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JANUARY 2019 The Moscow Sleepers Stella Rimington For fans of Spooks, Homeland and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot tense, gripping and global in scope. Sales points • Stella Rimington has a strong sales track record, with her total TCM standing at over 300k copies • Her novels are inspired by her long experience as head of MI5, giving them an unmistakable ring of authenticity loved by readers and press alike • Deadly Refuge features the migrant crisis and growing tensions between Russia and the West an urgent, current and compelling for readers of thrillers from le Carre to Lee Child, and fans of TV dramas like Spooks and The Night Manager Description For fans of Spooks, Homeland and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot tense, gripping and global in scope. A man lies dying in a hospice in upstate Vermont. When a stranger visits, claiming to be a childhood friend, the FBI is alerted. News of this suspected Russian illegal and his deathbed guest soon reaches MI5 in London. Liz Carlyle and her colleague Peggy Kinsolving are grappling with an impenetrable Russian conspiracy and call in MI6 to try and shed light on this new turn of events. Then a top-secret source known as Mischa resurfaces and requests a clandestine rendezvous in Berlin where Liz learns of the Russian secret service's cynical new plan to undermine the German government, involving child migrants. Liz and Peggy's mission to link and track down this insidious network will take them round the world, from Montreal to Moscow. Forced to negotiate tricky inter-service rivalries, they soon realise that these obstacles pale in comparison to the danger they face from the Russian threat... The latest expertly-plotted thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling series, Deadly Refuge is a white-knuckle ride through Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 the dark underbelly of international intelligence, simmering political animosities and global espionage. ISBN: 9781408859759 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 233x156mm Extent: 320 pages Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, Bic2: the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and nine Liz Carlyle novels, most recently, Breaking Illustrations: Cover. She lives in London and Norfolk. Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 The Moscow Sleepers 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of The Moscow Sleepers, plus free reading copy. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $239.92 NZ $263.92 ISBN: 9781526695949 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 The Kinship of Secrets Eugenia Kim The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart Sales points • A beautiful novel full of detailed and moving insight into a fascinating, unexplored period of recent Korean history • For readers of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson • Inspired by true events, The Kinship of Secrets builds on the story developed in Eugenia Kim's last book, The Calligrapher's Daughter. Together the novels explore sixty years of modern Korean history Description The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her. But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember. Najin and Calvin desperately seek a reunion with Inja, but are the bonds of love strong enough to reconnect their family over distance, time and war' And as deep family secrets are revealed, will everything they long for be upended' Told through the alternating perspectives of the distanced sisters, and inspired by a true story, The Kinship of Secrets explores the cruelty of war, the power of hope, and what it means to be a sister. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781526602848 Eugenia Kim's debut novel, The Calligrapher's Daughter, won the 2009 Borders Original Voices Award, was shortlisted Format: Paperback - Demy format for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a 2009 Best Historical Novel and Critic's Pick by the Washington Post. A Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bennington College MFA graduate, Kim teaches at Fairfield University's MFA Creative Writing Program. She lives in Bic1: Washington, DC. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 The Kinship of Secrets 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of The Kinships of Secrets, plus free reading copy Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $239.92 NZ $263.92 ISBN: 9781526695918 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 Fox 8 George Saunders An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal Sales points • An enchanting modern fairytale with a difference, brought to life by Chelsea Cardinal's magical illustrations, Fox 8 will be a Christmas present to treasure for readers of all agesWinner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders is one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers at work today. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, won the Premio von Rezzori Prize, the inaugural Folio Prize and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world s 100 most influential people by Time magazineAn international bestseller, Lincoln in the Bardo has sold over 250,000 copies Description Fox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children s bedtime stories, he has learned to speak Yuma . The power of words and the stories built from them is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic soul, but there is‘danju’ on the horizon: a new shopping mall is being built, cutting off his pac’s food supply. To save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will have to set out on a harrowing quest from the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart of suburbia. About the Author George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, was shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize, and won the Premio Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2018. Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world s 100 most influential people by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.Chelsea Cardinal is a graphic designer, Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 illustrator and fashion designer. She grew up on the Canadian prairies, attended the Alberta College of Art + Design, ISBN: 9781526606488 moved to New York in 2005, worked at GQ Magazine for many years and is now freelancing. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 196x129mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Illustration Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 Fox 8, 10 Copy Pack Contains 10 copies of Fox 8, plus free reading copy. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $219.90 NZ $249.90 ISBN: 9781526695925 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 Edinburgh Alexander Chee The debut novel, never-before-published in the UK, from bestselling author Alexander Chee, told with the force of a dream and the heft of a life' (Annie Dillard, Publisher's Weekly) Sales points • The first UK publication of bestselling author Alexander Chee's debut novel (which forms the heart of his essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel) • A haunting, deeply moving story of the reverberations of trauma, the nature of shame and the guilt of survival • For fans of Hanya Yanigahara, Garth Greenwell and Siri Hustvedt Description Every word makes me ache - Written with exquisite empathy and grace' Roxane Gay Singularly beautiful and psychologically harrowing - One of the best American novels of this century' Boston Globe Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir.