are equally captivating.
Featuring stunning shots that capture the magic of this iconic city, Barcelona Dreaming is a must-have for anyone who is drawn to this unforgettable city for its spirited passion, its bohemian vibe, or its architectural grandeur.
]]>Kyoto Dreaming captures the stunning beauty of Kyoto as seen through the eyes of photographer Taro Moberly. From the picturesque temples and prewar machiya traditional townhouses that populate its historic districts to the bamboo gardens and luscious sakura, Moberly's love for his adopted hometown shines through in his images.
Through a series of breathtaking and atmospheric images, readers are invited to explore Kyoto's traditional architecture and iconic landmarks, including Nijo Castle, Kinkaku-ji, and the Gion district, as well as the more modern areas of the city that are equally captivating. The photos in Kyoto Dreaming offer a new perspective on Kyoto, making one of Asia's most beautiful cities even more magical.
]]>This colourful and relaxing activity book features 100 hidden designs printed on high-quality paper that slowly reveal themselves as you complete them. Each of the 70 dot-to-dot puzzles averages 200 dots per puzzle while the 30 colour-by-number puzzles averages an easy 3 colour tones per puzzle perfect for calming, frustration-free interludes whenever and wherever you need a simple, creative break to lift your mood!
The dot-to-dot and colour-by-number puzzles are organised into the following interesting categories:
Meditative dot-to-dot and colour-by-number puzzles are an ideal way to eliminate stress and relieve anxiety!
]]>Bolder than watercolour, cleaner than acrylics, and quicker than oils, this richly coloured paint is popular among countless artists working today. Gouache has rapidly gained popularity as an accessible, affordable medium for aspiring painters. This renowned paint, used by beloved artists from Henri Matisse to Syd Mead, is a perfect option for artists who want to achieve vibrant results fast.
With this step-by-step tutorial book, beginners can learn the fundamentals of painting with gouache and how to apply those skills to imaginative fantasy scenes inspired by the timeless beauty of nature. Perfect for beginners to traditional painting, and for more experienced fantasy artists who are keen to step away from their devices and learn a more tactile medium, Painting Fantasy with Gouache is packed with tutorials, guides, and professionals' tips to support your gouache journey.
An in-depth introduction asks 'What is gouache?' and then covers essential tools, basic and advanced techniques, simple exercises, clean-up tips, and a gallery of example gouache paintings from the author-artist. This is followed by a selection of tutorials from professional painters, taking readers step by step through the creation of brand-new fantasy paintings using the medium. Stunning photography accompanies each stage of the painting process, giving budding artists a visual guide to begin their own journey with gouache.
The contributing artists are: Justin Donaldson from South Carolina, USA (118k Instagram followers), Grace Nicoletti from Los Angeles (11.6K Instagram followers), Kiara Maharaj from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (296k Instagram followers), Maddy Bellwoar from the Netherlands (80k Instagram followers), Fatima Mandouh from Toledo, Ohio, United States (10.8k Instagram followers), Clo Louise from London, UK (67.8k Instagram followers), and Ken Fairclough from Austin, Texas, USA (5.6k Instagram followers).
]]>Justin Donaldson (118K Instagram) is a respected painter and educator specialising in gouache landscapes. Based in South Carolina, USA, he travels forests, fields, and rivers to find inspiration for his plein air paintings and fantasy scenes.
Maddy Bellwoar (80K Instagram) is an artist and nature lover based in the Netherlands. Equally skilled with gouache and digital tools, she has released a wealth of popular resources for both aspiring gouache painters and digital landscape artists.
Kiara Maharaj (Kiara in the Forest)(296K Instagram) is a fantasy writer and illustrator from South Africa. Her illustrations are done using gouache on black paper, and are based on tree portals, characters, and creatures from her fantasy short story series: The Polkadot Files. She exhibits at Comic Con Africa to launch her books.
]]>Pilates At Home is the perfect companion for anyone looking to start their fitness journey or just can't find time to make it to the gym. With customisable workouts that include large photos and easy-to-follow, step-by-step motions, readers can exercise at their own level at any time. Inside you'll find everything you need to know to start and stick with your Pilates journey, including:
With Pilates At Home, you don't have to break the bank on expensive classes or gym memberships. Simply grab a mat, foam roller, or resistance band (although equipment is optional!), and get started on your personalised Pilates journey!
]]>'Alexis teaches us that everything is woven together, from the herb and plant allies to the psyches of those calling on them, to the community at large moving around and through them, to the land that nourishes and grows them. This book is a wonderful treatise.' Arin Murphy-Hiscock, bestselling author of The Green Witch
The Apothecary of Belonging takes us on a magickal journey through each of the four seasons with plant allies as our guides and companions. Author Alexis J. Cunningfolk explores how to know ourselves as beings who deeply belong to the land and one another, while teaching us about the energetic foundations of traditional Western herbalism that flow through the seasons within and around us.
Featuring twelve main seasonal allies and over seventy additional plant and herbal profiles, you will find methods for combining seasonal herbalism for physical vitality with magickal practices to support personal healing and community empowerment, including:
An indications-based guide to plant allies for common ailments
Herbal remedy suggestions
Simple tea recipes to support your energy
Rituals for solo or community practice including divination techniques
Lunar blessings to support your remedy-making throughout the year
Opportunities for sacred inquiry through journaling
Speaking to the common yearning for kinship and connection, The Apothecary of Belonging is a love letter reminding us that we can always find our way back home to each other.
]]>The Living Lenormand is a brilliant introduction to a resurging system of divination, seeking to help you sharpen your intuition and tell the difference between the 'voice of the cards' and the cacophony of other voices that flood our minds on a daily basis. Eron Mazza takes the reader through the history of the Lenormand deck and Marie Anne Lenormand, the reader whose famous divinatory practices inspired the name. Mazza shares anecdotes from more than fifteen years of reading experience, highlighting the understated elegance of Lenormand.
The Living Lenormand presents Lenormand as an equal to more mainstream divination systems, such as runes and the tarot, with greater potential for widespread and discreet use. Mazza provides essential insights on effective ethics, spellwork, and building your intuition for private and public readings. Get to know the imagery and magical potential of the Lenormand deck alongside the expertise of a longtime reader.
]]>Folk magic exists in every culture and has been practiced since the dawn of time. It is more than casting a spell or creating a ritual. It is a way of life, a way of living, a way of perceiving the world and all within it. Living Folk Magic explains how to build an entire folk magic practice from cleansing and protecting to blessing and cursing and provides instructions on how to build altars (whether openly or secretly), practice divination, communicate with spirits, and more.
Supported by the 'four pillars of magic', these elements serve to provide stability, structure, and protection:
Cleansing: to remove negative energy
Blessing: to imbue with love
Protecting: to charge with energy that repels evil
Defending: to combat evil
In Living Folk Magic, author Mary-Grace Fahrun seeks to share her magical perspective and processes in the hope of inspiring both beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
]]>The pentagon and its close cousin, the pentagram, have inspired individuals for the last two and half millennia, from mathematicians and philosophers to artists and naturalists. Despite the pentagon's wide-ranging history, no single book has explored the important role of this shape in various cultures, until now. Richly illustrated, Pentagons and Pentagrams offers a sweeping view of the five-sided polygon, revealing its intriguing geometric properties and its essential influence on a variety of fields.
Traversing time, Eli Maor narrates vivid stories, both celebrated and unknown, about the pentagon and pentagram. He discusses the early Pythagoreans, who ascribed to the pentagon mythical attributes, adopted it as their emblem, and figured out its construction with a straightedge and compass. Maor looks at how a San Diego housewife uncovered four previously unknown types of pentagonal tilings, and how in 1982 a scientist's discovery of fivefold symmetries in certain alloys caused an uproar in crystallography and led to a Nobel Prize. Maor also discusses the pentagon's impact on many buildings, from medieval fortresses to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Eugen Jost's superb illustrations provide sumptuous visual context, and the book's puzzles and mazes offer fun challenges for readers, with solutions given in an appendix.
]]>Eugen Jost is a well-known Swiss artist whose work is strongly influenced by mathematics.
]]>Through the voices of patrons, artists, and locals who have frequented the beloved Cafe Gitane, readers are sent back to an analog New York, when NoLIta was still Little Italy, a quiet neighbourhood tucked between SoHo and the Lower East Side, and downtown hummed with creative energy. Here a tiny, cosmopolitan French Moroccan cafe evolved into a cultural nexus: a meeting place and playground for everyone, from the most talented emerging artists to out-of-town visitors.
Cafe Gitane: 30 Years invites readers to savor the sights, sounds, and tastes of an establishment that has left an unusually lasting mark on an ever-shifting city. It chronicles not just a unique cafe, but a creative community and a microcosm of New York itself.
McNally Jackson Books, Nolita's neighbourhood bookstore since 2004, is honoured to be publishing this celebratory scrapbook. Indeed, Cafe Gitane commemorates the enduring spirit and connection shared by two downtown institutions and gathering places, whose entwined histories and evolutions help define the fabric of the city.
]]>Melanie Dunea is an award-winning American photographer and author, best known for the book series My Last Supper as well as her revealing portraits of some of the world's most celebrated artists, chefs, politicians, and intellectuals. Her works have been translated into several languages and have sold more than 70,000 copies worldwide. She has received awards from American Photography, PDN, Communication Arts, Graphis, the Society of Publication Designers, International Photography Awards, and the Lucie Foundation. My Last Supper, The Next Course won the Gourmand Award for Best in the World, USA for Photography. A native of Chicago, Dunea makes her home in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood.
]]>Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat depicts the painter's friend and fellow revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat collapsed in his bath after being fatally stabbed by a female assassin who stands just outside the frame. In this fascinating book, Thomas Crow traces the radical legacy of a painting that has been called the Piet of the French Revolution, showing how David's masterpiece captures the saga of that violent era in the single figure of Marat, and how it reveals itself anew today.
Crow begins by describing how the painting's enduring power came to the fore during the countercultural tumult of the 1960s, discussing how his vocation as a scholar arose out of his own encounter with the work. He then takes readers back to 1793, telling the story of the painting's creation through the eyes of David, his subject, and Marat's charismatic assassin, Charlotte Corday. Charting the history of its impact across more than two centuries, Crow shows how this multilayered portrait surfaced in succeeding waves of political dissent as an enduring talisman of popular insurgency.
Beautifully illustrated, Murder in the Rue Marat is an art historian's disarmingly personal account of a painting whose hidden complexities bear witness to the promise and peril of revolution in Marat's time and our own.
]]>In the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilisation. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the twentieth century and was always ruled by autocracies. Two Paths to Prosperity traces the emergence of two very different social organisations in premodern China and Europe the clan and the corporation showing how they were key factors in the economic and political divergence of these two great civilisations.
In this landmark book, three leading economists offer a bold new account of why Europe and China evolved along such different trajectories. In the early Middle Ages, public goods like risk sharing, religious worship, education, and conflict resolution were provided by nonstate organizations in both societies. China increasingly relied on kin-based cooperation within clans, while weaker kinship ties in Europe gave rise to corporations such as guilds, universities, and self-governing towns. Despite performing similar functions, clans and corporations were built on very different principles with lasting consequences until today.
Providing a novel answer to a fundamental question in economic and political history, Two Paths to Prosperity shows how extended kinship in Chinese society facilitated the consolidation of autocracy and hindered innovation and economic development, and how corporations in Europe influenced emerging state institutions and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.
]]>Joel Mokyr, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University and Sackler Professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.
Guido Tabellini is the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Political Economics and Vice President at Bocconi University.
]]>In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule.
The mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster, the Ming price regime collapsed, and with it the Ming political regime.
A masterful work of scholarship, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it.
]]>Syrians have longed for the ordinary life that eluded them for decades. When President Bashar Assad was unexpectedly overthrown in December 2024, they celebrated the end of a dictatorial dynasty. But as they strive for post-Assad justice, they must grapple with the legacy of a fight for freedom that started many years earlier.
Damascus-born Rime Allaf tells the poignant story of a struggle for dignity that has shaken the world. When Hafez Assad's violent rule ended in 2000, many believed his son would bring change. Instead, Bashar spent his first decade in power meddling regionally and reneging on promises of domestic reform. When Syrians finally rose up in revolution in 2011, they were mercilessly crushed by the regime with extensive Iranian and Russian support and abandoned by the foreign powers claiming to support them. The consequences of these events still reverberate internationally, in the largest refugee crisis since World War Two and in a new global order that has weakened democracy and privileged authoritarians.
Combining expert analysis, evocative storytelling and the author's deep personal connection with the region, It Started in Damascus paints an intimate portrait of a devastated society and a resilient people determined to find their peace. African communities over the millennia. It is a haunting, sensitive, powerful read.
]]>In a world dominated by capitalism, where urban landscapes suffer from inequality, environmental degradation and social strife, a vision for what comes next is vital. Postcapitalist cities guides readers through contemporary urban life, presenting a transformative urban blueprint for a future of equity, sustainability and communal well-being.
Combining vivid case studies with historical analysis and theoretical exploration, the book reveals how capitalism has shaped our cities and uncovers the revolutionary post-capitalist potential within them. From the urban protests of 1968 and the fare strikes in Santiago to urban commoning and the solarpunk movement, this book reveals how communities are planting seeds of radical transformation.
Postcapitalist cities is a poignant critique but also a celebration of emerging urban practices that prioritise human dignity, democracy and social justice. It invites readers to dream, analyse and act. Whether you're an urban planner, activist, scholar or concerned citizen, this book provides the tools and inspiration to build cities where humanity can truly flourish.
]]>Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Belgium travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting other European countries? Check out Fodor's Essential France, Fodor's Essential England, Fodor's Essential Italy, Fodor's Essential Norway, and Fodor's Essential Switzerland.
]]>Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's New York City 2025 travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting more of the Northeast? Check out Fodor's Boston, Fodor's Philadelphia, Fodor's Washington DC, and Fodor's New England.
]]>This new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful colour photos.
Fodor's Los Angeles travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting the rest of California? Check out Fodor's California, Fodor's Southern California, Fodor's San Diego, Fodor's Northern California, Fodor's San Francisco, and Fodor's Napa and Sonoma
]]>Fodor's The Complete Guide to Africa Safaris travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting South Africa? Check out Fodor's Essential South Africa.
]]>Fodor's Rome travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting other destinations in Italy? Check out Fodor's Essential Italy; The Amalfi Coast, Capri, and Naples; Venice; and Florence and Tuscany.
]]>Developed through extensive global research and practitioner collaboration, it incorporates input from thousands of project professionals and more than 48,000 data points.
Building on the long-standing legacy of PMI, the Eighth Edition blendsmindset, technical, and practical guidanceto reflect how project management is practiced today. It introduces:
Together, these updates connect thewhy,what, andhowof project management. With an emphasis onvalue delivery, adaptability, and accountability, this edition helps professionals at all levels achieve meaningful outcomes across a range of approaches and environments.
Whether you manage traditional initiatives or lead agile transformations, thePMBOK Guide Eighth Editionprovides clarity, relevance, and confidence for modern project delivery.
What You'll Learn
Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new ways to develop your own ideas, and discover from the artists what it is like to work for prolific animation studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks.
The cover for issue 34 is by Simone Ferriero (aka Simz), a freelance comic-book artist and illustrator from Italy who has a huge 431K followers on Instagram. Simz is known for his drawings of ghost cats and modern-day witches, with a style inspired by Japanese cartoons and comics. He takes us through the creation of his cover, then we interview him about his career and his current creative plans.
Also featured in this issue is Tom Booth (335K followers on Instagram) an art director, illustrator, and author, based in Brooklyn, New York. He has created characters for Simon & Schuster, Netflix, Random House, and is known for his extensive work in children's literature. He talks to us about creating the video game Pine, for which he served as the artistic and narrative lead.
]]>Contributing artist Tom Booth (335K followers on Instagram) an art director, illustrator, and author, based in Brooklyn, New York. He has created characters for Simon & Schuster, Netflix, Random House, and is known for his extensive work in children's literature.
Edited by 3dtotal Publishing, based in Worcester, England, UK. 3dtotal publish high-quality art books dedicated to bringing invaluable training to beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Their books feature top industry professionals from around the globe who share their experience in skillfully written step-by-step tutorials and guides. Illustrated throughout with stunning artwork, these best-selling publications offer creative insight, expert advice, and essential motivation.
]]>Author provocateur Dalton Higgins provides 101 reasons why basketball has captured the imagination of sports enthusiasts around the globe. Higgins unpacks the myths and realities behind the world's second most popular sport, breaking down with precision all kinds of wildly interesting and obscure basketball facts tied to height, gender, geography, race, economics, and everything in between.
From sneakers to salacious tidbits, Higgins offers takes on age-old issues and debates:
Gel plate printing is an approachable new way of making creative monotypes without a press. Using the flexible printing plates, artists can use paints, inks, stencils, and different textures to create amazing artwork. Now, noted artist and instructor Jessica Russo Scherr shares her groundbreaking secrets for making unique works of art with gel plates. Including:
Scherr shows how to make prints that honor both photographic precision and painterly expression. She also helps readers find their creative voice through this versatile medium. Whether you're a seasoned printmaker or just beginning to explore artistic expression, the Gelli Arts Printmaker's Handbook will help you explore the endless possibilities of gel plate printmaking.
]]>Painting 'en plein air' is the art of capturing gorgeous landscapes out in the wild. Now, this ultra-portable reference guide gives the essential information for getting started with painting outdoors, including:
Noted painting instructor Rachael Broadwell demystifies plein air painting and distills her years of knowledge into this handy guide for all aspiring artists.
]]>Sara Mastros has turned thousands of novices into practitioners of the Craft. For the first time, Introduction to Witchcraft: Thirteen Lessons in the Practice of Magic presents her decades of experience and material in an accessible form. Step into her classroom with a notebook and feather-tipped pen ready: it's time to advance your practice.
Inside Introduction to Witchcraft, you'll find practical exercises, simple but never condescending explanations of major ideas, and examples from Mastros's experience in the field. She covers a range of topics, from defining 'magic' to curse-breaking and protection, and divides the material into clear and distinct sections akin to the lessons from her classes. Introduction to Witchcraft is a foundational title for all beginning witches and long-term practitioners looking to review the basics.
]]>Long before the advent of the kitchen junk drawer and trinket gumball machines, shamans, healers, and seers would cast and read bones, shells, stones, coins, and nuts. It was held that where and how these pieces landed could reveal great insight into the human condition and our eternal selves. Life's mysteries were explored and the energetic veil between the living and the dead deferentially parted.
With Charm Casting, you can learn how to assemble your pieces, find meaning, and explore your future by casting an oracle made from bits and baubles attuned to your personal energies. Tina Hardt offers a fun-drenched adventure filled with exercises, checklists, charts, and creative activities. Charm casting increases your intuition and psychic abilities not to mention your star quality! Guidance on life's desires, including love, family, career, spirituality, and more are explained.
]]>BonaDea's Book of Everyday Enchantments is a practitioner's guide to using words, gestures, everyday objects, and, most importantly, alliances to effect change magically in your life. Revisit old pastimes, such as connect-the-dots and crossword puzzles, to center your energy, manifest opportunities, and protect what is most precious to you. Determining when to create a spell or intone a chant to shift the energies is simpler than you might think.
BonaDea Lyonesse gives examples of her own spells and charms, assembled through years of practice, to build a foundation for the reader. BonaDea's Book of Everyday Enchantments covers topics from protection to ancestor work, showcasing the interconnected nature of witchcraft and manifestation. Listen for what resonates and allow BonaDea's work to inspire you and give you confidence to create your own magical world.
'Deeply rooted magickal wisdom from a true teacher. BonaDea shares a magickal practice woven into the fiber of our daily lives, offering her enchanting vision of a living path of Witchcraft.' Christopher Penczak, author of the Temple of Witchcraft series and Gay Witchcraft
]]>In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in English for the first time, painting an illuminating and disarmingly intimate portrait of a towering literary figure.
In frank and open exchanges that are by turns buoyant, introspective, and argumentative, Oz explains what impels him to begin a story and shares his routines, habits, and challenges as a writer. He discusses the tectonic changes he experienced in his lifetime in relationships between women and men, and describes how his erotic coming of age shaped him not only as a man but also as an author. Oz reflects on his parents, his formative years on a kibbutz, and how he dealt with and learned from his critics, his students, and his fame. He talks about why there is more humour in his later books and gives his exceptional take on fear of death.
Resonating with Oz's clear, honest, and humorous voice, What Makes an Apple? offers unique insights about Oz's artistic and personal evolution, and enables readers to explore his work in new ways.
]]>Shira Hadad is an acclaimed editor of contemporary Israeli fiction and a screenwriter. She edited works by such writers as Amos Oz and Zeruya Shalev, and created TV dramas for various networks.
Jessica Cohen is the translator of Amos Oz's Dear Zealots and of works by such writers as Etgar Keret, Ronit Matalon, and Nir Baram.
]]>The discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory revealed that, despite its reputation for certainty, mathematical truth is not immutable, perfect, or even perfectible. Beginning in the last century, a handful of adventurous playwrights took inspiration from the fractures of modern mathematics to expand their own artistic boundaries. Originating in the early avant-garde, mathematics-infused theatre reached a popular apex in Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia. In The Proof Stage, mathematician Stephen Abbott explores this unlikely collaboration of theatre and mathematics. He probes the impact of mathematics on such influential writers as Alfred Jarry, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, and Stoppard, and delves into the life and mathematics of Alan Turing as they are rendered onstage. The result is an unexpected story about the mutually illuminating relationship between proofs and plays from Euclid and Euripides to Gdel and Godot.
Theater is uniquely poised to discover the soulful, human truths embedded in the austere theorems of mathematics, but this is a difficult feat. It took Stoppard twenty-five years of experimenting with the creative possibilities of mathematics before he succeeded in making fractal geometry and chaos theory integral to Arcadia's emotional arc. In addition to charting Stoppard's journey, Abbott examines the post-Arcadia wave of ambitious works by Michael Frayn, David Auburn, Simon McBurney, Snoo Wilson, John Mighton, and others. Collectively, these gifted playwrights transform the great philosophical upheavals of mathematics into profound and sometimes poignant revelations about the human journey.
]]>Domenico Ghirlandaio (144894) was a master of Renaissance art, celebrated for his vivid frescoes and detailed portraits. Teacher to Michelangelo and admired by Lorenzo de' Medici, Ghirlandaio's work reflects the vibrant artistic culture of fifteenth-century Florence. This book examines Ghirlandaio's career in the context of the craft traditions, guilds, and workshops that shaped his art. It also analyses his famous works, such as the Santa Maria Novella frescoes and the portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, revealing the creative and technical processes behind them. By uncovering the social and cultural influences on Ghirlandaio's art including family ties and religious affiliations the book offers a rich portrait of an artist whose work continues to inspire today.
'Written by the leading Ghirlandaio scholar, Domenico Ghirlandaio: An Elite Artisan and His World presents a fresh interpretation of the renowned painter within the dynamic social and artistic networks of Renaissance Florence. Jean K. Cadogan vividly identifies his contributions to narrative, portraiture, and technique, confirming his importance to Italian art.' Diane Cole Ahl, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
]]>While he faced setbacks and took significant risks, Francis left his successor a kingdom that was larger, better governed and more stable than before. This concise biography paints a vivid portrait of Francis, exploring his achievements, challenges and enduring legacy. It captures his role in shaping the French Renaissance, blending engaging storytelling with insights drawn from extensive primary research.
Cogent and lively, this book provides a clear narrative of Francis's reign and explains why he is celebrated as France's great Renaissance monarch.
]]>This book examines the life of Richard I (1157-1199) through the captivating stories told about him, from accounts of his deeds in medieval sources to his portrayals in modern literature and media. Tales of Richard's exploits were as colourful as they were varied, ranging from him wielding King Arthur's sword to being a son of the Devil or even a cannibal. Instead of separating fact from fiction, this book explores how these tales shaped his legacy in both his time and ours.
'This book, at once readable and scholarly, shows how the fascinating historical figure of Richard the Lionheart metamorphosed into the character of myth and romance that we know today. An ideal introduction to England's most legendary medieval king.' Jay Rubenstein, USC Dornsife
]]>Along with its people Nowra surveys the city's landscape, its architecture, and its global identity. And as Sydney's history unfolds throughout the twentieth century and beyond, Nowra revels in its neon lights, music, skyscrapers, sense of optimism and the many disparate elements that shape Sydneysiders' view of themselves.
'Nowra captures the everchanging spirit of what is arguably to most, inarguably to Nowra Australia's pre-eminent city.' Books+Publishing
]]>Sydney has always been the sexiest and brashest of our cities, but perhaps the most misunderstood. In this new edition of Sydney, Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity and jacarandas, its fireworks, glitz and magic. But she discards lazy stereotypes to reveal a complex city: beautiful, violent, half-wild, and at times deeply spiritual.
Beginning with her childhood in a decaying '70s Sydney, caught between a faded Art Deco age and mega development, Falconer intertwines her own stories with the wellsprings of the city's history and its literary past. Melancholic, moving and funny, Sydney is intensely atmospheric and seductive.
In a new afterward, Falconer ponders the city's twenty-first century transformations might it have become a softer, nicer place? Will it be able to withstand the real presence of climate change?
'Falconer writes beautifully and evocatively in what is a long love letter to her home town, as she delves deep into its essence.' - The Age
'Delia Falconer's Sydney...is like its harbour, brimful with tones, vivid with contemplation.' - Australian Book Review
'This is a brilliant book. If I were to recommend a book about Sydney to anyone, it would be this one.' - Louis Nowra, The Australian
'Falconer's Sydney depicts a city of beauty and violence, of pain and redemption. Whatever your relationship with Sydney, put aside your entrenched preconceptions and explore this book. It may not change your opinion of Australia's largest city, but I'm certain this book will give you a new perspective on our first city' - The Canberra Times
]]>Swimming Sydney is a tale of 52 swims in and around Sydney that take place over a calendar year. From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi, Chris Baker swims at iconic beaches, municipal pools, harbour baths, tidal rock pools, bushland lakes and a backyard pool.
Taking his weekly plunges, Baker reflects on friendship, history and family, and how swimming can help us better understand ourselves.
Swimming Sydney is a valentine to the beautiful obsession of swimming in the world's most beautiful city. It's a book for everyone who loves swimming, who loves Sydney, and who understands that storytelling is the best way to navigate life's emotional currents.
'Part travel guide and part memoir, these 52 immersive essays one a week remind us how inextricably Australian culture is linked to water and our bodies. Immerse yourself and emerge invigorated, like the best swims leave you feeling.' Benjamin Law
'A poetic ode to the water that will have you reaching for your goggles and leaping into the blue. Chris Baker may swim like a fish, but he also writes like a dream. Swimming Sydney is a beguiling portrait of love, loss, community and identity in the world's most swimmable city.' Yves Rees
'Chris Baker takes a deep dive into the watery history of Sydney, focusing by turns on its conflicted history, ravishing beauty and salty present. His eye for detail is sharper than a gull's, and while his love of the liquid landscapes he traverses is palpable and at times nostalgic, it is never sentimental. Reading his 52 swims made me long to don my togs and to get away from my own daily comfort pool. I ached to rush to a dive-in, to slurp a Sunnyboy or chomp a pluto pup, and above all, to immerse in the "dignified consolation" that he offers in every chapter. This book is both a keeper and a giver, an invitation and a challenge, a guide and a gift; it's a love song to the caress of watery wonder.' Ailsa Piper
'Essential to the immersive pleasure of this work is the natural beauty of the coastal and submarine environment. And for water lovers not familiar with Sydney's many swim spots, this guide is an ideal introduction.' Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
'This is a lovely book regardless of whether or not you live within a bull's roar of Sydney.' The Canberra Times
]]>Chris' work has been published by the Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Australian, The Guardian Australia, Time Out, SBS Online and Vogue Australia.
]]>Big and bold or soft and sculptural, or a mix of the two, it's not until you get up close that you feel brutalism's radical roots.
Brutalist architecture hit Sydney in the late 1950s when local architects and their international peers experimented with raw concrete and brick and kicked off a revolution. These brave new buildings were ambitious, optimistic - often divisive - and predominantly made onsite by hand, not machine. For the next 30 years Sydney produced some of the world's best examples of brutalist architecture. Sirius. The Sydney Masonic Centre. UTS Tower. The ribbed concrete shells of the Sydney Opera House.
Design writer Heidi Dokulil explores Sydney's brutalist architecture, its international influences, its architects, builders and residents, and the public buildings, university campuses and homes that changed the face of the city.
The recent outcry over the threatened demolition of the Sirius building in Millers Point has generated new interest in these brutal beauties of Australian architecture. Yet many brutalist buildings have been demolished and others remain under threat. Sydney Brutalism reveals the stories behind Sydney's bold and innovative brutalist buildings, the contemporary architects and projects they continue to inspire, and dynamic photography by a line-up of the world's best architectural photographers. Long live the bruts!
'A brilliantly researched deep dive into the subject - Sydney Brutalism asks why our concrete monsters matter, while exploring international antecedents and contemporary executions. Powerful photography contributes to this important exploration of a controversial architectural genre.' - Karen McCartney
]]>In this sweeping history of one of the world's most recognisable landscapes, award-winning historian Ian Hoskins explores the story of this famous waterway, from its importance to the Gameragal and Gadigal people to highly charged contemporary debates about the future of the 'working harbour' and the ownership of its foreshores.
A beautifully written and compelling book, this new edition of Sydney Harbour surveys the interactions between the glittering harbour and the people who have fished it, sailed on it, built at its edges, fought for it, portrayed it and marvelled at it.
'An innovative history of Sydney Harbour...Ian Hoskins brings into view a many-sided picture of the harbour over time. A delight to read.' - Peter Cochrane
'A detailed and beautifully written history...If you love Sydney Harbour, then this is an evocative celebration.' - Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald
'In this superbly illustrated history of Sydney Harbour, Hoskins explores the fascinating story of one of the world's more recognised waterways...a fine history, an excellent read.' - Ross Fitzgerald, Spectator Australia
]]>'We make a city our own by noticing.'
Gail Jones
Walking Sydney invites us to walk with a city's writers as they share places of home and imagination. From suburban streets to the shores of the harbour, as we walk amid diasporas, countercultures, activists, artists, dreamers and thieves, the city comes alive with story. Written by Belinda Castles from walks taken with fifteen writers, Walking Sydney is an opportunity to see the city afresh.
Eveleigh and Carriageworks with Jazz Money Surry Hills with Fiona Kelly McGregor The Rocks, Walsh Bay and Circular Quay with Gail Jones Parramatta with Eda Gunaydin King Street, Newtown with Vanessa Berry Freshwater with Malcolm Knox Yagoona and Bankstown with Sheila Ngc Phm Rushcutters Bay Park and Elizabeth Bay with Delia Falconer North Willoughby and Middle Cove with Jakelin Troy Casula and Liverpool with Max Easton Kings Cross, Elizabeth Bay, Darlinghurst and Surry Hills with Neal Drinnan Bronte and Clovelly with Beth Yahp Bankstown and Punchbowl Boys' High School with Michael Mohammed Ahmad Cooks River with Michelle de Kretser City and Redfern with Larissa Behrendt.
]]>Sirius is the extraordinary story of survival against the odds for one of Australia's most notable Brutalist buildings, and its community. The story of Sirius begins with the 1970s Battle for The Rocks and a Green Ban, which saved an historic precinct and a community located around the Sydney Harbour Bridge. After four years during which there was no building activity, the Green Ban ended and agreement was made to build Sirius to serve the displaced members of the community. Architect Tao Gofers explains how the agreement was reached and how he designed a vertical village perhaps the last, and arguably the most successful, tower built for public housing in this era.
By 2015, Sirius itself became the centre of controversy as the New South Wales Government sought to sell the building to developers and remove its public housing residents, forever changing the fabric of the local community and Sirius's original intention. Local Millers Point, Dawes Point and Rocks residents joined with hundreds of passionate advocates from across Australia including architects, professional bodies and the Historic Houses Trust, to protest against this change. The 'Save Our Sirius' campaign was born.
Piper Press's beautiful book records not just a building and its remarkable architecture, but also the important social history of a unique public housing community and many of its individual residents.
]]>** Shortlisted, The Danger Awards 2023, Non-fiction **
Nothing in the post-war decades reveals the underbelly of Australian life the way police records do.
Small time heists. Failed robberies. Runs of bad luck. Payback. Love gone wrong. Drink, drugs and late-night assignations. Cops doing their job well. And badly. Plausible lies, unlikely truths. Murder and misadventure. In Suburban Noir Peter Doyle author of City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us explores the everyday crime and catastrophe that went on in the fibro and brick veneers, the backyards, bedrooms, vacant lots and pokie palaces of 1950s and 1960s Sydney suburbia.
Extensive research into forensic archives, public records and the private papers of the late Brian Doyle (1960s detective, later assistant commissioner of police, and Peter Doyle's uncle) also reveals important new information about two of the most famous crimes in Australian history the Kingsgrove Slasher case and the Graeme Thorne kidnap-murder.
'A fabulous insight into violent crimes of the 1950s and 1960s through the eyes of one of Australia's then top cops, Brian Doyle, as interpreted and related by his nephew, true-crime writer, curator and crime aficionado, Peter Doyle. Often accompanied by great photos and drawings, each story is a gem that highlights the differences in criminal activity and police investigations in those days. Well researched and eminently readable.' - Mark Tedeschi
'A beautifully written and illustrated book about crime and crime scenes in Sydney during the 1950s and '60s, some of them involving the author's famous uncle, the detective Brian Doyle. It is a fascinating snapshot of the culture of Australia in those years, describing in words and images the cars, clothes, architecture, music, drugs, language and prejudice of the period. At times engrossing, macabre, absurdly funny and sadly shabby. The pictures are a mixture of crime scene photographs and Peter Doyle's finely rendered pencil and ink versions of some of these photographs.' - Reg Mombasa
'With these shocking, at times heartbreaking, stories of very bad things happening to ordinary people, our foremost crime chronicler Peter Doyle shines his forensic spotlight on the schemers, slashers, killers and cops who have always lurked in the shadows of sunny Sydney suburbia.' - Larry Writer, author of Underbelly Razor: Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and The Razor Gangs
'Suburban Noir brings a hidden Sydney to vivid life, deep-diving into the forensic record to reveal a mid-century suburbia of undercurrents, secrets and lives gone astray. Meticulously attentive, compassionate and humorous: no one writes crime like Peter Doyle.' - Vanessa Berry
'I devoured this book, which will appeal to lovers of Sydney's history and to fans of Teju Cole's Small Fates. Doyle writes about the way small flashes of violence reveal the id beneath the city's ordinary places. Most excitingly, he insists that crime scene photography has its own moral aesthetic, bearing witness to sites where darkness has already won.' - Delia Falconer
'In lucid, inventive yet artless prose, Doyle reveals Australian mid-century suburbia - specifically Sydney's south-west - in a whole new light. Suburban Noir is a grainy, lyrical excavation of a landscape that might appear familiar to those who lived through it, or who have seen its myriad mostly idealised representations on screen.' - Fiona Kelly McGregor
'Peter Doyle's Suburban Noir is one of the most fascinating books I have read all year.' - Jeff Popple, Canberra Weekly
'From being in the wrong place at the wrong time to planned cases, Doyle meticulously and circumspectly lifts the rug on suburbia.' - The Sydney Morning Herald
'A book that's anything but a typical true-crime tale - and is all the more fascinating for it.' - The West Australian
]]>*Longlisted for the 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize*
The Sydney Warstells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians described as 'this constant sort of war' by one early colonist around the greater Sydney region.
Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 1817.The Sydney Warssheds new light on how British and Aboriginal forces developed military tactics and how the violence played out.
Analysing the paramilitary roles of settlers and convicts and the militia defensive systems that were deployed, it shows that white settlers lived in fear, while Indigenous people fought back as their land and resources were taken away. Stephen Gapps details the violent conflict that formed part of a long period of colonial strategic efforts to secure the Sydney basin and, in time, the rest of the continent.
'A powerful and cogent contribution to one of the most contentious aspects of Australian history: the war between British settlers and the First Nations. The fine detailed research will mean that we will have to radically reassess our understanding of the history of the first thirty years of settlement.'-Henry Reynolds
'Historian Stephen Gapps' new book details the first 30 years of EuropeanAboriginal interaction in the Sydney basin...Gapps' assiduous use of original sources gazettes, letters and personal accounts makes for a compelling storyand an even more important history.'-The Saturday Paper
'Historian Stephen Gapps has written an extraordinarily detailed study of contemporary sources from Sydney between the years 1788 and 1817.'- Aboriginal Art Directory
'The Sydney Warsis a valuable contribution to the way we understand both the history of the early years of British settlement in Sydney and the way we consider Australian origins.'- Dictionary of Sydney
The language is now called by its many clan names, including Gadigal in the Sydney city area and Dharug in Western Sydney. The word for Aboriginal person in this language is 'yura', this word been used to help identify the language, with the most common spellings being Iyora and Eora.
The Sydney Language is ideal for anyone interested in learning more about the language and culture of the Aboriginal owners of what is now called Sydney.
]]>The popular first edition established itself as both authoritative and informative; both a guide book and an alternative social history, told through precincts of significance to the city's Indigenous people. The sites within these precincts, and their accompanying stories and photographs, evoke Sydney's ancient past, and allow us all to celebrate the living Aboriginal culture of today.
]]>Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record, re-emerging early in the twentieth century. What happened to Sydney's indigenous people between the devastating impact of white settlement and increased government intervention a century later?
Hidden in Plain View shows that Aboriginal people did not disappear. They may have been ignored in colonial narratives but maintained a strong bond with the coast and its resources and tried to live on their own terms.
This original and important book tells this powerful story through individuals, and brings a poorly understood period of Sydney's shared history back into view. Its readers will never look at Sydney in the same way.
Paul Irish has breathed new life into people written out of history. Stan Grant
This landmark book will open your eyes to the enduring Aboriginal history of Sydney, a story which was there all along, a story that changes everything. Grace Karskens
]]>'Giada Scodellaro is one of the most astonishing writers of her generation and Ruins, Child is a visionary novel. Scodellaro refracts and redefines the canon of Black culture, the archive of Black experience. The result is a masterpiece that lives and breathes on the page, every sentence shimmering with wit, musicality, brilliance and verve.' Katie Kitamura
Praise for Some of Them Will Carry Me:
'The female protagonists who appear in Scodellaro's kinetic debut collection of stories find themselves in absurdist and fantastical scenarios that interrogate the nature of subjectivity.' The New Yorker, 'Best Books of 2022'
'Scodellaro's stories capture a broad spectrum of life's joy, disgust, complexity, and unusual specificity.' Booklist
'A wild and wonderful collection...auspicious and consistently surprising.' Publishers Weekly
]]>Two hungry boys set out from their squat by a slow river on a not quite mythic quest for revenge. At the same time, a local pastor drives from his beachside home to visit a dying parishioner. What each means to the other will be revealed as brothers, Gark and Pell, run for their lives over one desperate night, across a coastal town haunted by its past.
The Cross Thieves is bold, mature and compassionate. And sprinkled with humour, 80s pop, carny lore, and the mysteries of philately. Fyfe's knowing eye for place, poverty and powerlessness and his empathy for the underdog is captured in an unforgettable story of profound emotional power.
]]>*Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)*
Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling.
T or Timothy lives on the economic margins, both using and selling methamphetamine in Mandurah. When a friend, Gulp, tragically dies and T grows close to Lori-Bird his life promises to become more centred. But he moves between loving and leaving her.
This is a lyrical and arresting portrait of characters who crave love but struggle with addiction and the tenuous yet intimate community connections it gives them. The spirit of the Peel landscape informs both T's identity and the lives of the people he encounters and offers a way out.
Intimate with suffering and beauty, T is also at times transcendent. A contemporary novel with the urgency of what Davies' Candy, Kerouac's On the Road, and Garner's Monkey Grip were to their own times.
'Confronting and discomfiting, with small moments of redemption T is very much a story for our times.' Kate Noske and Richard Rossiter (Hungerford Award Judges).
'There is nothing else currently being written that is quite as exciting. Its blend of realism, grittiness, pared back lyricism and magical realism is unique and hasn't been seen since the work of a powerful novelist of regional life like Tom Flood. T works the margins, both in terms of place and subject of the culture around meth use, in utterly compelling ways. This story needs to be told.' Lucy Dougan, Premier's Award winner and Westerly editor.
]]>Ava spends her days at The Department, rebuilding lost species from the remaining fragments of art and scientific data. Her dying mother thinks she should quit. So does her lover, and the sex workers who loiter outside her apartment. But when a ghost from her past shows up, Ava is compelled to follow its broken song deep into the archives uncovering a secret that could reverse the age of silence.
Set in a time of mass extinction, Department of the Vanishing blends documentary poetry, archival image, and narrative verse to explore the vital questions: Can we live in a world without birdsong and is it possible to create a new opus with the fragments left over.
'Rare and resplendent. A full-bodied roar at the crimes of extinction and a psalm for the wonder of the living world.' Jennifer Mills
'A sexy, compelling and beautifully crafted elegy not only to birds but to feeling itself. The denouement is spectacular; I cheered and wept.' Angela O'Keeffe
'Simultaneously fragile and furious, intimate and immense, Department of the Vanishing is a remarkable achievement.' James Bradley
'Surprisingly seductive and at times deeply sad, Department of the Vanishing brilliantly explores what it takes to live life with grief for lost family and a vanishing wild.' Jane Messer
'The narrative moves at a cracking pace and the play with poetic form dovetails beautifully with the urgency of the story.' Toby Fitch
]]>This is the third book of Musashi: The Novel, a sweeping three-book unabridged translation of Eiji Yoshikawa's bestselling masterpiece Japan's most beloved historical novel. Masterfully translated for the first time in its entirety by Alexander Bennett, this vivid and fast-paced story reveals the exploits and inner life of a man who finds not only his true purpose but also his humanity.
In this final book, Musashi is left to surmount one final obstacle the great swordsman Sasaki Kojiro, who is legendary for his skill with the sword. As Musashi journeys to fight Kojiro, he encounters old friends and new enemies. Devoting himself to meditation and Zen study, he realises that the pursuit of glory through violence is fruitless, and the only path to success can be found through introspection and discipline.
To become truly happy, he must defeat not only his greatest rival but his self-doubt, tying up loose ends in the process. He meets with Otsu as he prepares to fight Sasak, wielding only a wooden staff, with his destiny in the balance.
This unforgettable conclusion cements Musashi's place as one of literature's most compelling heroes, brought to English readers at last in its full, unabridged glory.
]]>Alexander Bennett is a Professor of Japanese History, Martial Arts, and Budo Theory at Kansai University. He is a Director General of the International Budo University's Budo Sports Research Institute. He co-founded and publishes Kendo World, the first English-language Kendo journal, and holds black belts in several other martial arts. His published works include The Complete Musash and Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai.
]]>This is the first book of Musashi: The Novel, a sweeping three-book unabridged translation of Eiji Yoshikawa's bestselling masterpiece Japan's most beloved historical novel. Masterfully translated for the first time in its entirety by Alexander Bennett, this vivid and fast-paced story reveals the exploits and inner life of a man who finds not only his true purpose but also his humanity.
Book One opens in the year 1600 at the Battle of Sekigahara, a scene of unimaginable carnage where Musashi lies wounded on the battlefield. After being imprisoned for three years, he wanders the countryside aimlessly as a vagabond, desperate to make a name for himself. He becomes a dueling Ronin a swordfighter without a master. And while his destiny seems clear, to achieve it he must leave his old life behind.
]]>Alexander Bennett is a Professor of Japanese History, Martial Arts, and Budo Theory at Kansai University. He is a Director General of the International Budo University's Budo Sports Research Institute. He co-founded and publishes Kendo World, the first English-language Kendo journal, and holds black belts in several martial arts. His published works include The Complete Musash and Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai.
]]>A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's 'War on Terror', countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.
A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.
'A work of genius...What began as a playful collaboration became, like most of DeWitt's work, weirder, riskier and more ambitious. After at least 20 drafts and countless revisions, it morphed into a 600-page work that resists categorisation and almost defies description.' The New York Times Magazine
'An audacious metafiction...Readers will be left breathless.' Publishers Weekly,Starred Review
'An ouroboros and a big one at that of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment...At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.' Kirkus Reviews
'DeWitt is a brilliant risk-taker. I truly have no idea what to expect.' The New York Times, '10 Things We're Excited About This Fall'
'Refreshing[ly] bold...The structure produces opportunities for tension and momentum, winding around a convergence in which everything feels as if it is just around the corner.' Los Angeles Review of Books
'This is hit-and-run, take-no-prisoners writing.' Times Literary Supplement
'Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organised: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great 'Biz' made up of millions of little bizzes... Your Name Hereis a novel that doesn't really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, dishevelled and dissolute; globalised and pornified and digitised somehow, bit after bit after bit.' The London Review of Books
'Peerless.' Lauren Oyler, author ofFake Accounts
'Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff'sYour Name Herehas been the novel of the century for almost two decades, despite almost no one having read it. Now, at long last,Your Name Hereis here. Not a rumor, not an excerpt, not a PDF: this is the real thing a hilarious, insatiably imaginative meta-meta-meta-novel that takes every risk and plays every card and captures, maybe like no other novel, the internet's jarring dislocations and formal possibilities. Still wildly ahead of its time,Your Name Herecontains a multitude of voices so funny, so dark, so alive to every contingency that I wish it were twice as long. What a blast!' Mark Krotov, coeditor ofn+1andThe Intellectual Situation
]]>Ilya Gridneffis a Toronto-based journalist working for the Financial Times. Over the years he has written articles for The Baffler, Vice, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald,and Foreign Policy. He has lived and worked in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Papua New Guinea, London and Berlin.
]]>Dipping into the rabbit hole of digital eroticism, Seasonal meets Lszl, a male sub who volleys back their cerebral sexts and is seeking a dominant guide. His dating-app profile thinly veils his desire to be annihilated. It's a desire that Seasonal senses they can fulfil. But to do it, Seasonal must forget the hard earned ways of keeping themself safe they developed in the milieu of violence and sexual threat that marked their upbringing in working-class, small-town Australia. At home, men were usually a threat. What if the roles were reversed?
Seasonal and Lszl embark on an experiment in remaking intimacy outside the Republic of Gender. But as it continues, the two realise they are staging separate confrontations with domination: Seasonal finds they must confront what it has meant to be raised as woman in Australia, while Lszl stages his own confrontation with his decision to leave Viktor Orbn's Hungary. As the two improvise a theatre of domination in search of freedom, the energies of their sexuality stalk this collaboration, threatening to give them exactly what they bargained or begged for.
A reverse novel of education, where two people try to unlearn everything they think they know about intimacy, Anna Poletti's hello, world? dares to fully face the violence, beauty, and uncharted territories of human sexuality.
]]>Part allegory in the spirit of Animal Farm, part Art Brut parable, Krank Fuss unfolds against the background of an impending social catastrophe, unsettlingly echoing the world today. It is the story of the innocent discovering the cruelty of the natural world, seeking for another way that might allow the delicate Wonder of Life to peak above the nastiness, brutishness and brevity of her apparent Fate.
]]>Miranda, her husband Louis, and their infant daughter are set to spend the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. He's a self-assured young American actor; she, a well-educated, well-bred English ingenue. But when Louis is called away to a shoot, Miranda is left alone with her baby in the remote Italian countryside until a young Italian named Oreste arrives, claiming to have been invited by her now-absent husband.
Miranda quickly falls under the interloper's spell and into his arms launching into a feverish affair that threatens to dissolve her already fragile, fracturing sense of self. As events spiral further out of her control, the novel hurtles headlong toward its horrifying conclusion.
Written in the same 'limpid, assured style: cruel, yes, but not detached or apathetic' (Harper's Magazine) as Lord Jim at Home, Dinah Brooke's transgressive debut remains every bit as shocking as when it was first published in 1971.
'A devastating account of the sexual awakening of an English lady... An intense, fastidiously crafted and disturbing novel.' Publishers Weekly
'The best descriptions of the sheer illogicality and waywardness of sex and love that I have ever read.' The Scotsman
'[A] brilliant forgotten novelist.' Claire Allfree, The Telegraph
'Brooke has a limpid, assured style: cruel, yes, but not detached or apathetic...It's frigid fun.' Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine
'You can only glory in her skill...Brooke [has] immoderate talents.' M. John Harrison, The Guardian Observer
]]>Emma Cline is the author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy, and The Guest. The winner of the Plimpton Prize, Cline was also named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. In 2021, she won an O. Henry Prize for 'White Noise', and is a 2024 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.
]]>Recent praise for HEAT:
'The revival of HEAT journal has been one of the high points of the year. In the 1990s and 2000s, HEAT was the most exciting, forward-looking literary magazine in the country. After more than a decade on ice, this new series has raised the bar once again. Elegantly designed and thoughtfully curated, and including work from canonical Australian writers to emerging voices to authors in translation, the journal reminds us how crucial such organs are to the vigour and health of our literary ecosystem.' Geordie Williamson, The Saturday Paper's 'Best of 2022'
'So slender and elegant, nothing wasted, nothing grandiose and beautiful work.' Helen Garner
'HEAT magazine was a trailblazer from the day it was launched...[The new series is] still dedicated to publishing non-Anglophone views of the world, alternatives to the mainstream and points of view that are both thought-provoking and expressed in high literary style.' Openbook, NSW State Library Magazine
'A very beautiful and stylish object...long may this new series of HEAT continue!' Sarah Holland-Batt
'I welcome the return of HEAT. Readers and writers alike will revel in its daring audacity, bold exploration and innovative celebration of literature.' Alexis Wright
'HEAT is eclectic and eccentric, bold and often feisty, and above all else, it is a journal that always gives a freer rein to its writers, that we might gallop wherever we will.' Fiona Wright
]]>Researchers prying into an obscure manuscript come face to face with its ghoulish guardian. A bookseller digging through an attic disturbs something far more dangerous than dust. An uncanny tome tempts its reader onto a path of untold evil. Welcome to The Haunted Library, a collection of fourteen tales steeped in the dark psychic traces found in the stacks and shelves of libraries, bookshops, and other troves of hidden knowledge.
Including stories from rare pulp magazines, classics from the minds of M. R. James, L. P. Hartley and Margaret Irwin, and modern chillers from Penelope Lively and C. J. Faraday, this volume invites you into a hushed realm of cursed authors, ghostly bibliophiles, and readers haunted by the weird powers of the written word.
]]>Pulp tales of alien forces emerging from the ice and a battle between hunter and invisible man-eating duck creature drift alongside modern horror from indigenous Arctic voices to show the extent and endurance of the lure of these sublime landscapes.
]]>Life for the staff of the West End boutique Christophe et Cie is hard enough with all the pressures of delivering the ambitious Mr. Bevan's vision and then comes murder, a poisoning via the toxic crystals of hat-cleaner, pitching haute couture into heinous crime.
Faced with a fashionable collection of overwrought designers, buttoned-up models, downtrodden sales girls and tyrannical middle-managers, the dashing Inspector Charlesworth of Scotland Yard must disentangle workplace grudges from deadly motives before the killer can make a trend of murder. First published in 1941, Brand's debut mystery is brimming with the caustic wit, ingenious misdirection and ruthless twists that would later earn her a place among the queens of classic crime fiction.
'It is a very long time since I have read a better story. Oh yes, this is not only the book of the month, but the book of the year.' Raymond Postgate in Time and Tide, April 1941
'A bull's-eye! Miss Brand has succeeded not only with the puzzle (which is uncommonly good), but even more with the atmosphere.' Illustrated London News
'This new writer of mystery tales is welcome, for she has a cheerfully satiric manner... The reader is kept on tenterhooks until the end.' Daily Telegraph
]]>'From time to time there is published a mystery story which is also a piece of good writing. Such a novel is Cat and Mouse...a mystery novel for the connoisseur.' Glasgow Herald, 1950
'This department has never before admitted its inability to put a book down. But I had trouble with Cat and Mouse...A fine melodrama, with a cheerful disregard for the sterile rules of the detective game.' News Chronicle, 1950
]]>Felix Leiter James Bond's trusted friend and ally takes center stage in a brand-new adventure by legendary 007 novelist, Raymond Benson.
It is 1952. Felix Leiter has returned to Manhattan after losing his job at the CIA. Determined to continue doing what he loves, he finds himself working at Pinkerton's Detective Agency. What starts as a simple surveillance job turns into a matter of life and death when Felix stumbles upon a murder and the beautiful, yet secretive, Dora Wysocki. When Felix agrees to accompany Dora on a road trip from New York to Texas the mystery grows - along with the heat between them - as danger and deceit lurks behind every corner.
]]>In the Australian desert, a nuclear bomb explodes. There are no survivors and no clues about who has made it or detonated it. In England, two police officers are shot dead when they apprehend a cargo vessel in Portsmouth dock. Vast quantities of heroin are later found on board. And in Hong Kong, an explosion rips through one of the colony's famous floating restaurants, killing the entire Board of Directors of EurAsia Enterprises Ltd, a multi-billion dollar shipping corporation.
The People's Republic of China is about to resume control after a century and a half of British rule and the colony is a powder keg waiting to explode. The tension reaches breaking point when a solicitor from one of Britain's most prestigious law firms is killed in a car bomb at Government House.
These apparently random events are connected and Bond must find out how and why. From the heady casinos of Macau to the seedy strip clubs of Kowloon, 007's investigations bring him into conflict with ruthless Triad gangs, a power-hungry Chinese general and a beautiful night club hostess called Sunni Pei.
All inquiries seem to lead to EurAsia Enterprises Ltd and its assassinated owner. James Bond is about to come up against one of the most formidable adversaries of his career.
]]>The infamous girl monsters of nineteenth-century fiction gather in London and form their own club. In the imaginary country of Thule, characters from folklore band together to fight a dictator. An intrepid girl reporter finds the hidden land of Oz and joins its invasion of our world. The author writes the autobiography of her alternative life and a science fiction love letter to Budapest. The White Witch conquers England with snow and silence.
]]>Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut, immersing you in worlds you think you've seen before, but with outcomes you'll never see coming.
In 'Father, Son, Holy Rabbit', a dad and his child are lost in a snowstorm and learn what the true cost of survival is. A snake-oil salesman makes his way across Arizona territory, peddling his wares to unsuspecting customers and leaving ghost towns in his wake in 'Lonegan's Luck'. While in 'Raphael', four twelve-year-old outcasts, seemingly invisible to everyone around them, make up a 'scare' club, pushing themselves further and further into the unthinkable.
As Laird Barron says in his introduction, 'The Ones Who Got Away is a slippery collection; it resists and gnaws at the bonds of genre, yet may be the most pure horror book I've come across.'
Jump in and hold on for your life...
'The twisty endings, villainous characters, and truly shocking scenarios make several of these disturbing stories truly unforgettable.' Publishers Weekly
'Readers looking for horror can't go wrong with Stephen Graham Jones and diving into these thirteen collected short stories is the perfect way to countdown to Halloween night.' Bookish
'The Ones Who Got Away is the perfect showcase for [Jones's] wide-array of literary acrobatics.' Dark Scribe Magazine
]]>Patricia A. McKillip has been widely hailed as one of fantasy's most significant authors. She was lauded as 'rich and regal' (the New York Times), 'enchanting' (the Washington Post), and 'luminous' (Library Journal).
Within McKillip's magical landscapes, a mermaid statue comes to life; princesses dance with dead suitors; a painting and a muse possess a youthful artist; seductive sea travelers enrapture distant lovers, a time-traveling angel endures religious madness; and an overachieving teenage mage discovers her own true name.
]]>Analog Days is a snapshot of a circle of friends living through the sorrows and joys of a particular inflection point in history. Amid the ever-present news cycles, watching the world shift around them, they fall back on film and friendship and art as the last bastions of meaning in their fragmented lives. Moving from coffee shops to bars, from New York City to San Francisco, Analog Days immerses us in the individual lives set adrift among the pivotal events of our recent history.
]]>Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover, Alice, has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand Ana's care and attention: an overbearing pangolin, a swarm of insects, a giant bat.
Amid changes in medication and fraught faculty meetings, Ana's grip on reality loosens. She begins to devise a syllabus on the financialisation of art and life, posing questions about labour and intimacy she will use her own body to answer. Her apartment fills with creatures, her teaching slides into absurd allegory, and her sense of what is real, permissible, or politically legible fractures.
Equal parts tender and grotesque, Pandora is a hallucinatory portrait of a mind and a world in collapse, a razor-sharp meditation on desire, delusion, and the absurd endurance of the human.
]]>Julia Sanches is a translator of Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. She has translated works by Susana Moreira Marques, Claudia Hernndez, Daniel Galera, and Eva Baltasar, among others.
]]>Fourteen-year-old Billie rarely crosses the boundaries of her high-rise housing estate. By the end of the month their money just about stretches to pasta with ketchup, but her mother, Marika, lights up Billie's world with her imagination and big heart.
One day they receive an unwelcome visit from her Hungarian grandmother, and Billie loses much more than the colourful everyday life she shared with her mother. No longer able to ask Marika questions, Billie sets off alone in their old Nissan determined to meet the father she never knew and find out why she keeps dreaming about the sea, even though she's never been there.
Longlisted for the German Book Prize 2023, Paradise Garden is a spellbinding journey and a deeply affecting story of class, resilience and belonging.
'Elena Fischer writes so lovingly about sadness that it is comforting.' Alina Bronsky
'An accomplished debut about the courage to get to know one's own origins and to accept them as they are.' Ursula Nowak for Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
'This novel is a small miracle and a big surprise.' Claudio Armbuster / ZDF, Mainz
]]>Elena Fischer has been nominated for the German Book Prize and for the Harbour Front Literary Festival's Debut Prize 2023.
]]>Daughter. Mother. Glory. Wife of The Devil O' Th' Moor. Hope Gleason has many names. The child of a shepherd raised in the remote moors of Northern England, Hope has always understood the satanic brutality of the land.
But when an ear-splitting, unknowable sound destroys the nearby village, Hope must embark on a dangerous journey to survive through the ravaged land with a lad, newly orphaned and alone, under her wing.
As they trek the wilds together to find her husband, her violent past chases her at every turn and long-buried memories begin to resurface.
A pitch-black, magnetic, and unforgettable meditation on the nature of love, evil, and the power of redemption, Land of Hope mixes history and the myths of the English moors to tell a compelling modern English fable of serial killers at the end of the world.
'Cate Baum has exceptional talent.' Claire Fuller, author ofUnsettled Ground
'Cate Baum's writing takes you into a mysterious, murderous, sometimes frightening world and never lets go. A journey through many extraordinary emotions with one abiding feeling: hope. An extraordinary book.' Jonathan Myerson, Oscar-nominated writer of The Canterbury Tales and Nuremberg
'This muscular, disquieting twist on survival stories such as The Road asks whether the end of the world is a chance for a new beginning, or whether some acts stain the soul too deeply ever to be left behind.' The Guardian
'Land of Hope folds a dystopian fable into an Emily Bronte-like gothic novel. It's a fascinating idea for a crossover, and the central character, Hope Gleason, seems to emanate from the wild and windswept moors as if she were a ghost already.' Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
]]>She attended UCLA to study Screenwriting, and then City University, London, gaining a Masters with Distinction in Creative Writing. There, she was mentored by Claire Fuller (The Memory of Animals), Clare Allan (Poppy Shakespeare) and Jonathan Myerson (Nuremberg). She now lives in Spain.
]]>Announcing the arrival of a major talent, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY is more a warning than a wish.
Photos of women eating go viral, a cookie communicates a threat, and women working dead-end jobs become entangled in the performances around them. Everyday experiences of friendship, family, dating and desire catapult the reader into a creepy vortex of horror. Characters reveal themselves in slippery glimpses, through positive affirmations, social media accounts and secret appetites.
With this collection of haunting and haunted stories, Marni Appleton immerses us in a world of fleeting encounters, empty couplings, break ups, bust ups, threesomes and ghosts, giving us a kaleidoscopic overview of twenty-first century life.
'These beautifully written, female-focused stories stayed with me long past closing the cover. Sensual, alive and haunting. Dark wisps of womanhood.' Lucy Prebble, Executive Producer and writer on the Bafta, Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning HBO drama Succession
'This collection of wry and incisive stories explores navigating the sticky, glorious and more-often-than-not absolutely horrific terrain of late girlhood and early womanhood.' Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, author of The Centre
'Truthful, dark, and walking the line between delicious and disturbing, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY is a rich and haunting read. Savour or gorge, this is a very special collection of deceptively cutting stories.' Lottie Hazell, author of Piglet
'Smart, surprising, and witty, these stories are a joy to read.' Naomi Booth, author of Animals at Night
'These tense stories of the zeitgeist show how the conditions of late capitalism promise women freedom while keeping them trapped in their economic and social circumstances. Clever, convincing and wry, they bowled me over. Like Mary Gaitskill and Miranda July before her, Marni Appleton writes about how it is to live now.' Julia Bell, author of Hymnaland Radical Attention
'Marni Appleton writes with insight, honesty and inventiveness into the raw, brutal spaces of girlhood and early womanhood. A powerful, political collection that maps intimately the minds and bodies of its characters, these stories stayed with me long after I'd finished.' Fran Littlewood, author of Amazing Grace Adams
'Such a wonderful collection, the writing so sharp, witty, dark, carefully observed and full of the realities of present day life.' Gerard Woodward, author ofLegolandandI'll Go to Bed at Noon
'Raw, fluid, intimate and believable.' Mariel Franklin, author of Bonding
'Deliciously dark, incisive and original, Marni Appleton has clearly mastered the short story, but more than that, she has mastered the art of winding her readers in ribbons of mess and mundanity that make up both fantastical and real life in a truly compelling collection.' Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us
'Glittering behind every fixed-on smile in this collection is a crystallised seam of horror. An illegally acquired cocktail of weirdness, body laughs, love and spite. I could not have liked it more.' Ben Pester, author of Am I in the Right Place?
'Tender, skewed and affecting stories told with a keen eye for the absurd and unsettling nature of being alive. A bewitching and twisted kaleidoscope of stories.' Isy Suttie, award-winning comedian and writer
'Appleton knows all the ways that women are seen, surveilled, and regarded. These excellent stories stare right back, and they brim over with insight and sharp intelligence.' Manuel Muoz, author ofThe Consequences
'Marni Appleton's debut collection of short stories is like a shot fired across the bow of contemporary feminism. Prophetic and profound at once, her stories are oblique glimpses of girls' and womens' lives in the age of Instagram, anxiety and heightened scrutiny of women and especially of their bodies. Fresh, surprising and invigorating, Appleton's stories resonate long after finishing them with a restless energy and a humane heart.' Jean McNeil, author ofDay for Night: A Novel
]]>Her writing has been published in literary and academic journals including Banshee, The Tangerine, Contemporary Women's Writing and Comparative American Studies.
]]>Nashquitten, Massachusetts, is a coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken.
Told through the eyes of ten women, Alina Grabowski's Women and Children First is an exquisite portrait of grief and a powerful reminder of life's interconnectedness. Touching on womanhood, class, sexuality, ambition, disappointment, and tragedy, this novel is a stunning rendering of love and loss, and a bracing lesson from a phenomenal new literary talent.
'A striking debut from a brilliant new voice. Alina Grabowski perfectly inhabits her characters, shining a light on the multidimensionality of both grief and adolescence with great humor and insight.' Sarah Jessica Parker
'Magnetic...The ennui of small-town life is perfectly captured in the slice-of-life vignettes, which coalesce into a riveting set of Rashomon-style retellings. Grabowski shows immense promise.' Publishers Weekly, starred review
'Craftily constructed and deeply moving.' Booklist, starred review
]]>She was a 2019 Emerging Writer Fellow at Aspen Summer Words. She lives in Austin, Texas.
]]>In a London call centre, Jimmie helps holiday makers with myriad problems, but he is hardly a model employee. He doesn't simply provide customer service to his clients and advice to his colleagues, he gets involved in their fantasies and frustrations, and now he's about to be hauled up in front of the boss.
From perfecting his roles as an undertaker and as a clown to performing duties above and beyond his employment contract, he debates the importance of the optimum shade for lipstick and bathroom walls, the pros and cons of nudist versus textile, as well as the psychological impacts of an Italian mother and an emotional support animal. This is the second, ribald, scatological novel from the brilliant author of The Appointment. Jimmie's sly, sharp, melancholy insights into the indignities of a world which aims to eliminate the human will make you laugh, weep and never look the same way at an electric carving knife again.
'This book is filled with brilliant dialogue, unexpected turns, some very dirty talk with sudden bursts of hilarity, and then fierce sadness. It exudes dark energy. It is highly original. It gives pleasure on every page.' Colm Tibn, author of Brooklyn and Long Island
'Raucous, incisive and wholly original.' Eley Williams, author of Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
'Her work is a hand grenade thrown against the falsities of good taste.' Carlos Fonseca, author of Austral
'Katharina Volckmer's jokes are always consequential, and her novel ends up saying much that is profound about work and isolation and capitalist estrangement.' Lily Isaacs, The TLS
]]>To escape an overprotective family and an abusive partner, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about an epidemic of violence against women that seems beyond comprehension.
What she finds in the jungle is not only relentless oppression, but a deep longing for answers to an unsolved crime from her past. Through the ritual use of ayahuasca, she meets a chorus of warrior women on a path of revenge and recovers the painful details of her mother's death.
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman is a psychological trip with a twist. It's about the strength of individuals in the face of overwhelming violence, the problem of femicide in Brazil, and the haunting of a cold case.
]]>Sophie Lewis is a London-based translator and editor working from Portuguese and French. Her translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She was joint winner of the 2022 French-American Foundation prize for non-fiction translation, for her translation of Nastassja Martin's book In the Eye of the Wild.
]]>Four teenagers - Anya, Milka, Petya and Aleksey, whose lives, like those of their Western counterparts, are fuelled by sex, alcohol, and cigarettes yearn for a world of Levi's, Queen, foreign travel and the freedom to choose their fates. Instead, like their ancestors, they encounter heartbreak and tragedy. With a nod to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, crumbling dachas surrounded by apple orchards, the scenes of idyllic summers, are slated for destruction as capitalism corrupts and corrodes the best of the past without bringing a promise of renewal.
Yet while depicting a bloody and desperate era, this exceptional debut novel pulsates with life. It is radiant with friendship and love, the power of international literature, values and politics, as its characters struggle to survive, to save their country and one another.
'A timeless tale of memory, desire, dreams lost and altered, love changed and unchanged.' - Yiyun Li, author of Must I Go
'[A] Stunning debut...Gorcheva-Newberry pulls off a tragic and nostalgic love letter to a much-tried generation. This is a winner.' - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
'Gorcheva-Newberry does the reader a great service, offering a peek behind the iron curtain and its veil of propoganda...If there is such a thing as clear-eyed sentimentality, Between Dog and Wolf evokes it.' - Bookpage (Starred Review)
]]>Kristina has published fifty stories and received ten Pushcart nominations. She is the winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction for her debut collection of stories, What Isn't Remembered, shortlisted for the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize. Between Dog and Wolf, published to rapturous reviews in the USA as The Orchard, is her first novel.
]]>Jeanne learns from an early age to dodge her father's abuse, but her mother and sister resign themselves to his brutality. One day when she is eight he attacks her viciously, angered by her self-assurance. Convinced that the village doctor will put an end to their nightmare, she is shocked by his silence.
From then on, Jeanne's hatred of her father and her disgust at the doctor's cowardice drive her on. At boarding school she experiences five years of respite, but is then triggered by an unbearable replica of the violence that started it all. Moving to Lausanne, unable to come to terms with her past and to engage fully with life, she nevertheless finds solace in the arms of lovers and in the waters of Lake Geneva, while further tragedy fuels her rage.
My Favourite is a powerful novel about departure and return, of love, guilt and shame, and the paralysing effects of trauma. Sarah Jollien-Fardel forcefully describes the price to be paid for Jeanne's hard-won emancipation, as history inexorably repeats itself.
'This book is a remarkable debut.' LE MONDE DES LIVRES
'My Favourite is exceptional, moving and fierce, proud of its often elliptical style, reflecting its title.' LIBRATION
'Sarah Jollien-Fardel demonstrates her mastery and composure during the implacable outcome of events and human behaviour.' L'EXPRESS
'A poignant story, narrated with finesse and boldness.' Nataliya Deleva, author of Arrival and Four Minutes
]]>Holly James is a British literary translator based in Paris.
]]>He can, if he is accompanied by a black rooster, his protector and friend. And if he is Martin, orphaned after a massacre, full of wisdom, courage and a pure heart. Too good for the selfish and idiotic villagers around him, his integrity entrances an itinerant painter with whom he departs on a quest. His heroic adventures through a morally abhorrent landscape, physically ravaged by war and famine, keep the reader cheering for him and his companion as this fairy tale for adults unfolds.
Set against a pseudo-medieval post-apocalyptic backdrop reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, Angela Carter and Missouri Williams, this bestselling novel shines with the inner radiance of good deed in a naughty world that will leave you haunted, horrified, and completely riveted.
'This novel is a danse macabre, a memento mori, a vision of good and evil pared down to the bones. Boy with a Black Rooster beckons the reader into a nightmare landscape of war, famine, plague and madness, and Stefanie vor Schulte's storytelling verve is such that we make the journey gladly.' Sam Thompson, author of Communion Town, Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
'Wow, what a book! Fabular but true, this meticulously crafted and deceptively simple tale stole my heart, broke it, and put it back together again. Vor Schulte is unflinching in her depiction of the worst of humankind, its cruelty and violence, but she also shows how love and kindness can flourish in even the darkest times. A beautiful, heart-rending book.' Victoria MacKenzie, author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
'This appears light as a feather, yet elaborately crafted all the same.' Rose-Maria Gropp
'It feels like an old story, one of those that stays with you forever, but every part of it is surprising and wonderful. I want to go straight back and read it all again.' Sin Hughes, author of Pearl
'A debut that is both admirable and truly unique.' Jean-Baptiste Hamelin, Page des Libraires
'Halfway between macabre tale and surrealist epic.' Camille Thomine, Lire magazine litteraire
]]>Alexandra Roesch studied languages and business and worked in banking before becoming a literary translator. In 2018, she was long-listed for the Goethe Institute's Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize. Previously translated authors include Hans Fallada, Seraina Kobler and Merle Krger.
]]>At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives an ancient golden weapon as a prize. When the mysterious host of this party dies the next day, his fortune is left to whomever it was that received the prize at the party. The only requirement: the owner must answer three cryptic questions relating to the artifact's mysterious history.
In his search for answers, He quickly finds himself entangled in the centuries-long history of a secretive religious sect, embarking on an odyssey that begins at a dinner party, and ends on the ocean floor. Along this wild goose chase, we encounter a menagerie of eccentric personalities: an ancient revolutionary in a Parisian prison, a ludicrous pair of gibberish-speaking brothers, and customs officials who spend their time reading contraband materials. The Conversions is a wildly unpredictable novel, inviting readers along in the search for answers that may never have existed in the first place.
]]>Ed Park is the author of the novelsPersonalDaysandSame Bed Different Dreams, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in New York.
]]>'Chilean writer Infante's penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch.' Publishers Weekly
]]>Michelle Mirabellais a Spanish-to-English literary translator. In addition to her translation of Catalina Infante's debut novel, The Cracks We Bear, her work appears in the anthologiesBest Literary Translations(Deep Vellum, 2024) andDaughters of Latin America(HarperCollins, 2023), as well as in venues such asWorld Literature Today,Latin American Literature Today, andSouthwest Review.
]]>Tth is, and has been for several years, a major figure in Hungarian writing and, being a major figure with an important public voice, she has also been, and is now, subject to unrelenting attacks by the government-funded, government-supporting, gutter press. She has been self-exiled in England but is moving to Switzerland shortly. Originally attacked for suggesting that a couple of standard pieces of literature might be removed from the school syllabus and replaced by writing by living women authors, her life has become the subject of the sort of storm of defamation already practised on others perceived to be threatening the values of the government.
Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025
]]>Her plays includeThe Bat,published in English translation in the compilationPlays from Contemporary Hungary: 'Difficult Women' and Resistant Dramatic Voices(Bloomsbury, 2023). Two collections of her short stories have also been published in English translation,Pixel(Seagull Books, 2019) andBarcode(Jantar Publishing, 2023). Her work was featured in the anthologyNew Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation(Arc Publications, 2010). The first book of her poetry in English translation,My Secret Life: Selected Poems, translated by George Szirtes, was published by Bloodaxe in February 2025 and is on the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025.
]]>Roughly 1000 to 4000 metres below sea level lies the bathypelagic (also known as the 'midnight') zone. No sunlight penetrates these depths. It's a constant 4 Celsius and water pressure reaches 680 kilograms per square centimetre. The creatures who inhabit this zone are often transparent, moving minimally to conserve energy, as they carry out their bioluminescent lives under the ocean's crushing weight. Bathypelagia is an imaginary space, a miniature sea. It's a viscous metaphor and an internal state. Lying awake at 3 a.m., it's the menagerie of quietly fraught voices you might hear in those small hours. Here, the lines are blurred between lover and predator, nurture and survival, between the intimate and the strange (and estranged). Distances aren't always easy to judge, and migration is more likely to be vertical. But under the cover of darkness, tender moments also find refuge.
These poems were written over a long and discontinuous period, starting about 15 years ago. Back then, I snorkelled and scuba-dived regularly. Some of my most alive experiences have been drifting underwater, without words. Equally, many of them have been when I'm suspended inside a poem.
This is a book of encounters. Some of them have human hands, some fins, yet others, tentacles. Some even beat with three hearts. If you draw a long breath, kick down into the gloom and hold very still, these poems, I hope, will swim a little closer.
'Bathypelagia is a wonder of animacy and transformation. Cannily constructed in three zones, this book criss-crosses between the still-barely known zones of our oceans, resemblances of domestic life particularly of motherhood and the deepest domains of myth and sea creatures. These poems weave together motifs across pages, making connections aquatic, airy, subterranean that astonish.' Kate Middleton
'Bathypelagia is a powerful, memorable collection whose poems fluoresce with an otherworldly light, drawing us in. Debbie Lim's vivid, richly imagistic poems find illumination in the ocean's claustrophobic midnight zone, paying close and artful attention to the creatures inhabiting a region largely untouched by humans.' Sarah Holland-Batt
]]>The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on animals, people, and places, though you could say that the real subject matter is the power of poetry, since the book explores how metaphor, simile, imagery and sound can reveal connections that are imaginative, revelatory and sometimes threatening. Beveridge's creative use of language is most evident in the section of the book titled 'Bizarre Bazaar' - where she plays on lines and titles by Wallace Stevens (a fitting companion), and offers linguistic elaborations on familiar objects, and strange beliefs and customs. Each detail leads to others through association, there is multiplicity everywhere, and movement and energy, and this is as true of the poems which capture the particular features of animals, the transient effects of landscape, or the memories of people and places, as it is of the language-oriented poems.
There is a range of styles, lyrical, dramatic and narrative, which build on the achievements of poems in Beveridge's previous collections. There is also an emotional range to the poems: some poems are joyous, celebratory, ecstatic - others humorous, elegiac, nostalgic - but the overall feeling is of the joy and richness of language.
]]>Shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award 2019
Judith Beveridge is one of Australia most acclaimed poets, taught in high schools and universities, winner of the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards, a highly regarded critic, editor and teacher of poetry
Sun Music is a definitive edition of her best-known and most important poems
Sun Music collects Beveridge's best poems published over a thirty-year period, from 1987 to 2017. She has selected the poems from her award-winning collections, The Domesticity of Giraffes, Accidental Grace, Wolf Notes and Storm and Honey, and included 33 new poems which build on and enhance her previous work. Beveridge is an exacting poet, precise and controlled, and her formal discipline gives added intensity to her expression of emotion. The combination of clarity and dramatic force, involving a supple use of language which registers the ebb and flow of feeling, makes her poetry immediately appealing and accessible. As she notes in her introduction to this collection, 'My writing can be kaleidoscopic, often baroque, but I hope also grounded and focused...I am drawn to poetry that has rich texture, and by this, I mean poetry that is distinctly metaphorical, detailed, musically complex, but also clear.'
'A poet whose gentle and exacting touch and sure-poetic skills bear witness to a broad human vision, capable of expressing and engendering compassion, insight and grace.' Michael Brennan, Poetry International
Read the rapturous review by Gregory Day in The Australian - review
'Filled with a plethora of living things people, insects, animals, birds these poems are vivid, insightful, and gorgeously poetic.' - Andrea Goldsmith, Australian Book Review - Books of the Year 2018
'Her poems are constructed from finely described details, most of which are tapped into place with simile or metaphor. The most memorable of them involve a rejection of cruelty, whether to humans or animals.' - Geoff Page, Australian Book Review - Books of the Year 2018
'Beveridge has a gift for finding ways to match the natural world in words.' - Gregory Day, Australian Book Review - Books of the Year 2018
]]>The Magpie Wing is set on football fields, in punk gigs, and in dilapidated and gentrifying pubs, moving from the nineties to the present, and between the suburbs and the inner city. Max Easton's debut novel explores how, even in a city divided against itself, disparate communities - underground music scenes, rugby league clubs, communist splinter groups - share unexpected roots.
'Max Easton's The Magpie Wing is a moving portrait of a city and region undergoing enormous change, told through the perspectives of three unique, sympathetic and vulnerable characters...an exciting debut that tells a compelling story...I recommend it to anyone who reads contemporary Australian literary fiction.' - Brad Jefferies, Books+Publishing
]]>Max Easton is a writer from south-west Sydney. He is the creator of the underground music podcast Barely Human, and the arts journal Tempered. His writing has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and Mess+Noise. He has played in six Sydney punk bands, runs a DIY record label, and appeared in an under-seventeens development squad for the Western Suburbs Magpies in 2003. The Magpie Wing is his first novel.
]]>It's 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal belonging: a zine maker working on a punk music archive; an activist writing about Australian anti-communism; a research scientist striving to put down roots; and a part-time rugby league player who has one chance to play for his country before retirement. Each is looking to build a future, each is haunted by their recent past.
But if a rented house in Sydney could ever promise salvation, it would come with a coating of black mould. Against the backdrop of pandemic and war, of climate and housing crises, Paradise Estate finds its residents struggling against generational confusion, political indifference and social malaise. When isolation and atomisation are all we've been given, what can be made from building common ground? Written with ironic wit and an eye for contemporary events, Max Easton's second novel sets the pessimism of its times against the optimism of the will.
Praise for The Magpie Wing:
'An original, exceptional novel.' - The Guardian
'An anxious novel about anxious characters in anxious times. It seeks to register this anxiety in all of its contradictions and complexities, but thankfully does not want to resolve it.' - Sydney Review of Books
'A moving portrait of a city and region undergoing enormous change, told through the perspectives of three unique, sympathetic and vulnerable characters.' - Books+Publishing
]]>After living in a Singapore dog shelter for five years, Gucci a vaguely Dalmatian-like crossbred is losing hope of ever being rescued. One day to his surprise he is adopted by her, a writer, and moves to inner city Sydney. On arrival, however, an anti-dog war breaks out in their apartment block; Gucci's owner receives a letter threatening the possibility of 'euthanasia'. The incident triggers nightmares in her and brings back distressing childhood memories.
My Name Is Gucci is a charming novel about the relationships between pets and their owners and about how the past shapes the present. This bold ex-shelter dog narrated fable beautifully unravels Gucci's and his adopter /guardian's secrets, which have been intertwined for decades through their recurring reincarnations.
Sun Jung understands the deep connections that exist between animals and humans. You won't need to be a dog lover to be entranced by this story; it is brimming with warmth, wit and wisdom.
'A comic and moving Homeric odyssey about Gucci the dog, who must deal with, and outwit, the most problematic species of all humans.' Louis Nowra, author of Sydney: A Biography
'A magical novel that will capture your heart.' Andrea Carter, author of A Body Falls
]]>Set between the Blue Mountains and a Sydney hospital, Lisa Kenway's All You Took From Me is a thriller brimming with great characters and nail-biting tension.
Anaesthetist Clare Carpenter has just lost her husband and her memory in a single-vehicle accident. So why is a stranger following her? After questioning patients about their dreams, she becomes convinced that an anaesthetic drug might help her access missing memories. But there's no way to be certain without jeopardising her career or her life.
As unexplained threats escalate, Clare realises she must take matters into her own hands to learn the uncomfortable truth about her secretive husband, his connection to a mysterious club and what she did to trigger a stranger's crusade for vengeance. But how far will she go?
'Truly exciting. It's a rare treat to read a book that I am still thinking about long after the last page - the surprising reveals are both earned and satisfying. Readers are destined to fall in love with the ways Kenway brings such expertise and a unique perspective to the psychological thriller genre.' - Shelley Burr, author of Wake and Ripper
'A taut psychological thriller with a driving plot, All You Took From Me interrogates the limits of memory, both lost and recovered. From its compelling opening mystery, every page bristles with threat and intrigue.' - Ashley Kalagian Blunt, bestselling author of Dark Mode
'Kenway brings an exciting level of insider authenticity to this simmering drama about an anaesthetist struggling to make sense of a life unspooling in the aftermath of a tragic accident. Tense, twisty and unique, this is an unforgettable debut.' - Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place and Red River Road
'I found myself first pulled in by the prose - Kenway writes like a dream - but soon I was consumed by the mystery at the heart of the story the question of where we go and what happens to us under the narcotic oblivion of anaesthesia. Charged with menace and paranoia, this is a masterfully plotted psychological thriller.' - J. P. Pomare, author of In The Clearing and 17 Years Later
]]>Lola has her own battles living with an anxiety disorder and in her relationship with her Uruguayan musician husband, who connects her with the culture she lost when she migrated as a child. Her younger sister, Betty, is living an alternative lifestyle in Mullumbimby, unlike Lola, who clings to her Uruguayan culture, Betty has removed herself from her cultural roots as she finds it oppressive and stifling.
A third daughter, Malena is living in Italy with her husband. Fed up with Juan's dependence, particularly on Lola, Betty decides to place a personal ad, in a Spanish paper, on his behalf without asking him, hoping that a new partner, may help him, move beyond his grief and dependency. However, he finds new love walking the dog, a widowed Aboriginal lady called Frances. Their blossoming relationship becomes a trigger for Juan, Lola and Betty recalibrate how they measure their belonging across cultures.
'The work presents a stunning and original overview of Latinx communities in both America and Australia, exploring how the family escape the civic-military dictatorship in the 1970s and find a home among the South American community of Western Sydney. Now, decades later, each member of the family reckons with the tension between the rich meaning they draw from their heritage and the human need for new experiences. Salsa in the Suburbs is poignant in its intersectional dialogue, and inspiring in its well-developed characters that carry humour, trauma and Uruguayan history with immense strength.' Maggie Ball, Fresh Ink judge and publisher of The Compulsive Reader
]]>Darlinghurst, Sydney: these are the days of strange rumours. Talk you can catch the gay plague from kissing, or from a mosquito bite. Talk of the government building a wall around 'Darlo' to keep the plague contained. Talk of old quarantine stations around Australia being reopened, of the army being used to round up all the poofters. Bashings increase tenfold and you're dead meat if you don't have someone to watch your back. Kit, Ty, and Johnnie, three young gay men, just want to live the life Sydney promised when they arrived.
Host City, David Owen Kelly's third book, is a stunningly innovative fusion of memoir and alternative history that spins an affective tale of persecution, jeopardy, and survival from the fear and paranoia that marched lockstep with HIV in the 1980s.
]]>From blazing fires and crumbling buildings to radioactive zones and stormy seas, rescue robots are on the front lines saving lives, exploring the unknown and tackling tasks too dangerous for people. Whether they're diving to the ocean floor, fixing satellites or cleaning hospitals, robots are redefining what's possible.
Behind every heroic robot is brilliant design and cutting-edge technology. Think flexible joints, precision flight, lasers for mapping, and fire-fighting abilities to spray hundreds of litres of water in seconds. But success also depends on seamless teamwork between humans and machines.
Explore the fascinating world of robotic innovation in Robot Responders. Uncover how nature inspires engineers, discover the latest life-saving technologies, and get a glimpse of the next generation of robots that are already in development.
]]>Dad says there's no place for weak pups on a farm. But Poppy insists it can do everything the others can, too. After all, when Poppy was born, it was a long time before she could come home from the hospital.
So Poppy is determined to convince him that Pipsqueak can grow into a fine dog. But what if she fails?
What if Dad decides Pipsqueak needs another home, far away from Poppy?
]]>Amie Sabadin has been scribbling and splashing paint since forever. With a background in design, and a handbag always stocked with art supplies, she finds inspiration everywhere. She works in both traditional and digital mediums. Amie lives in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, with her husband, their two children and their miniature schnauzer. When she's not drawing, she enjoys organising her art supplies, walking and spending time with her family
]]>Written by Natashia Curtin, author-illustrator of Just Like You and Vernon the Penguin, and illustrator of the Mini & Milo series, this warm and funny tale about chasing your dreams will delight children and adults alike.
]]>Natashia's books include the CBCA 2025 notable book Just Like You, Vernon the Penguin and the Mini and Milo series (written by Venita Dimos). Married with two lanky teenage boys, Natashia likes coaching basketball, boogie-boarding and reading fantasy novels in her spare time.
]]>This dynamic book allows kids to learn about organs, systems, cells, DNA, and more in a creative, hands-on format that is irresistible! Watch food move through the digestive system, feel the texture of your intestines, split cells, spin DNA, and more in The Interactive Human Body, the innovative book that begs to be explored. The third book in the award-winning Interactive Explorer series! Accolades for The Interactive Constitution A 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Book (NCSS-CBC) Finalist, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards: The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book 'Both history geeks and casual students should easily ratify this one', Publishers Weekly
]]>Ray loves life in his village, until one day he hears his parents talking about moving house. Horrified by the idea, Ray invents an imaginary friend to talk to and even runs away. Eventually Ray is able to accept the move, and also the Ukrainian refugee mother and child who come to live with his family in their new home. As Ray finds his feet again, the Imaginary Friend wonders if he is needed any more, or if he can also move on?
'A terrific book...that takes us deep into coping with change and growing stronger. A wonderful story and a must have for years 4-6.' Pie Corbett
]]>Bethan Welby lives in Devon, UK. Her debut picture book The After Christmas Tree was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Award, and Phyllis and Grace was shortlisted for the V&A Award, nominated for the Carnegie, and won a White Raven.
]]>Follow Tick-Tock through a noisy and eventful day from waking up until bedtime. His encounters with squirrels and mice don't end up quite as he hoped, but he always has a meal and a lap to return to every evening.
A comically observed and detailed picture book from one of the greats of children's illustration.
]]>In this twist on the favourite childhood game, the reader must solve a riddle to guess which animal is hiding, and then search for it in the beautifully detailed illustrations.
]]>Find out about Sky Forests and Bird-Friendly Cities, Spongy Spaces and Rain Gardens, Insect Super-Highways, Living Walls, Urban Jungle Food and all the other ways in which cities worldwide are changing.
Have fun spotting the birds, insects and other creatures that share our cities. And look out for lots of activities, so that YOU can make YOUR city green!
'A crucial book for children's understanding of the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature, and the joy a connection to nature can bring.' Bookseller
]]>Christiane Engel grew up in Germany and now lives in Kent, England. She has a BA in Children's Art and an MA in Children's Illustration, and is an author and book creator as well as an illustrator, with over 50 books for young children to her credit. Christiane works with soft pencil, acrylics, watercolour and digital media. She has previously collaborated with Catherine Barr for Otter-Barry Books in Water: Protect Freshwater to Save Life on Earth, and Wildlife Crossings: Protecting Animal Pathways Around the World.
]]>But when a raging storm tears through the forest and the animals have to flee, they must help each other to survive. Can Ruby and Growl overcome their enmity and find friendship in the heart of the storm?
An exciting, fast-paced picture book adventure with stunning illustrations, celebrating courage and the importance of helping each other.
'A dramatic tale, vividly captured in Read's bright collage illustrations. An exciting story of enemies-to-friends, told with evocative language for 5 plus readers.' Bookseller
]]>Kate Read's first picture book,One Fox, was an international sensation, winning theTeach Early YearsAward and the Mathical Book Prize in the UK; and the Cybils Award, aParents' Choice Gold Award and aKirkusStar in the US.Her illustrations are made with hand-painted and mono printed paper collage, finished digitally.
]]>Uki is a young Humpback Whale. Every year his beloved grandpa Yuka leads little Uki and the whale pod from tropical seas to the icy waters of the Arctic. But this time is different this time Cousin Amka will be the leader...
There are dangers ahead for the whales, terrible storms and hungry sharks. And when sharp-toothed Orcas attack, Amka becomes trapped deep down, in an old fishing net.
Can Uki remember the song of peace his grandfather taught him? Can he save the pod and will he now be brave enough to lead the whales to safety?
This exciting story with richly coloured illustrations, is inspired by the real lives of Humpback Whales, and includes fascinating facts about the whales and their amazing journey.
]]>The beautiful and detailed watercolour paintings combine with over 40 rhymes to make this a unique treasury and lifetime possession for children and adults of all ages.
]]>Mrs Noah's Pockets(with James Mayhew) was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award and a White Ravens choice for Best International Picture Book. Jackie's other bestselling books for Otter-Barry Books include Can You See a Little Bear? (with James Mayhew), The Seal Children, One Cheetah, One Cherry, Lost and Found and Walking on Water.
Jackie Morris lives in Pembrokeshire. She has a wide following on social media: see www.jackiemorris.co.uk
]]>Cat's dreams lead into the lives of other cats in far-off and wild places, a tiger in the jungle, a cheetah on the African plains, a jaguar swimming in the forest river, a wild cat in the Scottish Highlands, a snow leopard in the Himalayas...Ten species are depicted, each in its own environment, in breathtaking full-spread illustrations.
]]>sayin see ya later to his mate?
That's me:
Nathan Wilder
Nate.
10 years old
and a week away from the end of Year 5.
Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to high school. Nate is ready for it all, knowing his best friend PS is at his side they've been inseparable since Nursery.
But when they are put in two different classes and PS finds a new friend in Turner, the school bully, Nate's world turns upside-down. As he struggles to make sense of this and forge new friendships, he's dealt another blow when his youngest brother, Dylan is rushed into hospital.
His new teacher, Mr Joshua, sees a spark inside of Nate that's lit by his love of reading and writing and shows him how to use this to process what's going on. But with so much working against him, and anger rising inside him, will this be enough?
A powerful and lyrical story about finding your place in the world and the people that matter within it.
'I am pleased to report it is EXCELLENT in every way.Told in verse, with illustrations, it focuses on a young boy going into school year 6. Think friendships, SAT's, family life. This book will steal your heart, rearrange it and return it.Lovely references to David Almond.This is most definitely recommended to all age 8 upwards, all parents, all teachers. Simply go buy it!' Fiona Sharp, Independent Book Reviews
'Matt Goodfellow is a stunning poet, well known for his beautifully crafted, often poignant work, which is highly relatable. In 'The Final Year', he has brought all his skill with language to create a very powerful verse novel which is sensitive and incredibly relevant...' Through The Bookshelf
'A beautiful story of friendship, family, grief, falling apart and putting yourself back together again. Also a love letter to David Almond who I agree is one of the Greats of All Time.' Manjeet Mann
]]>Joe Todd-Stanton's picturebookThe Secret of Black Rockwas longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Award and won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. His Brownstone's Mythical Collectionseries has been optioned by DreamWorks. In 2023, he was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration forThe Comet.
]]>But while he's making new friends and avoiding the fists of Turner, his old nemesis, and struggling to come to terms with a strict new teacher and a sense of isolation from his brothers, a sudden surprise appearance in Nate's life threatens to throw him completely off course. And The Beast the anger he tries so hard to control reappears. Will Nate find a way to keep himself and his family together?
]]>He is also the author ofCaterpillar Cake, illustrated by Krina Patel-Sage and shortlisted for the CLiPPA award in 2022, Shu-Lin's Grandpa, illustrated by Yu Rong and shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2022 and a contributor to CLiPPA-shortlisted poetry collectionBeing Me: Poems about Thoughts, Worries and Feelings, all published by Otter-Barry Books. He has written two poetry collections for older readers:Let's Chase Stars Together, shortlisted for the CLiPPA award 2023, andTomorrow We Begin,published in 2024. Matt lives in Stockport.
Joe Todd-Stantongrew up in Brighton and has a first class degree in Illustration from UWE, Bristol. He is a widely acclaimed author and illustrator of picture booksand graphic novels.The Secret of Black Rockwas longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Award, shortlisted for Oscar's Book Prize and won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.A Mouse Called Julianwas shortlisted for Oscar's Book Prize and won the Spark! Book Award.The Cometwas shortlisted for the UKLA Book Award and won the Shadowers' Choice Award for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration, 2023. His latest book isLuna and the Treasure of Tlaloc, published in 2024, which was shortlisted for the Spark! Book Award. Joe lives in London.
]]>Is there enough food to go round? Do some countries have too much? Should we all eat organic food or go vegetarian? Where does the food on our plates start from and how does it get to us? Is farming making climate change worse and, most important of all, how can we feed everyone on our planet, now and in the future?
Created by bestselling superstars Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith, the team behind The Great Big Books series, this is a brilliant, inspirational and diverse exploration of FOOD, with witty and thought-provoking illustrations.
]]>Ros Asquith is well-known as an illustrator and cartoonist (she drew a weekly cartoon for the Guardian for 20 years). She has published over 90 books for young people including many she has both written and illustrated herself, including the Teenage Worrier and Alien Schoolboy series.
Ros and Mary have created ten books together since their award-winning Great Big Book of Families (Frances Lincoln 2010). Their books have been translated into 21 languages.Their previous picture books for Otter-Barry Books are Pirate Baby and Babies, Babies Everywhere!
]]>YES,we can! Join 15 children as they plan and deliver an amazingWe Can! festival a joyous, peaceful call to action, with green activities, mural-making, mindfulness and kindness along the way, beautifully depicted in words and pictures by the bestselling creators ofYouCan! We Can!was created with real children, who sent messages of hope and practical suggestions for helping to make our world the best itcanbe.
]]>Steve Antony is an award-winning writer and illustrator of picture books, having sold over one million books world-wide. Steve has contributed work towards LGBTQ+ anthology Proud, Drawing Europe Together and Kind. He is Swindon Libraries Patron to Children's Reading Services, an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and a committee member of The Society of Authors Children's Writers and Illustrators Group. Steve lives in Swindon, Wiltshire.
]]>Maya wants to help but what can she do to make her home a place that Little Rhino's mummy will come to? Can Maya and everyone around her turn their homes and their city into a welcoming green space, with flowers, plants and trees somewhere a little rhinoceros could call home?
This enchanting story shows how kindness, determination and community spirit can come together to bring about real change and make our cities greener.
]]>Jamie Bauza is an illustrator, designer and crafter, based in Manila, Philippines. She is a graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, where she received a Visual Arts Award. In 2018 she attended the Summer Illustration Residency at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Jamie is a member and past president of Ang INK, a Philippine association of artists committed to the creation and promotion of illustration for children.
]]>With Mrs Adisa's help, the children learn to believe in themselves and have a go at things; they find out how to sort out arguments and stay friends; and they discover how to feel good about themselves and their special talents.
This brilliant, diverse and inclusive first chapter book celebrates a primary class and their teacher and is full of fun, warmth and humour.
]]>Ruthine Burton completedthe inaugural Pop-UpPathways Into Children's Publishing in 2021. Her parents came originally from Dominica and French Guiana. She has a B.A. hons in Visual Art from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, and also an M.Sc. in Software Engineering. She has worked as a pavement portrait artist and in the games industry. Ruthine is one of the three illustrators featured in Our Rights, edited by Jake Hope (Otter-Barry Books), and also illustrator of Spin! 10 Exciting New Voices in Poetry (2024). She is based in South West London.
]]>But human development is blocking these vital 'ribbons of life'. Animal habitats are shrinking into isolated and unconnected patches of nature.
Track the journeys of seven amazing animals. Discover why they are in trouble, follow their journeys and find out how scientists and campaigners across the world are creating 'wildlife corridors' to keep animals safe and on the move.
Discover...
Christiane Engel has a BA in children's art and an MA in Children's Illustration. She works with soft pencil, acrylics, watercolour and digital media. Her first book for Otter-Barry Books was Water: Protect Freshwater to Save Our Earth. Christiane lives in Kent.
]]>Habiba is a visual storyteller who is drawn to lots of different mediums, from stop motion animation and painting to community arts projects and embroidery. But her biggest love however has always been illustration. In 2016 Habiba graduated from Camberwell College of the Arts with a BA(Hons) degree in illustration, then in 2019 went on to earn a place within the Arts Council funded incubator programme Pathways Into Children's Publishing.
Habiba makes work that she feels is relevant, usually rooted within topics that are bigger than herself with the hope that they evoke emotion. She would describe her illustrations as highly detailed, inclusive, conversation starters and an opportunity for learning (often by using subtle elements of humour or some sort of social commentary). She thoroughly enjoys the process of creating characters, conjuring up refreshing narratives and trusting her imagination to execute her vision powerfully. Everything she creatively sets her mind to is a labour of love.
]]>She thinks pictures and smiles are the two things that can make the world a better place without complications.
]]>These are just some of the children's rights highlighted in this important and much-needed collection of stories and poems by a galaxy of well-known authors and poets, including two UK Children's Laureates.
The book is edited by leading children's book consultant, Jake Hope, and illustrated by Ruthine Burton, Chih-An Chen and Habiba Nabisubi, recent graduates of the Pop-Up Pathways scheme.
Stories and poems by Valerie Bloom, Sita Brahmachari, Cathy Cassidy, Maisie Chan, Joseph Coelho, Dom Conlon, AM Dassu, Nicola Davies, Anne Fine, Jamila Gavin, Morris Gleitzman, Jake Hope, Paul Jennings, Elizabeth Laird, CG Moore, Jackie Morris, Beverley Naidoo, RR O'Neill, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Chitra Soundar, Jordan Stephens, Benjamin Zephaniah.
]]>Ruthine Burton, Habiba Nabisubi and Chih-An Chen are recent graduates from the Pop-Up Pathways project. Pop-Up Pathways is a national initiative sponsored by the Arts Council, that develops emerging illustrators from under-represented groups.
]]>From a little furry bundle, Rosie the puppy grows, learns, and explores her world rose petals, spiders and butterflies in the garden, the jungle of long summer grass, the fields where a fox calls, the beach where she chases waves and digs deep in the sand.
Warmly and lovingly, Rosie's first summer is recreated in Jackie Morris's poetic words and Cathy Fisher's unforgettable images.
Rich in the sense of discovery, rich too in the love between puppy and child, here is a timeless country idyll for all ages.
]]>Cathy Fisher is an illustrator and author whose work reveals a deep appreciation of nature and the animal world, as well as of human emotion and behaviour. She grew up in Bath and has lived and worked in Australia and the Seychelles as well as in the UK. She has collaborated on eight books with Nicola Davies including the highly acclaimed inclusive picture book, Perfect, and this is her second picture book with Jackie Morris, following The Panda's Child. Cathy Fisher lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
]]>Mary Murphy's simple yet profound words and images show young children the beauty and diversity of life on Earth and in doing so, help them understand that they need to look after our precious planet.
]]>This exciting graphic novel tells the story of Aya Wada, a teenage girl who visits her relatives in Japan and unknowingly adopts a powerful feline Kami spirit named Neko, who follows her home to America. Each chapter tells an amusing story about how Neko brings Aya's folded origami paper models to life literally!
Follow along as Aya and Neko create magic, memories and a little mayhem wherever they go:
Each chapter includes instructions for a simple origami model that readers can fold using the illustrated tear-out folding papers that are included at the back of the book.
]]>Twins Penny and Paulie are super excited to be in Tokyo even if they're stuck in a boring hotel while their dad attends 'important' meetings. But when the twins meet a strange frog-like creature named Shimesu in the hotel pond, their trip suddenly becomes a wild ride!
Shimesu is a yokai a supernatural creature and he's in big trouble. He's been kicked off Yokai Mountain and needs help getting back. Soon Penny and Paulie are diving through his magical water vortex to places across Japan and experiencing Japan like no visitor has before!
Blending an exciting adventure with fun facts about Japanese culture, this book explains:
Experienced comic book artist Matthew Loux creates the perfect balance of humour, page-turning action and cultural detail. Kids, parents, teachers and librarians will all want this book on their bookshelf!
]]>Get ready for an adorable bedtime story with Where's My Teddy Bear? featuring everyone's favorite little friend, Babymoni! This sweet and simple story takes you back to when Minimoni was just a baby, getting ready for a cozy night's sleep. But oh no! Babymoni can't find her cuddly teddy bear! Join her as she searches for her favorite teddy bear. Will she find her furry friend in time for bedtime? Perfect for babies and toddlers, this charming board book makes bedtime a fun and comforting ritual. Get ready for lots of 'awws' and sleepy yawns!
For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children's books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books, to non-fiction, and fairy tale books.
]]>Get ready for lots of bubble time fun with Babymoni! This adorable board book takes little ones on a delightful journey through the bath time routine. Based on the belovedMinimoniseries, this brand-new board book introduces the littlest readers to a familiar daily activity in a sweet and simple way. With bright illustrationsBabymoni's Bath Timeboard book makes learning about bath time an engaging and joyful experience for babies and toddlers. It's the perfect way to turn bath time into a happy and anticipated part of the day!
For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children's books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books, to non-fiction, and fairy tale books.
]]>Little Monica, affectionately known as Minimoni, sets off on a delightful adventure to unravel the mystery of love alongside her loyal dog, Max. Set in their charming neighbourhood, Minimoni enjoys her favourite pastime taking walks with Max while pondering the confusing conversations of grown-ups about love. Is it something big that can move mountains, or is it found in the small, everyday moments? With humour and curiosity, Minimoni embarks on a quirky quest to explore what love truly means, discovering that it may not be seen, smelled, or touched, but is felt in the heart.
This enchanting picture book is perfect for children aged 3-6, helping them understand and appreciate the concept of love in a lighthearted way. With its engaging story and delightful illustrations, it captures the essence of childhood curiosity and the joy of exploring emotions. Young readers will relate to Minimoni's questions and experiences, making it a wonderful addition to storytime at home or in the classroom. This book promises to entertain while fostering emotional intelligence and understanding an essential read for every young child.
]]>Whether you're looking for something to enrich quiet time or a fun activity to add to your daily routine, bring some cuteness into your life with Color Me Chibi!
]]>Tessa Creative Art is an anime and manga illustration and design studio located in Canada.
]]>A perfect book for engaging kids ages 8-12 in STEM.
Step right up for a tour of one incredible factory a fascinating system inside your body!
The human body is all kinds of amazing. Inside you, systems are working hard to make sure your heart doesn't beat too fast or too slow, you aren't too hot or too cold, and you don't fall asleep on your desk at school (most of the time, anyways). No matter what you do, your body tends to exist in a state of balance. In fact, a happy, healthy life depends on that balance. And that balance depends on glands.
In The Gland Factory, you'll get an up-close look at your endocrine and exocrine systems, where glands are feverishly swelling, shrinking, oozing, healing, digesting, and maintaining balance. Extensive backmatter includes a suggested further reading list, a 'Gland Factory Survey' and a detailed glossary of all the wonderfully gross glands explored.
Each stop on the tour introduces fascinating facts about how some key glands and hormones work, including:
When the factory is infiltrated by nasty germs, the immune system springs into action, fighting hard to restore order. A little weird, a little gross, and more than a little fun, The Gland Factory is an unforgettable exploration of the human body!
]]>Clayton Hanmer (aka CTON) has illustrated several children's books, including The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers, Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular, and Dog vs Ultra Dog. His award-winning comic art has also appeared in, among others, National Geographic Kids, the New York Times, and Today's Parent. He lives in Bloomfield, Ontario.
]]>In Mushrooms and Company readers dive deep into the fungal kingdom and are introduced to an incredible array of mushrooms, molds, mildews, yeasts, and rusts. Explore the fascinating mycorrhizal network that lives and operates under our feet, in sometimes surprising ways.
Without fungi, there would be no penicillin, no bread (at least the kinds that depend on yeast to rise), and no blue cheese! Of course, some fungi can be dangerous whether it's moulds that grow on crops (like potato blight) or in buildings (like dry rot) in Mushrooms and Company, you'll meet them all!
Biologist and writer Geert-Jan Roebers takes readers on an engaging journey into the fascinating world of fungi, exploring topics such as:
Playful and packed with science, Mushrooms and Company is a welcome addition to any nature lover's bookshelf.
]]>Wendy Panders studied graphic design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She works as an illustrator and graphic designer for magazines and papers and has illustrated many children's books. Her illustrations for Rap with Little Red (Gottmer, 2011) earned her an Honorary Mention from the Golden Paintbrush Jury, the prize for the best illustrated children's book of the Netherlands.
]]>Time spent in the outdoorsduring Fall and Winterstirs a child's curiosity. InIf You Go Walking,a thoughtful thread of questions (How do seeds know not to grow until spring?) invites young readers to explore the world around them with wonder. In nature, questions are everywhere, and answers can be too, if you know the right places to look.
Author ErinAlladininvites young readers to think deeply in this lyrical nonfiction text, celebrating children's curiosity about the world around them. Illustrator Miki Sato's textural collage art recreates the wonder of the outdoors in paper, felt, and embroidery silk, creating masterpieces that invite readers to look again and again.
]]>Miki Sato is a Japanese-Canadian illustrator who uses a variety of different textures and materials to create three-dimensional images. Originally from Ottawa, she moved to Toronto to complete her degree in illustration from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Miki has received many honors for her picture books: her book Snow Days was a finalist for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award, Sunny Days was a 2021 CBC Books Best Book, Windy Days won a Northern Lights Book Award, and While You Sleep was shortlisted for the Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year. Her most recent book is Chidori.
]]>Felix has a problem. It's a big, red, round problem. A worry balloon that follows him everywhere he goes...As his heart thumps, stomach twists and toes wiggle, it grows and grows and stops him from doing what he wants to do. But when Felix learns a special trick, things start to change...
]]>Katherine Alice is a debut author and seeks to create captivating books that empower children to understand and regulate their big emotions. She is passionate about providing parents with strategies to support their child's emotional development. As an occupational therapist, she has worked primarily with children within an early intervention setting. Katherine was born and raised in Fremantle, Western Australia. Don't Worry, Felix is her first joint picture book.
Zoe Bennett is a children's illustrator from Sydney, New South Wales. She creates digital illustrations which aim to capture the playful candidness of childhood and human-animal companionship. Designing unique characters and worlds with tailored colour palettes and style is her favourite thing to do. Zoe has illustrated several published and soon-to-be published picture books for clients both in Australia and internationally. Outside illustration, Zoe is passionate about animal welfare, conservation, reading, music and travel. Zoe is represented by The Bright Agency. You can find more of her work on her Instagram @zoebennettillustration. Zoe's first book with New Frontier Publishing, Ruby's Repair Cafe, was selected as a Notable by the CBCA this year.
]]>**Nominated, Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025**
After a great flood, a grandmother, her two grandchildren and their pet rabbit must learn to survive living on their rooftop garden, relying on scarce resources and limited space. Days turn into weeks, and weeks into months, but through life lessons and words of wisdom, hope emerges.
Higher Ground is an inspiring coming-of-age tale of resilience, courage and spirit that illuminates how life can be beautiful even in the darkest of times.
]]>Working predominantly with watercolour and graphite, Tull's books have been featured in The Sydney Morning Herald and The New York Times and on ABC's Mornings radio and Play School on ABC Kids. Some of his books were included among the Notables list as part of The Children's Book Council of Australia Awards and shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards and The Crystal Kite Awards. Along with his bookmaking, Tull is an art teacher and uses his experience in visual arts and storytelling to promote creative expression for people of all ages. He lives a quiet life with his son and their dog in a rural town nestled among the trees and nature outside Melbourne. For more information about Tull, please visit:www.TullSuwannakit.net
]]>Willow loved her gumboots. She wore them wherever she went. The gumboots were there in the garden, at the beach and even at parties. But one day Willow discovered that something was wrong with her beloved gumboot.
A delightful story for anyone who has ever had a favourite piece of clothing.
]]>Helene Magisson is a critically acclaimed French-Australian illustrator of many books for children. Before Helene turned to book illustration, she was a painting restorer in Paris, where she was also trained in the art of medieval illumination. Helene's children's books are widely known and loved across the world. Her timeless style lends itself beautifully to classics, such as The Velveteen Rabbit (New Frontier, 2021), and also universal contemporary stories, such as Before You Were Born (HarperCollins, 2020). Helene is frequently recognised by the Children's Book Council of Australia. Most recently, she was awarded the CBCA 2020 Notable Picture Book of the Year Award for Little Puggle's Song, written by Vikki Conley
]]>Travel to the land of spirits (Yomi-no-kuni) to visit castles floating on the wind, water-bound homes, quiet hillside villages, and magnificent bathhouses with this adult colouring book crafted for fans of Japanese anime and the Studio Ghibli collection.
]]>Unique and beautiful illustrations. You will get 36 gorgeous and adorable hand-drawn, original zodiac images to enjoy in this book.
Single-sided images. Each image is printed on its own separate page to prevent bleed-through and allow you to easily remove and frame your favourite piece(s) of art.
7.25x10.25-inch images printed on bright white premium paper. The large format pages make it easy for children to colour, and the paper is suitable for any drawing tool including pencils, crayon, watercolours and markers!
Diverse zodiac characteristics. Each Chinese zodiac sign has three diverse images designed to reflect the different personalities represented behind the zodiac sign. Children can learn adjectives representing different personalities in coloring, and can also understand the connection between the zodiac sign and personality.
A great enlightenment book. This book introduces the traditional culture of the Chinese zodiac in a diversified way.
]]>Do you have a little Picasso at home who is fascinated by the world of cute and cuddly creatures, enticing food, and lovable aliens? Discover a new world of creativity and self-expression with How to Draw Cute Stuff, specially designed to introduce the principles of drawing to kids aged 6 to 11.
This fun, engaging guide is not just another drawing book. It's a magical journey into the realm of imagination where pandas, pizzas, and cotton candy come to life on the page. The step-by-step approach in How to Draw Cute Stuff makes it a breeze for your child to replicate these cute drawings. Whether it's a waddling baby penguin, a smiling Kawaii alien from a faraway galaxy, or a tower of ice cream brimming with delectable toppings, each cute drawing holds a new adventure for your budding artist.
Every page of this book is a celebration of cuteness, making it perfect for both beginners finding their way around a pencil, and for those ready to take their creativity to the next level. Let your child's imagination soar, develop their motor skills, and build their confidence as they learn to enjoy the process of drawing cute stuff.
Unlock your child's artistic potential today with How to Draw Cute Stuff: A Step-by-Step Drawing Guide for Kids from Catherine V. Holmes, author of the bestselling How to Draw Cool Stuff series.
]]>Are there kids in your life who are totally into Kawaii right now? This will be the perfect book for them! Learn how to draw over 25 amazing, adorable kawaii animals in just five easy steps! Use pencils, felt-tip pens, or gel markers to master techniques that create the coolest characters with super-cute expressions! From a sleepy sloth and a colourful chameleon to a perfect pony, the cuteness just keeps coming!
A perfect book for beginners - add kawaii cuteness to any drawing in no time at all!
]]>Paul Calver is an award-winning designer, art director and author. He co-founded Green Android Limited and lives in South London with his wife and two sons.
]]>Are there kids in your life who are totally into Kawaii right now? This will be the perfect book for them! Learn how to draw over 25 amazing, adorable kawaii people in just five easy steps! Use pencils, felt-tip pens, or gel markers to master techniques that create the coolest characters with super-cute expressions! From a cute baby and a speedy snowboarder to a nimble ninja, the cuteness just keeps coming!
A perfect book for beginners - add kawaii cuteness to any drawing in no time at all!
]]>Paul Calver is an award-winning designer, art director and author. He co-founded Green Android Limited and lives in South London with his wife and two sons.
]]>Perfect for aspiring paleontologists and budding artists, this beginning drawing book will show kids how to draw their favourite dinos in a fun, interactive style! Popular YouTube drawing instructor Brad Woodard, founder of the Brave Kids Art Club show, shares his easy-to-follow lessons and tips and tricks for getting outside and drawing cool stuff. Featuring:
This is the ultimate guide for any kid who wants to learn about and draw dinosaurs!
]]>Krystal Woodard is a children's book author, and a co-founder of Brave the Woods, a design and illustration agency based in Boise, Idaho. She also is the chief operation officer of Brave Kids Art Club, an art education resource for kids. Krystal loves working on exciting, creative projects that solve problems for good causes. When she isn't working, Krystal enjoys going on adventures and exploring the world with her husband, her three children, and their two dogs.
]]>Perfect for curious explorers and aspiring artists, this beginning drawing book will show kids how to observe and draw their favorite animals and the natural world in a fun, interactive style! Popular YouTube drawing instructor Brad Woodard, founder of the Brave Kids Art Club show, shares his easy-to-follow lessons and tips and tricks for getting outside and drawing cool stuff. Featuring:
Intro to Exploring: Encourages kids to get outside and make their own discoveries, including facts about flora/fauna, things to observe about them, what to look for, and where to find them.
Adding Flair: Teaches kids to be confident in what they create and find the freedom to discover their own drawing style.
30+ Awesome Animals: All your favorite animals are included as well as trees, flowers, plants, and more.
This is the ultimate guide for any kid who wants to explore the world and learn to draw!
]]>Perfect for aspiring ocean explorers and budding artists, this beginning drawing book will show kids how to observe and draw their favorite ocean animals and beach discoveries in a fun, interactive style! Popular YouTube drawing instructor Brad Woodard, founder of the Brave Kids Art Club show, shares his easy-to-follow lessons and tips and tricks for getting outside and drawing cool stuff. Featuring:
Easy-to-Follow Instructions: Simple steps-by-step illustrations show to to create fun drawings with no experience necessary
Intro to Exploring: Encourages kids to get outside and make their own discoveries, including facts about the beach and ocean, things to observe about them, what to look for, and where to find them.
30+ Awesome Ocean Animals: All your favorite creatures are included, such as sharks, whales, fish, crabs, birds, plants, and more.
Interactive journal pages: Includes fill-in-the-blank pages of prompts for kids to record their observations and drawings.
This is the ultimate guide for any kid who wants to explore the ocean and learn to draw!
]]>Synthesising decades of research, the book integrates insights from soil science, hydrology, geotechnical engineering, and land management to establish consistent principles for diagnosis, prevention, and remediation. Each chapter translates mechanistic understanding into applied strategies that enhance structural resilience, support sustainable production, and safeguard environmental quality. The volume provides a rigorous conceptual and empirical basis for re-evaluating how dispersive landscapes are characterised and managed, and outlines priorities for future research to strengthen the stability and long-term sustainability of vulnerable soils.
]]>Dr Ehsan Tavakkoliis an Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide. His research investigates how mineral reactivity, carbon cycling, and nutrient dynamics interact to control soil function and crop productivity, particularly under dispersive and salt-affected soils, and has advanced approaches for restoring degraded soils and strengthening the resilience of farming systems in Australia and beyond.
]]>Amid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to make meaning of the chaos by revitalising a common method: montage. Revealing Nicole Vedres, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker as more than just groundbreaking auteurs, Ivan Cerecina shows how their collective infusion of montage with avant-garde aesthetics renewed the art of cinema while helping France reckon with its past and imagine its future.
Assembly Lines challenges a dominant story of postwar French film, championed by critics at important film journals like Cahiers du cinema, that has generally centred realist film aesthetics. Working against this tendency, Cerecina shows how Vedres, Resnais, and Marker revitalised montage as a technique in response to the crises of the times, using it to process the ravages of the recent past, expose hidden connections, and uncover signs of coming catastrophe. Wedding insightful analyses of films and French cultural history with writings from lesser-heard voices like Andre Malraux, Jacques Brunius, and Henri Langlois, Assembly Lines illuminates obscured networks of critics, filmmakers, and historians to reshape our conception of French film and documentary. Meanwhile, Cerecina's in-depth archival research unearths vital documents, including correspondence and production notes on Vedres's Paris 1900 and Resnais's Night and Fog.
More than a cinematic retrospective, Cerecina's investigation of montage is also a call to action today as contemporary crises prompt reevaluation of our cultural histories. Assembly Lines exemplifies a powerful, future-oriented practice of historical reflection with implications that go well beyond the study of film.
"Assembly Lines provides a generative theorization of montage in postwar France, exploring how the technique became a key method for reflecting on the past, agitating the present, and deciphering the future. Beautifully written and lucidly argued, this book is an absolute pleasure to think alongside and a valuable contribution to the field." James Leo Cahill, author of Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painleve
"Postwar French documentary has long been recognized as a high point in film history. Focusing on the work of Nicole Vedres, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker, Ivan Cerecina draws fresh and compelling connections between documentary film, art, and politics. The compilation film, he reveals, constitutes a powerful historiography, one that shaped our thinking about the Cold War, colonialism, and World War II." Kelley Conway, University of WisconsinMadison
]]>Placing Shakespeare's works in the history of pacifist thought, Robert White argues that Shakespeare's plays consistently challenge appeals to heroism and revenge and reveal the brutal futility of war. White also examines Shakespeare's interest in the mental states of military officers when their ingrained training is tested in love relationships. In imagery and themes, war infiltrates love, with problematical consequences, reflected in Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies alike. Challenging a critical orthodoxy that military engagement in war is an inevitable and necessary condition, White draws analogies with the experience of modern warfare, showing the continuing relevance of Shakespeare's plays which deal with basic issues of war and peace that are still evident.
]]>After Australia witnessed a reinvigorated public interest in the revisionist history of European settlement and colonial violence, resulting in the dispossession of Indigenous people and damaged settlerIndigenous relations, Australian settler majority has experienced an unsettlement of their sense of belonging, or the so-called 'settler anxiety'. The book analyses how settler (un)belonging is narrativised in popular memoirs written by Australian public intellectuals, such as historians, artists, writers, and commentators, in the period after 2000.
These memoirs of settler belonging share one aspect: they all ask and seek answers to the implicit question, how to belong as a White settler who bears witness to the legacy of violent colonization vis--vis continuing Indigenous dispossession? How to justify the settler presence in and love of the land that was stolen from First Australians? The individual chapters examine historians' memoirs, White women's travel narratives, experimental place-writing, and eco- and landscape memoirs, tracing a gradual shift in literary representations of settler anxiety and detecting new perspectives on what can be called ethical settler belonging.
]]>Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny there was a problem. Arguing that the disease was limited to foreigners and 'immoral' groups, the government failed to take meaningful action, long past the point other countries had begun to recognise the full scale of the threat.
In this ground-breaking book, Rustam Alexander tells the story of AIDS in Soviet Russia. Fixated on disinformation, censorship and the persecution of marginalised communities, the Soviet authorities wasted precious time, allowing the epidemic to strike at the very heart of the nation: its children. Yet, despite the government's failure, a number of brave journalists, doctors and nascent gay groups decided to take matters into their own hands and engage in full-fledged AIDS activism.
Tracing the political and social response to AIDS in the final years of the Soviet era, Alexander sheds light on the devastating consequences of government inaction. He draws on personal stories, media reports and archival materials to provide a riveting account of the Russian people's fight against AIDS amid the tumultuous transformations of Gorbachev's perestroika.
]]>The book's primary goal is to propose local solutions for South African communities' peace and security challenges, emphasising peacebuilding approaches. It aims to publish lessons learned from the real-life experiences of scholars and practitioners regarding solutions for preventing violence in South African communities through transformative approaches to mediation.
]]>Sokfa John is a researcher and practitioner in peace mediation, conflict transformation and digital peacebuilding. His research focuses on digital peacebuilding in Africa, localisation and ethnoreligious conflicts.
]]>In belonging to an oppressed/colonised racial group in the West, where their voices, humanity, history, culture, reality, and subjectivity are perpetually under siege, distorted, and/or erased, African American writers since the 1960s have struggled to be heard and represented. Yet, despite the racism, terror, trauma, and dehumanisation, they, in revisiting, reclaiming, and reassessing their history and culture, used their decolonised imaginations and agency to reconfigure their history, subjectivity, and reality, and to invoke a more humane and just world, with love, despite all the odds.
]]>Most students who register for a course on Genocide assume that it will focus, perhaps exclusively, on the Holocaust the case with which they are most familiar. Many of them have read Elie Wiesel's eloquent masterpiece Night in secondary school, and some may have read The Diary of Anne Frank. A few students might even know that a genocide occurred in Rwanda or Darfur. Like most people, however, they equate genocide simply with mass killing, and assume that genocide must by definition entail millions of deaths.
Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word 'genocide' meaning literally 'to kill a people' originally defined it 'a colonial crime of destroying the national patterns of the oppressed and imposing the national patterns of the oppressors'. This was a process, Lemkin said, deliberately intending to destroy a people's culture that could sometimes but not necessarily always result in mass murder. Students need to know that after World War II the great powers undermined and co-opted the process of writing the 1948 Genocide Convention at the UN because these nations did not want their own colonial crimes, oppression of minorities, and destructions of cultures to be included in the definition. Instead, they simply used the Holocaust as a template and succeeded in distorting what Lemkin originally meant by 'genocide' the murder of a people by destroying their social and cultural connections.
]]>Thomas Earl Porter is Professor of Russian and Modern European History at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC.
]]>This edited volume explores the sociology of Lefebvre and its continuing relevance for the discipline today. Contributors explore the sociological Lefebvre across a number of topics, including the influence of Marxism, rural sociology, everyday life, the urban and violence, to name a few. The volume sets out a new agenda for Lefebvrian sociological inquiry which, inter alia, focuses on sociological perspectives on rhythm, embodiment and utopian thought in Lefebvre's work for sociological research. It brings together leading experts whose work on Lefebvre has shaped the discipline and is the first comprehensive volume outlining Lefebvre's relevance to sociology.
]]>Matt Dawson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow with research interests in social theory and the history of sociology.
]]>This unique anthology reflects the author's analyses and/or resolutions of some of the most perennially perplexing and widely discussed problems arising in rational choice theory, probability theory, and utility theory. It spans 25 years of his research and publications in these related fields. Part One features treatments of the Prisoner's Dilemma, illustrating why there is no objectively 'best strategy' in nature and nurture alike. Part Two treats Newcomb's problem, along with potential failures of misguided 'collective' rationality in non-cooperative multi-player games. Part Three examines pillars and pitfalls of the widely applied and often mis-applied Principle of Indifference, while resolving Bertrand's notorious random chord paradox, the Sleeping Beauty Problem, and the Two Envelopes Problem Part Four presents a thorny moral dilemma debated by Hobbes, Spinoza, and Kant, namely, the ethics of redeeming oneself from a highway robber via the expedient of lying. Part Four then introduces a 'reverse Turing test' that leads to a refutation of the Strong AI thesis. It concludes with a methodological comparison of solutions by an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to an old Cambridge challenge puzzle, while shedding new light on a humorous but ontologically impossible solution by Dirac.
]]>While the mainstream debate on this problem in the philosophy of religion continues to focus on theodicies and 'defenses' seeking to justify or excuse God's allowing that there is apparently meaningless suffering (which, then, ceases to be meaningless when we understand God's reasons for allowing this), this introduction not only explains why an antitheodicist alternative is ethically superior to such attempts but also, perhaps more importantly, extends the antitheodicist approach from the philosophy of religion to broader ethical engagements with suffering. Sketching some of the historical milestones of antitheodicist thought as well as the most important contemporary versions of antitheodicism, the book argues that antitheodicy is the only decent account of suffering and that theodicies are incompatible with ethical seriousness. Theodicies tend to instrumentalise suffering in the service of some imagined overall good, or a metaphysical scheme failing to recognise the individual perspective of the victim of suffering. The significance of this essentially ethical argument against theodicies reaches far beyond the philosophy of religion, as the theodicy versus antitheodicy opposition can be shown to take interesting secular varieties.
]]>Harpurhey is a suburban area in Manchester, located just three and a half miles northeast of the city centre. This book interrogates the everyday lives of people in Harpurhey ethnographically, placing their lives and agency at the centre of analysis. It explores the everyday lives of people who live with poverty and are rely upon state welfare support to make ends meet. Analytically, the arguments in this book begin by making a distinction between the production of poverty as a political, economic and ideological effect of capitalist processes and state activity, and the everyday, mundane choices and behaviours of the people who manage those effects (cf. Goode and Maskovsky 2001). Each chapter shows what may be concealed and revealed in interpersonal relationships between people living with poverty and in multiple interdependencies.
]]>This book approaches the daily struggles of migrantised divorced motherhood through theories, discourses, and (in)visibilities of everyday violence. Building on ethnographically informed everyday violence theories, it offers a framework in which violence becomes everyday violence when it engages with the boundaries of ordinary lives by means of being disruptive, reproduced, absorbed, and expected.Taking neither the visibility nor the invisibility of violence for granted, it discusses how the same discourses of violence can visibly victimise certain daily struggles of migrantised divorced motherhood while obscuring certain others.
Analysing the individual narratives of divorced mothers living in Germany with immigration biographies from Turkey, the book tackles their struggles with poverty, dequalification, maternal guilt, time constraints, care, everyday racism and sexism, as well as the conceptualisations of violence itself. If there is a certain form of 'loneness' implied in the term lone parenting, these narratives reveal how such 'loneness' is structurally and discursively constructed within a relationality of the self to resources. With attention to various forms of victimisations, vulnerabilities, and resistances, the book delves into what it means to 'stand on one's own two feet' in the face of paternalistic conditions of intimate and structural support.
Thus, the author makes various strong arguments around the work of tackling everyday violence and the immunities secured against the attribution of violence within power relations. Underlining the ambivalent consequences of our everyday and scholarly discourses on violence, she carefully situates the concept in a context of migrantisation and culturalisation of gendered experiences. Overall, the research participants offer narratives of not only everyday violence but also everyday protests, which refuse the forced (in)visibilities of their daily struggles and analyse the labour they invest into their relations to resources. And it is the acknowledgment of these protests that is at stake when they narrate their daily struggles, name violence, and reject a passive victimhood.
]]>Dorr (18661948) was a leading suffragette from Nebraska, studied at the University of Nebraska, before moving to New York as a journalist and first editor of The Suffragette. Living on the lower East Side, she became a socialist. She visited Russia during the first Russian revolution (19051907) and later covered the February Revolution of 1917 for the New York Evening Mail.
Her book Inside the Russian Revolution (1917) depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy. The evolution of revolutionary Russia from February to October changed not only Dorr's perception of the Russian revolution as a phenomenon but her vision of socialism as well. In this sense, she was among the American radicals who contributed to American phenomenology of the 1917 Russian revolution but were not satisfied with its results. Being a prominent figure in the U.S. political and social life of her time, Rheta Dorr expanded the horizons of the Americans' identity.
Dorr is also known for other publications. In 1922, she assisted Anna Vyrubova, a lady-in-waiting, the best friend and the confidante of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, with the writing of Vyrubova's memoir, My Memories of the Russian Court. Thereafter, Dorr wrote her own memoir, A Woman of Fifty, published in 1924. Dorr moved from her autobiography to a biography of Susan B. Anthony, published in 1928, and completed her publishing activity in 1929 with a tome on the question of prohibition.
]]>The growing presence of these cheap entertaining Victorian texts in contemporary popular culture through television series, musicals and literature signals that it is high time to bestow more systematic and comprehensive attention to these publications. To do so, Penny Dreadfuls: The Circulation Patterns of a Victorian Popular Genre conceptualises the notion of circulation as a tool for analysis.
This book considers different aspects of circulation. The weaponisation of the penny dreadfuls' successful circulation by its critics highlights tensions in the literary marketplace over the hegemonic discourse of what should and should not be read, which mirror the broader issue of contemporary changes on a social, cultural and political level. In addition, the penny dreadfuls' consumption patterns and behaviour within the literary marketplace and within society are also marked by their circulation between different historically popular genres: within the network of late-eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century literature and culture, they refuse to remain within clear boundaries and constantly reinvent themselves at the intersection of several trends that constituted the popular, such as oral storytelling, sensationalism and the Gothic.
Beyond the nineteenth century, their patterns of circulation develop diachronically, too, in the open-ended circulation of the penny dreadfuls across time through neo-Victorianism and the gradual transformation of the penny dreadfuls into a cultural reference.
Through the lens of the concept of circulation which pervades the penny dreadfuls' history and content, this book reassesses the impact of the penny dreadfuls on nineteenth-century print culture and entertainment, as well as on contemporary popular culture. This book demonstrates the importance of these publications to better understand broader notions of popular culture and to keep deconstructing such binaries as 'high' and 'low' culture. Further than sales numbers, circulation interweaves numerous aspects of popular culture and of this publishing phenomenon. An analysis of these patterns helps decode many aspects of the penny dreadfuls' life and afterlife, as it reveals how their material aspect is intimately interwoven with their seriality, their cultural significance, the reactions they provoked and their actual content. The resulting picture informs us about the nineteenth century's social history and culture, about class warfare and political change, and about the evolution of literature over the past two hundred and fifty years.
]]>In Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok, Dr. David Arditi examines how the major record labels single-out new technologies as if they will bring an end to recorded music. They use what he calls the 'piracy panic narrative' a narrative in which new technologies threaten the very existence of recorded music. The piracy panic narrative is a rhetorical construct that helps to hide the material reality of the recording industry by positioning major record labels and their recording artists as the victims of widespread crime in the form of piracy. Now, divorced from piracy, the recording industry continues to use the panic narrative to dissuade fans from specific practices and to lobby the government for particular policies. Each time, they use the narrative to change public sentiment, the law, and policy to strengthen their profits. At every moment what gets ignored is labels are the primary exploiter of musicians.
]]>The book presents a multi-case study approach, featuring organisations such as Tzoumakers, Open Food Network, CoopCycle, and Circles UBI. These cases exemplify how platform cooperativism, cosmolocalism, and open cooperativism redefine traditional business structures, emphasising sustainability, fairness, and democratic ownership. The discussion extends to blockchain-enabled DAOs and their impact on labour, governance, and wealth distribution.
Through theoretical and empirical insights, The Model of Open Cooperativism bridges political economy and digital innovation, providing practical strategies for policymakers, activists, and scholars. It highlights the success and challenges of grassroots-driven initiatives, offering a roadmap for transitioning toward a commons-based, post-capitalist economy.
]]>This short book takes the view that the proposed reforms are wrongheaded and would be deleterious to the coherence of the Scottish legal framework. To that end, it examines the taxonomy of obligations pioneered by Stair, indicates that the application of that taxonomy to situations such as the process of contracting by distance suggests that there is in fact no 'postal acceptance rule' in this jurisdiction and suggests, in light of this, that reform of 'contracts' and the formation of, in Scotland, is better left to the courts and jurists than to the Scottish Parliament (or, for that matter, Westminster).
]]>Based on the artist's works from the last six decades, the publication shows how human life can be permanently shaped and informed. This book focuses on art as an interface between man and a reality that is continually updating itself shift of time in present times.
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]]>Known for her figurines and porcelain, and the interplay between body and material, her art is presented in a way that interweaves the personal, the artistic, and the historical. My Hands Keep Getting Bigger invites readers to reflect deeply on her creative journey up to her largest solo exhibition at Kunsthall Grenland in 2024.
The dialogue between Irene Nordli and Gjertrud Steinsvag forms the core of the text, highlighting pivotal moments and reflections that have shaped her work. Photographer Thomas Ekstroem adds a compelling visual layer by capturing the extraordinary in the everyday, while designer Martin Egge Lundell fuses text and image with an experimental approach, challenging the conventional art monograph.
]]>Well into the 18th century, it was not unusual for people to bring their own cutlery-quite often peculiar, valuable one-of-a-kind pieces. In the Baroque period, matching dinner services came into vogue and, in the wake of industrialisation, became mass-produced commodities. Trading with faraway countries, conquests, and migration augmented people's menus with 'exotic' fruit and spices and contributed to a change in customs and traditions.
In an exceptional exhibition on the mores of dining, the Jewellery Museum in Pforzheim presents historical goldsmithing and contemporary design, jewellery 'to eat', and treasures from across the globe. In addition, the accompanying publication will entice you with its special aspects of food culture-after all, the way to one's cultural heart is also through the stomach.
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]]>With the support of his second wife, the architect Rahel Weissbach, he moved to Berlin in 1933, where his studio became a well-known meeting place for artists. Despite having been arrested by the National Socialists and his daughter Cato executed, he could not endure the GDR's Socialist Unity Party regime either and stepped down from a teaching post at the East Berlin Weissensee art school in 1950. He broke into teaching in West Berlin and, finally, in Hamburg continued his ceramic work, which provided the free thinker with a firm footing.
Like no other, he emphasised materiality in form and dynamism in colour. During tumultuous times, he sought out the perfect balance for his vessels, and ultimately for himself.
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]]>Moving beyond the traditional view of coasts as simple boundaries between land and water, this book reveals the coast as a diverse, networked landscape shaped by intertidal ecologies, sprawling infrastructures, and everyday practices that reach far beyond the shore. By uncovering the 'coastalisation' of society, the book highlights the growing significance of shores in understanding contemporary life and environmental change. Drawing on rich ethnographic research, the volume challenges traditional notions of the coast as simply a physical object or maritime boundary. Instead, it closely examines the diverse material forms and infrastructural connections that define coastal spaces, envisioning new futures for these vital zones.
Coastal Futures argues that a scientific inquiry into the dynamic interplay of society and coastlines is both urgent and essential, encouraging more responsible and imaginative ways of living with and on the coast. Ultimately, the book redeems the coast as a geo-ontological force one that shapes, enables, and constrains the transformative energies of global assemblages, rather than serving as a passive backdrop to human activity.
]]>Lukas Ley is an environmental anthropologist and head of the research group S.AND at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
]]>Highlighting the creative work of four women and one nonbinary individual, this book reveals that architectural production extended beyond men, even when only men could be officially certified as architects. Drawing on diverse materials, including poetry, photography, archaeological artifacts, literary fiction, theater sets, and journalism, Beyond Building brings to light the contributions of those long excluded from architectural scholarship due to their gender. This book advocates for a more expansive understanding of architecture's history by including overlooked makers and works. It examines figures such as Jane Dieulafoy, whose gender-fluid life as an archeologist in Iran is captured in colonial-era writings; Marie Krysinska, the only woman in the free-verse poetry movement; photographer Genevieve-lisabeth Disderi and the Countess de Castiglione, who linked architecture and early photography; the hidden career of journalist Laure Labrouste; and the American Julia Morgan, the first woman certified as an architect in France.
Through these case studies, Beyond Building demonstrates how considering gender alongside architecture opens new perspectives on artistic innovation, imperialism, and cultural change in nineteenth-century France.
]]>While examining the cultural productions that emerge from the Mediterranean and Caribbean, modern languages scholars Jessica R. Boll, Marilen Loyola, and Sharon Meilahn Bartlett adopt a decentralised approach that moves beyond the influence of the United States and Europe. They further challenge traditional narratives by centering the experiences of individuals from historically repressed groups. Through analyses of visual art, puppet shows, songs, graphic fiction, and television, this volume shifts the focus away from the canonical to foreground accessible and popular forms of expression.
By highlighting these places, perspectives, and productions, Sea Change underscores the reciprocal influence between the mainstream and the marginalised. It strives to dismantle (post)colonial hegemonies and demonstrate that those often relegated to the periphery can be agents rather than mere subjects of change.
]]>Marilen Loyola is an assistant professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College.
Jessica R. Boll is a professor of Spanish at Carroll University.
]]>With over 140 pieces of insightful wisdom from expert supervisors representing 45 institutions across eight countries, this book provides diverse perspectives to address themes of 'Fostering Relationships', 'Seeking Balance', and 'Focusing on Growth', among others. The advice points to attainable goals for any graduate student with concrete strategies to help achieve them. These lessons are taken a step further through dozens of detailed exercises that help graduate students apply the book's principles and better their lives.
The Prosperous PhD encompasses the gamut of graduate student experiences, tribulations, dilemmas, and decisions from choosing a supervisor and a topic to writing up a dissertation to finding life balance, navigating departmental politics, and becoming an autonomous, happy researcher. Readers can study the book from start to finish to gain a holistic picture of the doctoral journey or select individual chapters to find the perfect piece of advice for their particular stage or challenge.
Created by a team with extensive experience on both sides of the doctoral journey as PhD students and supervisors this book is a student-friendly, practical guide that will propel readers towards a more prosperous PhD.
]]>Christopher DeLuca holds a PhD in education from Queen's University where he now serves as a professor and director of the Assessment and Evaluation Group in the Faculty of Education.
Stephen MacGregor is an assistant professor of educational leadership, policy, and governance and the director of experiential learning at the University of Calgary's Werklund School of Education.
]]>Fabian Jonietz is a scholar at the Central Institute for Art History, Munich.
Romana Sammern is a permanent postdoctoral scholar at the interuniversity organisation 'Arts & Knowledges' of the University of Salzburg/Mozarteum University.
]]>Ruth Craggs is Reader in Political and Historical Geography at King's College London.
Fiona McConnell is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine's College.
]]>Local sheep farmers set up protest camps and occupied the land. They soon attracted an astonishing level of support, pioneering a form of regional radicalism with global implications. Drawing out the international dimensions of the protest, Make cheese not war explores a transnational resistance movement in the 1970s that challenged dominant visions of modernity and became a wellspring of radical alternatives. Exploring previously unconsulted archives in France and elsewhere, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the decade-long peasant movement and its aftermath.
Repositioning the Larzac struggle within a wider network of French and international solidarities, from the US to the UK, Germany, Burkina Faso, New Caledonia and Japan, the book retraces political networks of pacifist activism, as well as environmental movements and anti-nuclear protest. It shows how this French peasant campaign became both a platform and a model for popular engagement.
]]>Ecocriticism is one of the most important and exciting developments in current art history. This is the first book to provide a survey of its methods, showing what they can offer art historians. It also indicates what the interdisciplinary project of ecocriticism stands to gain from art historians, their methods and practices.
The book assembles twenty-three essays written by international scholars that span a wide range of methodological approaches, including ecofeminism, planetary ecologies, material ecocriticism, ecopolitics, and indigenous ecopoetics. The essays are framed by a series of editorial introductions that provide orientation within a disciplinary territory that is still in a state of flux. Written in clear, jargon-free language, they are accompanied by thematically arranged lists of bibliographies to facilitate further study and empower readers to approach the study of art enriched with ecocritical tools.
This book is an indispensable resource for art history in the twenty-first century.
]]>Olga Smith is a NUAcT Fellow in Fine Art at Newcastle University
]]>Daniella Rose King is a curator, writer and Lead Curator, Collections Galleries at Wellcome Collection.
Giulia Smith is an art historian, curator and Senior Tutor in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
]]>Rewriting the story of New Labour, Glen O'Hara challenges the prevailing narrative to present a more balanced and positive assessment. New Labour, New Britain? is the first book to examine both the intentions behind New Labour's domestic policies and their real-world effects, moving beyond the entrenched left-right debates that have dominated the party's legacy.
The period from 1997 to 2007 marked a pivotal moment in modern British history, as New Labour sought to reshape Britain into a more cohesive and forward-thinking society. It saw the rise of socially liberal attitudes and flourishing public services under a government committed to rebuilding and investing in them. Yet New Labour's track record was far from flawless and its legacy remains complicated and contested.
Through interviews with key players and rigorous archival research, O'Hara offers a new perspective on Tony Blair's years in power. Painting a fuller picture of New Labour's successes and challenges, he highlights its lasting impact on Britain and offers a thoughtful reassessment of its place in history.
]]>Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604. Yet the most remarkable phase of his career was yet to come.
In Lying abroad, Carol Chillington Rutter tells Wotton's extraordinary story. She reveals how this one-time exile, who fled England after his employer was convicted of treason, gained the favour of King James, securing a knighthood and a diplomatic posting. Charged with restoring relations with Venice after a fifty-year hiatus, he drew criticism for his breaches of protocol. But when a dispute brought Europe to the brink of war, Wotton took a risk one that changed European history.
This engrossing biography recounts a life that was tumultuous, tarnished and endlessly theatrical. The man King James called his 'honest dissembler' was a maverick who fashioned diplomacy in ways that still inform international relations today.
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