Into the World Stephanie Parkyn
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DECEMBER 2017 Into the World Stephanie Parkyn Abandoned by her lover and fleeing the wrath of her family, Marie-Louise must make a desperate choice. Find a man or become one. Description 1791. In the midst of the French Revolution, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby son before entrusting him to her friend, the revolutionary Olympe de Gouges. She must escape, and only the most daring plan will bring her both the anonymity she needs and the independence to return one day for her son. Marie-Louise disguises herself as a man and joins a voyage of exploration employed as a steward on the Recherche, one of two ships commissioned to journey to the Great Southern Ocean to find the missing explorer La Perouse. Protecting her identity throughout, Marie-Louise forms friendships among the eccentric naturalists. But tensions rise between the royalist officers and the revolutionaries, and Marie-Louise's position becomes precarious when she discovers someone on board knows the secrets of her past. When the expedition docks in Java, chaos erupts as they learn of King Louis XVI's execution and are imprisoned by the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems certain to be unmasked. Will she ever return to France and be reunited with her child? Inspired by a true story, Into the World is a compelling novel of the amazing life of Marie-Louise Girardin battling perilous seas, her own self-doubt, and finding unforeseen loves on a journey to reclaim her child. About the Author The author holds a PhD in biological sciences and worked as an environmental scientist for 15 years, giving her valuable insight into the minds of the expedition's naturalists. She has had short stories published in the 40 South Anthologies, and stories shortlisted for the Scarlet Stiletto competition and RSNZ Manhire Award for Creative Science Writing. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760296513 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 448 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: F Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Launceston, Tasmania Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2017 Into the World 10 copy pack Includes 10 copies of Into the World plus one free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $299.90 (NZ$329.90) ISBN: 9324551061268 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2017 Six Ways to Sunday Karly Lane A rip-roaring tale about a woman determined to stand up for her convictions at the risk of jeopardising her future with the man she loves. Description When city naturopath Rilee Summers meets gorgeous farmer Dan Kincaid, sparks fly. A whirlwind romance follows, and the next thing Rilee knows she's married and living on her husband's family property in a small rural community. Never one to shy from a challenge, Rilee is determined to win over her in-laws and the townsfolk of nearby Pallaburra, but her city ways and outspoken views only seem to alienate her further. Opening her own naturopathy practice has always been her dream. Although Pallaburra isn't Sydney, and despite the fact she's not exactly inundated with new clients, she's not ready to give up. Things get even worse for Rilee when she champions the issue of teen pregnancies in the deeply conservative town. Worn down by the ill-will towards her and what she sees as Dan's lack of support, Rilee flees the station to think about the future. Can her marriage survive - or is she destined to leave Dan and move back to the city? Six Ways to Sunday is a rip-roaring tale about a woman determined to stand up for her convictions even at the risk of jeopardising the future she envisaged with the man she loves. About the Author Karly Lane lives on the mid north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four beautiful children and wife of one very patient mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most - being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760296766 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 376 pages Main Category: FA Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW Arena DECEMBER 2017 Six Ways to Sunday 8 copy pack Includes 8 copies of Six Ways to Sunday plus one free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $239.92 (NZ$263.92) ISBN: 9324551061510 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2017 Win, Lose or Draw Peter Corris A missing teenager, drugs, yachts, the sex trade and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay and Coolangatta. Can Cliff Hardy find out what's really going on? Description Will one man's loss be Hardy's gain? 'I'd read about it in the papers, heard the radio reports and seen the TV coverage and then forgotten about it, the way you do with news stories.' A missing girl, drugs, yachts, the sex trade and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay and Coolangatta. The police suspect the father, Gerard Fonteyn OA, a wealthy businessman. But he's hired Cliff to find her, given him unlimited expenses and posted a $250,000 reward for information. Finally there's a break - an unconfirmed sighting of Juliana Fonteyn, alive and well. But as usual, nothing is straightforward. Various other players are in the game - and Cliff doesn't know the rules, or even what the game might be. He's determined to find out, and as the bodies mount up the danger to himself and to Juliana increases. About the Author Peter Corris has been writing his best selling Cliff Hardy detective stories for thirty years. He's written many other books, including a very successful 'as-told-to' autobiography of Fred Hollows, and a collection of short stories about golf. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760631000 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: FF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2017 Everybody's Fool Richard Russo The great American master Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to the characters who made Nobody's Fool (1993) a contemporary classic. Description Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, is increasingly distracted by her former son-in-law, fresh out of prison and intent on making trouble. Police chief Doug Raymer is tormented by the improbable death of his wife, while local wiseguy Carl Roebuck might finally be running out of luck. Filled with humour, heart and hard-luck characters you can't help but love, Everybody's Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time. About the Author Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two collections of stories, and On Helwig Street, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries. He lives in Maine. Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760294823 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 496 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: F Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: A&U UK DECEMBER 2017 Nobody's Fool Richard Russo A much-needed new edition of Richard Russo's warm-hearted tale of a down-at-heel loser who gets a chance to change his luck. Description Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has a new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humour and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool is storytelling at its most generous. About the Author Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two collections of stories, and On Helwig Street, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries. He lives in Maine. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760295189 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 560 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Maine, USA A&U UK DECEMBER 2017 The White Book Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian comes a stunning and uncategorisable meditation on the colour white, about light, about death, ritual and the figure in the city. Description From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian Both the most autobiographical and the most experimental book to date from South Korean master Han Kang.