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**STOP PRESS**
Do you need help writing your essays? The UNSW Bookshop, in conjunction with The Research Den, is offering UNSW students a FREE essay writing workshop on Wednesday 4th June 11am - 12 noon. Bronwyn Hall, the author of the bestselling book The Night Before Essay Planner will take you through the basics of how to plan, research and write your essay.
To book your spot email here.
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 In Proust and the Squid, academic Maryanne Wolf explores the way in which the advent of the written word and the act of reading has radically altered the organisation human brain over centuries. She also investigates what happens to people whose brains make it difficult to acquire these skills, such as those with dyslexia. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, literature and linguistics Proust and the Squid is an ambitious and provocative new book that offers an impassioned look at reading and its effect on our lives.
 Tim Winton's new novel Breath is a slim but breathtakingly potent novel about coming of age, the bonds that unite us, and the rifts that can tear us apart with lifelong consequences. On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking adolescent boys fall into the enigmatic thrall of veteran big-wave surfer Sando. Together they form an odd but elite trio, testing themselves in storm swells on remote and shark-infested reefs, pushing each other to the edges of endurance, courage, and sanity. Breath is a rich and atmospheric coming-of-age tale from one of our finest storytellers.
A riveting first novel from Shaena Lambert, Radiance draws us deeply into the lives of two women living in the shadow of the atom bomb - and into the zeitgeist of an America appalled and entranced by its own destructive power. The year is 1952, Keiko, an eighteen-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, has been chosen to be the first Hiroshima Maiden. A salve for liberal America's conscience, she has been brought to the States to receive sponsored treatment for her radiation scars. Radiance is a precise and nuanced rendition of this historic moment, depicted through the intimate lens of the relationship between  Keiko and her host mother Daisy.
An elephant sighs forlornly and dies by the side of the road, just outside Dundee. Dr Patrick Blair, an ambitious local surgeonapothecary, embarks on a mission to become the first man in Britain to dissect an elephant. He employs Gilbert Orum, surgeon’s assistant and skilled copper engraver, to help him. The ensuing saga is recreated through Orum’s journal, accompanied by copious interjections and dubious observations from a mysterious editor. Elephantina: A Huge Misunderstanding by Andrew Drummond is an amusing and thoroughly enjoyable and ride through the forgotten side passages of history.
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Taken  from the pages of The Believer, an American literature magazine, along with previously unpublished conversations, this collection of conversations between writers and their mentors includes Zadie Smith with Ian McEwan; Jonathan Lethem with Paul Auster; Adam Thirlwell with Tom Stoppard; Susan Choi with Francisco Goldman; ZZ Packer with Edward P. Jones; and Dave Eggers with David Foster Wallace. The interviews in The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers  features the serious-yet-casual Believer approach to the standard, often formal, interview format.
What better way to warm up this winter than with a good book and some delicious home baked treats. Bake is a collection of the best recipes from the Australian Women’s Weekly test kitchen. From friands to tarts, pies to kids party cakes, this wonderful collection is a must have for anyone wishing to learn the art of baking.
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 Michelle de Krester has won the NSW Premiers Literary Awards, winning both the Christine Stead Prize for fiction and Book of the Year , for her novel The Lost Dog. Kretser describes her book as ‘a novel about loss and being haunted by what is not there and what has been left behind’. 
The Book of Negroes by Canadian author Lawrence Hill has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best overall book, a prize worth 10,000 pounds. A Golden Age by Bangladeshi author Tahmina Anam has won the best first book award. The Commonwealth writers prize is presented annually by the Commonwealth Foundation for the best Commonwealth fiction written in English, by both established and new writers.
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