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“Margaret Simons, queen of the tiny vegetable garden, heartened me with her radiant pragmatism.” ―Helen Garner, author of This House of Grief
Life lessons from the ground up.
Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get lucky, or unlucky. All these things are true of life, as of gardening.
In this thoughtful and beautifully observed book, journalist and gardening enthusiast Margaret Simons takes readers on a journey through the seasons, through her life, and through the tiny patch of inner-urban earth that is home to her garden.
Over the course of a year, within the garden and without, there are births to celebrate and deaths to mourn; there are periods of great happiness and light, and times of quiet reflection. There is, in other words, all the chaos, joy, sorrow, and splendor of being alive.
Pride and Prejudices
Both deeply personal and global in scope, Pride and Prejudices presents the life story of international human rights lawyer Keio Yoshida alongside an urgent, engaging overview of the state of LGBTQ+ rights worldwide.
Keio Yoshida came of age in socially conservative Ireland, where homosexuality was criminalized until 1993. Experiencing discrimination and stigma, Yoshida lived a closeted existence, pressured by their loved ones and by larger society to self-censor and hide their true desires and gender expression until they left the country after college.
Intimate and engaging, Pride and Prejudices pairs Yoshida’s story—from coming out as a lesbian, becoming a trailblazing human rights advocate, to later becoming a nonbinary transmasculine rainbow parent—with a treatise on the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ+ rights around the globe. Fascinating examples of landmark case law are covered from the US, Sri Lanka, the UK, India, and more—from Oscar Wilde’s trial in 1895 to Obergefell v Hodges, from “Don’t Say Gay” to Bostock v Clayton County, from Rosanna Flamer Caldera v Sri Lanka to the “gay cake” case.
By weaving together personal history and legal analysis, Yoshida illustrates the devastating consequences of discrimination and criminalization on queer and trans lives, and the importance of stronger legal protections.
Today, as we see increased hostility toward queer and trans communities in the US, Pride and Prejudices offers a hopeful vision of the future—one filled with queer joy and love and liberation—where each of us has the freedom to live our lives authentically, on our own terms.
This brighter and more just world is possible, Yoshida argues, but we must keep fighting for it.
Zen in the Garden
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter
The seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected
Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really ‘talk’ to one another? What are the black birds saying today? And is there a mindful way to deal with an aphid infestation?
From rising early to walk barefoot on the grass each morning, to afternoons and evenings spent sipping tea in her gazebo or watching fireflies as she recalls her childhood in Japan, in Zen in the Garden Sakamoto shares observations from a life spent in contemplation—and cultivation—of nature.
Diary of a Young Doctor
A powerful eyewitness account of the genocide in Gaza by an extraordinary young writer and general physician.
Five days before October 7, 2023, a young Palestinian doctor returns to Gaza, having completed his medical studies abroad. His family gathers to celebrate his achievements and to welcome him home. On October 11, forty-two members of his extended family are killed in an airstrike, and thus begins his incredible story of survival and service to his people.
For more than eight months, Dr. Ezzideen Shehab volunteers at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, witnessing at first hand catastrophic injuries and deaths, and working under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. Constantly targeted by the Israeli Defence Forces, the Indonesian hospital is ultimately destroyed.
In December 2024, Dr. Shehab cofounds the Al-Rahma Medical Clinic to provide free medical care in northern Gaza, where no functioning hospitals remain. The clinic is damaged multiple times, and in July 2025 is forced to close. Dr. Shehab and his family are displaced for the fifth time, with no hope of ever returning to their demolished home in the north of Gaza.
In his testimony of these months, Dr. Shehab’s clarity and humanity shine through. He describes the people he treats, the devastation of his homeland, and his incomprehension at the world’s silence in the face of the unfolding genocide. Diary of a Young Doctor is a deeply moving and unforgettable work that bears witness to one of the most shameful periods in recent global history.
Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons is an award-winning freelance journalist and author, and a journalism academic at the University of Melbourne. She has published thirteen books, including biographies of the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, and Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, which won book of the year and best nonfiction book at the 2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. In the past, Simons has worked for The Age and The Australian newspapers. As a freelancer, she has had work published in dozens of magazines and newspapers in Australia and overseas. Margaret lives in Melbourne.
Keio Yoshida
Keio Yoshida is an international human rights lawyer and barrister. In February 2025, they were named by Attitude magazine as one of the 101 LGBTQ+ trailblazers ranking as top 10 in the area of law and business. Yoshida is the co-author of Silenced Women (Octopus, 2024) and co-editor of Feminist Conversations on Peace (Bristol University Press, 2022)—Pride and Prejudices is Yoshida’s first book to be published in North America. Yoshida sits on the international advisory board of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, and previously sat on the advisory board of the Center for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Keio lives in Madrid, Spain
Miki Sakamoto
Miki Sakamoto was born in 1950 in Kagoshima, Japan. She studied classical Japanese and Chinese literature in Tokyo and cultural anthropology (MA) in Munich, where she has lived since 1974. When living in Japan, she wrote for several newspapers. Alongside Japanese haikus and German poetry, she has authored works about Munich (Münchener Freiheit — Munich Freedom) and her grandmother (Die Kirschblütenreise — The Cherry Blossom Journey). Most recently she has written the poetic companion books Eintauchen in den Wald (Immersing Yourself in the Forest) (Hanserblau, 2019) and Zen und das Glück, im Garten zu arbeiten (publishing in English as Zen in the Garden) (Aufbau, 2021). Last year Lichtwechsel (Changes in the Light), a volume of her poetry and nature writing, was published in German and Japanese (Weissbooks, 2021). She lives near Munich with her husband, the biologist and bestselling author Josef H. Reichholf.
Ezzideen Shehab
Dr Ezzideen Shehab is a young doctor from northern Gaza, born in 1995 and raised in Jabalia. He went to Arafat Gifted Secondary School and did his medical training in Iran at the University of Isfahan. He returned to Gaza just a few days before 7 October 2023 and has provided medical care to its people ever since.