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AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Mothers Genevieve Gannon What if you gave birth to someone else's child? A gripping family drama inspired by a real-life case of an IVF laboratory mix-up. Description 'Engagingly and unflinchingly told, Gannon's new novel, The Mothers, is the story of every parent's worst nightmare. It is that novel that makes you muse on the most difficult of questions ... What makes a mother? And can you ever un-become one? Like all my favourite books, The Mothers is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and it leaves you with a lot to think about after you turn the final page. I sobbed my way through this wonderful book.' - Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law Two couples. One baby. An unimaginable choice. Grace and Dan Arden are in their forties and have been on the IVF treadmill since the day they got married. Six attempts have yielded no results and with each failure a little piece of their hope dies. Indian-Australian Priya Laghari and her husband Nick Archer are being treated at the same fertility clinic and while the younger couple doesn't face the same time pressure as the Ardens, the Archers have their own problems. Priya suspects Nick is cheating and when she discovers a dating app on his phone her worst fears are confirmed.? Priya leaves Nick and goes through an IVF cycle with donor sperm. On the day of her appointment, Grace and Dan also go in for their final, last-chance embryo transfer. Two weeks later the women both get their results: Grace is pregnant. Priya is not.? A year later, angry and heart-broken, Priya learns her embryo was implanted in another woman's uterus and must make a choice: live a childless life knowing her son is being raised by strangers or seek custody of a baby that has been nurtured and loved by another couple. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760875329 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Genevieve Gannon is a Sydney-based journalist and author of four novels. She is presently the staff writer for nation's Dimensions: 234x153mm biggest women's magazine, The Australian Women's Weekly, where she covers everything from cold-case murders and Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) cults to celebrities and sports stars. Bic2: Illustrations: She has written in-depth political profiles, comedic personal essays and true crime pieces. Her first foray into professional Previous Titles: Author now living: Redfern, NSW writing included dating and relationship columns which she published while writing her Masters' thesis on global terrorism and the media. She then moved to Canberra to start her news career covering local issues and politics. Before she joined The Weekly, Genevieve was the chief court reporter for Australian Associated Press in Melbourne, covering some of the most notorious crimes of recent years. Her journalism has appeared in most of Australia'sAllen & major Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Mothers 10 copy pack Point of Sale Includes 10 copies of The Mothers plus free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $299.90 $329.90 ISBN: 9324551072325 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Clergyman's Wife Molly Greeley A moving story of unexpected love featuring Charlotte from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. 'Poignant, pensive and brilliant ...' Laurel Ann Nattress, editor of Jane Austen Made Me Do It. Description In this Pride and Prejudice-inspired novel, not everyone has the luxury of waiting for love. Charlotte Collins knows this well . Charlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life: an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its quietness threatens to overwhelm her. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine. In Mr Travis' company, Charlotte feels appreciated, heard and seen. For the first time in her life Charlotte begins to understand emotional intimacy and its effect on the heart-and how breakable that heart can be. With her sensible nature confronted and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman's life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman's wife. About the Author Molly Greeley earned her bachelor's degree in English, with a creative writing emphasis, from Michigan State University, where she was the recipient of the Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts for Creative Writing. Her short stories and essays have been published in Cicada, Carve, and Literary Mama. She works on social media for a local business, is married and the mother of three children but her Sunday afternoons are devoted to weaving stories into books. The Clergyman's Wife is her first novel. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760877149 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Clergyman's Wife 10 copy pack Point of Sale Includes 10 copies of The Clergyman's Wife plus free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $299.90 $329.90 ISBN: 9324551072622 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Murder at Malabar Hill Sujata Massey A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery. Description 2019 American Library Association Reading List for Mystery: Winner and Top Pick Winner of the 2019 Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner of the 2019 Lefty Award for Best Historical Novel Winner of the the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel Finalist for the 2019 Shamus Award 'A Murder at Malabar Hill, with its deft prose and well-wrought characters, is a splendid first installment in what promises to be a memorable series.' The Wall Street Journal 'Marvelously plotted, richly detailed . This is a first-rate performance inaugurating a most promising series.' The Washington Post 'Perveen Mistry has all the pluck you want in a sleuthing lawyer, as well as a not-so-surprising - but decidedly welcome - proclivity for poking her nose into the business of others. The pages do indeed fly.' The Globe and Mail Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, A Murder at Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth. 1920s Bombay: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529406 signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the Format: Paperback - C format widows has signed her form with an X - meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in Dimensions: 234x153mm full purdah - in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Bic2: Historical fiction Illustrations: Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her Previous Titles: responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in Author now living: None further danger. About the Author Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, was raised mostly in St. Paul,Allen Minnesota, & Unwin and AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Cedar Valley Holly Throsby 'This is a masterful novel...readers who loved Goodwood will find even more to love here.' Books + Publishing on Cedar Valley Description 'This is a masterful novel...readers who loved<i> Goodwood</i> will find even more to love here.' <i>Books + Publishing</i> on <i>Cedar Valley</i> <i> </i>'So much truth, so much aching and pain by humour. What a wonderful book. I can see the Australian novelist continuum from Patrick White and Thea Astley in her explicit representation of the character of Australians in regional towns. Others have compared Throsby with Tim Winton. I hope she is writing another book.' Lindy Morrison in LoudMouth on <i>Goodwood</i> </i>'Stunning...a distinctly Australian coming-of-age story...balancing carefully evoked dread with genuine warmth, it's an assured and singular debut.' <i>The Big Issue </i>on<i> Goodwood</i> <i> </i> </i><i>'He strolled down Valley Road, only briefly, past the hairdresser and a small cafe. A warm wind stirred, carrying with it the faint smell of pies and horses, and the man paused for just a moment before he sat down. Benny Miller would have driven right past him in her station wagon on that bright and brimming day.'</i> <i> </i> On the first day of summer in 1993, two strangers arrive in the town of Cedar Valley.