Sam Carmody Caroline Beecham Nicholas Lee Richie 'Vas' Vaculik AUGUST 2016 Bram Connolly n ew book s 2 ALLEN & UNWIN have thepower to changeeverything. Kitchen open,she discovers thatsome secrets about. .asMaggie fights to keep herbeloved rules isnot theonlythingshehasto worry of closure from theMinistry. But breaking the returning to hisnative land,she evades threats urchin, andJanek,aPolish refugee dreaming of With thehelpof twelve-year-old Robbie, astreet food to keep upwiththedemandfor meals. so popularthatshesimplycan't findenough unexpected problem. Herrestaurant hasbecome the publicandMaggiefindsthatshehasamost tape, Maggie's Kitchen finallyopensits doors to Navigating aconstant tangle of government red- seems close to realising along-helddream. hungry Londoners duringWWII,MaggieJohnson for theopening of restaurants to feed tired and When theBritishMinistry of Food urgently calls shattered streets ontheirway to work, butonce they entered Maggie's Kitchen, itwas somehow They might alltravel thesame scarred and as iftherest of theworld didn't exist. 9781760293048 |$29.99 | MAGGIE'S KITCHEN Caroline Beecham ALLEN &UNWIN |PBFICTION Chris Masters' Uncommon Soldier. several tours of Afghanistan. Hewas featured in Special Forces commander andveteran of Bram Connolly isa decorated former Australian beat Rapier at hisown game. Afghanistan, orgambleeverything inaneffort to only onechoice, follow therules andsurvive what they seem. Intheend,Matt isleft with until heisneutralised. But thingsare not atall vows to pursue himacross thetroubled country is identified asthemost likely culprit, andRix Objective Rapier, ashadowy Taliban commander, and apopularmemberof theplatoon iskilled. vehicles is destroyed by ahugeroadside bomb six-month deployment, oneof theplatoon's of Uruzghan Provence. At thebeginningof its Special Forces Unit operating within thebadlands commander of Yankee Platoon, anAustralian Afghanistan, 2010. Matt Rixistheplatoon Afghanistan by aformer SpecialForces THE FIGHTINGSEASON An explosive thrillerfrom of theheart 9781760290382 |$29.99 | Bram Connolly Commando ALLEN &UNWIN |PBFICTION THE WINDY SEASON STORM AND GRACE ALLEN & UNWIN Sam Carmody Kathryn Heyman ALLEN & UNWIN ALLEN & UNWIN 9781743313633 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781760111564 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION Their love knows no limits but the further you go, From an impressive new voice in Australian the more dangers there are—A literary thriller in literature, a novel where safe harbour seems the tradition of Before I Go to Sleep always just out of reach World-famous free-diver Storm Hisray hits Grace A young fisherman is missing from the crayfish Cain like a bolt from the blue. Instantly smitten, boats in the harsh West Australian coastal town she follows him to his idyllic Pacific island of Stark. There's no trace at all of Elliot, hasn't where he teaches her the ways of the deep, been for some weeks and Paul, his younger sinking to unimaginable depths on one single brother, is the only one who seems to be active breath. As Storm begins training Grace to be in the search. Taking Elliot's place on their his new star, she is pushed further and further antagonistic cousin's boat, Paul soon learns beyond her limits—both in and out of the water. how many opportunities there are to get lost in As her resistance grows, Storm's temper takes those many thousands of kilometres of lonely a frightening turn. Grace fears she is in more coastline. Fierce, evocative and memorable, this dangerous water than she has ever imagined. is an Australian story set within an often wild and She prepares for one last, desperate descent unforgiving sea, where mysterious influences are which will make both of their careers. But is brought to bear on the inhospitable town and its death ready to be defied? Narrated by a chorus residents. of mesmerising sirens, Storm and Grace explores the dazzling thrill of the deep, and its dangers. Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the central coast of Western Kathryn Heyman is the award-winning author of Australia. The Windy Season was shortlisted for five novels, including Floodline, The Accomplice the 2014 Vogel's Literary Award. and Captain Starlight's Apprentice, published internationally and in translation.
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Buenos Aires, 1976. The garbage collectors Shot from a mundane, provincial past, twenty- haven't been since the military coup, and rubbish two-year-old Tess comes to New York to look builds up in the street. The Ferrero family for a life she can't define. After she stumbles escape to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a into a coveted job at a renowned restaurant, she distinguished middle-aged doctor, and his wife learns the chaotic, punishing, privileged life of Yolanda, gather with their daughters, sensible a 'backwaiter' on duty and off. Her appetites— Julieta and the beautiful, wilful Graciela. It will for food, wine, knowledge, and every kind of be the last time they are all together. For on experience—are awakened. And she's pulled their return, the military junta starts tightening into the magnetic thrall of two other servers; its grip on the nation, and Osvaldo is forced to a handsome bartender she falls hard for, and flee. Exiled, he can only listen to Yolanda's tales an older woman she latches onto with an of the terror that descends as friends disappear orphan's ardour. These two and their enigmatic overnight, leaving Osvaldo with nothing to do connection to each other will prove to be Tess's but witness the slow disintegration of his family hardest lesson of all. Sweetbitter is a story of from afar. Beautifully written, carefully observed, discovery, enchantment and the power of what The Memory Stones is a devastating portrait of remains after disillusionment. one family's unbearable loss, and a country's resounding silence. Stephanie Danler is a ‘backwaiter’ with an MFA in Fiction. She lives in New York. Caroline Brothers is Editor at the International New York Times and the author of Hinterland. Born in Australia, she lives in Paris.
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Luisa 'Lu' Brant is the first female state Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Agent Kasper is kidnapped in Cambodia attorney of Howard County. Fiercely Buckmaster, a man alone on a west country when he uncovers something so terrible ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make moor in search of enlightenment. What he that the intelligence service he works for her name by trying a drifter accused of has left behind we don't yet know, but will wants him dead. In the squalor of one of the murder. But the case dredges up painful discover; what he faces is an existential world's most notorious prison camps, the memories of the night when her brother, AJ, battle with himself, the elements, and with corrupt guards sent to execute him spot an saved his friend at the cost of another's life. something he begins to see on the margins opportunity and wonder—is Kasper worth Now, Lu wonders if the events happened as of his vision: some creature that is tracking more alive? Based on a true story, this is she remembers. Even if she could learn the him, the pursuit of which will become an the page-turning and nail-biting read of an whole truth, she probably wouldn't want to. obsession. This short, shocking, exhilarating innocent man's determination to survive. A An evocative, psychologically complex story novel is the second book in the acclaimed bestseller in Italy, movie rights have been in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird. Buckmaster Trilogy. acquired for a Hollywood film.
Laura Lippman is the multi-award-winning, Paul Kingsnorth is the author of the 2014 Agent Kasper was one of the most effective New York Times-bestselling author of After Booker-longlisted The Wake. operatives of Italy's secret services. He lives I'm Gone, And When She Was Good, and outside Rome. What the Dead Know. She lives in New Orleans and New York. 5 6 ALLEN & UNWIN Australia, henow lives inScotland. The Bookof Strange New Things. Raised in Michel Faber istheaward-winning authorof goodbye. of your life. Andwhatitislike to have to say chronicle of whatitmeans to findthelove and true, these poemsare anexceptional battle withcancer. Bright, tragic, candid memory of hiswife, whodiedafter asix-year life? InUndying MichelFaber honours the How can you say goodbye to thelove of your 9781782118541 |$24.99 | Michel Faber UNDYING A love story CANONGATE |HBPOETRY
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THE ESSEX SERPENT THIRST THE SECRETS OF Sarah Perry Benjamin Warner WISHTIDE Kate Saunders SERPENTS TAIL BLOOMSBURY 9781781255445 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION 9781408865057 | $27.99 | | PB | FICTION BLOOMSBURY 9781408879160 | $27.99 | | PB | FICTION Set in Victorian London and an Essex village Thirst takes place in the immediate in the 1890s, and enlivened by the debates aftermath of a mysterious disaster—the The first in The Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, on scientific and medical discovery which Chapmans and their neighbours suffer six Victorian detective novels featuring defined the era, The Essex Serpent has at the effects of the heat, their thirst, and a razor-sharp, bewitching new sleuth. its heart the story of two extraordinary the terrifying realisation that no one is Mrs Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the people who fall for each other, but not in coming to help. As violence rips through impoverished widow of an Archdeacon the usual way. Told with exquisite grace and the community, Eddie and Laura are who makes her living as a highly discreet intelligence, this novel is a sumptuously forced to recall secrets from their past and private investigator. Her brother, Frederick imagined novel of passion, ideas and question their present humanity. In crisp and Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in the friendship. convincing prose, readers are compelled to neighbouring village with his wife and ten do the same. What might you do to survive? children. Fred finds the cases, and Mrs Rodd Sarah Perry is the award-winning author solves them, using her arch-intelligence, her of After Me Comes the Flood. She lives in Benjamin Warner teaches creative writing at iron discretion and her immaculate cover as Norwich. Towson University. He lives in Baltimore. an unsuspecting widow.
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I DON'T LIKE WHERE THIS THE WORLD OF SIMON THE LITTLE COMMUNIST IS GOING RICH WHO NEVER SMILED Book #2 of the Wylie 'Coyote' Melville series Simon Rich Lola Lafon John Dufresne SERPENTS TAIL SERPENTS TAIL SERPENTS TAIL 9781781257487 | $22.99 | | PB | HUMOUR 9781781255148 | $27.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781781253243 | $27.99 | | PB | FICTION The world is a bewildering place and we're The Little Communist Who Never Smiled Wylie 'Coyote' Melville needs a break. South ill-equipped to deal with it. From the horrors tells the story of the perfect scoring Florida might be home, but it's also home to of childhood to the vagaries of old age, Olympic gymnast, Nadia Comaneci and her local gangsters bearing grudges. So Wylie we're all just trying to keep it together. journey from rural Romania to her eventual and his ace poker-playing friend head to Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and defection to the United States. Adored by Las Vegas to lie low. But when Wylie sees a an overwhelming sense of doom, Simon Rich young girls in the west and appropriated as woman fall from the balcony of her hotel on explores the ridiculousness of our everyday a political emblem by the Ceausescu regime, the Strip, the vacation turns into a murder lives, from the most minute of anxieties to Comaneci's life was scrutinised wherever investigation. A crime caper filled with black life's biggest questions: Does God really she went. This is a powerful re-imagining humour which continues the story of Wylie's have a plan for us? Yes. If only He could of a childhood in the spotlight of history, haphazard investigations into America's remember what it was . . . politics and destiny. bankrupt political system. Simon Rich is an American humourist, Lola Lafon is a writer, musician, anarchist John Dufresne is the author of eight novels, screenwriter and author of The Last and feminist. She grew up in Sofia and including the first book in the Wylie Melville Girlfriend on Earth. Bucharest before returning to Paris. series, No Regrets Coyote. He lives in Florida. 8e children’s
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bestseller We Were Liars. E. Lockhart istheauthorof thehighlyacclaimed New York Times of Ruby Oliver. For ages 13-16. all infour uproarious andheart-warming novels aboutthehighschool life Fifteen boys, 43lists, 120 footnotes, andtoo many panic attacks to count, A gazillionlists, three potential boyfriends, several penguinsandme, Ruby Fifteen guys, 11shrinkappointments, 4ceramic Yes, boyfriends, plural. Ifmy life weren't complicated—I wouldn't beRuby 9781760293758 |9781760293765 |9781760293772 |9781760293796 THE BOY BOOK: ARUBY OLIVERNOVEL 2 REAL LIVEBOYFRIENDS: ARUBY OLIVER THE TREASURE MAPOFBOYS: ARUBY THE BOYFRIEND LIST: ARUBY OLIVER Noel, Jackson, Finn,Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver OLIVER NOVEL 3 E. Lockhart NOVEL 4 NOVEL 1 ALLEN &UNWIN Oliver Oliver
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LONDON BELONGS TO US FLIP FLAP PETS SING ALONG WITH ME! Sarra Manning Axel Scheffler HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE SING ALONG WITH ME! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOTKEY NOSY CROW 9781471404610 | $16.99 | | PB | YA 9780857636805 | $15.99 | | HB | CHILDREN Yu-hsuan Huang
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ARCHIE GREENE AND THE CONCENTR8 UP, UP AND AWAY ALCHEMIST'S CURSE William Sutcliffe Tom McLaughlin D. D. Everest BLOOMSBURY BLOOMSBURY FABER 9781408866245 | $17.99 | | PB | YA 9781408870150 | $24.99 | | HB | CHILDREN 9780571307418 | $14.99 | | PB | CHILDREN A powerful multi-character drama set in Orson has built a planet—clever eh? But Welcome to a wonderful, magical world a very recognisable near-future London— it seems that BUILDING the planet is the where bookshelves are enchanted, librarians where a drug called Concentr8 is prescribed easy bit, taking care of it is a different thing are sorcerers and spells come to life. When to teens to keep society safe. This is a book altogether. Over time, Orson realizes that his Archie and his cousins learn about a curse about what how we label children. It's about planet needs to be free and that sometimes that threatens their beloved Museum of how kids get lost and failed by the system. you have to let go of the things that you love Magical Miscellany, they have no choice It's about how politicians manipulate them. the most . . . A heart-warming story about but to start their own alchemist's club, Gripping and controversial reading for ages life's possibilities and disappointments for and face the darkest kind of magic. This 12 and up. ages 3-6. is the thrilling second instalment in the phenomenal magical trilogy for ages 9-12. William Sutcliffe is the author of Tom McLaughlin has illustrated several the international bestseller Are You books including The Story Machine. He lives D. D. Everest is the author of Archie Greene Experienced? He lives in Edinburgh. in Devon. and the Magician's Secret. viii ALLEN & UNWIN
THE FAMISHING THE GREAT DRAGON THE DOUBLECROSS VANISHING MAHOOSIVE BAKE OFF (AND OTHER SKILLS MAMMOTH Nicola O'Byrne I LEARNED AS A Hollie Hughes SUPERSPY) BLOOMSBURY Jackson Pearce BLOOMSBURY 9781408839560 | $14.99 | | PB | CHILDREN 9781408862773 | $24.99 | | HB | CHILDREN BLOOMSBURY Meet Flamie Oliver. To look at, Flamie is as 9781619639393 | $14.99 | | PB | CHILDREN The famishing vanishing mahoosive terrifying as a dragon can get. But behind closed doors, Flamie is a stupendously mammoth is a hairy beast who simply Everyone in twelve-year-old Hale's family is spectacular baker! In fact, he loves baking can't think of anything but his tummy. So a spy. His parents may be the ultimate spy so much that his studies at the Ferocious how, then, can his friend Bug distract him? team, but Hale isn't your typical stealthy Dragon Academy are starting to suffer, and Find out in this hilarious rhyming picture spy—he is, as his mother puts it, big-boned. there's a chance he won't graduate. Flamie's book about one hairy mammoth with a But when both his mother and father going to need a real showstopper to get out ridiculously large appetite, and one loyal disappear while on a mission, it's Hale's of this one. On your marks, get set . . . BAKE! friend with a clever plan. For ages 2-6. time to step up and save the day. Part Spy Fabulously funny and perfect for ages 2-6. Kids and all fun, this is the first in a fresh Hollie Hughes has won and been shortlisted action-adventure series with a healthy dose Nicola O'Byrne is the award-winning creator in a number of competitions for short of humour for ages 9-11. stories, plays and audio drama. She lives in of Open Very Carefully and Two Little Bears. She lives in London. Essex. Jackson Pearce is the author of a series of teen retold fairy-tales as well as As You Wish and Purity. She lives in Atlanta. ix DADDY'S SANDWICH Pip Jones, illustrated by Laura Hughes
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EVERYTHING LOVE IS WABI SABI THE LANDING Claire King Francesc Miralles Susan Johnson
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Moored on his houseboat in Toulouse, Distanced from his girlfriend Gabriela, A funny, delightful and poignant novel about Baptiste Molino has devoted his life to other university lecturer Samuel receives an what it is to be human and to love: the people's happiness whilst remaining careful anonymous postcard from Japan depicting betrayals, the long and the short alliances, never to make waves of his own. As winter a porcelain figurine of a cat and the words the disappointments and the joys. approaches and tensions rise on the streets, ‘wabi-sabi’. This sets Samuel on a quest Baptiste's determination to avoid the highs that will take him to the Land of the Rising and lows of love begins to waver. And when Sun, not only to discover the meaning his unknown mother's legacy reveals itself, of the cryptic message, but also to find he finds himself torn between pursuing his enlightenment, a new equilibrium and a own happiness and safeguarding that of the reappreciation of the small joys of life. one he loves. A poignant, mysterious and unforgettable story of the happy endings we Francesc Miralles is the bestselling and conceive for ourselves. multi-award-winning author of many books including Love in Small Letters. He lives in Claire King is the acclaimed author of The Barcelona. Night Rainbow. She lives in France.
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The gritty, uncompromising life of the UFC For more than thirty years, Nicholas Lee worked champion and fearless big-wave surfer as a cameraman on Australia's most-watched current affairs program, alongside Ray Martin, Richie 'Vas' Vaculik grew up in the tough streets George Negus, Ian Leslie, Richard Carleton, of Maroubra where surfing, fighting and drinking Mike Munro, Jennifer Byrne, Liz Hayes and were the way of life for teenagers. As a member Tara Brown, among many others. All This in of the Bra Boys, he developed into one of 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilarious Australia's most fearless big wave surfers. Richie memoir of his time with the show. It goes inside always pushes to the limits, and sometimes the IRA, Idi Amin's torture cells, Israeli terrorist ‘WHO KNEW THE BEST STORYTELLER WAS GOING TO BE THE CAMERAMAN!’ beyond. A vicious brawl saw him charged with interrogations, royal palaces and mud huts. It LIZ HAYES the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence. It was recounts unforgettable trips on B52s, ultra lights, ALL THIS IN a wake-up call that he had to change his life. So mock helicopters and the Orient Express. And Richie turned his focus to the discipline of MMA details the madness of being on the road for up and is now one of Australia's top UFC fighters. to eight weeks with people who sometimes didn't This is his gritty, uncompromising memoir about get on. And of course it wouldn't be 60 Minutes 60MINUTES growing up in the 'Bra, the gang, and about living without mixing with the famous and infamous— After 30 years behind the camera with the 60 Minutes’ team, he writes life on the edge of an adrenaline charge—whether from presidents, rock stars, despots, kings and about the drama, humour and dangers of life on the road. towing into fifteen metre waves at Shipstern princes, to showgirls, pygmies and gurus. All This Bluff, going toe-to-toe in brutal gang fights or in 60 Minutes is compelling, funny and utterly entering the UFC cage. eye-opening.
Richie Vaculik is part of the Foxsport UFC Nicholas Lee spent more than 30 years as a commentary team, was featured in the cameraman for 60 Minutes. documentary Fighting Fear and stars in the long- NICHOLAS LEE running Foxtel series The Crew.
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5000-1: THE LEICESTER THE 50 GREATEST ROAD MAKE WAY FOR THE CITY STORY TRIPS SUPERHUMANS Rob Tanner Sarah Woods Michael Bess
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