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1835� James Boyce 4

The�Hall�of�Uselessness��Simon Leys�� �5

Hoi�Polloi� Craig Sherborne 6

Muck� Craig Sherborne 7

Piano�Lessons� Anna Goldsworthy 8

A u g u s t

How�I�Became�a�Famous�Novelist� Steve Hely 9

Thought�Crimes� Tim Richards 10

Australian�Encounters�� Shane Maloney & Chris Grosz 11

Too�Much�Luck� Paul Cleary 12

S ep t em b er

Quarterly�Essay�43� Robert Manne 13

Her�Father’s�Daughter� Alice Pung 14

The�Well�at�the�World’s�End� A.J. Mackinnon 15

O c t o b er

The�Happy�Life� David Malouf 16

You�Are�What�You�Speak� Robert Lane Greene 17

The�Great�Crash�Ahead� Harry Dent 18

Contents

N o v em b er

The�Sweet�Spot� Peter Hartcher 19

The�Best�Australian�Essays�2011� Ed. Ramona Koval 20

The�Best�Australian�Stories�2011� Ed. Cate Kennedy 21

The�Best�Australian�Poems�2011� Ed. John Tranter 22

D ec em b er

Panic� David Marr 23

Quarterly�Essay�44� Andrew Charlton 24

R e c e n t R e l e a s e s � �25

E s s e n t i a l B a c k l i s t � �28

4 July 2011

1835The�Founding�of�Melbourne�&�the�Conquest��of�Australia

James Boyce

In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait – and so changed the shape of Australian history. Before the founding of Melbourne, British settlement on the mainland amounted to a few pinpoints on a map. Ten years later, it had become a sea of red.

In 1835 James Boyce brings this pivotal moment to life. He traces the power plays in Hobart, Sydney and London, the key personali-ties of Melbourne’s early days, and the haunting questions raised by what happened when the land was opened up. He conjures up the Australian frontier – its complexity, its rawness and the way its legacy is still with us today.

James Boyce is the author of Van Diemen’s Land, which won the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize and the 2008 Colin Roderick Award. His essay ‘Fantasy Island’ was the central contribution to Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, edited by Robert Manne. He also wrote the Tasmania chapter for First Australians, the companion book to the SBS TV series.

ISBN: 9781863954754eISBN: 9781921870330Imprint: Black Inc.Format: HBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 272ppPrint RRP: AU$44.95Publication date: July 2011Rights held: World

5 July 2011

The�Hall�of�UselessnessCollected�Essays

Simon Leys

An essential collection of essays from an eminent critic.

Simon Leys’ cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit. The Hall of Uselessness forms the most complete collection yet of Leys’ fascinating essays, from Quixotism to China, from the sea to literature.

Leys feuds with Christopher Hitchens, ponders the popularity of Victor Hugo and analyses the posthumous publication of Nabokov’s unfinished novel. He offers valuable insights into Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge, and discusses Orwell, Waugh and Confucius. He considers the intertwined nature of Chinese art, culture and history alongside the joys and difficulties of literary translation. The Hall of Uselessness is an illuminating compendium from a brilliant and highly acclaimed writer – a long-time resident of Australia who is truly a global citizen.

Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. His books include With Stendhal, Other People’s Thoughts, The Death of Napoleon and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Femina, the Prix Guizot and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.

ISBN: 9781863955324eISBN: 9781921870347Imprint: Black Inc.Format: HBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage extent: 464ppPrint RRP: AU$49.95Publication date: July 2011Rights held: World

6 July 2011

Hoi�Polloi

Cr aig Sherborne

The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic.

“The first time I see drunks beat up my father I’m six and stand-ing at the bend in the stairs. I press my face against my mother’s waist but with one eye I watch as they headlock him from behind at reception because he’s ordered them out of his pub.”

Hoi Polloi recounts a childhood spent on racetracks and in bars, as the author’s parents struggle to climb the social ladder. It begins in 1968 in the small town of Heritage, New Zealand. Liv-ing above the bar of his family’s hotel, the young Craig is exposed to violence, drinking and murky racial politics. His parents, whom Sherborne thinks of as “Winks” and “Heels” in his eccentric personal language, decide to sell the hotel and move to Sydney, Australia – which they imagine as New Zealand’s “England”, a place of boundless wealth, prestige and social opportunities.

Once in Sydney, the family begins a love affair with the racing scene. Written with sympathy and verve, Hoi Polloi is the portrait of an extraordinary childhood – brutal, poignant and unforget-table.

“A scalding memoir, funny, fast-moving, shot through with a fierce pathos.” —Helen Garner

“Craig Sherborne has written one of the great Australian memoirs … Hoi Polloi is a pure comic outrage of a book that will keep you wide-eyed with wonder way past dawn.” —Peter Cr aven

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7 July 2011

Muck

Cr aig Sherborne

The award-winning sequel to the acclaimed memoir Hoi Polloi.

“The dynasty has started with my father as the founding father and me his only son, the founding son. He looks forward to the day when he can watch his grandchildren out there in the clover-covered paddocks frolicking among the cowpats. Playing with a pony, getting stung by bees. The most wholesome activities in the world.”

With their only son on the brink of adolescence, the nouveaux-riches Sherbornes move away from the city to start a new, gentrified existence on a 300-acre farm – or “estate” – in Taonga, New Zealand. But life on the farm is anything but wholesome. Sherborne evokes his family’s slide into madness through a series of unforgettable, hilarious portraits: of “Feet”, his once-glamorous mother, now addled with snobbery, paranoia and mental illness; of “The Duke”, his uncomprehending, sporadically violent father; and of himself, the “Lord Muck” of the title, at once helpless victim and ruthless agent of their undoing, who in the end must decide whether he can save his family.

Clear-sighted, lyrical and marvellously funny, Muck is a heart-rending memoir of family discord and an exquisite story of a young artist in search of a self.

Cr aig Sherborne’s books include Hoi Polloi and Muck, Look at Everything Twice for Me, Bullion and Necessary Evil. His first novel, The Amateur Science of Love, was published in May 2011. Sherborne’s journal-ism and poetry have appeared in most of Australia’s leading literary journals and anthologies.

ISBN: 9781863955348eISBN: 9781921870286Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage extent: 208ppPrint RRP: AU$19.95Publication date: July 2011Rights held: ANZ

8 July 2011

Piano�Lessons

Anna Goldsworthy

In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and ambition, and confronts doubt and disappointment, she learns about much more than tone and technique. This is a story of the getting of wisdom, tender and bittersweet.

With wit and affection, Goldsworthy captures the hopes and uncertainties of youth, the fear and exhilaration of performing, and the complex bonds between teacher and student. An unfor-gettable cast of characters joins her: her family; her friends and rivals; and her teacher, Mrs Sivan, who inspires and challenges her in equal measure, and who transforms what seems an impos-sible dream into something real and sustaining.

Anna Goldsworthy ’s writing has appeared in the Monthly, the Age, the Adelaide Review and The Best Australian Essays. She has toured nationally and internationally as a pianist and is a mem-ber of the Seraphim Trio. Her first solo piano album, Come with Us, was released in 2008. Piano Lessons won the Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer of the Year and was shortlisted for the National Biography Award, the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and the Colin Roderick Award.

ISBN: 9781863955355eISBN: 9781921870293Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128Page Extent: 256ppPrint RRP: AU$22.95Publication date: July 2011Rights held: World ex North America, Korea

9 August 2011

How�I�Became�a�Famous�Novelist

Steve Hely

A razor-sharp evisceration of celebrity culture and literary fame, How I Became a Famous Novelist is a satirical novel masquerading as a tell-all memoir.

Sick of life as he knows it, Pete Tarslaw sets out to write a best-selling novel, armed with a formula for success cobbled together from previous bestsellers: he abandons truth, relies heavily on lyrical prose, creates a club with a mysterious mission, includes a murder and invokes “confusing sadness” at the end.

Once the sales rankings for his novel The Tornado Ashes Club start their meteoric rise – thanks to a Christian evangelist, a recovering teen starlet and Law and Order: Criminal Intent – Tarslaw’s inevitable decline looms, and his fall from grace will be nothing short of spectacular.

How I Became a Famous Novelist is the hilarious tale of how Pete Tarslaw’s “pile of garbage” became the most talked about, read, admired and reviled novel in America. It will change everything you think you know – about literature, appearance, truth, beauty, and those people out there who still care about books.

Steve Hely is a writer for television. His credits include The Late Show with David Letterman, American Dad, 30 Rock and The Office. He is also co-author of the comic travelogue The Ridiculous Race.

ISBN: 9781863955409eISBN: 9781921870255Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage extent: 320ppPrint RRP: AU$19.95Publication date: August 2011Rights held: ANZ

10 August 2011

Thought�Crimes

Tim Richards

In Thought Crimes, Tim Richards takes the reader on a mind-bending ride through a world where nothing is quite as it seems. The lives these stories describe are almost ordinary – but an ambush lurks around every corner.

A novice teacher accepts a job at an unconventional high school where students take ‘self-expression’ to odd and disturbing lengths.

In a trendy beachside suburb, suspiciously perfect babies start appearing on young couples’ doorsteps.

A visitor from the future shakes the life out of a small Australian town.

Blackly funny and irresistibly twisted, these stories peek behind the everyday appearance of things to explore unspoken fears and desires. Destined to become a cult classic, Thought Crimes is a one-way trip through the looking glass.

Tim Richards’ short stories have appeared in The Best Australian Stories, the Age, Meanjin, Heat and Overland. The author of Letters to Francesca, The Prince and Duckness, he has worked as a televi-sion comedy writer and script editor. He currently teaches creative writing at Box Hill TAFE and RMIT.

ISBN: 9781863955386eISBN: 9781921870309Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 210 x 135mmPage Extent: 288ppPrint RRP: AU$27.95Publication date: August 2011Rights held: ANZ

11 August 2011

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Australian�Encounters�

Shane Maloney & Chris Grosz

What happened when Bob Hawke locked horns with Frank Sinatra, when Errol Flynn interviewed Fidel Castro, and when Norman Gunston joined Frank Zappa on stage?

With abundant humour, Australian Encounters tells of 50 true encounters – ill-fated or fortuitous – between a renowned Australian and an inter national mover and shaker. Featuring politicians, socialites, film stars, artists, entrepreneurs and sporting legends, these portraits capture their subjects in a single, fleeting moment, when paths crossed and personalities collided.

Subjects include Margaret Fulton and Elizabeth David, Nicole Kidman and Tom Crusie, Donald Bradman and Boris Karloff, Martina Navratilova, Winston Churchill, Gandhi, Kylie Minogue, Henry Kissinger, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Menzies and many more.

Shane Maloney is one of Australia’s most popular novelists. Apart from his crime fiction, his writing has featured in the Age, Canberra Times and Eureka Street.

Chris Grosz is a book illustrator, painter and musician. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines such as the Age, the Bulletin and Time, and he has designed tour posters for Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Ry Cooder and Elvis Costello.

12 August 2011

Too�Much�LuckThe�Mining�Boom�and�Australia’s�Future

Paul Cleary

“We think we are the lucky country, but what we really have is dumb luck—a lot of luck without the planning or strategy to make sure our good fortune lasts.”—Paul Cleary

In Too Much Luck, Paul Cleary shows that the resources boom, which seems like a blessing, has the potential to become a curse – unless our governments take urgent action.

Today, under-taxed and under-regulated multinational compa-nies make a tidy profit by selling off our non-renewable resources. As the mining boom accelerates, it will drive the dollar sky-high, forcing up the cost of doing business for everybody. Industries such as tourism and education – industries that, unlike mining, involve many jobs – will fade away. But what happens if com-modity prices suddenly collapse, as they did with the GFC in 2008; or worse, when the resources run out?

Many countries before us have been caught by the resources trap: a heady period of boom and growth, followed by a painful bust. Paul Cleary maps out the pitfalls, considers what has worked overseas, and suggests a better way forward.

Paul Cleary is a senior writer with the Australian and a researcher at the Australian National University. In a career spanning twenty years he has reported on politics and economics, worked as a cor-respondent in Southeast Asia, and been an adviser to the government of East Timor.

ISBN: 9781863955379eISBN: 9781921870378Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage Extent: 160ppPrint RRP: AU$24.95Publication date: August 2011Rights held: World

13 September 2011

Quarterly�Essay�43:�Bad�NewsMurdoch’s�Australian�and�the�Shaping�of�the�Nation

Robert Manne

In the third Quarterly Essay for 2011, Robert Manne investigates the forces that shape public debate in Australia. When it comes to key issues for the nation, who sets the media agenda and how do they do it?

Since the 1980s, mainstream coverage of politics in Australia has become less and less diverse. Debate has narrowed and media power has been concentrated. At the same time, the press sees itself as a player – judge, jury and would-be executioner of leaders and policies. Is this a dangerous case of power without responsibility?

Manne asks: from refugees to carbon taxes, from going to war to rethinking multiculturalism, how well are we being served by the media? This brilliant and important essay is part analysis and part vivid case study of what happens when the media goes rogue. It is certain to spark debate, controversy and questioning.

Robert Manne is professor of poli-tics at La Trobe University and a regular commentator with the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC radio and tele-vision. His most recent books include Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency, Goodbye to All That?: On the Failure of Neo-liberalism and the Urgency of Change, Left, Right, Left: Political Essays 1977–2005, Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia (ed.) and W.E.H. Stanner: The Dreaming and Other Essays (ed.).

ISBN: 9781863955447eISBN: 9781921870385Imprint: Quarterly EssayFormat: PBDimensions: 234 x 167mmPage extent: 144ppPrint RRP: AU$19.95Publication date: September 2011Rights held: World

14 September 2011

Her�Father’s�Daughter

Alice Pung

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Unpolished Gem.

At twenty-something, Alice is hungry for the milestones of young womanhood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes away from home, she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her Chinese-Cambodian parents, who want more than anything to keep her from harm. Her father fears for her safety to an extraordinary degree – but why?

As she digs further into her father’s story, Alice embarks on a journey of painful discovery: of memories lost and found, of her own fears for the future, of history and how it echoes down the years. Set in Melbourne, China and Cambodia, Her Father’s Daughter captures a father–daughter relationship in a moving and astonishingly powerful way.

Alice Pung is a Melbourne writer and lawyer. Her bestselling memoir Unpolished Gem received the Australian Book Industry’s Newcomer of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Age Book of the Year, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the Booksell-ers’ Choice Awards. In 2008, Alice edited the collection Growing Up Asian in Australia. Alice’s work has appeared in the Monthly, Good Weekend, the Australian, the Age and Meanjin.

ISBN: 9781863955423eISBN: 9781921870361Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage extent: 256ppPrint RRP: AU$29.95Publication date: September 2011Rights held: World

15 September 2011

The�Well�at�the�World’s�End

A .J. Mackinnon

When A.J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the Well at the World’s End, a mysteri-ous pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth.

Determined not to fly (“It would feel like cheating”), he sets out with a rucksack, some fireworks and a map of the world and trusts chance to take care of the rest. By land and by sea, by train, truck, horse and yacht, he makes his way across the globe

– and through a series of hilarious adventures. He survives a bus crash in Australia, marries a princess in Laos, is attacked by Komodo dragons and does time in a Chinese jail. The next lift – or the next near-miss – is always just a happy accident away.

This is the astonishing true story of a remarkable voyage, an old-fashioned quest by a modern-day adventurer.

A.J. Mackinnon is the author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow. He was born in Australia in 1963 and he spent his childhood between England and Australia, traveling as a small boy with his family on the last P&O liners to sail between the two countries.

ISBN: 9781863955430eISBN: 9781921870392Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 210 x 135mmPage Extent: 320ppPrint RRP: AU$27.95Publication date: September 2011Rights held: World ex North America

16 October 2011

The�Happy�LifeThe�Search�for�Contentment�in�the�Modern�World

David Malouf

In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?

With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life – what it is, and what makes it possible – Malouf returns to the “highest wisdom” of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson’s way with words, happiness became a “right”, and examines joy in the flesh as depicted by Rubens and Rembr-andt. In a world become ever larger and impersonal, he finds happiness in an unlikely place. The Happy Life is writing to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia’s greatest novelists.

This edition includes responses to The Happy Life by leading commentators, including Robert Dessaix, Anne Manne, Elizabeth Farrelly and Tim Soutphommasane.

David Malouf is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Liter-ary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. In 2000 he was selected as the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate. His most recent novel is Ransom.

ISBN: 9781863955461eISBN: 9781921870408Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage Extent: 192ppPrint RRP: AU$19.95Publication date: October 2011Rights held: World ex Italy, UK/Commonwealth

17 October 2011

You�Are�What�You�SpeakGrammar�Grouches,�Language�Laws�and�the��Power�of�Words

Robert L ane Greene

Why does language move some of us to anxiety or even rage?

For centuries, sticklers have donned the cloak of authority to control how people use words. In this sensational new book, Robert Lane Greene strikes back to defend the fascinating, real-life diversity of this most basic human faculty. Along the way, he corrects Bill Bryson’s “facts” about words, challenges the rhetoric of Lynne Truss’s bestselling Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and explains why speech is a lot like jazz.

Travel with Greene on a rollicking world tour that shows the role language beliefs play in shaping our identities, for good and ill. From the Tower of Babel to Atatürk’s banning of Arabic script, he charts how language “experts” moved from myth-making to rule-making and from building cohesive communities to build-ing modern nations.

This enthralling book reveals that our arguments about language may relate to something else entirely, and illuminates the rewards of being flexible with our words. You Are What You Speak will certainly get people talking.

Robert Lane Greene is an interna-tional correspondent for the Economist, and a former columnist for the New Republic. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, on Slate, and in other publications. He speaks nine languages and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

ISBN: 9781863955416eISBN: 9781921870316Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage Extent: 336ppPrint RRP: AU$24.95Publication date: October 2011Rights held: ANZ

18 October 2011

The�Great�Crash�AheadStrategies�for�a�World�Turned�Upside�Down

Harry S. Dent Jr.

Practical advice for navigating the tough financial times ahead.

In his most recent bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent Jr. predicted the US debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of its government’s failed stimulus plan. In The Great Crash Ahead, Dent forecasts that this economic collapse will become worldwide over the next few years.

In addition to offering prescriptions for the current crisis, Dent scrutinises some of the most dearly held assumptions of eco-nomic theory and practice. With incisive critical analysis and historical examples, Dent reveals how such beliefs – the preva-lence of a rational market or of the rational consumer – led to the formation of the great bubble that burst so spectacularly in the crash of 2008. Now we face the reality that the US government’s attempts to bolster and rejuvenate the economy have not worked.

Dent’s investment advice offers no magical solutions or promises for profits in what he calls this wintry economic season; instead, he shows readers how they can survive during this challenging period so that they can thrive when the economy slowly returns to normal.

Harry S. Dent Jr. is a Harvard MBA, Fortune 500 consultant, new venture inves-tor and noted speaker, he is the author of The Roaring 2000s, The Great Boom Ahead, The Next Great Bubble Boom and The Great Depression Ahead.

ISBN: 9781863955454eISBN: 9781921870415Imprint: SchwartzFormat: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 256ppPrint RRP: AU$29.95Publication date: October 2011Rights held: ANZ

19 November 2011

The�Sweet�Spot�How�Australia�Made�Its�Own�Luck�–��And�Could�Now�Throw�It�All�Away

Peter Hartcher

Australia is an international success story, but can it stay on top?

For Australians, winning sporting gold is a national triumph that we shout from the rooftops. Yet winning real gold, the gold of financial security and high standards of living, is ignored by the mainstream press and wider public. Why don’t we celebrate our success in the most important endeavour of all?

In The Sweet Spot, Peter Hartcher shows how the Australian model is leading the way internationally. With an economy that has grown through the global financial crisis, an unemployment rate at half that of the US and Europe, a narrowing gap between rich and poor, a falling crime rate and an ethnically diverse population, Australia can rightly claim a place at the top of world rankings for living standards.

But Australia’s success, while deserved, remains fragile. If we don’t adapt to suit changing conditions, we risk returning to mediocrity – or worse. The Sweet Spot takes a provocative look at how Australia continues to ride the boom, and what might cause it to fall.

Peter Hartcher is the political editor and international editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. He has won both the Gold Walkley award for journalism and the Citibank award for business report-ing. His books include To the Bitter End: The Dramatic Story Behind the Fall of John Howard and the Rise of Kevin Rudd.

ISBN: 9781863954976eISBN: 9781921870422Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage extent: 288ppPrint RRP: AU$29.95Publication date: November 2011Rights held: World

20 November 2011

The�Best�Australian�Essays�2011

Edited by R amona Koval

In The Best Australian Essays 2011, Ramona Koval compiles a diverse and invigorating collection of the year’s best non-fiction. Describing world-altering events as well as moments of introspec-tion, and ranging from the provocative to the life affirming, these illuminating essays are certain to stimulate conversation for years to come.

Previous contributors include Helen Garner, J.M. Coetzee, Tim Flannery, Inga Clendinnen, Robyn Davidson, Clive James, Chloe Hooper, David Marr, David Malouf, Robert Manne, Noel Pearson and many more.

R amona Koval presents The Book Show on ABC Radio National. She has published several books, including a novel, Samovar. She has written for many news-papers and international journals and in 1995 won the Order of Australia Media Award. Her most recent book is Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers.

ISBN: 9781863955478eISBN: 9781921870439Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 210 x 135mmPage Extent: 320ppPrint RRP: AU$29.95Publication date: November 2011Rights held: ANZ

21 November 2011

The�Best�Australian�Stories�2011

Edited by C ate Kennedy

In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy selects the year’s most outstanding short fiction. Featuring much loved masters as well as exciting new voices, this book is a perfect introduction to Australia’s best contemporary fiction.

Previous contributors include Nam Le, Kate Grenville, David Malouf, Tim Winton, Mandy Sayer, DBC Pierre, Frank Moor-house, Karen Hitchcock, Peter Goldsworthy, Marion Halligan, Venero Armanno and many more.

Cate Kennedy is the author of the criti-cally acclaimed short-story collection Dark Roots and the novel The World Beneath, as well as poetry collections and a travel memoir. Her work has appeared in many publications and anthologies, including The Best Australian Stories, the Harvard Review and the New Yorker. She lives in north-east Victoria.

ISBN: 9781863955485eISBN: 9781921870446Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 210 x 135mmPage extent: 288ppPrint RRP: AU$29.95Publication date: November 2011Rights held: ANZ

22 November 2011

The�Best�Australian�Poems�2011

Edited by John Tr anter

In The Best Australian Poems 2011, renowned poet John Tranter selects the finest poems written by Australians over the past year. The vibrant and unforgettable voices of established poets blend seamlessly with the fresh voices of emerging poets in this sublime collection.

Previous contributors include Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, Sandy Fitts, Lisa Gorton, Clive James, Paul Kelly, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Peter Minter, Les Murray, Dorothy Porter, Peter Rose, Craig Sherborne, Alicia Sometimes, Chris Wallace-Crabb and many more.

John Tr anter is the author of more than twenty books. His 2006 poetry col-lection Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected won multiple awards, including the Victorian, NSW and South Australian Premiers’ Prizes. His latest book is Star-light: 150 Poems.

ISBN: 9781863955492eISBN: 9781921870453Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 210 x 135mmPage Extent: 240ppPrint RRP: AU$24.95Publication date: November 2011Rights held: ANZ

23 December 2011

Panic�

David Marr

Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.

Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you’ll uncover an extraordinary level of panic – about politics, art, sexuality, drugs, boat people, protest, religion and terror. Through it all, David Marr has stood tall to question the hubris, ignorance and deception that lie behind the frenzies whipped up by politicians, shock jocks, church leaders and others.

This essential collection of Marr’s reportage and analysis shows how hysteria can engulf a nation. Bill Henson’s photography of naked children ignites a war on culture, while the lonely outcrop of Christmas Island is the only way to assuage fears of invasion by asylum seekers. From the vigorous policing of civil protestors to public support for executing drug traffickers, and from Alan Jones’s backing of the Cronulla riots to Mohammed Haneef’s lengthy detention as a terror suspect, Marr cuts through the fear-mongering to show the real, often hidden agenda.

David Marr is the author of the best-selling Quarterly Essays Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd and His Master’s Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate under Howard. He is also the author of Patrick White: A Life and The High Price of Heaven, and wrote Dark Victory with Marian Wilkinson. He has written for the National Times and the Bulletin, and has been a reporter for Four Corners and pre-senter of ABC-TV’s Media Watch. He now writes for the Sydney Morning Herald.

ISBN: 9781863955515eISBN: 9781921870477Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage extent: 288ppPrint RRP: AU$29.95Publication date: December 2011Rights held: World

24 December 2011

Quarterly�Essay�44:�Man-Made�WorldChoosing�between�progress�and�planet

Andrew Charlton

In QE44, Andrew Charlton exposes the rift that will shape our future –progress versus planet; rich versus poor.

Who, then, will save us? Charlton shows there are two leading candidates: economists and environmentalists. Each says they know what is best for our grandchildren. Yet environmentalists see economists as merchants of greed with a blind faith in mar-kets. And economists see environmentalism as an indulgence for the middle class of richer nations; those who enjoy the lifestyle afforded by economic growth, but take its source for granted.

In Australia, this battle has plunged our politics into one of its most tumultuous periods, splitting the business community; driving a wedge between the left and right of the Liberal Party; separating Labor’s working-class from its progressive supporters; propelling the rise of the Greens and stirring up their counter-weight in rural protest.

Across the globe, economists and environmentalists vie over who has the right response to climate change, population or food security issues. In this groundbreaking essay Charlton argues that our descendants will only thank us if we find a way to pre-serve both the natural world and human progress.

Andrew Charlton was former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s senior economic adviser. He studied as a Rhodes Scholar, is the author of Ozonomics and co-author of Fair Trade for All (with Joseph Stiglitz).

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