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Top 5 Trade Bestsellers

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Winter Wild - A Feast of Dark Delights

Janice Sutton

Set your taste-buds on fire as you embark on a thrilling gastronomic rollercoaster ride that takes you from the pulsating dark heart of Dark Mofo's spectacular Winter Feast, to the midnight banquets, seductive supper clubs and dark dinners unearthed in the ‘Dark Fringe’, created in honour of Tasmania's iconic festival of darkness. Learn how to master the flames with Mona's Heavy Metal Kitchen and appease your inner glutton with a smorgasbord of sublime fire cooked dishes, before descending into Dante's Inferno to resurrect your corpses with a cornucopia of cocktails created by some of Tasmania's most celebrated distilleries and bars.

Brimming full of stunning dark and moody images, this spectacular 596-page ode to the Southern Hemisphere, Winter and Winter Solstice, contains more than 180 delicious recipes, most of which have been especially recreated for this cookbook, including from Mona's Heavy Metal Kitchen, inspired chef collaborations from the Dark Mofo Winter Feast and other feasts of darkness. Sinners can also find tips on how to make the perfect cocktail, what to forage for, and when and what to grow for their Winter Table, as well as some suggestions of how to use their Winter produce.

Winter Wild also celebrates some of the world's most ancient Winter Solstice sites, ceremonies and rituals, as well as exploring what different cultures eat at this auspicious time. Divinely, Winter Wild also contains two deliciously dark tales shared by professional storyteller Martin Maudsley from Dorset, who at the Huon Valley + Willie Smith's Mid-Winter Fest in Tasmania, held the enraptured audiences in the palm of his hands. Are you ready? Snuggle up by a roaring fire and pour yourself a hot whisky toddy - Winter has never been cooler!

Format: Hardback     Pages: 596     ISBN: 9780645085709     Price: £45.00     Publisher: Magpie Publishing


Leanne Benjamin - Built For Ballet

Leanne Benjamin, Sarah Crompton

This autobiography by Leanne Benjamin with Sarah Crompton reveals the extraordinary life and career of one of the world’s most important ballet dancers of the past fifty years. The book takes you behind the scenes to find a real understanding of the pleasure and the pain, the demands and the intense commitment it requires to become a ballet dancer.

It is a book for ballet-lovers which will explain from Benjamin's personal point of view, how ballet has changed and is changing. It is a book of history: she was first taught by the people who created ballet in its modern form and now she works with the dancers of today, handing on all she has known and learnt. But it is also a book for people who are just interested in the psychology of achievement, how you go from being a child in small-town Rockhampton in the centre of Australia to being a power on the world’s biggest stages -- and how an individual copes with the ups and downs of that kind of career. It is a story full of big names and big personalities -- Margot Fonteyn, Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta to name a few. President Clinton, Michelle Obama, Diana Princess of Wales and David Beckham all make an appearance.

But it is also a book of small moments of insight: what makes a performance special, how you recover from injury, illness and childbirth; how you combine athletic and artistic prowess with motherhood, how a different partner can alter everything, what it is like to fall over in front of thousands of people and what it is like to triumph. Above all, it seeks to explain, in warm and human terms, why women get the reputation for being difficult in a world where being a good girl is too much prized. And what they can do about it.

Format: Hardback     Pages: 400      ISBN: 9781925556575     Price: £35.00     Publisher: Melbourne Books


The Commentators - 100 Years of Sports Commentary

Michael Schiavello

Award winning commentator Michael Schiavello examines the greatest sports commentators in history, the best calls ever heard, and offers stories from his own journey through the sports broadcasting world as 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of sports commentary. The Commentators reviews of more than 60 of the best moments in sports history and examines some of the finest plays and commentary calls across 20 different sports including soccer, American football, golf, boxing, Formula One, horse racing, ice hockey, athletics, tennis, baseball, cricket, professional wrestling, darts, rugby, cycling and more. And the biggest sports events including Olympics (summer and winter), FIFA World Cup, Super Bowl, World Series, Rugby World Cup. A powerful story unfolding during a sports event can inspire us about a sport we've never watched, an athlete we haven't heard of, or a country we've never visited or even located on a map. Stories engross an audience and engage them on an emotional level. Once a commentator captures an audience's emotions, they're putty in their hands. The power of sports lies within those individuals and the ability of the commentator to tell those stories.

Format: Paperback     Pages: 336     ISBN: 9781925927580     Price: £23.99     Publisher: Wilkinson Publishing


The Art of Mixology

Cottage Door Press

Cocktails have an unwavering, timeless style, so become a purveyor of fine drinking with this collection of classic and contemporary recipes. This book offers a stunning anthology of cocktail recipes to make at home. You will find an informative introduction packed with all the essential knowledge any experienced or novice mixologist could ever need and over 200 recipes to suit every occasion. The drinks are grouped within sections on Gin & Vodka; Rum, Whiskies, and Brandy; Bubbles; Something Different; and Mocktails, and the drinks range from a Singapore Sling, a Buck's Fizz, and a Cosmopolitan to a Highland Fling, a Brandy Julep, and a Baby Bellini; Classic and Contemporary Recipes for the novice or experienced mixologist; Stylish Guide: Whether it’s creating a cocktail hour martini or fixing a Brandy Alexander nightcap, this is the stylish guide to exclusive drinking; Over 200 Recipes & Photos: Recipes for every mood and a photo for each drink will keep mixology enthusiasts excited to try new recipes; Makes a Great Gift: Birthdays, holidays, and more, the Art of Mixology makes a great gift for any occasion.

Format: Hardback     Pages: 192     ISBN: 9781646382118     Price: £9.99     Publisher: Cottage Door Press


Mastering The Art of Team Coaching - A comprehensive guide to unleashing the power, purpose and potential in any team

Georgina Woudstra

Are you ready for your coaching to make a bigger impact? Do you want to enable teams to make a real difference to the world? The challenges faced by organisations everywhere can be solved through better collective leadership, collaboration and systemic thinking. And, as a coach, you're already aware of the huge role that coaching can play in accessing the intelligence and co-ordinated power that teams could be leveraging.

Team coaching transforms teams and wider organisational systems by increasing collective awareness, meaning-making and responsibility, enabling people to work together through and beyond seemingly intractable challenges In this practical and empowering guide, Master Coach Georgina Woudstra navigates you through the often complex and challenging reality of team coaching. Equipping you with a roadmap - a set of metaskills and competencies - she'll demonstrate how you can transform teams to realise greater success and develop your:

  • Confidence - overcome your fears to coach teams in even the most challenging situations
  • Competence - learn to apply the coaching skills and to intervene effectively
  • Coherence - integrate concepts and tools into a whole, meaningful approach
  • Congruence - develop a style that is true to who you are as a team coach

Learn to trust in people's untapped wisdom, the process and - most of all - yourself. And with Georgina's expertise and guidance to support you, become an impactful team coach with a distinctive personal style that solves problems, creates change and gets sustainable results.

Format: Paperback     Pages: 272     ISBN: 9781838467609     Price: £24.99     Publisher: Team Coaching Studios Press