Brian Johnston
Boxing with Shadows: Travels in China

Boxing with Shadows is Brian Johnston's account of the two-and-a-half years he spent living and travelling in China. Humorous encounters are interwoven with more serious observations on political campaigns and ethnic minorities, and balanced with personal reflections and lyrical descriptions ofthe landscape. Boxing with Shadows is a rich, delightful and rewarding book.

Anouk Ride
The Grand Experiment

In 1848, the Spanish missionary Rosendo Salvado, founder of New Norcia Monastery in Western Australia, had an idea. He would prove that Aboriginal people could be educated and 'civilised', by taking two Nyungar boys to be schooled in Europe. The Grand Experiment is a remarkable - and timely - book. It is a colourful detective story of research ... and very much a beginning of the 'stolen generations' story.

'The unpublished novelist arrived in Paris in April 1995 fully aware that ifhe was going to be one of the giants of 20th-century literature he didn't have much time .. .'. More than a fast-paced and often hilarious look at the writing process and the shadows cast by literary greats, F Scott, Ernest and Me is an inspiring story of how big dreams and sheer tenacity can overcome everything. Well, almost everything.