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September new releases

This September, we are publishing five new books that offer new insight into foreign histories and helpful guides to effective writing, healthy relationships, and mental illness. 

Polywise uses a grounded theory approach to explore the underlying challenges that non-monogamous individuals and partners can experience after their first steps.⁠ Writing for Busy Readers is a handbook to make you a more effective communicator, designed for the 21st century’s radically transformed attention marketplace. Sisters in Arms is a lyrical, explosive novel about the importance of friendship, set after one dramatic night that changes everything for its three protagonists.⁠ New from the author of The Picture Bride, Can’t I Go Instead follows two women whose lives and identities become intertwined, revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century. Written by two eminent mental health professionals, Troubled Minds is an authoritative resource for understanding the nature of mental illnesses and for pointing the way to treatment.⁠

Find out more about our September books below. For a chance to win a copy of one, head to our Facebook or Instagram where you can let us know what interests you and why.

Polywise

As polyamory continues to make its way into the mainstream, more and more people are exploring consensual non-monogamy in the hope of experiencing more love, connection, sex, freedom, and support.

While for many, the move expands personal horizons, for others, the transition can be challenging, leaving them blindsided and overwhelmed. Beyond the initial transition to non-monogamy, many struggle with the root issues beneath the symptoms of broken agreements, communication challenges, increased fighting, and persistent jealousy.

Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern and restorative justice facilitator…

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Writing for Busy Readers

We were all taught the fundamentals of writing well in school. But how do we write effectively in today’s hyper-interactive world?

When The Elements of Style and On Writing Well were published in 1959 and 1976, the internet hadn’t been invented. Since then, there has been a radical transformation in how we communicate. The average adult receives over 100 emails and tens of text messages each day. With all this correspondence, gaining a busy reader’s attention is now a competition.

Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink, both behavioural scientists, offer practical writing advice you can use today. They…

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Sisters in Arms

‘We don’t exist in this world. Here we’re neither Germans nor refugees; we aren’t newsreaders or experts. We’re some kind of joker in the pack, and they don’t know if they can use us for anything.’

Kasih, Hani, and Saya have shared a deep friendship since school and the years they lived in the same public housing estate. Kasih and Hani still live in the same city, but now Saya is returning and they have a lot to catch up on. Yet amid the laughter and determination of their sisterhood, it’s clear to the three young women that they haven’t escaped the racism that has accompanied their…

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Can’t I Go Instead

Two women's lives and identities are intertwined — through World War II and the Korean War — revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century.

Can't I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th century. When the daughter’s suitor is arrested as a Korean Independence activist, and she is implicated during the investigation, she is quickly forced into marriage to one of her father’s Japanese employees and shipped off to the United States. At the same time, her maidservant is sent in her mistress's place…

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Troubled Minds

An authoritative resource for understanding the nature of mental illnesses and for pointing the way to treatment, written by two eminent mental health professionals with almost a century of academic achievement and clinical experience between them.

Many of us take our mental health for granted. But we can feel overwhelmed when confronted by mental illness in ourselves, a family member, or a friend. Troubled Minds is an invaluable guide for anyone whose life has been touched by mental ill-health and who wants to understand and deal effectively with it.

It serves as an ideal introduction to common mental…

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Polywise

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