McArthur and Company Publishing

GARDENS OF DELIGHT
Author: Erica James
ISBN: 0 75286 897 7 / 0 75287 705 4
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

The Gardens of Delight brochure promises the opportunity to visit some of the most beautiful and enchanting gardens in the Lake Como area of Italy. It should be a pleasant trip, yet as a group of travellers assemble to explore the region together, a peaceful life is the last thing they’re in for ... With the humour and warmth that hallmarks Erica James' writing, this novel is certain to delight and entertain her legion of fans.

GATTY’S TALE
Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN: 1-84255-273-2
Price: $24.95
Children: 9+

Gatty the village girl – a character much loved by readers of the Arthur trilogy – goes on pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Rich in detail of medieval life, teeming with new characters met on the journey, fraught with danger and uncertainty, this glorious and long-awaited picaresque novel follows her transformation as she rises to extraordinary challenges.

The first of an exciting new series of novels based on Get Outta Town - a hip, dynamic, teen-to-teen TV show where the youthful host travels around the world and connects with local teenagers to experience the life and culture of their specific city.

Mr. X is Xerxes Frankel - a bright, precocious 17-year-old who is willing to try anything. The first adventure takes him to Paris where, with his French cohort, he will secretly ride down the steps of the Eiffel Tower while being taped for the TV show. It is a race that will be timed - fastest to the bottom is the winner.

Octave Pompidou is Xerxes' Parisian contact. He is 18 years old and a mad cyclist. He rides everywhere and has cycled up and down just about everything.

Being on Get Outta Town is very cool but he also wants to challenge Xerxes when he lands on his turf. During the course of his filming however, unusual things being to happen.

GET OUTTA TOWN: MR. X AND THE COG TRAIN FROM HEAVEN –
Episode 2
Author: Wili Liberman
ISBN: 1-55278-583-1
Price: $9.99
Children: 12+

The second in an exciting new series of novels based on Get Outta Town – a hip dynamic teen TV show where the youthful hosts travel around the world and connect with a local teenager to experience the life and culture of their specific city.

Mr. X is Xerxes Frankel who is 17 years old, bright, precocious, has an advanced sense of the absurd and is willing to try just about anything. He has his own reality TV show called Get Outta Town! This second adventure takes him to Lucerne, Switzerland where, with his Swiss cohort, he will crash a professional snowboarding competition on Mount Titlis. It is a race that will be watched and shot by the world’s sports media. His co-host, Ludi Magister, is the world men’s under 19 amateur champion, so Xerxes has his work cut out for him. During the course of filming for the episode however, strange and unusual things begin to happen. See www.getouttatown.tv for more details on the show.

GET OUTTA TOWN: MR. X AND THE RAINFOREST MONKEY
Episode 3
Author: Wili Liberman
ISBN: 9781552785836
Price: $9.99
Children: 11+ years

The third in an exciting new series of novels based on"Get Outta Town" — a hip, dynamic teen TV show where the youthful hosts travel around the world and connect with a local teenager to experience the life and culture of their specific city.

Xerxes Frankel, the 17-year-old star of the teen travel series, Get Outta Town, wings his way to Costa Rica to hook up with Jasmine Lopez, a dedicated environmental activist. While doing his part to help save the rainforest, weird events occur. Helicopters appear out of nowhere. Strange men appear out of nowhere. He has a strange encounter with a Titi monkey. Jasmine is snatched and Xerxes crisscrosses the country searching for her. Xerxes’ ride is a bus, a banana bike, a motorbike, a horse, a surfboard, a waterfall and canopying through the rainforest. All in a few days work for an energetic TV star.

GETTING OUT OF THE HOUSE
Author: Isla Dewar
ISBN: 0 7553 2697 0
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Isla Dewar's warm and perceptive take on families and friendship will delight her many fans. It’s 1974, and 21-year-old Nora has made a fresh start. Leaving London and her mother's sulks and silences behind, she's moved up to Edinburgh and found a job on a magazine. As her new life blossoms, Nora tries to shake off the lingering sense of her mother's disapproval. But she still cannot forgive her. And when betrayal comes again, this time from a surprising source, Nora must come to terms with her past before she can embrace her future.

When Elizabeth, a reclusive historian, is found drowned in a tributary of the River Cam, she is clutching a glass prism and has left behind her unfinished magnum opus, a book on Isaac Newton's alchemy. Her son Cameron, turns to Lydia Brooke, a young writer and friend of Elizabeth’s, and asks her to complete the last chapter of the book. Lydia hesitantly agrees and moves into Elizabeth’s strange house where she soon finds herself entangled, not only with Cameron, but also with a four-hundred-year-old murder mystery, a network of seventeenth-century alchemists and a ghostly figure intent on disrupting her work.

A GIRL FOR ALL SEASONS
Author: Camella Morton
ISBN: 9780755317226
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

From the girl who taught you HOW TO WALK IN HIGH HEELS comes the must-have guide for surviving the seasons in style.

If you want to: rule the red carpet, curate an exhibition, perfect your public speaking, bring glamour to Glastonbury, enjoy opera, throw a fancy dress party, adopt a muse, discuss books, master the moonwalk and so much … You need: read A GIRL FOR ALL SEASONS.

THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN MURDERS
Author: David Rotenberg
ISBN: 1 55278-522-X / 1-55278-5955 (mass market)
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

It is after 9/11 but before Iraq. Shanghai has surpassed Hong Kong as Asia's most important city. The office of Special Investigations is running smoothly. Fong's personal life is stabilizing.

Then a late night phone call startles Fong into waking. The anonymous caller claims that there is an AIDS epidemic in far off An Hui province. He alleges that Chinese blood collectors — paid by a firm in the West — spread the deadly contagion and that Chinese government officials are growing rich by turning a blind eye to the trade.

GRAIL SPRINGS HOLISTIC DETOX
Author: Madeleine Marentette
ISBN:9781552786854
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

A book from the founder of the Grail Springs Spa in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada's Madeleine Marentette. GRAIL SPRINGS HOLISTIC DETOX is full of great advice about how to detox your mind and soul, using the best recipes and life lessons from the 'Queen of Detox'.

Grail Springs has, until now, been a quiet place to escape to and de-stress that only the stars knew about. Now you too can learn the secrets of the Master Cleanse, the transformational pH balanced acid/alkaline diet (as per the hugely successful Dr. Joshi and Dr. Haas), and cleanse your body, mind and spirit in time for the New Year.

Chapter headings include: The Quest for Wholeness; The Grail Code; Energy – the Language of the Universe; Life Plan; The Essential Elements of Optimum Health; Recipes; The Commitment; and a Grail Healthy Directory.

The five essential elements for health according to Grail Springs founder and director Madeleine Marentette are:

• Cleansing and Detoxifying
• Nourishment and Nutrition
• Movement & Fitness
• Breath Work
• Peace of Mind

Thousands of guests have enjoyed the peace and transformational experience that the Grail Springs lifestyle can bring …now you can too!

GRILLED TO PERFECTION
Author: Chris Knight and Tyler J. Smith
ISBN: 1-55278-568-8
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

Love to cook on the barbecue, but find your regular repertoire of steaks, hotdogs and hamburgers has become humdrum?

It's time to expand your barbecue know-how with Chris Knight and Chef Rob Rainford of TV's Licence to Grill. You'll learn how to create delicious meals with over 100 sumptuous recipes for meat, grilled vegetables, fish and even dessert. Each recipe has step-by-step instructions and the book has full colour photographs throughout to help you in your quest to grill everything to perfection!