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CONTENTS

FICTION

NEW TITLES 2 INTO THE NIGHT – SARAH BAILEY 3 CEDAR VALLEY – HOLLY THROSBY 4 LITTLE GODS – JENNY ACKLAND 5 LOVESOME – SALLY SELTMANN 6 THE FAR-BACK COUNTRY – KATE LYONS 7 ELEANOR’S SECRET – CAROLINE BEECHAM 8 UNDERSTOREY – KAREN VIGGERS 9 2028 – KEN SAUNDERS 10 FLIGHT RISK – MICHAEL MCGUIRE 11 HEY BROTHER – JARRAH DUNDLER 12 THE MUMMY BLOGGERS TWO – HOLLY WAINWRIGHT 13 A ROOM AT THE MANOR – JULIE SHACKMAN 14 THE SPOTTED DOG – KERRY GREENWOOD

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 15 THE CHOKE – SOFIE LAGUNA 16 THE PASSAGE OF LOVE – ALEX MILLER 17 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE – HEATHER ROSE 18 THE SISTERS’ SONG – LOUISE ALLAN 19 SIGN – COLIN DRAY 20 THE NECESSARY ANGEL – C. K. STEAD 21 THE OPAL DRAGONFLY – JULIAN LEATHERDALE

NON-FICTION

CURRENT AFFAIRS 24 THE DARKEST WEB – EILEEN ORMSBY 25 TOTAL PROPAGANDA – HELEN RAZER 26 HEADSTRONG DAUGHTERS – NADIA JAMAL 27 THE MESS WE’RE IN – BERNARD KEANE 28 GOD IS GOOD FOR YOU – GREG SHERIDAN 29 COLONIAL FANTASY – SARAH MADDISON 30 DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE ROBOTS – DR JO CRIBB AND DAVID GLOVER

POPULAR SCIENCE & CULTURE 31 HOW A WOMAN WORKS – GABRIELLE JACKSON 32 WORDS THAT GO PING - BARBARA LASSERRE 33 REWORDING THE BRAIN – DAVID ASTLE 34 101 MARVELLOUS MOVIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED – DAVID STRATTON

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR 35 GIRLS AT THE PIANO – VIRGINIA LLOYD 36 THE BAREFOOT SURGEON – ALI GRIPPER 37 MORE THAN A REFUGEE – EMMA ADAMS 38 OUR STORY – RALPH AND KATHY KELLY 39 A CERTAIN LIGHT – CYNTHIA BANHAM 40 MICHAEL HUTCHENCE – CHRISTINA HUTCHENCE AS TOLD TO JEN JEWEL BROWN 41 BECOMING – ANNE SUMMERS 42 JOURNEY TO HEALTH – SIMONE ANDERSON 43 AM I DOING THIS RIGHT? – TANYA HENNESSY

HEALTH, PARENTING & SELF-IMPROVEMENT 44 UNF*CK YOUR FINANCES – MELISSA BROWNE 45 AFTER THE FIRST SIX WEEKS – MIDWIFE CATH 46 THE BABY BIBLE – BEC JUDD

HISTORY 47 MARATHON – JOHN SMAILES 48 MISSING IN ACTION – MARIANNE VAN VELZEN 49 HILLARY’S ANTARCTIC – NIGEL WATSON AND JANE USSHER

2018 FOREIGN PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS

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FICTION

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Fiction INTO THE NIGHT Sarah Bailey

Into the Night is Sarah Bailey’s stunning new crime novel featuring the troubled and brilliant Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock. This time Gemma finds herself lost and alone in the city, broken-hearted by the decisions she's had to make. When a homeless man is murdered and Gemma is put on the case, she can't help feeling a connection with the victim and the lonely and isolated life he led despite being in the middle of a bustling city.

Then a movie star is killed in bizarre circumstances on the set of a major film shoot, and Gemma and her new partner Detective Sergeant Nick Fleet have to put aside their differences to unravel the mysteries surrounding the actor's life and death. Who could commit such a brazen crime and who stands to profit from it? Far too many people, she soon discovers - and none of them can be trusted.

THE DARK LAKE Sales Points: A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with • Longlisted, Indie Book red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be Awards, Debut Fiction Book 2018 assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high • Longlisted, Australian Book school years before. But that's not all Gemma's trying to hide. As the investigation digs Industry Awards, Fiction Book deeper into the victim's past, other secrets threaten to come to light, secrets that were of the Year 2018 supposed to remain buried. • Sarah Bailey's acclaimed debut novel The Dark Lake was a Praise for The Dark Lake: bestseller around the world and Bailey's taut and 'The Dark Lake is a stunning debut that gripped me from page one and never eased suspenseful storytelling up. Dark, dark, dark--but infused with insight, pathos, a great sense of place, and razor- earned her fitting comparisons sharp writing. It's going to be big and Sarah Bailey needs to clear a shelf for awards.' – with Gillian Flynn and Paula C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author Hawkins • Immediately sold in 5 ‘Hooked me from page one! Sarah Bailey combines the very best elements in this territories with exceptional stunning debut thriller--a troubled detective still trying to find her way as a female deal in North America investigator, a small town haunted by secrets both past and present, and a beautiful • 20,000 copies sold in Australia victim whose unsettling allure appears to be her biggest asset and largest • Publisher’s Lunch ‘Buzz Books’ downfall. With clever twists and all-too-human characters, this book will keep you for Fall/Winter 2017! racing toward the end.’ – Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling crime novelist • ‘Tense and thought provoking… [a] stellar first SARAH BAILEY is a Melbourne based writer with a background in advertising and novel’ – Starred review in communications. Publishers Weekly

Pub Date June 18 Extent 420pp

ISBN 9781760297480 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Previous Rights North America (Grand Central), UK (Atlantic), Italian Sold (Edizioni Piemme), German (C. Bertelsmann), Chinese Simplified (Beijing White Horse Time Culture Development) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Crime Fiction

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Fiction CEDAR VALLEY Holly Throsby

On the first day of Summer in 1993, two very different strangers arrive in the small historic town of Cedar Valley.

One of them is an impeccably dressed man, who has arrived on the morning bus. After wandering around a bit, he sits down on the footpath to enjoy the sun. Before anyone can tell him to move along, it is discovered that he is dead. His cause of death is a mystery; he carries no form of identification or even any money; and all the labels have been meticulously removed from his clothing.

The other stranger who arrives this day is Benny Moon, a 21-year-old university student, whose mother, Vivian, once lived briefly in Cedar Valley and has a very mixed reputation in the town. Vivian has recently died and her once best friend, Odette, has offered Benny the opportunity of living in a vacant house she owns. Is there any connection between the dead man and Benny’s quest to learn more about her mother?

GOODWOOD

Sales Points: In 1992, when Jean Brown is seventeen, a terrible thing happens. Two terrible things. • Throsby writes delightful Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood's novels of secrets and most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes small-town obsessions home. People die in Goodwood, of course, but never like this. They don't just for lovers of Maria disappear. Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Praise for Goodwood: • 20,000 copies sold in ‘A little bit Twin Peaks and a little bit Picnic at Hanging Rock.’ – Hannah Richell, Australia Australian Women’s Weekly • 4.5/5 stars ‘laconic wit and deft plotting… a ‘With laconic wit and deft plotting, Throsby seamlessly weaves Jean’s coming-of-age touching sense of with the novel’s central mystery, lending the narrative a touching sense of nostalgia. nostalgia.’ – Books + Throsby hits all the right notes in Goodwood’ – Books + Publishing Publishing ‘Holly Throsby’s debut novel is lyrical without being abstruse, colloquial without being contrived…Goodwood approaches small-town violence through a softer lens, but the undercurrents and ramifications are no less chilling.’ – Readings online

HOLLY THROSBY is an accomplished and awarded musician who lives in Sydney. She's released five solo albums and has been nominated for four ARIA awards.

Pub Date Oct 18 Extent 350pp

ISBN 9781760630560 Rights Held World

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Dimensions 234x153mm Category Cosy Crime Fiction

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Fiction

LITTLE GODS Jenny Ackland

This is a rare and original novel about a remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free.

When Olive holds still and turns her mind inwards, she can see there are many versions of herself concertinaed within like a string of paper dolls. There she is, six years old, then nine, then eleven, a repeating pattern of girl children, thoughts fluid yet certain. She is grown now but what separates her from them? …

When Olive learns she had a baby sister who died—a child unacknowledged by her close but challenging family—she is determined to discover what happened. Intelligent, fanciful and brave, Olive's growing obsession with the mystery and her relentless attempts to find out have seismic repercussions for the rest of her family and their community. But as everything starts to change, it is Olive herself who might have the most to lose as the secrets she unearths multiply and take on complicated lives of their own.

Funny, heartbreaking and dazzlingly original, this is a rare and original novel about a Sales Points: remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free.

• In-house reaction: ‘Reading it Praise for Little Gods: for the first time gave me goosebumps and that amazing 'A delicate evocation of a uniquely Australian childhood with moments of poignant feeling I was reading almost-painful recognition. Ackland captures the bewildering nature of what it is to something that was already a be young in the inexplicable world of adults.' – Sofie Laguna, award-winning author classic. Not since I started of The Eye of the Sheep and The Choke reading Jasper Jones have I had Praise for The Secret Son: felt anything like that sensation – fresh, original and ‘A powerful story of good and evil, and belonging’ – The Sydney Morning Herald captivating, but coming out of ‘Ackland holds this complex narrative together with a beautiful sense of place and a tradition and a sense of character.’ – Derek Parker, Spectator assurance that made it already seem an essential item… And ‘Powerful and elegant’ – Australian Book Review oh, the character of Olive! JENNY ACKLAND was born in Melbourne. Her short fiction has been listed in What a pleasure for any reader prestigious literary prizes and awards, such as the Bridport and Fish Prizes, as well to discover the delights of this as published in various literary magazines, including Visible Ink, The Big Issue, & Kill singular girl. I LOVE this novel.’ Your Darlings. – Jane Palfreyman, Publisher

Pub Date Apr 18 Extent 320pp

ISBN 9781760297114 Rights Held World

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Fiction

LOVESOME Sally Seltmann

An offbeat and beguiling story of finding your own happiness.

My warm breath makes a beautiful fog in front of me. It's times like this when I feel most alive. I feel free, and at one with the world and everything around me. It's an invigorating version of euphoria. But I don't want to arrive home to no one; I want someone to come home to.

It's 1995 and 21-year-old Joni Johnson is fresh out of art school and loving her life. Working at Harland, a French restaurant, makes her happy - it's as romantic as she is herself. Harland's owner, Lucy, and chef, Dave, make her evenings both entertaining and complicated. By day, Joni sets up her easel in her backyard bungalow, turns on her music, and paints.

But when Joni's best friend, Annabelle, arrives on the doorstep one night ecstatic in love, everything changes. The life Joni has built for herself seems lacklustre in comparison to Annabelle's rising star. And when Annabelle makes a beeline for the one man who seems interested in Joni, it looks unlikely that their friendship will survive. Sales Points: Tender, funny and romantic, Lovesome is a triumph. • Better Reading ‘Book of the Month’ pick SALLY SELTMANN is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and • A heartwarming debut producer. Seltmann and Canadian singer-songwriter Feist co-wrote the song, 1234, romance for lovers of which became a Top 10 hit on the United States Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, she Sweetbitter by Stephanie released her third solo album and formed an indie rock trio, Seeker Lover Keeper, Danler with fellow Australians Sarah Blasko and Holly Throsby. This is her first novel. • Sally has a profile as a songwriter, working with Feist on the modern classic 1234

Pub Date May 18 Extent 320pp

ISBN 9781760632878 Rights Held World

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Fiction

THE FAR-BACK COUNTRY Kate Lyons

In 1979, at the age of fourteen, Ray McCullough ran away from his home on a western New South Wales sheep property following a violent confrontation with his dad, Jim McCullough. He left behind his mother, Delly, and two loved sisters, Ursula and Tilda.

Now 41, Ray works as an itinerant cook, barman and labourer across the remote outback. Rarely spending more than a few months in one job or place, he is self- sufficient and self-taught, a practical man in love with words, history, landscape and solitude. Deeply wary of other people and believing he suffers from an inherited streak of violence, he has spent his life running away from memories of family and home.

News of Delly’s death sparks a journey which will take Ray back to the heart of his past – a twisting path of secrets and searching, ending in a dead body bearing Ray’s wallet and identification being found in a country pub.

On hearing of Ray’s death, his sister Ursula starts in turn to look for answers. Her own search, six months after Ray’s, is intertwined with his story. Between Ray and Sales Points: Ursula the past unravels, secrets are untangled, and stories about their family come to light, including the fact that she is actually Ray’s mother, having fallen pregnant • In-house reaction: ‘A at a very young age. At points where their paths cross, separated by geography or superbly written and time, they discover that each only holds part of the key to the past. compelling novel about the bonds of family and The Far-Back Country is an extraordinary story about memory, mistaken identity, home set against a false knowledge and how the idea of family can define us. broad scrape outback reminiscent of early Tim KATE LYONS has been writing for nearly twenty years and has had her short fiction Winton.’ – Annette and poetry published in various Australian literary journals. A working journalist and Barlow, Publisher part-time lecturer at university, she lives in the Blue Mountains. Her first novel, The Water Underneath, was shortlisted in the 1999 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was published to acclaim in 2001. Her second novel, The Corner of Your Eye was published in 2006.

Pub Date Jul 18 Extent 400pp

ISBN 9781760295240 Rights Held World

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Dimensions 234x153mm Category Literary Fiction

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Fiction

ELEANOR’S SECRET Caroline Beecham

An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets and long-lasting love...

London, 1942 - When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artists Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer to realising her dream of becoming one of the few female war artists. But breaking into the art establishment proves difficult until Eleanor meets painter, Jack Valante, only to be separated by his sudden posting overseas.

Melbourne 2010 - Although reluctant to leave her family at home, Kathryn can't refuse her grandmother Eleanor's request to travel to London to help her return a precious painting to its artist. But when the search uncovers a long-held family secret, Kathryn has to make a choice to return home or risk her family's future, as Eleanor shows her that safeguarding the future is sometimes worth more than protecting the past.

Eleanor's Secret is at once a surprising mystery and compelling love story. Sales Points: MAGGIE’S KITCHEN

• Maggie’s Kitchen, TV When the Ministry of Food urgently calls for the opening of British Restaurants to Weekly UK ‘Best Ever feed tired and hungry Londoners during the Second World War, Maggie Johnson is Books’ close to realising a long-held dream. But after struggling through government red- • Almost 10,000 copies sold tape, Maggie's Kitchen soon encounters a most unexpected problem. Her restaurant of Maggie’s Kitchen has become so popular with London's exhausted workers, that Maggie simply can't • ‘A book that’s sure to get enough supplies to keep up with demand for food, without breaking some of the warm the soul.’ – rules. Woman’s Day Praise for Maggie’s Kitchen:

'...extremely engaging novel for a broad readership about a gifted cook in wartime London… so well structured and fictionalises its fascinating historical sources so successfully that it reads like the work of a veteran storyteller.' – The Sydney Morning Herald

CAROLINE BEECHAM grew up at the English seaside and relocated to Australia to continue her career as a writer and producer in film and television. She has an MA in Film & Television and a MA in Creative Writing and lives with her husband and

two sons by Sydney harbour.

Pub Date May 18 Extent 400pp

ISBN 9781760295660 Rights Held World

Format Paperback Rights Sold UK (Ebury Press)

Dimensions 234x153mm Category Commercial Fiction

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Fiction

UNDERSTOREY Karen Viggers

Returning to Tasmania, the setting of Karen’s bestseller, The Lightkeeper’s Wife, this book is a sequel of sorts, seeing the return of both Tom and troubled ranger Leon. Leon can’t stomach watching his alcoholic father beat and bully his mother so he transfers to logging country, where his kind are loathed by the loggers losing their livelihoods as forests are being turned over to National Parks. There he meets another outsider, a young woman Mikaela, running the local take-away while her taciturn brother Kurt won’t let her out of his sight. A moving and redemptive story of love, loss and family, there will be more to come on this future bestseller as the manuscript is revised.

THE LIGHTKEEPER’S WIFE

A woman at the end of her life. A man unable to restart his. A history of guilty secrets and things left unsaid.

Elderly Mary returns to Bruny Island to live out her last days with only her regrets Praise for The Lightkeeper’s and memories for company. Years ago, her husband was the lighthouse keeper on Wife: the island, until terrible circumstances forced them back to civilization. The long- buried secret that has haunted her threatens to break free, and as Mary’s time winds • ‘A marvel… absolutely down she finds the script she’s written to the end of her life takes on a few twists of the book of the summer’ its own. – Gerard Collard, La Griffe Noir This heart-wrenching tale of past love and family secrets has sold nearly 300,000 copies in France, to go alongside the 50,000 copies sold elsewhere worldwide.

Described as ‘the book of the summer’ in the French press, The Lightkeeper’s Wife was chosen as winner of the ‘Petits Mots de Libraires’ Bookseller Prize for the best newcomer novel of 2016. Karen Vigger’s gorgeous storytelling has ensnared readers around the world with its vivid description of brutal, foggy Tasmania and Bruny Island, and the slowly unveiling family mystery of long-hidden secrets.

KAREN VIGGERS was born in Melbourne, Australia, and grew up in the Dandenong Ranges riding horses and writing stories. She lives in Canberra with her husband (an ecologist also passionate about wildlife) and two children. As well as writing, she works part-time in a veterinary practice and provides veterinary support for biologists studying native animals. Visit www.karenviggers.com

Pub Date Feb 19 Extent 300pp

ISBN 9781760630584 Rights Held World Format Paperback Previous Rights French (Les Escales), Italian (Newton Compton), Sold Norwegian (Cappelen Damm Forlag), Slovenian (Mis Zalozba), Spanish (Planeta)

Dimensions 234x153mm Category Popular Fiction

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2028: ...AND SOMETHING WEIRD IS GOING DOWN Ken Saunders

The lovechild of Armando Iannucci and Douglas Adams, a novel that responds to our warped and absurd political times.

2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes have finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong?

The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected - an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier pigeon and has a list of candidates all called Ned Ludd?

Welcome to the Australia of 2028 where parking meters double as poker machines, radio shock jocks have been automated, the Communist Party of China has turned itself into a multinational corporation and ASIO's glory days are so far over that its resorting to surveillance of a Charles Dickens reading group.

Sales Points: Outrageous, sharp and wickedly funny, 2028 takes us into the near future where the not-very-good ideas around today have become ten years worse. • ‘If Douglas Adams wrote The Killing Season, it would be as KEN SAUNDERS moved to Australia from Canada in 1994. He has won several absurdly funny and Australian and Canadian short-story prizes. worryingly prescient as this!’ – Sami Shah, Comedian • ‘I’ve found the Australian Douglas Adams! Imaginative and very funny stuff.’ – Tom Gleeson, Comedian • Readers have an intense interest in politics at the moment; this feeds into that from an unusual, quirky angle and offers welcome comic relief

Pub Date Sep 18 Extent 320pp

ISBN 9781760631062 Rights Held World

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Dimensions 234x153mm Category Fiction

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FLIGHT RISK Michael McGuire

For fans of Matthew Reilly and Terry Hayes, a world class action thriller ripped straight from the headlines.

The plane in question was a Garuda Airlines A330. There were 245 passengers and crew on board. All communication between pilots and air traffic control was exactly as the book said it should be. Then. Silence. It disappeared without a trace somewhere between Australia and Indonesia. One second it was there, blipping away on radar, the next it had vanished. And for the last 16 hours now, no-one had a clue where it was. It had just disappeared into the wild blue yonder.

Another plane disappears from the sky. Then another. Three planes and hundreds of passengers and crew, vanished, without a trace. Panic is widespread, and the world is teetering on the brink.

Former pilot (now disgraced) Ted Roberts works for an unofficial top-secret government organisation set up to investigate terror-related incidents. Sent to Jakarta Sales Points: to find out as much as he can about the pilot of the vanished Garuda flight, he discovers a flight simulator in the pilot’s apartment. He also meets his US equivalent, Alan Miller, • A deeply plausible, and they decide to join forces, especially when it becomes clear the Indonesian terrifying thriller straight authorities want to take them into custody. He manages to escape on a US military out of the headlines plane and finds himself AWOL in New York when further disaster strikes. • Hugely suspenseful and full of amazing action At an eerily deserted JFK airport trying to get a flight back home, Ted witnesses a suspicious exchange between an airport cleaner and a nonchalant airline pilot. He

follows the pilot to his destination: a Boeing flight of Ukraine International Airlines, due to leave in an hour. All his instincts tell him that this is the next plane to go down. But what does he do? Take the flight and face almost certain death, or fly back home and watch for the news headlines?

Pure adrenalin, explosive action and terrifying revelations that will keep even the most jaded reader glued to the pages and utterly engrossed, a white-knuckle ride that climaxes in the skies above Manhattan as our pilot struggles to keep a huge plane from crashing into the Freedom Tower.

Born and raised in Scotland, award-winning journalist MICHAEL MCGUIRE has worked

for more than twenty years at the Australian in Sydney, and the Adelaide Advertiser where he is now senior writer. He has also dabbled in state and federal politics.

Pub Date Jan 19 Extent 400pp

ISBN 9781760632885 Rights Held World

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Fiction HEY BROTHER Jarrah Dundler

A genuine and engaging portrayal of a 14-year-old country lad, with a tonne of adolescent awkwardness and a family who loves each other despite crises big and small.

Fourteen-year-old Trysten 'Tryst' Black's life changes dramatically when his older brother, Shaun, goes off to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Their mother, Kirsten, deals with Shaun's absence by drinking, leaving Tryst to fend for himself. Tryst's response is to rage against his father who lives in a caravan by the creek, to get into a punch-up at school, and to line up for another fight with his uncle who has come to stay.

When the fractured family receives news that Shaun is coming home, things begin to look better. But Tryst is dead worried about his big brother. And it's only his friends who'll listen.

Hey Brother tells the story of a tough kid from the bush whose world comes crashing down on his shoulders. But with his own blend of fury, resilience and deadpan humour, Tryst proves to be up for every challenge. Even talking to that girl on the Praise for Hey Brother: bus.

• Shortlisted, The JARRAH DUNDLER is the author of several published short stories. Hey Brother is his Australian/Vogel's first novel and Jarrah has been the recipient of a Northern Rivers Writers Centre Literary Award 2016 mentorship with Marele Day, and a Varuna Residency Fellowship. • ‘A great story with sharp contemporary relevance…the ending is the best of all: restrained but powerful.’ – Stephen Romei, The Australian • ‘Good knack for writing voices… a classic story of teenage love and family’ – Judges, The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Panel 2016

Pub Date Aug 18 Extent 283pp

ISBN 9781760631123 Rights Held World

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Fiction

THE MUMMY BLOGGERS TWO (WORKING TITLE) Holly Wainwright

Through a world of fake gurus, pretox parties, smug mummies and influencer angst… Sometimes life behind the screen is not as rosy as it seems...

What did you have for breakfast? Was it pure enough? Did it set you up for a day of grace, positive intentions and bum-selfies that would make a teenager weep? If not, Elle Campbell is here to help. She once led an army of ab-tastic, aspirational mums, but after a blistering public shaming she’s reinvented herself as a mountain-top model of serenity with a new band of followers – the Elle-ness Warriors.

Abi Black is blogging about her chaotic blended family from her falling-down farmhouse, trying to keep it together while her ex-husband is building a financial cult in the shed and her teenage daughter’s YouTube channel is gaining followers for all the wrong reasons.

Frances Graham has a colicky newborn, an absent husband and a Whatsapp Mother’s Group that’s giving her anxiety. But she’s sure that if she can just be more like those fitmums on Instagram – do one more boot camp, one more juice cleanse – things can only get better. Sales Points: THE MUMMY BLOGGERS • For fans of Liane Moriarty,

The Mummy Bloggers is Elle Campbell is a glossy, lycra-clad mum with washboard abs, a ten-year plan and a the feisty, fast-paced and secret past. Abi Black has quit sugar, moved to the country and is homeschooling funny debut novel from her kids. Leisel Adams slogs away at her office job each day before rushing home, entertainment editor, Holly steeped in guilt, to spend precious moments with her kids before bedtime. When all Wainwright three women are nominated for a prestigious blogging award with a hefty cash prize, • The Over 10,000 copies of the scene is set for a brutal and often hilarious battle for hearts, minds-and clicks. Mummy Bloggers sold As the awards night gets closer, their lies get bigger, their stunts get crazier - and • Smart and savvy, bubbly some mistakes from the past become harder and harder to hide. and scathing. It offers a satirical view on the brave HOLLY WAINWRIGHT is a former-Mancunian Sydneysider who came to Australia as new world of mummy a footloose traveller more than 20 years ago. Since then, Holly has had a long career blogging, a clever take on a as a journalist and editor, originally in travel and celebrity magazines and now world so many of us follow. online. She's been working in digital media for three years, most recently as Head of • 'The freshest, funniest new Entertainment at Mamamia. She also hosts a parenting podcast, has two small voice in fiction since Liane children, lives by the ocean and wishes there were four more hours in every day. Moriarty.' – Mia Freedman

Pub Date Sep 18 Extent 352pp

ISBN 9781760633486 Rights Held World

Format Paperback Rights Sold Turkish (Kitap)

Dimensions 234x153mm Category Popular Fiction

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A ROOM AT THE MANOR Julie Shackman

When her Maltese love affair turns sour, Lara McDonald returns to her quiet Scottish hometown of Fairview, heart-broken yet determined - instead of looking for another PR position, she decides to follow her dream of baking. She impulsively takes the first job offered and finds herself working for local dragon Kitty Walker in her tea room True Brew.

Lara's life is full of surprises, however, not the least being an unlikely friendship forged with one of Kitty's elderly customers, the Laird Hugo Carmichael. The Carmichael family has lived at the beautiful Glenlovatt Manor for almost 300 years and, although in need of renovation, Hugo, his son and grandson currently make it their home.

There's something about Lara that Hugo likes, and when Hugo suddenly passes away, Lara is stunned to discover she is mentioned in his will. But not everyone is happy with the old Laird's faith in Lara.

JULIE SHACKMAN trained as a journalist and studied Media & Communication Sales Points: before turning her hand to women’s fiction. She lives in Scotland. When not reading and writing romance, she writes verses and captions for greeting card companies. • A story of love, family, hope and trust, A Room at the Manor will delight every reader keen to find their place. • For all the readers who love Cathy Kelly and Maeve Binchy

Pub Date Jul 18 Extent 300pp

ISBN 9781760632861 Rights Held World ex-Germany

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Dimensions 234x153mm Category Romance Fiction

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THE SPOTTED DOG Kerry Greenwood

Film rights for Corinna Chapman now sold to the producers of the beloved Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries series, broadcast around the world on Netflix in 179 countries.

We’re back with Corinna and her lover, Daniel, who are sleuthing to pull together all the strings to solve the many puzzles of a wandering Scottish veteran from Afghanistan. Enter a kidnapped dog, drug runners, a student dramatic society, burglaries, threatening notes, passionate encounters and yummy delicious baked goods coming out of Corinna’s bakery, Earthly Delights.

Praise for Corinna Chapman:

‘Greenwood is a modern master of the gracious detective story. We happily slip into the well-ordered ebb and flow of life around Earthly Delights and the other inhabitants of the Insula building, but she meticulously blends a hint of unease into Sales Points: the mix… Greenwood knows a proper feast includes the savoury and the sweet. Hers is a unique voice in crime fiction.’ – The Age • In-house reaction: ‘What a thorough delight to be ‘the Corinna Chapman series… is an absolute delight… I can thoroughly recommend ensconced once more in this one to anyone who is looking for a pleasurable read.’ – Bookseller + Publisher Insula, in Earthly Delights… ‘Fans of the series will know and new readers will soon realise, once Corinna takes How I have missed them control, the baddies might just as well give up; resistance is only postponing the all—and how I have missed inevitable… entertaining, enchanting and enjoyable.’ – Good Reading Kerry’s wit, and erudition, and the all-round KERRY GREENWOOD is the author of many bestselling novels and the editor of two deliciousness of her books collections. The first six books in the Corinna series are Earthly Delights (2004), and writing.’ – Ali Lavau, Heavenly Pleasures (2005), Devil's Food (2006), Trick or Treat (2008), Forbidden Fruit Editor (2010) and Cooking the Books (2011). • The bestselling Phryne Fisher series, sold in North America, the UK and many translation territories, has been adapted into a television series and is now broadcast on Netflix in 179 countries around the world

Pub Date Oct 18 Extent 280pp

ISBN 9781760528485 Rights Held World

Format Paperback Rights Sold North America (Poisoned Pen)

Dimensions 198x128mm Category Crime Fiction

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Fiction

THE CHOKE Sofie Laguna

The Choke is a harrowing, but ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles Franklin winner, about the quick and cruel coming-of-age girls are often forced to endure, in the vein of recent remarkable literature of dangerous girlhoods, The Girls by Emma Cline and Marlena by Julie Buntin.

The water that had never been to the sea, or seen it, knew the way it wanted to go, even in the darkness it kept flowing forward past our hideouts, past our ring of stones, past the blackened butt of the cigarette lying under the ground like a body.

Abandoned by her mother and only occasionally visited by her secretive father, Justine is raised by her pop, a man tormented by visions of the Burma Railway. Her father is a criminal, and the world he exposes her to can be lethal. Justine is overlooked and underestimated, a shy and often silent observer of her chaotic world. She learns that she has to make sense of it on her own. She has to find ways to survive so much neglect. She must hang on to friendship when it comes, she must hide when she has to, and ultimately she must fight back.

Praise for The Choke: Sales Points: • Over 20,000 copies sold ‘Reading becomes the sole purpose of the day. You cannot put the book down and more than 60,000 sold because you are immersed, completely and utterly, until the story finishes… It is so of previous novel unquestionably breathtaking.’ – Readings Monthly • Longlisted, The Stella Prize The Choke 2018 ‘Laguna builds suspense deftly and without mercy. From the moment begins, a slingshot’s elastic is precisely, steadfastly being pulled back… and the stone • Longlisted, Australian Laguna lets fly ricochets inside you for days afterwards.’ – The Sydney Morning Literature Society Gold Herald Medal 2018

• Shortlisted, Independent ‘Sofie Laguna is a writer who can wrench beauty even from the horror of a child Booksellers’ Awards, caught up in the toxic world of bastardised masculinity… The Choke is emotionally Fiction Book of the Year intense, deeply engaging and quietly haunting.’ – 5/5 stars, Books + Publishing 2018 • Shortlisted, Victorian SOFIE LAGUNA's second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep—shortlisted for the Premier's Literary Awards’, Stella Prize—won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. It has been optioned for Fiction Book of the Year both film and theatre. Her first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, published 2018 throughout Europe, the US and the UK, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award.

Pub Date Sept 17 Extent 384pp ISBN 9781760297244 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold UK (TBA) Previous Rights French (Actes Sud), Bulgarian (Ednorog), Catalan (Ara Sold Llibres), Chinese Complex (Global Publishing Group), Dutch (A W Bruna), North American (Other Press), UK (Allison & Busby), German (Pendo Verlag), Italian (Garzanti), Russian (Arabesque), Spanish (Espasa), Turkish (Maya Kitap) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Literary Fiction

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Fiction THE PASSAGE OF LOVE Alex Miller

Critically acclaimed, two-time winner of the Miles Franklin award, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Miller's new work is an exquisitely personal novel of love and creativity. Longlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2018. At twenty-one, Robert Crofts leaves his broken dreams in Far North Queensland, finally stopping in Melbourne, almost destitute. It's there he begins to understand how books and writing might be the saving of him. They will be how he leaves his mark on the world.

When Robert is introduced to Lena Soren, beautiful, rich and educated, his life takes a very different path. But in their connection lies an unknowability that both torments and tantalises as Robert and Lena long for something that neither can provide. In a rich blend of thoughtful and beautifully observed writing, the lives of a husband and wife are laid bare in their passionate struggle to engage with their individual creativity. Despite the obstacles of sorrow, temptation, isolation and illness, the power to write and to love, overcomes. This is a rich and textured picture of how one man, through relationships and connections to land, country, Praise for Alex Miller: art and women, comes to be himself.

• ‘Alex Miller is a wonderful Praise for The Passage of Love: writer, one that Australia has been keeping secret ‘A great read, with profound insights into the nature of love and creativity.’ – from the rest of us for too Australian Financial Review long’ – John Banville ‘Miller has a gift for examining the domestic and exploring private lives.’ – Good • ‘the Australian master, so Reading admired by other writers…

a work of subtle genius’ – ‘There is a knife-sharp presence in this prose that conveys the acuteness of Miller’s Sebastian Barry (on eye.’ – Overland Literary Journal Landscape of Farewell)

• 'A wonderful novel of ALEX MILLER's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been stunning intricacy and great shortlisted in all of the major Australian literary awards. He is twice winner of beauty.' – Michael Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an Ondaatje (on The Ancestor overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game. In Game) 2015, The Simplest Words, Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry, was published to great acclaim. Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated.

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Fiction THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE Heather Rose FIGHT LIKE A GIRL AClementine mesmerising Ford literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art and commitment, set against the backdrop of one of the greatestNearly 50,000 art events copies in modernsold. The history, bestselling Marina call Abramovic's to arms for feministsThe Artist old is Present, new and.

yet to be realised, told by one of our most outspoken feminist writers. Fight Like She watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in A Girl will receive a world English release in 2018 through Oneworld. a gaze with the woman across the table. Jane felt she had witnessed a thing of inexplicable‘The book I’ve beauty been among waiting humans for: an impassionedwho had been call drawn to arms to thisfor girls art andof all had ages.’ found – theAnne reflection Summers of a great mystery. What are we? How should we live?

Arky ‘With Levin wit, insightis a film and composer glorious, in righteous New York rage, separated Clementine from Fordhis wife, lays outwho all has the asked ways himin w hichto keep girls one and devastatingwomen are hurtpromise. and held One back, day andhe finds unapologetically his way to The demands Atrium that at MOMAthe world and do seesbetter. Marina A passionate Abramovic and urgentlyin The Artist needed is callPresent to arms,. The Fight performanc Like A Girle continuesinsists on ourfor seventyright to- fivebe angry, days and, to be as heard it unfolds, and to so fight. does It'llArky. change As he lives.' watches – Emily and meetsMaguire, other author people of drawnAn Isolated to the Incident exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do. A friend recently told me that the things I write are powerful for her because they Thishave dazzlingly the effect original of making novel her asks feel beguiliangry insteadng questions of just about empty. the I want nature to ofdo art,this lifefor andall women love and and finds young a way girls to answer- to take them. the emptiness and numbness they feel about Awards for The Museum of being a girl in this world and turn it into rage and power. I want to teach all of them Praise for The Museum of Modern Love: PraiseModern for Love: Fight Like a Girl: how to FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. – Clementine Ford • ‘Framing a love story around a long-durational performance work, where the • Shortlisted,Longlisted, IndieInternational Book Online sensation, fearless feminist heroine and scourge of trolls and misogynists passage of time is essential, is a profoundly original idea. I loved this book.’ – Marina AwardsDublin Literary– Best Non Award-fiction everywhere, Clementine Ford, is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of Abramovic 20172018 Australian women and girls. Her incendiary debut Fight Like A Girl is an essential • • #1Winner, Bestseller The Stellaon Australian Prize ‘Onemanifesto of my for stand feminists-out Australian new, old readsand soon from-to 2016-be, andwas exposesundoubtedly just how The unequalMuseum the of Independents2017 Bookseller's Modernworld continues Love… It isto a beglorious for women. novel, meditativeCrucially, it and is aspecial call to in arms a way for that all defieswomen easy to • ListWinner, NSW Premier's articulation.’rediscover the – Hannah fury that Kent, has The been Guardian suppressed by a society that still considers • #1Literary Reader's Awards Choice 2017 on, ABC feminism a threat. 'It is rare to encounter a novel with such powerful characterisation, such a deep TV'sChristina show SteadThe Book Prize Club for understandingFight Like A Girl of will the make consequences you laugh, cryof andpersonal scream. and But national above allhistory, it will makeand such you • TopFiction 5 Book for the Year • dazzlingdemand andand subtlefight for explorations a world in which of the women importance have realof art equality in everyday and not life.' merely – Stella the 2016Shortlisted, in The AgeThe andAustralian The Prizeillusion Judges of it. Repor t AustralianLiterature Society Gold Medal 2017 • ‘A fascinating, heartbreaking, TheCLEMENTINE Museum of FORD Modern is a Lovefreelance is HEATHER writer, ROSE broadcaster's sixth novel. and public It is preceded speaker bybased White in • maddening,Shortlisted, enlightening,Best Fiction – HeartMelbourne., The Butterfly Man, The River Wife and as Angelica Banks Finding Serendipity comforting,Queensland inspiring, Premier’s and A Week Without Tuesday, both books for children which have been published

thoughtLiterary- provokingAwards read…’ – in the US by Knopf.

Pub Date Sept 16 Extent 296pp

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Fiction THE SISTERS' SONG Louise Allan

A wonderful debut about playing with the hand life deals us, and the strength of sisterhood. Set in rural Tasmania from the 1920s to the 1990s, The Sister’s Song traces the lives of two very different sisters. One for whom giving and loving come naturally and the other, who cannot forgive and forget.

As children, Ida loved looking after her younger sister Nora. But when their beloved father dies in 1927, everything changes. The two girls move in with their grandmother who is particularly encouraging of Nora's musical talent. In Nora, she sees herself, the artist she was never allowed to be. As Nora follows her dream of a brilliant musical career, Ida takes a job as a nanny and their lives become quite separate.

The two sisters are reunited as Nora's life takes an unwelcome direction and she finds herself isolated in the Tasmanian bush saddled with a husband and children. Embittered and resentful about her lost chances, Nora welcomes Ida's help with her Praise for The Sisters’ Song: chaotic household. When Ida marries Len, a reliable and good man, she hopes her dreams of a family of her own will be fulfilled. Unfortunately, it becomes clear that • Almost 10,000 copies sold this is never likely to happen. In Ida's eyes, Nora possesses everything in life that • Australian Women’s Weekly could possibly matter, yet she values none of it. ‘Book of the Month’ • ‘Well written and very evocative, Set in rural Tasmania over a span of seventy years, the strengths and flaws of this poignant novel examines the motherhood are revealed through the mercurial relationship of these two very complexity of motherhood and different sisters, Ida and Nora. The Sisters' Song speaks of dreams, children and the powerful bond of sisters.’ – family, all entwined with a musical thread that binds them together. Canberra Weekly LOUISE ALLAN is a debut author from Western Australia. This manuscript was • ‘Affecting, heart-warming and awarded a Varuna residential fellowship in 2014 and shortlisted for the City of devastating, this rich debut Fremantle-TAG Hungerford Award. Louise grew up in Tasmania but has since moved novel is a brilliant insight into to Perth where she lives with her husband, four children and two dogs. She is a family relationships, history former doctor and has a passion for music. repeating itself through the generations, and the unparalleled bond of siblings.’ – Herald Sun • ‘deeply evocative of a bygone era… delivers a powerful and cathartic final message’ – Australian Woman’s Weekly

Pub Date Jan 18 Extent 288pp

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Fiction

SIGN Colin Dray

Sometimes even the best intentions can lead you down a very dangerous road.

Sam is a young boy recovering from an operation that has left him unable to speak ever again. He lives with his mother and sister Katie, all dutifully cared for by Aunt Dettie, their father's sister, who believes herself sympathetic to his pain.

Their father abandoned the family some time ago, but when their mother begins to date again, Aunt Dettie reacts very badly.

After an unexpected phone call, Aunt Dettie packs Sam and Katie into the backseat of her car and tells them that she's taking them to Perth to be reunited with their father.

As Dettie drives the children across Australia in the middle of a sweltering and dangerous bushfire season, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the children begin to realise that there is something very wrong.

Voiceless, Sam can only watch helplessly as the family trip becomes a smoke-filled Praise for Sign: nightmare. Sign is an unputdownable, ultimately heartwarming novel about family, illness and the back roads of life, reminiscent of Lost and Found by Brooke Davis and • Shortlisted, The Little Miss Sunshine. Dray is a gifted writer who has produced a novel that is Australian/Vogel’s Award evocative, perceptive and original. 2015 • ‘Glorious, compulsive, COLIN DRAY was shortlisted for the 2015 The Australian/Vogel’s Award. He lives on considered’ – The Advertiser the South Coast of NSW. • ‘Dray’s set up is clever and fresh and Sign is unputdownable.’ – The Saturday Paper • ‘a touching examination of what happens when words fail us… by the time he’s worked things out, my heart had already punched its way out of my chest’ – The AU Review

Pub Date Feb 18 Extent 232pp

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Fiction

THE NECESSARY ANGEL C.K. Stead

A dazzling new novel from the award-winning C.K. Stead, New Zealand poet laureate.

This bubbling, conversational book pulls the reader in to modern day Paris, flitting between food and philosophy, politics and romance. Stead has evoked a choir of voices in his novel of a group of friends and a city at large. Over the course of a hot Parisian summer, we follow them as the ins-and-outs of their everyday lives are shaped and moulded by the world around them, their jealousies and desires, long- running family fueds and the mysterious theft of a painting.

A story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; The Necessary Angel is a sophisticated novel that shows C.K. Stead writing at the height of his powers.

Praise for The Necessary Angel:

‘Stead, New Zealand’s former poet laureate… had delivered the product of a taut literary intellect at its most relaxed, a glorious piss-take on the pretensions of the Praise for C.K. Stead: intellectual classes… a lovely love letter to love, to Paris, and above all to literature, and, vitally, one that’s kept its sense of humour.’ – The Saturday Paper • ‘Very few people can put together such luminous C.K. STEAD is a distinguished, award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist sentences.’ – Iain Sharp, and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland. He is the current Sunday Star-Times New Zealand Poet Laureate, has won the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction, and is • ‘Delightful, ingeniously a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New Zealand. comic, elegant and His novels have been translated into 11 languages. sensitive…’ – John Mellors, London Magazine • ‘Suddenly what seemed to be interesting takes flight into the infinite white spaces, the blank page of the imagination, and life becomes art.’ – James McLean, Evening Post

Pub Date Oct 17 Extent 240pp ISBN 9781760631529 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Previous Rights Sold UK (Harvill), North America (St Martins), Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish (publishers on request) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Literary Fiction

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Fiction THE OPAL DRAGONFLY Julian Leatherdale

Inspired by the other grand villas of the wealthy upper classes of 1850s Sydney (with a nod to Jane Austen), The Opal Dragonfly tells the story of an ambitious family's fall from grace and a young woman's struggle to find her true self.

Miss Isobel Clara Macleod, youngest of the seven children of Major Sir Angus Hutton Macleod, Surveyor-General of the colony of New South Wales, had the singular misfortune to know that at seven o'clock that morning her father was going to die.

Seventeen-year-old Isobel is determined to save her beloved father. But when she dares to trespass into a forbidden male world, she is plunged into disgrace and exile. A wave of ill fortune threatens to swallow up her family and their stately home, Rosemount Hall, 'the finest house in the colony' on the foreshores of Sydney Harbour.

But is Isobel really to blame for her family's fate? Or does the cause lie in her father's past? When Isobel was seven, Major Macleod returned from an expedition with two 'souvenirs' that would change her world: an Aboriginal girl who became her playmate and a dragonfly brooch, fashioned from two opals, for her mother. Isobel Praise for Palace of Tears: inherits this 'unlucky' heirloom and wonders if these strange visions it conjures are • ‘A tap-dancing debut novel, a curse or a gift. beautifully and lyrically Isobel's hopes for the future are tied to her illicit passion for a charming but written.’ – Australian tormented artist. Will she be permanently exiled from her family home and cut off Women’s Weekly from her past? Or will she be transformed into a new self, like a dragonfly emerging • ‘Passionate palatial page- into the sunlight? turner… a Gothic fiction masterpiece’ – Tasmanian Two men bid for the love of one woman, freedom is found in the heart of a dust Times storm, a great house sinks beneath the harbour and a father's inheritance reveals • ‘A rollicking, epic tale’ – past crimes. Adelaide Advertiser JULIAN LEATHERDALE’S first novel Palace of Tears was published by Allen & Unwin in 2015 and HarperCollins Germany in 2016. The Opal Dragonfly is his second novel.

Pub Date Mar 18 Extent 576pp

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NON-FICTION

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True Crime

THE DARKEST WEB Eileen Ormsby

This book will take you into the murkiest depths of the web's dark underbelly: a place of hitmen for hire, red rooms, hurtcore sites and online black markets. The darkest web.

There's the world wide web - the internet we all know that connects us via news, email, forums, shopping and social media. Then there's the dark web - the parallel internet accessed by only a select few. Usually, those it connects wish to remain anonymous and for good reason.

In the dark web, email is designed never to reveal users; the news and forums are dedicated to topics of true crime, but with inside information and gruesome detail rarely found on the 'clearweb'. Shopping is paid for with cryptocurrency like bitcoin, but the markets advertise drugs, weapons, hacking tools and far more nefarious goods and services.

Eileen Ormsby has spent the past five years exploring every corner of the Dark Web. She has shopped on darknet markets, contributed to forums, waited in red rooms and hacked hitmen-for-hire sites. On occasions, her dark web activities have poured Sales Points: out into the real world and she has attended trials, met with criminals and the law • The author has already enforcement who tracked them down, interviewed dark web identities and visited received interest in the UK them in prison. from The Times, the BBC and EILEEN ORMSBY is a lawyer author and freelance journalist based in Melbourne. Her Vice and in the US from Fox first book, Silk Road was the world's first in-depth expose of the black markets that News and CBS – 48 Hours operate on the dark web. Her gonzo-style investigations have led her deep into the • ‘Ormsby… has spent the past secretive corners of the dark web where drugs and weapons dealers, hackers, five years exploring this hitmen and worse ply their trade. Many of these dark web interactions turned into libertarian underworld… the real-world relationships, entanglements, hack attempts on her computer and even engrossing result is The death threats from the dark web's most successful hitman network as she Darkest Web’ – The researched Darkest Web. She now lives a quiet life off-grid as much as possible. Australian

Pub Date Mar 18 Extent 420pp

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Politics & Government

TOTAL PROPAGANDA Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young Helen Razer

For Millennials tired of being told their brunches and Uber rides are the reasons they cannot afford to buy houses, Total Propaganda offers an introduction to the communist theories of Karl Marx.

Marx may not have had much to say about brunch in the twenty-first century, but he sure had some powerful thoughts about where the system of capitalism would land us. Over time, it would produce a series of crises, he said, before pushing the wealth so decisively up, a top-heavy system would come crashing down with a push.

Aimed at a younger readership, Helen Razer calls upon those tired of wage stagnation, growing global poverty and jaded economists to think outside of the capitalist square, and open their minds to the possibilities that a communist future could hold. It is, as she puts it, ‘Marx for Millennials’.

This is a serious/funny introduction to the theories of Karl Marx for the angry youth who see that the future needs to change. It is accessible, playful and offers some fascinating ideas that will cause readers to debate the future of politics and the world Sales Points: in general… over brunch, perhaps.

• ‘Ever since Trump’s Praise for Total Propaganda: election, arts critics the world over have become ‘a timely reintroduction… For a generation experiencing the morbid symptoms of the obsessed with the free-market system in crisis, this is just the book.’ – Sydney Morning Herald phrase “a book for our times” – as though ‘Razer’s description of the economics of her life is engaging and education, and she political outrage and a toggles neatly between personal example and the larger crisis.’ – Weekend Australian desire for change have ‘full of humour, but the message is quite scary.’ – Sun-Herald only just come back into fashion. Total ‘Razer wants us to look at the big picture and to stop thinking only of our own Propaganda is not a oppression.’ – Weekend Australian book for our times. At its swollen, blood-gorged For more than two decades, HELEN RAZER has been broadcasting and writing her way heart Total Propaganda into disagreement of various scales. Helen has produced four previous books of is a book for all times – a humorous non-fiction and her frequently published thoughts on the impotence of hoarsened, desperate current public debate are extended in A Short History of Stupid. battle cry for change.’ – The Brag

Pub Date Sep 17 Extent 242pp ISBN 9781760297312 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Korean (Geuldam) Previous Rights Sold Simplified Chinese (W. E. Time Digitech)

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Current Affairs

HEADSTRONG DAUGHTERS Inspiring stories from the new generation of Muslim women Nadia Jamal

How would you feel, as a guest, about sitting in a suburban living room that is for women only?

What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman could not have one outside of a marriage?

Could you stay home to mourn a husband for four months and ten days?

Headstrong Daughters takes us inside the lives of Muslim women today. They are working professionals, mothers, and students. At home they are finding ways to stay true to their faith as well as to themselves, navigating the expectations of their families and the traditions they brought with them to their new country.

But things are not always what they seem. These candid, moving and sometimes surprising stories reveal a side to life that is little known and often misunderstood. Inspiring, warm and determined, these women are the new face of Islam in Australia.

Sales Points: Praise for Headstrong Daughters

• Includes stories from 'A thoughtful, honest, and compelling window into a community so often assumed Muslim women from the about, but rarely engaged with. I finished it in a single sitting.' – Susan Carland, following backgrounds: author of Fighting Hislam Lebanese, Afghani, Iraqi, 'Jamal's neutral, yet gently perceptive style allows the stories of her women to shine Bangladeshi, Bosnian and through, illuminating the myriad points of intersection with Islam in ordinary life. An Somali absolutely fascinating and illuminating read.’ – Annabel Crabb, ABC writer and broadcaster

NADIA JAMAL is a former senior journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and co- author of the award-winning Glory Garage: Growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia. She has become a lawyer and works as a financial crime analyst.

Pub Date May 18 Extent 240pp

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Politics & Government

THE MESS WE’RE IN How Politics Went to Hell and Dragged Us with It Bernard Keane

A tide of populism and xenophobia is sweeping the western world. Voters are disillusioned, are turning to political outsiders and reject the liberal economic solutions of out of touch elites. Despite having access to more information than at any time in human history, we reject experts, evidence and facts themselves in a new Era of Electronic Ignorance. Many warn darkly of a repeat of the chaos, misery and war of the 1930s.

How did it all go so wrong? The Mess We’re In explains how of a perfect storm of historical developments has left us feeling as though a Dark Age beckons. How the triumphant economic philosophy of neoliberalism has failed us and provoked a backlash that is sweeping it aside. How the internet is rewiring our economies, our media, our culture and even our own brains. How politics has become a hollowed- out industry rather than a public service. And how, together, they’ve unleashed a wave of anger and fear that has swept the world.

Sales Points: But don’t panic (too much) – things are better than they seem, and there is a way forward. • In the tradition of funny, grumpy books like those BERNARD KEANE has been Crikey's correspondent in Canberra since 2008, writing written by Don Watson, on politics, media and economics. He was educated at the University of Sydney, Christopher Hitchens where he studied history. Before joining Crikey he was a public servant and and PJ O'Rourke speechwriter in transport and communications. He is the author of the ebook War On The Internet and co-author of the bestseller A Short History of Stupid, with Helen Razer. He is also the author of Surveillance, his first novel.

Pub Date Aug 18 Extent 304pp

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Current Affairs

GOD IS GOOD FOR YOU Greg Sheridan

At a time of crisis for Christianity in the West, God is Good for You shows just why we need faith in our world.

The Judaeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western civilisation, yet now we've reached a point in both Australia and many parts of Europe where Christianity has become a minority faith, rather than the mainstream belief. It's a situation that's fraught both for Christians and our wider society, where the moral certainties that were the foundation of our institutions and laws are no longer held by the majority.

At this point of crisis for Christianity, God is Good For You shows us why Christianity is so vital for our personal and social well-being, and how modern Christians - of all denominations - have never worked so hard to make the world a better place at a time when their faith has never been less valued. It carries a vital torch for Christianity in a way that's closely argued, warmly human, good humoured, and by turns passionate and surprising, and, above all, convincing. Sales Points: GREG SHERIDAN is Foreign Editor of The Australian, and a highly regarded journalist. • This is a brilliant and He is active across radio and television, as well as print. He is also a committed intelligent examination of Catholic. Christianity and its importance in the modern world • There has been huge attention on the atheistic side of the religious argument in recent years, with international bestsellers from Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens among many others. This is the argument from the side of faith, written with high intelligence, but for a mainstream readership.

Pub Date Aug 18 Extent 320pp

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Politics & Government

COLONIAL FANTASY Why white Australia can't solve black problems Sarah Maddison

Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Regardless of the policy approach – from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition – government policies and programs have made little positive difference to their quality of life of the majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In far too many instances, interaction with settler governments has only made Indigenous lives worse. The successes of a burgeoning Indigenous middle class cannot obscure this fact.

Despite this, many scholars, activists, and analysts – Indigenous and settler alike – maintain a degree of faith in the liberal settler order, or at least a belief that working with the state is the only viable political option. This belief has produced a situation Sales Points: of constant churn and reinvention in Indigenous affairs, as governments of all • Similar challenges are persuasions battle over the 'right' approach to solving Indigenous 'problems', secure in their belief that new or better policy is the answer. faced by Indigenous

peoples across the The Colonial Fantasy considers why settler Australia persists in the face of such world obvious failure. It argues that white Australia can't solve black problems because • Sarah has a substantial white Australia is the problem. Indigenous policy in Australia has resisted the one profile as commentator thing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want, and the one thing that on Aboriginal policy has made a difference elsewhere – the ability to control and manage their own lives. • Outlines the problems This book argues for a radical restructuring of the relationship between Aboriginal faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the Australian settler state, foregrounding the Australians, to seek a promising resurgence of Indigenous nationhood as the only way forward. long term solution based on research, not just SARAH MADDISON is Associate Professor of Politics in the School of Social and opinion Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and a Director of GetUp! She is author of Black Politics and Beyond White Guilt, and co-editor of Silencing Dissent and Activist Wisdom.

Pub Date Feb 19 Extent 288pp

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Business/Management

DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE ROBOTS How to survive and thrive in the new world of work Dr Jo Cribb and David Glover

Don't Worry About the Robots is a practical guide to managing the high-speed change ahead of us. It shows you how to 'disrupt yourself' in a positive way, outlining the key principles that will give you the best chance to survive and, even better, to thrive in the new world of work.

In this timely book, Dr Jo Cribb and David Glover, former CEOs who have launched successful portfolio careers, share insights from their own experiences plus those of an impressive range of successful business leaders who are all actively thinking about the future of work.

Aimed at mid-career professionals who are unhappy, unchallenged or unfulfilled in their careers, as well as millennials who are just finding their way in the new world of work and older workers looking to change tack, this book will provide the inspiration, support and practical tools needed to change your working life.

DR JO CRIBB has a portfolio career that currently includes consulting, coaching, directorships and leading an NGO. She is the former Chief Executive of the Ministry Sales Points: for Women and she was the Deputy Children's Commissioner. She also has a doctorate in public policy. DAVID GLOVER is the former CEO of Learning Media, • Automation and David Forman and various advertising agencies around the world. He is now digitisation are changing Executive Director, Partnerships at Unitec, New Zealand's largest Institute of the world of work, and threatening many Technology, and a director of several technology businesses. professional roles. How likely is this to disrupt our lives, how can we protect ourselves and how can we learn to make the most of the coming changes?

Pub Date Jul 18 Extent 240pp

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30 Popular Science

HOW A WOMAN WORKS Gabrielle Jackson

An incredibly important and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women in medical and social contexts.

I found out how my body works the hard way – with crippling pain that nobody seemed to take seriously.

The lack of medical knowledge about women's health is buoyed by a society that makes a taboo of women discussing their problems, especially problems related to the reproductive organs. Women are supposed to have pain. Women are not supposed to complain, or be difficult. We are not supposed to be angry, or demand answers.

But so much is changing and the silent game is up. Too many women are angry, demanding action, attention, awareness, funding. We can't make all this change overnight but we can – quite quickly and easily – learn more about our bodies and Sales Points: how they are supposed to work.

• Quotes to come from In 2015, Gabrielle wrote a piece about her own struggles with the crippling pain Katherine Viner, Editor- caused by endometriosis. It triggered such an overwhelming response that in-chief, The Guardian the Guardian launched a world-wide investigation into the disease. This time the • Endorsements to come response was so huge it almost crashed their website. Thousands contacted from New Scientist and the Guardian and hundreds of thousands more read and shared the material. other leading popular This was the catalyst for Gabrielle thinking more widely about women’s pain and science publications how it is viewed and treated not just by the medical profession but wider society. The stark reality is that women’s pain is not taken as seriously as that of men’s. We are more likely to be dismissed, fobbed off and denied treatment than men even though our bodies are vastly more complex. One of the most important things we can do to help ourselves is to understand more about how our bodies work. In this book, Gabrielle has exhaustively researched medical, social and cultural responses to women’s pain and writes towards better structures for diagnosing, managing and understanding that pain.

GABRIELLE JACKSON is the opinion editor for Guardian Australia. She was previously

a senior journalist at The Hoopla, and her work has appeared in the Village Voice, CNN, the Sydney Morning Herald and New Matilda.

Pub Date Mar 19 Extent 300pp

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Language

WORDS THAT GO PING Barbara Lasserre

Barbara Lasserre takes us on a journey through the magical world of onomatopoeia - words that mimic sounds - from the familiar noises of the farmyard (moo and baa) to those from action comic strips (wham, bang, crash). She looks at these words in English and then at the corresponding words in other languages, in order to discover whether they transcribe sounds we actually hear or they are simply words that are culturally derived. All cows emit the same sound, so how come all languages don't have the same word for that sound? (Did you know that the word for the sound of a cow begins with 'm' in every language in the world except Urdu, where they say baeh?)

Barbara is both erudite and playful. She plunders both children's literature and Sales Points: nonsense verse for examples of how we amuse ourselves by creating words that mimic the noises we hear in the world around us; she investigates how the noises of • Books on language can battle and violence sound in Asterix across different languages; and she shows us capture the imagination how the Japanese select words to reflect emotions. Nor does she forget the natural and fly off bookshops poetry of the aboriginal languages, which mimic the sounds of birds and running shelves. Think Fucking water. Apostrophes, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and This is a fresh look at a family of words that exists in every language, yet are mostly David Crystal's How ignored by the language gatekeepers. Language Works. In-house praise:

‘Charming, clever and beguiling.’ – Elizabeth Weiss, Publisher

BARBARA LASSERRE has Masters degrees in Applied Linguistics and in Education. She has lived in France, Nigeria and Syria. After returning to Sydney she was a lecturer in language and learning at the University of Technology Sydney for over ten years.

Pub Date Nov 18 Extent 184pp

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Popular science

REWORDING THE BRAIN David Astle

A handbook for the health-minded and those who've always been curious about learning how to do cryptic crosswords, but never knew where to begin.

DA, whose crosswords appear with fiendish regularity in Australia’s leading broadsheets is the scourge of cryptic crossword afficionados across Australia and has built up a fanatical following over the years. His latest book is for people curious about cryptic crosswords but it will also focus heavily on the brain-benefits of crosswords and be a crucial aid in helping people.

Rewording the Brain is a blend of information about how to increase your brain power through cryptics and lashings of cryptic brain-food.

DAVID ASTLE is a full-time word nerd. Many will know him as the dictionary man on the TV show Letters and Numbers. Or maybe just DA, the devious crossword-setter in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. David also looks at language on ABC TV's News Breakfast, as well as devises a weekly 'Wordplay' newspaper column. Sales Points: Between puzzles, he's written half a dozen wordy-nerdy books for adults, including Riddledom, Cluetopia and Puzzled. • With this latest information from the scientific world, there has never been a better time to start learning - and who better to guide newbies across this impenetrable puzzlescape than the legendary DA?

Pub Date Oct 18 Extent 224pp

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Popular Culture

101 MARVELLOUS MOVIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED David Stratton

Are you sick of trawling through movies you don't recognise on Netflix? Are you sick of reading short film descriptions that sound boring? Let much-loved film critic David Stratton introduce you to movies that you may not have heard of, and tell you why they are worth seeing.

After half a century curating film festivals and reviewing literally thousands of movies on TV and in print, David is without a doubt the doyen of movies in Australia.

For each movie David lists director and main cast, and a discussion of the plot, interesting background information about the film's production and reception, and the elements of the film he thinks make it worthy of interest. Information provided is more detailed and engaging than available in the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die or in online listings.

As we would expect from David Stratton, this is a selection for mainstream tastes, Sales Points: not arthouse for inner city types. • With so many movies Includes movies mainly from USA, UK, Australia, made since 1980. now at our fingertips, the real question is how DAVID STRATTON AM is one of the most loved and respected figures in film to select a movie worth criticism. He was director of the Sydney Film Festival from 1966 until 1983, and co- watching. David takes host with Margaret Pomeranz of SBS's The Movie Show (1989-2004) and ABC's At the pain out of that the Movies (2004-2014). He is currently a film critic at The Australian. He is author decision of two books on film The Last New Wave and The Avocado Plantation, and a memoir I Peed on Fellini.

Pub Date Dec 18 Extent 224pp

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Biography/Autobiography

GIRLS AT THE PIANO Virginia Lloyd

A brilliant memoir about how learning the piano shaped the lives of two women worlds and generations apart that will resonate for music lovers everywhere and for anyone who has tried to master the piano.

Virginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence learning and playing the piano and thought she would make a career as a pianist. When that didn't happen, she spent a long time wondering about those years of study: had they been wasted? What was their purpose? This intriguing memoir explores those questions and investigates the mystery of the author's very musical and deeply unhappy grandmother Alice, and how their lives--both at and away from the piano--intersected and diverged.

Girls at the Piano also explores the changing relationship between women and the piano over the course of the instrument's history, taking us from the salons of 18th-century Europe to an amateur jazz workshop in Manhattan in the early 21st century.

Sales Points: Funny, tender and fascinating, Girls at the Piano is an elegant and multi- layered meditation on identity, ambition and doubt, and on how learning the

• In the tradition of Piano piano had a profound effect on two women worlds and generations apart. It is Lessons and The Cello essential reading for music lovers everywhere, and for anyone who has Suites undertaken their own voyage around a piano. • Author has written for Time Out NY and Book VIRGINIA LLOYD’s first book, also a memoir, was The Young Widow’s Book of Slut and undertook a Home Improvement. She lives in Sydney and works in publishing. residency at the Atlantic Centre of the Arts in Florida with Geoff Dyer who guided the writing of this book

Pub Date Apr 18 Extent 384pp

ISBN 9781760297770 Rights Held World

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Biography/Autobiography

THE BAREFOOT SURGEON The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor Dr Sanduk Ruit with Ali Gripper

This is the inspiring and remarkable story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, an extraordinary surgeon who is changing the lives of worlds' poorest people one pair of eyes at a time. He is the man of whom Fred Hollows said, 'If I've done one thing in life I'm proud of, it's launching Ruit into the world'.

It is the story of a boy from the lowest tiers of a rigid caste system who grew up in a tiny, remote village in the Himalayas to become one of the most respected ophthalmologists in the world. It is the story of a young doctor who became Fred Hollows' medical soul mate and who chose to defy the world's medical establishment and the lure of riches to make the world a better place.

Praise for The Barefoot Surgeon:

'I've known Dr Sanduk Ruit for over thirty years. He is one of our greatest living eye surgeons and humanitarians. I'm a huge fan. Watching him give the gift of sight is like watching someone give a second life to some of the poorest people Sales Points: on the planet.' – Richard Gere

• Inspiring and uplifting, this is 'A God-like figure who looks after the blind. He reminds me of Don Bradman. They the extraordinary the story both have a God-given talent and skill that they both have harnessed in a highly of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like disciplined way.' – Ray Martin his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world's medical 'One of the greatest people I've ever met.' – Joel Edgerton establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to ALI GRIPPER has been a newspaper and magazine features writer for more than hundreds of thousands of two decades, including for Good Weekend and The Australian Magazine. She is the world's poorest and currently senior communications advisor to the Fred Hollows Foundation. most isolated people. • Featuring a foreword by the Dalai Lama

Pub Date Jun 18 Extent 320pp

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Biography/Autobiography

MORE THAN A REFUGEE (WORKING TITLE) Emma Adams

A true story about finding your family in the most difficult of circumstances, as incredibly moving as Lion: A Long Way from Home.

Back in 2014, child/neo-natal psychiatrist, Emma Adams, travelled to Darwin and then on to Blaydin Detention Centre as a representative of ChilOut (Children Out of Immigration Detention). The trip was confronting for obvious and not so obvious reasons and Emma and her colleague both left feeling extremely distressed. She returned to her Canberra family - her doctor husband Rob and her three sons - and became consumed by the idea that she must help one of the boys she met at Blaydin. So followed eighteen months of lobbying on the part of Emma and her husband to bring Abdul, an Afghanistani Hazara boy aged around fifteen, to come Sales Points: and live with them as part of their family. Emma is an Indigenous Australian and Rob is the child of Hungarian refugees. • Emma's is an extraordinary story that Three years later, Abdul is one of Emma's boys. He is completing his final high school will make the media and exams, just like one of Emma's other sons, but the decision he makes about future readers sit up and pay study will revolve around what will give him the best chance of winning a coveted attention temporary protection visa. Emma is one of only a handful of Australians, including Julian Burnside, who managed to foster a child from one of the detention centres.

DR EMMA ADAMS is a psychiatrist who specialises in perinatal and infant psychiatry. In addition to her private practice, Dr Adams works for Canberra's local community controlled Aboriginal health service and has an appointment as a visiting specialist to the central Australia remote mental health team. Dr Adams sees mental health as something broader than just diagnoses and medication and focuses on the biological, social, psychological, cultural and environmental influences on emotional wellbeing.

Pub Date Sep 18 Extent 300pp

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Biography/Memoir

OUR STORY Ralph Kelly and Kathy Kelly

On a winter's night in July 2012, Kathy and Ralph Kelly received a phone call no parent should ever have to answer. It was the Emergency department of a Sydney hospital, telling them that their eldest son Thomas had been coward punched by a total stranger within two minutes of getting out of a taxi in Kings Cross. Two days later they were advised that due to catastrophic brain injuries, there was no other option but to switch off his life support. He was 18 years old.

In the aftermath of their son's death, Kathy and Ralph became the public face of the campaign to end the drunken violence that plagued Sydney's major nightspots. Along with Premiers Barry O'Farrell and Mike Baird they helped institute the lock out laws that have been a major factor in the reduction of alcohol related deaths and injuries in Darling Harbour, Kings Cross and Sydney's CBD. They were also Sales Points: instrumental in creating Take Kare Safe Spaces ('Kare' with a 'K' after Thomas's initials) for young people in key nightspots. They were also one of the driving forces • The extraordinary story behind the introduction of tougher sentencing for 'one-punch' deaths. of Kathy and Ralph Kelly,

who turned their own But their campaigning created a huge toll on their family. Online intimidation, death family's tragedies into a remarkable social threats and false news about the mishandling of donations came from those with a crusade that's helping stake in the clubs and businesses who were the lock out laws financial losers. When keep all our children Stuart Kelly, Thomas's younger brother, went for his first night at University of safer Sydney's St Paul's College, Ralph and Kathy believe the bullying he experienced because of the family's profile was so traumatising he left uni for good the next day, and wouldn't tell his parents exactly what he'd been made to endure. Five months later, on July 25th 2016, Stuart took his own life.

This book is the Kellys' story. How they coped with one unimaginable tragedy, only to find that it had sowed the seed for another. How in the face of these terrible losses they have found the spirit and the drive to campaign first for a safer environment for all our children, and for a greater understanding of young people's self-harm and its drivers.

Pub Date Aug 18 Extent 288pp

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Autobiography/Biography

A CERTAIN LIGHT A memoir of family, loss and hope Cynthia Banham

With great courage and empathy, Cynthia Banham asks the difficult questions about family, about survival, and fearlessly tells the stories that are never told. Life is not defined by the bad things that happen to us. It certainly isn't for me.

Written for her young son so that he would know what had happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham's inspiring family memoir uncovers a true picture of what survival means:

'This book tells a story that I tried to write many times before, but couldn't. For a long time it was too painful to tell. It is also one I hadn't known how to tell. It had to be more than a story about surviving a plane crash, a random event without intrinsic meaning.'

Unable until now to write her own story, Cynthia found that the lives of her Italian Sales Points: grandfather, Alfredo, and his intriguing older sister, Amelia, resonated with her own. Discovering their sacrifice, joy, fear and love, from Trieste to Germany and America, • From a remarkable and finally to Australia, their stories mirror and illuminate Cynthia's own writer, and told with determination and courage in the face of overwhelming adversity. unflinching honesty and compassion, A Certain CYNTHIA BANHAM is a writer. She grew up in Sydney and worked there as a solicitor Light speaks to the heart and, later, a journalist. Cynthia completed a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master in of what really matters in International Affairs at the Australian National University. In 2015 she was awarded life a UQ Fellowship at the University of Queensland to research and teach in the School of Political Science and International Studies. Her first book, Liberal Democracies and the Torture of Their Citizens, based on her doctoral thesis, was published in 2017. She is currently a Visitor at the ANU's School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet).

Pub Date Mar 18 Extent 416pp

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Biography/Autobiography

MICHAEL HUTCHENCE INXS’s lost boy remembered Christina Hutchence as told to Jen Jewel Brown

Lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence, lived the legendary life of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll to the fullest. Eulogised by rock music historian Ian McFarlane, ‘He was the archetypal rock showman. He exuded an overtly sexual, macho cool with his flowing locks, and lithe and exuberant stage movements.’

His private life enlivened the press, with a string of love affairs with prominent actresses, models and singers. Among the beautiful women with whom he was romantically involved were the supermodel Helena Christensen, Bob Geldof’s ex- wife Paula Yates (by whom he had his daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily) and (surprising everyone at the time) Kylie Minogue.

On the morning of 22 November 1997, Michael was found dead in his hotel room in Sydney. His death was reported by the Coroner to be the result of suicide. In 2000, Paula Yates died of a heroin overdose. The couple's daughter was placed in Geldof's custody with her half-sisters.

22 November 2017 is the twentieth anniversary of Michael Hutchence’s dramatic Sales Points: death. He is to be remembered in a number of different ways that will introduce his story to a new generation of music lovers and readers, and revive fond memories • This will be the amongst old fans. definitive account of his extraordinary life CHRISTINA HUTCHENCE is Michael Hutchence’s sister. JEN JEWEL BROWN cut her written in consultation teeth on the Daily Planet – Michael Gudinski and Michael Browning’s counter- and with touching culture music paper – and went on to rule at long-form rock journalism. stories from his family

Pub Date Oct 18 Extent 320pp

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Biography/Autobiography

BECOMING A Memoir Anne Summers

Anne Summers is one of the best-known women in Australia and the best-known feminist. This is the story of her extraordinary career. Journalist, author, policy maker, bureaucrat, publisher, consultant and leader, she's changed the way Australia perceives women.

The story starts with the publication of her classic history, Damned Whores and God's Police, which upended our understanding of our colonial history and the way women are positioned in society. Anne lands a job as a cadet journalist with the National Times, then works for the Australian Financial Review as their press gallery correspondent. She reinvents herself to run the federal Office of the Status of Women when Bob Hawke and then Paul Keating were PMs.

Then come the New York years, where she was editor-in-chief of the landmark feminist magazine Ms. She returns to Australia she was for a while Good Weekend editor, then chair of Greenpeace International. Later she boldly Sales Points: establishes her own online magazine, Anne Summers Reports, and the wildly popular • Long history as feminist public interviews with leading figures including Julia Gillard and Cate Blanchett. Her leader on the 2012 speech 'Her Rights at Work', was downloaded more than 100,000 times. international stage • Lives in New York City Anne has been instrumental in the shaping of the political, cultural and social fabric of Australia, whatever her role at the time. She shares wicked anecdotes about the

famous and powerful, and is breathtakingly frank about her own anxieties and mistakes.

Anne continues to make waves, and she remains as committed as ever to bringing change to Australian women.

DR ANNE SUMMERS AO is a best-selling author, journalist and thought-leader with a long career in politics, the media, business and the non-government sector in Australia, Europe and the United States. She is author of eight books, including the classic Damned Whores and God's Police, first published in 1975.

She moved to New York in September 2017, and will continue writing regular columns for Fairfax papers.).

Pub Date Nov 18 Extent 384pp

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Biography/Autobiography

JOURNEY TO HEALTH How I lost half my body weight and found a new way of life Simone Anderson

Simone Anderson struggled with her weight for many years, but when she reached the weight of 169 kg she decided to change for good.

In 2014, using social media purely to keep her accountable, Simone posted her first photo. She shared everything candidly and as her weight decreased after her gastric band surgery her followers increased.

With her massive 92 kg weight loss her fan base grew hugely, and it didn't take long for her story to gain media attention, with extensive coverage both nationally and internationally.

Simone's story went viral when she posted photos of the excess skin she had after this weight loss. She went to the States for surgery to remove this excess skin, documenting all of this on social media.

In this honest and moving book Simone tells her story, including her ongoing challenges with food addiction and how she maintains a healthy lifestyle. Her key Sales Points: messages are positivity and learning to love yourself as you are. This is an inspiring • Over half a million social read for anyone. media followers – 25% SIMONE ANDERSON is a social media influencer and blogger with over 550,000 in the US and 15% of followers. She is well known for her stunning weight loss, and her posts focus on that following in the UK health and fashion. • Simone had surgery to remove excess skin that went viral across tabloids, including The Daily Mail • Profiled across international publications including Women’s Fitness, Fitnessmag.com, People Magazine, Telegraph UK

Pub Date Jun 18 Extent 304pp

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Biography/Autobiography

AM I DOING THIS RIGHT? Life lessons from the Encyclopedia Bri-Tanya Tanya Hennessy

Tanya Hennessy, one of Australia's most loved up-and-coming comedian and radio presenters, take us on this relatable (and hilarious) ride through the A-Z of adulting

Hi. Hello. How are you? Your hair looks amazing.

My name is Tanya, and I'll be your author this evening. Can I get you anything? Beer? Wine? Coffee? Tea? Let me know.

Am I doing this right? Do you wonder that too? Well, stress less. My book and I here to assure you, you're not alone. Inside these pages, you'll find a bit of a memoir, a bit of advice and a lot of swearing (sorry not sorry in advance). Over the years I've managed to compile an entire alphabet full of hilarious, horrible, humbling and happy experiences, and it's time for us all to learn from them. This book is handily categorised by letters; I like to think of it as an encyclopedia of life lessons - the encyclopedia Bri-Tanya! Get it? No? Well then, get reading.

Praise for Am I Doing This Right?

Sales Points: ‘Tanya Hennessy is a fabulous crazy cat! A true original- relatable, hilarious, and • 1 million fans on Facebook disarmingly frank.' – Larry Emdur – 167 million video views 'Tanya is unique, raw, creative and real. She's funny and quick as lightning. A star on in 2017 the rise.' – Jules Lund • 4 million views on Youtube • Over 1 million impressions 'Tanya Hennessy is obviously a very funny woman, but she also possesses something weekly on Instagram that's becoming increasingly rare: she's interesting.' – Chrissie Swan

TANYA HENNESSY is a face to watch and a voice to listen out for! Radio announcer, comedian, TV presenter and content creator... Tanya is quickly becoming known as a funny IT girl, and can currently be heard nationally on HIT FM network.

Pub Date Jun 18 Extent 224pp

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Self-Improvement

UNF*CK YOUR FINANCES Melissa Browne

The essential guide to becoming financially adult. Most of us would rather be caught naked than have our finances open to view. Why are we so reluctant to engage properly and effectively with something so fundamental? Mel Browne challenges us to change our thinking and our bank balances for the better.

With clear, easy to follow advice, she tells you how to set up savvy savings accounts, make the right investments and discover why budgeting is a dirty word.

Learn to financially adult and become not just financially unf*cked... but financially well.

MELISSA BROWNE delights in demystifying the world of business strategy, tax and money. She is the founder and CEO of award-winning accounting and advisory firm A&TA, and co-founder of the financial planning business for Gen X and Gen Y ‘The Money Barre’. Melissa writes a fortnightly column for the money section of the Sydney Morning Herald, and in 2016 she was listed as one of the Financial Review’s Sales Points: 100 Women of Influence. • Highly credible author who can speak to women of all ages about becoming financially savvy • Attention grabbing title just right for the market • Irreverent, but full of brilliant, essential financial advice

Pub Date Feb 18 Extent 244pp

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Health/Fitness

AFTER THE FIRST SIX WEEKS Midwife Cath

Following on from the success of The First Six Weeks, this is the second book from Midwife Cath. This book will take new mums and expectant Mums though all those pivotal milestones as babies go from birth through learning to sleep, eat and play to sitting up, standing up, crawling and walking. Cath will answer all those new parent concerns in her usual calm and friendly manner. THE FIRST SIX WEEKS

Everything you need to know about caring for your new baby, from feeding to sleeping and everything in between - every parent's new best friend.

Cathryn Curtin has delivered more than 10,000 babies over the last 40 years, so she understands how the first six weeks of a baby's life are vital for establishing habits that help create a healthy, happy routine for your baby and a loving lifelong bond between you and your child.

In this practical and easy-to-use guide, Midwife Cath covers all aspects of a Praise for The First Six newborn's first weeks, from caring for your baby to coping with the sudden Weeks: emotional and physical changes of new parenthood. By following her brilliant bath, bottle and bed routine, you'll enjoy a deep sleep for up to five hours in these • 'Cath Curtin is the demanding early weeks while your partner has some precious one-on-one time with newborn baby guru! A your child. calming voice, a gentle hand and a wealth of These first weeks of a baby's life can be a challenge for any new parent. Midwife knowledge during one Cath's invaluable experience and wisdom will guide you through them as well as help of the most incredible you establish a routine that will ensure a healthier, happier baby and better-rested but terrifying times of and more confident parents. your life - new CATHRYN CURTIN, known as 'Midwife Cath' has delivered over 10,000 babies parenthood. To have throughout her 40 year career. Cath was instrumental in the 1980's in setting up Cath's support after the Birth Centres within Melbourne in order to promote active hospital birth within a birth of my first son was home like environment, as an alternative to traditional hospital labour wards. She invaluable and I don't now presents a series of talks all around Australia helping parents solve their know how I would have parenting issues. done it without her!' – Rebecca Judd

Pub Date Sep 18 Extent 304pp ISBN 9781760632113 Rights Held World

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Health/Fitness

THE BABY BIBLE A guide to taking care of your bump, your baby and yourself Bec Judd

What you're not expecting, when you're expecting… Bec Judd has been pregnant quite a lot: three pregnancies, three deliveries and four gorgeous newborn babies. From carrying a baby, delivering it, feeding it and raising it, Bec has experienced almost everything motherhood can throw at you and she wants to share the secrets and stories that she has learned along the way. Not to mention all those things about pregnancy, birth and motherhood that often come as a complete surprise.

Join Bec and her dream team of experts (an obstetrician, a midwife, an ultrasound specialist, a women's health physio and a paediatric sleep specialist) as they take you month by month through your pregnancy. They will share their insider advice on the best ways to eat for two (or three!), stay in shape and get you and your baby sleeping well.

This gorgeous, comprehensive handbook contains a wealth of honest, practical and Sales Points: sometimes hilarious advice to prepare you and your baby for life after birth.

• Full colour photos and BEC JUDD is one of Australia's best-known personalities, working as a television pictures showing exercise presenter and brand ambassador for some of the country's biggest companies. In and diet routines 2008 Bec moved to Melbourne from her hometown of Perth with husband Chris, • A comprehensive month and consequently undertook ambassador roles with some of Australia's best-known by month guide to brands. Her greatest achievements to date are her children, Oscar, Billie, and twins pregnancy, birth and Tom and Darcy. beyond from mother of four and media personality Bec Judd and her dream team of experts • All the benefit of a team of pregnancy and childbirth experts told in an accessible and friendly manner

Pub Date May 18 Extent 304pp

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Sport

MARATHON The world’s greatest car race John Smailes

In 1968, 98 competitors stormed out of London on the world's greatest automotive adventure. Four weeks later they arrived in Sydney - or at least half of them did. The others lay in ruins along the 10,000 mile route of the most gruelling test of vehicle and machine ever staged.

The London-Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and greatest car race ever staged was watched by millions. It tore through borders which are now locked shut by war and insurrection. Armies turned out to carve its path. Whips and truncheons were used to force back crowds across Asia. Russian MIG fighters forced down a press- plane. Born in a time of economic anxiety gripping Britain, the Marathon was conceived to lift the spirits of a nation. It was the flag bearer for new prosperity.

Unimaginable now in either concept or execution, the Marathon captured the rapt Sales Points: attention of whole countries through which it passed, and of the world as it created front page news. It was more than a car race, more than a rally, more than the trials • This is motoring which opened the outback of Australia only a decade before. It was called Marathon nostalgia at its finest – in homage to the greatest Olympic footrace of all time. A Scotsman Andrew Cowan an international story won in a tiny Hillman Hunter in the most controversial of circumstances. that captures the very best of the sport John Smailes has the inside story. He was so close to the teams that he carried spare • November 2018 is the parts for them on the press plane and downloaded first-person reports from team 50th anniversary of the members' tape recorders at every stop. race JOHN SMAILES has worked as a motor racing journalist and PR consultant for more • John Smailes has than four decades. As a young reporter he covered the London-Sydney Marathon fantastic motor sport and has a substantial library of photographs as well as contemporary interviews and contacts and is a quality records. writer

Pub Date Nov 18 Extent 352pp

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History

MISSING IN ACTION Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing Marianne van Velzen

Poor leadership, mismanagement, quarrels, distrust and accusations of hoaxing...this is the story of what happened after the guns were laid down and Australians tried to find their war dead.

By the end of World War I, 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; others were mutilated beyond recognition. Often men were simply listed as 'Missing in Action' because nobody knew for sure.

Lieutenant Robert Burns was one of the missing, and now that the guns had fallen silent his father wanted to know what had become of his son. He wasn't the only one looking for answers. A loud clamour arose from Australia for information and the need for the dead to be buried respectfully.

Many of the Australians charged with the grizzly task of finding and reburying the dead were deeply flawed. Each had his own reasons for preferring to remain in Sales Points: France instead of returning home. In the end there was a great scandal, with allegations of 'body hoaxing' and gross misappropriation of money and army • An unknown and possessions leading to two highly secretive inquiries. surprising WWI story, an unusual thing in itself Untold until now, Missing in Action is the compelling and unexpected story of those • Over 20,000 copies dark days and darker deeds and a father's desperate search for his son's remains. combined of the MARIANNE VAN VELZEN was born in The Netherlands but grew up in Australia. In author’s previous two her late teens she emigrated back to Europe and later became a journalist. She has books sold a life-long interest in Australia and is the author of Call of the Outback, published in 2016, and Bomber Boys, published in 2017.

Pub Date Jun 18 Extent 342pp

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History/Photography

HILLARY'S ANTARCTIC Nigel Watson and Jane Ussher

From the authors of Still Life, a beautiful new book that shows the brilliant wilds of the Antarctic and the scientists who work there

Over the 2016-2017 summer the Antarctic Heritage Trust's team on the Ice spent more than 5,700 hours carefully restoring Hillary’s Hut (TAE Hut) and conserving more than 500 artefacts.

In this visually stunning book, the full restoration is detailed and explored. Accompanied by the ephemera and diary entries of this latest mission, along with the exciting story of Hillary’s Antarctic expedition and the establishment of Scott Base. It’s a visual diary, a history, and an in-depth investigation into this fantastic place.

NIGEL WATSON is the Executive Director of the Antarctic Heritage Trust. JANE Sales Points: USSHER is a highly respected photographer from New Zealand.

• Beautiful book with amazing images – for lovers of photography and the wilderness • Ongoing fascination with the Antarctic and how we can best manage and protect the environmental degradation that is occurring there

Pub Date Oct 18 Extent 240pp

ISBN 9781760633578 Rights Held World

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