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Chasing a Dream by Carla Coulson $59.95 Hardback (Lantern)

Eleven years ago, Sydney girl-about-town Carla Coulson swapped a corporate job and a cushy life for an old camera, an uncertain future and a way of living that would ignite her soul. She recorded the first part of her journey – her new life in Florence and, later, Paris – in the best-selling books Italian Joy and Paris Tango. Early in her new career as a photographer, Carla was advised to 'shoot from the heart'. In this wonderfully diverse collection of photographs, taken in Italy, France, Greece, India and her native Australia, Carla does just that, lovingly recording the people and places she has encountered along the way. Her joie de vivre radiates from every photograph.

Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons by Hart & Smee $49.95 (Thames & Hudson)

Williams revolutionized the way we see the Australian environment. This publication coincides with the Williams exhibition that will tour Australia in November 2011 and early 2012 – the first major retrospective of his work in over two decades. The book highlights his strength as a painter and includes a wide range of oil paintings and luminous gouaches, along with new material from the artist’s diaries and his remarkable China sketchbook. Readers will have the opportunity to travel with Williams from the 1940s to his last works in 1981. A fitting tribute to an outstanding Australian artist.

Pilgrimage by Annie Leibovitz $69.95 Hardback (Jonathon Cape)

Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn’t on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. 'That’s when I started making lists,' she says. She added the houses of Virginia Woolf and Darwin in the English countryside and Freud’s final home, in London. The work became more ambitious as Leibovitz discovered that she wanted to photograph objects as well as rooms and landscapes. A definitive collection by one of the world’s great photographers.

Vienna 1900 – Klimt, Schiele and Their Times by Christian Meyer $79.99 (Hatje Cantz)

Around 1900, the Vienese Secession and the Wiener Werkstatte turned Vienna into the birthplace of modernism. This is a simply stunning art book that represents the works of the most prominent artists of its times. The close cooperation among the artists of this period evolved into a new concept of art, that of the Gesamtkunswerk – which roughly translates into ‘work that is similar. Artists like Klimt, and Schiele are represented here but so are designers and furniture makers –all typifying the spirit of their times – and the whole makes an unusual and visually superb art book. A must for all art lovers.

Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route $59.00 Paperback (National Museum of Australia)

The Aboriginal people of Australia’s Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of the ‘Canning Stock Route’ along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south. In July and August 2007, nearly 70 artists, facilitated by Western Australian cultural organisation FORM, travelled up the stock route on a six-week return to Country. Yiwarra Kuju includes beautiful plates of the complete Canning Stock Route.

William Creek & Beyond: Australian Artists explore the Outback $79.95 Hardback (Craftsman House)

In 2000 ten of Australia’s most famous artists set out on an adventure that would take them into the heart of the continent. The book of that remarkable journey has become a collector’s item and a classic depiction of wild Australia. It is now reprinted for the first time. The art ranges from classical depictions of the landscape to the most modern of interpretations. The artists involved are Jason Benjamin, Hazel Donney, Robert Jacks, David Larwill, Jeff Makin, John Olsen, Rodney Pople, Mark Schaller, Andrew Sibley and Tim Storrier.

Brett Whiteley – A Sensual Line by Katie Sutherland $130.00 Hardback (Macmillan)

This is a beautifully designed and sumptuously illustrated book about Whiteley. It is an exemplary tribute to this outstanding Australian artist who died in 1992 after living life to the full. Sutherland’s study focuses on the early abstract works produced in Sydney and then extends into an account of the phenomenal success that followed with his transition to figuration after bursting onto the London art scene. His professional success during these years was nothing short of meteoric. The book contains paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures created during these years.