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The Fifth Letter | Nicola Moriarty 4-5 Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep | Michael McGirr 36-37

The Scent of You | Maggie Alderson 6-7 Please Explain | Anna Broinowski 38-39

The Barrier | Shankari Chandran 8-9 Wish You Were Here | Sheridan Jobbins 40-41

Wimmera | Mark Brandi 10-11 Outback Legends | Evan McHugh 42-43

Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-Time Husband | 28-29 Barbara Toner

Three of Us | Kim Lock 30-31

Here it Begins | Aoife Clifford 32-33 Back to Index Fiction | 336pp | March 2017

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THE FIFTH LETTER Nicola Moriarty

Publisher: Joni, Deb, Eden and Trina try to catch up once a year for some days away together.

HarperCollins Now in their thirties, commitments have pulled them in different directions, and the closeness they once Format: enjoyed growing up seems increasingly elusive. This year, determined to revive their intimacy, they each share Paperback a secret in an anonymous letter to be read out during the holiday. But instead of bringing them closer, the Rights available: revelations drive them apart. Film/TV, Translation excl. Then, a fifth letter is discovered, venting long-held grudges, and it seems that one of the women is in serious German & Hungarian danger. But who was the author? And which of them should be worried?

Agent: Nicola Moriarty lives in Sydney's northwest with her husband and two small (but remarkably strong-willed) Pippa Masson daughters. In between various career changes, becoming a mum and studying at Macquarie University, she began to Contact: write. Now, she can't seem to stop. [email protected]

4 5 Back to Index Fiction | 512pp | April 2017 THE SCENT OF YOU Maggie Alderson

Publisher: Polly's life is great. Her children are away at uni, her glamorous mother – still modelling at eighty-five – is HarperCollins happily settled in a retirement village, and her perfume blog is taking off. Then her husband announces he needs Format: some space and promptly vanishes. As Polly grapples with her bewildering situation, she Paperback clings to a few new friends to keep her going. And while she distracts herself with the heady world of luxury Rights available: perfume, Polly knows she can't keep reality at bay forever. Film/TV, Translation Eventually she is forced to confront some difficult truths: about her husband, herself and who she really wants to Agent: be. Maggie Alderson is the author of seven novels and Fiona Inglis four collections of her columns from Good Weekend. Her children's book Evangeline, The Wish Keeper's Helper Contact: was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Before becoming a full-time author she edited several [email protected] magazines, including UK ELLE. She writes a column for the Sunday Age. She is married and has one daughter.

'A classic Alderson which mixes everything good in life; perfume, the internet, family and Very Good Looking men into one can't-put-down read.' — Vogue Australia

6 7 Back to Index Fiction | 320pp | June 2017

THE BARRIER Shankari Chandran

Publisher: Twenty years ago an Ebola epidemic brought the world to the edge of oblivion. The West won the war, the East was Pan Macmillan isolated behind a wall, and a vaccine against Ebola was developed. Peace prevailed. Now Agent Noah Williams Format: is being sent over the barrier to investigate a rogue scientist who risks releasing another plague. But why Paperback would a once-respected academic threaten the enforced vaccination program that ensures humans are no longer Rights available: an endangered species? Hunting for answers amid shoot outs, espionage and murder, Noah will have to confront Film/TV, US, UK, a fundamental question: In the fight for survival, can our humanity survive too? Translation, Audio Shankari Chandran was raised in Canberra, Australia. She spent a decade in London, working as a lawyer in Agent: the social justice field. She eventually returned home to Tara Wynne Australia, where she now lives with her husband, four children and their cavoodle puppy. The Barrier is her second novel. Her first novel,The Song of the Sun God Contact: explores the recent history of Sri Lanka. She is currently [email protected] working on her third book, also set there.

8 9 Back to Index Fiction | 266 pp | July 2017

WIMMERA Mark Brandi

Publisher: In the long, hot summer of late 1988, Ben and Fab are best friends.

Hachette Growing up in a small country town, they spend their days playing cricket, yabbying in local dams, wanting a Format: pair of Nike Air Max and not talking about how Fab’s dad hits him or how the sudden death of Ben’s next-door Paperback neighbour unsettled him. Rights available: Then a newcomer arrives in town. Fab reckons he is a secret agent and he and Ben stake him out. Neither realise Film/TV, US, UK, the shadow this man will cast over both their lives. Twenty years later, Fab is stuck in the same town when Translation a body is found in the local river, and he can’t ignore the past any more. Agent: Mark Brandi was born in Italy, but raised in a small Grace Heifetz town in country Victoria. Mark’s writing appears in The Guardian, The Age, and is often broadcast on ABC Contact: Radio National. His creative work has been published in Meanjin, the London Journal of Fiction and the Big Issue, [email protected] among others.

Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award (UK) Highly Commended for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

10 11 Back to Index Fiction | 368p | August 2017

THE LIST Michael Brissenden

Publisher: Sidney Allen is a Fed. Part of the Australian Federal Police's K block, a unit doing whatever it takes in order to Hachette Australia stop terrorist attacks on home soil. But when young Muslim men on the Terror Watchlist Format: start turning up dead, Sid and his partner, Haifa, have to work out what's going on. Paperback Sectarian war? Drugs? Retribution? For Sid, there's Rights available: nothing unclear about a bullet to the head and a severed hand. Someone is sending a message.

Film/TV, US, UK, Deciphering that message reveals a much wider threat and Sid and the agency have to decide just how far they'll go Translation to prevent a deadly attack. Agent: Time is running out...for them and Australia.

Grace Heifetz Michael Brissenden has been a political journalist and foreign correspondent for the ABC since 1987. He Contact: began his career covering Federal politics and has been a correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Washington. He [email protected] was the political editor for the 7.30 Report in Canberra from 2003 to 2009, the ABC's Defence and National Security Correspondent and host of the ABC's Radio National program. A two-time Walkley Award winner, Michael has recently joined the ABC'S Four Corners as a reporter.

12 13 Back to Index Fiction | 464pp | July 2017 THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME Monica McInerney

Publisher: The wilful and eccentric Lola Quinlan is off on the trip of a lifetime, taking her beloved granddaughter and Penguin Random House great-granddaughter with her. More than sixty years after emigrating to Australia, she's keeping a secret promise to Format: return to her Irish homeland. But as she embarks on her journey, the flamboyant Lola is Paperback still hiding the hurtful reasons she left Ireland in the first place. What–and who–will be waiting for her on the other Rights available: side of the world? Film/TV, US, UK, The Trip of a Lifetime is a big, bold, beautiful book about the light and dark times of life, and all the wonders Translation in between. Moving from the Clare Valley of South Australia to the lush Irish countryside, this is a delightful, Agent: emotional story about a colourful and huge-hearted family that you'll want to call your own. Fiona Inglis Monica McInerney is one of the stars of Australian Contact: fiction and author of ten internationally bestselling novels including Lola's Secret and The Alphabet Sisters. Monica [email protected] grew up in a family of seven children in the Clare Valley of South Australia and has been living between Australia and Ireland for twenty years. She and her Irish husband currently live in Dublin.

14 15 Back to Index Collection | 272pp | July 2017 AUSTRALIA DAY Melanie Cheng

Publisher: Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Cheng. The people she writes about are young, Text Publishing old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian and Muslim. What they have in common—no Format: matter where they come from—is the desire we all share to feel that we belong. The stories explore universal Paperback themes of love, loss, family and identity, while at the same time asking crucial questions about the possibility of Rights available: human connection in a globalised world. Melanie Cheng is an important new voice, offering a fresh Film/TV perspective on contemporary Australia. Her effortless, unpretentious realism balances an insider’s sensitivity and Agent: understanding with an outsider’s clear-eyed objectivity, showing us a version of ourselves richer and more Clare Forster multifaceted than anything we’ve seen before. Contact: Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner. Of [email protected] Chinese-Australian heritage, she was born in Adelaide, grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in Melbourne. In 2016 she won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for Australia Day.

Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2016

16 17 Back to Index Fiction | 364pp | August 2017 BRIDGET CRACK Rachel Leary

Publisher: Van Diemen's Land, 1826. When Bridget Crack arrives in the colony, she is just grateful to be Allen & Unwin on dry land. But finding the life of an indentured domestic servant intolerable, she pushes back and is punished for her insubordination- Format: sent from one place to another, each significantly worse than the last. Too late, she realises the place she has ended up is the worst of all: Paperback the 'Interior,' where the hard cases are sent-a brutally hard life with a cruel master, miles from civilisation. Rights available: She runs from there and finds herself imprisoned by the Film/TV, US, UK, impenetrable Tasmanian wilderness. What she finds there-what finds her-is Matt Sheedy, a man on the run, who saves her from certain Translation death. Her precarious existence among volatile and murderous bushrangers is a different kind of hell and, surrounded by roaring Agent: rivers and towering columns of rock, hunted by soldiers and at the mercy of killers, Bridget finds herself in an impossible situation. In Grace Heifetz the face of terrible darkness, what will she have to do to survive?

Contact: Rachel Leary grew up in Tasmania then moved to Melbourne in 2003 having enrolled in the Diploma of [email protected] Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Rachel has had a number of short stories and essays published and in 2014 she was awarded an ASA mentorship to develop her novel manuscript. Bridget Crack is her first novel.

'A new Tasmanian legend. This is a brilliant, haunting evocation of women and history.' — Heather Rose, Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize 18 19 Back to Index Fiction | 272pp | August 2017 THE LONE CHILD Anna George

Publisher: Neve Ayres has always been so careful. Since her mother’s death when Neve was seven, she’s learned to look Penguin Random House after herself and to keep her cards close. But now her deliberately constructed world has collapsed: her partner’s Format: left her when she is eight months pregnant. And so, alone with her newborn son, she has retreated to her cliff-top Paperback holiday house in coastal Flinders. There, another child comes into her life. Rights available: The first time Neve sees Jessie, the small girl is playing on Film/TV, US, UK, an empty stretch of beach. On the cold autumn day, she is bare-legged and alone, while her mother is distracted by Translation excl. German her own troubles. At once, almost despite herself, Neve is intrigued and concerned, and Jessie is drawn to Neve’s Agent: kindness – and to her home. To Neve’s surprise, Jessie becomes an unlikely source Tara Wynne of much needed care for her and her baby. Having been lost in the sleepless haze of new motherhood, Neve is Contact: touched, and finds herself grappling with how to best help the forgotten girl. She has the spacious house, the [email protected] full pantry, the resources . . . But how much can you – should you – do for a stranger’s child? ‘Absolutely arresting.’ — Anna George's first novel,What Came Before was shortlisted for the 2015 Ned Kelly and Sisters in Crime Zoë Morrison, author of Best Debut Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. She lives in Music and Freedom Melbourne with her husband and two children.

20 21 Back to Index Fiction | 288pp | August 2017 TOO EASY J.M. Green

Publisher: On a stormy Halloween night, Stella gets a call from her best friend, Detective Phuong Nguyen. Phuong has a Scribe problem. Or rather her lover, Bruce Copeland, does. Copeland has been implicated in a police corruption Format: scandal, and the only person who can help prove his innocence has disappeared. The missing man is Isaac Paperback Mortimer, a drug dealer associated with the notorious motorcycle gang The Corpse Flowers. Reluctantly, Stella Rights available: offers to help track him down—and it isn’t long before she is way in over her head: evading bikies, drinking tea Film/TV with drug dealers, and, worst of all, hanging out in the Macca’s carpark with a bunch of smart-alec teenagers. Agent: Then, when Stella discovers that local street kids are Clare Forster being groomed for some sinister purpose—and that a psychopath with 'bust face' tattooed across his knuckles Contact: is pursuing her—she realises she has her work cut out for her. [email protected] J.M. Green is a crime writer based in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Her debut novel, Good Money, the first hardboiled-crime novel featuring Stella Hardy, was shortlisted for a 2016 Ned Kelly Award and the Sisters in Crime's Davitt Award for best debut, as well as the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. She divides her time between writing in her backyard studio and working as a librarian. Her latest book Too Easy is the second in the Stella Hardy series.

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22 23 Back to Index Fiction | 300pp | August 2017 THE WAY BACK Kylie Ladd

Publisher: Charlie Johnson is 13 and in her first year of high school. She loves her family, netball and Liam, the cute guy who Allen & Unwin sits next to her in Science – but most of all she loves horses and horse-riding.

Format: Charlie’s parents have leased her a horse, Tic Tac, from the local pony club, but one day they go out for a ride in Paperback the national park and only Tic Tac returns… Rights available: Four months later, Charlie is found wandering, injured and filthy miles from where she was last seen. Her family Film/TV, US, UK, rejoice in her return, but can anyone truly recover from what Charlie’s been through?

Translation Kylie Ladd is a novelist and freelance writer. She has published four other novels: After the Fall, Last Summer, Agent: Into My Arms and Mothers and Daughters. Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne with her Pippa Masson husband and two children. Contact: [email protected]

'A gifted writer who knows how to weave the complexity of relationships into a beautifully crafted story.'—Mia Freedman.

24 25 Back to Index Fiction | 320pp | August 2017

WHIPBIRD Robert Drewe

Publisher: At Hugh and Christine Cleary’s new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together Penguin Random House from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor, Conor Cleary from Ireland. Format: Hugh has been meticulously planning the event for months—a chance to proudly showcase Whipbird to the Paperback extended clan. Some of these family members know each other, some don’t.

Rights available: As the wine flows, it promises to be an eventful couple of days. Film/TV, US, Transla- Comic, topical, honest, sharply intelligent, and, above all, tion, Audio sympathetic, Robert Drewe’s exhilarating new novel tells a classic Australian family saga as it has never been told Agent: before.

Fiona Inglis Robert Drewe is a former journalist whose many novels include the widely translated and acclaimed A Cry in the Contact: Jungle Bar, The Bodysurfers, Fortune, The Bay of Contented Men, Our Sunshine, The Drowner, Grace and The Rip, as well as a [email protected] prize-winning memoir, The Shark Net, and the non-fiction Walking Ella.

26 27 Back to Index Fiction | 300pp | January 2018 FOUR RESPECTABLE LADIES SEEK PART-TIME HUSBAND Barbara Toner

Publisher: "When Adelaide Nightingale, Louisa Worthington, Maggie O'Connell and Pearl McLeary threw caution to the wind in the Penguin Random House most brazen way imaginable, disgrace was inevitable..." September 1919. The war is over. Everyone who was Format: going to die from the flu has done so. But there's now a distinct shortage of husbands. Paperback And in the small rural town of Prospect, that's proving Rights available: an issue for four women with four big problems. At a time when women are expected to let their men TV/Film, UK, US, sort out their problems, four respectable ladies decide their only choise is to advertise for a part-time husband – Translation strictly non-connubial – to come to their 'rescue'... Agent: Barbara Toner is an acclaimed author and columnist who has written extensively about family life in all its Fiona Inglis manifestations with all its glorious intricacies, both in fiction and non-fiction. She has three daughters and lives Contact: on the far south coast of New South Wales. [email protected]

28 29 Back to Index Fiction | 280pp | May 2018

THREE OF US Kim Lock

Publisher: It is the sixties, and Elsie, despite her best intentions as a respectable housewife to Thomas, is lonely and bored.

Pan Macmillan Aida Glasson is eighteen years old, unmarried, and hiding a shameful secret in the folds of her dress. Format: Through failed biscuits and shared loneliness, Elsie and Paperback Aida’s friendship becomes something more. But when Elsie and Aida fall in love, where does that Rights available: leave Thomas? Film/TV, US, UK, Spanning fifty years, this is a tender story of a complex family hidden in conservative suburbia during the sexual Translation, Audio revolution.

Agent: Kim Lock has worked around Australia as a graphic designer and volunteered as a breastfeeding counsellor. Pippa Masson Her non-fiction work has appeared inThe Guardian, Daily Life, and The Sydney Morning Herald online. Her fiction Contact: explores the stories that shape people's lives, but what they hide from society. [email protected]

Praise for Kim Lock: 'This thrilling novel explores the intricacies of love, and its power to both hurt and heal.' — Woman's Day

30 31 Back to Index Fiction | 280pp | September 2019 HERE IT BEGINS Aoife Clifford

Publisher: Eliza Carmody comes home from the city to work on the biggest law case of her career. The only problem is Simon & Schuster this time she’s on the ‘wrong side’ – defending a large corporation against a bushfire class action being brought Format: by her former hometown of Kinsale. Returning to Kinsale for her case, she witnesses an old Paperback friend, Luke Tyrell, commit an act of lethal violence. As the police investigate that crime and hunt for Luke they Rights available: uncover bones at ‘The Castle’, a historic homestead in the district. Eliza is convinced that they belong to someone Film/TV, US, UK, from her past. As she is entangled in the investigation, and pulled back into youthful friendships and loss, she Translation, Audio will question everyone she knows … and everything she thought was true. Agent: Aoife Clifford was born in London of Irish parents. She Clare Forster grew up in New South Wales, studied Arts/Law at the Australian National University, Canberra and now lives in Contact: Melbourne. [email protected]

Praise for All These Perfect Strangers: ‘Brilliantly claustrophobic’—Books + Publishing ‘A gripping murder yarn’—The Saturday Paper ‘Tense, sparse…the gripping plot challenges and subverts the notion of innocence’—Monocle

32 33 CURTIS Non-Fiction BROWN Back to Index Non-Fiction | 256pp | June 2017 SNOOZE: THE LOST ART OF SLEEP Michael McGirr

Publisher: Michael McGirr always had trouble sleeping, but the arrival of twins made him realise he’d never known true Text exhaustion. While he celebrated these small children who brought him so much joy, he also found himself Format: desperately searching for a few extra winks a night. In Snooze, McGirr delves into the mysterious world of Paperback sleep: its many benefits, its stubborn elusiveness and what our brains get up to while we’re in bed. He takes Rights available: readers on a tour through the odd sleep patterns of some of history’s greatest figures, including Plato and Homer, Film/TV Shakespeare and Dickens, Florence Nightingale (who slept a great deal) and Thomas Edison (who hardly slept Agent: at all). He looks at the demise of sleep in our ever more fragmented world, and what that means for everyone Clare Forster from average sleepers to those with serious sleep disorders. He describes his own family’s quest to master Contact: the ancient art of getting a decent kip. [email protected] Michael McGirr is a bestselling author and has reviewed more than nine hundred books for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times. His short fiction has appeared in numerous publications in Australia and overseas and he has been the publisher of Eureka Street and the fiction editor of Meanjin. He currently teaches literature and philosophy at St Kevin’s College in Melbourne. Michael’s expertise in the area of sleep derives not only from having several sleep disorders but also from having three children!

36 37 Back to Index Non-fiction | 320pp | September 2017 PLEASE EXPLAIN Anna Broinowski

Publisher: In 1996, Pauline Hanson gave a speech that changed Australia. Targeting Asian and Indigenous people and Penguin Random House foreign aid, Hanson unleashed a Pandora’s box of division on the country. When she famously lost her Format: federal seat in 1998, her political downfall seemed assured – but she stayed firmly in the spotlight, whether she was Paperback being locked up for electoral fraud or jiving on Dancing with the Stars. Now, after almost two decades in the Rights available: political wilderness, Hanson is back in the Senate and more powerful than ever.

Film/TV Pauline Hanson’s explosive political journey mirrors Australia’s own: from left-leaning multiculturalism, to the Agent: divided landscape we live in now. Alongside the shocks of Brexit and Trump’s presidency, Hanson's resurrection Fiona Inglis reflects a broader global trend towards outrageous far- right outsiders. Contact: Please Explain is a compelling, intimate look at how an [email protected] Ipswich fish and chip shop lady changed our nation – and how (whether we like it or not) she speaks directly to Australian society and our multicultural identity today.

Anna Broinowski is an author and filmmaker who has been tracking the illicit, subversive and bizarre since her 1995 film on the Japanese cultural underground, Hell Bento!! Anna has won many awards including three AACTAs, a Walkley, the Rome Festival Cult prize, Best Film at Silverdocs USA, a NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the Writer’s Guild of America Best Nonfiction Screenplay and a Russian Film Critics’ prize. 38 39 Back to Index Memoir | 288pp | September 2017 WISH YOU WERE HERE Sheridan Jobbins

Publisher: Reeling from the devastating collapse of her marriage to the man she thought was the love of her life, after a late Affirm Press night enjoying smashing all her china a little too much Sheridan Jobbins decides she needs to do something Format: drastic to save her sanity. Her solution is to buy a hot red car and drive across Paperback America. Hopelessly unprepared and heartbroken, she sets out on the road trip of a lifetime determined to find Rights available: herself—and ironically finds love instead. But not before she has a whole bunch of crazy adventures and wrong Film/TV turns along the way. Agent: Sheridan Jobbins is a third-generation Australian film- Tara Wynne maker. She kickstarted her career as one of the original celebrity chefs on Cooking with Sheri, earning a Guinness Contact: World Record as the youngest host of her own show at the age of nine. Since 2000 she has co-written screenplays [email protected] for Disney, Warner Bros, Working Title, Hopscotch and Ealing Studios. She lives in Switzerland, but her heart is in Australia—fortunately they get together quite regularly.

40 41 Back to Index Non-fiction | 336pp | August 2017 OUTBACK LEGENDS Evan McHugh

Publisher: Immerse yourself in these armchair travels and heart- warming life stories as Evan McHugh, bestselling author Penguin Random House of Outback Heroes and Outback Pioneers, catches up with some of the most remarkable and inspiring characters our Format: country has to offer. Meet icons such as boxing impresario Fred Brophy, who Paperback turned ‘You can’t’ into ‘I will’, to Shannon Warnest, world champion shearer. Discover unsung heroes such Rights available: as ‘Mother of the Barkly’ Bernadette Burke, convenor of one of the world’s biggest women’s networks, and nurse Film/TV June Andrew, who has dedicated a lifetime to running a remote health service, often single-handedly. Agent: Outback Legends is a unique and colourful celebration of Clare Forster Aussie characters who’ve earned themselves a reputation for their achievements and contributions in the most Contact: far-flung and challenging corners of our country. None of the people in this book sought fame but every one of [email protected] them deserves it.

Evan McHugh is a journalist who has written for newspapers, television and radio. His previous books include The Stockmen: The Making of an Australian Legend, Outback Stations, Bushrangers, The Drovers, Birdsville, Outback Pioneers, Outback Heroes and Shipwrecks: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters. Evan's book about true crime in the outback, Red Centre, Dark Heart, won the Ned Kelly Award for best non-fiction in 2008. He lives with his wife in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.

42 43 Back to Index Memoir | 280pp | August 2018 BEYOND THE BREAK Darren Longbottom and Tim Rushby-Smith

Publisher: Beyond the Break tells of the epic rescue of Darren 'Daz' Longbottom from a remote break in Indonesia where Penguin Random House he suffered instant paralysis as the result of a surfing accident, fourteen hours from the mainland and alone in Format: the water. Daz's story is interspersed with backstory of an idyllic childhood and the difficult present, in which he is Paperback still dealing with the fallout from the accident. Having paddled out with world champions from the Rights available: earliest age, Daz Longbottom was born to surf. But this passion nearly cost Daz his life and would test his resolve Film/TV, US, UK, and determination in unimaginable ways. The tale of a freak accident, a terrifying rescue and the long journey of Translation coming to terms with the life-changing consequences of riding a single wave. Agent: Darren Longbottom was born into a surfing family, Tara Wynne with a childhood that led to competitive surfing and a successful industry career. When a freak surfing accident Contact: in remote Indonesia changed his life forever, reaching hospital was just the beginning of an epic, life-or-death [email protected] ride no-one could have foreseen.

Tim Rushby-Smith studied at Chelsea School of Art before working as a tree surgeon, where an accident resulted in permanent paraplegia. Tim is the author of memoir Looking Up and a journalist with The Times, The Guardian and the BBC. Tim lives in Gerringong with his wife and two children. 44 45 CURTIS YA & Middle BROWN Grade Back to Index Young Adult | 304pp | July 2017 WRECK

Bad things happen. Fight to make things right. WRECK Tamara Bennett Or let it wreck your life. is going to be the first journalist to strictly report Fleur Ferris only good news. Finished with high school, Tamara is ready to say goodbye to her sleepy little town and part-time job at the local paper. Publisher: Finished with high school, Tamara Bennett is ready to say goodbye to her sleepy little town and part-time job at But things take an unexpected turn when Tamara arrives Penguin Random House the local paper. O-Week awaits, which means parties, cute home to find her house ransacked and her life in danger. FLEUR boys and settling into student res with her best friend What is the mysterious note her attacker wants – Relle.

FLEUR FERRIS Format: and why is he willing to kill to get it? FERRIS Things take an unexpected turn, however, when she Paperback arrives home to find her house ransacked and her life in Caught between a bitter rivalry and a dangerous danger. family secret, who can Tamara trust? Rights available: What is this mysterious note? And why does it mean so And can she trust herself? Film/TV, US, UK, much to one of Australia’s most powerful media moguls? WRECK Caught between a bitter rivalry and dangerous family Translation, Audio secret, who can Tamara trust? Agent: Can she even trust herself? Tara Wynne Fleur Ferris spent the first seventeen years of her life growing up on a farm in Patchewollock, north-west Contact: Victoria. She now lives a more settled lifestyle on a rice farm in southern New South Wales, with her husband www.randomhouse.com.au [email protected] and three young children.

48 49 Back to Index Young Adult | 240pp | August 2017

SPARROW Scot Gardner

Publisher: When a juvenile detention exercise off the coast of the Kimberley goes wrong, sixteen-year-old Sparrow must Allen & Unwin swim to shore. There are sharks and crocs around him but the monsters he fears most live in the dark spaces in Format: his mind. He's swimming away from his prison life and towards Hardback a desolate, rocky coastland and the hollow promise of freedom. He'll eat or be eaten, kill or be killed. Rights available: With no voice, no family and the odds stacked against Film/TV, US, Transla- him, Sparrow has nothing left to lose. But to survive he'll need something more potent than desperation, something tion, Audio more dangerous than a makeshift knife...

Agent: Scot Gardner's many books have found local and international favour and garnered praise and awards for Pippa Masson their honest take on adolescent life. They include Happy as Larry, winner of a WA Premier's Book Award for young Contact: adult fiction, andThe Dead I Know, winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers in 2012. Scot [email protected] lives with his wife and some chickens in country Victoria.

'The research pays off in this tense, gripping novel...' — Books and Publishing Magazine

50 51 Back to Index Middle Grade | 256pp | October 2017 THE EXTREMELY INCONVENIENT ADVENTURES OF BRONTE METTLESTONE Jaclyn Moriarty

Publisher: Bronte Mettlestone's parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby, leaving her to be raised by her Aunt Allen & Unwin Isabelle and the Butler. She's had a perfectly pleasant childhood of afternoon teas and riding lessons - and no Format: adventures, thank you very much. But Bronte's parents have left extremely detailed Paperback (and bossy) instructions for Bronte in their will. The instructions must be followed to the letter, or disaster will Rights available: befall Bronte's home. She is to travel the kingdoms and empires, perfectly alone, delivering special gifts to her ten Film/TV, US, UK, other aunts. Translation, Audio Now, armed with only her parents' instructions, a chest full of strange gifts and her own strong will, Bronte must Agent: journey forth to face dragons, Chief Detectives and pirates - and the suspicion that there might be something Tara Wynne more to her extremely inconvenient quest than meets the eye... Contact: Jaclyn Moriarty is the prize-winning, best-selling author of novels for young adults and adults. Jaclyn grew up in [email protected] Sydney and has lived in England, the US, and Canada, and now lives in Sydney again. 52 53 Back to Index Young Adult | 140pp | March 2018

RAIN FALL Ella West

Publisher: There is a new boy in town and he’s riding the most amazing horse Annie has ever seen. He’s here because Allen & Unwin his father, a detective, is investigating a murder, a murder Annie’s neighbour is somehow caught up in.

Format: Maybe Annie even saw something that may help the investigation. But her world is starting to crumble around Paperback her as the coal mines, the major employer in the town, begin to close and her father’s job is on the line. Rights available: Amidst the beauty of the West Coast of New Zealand's Film/TV, Audio South Island, Annie’s loyalties are torn apart. Agent: If only it would stop raining. Grace Heifetz Ella West was born in Invercargill and her family now live on a rural property at Janefield near Dunedin, New Contact: Zealand, where Ella writes full-time. Her latest book Night Vision won the 2015 Young Adult category of the [email protected] LIANZA Awards and was the Young Adult Children’s Choice winner in the New Zealand Book Awards.

54 55 Back to Index Middle-Grade | 288pp | June 2017 From the author of Billie B Brown, with five million copies sold and counting... POLLY AND BUSTER Sally Rippin

Publisher: Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends? Everyone knows that witches don’t mix with monsters. Hardie Grant Witches are educated, clever, sophisticated. But monsters? Monsters are just uncouth. Some are even dangerous. Format: But Polly the witch and Buster the feelings monster have Hardback been best friends forever. It’s the sort of friendship that makes your heart squeeze Rights available: with happiness. Film/TV Somehow, they've managed to keep their friendship a secret.

Agent: Until one day, when everything changes ... Pippa Masson Sally Rippin was born in Darwin, but grew up mainly in South-East Asia. She has a very clear memory of herself Contact: as a child. Perhaps this is the reason she is the successful author and illustrator of over 50 published children's [email protected] books; many of them award-winning, including two novels for young adults.

'This book contains all the big themes of friendship, family, empathising with others [and] holding on to what is right...' — Books and Publishing Magazine 56 57 Back to Index Middle-Grade | 144pp | September 2017 SURF RIDERS CLUB: AVA'S BIG MOVE Mary van Reyk

Publisher: Ava has grown up in a big city. But everything changes when her parents decide on a sea change—they're moving Hachette Australia to the small town of Beachcrest to open a cafe. Ava will be starting high school that year, and now she has Format: to say goodbye to her life in the city. When she hears that surfing is going to be offered as a sport for the Paperback first time, Ava uses her snowboard skills to give it a try. Not everyone thinks she can become a surfer but Ava is Rights available: determined to prove them wrong, and she's making new friends along the way!

Film/TV, Translation Ava, Alex, Bronte, Janani and Molly form the Surf Riders Club to help each other practise, but it quickly becomes Agent: much more than that. Whether it's learning how to get barrelled, problem parents or annoying boys, the Surf Grace Heifetz Riders Club are there for each other, no matter what.

Contact: Mary van Reyk has a long history in children's literature, starting her career in books at Dymocks as [email protected] an Educational Specialist, then at Shearer's Bookshop as Children's Specialist, and finally as a Children's Sales Executive for a major publisher. Mary lives in Austinmer, New South Wales with her husband and kelpie.

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