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HACHETTE NZ BOOKNEWS OCTOBER 2019 Lead Titles The Guardians Ninth House John Grisham $37.99 TPB Leigh Bardugo $34.99 TPB The explosive new thriller from The mesmerizing adult debut from the international bestseller John Grisham. bestselling Leigh Bardugo. He was framed for murder, now he Welcome to a world of secret societies and needs someone on the outside to save occult that’s perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, him. For 22 years Quincy Miller has sat Susanna Clarke and Ben Aaronovitch. on Death Row without friends, family or legal representation. Finally, after 22 Galaxy ‘Alex’ Stern is the most unlikely years, an innocence lawyer and minister, member of Yale’s freshman class, tasked Cullen Post, takes on his case. with monitoring its secret societies. But The New Everyday their occult activities are more sinister and extraordinary than she ever imagined... Heinz Wattie’s $39.99 PB Weeknight cooking has never been easier with this brand new fully illustrated cookbook, overflowing Tall Tales and Wee Stories Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with healthy, quick and easy recipes. Billy Connolly $37.99 TPB Renee Chin $19.99 PB Featuring 100 step-by-step recipes including Who delivers mail to the birds of New This collection brings together the perennial favourites such as One Pan Italian Chicken Zealand? Join Ruru the New Zealand very best of Billy’s storytelling for the & Orzo and more than 20 newly created recipes. native owl as she delivers the mail to her first time and includes his most famous From savoury to sweet, The New Everyday will friends at night. Discover which birds are routines. With an introduction and inspire every home cook, everyday. nocturnal and track the Southern Cross original illustrations by Billy, it is an constellation as it moves across the sky. inspirational, energetic and riotously The recipes have been developed by Di Swann, With Renee Chin’s beautiful illustrations funny read. Food in a Minute’s Cordon Bleu trained Food Editor. and the lyrics from Twinkle, Twinkle, Little All recipes include dietary and health information. Star in both English and te reo Maori this is a classic in the making. The New Everyday will become an instant classic and the cookbook Kiwis buy this Christmas. Supported by a major Marketing and Publicity campaign. Lead Titles The Family Gift Home Work Cathy Kelly $34.99 TPB Julie Andrews $37.99 TPB Freya has a big, messy, wonderful family, In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed a fantastic career, and a new house. But and bestselling memoir Home, the that’s on the outside…On the inside, enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her she’s got Mildred, that nagging inner story with her arrival in Hollywood, critic who tells us all we’re not good sharing the career highlights, personal enough. Now Freya’s beloved blended experiences and reflections behind her family is under threat, but she knows astonishing career, including such classics that when life gives you lemons, you as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, throw them right back. Victor/Victoria and many others. Imaginary Friend Stephen Chbosky $37.99 TPB Unfollow SLAY From the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Megan Phelps-Roper $37.99 TPB Brittney Morris $19.99 PB SLAY is the biggest online game the world Kate Reese is a single mother fleeing an abusive The journey of Megan Phelps-Roper: a has ever seen, but no one knows seven- relationship by starting over in a new town, young woman raised in a religious hate teen-year-old Kiera is the game developer. with her young son Christopher. But Mill Grove, group, who has become an advocate When a teen in Kansas City is murdered over Pennsylvania, is not the safe place they thought it for equality, diversity and tolerance. a dispute in the game, the media labels it an would be… Unfollow is a story about the rarest thing exclusionist, racist hub for thugs. of all: a person changing their mind. It Their world begins to unravel after Christopher With threats coming from both inside and is a hope-inspiring memoir of a young vanishes into the Mission Street Woods - where outside the game, Kiera must fight to save the woman originally from the Westboro 50 years earlier an eerily similar disappearance safe space she’s created. But can she protect Church finding the courage to find occurred. When he emerges six days later, SLAY without losing herself? compassion for others, as well as herself. unharmed but not unchanged, he brings with him For fans of Black Panther and The Hate U Give. a secret: a voice only he can hear and a warning of tragedy to come. What follows is a moving, thrilling, chilling modern masterpiece - a work of towering imagination and emotional depth which unfolds on an epic canvas. Fiction Crime/ Thiller The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker Doctor Sleep FTI Full Throttle Joanna Nell $34.99 TPB Stephen King $21.99 PB Joe Hill $34.99 TPB From the author of The Single Ladies An epic war between good and evil, a gory, Chilling stories from a master of horror, of Jacaranda Retirement Village. glorious story that is the unforgettable and including two collaborations with Evelyn Parker has lived aboard the terrifying stand-alone sequel to The Shining. Stephen King. Eleven short stories from Golden Sunset ocean liner with her Following a childhood haunted by terrifying award-winning author Joe Hill, building husband Henry for twenty years, events at the Overlook Hotel, Danny has on the success of his blockbuster novels. ensconced in the luxury of cruise life been drifting for decades until he meets the Some new, some previously published, and comfortable routine. But now evanescent Abra Stone. all terrifying. Henry is missing, and it is up to Evelyn (and her failing memory) to find him. No Mercy The Wife and the Widow There Was Still Love Martina Cole $34.99 TPB Christian White $34.99 TPB Favel Parrett $34.99 TPB The brand new novel from the queen of From the author of The Nowhere Child. In Prague, all Ludék wants is for his crime and No. 1 bestseller Martina Cole. Kate is a widow whose grief is compounded mother to return home from her No one messes with Diana Davies. Her only by what she learns about her dead travels. Meanwhile in Melbourne, son is a natural born villain, but he needs to husband’s secret life. Abby’s world is turned Mala learns of her Grandparent’s past earn Diana’s trust before she’ll let him into upside down when she’s forced to confront life in Prague, and we begin to see the business. When he does, his reign of evidence that her husband is a murderer. the pain of a life left behind. terror knows no bounds... Together, they can discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Archangel’s War The Resurrection Key Nalini Singh $24.99 PB Andy McDermott $34.99 TPB The Mitford Scandal Jessica Fellowes $37.99 TPB Return to New York Times bestselling Archaeologist Nina Wilde and ex-SAS solder author Nalini Singh’s darkly Eddie Chase, think they have left their days of The third book in the hit The Mitford Murders passionate Guild Hunter world, where dangerous adventures behind. However, when series sees maid Louisa Cannon accompany human-turned-angel Elena Deveraux, an ancient and astonishing civilisation buried Diana Mitford in turbulent late 1920s Europe, consort to Archangel Raphael, faces deep in the Antarctic ice is woken, Nina and where everything is on the line...even their a new challenge that threatens the Eddie must travel to New Zealand, to try and lives. Get ready for scandalous affairs, political balance of the world. This war could understand the formidable power that has upheaval and murder. end them all… been unleashed. Non-Fiction Gordon Ramsay Quick and Delicious From the Oven to the Table Glastonbury 50 Gordon Ramsay Diana Henry $44.99 HB Michael Eavis and Emily Eavis $70.00 HB $55 HB The new cookbook from bestselling, The authorised, behind-the-scenes, inside From the global superstar chef comes award-winning food writer Diana Henry. story of the music festival that has become a restaurant-quality food without spending Whether you’re short of time or just true global phenomenon. hours in the kitchen. All the recipes take 30 prefer to keep things simple, From the In their own words, Michael and Emily Eavis minutes or less and use readily available Oven to the Table shows how the oven reveal the stories behind the headlines, and ingredients that are transformed into can do much of the work that goes into celebrate 50 years of history in the Vale of something special with Gordon’s expertise. making great food. Avalon. They’re joined by a host of big-name contributors including Adele, JAY-Z, Dolly Parton and Chris Martin. A Lady in Waiting Voices of History Downton Abbey: Anne Glenconner $34.99 TPB Simon Sebag Montefiore $39.99 HB The Official Film Companion Emma Marriott $59.99 HB The remarkable life of Anne Glenconner, In this exuberant collection, acclaimed Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who historian Simon Sebag Montefiore Featuring a foreword by creator Julian was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen’s takes us from ancient times to the Fellowes, photographs from the production, Coronation - soon to be a character in The present: some speeches are heroic interviews with cast and crew, and a look into Crown. Anne reveals the reality behind The and inspiring; some diabolical and the backdrop of the film, this official guide Crown and her own life of drama, tragedy atrocious; some are exquisite and to the Downton Abbey film is made to be and courage.