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NEW ZEALAND
Elizabeth Smither
Bernadette Gee
Doug Gold
Urzila Carlson
Mary-Rose MacColl
APRIL 2019
Fleur McDonald
Wilbur Smith
new books
MAGNOLIA KITCHEN
ALLEN & UNWIN
Bernadette Gee
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781988547008 | $45.00 | | HB | FOOD AND DRINK
Enjoy the taste sensations of Magnolia Kitchen at home—
Bernadette 'Bets' Gee shares her delicious recipes, clever tips and
decorating inspiration
Well-known for her artistic cake designs, Bets of Magnolia Kitchen
is a force to be reckoned with. From humble beginnings, she now
runs a sweet cafe, wholesale distribution business and online
shop delivering her products worldwide, while maintaining a
strong following on Instagram. As well as her amazingly creative
custom cakes, Bets is celebrated for her macarons, doughnuts,
gourmet s'mores and many more mouth-watering treats.
In her first cookbook she shares her journey and her widely-
sought-after recipes so that you can enjoy the deliciousness at
home. With step-by-step instructions for cake decorating and
making macarons, and a full range of vegan and allergy-friendly
recipes, this is a must-have book for anyone interested in baking
and eating.
Bernadette Gee is a highly successful baker and owner of
Magnolia Kitchen Sweet Café in Auckland.
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THE NOTE THROUGH THE WIRE
ALLEN & UNWIN
Doug Gold
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781988547091 | $36.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
An extraordinary true story of a love that emerged, against all
odds, from the brutal war in Nazi-occupied Europe
The Note Through the Wire is a true World War II love story
about a Slovenian partisan, Josefine Lobnik, and a New Zealand
prisoner of war, Bruce Murray, who met by chance when she
pushed a note through the barbed wire fence of a POW camp. A
series of remarkable coincidences saw their lives intersect, but
they had to overcome extraordinary obstacles to realise their
dream of a life together.
On one level this is a rollicking yarn, with tales of intrigue, daring,
resistance, retaliation and escape. On another it's a fascinating
account of the resistance movement, the disastrous Allied Greek
campaign, the harshness of wartime life in a conquered nation,
the civil tensions that divided a young country and the barbarity
of the advancing Soviet forces. But at its heart this is an against-
all-odds love story between a POW and a local freedom fighter—a
true story with all the elements of fast-paced fiction.
Douglas Gold was the founder of the More FM radio network and
international media company, NRS Media. He lives in Wellington.
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KITTY FLANAGAN'S 488
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RULES FOR LIFE
An antidote to stupidity
Kitty Flanagan
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760875305 | $32.99 | | PB | HUMOUR
The multi-talented entertainer 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 an Australian comedian, writer, actor and author
of Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies.
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ROLLING WITH THE
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PUNCHLINES
Urzila Carlson
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760875459 | $32.99 | | 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 who appears
regularly on television. She lives in Auckland.
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ALLEN & UNWIN
THE IMPOSSIBLE CLIMB
Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the climbing life
Mark Synnott
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760633226 | $36.99 | | PB | SPORT
The story of the greatest climbing feat ever
undertaken—Alex Honnold's 2017 solo, rope-less
free climb of the legendary 3000-foot vertical
cliff, El Capitan
The Impossible Climb climaxes with Alex
CHOICE WORDS
Honnold’s unprecedented, almost unimaginable A collection of writing about abortion
feat: a 3,000-foot vertical climb up El Capitan Ed. Louise Swinn
in Yosemite, with no help. No climbing partner.
No equipment. No rope. Where a single small ALLEN & UNWIN
mistake would mean certain death. To most, 9781760875220 | $32.99 | | PB | AVAILABLE MARCH
it would be seen as an insane proposition. But
most are not Alex Honnold, and few know this
A passionate appeal from writers, thinkers,
better than Mark Synnott. He tells the story
musicians, actors, comedians, activists and
in the context of a deeply reported account of
political staffers, offering personal stories
his ten-year friendship with Honnold, multiple
of abortion alongside historical record and
climbing expeditions and the climbing ethos they
political anecdote. Highlighting the sheer
share. The result is an emotional drama driven
commonality of abortion, it is poignant,
by people exploring the limits of human potential
wise, funny and true; a salute to those who
and seeking a perfect dance with nature. They
have been working in the field, a celebration
dare beyond the ordinary, but this story of the
of how far we've come, an electrifying
sublime is really about all of us. Who doesn’t
caterwaul at how far we still have to go, and
need to face down fear and make the most of the
a clarion call to action.
time we have?
Louise Swinn is a writer, editor, publisher,
Mark Synnott is regarded as one of the most
reviewer, prize judge and literary event chair.
prolific adventurers of his generation and works
for National Geographic.
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THE COLONIAL FANTASY FIGURING MAMA'S LAST HUG
Why white Australia can't solve black Animal emotions and what they teach us
problems Maria Popova about ourselves
Sarah Maddison Frans de Waal
CANONGATE
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781786897244 | $39.99 | | HB | HISTORY
GRANTA
9781760295820 | $39.99 | | PB | CURRENT AFFAIRS 9781783784103 | $36.99 | | HB | POPULAR SCIENCE
A history of women who have changed our
understanding of the universe, Figuring
White Australia can't solve black problems explores the complexities of love and the Mama's Last Hug is a whirlwind tour of new
because white Australia is the problem. human search for truth and meaning. ideas and findings about animal emotions,
Indigenous policy in Australia has resisted Beginning with the astronomer Johannes based on Frans de Waal's renowned
the one thing that Aboriginal and Torres Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary studies of the social and emotional lives of
Strait Islander people want, and the one motion, and ending with the marine chimpanzees, bonobos and other primates.
thing that has made a difference elsewhere: biologist Rachel Carson, who catalysed Distinguishing between emotions and
the ability to control and manage their the environmental movement, it weaves feelings, all the while emphasising the
own lives. The Colonial Fantasy argues for together a tapestry of themes spanning continuity between our species and other
a radical restructuring of the relationship music, feminism, the history of science, species, it makes the radical proposal that
between Aboriginal and Torres Strait the rise and decline of religion, and how emotions are like organs: we haven't a single
Islander people and governments, seeing the intersection of astronomy, poetry and organ that other animals don't have, and the
the resurgence of Indigenous nationhood as Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the same is true for our emotions.
the only way forward. environmental movement.
Frans de Waal is a world-renowned
Sarah Maddison is a Director of GetUp! and Maria Popova is the creator of Brain primatologist and New York Times-
the author of Black Politics and Beyond
White Guilt.
Pickings. bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough 7
to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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THE CHRONOLOGY OF UNSPEAKABLE LONDON MADE US
WATER The things we cannot say A memoir of a shape-shifting city
Lidia Yuknavitch Harriet Shawcross Robert Elms
CANONGATE CANONGATE CANONGATE
9781786894373 | $32.99 | | HB | MEMOIR 9781786890054 | $32.99 | | PB | GENERAL 9781786892119 | $39.99 | | HB | MEMOIR
From the debris of her troubled early life, As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped Robert Elms has seen London change
Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing speaking at school for almost a year, beyond all imagining: the house he grew
tale of survival. A kind of memoir that retreating into herself and communicating up in is now the Westway flyover, and areas
is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, only when absolutely necessary. As an adult, once deemed murder miles have morphed
self-expression, desire and the exhilaration she became fascinated by the limits of into the stuff of estate agents' dreams. Elms
of swimming, The Chronology of Water language and in Unspeakable she asks what takes us back through time and place to
lays a life bare. It is a life that navigates, makes us silent. From the inexpressible myriad Londons. He is our guide through a
and transcends, abuse, addiction, self- trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath place his great-great-grandfather made the
destruction and loss. It is the life of a misfit, of natural disaster to the taboo of coming Elms' home over a century ago and a city
one that forges a fierce and untrodden path out, Shawcross explores how and why that has borne witness to epoch—and world—
to creativity and comes together in the words fail us. A beguiling mix of memoir, changing events.
shape of love. history, literary criticism and investigative
journalism, Unspeakable is a moving and Robert Elms is a broadcaster and author
Lidia Yuknavitch is the award-winning unprecedented study of the power of of The Way We Wore and In Search of the
author of The Book of Joan and The Small silence. Crack. He lives in London.
Backs of Children. Her TED Talk, The Beauty
8 of Being a Misfit, has been watched over two Harriet Shawcross is an award-winning
million times. filmmaker and journalist.
ALLEN & UNWIN
OUT OF EGYPT THE DIET FIX I WILL NEVER SEE THE
Andre Aciman How to lose weight and keep it off . . . one WORLD AGAIN
last time
Zoe Harcombe Ahmet Altan
FABER
9780571349715 | $24.99 | | PB | MEMOIR GRANTA
FABER 9781783785155 | $24.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
This richly coloured memoir chronicles the
9781780723761 | $22.99 | | PB | HEALTH/FITNESS
exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from Confined in a cell four metres long,
its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to Having experienced and overcome the imprisoned on absurd, Kafkaesque charges,
its defeated exodus three generations later. misery of yo-yo dieting in her youth, Dr Zoe Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan is one of
In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman Harcombe, PhD, has focused her scientific many writers persecuted by Recep Tayyip
introduces us to the marvellous eccentrics research on food, modern eating habits and Erdogan's oppressive regime. In this
who shaped his life. And through it all, we the escalating obesity crisis. In The Diet extraordinary memoir, written from his
come to know a boy who, even as he longs Fix she reveals her 10-step plan for success. prison cell, Altan reflects upon his sentence,
for a wider world, does not want to be led, Using evidence-based analysis, Harcombe on a life whittled down to a courtyard
forever, out of Egypt. tells us how to lose weight without hunger, covered by bars, and on the hope and solace
how to eat better rather than less and, most a writer's mind can provide, even in the
Andre Aciman is the bestselling author of importantly, how to make this time different. darkest places.
Call Me by Your Name. He lives in Manhattan.
Dr Zoe Harcombe is a researcher, author, Ahmet Altan is one of today's most awarded
blogger and public speaker in the field of and important Turkish writers. In February
diet and health, with a PhD in public health 2018 he was sentenced to life imprisonment
nutrition. by the Turkish state for his work as a
journalist. 9
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HACKING THE CODE WORK FUEL OPEN UP
OF LIFE Graham Allcott, Colette The power of talking about money
Nessa Carey Heneghan Alex Holder
ICON SERPENT’S TAIL
ICON
9781785784972 | $32.99 | | PB | POPULAR SCIENCE 9781788161879 | $27.99 | | HB
9781785784590 | $22.99 | | PB | SELF-HELP
Gene modification is rapidly being We all know the benefits of healthy eating, From friendships, to ambitions, to mental
supplanted by CRISPR or 'gene editing'. but it's often not compatible with a busy, health, money plays a huge role in our
Using this approach, scientists can now working lifestyle. But what if eating lives and relationships, yet we're often
manipulate the genes of almost any actually gave you more time; boosting your too polite or embarrassed to talk about
organism with a degree of precision, ease productivity, increasing your focus and it. But in an age of pay-gap exposés and
and speed that will revolutionise the way preventing that 3pm energy slump? A new growing inequality, conversations about
we prevent disease. But who controls the book in the bestselling Productivity Ninja money are more important than ever. Full of
application of this technology when it series, Work Fuel shows you how eating sympathetic, practical advice on everything
makes 'biohacking'—perhaps of one's own well can and should fit into your lifestyle from mindful spending to the freelance jump
genome—a real possibility. A thrilling and and provides an investment plan, promising and how to challenge the status quo, Open
timely snapshot of a technology that will to improve your performance, focus and Up strips away the awkwardness, to help
radically alter our futures. energy by changing the way that you eat. you find the power and solidarity of talking
about money.
Nessa Carey is the author of the hugely Colette Heneghan is a Peak Performance
successful The Epigenetics Revolution and and Nutrition Coach. Graham Allcott is host Alex Holder is a campaigning journalist,
is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College of business podcast Beyond Busy and author freelance writer and consultant.
10 London. of How to be a Study Ninja and A Practical
Guide to Productivity.ALLEN & UNWIN
HOW TO LEAD SMART THE HUMAN NETWORK VAGINA
PEOPLE Matthew O. Jackson A re-education
Arun Singh and Mike Lynn Enright
ATLANTIC
Mister 9781786490209 | $36.99 | | PB | PSYCHOLOGY A&U UK
9781911630012 | $32.99 | | PB | HEALTH
PROFILE BOOKS The Human Network reveals how our
9781788161541 | $27.99 | | HB | BUSINESS relationships in school, university, work and For centuries, the vagina has been made
society have extraordinary implications mysterious, neglected, mutilated or mocked,
How to Lead Smart People uses 50 simple throughout our lives and by understanding and as a consequence few people know
lessons to show how to manage a team of and taking advantage of these networks, much about it. Vagina: A Re-Education
equals with intelligence and diplomacy. It we can boost our happiness, success and charts the story of this crucial organ,
teaches core skills such as decision making influence. But there are also wider lessons encompassing fertility and hormones, pain
and delegating, but also how to realise more to be learnt. Drawing on concepts from and arousal, sex education and more, with
general aims such as building trust and economics, mathematics, sociology and the goal of empowering women with vital
growing your team. anthropology, it reveals how the science of knowledge about their bodies. As women all
networks gives us a bold new framework to over the world join together in conversations
Arun Singh OBE is a leading international understand human interaction writ large— about consent and power, this investigation
business lawyer, corporate educator and from banking crashes and viral marketing to into the history, biology and politics of the
government advisor. Mike Mister works in racism and the spread of disease. vagina will be a valuable and urgent addition
leadership development at the University of to the discussion.
Cambridge. Matthew O. Jackson is a professor of
economics at Stanford University and author Lynn Enright is acclaimed journalist. She
of Social and Economic Networks. lives in London. 11ALLEN & UNWIN
SPEARHEAD BORROWED TIME DOING JUSTICE
An American tank gunner, his enemy and a The science of how and why we age Preet Bharara
collision of lives in World War II
Sue Armstrong
Adam Makos BLOOMSBURY
SIGMA 9781408899038 | $32.99 | | PB | CURRENT AFFAIRS
ATLANTIC 9781472936097 | $32.99 | | PB | POPULAR SCIENCE
9781782395782 | $45.00 | | HB | HISTORY Banned by Putin, fired by Trump. And now
The question of how and why organisms he's free to talk. Preet Bharara lifts the lid
Spearhead honours an unsung hero of World age has teased scientists for centuries, yet on his time as America's prosecutor for
War II, Clarence Smoyers, who deplored there is still no agreement. Borrowed Time justice, showing in intimate and explosive
violence but became the gunner of one of uncovers the science behind how and why detail how the criminal justice system works
the first Pershing tanks spearheading the we age. It explores where science is taking from the inside. Spanning history, his own
American invasion of Germany. Smoyers's us and what issues are being raised from fabled cases and the actions of key players
story is a powerful evocation of the lives a psychological, philosophical and ethical in the upper echelons of power, this is a
and challenges of the 'tankers' so critical to perspective, through interviews with key book about what it means to make the right
the war effort, as well as of German civilians scientists in the field and the people who decisions at the toughest of moments, and
caught up in the conflict. Nearly seventy represent interesting and important aspects about what the state of justice in America
years later, Smoyer returns to meet the of ageing. reveals about today.
German Panther gunner he defeated at the
Battle of Cologne healing the wounds of Sue Armstrong is a science writer, Preet Bharara served as US Attorney for the
World War II. broadcaster and author of The Gene that Southern District of New York from 2009 to
Cracked the Cancer Code. She lives in 2017.
Adam Makos is a journalist, historian and Edinburgh.
12 editor of the military magazine, Valor.ALLEN & UNWIN
NOTES ON A WOMEN & POWER
NERVOUS PLANET A manifesto
Matt Haig Mary Beard
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CANONGATE
PROFILE BOOKS
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An invitation to feel calmer and happier with A year on from the beginnings of the #metoo
THE ART OF WAR the follow-up to the number one bestseller movement—the gender agenda is revisited
Reasons to Stay Alive. with new material on consent and how the
Sun Tzu & Anthony discussion has moved on.
Tucker-Jones
BLOOMSBURY
9781912392117 | $32.99 | | HB | HISTORY THE SECRET LIFE SOMEBODY I USED
OF COWS TO KNOW
A new illustrated collectible edition of Sun
Tzu's classic ancient Chinese meditation on
Rosamund Young Wendy Mitchell
military strategy and human psychology,
with observations and special illustrations
that highlight its continued relevance
for leadership, self-discipline and self-
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awareness. With its clear and succinct
commentary by Anthony Tucker Jones,
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classic and will enable modern generations
Charming, wise and illustrated with beautiful An extraordinary memoir about what it means
to discover The Art of War and find pertinent
line drawings, this farmer's observations of her to be human when your memories are gone.
applications for the wisdom of Sun Tzu.
herd is a rediscovered gem.
Anthony Tucker-Jones is a highly respected
modern military historian.
13LOVING SYLVIE
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Elizabeth Smither
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781988547114 | $36.99 | | PB | FICTION
Elizabeth Smither takes us into the richly imagined worlds of
three women, written with such beautifully deft skill as to make
them vivid and alive
A sensual, witty novel that cleverly weaves in the stories of
three generations of women: Sylvie, her mother Madeleine and
grandmother Isobel, focusing most strongly on the relationship
between grandmother and granddaughter. The narrative shifts
between the points of view of each main character, telling their
stories with gentle, deeply observant humour through their
love affairs, food, rivalries, marriages, pets and all the beautiful
minutiae of everyday life.
Elizabeth draws the threads of each story together subtly and
surprisingly to achieve a perfectly resolved ending. Fans of
Elizabeth's writing will love this new novel and those new to her
writing will discover the delights of her careful, sensual prose.
Described as having 'a gift for wry comedy combined with an
eye for pinpoint detail', Elizabeth is one of New Zealand's finest
writers.
Elizabeth Smither MNZM is a multi-award-winning poet, short
story writer and novelist. She most recently won the 2018
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Poetry Award.
14THE TRUE STORY OF
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MADDIE BRIGHT
Mary-Rose MacColl
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760295240 | $32.99 | | 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.
15LOSING THE PLOT
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Elizabeth Coleman
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760633431 | $32.99 | | 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).
16WITHOUT A DOUBT
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Fleur McDonald
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9781760633158 | $32.99 | | 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, Bec. 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 or Bec
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.
17ALLEN & UNWIN
FLED KING OF KINGS
Meg Keneally Wilbur Smith
ECHO ZAFFRE
9781760680275 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781785768460 | $45.00 | | 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
to be a part of the 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.
18LANNY BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM
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Max Porter Peter Swanson
FABER FABER
9780571340286 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION 9780571340651 | $32.99 | | 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
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for the boy. Lanny. opening, the master of contemporary domestic
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