In (Be)wilder, acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones explores how people around the world interact with wildlife. He spends time with bearded pigs in Borneo, rock ptarmigans in the Arctic, birdwatchers in Iowa and conservationist farmers in Australia's Snowy Mountains.
Along the way, Jones asks, is it possible for farming and conservation to work together? How can urban landscapes be redesigned to enhance biodiversity? What happens when a local community turns centuries of traditional land use over to wildlife? And can birdwatching help save the planet?
'(Be)wilder is a 'call-to-action' and timely reminder to step up for our own survival.' Mark Parry, Good Reading Magazine
'A collection of true stories that highlight the resilience of nature and inspire curiosity about and admiration for our non-human neighbours.' Ash Davida Jane, Books + Publishing
]]>Despite the noise, heat, dust and fumes, the ceaseless movement, light and toxins, many birds successfully live their lives among us. And not just furtively in the shadows. Ibis steal our lunch, brush-turkeys rearrange gardens and magpies chase us from near their nest.
From blackbirds and sparrows in his childhood country town to brush-turkeys in the suburbs, Darryl Jones shares a fascinating story of curiosity, discovery, adventure and conflict, played out in the streets and backyards of Australia. He also provides rare insights into the intimate lives of some of our most beloved and feared, despised and admired neighbours. Magpies, curlews, ibis, lorikeets and cockatoos will never seem the same again.
'What happens when nature comes to town? Darryl Jones has written a witty, rollicking account of his encounters with the ingenious creatures that make our urban homes their own. A wild, wonderful journey in the spirit of Gerald Durrell, unexpected and delightful, full of insight, humour and humility. Anyone who loves birds, nature and superb storytelling will love this book!' Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Genius of Birds
'As rare a delight as the urban curlews of the title, this is a thoroughly enjoyable account of the value that all birds, even the common ones we see every day, bring to our lives. We often talk about why birds matter. Darryl Jones shows how even backyard birds have the capacity to enrich and bring wonder to our lives.' Sean Dooley, author of The Big Twitch
'Darryl Jones confirms what many people suspect, that ecologists lead fun lives.' Tim Low, author of Where Song Began
'Jones's enthusiasm for his avian subjects and the thrill of scientific discovery should appeal most to fellow bird lovers, watchers and counters - or anyone who dabbled in the habit during the long pandemic lockdowns.' Kim Thomson, Books+Publishing
'A charming ornithological memoir.' Phil Brown, Courier Mail
'Jones casts a wry eye over all his subjects and their behaviours, whether they be birds, academics or himself, in this playful, engaging tale.' - The Sydney Morning Herald
'Jones makes for a knowledgeable and curious-minded guide.' The West Australian
]]>Darryl Jones is a Professor of Ecology at Griffith University in Brisbane, where he has been investigating the many ways that people and wildlife interact for over 30 years. He is particularly interested in why some species are extremely successful in urban landscapes, while many others are not, and how best to deal with the ensuing conflicts. More recently, he has been trying to understand more about the humans that also live in cities in large numbers, and how they engage with nature. This has led him into the strange and fascinating world of wild bird feeding and has resulted in collaborations with other researchers all over the world. He has published six books, including The Birds at My Table and Feeding the Birds at My Table.
]]>Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded novels of the twentieth century. Then she abruptly stopped writing in the 1970s and became one of the most puzzling mysteries of Australian literature. Why didn't she continue? Harrower gave evasive answers to friends and interviewers, and only since her death in 2020 has a deeper search been possible.
In this definitive biography, renowned journalist and writer Susan Wyndham grapples with the elusive Harrower. She immerses us in the author's tumultuous family, her complex friendships with Patrick White, Christina Stead, Kylie Tennant and Shirley Hazzard, and her timeless probing of the human spirit in five remarkable novels.
Drawing on time spent with Harrower, revealing analysis of her fiction and new research, Wyndham unmasks a literary legend.
'Elizabeth Harrower: The woman in the watch tower is the first (and perhaps final) word on one of Australia's most brilliant and bedevelling writers. Like Harrower's, Wyndham's prose is meticulously observed, emotionally attuned and full of grace, insight and vision. It's a fantastic achievement.' Dominic Amerena
'This is an extraordinary biography of one of the finest, and most important, Australian writers, Elizabeth Harrower. In a braiding so skilled you can't see it, Susan Wyndham takes us from Harrower's life into her work and her friendships, and then back into her work and life. This is a deceptively simple, beautifully detailed, psychologically acute portrait worthy of its subject.' Anna Funder
'This is a wonderful book. It gives us the complexities of Harrower's life and of her fascinating character so nave and at the same time so intelligent, her prickly diffidence coupled with a kind of gormless passion. And it sets her compellingly into the decades when modern Australian literature was coming into being. An indispensable contribution to Australian writing.' Brigitta Olubas
'This much-awaited biography peels back the layers on Australian literary legend Elizabeth Harrower, who died in 2020 after decades as an enigmatic figure.' Melanie Kembrey, SMH/The Age
'A sympathetic and illuminating exploration of the life and work of one of post-war Australia's most significant writers.' Books + Publishing
]]>When Australians defended against Rommel's tanks at Tobruk and Alamein, tackled paratroopers landing among them on Crete, attacked French Foreign Legionnaires in Syrian forts, held off Japanese tanks in Malaya, fought hand-to-hand on the Kokoda Track, and took on well-hidden and tenacious Japanese in countless grim jungle-clad locations, brave individuals risked everything to bring victory.
Australian soldiers performed acts of remarkable bravery in the roles of stretcher-bearers and snipers, in victories and defeats, and in desert and jungle. Such astonishing deeds were often rewarded with medals, but many brave deeds went unrecognised, and whether acknowledged or not, the heroes often paid a heavy price for their courageous acts, in the form of physical injury, psychological trauma or death.
Australian Heroes of World War II features hundreds of stories that have been rarely if ever told, and that are guaranteed to amaze.
'Mark Johnston shows again why he is the premier historian of the Australian Army in WWII.' Peter Stanley
'Mark Johnston has produced a study of battlefield bravery that is both erudite and a page turner. It is the story of ordinary Australians in extraordinary situations.' Karl James
'An outstanding contribution to our understanding of Australia's experience of war, and a wonderful tribute to ordinary men whose remarkable deeds need to be remembered and honoured.' David Horner
]]>No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which - during campaigns in Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea, and Borneo - sustained more casualties and won more medals than any other Australian division. It is an evocative and detailed account of the day-to-day war of three infantry soldiers whose experiences included night patrols at Tobruk, advancing steadily through German barrages at Alamein, charging enemy machine guns in New Guinea, and repelling Japanese charges on Borneo.
Inspired by American historian Stephen Ambrose's landmark book, Band of Brothers, about the US Army's Easy Company of the 506th Regiment, Mark Johnston, one of our best military historians, here gives an Australian company the same treatment. Using the frank and detailed personal letters, diaries, and memoirs of three Australian soldiers, he brings to life their campaigns, battles, and interactions with their comrades and enemies. His book is a unique and powerful account of the everyday experiences of a small unit of Australian soldiers on the front line.
]]>Unfinished Revolution tells a fresh story of feminist action in this country, from the largest women's protest rally March4Justice in 2021 to the dynamic Australian Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s. With a focus on gender and power in politics and the media, from national consciousness raising to shifting media narratives, this book is an exploration of what feminist change looks like.
'Here is contemporary history at its best. Virginia Haussegger presents Australian feminism as a promise of liberation that gutsy, passionate and brilliant women have pursued not in waves but persistently, across eras and generations. Unfinished Revolution should be compulsory reading for anyone serious about understanding, in its historical and global context, Australia's own #MeToo "moment" of 2021 as well as the wider possibilities for a resurgent feminism amid continuing gender discrimination, male violence against women and anti-feminist backlash.' Frank Bongiorno AM
'Virginia Haussegger is not just a brilliant journalist, but an original and insightful thinker and feminist. I will read anything she writes. And I recommend you do too.' Jane Caro AM
'In Unfinished Revolution, Virginia Haussegger stares down a terrifying global swing to the far-right and yells: Enough. This is the battle cry we desperately need right now, one that refuses to be watered down into niceties that ask politely for equity. This is a book that dares to fight back, and pulls no punches.' Hannah Ferguson
'At a time of global backlash against women and the women's movement, Unfinished Revolution is a spirited piece of feminist scholarship. It practically hums with righteous fury. For those who were at the pointy end of some of the historical changes in the Australian cultural zeitgeist that it charts, it is a timely reminder of what can, and has been, achieved. It acknowledges that there have been some painful moments along the way. That change is not always linear, that setbacks abound, but none of these things are cause for despondency and complacency. There is a relentless, almost bloody-minded optimism in these pages. It feels like a book which urges women to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and just keep marching.' Louise Milligan
'A brilliant read. And a reminder that feminist change is possible and it's happening right now. Unfinished Revolution honours the Australian feminist movements past and present that have shaped our lives today. A must-read for every young Australian woman ready to build the next chapter of the feminist fight.' Yasmin Poole
]]>Over a five-year period, photographer and filmmaker Jem Cresswell took more than 11 000 images of one of nature's largest mammals the humpback whale in Tongan waters.
In Giants, Cresswell selects the most striking of these images to document the awe-inspiring behaviours of the humpback whale in a powerful combination of photography and storytelling.
]]>Not only is Newcastle dramatically changing, but so are people's views of the city. People are 'discovering' Newcastle. Or, more pointedly, they are seeing Newcastle for what it is. And those from Newcastle are seeing their city in a different light.
In Newcastle Scott Bevan examines the character and the soul of the city he grew up in, its past and where it finds itself. He traverses between early contact with the Awabakal people and missionary Lancelot Threlkeld, Newcastle's convict and industrial past, and its famous children (from Silverchair and the Knights to William Dobell), and explores how the city now juggles a range of roles, including as the world's largest coal export port and a hub of creative talent.
On this journey, we hear the stories of dozens of locals, from community leaders to champion surfers, from rock and rollers to architects and environmentalists, all the while finding out how this place once renowned as 'Steel City' is revealing the 'new' in Newcastle.
'An affectionate and information-packed picture of a great city.' Bob Hudson
]]>This popular guide by astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb provides stargazers with the perfect companion to the southern night sky. Opening with an essay by Ki Tahu woman Victoria Campbell on the cultural significance of the heliacal rising of Matariki in winter, this book features monthly sky maps, with details of the movement of the planets, stars and constellations. It also offers the latest information on the solar system and its history, as well as tips for optimal viewing. The 2026 Australasian Sky Guide is a must-have handbook to the year's most exciting celestial events.
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In this evocative biography his nephew, Alexander Gilly, pieces together Fairfax's life through the prism of his art collection. Through a long-case clock built by Fairfax's grandfather and given to his parents as a wedding gift, a painting by Rubens, a sculpture by Robert Klippel, a mural created for his country home by Donald Friend and other treasured objects, Gilly reveals the complex private and public lives of a man at the centre of a media dynasty.
'James Fairfax lives on in his gifts to the nation. In this beautifully written, emotionally rich, erudite yet intimate book, Alexander Gilly ensures that his life is a gift that keeps on giving. With so many objects to choose from in James Fairfax's extraordinary collection, Alexander Gilly selected eleven as guides to a reserved and proper man's public and private life. He locates them brilliantly to explore privilege, conflict and loss. In the process, and with access to remarkable private letters, he tells a story of a family, an imploding newspaper empire and a changing nation. Succession has nothing on this.' Julianne Schultz
'A beautifully written biography, dramatic, sensitive and full of heart. Gilly illuminates not only the life of one of Australia's most interesting figures but an entire era. The pacing is terrific and the structure original you're captivated from the first page, deeply moved by the last.' Sebastian Smee
'Alexander Gilly adds rich human detail to a story I thought I knew well. In an astute, intimate portrait of his uncle, he animates the mismatched members of an Australian media dynasty. Behind his sandwich role in their succession struggle, James Fairfax was a son torn between divorced parents, a loner, a lover, a bon vivant and an art connoisseur the Hamlet or Prince Charles of his family. How fortunate that Gilly had revealing interviews with the man, an appreciative eye for his art collection, and access to his correspondence with his mother. Betty Fairfax comes to the fore as a wonderfully eccentric influence in her son's privileged but fractured life.' Susan Wyndham
'This splendid volume is a fascinating glimpse into the life and motivations of one of Australia's great philanthropists.' The Canberra Times
'Alexander Edward Gilly interviewed Fairfax before his death and has produced a discreet and affectionate portrait of his uncle.' Simon Caterson, SMH and The Age
]]>Discover the answers to these questions and more in The Weed Forager's Handbook, a field guide to the most common and useful edible weeds in Australia. This second edition includes additional weed profiles (22 in total plus 14 short profiles), updated research, extra facts and new photos.
Step into the world of our least-admired botanical companions, peel back the layers of prejudice and forever change where you go looking for lunch!
'In other words, if you eat, then this book is an essential companion.' from the Foreword by Costa Georgiadis
'For the gardener tired of joyless weeding, Adam and Annie open our eyes to the fact that the problem can indeed be the solution.' David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept
]]>Annie Raser-Rowland is a horticulturalist and general natural-world enthusiast. She currently gardens, forages and stalks the landscapes of Fremantle, Western Australia.
]]>Hilarious, heartfelt and revealing.
Phil Brown tells all (well almost all) in this rollicking account of his career in literature and journalism from The Morning Bulletin in Rockhampton to Melbourne's Sunday Age and back to The Courier-Mail in Brisbane. He shares his challenges as a young surfer foolishly yearning to be a poet and his personal struggles on the road to becoming a writer with a fluctuating passion for poetry and a top drawer full of rejection slips. There are the seminal friendships with poets Bruce Dawe and Les Murray and a cavalcade of characters from the world of arts and letters Barry Humphries, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Craig, Alain de Botton, Richard E. Grant and a cavalcade of characters he meets (and interviews) along the way, for better and occasionally, worse.
Confessions of a Minor Poet is a hugely entertaining memoir that shows us all how the life of a writer can be frustrating, even enraging but ultimately life-enriching. This is a vital, wild and affectionate ride across Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, from the seventies to now.
]]>In their own voices, they explore the challenges of adaptation, the resilience born from adversity, moments of joy, and the enduring ties to their heritage. With unique perspectives, they examine Australian culture while confronting some of the world's most pressing political injustices through the lens of lived experience.
A powerful testament to individuality and community, Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names seeks to dismantle stereotypes in a world that too often simplifies identity. This compelling collection inspires us all to rise above the barriers of sexism and racism, offering an urgent and unapologetic chorus of truth.
Contributions by: Mariam Maatooq, Loubna Haikal, Mary Hanoun Khilla, Sivine Tabbouch, Hend Saab, Kilda Eid, Camilia Naim, Oula Ghannoum, Nouha El-Khoury Francis.
]]>Oula Ghannoum was born in Tripoli, Lebanon, and is currently a Professor of Plant Biology at Western Sydney University. An internationally renowned expert in plant photosynthesis, her research addresses the twin challenges of food security and climate change. She has published over 100 scientific articles. Beyond science, Oula is passionate about Sufism and storytelling as integrative forms of knowledge. She is currently working on a trilogy exploring her own and her family's migration to Gadigal Land, Australia.
Loubna Haikal was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and migrated to Australia as a teenager. A trained medical doctor, she worked as a GP before turning to writing. She is the author of Seducing Mr. Maclean (Picador, 2002), along with several short stories and plays. A mother of three sons and a grandmother, Loubna lives on the land of the Gadigal people in Merro-berah.
]]>Almost a century ago, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World imagined a society founded on a radical idea. Using eugenics and powerful pharmaceuticals, its rulers would engineer humans to fit the society they wanted to see, rather than build a society based on the needs of humans. The result was a rational and efficient system. And the crushing of the human spirit.
Today, faced with an environmental crisis, our economic and political leaders are responding in the spirit of Huxley's rulers. Rather than building societies that respect the natural world, they are developing the means to remake nature itself. Yet channelling the same instrumental thinking that caused this crisis will only deepen it. We must examine that future, to challenge its assumptions and propose alternatives, predicated on a different vision of nature and humans' place within it. From the nuclear industry's careless mining of uranium, through to the centuries-old traditions of some of the world's first peoples, history is layered with insights into how humans have treated the natural world, and how this can guide us forward.
Inscribed in the ecological crisis is a mandate for a radical rethink. Cogent, insightful and bold, Brave New Wild rises to that challenge. It will make you think about the planet, and our existence on it, in a new way.
'Brave New Wild is both a fascinating and provocative exploration of the unspoken assumptions underpinning many of our ideas about nature and the environment and a roadmap to a new and better future.' James Bradley
'This book tackles a terrifying subject: the possibility of technoscience conquering both nature and humanity. King's genius is to turn this into an entertaining as well as thought-provoking read. His humour and folksy erudition reminds me at times of the late Stephen Jay Gould. This is a book that comes thoroughly recommended. Timely and confronting. A brave new work.' Dave Witty
'A book frightening and inspiring in almost equal measures.' Raimond Gaita
'In Brave New Wild Richard King charges headlong at the biggest crises of our time: runaway technology, political polarisation and the gathering storms of climate change. Somehow he manages it with wry humour and determination, a perfect companion on an increasingly uncertain road.' Scott Ludlum
]]>In this timely, provocative book, Richard King argues that we need to evolve a more critical attitude to new technologies if we are to avoid a world in which humans are no different in kind from algorithmic machines. The stakes could not be higher. As science, technology and capitalism fuse into a single system, and activists and entrepreneurs talk of a 'post-human' future in which individuals will transform themselves using powerful computers and biotechnologies, we are entering unchartered territory - a territory marked with the mapmaker's warning, Here Be Dragons...Here Be Monsters.
]]>Including fun additional features on cats in bookshops, libraries and hotels, and illustrated with charming line drawings, this is a perfect gift for cat-lovers everywhere.
]]>This quirky but practical guide covers questions book-lovers might have about looking after their books at home. With historical anecdotes and curious examples at every turn, it will delight anyone with an interest in books and their history. Written by an expert rare books librarian at the Bodleian Libraries and covering a range of subjects including collecting, arranging and keeping books in good condition, its friendly advice will guide you through all aspects of book-ownership.
Here you will find useful tips on buying from bookfairs, bookshops and dealers and identifying first editions. Help is on hand with treating accidental mishaps and a range of common problems afflicting books, whether an attack of red rot or a broken spine. There are also chapters on shelving, how to keep track of your books, how to commission a special box for a special book and how to pass books on usefully. An indispensable resource for anyone who cherishes books.
'As a collector of all things, including books, I was captivated by this enchanting guide. A book of books that's a must for all bibliophiles.' - Lara Maiklem (author of Sunday Times bestseller Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames Bloomsbury, 2019)
'Francesca Galligan is an expert guide whose advice manages to be both practical and aspirational. Make room for this book!' - Emma Smith (author of The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio Bodleian Library Publishing, 2023)
]]>What two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first: they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are almost always virulent misogynists, homophobes, or transphobes even if they are also motivated by racism, antisemitism, or xenophobia. The antigovernment militiamen charged with plotting to kidnap and execute Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer used language saturated with misogyny, with one telling an FBI informant, 'Just grab the bitch'. The men who killed scores at Virginia Tech, the Pulse nightclub, and a Maryland newsroom all had prior reports of stalking, domestic violence, or harassment of women. And in dozens of other incidents from North America to Norway to New Zealand an increasing number of misogynist incel (involuntary celibate) and male supremacist attackers have explicitly targeted and killed women, blaming feminism or sexual frustration with women as motivation for their attacks.
Yet, despite all evidence, the bright red thread of misogyny running through these attacks is barely acknowledged by the media or even experts and this failing leaves us powerless to stop the violence. In Man Up, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a leading expert on extremism, addresses this crucial oversight head-on, revealing how an epidemic of misogyny both online and off and a patriarchal backlash are driving an exponential rise in mass and far-right violence. She also offers essential strategies that all of us including parents, teachers, and counselors can use to fight the rising tide of violence, beginning with recognising the misogyny that pervades our everyday lives.
]]>Mythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events. Bringing together fifty legends from antiquity to the present, this delightfully entertaining book takes you around the world to explore sunken kingdoms and lost cities, accursed mountains and treacherous terrains, and lethal lakes and singing sand dunes, explaining the historical background and latest science underlying each tale.
As soon as humans invented language, they told stories to explain mysterious things they observed around them on land, in the seas, and in the skies. Even though these tales are expressed in poetic or supernatural language, they contain surprisingly accurate insights and even eyewitness descriptions of catastrophic events millennia ago. Drawing on her unique insights as a pioneer in the exciting new field of geomythology, Adrienne Mayor describes how cultural memories of tsunamis, volcanic disasters, and other massive geological events can reach back thousands of years as the stories were preserved, elaborated, told, and retold across generations. She shows how geomythology is expanding our understanding of our planet's history over eons, revealing the human desire to explain nature and weave imaginative stories intertwined with keen observation, rational speculation, and memory.
With captivating drawings by Michele Angel, Mythopedia is a compendium of many marvels, from the Hindu monkey god Hanuman and his army of bridge-building primates to the terrifying sand demon Shensha shen of China, the gnawing glaciers of Austria, and the vengeful fish-headed snake god Nyami Nyami of Africa's Zambezi River.
]]>Michele M. Angel is an award-winning watercolorist, illustrator, and graphic designer.
]]>In 100 brief entries written in a vivid, lively style, Kay Hurley introduces key aspects of lichen biology, environmental roles, emerging uses, scientific history, and myth. She describes the variety of forms that lichens take, from leafy to filamentous to things reminiscent of skin diseases, with imaginative names like witch's hair. She explains the surprising ways that birds and beasts-from reindeer and moose down to tiny tardigrades-use lichens, and how lichens survive in extreme environments, from deserts to Antarctica to outer space. Hurley also introduces some of the innovators who have advanced the knowledge of lichens, from the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus to today's professional lichenologists.
With charming drawings by Susan Adele Edwards, Lichenpedia promises to put you in touch with the natural world in a new way by opening your eyes to these vital organisms, which are all around us, hidden in plain sight.
]]>Insectpedia introduces you to the wonders of the insect world while inviting you to make discoveries of your own. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from murder hornets and the 'insect apocalypse' to pioneering entomologists such as Margaret James Strickland Collins and Douglas Tallamy, this beautifully illustrated, pocket-friendly encyclopedia dispels many common myths about insects while offering new perspectives on the vital relationships we share with these incredible creatures.
This entertaining collection celebrates the long and storied history of entomology, highlights our dependence on insects for food and ecosystem services, and explains the meaning behind various entomological terms. With Eric Eaton as your guide, you will circle the globe in search of African Toktokkies and Australian beer bottle beetles, and witness the peculiar spectacle of cricket fighting in Asia. Profiles of influential figures in entomology provide insights into the curious minds that animate this extraordinarily broad field of scientific inquiry, while the book's portable size makes it the perfect travel companion no matter where your own entomological adventures may lead you.
With captivating illustrations by Amy Jean Porter, Insectpedia is an engaging blend of insect facts and folklore that will inspire anyone who delights in the marvels of nature.
]]>Beginning with some of the earliest uses of plants, Stephen Harris takes us on an exciting journey through history, identifying fifty plants that have been key to the development of the western world, discussing trade, imperialism, politics, medicine, travel and chemistry along the way. There are plants here that have changed landscapes, fomented wars and fuelled slavery. Others have been the trigger for technological advances, expanded medical knowledge or simply made our lives more pleasant. Plants have provided paper and ink, chemicals that could kill or cure, vital sustenance and stimulants. Some, such as barley, have been staples from earliest times; others, such as oil palm, are newcomers to western industry.
We remain dependent on plants for our food, our fuel and our medicines. As the wide-ranging and engaging stories in this beautifully illustrated book demonstrate, their effects on our lives continue to be profound and often unpredictable.
]]>Bon Jovi: Foreveris the definitive anthology of one of the world's most iconic rock bands, offering an unparalleled glimpse into their extraordinary journey through rare artifacts, stunning photography, and the personal insights of Jon Bon Jovi himself.
With unprecedented access to Bon Jovi's extensive archive, this official book chronicles the band's remarkable 40-year history. From their meteoric rise with chart-topping hits like 'Livin' On a Prayer', 'You Give Love a Bad Name', 'It's My Life', and 'Have a Nice Day', to their relentless touring schedule that has seen them perform over 2,700 shows for 34 million fans across more than 50 countries, Bon Jovi: Forever captures the essence of a band that defined a generation.
This meticulously curated collection showcases a treasure trove of memorabilia, including handwritten lyrics, iconic stage costumes, guitars, studio track lists, and personal photographs from the band's private collections. Complemented by an array of vivid images that capture Bon Jovi live, backstage, on tour, and in the studio, this book offers fans a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the band's enduring legacy.
Through exclusive interviews, Jon Bon Jovi shares the intimate stories behind the artifacts, shedding light on the creative process behind their songwriting, the making of their legendary albums, and the key performances that cemented their place in rock history. His candid reflections offer a deeper understanding of the band's brotherhood, their distinctive style, and the unwavering trust that fueled their success.
Bon Jovi: Forever is more than just a book; it's an all-access pass to the world of Bon Jovi, making it an essential piece for any fan of the band or lover of rock music.
]]>Rugby is a game that rewards creative expression, toil, teamwork and a never-say-die attitude. It can be joyful, vibrant and beautiful. Equally, it can brutally expose human flaws and frailties even more so in the hugely pressurised environment of a Lions tour. Every team, no matter how talented, will find itself in dark and difficult situations both on and off the field; the successful ones are those with a leadership group that can navigate these challenging moments.
InLegacy of the Lions, former Lions captain Gavin Hastings draws on his own experiences in the famous red jersey and interviews other greats of the game including, among many others, Sam Warburton, Warren Gatland, Paul O'Connell, Brian O'Driscoll, Martin Johnson, Finlay Calder and Sir Ian McGeechan, plus a selection of their illustrious opponents, such as Kieran Read, John Smit and John Eales to explore how to forge a successful team in this most rarefied of environments, the difficulties they each encountered and what leadership lessons they learned.
Inspiring, humorous and illuminating,Legacy of the Lionscasts a unique light on leadership, team-building and elite performance and reveals a new perspective on touring with and playing against The British & Irish Lions in the modern era.
'An intriguing study of the minds of some of rugby's greatest leaders' Tom English, BBC Sport
]]>Peter Burns is the author of eight books, including the best-selling and critically acclaimed When Lions Roared, Behind the Lions and Behind the Thistle.
]]>As we age, keeping our minds sharp becomes a priority, and studies have shown that cognitive function is enhanced by activities like the meditative art of origami. This book offers a fun way to engage your brain by folding paper models an easy and fulfilling activity that encourages focus, persistence and spatial visualisation.
Author Mayumi Ohara, a noted origami designer, has written this unique guide under the supervision of Professor Katsushi Yokoi at Morinomiya University of Medical Sciences in Japan. Her simple instructions and colourful models teach the brain-training art of modular origami, where small paper squares are folded then assembled into large and spectacular models.
The basic modules on their own form charming Pinwheels, Butterflies, Maple Leaves, Hearts and Tulips. When combined into larger projects, they form dramatic rings and wall hangings celebrating the passage of the seasons.
The 100+ paper models in this book include:
Perfect for adults and seniors, Healthy Brain Origami is packed with paper folding ideas and activities to keep your mind healthy, vibrant and active!
]]>Professor Katsushi Yokoi is Vice Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy at Morinomiya University of Medical Sciences in Osaka, Japan.
]]>This is how John Pearson reacted to his first encounter with the real James Bond, an encounter probably unique in the annals of thriller writing. He went on to write the bestselling authorised biography of Ian Fleming. At the time, like most of the world he assumed that James Bond was nothing more than a character in Fleming's highly charged imagination. Then he began to have his doubts. Doubts which were reaching such a pitch that the British secret service were trying to warn him off the scent. Despite this, he finally became convinced that James Bond was not only real, but actually alive.
Thanks to a change in policy within the secret service he was invited to embark upon a companion volume to his life of Fleming. This resulting book must be one of the most extraordinary biographies of our times the authorised life of a myth, the official biography of James Bond.
]]>While researching this book, Pearson was struck by the way the character and life of James Bond overlapped with that of his creator, which gave him the idea of writing what become the parallel 'Authorised Biography' of 007. Since then Pearson wrote many successful biographies, including that of the Kray Twins, the Dukes of Devonshire, the Getty family and the Clermont Club and Lord Lucan. He died in November 2021.
]]>Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time, but he was perhaps even more interesting than his creation. His career in Naval Intelligence and extensive travels around the world gave Fleming a keen eye and the authority to write on a wide range of topics beyond Bond's adventures.
This collection contains a selection of journalism and other writings by Fleming, covering his wartime experiences, reflections on crime and espionage and the process of writing his novels, among other topics. Readers will feel like they are right beside Fleming, immersed in his world as he works to meet the deadline for his next Bond novel, or participates in a mortifying golf tournament, or befriends an octopus in his beloved Jamaica.
A black-and-white photo insert gives dimension to the man behind the myth, bringing life to his words and providing a unique glimpse into Fleming's world.
]]>His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and introduced James Bond, Special Agent 007, to the world. The first print run sold out within a month. Following this initial success, he published a Bond title every year until his death. The Bond novels have sold more than 100 million copies and inspired a hugely successful film franchise which began in 1962 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007.
]]>A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today's specially bred, commercially produced birds. In this brief book, bestselling author Peter Singer tells their story and, unfortunately, it's not a happy one. Along the way, he also offers a brief history of the turkey and its consumption, ridicules the annual U.S. presidential 'pardon' of a Thanksgiving turkey, and introduces us to 'a tremendously handsome, outgoing, and intelligent turkey' named Cornelius. Above all, Singer explains how we can improve our holiday tables for turkeys, people, and the planet by liberating ourselves from the traditional turkey feast. In its place, he encourages us to consider trying a vegetarian alternative or just serving the side dishes that many people already enjoy far more than turkey. Complete with some delicious recipes for turkey-free holiday feasting, Consider the Turkey will make you reconsider what you serve for your next holiday meal or even tomorrow's dinner.
]]>In When Australia Became a Republic, Esther Anatolitis examines the key moments in our emergence as a republic, and maps out new paths to securing legitimate independence for a more honest society. These include ambitiously neutralising the toxicity that dominates our national conversation; venturous civics education for a new era of empowered citizenship; and of course, constitutional change because monarchy and democracy are irreconcilable.
]]>How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that encourage us to act against our own best interests Plutarch's essay On Dysopia or How to Resist Pressure and Prudentius's poetic allegory Psychomachia or How to Slay Your Demons. Challenging the idea that humans are helpless victims of vice, these works introduced and presented in vivid, accessible new prose translations by Michael Fontaine, with the original Latin and Greek texts on facing pages emphasise the power of personal choice and the possibility of personal growth, as they offer insights and practical advice about resisting temptation.
In the spirit of the best ancient self-help writing, Plutarch, a pagan Greek philosopher and historian, offers a set of practical recommendations and steps we can take to resist pressure and to stop saying 'yes' against our better judgment. And in a delightfully different work, Prudentius, a Latin Christian poet, dramatises the necessity to actively fight temptation through the story of an epic battle within the human soul between fierce warrior women representing our virtues and vices.
Plutarch and Prudentius insist that we allow pressure or temptations to get the best of us. But they also agree that we can do something about it. And their wisdom can help.
]]>The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as the work-from-home revolution. But it was second nature to the ancient Romans, for whom the home was in many ways the center of public and private life. Roman authors saw infinite practical and symbolic value in houses, and they have much to say about them. How to Make a Home presents some of the best Roman writings on houses from buying and selling to designing and decorating.
Edited and elegantly translated by Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols, How to Make a Home gathers selections by Cicero, Vitruvius, Seneca, and others, with the original Latin or Greek on facing pages. These writings reveal the pleasures and pitfalls of the Roman practice of making one's home a cornerstone of self-expression. While the ideal home enshrined Roman virtues and could make a career, lavish building projects could lead to financial ruin and moral condemnation. These authors memorably describe such travails as deceptive staging, decorators run amok, know-it-all owners, unsupervised contractors, and buyer's remorse. Along the way, they also explain why simplicity is bliss, privacy is for nobodies, a neglected house is a sign of a neglected soul, and much more.
A unique and charming introduction to Roman domestic architecture and its cultural significance, How to Make a Home reveals that the obsession with house and home has a long and fascinating history.
]]>Katsushika Hokusai's works are celebrated for their dynamic compositions, vibrant colours, and innovative use of perspective. His most famous series, 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji', includes the iconic 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', showcasing his mastery in capturing the power and beauty of nature. Hokusai's oeuvre spans a wide range of subjects, from serene landscapes and intricate nature studies to lively scenes of daily life and detailed portraits of kabuki actors. Blending traditional Japanese techniques with Western influences, Hokusai's art remains influential and admired worldwide.
The dramatic Hokusai subjects included in this deluxe hardcover volume are:
Tuttle Studio draws inspiration from the modern and traditional cultures of Asia to create its language workbooks and resources, journals, stationery, gift wrapping products and origami paper. It is a division of Tuttle Publishing, a leading publisher of books on the languages, history, art and cultures of Asia. The company was founded in 1832 in Rutland, Vermont (USA) and opened a branch in Tokyo, Japan in 1948.
]]>A relaxing, brain-boosting puzzle experience for art lovers and mindful hobbyists.
The Hokusai Dot-to-Dot Puzzle Book is a unique activity book for adults that blends the calming power of dot-to-dot puzzles with the breathtaking artistry of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japan's most iconic woodblock printmaker. Featuring 30 intricate puzzles based on Hokusai's celebrated Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, each page invites you to reconnect with your creativity and focus.
From the legendary 'Great Wave off Kanagawa' to peaceful village scenes beneath snow-covered peaks, each puzzle is paired with a full-colour reproduction of the original artwork and a brief description that brings the image to life. Whether you're looking for a thoughtful gift or a meditative way to unwind, this book offers a perfect blend of beauty, brain health, and art history.
Inside this unique activity book:
Perfect for art lovers, puzzle fans, mindfulness seekers, or anyone looking for a meaningful and beautiful activity this book makes an ideal gift for birthdays, holidays, or quiet evenings at home.
]]>The Tale of Genji conjures the romantic Heian-era world of handsome princes, beautiful court ladies, fabulous clothes and majestic gardens. This unique colouring book places you in the midst of the imperial court of ancient Japan, with thirty fabulous scenes drawn by a talented Japanese artist!
This fine art colouring book includes 30 full-colour reference images for key episodes in Lady Murasaki's beloved tale, plus detailed outlines for you to colour, all printed on high-quality paper stock.
Before beginning, enjoy a little of the story behind the image, as each scene comes with brief story notes that narrate the plot. Altogether, it's the perfect way to relax and have fun with art!
]]>The authors provide a detailed analysis of the archaeological findings, comparing them with ethnographic evidence to uncover the history and cultural heritage of the An-barra people. The Traditional Owners, including Betty Ngurrpangurrpa and other community members, actively participated in the research, providing invaluable knowledge and insights. Their support enabled the collection of archaeological assemblages and facilitated the interpretation of findings through the lens of their cultural heritage. This volume is a companion piece to Betty Meehan's earlier work, Shell Bed to Shell Midden (1982), and extends the narrative by integrating archaeological data with ethnographic insights.
Gun-guwelamagapa reveals the relationships between the An-barra community and their environment, highlighting the role of shell middens, earth mounds, and other archaeological features in understanding the past. The authors discuss the significance of these sites, the methods used in their investigation, and the broader implications for interpreting the archaeological record of northern Australia.
Gun-guwelamagapa emphasises the importance of integrating ethnographic and archaeological data to provide a holistic understanding of past human behaviours. It also showcases the contributions of the An-barra community to the preservation and interpretation of their cultural heritage, offering new perspectives on the history and culture of the An-barra people.
]]>The late Rhys Jones was a professor of archaeology at the Australian National University. He worked in Arnhem Land for several decades.
Betty Ngurrpangurrpa is an An-barra woman from central Arnhem Land. She has worked with Betty and Rhys since she was a child in the early 1970s.
Sally Brockwell is an archaeologist who has worked in northern Australia, Indonesia and Timor Leste.
]]>In a room full of bags of chips, be the most desired dip with Golden Ratio Guac or Seven Onion Dip. Put down the $12 bottle of pinot grigio and pick up a tray of Jell-O Cocktail Shots. Discover a world of standout brunch dishes, such as Cream-Soaked Cinnamon Rolls or Bagel Panzanella. When you're on dessert duty, choose from Buttermilk Brownies, Apple + Chinese Five-Spice Pie, Very Creamy Ice Cream, or death-by-chocolate Bruce Bogtrotter Cake. And when the host instructs you to bring yourself, come prepared with giftable treats like Seasoned Oyster Crackers or Homemade Hot Fudge. With plenty of options and adaptations for special diets and allergies, including vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free recipes, and detailed instructions for packing and serving for minimal stress on-site, this book is your road map for crowd-pleasing party fare. The only thing you'll be taking home is the title of MVP Most Valuable Partygoer.
]]>Thanks to smartphones, war is everywhere, all the time. Anyone can view, analyse and comment on photos, videos or other warzone media, far from the frontlines. Where did this technology come from? And what does it mean for the future of war?
This book explains why you see what you do on your phone. It asks how these devices shape our knowledge, conduct and representation of war in the 2020s. It shows why the smartphone is indispensable in peace and wartime, with a profound impact on modern conflict. Every smartphone is a potential weapon: lines blur between war and daily life, and conflict becomes a shared digital experience. Global tech giants orchestrate connectivity, displacing state-controlled narratives. Through social media, smartphones become powerful tools amplifying violence and shaping war's legitimacy. Apps democratise conflict, enabling anyone to identify and attack perceived enemies. As the Ukraine war has shown, this new reality involves complex, unevenly distributed infrastructures, merging civilian communication with military targeting.
With war accelerating beyond our comprehension, militaries have raced to exploit and adapt to the smartphone age. As technology distorts our understanding of conflict, even while offering the hope of progress, Matthew Ford explores critical questions about today's hyper-connected battlefield.
]]>The lethal and destructive consequences of the Gaza catastrophe are far greater than the Nakba of 1948. The significance of a war waged by an advanced military-industrial state with full US participation and open support from the West irredeemably exposes the double standard intrinsic to the Atlanticist pretence of a liberal 'rules-based international order'.
In this incisive analysis, renowned political scientist Gilbert Achcar explores the dynamics of a complex historical process that culminated in the war on Gaza and in wider conflict in the Middle East. Achcar offers critical insights on the genocide's regional and international consequences, as well as radical critiques of Zionism, Hamas and other state and non-state actors.
This vital volume places the Gaza catastrophe in its wider geopolitical and historical context. It is essential to understanding the root causes of the violence destabilising the entire region and the wider world, as well as the conditions required to bring it to an end.
'Meticulous...the deepest and most thorough account that examines this genocide.' Khaled Hroub, author of Hamas: A Beginner's Guide
'Broad yet focused...[Achcar] offers possible paths for a positive change that somewhat mitigates the bleak future.' Amira Hass, Haaretz
]]>The Mesozoic was dominated by a spectacular array of flora, from ferns, conifers, and cycads to ginkgos and flowering plants, as well as some enigmatic species with no modern-day descendants. This wide-ranging illustrated guide provides an unparalleled, in-depth look at the era's extraordinary plant life, exploring its natural history, biology, and evolution over a span of 185 million years. Blending the latest discoveries in paleontology with informative profiles of extinct species and their living descendants, The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants is a one-of-a-kind reference to the botanical wonders of the prehistoric world.
]]>Ono-isms is a collection of provocative and powerful quotations from influential artist, musician, songwriter, and peace activist Yoko Ono, providing a richer understanding of this important cultural icon. Since emerging on the international art scene in the early 1960s, Ono has made profound contributions to visual and performance art, filmmaking, and music in work that often radically questions the division between art and the everyday. In recent years she has embraced social media to communicate her artistic and activist messages to even broader audiences around the world.
Gathered from interviews, books, song lyrics, social media, and other sources, this nuanced book sheds new light on a complex and multifaceted artist who has shaped our culture in countless ways. The quotations close to 300 in all are arranged by subject: art, life, creativity, nature and the environment, love, music, women in society, and peace and social justice. The book also features an introduction and a chronology of Ono's life and work.
Larry Warsh has been active in the art world for more than thirty years as a publisher and artist-collaborator. He is the editor of many books, including Warhol-isms, Weiwei-isms, Basquiat-isms, Haring-isms, Holzer-isms, and Abramovi-isms (all Princeton).
]]>Calder-isms is a collection of fascinating, irreverent, and often profound quotations from the influential modern American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976), who is most famous for his invention of what his friend Marcel Duchamp dubbed the 'mobile'. Often suspended from ceilings, these sculptures feature abstract elements, frequently painted in bold colors, that move and balance in changing harmony. Calder's art was dynamic, unconventional, and filled with vitality qualities also displayed by his words, which combine the wisdom of a philosopher with the ingenuity of a true original. Taken from interviews, writings, and other sources, the quotations in Calder-isms offer memorable insights into Calder's life, mind, and, above all, art.
Larry Warsh has been active in the art world for more than thirty years as a publisher and artist-collaborator. He is the editor of many books, including Abramovi-isms, Basquiat-isms, Haring-isms, Holzer-isms, Ono-isms, Warhol-isms, and Weiwei-isms (all Princeton).
]]>Hans Ulrich Obrist is one of the most celebrated curators working today and has twice been ranked #1 on ArtReview's annual list of the most important people in the art world. As the primary or lead author of more than forty volumes of interviews with contemporary artists, of numerous exhibition catalogues for museums around the world, and of influential books on curation, he has established himself as a pivotal figure in contemporary art and culture. Drawn from Obrist's writings, interviews, and other sources, Obrist-isms gathers a wealth of fascinating quotations from across his career, offering insights on everything from his approach to curating and his affinity with philosopher douard Glissant to his interest in artists' unrealised projects.
Obrist-isms is organised into seven thematic sections: Early Years; Curating and Exhibitions; Artists and Conversations; Archiving, Collecting, and Unrealized Projects; douard Glissant and Mondialite; On Sleep and Time; Art and the Environment; and Technology and the Future of Art. The book also features an introduction and a brief chronology of Obrist'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 is the editor of many books, including Abramovi-isms, Basquiat-isms, Haring-isms, Holzer-isms, Ono-isms, Warhol-isms, and Weiwei-isms (all Princeton).
]]>Explore the seasons of the witch by way of magickal spells and practices for each turn of the Wheel of the Year. Offering a fresh approach to a lifestyle that focuses on mind, body, and spirit in the nature-based way that our ancestors practiced throughout the ages,Magick for All Seasons features over one hundred magic spells and incantations.
Brooks has divided this book into two parts. The first being the seasons, exploring the eight Wiccan and Pagan sabbats that comprise the traditional Wheel of the Year, beginning with Samhain. Each sabbat is detailed with information on the symbolism, activities, tools, incense, and gemstones used, along with specific workings.
The second part comprises a grimoire of spells for daily use. Included are exercises, crafts, and recipes to incorporate magic into daily life. Examples include:
Before publicly coming out of the 'broom closet', she worked as a freelance entertainment writer for various national publications, mainly doing celebrity interviews, and is the author of several books in both the metaphysical and mainstream genres, including The Ghosts of Hollywood series, Workplace Spells, and Animal Spells and Magick; two fiction books, A Bad Case of the Collywobbles and Soul Connection: A Deadly Obsession; as well as two cookbooks. She lives in southern California.
]]>Your brain has a mind of its own. And sometimes, even when it's doing its best, it can feel like it's out to get you. If you've ever had a meltdown in class, suffered emotions nobody understands, or found yourself shutting down at the worst time, you know this all too well. Thankfully, this graphic guide is here to help you understand your brain and retrain it to better respond to serious upheavals as well as everyday indignities.
This fresh take on the bestseller presents Dr. Faith's insights and neuroscientific nerdiness (and swearing) as a nonfiction graphic novel with artwork by Gerta O. Egy. If you're struggling with trauma, depression, anxiety, anger, grief, or addiction, or if you just want to have a more chill response to life, this guide will help you get your brain back on track so you can take on the world.
]]>Gerta Oparaku Egy is an Albanian artist residing in Springfield, Oregon. She studied Set and Costume Design in the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, Albania. She worked as a costume designer in film and theater, storyboard artist, and illustrator. From her work in film, she developed an interest in writing and drawing her own stories. She is the author and illustrator of several comics and illustrated stories.
]]>Rather than eating your words or running from confrontation, learn to communicate confidently and listen empathetically with the help of Dr. Faith G. Harper, bestselling author of Unfuck Your Brain and Unfuck Your Intimacy. In this no-nonsense guide, you'll find conversational templates, guidance for setting boundaries, and tips for talking effectively at home, at work, at school, in everyday encounters, and even with social services and other bureaucratic entities-all of which form a handy toolkit for successful communication.
]]>This workbook from bestselling author Dr. Faith G. Harper offers exercises and tools to help you communicate confidently and listen empathetically. From using 'I' statements to identifying toxic communication patterns (in ourselves and others) to learning how to really apologise, this standalone companion to Dr. Faith's Unfuck Your Communication will help you hone your skills to become an expert communicator in your everyday life.
]]>This book oers a fresh perspective on the reign of Alexander the Great. It re-examines Alexander's military victories and personality, while also exploring the impact of his campaigns on the people he conquered. Alexander's story, Stephen Harrison argues, is one that includes the vital roles that other gures played in historical events. By considering the social and intellectual currents of the last two decades, Harrison highlights how changing contemporary experiences shape historical interpretations. Moving beyond polarised debates about Alexander, he provides a nuanced discussion of Alexander's achievements and impact. The book presents an Alexander for the twenty-rst century, oering new insights into how and why historical interpretations of him have changed.
]]>The Space Age probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars ushered in a golden age of planetary science, transforming planets from distant mysteries into vividly realised worlds. This book provides a comprehensive, accessible survey of the entire solar system, covering all major planets from Mercury to Saturn, the outer solar system and asteroids. It includes insights from leading scientists through in-person interviews, oering an engaging overview for general readers and amateur astronomers. Noting Earth's small, beautiful and precarious nature, this book fills a unique niche, presenting the latest discoveries without losing sight of the broader picture, making it essential for anyone interested in our celestial neighbourhood.
]]>Clifford J. Cunningham is a Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland and Associate Editor of the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. His books include Asteroids (2021) in Reaktion's Kosmos series. Asteroid 4276 (Clifford) is named in his honour.
]]>Imagine if your life were a startup. How would you lead it and shape it to be most successful?
That's the question behind The Happiness Files, a rich selection of enlightening and instructive essays by Arthur C. Brooks, known worldwide for his inspiring yet practical wisdom and advice in his weekly column for The Atlantic and in his bestselling books, From Strength to Strength and Build the Life You Want (coauthored with Oprah Winfrey).
The simple answer, as Brooks wisely explains, is to manage your life in a way that leads to truly valuable rewards: love, enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning in other words, happiness.
Building on his popular Harvard Business School course 'Leadership and Happiness', Brooks begins each essay with sharp observations and behavioural science research that shed light on how happiness really works, then offers experiential wisdom and practical advice. Beautifully written, the essays range from ancient philosophy to literature, pop culture, and the contemporary world of work. They explore topics and challenges such as 'Procrastinate This, Not That', 'Why Success Can Feel So Bitter', and 'Five Pillars of a Good Life'. Readers will find the chapters helpfully grouped by theme: 'On Managing Yourself', 'On Jobs, Money, and Building Your Career', 'On Balancing Work, Life, and Relationships', and more.
We all need more happiness in our work and in our lives. In The Happiness Files you'll find enlightenment, inspiration, and useful guidance for leading a happier, more successful, and more fulfilling life and career.
]]>'Just be yourself' might be the worst advice you've ever received.
For years, we've been told that authenticity is the key to success that we should be true to ourselves, tune out others' opinions, and lead with unwavering genuineness. This feel-good message has spawned countless self-help books, leadership seminars, and viral social media posts.
There's just one problem: science says it's wrong.
Drawing on decades of research, renowned psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic reveals an uncomfortable truth: our obsession with authenticity is backfiring. From Silicon Valley's authenticity worship to failed diversity programs, he exposes how our fixation on 'true selves' undermines both individual and organisational success, not to mention empathy and prosocial behaviour.
The most successful people aren't those who rigidly 'stay true to themselves' they're the ones who adapt and evolve, largely by paying a great deal of attention to how others see them and adjusting their behaviour to the requirements of each situation. The evidence is clear: when we focus less on expressing our authentic selves and more on understanding others, we don't just advance our careers we become better humans:
Blending cutting-edge psychology with razor-sharp cultural critique, Don't Be Yourself doesn't just challenge conventional wisdom it offers a playbook for long-lasting career success.
]]>If you read nothing else on employee engagement, read this book. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you make your employees feel valued, motivated, and ready to do great things.
This book will inspire you to:
This collection of articles includes 'Creating a Purpose-Driven Organisation', by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor; 'How Customers Can Rally Your Troops', by Adam Grant, 'Why Employees Quit', by Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta; 'The Power of Hidden Teams', by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; 'Do You Tell Your Employees You Appreciate Them?' by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman; 'The Case for Good Jobs', by Zeynep Ton; 'To Curb Burnout, Design Jobs to Better Match Employees' Needs', by Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach; 'HR's New Role', by Peter Cappelli and Ranya Nehmeh; 'Turn Employee Feedback into Action', by Ethan Burris, Benjamin Thomas, Ketaki Sodhi, and Dawn Klinghoffer; 'Beware a Culture of Busyness', by Adam Waytz; 'Collaborative Overload', by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant; 'Designing the Hybrid Office', by Anne-Laure Fayard, John Weeks, and Mahwesh Khan; and 'Blue Ocean Leadership', by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
]]>In this book, social and organisational psychologist and professor Vanessa Urch Druskat combines thirty years of research and team development to present a model for building and leading emotionally intelligent teams. She offers practical advice on how to build a team where members:
While much has been written about the power of emotional intelligence at the individual level, little has been said about the benefits of this concept for groups. And it's not as simple as putting a number of emotionally intelligent people together and expecting them to work cohesively. Instead, leaders need to build a team culture around agreed-upon norms and habits.
In this book, social and organizational psychologist and professor Vanessa Urch Druskat combines thirty years of research and team development to present a model for building and leading emotionally intelligent teams. She offers practical advice on how to build a team where members:
In reading The Emotionally Intelligent Team, leaders and aspiring leaders alike will learn how to develop a strong team culture that motivates and sustains successful collaboration and high performance.
]]>Have you ever wanted to create a business that's not only good but great? Have you ever felt as though you're destined to do something bigger and more significant with your life? If so, you should know that you don't need millions in funding, a marketing department, or influencer status.
If you have an idea, the determination to bring it to life, a deep and abiding belief in your product, and a devotion to your customers, you already have the humble starting point behind one of the world's fastest-growing and most beloved brands: Beekman 1802.
Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell launched Beekman 1802 in one of New York State's poorest counties with no funding, and in the middle of a punishing recession. They didn't have much of a business plan. But they did have some timeless wisdom that Brent's and Josh's parents and grandparents had taught them the 'greatest of all time' principles for good living that can also be used as a foundation for any business.
In this book, for the first time, Ridge and Kilmer-Purcell present the twelve principles that made the biggest difference in their entrepreneurial journey, and show how these principles are relevant for anyone ready to defy the odds and grow a brand that matters.
Whether you're launching your own venture, growing a side hustle, or looking to make a bigger impact on your company, G. O. A. T. Wisdom will give you the tools, the confidence, and the inspiration to build something meaningful and lasting that your customers will value and feel they can't do without.
]]>Josh Kilmer-Purcell cofounded Beekman 1802 in 2008 with Brent Ridge and has helped lead the company ever since. He is also a New York Times bestselling author, with three memoirs to his credit: I Am Not Myself These Days, Candy Everybody Wants, and The Bucolic Plague. Prior to founding Beekman 1802, Josh was an award-winning creative director at several top New York City advertising agencies, serving clients including Delta Air Lines, Absolut Vodka, Target, Nestle, and Unilever.
]]>Caste, and caste-based discrimination, are not just Indian issues. They are experienced throughout the world, from Britain to Bahrain, Canada to South Africa. This is a global phenomenon, demanding global solutions.
Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle East. Combining history, ethnography and archival research, he offers a compelling, comparative approach to caste and race from ancient times to today. What have been the impacts of colonialism, religion and nationalism on caste-based hierarchies worldwide? What can we learn from caste-related movements in India and internationally? Why hasn't the South Asian diaspora embraced the anti-caste struggles of the homeland? And what are the limits of Dalit-Black solidarity?
Exploring the global footprint of the anti-caste struggle from its links with Black Lives Matter to the work of international Ambedkarite organisations this is a powerful analysis of world politics from the perspective of one of the most oppressed communities on Earth. Asking probing questions about the nature of inequality, Yengde issues an energetic call for a cosmopolitan Dalit universalism, as a vital part of today's fight for social justice and equality.
]]>Ashleigh has accumulated a massive following online under her brand, Miss Upacey. She has over 603K followers on Instagram, a popular Patreon, and a successful online shop selling products such as pins, phone cases, stickers, and stationery. She now resides in California and works in traditional and digital mediums. Her book features tutorials in both, giving fans and art-lovers a glimpse behind the curtain into her process, studio set-up, and inspiration.
She also talks about the challenges and joys that come with running an art business, and gives her invaluable advice to aspiring creatives. Miss Upacey: The Art of Ashleigh Izienicki has the unmatched production values that 3dtotal Publishing is known for high-quality paper and a beautiful hardback cover with special cover finishes. This is a keepsake for Miss Upacey fans, and art fans in general, to display on their bookshelf for many years to come.
]]>Edited by 3dtotal Publishing, based in Worcester, UK. We publish high-quality art books dedicated to bringing invaluable training to beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Our books feature top industry professionals from around the globe who share their experience in skilfully written step-by-step tutorials and guides. Illustrated throughout with stunning artwork, these best-selling publications offer creative insight, expert advice, and essential motivation.
]]>Set in Vermont's Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land.
In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner set out to restore an old two-hundred-acre farm. Knowing that 'belonging more than anything requires participation', they begin to intertwine their lives with the land. But soon after releasing a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the worn-out fields, Whybrow realises that the art of shepherding extends far beyond the flock and fences of Knoll Farm.
In prose both vivid and lean, The Salt Stones offers an intimate and profoundly moving story of what it means to care for a flock and truly inhabit a piece of land. The shepherd's life unfolds for Whybrow in the seasons and cycles of farming and family birthing lambs, fending off coyotes, rescuing lost sheep in a storm, and raising children while witnessing her mother's decline. Exploring the interdependence of animals, as well as of the earth and ourselves, Whybrow reflects on the ways sheep connect her to place and to the ancient practice of shepherding.
Evocative, affectionate, and illuminating, The Salt Stones sings of a way of life that is at once ancient and entirely contemporary, inspiring us all to seek greater intimacy and a sense of belonging wherever our home place may be.
'Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book beautiful, real, full of life.' Bill McKibben, author ofThe End of Nature
]]>From a Yellowstone naturalist and renowned expert in animal language comes 'an engaging guide to a world of wonders hiding in plain sight.' (Peter Wohlleben, New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees).
Humans once relied on the calls of wild animals to understand the natural world and their place within it. Now, this remarkable guide reveals what our ancestors knew long ago that tuning in to the owl in the tree, the deer in the gully, can tell us important information and help us feel connected to our wild community.
In Eavesdropping on Animals, George Bumann shares the fascinating stories and insights he has gained from studying wildlife around the world for more than forty years, the last twenty of which have been spent leading popular programs on animal language and intelligence in Yellowstone National Park. Bumann shares tips, tricks, and advice for readers living in urban, suburban and rural areas and clearly shows us that you don't need an exotic vacation or a biology degree to have transformative wildlife encounters. Listening to and observing creatures in your own backyard, on nearby trails, and in local parks, seashores, fields, and forests can lead to extraordinary experiences and a profound sense of belonging.
Are you ready to eavesdrop on your wild neighbours? Are you ready to learn how to tell a warning call from a mating call, a purr of satisfaction from idle chatter? Then this book is for you!
'This book is fabulous and takes you close inside the wild world, where you feel the creatures whispering your old name.' Craig Foster, My Octopus Teacher
]]>His art and educational programming have appeared in the Salt Lake City Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Sacramento Bee, and on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, and on the TEDx stage. His bronze sculptures reside in public and private collections across North America and around the world. Information about his programs on animal language is available online.
Jon Young grew up in New Jersey and was mentored from the age of ten as a naturalist and tracker by a master tracker into his early adulthood. He is passionate about teaching the benefits of connecting deeply with the natural world. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California.
]]>This captivating book brings together two birds of a feather: Jean and Johnny, boys from very different worlds growing up in a small village in France. Jean is the genteel pharmacist's son, dressed in his Sunday best; Johnny's father is a rough, working-class sheep herder, always with the odor of animals clinging to him. Each year, over three hundred bird species visit their village, which intersects a major migratory flyway.
The two boys' stories converge when Jean enters a bird-calling contest. He places second, and at only eleven years old becomes a child celebrity on the bird-calling circuit. Then Johnny starts to compete as well. At the annual bird festival, both boys are standouts, and a long, admiring rivalry develops between them, eventually culminating in the European championships.
As they evolve as performers, the two boys' identities become more distinct: Jean is soft-spoken, while Johnny likes to play to the crowd. While most of their competitors are adult men, hunters who learned to call birds for sport, the two boys are fascinated with the pure beauty of birdsong, and in trying to transcend themselves through imitating birds. Their shared passion develops into an enduring partnership as performers, and they go on to tour the world in concert as the Bird Singers.
This is a story as much about friendship as it is about birdsong. The setting is timeless and bucolic, with long walks to small village schools, games of pick-up soccer, and father-son birding trips. The chapters, which bounce back and forth between the two narrators, are woven through with descriptions of colorful characters in the bird-calling competition circuit and the kind of ornithological detail that can only come from a true passion for birds. There is poetry in the description of the different birds, from common seagulls to thrushes and bluethroats and nightingales, and something like communion in the way Jean and Johnny understand the feathered friends they imitate.
Unique, evocative, and cinematic, The Bird Singers is the story of an unlikely friendship, sparked by a desire to speak with the avian world.
'A mesmerising tale like no other.' Priyanka Kumar, author of Conversations with Birds
'A beautiful book. The writing about birds their songs and sounds, what birds mean to us, the wonder and joy they evoke in us is among the most original, insightful, and enjoyable I've read.' James Macdonald Lockhart, author of Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
]]>Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor, and translator whose work has appeared in various Canadian and international publications. Her collection What if red ran out was shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and won the Gerald Lampert award for best first book. Her book translations include Martine Delvaux's White Out, Stephane Martelly's Little Girl Gazelle, and Marie-Claire Blais's final novels. Her translations of David Clerson's first novel, Brothers, and of A Cemetery for Bees, by Alina Dumitrescu, were shortlisted for Governor General's Awards, and her translation of Clerson's short story collection, To See Out the Night, won the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.
]]>Similar to the collapse of America's industrial Midwest, New Zealand has also experienced the whiplash of industry vanishing. Here though, this has been complicated by much of this industry first emerging in conjunction with European colonization. Corson-Scott's work focuses on these tensions, particularly in Te Waipounamu South Island, where the regions of the West Coast and Otago see industrial remnants contrasted with vast and complex landscapes. From these areas come images of freezing works on sacred rivers, contested mining projects, dwellings of 19th century Chinese miners, gold processing plants still contaminated more than a century later, floods of acid mine drainage, and the demolition of factories which once built the country's modern infrastructure. Elsewhere, on a remote sandspit is one of history's largest whale strandings, industrial spaces are repurposed by artists, controversial hydroelectric schemes divert rivers, ancient forest remnants become tourism, and city fringe orchards are bulldozed for development.
]]>The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia holds some 3,500 objects from Oceania, making it the largest and most diverse collection from this region in Canada. From regalia and jewellery to barkcloths and woven mats to carvings and canoes, all these items have travelled, sometimes circuitously, from their homelands including Aotearoa, Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Rapa Nui, the Marquesas Islands, and Vanuatu to the west coast of Canada. Sea of Islands traces the journeys and stories of these holdings, as shared by knowledge holders, scholars, and artists from across the Pacific.
Presented alongside more than 250 photographs of individual objects contextualised by historic and contemporary images from Oceanic communities, Carol E. Mayer's text draws on her decades of research and outreach centred around the complex intersections between museum collections, contemporary art practices, and different knowledge systems. The result is a lively and accessible exploration of how these objects old and new continue to articulate systems of meaning and engender new relationships.
]]>Ralph Regenvanu is the Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, Energy, Environment, Meteorology, Geohazards and Disaster Management, Republic of Vanuatu.
Susan Rowley is the Director of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
]]>Welcome to a world where humans and animals inhabit each other's lives in surreal, dreamlike realms of the imagination. The imagery in The Oracle of Rewilding is part of an ancient, primordial story of profound kinship that intimately connects human and animal worlds.
This oracle deck and guidebook calls upon us to bring healing in a time when the fate of humans and other earthly creatures is threatened. The oracle gently leads us to consciously cultivate a visionary relationship with the world, a kinship with all things. We must 'rewild' ourselves for the preservation of all. The imagined, uncanny, even strange animal/human hybrids in this card deck represent the Trickster at a time of chaos and disruption, and speak to a unity of being and hope.
Alexandra Eldridge's paintings employ glass-plate negatives from 1880-1920, an era when there was excitement about Darwin's findings that emotions exist in both humans and animals. Concepts of land conservation and wildlife preservation emerged at this time, along with modernism in the arts, and the invention of photography and the X-ray. Seances, spirit photography, myriad ideas about 'animal magnetism', and occultism became popular.
The forty-four cards in this deck present universal animal archetypes and the symbolic qualities they represent. The full-colour guidebook by Sherry Salman features stories, symbols, fairy tales, poems, and myths and explores each of the card's meanings in depth, offering a variety of ways to consult the cards and a way to engage an altered state of mind that fosters kinship with all things.
]]>Sherry Salman, PhD, LP, is a Jungian analyst, teacher, and author. A founding member and first president of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, she now serves on the faculty and has contributed to the education of many Jungian analysts and psychotherapists. She was associate editor for three professional journals and is a consultant for the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. Salman has published in numerous journals, books, and the popular press. Her latest book, Dreams of Totality, is about symbols and imagination in postmodern life. Salman lives in the Hudson River Valley of New York.
]]>From ranchers in Texas to a chemist in Boston, a sumo wrestler in Japan to street performers in Cuba, At Work is a collection of photographs of people 'just doing their jobs'. It is a study of our world and how the people in it follow their unique callings. The photographs in At Work capture genuine moments that emerge through conversation, not necessarily direction.
In At Work, Brian Doben celebrates the dignity of work and reminds us to remember what it's like to do what we love. To have a conversation, capture a moment, relay a message, and create an image you won't soon forget.
]]>In the advertising domain, Doben is highly esteemed for his skill in crafting visuals that seamlessly blend complexity with genuineness. A diverse array of clients, spanning from renowned brands like AT&T, Chase Banking, NBC and Walmart to significant players such as American Express, Apple, Dell, Ford, Google, IBM, Lexus, Microsoft, UPS, YouTube, and Sony, have reaped the rewards of his talent. His ability extends beyond orchestrated scenes, delving into capturing unscripted, authentic moments that add depth to every image.
His talent hasn't gone unnoticed. Brian's work has been honoured by prestigious institutions like the Society of Publication Designers, American Photography, and Photo District News. Awards like PDN's 30 Under 30 and the coveted Kodak Photographer of the Year have cemented his reputation. Notably, his impactful photography is showcased in the Museum of the City of New York, especially his moving photographs in the book "Brotherhood," which beautifully depicts the resilience and spirit of New York City firefighters following September 11.
Brian now resides in New England with his family, continuing to weave compelling visual stories. Through his photographs, he invites readers on an enchanting journey that transcends boundaries, revealing the rich tapestry of human stories through his captivating imagery.
]]>For the past three decades, An-My Le has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling.
First published in 2005, Small Wars brings together three interconnected series. In Viet Nam, Le returns to the country she left in her teens and attempts to reconcile memories of her childhood home with the contemporary landscape; in Small Wars, she engages a small community of Vietnam War reenactors; and in 29 Palms, she documents the preparations of marines in the California desert as they undergo training for conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taken together, this trilogy brilliantly presents a complexly layered exploration of the issues surrounding landscape, memory, and the representation of violence and war.
With great precision and clarity, Le is able to evoke the work of nineteenth-century landscapes as well as that of the New Topographics but by weaving in her own personal narrative of refuge and return, she pushes beyond both to produce a uniquely revelatory body of work. The twentieth anniversary edition of Small Wars is a lush reissue of the original, with five additional images and a new afterword by Ocean Vuong, who discusses how these bodies of work resonate twenty years later.
]]>Richard B. Woodward was an arts critic whose essays on art and photography were featured in dozens of monographs, catalogs, and publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Atlantic, Bookforum, Film Comment, American Scholar, New Yorker, and Vogue.
Hilton Als is a staff writer and theater critic at the New Yorker. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, he is the author of The Women (1996), White Girls (2013), and Joan Didion: What She Means (2022). He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University.
Ocean Vuong is author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016) and Time Is a Mother (2022), and the novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019). A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the American Book Award, he was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and is professor of creative writing at New York University.
]]>Richard Misrach: Cargo presents the acclaimed photographer's sublime meditation on the often-unseen patterns of global trade and commerce. In 2021, on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, which, at its height, seemed to nearly halt the networks of international trade, Misrach began taking thousands of photographs of cargo ships as they moved to and from the Port of Oakland, California. In these monumental seascapes, cargo ships appear frozen in time diminutive but stalwart within an expansive, richly coloured confluence of sea, sky, and atmosphere. Eerie, sparse, and undeniably beautiful, Misrach's images abstractly trace multiple histories: the recent collapse and slow recovery of these seafaring trade routes, the confrontation of the human and natural environment in an era of climate disaster, and a rich lineage of maritime art.
]]>Rebecca Solnit is a writer, a historian, an activist, and the author of more than twenty books, including Orwell's Roses (2022), Recollections of My Nonexistence (2020), Men Explain Things to Me (2014), A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009), A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005), and Hope in the Dark (2004). She writes regularly for the Guardian, serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International, and recently launched the climate project Not Too Late. She is based in San Francisco.
]]>Patriots and Propaganda uncovers the multifaceted relationships between China, Australia, and the Australian Chinese diaspora, highlighting the political, racial and class dynamics that shaped these interactions.
Bolin Hu explores the pivotal role of Chinese-language newspapers and schools in preserving Chinese heritage and loyalty; the intense political rivalries within the Australian Chinese community; and the profound impact of memorial services and fundraising campaigns on fostering Chinese patriotism and community cohesion. Hu also brings to light the diverse contributions of various Chinese Australian groups including leftists, women, and Australian-born Chinese to China's war effort, and the fierce propaganda battles between Chinese and Japanese authorities on Australian soil.
Patriots and Propaganda offers a nuanced exploration of the socio-political dynamics within the Australian Chinese community, while challenging the traditional narrative of distant allies, presenting new evidence and perspectives on the Sino-Australian relationship during a critical period in history.
]]>Gaza is the first genocide to be captured in real-time images on devices we hold in our hands. Two days after October 7, the Lebanese comic artist Mazen Kerbaj began drawing in reaction to what was appearing in his phone. This powerful and original book brings together that work.
Mazen draws in part to bear witness and raise awareness, but also as a coping mechanism, to remain sane amid the unfolding madness. His straight-to-the-point, high-contrast black-and-white art is accompanied by striking slogans and captions. It has been shared widely around the world, helping people express their solidarity with Palestine.
Produced from Berlin, a city where the repression of Palestinian support has been particularly fierce, Mazen's drawings raise fundamental questions about seeing as an act of solidarity when those in power seek to suppress news of what is happening.
Haunted by the live-streamed images, we dread seeing more when we open our phones. By representing them in simple cartoons, Mazen allows us to scrutinise and reflect on the horrors we have witnessed. The result is an extraordinary sequence of images and messages that ask us to pause for a moment, to stop, look, mourn, and summon the resolve to head out and join the fight for the living, for life, for justice.
]]>The revolutionary coalition that overthrew the monarchy was at once democratic, populist and Islamic. The Islamists, and the Khomeinists in particular, were able to capitalise effectively on prevailing conditions on the ground; to frame the new republic's constitution, capture nascent institutions, and consolidate their power by eliminating opponents through a reign of terror. Once the war with Iraq was over and after the death of the new order's charismatic founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic was consolidated: first by tweaking its institutional arrangements, and then by fostering economic development and post-war reconstruction. A reformist interlude then followed, reversed unceremoniously by a return of populism and a broader authoritarian retrenchment.
Today Iran remains at odds with itself, its economy too deeply political to yield meaningful developmental results, its foreign relations too conflicted to allow it a productive place in the community of nations. As Iran's nationalities and its women and youth carve out spaces for themselves in the broader narrative, competing identities religious, national and otherwise abound. After forty years, the Islamic Republic remains a country in search of itself.
]]>The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a transformative community process. It follows the social lives of projects throughout their production cycles, from planning and editing to screening, broadcasting, and after-images. Across its narrative sweep, this ethnography engages the film career of Kukatja elder Mark Moora to demonstrate the impact of filmmaking on how Aboriginal futures are collectively imagined and called forth.
William Lempert highlights a series of awakenings through which Moora ultimately came to view cinema as a process for catalyzing his family's return to their home country of Mangkayi. This biographical media journey paints an intimate portrait of the inspiring possibilities and sobering limitations of Indigenous envisioning within settler states. Lempert traces how Moora's life and films convey a multiplicity of Aboriginal experiences across time and space, from colonial contact to contemporary life in communities like Balgo, including the continued governmental attempts to undermine them.
Amid ongoing negotiations to establish the first treaties between Indigenous nations and Australian states, Dreaming Down the Track illustrates what is at stake in how AboriginalState relations are represented and understood, both within communities and for the broader public. Lempert stays true to Moora's insight that film can preserve community stories for generations to come, toward the aim of enacting sovereign futures.
]]>Like the flash of a tropical bird's iridescent wing, cinema can be furtive and intensely beautiful-and it can leave a viewer craving more. Cinemal is Tessa Laird's passionate inquiry into the ways that films mimic the majesty, mystery, and movements of animals,her field notes from countless hair-raising encounters with films in their natural habitat.
Part of a growing focus on nonhuman animals in film, Cinemal ventures to the "furry underbelly" of global experimental film practice, focusing on films from New Zealand, Australia, and South America. Laird examines how animals are depicted in film and analyzes the various animal qualities of cinema, like scratching and sniffing, vibrant colors, and voices (barking, howling, or echolocation). Burrowing into the work of filmmakers such as Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Sriwhana Spong, and Ana Vaz, Laird's energetic prose embodies the films she discusses, seamlessly combining personal anecdotes with art theory and philosophy to spread a wide sensory buffet.
Lively and optimistic, Laird uses cinematic animal tropes to encourage readers to rethink what it means to be human. She argues that, in a time of ecological collapse, such an impulse is a necessary means of imagining other, healthier ways of being in this world. Connecting us with the more-than-human, Cinemal lures us toward the beastly becomings of film and, ultimately, our own animal natures.
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]]>Kree has been raised as a fearless fighter in a ravaged world: postapocalyptic, posthuman, the population decimated by wars and civilisation long since collapsed. After her attempt to avenge the death of her dog, Loka, goes horribly wrong, Kree finds herself lost in a world after death and wanders into the city of the terrible mendicants.
Under the Brothers' totalitarian rule, Kree can lead a quiet life and forget her violent past, even if needles grow in her skull and hallucinatory blood rains occasionally pour down to remind her. She can make friends: a healer with a shaking tent, a mysterious stranger hatched from an egg, and a gruff electrician in a world without electricity. And she can have her Loka as long as she toes the Party line and does as she's told. When she can't when her friends start to disappear and the Brothers turn against her Kree sets out on a quest, searching for a new way forward.
Multiply reincarnated and unstuck in time, Kree is the characteristically marvelous creation of Manuela Draeger, whose extraordinary stories, in the words of author China Mieville, 'are as close to dreams as fiction can be'.
]]>Lia Swope Mitchell has a PhD in French from the University of Minnesota. Her translations include Solo Viola by Antoine Volodine and Survival of the Fireflies by Georges Didi-Huberman, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. Her original fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Apex, Terraform, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis.
]]>Although the Godzilla films have been analysed in detail by cultural historians, film scholars, and generations of fans, Kayama's two Godzilla novellas - both classics of Japanese young-adult science fiction - have never been available in English. This book finally provides English-speaking fans and critics the original texts with these first-ever English-language translations of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again. The novellas reveal valuable insights into Kayama's vision for the Godzilla story, feature plots that differ from the films, and clearly display the author's strong antinuclear, proenvironmental convictions.
Kayama's fiction depicts Godzilla as engaging in guerrilla-style warfare against humanity, which has allowed the destruction of the natural world through its irresponsible, immoral perversion of science. As human activity continues to cause mass extinctions and rapid climatic change, Godzilla provides a fable for the Anthropocene, powerfully reminding us that nature will fight back against humanity's onslaught in unpredictable and devastating ways.
'At long last, the pathbreaking novellas by Shigeru Kayama that launched the Godzilla franchise are finally available in English. It was well worth the wait: Jeffrey Angles's lively translation captures all the action, emotion, and political edge of the original Japanese texts. This engaging volume will be a revelation for Godzilla fans, a rich resource for students of Japan, and a rewarding read for anyone who enjoys classic tales of science fiction and adventure.' - William M. Tsutsui, chancellor of Ottawa University and author of Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters
]]>Jeffrey Angles is professor of Japanese at Western Michigan University. He is author of Writing the Love of Boys (Minnesota, 2011) and award-winning translator of Orikuchi Shinobu's The Book of the Dead (Minnesota, 2017) and Hiromi Ito's The Thorn Puller.
]]>Dylan's 60s recordings constitute a dizzying run that includes such landmark albums as The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, the so-called 'Basement Tapes', and John Wesley Harding, and such classic songs as 'Blowin' In The Wind', 'The Times They Are A-Changin'', 'Mr. Tambourine Man', 'Like A Rolling Stone', 'Just Like A Woman', 'Quinn The Eskimo', 'All Along The Watchtower', and 'Lay Lady Lay'. They set the template for his genius and encompass the bulk of his greatest work. The career arc they collectively describe saw Dylan effortlessly and repeatedly instigate revolution, by turns reinvigorating folk music, turning protest song mainstream, bringing the intellectualism and social conscience of folk to rock and pop, reasserting roots music over the excesses of psychedelia, and making country music respectable.
Through each of his new identities, Dylan's dazzling lyrics established him as the poet laureate of the counterculture. All during this time he was engaged in a personal voyage that saw him first embrace the blandishments of fame and then emphatically reject them. His journey during this era from ambitious nobody to cultural icon back to willing background figure makes for one of the most extraordinary narratives in the history of recorded music. It features a fascinating supporting cast of collaborators and peers, from Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield to The Beatles and The Byrds.
Dylan now occupies an unparalleled role as venerated elder statesman of music, but through the twists and turns of his long career he has never quite regained the position he held during his insurrectionary first decade, when he was the most important artist in popular music and, by extension, one of the most crucial figures in Western society. Drawing on exclusive interviews and packed full of fresh insights, Decade Of Dissent brings to life Dylan and his milieu at the point when he was making music that was not merely aesthetically magnificent but sociologically earthshaking.
]]>The world may be filled with dangers, but it is also filled with ancient and powerful forces that serve as antidotes and protective devices. These magical forces include crystals, herbs, amulets, sacred beings, and even colours and numbers. Magic spells enable us to harness these forces for our own benefit. Let these cards guide you toward safety, security, and embracing your own personal power.
For successful spellcasting, as you cast your spells, visualise their success. Imagine yourself strong, happy, and safe, your goals realised. For those new to the art of spellcasting, further information can be found in Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting, also by Judika Illes.
Protection Spells: 36 Cards for Magical Self-Defense is the perfect deck to tuck in a purse or pocket and makes a great gift.
]]>Art played a pivotal role in the development of natural history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. European colonial expansion enabled naturalists to study previously unknown insects, animals, and other beestjes 'little beasts' from around the globe. Little Beasts explores how artists such as Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel helped deepen and spread knowledge of these creatures with highly detailed and playful works that inspired generations of printmakers, painters, decorative artists, and naturalists.
This appealing book begins by mapping the origins of natural history as a discipline, showing how early illustrated treatises reflected a vibrant exchange between artists and naturalists that contributed to the growth of natural science and sparked public fascination with the animal kingdom. It shares insights into Hoefnagel's engagement with contemporary natural history, as demonstrated in his Four Elements a four-volume series of some three hundred watercolor miniatures of animals and examines how intaglio printmaking enabled natural history studies to reach new audiences. The volume concludes with a discussion of Van Kessel's small oil paintings, likely made for discerning collectors of both natural and artistic curiosities.
Blending lively and informative essays with beautiful illustrations, Little Beasts traces the connections between artists, naturalists, and collectors in an age of scientific discovery and broadening horizons, inviting readers to look with wonder at nature's variety.
Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
]]>Brooks Rich is associate curator of old master and nineteenth-century prints at the National Gallery of Art.
Stacey Sell is associate curator of old master drawings at the National Gallery of Art and the coauthor of Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns (Princeton).
Brian W. Ogilvie is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
]]>Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley. A child who frequently felt out of place, too much of one thing or not enough of another, she found acceptance in these settings, among other amphibious beings. In snakes, snails, and, above all, fungi, she saw her own developing identities as a queer, neurodivergent person reflected back at her and in them, too, she found a personal path to a life of science.
In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness of all the life around us. Fungal species, we learn, commonly encompass more than two biological sexes and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate 'love darts' at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, a mystery that scientists once dubbed 'the eel question.' Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalised and they have lessons for us all.
Wide-ranging, richly observant, and full of surprises, Forest Euphoria will open your eyes and change how you look at the world.
'An antidote to the loneliness of our species.' Robin Wall Kimmer
'A master class in how to love the world.' Margaret Renkl
]]>Pendulum Craftis an expansive, useful guide to using pendulums not just for divination, but for introspection, experimentation, and channeling messages from the beyond. In addition to a deep dive into the history and usage of pendulum from 'water witching' to folk healing, from the science of ideomotor reactions to the pendulum's function as a tool of the occult author Fox Taylor covers different types of pendulums, including how to make a pendulum or select one at the store. They also cover how to connect with and calibrate a pendulum, how to trust 'inner knowing', and finally how to work with a pendulum board and ask the right questions that will produce desired information. Taylor's fascinating black-and-white art illustrates the fundamentals of the pendulum and how it has been used throughout history. This book also includes a selection of pendulum boards for different kinds of questions, which can be pulled out of the book.
]]>Chaos magic emerged only a few decades back, but it has already grown into a magical tradition embraced by many. Chaos magic started under the influence of renowned artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare; it was then more codified by Peter J. Carroll and a few others. This Is Chaos delves into the history the magical system has come from, but more importantly looks at its current use and what the future holds.Chaos magic has always been about pushing new boundaries with a focus on belief utilising aspects of magicsuch as sigils and magical servants (thought forms) to help accomplish one's aims.
This Is Chaos includes essays on:
Featuring a foreword by Ronald Hutton and essays from a wide cross-section of chaos magic practitioners, including Aidan Wachter, Carl Abrahamsson, Dave Lee, Ivy Corvus, Jaq D. Hawkins, Jozef Karika, Jacob Sipes, Julian Vayne, Lionel Snell, Mariana Pinzn, Sinobu Kurono, and Sanhre Daffowt.
This Is Chaos is a collection unlike any before, showcasing the many ways chaos magic is finding its way into other modes of magic workings, divination, and disciplines yet to come.
]]>Sun-Steeped is an affirmation deck and guidebook that shines a light on every nook and cranny of our innermost selves. It's here to capture the golden-hour moments of sunrise and sunset and the feeling of freedom that comes with stepping into the daylight to photosynthesise. Much like a cup of tea needs time to bask in the warmth of water before it's ready to be enjoyed, we too must bask in the warmth of the sun to grow into our best selves.
The deck consists of fifty-four uniquely illustrated cards, each one featuring an affirmation designed to guide gentle and friendly inquiry into the user's inner world. The cards are intentionally numbered in such a way that the beginning cards explore themes of childlike wonder and new beginnings, on through affirmations that challenge perceptions generated by low self-esteem. The last cards explore newfound determination, self-realisation, and loving awareness. It's the only deck that captures the transformative moments of sunrise and sunset and draws inspiration from the warmth and power of daylight.
Let Sun-Steeped be your guide for learning new lessons, finding your flow, and enjoying your empowerment.
]]>Her work is highly reflective of her background, exploring themes of identity and emotion while incorporating elements of whimsicality and surrealism. The focuses on both psychology and art in her life give her inspiration and perspective on how a piece moves a person and how creativity connects us all.
From 2020 to 2022, Shannon ran Ragtag Magazine, a web publication focusing on uplifting makers of the Pacific Northwest. She served as editor in chief with a team of over thirty people. Currently, Shannon has made a second home for herself at the Haven (thehavenpdx.com), an eclectic collective of artists, makers, and healers. Her work is featured in their retail space and on the road at any of the many festivals and events that they create, curate, or partner with.
]]>Learn Linguistic Magic.
The Magical Notary Artaims to deliver the practical methodology of the entire spectrum of notary art as it pertains to spirit names, pictographs, symbolic images, seals, words of power, and signatures. The notary art is a creative and imaginative methodology that translates names, words, phrases, and ideogramic images so they can be understood by the deities, spirits, and powers that reside within the super-symbolic domain.
This book is divided into four parts, which covers the range of the notary arts. Frater Barrabbas has written this book for the practical ritual magician and includes the methods of construction and deployment in ritual workings or as stand-alone devices.
]]>Frater Barrabbas is also the founder of a magical order called the Order of the Gnostic Star, and he is an elder and lineage holder in the Alexandrian tradition of witchcraft.
]]>Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals. Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognisable abbreviation 'L' is used to mark classifications originally made by Linnaeus. This biography, by the leading authority on Linnaeus, offers a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work. Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished sources including diaries and personal correspondence as well as new research, it presents revealing and original accounts of his family life, the political context in which he pursued his work, and his eccentric views on sexuality.
The Man Who Organized Nature describes Linnaeus's childhood in a landscape of striking natural beauty and how this influenced his later work. Linnaeus's Lutheran pastor father, knowledgeable about plants and an enthusiastic gardener, helped foster an early interest in botany. The book examines the political connections that helped Linnaeus secure patronage for his work, and untangles his ideas about sexuality. These were not, as often assumed, an attempt to naturalise gender categories but more likely reflected the laissez-faire attitudes of the era. Linnaeus, like many other brilliant scientists, could be moody and egotistical; the book describes his human failings as well as his medical and scientific achievements. Written in an engaging and accessible style, The Man Who Organized Nature one of the only biographies of Linnaeus to appear in English provides new and fascinating insights into the life of one of history's most consequential and enigmatic scientists.
]]>This is a book about these changes many of which have been dizzying and disorientating and how they have affected each and every one of us in all parts of the country. The main themes, such as housing, healthcare, sport, the media, the arts and entertainment, urban and country life, our relationship with the environment, politics, religion and education, are all viewed through the lens of personal experience. Alistair's own recollections of big events and small, together with other eyewitness accounts, bring these decades alive in a way that no ordinary history can with a directness and poignancy that underlines how much has been gained and how much lost.
]]>Allie and Sam, widely recognised as 'Mommy and Other Mommy', share their emotional and transformative journey to parenthood in How to Make a Baby: Everything LGBTQ+ Families Need to Know About IVF. This inspiring guide is a must-read for LGBTQ+ families navigating artificial insemination, IVF, and other fertility options.
Growing a family as a same-sex couple comes with unique challenges.For Allie and Sam, the path to parenthood was anything but easy. Their story reveals the highs and lows of a three-year journey, involving IUIs, a home insemination, IVF cycles, frozen embryo transfers, and significant financial and emotional investments.
From heartbreak to hope, their journey offers a beacon of guidance.Navigating heteronormative fertility clinics, answering questions about their family dynamic, and overcoming countless obstacles, Allie and Sam show that with determination and love, it's possible to create the family you've dreamed of.
Inside, you'll find:
If you likedIt Starts with the Egg,You Got This IVF Planner and Journal, orOh Sis, You're Pregnant!, you'll loveHow to Make a Baby.
]]>We started sharing our life online as a way to keep our families updated on our adventures around the globe together, but it quickly became a way to share much-needed queer representation; to showcase that a happy, full life is possible as an out and proud LGBTQ+ person.
We have been blessed with an amazing, engaged online community over our more than six years of sharing our lives on the internet. We have also done public speaking engagements about various LGBTQ+ issues in schools, for non-profits, and for major brands. We live in Nova Scotia.
]]>#1 New Release in Strategic Business Planning
How do you manage your time and stay organised? Whether you're struggling to stay motivatedor are looking for newhigh-performancehabits,The7 Habits of Highly Effective People Guided Journaloffers journal prompts, worksheets, and exercises to help you accomplish all your short andlong term goals.
Goal setting just got easier.WhenThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peoplewas released as a card deck, audiences approached Stephen R. Covey's time-tested principles in a whole new way. Now, this companion journal gives readers a chance to craft inspiration into action. Its concise format is accessible and easy to stick with. Each habit is broken down into a weekly format inspiring both beginners and seasoned7 Habitsreaders toget motivated, build confidence, and boostinspiration and personal growth.
Cultivate success, skill, andself-growth.Featuring thought-provoking prompts, worksheets, and self-development quotes that teach you howto achieve your goals, this is the ultimate guided self-growth journal.
Inside, find:
If you enjoyed books likeThe7 Habits of Highly Effective People,The 52 Lists Project, orThe High Performance Planner,you'll loveThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Guided Journal.
'If you follow this simple process, I promise that you will see positive changes in your relationships and find a higher level of personal satisfaction in your life.' Sean Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
]]>Sean is a New York Times best selling author and has written several books, including the Wall Street Journal #1 Business Bestseller, The 4 Disciplines of Execution, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make, The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, which has been translated into 20 languages and sold over 8 million copies worldwide. He is a versatile keynoter who regularly speaks to kids and adults within schools and organizations and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows.
Sean graduated with honors from BYU with a Bachelor's degree in English and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. As the starting quarterback of BYU, he led his team to two bowl games and was twice selected as the ESPN Most Valuable Player of the Game.
Born in Belfast Ireland, Sean's favorite activities include going to movies, working out, hanging out with his kids, riding his motorcycle, producing short films, and writing books. Sean and his wife Rebecca live with their children in the Rocky Mountains.
]]>Calling all crafty cat lovers! This collection of 12 adorable amigurumi cats features designs that look so lifelike, you half expect them to purr!
Start by crocheting a foundation with basic amigurumi techniques, then add yarn and 'groom' with scissors and brushes to create beautiful fur. You'll learn how to create stripes, colored patches, and different lengths of fur to craft your own one-of-a-kind cat. Then add the eyes and a nose and watch a cute little kitty come to life as if by magic.
You'll find designs for all your favorite felines, including:
Step-by-step colour photos offer detailed guidance for crocheting and styling the cats to create realistic features. Crochet instructions are presented in both written and chart format for ease of use.
These amigurumi make wonderful gifts for cat-fancying friends and family members. You can customise the yarn colors to match the furry friend in your life and have fun trimming and styling the fur until you achieve your desired look. Crochet your own adorable cat companion today!
]]>You'll get a glimpse into her creative process, from sketching and selecting thread colours to stitching tips and techniques, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at her atelier, garden, and other inspiring locales.
This release has been thoughtfully designed with makers in mind. It features a lay-flat binding which makes tracing the embroidery templates from the book a breeze. All embroidery templates are printed at full size, so there's no need to enlarge anything. Larger templates are included on a separate pattern sheet.
In addition to dozens of botanical motifs, you'll also find designs based on the author's favorite things in life: food, travel, and design. Projects include samplers, collages, patches, bags, table linens, and more! This edition is full of beautiful inspiration and ideas for stitching and enjoying the little things in life.
]]>Borobudur is the largest Buddhist monument in the world a masterpiece containing thousands of intricately carved panels and sculptures blending Indian art with local Javanese culture. The panels retell the lives of the Buddhas along with dozens of other tales of worldly desire and the heroics feats of enlightened beings. After viewing these, visitors ascend to open terraces at the top to enjoy majestic vistas of the surrounding landscape an experience designed to evoke the eternal bliss of Buddhist nirvana.
This book presents a detailed history of the monument as well as a description of its art and design. Author John Miksic recounts Borobudur's history from its construction in the 9th century to its rediscovery in the 19th century and multiple restorations by the Dutch colonial government, the Indonesian Government and UNESCO in the 20th century. Surveying ancient Javanese texts and contemporary scholarship, Miksic walks us through the temples main features, honing in on important details.
The book includes chapters on:
Borobudur: Masterpiece in Stone is sure to be treasured by anyone intending to visit Borobudur as well as all those with an interest in Buddhist art and history.
]]>This is the first book in English to trace the history of the food of Spain from antiquity to the present day. From the use of pork fat and olive oil to the Spanish passion for aubergines and pomegranates, Mara Jose Sevilla skilfully weaves together the history of Spanish cuisine, the circumstances affecting its development and characteristics, and the country's changing relationship to food and cookery.
'Take a deep dive into Spanish cuisine from prehistory to Ferran Adri...[this] illustrated book is a dense, scholarly survey.' Florence Fabricant, New York Times
'Like other works of art, dishes document culture. Mara Jose Sevilla shows us that the best way to enjoy Spanish history is by eating Spanish food, and that the best way to enjoy the food is by reading her account of the history. Buen provecho!' Felipe Fernndez-Armesto, author of Food: A History
]]>This readable account presents key features of Minoan archaeology architecture, art, religion, writing and bureaucracy, and the economy. It also explores how this pioneering European civilisation has inuenced Western culture, examining its reconstruction and representation in museums. This concise and up-to-date guide is essential for understanding both the history and the lasting legacy of the Minoans.
]]>Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Morocco travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting Spain? Check out Fodor's Essential Spain or Fodor's Madrid.
]]>Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Thailand travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting more of Southeast Asia? Check out Fodor's Essential Vietnam.
]]>Fodor's Best Road Trips in the USA travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting certain destinations in the United States? Check out Fodor's Alaska, Fodor's Arizona and the Grand Canyon, Fodor's Black Hills of South Dakota, Fodor's California, Fodor's Carolinas and Georgia, Fodor's Chicago, Fodor's Colorado, Fodor's Florida, Fodor's Essential Hawaii, Fodor's InFocus Santa Fe, Fodor's Inside Nashville, Fodor's Las Vegas, Fodor's Montana and Wyoming, Fodor's Complete National Parks, Fodor's New England, Fodor's New Orleans, Fodor's New York City Fodor's Pacific Northwest, Fodor's Philadelphia, Fodor's Utah, and Fodor's Washington DC.
]]>New York is quite possibly the easiest city for cocktail aficionados to be lured into tourist traps for drinks. If you're a visitor, chances are you've got tickets to 'Hamilton' and are looking for a good pre- or post-musical drink and most of your choices in the Theatre District's immediate vicinity are watering holes with the highest prices for the lowest quality.
And if you're a local, you may have fallen into the routine of sipping at the 'same-old, same-old' and allowed comfort to get in the way of exploration. That's whereThe Not For Tourists New York City Cocktail Companioncomes in. This comprehensive book traverses all five boroughs (yes, even Staten Island) as well as a couple of honorary enclaves across the river, to detail the most authentically New York spots crafting the freshest, most flavour-forward and cutting-edge cocktails.
Additionally, the book includes recipes for sixty such concoctions from many of those venues, for you to always have a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood taste of Gotham in your home, apartment, or hotel when you don't feel like going out.
]]>Life on Earth is subject to the pull of gravity, the properties of air and water, and the behavior of diffusing molecules, yet such physical factors are constraints that drive evolution and offer untold opportunities to creatures of all sizes. In this lively introduction to the science of biomechanics, Steven Vogel invites you to wonder about the design of the plants and animals around us. You will learn why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how sharks manage with such flimsy skeletons, and why a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. With an illuminating foreword by Rob Dunn, this Princeton Science Library edition of Life's Devices includes examples from every major group of animals and plants along with illustrative problems and suggestions for experiments that require only common household materials.
]]>Rob Dunn is the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University. His books include Delicious (Princeton) and Never Home Alone.
]]>In the 200 years since Blake's death, the visionary artist, poet and writer has become a household name, often beloved. Yet many struggle to comprehend his kaleidoscopic ideas; how they speak to human longings and the challenges of living in anxious times.
Philosopher and psychotherapist Mark Vernon provides a fresh route into Blake, taking him at his word. Exploring this brilliant thinker's passionate writings, arresting artworks and fascinating life, Vernon illuminates Blake's vivid worldview. Like us, he lived in a tumultuous era of war, discontent, rapid technological change, and human estrangement from nature. He exposed the dark sides of political fervour and social moralising, while unashamedly celebrating love and liberty. But he also conversed with prophets and angels, and was powerfully, if unconventionally, religious. If we take this seriously not easy, in secular times then Blake can help us to unlock the transformative power of imagination.
Written for both longstanding fans and unfamiliar readers, Awake! reveals Blake as an invigorating and hopeful guide for our modern age.
]]>Despite the naysayers, climate change is a fact. We know that global temperatures are rising, that weather patterns are changing, that forest fires, droughts, flooding, severe storms, and heat waves are the new normal. We know this planet is teetering on the edge of climate collapse, an apocalyptic event that threatens not only the future of human civilisation, but also the millions of other unique life forms on Earth. We know it's all our fault it's the direct result of human beings burning fossil fuels and spewing out carbon emissions at such a fantastic pace that we've changed the fate of the entire planet, and it leaves most of us feeling helpless. What can any of us really do?
This Book Is a Knife is a startling essay collection that explores the origins and dangers of climate change through a critique of capitalism and an exploration of the ways in which we might radically reimagine our world before it's too late. Rooted in L. E. Fox's background as a science journalist, This Book Is a Knife is a frank, plain-spoken, and sharply incisive series of missives designed to wake us up to the urgent reality of climate change and the lies we are fed based on the fact that the real issue is neither climate nor the environment it's capitalism.
Fierce and unapologetic, This Book Is a Knife is a passionate and unique dissection of climate change that offers new possibilities for saving the world.
]]>James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. Through a wide-ranging series of memorable anecdotes and examples, the book describes an anarchist sensibility that celebrates the local knowledge, common sense, and creativity of ordinary people. The result is a kind of handbook on constructive anarchism that challenges us to radically reconsider the value of hierarchy in public and private life, from schools and workplaces to retirement homes and government itself.
Beginning with what Scott calls 'the law of anarchist calisthenics', an argument for law-breaking inspired by an East German pedestrian crossing, each chapter opens with a story that captures an essential anarchist truth. In the course of telling these stories, Scott touches on a wide variety of subjects: public disorder and riots, desertion, poaching, vernacular knowledge, assembly-line production, globalisation, the petty bourgeoisie, school testing, playgrounds, and the practice of historical explanation.
Far from a dogmatic manifesto, Two Cheers for Anarchism celebrates the anarchist confidence in the inventiveness and judgment of people who are free to exercise their creative and moral capacities.
]]>Aperture's Summer issue highlights image makers around the world who are exploring style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. Guest edited by the writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads, this edition features photographers, stylists, and filmmakers who remix, reimagine, and in some cases, reject the aesthetic and politics of what she calls the 'soul style' of the twentieth century sparking a bold conversation about style's ability to create possibilities for solidarity and selfhood today.
]]>Starting from her own garden in Argyll, she travels to ten locations in the west of Scotland from the towering cliffs of St Kilda and the peatlands of Lewis to the Solway estuary and the urban sprawl of Glasgow to explore the interaction of people and wildlife in a variety of diverse settings. On her journey she discovers a number of communities who are taking on the job of regenerating their own landscapes and meets a host of fascinating people whose lives are inextricably bound up with questions of sustainability, conservation and landownership.
Contents Includes:Western Isles (peatlands) * North Uist (machair) * Islay (farmland) * Loch Arkaig (woodland) * Knapdale (wetland) * Dumfries and Galloway (river and estuary) * Jura (coast) * St Kilda archipelago (sea) * Glasgow (urban landscapes) *Eigg (community ownership)
]]>The ancient practice of tasseomancy, or tea leaf reading, originated in ancient China and became popularized throughout Europe by the Romani, who were renowned for their fortune-telling skills, and eventually became a widespread practice of divination around the world. It is one of the easiest forms of divination to learn all it takes is tea leaves, some hot water, and a creative mind!
Tea leaf reading is a form of fortune-telling that uses the symbols and images left in a cup by the tea leaves after the liquid is gone. Those images much like the shapes we see in cloud formations can be interpreted by the tea leaf reader. It is a special and intimate form of divination since the questioner must hold the cup in their hands and drink from it. It allows for the innermost aura of the questioner to enter into the warmly held cup of tea, and for the cup itself to have close contact with the boundaries of the questioner's body. This easy-to-use guide will teach you all the basics of getting started with this simple form of fortune casting:
This A-to-Z guide will help you discover the meaning(s) of almost any shape you find at the bottom of a tea cup, from anvils and anteaters to yachts and the zodiac signs.
]]>Since 2000, 36 different women have lifted grand slam singles trophies. Only 22 men have. In the last decade alone, there have been 10 female one-slam wonders, compared to four males. What is most striking about these numbers, is that they are not all serve bots or baseline bruisers hailing from the tennis academy system. Instead, the origin stories of these stars differ considerably. A generation of Czech talent eclipsing the richest tennis nations; child prodigies like Coco Gauff modelled by her parents; Kim Clijsters defying the odds to become a comeback champion after giving birth; and Emma Raducanu crafting a coaching rotation system to achieve her fairytale in New York. Building Champions explores the complex, remarkable stories of winning players from across the globe and asks what this generation can tell us about the future of women's tennis.
]]>Covering the lives and careers of well-known figures such as Alan Sillitoe, Shelagh Delaney, David Storey, Edna O'Brien and Albert Finney, as well as charting the rise of iconic British series like Coronation Street and Z-Cars, Simon Matthews offers a fascinating blend of social history, pop culture, drama and cinema. Matthews also interviews contemporary figures including Ken Loach about the kitchen sink era and how it inspired their work.
]]>Music. We all love it. We can't live without it! But what exactly is it? Why is it so awesome? And who are the mysterious figures who create it, perform it and keep us all stocked up with the good stuff? What's it really like to be in a band and just how bad is the music industry?
In his new book, rock'n'roll underdog James Kennedy takes us on a tour through the hidden lives of the every-day musician this isn't hotel room trashing but how 99% of musicians live in the real world. Blowing away the usual mythologies and pulling no punches, Loud Medicine is a rough and ready rollercoaster ride OK, transit van ride into the secret world of the modern day musician.
It's also an expose of music's many enemies, a manifesto for change and a love letter to everyone's favourite medicine. There will be rants, dramas, a cast of dysfunctionals, big ideas, industry scam shockers, truth-bombs, f-bombs, the likely crucifixion of a beloved music icon or two and yes, of course, there will be road stories. So come and squeeze in amongst the drum cases and warm beers, and let's hit the road!
]]>"Engaging and immensely relatable, while at the same time offering deeply profound insights into Adam Nimoy's personal relationships, particularly with his famous father.' Eugene Roddenberry Jr., CEO Roddenberry Entertainment
While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a 'close family', to his son Adam, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger.
The actor was as inscrutable as the iconic half-Vulcan science officer he portrayed on Star Trek, even to those close to him. Now, his son's poignant memoir explores their complicated relationship and how it informed his views on marriage, parenting, and later, sobriety. Despite their differences, both men ventured down parallel paths: marriages leading to divorce, battling addiction, and finding recovery. Most notably, both men struggled to take the ninth step in their AA journey: to make amends with each other.
Discover how the son of Spock learned to navigate this tumultuous relationship from Shabbat dinners to basement AA meetings and how he was finally able to reconcile with his father and with himself.
]]>This authoritative book proposes a fresh perspective on international migration, offering decisive answers to the big questions, and dismantling the main myths surrounding one of the most salient issues of today's global politics. Who are these migrants? Do they steal our jobs? Can we help them in their home countries? Do border controls improve security? Are open borders desirable? Leila Simona Talani and Matilde Rosina address these issues and more in their deeply researched study of migration into both Europe and the United States.
Assessing globalisation's impact on international migration, the authors find that it is virtually impossible to stop contemporary flows from the Global South to North. In this context, policies designed to control, limit or deter immigration simply transform some or all regular migrants into irregular ones exacerbating insecurity for citizens of the receiving state, and criminalising the migrants.
Through empirical research including original surveys and interviews, Talani and Rosina demonstrate conclusively that the only solution to this short-circuit world of securitisation and criminalisation is for the Global North to open its doors to the migrants already, inevitably, coming through particularly since the evidence shows that regularising migration is a positive-sum game, in economic, social and security terms.
]]>Matilde Rosina is Lecturer in Global Challenges at Brunel University London, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Her work lies at the intersection of international migration, public policy and international relations. An expert on migration and asylum matters, she earned her PhD from King's College London, winning the King's Outstanding Thesis Prize.
]]>This is a powerful new account of a chapter in history that is crucial to understand, yet often overlooked. For 150 years, from the reign of Louis XIV to the downfall of Napoleon, France was an aggressive imperial power in South Asia, driven by the pursuit of greatness and riches. Through their East India company and state, the French established a far-reaching empire in India, only to see their dominant position undermined by conflict with Indian rulers, competition from other European nations, and a series of fatal strategic errors.
Exploding the myth of a benign French presence on the subcontinent, Robert Ivermee's extensive research reveals how France's Indian empire relied on war-making, conquest, opportunistic alliances, regime change and slavery to pursue its ambitions. He considers influential French figures' reactions to the collapse of the imperial project, not least their deployment of new ideas, like freedom and the rights of man, to justify fresh ventures of domination--even as colonial authorities failed to acknowledge the equality of French India's diverse indigenous peoples, both before and after the French Revolution.
From great power rivalry to informal empire and entrenched inequalities, Glorious Failure tackles topics that remain vital and urgent in today's world.
]]>Hitherto unused manuscript material illustrates Portuguese and British colonial rule over the people of the long-lived Lunda kingdoms, and the Lozi of the Barotse Floodplain. The Zambezi became a war zone during the 'Scramble for Africa', the struggle for independence and the civil wars that followed the departure of colonial powers. Recent history has also seen the river's wild nature tamed by the introduction of steamers and the building of bridges and dams. These developments have changed the character of the waterway, and impacted often drastically the ecological systems of the valley and those settled along its course.
The Zambezi traces the history of the communities that have lived along this great river; their relationship with the states formed on the high veldt; and the ways they have adapted to the vagaries of the Zambezi itself, with its annual floods, turbulent rapids and dramatic gorges.
]]>Violence against women is out of control. Conviction rates for rape are so low that most survivors think it pointless to report, or later regret doing so. Ruthless trafficking gangs run the sex trade. Women have no confidence in the Metropolitan Police. The year is 1914.
As the First World War began, a group of British campaigners founded the Women Police Volunteers, hoping to protect the vulnerable both from crime and from patriarchal policing and justice. The movement's pioneers included a militant suffragette who'd spent time behind bars, a moral purity activist, a blue-blooded radical, and a court reporter born in the workhouse to a single mother. Sandra Hempel follows their astonishing journey, through all of its troubling turns.
Controlling Women is a vivid snapshot of rapid national change, and a rich tapestry of ethics and emotions among its fascinating characters. Reconciling political ideals with institutional compromise, these bold, complex women made history, despite establishment opposition and destructive infighting. They show us just how far we have to go in the fight for women's justice.
]]>With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia's long, arduous journey to its present-day prosperity, through a thousand years of occupation by Danes, Swedes, Germans and Russians.
In the wake of the First World War, out of the heat of a national awakening and the collapse of the Russian and German empires, Estonia was recognised as an independent nation in 1920. This was not to last the country was tossed between the Soviets and Nazis during the Second World War, then fully integrated into the USSR, bringing on more than half a century of renewed occupation and misery. But hopes of true independence never dimmed and, in 1991, the Republic of Estonia was restored.
This unflinching history includes charming moments of colour and levity, from ambassadorial reports on nude bathing and a presidential press conference deliberately held beside a dirty toilet, to the story of a blind pianist, the first foreigner allowed to visit the city of Tartu in the Soviet era.
]]>Everyone's talking about the new Generative AI capabilities of Adobe Photoshop, and for good reason: This is the biggest update to Photoshop in its history. With the power of AI photo editing, you can now remove, expand, generate, change, or combine almost anything you need to in order to create the images you want.
While these features are incredibly powerful, it can be a struggle to get the best results from these powerful tools. What exactly can Generative Fill and Generative Expand do, and how do they do it? When should you use these tools, and when should you use another tool? If you want to incorporate these tools into your workflow, it's very important to get an early grasp of these tools now and get ahead of the crowd.
In this book, best-selling author Colin Smith walks you through Generative AI in Photoshop. With decades of experience working in the real world and training for Adobe, Apple, Nvidia, and many others, he knows Photoshop on a level that few do. He also has a knack for making learning fun and easy, and he can take complex topics and make them seem simple.
You will learn to:
Make no mistake: Generative AI is here to stay, and it is revolutionising how we work in Photoshop. With The Practical Guide to Using Generative AI in Photoshop by your side, you will be ready to confidently move forward with these new tools and apply them to your own imagery. Whether you want to simply clean up your photos or create fantastical works of art or anything in between your only limitation will be your imagination.
]]>A foundational idea to Stoicism is that we appear to go through life reacting directly to events. That appearance is an illusion. We react to our judgments and opinions to our thoughts about things, not to things themselves. Stoics seek to become conscious of those judgments, to find the irrationality in them, and to choose them more carefully.
In chapters including Emotion, Adversity, Virtue, and What Others Think, here is the most valuable wisdom about living a good life from ages past now made available for our time.
'Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn't just a book to read it's a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity.' The Washington Post
]]>Getting promoted is one of the most exciting events in a career. Yet many are placed in the role without any knowledge of what it takes to be a leader, let alone a great leader. You're expected to sink or swim, and most companies don't provide any support or leadership training either before or after the promotion.
You want to be an excellent leader for your team, but where can you find the basic tools and strategies you need?
Author Noel Massie, former vice president of operations for UPS, has walked in your shoes. And he knows what it takes to lead with both wisdom and confidence. Congrats! You've Been Promoted is the trusty, must-have guide for every new leader. It's a mentor on your bookshelf!
With professional and personal anecdotes, pertinent research, and exercises that help reinforce the concepts, Massie uses his signature straightforward style to impart the leadership lessons he learned during his six-decade career, such as:
Give yourself the gift of starting off your leadership journey on the right foot. Your success and that of your team depend on it!
For more information on Noel Massie's Webinar and Masterclass content, visit NoelMassie.com.
]]>The Vorticists, a rebellious cohort of young artists in early twentieth-century England, defied the conventions of the art world with their distinctive abstract creations. Despite the brevity of their existence, from 1911 to 1914, their startling innovations left an indelible mark on English art history. In this book James King explores the personalities and lives of these colourful individuals, capturing the tumultuous environment in which they thrived. The narrative presents biographies of the group's members 'our little gang', as Ezra Pound called them highlighting personal conflicts and providing a concise, highly readable history of the movement. This book is ideal for art enthusiasts, historians and anyone intrigued by avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century.
]]>2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a conflict that solidified SPAM's place in global food culture. Created by Hormel Foods in 1937 to utilise surplus pork during the Great Depression, SPAM became an essential resource (and marker of American food culture) during the war. This book explores SPAM's complex history, highlighting its enduring legacy in places like Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, and South Korea. Kelly A. Spring demonstrates how the enduring proteins in SPAM played a crucial role during wartime and continues to influence global diets.
]]>The Fatimids (909-1171), one of the most significant and intriguing Islamic dynasties, built an empire that included North Africa, Egypt and parts of Sicily, Syria, Palestine and Arabia. Theirs is the only Muslim dynasty known by a female's name, Fatima, the Prophet Muhammad's daughter. The Fatimids promoted women to unprecedented positions of authority and visibility in Islamic history. From Cairo which they founded in 969 this Shii dynasty fostered cultural and artistic excellence as well as overall tolerance and prosperity across the empire. By blending historical and material sources, personalities and events that defined the Fatimid era are brought to life in this book. Examining their impact within the context of medieval history across Europe, Africa and Asia, the book also tells of the Fatimids' legacy and influence on contemporary culture worldwide.
]]>Today's fitness experts have learned that both stretching and how you stretch can affect how well you perform on the field, court, or track. Research shows that static stretching, a traditional mainstay of athletes' warm-ups, has a measurable negative impact on performance. Holding a stretch for 30 seconds or longer doesn't prepare a muscle for exercise; it can actually weaken the muscle.
That's where Dynamic Stretching, Second Edition comes in. This guide teaches you how to effectively prepare your body for physical activity while simultaneously improving strength, power, speed, agility, and endurance. Now with more than 70 exercises illustrated with step-by-step photos and fully updated information on the latest stretching research, this book will maximise your workouts and take your athletic abilities to the next level by:
Once you learn the basics of dynamic stretching, dive into the dynamic stretching warm-up programs that have been carefully designed for the individual needs of athletes in more than 30 different sports, including running, tennis, basketball, baseball and softball, football, hockey, skiing, and many more.
]]>Dr. Kovacs is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a certified health/fitness instructor through the American College of Sports Medicine, a United States Track and Field Level II sprints coach, and a USPTA certified tennis coach.
Mark is also an author of the tennis conditioning text Tennis Training: Enhancing On-Court Performance and is currently an associate editor of the Strength and Conditioning Journal.
]]>'Florence itself is incomparable, and the distinguished visitors who have drawn inspiration here have added layers of enjoyment to the modern traveler's experience of its streets and monuments. FLORENCE HAS WON MY HEART is a delightful vademecum for anyone who wants to understand how and why the city has enchanted the world for centuries.' Jonathan Galassi, Chairman and Executive Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux
'This fascinating account of visitors to Florence focusses on English and Americans' love affair with this extraordinary city. Several ended up residing there permanently, the richness of their Anglo-Florentine lives almost rivalling the complexity of the works of art that drew them to the city. The narrative ends with the death in 1994 of Sir Harold Acton, in his parents' magnificent Villa La Pietra where he had been born. Mark Roberts provides an excellent account of Acton, based on unparalleled knowledge both of the Actons' archive, and of the man himself. Roberts chose to remain in Florence, becoming the Librarian and a lecturer at the British Institute, where he is a living legend. He therefore writes from within his subject, both as a Florentine and as an Englishman. In the 21st century he personally epitomizes the great tradition he describes so well in this book.' Edward Chaney, author of The Evolution of the Grand Tour
'Himself a Florentine who knows the city inside out, Mark Roberts tells the stories of over a hundred English and American writers who have lived in Florence since 1750. The inspiration they drew from the city's landscapes, art and people shows that Florence was as much part of English literature as Oxford or Cambridge. A triumph. Take it when you next go.' Philip Mansel, author of King of the World: the Life of Louis XIV
]]>Remember loading up the back of the car and heading away with the family over the summer holidays? Being part of Beatlemania when the group toured in '64? Watching Dennis Lillee deliver a stinging bouncer in World Series Cricket? Or heading to the drive-in on a Saturday night?
Packed with over 180 photographs, Remember When ... is a sugar hit of nostalgia that reminds us of the bits of Australia we loved, the bits we've forgotten, and the unforgettable local identities and landmarks of yesteryear.
'It is a glorious reminder of how things were.' Jeff Popple, Canberra Weekly
]]>On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampments, the eleven surviving members of Kennedy's crew eventually struggled ashore on a small uninhabited island. Missing, presumed dead, behind enemy lines, with no food or water, and with several injured, the future looked bleak for the shipwrecked Americans. Fortunately, Australian 'coast watcher' Lt Reg Evans witnessed the immediate aftermath of the collision from his nearby jungle hideaway. Working under the searching eye of the Japanese military, over the next five days Evans and two Solomon Islander scouts - Eroni Kumana and Biuku Gasa - located Kennedy and his crew and ensured their rescue.
This story of wartime bravery and survival helped create JFK's legend and paved his way to the White House. It also shone a spotlight on Australia and America's shared wartime experience. In Saving Lieutenant Kennedy, Brett Mason, author of Wizards of Oz, sets the heroic rescue and its colourful aftermath against the background of the Pacific war and the birth of the AustraliaUS alliance, which remains as vital today as when Kennedy and Evans first shook hands.
'A fascinating slice of military history.' - Jeff Popple, Canberra Weekly
'Saving Lieutenant Kennedy is a book that is equally interesting and entertaining. It can be highly recommended.' - Sabretache
]]>** Longlisted, 2023 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award **
** Longlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award **
** Longlisted, 2023 Walkley Book Awards **
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.
What was the story behind Bob Hawke's famed biography? Why does Paul Keating think biographies of serving politicians are 'like Polaroids of a busy life' while John Howard considers them a big mistake? Where is the 'missing' Menzies biography? Why are our early prime ministers largely absent from historical memory? Chris Wallace writes Australian political history anew through this account of prime ministers, their biographies and their biographers. Lively and astute, the book takes us into their motivations and relationships, some well-known and some hidden, and in doing so shows us Australian politics in a fresh light.
'For years there has been no shrewder or sharper commentator on Canberra politics than Chris Wallace. In this compelling, typically acute and unique study she contrives to illuminate all at once - and often as if for the first time - both the character of Australia's prime ministers and the way Australian political history has been made.' - Don Watson
'Original, compelling and provocative. Every page offers fresh insights. Political Lives provides a genuinely new way of looking at Australian politics and political biography. Wallace has written a series of brilliant mini biographical essays on prime ministers and their biographers, exploring their backgrounds, relationships, motivations and political impact. The result is a biography of prime ministerial biography, the like of which we have not seen before.' - Mark McKenna
'Politicians' log cabin stories have become such an important part of politics. But it has not always been so. Chris Wallace traces the intriguing role biography has played in framing our views of our leaders past and present, and examines how it has become such a potent force in the political contest.' - Laura Tingle
'Chris Wallace, scholarjournalist, has written this superb and fascinating analysis of political biography since Federation. Everyone interested in political history will love it. It concludes with a vital oath all her colleagues should observe: "First do no harm unless it's deserved and intentional".' - Kim Beazley
'We meet both the political players and, as intriguing, the writers who put words around them. It's a fascinating prism, often revelatory, and a testament to the author's capacity to pair very particular scholarship with delightfully enlivening storytelling.' - Jonathan Green, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
'A genuinely fresh perspective on our nation's political history.' - Samuel Bernard, The Weekend Australian
'Wallace has certainly produced a deep and satisfying examination of Australian prime ministers and their biographers.' - Miriam Cosic, The Saturday Paper
]]>Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? What does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with key partners, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, to this arrangement?
Revealing Secrets is a compelling account of Australian Signals intelligence, its efforts at revealing the secrets of other nations, and keeping ours safe. It brings to light those clever Australians whose efforts were for so long entirely unknown or overlooked. Blaxland and Birgin traverse the royal commissions and reviews that shaped Australia's intelligence community in the 20th century and consider the advent and the impact of cyber. In unearthing this integral, if hidden and little understood, part of Australian statecraft, this book increases our understanding of the past, present and what lies ahead.
'George Orwell famously wrote during World War Two, "we sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Reading this superb history by John Blaxland and Clare Birgin on Australia's involvement with Sigint and cyber we can contemplate a new formula. We sleep safer because 24/7 intelligent, technologically competent patriotic men and women who work for our agencies, develop and work our electronic defence and offence capacities at worldclass standard. This in a world now in which we are constantly under attack. The work so secret it is proving impossible to produce an official history. This is the closest we can get and it is very good. If you are seriously interested in our defence and survival, or you would just like a good read, this belongs on your bookshelf.' - Kim Beazley, former Defence Minister
'A meticulous compilation of the largely unsung past achievements of our most consistently productive intelligence source. And a thoughtful analysis of how to approach the extraordinary challenges posed by the new cyber universe. Blaxland and Birgin make an important contribution to our understanding of issues needing much more open debate than our own and allied governments have traditionally allowed or encouraged.' - Gareth Evans, Former Australian Foreign Minister
'Australia has been part of sigint since the practice began, which has shaped its history in ways that Australians know little about. Their government likes to keep things that way. Revealing Secrets overcomes efforts to keep Australians ignorant about their sigint history, by discussing everything that can be said about it without access to secret records. Anyone interested in the past and future of Australia has much to learn from this book.' - John Ferris, author of Behind the Enigma, The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber Intelligence Agency
'The most comprehensive and best-informed account we have had of the history of signals intelligence in Australia. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not just our country's past, but Australia's strategic future as well.' - Allan Gyngell, author of Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942
'Revealing Secrets tell the remarkable but little-known story of how a small, back-room military office grew into a major Australian government agency. Deeply researched, authoritative and accessible, it is a valuable and timely contribution to understanding issues that have never been more important to national security.' - Emeritus Professor David Horner, author of The Spy Catchers
'Packed with facts and figures, charts and diagrams, and measured, unsensational judgements.' - Mark Dapin, The Australian
'A gripping read.' - Miriam Cosic, The Saturday Paper
'Blaxland and Bergin have produced a high quality and clear-eyed piece of scholarship, offering a sweeping authoritative historical perspective on one of the most secret branches of Australian intelligence.' - Daniel Baldino, The Conversation
'Certainly, as the authors point out, this is an area which has not received the attention it should have in the history of the defence of Australia.' Anthony Llewellyn-Evans, Good Reading Magazine
'Anyone interested in such issues, as well as the history that underpins them, would do well to read this work and judge for themselves.' - Paul Skrebels, Sabretache
]]>Clare Birgin's career in DFAT spanned 30 years, with a focus on national security and intelligence. She had postings in Warsaw, Moscow, Geneva, and Washington DC as the Liaison Officer of the Office of National Assessments, followed by postings as Ambassador in Hungary, Serbia, Kosovo, Romania, North Macedonia and Montenegro. Subsequently she was a Visiting Fellow at the ANU before joining John Blaxland's history writing team. She has been awarded the Polish Government's Knight's Cross Medal and the Bene Merito Medal by the former Polish Foreign Minister.
]]>For a century, from 1850 to 1950, steam locomotive haulage dominated Australia's various rail systems. During that period, rail networks expanded from a few short routes in the big capital cities to huge networks reaching every corner of each state. The book covers the great named express trains hauled by steam locomotives over the decades: Puffing Billy, Robert Gordon Menzies, The Ghan. Special features include information on Albury's 'break of gauge' platform (where two state track systems met), the Amiens branch line (running through Pozieres and Passchendaele stations in Queensland), the 'garnishee' order against the Spirit of Progress, some important characters such as C. Y. O'Connor and many more fascinating topics.
Tim Fischer's story of steam trains in Australia is illustrated with over 300 exciting images from the superb National Library John Buckland collection of photography, many never seen before.
]]>Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (18121869) is an elusive, almost legendary figure, closer to folklore than to history. His name is given to the country's second highest mountain, but the details of his career are obscure and his personal identity has remained a mystery.
Yet, if you live in southern New South Wales or Victoria, there is a good chance that your town or district has been influenced by his work: he covered a huge extent of territory and worked furiously hard in a career that spanned two decades.
Townsend of the Ranges is a sensitively told, surprisingly dramatic biography of Townsend's life, from his early days as a junior surveyor in Australia to his time living as a recluse in London before his death. Dr Crowley has engaged in extensive research of primary sources, relying on letters from estranged family members, Townsends employers and Townsend himself to map the story of his life.
Accompanied by original maps drawn by Townsend, this book is a beautifully written portrait of a young man fighting loneliness in the wilderness, mapping the watershed crests of the Dividing Ranges and the contours of south-eastern Australia. The narrative also reveals a picture of destruction and violence as settlers and squatters moved across the land.
]]>Embark on an outback adventure with Francis Birtles and his various faithful canine companions. Discover the incredible endurance of Mawson's huskies in frozen Antarctica. Learn more about Australia's home-grown dog breeds that played a central role in the development of pastoral industries, as well as the iconic dingo and its place in Indigenous life, as well as the Australian ecosystem, today.
Australia's Dogs is generously illustrated with images drawn from the rich collections of the National Library of Australia. Some simply capture a photographer's love for their own dog, while others tell epic tales of survival in harsh conditions, comment on an element of social history or record a significant moment. As the incredible variety of images shows, the story of dogs in Australia is a subject that is historically significant, with a broad and enduring appeal.
]]>Katherine spends her spare time writing, dancing and teaching other people's dogs to ride skateboards.
]]>Apart from Antarctica and the Arctic, the regions covered here stretch to places as remote as the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands.
]]>Winner of the 2017 Whitley Medal
Australia's avifauna is large, diverse and spectacular, reflecting the continent's impressive range of habitats and evolutionary history. With specially commissioned paintings of over 900 species, The Australian Bird Guide is the most comprehensive field guide to Australian birds ever seen.
This Revised Edition includes updated maps, artwork and species accounts, reflecting current knowledge of the biology and distribution of Australia's birds. It features around 4700 specially commissioned colour illustrations of over 900 species, with particular emphasis on providing the fine detail required to identify difficult groups and distinctive plumages. Comprehensive species accounts have been written by a dedicated team of ornithologists to ensure identification details, distribution and status are current and accurate. A new easier-to-use index is also included.
The Australian Bird Guide sets a new standard in field guides, providing an indispensable reference for all birders and naturalists looking to explore Australia's magnificent and unique birdlife.
]]>In June 2020, on the heels of Australia's James Cook anniversary commemorations and statue-toppling Black Lives Matter protests in the USA, dozens of police were sent to guard a statue of Cook in Hyde Park, Sydney. Despite the police presence, two women spraypainted 'sovereignty never ceded' across the statue.
Scenes like this are being repeated around the world as societies reassess memorials that no longer reflect today's values. Should they be removed, destroyed or amended? Monumental Disruptions looks for answers. It investigates why commemorations were erected, their meaning for Aboriginal people in Australia, both then and now, and it compares Australia's experience with that overseas.
Those who question colonial commemorations have been called 'UnAustralian'; but, in Australia, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities are working together to forge new ways to mark the past. This timely book is essential reading for anyone interested in how a society commemorates and acknowledges its complex history.
]]>Dr Terri Farrelly is an independent research consultant and Adjunct Fellow in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. Her doctoral thesis was on Aboriginal suicide, and she has also worked as a research consultant on intergenerational trauma and healing, contesting colonial commemorations, and addressing racism and discrimination through truth-telling. Terri has collaborated with Aboriginal academics and worked with Aboriginal and mainstream Australian government and non-government organisations to improve their cultural competence and service delivery, and their support of Aboriginal expertise in research and development. Terri has collaborated with Professor Bronwyn Carlson since 2004.
]]>With a career spanning more than seven decades, Smart has made an impact on generations of artists and art lovers. Jeffrey Smart draws together a diverse range of voices including curators, art historians, artists, and those who knew the artist personally, to respond to his work and reflect on his legacy. Major essays explore his interest in figuration and abstraction, while focus essays survey some of the most memorable works that Smart produced across his long career. Reflective essays by friends such as filmmaker Bruce Beresford and novelist and poet David Malouf provide personal insights into Smart's life, both in Australia and Italy where he lived from 1964 until his death in 2013.
Bringing new perspectives to his artistic practice, Jeffrey Smart is a long-lasting record of the contribution of one of Australia's most celebrated and beloved artists.
]]>After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, companionship and an opportunity to fit in.
But for one of the O'Learys, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all. It's difficult to bury secrets, but almost impossible to bury feelings...
Like Howarth's acclaimed debut, Heap Earth Upon It explores rural Irish life at a specific moment in time and delves into claustrophobic relationships and tangled identities, leaving you wondering who to trust until the very last page.
'Heap Earth Upon It is a tense and claustrophobic novel with gothic atmosphere which seeps into your bones like fog. It's a fascinating look at mid-century rural Irish life, and a brutal exploration of the corrosive impact of shame and secrecy. Chloe Michelle Howarth knows her sapphic yearning!' Rachel Dawson, author of Neon Roses
'Dark, passionate and poised. A remarkable story of the way rural Ireland haunts and is haunted. Intense and thrilling.' Soula Emmanuel, author of Wild Geese
]]>It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.
Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.
Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.
But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness.
Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.
]]>A small Australian town. The story of an extraordinary family.
Locals see George Maskey as a hollow braggard who is at least partly responsible for the crime and drug related death Naples has seen over the years. His wife blames him for the death of their teenage twins. His gay stepson regards him as a racist homophobe. And Serenade Theadora the town's famed mystic sees him in equal parts as good and bad. But George, the family patriarch, is not the star of this story.
When Rodney, the loyal Maskey right-hand man, is kidnapped by service-station proprietor Gayle Reynolds in a bungled revenge against his boss events are set in train that will see the Maskey family changed forever. Love-starved reader of romance novels, physical runt, dreamer; Rodney has lived in a forest on the Knuckle, tending the Maskey's marijuana plantation since the death of his mother. Gayle regards his capture as an opportunity to learn the whereabouts of her missing son, Duncan: Rodney's childhood best friend. For Rodney, captivity turns his life upside down. He meets Leanne. She is the girl who brings him his meals. And in her the unattractive young man, who has despaired of ever finding love, sees a person he could risk everything for.
The Maskeys is a thrilling and groundbreaking portrayal of the overlooked, both tender and incisive. From the author of the critically acclaimed Low Expectations.
]]>As an adult, Hilary becomes a successful novelist. In her fifties, she comes upon a stack of her old diaries, which document the trauma she's endured. She decides she is ready to face the hidden backstory of her life.
She embarks on writing a memoir, Hilary's Story, which will take her through her worst years and her best years, through courage and endurance, through friendship and great love.
The One Remaining is a captivating story of overcoming loss, finding the courage to trust those who believe in us, and the self-healing power of writing our stories.
'The One Remaining is a wise, beautiful and moving novel about the whole of a woman's life. I lived with the main character Hilary through her griefs, suffering and great joys. I cried as I read, then I wiped my eyes and smiled. McLean shows us how surviving loss and trauma is not linear or clear, but gives a depth and richness to life nonetheless.' Sophie Gee, The Secret Life of Books podcast
]]>During the police investigation that follows, Eleanor is traumatised to learn, that in 1975, Ida (her stepmother), worked as an Indonesian spy. She was supposedly responsible for the imprisonment and torture of hundreds of East Timorese resistance fighters and was also suspected of betraying the journalists known as the Balibo Five.
All Eleanor wants is to be left alone, but the past won't disappear. Wracked with guilt, and with the threat of a murder charge hanging over her head, she travels to East Timor seeking to discover the extent of Ida's involvement in these atrocities. Here, however, she must confront her own feelings of betrayal and the treacherous role played by both the Australian and Indonesian governments in their obsession with Timorese oil and gas.
'Rich with vivid detail and evocatively drawn, Revelation Beach is a compelling reckoning with a dark chapter in our past.' Mark Brandi, award-winning crime writer
'A literary page-turner for thriller lovers and everyone with an interest in Timor-Leste and Australia.' Tony Park, best-selling author of adventure thrillers
'Susan Francis has taken the tragic story of the Balibo Five as a starting point to create a psychologically intricate cross-cultural thriller with the superbly rendered Eleanor as its complex and unwilling protagonist. Reminiscent of Christopher Koch at his best.' Ed Wright, editor and critic
]]>He has plenty to work with. Pardoned convict Thomas Gunson knows the way through the wilderness and agrees to guide the faithful on a circuit of their struggling chapels, though he fears the company of people now that he's out of his shackles. Irish emigre Oona Farry, recruited as a candlemaker, resents the devotion of the women during their ecstatic praising, convinced that God has abandoned her for her lustful secrets. Even righteous hosts Jacob and Anne Temple harbour transgressions they dare not voice.
But when Californian preacher Charisma Groom stirs up unbridled repentance during a watchnight mass on the edge of wild country, illicit sex and sudden death come to light. The congregation is ordered to hunt the devil through the ancient Fish River Caves, a dangerous underworld where raptures more powerful than faith are awakened.
With nothing but his fledgling moral compass, Muncey must see through blind faith to uncover which member of the flock is a callous killer.
This is a bold reimagining of the untold story of the Methodist settlers who colonised Australia's renowned Jenolan Caves during the Frontier Wars.
]]>Michael's great-grandparents represent a broad cultural spectrum in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, including English, Scottish, and Irish migrants, as well as Mori heritage. He enjoys researching the diverse cultures that shaped the colonial landscape of the region. The thousands of steps he took through Jenolan Caves as a tour guide from 2008 to 2012 inspired him to create The Watchnight.
His complete works can be found at www.burgewords.com.
]]>The Japanese novel comes of age in this gripping story of love, art and life as a group of architects competes to design the new National Library of Modern Literature in Tokyo.
In 1980s Japan, newly-graduated Toru Sakanishi joins a small, prestigious architecture firm founded by a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. As the sweltering summer months approach, the team migrates from the bustling centre of Tokyo to the beautiful rural surroundings of Mount Asama, where several love stories are woven together and Sakanishi encounters four remarkable women who change the course of his life.
From honouring ancestors to illustrating the complexities of the living, Summer at Mount Asama is a prize-winning novel beautifully translated by National Book Award winner Margaret Mitsutani, offering a moving and elegant portrait of the clash of modernity and tradition.
'Packed with ideas about art, life, and love.' Kirkus Reviews
'The more I read, the more I fell in love with this beautiful novel.' Hiromi Kawakami
'Expertly-crafted.' Mariko Ozaki
]]>His debut novel, Summer at Mount Asama, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.
Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzabur e. She was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Award for her translation of Yoko Tawada's The Emissary.
]]>KONTRA enacts a poetics of clashing decadences, testing the tightrope between 'feminine' goodness and deviance, desire and refusal, reverence and repulsion. It casts a female gaze on the kontrabida a Filipina soap opera villain stuck in a rise-and-fall cycle. The poet reimagines the kontrabida as a figure driven not by revenge, but by wild desire. Oscillating in and out of character, Andrada navigates the tension between poet and persona. Alongside the shapeshifting, spectral force of the kontrabida, the poet invokes a chorus of voices to trace a lineage of opposition and the alternate futures it holds.
The collection is in the form of a narrative triptych. The opening section 'KONTRA' explores the power and fate of the oppositional figure. In 'OPER', two characters speak alongside each other to excise painful histories of domination and sexual assault; which moves us forward to the final section 'BIDA', to a more genuine, queer persona that is free from domination.
Praise for Eunice Andrada:
'Brilliant and devastating, TAKE CARE is no doubt one of the most important poetry releases in years, weaving complex themes with intelligence and innovation of form...A poet whose courage is necessary and whose words we all need.' Ellen van Neerven
'TAKE CARE is the live wire of poetry that does not spare us...each poem both a surrender and a severing, each page an urgent demand we do not look away from violence, from its banal to its most grotesque, and each word filled with as much purpose and energy as it is with tenderness and care.' Sara Saleh
]]>Austen fans will now be able to own her iconic novel as it was originally published by T. Egerton in London in 1813, in three gorgeous volumes, presented in an ornate clamshell case. This edition will also include reproductions of Austen letters from the Library's collection of her personal effects, as well as introductory notes by a lead curator.
]]>First published in 1886 and reprinted here with a bewitching introduction by Kirsty Logan, the spooky tales in this little book are guaranteed to send a tingle down your spine. Whatever you do, don't read them after midnight!
]]>Beautifully produced, carefully curated and timeless, this book is the perfect gift for anyone who likes to be haunted by ghost stories. Read it if you dare.
]]>This edition, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham and introduced by Jonathan Kruk, The Legend storyteller, reproduces Irving's original tale. First published in 1820, it became the inspiration for many adaptations ranging from silent film, animation and blockbuster movies to musicals and graphic novels. It is now inextricably associated with Halloween.
]]>ARTHUR RACKHAM (18671939) was a leading book illustrator of his generation.
JONATHAN KRUK is a storyteller based in New York State and the author of The Legends and Law of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley (2011).
]]>Rottgor is worn out. Literally. Barely held together by dark magic, he has protected the Necropolis for centuries. When he's forced into retirement, he's faced with a new challenge: to forge a future guided not by obligation, but by passion.
Following his heart (and stomach), he decides to open a restaurant where the city's undead and living residents can share food and community. He's helped in his quest by an unlikely assortment of neighbors, including elves, skeletons, vampires and a young orphan girl named Astra, whose ancestry, if discovered, could put her and the entire Necropolis in danger. To protect Astra and the life he's building, Rottgor must face his past and form new alliances built on friendship, loyalty, and love. As comforting as warm pumpkin bread, this gentle fantasy traces how even a dark history can rise into a bright future.
]]>It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilised. Meet the Shreds. Ollie is the sister in the spotlight until her stunning confidence becomes erratic and unpredictable, a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, believes in facts, proof and the empirical world. None of that explains what's happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the mental illness that will shatter Amy's carefully constructed life.
As Amy comes of age and seeks to find her place first in academia, then New York publishing, and through a series of troubled relationships every step brings collisions with Ollie, who slips in and out of the Shred family without warning. Yet for all that threatens their sibling bond, Amy and Ollie cannot escape or deny the inextricable sister knot that binds them.
Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring the fierce complexities of sisterhood, mental health, loss and love.
]]>In this world, half-remembered traditions mix with decadence and an awful lot of small dead animals. And sometimes, not just animals. When Tommo's friend Johnnie's brother is found dead, a shotgun at his feet, he realises there are secrets that everyone knows, but no one speaks about, or even acknowledges. And those secrets can no longer be hidden.
'Keeps the outrageous laughs and twists comingin equal measure' Alexander Larman,The Observer
'Darkly funny as Saltburn, but with kilts' Val McDermid
'Rabbits is an instantly compelling novel; it is simultaneously poignant, peculiar, tragic, and very, very funny. Highly recommended' Sathnam Sanghera
]]>And thus, Ines Camargo the youngest daughter of an Italian nobleman and a Colombian poet begins to speak in a bitter, sweet voice.
Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Colombia, where the Catholic Church exercises total control over women, Orange Wine weaves an unforgettable story of sisterhood, love, passion, and betrayal. Isolated in a society that opposes her desires, Ines struggles with her identity as a mother, artist, sister, lover, and woman. Her choices are stark: accept her duty to her family or embark on a sensuous journey of self-discovery. Each path will cost her or those she loves something dear.
Mirroring the alchemical process of turning oranges into wine, Ines must create a new life from a bitter pith, pressing sweetness from life's agonies as she struggles toward artistic freedom and feminine awakening.
]]>Reeling from her father's death, Zara Pines accepts a ghostwriting gig for celebrity chef Jane Bailey. Jane, star of the wildly popular cooking show 30 Bucks Tops, insists that Zara spend the summer with her in her East Hampton home.
As the two women create Jane's book, their attachment grows stronger. Zara, who's lost and searching for an identity, finds one in the shadow of Jane. She starts wearing Jane's clothes, speaking like her, and adopting her mannerisms. Eventually, the line between the ghostwriter and the subject blurs, and Zara starts to see the side Jane keeps hidden from the cameras.
This dark and twisty novel about fame, lies, and obsession will make even the most openhearted reader question how safe it is to trust the people they admire.
'A deliciously twisted love story that sneakily upends your expectations at every turn; a candy apple with a razor blade hidden inside.' Graham Moore, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game
]]>A Treasury of Norse Mythology is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark.
]]>H. A. Guerber was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, in 1859. With the exception of her education, for which she went to Paris, France, she lived most of her adult life in New Jersey, where she died in 1929. A teacher by profession, Guerber devoted her life to educating her fellow citizens about European literary and cultural history through the publication of about three dozen books on a vast array of topics ranging from famous operas to Jewish history to Shakespeares plays.
]]>A Treasury of Greek Mythology is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark.
]]>Set against a backdrop of Australia's central deserts, The Dingo's Noctuary explores themes of identity, belonging, and the fragile threads that connect all living beings. At the heart of the tale is a soul's dark night, the flight of a lady motorcyclist, in the prime of her invisibility, and her mongrel dingo Moon, into the Tanami desert. She's searching for a caravan of miraculous dog-headed beings, glimpsed in dreams and the dementia tales of an old desert lady.
The Dingo's Noctuary is an illustrated verse novel, complete at 70,500 words. It includes accurate hand drawn maps of the Australian central deserts, pressings of rare plants, and forty-seven lumachrome glass prints, afterlife portraits of animals and birds. The story unfolds through combinations of poetry and prose, alongside visual images- maps of land and stars, plant pressings, and forty-seven afterlife portraits of animals and birds. It is a single-authored book in which the images and texts are equally weighted. The book was written over thirty-seven desert crossings, sometimes on the motorcycle with the dog on the back. The entire second half of the book was written on a typewriter after a motorcycle crash (the unsuccessful 37th crossing) left me unable to use a computer. I made a motorcycle blog about one of the journeys in this book here https://judithnangalacrispin.medium.com.
Work from The Dingo's Noctuary has received a number of awards and prizes including the 2023 Sunshine Coast Art Prize and the 2020 Blake Prize for Poetry. It was highly commended in the 2023 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize and shortlisted for the 2023 Milburn Art Prize, the 2023 and 2025 Ravenswood Prizes for Australian Women's Art, and the 2019 Olive Cotton Prize. Images and texts from this book were included in the Lunar Codex time-capsule which was deposited on the moon as part of the Blue Ghost mission in 2024. A mock-up of the complete book was shortlisted for the 2023 Arles Luma Recontres Dummy Book Prize.
]]>In this visionary collection, A. Frances Johnson's cautionary threnodies muse on environmental depletion, colonial dispossession and personal loss. These poems deftly criticise enduring theme-park notions of the natural in spheres poetic, and beyond.
]]>In this surprising and poignant story, four strangers meet on a journey from Edinburgh to London. Each has a tale of love and of railways: for Mark, a brief encounter on a railway platform leads to an impulsive and possibly dangerous decision; Kay recounts the long journey back to her childhood home in Australia and the love that was there; David remembers a teenage friendship that faded into love; and Michael makes a discovery that art and people may not be what they seem to be at first glance.
These are very different experiences, but throughout them all runs a deep current of love. And loving others, as one of the characters observes, is the good thing we do in our lives.
'writing as warm as cocoa exceedingly good' The Times
]]>When the owner of the patisserie is killed, Hannah is suspected of murdering her business rival. Her friend, Emily, is determined to clear Hannah's name. She seems to be facing an impossible task...until her little dog Poppy makes a surprising discovery.
]]>When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a significant amount of money under the guise of 'freelance work', Roisin thinks her luck might finally be changing. But Claire's proposal is not all it seems, and soon Roisin finds herself trapped. Paralysed by both her intense infatuation with Eve and her secret arrangement with Claire, Roisin must walk a delicate line to avoid losing what matters to her most.
'Everything about this book is alive. I inhaled it' Maria Sledmere, author and critic
'A spry tale of friendship and desire, best inhaled in a single sitting.Summer Hoursis astute, funny, and fizzing with life' Malachy Tallack
'Alessandra's writing is bothvivid and compelling, combining raconteurial warmth with sharpness, poise and an enviable instinct for rhythm' Daisy Lafarge
]]>There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each person in New York wakes up on an unfamiliar block when the buildings all switch locations overnight. The power grid has snapped, thousands of residents are missing, and the Empire State Building is on Coney Island for now. The next night, it happens again.
Esme Green and Arjun Varma work for the City of New York's Emergency Management team and are tasked with disaster response for the Unmapping. As Esme tries to wade through the bureaucratic nightmare of an endlessly shuffling city, she's distracted by the ongoing search for her missing fiance. Meanwhile, Arjun focuses on the ground-level rescue of disoriented New Yorkers, hoping to become the hero the city needs.
While scientists scramble to find a solution or at least a means to cope and mysterious 'red cloak' cults crop up in the disaster's wake, New York begins to reckon with a new reality no one recognises. For Esme and Arjun, the fight to hold the city together will mean tackling questions about themselves that they were too afraid to ask and facing answers they never expected. With themes of climate change, political unrest, and life in a state of emergency, The Unmapping is a timely and captivating debut.
]]>When a dilapidated distillery comes up for sale in rural Kintyre, Eilidh and her wife Morag jump at the chance. But their ambition to run the first women-owned whisky distillery in Scotland seems to be scuppered when a grisly, decades-old secret is revealed: two dead bodies have been stuffed into barrels, perfectly preserved in single malt.
To add to their woes, a TV crew has just arrived and the townsfolk will not leave them alone. Eilidh becomes obsessed with solving the murders while juggling whisky tastings, ceilidhs, protests and scandals everything you'd expect from a wee Scottish town imprisoned by its own geography. And no matter how hard you try, the locals will always find out your secrets.
]]>A visit to Glasgow for a job interview in 1931 unexpectedly places Cuthbert at the centre of a devastating crime. Unwittingly, he finds himself working at the intersection between rising British fascism, anti-Semitism and the infamous Glasgow razor gangs. To solve the case, Cuthbert needs to rely on all the expertise he can gather from those around him. But who can he trust?
]]>Welcoming a fresh roster of seaside spectres, tin-mine terrors and holiday haunters, this return to the bountiful fold of Cornish horror fiction features more lost classics from Victorian periodicals alongside atmospheric tales from the great twentieth-century writers of the Cornish weird such as Mary Williams, Mary Butts and Sabine Baring-Gould.
]]>Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the region in a journey through mines, local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the railway and tourism.
With stories by Gothic luminaries such as Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe, this new collection also features chilling yarns of the haunted peninsula from a host of underappreciated writers from the past two centuries.
]]>Though best known today as the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, this new volume aims to foreground his contribution to the early weird tale, including some of his most classic stories alongside a number rescued from rare periodicals of the early twentieth century.
]]>James Machin is a researcher of British weird fiction, and editor of Handheld Press's British Weird anthology. He has worked with the John Buchan Society to promote Buchan's weird and uncanny fiction, and included a chapter on Buchan in his monograph Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880-1939.
]]>From misty moors, crags and clifftops comes a hoard of eighteen strange tales gathered by Johnny Mains, award-winning anthologist and editor of the British Library anthology Celtic Weird. Sourced from Scotland's storied literary heritage and bustling with witches, ghosts, devils and merfolk, this selection celebrates the works of treasured Scottish writers such as John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy K. Haynes and Neil M. Gunn alongside rare pieces by lesser-known authors including two tales translated from Scots Gaelic.
Brooding in the borderlands where strange folklore, bizarre mythology and twentieth-century hauntings meet, this volume promises chills and shivers as keen and fresh as the wind-whipped wilds of Scotland.
]]>Another of the series' popular anthologies celebrating forgotten classics and material not printed since its original publication. Perfect bitesize holiday reading for the Classic Crime enthusiast and the casual sleuther alike, featuring mysteries focused on British holidays and abroad.
]]>An Oxford Master is slain on campus during Pentecost. A headmaster faces off in a deadly battle of wits with a disgruntled parent. A sixth-form public school prank courts a murderous consequence.
In this new anthology theft, blackmail, murder and mystery run amok through the hush of the university library, the cacophonies of school corridors and the simmering tensions of the staff room. Delving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of fifteen masterful short stories.
With a cohort of writers including Dorothy L. Sayers, Ethel Lina White, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin, this new anthology offers a selection of classics and rarities to provide a rewarding education in the beguiling art of mystery writing.
]]>Japan's master storyteller Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) wrote more than 150 short stories. Widely regarded as 'the Father of the Japanese short story', he blended modern sensibilities with timeless themes to profound effect.
This new anthology offers the most comprehensive collection of Akutagawa's work ever published in English. It features fresh translations of his most celebrated stories alongside many lesser-known and never-before-translated pieces:
An essential volume for every serious reader of Japanese literature and a captivating introduction to one of the world's great literary voices.
]]>Richard Medhurst was born in the UK and lives in Yokohama. His translation of Akutagawa's An Odd Tale was published in Kyoto Journal in 2018, and his translation of Eiji Suzuki's Lingering Fragrance was published in the anthology Strokes of Brush and Blade (Kurodahan Press, 2018). He has worked as a translator, editor and writer for the online magazine Nippon.com for over a decade, specialising in literature and history. He has also written a popular series of articles about studying Japanese which have received tens of thousands of page views. His article on Japan's 72 microseasons helped popularise the concept in the English-speaking world.
]]>Sseki Natsume is Japan's most popular writer, well known in the West for his satirical novels like I Am a Cat, Botchan and Kokoro. However, he first made a name for himself in Japan as a poet, publishing hundreds of haiku over a period of several decades. Until now very few of these have appeared in English.
Sseki Natsume's Collected Haiku presents 1,000 of the author's most famous verses, selected and translated by Erik Lofgren, a leading Sseki expert. The poems are grouped into chapters corresponding to the five traditional Japanese seasons (New Year's, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter).
In these poems, Sseki explores themes ranging from wabi sabi Zen simplicity to his personal experiences including several years studying in England. His verses are evocative of the splendor of the natural world, the power of human emotions, and the serenity found in living a peaceful life.
Each poem is presented in the original Japanese with a Romanised version and English translation. Audio recordings of the English and Japanese versions are provided online.
]]>Erik Lofgren is Professor of East Asian Studies at Bucknell University where he teaches classes on Japanese language, literature, and film. He has published several works on the poetry of Umezaki Haruo, works of fiction by Furui Yoshikichi and Ooka Shohei, and the films Rashomon and Shin Gojira.
]]>A chance encounter irrevocably links a university student to an older man he simply calls Sensei ('Teacher'). Intrigued by Sensei's aloofness, the student visits him with increasing frequency, and Sensei and his beautiful wife eventually open their home and lives to him. The student graduates and is called home to care for his dying father, but Sensei draws him back with a letter revealing a secret that has shadowed him since youth.
Written in 1914, toward the end of Soseki's career, Kokoro provides a timeless psychological analysis of man's alienation from society. It is recognized as one of his most important works and a milestone in the emergence of the psychological novel in Japan. Its universal themes of friendship, betrayal and the struggle for meaning in a rapidly changing world continue to resonate today.
]]>Edwin McClellan was a leading scholar, translator and professor of Japanese literature at Yale University. He is noted for his translations of Soseki's Kokoro and Grass on the Wayside, and is the author of Two Japanese Novelists: Soseki and Toson. He was awarded the Noma Prize for literary translation and the Japanese government's Order of the Rising Sun.
J. Keith Vincent teaches Japanese literature at Boston University, where he also directs the MFA Program in Literary Translation. His translations include A Riot of Goldfish by Kanoko Okamoto, Devils in Daylight by Junichiro Tanizaki, and Soseki's novel Michikusa, forthcoming from Tuttle.
]]>The Art of War is one of the world's great masterpieces presenting timeless strategies that are as important in the boardroom as on the battlefield. Now, experience Sun Tzu's classic as never before in this riveting graphic novel brimming with battles, betrayals and political intrigues.
The book recounts the conflict between the kingdom of Wu as they plot to attack the far more powerful state of Chu, with both leaders navigating internal plots and power struggles that will forever alter the fate of China. The fascinating accounts in this book include:
Sun Tzu's Art of War brings to life not only the tactical brilliance of Sun Tzu's teachings but also the human drama behind them the ambition, sacrifice and the relentless pursuit of victory.
]]>Takashi Momonari is a manga artist from Narita, Japan. He has illustrated several best-selling manga including The Rise and Fall of the Three Kingdoms and a two-part biography of Sun Tzu.
Yoshihiro Watanabe is a professor in the School of Culture, Media and Society at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.
]]>Called The Mediterranean Flower for its beauty, Split has a complex history that is perhaps best explored within a mystery. In 1989, beautiful Silva doesn't come home. Young cop Gorki Sain discovers that she isn't what she seemed she dabbled in drugs and dealt in heroin. But Gorki soon finds himself out of a job as Yugoslavia plunges into a fratricidal war. Silva's brother stubbornly continues the search amid the upheavals of Croatian society, from the fall of communism through the 1991-1995 war. The former cop returns to solve the 30-year-old mystery in a different role, one less than ethically tied to toxic land speculation and corruption that comes with the tourist boom on the Dalmatian Coast.
'A masterpiece.' Liberation
'As inspiring as the Swedes Maj Sjwall and Per Wahl. Pavii brilliantly resorts to thenoir novel to accompany ordinary lives caught in the collapse of communism, the rise of nationalism and the shock of wars.' Le Monde
'The city of Split is more than a setting, almost a character. A tourist mirage in the summer, the Croatian port is confronted, out of season, with the aftermath of war, deindustrialization, and all kinds of depravity. Beyond the family drama and the police investigation, the metamorphosis of Croatia interests Pavii.' Telerama
]]>Matt Robinson, born in the UK in 1978, lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Formerly a foreign correspondent with Reuters, he now works as a freelance editor and literary translator. Red Water is the second novel he has translated.
]]>The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib's luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.
'A densely imagined and beautifully written debut.' Sydney Morning Herald
'With her compassion for an old, vanished world and her exceptional eye for the bruised landscape of the modern Middle East, Al-Nakib should be heralded as an exciting new literary voice.' The National
]]>After the sudden death of his father, Jordan Pearce reluctantly takes over the family's generations-old oyster-farming business on Louisiana's Gulf Coast. He's still adjusting to the new role when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes offshore, triggering one of the worst environmental disasters in history and throwing his hardscrabble coastal town into crisis.
While looking after his distressed mother, Jordan struggles to keep the company afloat and is forced to seek help from his estranged brother, Benny, a beatnik musician living in New Orleans. In the face of impending tragedy, this small community searches for a way forward, just as the fractured Pearce family, finally reunited under one roof, must find the hope and courage to save their legacy.
'The complex characters and the lovingly described Louisiana setting bring this eco-tragedy sympathetically to life. Recommended to readers of issue-oriented fiction such as Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations and Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead.' Booklist
]]>Hara Duja Gatdula, queen of the island nation of Maynara, holds the divine power to move the earth. But her strength is failing and the line of succession gives her little comfort. Her heir, Laya, is a danger a petty and passionate princess who wields the enormous power of the skies with fickle indifference. Circling the throne is Imeria Kulaw the matriarch of a traitorous rival family who wields recklessly enhanced powers of her own with designs to secure a high-ranking position for her son and claim the crown for her family. Each woman has a secret weakness a lover, a heartbreak, a lie. But each is willing to pay the steepest price to bring down her rivals once and for all.
Filled with passion, romance, betrayal, and divine magic, Black Salt Queen journeys to a gorgeous precolonial island nation where women and secrets reign.
]]>After nine years as the people's beloved princess in the sun-soaked Kingdom of Carca, Vita witnesses the execution of her mother by her father's hand. Forced into exile, Vita fades into obscurity with her only friends the crows that visit her window.
Eleven years later, Vita is given a choice: marry an enemy general, granting him legitimacy to take the throne, or die as the forgotten princess. With time running out, Vita meets Soline, an intriguing lady-in-waiting who introduces her to the powerful-but-unstable magic of alchemy.
If Vita and Soline can learn to control it and the undeniable spark between them they could burn the world of men to the ground.
]]>Shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title
Siew Li leaves her husband and young children to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency, while Siew Li's son uncovers the truth of his family's past. Informed by years of painstaking research, Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist movements and political detentions in Singapore and Malaysia. It follows an extended family from the 1940s to the present day as they navigate the choppy political currents of the region. State of Emergency questions whether we can grasp the truth after the fact. And yet, in the very telling of its interlocking stories, it reaffirms the importance of trying.
'State of Emergency is a compelling, important piece of work from one of Singapore's finest living authors.' The Straits Times
]]>The flight from New York to Cairo is long longer still for two siblings on a journey to bury their mother. When they discover their father's unforgivable betrayal, what's left of their family crumbles.
Hannah gives up her spot at Columbia Law to remain in Egypt, where she navigates romantic entanglements and a new culture. Back in America, Zain's self-destructive behaviour begins to catch up with him, leaving him to wonder whether he's any different from his father.
When the siblings reunite in Cairo months later, Zain is nearing rock bottom, and Hannah finds herself in the middle of the Arab Spring uprising. Together they confront shared secrets and reconcile their conservative upbringing with their new beliefs as adults. Will they heal together, or has the loss of their only bridge their mother set them permanently adrift?
A tender reflection on the effects of grief and loss, this deeply felt novel explores how siblings come together to mend a fractured family and, in the process, find themselves.
]]>A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers' homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.
In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.
'Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, Be Gay, Do Crime is an EVENT.' Ruth Madievsky, author of All Night Pharmacy
]]>Anna Dorn is the author of the novels Perfume Pain, Exalted, and Vagablonde. Exalted was nominated for an L.A. Times Book Prize. Her next book American Spirits is forthcoming for Simon and Schuster. She lives in Los Angeles.
Aurora Mattia was born in Hong Kong and lives in Texas. Her first book, The Fifth Wound, is published by Nightboat Books. Her second book, Unsex Me Here, is published by Coffee House Press. Her stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Prairie Schooner, SPASM, Joyland, and elsewhere; and also in exhibitions at the RISD Museum and the Renaissance society, accompanying portraits by Elle Perez. She's working on a new novel called Seven Come Eleven, and writing some country songs.
Emily R. Austin is the author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space, and the poetry collection, Gay Girl Prayers. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and has received two writing grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. She currently lives in Ottawa, in the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.
francesca ekwuyasi is a learner, artist and storyteller born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was awarded the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2022 for her debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). Butter Honey Pig Bread was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Dublin Literary Award.Butter Honey Pig Bread placed second on CBC's Canada Reads: Canada's Annual Battle of the Books, where it was selected as one of five contenders in 2021 for 'the one book that all of Canada should read'. She is co-author of Curious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements, a multi-genre collaborative book with Roger Mooking. francesca was Queens University's 2023 Carolyn Smart Writer in Residence, her writing has appeared in the Malahat Review, Transition Magazine, Room Magazine, Brittle Paper, the Ex-Puritan, C-Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Canadian Art, Chatelain and elsewhere. Her short story run is Heaven was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize.
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of essays, short stories, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the author of Helen House (Burrow Press 2022), a queer horror novelette. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle and the managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus, and others. She was a 2021 nonfiction fellow and a 2023 speculative fiction writer in residence at Lambda Literary's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. She is a 2023-2024 Tin House Reading Fellow.
Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner, creative writing tutor and author of the novel Bad Love, which won the 2021 Betty Trask award, and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize. Her short stories have been published in Not Quite Right For Us (Flipped Eye Publishing), New Australian Fiction 2020 (Kill Your Darlings), and Joyful, Joyful (Pan Macmillan). Maame is a recipient of the 2022 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and was a 2022 POCC Artist-in-Residence. She contributes regularly to Royal Literary Fund publication Writers Mosaic and her writing has appeared in many places including Refinery29, The Independent and iNews. Her second novel The Rest Of You will be published by Amistad (US) and Verve Books (UK) in Autumn 2024.
Marisa (Mac) Crane is a queer, nonbinary writer. Their debut novel, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, was a January Indie Next Pick and NYT Editors' Choice. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, The Offing, Joyland, No Tokens, Florida Review, Passages North, Lit Hub, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere, and their second novel, A Sharp Endless Need, is forthcoming from Dial Press in March 2025.
Myriam Gurba is the author of several books. Her most recent essay collection, Creep: Accusations and Confessions, is a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. Her writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Paris Review and the Believer. She enjoys solving crossword puzzles and binge watching Real Housewives.
Myriam Lacroix was born in Montreal to a Quebecois mother and a Moroccan father, and currently lives in Vancouver. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was editor in chief of Salt Hill Journal and received the New York Public Humanities Fellowship for creating Out-Front, an LGBTQ+ writing group whose goal was to expand the possibilities of queer writing.
Priya Guns wrote Your Driver is Waiting.
Sam Cohen is the author of Sarahland. Her fiction also appears in Bomb, Fence, O Magazine, Electric Literature, and others.
SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author of two literary novels (Marriage of a Thousand Lies, which won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award; and Blue-Skinned Gods, which was an Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), two graphic novels (Shakti and Tall Water), and one collection of short stories (The Goth House Experiment). Sindu holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University and is a co-editor for Zero Street, a literary fiction series featuring LGBTQ+ authors through the University of Nebraska Press. Sindu is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. More at sjsindu.com or @sjsindu on Twitter/Instagram/Threads.
Soula Emmanuel was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Greek father. She studied at universities in Ireland and Sweden, emerging with a master's in economic demography. In 2023, her debut novel Wild Geese was published by Footnote Press and the Feminist Press at CUNY. She currently lives on Ireland's east coast and is working on a second novel.
Temim Fruchter is a queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete's Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, City of Laughter, is out now from Grove Atlantic.
Works by Venita Blackburn have appeared in the New Yorker, NY Times, Harper's, McSweeney's, Story Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and several Pushcart prize nominations. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, in 2017. In 2018 she earned a place as a finalist for the PEN/Bingham award for debut fiction, finalist for the NYPL Young Lions award and was recipient of the PEN America Los Angeles literary prize in fiction. Blackburn's second collection of stories is How to Wrestle a Girl, 2021, finalist for a Lambda Literary Prize and was a NYTimes editor's choice. Her debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is about the mania of grief, all of human history and a lesbian assassin at the end of the world. She is the founder and president of Live, Write, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color: livewriteworkshop.com. Her hometown is Compton, California, and she is an associate professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno.
]]>A middle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men she meets on dating sites. A girl buries pieces of herself in a hole beneath an apple tree, hoping to escape her mother's life of struggle and servitude. A group of teenage girls compete for the title of 'Worst Girl in America.' A young woman in Taiwan becomes infatuated with a female scam caller, a fleeting ghost of a love that blossoms from strangeness. And a wealthy woman goes to unconventional, and perhaps not entirely ethical, lengths to find her dream man.
In these sixteen stories, we see women at their most monstrous - as con artists and murderers, cutthroats and scalpers, ruled by ambition and grief and spite. Characters for those tired of being told to play nice. Dressed to the nines in morally gray, the stories in this anthology comprise an envelope full of teeth: each one distinct, unsettling, and sharp enough to rip out a throat.
List of contributors: Alice Ash, Alicia Elliott, Alison Rumfitt, Aliya Whiteley, Amanda Leduc, Chana Porter, Chantal V. Johnson, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, Lauren Groff, Maisy Card, Megan Giddings, Sarah Rose Etter, Vanessa Chan, Yah Yah Scholfield
]]>Kristel Buckley is an editor, publicist and former publisher from the Big Smoke! She is more than happy to talk your ear off about the unfaithful representation of women in history, and her passion is a more equitable, inclusive future for all stories from all voices.
]]>Along the way Magnolia Din-Olden realises the road to the outback leads to an inland empire of mystery and terror. The result is an enthralling tale that fuses myth and folklore in a timeless landscape.
]]>Meet James Bond, the world's most famous spy, in these landmark 70th anniversary reissues of Ian Fleming's classic series.
In the novel that introduced James Bond to the world, Ian Fleming's agent 007 is dispatched to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux. His mission? Bankrupt a ruthless Russian agent who's been on a bad luck streak at the baccarat table. 'Le Chiffre', has been a prime target of the British Secret Service for years. If Bond can wipe out his bankroll, Le Chiffre will likely be 'retired' by his paymasters in Moscow. But what if the cards won't cooperate?
Taut, tense, and effortlessly stylish, Ian Fleming's inaugural James Bond adventure has all the hallmarks that made the series a touchstone for a generation of readers.
'It was 1953 and it was very remarkable for the time, because Bond was so cruel. He's horribly tortured in the book and there are some very grim moments in it. But I also think it's Fleming's best writing. It wings along it's very hard to stop reading. It's also brilliant at place. He manages to summon up the smoky stench of a casino in a way that no one else has ever managed to do.' Ben Macintyre
]]>Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England though his wealth can't be found in banks. He's been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and it's attracted the suspicion of 007's superiors at MI6. Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well as Goldfinger's most daring caper yet: Operation Grand Slam, a gold heist so audacious it could bring down the world economy and put the fate of the West in the hands of SMERSH. To stop Goldfinger, Bond will have to survive a showdown with the sinister millionaire's henchman, Oddjob, a tenacious karate master who can kill with one well-aimed toss of his razor-rimmed bowler hat.
'If you have never read a Bond novel in your life, read Goldfinger.Fleming was at the height of his powers with Goldfinger and had learned how to dash off a compelling story. He had also perfected a formula perfect for the dark days of the Cold War.' Wesley Wark
]]>His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and introduced James Bond, Special Agent 007, to the world. The first print run sold out within a month. Following this initial success, he published a Bond title every year until his death. The Bond novels have sold more than 100 million copies and inspired a hugely successful film franchise which began in 1962 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007.
]]>An international diamond-smuggling pipeline has opened up and the British Treasury wants to know who's controlling it. Impersonating a captured courier named Peter Franks, Bond infiltrates the criminal ring and finds an unlikely ally in Tiffany Case. As the ring's stateside go-between, she may be just another link in the chain, but Tiffany is also Bond's best shot at finding the elusive figure at the head of the operation a syndicate boss known only by the initials 'ABC'. But if Bond's cover gets blown, he'll find that the only thing harder than a diamond is surviving the payback of a pair of murderous henchmen.
With a sparkling trail of smuggled gems as bait, Diamonds Are Forever leads Bond on a globe-hopping mission where deadly assassins lurk behind every corner.
]]>His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and introduced James Bond, Special Agent 007, to the world. The first print run sold out within a month. Following this initial success, he published a Bond title every year until his death. The Bond novels have sold more than 100 million copies and inspired a hugely successful film franchise which began in 1962 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007.
]]>In the ground-breaking first novel of Ian Fleming's classic series, James Bond is dispatched to a French casino for an unforgettable and possibly lethal game of baccarat.
This prestige hardback features bonus content as well as brand new cover art by legendary designer Michael Gillette.
]]>His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and introduced James Bond, Special Agent 007, to the world. The first print run sold out within a month. Following this initial success, he published a Bond title every year until his death. The Bond novels have sold more than 100 million copies and inspired a hugely successful film franchise which began in 1962 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007.
]]>From the jazz joints of Harlem to the shark-infested waters of Jamaica, James Bond takes on the feared Mr Big and his criminal empire.
This prestige hardback features bonus content as well as brand new cover art by legendary designer Michael Gillette.
]]>His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and introduced James Bond, Special Agent 007, to the world. The first print run sold out within a month. Following this initial success, he published a Bond title every year until his death. The Bond novels have sold more than 100 million copies and inspired a hugely successful film franchise which began in 1962 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007.
]]>A woman on the run meets two hardened killers during one nightmarish night in the Adirondack Mountains. With time running out, can Bond save Vivienne and himself?
This prestige hardback features bonus content as well as brand new cover art by legendary designer Michael Gillette.
]]>His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and introduced James Bond, Special Agent 007, to the world. The first print run sold out within a month. Following this initial success, he published a Bond title every year until his death. The Bond novels have sold more than 100 million copies and inspired a hugely successful film franchise which began in 1962 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007.
]]>Meet 007, England's last hope to thwart a deadly plan to turn the Coronation of King Charles III into a state funeral. If M can count on anyone can save the day, it's Bond, James Bond.
2 DAYS UNTIL THE CORONATION
Meet England's worst nightmare. His name is thelstan of Wessex, who has declared himself the rightful heir to the throne and plans to rewrite the course of history. And with a private army backing him, he might just succeed.
Charlie Higson, the author of the bestselling Young Bond series, returns to the world of James Bond for this blockbuster adventure of deception, where the future of the country hangs in the balance.
]]>The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where the malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China is collaborating with the ex-Nazi commander, Von Richter, in planning a world-dominating conspiracy. Bond's allies the beautiful, brown-haired Greek agent, Ariadne Alexandrou; along with a tough-as-nails former World War II resistance fighter are quickly neutralised by the venomous Colonel Sun. Alone and unarmed, faces off against these two nefarious villains.
Stripped of all professional aids, James Bond faces the deadly devices of Colonel Sun and his Nazi cohort in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical abilities.
]]>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.
]]>*Longlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award 2020*
She hasn't seen her brother in years. Now, he's dead.
When Judi Westerholme finds out her estranged brother has been murdered, she assumes it's connected to his long term drug addiction. Returning home, she is shocked to discover he had been clean for years, had a wife - now missing - a child and led a respectable life. But if he had turned his life around, why was he killed in a drug deal shooting? And where is his wife?
Desperate to know what really happened, Judi sets out to uncover the truth, even though it means confronting her own traumatic past. But she's not the only one looking for answers...
She turned her back on her brother before. Should she trust him now?
With a gutsy, unapologetic protagonist, Trust Me, I'm Dead is a gritty and bold crime thriller that explores the sacrifices people will make for their families.
'Trust Me, I'm Dead, is fast paced, well structured, twists and turns on almost every page some brutal, some tender, and hallelujah, Clark follows the great rule of writing crime novels.Keep the suspense level high make the reader wait. Halfway through I nearly flipped to the end but I restrained myself.Trust Me, I'm Deadis confident, funny, full of surprises. Highly recommended.'- Renee Taylor, author of The Wild Card and These Two Hands
]]>Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed, she's just about coping in her new role as foster parent to her orphaned niece, taking a job at the local pub to help make ends meet. Then the pub's landlord and Judi's friend, army veteran Pete 'Macca' Maccasfield, is murdered, and her world is suddenly turned upside down.
Despite warnings from the city police to keep out of it, Judi can't help but get involved in the search for Macca's killer. But she soon becomes deeply entangled with some ruthlessly dangerous men. She must act fast and think smart to work out what they want - before anyone else gets hurt... Long buried secrets resurface in Sherryl Clark's pacey crime novel that pushes Judi Westerholme to her limits to protect the people she loves most.
]]>Already struggling to juggle co-running the local pub with her childcare responsibilities for her orphaned niece, Judi does not need life to become any more complicated.
Yet, as usual, complications arrive in spades: she starts receiving threatening, late-night phone calls before discovering one of her employees, Kate, shot dead.
Judi finds herself caught up in a murder investigation, as well as the hunt for the Kate's fourteen-year-old daughter, who has been missing since the murder.
Add in the uncertainty of her relationship with Melbourne-based DS Heath and the fact that her estranged mother's nursing home keeps urging her to visit, and Judi might finally be at breaking point.
]]>In her humorous and emotionally resonant debut, Emma Smith-Stevens follows the exploits and evolution of a young man known only as 'the Australian' over the course of a dozen years, from his time posing for tourist photos as Superman to his life in New York, chasing fame and fortune. Married to a woman he barely knows and struggling to forge a relationship with his son, the Australian travels between the US and Melbourne, seeking to reconnect with his deceased parents through his father's Australian Outdoor Geographic magazines and the Dreaming Tracks, sacred landmarks his mother longed to explore.
Through this quest for self-discovery, the Australian becomes both more and less enigma: 'the idea of this guy you could find in any city, a hostel anywhere in the world, smiling, suntanned, hauling a backpack.' A poignant and at times satirical meditation on masculinity, fatherhood, isolation, New York City, fame, and loss, The Australian examines the human tendency to fall in love with the idea of another person and the importance of knowing one's essential nature.
]]>These accounts of living in and emerging from the dark wrestle with the angel of language. Suffering does not preclude humour and may, in fact, require it, in poems written from the shadows but committed to the light. This work refuses to keep pain a secret. Shame is a lurking presence.
Gwyneth Lewis has won wide acclaim for her versatile and varied writing across genres, most notably in her award-winning poetry in both English and Welsh. This book shows a deepening of her technical, imaginative and intellectual resources which are challenged and exercised to the full. The poems map uneasy terrains with realism and most importantly with joy.
'The bracing latest collection from Welsh poet Lewis traces an arc from the trauma of maternal abuse...through aftershocks of chronic illness, self-harm, and shame...to recovery ("I am found"). Her lines both stun and revive, moving between Plathian imagery... and disarming candor ("Underneath, I'm a bit of a sweetie"). The collection radiates hard-won self-possession... Readers will enjoy discovering this writer of extraordinary gifts.' Publishers Weekly, starred review of First Rain in Paradise
]]>In this vulnerable meditation, aja monet reflects on her migration to South Florida in search of love, connection, and belonging, unearthing the delicate balance between the poet, lover, and community organiser. These poems lay bare the tender dance of relationships, entwining the personal with the political, as they confront the state's fractured history of racial prejudice, marooned peoples, and the unruly forces of nature.
In Florida Water, each poem is an artifact an offering from her time spent wading through the rising tides of climate change, heartbreak, and systemic violence. With each line, monet immerses us deeper into the water, where the currents of memory, struggle, and survival pull us toward both despair and hope.
]]>Finalist, 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Winner, Dutch Literature Prize
Winner, P. C. Hooft Award
On a Woman's Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her own choosing. When her abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request for divorce, Noenka flees her hometown in Suriname, on South America's tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo. Unsettled and unsupported, her life in this new place is illuminated by romance and new freedoms, but also forever haunted by her past and society's expectations.
Strikingly translated by Lucy Scott, Astrid Roemer's classic queer novel is a tentpole of European and post-colonial literature. And amid tales of plantation-dwelling snakes, rare orchids, and star-crossed lovers, it is also a blistering meditation on the cruelties we inflict on those who disobey. Roemer, the first Surinamese winner of the prestigious Dutch Literature Prize, carves out postcolonial Suriname in barbed, resonant fragments. Who is Noenka? Roemer asks us. 'I'm Noenka,' she responds resolutely, 'which means "Never Again."'
]]>Lucy Scott is a translator of Caribbean literature written in Dutch and French. Her short story and essay translations thus far have appeared in Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review and in Wilderness House Literary Review. She's the translator of Astrid Roemer's On a Woman's Madness and Off-White.
]]>From the author of Happy Stories, Mostly and Sergius Seeks Bacchus. Their first work originally written in English.
My Dream Job is a tender playground of intellect and wit where entire worlds collide: the English and Toba Batak languages; Christian and Batak mythology; colonial violence past and present. In a voice playful, daring and not pursuing legibility above all else, Pasaribu writes the ultimate eulogy for a postcolonial dream.
]]>In a company run by the mysterious Mr Tei, strange things are afoot incense sticks lead to a surprise encounter; a young man reflects on his mother's death; a foxlike woman finally finds her true calling. As female ghosts appear in unexpected guises, their gently humorous encounters with unsuspecting humans lead to deeper questions about emancipation and recent changes in Japanese women's lives.
]]>Winner, English PEN Translates Award
'What a life! She didn't like being here, and she didn't like going there.'
Mehar dreams of freedom and a life with her children. Asiya dreams of her daughter's happiness. Sajida dreams of becoming a doctor. Subaida dreams of the day when her family will become free of woes. Parveen dreams of a little independence, a little space for herself in the world. Mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, neighbours...
In this tiny Muslim village in Tamil Nadu, the lives of these women are sustained by the faith they have in themselves, in each other, and the everyday compromises they make. Salma's storytelling crystalline in its simplicity, patient in its unravelling enters this interior world of women, held together by love, demarcated by religion, comforted by the courage in dreaming of better futures.
A beautiful novel by writer and activist Salma, translated from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy.
]]>Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who lives in Chennai and London. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch and Ms. Militancy, and the critically acclaimed novels The Gypsy Goddess and When I Hit You, Or, The Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2018. She is the editor of the poetry collection Desires Become Demons (Tilted Axis Press 2019), in which her translations of four Tamil women poets are included alongside some by the late Lakshmi Holmstrm.
]]>Love in the Big City is an exploration of millennial loneliness as well as the joys of queer life, that should appeal to readers of Sayaka Murata, Han Kang, and Cho Nam-Joo.
]]>From the International Booker Prize-winning author-translator duo of Tomb of Sand, a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured India, caught between rising fundamentalism and waning progressive ideals.
A city teeters on the edge of chaos. A society lies fractured along fault lines of faith and ideology. A playground becomes a battleground. A looming silence grips the public.
Against this backdrop, Shruti, a writer paralysed by the weight of events, tries to find her words, while Sharad and Hanif, academics whose voices are drowned out by extremism, find themselves caught between cliches and government slogans. And there's Daddu, Sharad's father, a beacon of hope in the growing darkness. As they each grapple with thoughts of speaking the unspeakable, an unnamed narrator takes on the urgent task of bearing witness.
First published in Hindi in 1998, Our City That Year is a novel that defies easy categorisation. It's a time capsule, a warning siren, and a desperate plea. Geetanjali Shree's shimmering prose, in Daisy Rockwell's nuanced and consummate translation, takes us into a fever dream of fragmented thoughts and half-finished sentences, mirroring the disjointed reality of a city under siege. Readers will find themselves haunted long after the final page, grappling with questions that echo far beyond India's borders.
Daisy Rockwell is a painter, writer and translator living in the US. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk's 'Falling Walls', Bhisham Sahni's 'Tamas', and Khadija Mastur's 'The Women's Courtyard'. Her 2019 translation of Krishna Sobti's 'A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There' was awarded the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Translation Prize. She is the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize.
]]>Like an amateur sleuth, she trails Polotsky through the streets of Paris, sneaking behind him as he goes about his usual routines. Meanwhile, she researches her mother's past zigzagging across France and Vietnam trying to find clues to the spiralling, deepening questions her mother left behind unanswered and perhaps unanswerable.
]]>On New Years' Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, he attempts to mentally reconstruct the novel he was writing at the time of his arrest based on the tragic life of the Uzbek poet-queen Oyhon, married to three khans in succession, and living as Abdulla now does, with the threat of execution hanging over her. As he gets to know his cellmates, Abdulla discovers that the Great Game of Oyhon's time, when English and Russian spies infiltrated the courts of Central Asia, has echoes in the 1930s present, but as his identification with his protagonist increases and past and present overlap it seems that Abdulla's inability to tell fact from fiction will be his undoing.
The Devils' Dance brings to life the extraordinary culture of 19th century Turkestan, a world of lavish poetry recitals, brutal polo matches, and a cosmopolitan and culturally diverse Islam rarely described in western literature. Hamid Ismailov's virtuosic prose recreates this multilingual milieu in a digressive, intricately structured novel, dense with allusion, studded with quotes and sayings, and threaded through with modern and classical poetry.
With this poignant, loving resurrection of both a culture and a literary canon brutally suppressed by a dictatorship which continues today, Ismailov demonstrates yet again his masterful marriage of contemporary international fiction and the Central Asian literary traditions, and his deserved position in the pantheon of both.
]]>Donald Rayfield is professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, and about Joseph Stalin and his secret police. He is also a series editor for books about Russian writers and intelligentsia. He translated Georgian and Russian poets and prose writers.
]]>Mary Reddish, a young housemaid unjustly committed after defying her employer's advances, must navigate the brutal treatments of the county asylum while trying to prove her sanity. Meanwhile, Ann and Thomas Morris, the asylum's matron and director, struggle to uphold humane practices against outdated medical methods that haunt the institution.
As Mary forms an unlikely alliance with a fellow patient, she finds herself at the centre of a battle between compassion and cruelty that will determine the course of her life and the future of the asylum itself.
'A fascinating and eye-opening work intelligently written, vividly imagined, a compulsive read.' Alison Moore
'An impeccably researched and page-turning historical novel...A powerful debut.' Jane Harris
'A brilliant read...unputdownable!' G. J. Williams
]]>Johnny spots her ex, Alice, at the local cafe with a vague sense that she's been there before. Though she's still angry about their breakup and Alice's subsequent ghosting, Johnny can't resist the draw of a second shot at their relationship and accepts Alice's invitation back to her apartment. Once there, promises are exchanged. There's talk of wonder and change and dreams made real. But after spending the night together, they face a morning in which Alice is still Alice, Johnny is still Johnny, and the dog has doubled in size.
Over the course of a week, increasingly bizarre changes in the world around them force Johnny to consider whether the pair can change just as easily, if they can change at all. Or if both her relationship and the bounds of reality are destined to implode. The narrative of I Can Fix Her operates on nightmare logic, putting forth an irresistible tale in which the world, the narrator, and time itself are not to be trusted.
]]>Agent Richard Chance is on a relentless mission to avenge his partner's murder by bringing down master counterfeiter Eric Masters. As Chance delves into the dangerous underworld of Los Angeles, he faces a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where every move could be his last.
The novel that inspired the iconic film of the same name, To Live and Die in L.A. is a gripping thriller with a vivid portrayal of the darker side of the City of Angels.
]]>Clara Bishop hasn't touched a piano since a concert hall fire nearly took her life a decade ago, ending her career as a rising star in the world of classical music. Significantly scarred and unable to play, she has turned away from everything and everyone associated with music, especially her ruthless mentor Madame, whom Clara blames for her injuries.
Her life is upended when Madame dies, leaving Clara an unexpected inheritance: an ornate nineteenth-century metronome with a cryptic message hidden inside.Convinced this is not a gift but a puzzle Madame wants her to solve, Clara comes to suspect that the unusual bequest is the long-lost metronome of the composer Aleksander Starza a priceless object missing since 1885, when Starza was murdered by the brilliant female pianist Constantia Pleyel.
As Clara works to uncover the metronome's haunted past and protect it and herself from those who wish to obtain it, she discovers that nothing about Starza and his murder are what they seem. History has remembered Constantia Pleyel as an unstable artist who killed Starza in a fit of madness. The truth could rewrite the history of music and give Clara the second chance she has been longing for.
This moving tale is perfect for fans of Brendan Slocumb's The Violin Conspiracy.
]]>'Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder...A revelation of life...A work of art.' Los Angeles Times
Set in during the Roaring Twenties, this masterfulstory by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told through the eyes ofNick Carraway, a young man who moves to Long Island andattemptsto learn the bond business in New York City after the war. There,he co-mingles on Long Islandwith his affluent and wealthy socialitecousin Daisy Buchanan,her brute of a husband Tom, and friend Jordan Baker.
Nick's new residencesits across the bay from Daisy and Tom's house, and right next to a mysterious mansion. He begins to hearrumours of an infamous man named Gatsby who resides there. Eventually, when Gatsbylearns of Nick's ties to Daisy, he extends Nick an invitation to one of his lavishparties. Gatsby's plan to courtDaisy, in an attempt to revive a previous love affair,eventually bubbles to the surface and tragedy ensues.
Dubbed the Great American Novel more than any other piece of literature to date, The Great Gatsby is sure to captivate readers with it's exquisitely crafted prose and poignant message about trying to relivethe past.
Packaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is series of essential literary works. From the musings of literary geniuses such as Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to the striking personal narratives from Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our literary history through the words of the exceptional few.
]]>Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England's Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.
With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary.
]]>This edition also includes Voltaire's satirical novella, L'Ingenue, which tells the story of a Frenchman named 'Child of Nature' who had been raised by Hurons and who has returned to his fatherland, in the French province of Brittany. Once there, he gets a glimpse of the corruption of the realm and befalls victim of it.
]]>These myths have inspired some of the greatest paintings and sculptures in western art. This volume is illustrated with more than sixty reproductions of classical art that span five centuries and bring these tales of heroes and heroines and their adventures with the gods and goddesses of antiquity vividly to life.
]]>Illustrated throughout and including more than thirty full-colour plates by Arthur Rackham, Grimm's Fairy Tales is a treasure trove of magical stories that will appeal to readers of all ages.
]]>Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (first published in 1865 and 1871, respectively) have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully logical illogic epitomise the whit and whimsy of Carroll's writing.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland transports you down the rabbit-hole into a wondrous realm that is home to a White Rabbit, a March Hare, a Mad Hatter, a tea-drinking Dormouse, a grinning Cheshire-Cat, the Queen of Hearts and her playing card retainers, and all manner of marvellous creatures. Through the Looking-Glass is your passport to a topsy-turvy world on the other side of the mirror, where you have to run fast just to stay in place, memory works backwards, and it is possible to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Both stories feature the classic illustrations of John Tenniel in full colour.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is one of Barnes & Noble's leatherbound classics for children. It features classic illustrations, an elegant bonded leather binding, a satin-ribbon bookmark, and distinctive gilt edging. It will provide hours of enjoyment for readers of all ages.
]]>Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now living alone in the Adelaide Hills. In The Chinese Postman he reflects on his life with what he calls 'the mannered and meditative inaction of age', offering up memories and anxieties, obsessions and opinions, his thoughts on solitude, writing, friendship and time. He ranges widely, with curiosity and feeling, digressing and changing direction as suits his experience, and his role as a collector of fragments and a surveyor of ruins. He becomes increasingly engaged in an epistolary correspondence with Iryna Zarebina, a woman seeking refuge from the war in Ukraine. As the correspondence opens him to others, the elaboration of his memories tempers his melancholy with a playful enjoyment in the richness of language, and a renewed appreciation of the small events in nature. This understanding of the experience of old age is something new and important in our literature. As Quin comments, 'In Australia, the old made way for the young. It guaranteed a juvenile legacy.'
]]>**Winner, NSW Literary Awards 2025, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**
**Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2025, Poetry**
**Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards 2025, Glenda Adams Award for New Writing**
**Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Poetry**
A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people.
rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine's occupation. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, rubble, and migratory bird patterns to address the realities of forced displacement, economic restrictions and surveillance technology that Palestinians face both within and outside Palestine. It depicts a restlessness brought about by dispossession, and a determination to find significance in fleeting objects and fragments. It looks to the literary form as an interactive experience, and the book as an object in flux, inviting the reader to embark on an exploration of space, while limited by the box-like confines of the page. Formally claustrophobic, the poem morphs into irony, declaring everything a box while refusing to exist within one.
'Here is a poetry of passion; a poetry of necessity; a poetry of survival, and a poetry-triumphant.' Maxine Beneba Clarke
'rock flight is a work of timelessness, rigour, precision, relationality and guts just like its poet. A must-read for all of us who yearn and stretch and reach for a world beyond colonies, and an even more urgent read for those who don't.' Alison Whittaker
]]>**Winner, WA Premier's Book Awards 2025, Poetry Book of the Year**
**Highly Commended, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Poetry**
G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a prayer of thanks for a broken world.
Alan Fyfe's debut collection employs a core of Jewish philosophy to explore themes of love, metaphysics, the self-destructive impulse, trauma, and the transcendent. With a boisterous affection for all things absurd and liminal and a bristling loyalty to working class aesthetics, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos includes poems that swing from visceral to hilarious across seven sections, and a range of forms, to ask how we might come by gratitude, and the peace of silence, in our bleakest moments. G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a collection for the questing mind and the wanting spirit.
]]>He is a winner of the Karl Popper Philosophy Award. His first novel, T, was shortlisted for the T.A.G Hungerford Prize (Australia), the Chaffinch Press Aware Prize (Ireland), and the West Australian Premier's Book Award. G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is Alan's debut poetry collection and was awarded silver for the Flying Islands unpublished manuscript prize.
He is currently teaching poetry and creative writing.
]]>A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award (R)-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.
Four devastating tales from a master of modern horror...
This Skin Was Once Mine. When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Jillian Finch finds herself grieving the man she idolised while struggling to feel comfortable in the childhood home she was sent away from nearly twenty years ago by her venomous mother. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret in her family's past - a secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known to be true about her beloved father and, more importantly, herself. It's only natural to hurt the things we love the most...
Seedling. A young man's father calls him early in the morning to say that his mother has passed away. He arrives home to find his mother's body still in the house. Struggling to process what has happened he notices a small black wound appear on his wrist-the inside of the wound as black as onyx and as seemingly limitless as the cosmos. He is even more unsettled when he discovers his father is cursed with the same affliction. The young man becomes obsessed with his father's new wounds, exploring the boundless insides and tethering himself to the black threads that curl from inside his poor father...
Prickle. Two old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences...
All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn. Enoch Leadbetter goes to buy a knife for his husband to use at a forthcoming dinner party. He encounters a strange shopkeeper who draws him into an intoxicating new obsession and sets him on a path towards mutilation and destruction...
Content warning found inside book.
]]>Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon them in this horror masterpiece from the bestselling author of Come with Me.
Maybe this is a ghost story...
Andrew Larimer has left his past behind. Rising up the ranks in a New York law firm, and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is settling into a new life far from Kingsport, the town in which he grew up. But when he receives a late-night phone call from an old friend, he has no choice but to return home.
Together, the five friends will have to confront the memories - and the horror - of a night, years ago, that changed everything for them.
Because Andrew and his friends have a secret. A thing they have kept to themselves for twenty years. Something no one else should know. But the past is not dead, and Kingsport is a town with secrets of its own.
One dark secret...
One small-town horror...
]]>A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke.
Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds himself in an endless, looping station.
Determined to find a way out again, he starts to explore the rooms and corridors ahead of him. But no matter how many claustrophobic hallways or vast cathedral-esque rooms he passes through, the exit is nowhere in sight.
The more he explores his strange new prison, the more he becomes convinced that he hasn't been trapped there accidentally, and amongst the shadows and concrete, he comes to realise that he almost certainly is not alone.
A terrifying psychological nightmare from a powerful new voice in horror.
]]>A young woman, committed to an asylum, undergoes a bizarre treatment that unlocks a vast well of power in this cosmic horror novella, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher.
Veronica Brinkley has been committed to The Barrowfield Home, run by Dr. Cull, to treat her depression. The institution is built on the crypt of a giant Lunar Spider, tended to by a monastic group of worshippers called the Alabaster Scholars. Dr. Cull is using the lunar silk from the dead spider to 'repair' people's brains. As Veronica's memories are tampered with, she finds a surprising reserve of power within herself, upending everyone else's plans for her and stepping into a grand new role she had never imagined for herself.
]]>Shame Shadows My Name is the story of Marzano's investigation, retracing the journey of her grandfather Arturo, a respected magistrate and, she is to discover, a follower of Benito Mussolini and fascist of the first hour.
As she gets deeper into her research, Marzano reconstructs her own discomfort with the familial atmosphere in which she grew up, the clashes with her father, the suffering caused by his contempt for her mother and brother.
Fascism, buried beneath the ashes of shame, resurfaces in behaviours and relationships. The only antidote is to unearth it and stare it in the face.
]]>Michela Marzano was born in Rome in 1970. She studied at the Normale Superiore in Pisa and since 1998 has been living in Paris, France, where she teaches moral philosophy at the Universite Paris Descartes.
She writes for La Repubblica and La Stampa.
She is the author of a number of fiction and non-fiction books in French and Italian, which have been translated into many languages. L'amore e tutto: e tutto ci che so dell'amore (UTET) won the Premio Bancarella 2014.
Her memoir Stirpe e vergogna (Rizzoli), won the Premio Mondello in 2022 and is published in English in 2024 by Gazebo Books as Shame Shadows My Name.
]]>In Dreaming Out Loud, award-winning writer Lydie Salvayre pens a series of letters to Cervantes both satirical and sincere interrogating his intentions and reflecting on our modern world. Using the enduring figure of Don Quixote as a lens, Salvayre explores how we can resist forces that threaten our humanity. By bridging art and life, the absurd and the profound, she reveals what is truly timeless and inevitable.
Written with wit, passion, and the energy of a devoted reader, Dreaming Out Loud captures the indomitable human spirit.
'A magnificent defence of literature, this remarkable book is also a joyful antidote to the disillusionment of our times.' Les Inrockuptibles
]]>Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. She won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, shared with Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, and the French-American Prize for Translation (both for The Years). Her novel Jardin et prairie, written in French, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, and longlisted for the Prix litteraire France-Quebec. Her work has also been longlisted for the Albertine Prize (Abdellah Taa, Infidels), the Warwick Prize (Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story) and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Translation (Mavis Gallant, Rencontres fortuites, a co-translation), as well as the Man Booker International Translation Prize (The Years), an honour shared with the author. She lives in Paris.
]]>In Bad Music, a music teacher named Sonata, the daughter of a famous composer, contemplates the path she has taken. Through correspondence with her roommate Sae, a painter, she discovers art's capacity to exceed the boundaries of acceptable behaviour or perhaps, to stay within them. As she plots something perverse enough to risk her job, Sonata considers how truth is lost or found through performance.
Darkly funny and stunningly mysterious, these two novellas pinpoint the effects of technology, conflicting desires, and the shifts and rifts in relationships. Rie Qudan, winner of one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards, the Akutagawa Prize, explores the affectation and compromise required of us all, providing a disquieting view of the many faces of modern life.
]]>Haydn Trowell is a literary translator of modern and contemporary Japanese fiction. His translations include Touring the Land of the Dead and Love at Six Thousand Degrees by Maki Kashimada, The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase, and The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata.
]]>Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman contracted to an IT company as a language instructor finds herself caught up in a deluge of flashbacks and memories, reflecting on unspoken words and unlived lives and contemplating the muddy chaos of her own karma.
Told in a magic realist stream-of-consciousness style evocative of the subtle, wry sense of humour found in the traditional Japanese narrative art of rakugo, The Mud of a Century explores the interrelated bonds between self and other, Japan and India, past and present, fact and fantasy, and material and spirit.
]]>In 2014 Ishii moved to Chennai, India, where her husband worked as a Sanskrit language researcher, and started working as a Japanese language teacher. She made her literary debut at age 54 with her novel Hyakunen doro (The Mud of a Century), based on her experiences in Chennai during the 2015 South Indian floods. The book won the 49th Shincho Prize for New Writers and the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.
]]>Four women speak. They speak to the same man. He is the son of the first, the great-yet-impossible love of the second, the platonic companion of the third, the older brother of the last. Speaking to him in his absence, it is to themselves that these women turn, examining their own stories to make sense of their journey, from twilight to twilight, through a mysterious stormy night in the middle of the dry season.
These voices perform a powerful and sometimes discordant jazz-inspired chorus about issues such as the intrusion of history into the intimate lives of people, the experience of people of African descent, femininity, sexuality, and self-love. Blackness confronts African-ness, love is sometimes discovered in the arms of another woman, the African renaissance tries to establish itself on the rubble of a self-esteem damaged by history.
Each of these women, with her own language and rhythm, ultimately represents a specific aspect of the tormented history of the people of African descent in today's world, and at the end of the night they will each arrive at a dawn of hope and completeness.
From the author of the critically acclaimed Season of the Shadow comes Twilight of Torment: Melancholy, the first of a two-volume novel of unparalleled power and sensuality.
]]>Leonora Miano was born in 1973 in Doula, Cameroon. She is author of nearly twenty works of fiction and non-fiction. Her writing has won numerous literary awards, including France's Prix Femina in 2013 for Season of the Shadow.
]]>In Greek mythology, it is Hera who blinds the hero Heracles, so that, in a fit of fury, he kills his own family. In the twenty-first century, the gods have another name. So did the three young men who stormed a magazine's editorial office and a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 and murdered twelve people. The blind fury, however, remained and more virulent than ever, not least because the weapons were so much more effective.
In this raging text, arguably one of her darkest, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek investigates topical political events in the context of enduring history and myths. Fury expresses itself not only multi-voiced and from the changing perspective of Islamist terrorists, in the shape of furious German citizens, individual narcissistic humiliation, or brutal distribution battles around the globe. Rather, fury also appears as the motor that has driven people with a devastating force for centuries.
With her characteristic linguistic power, Jelinek articulates her own disconcertedness in the face of these crimes. In passing, she returns repeatedly to the contradiction between religious laws against representation and the deluge of images online, where movies of assassination, severed heads, and other atrocities are exhibited for millions to see. Fury is a compact grand epic that starts in primal times and attempts to describe the indescribable, relating the inexplicable in our times.
]]>Elfriede Jelinek was born in 1946 in Mrzzuschlag, Austria, and grew up in Vienna, where she studied music and, later, theatre and art history. She began writing poetry and established herself as a leading, if controversial, member of post-war Austria's first generation of artists who struggled to come to terms with the legacy of the Holocaust.
Among her most famous novels are The Piano Teacher (1983), Lust (1989), and The Children of the Dead (1995). However, Jelinek considers herself primarily a playwright. The translation of her satirical monologue on Donald Trump, On the Royal Road: The Burgher King, was published by Gazebo Books in February 2021.
Jelinek's work has been translated into more than 30 languages and she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 'for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power'.
]]>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.
]]>In this masterful novel, author Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year's Day bike ride to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama.
Lanzarote on New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path to Femes. As he struggles against the wind and the gradient he takes stock of his life. He has a job, a wife, two children-yet hardly recognizes himself anymore. Panic attacks have been pouncing on him like demons. When he finally reaches the pass in utter exhaustion, a mysterious coincidence unveils a repressed yet vivid memory, plunging him back into childhood and the traumatic event that almost cost him and his sister their lives. In this masterful novel, bestselling author Juli Zeh skillfully turns a New Year's Day bike ride into an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama.
]]>Alta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. A recipient of the Gutekunst Prize, she translates from Italian and German into English. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 4, 3 Quarks Daily, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her latest publications include books by Martin Mosebach, Dana Grigorcea, Anna Goldenberg, and Alexander Kluge.
]]>Giorgia was a talented actress before she abandoned her stage career and fell in love with Filippo. She settles into a life of quiet compromise - until one day she bumps into her old theater director, Mauro, who fans the acting flame back to life. But setting a restless soul on fire can be dangerous if she loses sight of the boundary between reality and fiction - and Giorgia collapses, ending up in a clinic. Filippo and Mauro find themselves both accomplices and adversaries, seduced by a dangerous game to heal and win back Giorgia: by writing the script for her perfect life. In this dazzling debut, Petrucci explores the ambiguous borders between love, possession, and control in clear, magnetic prose.
]]>ANNE MILANO APPEL, based in California, has translated works by a number of leading Italian authors for a variety of publishers in the US and UK. Her most recent translations include works by the award-winning Antonio Scurati and Paolo Maurensig. Her awards include the Italian Prose in Translation Award, the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation, and the Northern California Book Award for Translation. Her website is: amilanoappel.com.
]]>In this spellbinding novel, which has been compared to the work of Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and Jeffrey Eugenides, Saskia de Coster provides a uniquely European take on the tradition of 'The Great American Novel'. With the family unit and some of life's most pressing questions at its center, the award winning We and Me paints a captivatingly haunting picture of bourgeois family life.
Written from several different perspectives, We and Me covers the time period between 1980 and 2013 and focuses on the aristocratic Vandersanden family. Set in their opulent private estate located atop a mountain, neuroses, claustrophobia, scandal and rebellion run rife. At the heart of the family and the novel is Sarah, whose coming of age is both daringly and sensitively explored in de Coster's skillful prose.
With her characteristically incisive approach, de Coster excavates the nuanced underbelly of human emotions with humor, understanding and a lightness of touch. We and Me is a remarkable and compelling tale by one of the greatest Belgian writers of our time.
]]>NANCY FOREST-FLIER is a New Jerseyborn translator who moved to Europe in 1982 and has worked in the Netherlands since 1988. She lives in Alkmaar. Her literary translations include The King by Kader Abdolah, Dissident for Life by Koenraad de Wolf, Gliding Flight by Anne-Gine Goemans, We and Me by Saskia de Coster, Mr. Miller by Charles den Tex, Departure Time by Truus Matti, Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and The Story of Shit by Midas Dekkers. Nancy also translates children's literature and has translated for numerous Dutch museums and institutes, including The Anne Frank House and the Krller-Mller Museum (home to the world's second largest Van Gogh collection).
]]>With a sharp and observational eye, Annelies Verbeke takes a funny, imaginative and perceptive look at the realities and absurdities of human interactions, relationships and everyday life.
Verbeke matches poetic prose with a cast of intriguing characters and unexpected plot twists. Our protagonist is Alphonse, a Senegalese immigrant who uproots his life in Brussels to become a handyman in a rural district in Flanders. Likeable and charismatic, people cannot help but reveal their secrets, desires and unexpected dreams to him. In her typically astute style, Verbeke weaves a vivid and thought-provoking tale of contemporary life, subtly touching upon timely themes such as refugees and racism.
'Verbeke has written a bold, busy, textured novel. Read it once and you may well read it twice.' - The Irish Times
]]>LIZ WATERS is a Dutch-to-English translator based in Lelystad, the Netherlands. After finishing her studies at the University of Manchester, she worked for some years with English-language texts and at a literary agency in Amsterdam before becoming a full-time translator of literary fiction and non-fiction. Authors whose books she has translated include Ida Simons, Geert Mak, Linda Polman, Fik Meijer, Paul Scheffer, Lieve Joris, Jaap Scholten, Luuk van Middelaar, and Douwe Draaisma.
]]>Celebrating the arrival of Mr Squiggle and his Friends, Rocket, Bill Steamshovel, Gus the Snail and Blackboard to their new home at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, NMA Press has republished Mr Squiggle and the Preposterous Purple Crocodile: a charming story about inviting friends over for "ice cream, cakes and jellies" (AKA afternoon tea) and an uninvited guest trying to derail the party.
In April 2024 the National Museum of Australia acquired more than 800 objects from Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington's extensive archive of puppets, props and scripts, including the beloved children's television character Mr Squiggle.
Working directly from Norman Hetherington's' stunning original watercolour illustrations, NMA Press has faithfully republished the story in a new edition with an afterword by Norman and Margaret's daughter Rebecca Hetherington, who stared alongside the Man from the Moon in 190 episodes on ABC TV.
Thirty years on from its first release the story has retained all its whimsical creativity and fun, ready to enchant a new generation of Australian children.
]]>Margaret Hetherington was an actor, author and scriptwriter for Mr Squiggle and Friends on ABC TV. She was the author of three books for children: Mr Squiggle and the Great Moon Robbery (1980), Mr Squiggle and the Preposterous Purple Crocodile (1991), and Mr Squiggle to the Rescue (1998).
]]>Celebrating the arrival of Mr Squiggle and his Friends, Rocket, Bill Steamshovel, Gus the Snail and Blackboard to their new home at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, NMA Press has republished Norman Hetherington's fabulous original Mr Squiggle Activity Books. Featuring all the characters from one of Australia's longest running children's television shows, the draw-along books are back in print from the analogue era when colouring-in and pen-to-paper activities were among the favourite pastimes of all kids.
In 2024 the Museum acquired more than 800 objects from Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington's extensive archive of puppets, props and scripts, including the beloved children's television character Mr Squiggle.
Working directly from the original illustrations, NMA Press has faithfully republished the activity book's new editions with an afterword by Norman and Margaret's daughter Rebecca Hetherington, who stared alongside Mr Squiggle in 190 episodes on ABC TV. The activity books are ready to enchant a new generation of Australian children.
]]>Celebrating the arrival of Mr Squiggle and his Friends, Rocket, Bill Steamshovel, Gus the Snail and Blackboard to their new home at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, NMA Press has republished Norman Hetherington's fabulous original Mr Squiggle Activity Books. Featuring all the characters from one of Australia's longest running children's television shows, the draw-along books are back in print from the analogue era when colouring-in and pen-to-paper activities were among the favourite pastimes of all kids.
In 2024 the Museum acquired more than 800 objects from Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington's extensive archive of puppets, props and scripts, including the beloved children's television character Mr Squiggle.
Working directly from the original illustrations, NMA Press has faithfully republished the activity book's new editions with an afterword by Norman and Margaret's daughter Rebecca Hetherington, who stared alongside Mr Squiggle in 190 episodes on ABC TV. The activity books are ready to enchant a new generation of Australian children.
]]>Celebrating the arrival of Mr Squiggle and his Friends, Rocket, Bill Steamshovel, Gus the Snail and Blackboard to their new home at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, NMA Press has republished Norman Hetherington's fabulous original Mr Squiggle Activity Books. Featuring all the characters from one of Australia's longest running children's television shows, the draw-along books are back in print from the analogue era when colouring-in and pen-to-paper activities were among the favourite pastimes of all kids.
In 2024 the Museum acquired more than 800 objects from Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington's extensive archive of puppets, props and scripts, including the beloved children's television character Mr Squiggle.
Working directly from the original illustrations, NMA Press has faithfully republished the activity book's new editions with an afterword by Norman and Margaret's daughter Rebecca Hetherington, who stared alongside Mr Squiggle in 190 episodes on ABC TV. The activity books are ready to enchant a new generation of Australian children.
]]>Celebrating the arrival of Mr Squiggle and his Friends, Rocket, Bill Steamshovel, Gus the Snail and Blackboard to their new home at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, NMA Press has republished Norman Hetherington's fabulous original Mr Squiggle Activity Books. Featuring all the characters from one of Australia's longest running children's television shows, the draw-along books are back in print from the analogue era when colouring-in and pen-to-paper activities were among the favourite pastimes of all kids.
In 2024 the Museum acquired more than 800 objects from Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington's extensive archive of puppets, props and scripts, including the beloved children's television character Mr Squiggle.
Working directly from the original illustrations, NMA Press has faithfully republished the activity book's new editions with an afterword by Norman and Margaret's daughter Rebecca Hetherington, who stared alongside Mr Squiggle in 190 episodes on ABC TV. The activity books are ready to enchant a new generation of Australian children.
]]>When deadly bushfires sweep through the forest, Bear and his team must act fast. Will Bear be able to find and help save the wild koalas? Follow the true story of Bear as he finds his purpose for important conservation work.
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
]]>Nic Gill loves to share stories about nature, humans and other animals. After meeting Romane and her dogs, she was so impressed that she became a conservation dog handler herself, and now works with her detection dogs in the Tasmanian wilds.
Sylvia Morris is an illustrator and science enthusiast. She loves illustrating picture books because it combines two of her favourite activities: reading and problem solving.
]]>This non-fiction picture book brings to life the fascinating but little-known story of Jessie Hickman (18901936), Australia's so-called 'Lady Bushranger'.
A women who lived outside the norms of her time, Jessie was a brave and formidable woman, with a life full of adventure, action and danger. At the age of 8, she joined a travelling bush circus, learning to perform as a whip cracker, sharpshooter and rough rider. She would perform dangerous feats, like tightrope walking or handstands on bare-backed ponies. When the circus closed, became an outlaw and cattle rustler, famous for her daring escapes.
The endmatter includes information on travelling circuses in Australia, bushrangers and buckjumping, as well as a timeline of Jessie's life and accomplishments accompanied by historic images.
This lavishly illustrated picture book immerses the reader in the wilderness of what is now the Wollemi National Park as Jessie's life unfolds with every turn of the page.
]]>Frane Lessac is an author and illustrator of over 50 books in the UK, US and Australia. She has won numerous awards, including the Muriel Barwell Award for Distinguished Service to Children's Literature in 2010.
Mark and Frane frequently collaborate to produce wonderful stories, such as Simpson and His Donkey and Midnight the Story of a Light Horse and the Our Country series. Their award-winning books tackling Australian bushranger legends include Ned Kelly and the Green Sash and The Legend of Moondyne Joe. Their latest collaboration is The Legend of Jessie Hickman.
]]>Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 59.
'This book showcases the fantastic diversity of egg-laying sharks, skates and chimaeras around the world demonstrating that you really can go on a Great Eggcase Hunt wherever you are!' Cat Gordon, Senior Conservation Officer, The Shark Trust
]]>Sylvia Morris is an illustrator and science enthusiast. She loves illustrating picture books because it combines two of her favourite activities: reading and problem solving.
]]>From the multi-award-winning creators of Little Puggle's Song and Little Puggle's Christmas comes a dazzling and uplifting tale about never giving up, belonging and the magic of dance.
]]>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 written by Katrina Germein (Harper Collins, 2020). Helene is frequently recognised by the Children's Book Council of Australia she was awarded the CBCA 2020 Notable Picture Book of the Year Award for Little Puggle's Song, written by Vikki Conley. Helene can be contacted on Instagram @helenemagisson and Facebook @Helene Magisson Artist
]]>Age range 3 to 6
A lonely echidna searches for his voice. Every time Puggle tires to make sound nothing comes out. Can Puggle find his voice and join his friends in the bush choir?
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'...Stand out illustrations with beautiful colour and light create a dreamy Australian setting, and an instant connection with Little Puggle's character. Vikki Conley's captivating story-telling and Helene Magisson's pictures flow and lift each other to make a wholesome and stunning book with a cover so delightful that it warmed my heart before I even opened it.' - Kids' Book Review
]]>Helene Magisson started her artistic career as a painting restorer in Paris, where she was also trained in the art of medieval illumination. Helene has lived in Africa, France and India but has now settled down in Australia with her family. Her travels both inspire and enrich her work. In 2013, she started a new career in children's books illustration. Since then, she has illustrated several books, including classics like The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco and more contemporary stories like Slowly! Slowly! by TM Clark, CBCA 2018 Notable Picture Book of the Year.
]]>Christmas in the Australian bush is Puggle's favourite time of year. All the animals return to decorate the oldest tree, and to prepare for the big day. Every year, Puggle tries to help. But even though Puggle tries hardest, none of the special Christmas jobs seem to suit him.
In despair, Puggle waddles off to his special place where he makes a Christmas wish on the first shooting star...but is it actually a shooting star? And what is stuck in the billabong?
Can Puggle save Christmas and make his Christmas wish come true?
]]>Helene Magisson started her artistic career as a painting restorer in Paris, where she was also trained in the art of medieval illumination. Helene has lived in Africa, France and India but has now settled down in Australia with her family. Her travels both inspire and enrich her work. In 2013, she started a new career in children's books illustration. Since then, she has illustrated several books, including classics like The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco and more contemporary stories like Slowly! Slowly! by TM Clark, CBCA 2018 Notable Picture Book of the Year.
]]>But when disaster strikes, Trim must find courage and hope will he ever see his beloved captain again?
]]>Paul Lalo was born in France and, in 2004, arrived in Australia to study animation at the Queensland College of Art. Paul has worked as a director, animator and motion designer for TV commercials, music videos and documentaries. Paul is co-founder of Melbourne-based animation boutique Soymilk Studio which specialises in stop-motion and motion design.
]]>Lina's father had suggested she go 'someplace different' for the summer, and she's beginning to wish she hadn't listened. She could be at her grandma's house in Nagano now, instead of trudging through a forest in search of a town that might not even exist. But when a gust of wind carries off her umbrella, it leads Lina down a secret path between the trees to a strange and incredible world. In the hidden village of Misty Valley, centaurs roam the cobblestone streets and gnomes visit shops stuffed with spellbooks and enchanted desserts. All magic has a dark side, though, and sometimes even sorcerers need a human's helping hand.
Now, fifty years after its debut and decades of blockbuster success in Japan, Sachiko Kashiwaba's acclaimed novel is available in English and certain to delight readers of all ages.
'Kashiwaba's novel is indeed transporting...Pick up this book and be spirited away.' Gregory Maguire, The New York Times
]]>Avery Fischer Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She holds an MA in advanced Japanese studies from the University of Sheffield. She has studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama. She writes, translates and works in international education near Bangkok, where she lives with her bicultural family.
Miho Satake is a Japanese artist and illustrator. She is best known for illustrating the Japanese editions of several classic children's books including Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, three books in the Kiki's Delivery Service series by Eiko Kadono, and the twentieth-anniversary edition of the Harry Potter series. In addition to illustrating classic children's literature, her work spans a wide range of genres, including fantasy and realism.
]]>A 2024 USBBY Outstanding International Book
One of Kirkus Reviews' 10 Essential Middle-Grade Books for Fall 2023 - Starred Review
One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Middle-Grade Family Stories of 2023
A 2023 Cybils Awards Finalist for Speculative Middle Grade Fiction
From the author and translator of the Batchelder Award-winning novel Temple Alley Summer comes the moving story of three generations of women adapting to their new home, and its mythical inhabitants, in the tragic aftermath of the 2011 Thoku earthquake disaster.
In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their troubled pasts. Kiwa regales Yui and Hiyori with local legends-from the shapeshifting fox-woman who used to roam the mountains, to the demon Agame and a sea snake who once terrorized the townspeople, preying upon their grief and fears until they trapped the snake and the demon's claws in an underwater cave.
But when mysterious and sinister events start happening around town, the three fear the worst. Did the earthquake release Agame and the sea snake into the world again? Kiwa, Yui, and Hiyori join forces with a merry band of kappa river spirits, a bold zashiki warashi house spirit, and flying Jiz guardian statues to save their new family and home and banish Agame and the snake once and for all. Now a hit anime film, The House of the Lost on the Cape is a heartwarming tale about the strength of family and friendship in the face of natural and mythical forces.
]]>Yukiko Saito is a graphic designer and illustrator originally from Aomori, Japan. She studied textile arts in the fine arts and crafts teacher training program within the Faculty of Education, Iwate University. She lives in Iwate Prefecture.
Avery Fischer Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She holds an MA in advanced Japanese studies from the University of Sheffield. She has studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama. She writes, translates and works in international education near Bangkok, where she lives with her bicultural family.
]]>Kazu knows something odd is going on when he sees a girl in a white kimono sneak out of his house in the middle of the night was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? Things get even stranger when he shows up to school the next day to see the very same figure sitting in his classroom. No one else thinks it's weird, and, even though Kazu doesn't remember ever seeing her before, they all seem convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years!
When Kazu's summer project to learn about Kimyo Temple draws the meddling attention of his mysterious neighbour Ms. Minakami and his secretive new classmate Akari, Kazu soon learns that not everything is as it seems in his hometown. Kazu discovers that Kimyo Temple is linked to a long forgotten legend about bringing the dead to life, which could explain Akari's sudden appearance is she a zombie or a ghost? Kazu and Akari join forces to find and protect the source of the temple's power. An unfinished story in a magazine from Akari's youth might just hold the key to keeping Akari in the world of the living, and it's up to them to find the story's ending and solve the mystery as the adults around them conspire to stop them from finding the truth.
'This imaginative tale, enchantingly written and charmingly illustrated by veteran Japanese creators for young people, has a timeless feel. Its captivating blend of humor and mystery is undergirded with real substance that will provoke deeper contemplation. Udagawa's translation naturally and seamlessly renders the text completely accessible to non-Japanese readers. An instant classic filled with supernatural intrigue and real-world friendship.' Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
'This charming story is both a layered, profound reflection on living life with purpose and a funny, suspenseful book with all the hallmarks of classic middle-grade literature.' Lauren Simeon, Kirkus Reviews
]]>Miho Satake is a Japanese artist and illustrator. She is best known for illustrating the classic fantasy novel Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones, three books in the Kiki's Delivery Service series by Eiko Kadono, and also illustrated the twentieth anniversary Japanese editions of the Harry Potter series.
Avery Fischer Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She holds an M.A. in Advanced Japanese Studies from The University of Sheffield. She has studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright Fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama. She writes, translates, and works in international education near Bangkok, where she lives with her bicultural family.
]]>Before you lift the cover, be sure you're ready to meet Zrk and Blrg. They're not so different from you but to them, you're the alien!
After their initial shock at seeing you through the portal, they're eager to see what kind of teeth you have, compare home planets, and maybe team up for a prank. You met as aliens, but by the time the portal closes, maybe you'll be friends.
]]>On a hot summer's day, deep in the Australian bush, two cicada nymphs hatch and embark on an adventure of survival, friendship, and resilience. After burrowing underground to escape a hungry wasp, the pair reemerge after seven years to find that more danger awaits. Can the two friends overcome the challenges they face, through the power of loyalty and support, and finally find a safe place to call home? This is a journey filled with suspense, heart-warming adventure, and beautifully designed illustrations that also teaches children the life cycle of this wonderous insect.
]]>Katherine Smith is an illustrator, designer, and artist based in Sydney, Australia. Originally trained in design, she later studied fine art, which naturally led her to illustration as a convergence of both disciplines. She earned a Master's Degree in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and her artworks are sold internationally. In her spare time, Katherine enjoys swimming, free-diving, and scuba diving.
]]>Inspired by the true story of a nineteenth century feminist.
Seabird follows Kartini's early teen years as a young noble girl. Confined to the family home in preparation for an arranged marriage, Kartini's desire for freedom ignites as she fights to have a say in the decisions that shape her life. In late nineteenth century Indonesia then known as the Dutch East Indies a Javanese girl from a noble family is confined to her home before her thirteenth birthday, where she must remain until she is married. Removed from school and the outside world, Kartini writes to her former Dutch schoolmate, Lesty, who has returned to the Netherlands. With Lesty's support Kartini begins to challenge the role expected of her, and that of girls and women in her community. Determined to gain her freedom, Kartini bravely battles prejudice and tradition stirring change for her family, and for her country. Governor General's Award finalist Michelle Kadarusman shows us that no matter how powerless you feel, your voice can have great impact. By virtue of writing down your dreams and ideas, you can inspire generations to come was Kartini continues to do through Kartini Day in Indonesia.
]]>Age range 5 to 8
Two wombats, two wallabies, a koala, and a tiger snake humorously squeeze into one burrow-and reveal important truths about environmental disasters and the importance of welcoming refugees.
When afire sweeps through the Australian bush, wombats Dig and Scratch are glad to have a cool, damp burrow to keep them safe. But Dig notices that other animals are not so lucky. When Dig invites a wallaby mother and her joey to shelter with them, Scratch grumbles. When Dig beckons to a koala, Scratch complains. And when Dig welcomes in a tiger snake, Scratch is fit to be tied - but Dig is sure there's always room for more. And when the rains come to douse the fire and bring a new threat of flooding, a crowd of creatures may turn out to be just what the wombats need.
Inspired y stories of animals sheltering in wombat burrows when her homeland ofAustralia experienced devastating fires, award-winning author Michelle Kadarusman gets young readers up close and personal with Australian wildlife.Illustrator Maggie Zeng brings the creatures to life with a generous dose of personality as they squeeze together in the burrow and work together above ground. Extensive back matter includes information about wildfires, a glossary of animals, and age-appropriate context about environmental disasters and the work that is being done - including a renewal of Indigenous land practices - to prevent them.
'A sweet and simple cautionary tale, with a tip of the cap to the spirit of altruism.' - Kirkus Reviews
'The messaging around welcoming refugees is subtle but also important... With adorable characters, important themes, and lovely illustrations, this is a cute picture book that children will enjoy.' - YA Books Central
'Room for More can supplement a unit about inclusiveness and friendship and is a good read-aloud. Recommended' - CM Magazine
"Room for More is a nice picture book about kindness and helping others and it introduces young (and old) readers to some of the fascinating animals who live in Australia.' - Simcoe.com
'In her dedication, Kadarusman thanks those 'who open their hearts, homes, and borders to those in need,'which is a pretty powerful statement...The book is super cute both the story and the illustrations and I love how, in the end, Scratch feels good about helping others in needs.' - Book Time
]]>Maggie Zeng is a children's book illustrator, graphic designer, concept artist, and animator. Born in Montreal, she attends Concordia University and previously received the Outstanding Achievement Award in Applied Arts Technologies at Dawson College. Maggie loves making story-driven illustrations that convey a feeling of adventure and wonder through fun characters and magical environments. Her first picture book is This is the Boat That Ben Built.
]]>But life at the family's remote camp in the Tasmanian rainforest is intriguing, to say the least. There are pig-footed bandicoots, scary spiders, weird noises and odours in the night, and a quirky boy named Colin who cooks the most amazing meals. Not the least strange is her Uncle Ruff, with his unusual pet and veiled hints about something named Convict Rock.
Finally, Louisa learns the truth: Convict Rock is a sanctuary established by her great-grandmother Eleanor a sanctuary for Tasmanian tigers, Australia's huge marsupials that were famously hunted into extinction almost a hundred years ago. Or so the world believes. Hidden in the rainforest at Convict Rock, one tiger remains. But now the sanctuary is threatened by a mining operation, and the last Tasmanian tiger must be lured deeper into the forest. The problem is, not since her great-grandmother has a member of the family been able to earn the shy tigers' trust.
As the summer progresses, Louisa forges unexpected connections with Colin, with the forest, and through Eleanor's journal with her great-grandmother. She begins to suspect the key to saving the tiger is her very own music. But will her plan work? Or will the enigmatic Tasmanian tiger disappear once again, this time forever?
A moving coming-of-age story wrapped up in the moss, leaves, and blue gums of the Tasmanian rainforest where, hidden under giant ferns, crouches its most beloved, and lost, creature.
]]>Written in response to 'Tam o' Shanter' the famous Scottish poem by Robert Burns and inspired by the author's own experiences of that same poem, Simon Lamb's new book is a highly original and moving work incorporating an introduction to the classic verse, a full-length modern-day reimagining, and commentary in the form of an extensive author's note, with bold and energetic illustrations.
]]>Ross MacRae is a Scottish muralist and first time book illustrator whose large-scale work can be found across Scotland. He works on community projects with young people
]]>In the Ariana Treasure early reader series there are always problems to solve and fun to be had. Ariana often saves the day with her quick thinking and thoughtful spirit. The stories explore friendship, families, courage, diversity and sustainability. With simple sentence structures, accessible vocabulary, familiar characters and relatable storylines, the stories in the Ariana Treasure series would suit eager beginner readers.
Whether it be making new friends, saving a kitchen disaster or finding an act for the talent show, Ariana is ever ready to step up and help those in her community.
]]>Karen Erasmus lives just south of Melbourne. She loves to create illustrations to bring stories to life and has enjoyed creating more than 20 picture books over the past 12 years.
]]>Ariana is excited to hear there is a new kid in town. She can't wait to show him around the Treasure Chest. Can Ariana use the treasures from the thrift shop to help make a new friend and find her missing book?
In the Ariana Treasure early reader series there are always problems to solve and fun to be had. Ariana often saves the day with her quick thinking and thoughtful spirit. The stories explore friendship, families, diversity, courage and sustainability.
]]>Jacqueline regularly contributes to a variety of online platforms and has appeared at several literary events, including the Canberra Writers Festival, the Goulburn Reader Writer Festival, and the NSW Kids & YA Festival. Jacqueline endeavours to encourage her readers to learn more about the world, supporting an empathetic and inclusive community. She holds a Masters in International Development and works in international affairs. Jacqueline is also committed to assisting aspiring creatives on their creative journey.
Karen Erasmus lives by the sea just south of Melbourne with her children and husband. The coastal environment and the vibrant countryside around her home provide inspiration for her illustrations. Karen's lively home life often finds its way into her artwork; she loves to create artwork that brings stories to life. She has enjoyed illustrating over 20 picture books. Karen draws on an iPad carefully choosing colour palettes and textures. When she isn't drawing Karen enjoys travelling, she has lived in many different parts of the world and was originally from the UK. She settled in Melbourne to raise her children and loves her adopted home country.
]]>Come and find the secret ingredient. Ariana is excited for the food truck competition. Her friends, Hunter and Jake, are confident their family will win the big prize. All they need is a standout dish and thanks to the Treasure Chest they think they have it.
In the Ariana Treasure early reader series there are always problems to solve and fun to be had. Ariana often saves the day with her quick thinking and thoughtful spirit. The stories explore friendship, families, diversity, courage and sustainability.
]]>Karen Erasmus lives by the sea just south of Melbourne with her children and husband. The coastal environment and the vibrant countryside around her home provide inspiration for her illustrations. Karen's lively home life often finds its way into her artwork; she loves to create artwork that brings stories to life. She has enjoyed illustrating over 20 picture books. Karen draws on an iPad carefully choosing colour palettes and textures. When she isn't drawing Karen enjoys travelling, she has lived in many different parts of the world and was originally from the UK. She settled in Melbourne to raise her children and loves her adopted home country.
]]>In the Ariana Treasure early reader series there are always problems to solve and fun to be had.
Ariana often saves the day with her quick thinking and thoughtful spirit. The stories explore friendship, families, courage, diversity and sustainability. With simple sentence structures, accessible vocabulary, familiar characters and relatable storylines, the stories in the Ariana Treasure series would suit eager beginner readers. Whether it be making new friends, saving a kitchen disaster or finding an act for the talent show, Ariana is ever ready to step up and help those in her community.
]]>Karen Erasmus lives by the sea just south of Melbourne with her children and husband. The coastal environment and the vibrant countryside around her home provide inspiration for her illustrations. Karen's lively home life often finds its way into her artwork; she loves to create artwork that brings stories to life. She has enjoyed illustrating over 20 picture books. Karen draws on an iPad carefully choosing colour palettes and textures. When she isn't drawing Karen enjoys travelling, she has lived in many different parts of the world and was originally from the UK. She settled in Melbourne to raise her children and loves her adopted home country.
]]>In the Ariana Treasure early reader series there are always problems to solve and fun to be had. Ariana often saves the day with her quick thinking and thoughtful spirit. The stories explore friendship, families, courage, diversity and sustainability. With simple sentence structures, accessible vocabulary, familiar characters and relatable storylines, the stories in the Ariana Treasure series would suit eager beginner readers. Whether it be making new friends, saving a kitchen disaster or finding an act for the talent show, Ariana is ever ready to step up and help those in her community.
]]>Karen Erasmus lives by the sea just south of Melbourne with her children and husband. The coastal environment and the vibrant countryside around her home provide inspiration for her illustrations. Karen's lively home life often finds its way into her artwork; she loves to create artwork that brings stories to life. She has enjoyed illustrating over 20 picture books. Karen draws on an iPad carefully choosing colour palettes and textures. When she isn't drawing Karen enjoys travelling, she has lived in many different parts of the world and was originally from the UK. She settled in Melbourne to raise her children and loves her adopted home country.
]]>Who will sing with me now?
When twelve-year-old Garlan and his mute brother Cadell are forced to run from their abusive guardians, they plan to find the land beyond their own, a place where they're allowed to sing, unlike the laws that banish all forms of music in their home in Elatha.
They begin a dangerous journey to cross the great wall at the kingdom's border. Pursued by the King's Guard and facing untold dangers, can they find this magical place or will it separate them forever?
]]>Has befriending Edie changed the course of Australia's history? Who does this strange time-travelling bed really belong to? And what will happen when the rightful owner discovers Harper using it?
Harper is thrown into a world of time-travelling spies as she risks her life to find a missing girl before time runs out.
]]>Harper Wells: Renegade Timeline Officer is the first story in the Wollemi Trilogy and Bethany's debut book. Find her at www.bethanyloveridge.com or hanging with the animals at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary.
]]>Issues and themes flowing through Flip are timely and relevant, including the current housing crisis, bullying, loss and grief, finding yourself and a sense of belonging, friendship and family dynamics, starting over in a new town and school, and the impacts of cancer and dementia.
Denim Davies wishes he could flip his life, just like the vintage items and clothing he finds at garage sales and thrift stores and sells online. With the worsening housing crisis, Denim and his dad have spent a year moving from town to town in search of sustainable work and a home they can call their own. Every move means starting over in a new school. Denim feels he's drifting through life without an anchor.
When Denim and his dad arrive in the coastal town of Driftwood Heights, Denim knows things are only going to get worse. The only accommodation is in the caravan park, he's just started Year 10, and in this small town where everyone knows each other, he feels more of a misfit than ever. Besides, what's the point of getting close to anyone if you're just going to move away again?
When Denim befriends Mina, a quirky girl with a carefree attitude, Driftwood Heights starts to look a little brighter. But then a vintage find that seems too good to be true goes horribly wrong, and he has a tough decision to make one that could ruin his friendship forever. What do you do when flipping your life has too high a price?
]]>Expelled from three schools, Joey is sent to the country to live with his aunt. She asks him to help an old man recovering from an accident, and now he has a choice. It sounds like a crazy idea, but he chooses to help. What else is there to do, a million miles from anywhere?
But when Joey meets Harry, he finds in him a friend even if he's eighty-five. Maybe life when people trust you might be a good thing.
As Joey's desire for acceptance grows, break-ins threaten the community and Joey's past starts to catch up with him. How can Joey turn his life around when his mistakes follow him everywhere he goes? And will he be there for Harry when he needs him?
]]>With captivating illustrations, Juniper's Painting helps children patiently navigate disappointment, embrace their creativity, and find enjoyment in the present.
]]>Jennifer Horn is a Brisbane-based illustrator and children's writer. Her fairytale debut picture book The Precious Plum was shortlisted for the 2022 Little Pink Dog's Authorstrator Prize. She illustrated the real-life-inspired picture book The Boy From The Sea and an entry in the anthology, Our Australian HeART. With a background in architecture and film, Jen draws on her experiences to create whimsical illustrations. She is a pen-and-paper sketcher, and brings the line drawings into Photoshop to colour and polish. Jen has a black cat too! She tried to coerce him to model for more of the sketches, but he's too self-conscious.
]]>The girls uncover even more surprises when a naughty froglet stows away in Matilda's jacket and escapes. Now there's a mystery to solve and a frog to find!
Can the girls figure it out and set things right again?
]]>Tamlyn Teow migrated to Australia from Singapore at 13 and went on to study a double degree in Commerce and Economics. In 2013, she left a corporate job in institutional banking to pursue her passion in learning how stories are told through art. Tamlyn strives to be a part of a team that focuses on important values and morals work that gives hope in challenging times, sparks curiosity and brings individuals together by opening their eyes to truth and meaning. In 2017, she completed a Masters in Production Design at Victorian College of the Arts. Since then, Tamlyn has worked in the art department for various films and TV productions in Sydney. Other notable works include co-designing and art, finishing the David Jones Christmas Windows for MacGyver Models as well as freelance commissions for illustration and sculpture.
]]>Ray is devastated when he hears sirens coming from the worksite. He races there to find that the bridge has fallen, taking several workers with it. Is his dad one of them? What else can he do?
]]>Becca has been online influencer since she helped make promotional baking videos for her mom's patisserie as a toddler. Now at fifteen, cutting online comments remind Becca she is no longer the cute flour-covered kid her followers first subscribed to. Her business-driven manager fuels Becca's self-doubt by pressuring her to rebrand to a health and weight-conscious influencer. Becca vents her frustration in her poetry journal, questioning if the online life is worth sacrificing real friendships.
A teacher encourages Becca to sign up to the online writing community Poet's Portal and there she meets @notmylife, another poster feeling trapped by family expectations. Becca and @notmylife confide in each other without giving away their identities and Becca feels like she has finally met someone who really understands her. When the two win a writing contest with their verse story 'Your dream not mine,' they receive entry to a writing workshop.
Becca and @notmylife agree to meet in person before the workshop. But Becca's manager has booked her for a TV show on the same day as the workshop. Becca is torn as her influencer work supports her whole family. Now, she has to decide between the online life that's never been her dream and the real-world connection she so desperately craves.
With teens increasingly aspiring to become online influencers, Like, Comment, Subscribe? aims to show the less glamorous side of the influencing lifestyle, particularly when the decision to be thrust in front of the camera is not made by themselves.
]]>Kat is the author of YA novels Can't Beat the Chemistry and Remind Me Why I'm Here under the pen name Kat Colmer. Whether through her fiction or her efforts to foster a love of literature in her students, Kat is dedicated to inspiring the next generation of Book Dragons, Story Chasers, Library Lions and Word Wizards.
]]>Thomas Gilbert is a graphic artist and illustrator, based in Warwickshire, England. Working primarily in the field of poster illustration, he has a passion for modernising vintage styles through a combination of traditional and digital media. A lifelong car enthusiast, Thomas has a background in car design. He graduated with a Masters Degree from Coventry University in 2011, and has since enjoyed creating several high profile cars for iconic British marques.
]]>It takes them on the adventure of a lifetime, over the sea, through the sky and into the clutches of some very villainous gangsters! This prestige hardback edition features the classic cover and iconic illustrations by John Burningham.
]]>John Burningham was an award-winning artist and illustrator. Born in 1936, he worked in multiple mediums painting, illustration, collage and sculpture. He was known especially for the wit and humour in his storytelling and artwork and was hugely admired amongst his contemporaries. His critically acclaimed picture books are loved all over the world.
]]>Will Meek and Squeak solve the baffling Barking Bake Off mystery in time or is the show a recipe for disaster?
PAWPRINT PRODUCTIONS is a hilarious brand new series by award-winning author, Jenny Moore. PAWPRINT PRODUCTIONS studios are home to all sorts of exciting animal TV shows, but sometimes the stories behind the shows are even more exciting...
]]>Berta Maluenda is a Spanish illustrator living in her hometown, Zaragoza. She has a degree in Fine Arts and a Master's in Drawing and Videocreation from the University of Granada. She also obtained a postgraduate degree in Children's Illustration in Barcelona. She has worked in various fields of visual arts, including animation for music videos, archaeological drawing in Egypt, mural painting, and numerous editorial projects, mainly for children and young audiences. She loves live music, listening to the radio, travelling and reading, and is inspired by people around her, art, tea and animals. Berta can be contacted on Instagram @bertamaluenda_ilustracion
]]>Wheeeeeee!! Whoomp! SPLAT!!!
Meek and Squeak are hot on Hoodlum's tail but can they stop the gangster koala's reign of terror before calamity strikes?
Pawprint Productions is a hilarious brand new series by award-winning author, Jenny Moore. Pawprint Productions studios are home to all sorts of exciting animal TV shows, but sometimes the stories behind the shows are even more exciting...
]]>Berta is a Spanish illustrator living in her hometown, Zaragoza. She has a degree in Fine Arts and a Master's in Drawing and Video creation from the University of Granada. She also obtained a postgraduate degree in Children's Illustration in Barcelona. She has worked in various fields of visual arts, including animation for music videos, archaeological drawing in Egypt, mural painting, and numerous editorial projects, mainly for children and young audiences. She loves live music, listening to the radio, travelling and reading, and is inspired by people around her, art, tea and animals.
Berta can be contacted on Instagram @bertamaluenda_ilustracion
]]>The second enchanting book in the series with favourites Flora & Fern as they go on adventures and discover kindness along the way.
]]>Denise Hughes studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art. Soon after graduating, she began her career in illustration. Her work is character driven and combines both digital and traditional drawing methods. Denise loves to illustrate full-colour picture books and board books. A perfect project would be one that includes playful characters and lots of hand-drawn patterns and textures. Denise has worked with worldwide publishing companies, including Penguin Random House, Little Tiger Press, New Frontier, Hachette, Scholastic, Bloomsbury and Zonderkidz. Denise works from her shared studio in Hampshire and can be contacted on Instagram @denisehughesdesign
]]>A magical story with favourites Flora & Fern as they discover the true meaning of wonder and friendship.
]]>Denise Hughes studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art. Soon after graduating, she began her career in illustration. Her work is character driven and combines both digital and traditional drawing methods. Denise loves to illustrate full-colour picture books and board books. A perfect project would be one that includes playful characters and lots of hand-drawn patterns and textures. Denise has worked with worldwide publishing companies, including Penguin Random House, Little Tiger Press, New Frontier, Hachette, Scholastic, Bloomsbury and Zonderkidz. Denise works from her shared studio in Hampshire and can be contacted on Instagram @denisehughesdesign
]]>A young girl observes her surroundings and discovers the many objects that float around her.
Look Up, It Floats celebrates the innocent wonder of discovery as a young girl called Milly observes the world and objects that float. From clouds and birds to kites and bubbles, Milly learns how air lifts and carries them all. With rhythmic text and delightful illustrations, this story invites readers to look up and explore the beauty of the sky. The perfect story for all curious minds, with charming and gentle illustrations that bring an understanding of science.
]]>Alice Jago is a self-taught children's illustrator, who lives in Cornwall, England. She spent her childhood writing stories and drawing characters and rediscovered her love of picture books after having children of her own.
]]>A sticky toffee causes chaos around the house while creating a new outfit.
Toffee Puddle, a loveable but yucky character, gets into all kinds of mischief at home. While the family is out, he rolls around the house with his sticky toffee body getting stuck on all kinds of objects. From a tube of toothpaste to a kitty litter tray, nothing is too gross as he creates a fabulous new outfit! But what will the family think when they return? Toffee Puddle is a hilarious and energetic story in fast-paced rhyme, with simple and appealing illustrations.
]]>Hannah Hellyer is a mother of two young children and the co-host, producer, and founder of the award-winning parenting podcast - Baby Brain Podcast, where she interviews parenting specialists for a dedicated weekly audience of thousands. Hannah is also the founder, writer, and producer of the Nana Hannah Bedtime Stories podcast, a best children's podcast finalist at the 2024 Australian Podcast Awards. The episodes contain soothing stories written and narrated by Hannah, with music and sounds to help children sleep.
Miles Hellyer is a father of two young children. He is the Founder and Creative Director of Chalk Company, a design and animation studio based in Sydney, Australia. Over the past ten years, Miles has been designing, illustrating, and animating a range of creative projects for clients such as the Art Gallery of NSW, NSW Department of Education, and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
]]>Plunge into the vibrant and mysterious science of the ocean with this beautifully illustrated encyclopedia for young explorers! Journey through the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian Oceans, uncovering the amazing secrets of undersea life. From the science behind shark teeth to the playful behavior of clownfish, kids will discover a world of fascinating facts and breathtaking visuals, making learning about marine life an exciting deep-sea dive!
For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiousity 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.
]]>Tomas Tuma is a Czech freelance illustrator, photographer, and programmer. He has authored many educational adventure books for children, where he popularises modern technologies. He studied English and Art Education and enjoys walking in the woods. He currently resides in the Czech Republic.
]]>Learn how to classify various birds from big-sized illustrations!
We all know that there are many birds up in the sky, but did you know that there is a similarly vast number down here on the ground? The bird kingdom is weird, wonderful, vivid, and fascinating. This encyclopedia will introduce you to over a hundred of the world's best-known birds, and it will give you a clear idea how birds are classified. You will find an attractive selection of birds of prey, parrots, penguins, songbirds, and aquatic birds from practically every corner of Planet Earth. The magnificent full-colour illustrations and easy-to-read text make this book a handy guide that all preschoolers and young children will enjoy.
]]>Learn how to classify various plants from big-sized illustrations!
This planet of ours is teeming with vast numbers of plants, from small flowers to giant trees. And there are fungi and lichens too. With this encyclopedia, you will get to know a few hundred of the best known and most interesting plants from all over the world. What's more, this book will show you groups in which plants, fungi, and lichens can be classified. It will introduce you to mysterious lichens, edible and inedible mushrooms (as well as poisonous ones), and flowering and non-flowering plants. You will also learn about trees, bushes, and herbs from all corners of the globe. With its magnificent full-colour illustrations and simple explanations, this book is not only useful; it is an essential learning companion for young readers.
Tomas Pernicky lives and works in Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic. He is freelance graphic designer and illustrator and specializes in the creation of logos and corporate identities.
Learn how to classify various animals from big-sized illustrations!
Vast numbers of animals live here on Earth, from tiny insects to large mammals. The animal world is varied and quite interesting. This encyclopedia will introduce you to several hundreds of the best known and most interesting animals on the whole planet, and to top it off , it will help you put each one of them into the right group. This book will show you an attractive selection of mammals, rodents, ungulates, primates, predators, cetaceans, birds, fish, cartilaginous fish, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and other animal groups that can be found all over Earth. Beautiful illustrations and simple texts make this book indispensable for all children.
]]>This fun and fully illustrated non-fiction book tackles poops and farts, yes you read that correctly! Poops and Farts teaches kids about digestion, the history of toilets and toilet paper, how to poop outdoors or in space, and so much more in an engaging, comic-book style. It's a fantastic way to encourage open conversations and make learning fun even for the most reluctant of readers. Fuel their curiousity for science order now!
For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiousity 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.
]]>Miroslava Gomolcakova studied graphics at the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. She collaborates with Daniel Handak as the creative duo Grounded Pigeons, focusing on graphics for games and animated films, with occasional animation work. Recently, they illustrated their first book, Poops and Farts. She lives and works as a freelancer in Prague.
Daniel Handak studied graphics at the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. He collaborates with Miroslava Gomolcakova as the creative duo Grounded Pigeons, focusing on graphics for games and animated films, with occasional animation work. Recently, they illustrated their first book, Poops and Farts. He lives and works as a freelancer in Prague.
]]>Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The Arabian Nights. Mischievous jinnis, cunning caliphs and talking animals populate a wondrous, minaret-filled world.
Nine traditional folk tales from a variety of Middle Eastern and North African traditions are brought to life by author Jehanne Moharram and the delightful illustrations of artist Chaymaa Sobhy. These include:
These stories have been passed down for generations in innumerable versions and retellings. The fables and tales in Children's Favorite Arabic Stories reflect the rich cultural fabric of the Arabic-speaking world which stretches across a vast region from Morocco to Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan to Saudi Arabia and the Emirates all of which provide the vibrant backdrops to these tales.
]]>Chaymaa Sobhy was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, and received a pharmacy degree from Cairo University before shifting her focus to illustrating and writing picture books. She is the author and illustrator of My Sky Is Many Colors and I Imagine, and the illustrator of Tuttle's My First Book of Arabic Words.
]]>Discover what happens when a young woman from a family of demon hunters falls in love with the prince of hell in this spicy paranormal romance.
It's been five years since her sister was killed by a demon and Camille Morgan swore off the family business of demon hunting. Now a college sophomore, Cami is determined to get her degree and move far away from Seattle and all things paranormal.
But when Cami becomes the target of a demon attack she's convinced is a ploy by her parents to drag her back into training, the wildly charming and attractive Xander Kane comes to her rescue. Except her saviour isn't a hunter. Or even human.
Xander is a demon, the alluring prince of hell, whose magnetic presence leaves Cami both captivated and conflicted, especially when she finds out he plans on using her to destroy the demon hunters once and for all.
Caught between her growing affection for Xander and her loyalty to her family, Cami struggles to make a decision that could shatter her and endanger the lives of those she loves.
]]>One day, my dear daughter, you will destroy the world.
After being forced from her home five years ago, Alana Zaya has finally been given the opportunity to return and claim her rightful place on the Okaron throne. When her voyage is waylaid by pirates, she soon finds herself stranded at sea, surrounded by strangers harboring dark secrets. But hers are perhaps the darkest of all.
Across the world, Rae Toma is a warrior who can't walk away from a fight. After years of using her skills to rebel against the regime that trained her, her treachery is revealed, forcing her to flee into the Shatter a maze of islands that no one has ever returned from.
There, she finds Nur Del Sue, a Stormwitch on a mission to prove herself in a world determined to ignore her.
Forced from their homes, can these characters survive long enough to uncover the deadly mysteries at the heart of their world?
]]>It's been thirteen decades since Tsimmaon left the Arid Planet in search of water, carrying only 1 percent of the human race in a bid to keep the species alive. There's no one thirstier on that space ark than the young recruits eager to earn their spot on the elite Hydroseeker League and find the next water source. Seventeen-year-old Conway 12-1, the strongest moto-rover rider among his cadre, is just weeks from Hydroseeker initiation. Until one failed mission changes everything.
Left for dead on the fabled Arid Planet with a life-altering injury, Conway is taken in by the citizens of Mayanah, a community no one knew had survived the Dry Death. But these people have a secret: Their water is deadly if you don't follow its rules. Mayanah's beautiful young sovereign Selah is the key to safe water and, Conway realizes, to the survival of his spacenation. If he can bring this revelation back home, he might still have a shot at being a Hydroseeker. He just needs to convince himself that betraying Selah is worth it, which gets harder the closer they become...and the more he learns about his own people.
Kimber St. Lawrence conjures an exhilarating world in this moving postapocalyptic sci-fi novel. Featuring cinematic action and a love against all odds, Thirsty Ground will leave readers breathless.
]]>Toddlers will learn all about the how plants grow with their own hands as they move a seed to the ground, cover it will soil, water it with metal can, giving it plant food, watching the sun warm it, and then turning a clock to make the plant grow.
One little seed wild and free, blows into the sky and twirls with the breeze. Move it to the ground nice and slow. Let's make this little seed grow, grow, grow!
Lift-the-flaps, spinners, and pull tabs do all the movement so little kids can find out how important plants are to our environment!
]]>Sri Lankan soldier Ranatunge Karunananda is the first runner to ever represent his country in the 10,000-meter race in the Olympic Games. Despite the lack of support and resources, Karu stands on the track in Japan, determined to represent Sri Lanka and his family well.As the race begins and the other runners lap Karu time and again, he presses on despite objections, winning not the race but the hearts of the 70,000-person crowd, and inspiring people across the world to stay steadfast in the race for their dreams.
]]>NOTOFFICIALMINECRAFTPRODUCT.NOTAPPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG.
Immerse yourself ina new, vibrant, delightfulworld exploring, fishing, farming, fighting (if you want), fossil-hunting, and so much more. Unlike any other game world, in Minecraft, you can touch, pick up, and place pretty much anything you see, anywhere; you can travel as far as you want in any direction, from desert to ocean to snowy mountains and crystal caves; and you can create any structure, from a humble animal pen to a giant working rollercoaster, using just the blocks the world is made of.
There's just so much to do in Minecraft that it'sveryeasy to overlook some of the extensive and fantastic gameplay. This guide will show you how to survive and thrive in this deep, broad, and complex world. It's chock full of pro tips, challenges, and step-by-step instructionsthat will get you on the ground and running and sneaking, boating, swimming (or even flying with rare elytra wings)!
From how to find or build a simple shelter on your first night, to finding exotic hidden temples (and loot) and dimensions, this guide will step you through the must-know basics, including:
Winnie the Pooh (Book 1)
A fully revitalised editionof the 1926 classic, featuring full-colour versions ofthe original illustrations by E. H. Shepherd. A great gift for children and readers of any age!
Winnie the Poohhas enchanted readers of all ages for nearly one hundred years with its relatable, heartwarming adventures that follow the famously friendly and lovable teddy bear. In this classic collection, Winnie navigates the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Piglet, Owl, and Rabbit, learning the true meaning of friendship and the value of accepting everyone exactly as they are.
Now you can own the original 1926 classic by A. A. Milne with all of the illustrations fully colourised by Diego Jourdan Pereira, which bring new life to these time-honoured and beloved tales.
This beautiful edition is great for bedtime or any time, and is the perfect addition to any bookshelf for readers both young and old.
The House at Pooh Corner (Book 2)
More Pooh stories! A fully revitalised editionof the 1928 classic sequel to Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne, with full-colour versions ofthe original illustrations by E.H. Shepherd.
The first book in the series featuring the beloved character Tigger!
Winnie the Poohhas enchanted readers of all ages for nearly one hundred years with its relatable, heartwarming adventures that follow the famously friendly and lovable teddy bear.
Now you can own the original 1928 classic with all of the E.H. Shepherd illustrations fully colourised by Diego Jourdan Pereira, which bring new life to these timeless and beloved tales.
In this classic sequel to the original book, Winnie navigates the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, and for the first time in the series Tigger! Together, in a multitude of classic tales, they learn the value of friendship and what it means to grow up.
This series of stories and poems can be read independently, but also feature a common coming-of-age theme and a nostalgia for childhood. Great for bedtime or any time, it is the perfect addition to any bookshelf for readers both young and old.
]]>E. H. Shepard was a prolific English artist and book illustrator, most well known for his work in Winnie the Pooh and Aesop's Fables.
]]>'With my Dad, I can do anything...'
A little boy's lovable celebration of the endless possibilities and adventures he has with his father.
Teachers' notes available here
]]>Charlie's dad is tall, round and soft. Sometimes he growls. Could he be a bear? Luckily for Charlie there's one thing bears do best.
]]>A day in the life of a seemingly hopeless, mistake-making dad, whose children know he is the world's best dad after all.
In this light-hearted and cheerful story, three kids recount their funny experiences with the world's most hopeless dad. He is a dad who balances looking after his kids and working from home. He's clumsy and forgetful, and he makes mistakes, but he's always there for them and ready to scare away monsters under the bed. At the end of the day, his kids know he really is the world's best dad.
]]>Nicky Sievert completed a Bachelor of Fine Art through Massey University in 2005 and lives in Lower Hutt with her husband and two children.
]]>Tap, tap, CRACK!
Three stripy chicks hatch ...
After patiently incubating his mate's eggs, Cassowary Dad must raise the chicks alone. Cassowary Dad nurtures, teaches and protects his chicks. But looking after three chicks is not easy. When a cyclone tears through their rainforest home, will this devoted dad be able to save his family?
A heart-warming tale about the magnificent Australian cassowary.
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
]]>Beverley McWilliams writes non-fiction and historical fiction for children. She has a passion for Australian animals and hopes her books will spark an interest in native species. Committee member of SCBWI (South Australia), Member of the ASA and CBCA Social Media: Instagram: @beverley_mcwilliams_author, Facebook: BeverleyMcwilliamsAuthor
Julian Teh is a Canberra-based scientific illustrator, and the illustrator of On the Trail of the Plains-wanderer (CSIRO Publishing, 2022) (Shortlisted, The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature 2023: Non-Fiction). Fuelled by a lifelong passion for birds, he uses his paintings to tell the stories of his birding experiences.
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Organised into themes for any occasion, you'll find everything from snappy-yet-terrible one-liners to embarrassing dialogue. It will keep the whole family howling (and begging you to stop) for hours upon end.
Nothing is more hilarious for moms, sons, and daughters than the bad jokes dads tell. (Well, at least he thinks they're hilarious...)Have you ever noticed when you're out to dinner and your dad takes it upon himself to antagonize your server with a lame joke? Has he ever made a pun that made everyone at a family gathering roll their eyes? Has he ever made a corny comment about things simply lying around the house? If you answered "yes" to any of the following, you're not alone. Dad jokes are at the center of all dad interactions and the core of every dad's persona.
This comedic compendiumcompiles more than eight hundred of the best jokes dads can use tohone their craft and ensure maximum eye rolling. Included within are jokes such as:
Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon?
Great food; no atmosphere.
Did you hear about the kidnapping at school?
It's fine, he woke up.
What did the judge say when the skunk walked in the court room?
Odor in the court.
What do you call an elephant that doesn't matter?
An irrelephant.
What kind of tea is hard to swallow?
Reality.
With Dad Jokes, give your dad the gift of becoming the least funny/most 'punny' guy in the room.
]]>**Shortlisted, ABIAs 2025, Small Publisher's Children's Book of the Year**
**Shortlisted, 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Eve Pownall Award**
**Longlisted, ABDA Best Designed Children's Non-fiction Book 2025**
When it comes to flora, Australia is a land of diversity. From rainforests to deserts, mountains to the seashore, 90 per cent of our plant life is unique to this ancient land. Treasures like our wattles, eucalypts, grass trees and banksias are part of our heritage and identity and they still flourish here today, on the oldest landmass on Earth.
Flora celebrates and highlights these diverse and curious plants, looking into the history, quirks and uses of our native plants, and how vital they are for our unique ecosystems. Tania McCartney brings her trademark skill and style in both writing and illustration, using her substantial experience in children's literature to examine Australia's botanical riches to pick out engaging, informative and surprising facts to share with young readers.
The book includes spreads on the Gondwana Garden, Deadly Flora, Bush Food, Flora Ancestry and more. Meet the Tasmanian Mountain Ash, which is both the world's tallest flowering plant and the tallest hardwood tree, growing more than a metre each year...for up to 400 years! Share in a park ranger's discovery of a living Jurassic fossil deep in a secret sandstone canyon. Learn how to avoid the most painful plant on earth, the gympie gympie, whose fine little hairs inject a fiery venom that feels like acid and electrocution all at once!
The author introduces readers to hard science too, including information on plant classification, countless cool scientific facts and binomial names and scientific terms, with a handy glossary aimed at children at the back of the book.
]]>Explore the fascinating world of native Australian animals through the five basic senses sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.
Covering more than 145 truly astounding animals from sharp-eyed whale sharks to sticky-bellied green tree frogs Sensational Australian Animals showcases the strange things these creatures can do with their eyes, ears, noses, mouths and skin! Meet birds that laugh, frogs that quack and fish that sing. Discover mammals that glow in the dark and seahorses disguised as seaweed. Be surprised by turtles that breathe through their bums and squirm at lizards that clean their eyes with their tongues. And then there's the dangerous creatures that bite and sting!
Be intrigued, amazed and astonished by what insects, birds, spiders, fish and many other animals are capable of! Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 8 to 12.
]]>Cher Hart is a nature illustrator, graphic designer and spatial analyst with a background in biology and a sense of fun. She has created scientific communication material for journals, exhibitions and government. This is her first published children's book.
]]>Are you ready to see how science works?
Lift the flaps to discover fascinating facts about the world around you, including answers to questions like...
How do we know what's out there in space?
What do we do with all this poo?
If we can't see it, how do we know it's real?
This stunningly illustrated book draws on the scientific knowledge of Scienceworks experts, and will inspire readers to see the many ways that science is always all around us.
]]>Chris Nixon is the illustrator of CBCA Honour Book Wild Australian Life and brings to life the world of science in his signature style
]]>Australia is home to more nocturnal animals than most other countries, come on a journey across our landscapes and discover the vibrancy and diversity of the nightlife!
]]>Our world is full of amazing natural wonders. From sparkling seas and towering trees, to valleys, lakes and waterfalls, there are extraordinary places that seem too magical to be true but can be found right here on planet Earth.
There are ghostly green lights of the aurora borealis near the North Pole, and exquisite rainbow mountains in China. There is a lake in Australia so pink it looks like fairy floss, and giant crystal caves hidden below Mexico.
These are just some of the incredible places you will discover in Our World Full of Wonder.
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
'Our World Full of Wonder is a parent's and educator's dream.' Michelle Atkins, Books+Publishing
]]>Jess Racklyeft is an author and illustrator based in Melbourne. She particularly loves illustrating plants and animals and sharing her love of the Australian bush. She is the illustrator of Iceberg (Allen & Unwin), which won Picture Book of the Year in the 2022 CBCA Awards, and The Forgotten Song (CSIRO Publishing, 2023) (Notable Book, The CBCA Awards 2024).
]]>For better or for worse, childhoods shape adult relationships and attachment styles, profoundly shaping who we are as teachers, teaching styles and generally the things we consider important and not so important. The shape of our childhood and adolescence has a profound impact on how relationships are formed in adulthood. It can affect our ability to trust, be vulnerable and create productive bonds, both at school and college and professionally, and also our general levels of motivation.
Through the aforementioned theme and subthemes, my memoirs here reveal how childhood struggle has shaped my approach to teaching and my academic career from an unskilled labourer from the country working class in the timber industry, deprived of a high school education and recruited into the workforce at 15 years of age, to a senior academic in one of Australia's G8 universities, holding five PhDs.
With strong historical backgrounding, a special appeal of this book is its drive to place childhood and adolescent events contained in the memoirs in a wider historical context, looking to transnational movements such as discussions on anachronisms and eugenics. In so doing, the exegesis a fresh and exciting innovation is in harmony with the memoirs. The memoir is so refashioned as a pedagogical tool.
]]>Ali Akbar, Research Fellow, Deakin University and at the University of Melbourne.
]]>Fascinating juxtapositions such as these are also reflected in the current book. The richly illustrated publication is set within a framework of three essays that discuss Susan Beech the collector as well as the fundamental aspects of her collection. In addition, Damian Skinner leads the reader through the stylishly furnished house and presents the connections between this significant collection and the Art Deco-informed interior design.
The publication is accompanied by Susan Beech both as a model and in the form of statements, proving once more how life is enriched by art and jewellery.
]]>His works tell of his life as a Pkeh as the Mori call descendants with European roots of his culture, and history, as well as the history of Aotearoa New Zealand and the country's unique materials: the millimetre-thick mother-of-pearl of the pearl oyster, the iridescent inner membrane of the pua (a rainbow abalone), and the pounamu (a type of greenstone). He works with found objects in which he recognises a 'sign from the past', a kind of archetype, something familiar, and discovers forms, symbols, and images that connect Mori, Polynesian, and European civilisations through emblematic meanings that transcend their cultures. As such, Freeman has long been a mediator between the cultures.
]]>Real-world challenges such as small sample sizes, skewed distributions of data, biased sampling designs, and more predictors than data points are pushing the limits of classical statistical analysis. This textbook provides a new tool for the statistical toolkit: data simulations. It shows that using simulation and data-generating models is an excellent way to validate statistical reasoning and to augment study design and statistical analysis with planning and visualisation. Although data simulations are not new to professional statisticians, Statistics by Simulation makes the approach accessible to a broader audience, with examples from many fields. It introduces the reasoning behind data simulation and then shows how to apply it in planning experiments or observational studies, developing analytical workflows, deploying model diagnostics, and developing new indices and statistical methods.
Aaron M. Ellison served for twenty years as the senior research fellow in ecology at Harvard University. He is the author of A Field Guide to the Ants of New England and Vanishing Point and coauthor of A Primer of Ecological Statistics, Scaling in Ecology with a Model System, and other books.
]]>The Dravidian Pathway is a timely contribution to public and scholarly understanding of South Indian politics, examining a pivotal period in the rise to power of the Tamil Nadu party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (the Dravidian Progressive Federation, or DMK).
The scholarly canon on social movements and/or electoral politics has largely neglected the interplay between the two, focusing only on outcomes. Vignesh Rajahmani's innovative, detailed study of the Dravidian movement explores the strategic leadership of DMK and non-DMK figures like Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, C.N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi and K. Kamaraj. It illustrates their synthesis of anti-caste ideology, socioeconomic and educational mobility, and inclusive Dravidian-Tamil identity, and considers why that vision resonated with marginalised communities.
Tracing the early DMK years, from the party's social justice campaigns to its landmark electoral victory in 1967, Rajahmani highlights the challenges of navigating ideologicalcommitments within the constraints of political pragmatism, while also making politics accessible to the common person. He explains how iterations on the initial ideology and political offering can reinvigorate such movements, keeping their politics agile and incentivising inclusive policymaking. He also shows how the DMK shaped Tamil Nadu'scounter-hegemonic political identity, which has proven electorally resilient in spite of majoritarian onslaughts.
]]>The Western Sahel's fragile states face growing popular discontent, complicated by both climate change and military intervention by France and other powers. Mali is the epicentre of the Sahel crisis: Morten Bs charts the history of Mali and its fragile neighbours, identifying their current frailty as unsettled states, without legitimate social contracts or political consensus. This in turn has generated competing identities and economic interests, which spill over into resource conflicts over grazing, water, mineral reserves or smuggling routes. Such local contests have been manipulated by elites intent on their own preservation, and appropriated by jihadi insurgents eager to integrate into local communities.
What will happen if all the ingredients of this perfect storm coalesce? What are the ramifications for the Sahel, its neighbours, Europe and the wider world?
]]>While acknowledging these dimensions, Hands, Wrists, Fingers focuses on a broader perspective that includes cultural dimensions both conscious and unconscious, involving language, symbol, ritual, curiosity, playfulness, and mindfulness. Through a wealth of original insights, anecdotes, exercises, and games, musicians will be able to transform their hands into sensitive and intelligent agents of joyful creativity, in which the linguistic and symbolic dimensions of hands become inseparable from their physical and material existence.
Hands, Wrists, Fingers is organised in four parts: Culture, The Language of Hands, Sensitivity and Creativity, and Knowledge and Mystery. Behind the physical gestures and movements of your daily life and your music-making, there are the stories that you tell about your own hands thoughts and feelings, memories, experiences, judgments, hopes, and fears. Hands, Wrists, Fingers argues that the way you use your hands is inseparable from these stories, in which you tell yourself 'what you can and cannot do, what you should and should not do, what you're allowed to do and what you're prevented from doing'. If your inner stories aren't healthy in themselves, it's very difficult for your hands to behave in a healthy manner.
Hands, Wrists, Fingers is a practical book brimming with exercises and suggestions. Every chapter is supported by video clips illustrating and demonstrating its exercises. Among other things, you'll explore the skills of rotation and of spiral movements, the mastery of textures and gradations, the playful manipulation of objects, and the use of your hands as agents of expressive language. Your hands will become creative, intelligent, and sensitive, and you'll develop a new understanding of the true meaning of good health.
]]>The commercial turn in the internationalisation of higher education produces numerous paradoxes for the global research university. The Ethics of Internationalisation undertakes a critique of the ethical dilemmas for trans-scholars and the political struggles over the idea of the university itself and proposes an ethics of internationalisation as an alternative.
]]>Written by a practising poet and novelist who has close experience of the subject matter and has published creative work in the areas being examined, Sexual Violence and Literary Art is a wide-ranging study, covering carefully selected works from Ovid through Shakespeare to Pope, Richardson, Shelley, Hardy, Nabokov and beyond. It addresses the necessary complicity of any representation in what is represented, by examining ways in which canonical male writers have attempted to evoke and address representations of sexual violence in poetry, prose fiction, and poetic drama in light of women's philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to these works of literary art.
]]>This book addresses a neglected aspect of the history of Britain's centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery. For a half century after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, individual Britons and British enterprises continued to own enslaved people and invest in slavery in Brazil. This book explores the material basis of this entanglement, in the context of British anti-slavery policy, to explain how the last vestiges of British slaveholding in the Americas were only extinguished by abolition in Brazil in 1888.
]]>This volume first explores the potential of machine translation of literature; goes on to explore possibilities for artificial literary creation; and finishes by assessing recent spectacular progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI) throughout, with reference to Vladimir Nabokov's hyperconscious literary art.
]]>The purpose of this proposed addition to the Anthem Companions series is to add another title to a growing list of well-received publications (including the author's prior contribution on Robert E. Park).In so doing, the goal is to reconnect some scholars to Riesman's legacy and to introduce him to others. Specifically, the book consists of an editor's introduction and seven or eight contributed chapters.
]]>Our interdisciplinary, collaborative team of scholars, artists, and migration practitioners tackle crucial questions about how these borders impact people on the move, host communities, and the nations that grapple with the borders they enforce, politicise, celebrate, and mourn. Through chapters rooted in the growing fields of critical forced displacement studies and critical border studies, this edited volume considers the spaces inhabited by migrants in Mexico and the Western Balkans, the manifestations of various forms of violence (structural and physical), the models of care implemented at these sites, the protests and activism they inspire and forms of creativity that emerge and survive in border regimes.
]]>Carrie J. Preston is a professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and associate director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. Her current writing advocates for the field of critical forced displacement studies as a rubric for understanding art and activism in an age of global mobilities.
Muhammad H. Zaman is an HHMI professor of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health and the director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. His current research focuses on health systems, barriers, and access to healthcare among forcibly displaced communities.
]]>Based on solid research, it is written in an engaging style that is easy to comprehend and enjoyable to read. The Amendments guarantee the fundamental rights and liberties that Americans enjoy and should be understood by every citizen. They tell America's story from its founding to the present day. The Amendments play a vital role in the quest for gender and racial equity, and the continuing struggle to achieve social justice. They are the result of the American people's continuing efforts to perfect our Constitution, first through Acts of Congress, then through ratifications by State Legislatures, and finally by judicial review and interpretation. The Amendments are too important to be treated as afterthoughts, and this book seeks to rectify that by giving them the attention they deserve.
]]>His continuous pursuit of the concept of kawaii is his lifetime passion and mission, and his work is always characterised by bright neon colours that led to the emergence of Decora fashion. He wears several hats in the field of fashion, art, and entertainment and uses colourful and kawaii elements as his creative foundation. He treats kawaii styles as explicit, non-violent forms of rebellion and resistance like many other youth subcultures in Japan that express themselves in unconventional fashion. One needs courage to walk down the street wearing bright, flashy clothes and accessories from head to toe.
As an artist, Masuda has created prominent art pieces, such as a giant Hello Kitty sculpture in New York and a giant Doraemon statue made out of fluffy yarn in Singapore. As a designer, he has designed the decor of Kawaii Monster Cafe in Harajuku and Sushidelic, a sushi restaurant, in New York. He also runs a store, 6%DokiDoki, which has its own clothing line. As an entertainment producer, he has collaborated with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, a Japanese singer and pop culture icon, and produced her first music video.
This book traces a strong impact of Masudas difficult and lonely childhood and upbringing and complex family background on his creative endeavours that attract millions of youngsters that are also going through personal hardships. Masuda went through his teenage years spending time alone in the library reading books which made him observant and perceptive. This book also delves into his deep understanding of kawaii with intricate layers of interpretations which are often misunderstood and misconstrued as simply being cute, girlie, and infantile. Kawaii is not just an adjective but a lifestyle, philosophy, and ideology.
]]>Climates of Migration offers a transcultural, transhistorical, transcolonial and transnational analysis of the interplay between migration and climate change. The emphasis is on the anxiety, disinformation and fear generated by the political instrumentalisation of these issues, and examines how the afterlives of empire are shaping contemporary societies as evident in media discourse, propaganda, literature, art, visual culture, policy-making and new technologies.
]]>It is rarely reported and even when it is, it is rarely prosecuted. Victims are deterred for a range of reasons, but these include a fear that it will never be possible to prove the rape has occurred and that the trial will be traumatic. Even when the case proceeds to trial, victims perceive that it is they, rather than the perpetrator, who is the one on trial. The past sexual behaviour of the victim; the clothes she was wearing; the people she socialised with and the places she visited are all used as tools to claim that in fact the victim consented to the rape. Reforms are needed.
In this book, we explore how changing the definition of rape will help tackle some of these problems. We argue there needs to be a shift in the focus of the rape trial: away from asking whether the victim consented, to focus on whether the defendant. Rather than focusing on the way the victim dresses, behaviour in response to the rape, the focus will be on what the defendant believed justified him engaging in a sexual behaviour.
At the heart of our proposal is the claim that having sex comes with responsibilities. In particular, a responsibility to ensure you have reasonable grounds to believe the other consents. Without that consent, a very serious wrong is being done. The central legal focus should therefore be on whether the defendant had sufficiently good reasons to proceed with having sex.
]]>As a work of traditional diplomatic history that brings in elements of intellectual history, the book describes how British officials, diplomats, politicians, and writers previously seen to be secondary actors to the United States in this period thought about, planned for, and helped to establish a future international order. While in the present day, many scholars and analysts have returned to the origins of the post- 1945 international system, this book offers an exhaustive account of how the statesmen and more importantly, the officials working below the statesmen, actually conceived of and worked to establish a post-war world order.
]]>Drawing from the authors' extensive experience in disciplines like social anthropology, environmental humanities, and political science, Empirical Art breaks down the intricate process of crafting ethnographic films that departs from the researcher's subjectivity. Covering aspects of filmmaking from conceptualisation to production and distribution, readers are equipped with a treasure trove of collaborative techniques, innovative approaches, and ethical considerations necessary to generate and examine storytelling practices in contemporary fields of study.
The authors discuss the significance of the multiple roles that technologies of filmmaking play in reflecting on cultural practices, social dynamics, and (beyond) human storytelling and their transformative potentials. Whether a seasoned filmmaker, an aspiring ethnographer, or an academic seeking new dimensions for their research, Empirical Art serves as a guide to integrating visual storytelling, cinema craft and empirical research.
]]>Martha-Cecilia Dietrich is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She is a co-director of Filmmaking for Fieldwork.
]]>Christian Egander Skov is a scholar of Danish political history at the Danish think tank Prospekt and a former Postdoctoral Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
]]>This book tells the exclusive story of how the Swiss food giant, and more broadly corporate capitalism, have shaped the aid industry since the late nineteenth century. It follows Nestle's bid for a share of the humanitarian market brokered by the Red Cross in wartime Europe, of its clinical trials in Swiss and Senegalese maternities, and of its agricultural modernisation schemes in Mexico, India, and the Ivory Coast.
Based on extensive research in the firm's own historical archives and the records of national and international aid agencies, the volume interrogates the legacies of this long history for international development today.
]]>Edward Wastnidge is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University.
]]>Jan-Peer Hartmann is a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Group 'Aitiologies' at the Freie Universitt Berlin.
Andrew James Johnston is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universitt Berlin.
]]>Beth Johnson is Professor of Television and Media Studies at the University of Leeds.
]]>Strong legs formed the foundation (or the columns) of the civilised subject, but the politics of who could show their legs remained gendered. For the most part, men exhibited and admired, while women concealed and demurred. This book not only joins and advances the lively critical discourse on the Victorian body, but also marks new paths to pursue. While legs made us human, they could also dehumanise.
]]>Dionysios Tsirigotis is Assistant Professor in Modern Greek History, International Relations and Diplomacy at University of Piraeus.
]]>The Gothic has often been discussed in relation to the French Revolution as a literature of terror, but The Gothic at War demonstrates how the works of Gothic writers such as Horace Walpole, Charlotte Smith and Ann Radcliffe were also a literature of conflict. This study places a particular focus on masculinity and national identity, analysing how the representations of war and the figure of the soldier in the Gothic of the era allowed women writers in particular to explore anxieties about manliness and nationality.
]]>Drawing evidence from literary, documentary and material sources, it surveys the surviving evidence of pet-naming from the period, as well as examining the labels given to livestock and working animals, and the folk-names given to wild birds and beasts. Alongside building up a corpus of names, the conventions that directed animal naming in the Middle Ages are considered, as well as how proper nouns behaved when given to non-human organisms. Through its inquiry, the book lays bare the period's larger attitudes towards animals, their functions and identities, and at the same time sheds light on how the Middle Ages conceived the natural world as a whole and its relationship with human beings and their culture.
]]>It includes a range of migratory perspectives to better understand thediverse lived experiences of migrants, and the policies, measures and approaches at work across various scales and sectors in Wales that shape their everyday lives.
AWelcomingNation? adopts an intersectional approach to explore these experiences,which is central to understanding the multiple and complex ways in which exclusionand marginalisation take place. The volume is not only a book about migration,therefore, but also about the ways in which migratory experiences and status canintersect with other factors such as age, gender, race and sexuality providingoriginal analyses of migration in Wales.
]]>Catrin Wyn Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. She is an expert on migration, sanctuary and nationalism. Catrin convenes Migration Research Wales, a WISERD research network.
Laura Shobiye is a Lecturer in Social policy and Practice at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her research specialisms are race and migration, particularly refugee education and the intersectionality of race and gender. She is an active member of both the Welsh Refugee Coalition and the Migration Research Wales Network, and a co-founder of the UK's National Centre for Research Method's collaborative and participatory special interest group; she is also a trustee for the Birth Partner Project and the Bevan Foundation in Wales.
]]>Section One looks at the representation of death, dying and the afterlife on television, in historical and contemporary factual television (from around the world) and in US television drama.
Section Two focuses on dramas of grief and bereavement and discusses how the long form seriality and narrative complexity of television, from family melodramas to the ghost serial, allows for an emotionally realist representation of experiences of grief, bereavement and death-related trauma.
Finally, Section Three proposes that television has been overlooked in critical analyses of recorded sounds' and images' propensity to 'bring back the dead'. It argues that television is the posthumous medium par excellence and looks at how the dead return via incorporation into new television programmes or through projects to bring television out of the archive.
]]>Aven McMaster, Professor Emerita for Ancient Studies, Thorneloe University.
]]>Focusing on aesthetics and adopting a media agnostic approach, Jones explores cinema, streaming platforms, television, user-generated content, videogames, apps, virtual reality, VFX, design software, and more in order to show how they cross-pollinate with one another and with our desktop interfaces. The result is a new approach for analysing convergent media in the digital era.
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