It’s time for our annual Cookbook Month again, which means we’re giving all you food aficionados 20% OFF* our glorious range of cookbooks during October.

And we’ve also got a month of events with special guest cookbook authors from Josh Niland, Kat Sabbath, Jane Lopes, as well as Nino Zocaali, Clare Scrine, Charlotte Ree, and Audra Morrice. Phew! All events are FREE, RSVPs essential.

PLUS! Win 1 of 5 cookbook prize packs (valued at over $500). Simply purchase any cookbook in-store during October and fill in an entry form. See our staff for more details.

Visit us in store or shop online for 20% OFF* your next Lonely Planet book or merchandise.

And when you make a Lonely Planet purchase in store, you can also go into the draw to WIN a $5000 travel voucher! Visit the competition page for full details.

* Not in conjunction with any other offer. Discount applies to all Lonely Planet books and merchandise in store and online from 12 August – 15 September 2019.

Make sure you visit us this June during our annual Makers Month… there’s going to be a lot happening in store, and we’re discounting ALL Craft & Gardening books by 20% for the month!

Ever attempt to break a Guinness World Record? We’re going to be trying our darnedest…

Join us in our attempt to break the Guinness Record for the world’s largest display of origami dinosaurs! The record attempt will be running in our gallery space from 1st – 30th of June. Be sure to pop in during the month to fold a dino or two, leave your name on our contributor list, and go down in history as being part of a record-breaking attempt! Plus, if we succeed, we and our partners Tuttle Publishing and New South Books will be donating $1000 to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation!

It wouldn’t be Makers Month without a bunch of awesome workshops to get you creatives crafting and making!

Flowersmith Jennifer Tran is BACK this year with more of her ever-popular paper flower workshops, and she’ll be running two Paper Rose workshops on Sunday 16th June, at 11.30am and 3.00pm. Doodle artist and author of Cute Kawaii Doodles and The Art of Doodle Words, Sarah Alberto will be teaching us how to create the cutest kawaii doodles at her Kawaii Doodle Workshop on Sunday 23rd June. You’ll also see Sarah’s doodle creations around our store throughout the month… her kawaii dinosaurs and other doodles are key features of our Makers Month! And for all those crafty kids, we have a Kawaii Koala Speed-Building competition happening on Saturday 29th June! Sign your kids up for this nanoblock® speed-building challenge to WIN awesome prizes.

FREE* Kawaii Cute Eraser!

Purchase craft and/or gardening titles to the value of RRP $30.00 or more in-store and receive this FREE Miyagi the Apatosaurus eraser custom-designed by Sarah Alberto. Perfect for the cutest corrections on your doodles & drawings! (Strictly while stocks last. One eraser per transaction only, redeemable with craft or gardening purchases over RRP$30 from 1 – 30 June 2019 only.)

Wednesday Crafternoon Giveaways!

Keep an eye on our Instagram @kinokuniya_sydney every Wednesday afternoon for your chance to WIN craft & gardening book loot from some of our favourite publishers.

Come on in to Kinokuniya Sydney this June and get ready to grow your craft with us during Makers Month!

* Not in conjunction with any other offer. Sale includes Kids, Chinese and Japanese titles in store and online from 1 – 30 June 2019.

20% off* selected titles in April!

Am I There Yet? The Loop-De-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood
by Mari Andrew

Mari Andrew started doodling when she worked at a bakery–she took some license with the display case labels. When customers noticed and began telling her the drawings brightened their days, Mari realized she could use that hobby to connect with people. She hit a professional rough patch in her late 20s and began to chronicle her work on Instagram. Nearly overnight, she became a sensation. Now when Mari Andrew posts something new, the Internet rejoices.

This book is organized by universal themes of becoming an adult–for example, loss, adventure, ambition. Within each chapter, Mari shares her personal experiences in never-before-seen essays, accompanied by spreads of her signature illustrations, 90 percent of which are brand new. Readers are bound to see some of themselves in this book, whether seeking advice on how to handle growing up, or just looking for a friend who can commiserate.

Art Matters
by Neil Gaiman

A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. Be bold. Be rebellious. Choose art. It matters.

Neil Gaiman once said that ‘the world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before’. This little book is the embodiment of that vision. Drawn together from speeches, poems and creative manifestos, Art Matters explores how reading, imagining and creating can change the world, and will be inspirational to young and old.

Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are
by C.J. Frick

For dog owners and dog lovers everywhere, a humorous, fully illustrated book that shows us that even when we feel at our worst, our dogs still think we’re the best – so start acting like it!

With more than forty full-colour illustrations from The New Yorker’s Liza Donnelly, Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are reminds us just why our canine companions want us as their best friend. Hilarious, heartfelt, and howlingly clever, this book is sure to find a welcome home on any bookshelf, right next to the chew toys.

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
by Elizabeth Gilbert

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the “strange jewels” that are hidden within each of us.

Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work,  embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.

Becoming Andy Warhol
by Nick Bertozzi and Pierce Hargan

Celebrated during his lifetime as much for his personality as for his paintings, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is the man who invented Pop Art, the notion of 15 minutes of fame, and the idea that an artist could be as illustrious as the work he creates. With a unique, focused look at Warhol’s life, this graphic novel biography offers insight into the turning point of Warhol’s career and the time leading up to the creation of the Thirteen Most Wanted Men mural for the 1964 World’s Fair, when Warhol clashed with urban planner Robert Moses and architect Philip Johnson.

In Becoming Andy Warhol, New York Times bestselling writer Nick Bertozzi and artist Pierce Hargan showcase the moment when, by stubborn force of personality and sheer burgeoning talent, Warhol went up against the creative establishment and emerged to become one of the most significant artists of the 20th century.

Breathe: The 4-week breathing retraining plan to relieve stress, anxiety and panic
by Mary Birch

Many of us don’t breathe properly, and our health and wellbeing suffers. In just four weeks, you can get your health – and life – back on track with this essential guide to retraining your breathing.

Breathing comes naturally to everyone – right? No: not right. Thanks to a range of life, work and environment factors, many of us don’t breathe properly – and it is having a major impact on our health and wellbeing. Your breathing affects your health, and it is also affected by what’s going on in your life. Regardless of the cause, improving your breathing can bring relief, sometimes even within days. This is especially true for those living with stress, anxiety and panic, as incorrect breathing can cause and contribute to these disorders.

This practical book by registered nurse and breathing retraining expert Mary Birch contains a week-by-week, step-by step-program to retrain the breathing pattern, as well as guidelines on lifestyle, exercise, food and nutrition. It also contains stories of people who have positively transformed their lives by learning to breathe properly.

Change Your Mind
by Rod Judkins

In Change Your Mind, Rod Judkins reveals that creative people are no more creative than the rest of us. Rather, their gift is that they believe they are creative, and because of this, they are. Many of these people lack traditional artistic abilities (Francis Bacon couldn’t draw, so he didn’t; Andy Warhol couldn’t paint, so he didn’t) but that doesn’t stop them. This self-belief accounts for 90 per cent of their success. Creativity is a skill that everyone can learn and benefit from, whether you re trying to start your own business, write music, come up with new ideas at work or just change your way of looking at the world.

Follow theses 57 insider tips, which include nuggets of wisdom such as the importance of focus, why you should never wait for inspiration and how you should always turn a failure into success. With real-life insights into the minds of writers, artists and musicians, from Picasso to Paul McCartney, Change Your Mind will unlock the creative genius you always knew you were.

Conscious Creativity
by Philippa Stanton

Conscious creativity is about discovery – what inspires you to create, trying new methods and ideas to take your creativity further, and exploring how you see things – and how this makes you feel.

This book teaches you how to unlock your creative potential, see the beauty in the everyday, and cultivate a daily practice of meaningful, conscious creativity. This is a practical, process book, showing how we can all connect with our inner and personal creativity to express who we are, and embrace the joy of mindful creativity and making.

‘Flow’, that enviable condition of complete creative absorption, is hard for most of us to achieve in everyday life. In Conscious Creativity, Philippa Stanton offers us the key to the door: this book is a guide to unlocking your potential and making flow a natural part of your daily creative practice. Readers will find these pages packed with joyful wisdom, which will simultaneously open their eyes to the beauty of ordinary things and enable them to make the connection with their own creative impulses to ensure the best possible results. Rich, breathtaking new photography specially created for this book reinforces each lesson in an unforgettably visual way.

Creative Flow
by Jocelyn de Kwant

Exploring meaningful ways we can appreciate each of life’s precious moments, this enchanting guide helps us to notice and note, embrace play and focus again on breathing and simply being.

Creative Flow is a mindful workbook to treasure, encouraging the use of focused creativity to cultivate beautiful awareness every day. Exploring meaningful ways we can appreciate each of life’s precious moments, this enchanting guide helps us to notice and note, embrace play, and focus again on breathing and simply being. Author Jocelyn de Kwant invites us all to embrace a beginners’ mind, to add time back into our busy lives using the art of creative mindfulness. Practical prompts entwine with lengthier meditative notes on the joys of doodling and scribbling, and the joy of sensory play and reconnecting with the natural world. This lovingly-illustrated workbook is a timely reminder of the ways in which creative flow can enhance and enrich our lives.

Creative Quest
by Questlove

Questlove—musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore—shares his wisdom on the topics of inspiration and originality in a one-of-a-kind guide to living your best creative life.

In Creative Quest, Questlove synthesizes all the creative philosophies, lessons, and stories he’s heard from the many creators and collaborators in his life, and reflects on his own experience, to advise readers and fans on how to consider creativity and where to find it. He addresses many topics—what it means to be creative, how to find a mentor and serve as an apprentice, the wisdom of maintaining a creative network, coping with critics and the foibles of success, and the specific pitfalls of contemporary culture—all in the service of guiding admirers who have followed his career and newcomers not yet acquainted with his story.

Whether discussing his own life or channeling the lessons he’s learned from forefathers such as George Clinton, collaborators like D’Angelo, or like-minded artists including Ava DuVernay, David Byrne, Björk, and others, Questlove speaks with the candor and enthusiasm that fans have come to expect. Creative Quest is many things—above all, a wise and wide-ranging conversation around the eternal mystery of creativity.

Creativity+
by Paulina Larocca

Creativity+ is a toolkit that gives you the keys to unlock your curiosity, questioning skills and creative forces.

It is more than a toolkit that helps you achieve your aims, Creativity+ is a philosophy for infusing creative thinking in all aspects of your life, supported by practical tools to bring your ideas to fruition.

Divided into the four phases of innovation (Vision, Discovery, Ideation and Momentum), you are provided with the Mindset (attitudes), Skillset (knowledge), Toolset (techniques) and a supporting Case Study that gives a real-life example of these skills in action.

Navigate easily through the colour-coded phases in this flip board design – because the creative process is iterative, sometimes you have to step back in order to leap forward.

Daily Rituals: Women at Work
by Mason Currey

In Daily Rituals: Women at Work, we see how brilliant female creators got to work, often in the face of sexism and opposition from those around them.

Barbara Hepworth sculpted outdoors and Janet Frame wrote wearing earmuffs to block out the noise. Kate Chopin wrote with her six children ‘swarming around her’ whereas the artist Rosa Bonheur filled her bedroom with the sixty birds that inspired her work. Louise May Alcott wrote so vigorously – skipping sleep and meals – that she had to learn to write with her left hand to give her cramped right hand a break.

From Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Brontë to Nina Simone and Jane Campion, this is a book full of the day-to-day lives of some of the world’s most brilliant creative minds who – no matter what stood in their way – found the time and got to work.

The Daily Stoic : 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

Where can you find joy? What’s the true measure of success? How should we manage anger? Find meaning? Conquer grief? The answers to these questions and more lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy.

The Daily Stoic is a compelling, accessible guide to living a good life, offering daily doses of this classic wisdom. Long the secret weapon of history’s great figures, from emperors to artists and activists to fighter pilots, the principles of Stoicism have shone brightly through the centuries as a philosophy for doers. Tested in the laboratory of human experience over the last two thousand years, this timeless knowledge is essential to navigating the complexities of modern life. The Daily Stoic offers a daily devotional of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, and the slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as diamonds like Zeno, Cleanthes and Musonius Rufus. On each page, one for every day of the year, you’ll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes and provocative commentary to help you tackle any problem or approach any goal. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you’ll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

Eastern Body, Western Mind
by Judith Anodea

In Eastern Body, Western Mind, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics and applying the chakra system to important modern social realities and issues such as addiction, codependence, family dynamics, sexuality, and personal empowerment.

Arranged schematically, the book uses the inherent structure of the chakra system as a map upon which to chart our Western understanding of individual development. Each chapter focuses on a single chakra, starting with a description of its characteristics and then exploring its particular childhood developmental patterns, traumas and abuses, and how to heal and maintain balance.

Examined Lives: Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche
by James Miller

Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions.

From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant, to Seneca, the philosopher of temperance who accumulated one of the greatest fortunes in Rome, to Kant, who privately wrestled with hypochondria while publicly advocating arch-rationality, each had a unique approach to examining life. Here is a fascinating insight into the ideals that have guided us for centuries, and those who have fought passionately to live up to them

Exercise your Demons: A Mindful Journal
by Lucy Irving

Filled with creative exercises and projects, along with positive meditations and metaphors, this is the most fun guide to tapping into your creativity and bringing mindfulness into your everyday existence. Personalize it with your own thoughts and stories, lists and scribbles, doodles and drawings, and you will discover how to name and tame those inner demons and put a new spin on your world.

Failed It!
by Erik Kessels

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t
by Lane Moore

Lane Moore is a fool for love. From her addiction to romantic comedies to her tendency to form instant soulmate connections with strangers, Lane has a way of romanticizing everything and everyone. It’s no wonder the New York Times, in a review of her comedy show, ‘Tinder Live! with Lane Moore,’ called her ‘a flirt par excellence.’ But her romantic nature belies a decidedly unromantic childhood, one that sent her down a long and difficult road.

Lane considers herself an orphan, though she has two living parents. After being abused as a child, bullied by her peers, and targeted by older men at a young age, she became homeless after high school and lived out of her car in Los Angeles. Lonely and afraid, it took years for her to ultimately become empowered enough to start her life over again–but start over, she did.

Where others see a void, Lane sees an opportunity. Her estrangement from her family was a catalyst for her to build a new one with a community of friends, comedians, and oddball roommates in Los Angeles and then New York City. Her experience with sexual assault informed her work as the sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan, which turned her into a champion for young women. With an intoxicating blend of dark wit and relentless positivity, Lane sheds light on an often-stigmatized condition and reveals how she harnessed and drew strength from her loneliness to become the creative powerhouse she is today.

How to Adult
by Stephen Wildish

Adulting (verb): To do grown-up things and hold responsibilities such as having a job, paying rent or doing laundry. A verb used exclusively by those who adult less than 50 per cent of the time.

If you’ve forgotten to pay your council tax, you’re hungover at work (again) and you’ve been living off pesto pasta for the past seventeen days, it’s time to adult. Authentic grown-up Stephen Wildish has produced a book for everyone who feels they need assistance getting through the confusing landscape of the real world.

How to Do Great Work Without Being an Asshole
by Paul Woods

It’s long been an accepted, almost celebrated, fact of the creative industries that long hours, chaotic workflows, and egotistical colleagues are just the price you pay to produce great work. In fact, this toxic culture is the enemy of creativity, and with greater accountability and transparency in the industry – and more choice for young talent – than ever before, this unsustainable way of doing business is a ticking time bomb.

This is a straight-talking, fun read for all creatives: Director or junior, at an agency or client-side, working in design, advertising, publishing, fashion, or film.

Packed with anecdotes, self-analysis flowcharts (are YOU the asshole?!), exercises and action plans for better working practices.

Simple strategies can easily be implemented to create a happier, more productive team and – importantly – BETTER WORK!

How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
by Marlee Grace

Keep Going
by Austin Kleon

The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier!

In his previous books – Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined – Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and then showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet.

Keep Going gives the reader life-changing, illustrated advice and encouragement on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in the face of personal burnout or external distractions. Keep working. Keep playing. Keep searching. Keep giving. Keep living. Keep Going. It’s exactly the message all of us need, at exactly the right time.

Life In Flow
by Kate Kendall

Slow down. Spark joy. Make connections and find that elusive balance

Written with a whole heart and inspired by lived experience, LIFE IN FLOW is a practical and contemporary guide to ‘living’ yoga off the mat through simple moving meditations and breathwork. For a new generation of men & women into mindfulness and holistic health, or for those just switching-on to it for the first time, LIFE IN FLOW is intended for the yoga-curious but also those craving real-world tools to ‘live yoga’ in everyday life

Includes four sections with practical instructions for slowing down, sparking joy, creating more conscious and meaningful connections, and remembering that when we live in service to others, life feels not only more rewarding but more fulfilling and whole.

This is what life in flow is all about.

Making Comics
by Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today.

Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character’s facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand-in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Both comic book devotees and the uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once-underappreciated art form.

The Little White Lies Guide to Making Your Own Movie: In 39 Steps
by Matt Thrift

Whether you’re posting a clip on Facebook, making a presentation video, introducing yourself to others online, or just sending out a greeting to friends, today everyone is filmmaker.

This book cuts away the jargon to offer a highly accessible, no-fuss guide to getting the best results from the kit you already own. In just 39 steps, it offers essential instructions and tips to help amateur movie-makers – filming anything from family celebrations to no-budget horror movies – make their creations look and feel more cinematic.

Drawing on its vast network of professional filmmakers as well as on its unique style (with a compelling illustration language and direct, quotation-rich approach), Little White Lies presents the definitive, fun, and straightforward handbook for making films.

Marvelocity
by Alex Ross

Here is the beloved Marvel Universe of comics characters, brought to thrilling life as only Alex Ross can. They’re all here: Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, and many more – all seeming to leap, blast, and launch off the page.

For almost thirty years, Ross has been working nonstop to create some of the most astonishing images in comics, and while Marvelocity collects the very best of that oeuvre, it’s much more than that. Inside are hundreds of drawings, paintings, and photographs that have never been published before, including an original ten-page story featuring Spider-Man versus the Sinister Six, redesign proposals for the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, and a re-creation of an epic battle between the Sub-Mariner and Iron Man.

But this isn’t just the story of the Marvel characters – it’s also the incredibly inspiring true tale of a little boy who only ever wanted to draw and paint super heroes. And with enough determination, talent, and very hard work, that’s precisely what he did. Marvelocity is the result, and is sure to entrance and delight fans of all ages.

Milk. Made.: A Book About Cheese. How to Choose It, Serve It and Eat It
by Nick Haddow

Milk. Made. is an elegant and comprehensive tour of the art of cheese-making and eating – from selecting cultures, to the practises of production that cross continents, and right through to the best recipes to enjoy them. Within the pages, you will find sections on the key types of cheese (and other dairy products) as well as how to make the cheese, store the cheese, serve the cheese, and the history of the cheese itself. For those who don’t want to make it but simply love to eat it, Milk. Made. includes 60 comprehensive recipes such as Croque monsieur, Onion soup with grilled cheese croutons, Beetroot and feta tart, Sour cream scones, Classic fondue and many more.

Morning Altars
by Day Schildkret

Rewording the Brain
by David Astle

Recent studies have shown that puzzle-solving and wordplay are among the most effective ways to boost the power and agility of your brain. A cryptic crossword a day can help keep memory loss at bay.

Why? The answer lies in the art of teasing out a clue, a discipline that calls for logic, interpretation, intuition and deduction as well as the ability to filter nuance and connotation. All these challenges and more are found in the cryptic crossword. And all are invaluable in increasing your brainpower and improving your memory and cognitive capacity.

In this entertaining and essential book, cryptic crossword guru David Astle explains how your brain responds to and benefits from attempting these crosswords. A growing body of research suggests cryptic crosswords are the ideal workout for your brain, and Astle shows how regular training of this kind can be fun as well as fundamental.

If you’ve always been intimidated by cryptic crosswords, fear not! Rewording the Brain. is an accessible guide to developing and sharpening your puzzle talents. Novices and expert solvers alike will gain plenty of cryptic insights. There has never been a better time to start solving, nor a better teacher than the legendary DA.

Also included are 50 cryptic crosswords hand-picked to keep your brain abuzz, ranging from beginner-friendly to fiendishly complicated!

Say Something
by Peter H. Reynolds

The world needs your voice. If you have a brilliant idea… say something! If you see an injustice… say something!

In this empowering new picture book, beloved author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us, each and every day, have the chance to say something: with our actions, our words, and our voices.

Perfect for kid activists everywhere, this timely story reminds readers of the undeniable importance and power of their voice. There are so many ways to tell the world who you are… what you are thinking… and what you believe. And how you’ll make it better. The time is now: SAY SOMETHING!

Spark Joy
by Marie Kondo

The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up
by Marie Kondo

Transform your home into a permanently clear and clutter-free space with the incredible KonMari Method. Japan’s expert declutterer and professional cleaner Marie Kondo will help you tidy your rooms once and for all with her inspirational step-by-step method.

The key to successful tidying is to tackle your home in the correct order, to keep only the things you really love and to do it all at once – and quickly. After that for the rest of your life you only need to choose what to keep and what to discard.

The KonMari Method will not just transform your space. Once you have your house in order you will find that your whole life will change. You can feel more confident, you can become more successful, and you can have the energy and motivation to create the life you want. You will also have the courage to move on from the negative aspects of your life: you can recognise and finish a bad relationship; you can stop feeling anxious; you can finally lose weight.

Marie Kondo’s method is based on a ‘once-cleaned, never-messy-again’ approach. If you think that such a thing is impossible then you should definitely read this compelling book.

The Inner Game of Music
by Barry Green and W. Timothy Gallwey

The Inner Game of Music is the battle that all musicians have to fight against elusive opponents such as nervousness, self-doubt and fear of failure. Using the world-famous Inner Game principles, developed by bestselling author Timothy Gallwey, acclaimed musician Barry Green explains the basic principles of ‘natural learning’ and shows how you can apply them to reach a new level of musical application and performance.

In precise, easy to understand language, Green and Gallwey explain how natural skills – such as awareness, trust and willpower – can be nurtured and enhanced. Through a series of tailored exercises The Inner Game of Music demonstrates the ways in which musicians can achieve exact intonations, artistic phrasing and improved technique. There are also chapters on ensemble playing, improvisation, composition and creativity, as well as listening skills – an essential part of the Inner Game. Following a methodology with a proven track record for generations of aspiring and professional musicians, The Inner Game of Music is invaluable to anyone seriously interested in music, and is guaranteed to deliver positive results whether you are a student, teacher, performer, or simply an appreciative listener.

The School of Life Dictionary
by The School of Life

A dictionary is a guide to a language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life `speaks': that of emotions. It is an alphabetical selection of some 200 words and phrases that shed light on our feelings about ourselves, other people, and the workings of the modern world. Too often, we struggle to find the right words to explain what we mean; The School of Life’s dictionary is a tool to help us convey our true intentions with economy and precision. The School of Life – an organisation dedicated to making sense of our emotional lives – offers us a complete vocabulary with which to understand some of our key emotional states and ideas and to express them succinctly and successfully to the world.

Things Are What You Make of Them
by Adam J. Kurtz

Insights and inspiration for anyone who makes art (or anything else). From the creative mind and heart of designer Adam J. Kurtz comes this upbeat rallying cry for creators of all stripes. Expanding on a series of popular essays, this handwritten and heartfelt book shares wisdom and empathy from one working artist to others. Perforated tear-and-share pages make it easy to display the most crucial reminders or to pass a bit of advice on to someone who needs it. As wry and cheeky as it is empathic and empowering, this deceptively simple & vibrant book will be a touchstone for writers, artists, entrepreneurs, and anyone else who wants to be more creative–even when it would be easier to give up and act normal.

Who Says You Can’t? You Do
by Daniel Chidiac

Do you want to change your life? Well, who says you can’t? Would you be surprised to learn that the only person stopping you achieving what you want in life is yourself? Why do you think there are so few people living their dream and millions of others slipping further away from theirs with every day that passes?

Daniel Chidiac’s writing has touched millions of people worldwide and helps to transform thousands of lives daily. By opening Who Says You Can’t? You Do, you embark on a psychological and emotional journey that will unlock your true potential. This challenging and extraordinarily rewarding book is the ultimate guide to discovering the fulfilment you have been searching for your whole life. Who Says You Can’t? You Do is a psychological and emotional journey that will help you overcome your self-doubts and unlock your true potential through 7 steps that cover self-discovery, energy, achievement, relationships and physical health.

The Yellow Table
by Anna Watson Carl

When people share a meal, magic happens—and this cookbook, named for the table in the author’s childhood kitchen, celebrates that joy. Featuring delicious seasonal recipes perfect for feeding the people you love, it includes everything from Pumpkin Spice Pancakes to Watermelon, Feta, & Mint Skewers, Three-Bean Turkey Chili, and Spring Pea Risotto—plus stress-free dinner-party menus, sweets, and wine pairings from an award-winning sommelier!

* Not in conjunction with any other offer. Discount applies to selected marked titles in store and online until 30 April 2019. 

From Kwan to Kusama, Tagore to Tamaki, Kang, and beyond… here are some crazy good Asian authors we think you should check out this month!

The popularity of Japanese works in translation and books on Japanese culture, and the love our staff and readers have for them have been a mainstay here at Kino since the beginning. Recently, we have noticed that this interest is expanding to include authors, works and ideas from all across Asia, with works from China, Singapore, North Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India and their diasporas all increasing in appeal.

Here we have gathered a selection of our favourite Asian authors as a jumping off point for some new experiences inspired by some of our closest neighbours.

Visit us in store to check out the full selection!

The Garden of Evening Mists
by Tan Twan Eng
RRP $19.99 | Sale price $15.99

In the highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese during the brutal Occupation of their country. Yun Ling’s quest leads her to The Garden of Evening Mists, and to Aritomo. When she accepts his offer to become his apprentice, she begins a journey into her past, inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country’s history.

The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
RRP $19.99 | Sale price $15.99

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, this is the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. They try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family – their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom-pincher) and their avowed enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).

Infidel
by Pornsak Pichetshote
RRP $26.40 | Sale price $21.12

A haunted house story for the 21st century, Infidel follows an American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by entities that feed off xenophobia.

Ponti
by Sharlene Teo
RRP $29.99 | Sale price $23.99

Set in Singapore, and spanning fifty years, Ponti is the story of three women: sixteen-year-old Szu; her monstrous and beautiful mother, Amisa; and Circe, Szu’s unlikely friend. Ponti is about friendship and memory, about the things we do when we’re on the cusp of adulthood that haunt us years later.

At Dusk
by Hwang Sok-Yong
RRP $27.99 | Sale price $22.39

Parl Minwoo is a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in his country. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work and ambition have brought him triumph and satisfaction. But that all begins to change when he receives a message from a childhood friend and he recalls a world he thought he had left behind – a world he now realises that he has helped to destroy.

The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
RRP $19.99 | Sale price $15.99

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people whose acceptable flatline of a marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian, something that is almost unheard of in South Korea. Her passive rebellion manifests in frightening forms, and she starts to change… A beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul.

Apple and Knife
by Intan Paramaditha
RRP $27.99 | Sale price $22.39

These short fictions set in the Indonesian everydayreveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. Sometimes wacky and always engrossing, this is subversive feminist horror at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave.

The Refugees
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
RRP $19.99 | Sale price $15.99

Beautifully written and sharply observed, this story collection gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. A captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.

The Corpse Walker and Other True Stories of Life in China
by Yiwu Liao
RRP $29.99 | Sale price $23.99

This collection of extraordinary interviews opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women, including a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a leper, an abbot, a retired government official, a feng shui master, a former Red Guard, a political prisoner, a village teacher, a Falun Gong practitioner and a corpse walker. The result is an idiosyncratic, powerful and dignified portrait of a people, a time and a place we might otherwise have never known.

Growing up Asian in Australia
Edited by Alice Pung
RRP $29.95 | Sale price $23.96

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. Tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one’s feet, from well-known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia.

Confessions of a Yakuza
by Jun’ichi Saga
RRP $18.70 | Sale price $14.96

The true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn’t a ‘good’ life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world.

All My Darling Daughters
by Fumi Yoshinaga
RRP $18.98 | Sale price $15.18

Fumi Yoshinaga weaves together the disparate lives of Yukiko and her friends in five short stories, exploring the women’s various relationships with the skill and elegance she is famous for. Yukiko, a salarywoman in her thirties, still lives with her mother Mari. But their relationship suffers a sudden change when Mari announces that she’s getting married–to an ex-host and aspiring actor who’s younger than Yukiko. Yukiko, convinced he’s out to fleece her mom, can’t stand to stay in the house and decides to move in with her boyfriend.

In Blossom
by Yooju Cheon
RRP $24.99 | Sale price $19.99

One day, a cat and dog meet on a bench. The cat eats her lunch. The dog reads his book. But the sun twinkles, the breeze blows, and there’s something sweet in the air…

This is a beautifully illustrated story of the joys of spring and finding a new friend.

A Ghost in My Suitcase
by Gabrielle Wang
RRP $16.99 | Sale price $13.59

When thirteen-year-old Celeste travels to China to visit her grandmother, she uncovers an incredible family secret. And with this secret comes danger and adventure. If Celeste is to save her family and friends, she must learn to harness her rare and powerful gift . . .

Starfish
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
RRP $15.99 | Sale price $12.79

A gorgeous and emotionally resonant debut novel about a half-Japanese teen who grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school. From debut author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes a luminous, heartbreaking story of identity, family, and the beauty that emerges when we embrace our true selves.

Emergency Contact
by Mary H. K. Choi
RRP $16.99 | Sale price $14.39

When Penny Lee heads to college in Texas it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.

Infinity Net
by Yayoi Kusama
RRP $24.95 | Sale price $19.96

Yayoi Kusama is one of the most significant contemporary artists at work today. This engaging autobiography tells the story of her life and extraordinary career in her own words, revealing her as a fascinating figure and maverick artist who channels her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers.

Designing Design
by Kenya Hara
RRP $85.00 | Sale price $68.00

Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon the reader the importance of “emptiness” in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its application to design.

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor
RRP $24.99 | Sale price $19.99

The real story of the British in India — from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj —revealing how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. Tharoor details the devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain’s stained Indian legacy.

 
The Art of Tea
by Kakuzo Okakura
RRP $22.99 | Sale price $18.39

Okakura celebrates the Way of Tea from its ancient origins in Chinese Taoism to its culmination in the Zen discipline known as the Japanese tea ceremony–an enchanting practice bringing together such arts as architecture, pottery, and flower arranging to create an experience that delights the senses, calms the mind, and refreshes the spirit.

The Courage to be Disliked
by Ichiro Kishimi
RRP $24.99 | Sale price $19.99

A philosopher explains to his pupil how each of us is able to determine our own lives, free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It’s a way of thinking that’s deeply liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves. Highly accessible and profound in its importance.

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
by Haemin Sunim
RRP $19.99 | Sale price $15.99

The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This timely guide to mindfulness offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships. With insight and compassion, Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim encourages us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.

Reset
by Ellen Pao
RRP $39.99 | Sale price $31.99

In 2015, Ellen Pao’s trial against the powerhouse firm Kleiner Perkins shook things up as she spoke out against the subtle and insidious discrimination women, people of color, and others experience daily in corporate America. When she lost her case, her supporters were outraged, but Pao resolved to keep fighting. She called for tech companies to uphold their moral responsibility, and her experiences \are told here in jaw-dropping detail. After it all, Pao realized, we need to hit reset. Her account is the story of a whistleblower who aims to empower anyone who struggles to be heard, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Economics: A User’s Guide
by Ha-Joon Chang
RRP $22.99 | Sale price $18.39

Ha-Joon Chang explains how the global economy works, and why anyone can understand the dismal science. Unlike many economists who claim there is only one way of ‘doing economics’, he introduces readers to a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how they all have their strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. By ignoring the received wisdom, and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial fate, Chang provides the tools that every responsible citizen needs to understand – and address – our current economic woes.

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*Not in conjunction with any other offer. Applies to selected marked titles only until 28 February 2019.

It’s time for our annual Cookbook Month again, which means we’re giving all you food aficionados 20% OFF* our glorious range of cookbooks during October.

From celebrity cookbooks to baking bibles, travel cookbooks to healthy eating, feeding friends and fam to creating cocktails and so much more, visit us today to discover all these inspiring, delicious titles!

*Not in conjunction with any other offer. Includes Kids, Chinese and Japanese titles. Sale ends 31st October 2018.

Art Books Live Here.

20% OFF* all Art & Design books in September!

Celebrate all things Art & Design here at Books Kinokuniya during our annual Art Month. For the entire month of September, we’re giving you 20% OFF* our incredible range of Art & Design books!

And there will be many opportunities to win amazing art book prizes, starting with our in-store competition where you could WIN your ultimate art book wish list. Just make any Art & Design purchase in store, fill out an entry form with a wish list of art book titles and you will go into the draw to win your list, up to the value of $600! (Terms and conditions apply, see in store for details)

Thanks to our great friends at Laurence King Publishing, you also have the chance to WIN a spectacular book pack of their greatest hits valued at over RRP $330! To enter, simply head to our LKP Highlight table in our Art & Design department from the 1^st of September, post a pic of your fave LKP title on Instagram and tag @kinokuniya_sydney, @laurenceking and #artbookslivehere. (Terms and conditions apply, see in store for details)

Do you live on Instagram? Want a chance to win more amazing free books? Make sure you’re following us on Instagram and keep your eyes peeled for your chance to WIN weekly art book loot from Aperture, Phaidon, Piper Press and Taschen!

Every great art book needs a great vessel to be carried around in… Receive a complimentary Art Books Live Here Kino tote bag when you purchase over $80 worth of Art & Design titles in one transaction during Art Month! These babies are also available for sale at just RRP $10, too. (Strictly while stocks last)

Direct shipped from NY just in time for Art Month! Thanks to the uber cool folk at Various Keytags, we’re thrilled to now have available a custom Art Books Live Here Kinokuniya keytag! RRP $20.00, Art Month price $16.00. (Limited quantity available)

If you love Art Books and want to explore Sydney’s largest range of them, you know where they live.

* Not in conjunction with any other offer. Also includes Kids, Japanese and Chinese titles. Sale ends 30 September 2018. 

From artificial intelligence to microbiomes, economics to architecture, revolutionary mathematicians to renegades of the Silicon Valley, here is a selection of some of our favourite ground-breaking titles to inspire, to challenge and to delight.

The Fourth Age : Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
by Byron Reese

We are now on the doorstep of a fourth change brought about by two technologies: AI and robotics. The Fourth Age provides extraordinary background information on how we got to this point, and how – rather than what – we should think about the topics we’ll soon all be facing: machine consciousness, automation, employment, creative computers, radical life extension, artificial life, AI ethics, the future of warfare, superintelligence, and the implications of extreme prosperity.

By asking questions like “Are you a machine?” and “Could a computer feel anything?”, Reese leads you through a discussion along the cutting edge in robotics and AI, and, provides a framework by which we can all understand, discuss, and act on the issues of the Fourth Age, and how they’ll transform humanity.

AIQ: How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world
by Nick Polson and James Scott

Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. These machines, from smart phones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world in the twenty first century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world in the nineteenth.

AIQ is based on a simple premise: if you want to understand the modern world, then you have to know a little bit of the mathematical language spoken by intelligent machines. AIQ will teach you that language but in an unconventional way, anchored in stories rather than equations.

The Secret Life of Your Microbiome : Why Nature and Biodiversity Are Essential to Health and Happiness
by Susan L. Prescott and Alan C. Logan

For too long our bodies have been viewed as capsules, sealed off and protected from ‘bugs’ by our immune systems and an arsenal of antibiotics, pesticides, processed foods, and antibacterial soaps. The more insulated from nature, the better.

The Secret Life of Your Microbiome shatters this deeply held myth, presenting a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes, the rich microbial ecosystem of our guts and skin, and this connection is essential to health and happiness.

The Whole Brain Diet: The Microbiome Solution to Heal Depression, Anxiety, and Mental Fog without Prescription Drugs
by Raphael Kellman

Every part of your body affects every other part of your body, and if any one area is not functioning properly, other systems will feel it, too. There is a fundamental connection between the brain, the gut, the microbiome, and the thyroid – which Dr Raphael Kellman calls ‘the whole brain’. In this lively, accessible book, he reveals how this system works in tandem to keep us healthy, and how, by making small changes, we can use it to heal mood and mental disorders without drugs.

With a practical guide featuring meal plans, an exercise program, and a program of daily meditations and affirmations, The Whole Brain Diet will benefit people diagnosed with depression or anxiety, and those who just want to feel better in themselves.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital?

Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

A World of Three Zeroes: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emissions
by Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is the Bangladeshi economist who invented microcredit, founded Grameen Bank, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards alleviating poverty. Here, he argues that the capitalist system is broken. In its current form, it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and devastating environmental destruction. To save humankind and the planet, we need a new economic system based on a more realistic vision of human nature – one that recognises altruism and generosity as driving forces that are just as fundamental and powerful as self-interest.

A World of Three Zeroes describes the new civilisation that is emerging from the economic experiments Yunus’ work has helped to inspire, and offers a challenge to young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to embrace his mission and improve the world for everyone.

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly

Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘coloured computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind’s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.

Shelter
by Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton

Shelter is many things – a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo’s tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to “housecars”; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and even treehouses.

The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment – with fascinating, often surprising results.

An Unfinished Experiment in Living : Australian Houses 1950-65
by Geoffrey London, Philip Goad, Conrad Hamann

Architect-designed houses of the period 1950-65 proposed an innovative response to the social, economic, and climatic conditions of post-war Australia. At the same time they embraced the aesthetic, technological, and egalitarian aspirations of modern architecture.

An Unfinished Experiment in Living traces the emergence of this architectural phenomenon in Australia, documenting the full range of its expression: from the postwar optimism of the early 1950s through to the affluence of the 1960s.

Twenty-one Australian Architects, Breaking New Ground
by Karen McCartney

Australian artists are designing some of the most innovative residential homes in the world. To celebrate this incredible Australian talent, Belle has teamed up with acclaimed architectural and design editor Karen McCartney – author of the popular Iconic Australian Houses series and Superhouse to present Twenty-one Australian Architects, Breaking New Ground.

The stylish cloth bound tome takes a comprehensive look at 21 Australian architectural practices that are leading the way today. The fabulously photographed volume is an exciting design journey which introduces readers to the cutting-edge architects currently working in Australia and discusses their design philosophy and inspiration alongside examples of their work. Projects from the likes of John Wardle, William Smart, Kennedy Nolan, Matt Gibson, Hannah Tribe, Rob Mills, Clare Cousins, and many more are sure to inspire.

The Upstarts
by Brad Stone

Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger’s car, or walking into a stranger’s home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it’s as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb are household names: redefining neighbourhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business and changing the way we travel.

In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, a new generation of entrepreneurs is sparking yet another cultural upheaval through technology. They are among the Upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Young, hungry and brilliant, they are rewriting the traditional rules of business, changing our day-to-day lives and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process.

The Upstarts is the definitive account of a dawning age of tenacity, creativity, conflict and wealth. In Brad Stone’s highly anticipated and riveting account of the most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we find out how it all started, and how the world is wildly different than it was ten years ago.

* Not in conjunction with any other offer. Discount applies to selected marked titles only until 31st August 2018. 

So… YA Matters on many levels. Really. There are levels. What we mean to say is that YA talks about a whole lot of matters, but that it also matters. YA has purpose and intention and it matters to a whole lot of people. And it matters because it can do so much, say so much, about so many things. It has the power to talk to, and about, so many people and…matters. And they may be matters like ‘Issues’ with a capital I, like caring for a mother with degenerative MS, or issues like coming to terms with having made a fool of yourself. It could be about trying to survive being black in a town when you could you be shot by a policeman on your way home from a party. It could be about being held like a prisoner because you are a refugee. It could be about coming out to your friends, or telling someone that you love them. Maybe it’s about learning to ‘own’ the size of your butt, or feeling empowered when you see someone regain their magic and take back what’s theirs. Maybe it’s about escaping a bit or feeling excited, overwhelmed, happy, confused or like your heart has just been ripped out.

YA Matters. Again, it really does. It’s about seeing yourself and your story out in the world, and about meeting others and their stories, too.

So, read something that matters. Read some Young Adult stories.

A Song Only I Can Hear
Barry Jonsberg
RRP $16.99
Though categorised as middle fiction, A Song Only I Can Hear comes highly recommended to teens and adults as well. A sublime first love story and a radically empathetic take on trans identity, Song is essential reading.

Between Us
Clare Atkins
RRP $19.99

A topical and thought-provoking tale of two teenagers who find love through impossible boundaries: one being a barbed wire fence. Anahita is an asylum seeker only allowed out of detention for school, and Jono is the biracial son of a Vietnamese immigrant, struggling with his own demons.
Clare Atkins compassionately and with great care explores racism, the plight of asylum seekers and mental health in this powerful novel.

Hive
A.J. Betts
RRP $16.99
Curiosity is a hook, and it has latched itself onto Hayley, making her examine her world as she knows it. It starts with the impossible: a drop of water. But what starts as a drip leads to a lie, a death, a boy, a beast, and too many awful questions. This first book of the duology will grip you in its tentacles and won’t let you go until the very last page, and leave you clamouring for the next!

Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge
Clare Strahan
RRP $19.99

Vanessa Partridge has decided this summer will be different. She’s going to try new things, re-invent herself. But she’s about to discover that finding herself isn’t so easy. Strahan has created a funny, flawed, and lovable character in Vanessa. This is one summer you won’t forget.

Lifel1k3
Jay Kristoff
RRP $19.99
As harsh and bloodthirsty as Mad Max and as romantic and grand as Romeo and Juliet – throw in a bit of X-Men and you have yourself a thrilling story that is epic to the extreme! Robots vs humans is given a fresh and addictive reboot in the first book of this new series by The Illuminae Files co-mastermind Jay Kristoff.

The Fall
Tristan Bancks
RRP $16.99
Like a shock of caffeine to the system, this book should definitely not be read before bed. Wince-inducing descriptions and plot twist whirlwinds are the ingredients of choice in this suspenseful and page turning thriller about a boy who witnesses a crime through his window…and then locks eyes with the killer! Prepare for the heebie-jeebies…

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
Ed. Saundra Mitchell
IMPORT

Seventeen incredible YA authors from all across the queer spectrum bring us a beautiful collection of short stories following queer teens through history, and through many genres. A few Kino favourites make an appearance – Mackenzi Lee, Shaun David Hutchinson and Anna-Marie McLemore! Prepare for all the feels.

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
Dashka Slater
RRP $19.99

From award-winning journalist Dashka Slater comes the true story of what happened on the 57 Bus in Oakland, between an agender teenager, born male, in a gauzy skirt and an African-American teen with a lighter who can’t imagine the outcome of what he’s about to do. Slater delves deeply to produce a thoughtful, heartbreaking and hopeful analysis of an incident that changed two teens, their families and a community.

Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
RRP $16.99

Not just an amazing jacket! Banned magic could save her people, but Zelie is only just learning how to use it. Now so much could depend on her abilities. With unlikely support and a King determined to stop her at any cost this will be a race to the end – and what an explosive finish to the first book in this trilogy! Extraordinary world-building and compelling storytelling, this is epic fantasy at its very best.

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Carolyn Mackler
RRP $14.99

We first read this 15 years ago, and adored the story of imperfect Virginia, with her perfect family, as she comes to recognize that things are not always as they seem. It’s a quirky coming-of-age story that is ultimately wonderfully empowering. Updated for a 2018 audience, with a sequel to follow, The Universe is Expanding and So Am I.

Munmun
Jesse Andrews
RRP $19.99

Though it has one of the most outlandish premises in all of young adult fiction, Jesse Andrews’ magical realist take on income inequality still manages to punch the heart with incredible force. Even if he’s punching on a tilt. Subversive, radical, melancholy and viciously funny, Munmun is urgent fiction.

Weight of a Thousand Feathers
Brian Conaghan
RRP $16.99

This stunning, incredibly emotional read, follows Bobby Seed, who has become the primary carer for his mother, whose body is degenerating due to MS, and his younger brother who doesn’t really understand what’s going on. As if life isn’t difficult enough when you’re sixteen and questioning your sexuality, but Bobby will be faced with probably the most difficult thing he’ll ever be asked to do. Beautiful moments of humour in this tender, gut-wrenching story. Have the tissues ready.

READ THESE BEFORE…

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee
RRP $29.99

A humorous and addictive adventure through continental Europe, where everything that could go wrong, does. Compulsory reading so you can become just as excited as we are for the next book out later this year!

The Glittering Court
Richelle Mead
RRP $19.99

Compelling, thought-provoking and intriguing. Mead gives us a strong, feisty character in Adelaide, in this timely story. Read it and Midnight Jewel before the thrilling conclusion in The Emerald Sea, due this July 2018.

The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking Book 1
Patrick Ness
RRP $17.99

Hard to avoid hyperbole when you’re talking about the finest YA novel ever written. Uncompromising and morally uncomfortable sci-fi of the most terribly moving variety, prepare to ugly cry. Movie now please.

Laurinda
Alice Pung
RRP $19.99

The smartest ‘real world’ YA novel in town, a story about finding your feet and finding yourself. And Michelle Law is currently adapting this for a feature film!

Moby Dick
Herman Melville
RRP $12.99

Revisit or introduce yourself to this classic tale of revenge and madness. Read this before it is re-imagined – told in the perspective of the whale – by one of this generations best writers, two-time Carnegie winner Patrick Ness!

Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve
RRP $17.99

The hero’s a ponderous coward, the love interest is a disfigured murderer, they all live atop a roaming predator city on the hunt and everyone you like is going to die. We eagerly await the film. Watch trailer here.

Northern Lights: His Dark Materials Book 1
Philip Pullman
RRP $19.99

Two children on a mission to euthanise God travel between universes and try to stop sexuality and spirituality from leaking out of the universe. Or something? We’re long overdue for a reread and so are you. TV adaptation coming soon!

Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor
RRP $16.99

A dark and dreamy romantic fantasy that will be one of the most vivid, beautiful love stories you will ever read. Sequel Muse of Nightmares is out in October 2018!

The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
RRP $17.99

A girl witnesses her best friend shot and killed by a police officer. He was unarmed. This starts one of the most powerful books of 2017, required reading for adults and teens alike. The upcoming film will be one to watch out for!

Warcross
Marie Lu
RRP $24.99

Your hangover from Ready Player One is cured with this cross-continental sci-fi epic set in the world of virtual reality gaming.  Second book Wildcard is out in September 2018!

* Not in conjunction with any other offer. Discount valid in store and online and includes Chinese and Japanese titles. Ends 31 July 2018.

This June, we’re growing our craft here in store and inviting you to join us!

First of all, we’re giving you 20% OFF* our range of Craft and Gardening titles across the store until the end of June.

Then, we’re giving you a stunning FREE handmade seed paper custom-designed by Sydney-based Mira Yuna with every purchase of Craft and Gardening titles over RRP $30 in store. Each seed paper is embedded with either thyme or oregano seeds – just plant it, water it, and watch it grow! (While stocks last)

Are you a paper-folding enthusiast? An expert origamist, a dabbler, or just starting to get your fingers folding? This month we’re giving you the chance to WIN this Tuttle origami prize pack worth over $400! Just purchase ANY craft or gardening item from our Tuttle range in store and fill out an entry form for your chance to win. Entries close 30 June 2018.

Finally, what’s a Makers Month without a whole lot of making?

We’ve got a full program of excellent events and workshops to get that crafty creativity flowing! From Kokedama-making with Leaf Supply to Japanese flower arranging (aka Ikebana), Makers Nights where you can learn macramé and make your own terrarium whilst sipping on delicious craft beer, an illustration demo and work-along with Jane Davenport, paper flower workshops with Jennifer Tran, screen-printing with Home-Work, sustainable basket weaving and even a fun kids clay-making workshop for the little ones!

Come and visit us this June – your inner creative will thank you.

* Discount not in conjunction with any other offer. Includes Kids, Japanese and Chinese titles in store and online. Sale ends 30 June 2018.

MAKERS MONTH HIGHLIGHTS