Summer Catalogue 2011-12 - Hill of Content Bookshop

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B O O K S H O P
M E L B O U R N E & S Y D N E Y
SUMMER CATALOGUE 2011/12

ILL OF CONTEN
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B O O K S H O P
M E L B O U R N E & S Y D N E Y
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Cover image: By Melbourne artist Gillian Lodge. These paintings
will be on display in our Bourke Street store over summer.

Art
The Art Museum
HB $225.00
The Art Museum is
the finest art
collection ever
assembled between
two covers. This
revolutionary and
unprecedented virtual
art museum in a book
features 1,000
oversized pages of
over 2,700 works of
art. It is the most comprehensive and visually
spectacular history of world art ever published,
accessible for everyone from casual art fans to
experts in the field.
Picasso To Warhol:
Fourteen Modern
Masters
MoMA
HB $59.95
This volume highlights
the work of 14
masters of 20th
century art from
Constantin Brancusi
and Jasper Johns to
Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.
Organised into monographic sections that provide a
lively introduction to each artist and their practice,
Picasso to Warhol allows readers to explore the
achievements of these great figures and to look
closely at many of their most significant artworks.
Girl In A
Green Gown
Carola Hicks
HB $39.95
The Arnolfini portrait,
painted by Jan van Eyck
in 1434, is one of the
world’s most famous
paintings. It intrigues all
who see it. Scholars and
public alike have puzzled
over the meaning of this
haunting and beautiful
double portrait of a wealthy Bruges merchant and
his wife. Using her acclaimed forensic skills as an
art historian, Carola Hicks set out to decode the
mystery, uncovering several few surprises.
The Louvre:
All The Paintings
Erich Lessing &
Vincent Pomarede
HB $89.99
Endorsed by the
Louvre and for the
very first time ever,
every painting from
the world’s most
popular and
renowned museum is now available in one stunning
book. All 2,981 paintings on display in the
permanent collections of the Louvre are presented
in full color in this striking slip-cased book, which
comes with an enclosed, supportive DVD-ROM.
A Bigger Message:
Conversations With
David Hockney
Martin Gayford
HB $37.95
David Hockney is
possibly the world’s most
popular living painter,
but he is also something
else: an incisive and
original thinker on art.
Here are the fruits of his
lifelong meditations on
the problems and paradoxes of representing a
three-dimensional world on a flat surface.
Artist’s Houses
Gerard-Georges
Lemaire
HB $39.95
The homes of some of
the world’s most
celebrated artists are
featured in this lavishly
illustrated volume.
From Frederic
Church’s castle on
New York’s Hudson
River to Claude Monet’s house and garden at
Giverny in France to Giorgio de Chirico’s
sophisticated Roman apartment and William Morris’s
arts and crafts-style Kelmscott Manor, this book
reveals each artist’s tastes and fashionable flair.

Australian
May Gibbs: More
Than A Fairy Tale
Robert Holden &
Jane Brummitt
HB $49.95
May Gibbs travelled to
England in a quest to
develop as an artist and
became an early
supporter of the
suffragettes. One of the
few women to become a
commercial success, she did so by turning to fantasy
and children’s illustration. A fascinating illustrated
biography of one of Australia’s best loved artists,
complete with beautiful reproductions of May Gibbs’
work.
After Words:
Post-Prime
Ministerial Speeches
Paul Keating
HB $59.99
Books of speeches are
rarely published as a
compendium of work by
one person. After Words
is unique in Australian
publishing by virtue of its
scale and range of
subjects and that all the
speeches are the work of one mind: former Prime
Minister Paul Keating.
The Biggest Estate
On Earth
Bill Gammage
HB $49.99
Across Australia, early
Europeans commented
again and again that the
land looked like a park.
With extensive grassy
patches and abundant
wildlife, it evoked a
country estate in
England. Bill Gammage
discovered this was because Aboriginal people
managed the land in a far more systematic and
scientific fashion than we have ever realised.
Australians: Eureka
To The Diggers
Thomas Keneally
HB $59.99
In this companion
volume of Thomas
Keneally’s widely
acclaimed history of
the Australian people,
the vast range of
characters who have
formed our national
story are brought vividly to life.
A richly drawn portrait of a vibrant land on the
cusp of nationhood and social maturity.
Mawson’s
Forgotten Men
Heather Rossiter
HB $49.99
Tasmanian-born
Charles Turnbull
Harrisson was one
of the members of
Douglas Mawson’s
legendary
Australasian
Antarctic Expedition
of 1911-14. The diary he kept from December 1911
to March 1913 has been transcribed and
reproduced for the first time, complemented by his
sketches and watercolour paintings of the
landscape.
Into The Unknown
John Bailey
PB $34.99
Born in Prussia in the
early 19th century,
Ludwig Leichhardt was
fascinated by the natural
world and possessed a
desire for adventure and
exploration. Australia was
a continent ripe for
amateur naturalists and
explorers and Leichhardt
took up the challenge. His expeditions were to
begin in triumph, before finally ending in
disappearance and death and giving rise to one of
the enduring mysteries of Australian history.

Australian
Tony Robinson’s
History Of
Australia
Tony Robinson
HB $39.95
Tony Robinson
explores the modern
history of our nation,
from colonial
beginnings to the
Stolen Generation’s
apology, with
trademark gusto. It’s people that most interest
Robinson and from William Dampier to Anh Do, he
profiles a multicultural cast of characters who have
contributed to the remarkable Australian story.
Housewife Superstar:
The Very Best Of
Marjorie Bligh
Danielle Wood
PB $29.95
The life story of eccentric
Tasmanian domestic
goddess, Marjorie Bligh.
Now 94 years old,
Marjorie is the author of a
library of advice books.
Housewife Superstar is an
illuminating look at a true
Australian treasure. Marjorie Bligh will soon be a
household name.
The Penguin Book
Of Australian
Bush Writing
John Ross (Ed)
PB $32.95
A collection of beautiful
and lyrical Australian
writing about the bush.
It includes some of our
famous ‘bush bards’,
such as Henry Lawson
and Banjo Paterson, as
well as some more
modern writers. Reading through this hugely
comprehensive collection, you’ll be able to smell
the foliage and feel the crunch of sticks underfoot.
Looking For The
Light On The Hill
Troy Bramston
PB $32.95
Today the Australian
Labor Party is in crisis.
Written by a party insider
and former Rudd
government adviser, this
book draws on Labor’s
history with fresh
perspectives and includes
the secret components of
the party’s recent internal review. It also reveals
astonishing opinion-poll results, commissioned
exclusively for this book, that demonstrate the
depth of the crisis.
Joseph Lyons:
The People’s
Prime Minister
Anne Henderson
HB $49.95
This landmark book reestablishes
Lyons as one
of Australia’s most capable
and popular leaders and
reminds us of why he was
the first Australian prime
minister to win and
survive three consecutive
elections. Joe Lyons led Australia through the
financial crisis of the 1930s up to the eve of World
War II. He died in office on 7 April 1939.
Men Are Stupid,
Women Are Crazy
Peter Ruehl
PB $29.99
Peter Ruehl’s humorous
columns on life, family
and politics have been
one of the Australian
Financial Review’s most
beloved and prominent
features for more than
two decades, giving
thousands of dedicated
readers a good reason to read the paper back to
front on the days the column appeared.

Australian Fiction
The Street Sweeper
Elliot Perlman
PB $32.95
Two very different men
try to survive in early
21st century New York
and history comes to life
in ways neither of them
could have foreseen.
Their paths lead to one
greater story as The
Street Sweeper, in dealing
with memory, love, guilt,
heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected
kindness, spans the 20th century to the present
and spans the globe from New York to Melbourne,
Chicago to Auschwitz.
Blood
Tony Birch
PB $29.95
Jesse has sworn to
protect his sister,
Rachel, no matter what.
It’s a promise that
cannot be broken. A
promise made in blood.
But, when it comes
down to life or death,
how can he find the
courage to keep it? Set
on the back roads of
Australia, Blood is a boy’s odyssey through a
broken-down adult world.
Animal People
Charlotte Wood
PB $29.99
Set in Sydney over a
single day, Animal
People traces a
watershed day in the
life of Stephen, aimless,
unhappy, unfulfilled –
and without a clue as to
how to make his life
better. Sharply
observed, hilarious,
tender and heartbreaking, Animal People is a
portrait of urban life, a meditation on the
conflicted nature of human-animal relationships
and a masterpiece of storytelling.
The Cook
Wayne Macauley
PB $29.95
At Cook School, where
troubled youths learn to be
master chefs by bowing to
decadence and whim, by
offering up a part of
themselves on every plate,
a teenage boy with a
difficult past throws
himself into the world and
work of haute cuisine.
Blackly funny and
deliciously satirical, The Cook feeds our hunger to
know what goes on in the kitchen, while
skewering our culture of food worship.
Autumn Laing
Alex Miller
HB $39.99
Autumn Laing has long
outlived the legendary
circle of artists she
cultivated in the 1930s.
Now ‘old and skeleton
gaunt’, she reflects on her
tumultuous relationship
with the abundantly
talented Pat Donlon and
the effect it had on her
husband, on Pat’s wife and the body of work which
launched Pat’s career. A brilliantly alive and
insistently energetic story of love, loyalty and
creativity.
Foal’s Bread
Gillian Mears
PB $32.99
Foal’s Bread tells the
story of two generations
of the Nancarrow family
and their fortunes as
dictated by the
vicissitudes of the land.
It is a love story of
impossible beauty and
sadness, a chronicle of
dreams ‘turned inside
out’ and miracles that never last, framed against a
world both tender and unspeakably hard.

Australian Fiction
Forecast: Turbulence
Janet Turner Hospital
HB $22.95
An exquisitely lyrical
collection of nine short
stories and one memoir
piece from the acclaimed
Janette Turner Hospital.
Featuring a compelling
and enigmatic cast of
characters, Turner
Hospital sensitively
weaves their stories of
raw emotion, heartbreaking vulnerability and
incredible resolve, revealing their quest to hold
their centres and maintain equilibrium in a
turbulent and uncertain world.
War & Peace and
Sonya: A Novel
Judith Armstrong
PB $29.99
In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy
married the greatest author
the world has ever known.
For 48 years they shared
their lives in an enmeshed
union that was both
passionate and combative.
Sixteen years younger than
her husband, Sonya bore
him 13 children and worked for years as his copyist.
Judith Armstrong tells the story of the Tolstoys
through Sonya’s eyes, exploring their devotion and
their immense passion for great literature.
Cold Light
Frank Moorhouse
PB $32.95
It is 1950, the League of
Nations has collapsed
and the newly formed
United Nations has
rejected all those who
worked and fought for
the League. Edith
Campbell Berry, who
joined the League in
Geneva before the war, is
out of a job. She comes back to Australia to live in
Canberra and has ambitions to become Australia’s
first female ambassador, but she finds herself
caught up in the planning of the national capital.
Silence
Rodney Hall
PB $24.99
An exquisite, poignant
collection of ‘fictions’ by
one of Australia’s finest
writers. Each piece has
its own startling imagery.
This is a book that
constantly surprises with
its echoes of famous
voices and where the
astonishing breadth of
material – historical,
personal, imagined – is held together by its central
theme and by a web of subtle connections.
What The
Family Needed
Steven Amsterdam
PB $24.95
“Okay, tell me which you
want: to be able to fly or
to be invisible?” And so
begins the tale of one
particularly gifted family
as it finds itself.
Following his acclaimed
debut, Things We Didn’t
See Coming, Amsterdam
lets each member speak, opening up an intimate
wilderness. He captures their secrets over 30 years,
the many voices revealing an uneasy peace.
Life Kills
Miles Vertigan
PB $24.95
Life Kills follows the dark
journey and twisted mind
of a mysterious unnamed
terrorist as he goes about
his business. Our terrorist
antihero faces terrible
choices along the way.
Here is a unique work of
dark and comedic avantgarde
literary fiction, in
the mode of Hunter S. Thompson crossed with
Kinky Friedman.

Fiction
The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
PB $29.99
With devastating wit and
an abiding understanding
of and affection for his
characters, Jeffrey
Eugenides revives the
motivating energies of
the novel, while creating
a story so contemporary
and fresh that it reads like
the intimate journal of
our own lives.
The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman
PB $29.99
Hoffman weaves a
spellbinding tale of four
extraordinary, bold,
resourceful and sensuous
women, each of whom
has come to Masada by a
different path. The lives
of these four complex
and fiercely independent
women intersect in
desperate days. All are dovekeepers and all are also
keeping secrets--about who they are, where they
come from, who fathered them and who they love.
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
HB 39.95
The year is 1984 and the
city is Tokyo. A young
woman named Aomame
follows a taxi driver’s
enigmatic suggestion and
begins to notice puzzling
discrepancies in the
world around her. She has
entered, she realizes, a
parallel existence. A love
story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a
dystopia to rival George Orwell’s – 1Q84 is Haruki
Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet.
The Picture Book
Jo Baker
PB $27.99
Set against the rolling
backdrop of a century
of British history from
WWI to the ‘War on
Terror’, this is a family
portrait captured in
snapshots. Rich in
drama and sensuous in
detail, The Picture
Book is a beautifully
crafted story about fathers and sons, about fate and
repetition and about the possibility of breaking
free.
The Cat’s Table
Michael Ondaatje
PB $29.95
In the early 1950s, an
11-year-old boy boards a
huge liner bound for
England – a ‘castle that was
to cross the sea’. At
mealtimes, he is placed at
the lowly ‘Cat’s Table’ with
an eccentric group of
grown-ups and two other
boys, Cassius and
Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the
ocean, the boys become involved in the worlds and
stories of the adults around them, tumbling from
one adventure and delicious discovery to another.
The Fear Index
Robert Harris
PB $32.95
Dr Max Hoffman is a
legend – a physicist who
now uses a revolutionary
and highly secret system
of computer algorithms
to trade on the world’s
financial markets. Late
one night, an intruder
disturbs Hoffman and his
wife while they are
asleep. This terrifying moment is the start of Robert
Harris’s new novel – a story as compelling and
timely as his most recent contemporary thriller,
The Ghost.

Fiction
Daniel Stein,
Interpreter
Ludmila Ulitskaya
PB $32.95
Stein is a Polish Jew, who
miraculously survives the
Holocaust. After the war,
he converts to
Catholicism, becomes a
priest and emigrates to
Israel. The character is
based on the life of
Oswald Rufeisen, the real
Brother Daniel. Feeling his life was saved in the war
for a reason, Stein dedicates himself to bringing
understanding and reconciliation to a violent world,
in his own compassionate and irreverent way.
The Sense Of
An Ending
Julian Barnes
HB $29.95
The Sense of an Ending
is the story of one man
coming to terms with the
mutable past. Laced with
trademark precision,
dexterity and insight, it is
the work of one of the
world’s most
distinguished writers.
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco
PB $32.95
Nineteenth-century Europe
abounds with the ghastly
and the mysterious.
Conspiracies rule history.
But what if, behind all of
these conspiracies both
real and imagined, lay one
lone man? What if that evil
genius created the most
infamous document of all?
The Prague Cemetery is the story of a secret agent
who weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues and
attacks, and helps determine the historical and
political fate of the Continent.
Apricot Jam And
Other Stories
Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn
PB $24.95
After years of living in
exile, Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn returned to
Russia in 1994 and
published a series of
eight powerfully paired
stories. These
groundbreaking stories
join Solzhenitsyn’s already available work as some
of the most powerful literature of the 20th century.
Open City
Teju Cole
PB $29.99
Along the streets of
Manhattan, a young
Nigerian doctor doing his
residency wanders
aimlessly. The walks are a
release from the tightly
regulated mental
environment of work and
they give him the
opportunity to process
his relationships, his present and his past. A
haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty,
loss, dislocation and surrender, Teju Cole’s Open
City seethes with intelligence.
The Seamstress
Maria Duenas
PB $32.99
The Seamstress is the
inspiring international
bestseller of a seemingly
ordinary woman who
uses her talent and
courage to transform
herself first into a
prestigious couturier and
then into an undercover
agent for the Allies
during World War II.

Crime Fiction
Death Comes
To Pemberley
PD James
PB $29.99
The Darcys and their
guests are preparing to
retire for the night when
a chaise appears and as it
pulls up, Lydia Wickham,
an uninvited guest,
tumbles out, screaming
that her husband has
been murdered. In a
pitch-perfect recreation of the world of Pride and
Prejudice, P.D. James elegantly fuses her lifelong
passion for the work of Jane Austen with her talent
for writing detective fiction.
Cooking The Books
Kerry Greenwood
PB $22.99
Corinna Chapman,
talented baker and
reluctant investigator, is
trying very hard to do
nothing at all on her
holidays. It should be a
time of quiet reflection
for Corinna, but quiet
reflection doesn’t seem
to suit her – she’s bored.
Scenting a whiff of danger, Corinna accepts an offer
from a caterer friend to do the baking for the film
set of a new soap. Twists and turns and
complications that could only happen to her ensue.
The Drop
Michael Connelly
PB $32.99
Harry Bosch has been
given three years before
he must retire from the
LAPD and he wants cases
more fiercely than ever. In
one morning, he gets two.
Relentlessly pursuing
both cases, Bosch makes
two chilling discoveries: a
killer operating unknown
in the city for as many as three decades and a
political conspiracy that goes back into the dark
history of the police department.
The Impossible Dead
Ian Rankin
PB $32.99
Malcolm Fox and his
team from Internal Affairs
have been sent to Fife to
investigate whether
fellow cops covered up
for a corrupt colleague.
But what should be a
simple job is soon
complicated by
intimations of conspiracy
and cover-up – and a brutal murder. Malcolm Fox
returns in the stunning second novel in Ian
Rankin’s new series.
The House Of Silk
Anthony Horowitz
PB $32.99
Here is the first official
“new” Sherlock Holmes
mystery, written by global
bestselling novelist and
Holmes expert Anthony
Horowitz. As the creator
of Foyle’s War, Horowitz
has already displayed his
talent for plotting and
characterization. And
having been a lifelong fan of Conan Doyle’s novels,
he was the perfect choice to return to the original
stories and create a new mystery for Holmes and
Watson.
Prague Fatale
Philip Kerr
PB $24.99
September 1941: Bernie
Gunther returns from the
horrors of the Eastern Front
to find his home city of
Berlin changed for the
worse. He is obliged to drop
everything when his old
boss, Reinhard Heydrich
orders him to Prague to
spend a weekend at his
country house. The weekend turns sour when a body
is found in a room that was locked from the inside. The
spotlight falls on Bernie to show off his investigative
skills and solve this seemingly impossible mystery.

Military History
The Beauty And The
Sorrow: An Intimate
History Of The
First World War
Peter Englund
HB $49.99
There are many books on
the First World War, but
award-winning and
bestselling historian Peter
Englund takes a stunning
new approach.
Describing the experiences of 20 ordinary people
from around the world and all now unknown, he
explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the
tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity,
monotony and even beauty.
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Paul Ham
HB $55.00
The atomic bombs
dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki killed more
than 100,000 instantly,
mostly women, children
and the elderly. Many
hundreds of thousands
more succumbed to their
horrific injuries later, or
slowly perished of
radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were ‘our
least abhorrent choice’, American leaders claimed
at the time - and still today most people believe
they ended the Pacific War .
The Penguin Book
Of Australian
War Writing
Mark Dapin (Ed)
HB $39.95
Australia’s short history is
a story of war. Soldiers
writing from the front
and journalists on the
ground have formed the
way we think about war
and so formed the way
we think about ourselves.
Author and journalist Mark Dapin has gathered
together the finest of these accounts. These
remarkable letters, diaries, memoirs and reports
remind us of our history and what happens in the
wars we send our soldiers to fight.
Desert Boys:
Australians At War
Peter Rees
HB $49.99
About 1,300 Australians
died in the desert
campaigns of World War I,
while another 3,500 died
in North Africa and the
Middle East during World
War II. Thousands more
carried the wounds of
war for the rest of their
lives. A ripple effect of grief passed down the
generations. Using letters, diaries, interviews and
unpublished memoirs this is the story of Australia’s
desert wars as never before told.
ANZACS On The
Western Front
Dr Peter Pedersen
PB $49.95
The Western Front in
France and Belgium was
the decisive theatre of the
First World War. It was
there that Australia and
New Zealand earned the
esteem of the world. The
experience helped to
forge the identities of the
two nations and the close relationship between
them and through the huge sacrifices both nations
made in what is still arguably the most grueling
episode in their history.
The Art Of Betrayal
Gordon Corera
HB $55.00
The British Secret Service
has been cloaked in
secrecy and shrouded in
myth since it was created
a hundred years ago. Our
understanding of what it
is to be a spy has been
largely defined by the
fictional worlds of James
Bond and John le Carre.
The Art of Betrayal provides a unique and
unprecedented insight into this secret world and
the reality that lies behind the fiction.

History
The End: Hitler’s
Germany 1944-45
Ian Kershaw
HB $49.95
The last months of the
Second World War were a
nightmarish time to be
alive. Unimaginable levels
of violence destroyed
entire cities. Millions died
or were dispossessed. It
was the end: the end of
the Third Reich and its
terrible empire. In his gripping new book Ian
Kershaw describes these final months and the
major question that Kershaw attempts to answer is:
what made Germany keep on fighting?
City Of Fortune
Roger Crowley
HB $39.99
A magisterial work of
gripping history, City of
Fortune tells the story of
the Venetian ascent from
lagoon dwellers to the
greatest power in the
Mediterranean – an epic
500-year voyage that
encompassed crusade
and trade, plague, sea
battles and colonial adventure.
Explorers Of The Nile
Tim Jeal
HB $49.95
Between 1856 and 1876,
five British explorers
took on the seemingly
impossible task of
discovering the source of
the White Nile. Showing
exceptional courage and
extraordinary resilience,
they risked their lives and
their reputations in the
name of this quest. Explorers of the Nile is a
gripping adventure story with an arresting analysis
of Britain’s imperial past and the scramble for
Africa.
Cities Of The
Classical World
Colin McEvedy
HB $39.95
From Alexandria to York,
this unique illustrated
guide allows us to see
the great centres of
classical civilization
afresh. This compelling
and elegant atlas opens a
new window on to the
ancient world and will
transform the way we see it.
Renaissance People:
Lives That Shaped
The Modern Age
Robert C. Davis &
Beth Lindsmith
HB $49.95
Like every era, the
Renaissance brims with
stories. In this book
dozens of notable lives
from 1400 to 1600 are
highlighted. They bring
to life wily politicians, eccentric scientists, fiery
rebels and stolid reactionaries, as well as a
pornographer, an acrobat, an actress, a poetic
prostitute, a star comedian and a least one very
fretful mother.
Double Entry
Jane Gleeson-White
HB $29.99
The rise and metamorphosis
of double-entry bookkeeping
is one of history’s best-kept
secrets and one of its most
important untold tales. It
enabled capitalism to
flourish, so changing the
economies of the world
forever and over several
centuries it grew into a
sophisticated system of numbers which in the 21st
century governs the global economy. A fascinating
exploration of how a simple system used to measure
and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution.

History
Leningrad
Anna Reid
HB $49.99
On 8 September 1941, 11
weeks after Hitler
launched his brutal attack
on the Soviet Union,
Leningrad was
surrounded. The siege
would not be lifted for
two and a half years and
during the 872 days of
blockade as many as two
million Soviet lives would be lost. In this book,
Anna Reid answers many of the previously
unanswered questions about the siege.
The Great Builders
Kenneth Powell (Ed)
HB $49.95
The Great Builders
surveys the careers of
forty great architects
whose engineering
skills were crucial to
their success. Sixteen
nationalities and seven
centuries of
architectural innovation
make for a survey of spectacular scope and depth.
It includes masterpieces from all over the world
and covers 700 years of architectural history.
A Short History
Of Christianity
Geoffrey Blainey
HB $45.00
Blainey takes us into the
world of the mainstream
worshippers – the
housewives, the
stonemasons – and traces
the rise of the critics of
Christ and his followers.
Eminently readable and
written with Blainey’s
characteristic curiosity and story-telling skill, this
book places Christianity at the centre of world
history. Blainey points out that its history is a
much-repeated story of ups and downs.
The Gentry: Stories
Of The English
Adam Nicholson
HB $55.00
For generations England
was a country dominated
by its middling families,
rooted on their land, with
a healthy interest in
turning a profit from their
property and a deep
distrust of the centralised
state. This book is a
wonderful sweep of English history presenting a
convincing argument on what has created the
distinctive English character all with the sheer
readability of an epic novel.
The Borgias
Mary Hollingsworth
HB $49.99
The Borgia family of
Renaissance Italy has
become a byword for
pride, lust, cruelty,
avarice, splendour and
venomous intrigue. Of
Spanish origin, the
Borgias came to
prominence in the Italy
of the 15th century, at a time when the spiritual
values of the medieval church were being swept
aside by the worldly secularism of the Renaissance.
Here is a lavishly illustrated chronicle of one of
history’s most notorious ruling dynasties.
Vanished Kingdoms
Norman Davies
HB $59.95
We habitually think of the
European past as the
history of countries which
exist, but often this actually
obstructs our view of the
past. Europe’s history is
littered with kingdoms,
duchies, empires and
republics which have now
disappeared but which
were once fixtures on the map of their age. This
book shows the reader how to peer through the
cracks of mainstream history writing and listen to
the echoes of lost realms across the centuries.

Biography
Charles Dickens:
A Life
Claire Tomalin
HB $49.95
Charles Dickens was a
phenomenon. Perhaps the
greatest novelist in the
English language, he was
also a demonically hardworking
journalist and
tireless in his support of
liberal social causes. But
the energy and brilliance
concealed a complex and divided character. In this
biography the man who emerges is one of
extraordinary contradictions, whose vices and
virtues were intertwined as surely as his life and art.
A Private Life:
Fragments,
Memories, Friends
Michael Kirby
HB $35.00
This is a collection of
reminiscences in which
we can discover the
private Michael Kirby.
Beautifully written,
reflective and generous,
in that warm and gently
self-deprecating voice
that is so characteristic of him, this is a memoir
that Michael Kirby’s many admirers have been
waiting for.
Clarence Darrow
John Farrell
PB $39.95
Clarence Darrow is the
lawyer every law school
student dreams of being:
on the side of right, loved
by many women, played
by Spencer Tracy in
Inherit the Wind. His dayslong
closing arguments
delivered without notes
won miraculous reprieves
for men doomed to hang. Drawing on untapped
archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the
definitive biography of America’s legendary defense
attorney and progressive hero.
Why Be Happy When
You Could Be
Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
HB $29.95
This is a memoir of how a
painful past that Jeanette
thought she’d written
over and repainted rose
to haunt her, sending her
on a journey into
madness and out again, in
search of her biological
mother. Witty, acute, fierce and celebratory, Why
Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a toughminded
search for belonging--for love, identity,
home and a mother.
Blue Nights
Joan Didion
PB $27.99
Didion writes with
stunning frankness about
her daughter, Quintana
Roo, as well as thoughts
and fears about having
children and about growing
old. Reflecting on her
daughter, but also on her
role as a parent, she asks
the candid questions any
parent might about how she feels she failed.
Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as
underscoring her own age, something she finds
hard to acknowledge, much less accept.
Mawson
Peter Fitzsimons
HB $49.95
Sir Douglas Mawson remains
Australia’s greatest Antarctic
explorer. As Mawson and his
men make their home on
the windiest place on earth
and prepare for their own
record-breaking treks, the
stories of Amundsen and
Scott similarly play out.
FitzSimons provides a
compelling portrait of these great Antarctic explorers.
For the first time, he weaves together their legendary
feats into one thrilling account, bringing the events of
this bygone era dazzlingly back to life.

Biography
Vincent Van Gogh
Steven Naifeh &
Gregory White Smith
HB $59.99
Written with the unique
cooperation of the Van
Gogh Museum, Pulitzerwinning
authors Steven
Naifeh and Gregory White
Smith recreate his
extraordinary life like
never before. Drawing for
the first time on all of his
(and his family’s) extensive letters, which offer
exquisite glimpses into his thoughts and feelings,
this is the definitive portrait of one of the world’s
cultural giants.
Chanel: An
Intimate Life
Lisa Chaney
HB $39.95
During the course of her
extraordinary and
unconventional journey –
from abject poverty to a
new kind of glamour –
Chanel helped forge the
very idea of modern
woman. Unearthing an
astonishing life, this
remarkable biography shows how the most
influential designer of her century became
synonymous with a rebellious and progressive
style.
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
HB $45.00
From bestselling author
Walter Isaacson comes
the landmark biography
of Apple co-founder Steve
Jobs. In this book Isaacson
provides an extraordinary
account of Jobs’
professional and personal
life. Drawn from three
years of exclusive and
unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted
with Jobs, as well as extensive interviews with
Jobs’ family members, key colleagues from Apple
and its competitors, this book is the definitive
portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.
The Last Colonial
Christopher Ondaatje
HB $39.95
This mosaic of essays
takes us on Christopher
Ondaatje’s extensive
travels and is the closest
we will ever come to a
biography of this
extraordinary man. Sir
Christopher Ondaatje has
led a remarkably varied
and interesting life. The
stories are complemented by artist Ana Maria
Pacheco’s magical, sometimes disturbing, images,
which have been specially commissioned for this
book and are published here for the first time.
How To Be A Woman
Caitlin Moran
PB $29.95
There’s never been a
better time to be a
woman: we have the vote
and the Pill and we
haven’t been burnt as
witches since 1727.
However, a few, nagging
questions do remain. Partmemoir,
part-rant, How To
Be A Woman follows
Caitlin Moran from her terrible 13th birthday
through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs,
love, fat, abortion, TopShop, motherhood and
beyond.
Absolutely
Joanna Lumley
HB $45.00
Joanna Lumley is one of
Britain’s undisputed
national treasures, an
English actress, voiceover
artist and author. A
former model and Bond
girl, her distinctive voice
has been supplied for
animated characters, film
narration and AOL’s
“You’ve got mail” notification in the UK. The
absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley opens her
private albums for this illustrated memoir.

Music
George Harrison:
Living In The
Material World
Olivia Harrison
HB $49.95
Drawing on George
Harrison’s personal
archive of
photographs, letters,
diaries and
memorabilia, Olivia
Harrison reveals the
arc of his life, from his guitar-obsessed boyhood in
Liverpool, to the astonishment of the Beatles years,
to his days as a bohemian squire.
The Man Who Sold
The World: David
Bowie And The 1970s
Peter Doggett
PB $32.95
No artist offered a more
incisive and accurate
portrait of the troubled
landscape of the 1970s
than David Bowie.
Through his multi-faceted
and inventive work, he
encapsulated many of the
social, political and cultural themes that ran
through this most fascinating of decades.
Mother, Brother,
Lover: Selected Lyrics
Jarvis Cocker
HB $29.99
Jarvis Cocker is widely
regarded as one of the
most original and
memorable lyricists and
performers of the last
three decades. Here, for
the first time, is a
selection of 66 lyrics, with
commentary and an
introduction by the man himself. Mother, Brother,
Lover takes the reader on 30-year tour into the life,
art and preoccupations of one of the great British
artists of the late 20th century. It is a beautiful
collection of lyrics and commentary.
A Natural History
Of The Piano
Stuart Isacoff
HB $45.00
Here is a beautifully
illustrated, totally
engrossing celebration of
the piano and the
composers and performers
who have made it their
own. Stuart Isacoff unfolds
the ongoing history and
evolution of the piano and
all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides
the basis for emotional expression and individual
style and why it has so powerfully entertained
generation upon generation of listeners.
Gustav Mahler
Jens Malte Spencer
HB $65.00
A best-seller when first
published, Jens Malte
Fischer’s biography of
Mahler has been lauded by
scholars as a landmark
work. He draws on
important primary
resources and sets in
context the extensive
correspondence between
Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler’s diaries; and
the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a close friend
of Mahler, whose private journals provide insight
into the composer’s personal and professional lives.
Look, I Made A Hat:
Collected Lyrics
(1981-2011)
Stephen Soundheim
HB $55.00
Sondheim returns with
the second volume of
his collected lyrics,
giving us another
remarkable glimpse into
his life’s work – and into
his life. He richly
annotates his lyrics with personal and theatre
history, discussions of his collaborations and
exacting, charming dissections of his work.
Also available: Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics
(1954 – 1981), HB, $55.00

Film & Photography
Pilgrimage
Annie Leibovitz
HB $69.95
This book took Annie
Leibovitz to places that
she could explore with
no agenda. She wasn’t
on assignment. She
chose the subjects
simply because they
meant something to her.
The work became more
ambitious as Leibovitz
discovered that she wanted to photograph objects
as well as rooms and landscapes.
Cecil Beaton: The
New York Years
Donald Albrecht
HB $85.00
This is the definitive
book on the legendary
photographer’s life in
New York City, with
many never-beforeseen
images and
reminiscences by his
closest friends and
confidants. Cecil Beaton brought to New York City
his own perspective. At the same time, New York
offered Beaton innumerable opportunities to
reinvent himself and his career.
Cinema: The
Whole Story
Philip Kemp
PB $39.95
Organized
chronologically, this
book traces the
evolution of cinematic
development, from the
earliest days of film
projection to the multiscreen
cinemas and
super-technology of
today. Illustrated, in-depth text charts every genre
of cinema, from the first silent films to epic
blockbusters, CGI graphics and groundbreaking
effects of the 21st century.
Magnum Contact
Sheets
Kristen Lubben (Ed)
HB $175.00
Magnum Contact Sheets
lays bare the creative
methods, strategies and
editing processes behind
some of the world’s most
iconic images. Published
just as the shift to digital
photography threatens to
render the contact sheet obsolete, this landmark book
celebrates the sheet as artifact, as personal and historic
record, as editing tool and as a fascinating way of
accompanying great photographers as they work
towards the most enduring images of our time.
Chasing A Dream
Carla Coulson
HB $59.95
Eleven years ago,
Sydney girl-abouttown
Carla Coulson
swapped a corporate
job for an old camera,
an uncertain future
and a way of living
that would ignite her
soul. Early in her new
career as a photographer, Carla was advised to
‘shoot from the heart’. In this wonderfully diverse
collection of photographs Carla does just that,
lovingly recording the people and places she has
encountered along the way.
Luminous: Celebrating
50 Years Of The
Australian Ballet
HB $99.00
Luminous captures 50 years
of The Australian Ballet,
revealing dancers at work and
at play, on stage and on tour,
in rehearsals and in love and
the designers, directors and
choreographers who nurtured
its artistic vision. This
handsome coffee table book
features defining images and never-before-seen
photos accompanied by essays by Australia’s
leading arts writers.

Food
Tasting India
Christine
Manfield
HB $89.95
Journey through
India with
Christine
Manfield, tracing
the food, spices
and culture of this
amazing country.
Cook your way through more than 250 recipes for
traditional and contemporary Indian dishes and
plan your travels using the extensive directory of
recommended places to stay, eat and shop.
The Table Comes First
Adam Gopnik
HB $39.99
Adam Gopnik envisions a
new “physiology of taste”
which will enable us to
dispense with this
moralizing attitude and
concentrate on the
pleasure principle: food is
to be enjoyed. Above all
the dining table should be
the heart of the family. To
show this we are taken
through the courses, from the establishment of the
first restaurants in Paris to the green movement of
the present day, in a witty and erudite narrative.
Gingerboy
Chris Donnellan
& Teague Ezard
HB $69.99
Iconic Melbourne
restaurant Gingerboy
is renowned for its
funky decor, Asianinspired
dishes and
hip laneway
location. Serving
creative street food, based around plates for
sharing, chefs Teage Ezard and Chris Donnellan
take a unique and bold approach to the food of the
region. Gingerboy serves traditional and modern
Asian dishes with flavours from Thailand, Malaysia
and China -- perfect for the urban foodie.
The Family Meal
Adria Ferran
HB $39.95
Every day at 5.20pm the
staff at elBulli stop what
they are doing, clear
down their work
surfaces and cover them
with tablecloths, bring
in chairs and sit down
to eat a three-course
dinner together in the
kitchen. This is known at elBulli as the ‘family
meal’. Now, for the first time, Ferran is making his
recipes available to all home. With simple, step-bystep
instructions he shows how to prepare tasty,
everyday food.
Heston At Home
Heston
Blumenthal
HB $65.00
Home cooking has
remained stubbornly
out of touch with
technological
development, but
Heston Blumenthal,
champion of the
scientific kitchen, is
set to change all that
with his radical new book. Heston at Home will
change the way you think about cooking forever –
prepare for a culinary revolution!
The Art of Pasta
Lucio Galletto
& David Dale
HB $59.95
Simple dishes mark the
passage of the seasons.
In the cooler days of
winter, authentic
recipes for slow-cooked
ragus (including a
classic Bolognese sauce
that has stood the test
of time) really come into their own. For the more
adventurous cook try some contemporary
interpretations of classic pasta dishes, including
rabbit cannelloni with Jerusalem artichoke sauce and
beetroot gnocchi with pancetta and goat’s cheese.

Food
Indochine
Luke Nguyen
HB $69.99
Chef and author Luke
Nguyen revisits his
beloved Vietnam to
delve deeper into the
culinary legacy left
by the French. Luke
explores the impact
the French had on
what the Vietnamese
eat and cook today. More than 100 recipes
showcase the fusion of French and Vietnamese
ingredients and techniques, interwoven with the
heart-warming and personal stories Luke uncovers
on his journey.
The Complete
Asian Cookbook
Charmaine
Solomon
HB $59.95
A completely revised
and updated edition,
this book covers 800
classic and
contemporary dishes
from 15 countries.
Written with the home cook in mind, these recipes
are straightforward, simple to follow and work
every time. The Complete Asian Cookbook is a
book that belongs in the kitchens of every
household.
Maha
Shane Delia
HB $49.95
Shane Delia, owner of
Melbourne’s awardwinning
Maha Bar and
Grill, brings us his first
cookbook, a superb
collection of recipes
that showcases his
distinctive fusion of
Middle Eastern and
Mediterranean food.
Shane’s recipes include classic meze dishes, new
takes on old favourites and recipes that have been
handed down through the generations. He has also
included some of his restaurant’s signature dishes.
MoVida Cocina
Frank Comorra &
Richard Cornish
HB $49.99
MoVida has always
embodied the heart and
soul of Spanish cuisine.
Acclaimed chef and
owner Frank Camorra
takes us behind-thescenes
to reveal special
techniques, signature
dishes and the pure joy of
cooking that infuses his life and work as well as 70
stunning new recipes.
Cumulus Inc.
Andrew McConnell
HB $59.95
In a few short years,
Cumulus Inc. has won
a place in many hearts.
And the food fits like a
glove, starting with the
perfect breakfast and
ending with a late-night
charcuterie plate. Based
around the ebb and
flow of a day at
Cumulus Inc, Andrew McConnell’s first book
gathers his recipes for the signature dishes that
keep people coming back for more. This is food for
the way we eat now.
Veg
Hugh Fearnley-
Whittingstall
HB $55.00
Why don’t we eat more
veg? They’re healthy,
cost-effective and,
above all, delicious.
Hugh Fearnley-
Whittingstall believes
that it is time to put
this to rights, as he
explains in this brilliant
new book. With over 200 recipes and vibrant
photography Veg is a timely eulogy to the glorious
green stuff.

Fashion
The Dressing Table
Clare Press
HB $45.00
Clare Press, one of
Australia’s most
accomplished fashion
writers, has collected
advice on how to live
well from women
who know, as well as
her favourite local
style-setters and
chicest friends. Interspersed with Clare’s own
thoughts on clothes and what they mean to us and
beautifully photographed, this book is a celebration
of all things chic and delicious.
Balenciaga
Amalia Descalzo
et al
HB $100.00
Cristóbal Balenciaga
made his name in Paris
in the 1940s. He was
hailed by Coco Chanel
as “the only true
couturier among us,”
and his clients
included Princess
Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor. This
book is published to mark the inauguration of the
Balenciaga Museum in Getaria, Spain, which will
house a permanent collection of over 100 pieces
created by this master designer.
Intimate Chanel
Isabelle Fiemeyer
HB $70.00
The most personal
account of the life and
work of legendary
designer Coco Chanel
plunges the reader into
her private world,
offering an intimate
insight. Photographs of
Chanel’s personal effects,
many of which have
never before been seen or published, include
presents from her great love Boy Capel, furniture,
favourite jewelry, talismans, clothes, family
photographs, rare documents, correspondence and
books with personal inscriptions.
Style Book
Elizabeth Walker
HB $49.95
With her sharp eye and
clever pen, long time
fashion editor and style
maven Elizabeth Walker
navigates fashion
devotees through the
recurring themes that
define the essence of
style. She juxtaposes
more than 450
exhilarating images, from 1865 to the present and
from street fashion to haute couture.
Chanel: The
Vocabulary Of Style
Jerome Gautier
HB $120.00
Gabrielle Chanel was,
without doubt, the most
influential fashion
designer of the 20th
century. She was years
ahead of her time and
her clothes, cuts and
accessories have
remained eternally chic,
creating a look for her era and beyond. Chanel’s
influence is demonstrated here by celebrating the
key elements that defined and still define her style.
Nostalgia in Vogue
Eve MacSweeney
HB $75.00
This elegant volume
collects a wonderful
selection of Vogue’s
famous “Nostalgia”
columns and the
stunning photographs
that accompanied
them. Writers,
designers, models and
celebrities share
coming-of-age stories based on a rich range of
themes from fashion to art, Hollywood, music,
childhood, work and love, each triggered by an
extraordinary photograph from Vogue’s history.

Craft
Make Hey While
The Sun Shines
Pip Lincolne
HB $45.00
The crafty Pip
Lincolne shows you
20 gorgeous things to
make for the
summertime, holiday
time, or any time! All
of the projects have
step-by-step
instructions and illustrations to guide you through
and with comprehensive sections on sewing,
crochet and knitting basics, Make Hey While the
Sun Shines is perfect for anyone who is interested
in hand-making their own beautiful things.
The Liberty Home
Sewing Book
Liberty
HB $39.95
Despite its 100-year
plus history as a
leading textile
designer and fabric
retailer, Liberty has yet
to produce its own
inspirational book of
home sewing. Now
that is set to change. This book is divided into three
chapters – Essential, Organization and Luxury –
and contains a diverse range of projects.
Hop Skip
Jump
Fiona Dalton
PB $35.00
Fiona Dalton
shows us how to
make gorgeous
soft toys using
natural and
repurposed
materials. There’s
a raft of fun characters to sew, including Arnold the
penguin, Doris the sausage dog and Harriet the
tortoise. They’re all beautifully designed; inspired
by the handcrafted toys of yesteryear but with
some modern twists.
The New Artisans
Olivier Dupon
HB $49.95
Olivier Dupon has
sourced the cream of
the contemporary
design world, profiling
75 artisans who use
craft techniques, rather
than mass-production
methods, to create
stylish, whimsical,
covetable objects. Hundreds of colour photographs
feature a huge variety of crafts, including art,
ceramics, furniture, glasswork, jewellery, lighting,
metalwork, papercraft, textiles and woodwork.
82 Modern
Style Ideas
Inside Out
Magazine
PB $34.99
For more than 10
years, Inside Out
magazine has brought
Australians
contemporary craft
and design solutions
with personality and
style – and this book is
a carefully selected collection of some of the best,
affordable ‘create- it-yourself’ projects. These pages
bring 82 inspiring ideas and step-by-step
instructions.
Minxy Vintage
Kelly Doust
HB $45.00
Kelly Doust delves
through her wardrobe
and scours flea
markets far and wide
to bring together a
fabulous collection of
delectable vintage
finds.
This is not just a book
about loving vintage fashion: it’s about seeing the
wonderful possibilities for updating all old clothes
and how to look fabulous doing so, no matter what
your age, location or budget.

Architecture & Interiors
Nomad
Sibella Court
HB $59.99
Sibella Court sees the
world differently. In
her latest book, the
stylist and bestselling
author shows us how
to bring our travels
home with us in the
most unexpected of
ways. In Nomad, the
ideas, photographs and mementos she collected
are used to inspire room settings, illustrating
simple, practical and surprising ways to be
reminded of your travel experiences.
Forty-Six Square
Meters Of Land
Doesn’t Normally
Become A House
Stuart Harrison
HB $70.00
In his new book Stuart
Harrison explores how
the constraints of
space often result in
the most innovative
results. With limited
space available we need to consider building
smaller and more efficient homes. This exciting
collection of homes demonstrates that bigger is not
necessarily better.
Interiors:
Australia &
New Zealand
Mitchell
Oakley-Smith
HB $75.00
Mitchell Oakley
Smith satiates our
desire for chic
interiors with this
stylish publication
showcasing over 65 exemplary residences by
Australia and New Zealand’s leading designers. This
book demonstrates how the best designers are able
to adapt to variables of geography, climate and
individual client needs whilst maintaining the
unique character of each dwelling.
Iconic
Australian
Houses
70/80/90
Karen
McCartney
HB $79.99
Karen McCartney,
founding editor of
interiors magazine
Inside Out has
compiled a selection of significant examples of
Australian houses of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, each
brilliantly photographed and with a depth of
coverage rarely seen before.
Nano House
Phyllis
Richardson
HB $39.95
In our growing
cities, space is at a
premium. Digital
design tools, ecomaterials
and new
prefabrication
technologies have
all led to an explosion in innovative ideas for our
domestic spaces. Nano House offers the latest and
most exciting solutions for houses where space is
at a premium, nature must be preserved or
accommodation created for those who need it
most.
The World Of
Muriel Brandolini
Muriel Brandolini
HB $79.95
Beautifully
photographed, this
look into celebrated
international interior
designer Muriel
Brandolini’s
sophisticated world
includes profiles of
select residences – ranging from a seductive
apartment marked by a dramatic draped Marie
Antoinette-style bed and an entryway embellished
with beaded song lyrics, to an airy beach house
with a stairwell of hanging embroidered lanterns.

Gardening
Paul Bangay’s
Guide To Plants
Paul Bangay
HB $59.95
In a Paul Bangay
garden, you can be
sure that every plant
has been carefully
selected to achieve a
particular purpose at a
specific site. Rich with
anecdotes about what
has worked best over the years and with a special
focus on plants for our changing climate, this
collection showcases Paul’s A-list plants and
contains the practical advice readers need to give
their own patch of green the Paul Bangay look.
The Edible Balcony
Indira Naidoo
PB $39.95
Popular media
personality and foodie
Indira Naidoo
transforms her tiny
13th-floor balcony into
a bountiful kitchen
garden. She soon
establishes a productive
urban oasis that takes
just 10 minutes a day to maintain, yet provides her
with an ever-changing selection of fresh fruit,
herbs and vegetables. Featuring 60 delicious
recipes showcasing her home-grown produce, plus
plenty of practical advice.
Grandiflora
Celebrations
Saskia Havekes
HB $59.95
According to Sydney
florist Saskia Havekes,
flowers are an essential
part of our daily life. In
this stunning
compilation of over
100 arrangements,
Saskia shows you how
to bring the beauty of
flowers into your own home, providing a wealth of
ideas on choosing blooms, selecting vases,
composing backdrops and designing your own
superb floral creations.
The New Organic
Gardener
Tim Marshall
HB $55.00
Tim Marshall’s passion
and love of gardening
is present on every
page of this book. He
not only guides you
through the principles
of organic gardening,
he explains the
reasons behind these principles and why they
work. The New Organic Gardener shows you how
to grow a large range of not just vegetables and
herbs but also flowers, trees, including fruit trees,
shrubs and even a traditional lawn.
The Little Vegie
Patch Co.
Fabian Capomolla
and Mat Pember
PB $45.00
Fabian Capomolla and
Mat Pember run a
successful business
installing edible
gardens. After years of
helping clients set up
spaces to grow their own fruit and vegetables they
believe anyone can create their own little edible
garden, in most any area. In this easy-to-use guide
they show you how simple it is! Lots of fun and
packed full of all the information you’ll need.
The Smell Of
Summer Grass
Adam Nicolson
HB $35.99
Adam Nicolson was
determined to leave
metropolitan life, but the
rundown farm was not
quite what he bargained
for. The scenery was
breathtaking and the rural
neighbours charming, but
the hard end of real farming
life was another. For the reader the whole enterprise
is full of delight – frank, witty and touching, it is a
testament to the importance of holding on to your
dreams and turning them into reality.

Travel
Great Journeys
Lonely Planet
HB $49.99
Travel the world’s most
spectacular routes. This
book presents more
than 70 of the greatest
journeys you could
undertake, from ancient
trails, like Machu
Picchu, through to
modern classics, like
Route 66. Let Lonely
Planet tell you what it feels like to take the trip and
give you the information you need to start bringing
your dreams to life.
Extreme Survivors
The Times
HB $49.99
Tales of 60 of the most
daring escapes, famous
shipwrecks and
ultimate survival
stories. The reader is
given a full
understanding of how
Joe Simpson crawled
to safety in the South
American Andean
mountains, Anthony Farrah-Hockley evaded capture
after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War or
how Shackleton’s men survived the incredible
journey by boat to South Georgia.
Shannon Bennett’s
France
Shannon Bennett
HB $44.99
In his new book on
France Shannon Bennett
and friends review all
their favourites. This
unique guide includes
Shannon’s perfect threeday
break in Monte-
Carlo and a movie
producer’s guide to
Cannes, as well as a sommelier’s tips on choosing
the best French wines. And, of course, there are
Shannon’s own recipes, for everything from Goose
and Foie Gras Rillettes to Gateau Basque.
The Holiday Goddess
Jessica Adams (Ed)
HB $35.00
This divine new book
reveals the secrets of
what women really want
to know about four of
the world’s most
fabulous cities: Paris,
London, New York and
Rome. Born in a handbag
from scribbled tips
about work, love and life adventures scattered all
over the globe, it will take you where few women
have been before. Elegantly packaged in red linen,
it’s as irresistibly chic as a designer handbag and 10
times more useful.
Paris
Alain Ducasse
HB $59.95
Join France’s most
celebrated chef on a
personal journey
around Paris as he
reveals his favourite
foodie. From a morning
croissant on the Canal
Saint-Martin to a
magical dinner on the
Eiffel Tower, Alain
Ducasse takes you on a stunning gourmet tour of
Paris. He also share the stories, histories and
encounters with the men and women who make
up Paris’ extraordinary culinary landscape.
Travelling The
Silk Road
Mark Norell et al
HB $49.99
An elegantly,
lavishly illustrated
history of the
legendary Silk Road
and the cultural
pathway it blazed
for the modern
world. Spanning centuries of history, this engrossing
book – created in conjunction with the world –
famous American Museum of Natural History – takes
an epic journey to major stops in China, Uzbekistan,
Iraq and beyond.

Literary, Poetry, Essays
Planet Word
J.P. Davidson
HB $45.00
According to the
Snohomish tribe of North
America, we speak
different languages today
because of a row about a
duck. There are more than
6,000 languages spoken
in the world, some by
only a handful, but by the
end of the century there
will be just 900 left. Why does linguicide occur and
what are its consequences? Planet Word uncovers
everything you didn’t know you needed to know
about how language evolves.
Women of Letters
Marieke Hardy &
Micheala McGuire
(Eds) PB $29.95
In a world of the short
and swift, of texts and
Twitter, there’s
something of special
value about a carefully
composed letter. Some
of Australia’s finest
dames of stage, screen
and page have delivered missives on a series of
themes, collected here for the first time. This is a
diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter
writing. All royalties for this book will go to Edgar’s
Mission animal rescue shelter.
Handwritten:
Ten Centuries
Of Manuscript
Treasures
PB $49.95
In an era when the
practice, indeed the
art, of writing by
hand is fast giving
way to the keyboard,
it is timely to pause
and to consider the
volume of words
penned on paper over time.This book traces the
lives and thoughts, problems and solutions,
inspirations and creative endeavours of some of
the world’s greatest thinkers, innovators and artists.
On Shakespeare
John Bell
HB $39.99
After many years of
reading, performing and
directing Shakespeare, in
the UK and in Australia
with the Bell Shakespeare
Company, John Bell offers
us a unique ‘backstage
pass’ to the histories,
tragedies, comedies and
romances and a
memorable insight into the sonnets. On
Shakespeare is vivid, accessible and fascinating-a
book that confirms Shakespeare’s enduring
relevance to our lives.
Australian Poetry
Since 1788
Geoffrey Lehmann
& Robert Gray (Ed)
HB $69.95
A good poem is one that
the world can’t forget or
is delighted to rediscover.
This landmark anthology
of Australian poetry
contains such poems. It is
the first of its kind for
Australia and promises to
become a classic. Included here are Australia’s
major poets and lesser-known but equally affecting
ones and all manifestations of Australian poetry
since 1788.
Arguably
Christopher Hitchens
PB $32.99
Christopher Hitchens is
possibly the most
provocative writer of our
time, fearless and
forthright with no subject
off limits. This volume of
essays spans a remarkable
four decades of writing.
From early articles in the
New Statesman through to
his pieces for Salon, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair,
these articles display his rare genius, indomitable
wit and singular command of language.

Science
Swainston’s
Fishes Of
Australia
Roger Swainston
HB $125.00
Roger Swainston’s
breathtaking artwork
provides a
fascinating overview
of the extraordinary
diversity of
Australia’s marine
and freshwater fishes. Here, more than 1500
remarkable illustrations portray every family of
fishes ever recorded from Australian waters.
A More Perfect
Heaven
Dava Sobel
HB $35.00
During the 1530s,
rumours of a potentially
revolutionary theory of
how the heavens worked
emanating from a small
city in Poland began to
spread throughout
Europe. The architect of
this theory was a Polish
cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In her
compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles the history
of the Copernican Revolution, relating the story of
astronomy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages.
The Physics Book
Clifford A.
Pickover
HB $39.99
A richly illustrated
chronology of
physics, containing
250 short,
entertaining and
thought-provoking
entries. In addition
to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy,
parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God
particle and Maxwell’s demon, this book’s timeline
extends back billions of years to the hypothetical
Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of
“quantum resurrection.”
Transit Of
Venus: 1631
To The Present
Nick Lomb
HB $49.95
The transit of
Venus across the
sun in June 2012
will be the last
chance in our
lifetime to see this
rare planetary alignment that has been so
important in history. Rich in historical detail and
cutting edge science, along with practical
information on how and when to view the transit;
Transit of Venus is the must-have companion to
this extraordinary astronomical event.
The Quantum
Universe
Brian Cox &
Jeff Forshaw
HB $35.00
Just what is quantum
physics and how does it
help us understand the
universe? Where does it
leave Newton and
Einstein? Brian Cox and
Jeff Forshaw aim to have
us all understanding how the universe works, in
the most straightforward and enjoyable way
possible. Here they help us to share the joys of
experimental science that can enhance every
reader’s life.
The Art Of Science
Richard Hamblyn
HB $44.99
The Art of Science is not
necessarily a book about
great scientific theories,
complicated equations, or
grand old men (or
women) in their
laboratories; instead, it’s
about the places we draw
our inspiration from. The
Art of Science is a book
about people, rather than scientists and as such, it’s
a book about politics, passion and poetry. Above all,
it’s a book about the good that science can do.

Psychology & Philosophy
The Better Angels
Of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
PB $32.95
Given the images of
conflict we see daily on
our screens, can violence
really have declined? And
wasn’t the twentieth
century the most
devastatingly brutal in
history? Extraordinarily,
however, violence within
and between societies really has declined from
prehistory to today. Debunking the idea of the
‘noble savage’ Pinker argues that modernity and its
cultural institutions are making us better people.
A Little History
Of Philosophy
Nigel Warburton
HB $29.95
Philosophy begins with
questions about the
nature of reality and how
we should live. These
were the concerns of
Socrates, who spent his
days in the ancient
Athenian marketplace
asking awkward
questions. This engaging book introduces the great
thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their
most compelling ideas about the world and how
best to live in it.
Thinking Fast
And Slow
Daniel Kahneman
PB $29.95
Nobel Prize recipient
Daniel Kahneman takes
us on a groundbreaking
tour of the mind and
explains the two systems
that drive the way we
think and make choices.
Drawing on a lifetime’s
experimental experience,
Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust
our intuitions and how we can tap into the
benefits of slow thinking.
War Of the
Worldviews
Deepak Chopra and
Leonard Mlodinow
PB $32.95
Chopra argues that there
is design in our universe
and a deep intelligence
behind life. He shows
how consciousness
comes first and matter
second. On the other
side, Mlodinow argues the
viewpoint of science. In his view, physics, genetics
and cosmology will shed far more light on the big
questions than rethinking ancient spiritual
concepts can ever do.
Philosophers
Steve Pyke
HB $42.95
Steve Pyke is known
for his stunning
portraits of
prominent authors,
artists, actors and
intellectuals. In this
riveting collection
Pyke presents 100
portraits of contemporary philosophers,
photographed in his distinctive style. The facing
page of each portrait contains a brief piece written
by the subject on the nature of philosophy and
their place in it.
How To Be An
Existentialist
Gary Cox
PB $19.95
A concise, witty and
entertaining book about the
philosophy of
existentialism. It is also a
genuine self-help book
offering clear advice on
how to live according to the
principles of existentialism
formulated by Nietzsche,
Sartre, Camus and the other great existentialist
philosophers. An attack on contemporary excuse
culture, the book urges us to face the hard
existential truths of the human condition.

Economic Thought
When Money Dies
Adam Fergusson
PB $29.95
In 1923, with its currency
effectively worthless, the
Weimar Republic was all
but reduced to a barter
economy. People watched
helplessly as their life
savings disappeared and
their loved ones starved.
First published in 1975,
When Money Dies is the
classic history of what happens when a nation’s
currency depreciates beyond recovery and is a
vivid, compelling, sobering moral tale.
The Price Of
Civilization
Jeffrey Sachs
PB $35.00
We have less time for the
needed global
transformation than many
had hoped or expected.
Resource scarcity is already
upon us in the form of
soaring oil and food prices
and a cascade of climate
shocks. The Value of
Everything serves as a guide to action – one that
goes beyond the remit of traditional economic
frameworks and helps us understand how each part
of the world can best ensure its own prosperity.
Grand Pursuit:
The Story Of
Economic Genius
Sylvia Nasar
HB $59.99
In a sweeping narrative,
the author of A Beautiful
Mind takes us on a
journey through the epic
story of the making of
modern economics and of
how economics rescued
mankind from squalor and
deprivation. Nasar’s account begins with Charles
Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and
publishing the condition of the poor majority in
mid-19th-century London.
Boomerang: The
Meltdown Tour
Michael Lewis
HB $39.95
Having made the U.S.
financial crisis
comprehensible in The
Big Short, Michael Lewis
realized that he hadn’t
begun to get grips with
the full story. How
exactly had it come to hit
the rest of the world in
the face too? Just how broke are we really?
Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in
which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling
genius.
Keynes Hayek: The
Clash that Defined
Modern Economics
Nicholas Wapshott
PB $35.00
As the stock-market crash
of 1929 plunged the
world into turmoil, two
men emerged with
competing claims about
how to restore balance
to economies gone awry.
Nicholas Wapshott here
unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes
and Hayek, as arguments over the virtues of the
free market and government intervention rage with
the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s.
Extreme Money
Satyajit Das
PB $32.95
Once, we built things –
useful things. Now, we
construct immense
financial structures from
thin air and lies. We have
crafted a colossal
worldwide financial
machine that makes a few
individuals staggeringly
wealthy and sacrifices
everyone else at its altar of risk. Bestselling author
Satyajit Das draws on over 30 years of personal
experience at the heart of modern global finance
to narrate this story.

Sport
The Long Road
To Paris
Cadel Evans
HB $39.95
Filled with
sensational
photographs and
revealing insights
into the thoughts of
the champion, this
book celebrates in
words and
photographs, 2011 Tour de France winner, Cadel
Evans’s indomitable will and champion’s heart. A
rare and fascinating look at the way a top rider
races, both mentally and physically and succeeds.
Australia: Story
Of A Cricket
Nation
Chris Ryan
HB $89.95
More than a just
comprehensive
history, this glorious
coffee-table book is
a colourful,
insightful and
affectionate portrait of Australian cricket. A
selection of Australia’s best writers share their
thoughts on different aspects of the game and its
place in our national culture; from bowling,
captaincy and scoring, to alcohol, media and
literature.
The Footy
Almanac 2011
John Harms & Paul
Daffy (Ed)
PB $32.95
Now in its fifth year, The
Footy Almanac is an
institution. So when the
final siren goes on the
2011 season, it isn’t really
over – there’s plenty to
tide you over to next year
as the Almanackers take
the reins, reliving every game, round by round. Get
your footy fix from the Almanac. It’s the game as
you see it, from the grandstand, from the bar, from
the lounge room.
Australia’s Hottest
100 Surfing
Legends
Phil Jarrett
HB $39.95
This lavishly
illustrated book, with
profiles of 100
legends of Australian
surfing from ‘ancient
history’ (pre-1950s) to
the current day, is the perfect gift for any surfer or
surf aficionado. Packed with behind-the-scenes
anecdotes from insider Phil Jarratt, this is a riveting
account of the pioneers behind Australian surfing’s
past and the mavericks who are now moulding its
future.
The Master:
A Personal Portrait
Of Bart Cummings
Les Carlyon
HB $59.99
In the world of horse
racing, Bart Cummings
is the master. His
astonishing tally of
twelve Melbourne Cup
wins arguably makes
him the greatest trainer
in Australia’s history and, by statistical measures, as
freakish as Bradman. Intimate, personal, informed
and captivating – The Master is loaded with stories
and characters that reveal much of the character
and modus operandi of Bart.
The Only Game In
Town: Sportswriting
From The New Yorker
David Remnick (Ed)
PB $26.95
For more than 80 years,
The New Yorker has been
home to some of the
toughest, wisest, funniest
and most moving
sportswriting around. The
Only Game in Town is a
classic collection from a
magazine with a deep bench, including such authors
as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo and John
McPhee. At The New Yorker, it’s not whether you
win or lose – it’s how you write about the game!

Intermediate & Young Adult
Quentin Blake’s A
Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens and
Quentin Blake
HB $20.99
This stunning edition
of the timeless
Christmas classic is
illustrated by one of
the world’s best loved
artists, Quentin Blake.
His colourful
illustrations guide the reader through Scrooge’s
lively journey to find the meaning of Christmas.
This unabridged, hardcover edition contains a
foreword by the illustrator and is the ultimate
Christmas gift book.
Pizza Cake And
Other Funny Stories
Morris Gleitzman
PB $16.95
Stories with the lot!
Pizza Cake is a new
collection of 10 funny
short stories from one of
Australia’s best loved
authors. A perfect
holiday read this
collection is sure to
tickle the funny bone.
Something For
Christmas
Palmer Brown
HB $18.95
This delightful little
hardcover brings us the
true spirit of Christmas.
This is the story of a little
mouse’s search for a very
special gift for a very
special person. Nothing
seems just right until he
realises that the perfect
present has been with him the whole time – love.
Little Old Mrs
Pepperpot
Alf Proyson
HB $19.95
This is a beautiful
hardcover gift edition of
the timeless tales of old
Mrs. Pepperpot. Able to
shrink to a few inches tall
whenever she feels like it
and a knack of being able
to talk to animals gives
Mrs. Pepperpot the ability
to have marvellous adventures that a new
generation of children will adore.
Aladdin And The
Enchanted Lamp
Philip Pullman
and Ian Beck
HB $24.99
Philip Pullman’s wry
wit and award-winning
talent brings much to
this rich, dark and
uplifting rendition of
the classic tale of
Aladdin. With beautiful
new silhouette illustrations by Ian Beck this
hardcover would make a beautiful gift for children
of all ages.
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson
Burnett and
Lauren Child
HB $39.95
Released to celebrate the
centenary of its original
publication and illustrated
by Lauren Child this
edition of The Secret
Garden is exquisite. In
hard cover and including
six full colour plates by
Child this is the ultimate version of the much loved
novel to own.

Intermediate & Young Adult
Mourning Emporium
Michelle Lovric
PB $17.99
In this, the fast paced
sequel to The Undrowned
Child, the scene is once
again set in Venice where
Teodora must face more
dark magic. Destiny
brings Teo and her friend
Renzo into battle with an
enemy who will stop at
nothing to destroy them.
Mermaids, Vampire eels and ghosts make this novel
gripping for intermediate readers.
Stories Of The Wild
West Gang
Joy Cowley
PB $19.99
After being out of print
for years the West family
are back. This reprint of
the original stories has
updated line drawings to
accompany the hilarious
antics of Michael West
and his family – The Wild
West Gang. These terrific
stories will enthral and are perfect for reluctant
readers.
A Greyhound
Of A Girl
Roddy Doyle
HB $24.99
12 year old Mary
O’Hara’s beloved, jokecracking
grandmother is
near the end of her life.
Letting go is hard, that is
until a ghost appears at
the door to help her say
goodbye to the ones she
loves. A Greyhound of a
Girl is a tender tale of family history and the bond
between mothers and daughters.
Ashes
Ilsa J Bick
PB $16.99
Alex has run away and is
hiking through the
wilderness when the
world suddenly changes.
An electromagnetic pulse
sweeps through the sky
killing the vast majority of
adults. For those spared,
it’s a question of who can
be trusted and who has
now developed a taste for human flesh. This is a
tense and gripping read with lots of shock plot
twists to keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Wicked Wood
(Tales From The
Tower Volume 2)
Edited by Isobelle
Carmody
PB $27.99
In this companion to The
Wilful Eye, six much-loved
writers - Catherine
Bateson, Victor Kelleher,
Cate Kennedy, Maureen
McCarthy, Nan McNab
and Kate Thompson - give
fresh voice to age-old stories of abandonment,
desire and entrapment.
The Shadow Girl
John Larkin
PB $18.95
This young adult novel is
one of the best of the year.
It is tense and fast paced
mystery that will leave the
reader gasping as well as
providing a powerful
insight into life on the
streets. An epic adventure
this is a must read for
teenagers 15 +.

Picture Books
Taro Gomi Board
Book Boxed Set
Taro Gomi
HB $24.95
Perennial favourites Spring
is Here, My Friends and
Bus Stops fill this set with
Taro Gomi’s signature
colour and simplicity. This
box is a beautiful little gift
for babies and toddlers.
The Cat And
The Fiddle
Jackie Morris
HB $29.95
Including over 40
nursery rhymes this
book is an incredible
keepsake that will be
loved by generations.
Jackie Morris’s artwork
is intricate and her use
of colour magnificent
making this a truly a
modern classic.
Christmas Eve
At The Mellops
Tomi Ungerer
HB $14.95
First published in
1960, this is the
cheerful tale of the
resourcefulness of
a pig family. On
Christmas Eve,
each of the four
Mellop brothers get the same idea--to surprise the
family with a special Christmas tree. As a result,
Christmas Eve is filled with too many trees and
tears. But the Mellops put their heads together and
come up with a solution that leads to the best
Christmas ever.
My Bear Griz
Suzanne
McGinness
HB $27.95
Billy has a bear
called Griz: A
Grizzly Bear. And
the two friends
have all kinds of
wonderful
adventures together. Griz is the best friend a boy
could possibly have. And is he a real Grizzly Bear or
a teddy bear? Well, that’s for every reader to decide.
This is a stunning debut picture book by an
exceptionally talented new illustrator.
The Enchanted
Wood
Enid Blyton
HB $19.95
This is the edition that
many will remember
from their childhoods
and the must have
edition for a new
generation of visitors
to the Enchanted Wood
and the Faraway Tree.
Enid Blyton’s magical stories never grow old and
this illustrated, hardcover is guaranteed to be
treasured forever.
Also available The Magic Faraway Tree, HB,
$19.95.
Again
Emily Gravett
HB $26.99
It’s nearly Cedric the
dragon’s bedtime --
there’s just time for
his mum to read him
his favourite book.
Unfortunately for
her, Cedric likes the
story so much that
he wants to hear it
again ...and again ...and again ...with incendiary
consequences! Emily Gravett consistently creates
the most adorable characters and clever stories.
Again! does not disappoint.

Picture Books
King Jack And
The Dragon
Peter Bentley and
Helen Oxenbury
HB $22.95
Night is falling,
bedtime is looming
and playtime is nearly
over . . . but brave
King Jack is more
than a match for
dragons and terrible
beasties. This magical make-believe adventure,
illustrated by picture book star Helen Oxenbury, is
the perfect bedtime story for little boys and brave
children everywhere.
Grumpy Little King
Michael Streich
HB $24.99
The little king was always
grumpy, he was bored
and wanted more. So the
little king decided to start
a war. But it doesn’t quite
work out the way he
planned. This is an
entirely entertaining
story that is full of
humour however cleverly
under the surface there is a sub plot about the
foolishness of war and conflict.
Amazing Grace:
An Adventure
At Sea
Stephanie Owen
Reeder
HB $29.95
This is an exciting
tale of the courage
of 16-year-old Grace
Bussell, an ordinary
teenage girl who is
thrust into an extraordinary situation when a
steamship runs aground near her home on the
south-west coast of Australia in 1876. Using
eyewitness accounts and other historical
documents of the time, the author brings this
compelling true story alive.
All About Alfie
Shirley Hughes
HB $27.95
Alfie and his best
friend Bernard have
a day out full of
surprises when they
go to meet a very
great person
indeed. What’s more
there are secret
dens to explore, snowy skies, birthday fun and a
very unexpected visitor on a special night-time
trip! Join our little hero and his friends and family
in a celebration of 30 years of Alfie.
The 10 Best
Games In
The World
Àngels Navarro
HB $29.95
What games did the
Aztecs enjoy? Or
the Kiowa Indians
of North America?
How about the
Vikings? The 10 Best
Games in the World introduces children to ten of
the world’s most popular pastimes in one
beautifully crafted compendium. Everything you
need – all the rules, counters, dice and boards – are
included.
Charlie And the
Chocolate Factory
Pop Up Edition
Roald Dahl
HB $24.95
This fantastic new
edition of one of the
most loved children’s
books of all time is
pure class. Children
will adore this book as
Quentin Blake’s
illustrations come to life before them.

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