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The Devil and the Dark Water Stuart Turton AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Devil and the Dark Water Stuart Turton The outstanding new novel from Stuart Turton, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel award. Description An impossible murder. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. The extraordinary new novel from Stuart Turton, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award. Praise for The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: 'Turton has astonishing ambition and narrative skill to match' Daily Telegraph 'Fiendishly clever' The Times 'Prepare to have your brain fried and your mind blown' Daily Express It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent, while also on board are Sara Wessel, a noble woman with a secret, and her husband, the governor general of Batavia. But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock are slaughtered in the night. And then the passengers hear a terrible voice whispering to them in the darkness, promising them three unholy miracles. First: an impossible pursuit. Second: an impossible theft. Third: an impossible murder. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 sink the ship, killing everybody on board C ISBN: 9781408889657 Format: C-Format PB About the Author Package Type: PAPERBACK Stuart Turton's debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 400 pages My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Bic1: Book Awards Debut of the Year. A Sunday Times bestseller for three weeks, it has been translated into over thirty Bic2: <Unrelated Table> languages and has also been a bestseller in Italy, Russia and Poland. Stuart lives near London with his wife and Author now living: daughter. @Stu_Turton Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Devil and the Dark Water 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of The Devil and the Dark Water, plus a free reading copy Description Contains 8 copies of The Devil and the Dark Water, plus a free reading copy About the Author Price: AU $239.92 NZ $263.92 ISBN: 9781472999757 Format: Pack Package Type: MIXTURES PACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day, by way of Agatha Christie Description A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day, by way of Agatha Christie 'We have work to do,' he says. 'I have a puzzle which requires a solution.' 'I think you've mistaken me for someone else,' I say. 'I'm just a doctor.' 'You were a doctor,' he says. 'Then a butler, today a playboy, tomorrow a banker. None of them are your real face, or your real personality. Those were stripped from you when you entered Blackheath and they won't be returned until you leave.' Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden can identify her killer. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different person. And some hosts are most helpful than others... About the Author Stuart Turton is a freelance travel journalist who has previously worked in Shanghai and Dubai. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is his debut novel. He is the winner of the Brighton and Hove Short Story Prize and was longlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition. He lives in West London with his wife. @Stu_Turton Price: AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 ISBN: 9781408889510 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 197h x 130w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Raven Books AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 This Is Happiness Niall Williams The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain Description Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain 'Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive' Sunday Times 'A love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd Ireland that is all but gone' Irish Independent After dropping out of the seminary, seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe finds himself back in Faha; a small Irish parish where nothing ever changes, including the ever-falling rain. But one morning the rain stops and news reaches the parish Co the electricity is finally arriving. With it comes a lodger to Noel's home, Christy McMahon. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As Noel navigates his coming-of-age by Christy's side, falling in and out of love, Christy's buried past gradually comes to light, casting a glow on a small world and making it new. About the Author Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of the Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain and eight other novels including Four Letters of Love, which is set to be a major motion picture. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine. niallwilliams.com Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781526609359 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Sound of the Hours Karen Campbell Love against all odds. A sweeping, romantic, wartime historical novel about love, loss and conflict in an occupied Italian town Description 'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga C is a triumph' Allan Massie, Scotsman Divided by loyalties, brought together by war September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo Soldiers prepare to invade. As Vittoria's country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Should she do what she is told Co or what she believes in? Frank Chapel, a young, black American soldier fighting with the Buffalo soldiers for a country that refuses him the vote, is unlike anyone Vittoria has ever met. In the chaos, they find each other Co but can their growing love overcome prejudice and war? About the Author Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University's renowned Creative Writing Masters, and author of The Twilight Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life, This Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and Rise. A former police officer, and council PR, Karen Campbell won the Best New Scottish Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, Scotland. www.karencampbell.co.uk Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781408857359 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Suncatcher Romesh Gunesekera A coming-of-age story in Sixties Sri Lanka, a world on the brink of change, by the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Reef Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 JHALAK PRIZE 1964. Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hard-working mother blows off steam at her cha-cha-cha classes; his Trotskyite father grumbles over the state of the nation between his secret flutters on horseraces in faraway England. All Kairo wants to do is hide in his room and flick over second-hand westerns and superhero comics, or escape on his bicycle and daydream. Then he meets the magnetic teenage Jay, and his whole world is turned inside out. A budding naturalist and a born rebel, Jay keeps fish and traps birds for an aviary he is building in the garden of his grand home. The adults in Jay's life have no say in what he does or where he goes: he holds his beautiful, fragile mother in contempt, and his wealthy father seems fuelled by anger. But his Uncle Elvin, suave and worldly, is his encourager. As Jay guides him from the realm of make believe into one of hunting-guns and fast cars and introduces him to a girl Co Niromi Co Kairo begins to understand the price of privilege and embarks on a journey of devastating consequence. Taut and luminous, graceful and wild, Suncatcher is a poignant coming-of-age novel about difficult friendships and sudden awakenings. Mesmerizingly it charts the loss of innocence and our recurring search for love Co or consolation Co bringing these extraordinary lives into our own.
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