AUGUST 2018 Scrublands Chris Hammer Set in a fictional Riverina town at the height of a devastating drought, Scrublands is one of the most powerful, compelling and original crime novels to be written in Australia. Sales points • Set to be one of the biggest debuts of 2018 • A riveting and stunning addition to a burgeoning genre - the Small-Town Secrets Crime Thriller • A brilliant mix of page-turning plot, unforgettable characters, and an evocation of the Australian landscape that makes you feel the heat and taste the dust. • Major marketing campaign and big author tour • CATEGORY: Crime fiction Description In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself. A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leading up to the shooting don't fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation. Martin can't ignore his doubts, nor the urgings of some locals to unearth the real reason behind the priest's deadly rampage. Just as Martin believes he is making headway, a shocking new development rocks the town, which becomes the biggest story in Australia. The media descends on Riversend and Martin is now the one in the spotlight. His reasons for investigating the shooting have suddenly become very personal. Wrestling with his own demons, Martin finds himself risking everything to discover a truth that becomes darker and more complex with every twist. But there are powerful forces determined to stop him, and he has no idea how far they will go to Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 make sure the town's secrets stay buried. ISBN: 9781760632984 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 496 pages Chris Hammer was a journalist for more than thirty years, dividing his career between covering Australian federal politics Bic1: Fiction & related items and international affairs. For many years he was a roving foreign correspondent for SBS TV's flagship current affairs Bic2: Thriller / suspense program Dateline. He has reported from more than 30 countries on six continents. In Canberra, roles included chief Illustrations: political correspondent for The Bulletin, current affairs correspondent for SBS TV and a senior political journalist for The Previous Titles: Author now living: Deakin, ACT Age. His first book, The River, published in 2010 to critical acclaim, was the recipient of the ACT Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award and the Manning Clark House National Cultural Award. Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Scrublands 36 copy pack Includes 36 copies of Scrublands plus a stunning display piece and free reading copy. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $1187.64 NZ $1331.64 ISBN: 9324551065099 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Scrublands 24 copy dumpbin Includes 24 copies of Scrublands, custom header and dumpbin. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $791.76 NZ $887.76 ISBN: 9324551064122 Format: Point of Sale Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Inappropriation Lexi Freiman A search for belonging in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs turns into a riotous satire of identity politics in this wildly irreverent coming-of-age story. Sales points • Addictive and entertaining reading combined with brilliant literary satire - perfect for everyone who loved and laughed at Crazy Rich Asians! • In Ziggy, Freiman has created an original and compelling voice making hugely enjoyable fun of Sydney's posh Eastern Suburbs private schools, healers, political correctness and teenage girls of all types. • Huge media interest in Lexi, whose star is on the rise both here and overseas. • CATEGORY: Popular fiction Description 'Lexi Freiman is a savage writer, hilarious and brilliant, and in Inappropriation, she has reframed the traditional coming-of- age story, tackling it with irreverence and acid wit. This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment.'- Emma Cline, author of The Girls 'Inappropriation's crackling, electric prose is an uncomfortable joyride. You'll laugh out loud and squirm and wince, but you sure won't put it down. This novel is an original treasure--sentence by sentence, there is just no book like it.' - Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and Tampa A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politics. Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade's most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual fantasies, and a biological essentialist mother, Ziggy sets off on a journey of self-discovery that moves from the Sydney drag scene to the extremist underbelly of the Internet. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760630850 As PC culture collides with her friends' morphing ideology and her parents' kinky sex life, Ziggy's understanding of Format: Paperback - C format gender, race, and class begins to warp. Ostracized at school, she seeks refuge in Donna Haraway's seminal feminist text, Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 264 pages A Cyborg Manifesto, and discovers an indisputable alternative identity. Or so she thinks. A controversial Indian guru, a Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) transgender drag queen, and her own Holocaust-surviving grandmother propel Ziggy through a series of Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) misidentifications, culminating in a date-rape revenge plot so confused, it just might work. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New York, NY USA Uproariously funny, but written with extraordinary acuity about the intersections of gender, sexual politics, race, and technology, Inappropriation is literary satire at its best. With a deft finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lexi Freiman debuts on the scene as a brilliant and fearless new talent. Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Inappropriation 10 copy pack Includes 10 copies of Inappropriation plus free reading copy. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $299.90 NZ $329.90 ISBN: 9324551064146 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Hey Brother Jarrah Dundler A genuine and compellingly portrayed family drama of a tough kid from rural Australia. Sales points • Great storytelling: poignancy, family drama and skilful dark humour • Fourteen-year-old Trysten is a genuine and relatable narrator who will appeal to fans of Jasper Jones • A very Australian story that tackles PTSD and returning soldiers - truly topical material • Broad range of appeal, from upper high school students to adults • ""A great story with sharp contemporary relevance...the ending is the best of all: restrained but powerful."" - Stephen Romei, The Australian • Shortlisted for the 2017 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award • CATEGORY: Literary fiction Description Fourteen-year-old Trysten 'Tryst' Black's life changes dramatically when his older brother, Shaun, goes off to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Their mother, Kirsten, deals with Shaun's absence by drinking, leaving Tryst to fend for himself. Tryst's response is to rage against his father who lives in a caravan by the creek, to get into a punch-up at school, and to line up for another fight with his uncle who has come to stay. When the fractured family receives news that Shaun is coming home, things begin to look better. But Tryst is dead worried about his big brother. And it's only his friends who'll listen. Hey Brother tells the story of a tough kid from the bush whose world comes crashing down on his shoulders. But with his own blend of fury, resilience and deadpan humour, Tryst proves to be up for every challenge. Even talking to that girl on the bus. About the Author Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Jarrah was raised in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Since completing his BA in Politics at Griffith University he's ISBN: 9781760631123 worked as a barista, pizza-chef, AusAID volunteer, grant writer, uni tutor, and a stonemason's labourer. His short fiction Format: Paperback - C format has appeared in Booranga's fourW anthology, and his novel manuscript Hey Brother was selected for both a Byron Dimensions: 234x153mm Writers Residential Mentorship and Varuna Writers Fellowship and shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) (2017). Jarrah currently lives back in his hometown, Kyogle, with his partner and children and works in nearby Lismore as Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) a peer support worker with people who have a lived experience of mental illness. Hey Brother is his first novel. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Hey Brother 8 copy pack Includes 8 copies of Hey Brother plus free reading copy. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $239.92 NZ $263.99 ISBN: 9324551064139 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Goodwood Holly Throsby A delightful novel of secrets and small town obsessions from Australian musician and songwriter, Holly Throsby. Sales points • Goodwood has a great sales history with over 21,000 copies sold in its first edition • A warm-hearted, tenderly humorous coming-of-age story with the same appeal as Jasper Jones • • 'A little bit Twin Peaks and a little bit Picnic at Hanging Rock, Goodwood is a terrific, thoroughly Australian novel.