uwa publishing ecatalogue jul-dec 2014

JULY TO DECEMBER

2014

UWA Publishing’s extensive range is mostly available as ebooks, and now

also includes a small selection of audio books.

Order online:www.uwap.com.au

Free postage within Australia

Keep up-to-date with the latest releases and news by signing up to

our enewsletter via our website.

JULY 2014

1

Full of arresting portrayals of patients and their families in crisis, this novel reveals how deeply these impact on the

personal lives of medical staff. Dramatic and moving, Riding

a Crocodile is a book of profound ethical implications.

john wiltshire, author of recreating jane austen

Riding a CrocodileA physician’s talePAUL KOMESAROFF

Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On

returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion. Nevski’s inner

turmoil grows and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him.

Riding a Crocodile is both an insider’s account of life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story, exploring life and death issues of urgent contemporary relevance.

FICTIONISBN 9781742586199374 PP, PAPERBACK

$26.99

JULY 2014

2

Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and two-time winner

of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, Geoffrey Lehmann

is one of Australia’s best-regarded poets.

This substantial volume, Poems 1957–2013, contains all of the poetry written by Geoffrey Lehmann considered by the poet to be worthy of inclusion. He has taken the prerogative

of the mature artist looking back to revise poems, sometimes substantially, and to restore lines and passages he had removed from earlier versions.

This is Geoffrey Lehmann’s second volume of collected poems, seventeen years after the first. In this book the span is dazzling; the poetry a major literary vessel from a highly

awarded writer.

Poems 1957–2013 GEOFFREY LEHMANN

POETRYISBN 9781742585604384 PP, PAPERBACK

$29.99ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK

AUGUST 2014

3

Why is it that Tim Winton, one of Australia’s most

popular and literary novelists, has received little sustained

critical attention?

In Tim Winton: Critical essays, the editors have brought together an international lineup of scholars — new voices and established — to consider the work of Australia’s most

celebrated and loved contemporary novelist.

From Shallows to Eyrie, this book extends beyond the singular novels, into thematics identified across Winton’s body of work, thinking through his place and reception in

Australian and world literature.

Tim Winton is both a popular and literary success, and this volume has been conceived for a critical audience of professionals and students, as well as for the readers who have made

him a household name.

Tim WintonCritical essays

EDITED BY LYN MCCREDDEN & NATHANAEL O’REILLY

LITERARY STUDIESISBN 9781742586069350 PP, PAPERBACK


AUGUST 2014

4

Places that bear the boom-and-bust economies and

the movements of people that form part of these

economies, invariably provide evidence of the consequences of

living remotely.

The final products of large-scale research projects spanning the continent, this collection of essays explores historical, geographical and cultural factors that contribute to our

understanding of places and settings of Australian transient communities.

From Gwalia and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, Charters Towers in Queensland, Broken Hill in New South Wales and Queenstown in Tasmania, the places provide opportunity to revisit

sites of history from the different angles of architecture, landscape theory, social history and visual arts. They also provide a springboard for thinking through the pressing issues of

contemporary Australians and their counterparts in other ‘post-settler’ societies.

Out of Place (Gwalia)Occasional essays on Australian regional communities and built environments in transition

EDITED BY PHILIP GOLDSWAIN, NICOLE SULLY & WILLIAM M. TAYLOR

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY / ARCHITECTUREISBN 9781742585543

324 PP, ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK$39.99

AUGUST 2014

5

Inspired by the aftermath of the Air India bombing, Padma Viswanathan ventures into territory people most often wander alone. How do you go on when tragedy strikes? Is there

any way to encompass terrifying loss so that the ‘ever after’ is not itself a dead zone?

Ashwin Rao is smart, funny, and perceptive, an Indian psychologist who is gifted at turning the fragments of his patients’ lives into stories that help them heal. In 2004, almost twenty years after the fatal bombing of an Air India flight from Vancouver, two suspects — finally — are on trial for the crime. And Ashwin decides to return to Canada, where he was trained, in order to interview the surviving families. A study of comparative grief, he calls it, pretending

to keep his professional distance.

The Ever After of Ashwin RaoPADMA VISWANATHAN



… a complex and moving novel that does what

contemporary media accounts of the tragedy did not: it brings home individual stories of loss

and makes clear the extent of the devastation … richly textured and powerful …

toronto star

SEPTEMBER 2014

6

Her style is vivid and immediate, her subjects,

while sometimes everyday, are always handled deftly, unpredictably and with a

sense of freshness and surprise. andrew wilkins,

books+publishing

South in the World is a dialogue between the earthly and the ethereal, reality and enchantment, body and spirit — those southern and northern poles by which we navigate the world. The poems speak to a world blighted by cataclysm and touched by redemption.

Jacobson’s recent verse novel The Sunlit Zone won the 2014 Adelaide Festival John Bray Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the 2013 Stella Prize,

the 2012 Wesley Michel Wright Prize and the 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

Poems in this volume have won or been shortlisted for major awards: the 2011 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, the 2013 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and the 2013 Fish

International Poetry Prize (U.K.).

South in the WorldLISA JACOBSON



SEPTEMBER 2014

7

Lesbia Harford (1891–1927) has occupied only a small place in Australian literary history – for decades, she was utterly forgotten – yet when she died, at thirty-six, she left

behind three notebooks containing some of the finest lyric poems ever written in Australia.

Harford’s writing looks both forwards and backwards, blending Pre-Raphaelite influences and plain-speaking with unusual subtlety. At the same time, Harford was bound inextricably to the period in which she lived: war in Europe, changing attitudes to religion, the suffrage

movement, and widespread social upheaval all helped make her one of the first truly modern, urban figures in Australian poetry.

Collected Poems Lesbia Harford EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY OLIVER DENNIS

FOREWORD BY LES MURRAY



I consider Ms Harford one of the two finest female poets so far seen in Australia … with her sprightly pen portraits of fellow workers, her pictorial genius with subjects such as pruning flowering eucalypts,

her piercing sorrow at the death of Australian soldiers at the War, her arguably superior

ability to reason in verse … les murray

OCTOBER 2014

8

Sandplains are an essential element of Western Australia’s geology and geomorphology, particularly in the southwest – one of only twenty-five biodiversity hotspots in the world. The kwongan plant life of the southwest is distinctive, unique and completely dependent on the

vast sandplains of this region.

This volume includes extensive discussion about the historic development of the sandplains, accompanied by soil analyses and geological surveys of the region. It is also a

comprehensive guide to the kwongan plant life associated with the sandplains.

Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest AustraliaA global biodiversity hotspot

EDITED BY HANS LAMBERS

NATURAL HISTORYISBN 9781742585642

340 PP, LARGE FORMAT ILLUSTRATED$69.99

The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to

the plants and soil of the southwestern region of Australia.

OCTOBER 2014

9

Marie D’Anger returns to the family home in southwest Australia after years of living in England, to a father whose destructive impulses have been curbed by a stroke, and a

mother whose passivity she never understood.

Behind her is Edy Baudin and the deep love they shared before he left, suddenly and without explanation. Further back still is her father and his fraught relationship with his

mother, brother and stepfather. But when Edy follows Marie to Australia, her father’s shocking revelation brings hidden things to the surface.

This is quintessential Rossiter: an intense, poetic, family drama and psychological tragedy.

Thicker Than WaterA novella

RICHARD ROSSITER



When Marie D’Anger saw that look in Edy

Baudin’s eye, she knew it was time to go home.

OCTOBER 2014

10

Delicious recipes and respectful stories told with wisdom and care by the inspiring Sophie Zalokar.

kylie kwong

Zalokar includes the back story for each food producer

before presenting original recipes that are absolutely

mouth-watering. stephanie alexander

You may not have heard much about the Southern Forests, but you’ve probably been eating fresh food grown in this region your whole life. Well-known Western Australian chef Sophie Zalokar (from the popular Foragers Field Kitchen & Cooking School in Pemberton) brings

together forty producers and gatherers from the land, freshwater and sea, and creates recipes that show her love of authentic and exciting regional food, alongside the stories of

the down-to-earth people who grow it.

This book is a must for anyone interested in eating fresh, local and sustainable produce, as well as an inspiration for the creative, forward-thinking cook.

Food of the Southern ForestsSOPHIE ZALOKAR

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CRAIG KINDER

FOOD AND COOKINGISBN 9781742585512400 PP, HARDBACK

$59.99

OCTOBER 2014

11

Dear world,I’ve sold my house

my ten year sanctuary and refuge.My garden

wrestled from weeds and clay is in new hands.

I’ve bought a campervan because it seems

I can’t afford a flat, after all (Melbourne property prices: boom!).

I am a whisper of butterflies

but here I come (please make room).

With love, xxbeth ps I plan to leave no trace.

Vagabondage is a book of poems tracking a year in the life of a single woman — and a writer to boot — who sells her house when she turns 50 to live in a campervan.

It’s poignant and funny, circling around the idea of home, and belonging (or not), and picking up the storage of traces of connection and memory.

Beth Spencer places us in that in-between time of youth and old age, straddling the fine line between loneliness and solitude, regret and joy.

VagabondageBETH SPENCER


$24.99

NOVEMBER 2014

12

Ever since ‘the incident’ two years ago, Isabelle has been stuck in a dead-end job, trying desperately to keep it together and ward off The Black Place.

Her best friend Evan is her safe haven. They laugh at each other’s jokes, share the same interests and take the piss out of each other with the ruthless efficiency of long

acquaintance. Sex isn’t an issue because Evan has made a bargain with God to keep it in his pants and Isabelle is still recovering from being deserted by her fiancé Karl. Then just as

Evan reconsiders his vow, Isabelle contrives a bizarre passion for her boss, Jack.

Everything implodes one suffocating hot Australia Day. Escaping the resulting chaos, Isabelle flees to Prague where she must finally confront her fears.

Isabelle of the Moon and StarsS. A. JONES


$27.99

A provocative and funny novel about the dark places, both personal and historical,

from one of Australia’s brightest new voices.

NOVEMBER 2014

13

Politician.

Governor-General.

Historian.

Poet.

Sir Paul Hasluck was for almost two and a half decades one of Australia’s most prominent politicians. Born in Fremantle and educated at Perth Modern School and The University of Western Australia, Hasluck worked for The West Australian before moving into politics in

1949. Having spent two decades in politics, Hasluck was appointed as the 17th Governor General of Australia in 1969.

This biography includes Hasluck’s experience working for the Department of External Affairs during the Second World War. It covers his career as a writer, poet, historian, and politician,

providing a complete, and enthralling, portrait of one of Australia’s great men.

Paul Hasluck A life

GEOFFREY BOLTON

BIOGRAPHYISBN 9781742586588

492 PP, PAPERBACK, $49.99+ LIMITED EDITION HARDBACK $69.99

DECEMBER 2014

14

What is keeping people strong in their locales ‘off the main

roads’, and how much of that persistence is cultural?

In 2008 the Cultural Asset Mapping for Regional Australia project was born with the very simple question: ‘how can we best map regional culture in contemporary Australia so

that we can assess that culture’s value?’ In the five years that followed, what transpired was an unpredictable journey into unlikely places and too-often neglected communities

across regional Australia, from western Sydney to the central desert, from east coast surfboard-shapers to Torres Strait hip-hop musicians. Their experiences, stories and insights

confronted existing assumptions, and challenged many of the cherished precepts of cultural policy and creative industries research.

By-roads and Hidden TreasuresMapping cultural assets in regional Australia

EDITED BY PAUL ASHTON, CHRIS GIBSON & ROSS GIBSON

CULTURAL STUDIESISBN 9781742586243320 PP, PAPERBACK

$39.99

DECEMBER 2014

15

It is impossible to travel around Perth and Fremantle

without noticing the significant mark

Talbot Hobbs made on the built environment.

Architect and soldier Sir J.J. Talbot Hobbs was born in London in 1864. After migrating from England to Western Australia in the late 1880s, Hobbs designed many buildings in Perth, Fremantle, and regional areas of the State. Now somewhat forgotten, in his time Hobbs

achieved national recognition and patriarchal status for his achievements as a First World War Army General. This factor overshadowed his extraordinarily productive career as an architect.

Military service was intrinsic to his character, and thus is woven with his architecture and family life into this biography. Although Talbot Hobbs has previously been recognised as a significant and influential contributor to architecture in Australia, his development as an architect has not

been documented, nor has his design output undergone critical analysis.

Between Duty and DesignThe architect soldier Sir J.J. Talbot Hobbs

JOHN J. TAYLOR

BIOGRAPHYISBN 9781742586205

400 PP, LARGE FORMAT PAPERBACK$59.99

DECEMBER 2014

16

A critical investigation of contemporary masculine team

sports and football scandals.

Drawing on an array of Australian Rules football off-field scandal reports over the past decade, this book critically examines cases of sexual assault, illicit drug use and binge drinking, homophobia, violence and other controversial behaviours that have become norms in the reporting of sports players’ off-field lives. Using a range of media, critical

and theoretical approaches, Cover demonstrates that contemporary cultural factors are significant in the production of contemporary footballer identity, performativity and off-field behaviour: media routines and sports reporting, the professionalisation of sport, footballer celebrity status, the changing forms and place of footballer masculinity, and the ways in

which team-based identities are constructed, performed and reported on in group contexts.

Vulnerability and ExposureFootballer scandals, masculine identity and ethics

ROB COVER

SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPHISBN 9781742586496320 PP, PAPERBACK

$39.99

AUDIO BOOKS

17

All audio books are produced by not-for-profit organisation the Association for the Blind

of WA, and come in either CD or Mp3 format presented in a hardcase. Order online at:

uwap.uwa.edu.au

ArrhythmiaFICTION

ISBN 9781922014399$39.99

Between the LeavesNON-FICTION

ISBN 9781922193186$39.99

9-11POLITICS / SOCIAL SCIENCE

ISBN 9781922014986$39.99

18

AUDIO BOOKS

Murdering StepmothersFICTION

ISBN 9781922014641$39.99

The End of LongingFICTION

ISBN 9781922193278$39.99

The ChildrenFICTION

ISBN 9781922193353$39.99

Land of Vision and MirageAUSTRALIAN HISTORYISBN 9781922193025

$39.99

GENERAL ENQUIRIES, PUBLICITY AND RIGHTSUWA PUBLISHING

T 08 6488 3670F 08 6488 1027

[email protected]

TRADE ORDERS, AUSTRALIANEWSOUTH BOOKS

C/O T L DISTRIBUTION PTY LIMITEDT 02 8778 9999F 02 8778 9944

[email protected]

TRADE ORDERS, NORTH AMERICAINTERNATIONAL SPECIALIZED BOOK SERVICES (ISBS)

T +1 503 287 30931800 944 6190 (WITHIN USA)

F +1 503 280 [email protected]

UWAP is an imprint of UWA Publishinga division of The University of Western Australia

uwa publishing ecatalogue jul-dec 2014

Documents

work of australias

geoffrey lehmannpoetryisbn

geoffrey lehmanns

major teaching hospital

major literary vessel

literary novelists

australias best

literary success