Ben Sanders Rebecca Starford Rebecca Wilson Richard Beasley Tom Gilling FEBRUARY 2021 Sandra Hogan n ew book s THE DEVILS YOU KNOW Ben Sanders
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Ben Sanders, author of American Blood, strikes again in a mile- a-minute, white-knuckle ride through the heart of darkness in sunny California
Vincent needs a change. He's spent the last fifteen years in covert operations for the U.S. government, but after a botched and fatal mission, he decides he's done with pulling triggers for shadowy officialdom. He wants a rest from the violence.
Vincent accepts a job in Santa Barbara, California, as head of security for supermarket mogul Eugene Lamar. It's perfect: his main duty is driving the boss to and from golf, which means ample down-time for contemplating life—and how to live it with a zero body-count. He's intrigued too by Lamar's daughter— journalist Karen Jones—on tour to promote a book about the benefits of war. There's only one problem: if Lamar's business is confined to supermarkets, why does he need a panic room full of assault rifles, and a .357 revolver in his car?
It seems that Santa Barbara is a sunny town full of dark talent, and Vincent worries he'll have to revert to dark talents of his own if he's going to stay alive . . .
Ben Sanders is the author of American Blood, Marshall's Law and The Stakes, as well as three New Zealand Fiction Bestsellers: The Fallen, By Any Means and Only the Dead. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
Allen & Unwin 9781760877873 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 THE IMITATOR Rebecca Starford
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A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events
Out of place at boarding school, scholarship girl Evelyn Varley realises the only way to fit in is to be like everyone else. She hides her real self behind the manners and attitudes of those around her and by the time she graduates from Oxford University in 1939, she has perfected her performance.
War is looming. Evelyn soon finds herself recruited to MI5, and the elite counterintelligence department of Bennett White, the enigmatic spy-runner. Recognising Evelyn's mercurial potential, White assigns her the dangerous task of infiltrating an underground group of Nazi sympathisers working to form an alliance with Germany.
But befriending people to betray them isn't easy. Evelyn is drawn deeper into a duplicity of her own making and her increasing distrust of everyone, including herself, begins to test her better judgement. Evelyn's loyalty is pushed to breaking point, forcing her to make an impossible decision.
A powerfully insightful and luminous portrait of courage and loyalty, and the sacrifices made in their name.
Rebecca Starford is publishing director of Kill Your Darlings magazine and the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviour, which is being adapted into a TV series. She lives in Brisbane.
Allen & Unwin 9781760529796 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 CRACKENBACK WHAT COULD BE Lee Christine SAVED Liese O'Halloran Schwarz Allen & Unwin 9781760878900 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction Allen & Unwin 9781760879266 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction A thrilling tale of snow-bound rural suspense, from the bestselling author of Charlotte Pass 'A harrowing tale of the lies of omission and the lies of commission that can break a family When an injured man bursts into the Thredbo apart, . . . a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, lodge that Eva Bell manages, her first thought is and elegance: rich with detail, lush in language, to protect her daughter, Poppy. But the bloodied and capable of keeping you on the edge of your figure turns out to be Jack Walker, the man she'd seat.' - Jodi Picoult had a brief fling with four years earlier—Poppy's father. His arrival turns Eva's world upside down, An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok as she tries desperately to shield Poppy from the in 1972 and Washington, DC in 2019 about dangerous consequences of her father's return. an expatriate child who goes missing, and a
‘…a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance… family who is contacted decades later by a man capable of keeping you on the edge of your seat.’ Meanwhile, Detective Pierce Ryder of the Sydney JODI PICOULT claiming to be the vanished boy. Homicide Squad is on the hunt for serial killer Liese O’Halloran Schwarz Gavin Hutton. After months of dead ends, he's Alternating between past and present as all of finally got some solid leads that trace Hutton the secrets are revealed, What Could Be Saved is WHAT back to the Crackenback Range in the Snowy an unforgettable novel about a family shattered Mountains. Though they don't know it yet, by loss and betrayal, and the beauty that can Jack Walker and Ryder are tangled in the same exist even in the midst of brokenness. COULD treacherous web—and they'll both do anything in BE their power to protect the ones they love . . . Liese O'Halloran Schwarz is an emergency medicine doctor and much-praised author of Lee Christine is the author of six romantic Near Canaan and The Possible World. She lives SAVED suspense novels. She lives in Newcastle, NSW. in the USA.
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A gripping international thriller from a bestselling author
When a maverick genius called the Shaman develops a cold-fusion reactor that could change our world, he finds himself the target of a ruthless international organisation who will do A CROOKED TREE anything to gain control of the new technology. Una Mannion All that stands in their way is Victor Cavalier, an investigative reporter and former soldier with Faber lethal skills and a talent for getting to the bottom 9780571357963 | $27.99 | | PB | Fiction of the story. Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Roland Perry is one of Australia's best-known Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard- authors. He has written 28 books including Bill shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the Bastard, Bradman's Invincibles, The Changi the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her Brownlow and Monash: The Outsider Who Won other children, she accelerates away, leaving a War. Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades. This is the story of Libby and her siblings over one long hot summer, and how one decision can have terrible unintended consequences . . .
Una Mannion has won numerous prizes for her work including the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award. She lives in Ireland.
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THE THREE PARADISES THE SPIRAL LITTLE SCRATCH Robert Fabbri Iain Ryan Rebecca Watson
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In the second instalment in the breakneck, Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but little scratch tells the story of a day in the brutal Alexander's Legacy series, the fight entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower- to control the largest empire in the world in a targeted attack by a colleague, her quiet case world of office politics, clock-watching continues . . . Alexander the Great's sudden existence is shattered in an instant. With and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice and unexpected death has left the largest, her would-be murderer dead, no one can that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and most formidable empire the world has ever give Erma the answers she needs to move increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays seen leaderless. As the fight to take control on from her trauma. Why her? Why now? what it takes to get through that single descends into ruthless scheming and bloody So begins Erma's quest for the truth and a trajectory while processing recent sexual battles, no one—man, woman or child—is dangerous, spiralling journey into the heart violence. It is a powerful evocation of what it safe. Can one champion vanquish all? of darkness. means to live out the course of a single day consumed by trauma. Robert Fabbri is the author of the Iain Ryan is the author of Four Days and bestselling Vespasian series. He lives in The Student which were both shortlisted Rebecca Watson is a British writer and London and Berlin. for the Ned Kelly Award. He lives in editorial assistant at the Financial Times. Melbourne.
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The Ark was built to save the lives of the The triumphant fourth instalment of the The launch of a major new international many, but rapidly became a refuge for international bestselling Bone Season crime series featuring investigative the elite. A chance of survival is granted series: an unforgettable adventure in the psychologist Philip Taiwo. Three young to a select few who can prove their underworld of a dystopian Paris. Paige students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian worth. Among their number is Markriss Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched university town, their killings—and their Denny, whose path to future excellence is from the jaws of captivity and consigned to killers—caught on social media. The world marred only by a closely guarded secret: a safe house in the Scion Citadel, she finds knows who murdered them; what no one without warning, his spirit leaves his body, herself caught between those factions that knows is why. The more Philip digs, and the allowing him to experience a world beyond seek Scion's downfall and those who would more people he meets with a connection to his physical limitations. A monumental kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire. the case, the more he begins to realise that speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, there is something very wrong concealed politics and conscience set in parallel Samantha Shannon is the New York Times somewhere in this community. Londons. bestselling author of The Bone Season series. She lives in London. Femi Kayode trained as a clinical Courttia Newland is the author of The psychologist in Nigeria. He lives in Namibia. Scholar and The Gospel According to Cane. He lives in the UK.
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FAIR WARNING BURIED Michael Connelly Lynda La Plante
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Stalwart journalist Jack McEvoy—the hero of A burnt-out cottage, a fortune buried in the The Poet and The Scarecrow—tracks a serial ashes and a body that could solve a decades- THE REACH killer who has been operating under the radar old crime—a new thriller series by the Queen of B. Michael Radburn . . . until now. Crime Drama.
Pantera 9781925700510 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction WEATHER In secluded Devlins Reach, on the shores Jenny Offill of the Hawkesbury River, three bodies are unearthed in an excavation site. When a wilderness expert, Park Ranger Taylor Bridges, is called in to assist local police, he soon discovers the town has an unsettling history—one to match Taylor's own haunted NEW IN PAPERBACK past. As a torrential storm surges, and the Granta river swells at the levee walls, Taylor finds 9781783784776 | $19.99 | himself in a race against the power of nature to find a desperate killer before the whole Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction town goes under. 2020—a dazzling and deadpan novel about hope and despair in times of environmental and political turbulence. B. Michael Radburn is an award-winning writer of Blackwater Moon, The Falls and The Crossing, which is being made into a film. He lives in the Southern Highlands of NSW.
Pantera 9781925700510 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$ 32.99 KATE KELLY The true story of Ned's little sister Rebecca Wilson
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Kate Kelly has always been overshadowed by her famous brother Ned, but the talented young woman was a popular public figure in her own right. This moving biography tells her astonishing story in full for the first time
Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, was mysteriously found dead in a lagoon outside the town of Forbes in 1898. Was it suicide, accident or murder, and why had she changed her name to Ada?
Kate's exploits as a decoy and runner for the Kelly gang are well known, as is her presence at the gruesome Glenrowan siege, and the street protests that failed to save Ned's life. In the years after Ned's execution, she appeared at public gatherings around Australia. Huge crowds came to see her talk and ride, and she helped to popularise the Ned Kelly story, becoming a celebrity in her own right. Then she disappeared from the public eye.
Rebecca Wilson is the first to uncover what really happened to Kate Kelly. It will surprise anyone who thought they already knew the story of Australia's most famous outlaw.
Rebecca Wilson grew up in Forbes NSW and has been researching, painting and writing Kate's tragic story for over a decade.
Allen & Unwin 9781760879679 $32.99 PB Biography NZ$36.99 DEAD IN THE WATER A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe . . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin Richard Beasley
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Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource
Richard Beasley is angry man. He's angry about vested interests killing off Australia's most precious water resource. He's angry about the political cowardice and negligence that has allowed Big Agriculture and irrigators to destroy a river system that can sustain both the environment and the communities that depend on it. He's angry that the wilful, the self-interested and the plain stupid are choosing to deny the science of climate change because it is a truth that doesn't suit them and their commercial and political interests.
He pulls no punches. He's provocative, he's outrageous, he points the finger without shame. And he will leave you very, very angry. Dead in the Water is political satire of the highest order . . . if it weren't all so tragically true.
Richard Beasley is a Senior Counsel at the Sydney Bar. He was the Counsel Assisting the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Royal Commission established by the South Australian Weatherill Government in 2018. He is also the author of five novels including Hell Has Harbour Views, which was adapted for TV.
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He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters
Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. He escaped Singapore twice, participated in numerous raids on the Japanese and was so successful in his land and sea guerrilla actions to disrupt enemy operations that the Japanese eventually placed a bounty on his head.
In command of a 26-foot whaleboat called The Bastard, McLaren sailed into Japanese controlled ports in broad daylight, shot up the supply vessels and piers, then turned tail and ran. He also made many solo forays into Japanese held areas to gather intelligence for the US and Australian high commands. Eventually he was transferred to the sabotage Z Special Unit, the joint Allied Special Forces unit formed to operate behind enemy lines. But his extraordinary feats and death-defying courage went beyond his secret missions. One of the many tales told of McLaren was the removal of his own appendix without anaesthetic and with the use of a mirror and an 'ordinary knife'.
Action-packed and surprising, Bastard Between the Lines gives rich life to one of Australia's greatest World War II Diggers.
Tom Gilling is an acclaimed author of The Lost Battalions, The Sooterkin, Miles McGinty and Dreamland. He is also co-author of the highly successful Smack Express, Blood Money, Evil Life and The Dark Side.
WITH MY LITTLE EYE The incredible true story of the family of spies in the suburbs Sandra Hogan
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The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s
Growing up in the suburbs in the 1950s, the three Doherty children were trained by their parents to memorise car number plates, to spot unusual behaviour on the street, and most important of all, to avoid drawing attention to themselves. The children became unwitting foot soldiers in Australia's tense Cold War struggle against Soviet infiltration. They observed activists at political rallies and stood watch on houses owned by communist sympathisers. In the summer of 1956, the Doherty family went on a road trip in Queensland with Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov and were chased from town to town by KGB agents determined to kill the famous Soviet defectors.
Dudley and Joan Doherty swore their children to secrecy, and for decades, they didn't even discuss among themselves the work they did for ASIO. This is a poignant and very funny account of a peculiar childhood in 1950s suburban Australia.
Sandra Hogan is a Brisbane-based journalist and author.
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Sleep deficiency defies our biology and sabotages our days. Yet more than a third of us struggle to get to sleep or stay asleep at night. PAIN Suffering from chronic insomnia, Bernice Tuffery The science of the feeling brain tried everything—from melatonin to supplements, meditation to sleeping pills—but nothing worked. Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen As a qualitative market researcher, she was determined to know how to sleep naturally again. Atlantic 9781838950675 | $29.99 | | PB | Popular Science She discovered a proven, natural and very learnable way to improve chronic sleep Pain is part of human existence, but we difficulties. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for understand very little of the mechanics of insomnia (CBTi) is recognised internationally by it. The truth is that pain is a complex mix of sleep experts as the gold-standard treatment. nerve endings, psychological state, social From her discussions with sleep professionals, preconceptions and situational awareness. extensive research and her lived-experience of restoring her own sleep, Bernice shares this Told through case studies and medical knowledge with humour and heart. Confident history, Pain is the first book to explain the that CBTi can be self-taught, she offers this current issues and complexities surrounding practical and inspiring six-week, step-by-step the treatment of pain and how society deals guide to getting a good night's sleep. with those in pain, exploring how our bodies relate to pain and what the future holds. Bernice Tuffery is a qualitative market researcher. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalken is a British doctor who has been working in pain management for more than ten years.
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