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APRIL 2019 Phillip Bradley Wilbur Smith N Ew Book S the TRUE STORY of MADDIE BRIGHT Mary-Rose Maccoll Fleur McDonald Mary-Rose MacColl Elizabeth Coleman Jessica Rowe Kitty Flanagan Urzila Carlson APRIL 2019 Phillip Bradley Wilbur Smith n ew book s THE TRUE STORY OF MADDIE BRIGHT Mary-Rose MacColl ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760295240 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION ALLEN & UNWIN The bestselling author of In Falling Snow returns with a spellbinding tale of friendship, love and loyalty In 1920, at seventeen years of age, Maddie Bright takes a job as a serving girl on the Royal Tour of Australia by Edward, Prince of Wales. She meets the prince's young staff and the prince himself— beautiful, boyish, godlike. Maddie might be on the adventure of a lifetime. Sixty-one years later, Maddie Bright is living a small life in a ramshackle house in Brisbane. But an unlooked-for letter has arrived in the mail and there's news on the television from Buckingham Palace that makes her shout back at the screen. Maddie Bright's true story may change. In August 1997, London journalist Victoria Byrd is tasked by her editor with the job of finding the elusive M.A. Bright, author of the classic war novel of ill-fated love, Autumn Leaves. It seems Bright has written a second novel and Victoria has been handed the scoop. Written with real warmth and wit, these evocative strands twist across the seas and over two continents, intersecting with the lives of Edward and Princess Diana, two of the most hated and loved figures of the twentieth century. The True Story of Maddie Bright is a novel that tells stories and reveals truth; a novel that considers the inescapable ties of mothering, friendship, duty and love. Mary-Rose MacColl is the award-winning author of No Safe Place, In Falling Snow, Swimming Home and For a Girl. She lives in Brisbane. 2 ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760295240 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99 LOSING THE PLOT ALLEN & UNWIN Elizabeth Coleman ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760633431 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION Funny, charming and captivating, with a plot within a plot, and a girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places 'I loved it! It's got a kind of Bridget Jones feel and such a page turner. Great fun but with such beautiful heart. I've already cast the film/series in my head!' Rebecca Gibney Vanessa Rooney is a thirty-something dental assistant who finds herself a single mum with a hole in her heart where her husband had been. Adrift, she somehow finds the courage to fulfil her childhood dream of writing a romance novel but soon discovers that her novel has been plagiarised by celebrity author, Charlotte Lancaster. Vanessa reluctantly sues Charlotte with the help of suburban solicitor Dave Rendall, who's nursing some unfulfilled dreams of his own. When Charlotte's spurned husband, gun QC Marcus Stafford, agrees to join their legal team, Vanessa feels like her perfect man has stepped out of the pages of her book and into her life. As all hell breaks loose publicly and privately, Vanessa confronts a painful past and realises what Dave already knew—that she's an intelligent, funny, amazing woman and Marcus Stafford is, well, a tosspot. Vanessa finally understands that what she wanted wasn't what she needed, but has this realisation come too late? Elizabeth Coleman is an acclaimed playwright with the smash hits Secret Bridesmaids' Business and It's My Party (And I'll Die If I Want To). As a screenwriter, she has written for many of Australia's most popular dramas including Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and Bed of Roses. 3 ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760633431 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99 WITHOUT A DOUBT Fleur McDonald ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760633158 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION Detective Dave Burrows finds himself on the wrong side of the law ALLEN & UNWIN as he searches for the link between a murdered man and illegal stock trading in this suspenseful rural crime novel Detective Dave Burrows had never even heard of Nundrew in Queensland before. He'd certainly never would have guessed that this was where he'd be risking his life. In Barrabine, as Dave's workload skyrockets, his wife Melinda is unhappy about being left alone to raise their eighteen-month-old daughter. It's not how Dave wants it either, but crimes still have to be investigated and he's the only one able to do it. Melinda's interfering father isn't helping. He's never thought that Dave was right for his daughter and he's not shy about telling him. When things come to a head at home, Dave's policing mate, Spencer, comes up with a plan. In the most dangerous mission of his life, Dave knows what he needs to do. If he's found out, he'll never see Melinda again. Of that he's sure. Fleur McDonald is one of the highest-selling authors of rural fiction with titles including Sapphire Falls, The Missing Pieces of Us, Suddenly One Summer and Fool's Gold. She lives in Esperance. 4 ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760633158 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99 FLED KING OF KINGS ALLEN & UNWIN Meg Keneally Wilbur Smith ECHO ZAFFRE 9781760680275 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781785768460 | $39.99 | | HB | FICTION Highway robber. Convict. Runaway. Mother. She An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and will do anything for freedom, but at what cost? war—the long-awaited sequel to the worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun Jenny Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to live in the forest, she becomes a Cairo, 1887. When Pernod Ballantyne's jealous successful highwaywoman—until her luck runs former lover plants doubt about his character, his out. Transported to Australia, Jenny must tackle fiancée Amber Benbrook leaves him and travels new challenges and growing responsibilities. And to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister when famine hits the new colony, Jenny becomes and her adventurer husband. On a mission to convinced that those she cares about most will establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous not survive. She becomes the leader in a grand journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where plot of escape, but is survival any more certain they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings. in a small open boat on an unknown ocean? Meg But Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are Keneally's debut solo novel is an epic historical rumours of a plan to invade . adventure based on the extraordinary life of convict Mary Bryant. Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city's opium dens. When he is rescued Meg Keneally is co-author with Tom Keneally of by an old friend in the Italian army and offered The Soldier's Curse and The Unmourned. She the chance to assess the situation around the lives in Sydney. Abyssinian border, Penrod leaps at the chance of action. With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber find their way back to one another— against all the odds? Wilbur Smith is a worldwide phenomenon as the author of 41 global bestsellers that have sold over 130 million copies and been translated into 26 languages. 5 ECHO 9781760680275 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99 ZAFFRE 9781785768460 $39.99 HB FICTION NZ$45.00 LANNY BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM Max Porter Peter Swanson FABER FABER 9780571340286 | $27.99 | | HB | FICTION 9780571340651 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION A devastating story told with the anarchy, An exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban ALLEN & UNWIN humour and enchantment readers will recognise wife whose fears about her new neighbour could from Grief is the Thing with Feathers lead them both to murder . There is a village outside London, no different When Hen and Lloyd move into their new from many others. Everyday lives conjure a house, they're relieved to meet the only tapestry of fabulism and domesticity. This village other seemingly-childless couple in their belongs to the people who live in it and to the Massachusetts neighbourhood, Matthew and people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. Mira Dolamore. When they're invited over for It belongs to England's mysterious past and its dinner, however, things take a sinister turn as confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Hen thinks she sees something suspicious in Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber Matthew's study. Could this charming, mild- and is listening, and watching. He is watching mannered College Professor be hiding a dark Mad Pete the village artist. He is listening to secret—one that only Hen battling her own ancient Peggy gossiping at her gate, to families problems with depression and medication could recently moved here and to families dead for know? Forced together, Hen and Matthew start generations. Dead Papa Toothwort hears them all to form an unlikely bond. But who, if anyone, as he searches, intently, for his favourite. Looking is really in danger? From its deeply unsettling for the boy. Lanny. opening, the master of contemporary domestic thrillers fashions a novel as brilliant, dark, Max Porter is the multi-prize-winning author of coruscating and surprising as Patricia Highsmith Grief is the Thing with Feathers. He lives in the and Ira Levin at their very best. UK. Peter Swanson is the acclaimed author of The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, The Kind Worth Killing, Her Every Fear and All the Beautiful Lies. He lives in Massachusetts. 6 FABER 9780571340286 $27.99 HB FICTION NZ$29.99 FABER 9780571340651 $29.99 PB FICTION NZ$32.99 ALLEN & UNWIN LOVING SYLVIE THE HEAVENS HARK Elizabeth Smither Sandra Newman Sam Lipsyte ALLEN & UNWIN GRANTA GRANTA 9781988547114 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION 9781783784844 | $29.99 | | HB | FICTION 9781783783212 | $29.99 | | PB | FICTION A sensual, witty novel that cleverly weaves New York, 2000.
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