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Fleur McDonald
Mary-Rose MacColl
Elizabeth Coleman
Jessica Rowe
Kitty Flanagan
Urzila Carlson APRIL 2019
Phillip Bradley
Wilbur Smith
new books
THE TRUE STORY OF
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MADDIE BRIGHT
Mary-Rose MacColl
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9781760295240 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
The bestselling author of In Falling Snow returns with a
spellbinding tale of friendship, love and loyalty
In 1920, at seventeen years of age, Maddie Bright takes a job as
a serving girl on the Royal Tour of Australia by Edward, Prince of
Wales. She meets the prince's young staff and the prince himself—
beautiful, boyish, godlike. Maddie might be on the adventure of
a lifetime. Sixty-one years later, Maddie Bright is living a small
life in a ramshackle house in Brisbane. But an unlooked-for letter
has arrived in the mail and there's news on the television from
Buckingham Palace that makes her shout back at the screen.
Maddie Bright's true story may change. In August 1997, London
journalist Victoria Byrd is tasked by her editor with the job of
finding the elusive M.A. Bright, author of the classic war novel
of ill-fated love, Autumn Leaves. It seems Bright has written a
second novel and Victoria has been handed the scoop.
Written with real warmth and wit, these evocative strands twist
across the seas and over two continents, intersecting with the
lives of Edward and Princess Diana, two of the most hated and
loved figures of the twentieth century. The True Story of Maddie
Bright is a novel that tells stories and reveals truth; a novel that
considers the inescapable ties of mothering, friendship, duty and
love.
Mary-Rose MacColl is the award-winning author of No Safe Place,
In Falling Snow, Swimming Home and For a Girl. She lives in
Brisbane.
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LOSING THE PLOT
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Elizabeth Coleman
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9781760633431 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Funny, charming and captivating, with a plot within a plot, and a
girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places
'I loved it! It's got a kind of Bridget Jones feel and such a page
turner. Great fun but with such beautiful heart. I've already cast
the film/series in my head!' Rebecca Gibney
Vanessa Rooney is a thirty-something dental assistant who finds
herself a single mum with a hole in her heart where her husband
had been. Adrift, she somehow finds the courage to fulfil her
childhood dream of writing a romance novel but soon discovers
that her novel has been plagiarised by celebrity author, Charlotte
Lancaster. Vanessa reluctantly sues Charlotte with the help of
suburban solicitor Dave Rendall, who's nursing some unfulfilled
dreams of his own. When Charlotte's spurned husband, gun QC
Marcus Stafford, agrees to join their legal team, Vanessa feels like
her perfect man has stepped out of the pages of her book and
into her life.
As all hell breaks loose publicly and privately, Vanessa confronts
a painful past and realises what Dave already knew—that she's an
intelligent, funny, amazing woman and Marcus Stafford is, well, a
tosspot. Vanessa finally understands that what she wanted wasn't
what she needed, but has this realisation come too late?
Elizabeth Coleman is an acclaimed playwright with the smash
hits Secret Bridesmaids' Business and It's My Party (And I'll Die
If I Want To). As a screenwriter, she has written for many of
Australia's most popular dramas including Miss Fisher's Murder
Mysteries and Bed of Roses.
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WITHOUT A DOUBT
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Fleur McDonald
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9781760633158 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Detective Dave Burrows finds himself on the wrong side of the law
as he searches for the link between a murdered man and illegal
stock trading in this suspenseful rural crime novel
Detective Dave Burrows had never even heard of Nundrew in
Queensland before. He'd certainly never would have guessed that
this was where he'd be risking his life. In Barrabine, as Dave's
workload skyrockets, his wife Melinda is unhappy about being left
alone to raise their eighteen-month-old daughter. It's not how
Dave wants it either, but crimes still have to be investigated and
he's the only one able to do it. Melinda's interfering father isn't
helping. He's never thought that Dave was right for his daughter
and he's not shy about telling him. When things come to a head at
home, Dave's policing mate, Spencer, comes up with a plan. In the
most dangerous mission of his life, Dave knows what he needs to
do. If he's found out, he'll never see Melinda again. Of that he's
sure.
Fleur McDonald is one of the highest-selling authors of rural
fiction with titles including Sapphire Falls, The Missing Pieces of
Us, Suddenly One Summer and Fool's Gold. She lives in Esperance.
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FLED KING OF KINGS
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Meg Keneally Wilbur Smith
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9781760680275 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781785768460 | $39.99 | | HB | FICTION
Highway robber. Convict. Runaway. Mother. She An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and
will do anything for freedom, but at what cost? war—the long-awaited sequel to the worldwide
bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun
Jenny Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced
by poverty to live in the forest, she becomes a Cairo, 1887. When Pernod Ballantyne's jealous
successful highwaywoman—until her luck runs former lover plants doubt about his character, his
out. Transported to Australia, Jenny must tackle fiancée Amber Benbrook leaves him and travels
new challenges and growing responsibilities. And to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister
when famine hits the new colony, Jenny becomes and her adventurer husband. On a mission to
convinced that those she cares about most will establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous
not survive. She becomes the leader in a grand journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where
plot of escape, but is survival any more certain they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings.
in a small open boat on an unknown ocean? Meg But Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are
Keneally's debut solo novel is an epic historical rumours of a plan to invade . . .
adventure based on the extraordinary life of
convict Mary Bryant. Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion
in the city's opium dens. When he is rescued
Meg Keneally is co-author with Tom Keneally of by an old friend in the Italian army and offered
The Soldier's Curse and The Unmourned. She the chance to assess the situation around the
lives in Sydney. Abyssinian border, Penrod leaps at the chance
of action. With storm clouds gathering, and on
opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and
Amber find their way back to one another—
against all the odds?
Wilbur Smith is a worldwide phenomenon as the
author of 41 global bestsellers that have sold
over 130 million copies and been translated into
26 languages.
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LANNY BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM
Max Porter Peter Swanson
FABER FABER
9780571340286 | $27.99 | | HB | FICTION 9780571340651 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A devastating story told with the anarchy, An exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban
humour and enchantment readers will recognise wife whose fears about her new neighbour could
from Grief is the Thing with Feathers lead them both to murder . . .
There is a village outside London, no different When Hen and Lloyd move into their new
from many others. Everyday lives conjure a house, they're relieved to meet the only
tapestry of fabulism and domesticity. This village other seemingly-childless couple in their
belongs to the people who live in it and to the Massachusetts neighbourhood, Matthew and
people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. Mira Dolamore. When they're invited over for
It belongs to England's mysterious past and its dinner, however, things take a sinister turn as
confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Hen thinks she sees something suspicious in
Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber Matthew's study. Could this charming, mild-
and is listening, and watching. He is watching mannered College Professor be hiding a dark
Mad Pete the village artist. He is listening to secret—one that only Hen battling her own
ancient Peggy gossiping at her gate, to families problems with depression and medication could
recently moved here and to families dead for know? Forced together, Hen and Matthew start
generations. Dead Papa Toothwort hears them all to form an unlikely bond. But who, if anyone,
as he searches, intently, for his favourite. Looking is really in danger? From its deeply unsettling
for the boy. Lanny. opening, the master of contemporary domestic
thrillers fashions a novel as brilliant, dark,
Max Porter is the multi-prize-winning author of coruscating and surprising as Patricia Highsmith
Grief is the Thing with Feathers. He lives in the and Ira Levin at their very best.
UK.
Peter Swanson is the acclaimed author of The
Girl with a Clock for a Heart, The Kind Worth
Killing, Her Every Fear and All the Beautiful Lies.
He lives in Massachusetts.
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LOVING SYLVIE THE HEAVENS HARK
Elizabeth Smither Sandra Newman Sam Lipsyte
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9781988547114 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781783784844 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION 9781783783212 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
A sensual, witty novel that cleverly weaves New York, 2000. Kate and Ben fall in love. In an America convulsed by political
in the stories of three generations of It is the first year without a war, a woman upheaval, cultural discord, environmental
women: Sylvie, her mother Madeleine and is president and camaraderie permeates collapse and spiritual confusion, folks are
grandmother Isobel. Shifting between the the streets. Kate falls asleep, knowing she searching for peace, salvation and just a
points of view of each main character, is loved. London, 1593. Kate wakes as the little damn focus. Enter Hark Morner, an
it tells their stories with gentle, deeply mistress of a nobleman and finds the plague unwitting guru whose technique of ‘Mental
observant humour through their love at her door. Each decision she makes will Archery’—a combination of mindfulness,
affairs, food, rivalries, marriages, pets and change her life with Ben forever. A story of mythology, fake history, yoga, and, well,
all the beautiful minutiae of everyday life. love and alternate universes, madness and archery—is set to raise him to near-messiah
Described as having 'a gift for wry comedy time travel, The Heavens is a novel of what status. A riotous novel of awkward believers,
combined with an eye for pinpoint detail', we have lost, and what we might yet be able floundering marriages and our maladjusted
Elizabeth is one of New Zealand's finest to save. 21st century, from one of America's sharpest
writers. satirists.
Sandra Newman is the acclaimed author of
Elizabeth Smither MNZM is a multi-award- The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done. Sam Lipsyte is the author of The Subject
winning poet, short story writer and novelist. She lives in New York. Steve, Home Land and The Ask. He lives in
New York.
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NIGHT THEATRE ONLY AMERICANS BURN THE SILVER ROAD
Vikram Paralkar IN HELL Stina Jackson
Jarett Kobek
SERPENT’S TAIL CORVUS
9781788161329 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION SERPENT’S TAIL 9781786497321 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
9781788162203 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION
A former surgeon goes about closing up his Three years ago, Lelle's daughter went
dilapidated clinic in rural India. His day, like What if you were a novelist in a world missing in a remote part of Northern
all his days, has been long and hard. As dusk where the only media people consumed Sweden. He has spent the intervening
falls, he is visited by a family. Victims of a was spectacular pornography about war summers driving the Silver Road searching
senseless attack, they reveal wounds they with titles like Captain America? What if for his lost daughter, for himself and for
could not possibly have survived. And so the your country had elected as its leader a redemption. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old
surgeon is faced with a preposterous task: shameless millionaire who was stealing your Meja arrives in town hoping for a fresh start.
to mend the dead so they may return to life. money, your democracy and your dignity? But there are dangers to be found in this
At once dustily realist and magically unreal, What if the media were owned by filthy rich isolated place. An unforgettably atmospheric
Night Theatre is a powerful fable about the men who didn't give two shits about any of debut from a rising star about a young
miracles we ask of doctors, and the fine line it as long as it continued to make them filthy woman's disappearance and a lonely man's
they negotiate between life and death. rich? Wouldn't it be enough to send you obsession with discovering the truth.
certifiably insane? A despairingly hilarious
Vikram Paralkar is a physician-scientist at satire of the modern world, from #MeToo to Stina Jackson was raised in Northern
the University of Pennsylvania. He was born Trump. Sweden. She now lives in Colorado.
and raised in Mumbai.
Jarett Kobek is the Turkish-American author
8 of I Hate the Internet and The Future Won't
Be Long.
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THE NARROW LAND LOT DON'T SEND FLOWERS
Christine Dwyer Hickey Stories Martin Solares
Bryan Washington
ATLANTIC GROVE PRESS
9781786496720 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION ATLANTIC 9781611854893 | $19.99 | | PB | FICTION
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1950: Cape Cod. Ten-year-old Michael is From a writer whose work has been praised
spending the summer with Richie and his In the city of Houston—a sprawling, diverse by Junot Diaz as 'Latin American fiction at
glamorous but troubled mother. Left to their microcosm of America—the son of a black its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,' Don't
own devices, the boys meet artists Jo and mother and a Latino father is coming of Send Flowers is a riveting novel centred on
Edward Hopper, and an unlikely friendship age. He's working at his family's restaurant, Carlos Trevino, a retired police detective in
is forged. She, volatile, passionate and often weathering his brother's blows, resenting northern Mexico who has to go up against
irrational, suffers bouts of obsessive sexual his older sister's absence. And discovering the corruption and widespread violence
jealousy. He, withdrawn and unwell, becomes he likes boys. Around him, others live that caused him to leave the force, when
besotted by Richie's frail and beautiful and thrive and die in Houston's myriad he's hired by a wealthy businessman to find
Aunt Katherine who has not long to live—an neighbourhoods. With soulful insight into his missing daughter. It is a twisty, darkly
infatuation he shares with Michael. A novel what makes a community, a family, and a captivating portrait of contemporary Mexico
of loneliness and regret, the legacy of life, Lot explores trust and love in all its from one of its most original voices.
WWII and the ever-changing concept of the unsparing and unsteady forms.
American Dream. Martin Solares is the acclaimed author of
Bryan Washington has written for The New The Black Minutes. He lives in Mexico City.
Christine Dwyer Hickey is the award-winning Yorker, The New York Times, BuzzFeed and
author of Last Train from Liguria and Cold The Paris Review. He lives in Houston.
Eye of Heaven. She lives in Ireland. 9
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NUMBER ONE CHINESE THE HIDDEN A RECKONING
RESTAURANT Mary Chamberlain Linda Spalding
Lillian Li
ONEWORLD MUSWELL PRESS
PUSHKIN 9781786076441 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781999613501 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
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Dora Simon is comfortable in her retirement. Spring, 1855. Virginian farmer John
The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Joe O'Cleary is content on his Jersey farm. Dickinson has a dangerous secret. The
Maryland has been serving devoted But they are forced to confront a past they family's riches have been wasted by his
regulars for decades, but behind the staff's never thought they would revisit by the reckless brother and the enslaved workers
professional masks simmer tensions, arrival of Barbara Hummel, a young German have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist
heartaches and grudges from decades anxious to track down the identity of a who pushes them to escape. One does, and
of gruelling service work. An exuberant, mysterious woman whose photograph she his pursuit of freedom involves a dangerous
sharply comic and wise multigenerational found among her mother's possessions. A quest to find his mother and child.
novel about the tangled lives of people powerful novel of passion and guilt, silence Meanwhile, the Dickinsons become fugitives
working, fighting and falling in love in and memory, casting light into the forgotten of another kind, escaping their losses in a
a neighbourhood Chinese restaurant. or unknown shadows of war. Perfect for fans wagon en route to a new life. A humane and
‘Fantastic . . . Reminiscent of a prime-time of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie timely examination of how the societies we
drama that you can't stop watching.’—Bon Society. create set the parameters for the people we
Appétit become.
Lillian Li received the Hopwood Award in Mary Chamberlain is an historian and author Linda Spalding is the critically acclaimed
Short Fiction. She lives in Michigan. of The Dressmaker of Dachau. She lives in author of The Purchase. She lives in Toronto
10 London. with her husband Michael Ondaatje.ALLEN & UNWIN
THE CHOKE SOMEONE LIKE
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Karly Lane
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Winner of the 2018 Indie Book Award for From the best-selling author of Six Ways
CLOSE TO THE EDGE Fiction—a mesmerising, harrowing and to Sunday comes an intriguing, funny and
ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles romantic story about past lives and new
Toby Faber Franklin winner. beginnings.
MUSWELL PRESS
9781999613532 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION
Morning rush hour on the London tube. SCRUBLANDS THREE GOLD
Laurie Bateman witnesses a terrible Chris Hammer COINS
accident. Life had been looking up but after Josephine Moon
the accident everything seems to plummet
downhill. Her flat is burgled, her flatmate
three
assaulted, she loses her phone and then her
job. Are these events linked? Perhaps what
goldoins
she had seen was something more sinister.
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of night—the hunter has become the hunted.
Set in a fictional Riverina town at the height of A masterfully written celebration of food,
a devastating drought, this is one of the most family, triumph over adversity, and love—a
Toby Faber is the author of Stradivarius and
powerful, compelling and original crime novels deliciously imperfect life.
Faberge’s Eggs. He lives in London.
to be written in Australia.
11FABER STORIES
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To mark its 90th anniversary in 2019 as a ‘publisher of distinctive literature’,
Faber is celebrating its history, authors and design heritage with Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual
flapped paperback volumes showcasing short story writers working in a range of genres and styles.
MARY COME RAIN MR SALARY THE VICTIM A GOOD MAN
VENTURA OR COME P.D. James IS HARD TO
Sally Rooney
AND THE SHINE FIND
NINTH Kazuo Ishiguro Flannery
KINGDOM O'Connor
Sylvia Plath
Faber Faber Faber Faber Faber
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COSMOPOLITAN DANTE AND PARADISE THE INNER LYDIA
Akhil Sharma THE LOBSTER Edna O'Brien ROOM STEPTOE
Samuel Beckett Robert Aickman STORIES
Djuna Barnes
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12DIARY OF A CRAP HOUSEWIFE
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Jessica Rowe
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9781760529529 | $29.99 | | PB | PARENTING
Why not cut the crap, take the pressure off and admit to the
moments, days, weeks and months when the wheels of the
household do fall off?
The #craphousewife movement calls to unite all mothers who, like
Jess, sometimes feel they are not perfect. Being a crap housewife
is a badge Jess wears with pride, and it's a title she invites other
women to embrace. For Jess, the idea of crap is the real-life
messes, hiccups, disasters and bad meals that many of us dish up
and deal with every day.
This mum is tired of the photos of perfectly packed school
lunches, posts about gourmet family dinners eaten together
over the table, and tales of neat, tidy and obedient children with
smoothly brushed hair. In this fabulous, funny, down-to-earth
book, Jess writes honestly about her cooking, mothering, career,
botox, family and many other #craphousewife interests.
Jessica Rowe is a writer, television host and author of This
Beautiful Life. She launched craphousewife.com in 2017 and
currently has over 80,000 followers and counting across social
media.
13KITTY FLANAGAN'S 488
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RULES FOR LIFE
An antidote to stupidity
Kitty Flanagan
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9781760875305 | $29.99 | | PB | HUMOUR
One of Australia's favourite and most multi-talented entertainers
provides hilarious and honest life advice in this candid collection
of cautionary tales
'Rules are great. I love rules. Rules are what differentiate us
from the chimps'—Kitty Flanagan. As we travel through life, we
discover that many, many people are very annoying—and that is
why we need rules. 488 rules for life is Kitty Flanagan's way of
making the world a more pleasant place to live.
In this book, Kitty Flanagan combines ancient wisdom with
decades of experience and lots of time spent at home with her
cat to provide four hundred and eighty-eight profound and
challenging principles for how to live a meaningful life, from
making sure you do a final check before exiting the toilet to not
chewing with your mouth open. Gripping, thought-provoking and
deeply rewarding, 488 Rules for Life offers an antidote to the
idiot in your life: eternal truths applied to our modern problems.
Kitty Flanagan is a popular comedian well-known for her regular
appearances on The Project and The Weekly.
14ROLLING WITH THE
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PUNCHLINES
Urzila Carlson
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9781760875459 | $29.99 | | PB | MEMOIR | AVAILABLE MARCH
Chuckle, laugh and snigger along with this fascinating memoir of
a life in comedy
Written with her trademark deadpan humour, Urzila's memoir
is full of great stories about both the big things in life and the
little things. Her accidental beginning in stand-up has led to an
incredibly successful career in comedy, with regular gigs on
television as well as sell-out shows in comedy festivals across
New Zealand and Australia. But life hasn't always been a bundle
of laughs.
Urzila talks candidly about her childhood with a great family,
apart from her abusive dad, and about growing up in South
Africa. She shares crazy but true tales about her OE, her move to
New Zealand, coming out, getting married and having children,
and her life in comedy. Fully revised and updated with new
chapters, this is a great read from one of our most loved and
most popular comedians.
Urzila Carlson is a multi-award-winning comedian whose stand-up
shows have been hugely popular sell-outs in Melbourne, Sydney
and Perth. She will be appearing at the Melbourne International
Comedy Festival and in a Netflix comedy special in 2019.
15ESTHER
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The extraordinary true story of the First Fleet girl who became
First Lady of the colony
Jessica North
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9781760527372 | $29.99 | | PB | HISTORY
The little-known rags to riches love story of a convict woman who
arrived in Australia on the First Fleet
Sixteen-year-old Esther Abrahams only just escaped the hangman
in London. Standing trial for stealing twenty-four yards of black
silk lace, worth fifty shillings, her sentence was 'transportation
to parts beyond the seas' for seven years. So Esther forcibly
embarked on the perilous journey around the globe on the First
Fleet where she took up with the dashing young First Lieutenant
George Johnston. Usually such arrangements between convict
women and army officers were temporary, but George and
Esther’s connection endured. In the early days, the couple lived
in a tent at Sydney Cove, and, over time, George was granted
land in what is now the Sydney suburb of Annandale, where they
established a farm and raised a large family.
When Governor Bligh was deposed by the Rum Corps, Lieutenant-
Colonel George Johnston briefly became Lieutenant-Governor
of NSW and his life companion, Esther, became First Lady of
the colony—a remarkable rise in society for a former convict. At
Lachlan Macquarie’s insistence, George and Esther were finally
married in fine style at their grand residence. Much like another,
better-known colonial woman, Elizabeth Macarthur, Esther
Abrahams successfully managed her husband's property in the
new colony and when George died, Esther took control of their
business interests becoming one of Sydney's wealthiest citizens.
Jessica North is a program director at the Australian Research
16 Institute for Environment and Sustainability at Macquarie
University.D-DAY NEW GUINEA
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The extraordinary story of the battle for Lae and the greatest
airborne and amphibious operation of the Pacific War
Phillip Bradley
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9781760632588 | $32.99 | | PB | HISTORY
The true story of the Battle for Lae, Australia's greatest air and
amphibious landing of World War II
'Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive
from New Guinea'—Japanese military saying.
The capture of Lae was the most complex and most successful
operation for the Australian army in the Pacific. In many ways
it was also a test run of sorts for the D-Day invasion of France
with paratroop landings and the first operational use of the
large landing craft. But this is not just a book about a successful
military campaign that affected the outcome of the war. It is also
a story of the Australian, American and Japanese participants in
the battle, dangerous Australian commando raids, and significant
tensions between the Australian and American high command.
Phillip Bradley brings a compelling clarity and humanity to his
writing that is often missing from military histories. In D-Day New
Guinea, he will also bring new insight to a major Australian battle
that has never been written about in any significant way.
Phillip Bradley is a leading Australian military historian and
author of the ground-breaking Hell's Battlefield.
17CHOICE WORDS
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A collection of writing about abortion
Ed. Louise Swinn
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9781760875220 | $29.99 | | PB | AVAILABLE MARCH
A cri de coeur and passionate appeal from writers, thinkers,
musicians, actors, comedians, activists and political staffers,
offering personal stories of abortion alongside historical record
and political anecdote
At a time when abortion is a criminal act and prosecution is a
real risk in parts of Australia, this book is needed more than
ever. The world watched aghast last July when a Tasmanian
woman lost her job at a high-profile sporting agency for tweeting
the truth. Even in states in which abortion is legal, access can
be nearly impossible. This treasury of stories highlights the
sheer commonality of abortion. Women have been dealing with
the risks and the fall-out for longer than there is record. It is
poignant, wise, funny and true; a salute to those who have been
working in the field, a celebration of how far we've come, an
electrifying caterwaul at how far we still have to go, and a clarion
call to action.
Contributors include Jane Caro, Claudia Karvan, Laura Jean,
Melissa Lucashenko, Emily Maguire, Tara June Winch, Michelle
Law, Tony Birch, Melanie Cheng, Anne Summers, Gideon Haigh,
Monica Dux, Bri Lee, Jenny Kee, and a foreword by Tanya
Plibersek. Proceeds from Choice Words will go to the charity
Marie Stopes Australia, the only national, independently-
accredited, not-for-profit safe abortion provider, that has helped
more than 600,000 women in the past twenty years.
Louise Swinn is a writer, editor, publisher, reviewer, prize judge,
and literary event chair.
18THE COLONIAL FANTASY THE IMPOSSIBLE CLIMB
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Why white Australia can't solve black problems Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the climbing life
Sarah Maddison Mark Synnott
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9781760295820 | $34.99 | | PB | CURRENT AFFAIRS 9781760633226 | $32.99 | | PB | SPORT
A controversial argument for a radical The story of the greatest climbing feat ever
rethink on government policies on Indigenous undertaken—Alex Honnold's 2017 solo, rope-less
issues in Australia free climb of the legendary 3000-foot vertical
cliff, El Capitan
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people. Whatever the The Impossible Climb climaxes with Alex
policy—from protection to assimilation, self- Honnold’s unprecedented, almost unimaginable
determination to intervention, reconciliation to feat: a 3,000-foot vertical climb up El Capitan
recognition—government policies and programs in Yosemite, with no help. No climbing partner.
have made little positive difference. In far too No equipment. No rope. Where a single small
many instances, interaction with governments mistake would mean certain death. To most,
has only made Indigenous lives worse. The it would be seen as an insane proposition. But
Colonial Fantasy considers why Australia most are not Alex Honnold, and few know this
persists in the face of such obvious failure. It better than Mark Synnott. He tells the story
argues that white Australia can't solve black in the context of a deeply reported account of
problems because white Australia is the problem. his ten-year friendship with Honnold, multiple
Indigenous policy in Australia has resisted the climbing expeditions and the climbing ethos they
one thing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait share. The result is an emotional drama driven
Islander people want, and the one thing that by people exploring the limits of human potential
has made a difference elsewhere: the ability and seeking a perfect dance with nature. They
to control and manage their own lives. This dare beyond the ordinary, but this story of the
book argues for a radical restructuring of the sublime is really about all of us. Who doesn’t
relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait need to face down fear and make the most of the
Islander people and governments, seeing the time we have?
resurgence of Indigenous nationhood as the only
way forward. Mark Synnott is regarded as one of the most
prolific adventurers of his generation and works
Sarah Maddison is a Director of GetUp! and the for National Geographic.
author of Black Politics and Beyond White Guilt.
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THE GULF COUNTRY MAGNOLIA KITCHEN THE NOTE THROUGH THE
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Doug Gold
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blogger and public speaker in the field of and important Turkish writers. In February
diet and health, with a PhD in public health Frans de Waal is a world-renowned 2018 he was sentenced to life imprisonment
nutrition. primatologist and New York Times- by the Turkish state for his work as a
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