Media Bites August 2020

The Smallest Lights in the Universe SAR A S E AGE R In The Smallest Lights in the Universe , MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love. In this probing, invigoratingly honest memoir, Seager tells the story of how, as she stumblingly navigated the world of grief, she also kept looking for other worlds. Equally attuned to the wonders of deep space and human connection, The Smallest Lights in the Universe is its own light in the dark. How to Sell a Massacre PE T E R CHAR L E Y One Nation, the NRA and $20 million – inside journalism’s most audacious sting. By the mastermind who infiltrated the NRA and One Nation and based on the award-winning documentary seen on ABC TV. Set during the period of Donald Trump’s rise to power and the US’s worst mass shootings, including Las Vegas and Orlando, award-winning journalist Peter Charley’s, How to Sell a Massacre reads like a pacey spy thriller with a deadly truth at its heart: that an Australian political party would seek foreign money in a bid to seize power and destroy the gun laws that keep Australians safe. Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 320pp AU $34.99 NZ $36.99 Imprint: ABC Books

The World Aflame DAN JON E S & MAR I NA AMAR A L

The epic, harrowing and world- changing story – in words and colourised images – of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the dropping of the first atom bomb. The World Aflame will embrace not only the total conflagrations of 1914–18 and 1939–45 and the international tensions, conflicting ideologies and malign economic forces that set them in train, but also the civil wars of the interwar period in Ireland and Spain; wars in Latin America; Britain’s imperial travails in such places as Ireland, Somalia and Palestine; and events on the domestic ‘fronts’ of the belligerent nations.

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Released: 05/08/20 NSH | 448pp AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 Imprint: Head of Zeus

Released: 18/08/20 TPB | 272pp AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Imprint: 4th Estate

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