Dennis Jones & Associates New Title Releases May 2016

During the week I was privileged to be requested to attend a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Michael Cannon book “The Land Boomers”. Michael has a history with us that is so important. He came to us as his book distributor back in the 1990’s – It was the first time we had experienced a publisher wanting to comes to us for distribution. Yes, we sold thousands of his books like “The Roaring Days”, “The Hidden Face of the Great Depression” and then all those “Loch Haven” titles from Roy Farrell. Roy was a senior manager at both Rigby and Nelson before starting Farrells Bookshop in Mornington in the early 1990’s. Roy’s son, Andrew, joined us some years ago. I was also fortunate to reunite with Alison Forbes at the celebration. Alison was (or, it seemed to be) the preferred freelance book designer used by Ken Wilder and the publishers at William Collins in the 1970’s; landmark books like John Cotton's Birds of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales 1843-1849. We used our then StKilda road office as a workshop to physically dry 850 slipcases and insert the book into them in advance of that night’s book launch. For those who remember Alison informed me that Thelma Kirkbride is in good health as well; Thelma was a manager for one of the Little Bookroom in South Yarra when Albert Ullin had a presence in Toorak Road as well as Burke Road, Camberwell.

Books that are selling well our top 5 books for 2016 are as followsMoroccan Soup Bar 9781922129772Secret Girls Business 9780975011300Break-ups & breakthroughs 9780994310965Weed Forager's Handbook 9781864471212Secret Boys Business 9780975011362

For interest our top selling 5 books for online vendors are as followsSecret Girls Business 9780975011300Secret Boys Business 9780975011362More Secret Girls' Business 9780975011348Break-ups & breakthroughs 9780994310965Harriet Clare Books

And our top 5 eBooks for the same periodThe Missing Beaumont Children 9781925281392The Grade Cricketer 9781922129819Money & Mindfulness 9780994310958Daring and Disruptive 9780987097477Merchants of Menace 9780992325244

Our cover title for May is Race Girl. I am really delighted at the acumen of this self published author and we are backing her with our lead position for this release.

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DJ

We are in the days, weeks of balancing the results from Christmas trading with the returns season in full swing; extra staff to process them and then what do we do with these excess books. Most of them come back in non-mint, non resaleable condition; what a waste as we all profess to be inclined toward a tint of green. Seriously it is an issue for us as we then have to go back to the publishers with our story of how we (and you) tried – however we did not attract consumer demand and the bookshops are not expandable warehouses. Our distribution agreements push to allow us to auto-pulp which at least means those returns are turned into paper pulp. Oh well. And then some of the books are still involved with very big media spends by the publishers, whilst our retail customer have pulled them for return there is still ongoing demand. A case in point are those wonderful Harriet Clare books – our current sales exceed our sales when we launched them. Our best results now come from the onliners who don’t have shelf-life cycles. I normally don’t go ahead with some of these brain snaps – we can re invoice this series if it means it extends the sale or return shelf life.

I got a rap over the knuckles for making a mistake last month to do with the closure of Booktalk in Richmond Victoria; I apologise to the people who have taken over the shop and will make a personal visit to say so. Not wanting to continue the saga of matches and despatches I will close by saying farewell to Volume 2 in Launceston, The Bookshop in Wagga and well done to Lee & John for Dymocks Chadstone. I also hope Birchalls finds a Bookish owner. Been a long time calling on that store back as far as when Norm Tilley SR was the MD and I had to explain we were closing the market at Collins Publishers all those years ago. Readings moving into a Shopping Mall – I wonder if this is a sign of the value of bookshops to Shopping Malls as we see many brands disappear from those same Malls. I read ASIC’s September 2015 quarterly statistics confirm the retail industry experienced a 9.8%increase in external administrations from the previous June 2015 quarter – despite us all enjoying the business of bookselling that retail environment is complex and highly competitive. I hope the SMH, Age and Fin Review redundancies don’t jeopardise the book review sections of these mastheads.

I read this item about the world’s most literate countries – worth a click over and it shocked me as seem to have our “literate” opinions perhaps misplaced if this report is correct. Someone else saw this as Jason Steger ran with it over the weekend.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/03/09/10-most-literate-countries-world

May 2016 Words from the Wise

A Drop in the Ocean

Category Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Pages 320

Published 01/05/2016

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$ARP $26.95

ISBN 9781631520266

She Writes Press

Height | Width 215 137

Jenni Ogden

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Anna Fergusson runs a lab researching Huntington's disease at a prestigious Boston university. When her long‐standing grant is pulled unexpectedly, Anna finally faces the truth: she's 49, virtually friendless, single, and worse, her research has been sub‐par for years. With no jobs readily available, Anna takes a leap and agrees to spend a year monitoring a remote campsite on Turtle Island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. What could be better for an introvert with shattered self‐esteem than a quiet year in paradise? As she settles in, Anna opens her heart for the first time in decades‐to new challenges, to new friendships, even to a new love with Tom, the charming, younger turtle tagger she sometimes assists. But opening one's heart leaves one vulnerable, and Anna comes to realize that love is as fragile as happiness, and that both are a choice.

A DROP IN THE OCEAN is a deeply moving novel about second chances and last hopes, about loving and letting go, and about the power in self‐discover.

Find us on Facebook Dennis Jones & Associates ABN 37 064 871 6651/10 Melrich Road, Bayswater, Vic 3153Phone: 03 9762 9100 | Fax 03 9762 9200

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Author InformationJenni Ogden grew up in a country town in the South Island of New Zealand, in a home bursting with books and music. Armed with NZ and Australian university degrees in zoology and psychology, she took up a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked with H.M., the most famous amnesiac in history, before returning to an academic position at Auckland University. There, she immersed herself in clinical psychology and neuropsychology, as well as traveling extensively and writing about her patients’ moving stories in two books, Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology and Trouble In Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist’s Casebook. Jenni has had a love affair with the Great Barrier Reef since her twenties, when she spent summers on a coral cay rather like Turtle Island, tagging sea turtles. Ogden and her husband now live off-grid on a spectacular island off the coast of NZ, with winters spent traveling and at their second home in tropical Far North Queensland. When she is not writing or traveling, Jenni can be found on the beach—always with a book—or spending time with her family.

May 2016 International Author

Leadership in Three Words

Successful leadership in a fast‐paced world demands innovation, superior skills and the ability to motivate and inspire others. This visually inspiring book will help you create a great workplace and keep you relevant. If you’re committed to developing a leading edge these amazingly simple ideas will give you a competitive advantage. RICKY NOWAK is a leadership authority who helps successful people achieve positive change in themselves and their teams. Ricky works with a diverse range of businesses and imparts her messages through conference presentations, in‐house leadership development, consultancy and 1:1 coaching so individuals can achieve high performance results for their organisations.

Ricky has been a stand out light in leadership skills training for 20 years. Based in Melbourne, her client list consists of leading organisations throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia. She is a published author, professional speaker, presenter and executive coach. Her contribution to leadership development and the value she adds to organisations has been labeled “ second to none in the market place. - John Karagounis | Managing Director | The CEO Circle Pty Ltd

Author InformationRicky, based in Melbourne, is 1 of only 18 professional coaches in Australia accredited to deliver the Stakeholder Centred Coaching Model developed by US master coach, Marshall Goldsmith. The methodology is effective, time efficient and proven to enable successful people to lead more effectively, via long-term leadership behaviour change.

Category Business innovation

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ISBN 9780980310702

Rhodium Press

Amazingly Simple Ideas For Innovative Leaders To Create Great Workplaces


Ricky Nowak

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May 2016 Melbourne Author

$29.95

This Will Explain Everything

Jeff Duff is arguably the most flamboyant, creative and controversial entertainer Australia has produced. His musical gifts and fantastical androgynous performances parallel the artistry of David Bowie. While Duffo’s career kicked off in the 1970s, he continues to grow as an artist, creating new music and performing sell‐out concerts to this day. In his tell‐all memoir, dedicated to Bowie, Duffo shares his tales of life, love and rock‘n’roll, in what is a rollicking, entertaining read. From his childhood desire to wear a dress, to performing before violent London punk crowds, to being banned and arrested, and even his journey into the depths of despair, Duffo recalls all with flair and style.

From the Foreword by Molly Meldrum Jeff Duff once hosted Countdown dressed as a sausage. Unique is an over‐used word in showbiz. But Jeff Duff is unique. When I first met Jeff, he was wearing a wedding dress. That was just a usual day in the unusual life of Jeff Duff. He’s been arrested in Ballarat and outside Number 10 Downing Street in London, banned by Ray Martin’s Midday Show, appeared in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, and sung some unforgettable songs. And no man looks as good in a leotard. Flamboyant, eccentric, cheeky, charming … Jeff Duff is one of the greatest entertainers Australia has produced.



May 2016 Sydney Author

Autobiography: general

248

01/05/2016

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Melbourne Books

240 180

9781922129918

Jeff Duff

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The Fertility Foods Cookbook

Jacki Passmore’s Fertility Foods CookBook offers you…..• A pathway to improved fertility and continuing good health• Recipes featuring the recognized fertility foods in easy to cook dishes• Balanced, nutrient‐dense dishes for everyday meals and entertaining• A makeover of popular recipes so they work for fertility• The discovery of interesting new fertility‐enhancing foods• A new way of looking at what you should eat when trying for a pregnancy• The reasons why some foods won’t give you and your partner the nutrition you need right now• Food to detox and cleanse your body of accumulated toxins• Lifestyle tips to support your fertility foods eating plan• No calorie counting, although you should trim down.

Category Cookery for specific diets & conditions

Pages 136


Binding P/B

$ARP $38.95

ISBN 9780994452702

Living Healthy Publishing


Jacki Passmore

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May 2016 Tamborine Mountain, QLD Author

Author InformationJacki Passmore lived for many years in Hong Kong and travelled extensively studying the cuisines of Asia. She has written more than 20 books on Asian cooking, including Noodle Bible (2008) and Curry Kitchen (2009) both published by Penguin. She combines a passion for good food and fresh seasonal ingredients with a practical approach that produces great results with a minimum of fuss.

Jacki Passmore’s passion for delicious, healthy food led to an internationally acclaimed career as a cookbook authorand food writer. She consults to the food industry, has developed recipes for many major food companies, and now maintains a website offering recipes, menus and products to support and restore fertility.

Wellness Loading

Category Diets & dieting

Pages 160


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9780987350473

Heart to Heart Publishing

Disconnect to Reconnect


Andi Lew

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The Ultimate Wellness Detox, has you learning how to TURN OFF TECH and connect with yourself and to become more productive and balanced.

Learn what you can do daily, so that you aren't so addicted to your device. Get in touch with nature and all things natural.

PLUS 20 MINDFUL FOOD RECIPES!

Andi Lew is a renowned TV presenter, Certified Food, Lifestyle & Wellness Coach and best selling author of Eat Fat, Be Thin and Eat Fat Be Lean series.She recently returned from a U.S Press tour with 5th book Real Fit Food and plans to do the same with this 6th title.




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Binding P/B$ARP $27.95ISBN 9780987350435

Heart To Heart Publishing


Andi LewNatalie Kringoudis

Eat Fat Be Lean

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Andi Lew Natalie Kringoudis

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May 2016 StKilda, Vic Author

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Home Cheese Making in Australia

Category Cookery by ingredient

Pages 202


Binding P/B

$ARP $39.95

ISBN 9780994478009

Pearson Family Trust


Valerie Pearson

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Cheese making is a wonderful adventure and very rewarding. Much like people who wish to make their own bread, grow their own vegetables or make their own wines and beers, many cheese makers know that you cannot replace the quality of handmade cheese with the mass produced supermarket cheeses available today. There is no doubt in my mind that the cheeses I can make myself at home are far superior to the commercially produced cheese at the supermarket. Plus, I can make various boutique cheeses at home which aren't readily available at the stores.Additionally, the importance of eating foods without chemical additives, artificial colourings and preservatives is growing, as the awareness of the negative effects of these non-food additives increases. As with other foods, when you make your own cheeses you control the ingredients and can guarantee that you are eating pure, whole foods and not some man-made synthetic product that you really should not be putting into your body in the first place.While there is a specific science to cheese making, it is also and art form and craft. The more cheese you make, the better you will get at it. Once you have mastered the basics, you can begin to experiment and create your own specialty cheeses to suit your own personal taste and the taste of your family and friends. There have been hundreds of different cheeses developed all over the world, over centuries of cheese making, by artisans who have added their own personal magic to the craft. These cheese makers have contributed to the creation of an incredibly rich culture of cheese making, benefiting both the cheese maker and the cheese consumer. You can now do this in your own kitchen, with minimum equipment, creating your own cheeses for every day consumption and special occasions.

Over 40 recipes for cheeses, yoghurt and kefir, on over 200 colour photo and information packed pages. This book is the culmination of over 25 years of home cheese making, and some intensive research to understand the science behind the art of cheese making. Directions for-10 Fresh, unripened cheeses-13 Hard cheeses-4 Stretched curd cheeses-4 Eye cheeses-2 White mould ripened cheeses-4 Blue mould cheeses-3 Washed rind cheeses-2 Goat's milk cheeses-Whey ricotta-a selection of other cultured products, such as Sour cream, Yoghurt & Kefir

May 2016 QLD Author

Coast Country Neighbourhood City

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Pages 444


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$ARP $60.00

ISBN 9780473325503

Six Point Press


Michael Barrett

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Coast, Country, Neighbourhood, City takes stock of where Isthmus has come from and, most importantly, highlights the approach and attitude that we wish to take forward. The 25 projects selected illustrate the traits that we consider valuable: love of places, commitment to design, the power of ideas and a ‘no boundaries' approach.First and foremost, this is a book about New Zealand landscape architecture and urban design. Edited by Michael Barrett (former editor of Landscape Architecture New Zealand, Interior and Prodesign), with essays by Dr Jacky Bowring and founding directors David Irwin and Gavin Lister, this is a generous, well‐crafted and beautifully photographed book.The four central chapters illustrate the design thinking and stories behind 25 projects, and the impact that these have had on their communities. Coast, Country, Neighbourhood, City is the first published compilation of works detailing the output of a New Zealand landscape architecture / urban design studio.



Design

Author InformationSince 1988, Isthmus has pioneered the design of culturally meaningful, enduring and inspiring environments, in that time becoming one of New Zealand's leading design studios. Well known for an ability to make a positive impact across a wide range of project types, Isthmus's works of landscape architecture, urban design and, more recently, architecture have created vibrant new communities, healthy new ecologies, and built environments that are simple in their expression yet rich in authenticity, value and culture. Over the last three decades the practice has achieved some of this country's highest design honours. Michael Barrett is a writer and editor who writes predominately about New Zealand design and its impact upon the built environment. He is a former editor of Landscape Architecture New Zealand, Interior, Prodesign and has contributed to a number of other publications.

May 2016 New Zealand Author

Rabbit Heart


Pages 237


Binding P/B

$ARP $24.99

ISBN 9780734051868

Hit & Miss Productions

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Tracey McGuire

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Four ageing Braybrook boys make their annual pilgrimage to the Bluestone Hotel on the anniversary of the West Gate Bridge collapse. Even Dianne has scored an invite his time, but only because she has to drop her father home to Mt Macedon on her way back to the farm. It’s a chance to share a beer and laugh about work pranks, nobbled greyhounds and inflated sporting achievements, but today’s remembering is more urgent than usual. It’s last drinks at the Bluestone for one of them. As they journey individually to the pub, mythologies of Ted, family and mateship are fractured. The views from plane, train and taxi windows trigger memories of places that have disappeared from the western suburbs ‐ Tracey Speedway, White City dog track, abattoirs and smoky factories. Dianne hopes she’ll get a better idea of who her father really is. But as tumours eat away at Ted’s short‐term recall, is there a place in his memory where he can meet with his daughter to make peace...or is it already too lat



May 2016 Kyneton, Vic Author

Author InformationTracey McGuire was born in 1961 in Sunshine, Melbourne, and moved to rural Mount Macedon when she was twelve. She studied Economics and Commerce, Asian languages, Literature and Creative Writing at Melbourne University. Rabbit Heart, her first novel, began as the creative component of her PhD under the supervision and encouragement of Tony Birch, Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Andrew McCann. She is also the author of a children’s book, It’s True… A Bushfire Burned My Dunny Down, part of a non-fiction series published by Allen & Unwin. She has worked in finance and as an actor, painter and costumer, but her late entry into the world of teaching has been the most rewarding. She is currently working on a ‘girl, horse, bushfire’ adventure novel for teens and helping her uncle, Richard Tyler, with his forthcoming autobiography about life as a haute couture designer.She lives with her husband on a magical farm near Kyneton, and is visited by her very creative children, Samantha and Angus.

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Dawn the Proof

Category Poetry

Pages 92


Binding P/B

$ARP $25.00

ISBN 9781925272239

Hybrid Publishers


Tony Page

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75 poems, a weaving together of history, religions, landscape and the marvel of their many connections.

Tony Page’s fourth book Who Killed Caravaggio? was published by Picaro Press in 2015. First active on the Melbourne poetry scene in the 1980s, he has since read his work at the Edinburgh Arts Festival, the Venice Conference on Commonwealth Literature, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, plus venues in the USA. As a theatre director, he has mounted amateur productions of Shakespeare, Beckett and Brecht, among others, in addition to writing and collaborating with student groups. For twenty years, he worked in Thailand and Malaysia, but now lives in Australia.

What the critics said: Praise for Gateway to the Sphinx: “What we have here is dazzlingly entertaining. A series of virtuoso verses that one can only applaud. Were Einstein alive today, I feel he would delight in this book.” Phillip Adams“Tony Page goes where no other poet has been, enthroning science among the Muses with mind‐stretching imaginings.” John Carey, Merton Professor of English, Oxford“Playful is what these poems are. Full of surprise, wit, illumination. But they have behind them an understanding,

which is rare, of that grand design” … we call nature.” David Malouf



May 2016 Vic Author

The List of Last Remaining

Category Poetry

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$ARP $25.95

ISBN 9780734051998

Five Islands Press


Louise Nicholas

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The List of Last Remaining proves Louise Nicholas to be a poet of generosity, wit and wisdom. In poems which range from childhood dreams and disappointments and the fraught joys of family life to an Israeli kibbutz, love, laughter and unlikely encounters, we are regaled with narrative surprises, racy details and exuberant metaphors. The pervasive humour and leaps of imagination are tempered by Louise’s emotional and verbal precision and her poised acknowledgement of loss as well as grace. ‐ Jan Owen

‘I choose laughter,’ Louise Nicholas writes in the last poem in her new book, ‘because it joins the dots,’/allows us to find the sense in senseless,/connects us all to the last.’ Her carefully thought‐through, closely focussed autobiographical poems do all of that and more, whether they choose laughter, sadness, wonder, love, or joy. ‐ Peter Goldsworth



Author InformationLouise Nicholas was born in Port Lincoln, South Australia and currently lives in Adelaide. She was a teacher for many years and still teaches part time as a relief teacher. A collection of her poetry, The Red Shoes, was published by Wakefield Press and Friendly Street Poets as part of their ‘New Poets’ series. She was co-author, with Jude Aquilina, of WomanSpeak, also published by Wakefield Press. A chapbook, Large, was published by Garron Publishing. Louise has also published three chapbooks of humorous verse. She was an editor, with rob walker, of Friendly Street Thirty. Louise’s work has been published in literary journals, magazines and anthologies and has been included in three Best of Australian anthologies. She has been a guest speaker and reader at many festivals, conferences and community events. One of her proudest achievements was at the Canberra Spring Poetry Festival where she was on the affirmative side of a rhyming verse debate: that Poetry is Better Than Sex. The debate was declared a draw; however, one of Australia’s better known poets was heard to announce that she was ‘going home for a quick poem’, so the result would seem otherwise.

May 2016 Port Lincoln, SA Author

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Conveyancing Victoria (Firm Sale)

Conveyancing Victoria 2016‐17 starts with the basic elements of a conveyancing transaction then moves on to:‐a step‐by‐step guide to the process ‐detailed explanations and precedents ‐problems that can arise, how to avoid them and strategies for dealing with them.There are many updates in the 2016‐17 edition: ‐the latest information about vendor disclosure ‐insurance consequences for inactive owners corporations‐legislation change affecting terms contracts‐changes to Land Victoria lodgment processes‐additional stamp duty charged to foreign purchasers‐the obligations imposed on practitioners by Land Victoria as part of its “alignment” program‐the process for verifying the identity of people overseas‐foreign resident capital gains tax withholding payments.

Category Property & real estate

Pages 316


Binding P/B

$ARP $125.00

ISBN 9781925272222

Hybrid Publishers

The Ultimate Guide 2016‐17


Simon Libbis

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Simon Libbis is the principal of Subdivision Lawyers. He has previously been Executive Director of the National Electronic Conveyancing Office, and was the Registrar‐General of South Australia for some years.

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May 2016 Author

Adam Exx: Leviticus


Pages 386


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9780994508102

Fraser Beath Marketing


Fraser Beath McEwing

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Towering challenges confront Adam as he returns to The Cone where he must decide whether to join the rest of mankind in brainlife or live alone as Sydney decays around him. Adam is pushed to his limits as he tries to fit into a world recalibrated by The Study Corporation in its continuing experiment with humanity. Just as Adam senses his torment is over, a calamity changes everything. Adam uncovers the truth about mind architecture, flying, land rights and the creation of our Universe. Leviticus brings the Adam Exx trilogy to a shattering conclusion.



Author InformationA journalist and magazine editor for most of his career, Fraser Beath McEwing has written fiction and nonfiction for leading Australian magazines and newspapers. He is the author of four novels. Adam Exx: Genesis - Book Two, published in 2014, was the second in the Adam Exx trilogy. This is Book Three.

May 2016 Bellevue Hill, NSW Author

Adam Exx: Genesis

Category Modern & contemporary

Pages 322






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Adam Exx: Exodus

Category Modern & contemporary

Pages 322






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Media Training for Modern Leaders

NEVER FEAR THE NEWS MEDIA AGAIN!If you’ve always had that underlying fear of media attention, Media Training for Modern Leaders is for you. Written specifically for today’s leaders, you’ll learn how to face the media confidently in any situation. International author and media expert Pete Burdon shares his years of experience as a journalist and high level media adviser. He shows you how to turn news media encounters from perceived threats into major opportunities.YOU’LL LEARN:• Crucial new skills needed by media spokespeople in the modern era• 5 essential steps to eliminate your fear of the news media forever• How to get your key points through the editing process every time with ease• The vital secrets to answering the toughest questions• How to avoid landmines that can derail your interview• The essential steps to handling the media when crisis strikes• How to appear professional and impress any media audience

Category Sales & marketing

Pages 204


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9781925288025

Global Publishing Group

How to face news media with confidence in today's world


Pete Burdon

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May 2016 Christchurch, New Zealand Author

Dynamic Teaching in the 21st Century

Reshaping Education From The Ground UpInternational author and grassroots education expert, Ian Davies, exposes the essential issues causing so much grief in our schools today. His candid thoughts and empowering strategies will inspire educators who have all but given up hope. In a time when we can all be distracted by the glitter of modern technology, this book brings the focus back to the very essence of education ‐ the relationship between the teacher, the child and the parent.Ian’s amazingly simple and practical strategies and tools for teachers and parents cut through all the clutter and promise to improve student outcomes and results in the 21st Century!You’ll learn:• The 9 essential issues undermining student results today• The 5 key habits of successful teachers• The opportunities and challenges Technology brings to teaching in the 21st Century• The psychology for developing a Success Mindset in students• How to cultivate outstanding classroom management• 7 proven steps to support teacher wellbeing• 10 quick and easy ways to ruin any normal school kid and 10 powerful tactics to win them

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Category Self‐help & personal development

Pages 182


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9781925288056

Global Publishing Group

Empowering tools and strategies for teachers who want to make a difference


Ian Davies

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May 2016 Stawell, Vic Author

The Great Australian Loneliness

Category Travel writing

Pages 350


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.99

ISBN 9781925416329

ETT Imprint

A Classic Journey Around and Across Australia


Ernestine Hill

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NEW EDITION - AVAILABLE NOW

'Of course you'll take a gun,' they said to me when I left Melbourne, 'even if it's only one of those little mother‐of‐pearl things the vamps used to carry in their evening‐bags. Apart from wild blacks there will be crocodiles, and Malays running amok, and men that haven't seen a white woman in thirty years. There might be three hundred miles of desolation on a truck with a drunken Afghan, and you’ll be alone in the night‐time, in those pearling‐towns of sand and sin, with a half‐caste woman keeping the shanty‐'

'Yes,' I reflected, 'I had better take a gun.'

So begins Ernestine Hill's great journey in and around the heart of Australia, the tale of a decade of travelling across and around the continent in the 1930s, accompanied by her young son Robert. This "strange otherwhereish creature with big beautiful eyes" as Katherine Susannah Prichard has noted, collected the tales of the making of the Territory as a centrepiece, allowing the world at large a chance to travel in the mind through the complexity, duress, and larrikin nature of an Australia‐in‐the‐making.

An Australian travel classic.



May 2016

Dear Patrick

Fanatical about family history, Janice Prest wants to leave something behind for future generations; something more than faded photographs and certificates dealing with births, marriages, and demises.This beautifully written and eloquent autobiography, in the form of letters to her grandson, is a candid summary of Janice’s experiences in her formative years and later on her involvement in breaking down social barriers. She tells with honesty and humour of life for a young baby‐boomer woman enjoying the freedoms and challenges that were once the preserve of young Australian males.

Category Autobiography: general

Pages 96


Binding P/B

$ARP $22.00

ISBN 9780994464323

Forty South Publishing

Letters to my grandson


Janice Prest

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May 2016 Ocean Grove, Vic Author

More Healthy One Dish Cooking

Boost your health and save time with 180 'all‐inone' recipes. Lots of pans and other utensils mean lots of mess and washing up. So, a recipe that can be prepared or cooked in just one pan has a clear advantage for the busy cook. Following on from the success of Healthy One‐Dish Cooking, we bring you a new selection of meals, snacks and treats that includes soups, salads, sandwiches, pizzas, stir‐fries, casseroles, curries, roasts, and savoury and sweet pies and pastries. Bursting with vitamins, minerals and energy‐giving ingredients, they're healthy, full of flavour and easy to prepare. So, whether it's Red lentil soup, Spicy burghul and pumpkin salad, Turkey and bean tortillas, Garlic seafood pasta, Moroccan chicken with couscous or Spiced apple and blueberry pie that you're after, we've got all your one‐dish requirements catered for.Key Sales Points• 180 healthy recipes for busy people• Expert advice on improving your diet and achieving a healthier lifestyle• Quick-ideas feature spreads which include: how to turn a soup into a main meal; pizza toppings; brilliant burgersand wraps; top 10 pasta sauces

Category Health & wholefood cookery

Pages 287


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.99

ISBN 9781922085719

Reader's Digest


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May 2016 Reader's Digest

Ultimate Book of Knowledge

Category Reference works

Pages 336


Binding H/B

$ARP $29.99

ISBN 9781922085672

Reader's Digest

Facts Figures Fun


Publisher

How does a touchscreen work? When did men start wearing trousers? Can a robot think for itself? How do you cut a diamond? Can elite athletes keep breaking records? Find the answers fast in Reader's Digest Ultimate Book of Knowledge. This easy‐to‐use reference challenges what you know about our world. It's crammed with up‐to‐the‐minute information, checked by the experts. Using a Q & A approach, it answers more than 800 questions on subjects such as planet Earth; natural history and the animal world; humans, our bodies, our history, societies, cultures, discoveries and inventions. And, there are funny, quirky and extraordinary Fast Fact features and stunning colour photos and illustrations throughout. Get instant help on a school project. Settle a family discussion or browse at your leisure. Entertain and impress your family and friends. You won't find all this information on the Internet ‐ and you will be able to trust the Reader's Digest Ultimate Book of Knowledge.




Key Sales Points 336 colourful pages, jam-packed with information. More than 800 questions and answers. More than 1000 photos, charts, diagrams, illustrations and timelines. 5 fact-packed sections, colour-coded for easy reference.

Instant Heart Health Answers

What are the warning symptoms of coronary heart disease, a heart attack or a stroke? If you quit smoking, does your heart attack risk go back to normal? How does a pacemaker work? What's a healthy BMI (and what does BMI mean, anyway)? Keeping your heart healthy and understanding what can go wrong with it and why is a complex business, and it's one this book helps to demystify. Written in a question and answer format, it uses clear, actionable language that alerts you to the danger signals, provides you with advice about exercise, diet, medication and surgical procedures and, most importantly, puts you in charge of your heart health and provides ways to manage heart disease. * Features expert answers to more than 1000 questions frequently asked of doctors, surgeons, dietitians,physiotherapists and other health‐care providers.* Sidebar features cover topics such as how arteries function; de‐coding a heart test laboratory report;10 steps tocontrolling your weight; 5 proven stress stoppers* Includes a self‐assessment quiz to ascertain your risk of heart attack or stroke; checklists for topics such as stress;key action panels to help you improve your heart health.

Category Family & health

Pages 288


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781922083753

Reader's Digest


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Amazing Home Problem Solver

The Amazing Home Problem Solver is a book with over 1,700 ideas to help you put everyday things to extraordinary uses. Now, you can do a top‐notch job all by yourself!

Household hints

382

01/01/2010

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9781921569487

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B is For Breakdancing Bear

A fun, educational sticker activity book packed full of cool things to do while learning the letters of the alphabet! Amazing shaped pages allow children to explore the letters with their hands. With over 100 stickers to use in the book or wherever you want. Sticker and colouring activities develop hand‐eye coordination.

Category Interactive & activity books & packs

Pages 106


Binding P/B

$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781783934430

Publisher Hinkler Books


Author

The Best Ever Paper Plane Challenge

•Step by step folding instructions and illustrated templates for 40 paper planes•fun paper plane games and challenges to challenge yourself and your friends•Score sheets for each game•Hanging targets and floor targets to test your flying skills•a fold‐out hanger and runway

So get flying today!


Pages 112


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ISBN 9781488928987



Author



May 2016 Hinkler Books

Are you a plane-flying whizz? Or simply looking for a great new hobby? Well, The Best Ever Paper Plane Challenge is for you!

Toddler Time Triumphs and Tantrums

It’s during the toddler years that your child starts to really develop personality and now here’s your opportunity to capture those times forever. Remember to include the triumphs, the tantrums and the magical moments to show the real toddler.

Category Novelty, toy & die‐cut books

Pages 32


Binding H/B

$ARP $12.99

ISBN 9781743639177



Author

Kids will love helping Chloe and her friend Alyssa set‐up Chloe’s dream house! Follow the story of Chloe’s adventure of moving into her new home and bring it to 3D life as you assemble this stunning house and furniture. and play with the pop‐out dolls This amazing book becomes an instant toy!

It includes•An easily assembled fold‐out, pop‐out house, that extends beyond the book

size, with no scissors or glue required!•2 stand‐up , dress‐up dolls to play with throughout the house•Press‐out furniture that does not require glue or scissors, but just needs to

be folded and it’s ready to go!

With sleek contemporary designs and bright, engaging colours –kids willhave countless hours of fun creating, decorating and then playing withinthis chic doll’s house!

Category Pop‐up & lift‐the‐flap books

Pages 48


Binding P/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781488928758



My Giant Doll's House




Category Picture books

Pages 192


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781743529232



Read Me A Story Bedtime Tales

Discover a world of wonder, magic and adventure with the Read Me A Story series.

Each of these titles bring together 6 beautifully illustrated stories that are perfect for bedtime, younger readers, or simply a quick escape into a fun‐filled fantasy land.

Sharing stories with even the youngest children brings joy and delight and helps build and strengthen bonds of love, respect and understanding that can last a lifetime.


Pages 192


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9781743529225



Read Me A Story Storytime Tales





Pages 32



Hinkler Books


Publisher

Puss in Boots

Classic Fairy Tales

Little Red Riding Hood

The Fairytales series of picture books features popular fairy tale classics that children will love. Rediscover a love of classic, beloved stories that radiate with humour, fun and beauty. This series will entertain and engage both children and adults alike with a visual feast of fun, colourful illustrations created by talented artists.


Pages 32



Hinkler Books


Classic Fairy Tales

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Pages 32


Binding P/B$ARP $6.99

ISBN 9781488927829

Hinkler Books


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Jack and the Beanstalk

Classic Fairy Tales


Pages 32



ISBN 9781488927942

Hinkler Books


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Hansel and Gretel

Classic Fairy Tales




Pages 32



Hinkler Books


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Pages 32



Hinkler Books


Beauty and the Beast

Classic Fairy Tales

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Snow White and the Seven DwarfsClassic Fairy Tales



Pages 48


Binding Pack

$ARP $16.99

ISBN 9781488900075



Sew Sweet Craft Kits Owl

Create the coolest stuffed friends ever with the brilliant new Sew Sweet series!

Each kit contains everything you need to get started making Ollie Owl, Daisy Deer, Wendy Wolf and Frankie Fox; and a 48‐page book with tips, tricks and step‐by‐step instructions for each pet plus a few BONUS sewing activities!


Pages 48


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ISBN 9781488900105



Sew Sweet Craft Kits Fox



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140 210 Pages 48

01/05/2016

Interactive & activity books & packs

Hinkler Books

Sew Sweet Craft Kits Deer

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140 210 Pages 48

01/05/2016

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Sew Sweet Craft Kits Wolf


Presenting the eighth series of the best-seller Mindbogglers1000-piece jigsaws!Featuring six new spectacular puzzles, the Mindbogglersseries features stunning imagery from around the world. These painstakingly selected pictures are chosen for their detail, composition, and suitability for the puzzle medium.These sturdy jigsaws with their carefully designed pieces, will challenge your mind and build your puzzle skills all whilst delighting you with their beauty!

Category Puzzles & quizzes

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Binding Pack$ARP $14.99ISBN 9781488900808

Hinkler Books


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Giraffes, Africa

Mindbloggers 1000-piece jigsaws



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Hinkler Books


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Portland Head Lighthouse, USA




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Binding Pack$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488900655

Hinkler Books


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Vernazza, Italy




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Binding Pack$ARP $14.99

ISBN 9781488900716

Hinkler Books


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Florence, Italy





Category350 225Puzzles & quizzes

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Bryce Canyon, Utah, USA



Category350 225Puzzles & quizzes

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Sahale Arm, Washington, USA


May 2016 Hinkler Books Mindbloggers Jigsaw

Health & Beauty Tips for Women

Category Lifestyle & personal style guides

Pages 178


Binding P/B

NOW $12.50

ISBN 9780980438116

Wellington Bridge Press

For Women Aged Between 60 & 80


Margaret Woodberry

Publisher

Author

A unique beauty book Bursting with tips.

Techniques, treatments and products used by Margaret plus comments and recommendationsHow to revolutionise your skin care and make upCommon sense and good healthHow to dress and look your bestHelp for thinning hairCounteract gravityLook taller. Look slimmerBeauty treatments that workThe magic of liposomes and peptidesSucceeding with Retin ANever suffer from jetlag again



May 2016 Price Reduction

WAS $24.95

Author InformationStyle, beauty and good health have always been part of my life. My interest began in the late 1940s when, as a child, I watched with fascination my glamorous musician grandmother go through her complicated daily hair and beauty routine. And I was full of wonder observing her preparations for an evening piano performance.As a student, a teacher, a young married woman and mother, and a businesswoman, my interest in fashion, health, fitness and beauty has lasted for six decades.For the past 30 years our family business has dealt in antiques – including jewellery, so it was important for me to look stylishly understated whilst working. I loved rising to that challenge every day.I now live a life of retirement spending time with family and friends, traveling and adding to my personal collection of vintage fashion. I continue to keep up with the latest developments in the world of health and beauty.My writing style is intimate and friendly, chatty and lighthearted. Not always politically correct. Lots of references to my own experiences and observations. It is easily read and not wordy. Ideas suggested are sensible, affordable and rely on commonsense. Lots of dot points, headings, top tips and step-by-step procedures.

Too Afraid to Cry

Category Memoirs

Pages 212


Binding P/B

$ARP $28.95

ISBN 9781921325243

Ilura Press


Ali Cobby Eckermann

Publisher

Author

Too Afraid to Cry is a memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia.It is a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage. It is the story of a people profoundly wronged, told through the frank eyes of a child, and the troubled mind of that child as an adult, whose life was irretrievably changed by being tricked away from her family and adopted into a German Lutheran family.What makes this book sing is not only Ali Cobby‐Eckermann's strong and unique narrative voice and her ability to cut to the essence of things in her poetry, but also the astounding courage with which she leads the reader through the complex account of a life in free‐fall and a journey to wholeness through reconnection with her birth family and its ageless culture and wisdom.This is a brave book, written by a woman who has faced her demons, transformed her suffering into a work of art, and found her true sitting place in the world.



May 2016 Congratulations

Congratulations to Ali Cobby Eckermann for receiving theTangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship $15,000

at the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

Deltroit and the Valley of Hillas Creek

Category Social & cultural history

Pages 316


Binding H/B

ISBN 9781877096235

Melbourne Books

A Social and Environmental History


Nicola Crichton‐Brown

Publisher

Author

It takes vision and fortitude to transform 'wilderness' in the Murrumbidgee basin into something of the eminence of Deltroit, one of the finest grazing properties south of Sydney. Who was it that achieved this, how was it done, and why did this iconic Riverina property, about which nothing has ever been published before, end up in the hands of King Ranch, Texas, a giant in global beef production? What is it about Deltroit that continues to seduce and set the benchmark in modern pastoralism?

When Nicola Wynn, a former solicitor born and bred in London, married Anthony Crichton‐Brown, Chief Executive of Lumley Insurance, she knew he owned a large farm in New South Wales but never dreamt that it would become their marital home. Within a short time, however, she was to exchange a hectic life in the metropolis for the isolation of rural Australia. Having negligible experience of country life anywhere, she faced the challenge of making a new life in a completely different environment from the one she knew. More importantly, this move coincided with the worst drought in New South Wales for a hundred years and, possibly, since the beginning of white settlement.

Finding some parallels between her own situation and those which she imagined must have faced the original pioneering family at Deltroit, she began to discover the history behind the gilded cage that had become her home. In doing so, she found a way into the heart of the community and a connection with the land that she never thought



May 2016 Price Reduction

NOW $29.95WAS $45.00

Jodie's Rescue

The slap of spray on her face, the exhilaration of the boat cutting through waves, the call of the sea birds and the summer sun warming her skin...

Through all the challenges - starting a new school and making new friends, and a father who is absorbed in his work, missing her mother - Jodie finds solace in sailing. But will the ocean turn against her?

Can she save the lighthouse from development? And why are there dead penguins floating in the water? Who is the girl in the photo that she finds hidden under the stairs? And, most importantly, where is her mother?

Jodie's voyage of discovery takes her to a place she never dreamed she'd be... But how will she convince her father that it is real?

Category Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

Pages 176


Binding P/B

NOW $14.99

ISBN 9780994329479

A and A Book Publishing


Diane FaganAuthor

Publisher

The Mighty Mullygrubber Malone

The 'mullygrubber' is part of cricketing folklore: a ball only delivered by accident, shooting along the ground after hitting a crack in the pitch. But one bowler, Mullygrubber Malone, has learned to do it on purpose - and being the only one who can, is now the most dangerous bowler in the world.

The Mighty Mullygrubber Malone is the story of a twelve-year-old leg spinner who goes all the way from being part of the school team to the Australian Test XI in one summer. Precious creatures, leggies. With them, Grubber beats schoolyard bully Bumper Barnes to a place in the NSW Under-12s side. Ditto for the Australian Under-14s. Grubber then rockets through the age groups for the local club, the Barrenjoey Bugles. Being too good for the Under-15s, Grubber is thrown into the Under-17s, then the Under-19s - still too good. Then comes grade cricket against the men, with Grubber becoming the 'man of the match' in fourth grade, third grade, second grade... and first grade.

Category Sporting stories Children's

Pages 272


Binding P/B

NOW $9.95

ISBN 9781877096655

Melbourne Books


Will SwantonAuthor

Publisher

Hey Joe

Jimi doesn't know his father, Joe; the least he can do is go to Vietnam and try to find him. With the aid of Joe's half-finished novel Jimi sets off in search of his father - and himself. A novel about the Vietnam war and its effect on all Australians: soldiers, civilians, protesters and their mystified children. Ages 15+.

Category General fiction Young Adult

Pages



Michael Hyde


Michael HydeAuthor

Publisher

Nick's Fabulous Footy Cards

Love footy? And you think you're pretty good, right?You sound just like Nick.What if you hit a rough patch, and all your great kicks suddenly dry up? Nobody's looking for you on the ground and you can't get your hands near the footy.What do you do?Find out if Nick can get back into his game with help from some unlikely little friends.

Category General fiction Children's

Pages



68Hip and Shoulder Books


Greg Fish /Illustrator Jason Trevenen

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May 2016 Young Adult Notable Inclusions & Specials

WAS $19.99 WAS $18.95

Race Girl


Pages 266


Binding P/B

$ARP $19.95

ISBN 9780992495664

Leigh Hutton Books


Leigh Hutton

Publisher

Author

Fresh on the heels of Michelle Payne's historic Melbourne Cup win, comes a blockbuster Australian story about a Queensland girl and the 'race that stops a nation' . . .Tully Athens has always dreamed of following in the footsteps of her hero Michelle Payne. Of living up to the Athens name and becoming the third generation of women from her family to rule the track. But Tully’s never been sure she’s got the nerve, and when her mother is killed in a racing accident, her whole world is shattered.Six months later, in the heat of a Queensland summer, sixteen‐year‐old Tully is ready to face her fears. But getting back in the saddle leads to a whole lot more than she bargained for, with an out of control crush on the boy from their rival thoroughbred farm – the gorgeous but cocky larrikin Brandon Weston – and a forgotten filly with stardom in her eyes . . .When faced with the most difficult decision of her life, will Tully choose to train and race her new filly in Melbourne? Or will she sacrifice it all to fight for love on the land that feeds her soul?It’s only when tragedy rips everything from her that Tully finds a strength and courage she never knew she had, in this action‐packed novel of passion, adventure and determination.



May 2016 Samford, QLD Author

Rev Girl

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Pages

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Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

01/05/2014


266Leigh Hutton Books


Leigh HuttonAuthor

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Jump Girl

Category

Pages

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Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

01/11/2014


Leigh Hutton Books


Leigh HuttonAuthor

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A Fables Origin: Fynian Encounter

Category Fantasy

Pages 200


Binding P/B

$ARP $29.95

ISBN 9780994523594

Busybird Publishing

The Fynian Fable series


Yalmact Swillirs

Publisher

Author

Misfortunes are an unavoidable part of life, but what if they are the result of something more than just bad luck and poor decisions? When Michael and Patrick become unlikely friends after meeting in a boys' reformatory, they have no idea that the tragedies that had plagued their families for generations aren't so wholly unrelated. When Avianca, a Fynian princess, materializes in front of Michael to uphold the faeries’ end of an ancient deal struck between his ancestor and one of her people; neither Michael nor Patrick's lives will ever be the same again. After all, meeting your soul‐mate doesn't guarantee you'll live happily ever after. A Fable’s Origin: Fynian Encounter is the prequel to The Fynian Fable series.

Author InformationBeing born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, demanded Yalmact to develop an overactive imagination in order to tolerate the city's dreary atmosphere. A twisted sense of humor enabled Yalmact to survive a series of dead‐end jobs and difficult life events while penning the Fynian Fable saga. Often escaping reality into a wide variety of written works by remarkable authors such as Stephen King, J.K Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien, enable Swillirs to develop their own unique voice and writing style. Had these elements not been present and Yalmact had not taken up writing, it is in all likelihood that Swillirs would have thrust their head into a cement wall to escape the monotony of their life.



May 2016 Adelaide, SA Author

Damien's Off-shoot

Category Fantasy

Pages

Published


ISBN 9781925260526

01/06/2015

236Busybird Publishing


Yalmact SwillirsAuthor

Publisher

Category Fantasy

Pages

Published


ISBN 9780987599797

01/11/2013

266Busybird Publishing


Yalmact Swillirs

Mad Town

The Fynian Fable

Author

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Oranges at Halftime This book tells a warm & humorous story about a boys experience playing soccer for his local team. The story contains an interesting plot, a worthy message and a happy ending. It is told with rhyming couplets, thoughtful illustrations and is finished into a quality hardcover book. Oranges at Halftime will be one of the best picture books of 2016!

Author InformationAs a young child Tarek aspired to excel as a visual artist. He loved to draw and decided to undertake a Bachelor of Design at NSW University after high school. While studying, he worked part-time through an agency as a Caricaturist and Entertainer at corporate events, weddings and parties.

After university he worked as a Graphic Designer for different companies and then moved into Advertising Sales. He then decided to leave the corporate environment and currently drives an ambulance for St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. Oranges at Halftime is his first children’s picture book and some of his best work.

Available Now


Pages 32


Binding H/B

$ARP $16.99

ISBN 9780646945484

Thou Art Publishing


Tarek E. Charmie

Publisher

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May 2016 Sydney, NSW Author

The Disappearing Sister What do you do when someone you care about is hurting, when their behaviour is making it worse? How can you help them if you are the youngest and one is listening? This book tackles the tough topic of eating disorders and how a family has to work together to help the big sister get better. Eva loves her big sister very much. Anna is clever and smart and fun. But one day Eva tices that her sister is staring to behave differently and that she seems unwell. Eva wants to help but doesn't kw what to do. So she confides in her friend Jennie who helps her find a way to help her sister. A moving yet hopeful account of a family working together to help a loved one recover their health.

Author Information“The Elephant in the Room” series deals with tough health and wellbeing issues through the eyes of a young child. The purpose of the series is to help explain difficult health topics to younger children who made be going through tough times within their families as well as to empower them in seeing their role in the whole recovery process. My debut picture book in this series is called “The Disappearing Sister”. It is about Anorexia Nervosa and the impact this illness has on a family told through the eyes of the younger sibling of a sufferer. It takes the reader on the journey of illness and recovery sharing both a message of hope and an age-appropriate explanation of what is going on in a family where there is an eating disorder sufferer. It covers a topic traditionally stigmatised and poorly understood as well as giving voice to those who are often the silent sufferers in the family – namely the younger siblings. This is breakthrough literature in the area and is being used by practitioners to help their clients and their families come to terms with the impact of the illness on the family and to help provide a means of starting important and tough conversations with the younger family members. The book is for use as a tool that might help start or direct conversations around the topic both at home and in the classroom.

Category Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage)

Pages 38


Binding P/B

$ARP $9.99

ISBN 9781910667491

Elizabeth Cummings


Elizabeth Cummings

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May 2016 Coogee, NSW Author

Two Tales of Brothers from Ancient Mesopotamia

The ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, located in what is now Iraq, Syria and Kuwait, produced one of the world's great heroic sagas, the Epic of Gilgamesh.In this exciting, lively retelling, popular author John Heffernan brings two stories from the Epic to engaging life for young readers, while new illustrator Kate Durack's striking illustrations, inspired by Ancient Mesopotamian art, superbly illuminate the mythical world of the heroic brothers.

John Heffernan is a well‐known, award‐winning Australian author who has written for children and teenagers in a variety of genres and styles, from picture books to young adult novels, reality to fantasy.Born and raised in Brisbane, artist and illustrator Kate Durack lived and worked in Sydney and Malaysia before moving to the regional NSW town of Walcha, where she now lives. Her work has featured in several exhibitions. Two Tales of Brothers from Mesopotamia is her first picture book.


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ISBN 9780994234049

Christmas Press


John Heffernan /Illustrator Kate Durack

Publisher

Author

John Heffernan is a well‐known, award‐winning Australian author who has written for children and teenagers in a variety of genres and styles, from picture books to young adult novels, reality to fantasy. Born and raised in Brisbane, artist and illustrator Kate Durack lived and worked in Sydney and Malaysia before moving to the regional NSW town of Walcha, where she now lives. Her work has featured in several exhibitions. Two Tales of Brothers from Mesopotamia is her first picture book.

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May 2016 Brisbane, QLD Author

Two Tengu Tales from Japan


Pages


Binding CD

$ARP $10.99

ISBN 9780994234094

Christmas Press


Duncan Ball /Illustrator David

Publisher

Author

Two Tengu Tales from Japan


Pages 32


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9780992283865

Christmas Press


Duncan Ball /Illustrator David

Publisher

Author

Two Selkie Stories from Scotland


Pages 32


Binding P/B

$ARP $17.99

ISBN 9780992283827

Christmas Press


Kate Forsyth /Illustrator Fiona

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Two Selkie Stories from Scotland


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Binding CD

$ARP $10.99

ISBN 9780992283872

Christmas Press

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Two Fearsome Fairy Tales From France


Pages 32


Binding H/B

$ARP $19.99

ISBN 9780992283841

Christmas Press


Adele Geras /Illustrator Fiona

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Two Tales of Twins from Ancient Greece and Rome


Pages 32


Binding P/B

$ARP $17.99

ISBN 9780992283834

Christmas Press


Ursula Dubosarsky /Illustrator David

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Author

Two Tales of Twins from Ancient Greece and Rome


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Binding CD

$ARP $10.99

ISBN 9780992283889

Christmas Press


Ursula Dubosarsky /By (composer)

Publisher

Author

Two Trickster Tales from Russia


Pages 32


Binding P/B

$ARP $17.99

ISBN 9780992283803

Christmas Press


Sophie Masson /Illustrator David

Publisher

Author

Two Trickster Tales from Russia


Pages


Binding CD

$ARP $10.95

ISBN 9780992283810

Christmas Press


Sophie Masson /Illustrator David

Publisher

Author

Two beautiful traditional Scottish fairy tales, The Selkie Bride and Inthe Kingdom of the Seals, are brought to enchanting and haunting new life by two creators who are themselves eerily linked to the magical world of the shape‐shifting selkies, who are seals in the water and humans on land. For Kate's ancestors were the McPhees, who, legend says, are descended from the union of Dougal McPhee and his melancholy selkie bride, while Fiona's McDonald ancestors, lairds of the Western Isles, have a strange connection to the McPhees as well, a connection she only discovered while working on the book!

Japanese folklore is full of stories about the tengu, magical beings who grant wishes to those who ask them. But watch out‐wishes don't always turn out as you expected! In this lively, engaging retelling of two fantastic tengu tales, Duncan Ball introduces young readers to the folk world of old Japan, while David Allan's beautiful illustrations set an atmosphere inspired by classic Japanese art.

Japanese folklore is full of stories about the tengu, magical beings who grant wishes to those who ask them. But watch out‐wishes don't always turn out as you expected! In this lively, engaging retelling of two fantastic tengu tales, Duncan Ball introduces young readers to the folk world of old Japan, while David Allan's beautiful illustrations set an atmosphere inspired by classic Japanese art.Narrated by Duncan Ball

Two beautiful traditional Scottish fairy tales, The Selkie Bride and Inthe Kingdom of the Seals, are brought to enchanting and haunting new life by two creators who are themselves eerily linked to the magical world of the shape‐shifting selkies, who are seals in the water and humans on land. For Kate's ancestors were the McPhees, who, legend says, are descended from the union of Dougal McPhee and his melancholy selkie bride, while Fiona's McDonald ancestors, lairds of the Western Isles, have a strange connection to the McPhees as well, a connection she only discovered while working on the book!

Two magical, scary classic fairy tales from France, Beauty and the Beast and Bluebeard, elegantly retold by Adele Geras and lavishly illustrated by Fiona McDonald. For older readers.

Twin baby gods with extraordinary powers from birth; twin boys brought up by a wolf, whose quarrel will one day make the greatest city in the world: from the pen of multi‐award winning author Ursula Dubosarsky comes this fresh and lively retelling of two great myths from Greece and Rome, re‐imagined fro young readers, and illustrated in gorgeous classical style by David Allan.

Twin baby gods with extraordinary powers from birth; twin boys brought up by a wolf, whose quarrel will one day make the greatest city in the world: from the pen of multi‐award winning author Ursula Dubosarsky comes this fresh and lively retelling of two great myths from Greece and Rome, re‐imagined fro young readers, and illustrated in gorgeous classical style by David Allan.

Meet a brave little girl called Masha who outwits a big bad bear with some tasty pies, and a beautiful but none too bright rooster, his long‐suffering friends, and a cunning fox! Two Trickster Tales from Russia is the launch title for Christmas Press, a new Australian publisher specialising in beautiful picture books for children which feature traditional stories from many lands, retold by well‐known authors and stunningly illustrated in a classic style.

Meet a brave little girl called Masha who outwits a big bad bear with some tasty pies, and a beautiful but none too bright rooster, his long‐suffering friends, and a cunning fox! Two Trickster Tales from Russia is the launch title for Christmas Press, a new Australian publisher specialising in beautiful picture books for children which feature traditional stories from many lands, retold by well‐known authors and stunningly illustrated in a classic style.

May 2016 Christmas Press

The Seekers

This is the world's first 'Enseeklopedia' ‐ a treasure trove of stories, music analysis and rare memorabilia. Moreover, it is a long overdue salute to Australia's Fab Four and their enduring recording catalogue. In this publishing first, renowned Australian authors Christopher Patrick (ABBA: Let The Music Speak) and Graham Simpson (The Judith Durham Story ‐ Colours Of My Life) have joined forces to produce the first‐ever Seekers coffee table book ‐ an in‐depth and highly informative look at the recording history of Australia's first supergroup.

Their forensic analysis of every song The Seekers recorded in the 50 years between 1963 and 2013 sits comfortably with peeks behind the scenes, never‐before‐revealed facts, fascinating trivia, and a kaleidoscope of photos and memorabilia... much of it never seen before.

With a good tour guide, you see so much more when you know what it is you're looking at; Chris has approached The Seekers' song list from a musician's perspective, undressing every song the group ever recorded to reveal the vocal and instrumental craft at play. Graham has brought to the coffee table his penchant for fascinating Seekers minutiae, and an archive of memorabilia gathered from all over the world over five decades.

Category Biography: general

Pages 256


Binding H/B

$ARP $49.95

ISBN 9781922129802

Publisher Melbourne Books


Graham Simpson Christopher Patrick

Author

Behind the Curtain The Seekers

Bruce Woodley AO is not only a founding member of The Seekers, but also a fine photographer.

In Behind the Curtain, Bruce has documented his band ‐ Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and himself ‐ on what is likely to be their last world tour.

It captures The Seekers as they've never been seen before!

This historic collection of more than 50 superb mono and colour images is presented in a handsome coffee table, hard cover, 80‐page book with jacket.

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$ARP

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9781922129826

$79.95

H/B

01/12/2015

Autobiography: general

Melbourne Books

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Pages 256

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