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An absorbing new novel from the Australian bestselling author of I Came To Say Goodbye

A terrifying, compelling and utterly brilliant new novel

The next thrilling instalment in this world-conquering local series

The heart of the home

The Next Bestseller from Australias first MasterChef

My cooking is home cooking, the sort of thing I hope people want to cook for tea, or cook for their friends or their family.
Julie Goodwin

The Heart of the Home

Julie Goodwin

Recipes from Julie's kitchen.

The Heart of the Home contains 100 more of Julie's wonderful recipes, to complement the hugely successful Our Family Table. From a BBQ rack of lamb to chicken satay to a perfect sticky date pudding, Julie has all your cooking needs covered! Included are special chapters such as Celebrate! which includes all the recipes you need for those big occasions like birthdays, Christmas and Easter. Back by popular demand is the 'blank' chapter in the back where you can keep all your family recipes and those you collect so you can become a MasterChef just like Julie!
9781742750095 | $49.95 | Hardback | Ebury Illustrated | Cookery/Wine

Since becoming Australia's first MasterChef, Central Coast mum-of-three Julie Goodwin has become a household name. Formerly an IT professional running a successful family business, she now writes a monthly column for The Australian Woman's Weekly and has plans to open a restaurant.

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AS CLOSE TO FACT AS FICTION GETS

Matilda is Missing
Caroline Overington

In the struggle between warring parents, who will protect the child?
In July 2007, a particularly bitter custody case came before the Family Court in Melbourne. A couple, married less than two years, was fighting over access to their only child, Matilda. Some of the details of the case were a touch unusual. Matilda's mother, for example, went by the name Softie. Matilda's father had an odd name, too: he was called Garry Gary. Both parents went to court with the aim of getting full custody of their little girl, with the other side being allowed only visits. As such, both were ordered into counselling, which is now mandatory. A Family Court psychologist, Dr Ian Bell, tried over several months to get them to co-operate and come to an agreement for Matilda's future care. That process failed, and so a senior judge, Justice Francis (Frank) Brooks, was assigned to hear the case. As for Matilda, she never had to go to court, but she's central to this story, so let's take a look at her: at the time of the hearing, Matilda (Minty) Monaghan Hartshorn was not quite two years old. She had pink cheeks and blonde curls and a stubborn determination to wear a ladybug backpack, everywhere she went. She was out of her cot and into a big bed; she wore Pull-Ups at night but was learning to use the potty. She wasn't supposed to gnaw on the edge of her silky blanket because it gave her a rash on her chin, but it was proving a difficult habit to break. She liked My Little Pony and could buckle her own shoes. Matilda was the character around which all the adults in the drama danced, the innocent child that everyone purported to care about. She was also, always, the one most likely to become lost.
9781742750385 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Bantam Australia | Fiction Also publishing as an ebook.

Matilda Matilda is Missing confirms Caroline as one of Australias most successful rising novelists.
Nikki Christer, Publishing Director Random House Australia

Caroline Overington is a two-time Walkley Award-winning journalist who is currently a senior writer and columnist with The Australian. She is the author of two non-fiction books, Only in New York and Kickback and two fiction books, Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye, which were all published to great acclaim.

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The Fear Index
Robert Harris

A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance.
Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffman's hedge fund built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or 'Fear Index' generates astonishing returns for his investors. Late one night, in his house beside Lake Geneva, 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 just as compelling and timely as his most recent contemporary thriller, The Ghost. Over the next 48 hours, as the markets edge towards another great crash, Hoffman's world disintegrates. But who is trying to destroy him?
9780091936976 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Hutchinson | Crime Fiction Also publishing as an ebook.

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Robert Harris is the author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium and Lustrum, all of which were international bestsellers. His work has been translated into 37 languages. After graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge University, he worked as a reporter for the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight programmes, before becoming political editor of The Observer and subsequently a columnist on The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. He is married to Gill Hornby and they live with their four children in a village near Hungerford.

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The Affair
Lee Child

Kill Alex Cross

James Patterson

The new Jack Reacher thriller from the no. 1 bestselling author.
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former US Marine and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesn't she really want to find the killer? The adrenalinepumping, high-voltage action in The Affair is set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, and it marks a turning point in Reacher's career. If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn't, will the army be able to live with him? Is this his last case in uniform?
9780593065716 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Bantam Press Also publishing as an ebook.

The President's children have been kidnapped and Alex Cross races to save them before it's too late.
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Cross discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes one that may alter the fate of the entire country. Kill Alex Cross is faster, more exciting, and more tightly wound than any Alex Cross thriller James Patterson has ever written!
9781846057656 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Century Also publishing as an ebook.

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Tiger Men
Judy Nunn

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

From the pen of master storyteller, Judy Nunn, comes another brilliant work of fiction woven into the tapestry of Australian history.
Van Diemen's Land an island so rich in natural resources it was a profiteer's paradise. Its capital Hobart Town had its contrasts too; the wealthy elite in their mansions, the exploited poor in the slums of Wapping, and the criminals who haunted the dockside taverns of Sullivan's Cove. Hobart Town was no place for the meek. Tiger Men is the story of Silas Stanford, a wealthy Englishman; Mick O'Callaghan an Irishman on the run; and Jefferson Powell, an idealistic political prisoner. It is also the story of the strong, proud women who loved them, and of the children they bore who rose to power in the cut-throat world of international trade. A sweeping tale of three families who lived through the island's golden era and witnessed the birth of the Commonwealth of Australia, only to watch its young men consumed by the horrors of the First World War.
9781864712186 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | William Heinemann Australia

A mind-blowing first novel that will be the most exciting bestseller of 2011. A magical love story and a story about the love of magic, set in a fantastical circus in the late nineteenth century where two magicians battle for supremacy.
Combining an intoxicating love story reminiscent of The Time Traveler's Wife with the kind of sparkling descriptions of practical magic that made Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell such a delight, this is a singular, hypnotic, spell-casting story. Le Cirque des Rves arrives without warning. Within the nocturnal black and white striped tents a fierce competition between two young magicians is underway. Celia and Marco have been trained since childhood to compete in 'a game' in which each must use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to the players, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. With no knowledge of the intended endgame, Celia and Marco innocently tumble head first into love and must, ultimately, pull off a twist of fate that would be unfathomable to anyone who didn't believe in magic.
9781846555244 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Harvill Secker Also publishing as an ebook.

Erin Morgenstern is a writer and a multimedia artist, who describes all her work as 'fairy tales in one way or another'. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts with her husband.

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Elliot Perlman

The remarkable new novel from one of Australia's finest writers.

From the scars of the civil rights struggle in the United States to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau, there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day on the crowded streets of any major city. Only some of these stories survive to become history. Adam Zignelik, an almost 40-year-old untenured academic historian at New York's Columbia University, is the son of a prominent American civil rights lawyer and an Australian mother. One of his late father's closest friends had been the African American civil rights activist, William McCray. Since the death of Adam's parent's it is the McCray family William, his son Charles (Chair of History at Columbia) and Charles' wife that has become Adam's adopted family. With Adam's career and his relationship with his long-time girlfriend in crisis, he gets a suggestion for a promising research topic from William McCray, who is a WWII veteran, that just might save him professionally and even personally. Entirely fortuitously, Charles McCray's wife's cousin, Lamont, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor and former member of the Sonderkommando (those prisoners forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of the Nazi extermination camps). Two very different paths Adam's and Lamont's lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, racism, genocide and the human capacity for guilt, resilience, astonishing heroism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present and the globe from New York to Melbourne, Chicago, Warsaw, Berlin and Auschwitz.
9781741666175 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Vintage Australia | Quality Fiction

Elliot Perlman is the author of the awardwinning novel Three Dollars (Victoria's favourite book, as voted by Victorians, and which was also a feature film starring David Wenham and Sarah Wynter), The Reasons I Won't be Coming (a collection of awardwinning stories), and the novel Seven Types of Ambiguity. He is published in 20 countries, to glowing reviews. All of his books have won awards here and overseas, and all three of his books have been bestsellers in Australia and internationally.

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Robbie McEwen & Edward Pickering

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'I am a sprinter. And to understand why I'm so good at it, you need to know that, mostly, people have got me wrong.' Robbie McEwen
Professional road cyclist Robbie McEwen, from the Gold Coast, has a fearsome reputation. Grimacing on the bike in a no-holdsbarred effort to be first across the line, rubbing elbows with rivals and leaning on them if they get in his way, Robbie will do whatever it takes to win. Yet outside that situation, he's a different person. Here Robbie reveals what has made him one of the most successful road cyclists of the last 20 years, winning over 100 professional races and three Tour de France green jerseys. As he says, with his characteristic directness, 'I'm a competitive little bugger and have been so ever since I can remember.' This is the inside story on the inimitable sprinter, delivering a complete picture of the relaxed, happy family man alongside the meticulous, single-minded battler that his fans know and love.
9781864712582 | $34.95 | Trade Paperback | Ebury Australia | Autobiography Also publishing as an ebook.

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FICTION

The M ap And The Territory

Michel Houellebecq

Part thriller, part satire, Houellebecq's prize winning and critically acclaimed new novel will be a publishing sensation.
If Jed Martin, the main character of this novel, was to tell you its story, he would perhaps begin by talking about a boiler breaking down, one 15 December. Or about his father, a well-known and committed architect, with whom he passed alone many a Christmas Eve. He would certainly recall Olga, a very pretty Russian he met at the start of his career, during the first exhibition of his photographs of Michelin road maps. This was before global success arrived with the series of professions, those portraits of personalities from all walks of life (including the writer Michel Houellebecq), captured at their work. He should also say how he helped inspector Jasselin to solve an atrocious crime, whose terrifying scene left a lasting mark on the police teams. At the end of his life he will find a certain serenity, and utter only murmurs. Art, money, love, the father-son relationship, death, work, and France turned into a tourist paradise are some of the themes of this novel, which is resolutely classical and openly modern.
9780434021413 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | William Heinemann

SPORT & FITNESS

Be your Best
Geoff Huegill

The greatest comeback in Australian sporting history.

Be Your Best is the inside story of the greatest comeback in Australian sporting history and what it can mean for you. In his own words Geoff Huegill tells the story of his life, from world champion and world record holder, to the depths of despair and depression during his retirement. In Be Your Best we follow Geoff on his inspirational comeback, a story that truly captured a nations imagination. We learn what it took for Geoff to lose 42kg and transform himself from lost soul to national hero. In Be Your Best Geoff shares the philosphies behind this inspirational transformation, and explains how anyone can use these same principles to be their best!
9781742751658 | $34.95 | Trade Paperback | Ebury Australia Also publishing as an ebook.

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Our Queen
Robert Hardman

Inside The World of Elizabeth II.

Throughout history, there has been no Monarch like her. She is not merely the oldest Sovereign this country has ever known. She is the most worldly. She has travelled further than all her predecessors put together. She has met more historic figures than anyone alive from Churchill to Mandela, de Gaulle, Reagan and Obama. And today, Queen Elizabeth II is no more contemplating retirement than she was when she came to the throne in 1952. She sits at the head of a hereditary institution so often associated with rigid tradition. And yet, it is more dynamic now than ever. Having inherited a quasi-Edwardian institution nearly 60 years ago, the Queen presides over a Monarchy which has managed to remain, simultaneously, popular, regal, inclusive and relevant in a twenty-first century world. She has done this so effectively that she is, beyond doubt, the most respected and popular figure in British public life. As she reaches a defining moment of her reign her Diamond Jubilee Robert Hardman explores the secrets of the Queen's success to produce a fascinating new portrait of a Sovereign who has witnessed more change than any since the creation of Great Britain.
9780091936891 | $49.95 | Hardback | Hutchinson

Geoff Huegill is a dual Olympic Silver and Bronze Medallist, five times World Champion, eight times World Record Holder and five times Commonwealth Gold Medallist. After retirement in 2004 Geoff sank into depression and physical decline, at one point weighing over 140 kilograms. He announced his comeback to competitive swimming in 2008 going on to win the national title and commonwealth gold medal. Geoff will star in the TV documentary of his comeback titled Be Your Best in 2011.

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The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins

A stunning collaboration between a worldfamous scientist and outstanding illustrator.

What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Or what about the great catfish that carries the world on its back? Has anyone ever told you that earthquakes are caused by a sneezing giant? These fantastical myths are fun but what is the real answer to such questions? The Magic of Reality, with its explanations of space, time, evolution and more, will inspire and amaze readers of all ages young adults, adults, children, octogenarians. Teaming up with the renowned illustrator Dave McKean, Richard Dawkins answers all these questions and many more. In stunning words and pictures, this book presents the real story of the world around us, taking us on an enthralling journey through scientific reality, and showing that it has an awe-inspiring beauty and thrilling magic which far exceeds those of the ancient myths. We encounter rainbows, earthquakes, tsunamis, shooting stars, plants, animals, and an intriguing cast of characters in this extraordinary scientific voyage of discovery. Richard Dawkins and Dave McKean have created a dazzling celebration of our planet that will entertain and inform for years to come.
9780593066126 | $45.00 | Hardback | Bantam Press | Science

Richard Dawkins is the renowned academic responsible for such works as The Selfish Gene through to the phenomenal The God Delusion.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHy The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

Pam Ayres
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER

An eagerly-awaited country childhood memoir by one of Britain's mostloved personalities.

Pam Ayres is one of Britain's best-loved personalities. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and has her own Radio 4 programme Ayres on the Air. She performs her solo stage show annually to sell-out audiences throughout Britain and around the world and her poetry collections are bestsellers. A key part of Pam's shows and collections are her wonderfully wry and evocative anecdotes about her own life. Her autobiography will satisfy fans eager to hear more of these stories, and will follow her early life up to winning Opportunity Knocks in 1975. Growing up in a council house on the village green in (what was then) Berkshire, in the 1940s and 50s, Pam started her working life at 15 as a civil servant. However, she was so bored by the daily routine that she quit to join the Women's Royal Air Force where she began to perform for the first time. Writing with her usual mix of good humour and poignancy, Pam's autobiography is a classic memoir of a post-war country childhood in the vein of Cider with Rosie.
9780091945039 | $34.95 | Trade Paperback | Ebury Press

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Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last Queen of Egypt.
Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Cleopatra, shrewd strategist and ingenious negotiator, though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to one of her own brothers. She waged a brutal civil war against the first; she poisoned the second. Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and after his murder three more with his protg. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.
9780753539569 | $24.94 | Paperback | Virgin

AUTOBIOGRAPHy Off Stage, On Stage

Michael Bubl

Get up close and personal with Michael Buble, via his official, illustrated memoir.
The son of a British Columbiabased salmon and herring fisherman, Michael Bubl spent the months his parents were away with his music-loving Italian grandfather, who introduced him to the singers who would become his idols: Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Elvis Presley. Bubl honed his skills as a showman through years of performing in hotel lounges and smoky bars gigs his grandfather, a plumber, helped the underage singer secure by trading his plumbing services. In 2000, Bubl's warm, engaging voice was captured in his debut album, an international smash. He is that rare thing an entertainer of the highest order, worshipped by millions of fans across the globe. Now, for the first time, he has put his words on paper, alongside hundreds of exclusively shot photographs from all aspects of his life.
9780593067543 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Bantam Press

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Shanghai Fury
Peter Thompson

Succubus Revealed
Richelle Mead

The third in the Fury trilogy, following on from the bestsellers Pacific Fury and Anzac Fury.
Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were central to the relationship between China and Australia from the fall of the Manchus in 1912 to the Communist victory in 1949. Yet with the notable exception of George 'Chinese' Morrison, the Australian contribution has been largely neglected and no single volume covers the experiences of the many remarkable Australians caught up in the drama. Set against a backdrop of imperial splendour and abject squalor, Shanghai Fury examines one of the seminal periods of the twentieth century in a compellingly readable narrative that mixes personal memoir with combat action to complete a powerful trilogy on Australians at war.
9781864711837 | $49.95 | Hardback | William Heinemann Australia Also publishing as an ebook.

The latest sexy, supernatural adventure featuring the clothes-obsessed, shape-shifting succubus, Georgina Kincaid.
Georgina Kincaid has had an eternity to figure out the opposite sex, but sometimes they still surprise her. Take Seth Mortensen. The man has risked his soul to become Georgina's boyfriend. Still, with Lucifer for a boss, Georgina can't just hang up her killer heels and settle down to domestic bliss. In fact, she's being forced to transfer operations . . . to Las Vegas. The City of Sin is a dream gig for a succubus, but Georgina's allies are suspicious. Why are the powers-that-be so eager to get her away from Seattle and from Seth? Georgina is one of Hell's most valuable assets, but if there's any way out of the succubus business she plans to take it no matter how much roadkill she leaves behind. She just hopes the casualties won't include the one man she's risking everything for . . .
9780593067970 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Bantam Press

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Dead Centre
Andy McNab

I Don't Know How She Does It (Film Tie-In)

Allison Pearson

The new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero.
Indonesia, 2005. Nick Stone is working undercover, to retrieve incriminating material from amongst the tsunami-ravaged chaos of a devastated landscape. His team is attacked and a man dies but not before he makes an agonising promise that will return one day to haunt him . . . Moscow, 2011. Semi-retired but restless, Stone finds himself at the centre of an extraordinary encounter. An oligarch's young son and heir has been snatched with his mother from aboard a luxury yacht in the Seychelles, and only one man has what it takes to bring them home. Stone is hurtled into his most complex and compelling mission yet a mission that leads him from the Alpine enclaves of the super-rich to the savage underbelly of war-torn Somalia. And in a world where piracy, extortion and betrayal lurk in the twisted wreckage of imperial ambition, Stone's principal objective turns remorselessly from liberation to revenge.
9780593065235 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Bantam Press

This comedy about failure, tragedy and success is now a major motion picture, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Christina Hendricks and Pierce Brosnan.
A victim of time famine, 35-year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. As she runs between appointments, through her head spools the crazy tape-loop of every high-flying mother's life: client reports, bouncy castles, Bob The Builder, transatlantic phone calls, dental appointments, pelvic floor exercises, flights to New York, sex (too knackered), and stressbusting massages she always has to cancel (too busy). Factor in a controlling nanny, a chauvinist Australian boss, a longsuffering husband, two demanding children and an email lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that someday soon something's going to hit the ground. Pearson brings her sharp wit and compassionate intelligence to this hilarious and, at times, piercingly sad study of the human cost of trying to have it all. This was the fictional debut by one of Britain's most gifted journalists that sold around the world, sparking bidding wars in Spain, Germany and Japan.
9780099570066 | $24.95 | Paperback | Vintage Also publishing as an ebook.

The national anthem for working women

Oprah Winfrey

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QUALITy FICTION Catch 22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Joseph Heller

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Ten million copies sold in 21 languages: Yossarian lives! This is a special edition to celebrate 50 years of this unforgettable, exhilarating classic.

Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of WWII in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch 22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
9780099529118 | $45.00 | Hardback | William Heinemann Also publishing as an ebook.

QUALITy FICTION

The Artist of Disappearance

Anita Desai

QUALITy FICTION Scenes From Village Life

Amos Oz

An absolute jewel from a pre-eminent novelist: a triptych of stories from India's finest living woman writer.
A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement. In 'The Museum of Final Journeys' an unnamed government official is called upon to inspect a faded mansion of forgotten treasures, each sent home by the absent, itinerant master. As he is taken through the estate, wondering whether to save these precious relics, he reaches the final greatest gift of all, looming out of the shadows. In 'Translator, Translated', Prema, a middle-aged woman already exhibiting the signs of a failed life, meets her successful publisher friend Tara at a school reunion. Tara hires her as a translator, but Prema, buoyed by her work and the sense of purpose it brings, begins deliberately to blur the line between writer and translator, and in so doing risks unravelling her desires and achievements. The final story is of Ravi, living hermit-like in the burnt-out shell of his family home high up in the Himalayan mountains. He cultivates not only silence and solitude but a secret hidden away in the woods, concealed from sight. When a film crew from Delhi intrude upon his seclusion, it compels him to withdraw even further until he magically and elusively disappears . . . Rich and evocative, remarkable in their clarity and sensuous in their telling, these stories remind us of the extraordinary yet delicate power of this pre-eminent writer.
9780701186203 | $32.95 | Hardback | Chatto & Windus

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An unsettling portrait of a fictional village from the Israeli master storyteller.

Amos Oz's new fiction presents a surreal and unsettling portrait of a village in Israel. A picture of the community takes shape across seven stories, in which a group of characters appear and return. The book concludes with an eighth story, shocking and strange, from another place and a distant time. Each villager is searching for something, yet in this almost dreamlike world nothing is certain, nothing is resolved. An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night. A stranger turns up at a man's door, to persuade him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. A man goes to his neighbours for regular evenings of music and old pioneer songs, but is overwhelmingly drawn to the tragic heart of the house. Behind each episode is another, hidden story a glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday existence. In beautifully simple, poetic language, Amos Oz peers into the darkness of our lives in this powerful, hypnotic work.
9780701185503 | $29.95 | Hardback | Chatto & Windus Also publishing as an ebook.

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Cathie Glassby, Graphic Designer Random House Australia
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Vintage 21 Rainbow Editions

This fabulous collection of Vintage paperbacks is a must-have set. Featuring the top 21 titles from the Vintage library this series will have you reading your favourite classics for hours on end and will create a stunning display on your bookshelves.
Paperback | $12.95 | Vintage Also publishing as ebooks.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHy

FAMILy LIFE

Prime Time
Jane Fonda

Growing Great Families

Ian & Mary Grant

Jane Fonda reflects on her life experiences providing us with an inspiring and practical blueprint for living well.
Jane Fonda, the no. 1 bestselling author, actress and workout pioneer, explores how to make all of your life prime time by reflecting on her own experiences. From health and fitness to sex, love and self-understanding Fonda writes candidly about her own life and that of others, providing you with a blueprint for living well and making the most of life. Featuring new research, Fonda shows how the critical years from 45 or 50, and from 60 and beyond, can be times when we truly become the vital, loving, fulfilled people we were meant to be. Studies have shown that, on average, 34 years have been added to human life expectancy, moving it from an average of 46 to 80 years of age. In this inspiring new book, Fonda covers the 11 key ingredients for successful living and invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful, vital, fully integrated life. By following this guide to achieve the best out of later life you can become happier than you've ever been before.
9780091940003 | $32.95 | Paperback | Vermilion

Great ideas and top tips for building a strong, functioning family.
Over many years of youth work and teaching parenting throughout New Zealand and Australia, Ian and Mary have studied the keys to healthy functioning and fun-filled families. They believe that at a time when there is a strong focus on specific topics such as what to do with unruly kids, we need to look deeper. They make a case for re-establishing the idea of growing great families through a strong sense of community. They believe that 'family is everything'. In a world lacking in intimacy but swimming in sexuality we need to offer our children real intimacy and emotional safety. They need to know the security of a family operating as a team and receive the joy in their everyday experience of being contributors not just takers. Whatever we parents honour or treat as sacred or special, our children will also honour, whether that is the TV, regular family times or sport. Consequently this book is a call to refocus on what it is to create a family, to look again at what we are honouring in the little community we call our family and to think about our ultimate goals for the individuals and their relationships. Growing Great Families covers the following topics: being a parent in the world we now inhabit; building the foundations; what makes a family into a community; moulding big personalities into a family; life-defining values; two pillars of great families fun and communication; and moving from dependence to interdependence.
9781742753843 | $29.95 | Trade Paperback | Bantam

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SPORT & FITNESS

War of The Worldviews

Deepak Chopra & Leonard Mlodinow

Top Gear Does Christmas

Richard Porter

Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow enter the territory of Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins, with a remarkable new book.
Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Hawking have had a major impact on the loud and popular debate between 'aggressive atheists' and religion. The huge sales of their bestselling books show just how much interest people have in their ideas. Now 'the rock star of the new spirituality', Deepak Chopra, is entering this debate, sparring with leading physicist, Professor Leonard Mlodinow (the co-author, with Stephen Hawking, of The Grand Design). In War of the Worlds, Chopra argues that there is design in our universe and a deep intelligence behind life. Without defending organised religion, he debunks randomness as an explanation for how nature evolves and 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.
9781846043048 | $32.95 | Trade Paperback | Rider

An engine-fuelled, high-octane Top Gear take on the festive season, as only the Top Gear boys can celebrate it.
Top Gear Does Christmas will show you how to bring the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme to creating a Christmas to remember. With gift recommendations from each presenter, plus their own letters to Santa, how to go carol singing Top Gear-style, some leaked scripts from the TG nativity play (with Hammond as baby Jesus), a sneak preview of the TG panto, photo reportage of the Christmas Specials, how to have a Top Gear New Year's Eve Party, Stig's Christmas dinner, and of course a Christmas feast of fast cars and shiny metal. This is how Christmas is done at the Top Gear hangar mad, bad and so much more fun than your average Christmas celebrations.
9781849901543 | $27.95 | Hardback | BBC Adult

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COOKERy/WINE

AWW The Christmas Collection

The Australian Women's Weekly

Top 100 Meals in Minutes

Annabel Karmel

The ultimate collection of Christmas recipes with beautiful gift wrapping cover and festive ribbon markers.
This is a comprehensive collection of Christmas recipes, both traditional and modern. It contains recipes for everything you're likely to want to eat on Christmas Day: breakfasts, drinks, finger food, starters, the big Christmas main course, vegetables and salads, Christmas puddings, Christmas cakes, mince pies, chocolates. But there is more to this book than that. There are edible gifts cookies, jars of fruit mince, individual puddings and cakes. As well, there are ideas for Christmas wrappings, decorations and table settings. And to top it all off, there are innovative recipes for those inevitable Christmas leftovers, so Boxing Day will be a feast too.
9781742451053 | $49.95 | Hardback | ACP Books

The ultimate time-saving recipe book for parents from the bestselling cookery author for children.
Time with your children is precious to every parent, so you don't want to spend hours in the kitchen preparing food. Top 100 Meals in Minutes comes to the rescue with recipes that require minimal time and effort, but are still delicious and nutritionally balanced. Annabel Karmel, the leading authority on how we feed our children, takes away the stress of what to cook to keep your children healthy and happy, providing age-appropriate, delicious meals for babies and toddlers. Easy-to-follow instructions, combined with mouthwatering photography and handy time guides for each recipe make this the go-to book for any parent who wants the best for their children while having to juggle their time.
9780091939007 | $29.95 | Hardback | Ebury Press

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INDEPENDENT READERS

Pearlie in Paris
Wendy Harmer

Ranger's Apprentice 11: The Lost Stories

John Flanagan

Join Pearlie in a glittering Parisian adventure!

Ooh-la-la! Pearlie has arrived in a grand palace garden in Paris, where Fifi the French fairy is preparing to unveil her fabulous fashion collection. Soon all Fifi's friends will be there to admire the dazzling gowns and Pearlie will have a front row seat. When Fifi's plans are turned upside down, can Pearlie weave a little magic and bring some Jubilee Park glamour to Paris in time for Fifi's show?
9781741663808 | $14.95 | Paperback | Random House Australia

Excitement, drama and action and the answers to all your burning questions about the Rangers of Araluen!
Everyone knows the legends of the Rangers of Araluen. But no one has heard the whole story until now. Has Halt told Will the truth about how Will became an orphan? Did Gilan track down Morgarath's lieutenant after the battle of Three Step Pass? Is there to be a royal wedding or will tragedy strike first? Inspired by questions and letters sent by his loyal readers, John Flanagan answers all your burning questions about the world of the Rangers. If you want to know what's next for Will, Halt, Horace, Alyss, Evanlyn and Gilan not to mention a certain stubborn little pony The Lost Stories is an unmissable read.
9781864718188 | $17.95 | Paperback | Random House Australia

Rangers Apprentice fans will adore this book, which features stories about all their favourite characters. Plus theres a sneak peek of Johns new series, Brotherband, inside! What more could you ask?
Zoe Walton, Publisher, Childrens and YA Books Random House Australia

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CHILD ANTHOLOGy

Totally Cody Simpson: The Unofficial Guide

Alana Wulff
The singer, the heartthrob, the all-Australian pop sensation Cody Simpson has landed.
Hailed as the new Justin Bieber singing sensation, Cody Simpson is on the fast track to dominating the international music scene. Young, talented and from the Gold Coast, Australia, his meteoric rise to fame and subsequent move to Los Angeles to pursue his music career has been nothing short of remarkable. Spotted on YouTube by famed music producer Shawn Campbell, Cody was signed to Atlantic Records and in the studio recording his debut single within 12 months of uploading his homemade videos to the popular website. Jam-packed with Cody information, glossy pictures, fun features, trivia, quizzes and a drool-worthy poster, this book is the must-have item for any true Cody fan.
9781742752532 | $19.95 | Paperback | Random House Australia

Australian Ghost Stories

Linsay Knight (Edited by)

Old favourites and contemporary classics in one deliciously spooky collection!

A gaggle of googly ghosts, ghouls, spectres and spirits . . . a ragbag of unruly presences trying to find new homes in other people's bodies . . . a series of spooky happenings and bewitching spells that no one can explain . . . these are just some of the things sent to haunt you in Australian Ghost Stories. This collection is sure to have readers on the edge of their seats or shivering under the sheets! A combination of old favourites and contemporary classics in one collection, designed to inspire children of all ages.
9781742753614 | $14.95 | Trade Paperback | Random House Australia

CHILD PICTURE BOOK

Tin Toys
Bruce Whatley & Ben Smith Whatley

A magical Christmas story from a master storyteller.

Christmas Eve is drawing close. High on a shelf in an old toy shop, the wind-up Space Ride is gathering dust. It hasn't worked in years. The tin toys remember how bright, how shining, how exhilarating the Space Ride was. But the new toys don't believe them. The tin toys are determined: this Christmas, they'll prove that even old toys can be magical.
9781864719918 | $19.95 | Hardback | Random House Australia

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