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AUSTRALIA JUNE 2019 City of Girls Elizabeth Gilbert The blazingly brilliant new novel from Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the international bestseller Eat Pray Love: a glittering coming-of-age epic stitched across the fabric of a lost New York Description It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her despairing parents. Although her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll have been deemed insufficient for her to pass into her sophomore year of Vassar, she soon finds gainful employment as the self-appointed seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, her unconventional Aunt Peg's charmingly disreputable Manhattan revue theatre. There, Vivian quickly becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the trash and tinsel only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses. Exile in New York is no exile at all: here in this strange wartime city of girls, Vivian and her girlfriends mean to drink the heady highball of life itself to the last drop. And when the legendary English actress Edna Watson comes to the Lily to star in the company's most ambitious show ever, Vivian is entranced by the magic that follows in her wake. But there are hard lessons to be learned, and bitterly regrettable mistakes to be made. Vivian learns that to live the life she wants, she must live many lives, ceaselessly and ingeniously making them new. 'At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is,' she confides. And so Vivian sets forth her story, and that of the women around her women who have lived as they truly are, out of step with a century that could never quite keep up with them. About the Author Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 46 languages, and several other international bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her follow-up memoir to Eat Pray Love, Committed, became an instant number one New York Times bestseller. She has published two novels, Stern Men and The Signature of All Things, which was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781526610423 She lives in New Jersey. www.elizabethgilbert.com / @GilbertLiz Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JUNE 2019 City of Girls 16 Copy Pack + Posters Comprising 16 copies of City of Girls, plus a free reading copy, plus poster pack Description About the Author Price: $527.84 ISBN: 9781472996374 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JUNE 2019 City of Girls 10 Copy Pack Comprising10 copies of City of Girls, plus a free reading copy Description About the Author Price: $329.90 ISBN: 9781472996343 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JUNE 2019 You Will Be Safe Here Damian Barr The stunning and shocking debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me. Set in South Africa You Will Be Safe Here explores legacies of abuse, redemption and the strength of the human spirit Description An Observer, Financial Times and Guardian Pick for 2019 The stunning and shocking debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me. Set in South Africa You Will Be Safe Here explores legacies of abuse, redemption and the strength of the human spirit South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old outsider Willem just wants to be left alone with his books and his dog. Worried he's not turning out right, his ma and her boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Training Camp. Here they 'make men out of boys'. Guaranteed. You Will Be Safe Here is a deeply moving novel of connected parts. Inspired by real events, it uncovers a hidden colonial history and present-day darkness while exploring our capacity for cruelty and kindness. About the Author Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me, his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the Big Issue and High Life and often appears on BBC Radio 4. He is creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. You Will Be Safe Here is his debut novel. Damian Barr lives in Brighton. @Damian_Barr Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781408886090 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JUNE 2019 You Will Be Safe Here 8 Copy Pack Comprising 8 copies of You Will Be Safe Here, plus a free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $239.92 ISBN: 9781472996350 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JUNE 2019 The Road to Grantchester James Runcie The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London Description The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonia Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London from the war seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross, and lost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. The carefree youth that he and his friends were promised has been blown apart, just like the rest of the world and Sidney, carrying a terrible, secret guilt, must decide what to do with the rest of his life. But Sidney has heard a call: constant, though quiet, and growing ever more persistent. To the incredulity of his family and the derision of his friends the irrepressible actor Freddie, and the beautiful, spiky Amanda Sidney must now negotiate his path to God: the course of which, much like true love, never runs smooth. The touching, engaging and surprising origin story of the Grantchester Mysteries's beloved Archdeacon Sidney Chambers, The Road to Grantchester will delight new and old fans alike. About the Author James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author of ten novels that have been translated into twelve languages Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in 'The Grantchester Mysteries' series, was published in 2012, soon followed by Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night, Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil, Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins, Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation and Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love. In October 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time series starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers, with the second season airing in March 2016, and a third in May 2017. Future series are planned. James Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781408886823 Runcie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commissioning Editor for Arts at BBC Radio 4. He lives in Format: Paperback London and Edinburgh. Dimensions: 0x0mm www.jamesruncie.com Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) www.grantchestermysteries.com Bic2: @james_runcie Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JUNE 2019 Show Them a Good Time Nicole Flattery 'I truly love and admire Nicole Flattery's writing. Show Them a Good Time is a masterclass in the short story bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny and it does full justice to its author's immense talent' SALLY ROONEY Description 'I truly love and admire Nicole Flattery's writing. Show Them a Good Time is a masterclass in the short story bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny and it does full justice to its author's immense talent' SALLY ROONEY 'Demands repeated reading. These stories are very funny, and very sad, usually at the same time. Which, as Flattery shows us brilliantly, is the best time' JON MCGREGOR An urgent and unforgettable collection of stories, Show Them a Good Time explores types - men and women, their assigned roles and meanings - in modern society. A young, broke Irish woman narrates her relationship with a successful comedian in New York; two hapless university students take to the stage in a bid to assert their autonomy; a school teacher makes her way through a series of dead- end dates, gamely searching for love or distraction as the world teeters towards ruin. The characters in these magnificently accomplished stories are haunted as much by the future as they are by their pasts. Exuberant, irreverent and loaded with dark humour, Show Them a Good Time marks the arrival of a strikingly original new Irish voice in fiction.