November 2020 New Release

ISBN: 9780063018853
Title: 150 NEW BEST OF THE BEST HOUSE IDEAS
Author: ABASCAL VALDENEBRO MACARENA
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Discover the best of the best in house design with this comprehensive guide in the highly successful 150 Best series, featuring hundreds of inspiring color and black-and-white photographs.

150 New Best of the Best House Ideas is a stunning visual feast that explores the latest in innovative home construction, decoration, and design. This outstanding volume showcases an extensive collection of single-family houses from all over the world, created by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical and functional solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients.

Each of the 150 houses profiled demonstrate the newest trends and various influences on home design, from cottage-type houses to minimalist geometric constructions. Using technological advances in construction and material use, these homes are energy-efficient, have a low environmental impact, and are stunningly attractive, appealing to all tastes and styles.

This essential reference encompasses the diversity of current trends in house design and is an inspirational creative resource for builders, architects, designers, stylists, interior decorators, and students.

Imprint: Harper Design
RRP: $49.99

ISBN: 9781760761325
Title: 2020 : The Year that changed us
Author: THE CONVERSATION
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

In January 2020, Australia went from battling one of its worst-ever bushfire seasons to preparing for COVID-19 to hit its shores. What ensued was crisis: a pandemic, political upheaval, an international human rights movement, global recession and localised emergencies dwarfed by a world spinning on an axis of turmoil.

These essays from leading thinkers and contributors to The Conversation examine what will be one of the most significant and punishing years in the 21st century. 2020: The Year That Changed Us explores the key lessons from this remarkable year and kickstarts the discussion about what comes next.

Contributors include:
Michelle Grattan
Peter Martin
Raina MacIntyre
Joëlle Gergis
Peter Greste
Thalia Anthony
Shino Konishi
Fiona Stanley

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Publishing
RRP: $21.99

ISBN: 9781760523862
Title: AFRICOLA : Slow food fast words cult chef
Author: WELGEMOED DUNCAN
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Duncan's approach to food is fearless, take-no-prisoners, bold and exciting, inspired by his South African heritage. If his multi-awarded, South Australian-based restaurant Africola was a type of music, it would be a full-on mash-up of Kwaito meets Euro pop meets black metal. His food is cooked on fire, in embers or ashes, in ovens, or cast iron pots - from whole smoked pig South African/Australian style, to homemade biltong, hot smoked mackerel and horseradish, whole roasted cauliflower with tahini sauce, and the world's greatest roast potato recipe for complete idiots. Duncan's words aren't pretty, and he's refreshingly honest about the highs and lows of his industry and the people within it, delivering home truths for cooks and chefs alike. These recipes include an amazing array of meats, as well as seafood and a slew of intensely flavourful, veg-forward dishes. There is also a culinary encyclopaedia of ferments, condiments and pickles - adding richness and complexity to any dish - along with a solid pastry section and a bunch of ridiculous cocktails. Come party with us #youbuygold #africolasoundsystem #afropunkoz

Imprint: Murdoch Books
RRP: $49.99

ISBN: 9780241422199
Title: ALL MY CATS
Author: HRABAL BOHUMILL
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in Kersko, about an hour's drive east of Prague. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and Kersko, where he wrote and tended to a community of cats. Over the years, his relationship to them grew deeper, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer.

All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is the chronicle of a cat lover who becomes overwhelmed by his cats and his life and is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas his indulgent love for the animals has created.

Imprint: Penguin Modern Classics
RRP: $19.99

ISBN: 9781760979249
Title: ALPACAS WITH MARACAS - Board Book
Author: COSGROVE MATT
Format: BOARD BOOK
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Macca and his pal Al are the best of friends and LOVE spending time together. When there is an opportunity to enter a talent contest, they just can't resist. But what will their act be? Will they shimmy and shake? Dance and prance? Whatever they choose it will surely be a performance to remember!

Imprint: Scholastic Australia
RRP: $9.99

ISBN: 9781743795439
Title: ALWAYS ADD LEMON : Recipes You Want to Cook | Food You Want to Eat
Author: ALVAREZ DANIELLE
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

'Danielle loves to cook and it shows in every page of this inspirational, beautiful book. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from her recipes and her wise, thoughtful approach.' - David Tanis

'I am delighted by this cookbook.' - Alice Waters

'Danielle is one of my very favourite cooks.' - Skye Gyngell

'Hospitality, kindness and consistency are the attributes that embody the work of Danielle Alvarez.' - Josh Niland

Always Add Lemon is the highly anticipated first book from one of the most exciting young chefs cooking in Australia today, Danielle Alvarez. Taking the lessons, skills and tastes acquired working alongside some of the best chefs in the world, Danielle translates formidable kitchen smarts into an inspiring collection of recipes and projects for nourishing, vegetable-forward, seasonal food.

Become acquainted with the basics from home made cheeses to vinegar pickles to brioche before delving into Summer vegetable panzanella, Duck pot pie and Roasted pineapple with salted caramel and rum. With more than 100 recipes paired with creative and foundational projects Always Add Lemon is guaranteed to delight anyone with a skerrick of kitchen ambition and a free afternoon.

Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
RRP: $50.00

ISBN: 9781922310118
Title: ANEMONE IS NOT THE ENEMY
Author: MCGREGOR ANNA
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Anemone lives alone in the rock pool. The tide comes in and the tide goes out.

All Anemone wants is a friend, but friends are hard to make when you accidentally sting everyone who comes near you.

Perhaps Clownfish has a solution to the problem ...

Imprint: Scribe Publications
RRP: $24.99

ISBN: 9780241391853
Title: ANIMAL FARM (graphic novel)
Author: ORWELL GEORGE
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another . . .

Imprint: Penguin Books
RRP: $24.99

ISBN: 9780300250930
Title: ART OF SOLITUDE
Author: BATCHELOR STEPHEN
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A moving and wide-ranging meditation on being alone with others in this world When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more deeply into solitude, discovering its full extent and depth. This beautiful literary collage documents his multifaceted explorations. Spending time in remote places, appreciating and making art, practicing meditation and participating in retreats, drinking peyote and ayahuasca, and training himself to keep an open, questioning mind have all contributed to Batchelor's ability to be simultaneously alone and at ease. Mixed in with his personal narrative are inspiring stories from solitude's devoted practitioners, from the Buddha to Montaigne, and from Vermeer to Agnes Martin. In a hyperconnected world that is at the same time plagued by social isolation, this book shows how to enjoy the inescapable solitude that is at the heart of human life.

Imprint: Yale University Press
RRP: $34.99

ISBN: 9781838661908
Title: ATLAS OF BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture's most powerful movements, more than 850 Brutalist buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organized geographically into nine continental regions. Much-loved masterpieces in the UK and USA sit alongside lesser-known examples in Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond - 102 countries in all, proving that Brutalism was, and continues to be, a truly international architectural phenomenon

Imprint: PHAIDON
RRP: $100.00

ISBN: 9781760981143
Title: AUSTRALIA 2020
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

From the heart of the Western Queensland Channel Country, Australia's oldest and favourite newspaper details our country's very rocky start to a millennium that was supposed to be one of great optimism and innovation.

2020 was meant to be our year of healing. A time to tend to the wounds of a country torn asunder by a decade of divisive political and media debates. A lack of confidence in the international sporting arena. A 24-hour news cycle that has destroyed the pub test.

We thought all of the uncertainty was behind us. The federal election delivered us Scotty from Marketing. The Quiet Australian spoke up. Gay marriage? Yep. Climate change? Let's wait and see what happens. Smudge and Warner had served their time and, together as a nation, it was time to rebuild.

But fate had other plans, starting with the worst bushfires in human memory. While large swathes of the country burned, our politicians were either on holidays or giving their mates grants to build indoor pools in blue-ribbon seats. Surely, it couldn't get worse.

'ken oath it could. Mother nature arrived as COVID-19, and told us all to go to our rooms.

Imprint: MACMILLAN
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9781925820928
Title: AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPING MANUAL
Author: OWEN ROBERT
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

The Australian Beekeeping Manual is the most comprehensive reference for both novice and experienced beekeepers in Australia. The accessible yet detailed text, supported by over 350 full-colour photographs and illustrations, covers all the key areas, including the beekeeping equipment needed, how to obtain bees, where to locate them in the garden, and the basics of colony management. There are also in-depth chapters on the lifecycle of the honey bee, extracting honey, creating a bee-friendly garden, entering honey in competitions, pests and diseases, native bees, and rearing queens. A feature of this 2nd edition is the addition of a new chapter on the Flow Hive. The result is an invaluable beekeeping resource that will be referred to time and again, and which can be taken out to the hive for use as an immediate step-by-step guide or read at leisure.

Imprint: EXISLE PUBLISHING
RRP: $49.99