Simpson and the Donkey Anniversary Edition by Peter Cochrane is all about the making of an Australian ANZAC legend

The simple tale of Simpson and his donkey is the pre-eminent legend of heroism. It is the story of a humble water-carrier, a rescuer of wounded men, a tale of compassion, stoic persistence, with a tragic end.

His tale is an integral part of the Anzac story.

Across time, a simple tale can acquire a complicated history. This is what happened to the man with the donkey and is the subject of this book, Simpson’s ‘afterlife’, the legend.

About the Author

Peter Cochrane’s most recent work is the novella Governor Bligh and the Short Man (Penguin, 2012). His 2006 book Colonial Ambition, published by Melbourne University Press, won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and The Age Book of the Year Award in 2007. Simpson and the Donkey won the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Award for non-fiction in 1993.

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Weary King of the River by Sue Ebury is about the journey of Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop and the courage and compassion that made him an Australian wartime legend

It is a ‘giant of a book about a giant of a man’

Sue Ebury’s biography, written with his total cooperation, was released in 1994, ten months after he died. New information and time to consider the impact of Weary’s life on Australian society, in schools, institutions and homes across the nation, have showed a need for this new, illustrated edition.

During more than three years as a surgeon in the notorious work camps and vast hospital camps along the Burma-Thailand railway, he worked tirelessly to save lives and get men home to their families. He confronted his captors fearlessly; three times he was tortured and taken out to be executed, only to be reprieved at the last moment.

Fellow prisoners regarded him as ‘a symbol of hope and a rock’.This new, illustrated biography of Weary includes more than 150 images as well as never-before-published material about his betrayal to his captors.

Weary was the quintessential Australian all rounder-brilliant student, outstanding sportsman and irrepressible larrikin who dedicated his life to caring for people.When he died in July 1993, 10 000 people stood silently to farewell the most honoured medical man in Australia. By then, this great humanitarian’s influence had spread far beyond the veteran community to embrace the entire nation.

About the Author
Sue Ebury was born and educated in New Zealand. After nineteen years as an editor and publishing director at an international publishing house in Australia, she moved to Hong Kong, where she edited The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop and wrote the bestselling biography Weary: The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop.Sue returned to Australia in 1994, where she lives in Mount Macedon, Victoria.

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Blood Royal by Eric Jager is a riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th century Paris by an acknowledged brilliant medieval scholar of his generation

A rich portrait of a distant world, Blood Royal is a gripping story of conspiracy, crime and an increasingly desperate hunt for the truth.

It was a chilly November night in 1407 when Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men.  Louis’ murder was blatantly premeditated and vicious, his body hacked and mutilated, with one hand severed and his skull split.

The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad.

As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the city’s chief law enforcement officer–and one of history’s first detectives. As de Tignonville began to investigate, he realized that his hunt for the truth was much more dangerous than he ever could have imagined.

And in Guillaume de Tignonville, we have an unforgettable detective for the ages, a classic gumshoe for a cobblestoned era.

About the Author

Eric Jager holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has also taught at Columbia University. An award-winning professor of English at UCLA, he is the author of three books, including The Last Duel, The Book of the Heart, and The Tempter’s Voice, as well as numerous articles for acclaimed academic journals. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Girt, The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt digs into Australian humour, to find the facts fools fantasies & frauds who made her what she is today

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia…

In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia’s past from megafauna to Macquarie … the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.

Mark Twain wrote of Australian history: ‘It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies … but they are all true, they all happened.’

In Girt, Hunt uncovers these beautiful lies, recounting the strange and ridiculous episodes that conventional histories ignore. The result is surprising, enlightening – and side-splittingly funny.

Girt explains the role of the coconut in Australia’s only military coup, the Dutch obsession with nailing perfectly good kitchenware to posts, and the settlers’ fear of Pemulwuy and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamingcoat.

It introduces us to forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the typically Irish crime of ‘felony of sock’; Patyegarang, the young Eora girl who co-authored the world’s most surprising dictionary; and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia.

Our nation’s beginnings were steeped in the unlikely, the incongruous and the frankly bizarre. Girt restores these stories to their rightful place. Not to read it would be un-Australian.

Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;
Our home is girt by sea…

Advance Australia Fair!

About the Author

David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own bios for all the books he has written (one). He has worked as an historical consultant and comedy writer for television and also has a proper job. He owns a cat and has a birthmark that looks like Tasmania, only smaller and not as far south.

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These Things Happen by Richard Kramer is a sharp, laugh-out-loud funny, ultimately deeply moving story about the way we live now, and a frail father and his son

The story opens with Wesley, a tenth grader, who involves his two sets of parents (the mom and her second husband, a very thoughtful doctor; and the father who has become a major gay lawyer, activist and his fabulous “significant other” who owns a restaurant.

Wesley is a fabulous kid, whose equally fabulous best friend Theo has just won a big school election and simultaneously surprises everyone in his life by announcing that he is gay.

No one is more surprised than Wesley, who actually lives temporarily with his gay father and partner, so that he can get to know his rather elusive dad.

When a dramatic and unexpected trauma befalls the boys in school, all the parents converge noisily in love and well-meaning support.

But through it all, each character ultimately is made to face certain challenges and assumptions within his or her own life.

Playing out of their respective life priorities and decisions is what makes this novel so endearing and so special.

About the Author

Richard Kramer is the Emmy and multiple Peabody award winning writer, director and producer of numerous TV series, including Thirtysomething, My So-called Life, Tales of the City, and Once and Again. His first short story appeared in the New Yorker while he was still an undergraduate at Yale. This is his first novel.

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The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go heralds the arrival of a talented author; part love story, part historical tour de force, a novel that is compelling

A young American discovers he may be heir to the unclaimed estate of an English World War I officer, which launches him on a quest across Europe to uncover the elusive truth.

Just after graduating college, Tristan Campbell receives a letter delivered by special courier to his apartment in San Francisco. It contains the phone number of a Mr J.F. Prichard of Twyning & Hooper, Solicitors, in London-and news that could change Tristan’s life forever.

In 1924, Prichard explains, an English alpinist named Ashley Walsingham died attempting to summit Mt Everest, leaving his fortune to his former lover, Imogen Soames-Andersson. But the estate was never claimed. Information has recently surfaced suggesting Tristan may be the rightful heir, but unless he can find documented evidence, the fortune will be divided among charitable beneficiaries in less than two months.

In a breathless race from London archives to Somme battlefields to the Eastfjords of Iceland, Tristan pieces together the story of a forbidden affair set against the tumult of the First World War and the pioneer British expeditions to Mt Everest.

Following his instincts through a maze of frenzied research, Tristan soon becomes obsessed with the tragic lovers, and he crosses paths with a mysterious French girl named Mireille who suggests there is more to his quest than he realises.

Tristan must prove that he is related to Imogen to inherit Ashley’s fortune-but the more he learns about the couple, the stranger his journey becomes.

About the Author

Justin Go is thirty-two, raised in California to an American mother and a Japanese father. He has studied history as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley and has received a master’s degree in English from University College London. This is his first novel.

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The President’s Hat (Le Chapeau de Mitterrand) by Antoine Laurain is a charm filled story, a lovely read about the power residing in one man’s very special hat

Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him.

Daniel’s thrill at being in such close proximity to the most powerful man in the land persists even after the presidential party has gone, which is when he discovers that Mitterrand’s black felt hat has been left behind.

After a few moments’ soul-searching, Daniel decides to keep the hat as a souvenir of an extraordinary evening. It’s a perfect fit, and as he leaves the restaurant Daniel begins to feel somehow … different.

About the Author

Antoine Laurain was born in Paris and is a screenwriter, antiques collector and the author of five novels. The President’s Hat, a charming fable set in the Mitterrand years, was awarded the Prix Landerneau Découvertes and the Prix Relay in 2012 and is published in English by Gallic.

‘Teeters pleasantly on the edge of Gallic whimsy’ – Nicholas Lezard’s Paperback of the Week, The Guardian

‘An enchanting, irresistible story which flows quickly and effortlessly from one vivid character to the next, capturing their essence in a minimum of words and with a vitality that never ceases to surprise and delight.’ Lancashire Evening Post

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Into the Heart of the Himalayas by Jono Lineen is a defining story about crossing the heart of the highest mountains on earth to find our connection to nature

When Jono Lineen’s brother died in tragic circumstances, he gave up a comfortable life, moved to the Himalayas and over eight years immersed himself in the cultures of the world’s highest mountains.

The experience culminates in this book, Into the Heart of the Himalayas, a fascinating memoir that traces his solo trekking odyssey from Pakistan to Nepal across thousands of kilometres of mountain terrain.

No-one has ever before attempted to walk the length of the Western Himalayas alone, but Jono’s intentions were more psychological than physical.

It was about integrating the Himalayan culture he had grown to love, assimilating the wisdom of the place and coming to terms with his loss.

Jono’s openness with everyone he meets on the trail—from Pakistani military officers to Tibetan lamas and naked Hindu Saddhus—lies at the heart of one of the most complete portraits of the Himalayas ever written.

Jono Lineen—a lone, disarming man—crossing borders, discovering religion and castes, learning languages and understanding philosophical boundaries to find the way to embrace the future.

About the Author

Jono Lineen is a writer, curator and public speaker whose passion for landscape and humankind’s connection to it inspires his writing. He worked for years as a project manager for Médecins Sans Frontières in war and disaster zones around the world. Currently he is a curator at the National Museum of Australia. He is the author of River Trilogy: Travels Down Three of the World’s Greatest Rivers.

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Longitude Special Anniversary Edition by Dava Sobel celebrates the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

With an introduction by Neil Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon, this special edition deserves a place in everyone’s libraries.

Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison’s forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.  Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day–and had been for centuries.  Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land.

Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution.  One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution–a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land.

About the Author

Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995 and 2005, Penguin 1996), Galileo’s Daughter (Walker 1999, Penguin 2000) and The Planets (Viking, 2005). In her thirty years as a science journalist she has written for many magazines, including Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker, served as a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine and Omni, and co-authored five books, including Is Anyone Out There? with astronomer Frank Drake.

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Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong is about connecting the great ideas of  culture with problems we face every day to create a healing process

Johannes Vermeer’s wonderful Woman in Blue Reading a Letter c 1663 is as Botton says, ‘not just a record of a person’ but an image of ‘what she was like in a particularly characteristic mood’ as she reads a letter with quiet intensity.

Alain de Botton, who founded the School of Life collaborates with philosophical art historian John Armstrong as they re-interpret art; art as therapy. They ask the question ‘what is art for?’.

Engaging and lively, and not a little controversial, Art as Therapy is packed with 150 examples of outstanding art, architecture and design, while chapters on Love, Nature, Money and Politics show how art can help with many common difficulties, from forging good relationships, finding happiness, to coming to terms with mortality.

This book seeks to help us develop a deeper understanding of art and of ourselves in equal measure, providing fascinating reading for those who are familiar with art as well as those who are new to the subject.

‘When I read through Art as Therapy, paintings that I had long admired suddenly became new when seen through the filter of self-awareness and exploration. Really, a gem of a book.’
Gwyneth Paltrow

About the Authors

Alain de Botton (b.1969) is the author of bestselling books in more than 30 countries, including The Consolations of Philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Status Anxiety, and, most recently, Religion for Atheists. He founded The School of Life in London in 2008, which supplies good ideas for everyday life in the form of courses, classes, workshops and talks. In 2009 he founded Living Architecture, which aims to make high-quality architecture accessible to everyone.

John Armstrong (b.1966) is a British philosopher and art historian based at Melbourne University. He is the author of five well-received books, including The Intimate Philosophy of Art, Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy, and In Search of Civilisation: Remaking a Tarnished Idea.

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