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Saving You By (author) Charlotte Nash Sep 17, 2019 | Paperback $24.99 | Three escaped pensioners. One single mother. A road trip to rescue her son. The new emotionally compelling page-turner by Australia's Charlotte Nash In their tiny pale green cottage under the trees, Mallory Cook and her five-year- old son, Harry, are a little family unit who weather the storms of life together. Money is tight after Harry's father, Duncan, abandoned them to expand his business in New York. So when Duncan fails to return Harry after a visit, Mallory boards a plane to bring her son home any way she can. During the journey, a chance encounter with three retirees on the run from their care home leads Mallory on an unlikely group road trip across the United States. 9780733636479 Zadie, Ernie and Jock each have their own reasons for making the journey and English along the way the four of them will learn the lengths they will travel to save each other - and themselves. 384 pages Saving You is the beautiful, emotionally compelling page-turner by Charlotte Nash, bestselling Australian author of The Horseman and The Paris Wedding. Subject If you love the stories of Jojo Moyes and Fiona McCallum you will devour this FICTION / Family Life / General book. 'I was enthralled... Nash's skilled storytelling will keep you turning pages until Distributor the very end.' FLEUR McDONALD Hachette Book Group Contributor Bio Charlotte Nash is the bestselling author of six novels, including four set in country Australia, and The Paris Wedding, which has been sold in eight countries and translated into multiple languages. In her new novel, Saving You, she takes us on a road trip across the USA, with a story that showcases her signature style: lush sense of place, rich plot, emotive heart, and a body and soul odyssey for her characters. She is an intrepid traveller with a lifelong love of new experiences, and has adventured around Australia and the world for both work and pleasure, including in her pre-writing life as an engineer and medico. When not writing, she is a connoisseur of beautiful baked goods, gourmet tea, and an eclectic mix of favourite movies. Canadian Manda Group 1 They'll Be Okay 15 Conversations to Help Your Child Through Troubled Times By (author) Collett Smart Sep 24, 2019 | Paperback $29.99 | This is the must-have book for parents of young people who want to keep their children safe, whole and happy. Teens and tweens are struggling with social media, relationships, and so much of what modern life is throwing at them. It's impossible for parents to be experts on all the new challenges their children are facing. That's why it's essential to turn to a real expert. Collett Smart is a psychologist, teacher, lecturer, writer - and a mum of three. She knows that it is crucial for parents to discuss uncomfortable, yet fundamentally 9780733640766 important topics with their children - and this book tells parents why and how. English If you're a parent who feels like you just don't know how to talk to your children 288 pages about some of these difficult topics, this book has all the tools you need. There is invaluable advice on: Subject * Body safety, body image and objectification * Break-ups, hook-ups and unconditional love FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / * Sex education and pornography Parenting / General * Misogyny and harassment * Manners, empathy and respect Distributor Whether you want to prepare your child for the years ahead or you have an issue that needs to be addressed right now, this is the must-have book to help keep Hachette Book Group your children safe, whole and happy in these challenging times. Contributor Bio Collett Smart is a psychologist, qualified teacher and author. Collett has more than 20 years' experience working in private and public schools, as well as in private practice. She appears regularly on national television and radio as an expert in teen and family issues. Collett has taught and delivered psychology workshops and seminars around the world. Her seminars are grounded in current research, as well as years of practical experience in both one-on-one counselling and schoolyard settings with young people. She is mum to 3 children. Canadian Manda Group 2 The House of Second Chances By (author) Esther Campion Oct 01, 2019 | Paperback $24.99 | Can a house heal heartache? From coastal Australia to the rugged beauty of Ireland, an enchanting novel of starting over, in the tradition of Maeve Binchy and Monica McInerney Reviews Their grandmother's stone cottage was always a welcome retreat in the Leaving Ocean Road is warm, wise and childhood summers of Ellen and Aidan O'Shea. After a trip home from Australia, full of humour. Esther Campion is a Ellen is keen to bring the neglected property back to its former glory and enlists wonderful new voice in Australian the help of her dear friend and one of Ireland's top interior designers, Colette fiction—CATHY KELLY Barry. This is a delightful tale, oozing with pathos and possibilities - perfect for 9780733636172 Aidan is already begrudging the work on the house he has avoided for nearly twenty years. The last thing the builder needs is an interior designer who seems when you want to forget about your English to do nothing but complicate his life. With their own personal heartaches to own problems and slip inside Ellen's heart, one that was once terribly 400 pages overcome, will Aidan and Colette find the courage to give the house and themselves a second chance? broken and is slowly rising from the ashes. A well-written novel with Subject beautiful descriptions from this new Praise for Esther Campion's debut novel, Leaving Ocean Road: Irish author—Starts at Sixty FICTION / Women 'Warm, wise and full of humour. Esther Campion is a wonderful new voice in Join[s] the captivating Maeve Binchy in Australian fiction' CATHY KELLY the pantheon of popular Irish novelists Distributor —Irish Scene Hachette Book Group 'Join[s] the captivating Maeve Binchy in the pantheon of popular Irish novelists' Irish Scene A warm, funny, intelligent novel. It's ultimately not about how romantic love 'An intelligent novel. Esther Campion has woven a poignant story about that can save you, but rather how finding journey everyone takes to find their own beloved place in the wide wide world' new hope and purpose in family can Better Reading give you what you need to pull yourself from grief. Esther Campion has woven a poignant story... about that journey Contributor Bio everyone takes to find their own beloved place in the wide wide world Esther Campion is from Cork, Ireland and currently lives in north-west Tasmania. —Better Reading She attended North Presentation Secondary School in Cork and has degrees from University College Cork and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Esther and her Orcadian husband have lived together in Ireland, Scotland, Norway and South Australia. They have two grown-up children in Adelaide and the youngest at home in Tassie. Esther loves sharing her life on a small property with an over-indulged chocolate Labrador, a smoochy cat and a couple of ageing mares, all of whom she firmly believes are living proof that dreams really can come true. The House of Second Chances is Esther's second novel, following Leaving Ocean Road. Canadian Manda Group 3 Sisters and Brothers By (author) Fiona Palmer Oct 08, 2019 | Paperback $24.99 | A poignant novel of heartbreak, adoption and family secrets Emma, a nurse and busy mother of three, has always dreamed of having a sister. Michelle, at 46, wonders if it's too late to fall in love and find her birth parents. Sarah, career woman and perfectionist homemaker, struggles to keep up with the Joneses. Bill, 72, feels left behind after the death of his adored wife. Adam can't stop thinking about the father he never had. These five very different people are all connected but separated by secrets from the past. Sisters and Brothers will both break and warm your heart in a way that only bestselling Australian storyteller Fiona Palmer can. 9780733637018 English 'Her books are tear-jerkers and page-turners' Sydney Morning Herald 384 pages 'Fiona Palmer just keeps getting better' RACHAEL JOHNS Subject 'Heartbreak, love and sibling relationships' New Idea Contributor Bio FICTION / Romance / Contemporary Before becoming an author, Fiona Palmer was a speedway driver for seven years and now spends her days writing both women's and young adult fiction, working Distributor as a farmhand and caring for her two children in the tiny rural community of Hachette Book Group Pingaring, 350km from Perth. The books Fiona's passionate readers know and love contain engaging storylines, emotions and hearty characters. She has written nine bestselling novels and her most recent book, SECRETS BETWEEN FRIENDS, was a Top Ten national bestseller. Canadian Manda Group 4 The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy By (author) Frank Walker Oct 15, 2019 | Paperback $29.99 | Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy. Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's life took him from socialising with a young Errol Flynn in Sydney and on to the French Riviera in the heady years leading up to World War II. With his dashing good looks and charm, Freddie lived a swashbuckling life, quickly figuring out his path to easy fortune was through lonely rich women. World War II didn't stop Freddie's hedonistic pursuits - he skipped enlistment for Australia and 9780733639876 Britain to party on in Hollywood, where he renewed his friendship with the now English infamous Errol Flynn.