Join us on a journey through space and time . . . This autumn Canongate invites you to join Howard Moon, Vince Noir, Naboo, Bollo, Bob Fossil, Old Gregg, the Moon and all your other favourite characters on a unique journey in to the world of The Mighty Boosh.

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Incredibly funny, visually dynamic, surreal, musical, wildly creative . . . ‘The Mighty Boosh’ is unlike anything else on television, and this beautifully illustrated Christmas humour book promises to be the same.

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• Watch an interview with Julian Barratt & Noel Fielding

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Following the multi-award winning title MoVida, chef and restaurateur Frank Camorra returns to his native Spain in this companion book. In MoVida Rustica, Frank delivers many traditional as well as innovative recipes that are inspired by his travels but perfected for the home cook. From the nation’s bustling capital Madrid and Basque seaside towns to rustic Andalucia with its Sherry Triangle, MoVida Rustica highlights the pillars of Spanish cooking, and the culture in which the food is grown, prepared and eaten.

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Get to know matriarch Herminda, stroll across the Santiago Market and visit the kitchen gardens of Salamanca to understand what defines traditional Spanish food.

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• Movida Official Site
• Watch Frank Camorra on Food Safari

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The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor  his wife, Harriet McDougal to complete the final book.

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The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so The Gathering Storm is the first of three novels that will cover the outline left by Robert Jordan, chronicling Tarmon Gai’don and Rand al’Thor’s final confrontation with the Dark One. This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

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• Brandon Sanderson’s Website

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One call will change her life, and will start a war. She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend is Eddie who teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after her gangster brother, wanted for multiple murders back home in Naples. For the Borelli clan are major players in the Camorra, a crime network more ruthless even than the Sicilian Mafia. Mario Castrolami is a senior Carabinieri investigator of the Camorra, and has dedicated his career to destroying the corruption and violence of the clans.

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When Immacolata phones from London and tells him she is prepared to collaborate with justice – to betray her own family – he understands she is setting in motion a terrifying and unpredictable series of events. The Borellis will not lose their criminal empire without a vicious fight. They will use any tactic and any person in a brutal struggle to keep control of their territory in the city, and to prevent her from giving evidence against them. Even Eddie, and Eddie’s life.

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• Independent Review
• Guardian Review

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Wally Lewis will forever be known to rugby league fans as ‘The King’. He could do what appeared to be impossible on the field and yet unbeknown to those around him including his family and closest friends he managed to perform at the most elite level while hiding a secret.

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When he finally revealed to a stunned public that he’d been living with epilepsy for years he did so just prior to undergoing life-saving brain surgery for the neurological disorder. Wally talks of the difficulty he had in facing major surgery and the emotional and physical impact of his deteriorating condition including a dramatic virtual ‘blackout’ on air in 2006. Interestingly Wally dealt with his only daughter’s deafness publicly all the while keeping his own crisis so profoundly private.

Following a successful procedure Wally has gone on to work with epilepsy organisations to raise awareness about the disorder helping de-stigmatise the condition and inspiring others to live positively with epilepsy.

In 2008 he was included in the Australian and Queensland teams of the century during the Centenary Year of the League.

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Why did Jay McInerney once blow up a lavatory? Why does Peter Handke still mourn the passing of Slobodan Milosevic? Why does Michel Houellebecq miss being in a psychiatric hospital? Why doesn’t Wole Soyinka want to visit Australia? And what made Elfriede Jelinek afraid of receiving her Nobel Prize?

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From Ben Naparstek, the editor of The Monthly, comes a collection of interviews with 39 of the world’s best writers. In the course of these remarkable encounters, he finds out why amongst other things Tony Judt refuses to debate Christopher Hitchens, why Umberto Eco snubbed Stanley Kubrick, why John Malkovich threatened to shoot Robert Fisk, and why James Wood wants to hide behind a pseudonym.

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As well as of working with Amazon’s Kindle e-book format, the Kindle for PC application can also display e-books in the MOBI (.mobi) file format.

Whilst reading books on a PC screen is very different and it not going to be nearly as comfy lugging a laptop around to the e-ink screen of the Australian Kindle if you are considering buying the new Aussie Kindle then this may be a risk free first step.

You can download Kindle for PC now!

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MONICA TRAPAGA knew exactly what to do when her daughter Lil announced she was leaving home: present her with a collection of tried-and-tested family recipes and stories. Drawing on her Spanish heritage, crazy family history and vast well of creativity, Monica gives us a recipe book replete with love and humour, along with ninety seriously good recipes, from the classics (roast beef, bolognese and brownies) to the exotic (paella, san choi bao and gazpacho).

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Beautifully illustrated with drawings from artist MEREDITH GASTON and Monica’s own collages, this precious manual of culinary inspiration and sound practical advice is a must-have for any girl about to embark on her own life journey.

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• Monica Trapaga’s Website
• Listen to an ABC interview with Monica Trapaga

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No matter how packed the Australian cricket team’s schedule — in 2008-09 it featured tours to India and South Africa as part of an almost constant stream of Tests, Twenty20 and one-day internationals – one series always stands out …

The Ashes!

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In 2005, Ricky Ponting’s side lost to England for the first time in almost 20 years, after one of the most famous battles in cricket history. The Ashes were regained in Australia 18 months later, but true redemption would not be achieved until the Poms were beaten on their own turf. In 2009, Ponting returned to the UK without many of his former champions – no Warne, no McGrath, no Gilchrist – but with a new army of young guns bent on setting the record straight. ASHES DIARY 2009 provides the inside account of this memorable confrontation, the climax of another tough, exciting and dramatic year in the life of one of Australia’s most popular and successful cricketers.

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Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to halt climate change for many years. In his best-selling book, An Inconvenient Truth, he wrote about the urgent need to address the problems of climate change, presenting comprehensive facts and information on all aspects of global warming in a direct, thoughtful and compelling way, using explanatory diagrams and dramatic photos to clarify and highlight key issues.

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Adopting the same lucid technique in Our Choice, he proposes solutions at every level of our lives, from the personal and local to the national and political to the area of international policy and law.

During the three and a half years since the release of An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore has organized and moderated over 30 lengthy and intensive “Solutions Summits,” where the world’s leading experts (from fields as diverse as neuroscience, agriculture, economics, information technology, and more) have come to discuss and share their knowledge with the goal of finding the most effective courses of action. Our Choice is result of the groundbreaking insights offered by these participants, whose expertise has made it possible to construct a fresh and unique approach not seen before.

Gore underscores the fact that we have at our fingertips the tools we need to implement change—all we need is the collective will. Better still, the collateral benefits of seeking these solutions can also help overcome extreme poverty, widespread hunger, and other problems that have been allowed to fester for centuries. The security crisis, economic crisis and climate crisis seem unsolvable in isolation—but a closer look reveals a common thread running thru them: our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels. It is at the core of all these and many other challenges.

But there is hope. Renewable sources of energy—if developed—could completely replace CO2-rich fossil fuels. In Our Choice, Gore explains how solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and nuclear energies work and lays out the pros, cons, and latest technological developments of each source along with a state of the art analysis of carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

Gore looks at how deforestation, soil erosion and degradation, and population issues are contributing to the climate crisis and discusses the strategies being undertaken to counter their effects. He makes sense of the arguments on both sides of the carbon sequestration discussion and outlines the latest and most effective efficiency measure that both big business and everyday people can begin to implement. Among the most unique approaches Gore takes in the book, is showing readers how our own minds can be an impediment to change. After meeting with psychologists and neuroscientists, he reveals the brain system that can guide us in making the crucial decisions necessary to safeguard our civilization and the new approaches we need to employ in order to change human behavior.

But at the core of many of the solutions discussed in Our Choice, is the value and price we put on CO2. Gore maintains that in a market economy like ours, every one of the solutions to climate crisis will be more effective and much easier to implement if we place a price on CO2 and other global warming pollutants. We’ve got to tell ourselves the truth about the economic impact of pollution, and we have to measure it. Gore likens the sub-prime mortgage crisis, to the one we will face if we continue making investments in “sub-prime carbon assets.” The bottom line is that business and markets cannot operate in isolation from society and the environment—we need, what Gore refers to as, “sustainable capitalism.”

It’s not news that among the most debilitating obstacles to overcoming the climate crisis (in this country) is our political culture. Gore looks at how political obstacles have stood in the way of progress and turned global warming into a partisan issue. These include the use of lavishly financed misinformation campaigns aimed at misleading the public about the true nature and severity of the climate crisis—a technique pioneered by the tobacco companies; as well as the proliferation of media outlets who suggest a false symmetry between scientific understanding and political opinion.

But despite these and many other challenges, the opportunities are everywhere—especially in the form of increasingly powerful technological tools. They will allow us to move forward with the unprecedented scale and speed with which we will need in order to avert the worst impacts and set the stage for successful recovery. Ultimately, all that is required is a commitment on the part of humanity to get things done. With Our Choice, Al Gore has created a powerful and inspiring call to action that will ensure that will in all of us.

Links and Further Reading

• Ourchoice.com
• Watch a interview with Al Gore discussing Climate Change

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