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JUNE 2015 Palace of Tears Julian Leatherdale A shining story of family, passion, secrets and vengeance woven through the hardships of both World Wars, and always bringing us back to The Palace, a mountain hotel famed equally for its luxury and for its mysterious owner. Description Angie loved Mr Fox's magnificent, absurd hotel. In fact, it was her one true great love. But ... today Angie was so cross, so fed up with everybody and everything, she would probably cheer if a wave of fire swept over the cliff and engulfed the Palace and all its guests. A sweltering summer's day, January 1914: the charismatic and ruthless Adam Fox throws a lavish birthday party for his son and heir at his elegant clifftop hotel in the Blue Mountains. Everyone is invited except Angie, the girl from the cottage next door. The day will end in tragedy, a punishment for a family's secrets and lies. In 2013, Fox's granddaughter Lisa, seeks the truth about the past. Who is this Angie her mother speaks of: 'the girl who broke all our hearts'? Why do locals call Fox's hotel the 'palace of tears'? Behind the grandeur and glamour of its famous guests and glittering parties, Lisa discovers a hidden history of passion and revenge, loyalty and love. A grand piano burns in the night, a seance promises death or forgiveness, a fire rages in a snowstorm, a painter's final masterpiece inspires betrayal, a child is given away. With twist upon twist, this lush, strange mystery withholds its shocking truth to the very end. About the Author Julian Leatherdale's first love was theatre and acting. He studied academic history at university but discovered his passion for popular history as a staff writer, researcher and photo editor for Time-Life's Australians At War series. He later researched and co-wrote scripts for two one-hour Film Australia documentaries Return to Sandakan and The Forgotten Force, shown on ABC TV and overseas. For several years he was the public relations manager for an international hotel Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) school in the Blue Mountains where he currently lives with his wife and two children. ISBN: 9781760111601 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 560 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FV Historical Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Blue Mountains, NSW Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Palace of Tears 10 copy pack Includes: 10 copies Palace of Tears plus free reading copy Description About the Author Price: $299.90 (NZ$369.90) ISBN: 9324551044094 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Leap Myfanwy Jones A heart-breaking, heart-lifting, effortlessly enjoyable story about love and grief and everything in between. Description A few weeks after finishing their final exams high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. Joe wants to go - Jen begs him to stay. They fight in the corridor, following their usual script, and then he walks out and leaves her. A few hours later she dies. Three years on, after burning up his own dreams for the future, Joe is working in dead-end jobs and mentoring a wayward teenager not dissimilar from his younger self. Driven by the need to make good, he spends all his spare time doing parkour under an inner-city bridge, training his mind and body to conquer the hostile urban environment that took his love and blighted his future. Somewhere else, a middle-aged woman, Elise, is treading water in her life as her marriage breaks up. We watch as she retreats to the only place that holds any meaning for her - the tiger enclosure at Melbourne Zoo, where, for reasons she barely understands, she starts painting the tigers and forms a close connection to them. Joe is broken by grief, but the outside world won't let him hide forever. A cool and bewitching girl turns up on the doorstep of his share house, somehow painfully familiar to him. Then there is the skateboarding chef at the bar where he works, the girl with the Cossack-blue eyes, who wants to be his friend. And someone going by the Facebook tag Emily Dickinson wants to reminisce about his dead girlfriend and won't leave him alone. Can Joe staunch the flooding return of desire - or is it time to let go of the past? And will he make the nine-foot leap from girder to pillar or does he want to fall too? While at its heart is a searing absence, Leap is driven by an unstoppable and exhilarating life force, and the eternally hopeful promise of redemptive love. Funny, moving, quirky and original, Leap is an effortlessly enjoyable novel that Price: $26.99 (NZ$32.99) quietly creeps up on you until its final jaw-dropping pages and a narrative twist that will take your breath away. ISBN: 9781925266115 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 208x153mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: F Fiction About the Author Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Myfanwy Jones is the author of The Rainy Season, shortlisted for The Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best Writing Award Illustrations: 2009, and co-author of the bestselling Parlour Games for Modern Families, Book of the Year for Older Children ABIA Previous Titles: Author now living: Northcote, Melbourne 2010. She lives by a creek in Melbourne with her human and non-human family. Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Leap 8 copy pack Includes: 8 copies Leap plus free reading copy Description About the Author Price: $215.92 (NZ$263.92) ISBN: 9324551044704 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 The Infidelity Diaries: Love, betrayal, revenge. Anonymous An explosive novel of family drama, adultery and revenge. Description 'An extraordinary novel of family relationships, entwining love affairs and the betrayal and revenge that bound them' Zara is a biographer, living in Sydney. She and Sergei have been married for over twenty years when an encounter with the predatory Caitt changes their life forever. Lili is a property agent in London. She and Will, her husband of ten years, are developing their dream home in Northern Cyprus when she discovers he is having an affair with a Russian pastrycook, Larissa ('Slutski', as she calls her). Eve lives in Shanghai with her husband of eight years, Henry, when she realises he has been having a dalliance with Chrystal, his ex-PA. Zara waits and hopes, but she is fatalistic. Lili's plans are complicated by her great affection for her stepson, a relationship that may not survive her divorce from Will. Eve seems prepared to dramatically cut herself loose. When a family crisis reunites them in Sydney the sisters converge, swap stories and discuss vengeance. About the Author Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781743319208 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 The Infidelity Diaries 8 Copy Pack Includes 8 copies The Infidelity Diaries plus free reading copy Description About the Author Price: $239.92 (NZ$295.92) ISBN: 9324551039038 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 West of Sunset Stewart O'Nan A 'rich, sometimes heartbreaking' (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood. Description In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. The last three years of Fitzgerald's life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O'Nan's heartfelt new novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald's past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and their daughter, Scottie. Fitzgerald's orbit of literary fame and the Golden Age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel's romantic cast of characters, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart. Written with striking grace and subtlety, this wise and intimate portrait of a man trying his best to hold together a world that's falling apart, if not gone already, is a masterpiece. 'O'Nan is an incredibly versatile and charming writer. This novel, which imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald's troubled time in Hollywood (with cameos by Dorothy Parker, Bogie, and Hemingway), takes up (like much of O'Nan's work) that essential conundrum of grace struggling with paucity. One brilliant American writer meditating on another - what's not to love?' -- George Saunders, author of Tenth of December West of Sunset is a rich, sometimes heartbreaking journey through the disintegration of an American legend. O'Nan captures the fire and frailty of F. Scott Fitzgerald with an understated grace that would have made Fitzgerald himself stand up and applaud.' - Dennis Lehane Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) 'An achingly nuanced love story and one of the best biographical novels to come along in years. O'Nan's great ISBN: 9781925266559 achievement here is in so convincingly inhabiting the character of Scott Fitzgerald and of the people surrounding him Format: Paperback - C format during his descent into the clarifying depths of 1930s Hollywood.' - T.C.