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THE BOOK OF TWO WAYSJodi Picoult

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760528768 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a thought-provoking and otherworldly new novel about the fates that we

choose for ourselves—and what happens when we have the chance to choose again

Dawn Edelstein knows everything there is to know about dying. As a death doula, she specialises in helping her clients make peace with the end of their lives. But when the plane she's flying home on plummets from the sky, she is forced to confront her own mortality. Instead of seeing her husband and daughter flash before her eyes in what she assumes are her last moments, only one face comes to mind: Wyatt Neville.

Miraculously surviving the crash, Dawn sees two options before her: return to her family and the life she knows, or journey back to an Egyptian archaeological site she left over a decade earlier, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history, and finally finish her magnum opus on The Book of Two Ways—the first known map of the afterlife—that she was forced to abandon.

While attempting to reconcile with the path she chooses for her life, Dawn must confront the questions she's never truly answered: What does a life well-lived look like? When we depart this earth, what do we leave behind of ourselves? And who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are right now?

Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of twenty-four novels, including A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Lone Wolf, House Rules, Nineteen Minutes and My Sister's Keeper. She lives in New Hampshire.

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760528768 $32.99 PB FICTION NZ$36.99

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THE MORBIDSEwa Ramsey

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760877538 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

A story of friendship, love and what it means to truly live when, sometimes, it may seem easier not to

Caitlin is convinced she is going to die. Two years ago, she was a normal twenty-something with a blossoming career and a plan to go travelling with her best friend, until a fatal car accident left her with a deep, unshakeable understanding that she's only alive by mistake. She deals with these thoughts by throwing herself into work, self-medicating with alcohol and attending a support group for people with death-related anxiety, informally known as The Morbids.

But when her best friend announces she's getting married in Bali, and she meets a handsome doctor named Tom, Caitlin must overcome her fear of death and learn to start living again.

Ewa Ramsey is Operations Manager for the Newcastle Writer’s Festival.

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760877538 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99

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THE GOOD TEACHERPetronella McGovern

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760875299 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

From the bestselling author of Six Minutes, comes a fast-paced, heart-stopping thriller full of gripping tension, twists and turns

A good teacher can change lives…

Every evening, Allison watches her husband's new house, desperate to find some answers. Every morning, she puts on a brave face to teach kindergarten. She's a good teacher, everyone says so—this stalking is just a tiny crack in her usual self-control.

A late enrolment into her class brings little Gracie—sick and grieving. Allison takes the girl and her father, Luke, under her wing. She smothers Gracie with the love she can't give her own son. As others question her judgement and the police arrive at her door, Allison starts to wonder if she can trust herself. When Gracie has a chance to go to America for treatment, Allison leads the school in a fundraising drive. But has she crossed a line? How far will the good teacher go to save a life? And whose life will that be?

An intriguing tale of our times about kindness and betrayal, and the danger of good deeds.

Petronella McGovern is a writer and editor. She lives in Sydney.

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875299 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99

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BLUEBIRDMalcolm Knox

ALLEN & UNWIN9781760877422 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION

A stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian

beachside suburb

A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the iconic Bluebird Beach. The Lodge is, like those who live in it, falling apart. Gordon Grimes lives in The Lodge with his wife Kelly who is trying to leave him, their son Ben who will do anything to save him, his goddaughter Lou who is hiding from her own troubles, and Leonie, the family matriarch who has trapped them here for their own good. But Gordon has no money and is running out of time to conserve his homeland. His love for this way of life will drive him, and everyone around him, to increasingly desperate risks. In the end, what will it cost them to hang onto their past?

Acclaimed writer Malcolm Knox has written a classic Australian novel about the myths that come to define families and communities, and the lies that uphold them. It's about a certain kind of Australia that we all recognise, and a certain kind of Australian whose currency is running out. Change is coming to Bluebird, whether they like it or not. And the secrets they've been keeping and the lies they've been telling can't save them now.

Savage, funny, revelatory and brilliant, Bluebird exposes the hollowness of the stories told to glorify a dying culture and show how those who seek to preserve these myths end up being crushed by them.

Malcolm Knox is a Walkey Award-winning journalist and acclaimed author of A Private Man, Jamaica, The Life and The Wonder Lover.

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THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTSElena Ferrante

EUROPA EDITIONS9781787702400 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION

A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend

'Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything—the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold February, those words—remained fixed. But I slipped away, and am still slipping away… '

Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, the city seems to offer no answer and no escape.

Elena Ferrante is the Italian author of the highly acclaimed Neapolitan Quartet including My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay and The Story of the Lost Child.

EUROPA EDITIONS 9781787702400 $32.99 PB FICTION NZ$36.99

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THE WRECKMeg Keneally

ECHO9781760686208 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

1820. Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, finds herself aboard the Serpent, bound from London to the colony of New South Wales. But when the mercurial captain's actions drive the ship into a cliff, Sarah is the only survivor. Adopting a false identity, she becomes the right-hand woman of Molly Thistle, who has grown her late husband's business interests into a sprawling empire. As time passes, Sarah begins to believe she might have found a home—until her past follows her across the seas...

Meg Keneally is the bestselling author of Fled and the co-author with Tom Keneally of The Monsarrat Series of historical mysteries. She lives in Sydney.

ECHO 9781760686208 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99

THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARYMatt Haig

CANONGATE9781786892720 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. The books in the library enable her to live as if she had done things differently. She can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?

Matt Haig is the bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How to Stop Time. He lives in the UK.

CANONGATE 9781786892720 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99

MAYFLIESAndrew O'Hagan

FABER9780571273690 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news... Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphoria and to the joy and costs of love.

Andrew O'Hagan is a renowned author and Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books.

FABER 9780571273690 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99

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PEOPLE FROM MY NEIGHBOURHOOD

Hiromi Kawakami

GRANTA9781846276989 | $24.99 | | PB | FICTION

In Kawakami's super short 'palm of the hand' stories the world is never quite as it should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour's house for thirty years; an apartment block leaves its visitors with strange afflictions; an old man has two shadows, one docile, the other rebellious; two girls named Yoko are locked in a bitter rivalry to the death. Small but great, you'll find great delight spending time with the people in this neighbourhood.

Hiromi Kawakami is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists and is the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, The Nakano Thrift Shop and The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino.

GRANTA 9781846276989 $24.99 PB FICTION NZ$27.99

THE GOVERNESSWendy Holden

WELBECK9781787394704 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

As royal governess for seventeen years, Marion 'Crawfie' Crawford lived on the most intimate terms with Princess Margaret and the future Queen Elizabeth II. A progressive working-class woman, she had a ringside seat to some of the most seismic events of the 20th century. But her years of dedication counted for nothing once she published The Little Princesses and earned the Windsors' lasting fury. This is a look into the childhood of the world's longest reigning monarch and the story of a modern woman in an ancient institution.

Wendy Holden is a former journalist and author of ten consecutive top-ten bestselling novels. She lives in the UK.

WELBECK 9781787394704 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99

PIRANESISusanna Clarke

BLOOMSBURY9781526622426 | $27.99 | | PB | FICTION

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has? Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell transported readers into its mysterious world becoming an instant classic and hailed as one of the finest works of fiction of the twenty-first century. Fifteen years later, it is finally time to enter the House and meet Piranesi. May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty. Simmering with darkness, adventure, magic and mystery, Piranesi is a jewel of a book that will shock and spellbind.

Susanna Clarke is the author of the multi-million copy bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

BLOOMSBURY 9781526622426 $27.99 FICTION NZ$29.99

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MONOGAMYSue Miller

BLOOMSBURY9781526618948 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

Here is Graham, and here is Annie; here they are in marriage, in late middle age, in comfort. Mismatched, and yet so well matched. Then the unthinkable happens. Now Annie stumbles in the dark: did she know all there was to know about the man who loved her? If no marriage is without its small indiscretions, how great does a betrayal have to be to break it? A novel about marriage, family, secrets and love, Monogamy confirms Sue Miller's place among the greatest writers at work in America today.

Sue Miller is the bestselling author of ten previous novels including The Good Mother, While I Was Gone and The Senator's Wife.

BLOOMSBURY 9781526618948 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99

HERE IS THE BEEHIVESarah Crossan

BLM CIRCUS9781526619518 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION

Ana and Connor have been having an affair for years building a world with none but the two of them in it. But then the unimaginable happens, and Ana finds herself alone, trapped inside her secret. How can we lose someone the world never knew was ours? In her desperate bid for answers, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach—Connor's wife Rebecca. Peeling away the layers of two overlapping marriages, Here is the Beehive is a devastating excavation of risk, obsession and loss.

Sarah Crossan is Ireland's current Children's Literature Laureate.

BLM CIRCUS 9781526619518 $29.99 FICTION NZ$32.99

SILVERChris Hammer

NEW IN PAPERBACK ALLEN & UNWIN9781760878658 | $16.99 |

Martin Scarsden returns in the sequel to the bestselling Scrublands.

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THE CARBON CLUB Marian Wilkinson

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875992 | $32.99 | | PB | CURRENT AFFAIRS

The inside story of how a network influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's

response to the climate crisis

As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the question: 'Why didn't you do something?' The Carbon Club reveals the truth behind Australia's two decades of climate inaction. It's the story of how a loose confederation of influential climate-science sceptics, politicians and business leaders sought to control Australia's response to the climate crisis. They shared a fear that dealing with climate change would undermine the nation's wealth, jobs and competitive advantage—and the power of the carbon club.

Central to their strategy was an international campaign to undermine climate science and the urgency of the climate crisis. The sustained success of the carbon club over two decades explains why Australian governments failed to deal with the challenge of climate change. But at what cost to us and the next generation? One of Australia's most respected investigative journalists, Marian Wilkinson has tracked the rise and rise of Australia's carbon club in brilliant detail, with extraordinary access to key players on all sides. The result is a book that is both essential and disturbing reading.

Marian Wilkinson is regarded as one of the most distinguished journalists in Australia. She was co-author with David Marr of Dark Victory and author of The Fixer: the untold story of Graham Richardson.

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875992 $32.99 PB CURRENT AFFAIRS NZ$36.99

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NO MATTER OUR WRECKAGEGemma Carey

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760877675 | $29.99 | | PB | CURRENT AFFAIRS

A ground-breaking, uncompromising and unflinching memoir about grooming, intergenerational trauma, grief and love

When Gemma Carey was twelve years old, a man twice her age would sneak into her bedroom on a weekly basis and sexually assault her. When Gemma was seventeen, she took the perpetrator to court without anyone else knowing. When she was thirty-three, her mother died of cancer. For twenty years, her mother had known about this man. But why had she not acted to protect her daughter? Could the genesis of this betrayal be found in her own family history?

No Matter Our Wreckage is the story of past and present colliding. It seeks to capture the complexity of forces which lead to abuse; to understand the intertwined narratives of mothers and daughters and how trauma becomes encoded in our DNA through generations. It explores grooming and the intricacies of consent, and how as a society we have not yet figured out how to deal with these types of crimes or the people who commit them.

This is a powerful, poetic and unflinching memoir about what it means not to matter, and how an extraordinary woman refused to listen to the stories she was being told about herself—by her history, by her abuser, by her mother, by society. It is only by speaking out that Gemma Carey learns she can break free from her past and reclaim her life, herself and her future.

Gemma Carey is an author and researcher. She lives in New South Wales.

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THE HEALTHY BABY GUT GUIDE

How to prevent allergies, build immunity and develop good gut health from day one

Dr Vincent Ho

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781743310359 | $29.99 | | PB | HEALTH

An accessible, practical guide to preventing and managing children's allergies and improving their immune systems from a

leading gastroenterologist

For almost one in five Australian children, eczema, asthma, hay fever and food allergies are constant anxieties, sometimes with devastating consequences. And allergy cases are booming—the numbers are rising year on year. But what if there was a way to prevent allergies in the first place? What if simple lifestyle changes in the critical first 1000 days could change your baby's life?

Leading gastroenterologist Dr Vincent Ho has taken a deep dive into the exploding medical field of gut health and explains that from conception to birth, and from breastfeeding to the introduction of solid foods, small steps go a long way in preventing allergies and fortifying your baby's immune system. Dr Ho cuts through the scientific jargon to provide strategies for allergy management and treatment, and sensible advice for strengthening kids' gut health for the long term.

Practical, easy-to-follow and utterly eye-opening, The Healthy Baby Gut Guide is essential reading for every parent and parent-to-be.

Dr Vincent Ho is a Sydney-based academic researcher, educator and gastroenterologist who is a media spokesperson on infant gut health.

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ON OUR DOORSTEP When Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese

Craig Collie

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760632281 | $32.99 | | PB | HISTORY

In 1942 Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese—this is what happened

Australia has a history of believing itself to be under threat of invasion. In 1942 that threat, in the form of invasion and occupation by the Japanese, seemed more imminent than the earlier fears. On Our Doorstep is the story of how Australia and Australians - the government, the military and the people - prepared to face this calamity, and the events that persuaded them of its probability. The Japanese had steamrolled through Malaya and Singapore, and bombed Darwin with the same ferocity they had dealt Pearl Harbor. Nothing could stop them. Their next step was inevitable, surely.

Meanwhile, wartime leader John Curtin was battling with Winston Churchill to get Australian troops back to defend their homeland, and positioning to ensure America's help to fend off the approaching enemy. At home, people pitched in as best they could and in any way to frustrate the invader, all playing their part, torn between 'she'll be right' and near panic. Amid plans and rumoured plans to abandon the north to the enemy and deny Australia resources through scorched earth, particular attention was paid to northern Australia and the islands beyond.In the end, Japan found it had stretched itself beyond the reliability of its supply line, but had it ever intended to invade Australia?

Craig Collie is the highly acclaimed author of The Path of Infinite Sorrow, Nagasaki, The Reporter and the Warlords and Code Breakers.

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THE MUSIC ADVANTAGEHow learning music helps your child's brain and wellbeing

Dr Anita Collins

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875886 | $32.99 | | PB | MUSIC

Groundbreaking music educator Dr Anita Collins draws on the latest international neurological research to reveal the

extraordinary and often surprising benefits of learning music for children from newborns to teenagers

Brain research has revealed something extraordinary. Learning music and listening to music can grow and repair our brains at any age. Simply clapping in time can help a young child who is struggling with reading. Learning an instrument can dramatically help children of all ages improve their ability to focus on school work, and with their memory and behaviour. Playing in an orchestra can help children develop social skills. Learning music can give every child an advantage, whether they are already doing well at school or not coping.

Dr Anita Collins has visited the labs of leading neuromusical researchers around the world and trialled their techniques herself. With real examples from home and school and practical strategies, she shows how parents and teachers can support children's development with music from birth to the teenage years.

Anita Collins PhD is an award-winning music teacher and researcher who appeared on the ABC TV series Don't Stop the Music. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra and Associate Fellow of Music, Mind and Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne.

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PEOPLE OF THE RIVERLost worlds of early Australia

Grace Karskens

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760292232 | $39.99 | | PB | HISTORY

A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area on the Hawkesbury-

Nepean River that uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both

Aboriginal and British

Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, is where the two early Australias—ancient and modern—first collided. Britain's felons, transported to the other side of the world, were meant to become settlers in the new colony. They made history on the river creating the first successful white farming frontier that became the last bastion of eighteenth-century ways of life. The Aboriginal people had occupied Dyarubbin for at least 50,000 years. Their history, culture and spirituality were inseparable from this river Country. Despite colonisation, they managed to remain on their Country, and they still live on the river today.

People of the River journeys into the lost worlds of the Aboriginal people and the settlers of Dyarubbin, both complex worlds with ancient roots.

Grace Karskens is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales and the multi-award-winning author of The Colony.

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760292232 $39.99 PB HISTORY NZ$45.00

RAW & FREEPlant-based living for health & happiness

Sophie Steevens

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781988547411 | $39.99 | | PB | FOOD & DRINK

Sophie Steevens shares her favourite plant-based recipes and describes how she reversed a serious

autoimmune disease by eating a completely plant-based diet

Sophie Steevens reversed her autoimmune disease naturally though a plant-based diet, and in Raw & Free she shares this story of recovery along with wholesome recipes to inspire others. This stunning cookbook is packed with over 100 delicious, vibrant plant-based, gluten-free and refined-sugar-free recipes that the whole family will enjoy eating. There are easy, wholefood recipes for all meals plus great information to help you get started, with material such as kitchen essentials, ingredient staples and lots of easy-to-follow tips for a wholesome, plant-based lifestyle.

Sophie Steevens is the creator of the Instagram page Raw and Free which depicts her plant-based lifestyle with her partner, professional surfer Ricardo Christie, and their three young boys. She lives in New Zealand.

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781988547411 $39.99 PB FOOD & DRINK NZ$45.00

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STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES

Making meaning in a meaningless universe

Richard Holloway

CANONGATE9781786899934 | $29.99 | | HB | HISTORY

Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. Stories We Tell Ourselves takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what the answers to the biggest of questions might be. Thought-provoking, revelatory, compassionate and playful, it is a personal reckoning with life's mysteries by one of the most important and beloved thinkers of our time.

Richard Holloway was Bishop of Edinburgh and is the bestselling author of Leaving Alexandria and Waiting for the Last Bus.

CANONGATE 9781786899934 $29.99 HB HISTORY NZ$32.99

ON TIME AND WATERAndri Snaer Magnason

SERPENT’S TAIL9781788165518 | $34.99 | | HB | ENVIRONMENT

Andri Snaer Magnason's extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost Okjokull glacier 'Letter to the Future' made global news and was shared by millions. In an attempt to come to terms with the issues we must all now face, On Time and Water takes a path to climate science through ancient myths about sacred cows, stories of ancestors and interviews with the Dalai Lama. The result is an absorbing mixture of travel, history, science and philosophy.

Andri Snaer Magnason is an environmental activist and one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.

SERPENT’S TAIL 9781788165518 $34.99 HB ENVIRONMENT NZ$39.99

X+YA mathematician's manifesto for rethinking

gender

Eugenia Cheng

PROFILE9781788160407 | $34.99 | | HB | POPULAR SCIENCE

What if we could do the impossible and remove gender from the equation? Using precise mathematical reasoning to uncover everything from the sexist assumptions that make society a harder place for women to live to the limitations of science and statistics in helping us understand the link between gender and society, x+y brings original thinking to well-worn arguments. It provides a radical, illuminating and liberating new way of thinking about the world and women's place in it.

Eugenia Cheng is the author of The Art of Logic, How to Bake Pi and Beyond Infinity.

PROFILE 9781788160407 $34.99 HB POPULAR SCIENCE NZ$39.99

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THE VELVET ROPE ECONOMY

How inequality became big business

Nelson Schwartz

PROFILE9781788165990 | $29.99 | | PB | CURRENT AFFAIRS

In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live. On one side, appointments are secured, queues are skipped and doors are opened. Business innovators have stepped in to exploit the gap between the rich and everyone else, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. This gripping account takes us on a glittering, behind-the-scenes tour of this new reality—and shows the toll the velvet rope divide is taking on society.

Nelson Schwartz is a writer covering economics at the New York Times.

PROFILE 9781788165990 $32.99 HB CURRENT AFFAIRS NZ$36.99

SPACE 2069After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and

beyond

David Whitehouse

ICON9781785786464 | $34.99 | | HB | POPULAR SCIENCE

Half a century after Apollo 11, we have still not returned to the Moon—but that is about to change. The thirteenth person to walk on the Moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole. Space 2069 presents a mind-expanding tour of humanity's future in space over the next 50 years, up to the 100th anniversary of the moon landing.

David Whitehouse is a former BBC Science Correspondent and is the author of the bestselling Apollo 11: The Inside Story.

ICON 9781785786464 $34.99 HB POPULAR SCIENCE NZ$39.99

HOW TODDLERS THRIVEWhat parents can do for children ages two to five to plant the seeds of lifelong happiness

Tovah P. Klein

SOUVENIR PRESS9781788165501 | $22.99 | | PB | PARENTING

Why do some children thrive and others struggle? Based on extensive research with toddlers, How Toddlers Thrive explains what is happening in children's brains and bodies at this age that makes their behaviour so turbulent, and why your reaction to their behaviour—the way you speak to, speak about and act towards your toddler—holds the key to a successful tomorrow and a happier today.

Tovah P. Klein, PhD, is a leading child development psychologist in Manhattan.

SOUVENIR PRESS 9781788165501 $22.99 PB PARENTING NZ$24.99

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DARKNESS IS GOLDENMary Hoang

PANTERA9781925700718 | $32.99 | | PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Harness your darkness, get your shit together and create a truly fulfilling life. Hidden in the folds of human life are the stories that most of us want to keep in the dark. The shit storms, anxieties, failed relationships, sadness, fears of the future and psychological pain. Drawing on her years of psychological and therapeutic expertise, Mary Hoang will teach you how to face your fears and anxieties and make meaning from loss and pain, to find your true purpose, meaning and a life that resonates for you.

Mary Hoang is head psychologist and founder of The Indigo Project, Australia's largest and most progressive psychology practice.

PANTERA 9781925700718 $32.99 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT NZ$34.99

SPLITTINGThe inside story on headaches

Amanda Ellison

BLM GREEN TREE9781472971401 | $29.99 | | PB | HEALTH

Written by a leading neuroscientist, Splitting tells the fascinating true story about headaches, and the secrets they reveal about your brain and overall health. From migraines to sinus pain to tension headaches and everything in between, it separates fact from fiction, putting you in control and helping you practise habits that will protect you from headache.

Professor Amanda Ellison is a physiologist and neuroscientist at Durham University.

BLM GREEN TREE 9781472971401 $29.99 PB HEALTH NZ$32.99

PAIN AND PREJUDICEGabrielle Jackson

NEW IN PAPERBACK ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760878665 | $22.99 |

A timely and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women.

THE MOUNTBATTENSAndrew Lownie

NEW IN PAPERBACK BLINK9781788702980 | $22.99 |

The bestselling biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family.

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