Three children wake up in a basement room. They have been drugged and taken from their beds in the middle of the night. Now they are alone. Where are their parents? Who can they trust? The family has been betrayed to the government and Salt Cottage, their home on a clifftop above the ocean, is no longer safe. Their mother's scientific work has put them all in danger. To protect them, she must let them go. She must put her faith in an old family friend -- and in her children's own resilience and courage.

New from the author of the Bride Stripped Bare, The Book of Rapture is a provocative exploration of the responsibilities, hopes and fears of parents in a world at once familiar and hostile in which the normal rules no longer apply. RRP$29.99 OUR PRICE $26.99

Charlie Todd is the founder of Improv Everywhere, the world's largest and most successful prank collective. In Causing a Scene, the group's founder Charlie Todd gives a unique behind-the-scenes view of the creation, execution and aftermath of the ingenious stunts of the most influential pranksters of the Internet age, complete with photographs and illustrations. In addition to covering pranks the group has already staged, Causing a Scene gives audiences the tools to set up similar events in their own cities. RRP $29.95 OUR PRICE $26.96

‘Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people' - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

Up from the Mission charts the life and thoughts of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia’s most influential figures. This large collection presents his prodigious output; it shows a highly disciplined and powerful intellect and demonstrates why Pearson's influence on Australian politics and society will last for many years. It should be essential reading for anyone concerned about our country's future and it’s past. RRP$34.95 OUR PRICE $31.46

Set in India in the 80s, in the years after the assassination of Indira Gandhi and before that of her son Rajiv Between the Assassinations brings together a diverse collection of characters, all inhabitants of the fictional town Kittur. Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping overlapping lives of Kittur's residents. From a middle-aged Communist to an Islamic terrorist; from the young children of a Tamil building-site worker to a privileged and alienated schoolboy; from an idealistic journalist to a Brahmin housemaid, what emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation.

Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for The White Tiger, Between the Assassinations is no less of a triumph of voice and imagination. RRP $32.95 OUR PRICE $29.66

From the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down comes a novel of remarkable power and resonance.

When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling course of action. This Is How is a mesmerising and meticulously drawn portrait of a man whose unease in the world leads to his tragic undoing. With breathtaking wisdom and an astute insight into the human mind, award-winning M.J. Hyland’s new book is a masterpiece that inspires horror and sympathy in equal measure. RRP $32.95 OUR PRICE $29.66

Featured - UNSW Author The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Grace Karskens skillfully reveals how landscape shaped the lives of the original Aboriginal inhabitants and newcomers alike. She traces the ways in which relationships between the colonial authorities and ordinary men and women broke with old patterns, and the ways that settler and Aboriginal histories became entwined. This is a landmark account of the birthplace of modern Australia, and a fascinating and richly textured narrative of people and place. RRP $59.95 OUR PRICE $53.99 Grace Karskens is Senior Lecturer at the School of History & Philosophy at the University of New South Wales.

Remember the UNSW Bookshop gives you a 10% discount off the RRP!

Tattoo Source Book

RRP$49.99 OUR PRICE $44.99

Ed Hardy Art for Life by Alan Govenar

RRP$39.95 OUR PRICE $35.96

Why do we buy? Why are so many of our consumer choices simply a waste of time, energy, and money? How does advertising really work? And why are pregnant women more racist than the rest of us? In this brilliantly original, provocative and witty book, Geoffrey Miller - acclaimed author of The Mating Mind uses evolutionary psychology to explain the phenomenon of modern brand-driven consumerism. Traversing the murky terrains of marketing, advertising, brands, media, genetics, neuroscience and the latest advances in evolutionary biology to explore human behavior, Spent argues that many of our product choices are driven by the desire not to feel good, but to look good, by displaying our evolutionary fitness to those around us. At once a searing critique of the excesses of twenty-first-century consumerism and a masterful new take on understanding how the mind works, Spent is a radical, timely and original book. RRP $55.00 OUR PRICE $49.50

Prize Winners!

Congratulations go to Megan Flanagan who answered last months question correctly: “Name one other book by Man Booker International Prize winner Alice Munro”

Answer: The Lives of Girls & Women

Megan has won a a copy of The Selected Works of T S Spivet by Reif Larsen, a captivating, loveable novel of stunning originality and poignancy about a 12-year-old genius mapmaker.

To go in the draw to win this months prize just answer this easy question:

Name one of the most famous pranks committed by Improv Everywhere (hint - it involved pants!).

Answer this months question correctly and you can win a $50 book voucher.

Answers should be sent to competition@bookshop.unsw.edu.au