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

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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

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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

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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.

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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. 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 . 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 . 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

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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.

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LOVING SYLVIE THE HEAVENS HARK Elizabeth Smither Sandra Newman Sam Lipsyte

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A sensual, witty novel that cleverly weaves New York, 2000. Kate and Ben fall in love. In an America convulsed by political in the stories of three generations of It is the first year without a war, a woman upheaval, cultural discord, environmental women: Sylvie, her mother Madeleine and is president and camaraderie permeates collapse and spiritual confusion, folks are grandmother Isobel. Shifting between the the streets. Kate falls asleep, knowing she searching for peace, salvation and just a points of view of each main character, is loved. London, 1593. Kate wakes as the little damn focus. Enter Hark Morner, an it tells their stories with gentle, deeply mistress of a nobleman and finds the plague unwitting guru whose technique of ‘Mental observant humour through their love at her door. Each decision she makes will Archery’—a combination of mindfulness, affairs, food, rivalries, marriages, pets and change her life with Ben forever. A story of mythology, fake history, yoga, and, well, all the beautiful minutiae of everyday life. love and alternate universes, madness and archery—is set to raise him to near-messiah Described as having 'a gift for wry comedy time travel, The Heavens is a novel of what status. A riotous novel of awkward believers, combined with an eye for pinpoint detail', we have lost, and what we might yet be able floundering marriages and our maladjusted Elizabeth is one of New Zealand's finest to save. 21st century, from one of America's sharpest writers. satirists. Sandra Newman is the acclaimed author of Elizabeth Smither MNZM is a multi-award- The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done. Sam Lipsyte is the author of The Subject winning poet, short story writer and novelist. She lives in New York. Steve, Home Land and The Ask. He lives in New York. 7

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Lillian Li received the Hopwood Award in Mary Chamberlain is an historian and author Linda Spalding is the critically acclaimed Short Fiction. She lives in Michigan. of The Dressmaker of Dachau. She lives in author of The Purchase. She lives in Toronto 10 London. with her husband Michael Ondaatje.

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Morning rush hour on the London tube. SCRUBLANDS THREE GOLD Laurie Bateman witnesses a terrible Chris Hammer COINS accident. Life had been looking up but after Josephine Moon the accident everything seems to plummet downhill. Her flat is burgled, her flatmate assaulted, she loses her phone and then her job. Are these events linked? Perhaps what she had seen was something more sinister. three Compelled to investigate, Laurie finds NEW IN PAPERBACK gold NEW IN PAPERBACK herself in serious danger and is soon fleeing ALLEN & UNWIN coins ALLEN & UNWIN for her life through tube tunnels in the dead A story of new love, second chances 9781760875527 | $16.99 | and la dolce vita among the Tuscan hills 9781760875510 | $14.99 | of night—the hunter has become the hunted. Set in a fictional Riverina town at the height of A masterfully written celebration of food, a devastating drought, this is one of the most family, triumph over adversity, and love—a Toby Faber is the author of Stradivarius and powerful, compelling and original crime novels deliciously imperfect life. Faberge’s Eggs. He lives in London. to be written in Australia.

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To mark its 90th anniversary in 2019 as a ‘publisher of distinctive literature’, Faber is celebrating its history, authors and design heritage with Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual flapped paperback volumes showcasing short story writers working in a range of genres and styles. ALLEN & UNWIN MARY COME RAIN MR SALARY THE VICTIM A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO VENTURA OR COME Sally Rooney P.D. James AND THE SHINE FIND NINTH Kazuo Ishiguro Flannery KINGDOM O'Connor Sylvia Plath

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12 DIARY OF A CRAP HOUSEWIFE ALLEN & UNWIN Jessica Rowe

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760529529 | $29.99 | | PB | PARENTING

Why not cut the crap, take the pressure off and admit to the moments, days, weeks and months when the wheels of the household do fall off?

The #craphousewife movement calls to unite all mothers who, like Jess, sometimes feel they are not perfect. Being a crap housewife is a badge Jess wears with pride, and it's a title she invites other women to embrace. For Jess, the idea of crap is the real-life messes, hiccups, disasters and bad meals that many of us dish up and deal with every day.

This mum is tired of the photos of perfectly packed school lunches, posts about gourmet family dinners eaten together over the table, and tales of neat, tidy and obedient children with smoothly brushed hair. In this fabulous, funny, down-to-earth book, Jess writes honestly about her cooking, mothering, career, botox, family and many other #craphousewife interests.

Jessica Rowe is a writer, television host and author of This Beautiful Life. She launched craphousewife.com in 2017 and currently has over 80,000 followers and counting across social media.

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ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760529529 $29.99 PARENTING NZ$32.99 KITTY FLANAGAN'S 488 RULES FOR LIFE An antidote to stupidity Kitty Flanagan

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875305 | $29.99 | | PB | HUMOUR ALLEN & UNWIN

One of Australia's favourite and most multi-talented entertainers provides hilarious and honest life advice in this candid collection of cautionary tales

'Rules are great. I love rules. Rules are what differentiate us from the chimps'—Kitty Flanagan. As we travel through life, we discover that many, many people are very annoying—and that is why we need rules. 488 rules for life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live.

In this book, Kitty Flanagan combines ancient wisdom with decades of experience and lots of time spent at home with her cat to provide four hundred and eighty-eight profound and challenging principles for how to live a meaningful life, from making sure you do a final check before exiting the toilet to not chewing with your mouth open. Gripping, thought-provoking and deeply rewarding, 488 Rules for Life offers an antidote to the idiot in your life: eternal truths applied to our modern problems.

Kitty Flanagan is a popular comedian well-known for her regular appearances on The Project and The Weekly.

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ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875305 $29.99 PB HUMOUR NZ$32.99 ROLLING WITH THE ALLEN & UNWIN PUNCHLINES Urzila Carlson

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875459 | $29.99 | | PB | MEMOIR | AVAILABLE MARCH

Chuckle, laugh and snigger along with this fascinating memoir of a life in comedy

Written with her trademark deadpan humour, Urzila's memoir is full of great stories about both the big things in life and the little things. Her accidental beginning in stand-up has led to an incredibly successful career in comedy, with regular gigs on television as well as sell-out shows in comedy festivals across New Zealand and Australia. But life hasn't always been a bundle of laughs.

Urzila talks candidly about her childhood with a great family, apart from her abusive dad, and about growing up in South Africa. She shares crazy but true tales about her OE, her move to New Zealand, coming out, getting married and having children, and her life in comedy. Fully revised and updated with new chapters, this is a great read from one of our most loved and most popular comedians.

Urzila Carlson is a multi-award-winning comedian whose stand-up shows have been hugely popular sell-outs in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. She will be appearing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and in a Netflix comedy special in 2019.

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ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875459 $29.99 PB MEMOIR NZ$32.99 ESTHER The extraordinary true story of the girl who became First Lady of the colony Jessica North

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760527372 | $29.99 | | PB | HISTORY ALLEN & UNWIN The little-known rags to riches love story of a convict woman who arrived in Australia on the First Fleet

Sixteen-year-old Esther Abrahams only just escaped the hangman in London. Standing trial for stealing twenty-four yards of black silk lace, worth fifty shillings, her sentence was 'transportation to parts beyond the seas' for seven years. So Esther forcibly embarked on the perilous journey around the globe on the First Fleet where she took up with the dashing young First Lieutenant George Johnston. Usually such arrangements between convict women and army officers were temporary, but George and Esther’s connection endured. In the early days, the couple lived in a tent at , and, over time, George was granted land in what is now the Sydney suburb of Annandale, where they established a farm and raised a large family.

When Governor Bligh was deposed by the Rum Corps, Lieutenant- Colonel George Johnston briefly became Lieutenant-Governor of NSW and his life companion, Esther, became First Lady of the colony—a remarkable rise in society for a former convict. At ’s insistence, George and Esther were finally married in fine style at their grand residence. Much like another, better-known colonial woman, Elizabeth Macarthur, Esther Abrahams successfully managed her husband's property in the new colony and when George died, Esther took control of their business interests becoming one of Sydney's wealthiest citizens.

Jessica North is a program director at the Australian Research 16 Institute for Environment and Sustainability at Macquarie University.

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760527372 $29.99 PB HISTORY NZ$32.99 D-DAY NEW GUINEA ALLEN & UNWIN The extraordinary story of the battle for Lae and the greatest airborne and amphibious operation of the Pacific War Phillip Bradley

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The true story of the Battle for Lae, Australia's greatest air and amphibious landing of World War II

'Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea'—Japanese military saying.

The capture of Lae was the most complex and most successful operation for the Australian army in the Pacific. In many ways it was also a test run of sorts for the D-Day invasion of France with paratroop landings and the first operational use of the large landing craft. But this is not just a book about a successful military campaign that affected the outcome of the war. It is also a story of the Australian, American and Japanese participants in the battle, dangerous Australian commando raids, and significant tensions between the Australian and American high command.

Phillip Bradley brings a compelling clarity and humanity to his writing that is often missing from military histories. In D-Day New Guinea, he will also bring new insight to a major Australian battle that has never been written about in any significant way.

Phillip Bradley is a leading Australian military historian and author of the ground-breaking Hell's Battlefield.

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ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760632588 $32.99 PB HISTORY NZ$36.99 CHOICE WORDS A collection of writing about abortion Ed. Louise Swinn

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ALLEN & UNWIN A cri de coeur and passionate appeal from writers, thinkers, musicians, actors, comedians, activists and political staffers, offering personal stories of abortion alongside historical record and political anecdote

At a time when abortion is a criminal act and prosecution is a real risk in parts of Australia, this book is needed more than ever. The world watched aghast last July when a Tasmanian woman lost her job at a high-profile sporting agency for tweeting the truth. Even in states in which abortion is legal, access can be nearly impossible. This treasury of stories highlights the sheer commonality of abortion. Women have been dealing with the risks and the fall-out for longer than there is record. It is poignant, wise, funny and true; a salute to those who have been working in the field, a celebration of how far we've come, an electrifying caterwaul at how far we still have to go, and a clarion call to action.

Contributors include Jane Caro, Claudia Karvan, Laura Jean, Melissa Lucashenko, Emily Maguire, Tara June Winch, Michelle Law, Tony Birch, Melanie Cheng, Anne Summers, Gideon Haigh, Monica Dux, Bri Lee, Jenny Kee, and a foreword by Tanya Plibersek. Proceeds from Choice Words will go to the charity Marie Stopes Australia, the only national, independently- accredited, not-for-profit safe abortion provider, that has helped more than 600,000 women in the past twenty years.

Louise Swinn is a writer, editor, publisher, reviewer, prize judge, and literary event chair. 18

ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760875220 $29.99 PB NZ$32.99 AVAILABLE MARCH THE COLONIAL FANTASY THE IMPOSSIBLE CLIMB ALLEN & UNWIN Why white Australia can't solve black problems Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the climbing life Sarah Maddison Mark Synnott

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A controversial argument for a radical The story of the greatest climbing feat ever rethink on government policies on Indigenous undertaken—Alex Honnold's 2017 solo, rope-less issues in Australia free climb of the legendary 3000-foot vertical cliff, El Capitan Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Whatever the The Impossible Climb climaxes with Alex policy—from protection to assimilation, self- Honnold’s unprecedented, almost unimaginable determination to intervention, reconciliation to feat: a 3,000-foot vertical climb up El Capitan recognition—government policies and programs in Yosemite, with no help. No climbing partner. have made little positive difference. In far too No equipment. No rope. Where a single small many instances, interaction with governments mistake would mean certain death. To most, has only made Indigenous lives worse. The it would be seen as an insane proposition. But Colonial Fantasy considers why Australia most are not Alex Honnold, and few know this persists in the face of such obvious failure. It better than Mark Synnott. He tells the story argues that white Australia can't solve black in the context of a deeply reported account of problems because white Australia is the problem. his -year friendship with Honnold, multiple Indigenous policy in Australia has resisted the climbing expeditions and the climbing ethos they one thing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait share. The result is an emotional drama driven Islander people want, and the one thing that by people exploring the limits of human potential has made a difference elsewhere: the ability and seeking a perfect dance with nature. They to control and manage their own lives. This dare beyond the ordinary, but this story of the book argues for a radical restructuring of the sublime is really about all of us. Who doesn’t relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait need to face down fear and make the most of the Islander people and governments, seeing the time we have? resurgence of Indigenous nationhood as the only way forward. Mark Synnott is regarded as one of the most prolific adventurers of his generation and works Sarah Maddison is a Director of GetUp! and the for National Geographic. author of Black Politics and Beyond White Guilt. 19

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