MAY 2018 The Jade Lily Kirsty Manning The Jade Lily is a sweeping story of friendship, loyalty, love and identity from the popular author of The Midsummer Garden. Description Praise for The Midsummer Garden 'This is a rich, sensual, and evocative novel, fragrant with the smell of crushed herbs and flowers, and haunted by the high cost that women must sometimes pay to find both love and their vocation.' Kate Forsyth '...compelling, passionate and admirable.' Australian Women's Weekly In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm, when her grandfather is dying. With only weeks left together, her grandparents begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century. In 1939, two young girls meet in Shanghai, the 'Paris of the East': beautiful local Li and Viennese refugee Romy form a fierce friendship. But the deepening shadows of World War Two fall over the women as Li and Romy slip between the city's glamorous French Concession and the desperate Shanghai Ghetto. Eventually, they are forced separate ways as Romy doubts Li's loyalties. After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. As she peels back the layers of their hidden lives, she begins to question everything she knows about her family - and herself. A compelling and gorgeously told tale of female friendship, the price of love, and the power of hardship and courage to shape us all. About the Author Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760294793 Kirsty Manning grew up in northern New South Wales. A country girl with wanderlust, her travels and studies have taken Format: Paperback - C format her through most of Europe, the east and west coasts of the United States and pockets of Asia. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 456 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Kirsty's first novel was the enchanting The Midsummer Garden published in 2017. The Jade Lily, compelling and pacey, is Bic2: Fiction & related items her second book. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Woodend, Victoria Kirsty is a partner in the award-winning Melbourne wine bar Bellota, and the Prince Wine Store in Sydney and Melbourne. She lives with her husband and three children amid an old chestnut grove in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria. Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Jade Lily 12 copy pack Includes 12 copies of Jade Lily plus free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $359.88 ISBN: 9324551063422 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Lovesome Sally Seltmann An offbeat and beguiling story of finding your own happiness. Description My warm breath makes a beautiful fog before me. It's times like this when I feel most alive. I feel free, and at one with the world and everything around me. It's an invigorating version of euphoria. But I don't want to always go home alone; I want someone to come home to. It's 1995 and 21-year-old Joni Johnson is fresh out of art school and loving her life. Working at Harland, a French restaurant, makes her happy - it's as romantic as she is herself. Harland's owner, Lucy, and chef, Dave, make her evenings both entertaining and complicated. By day, Joni sets up her easel in her backyard bungalow, turns on her music, and paints. But when Joni's best friend, Annabelle, arrives on the doorstep one night ecstatic in love, everything changes. The life Joni has built for herself seems lacklustre in comparison to Annabelle's rising star. And when Annabelle makes a beeline for the one man who seems interested in Joni, it looks unlikely that their friendship will survive. Tender, funny and romantic, Lovesome is a triumph. About the Author Sally Seltmann is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. From 2000 to 2009, she used the stage name, New Buffalo. Under that name, she wrote, performed, arranged and produced her debut album in September 2004. Her second album appeared in March 2007. Seltmann and Canadian singer-songwriter Feist co-wrote the song, 1234, which became a Top 10 hit on the United States Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, she released her third solo album and formed an indie rock trio, Seeker Lover Keeper, with fellow Australians Sarah Blasko and Holly Throsby. They issued a self-titled album in June 2011, which peaked at number three on the ARIA Albums Chart. She is currently working on a new solo album and a new Seeker Lover Keeper album, both of which are likely to be released in the new twelve months. This is her first book. Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760632878 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Newtown, NSW Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Lovesome 10 copy pack Includes 10 copies of Lovesome plus free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $299.90 ISBN: 9324551062944 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Eleanor's Secret Caroline Beecham An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets and long-lasting love... Description London, 1942 When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artist Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer to realising her dream of becoming one of the few female war artists. But breaking into the art establishment proves difficult until Eleanor meets painter, Jack Valante, only to be separated by his sudden posting overseas. Melbourne 2010 Although reluctant to leave her family at home, Kathryn can't refuse her grandmother Eleanor's request to travel to London to help her return a precious painting to its artist. But when the search uncovers a long-held family secret, Kathryn has to make a choice to return home or risk her family's future, as Eleanor shows her that safeguarding the future is sometimes worth more than protecting the past. Eleanor's Secret is at once a surprising mystery and compelling love story. About the Author Caroline Beecham grew up at the English seaside and relocated to Australia to continue her career as a writer and producer in film and television. She has worked on a documentary about Princess Diana lookalikes, a series about journeys to the ends of the earth, as well as a feature film about finding the end of the rainbow. Caroline decided on a new way of storytelling and studied the craft of novel writing at the Faber Academy in 2012. She has an MA in Film & Television and a MA in Creative Writing and lives with her husband and two sons by Sydney harbour. Her first novel, Maggie's Kitchen, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2016. Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760295660 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Birchgrove, NSW Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Eleanor's Secret 8 copy pack Includes 8 copies of Eleanor's Secret plus free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $239.92 ISBN: 9324551063446 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Someone Like You Karly Lane From the best-selling author of Third Time Lucky comes an intriguing, funny and romantic story about past lives and new beginnings. Description When bestselling author, twenty-nine year old Hayley Stevens, walks in on her husband, Paul, and her best friend in bed together, she knows her life will never be the same again. One year later, Hayley stowed her last bag in her much-loved Audi Coupe and said goodbye to the city. She was excited to be heading west to Lochway, a small colonial village sitting on the beautiful Macdonald River. Wanting peace and quiet, Hayley had impulsively bought a cosy sandstone cottage there surrounded by lush rose gardens, with a small overseer's cottage - ideal for a writer's retreat. What she didn't expect was the almost immediate 'gift' of a very noisy donkey named Errol. Nor did Hayley expect to meet her handsome new neighbour, Luke Mason, when she was covered in mud trying to drag Errol out of Luke's dam. The strange thing was though that Luke seemed very familiar to her. As Hayley slowly gains acceptance into her small community and starts writing again she becomes almost afraid of the inexplicable visions she sees. What does it all mean? And why does Luke refuse to listen to her? Written with warmth and humour, Someone Like You is an intriguing, funny and romantic story about past lives and new beginnings. 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 ISBN: 9781760296896 Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Format: Paperback - C format Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses and Six Ways to Sunday. Someone Like You is Dimensions: 234x153mm her eleventh novel. Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Her Mother's Daughter Alice Fitzgerald Set across two decades in London and Ireland, Her Mother's Daughter sees the lives of a troubled and emotionally abusive mother and her innocent ten-year-old daughter change forever after one summer holiday.