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DECEMBER 2017 Jim Eames N Ew Book S SIX WAYS to SUNDAY Karly Lane Karly Lane Stephanie Parkyn Dominic Knight Andrew P Street DECEMBER 2017 Jim Eames n ew book s SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY Karly Lane ARENA 9781760296766 | $29.99 | PB | FICTION | ALLEN & UNWIN A rip-roaring tale about a woman determined to stand up for her convictions When city naturopath, Rilee Summers meets gorgeous farmer, Dan Kincaid, sparks fly. A whirlwind romance follows, and the next thing Rilee knows she's married and living on her husband's family property in a small rural community. Never one to shy from a challenge, Rilee is determined to win over her in-laws and the townsfolk of nearby Pallaburra, but her city ways and outspoken views only seem to alienate her further. Opening her own naturopathy practice has always been her dream. Although Pallaburra isn't Sydney, and despite the fact she's not exactly inundated with new clients, she's not ready to give up. Things get even worse for Rilee when she champions the issue of teen pregnancies in the deeply conservative town. Worn down by the ill-will towards her and what she sees as Dan's lack of support, Rilee flees the station to think about the future. Can her marriage survive—or is she destined to leave Dan and move back to the city? Karly Lane is the bestselling author of Second Chance Town, North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Third Time Lucky and If Wishes Were Horses. She lives on the mid-north coast of NSW. 2 INTO THE WORLD ALLEN & UNWIN Stephanie Parkyn ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760296513 | $29.99 | PB | FICTION | Inspired by a true story, a compelling novel of one woman’s desperate choice—find a man or become one In the midst of the 1791 French Revolution, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby before thrusting him into the THE WHITE BOOK arms of her friend, the revolutionary Olympe Han Kang de Gouges. Disguising herself as a man, she escapes as a steward on a ship journeying to the PORTOBELLO Great Southern Ocean in search of the missing 9781846276293 | $24.99 | HB | FICTION | explorer La Perouse. When the expedition docks in Java, chaos erupts with news of King Louis From the winner of the Man Booker International XVI's execution and the crew is imprisoned by Prize for The Vegetarian comes her most the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems certain to be autobiographical and experimental book to date. unmasked. Will she ever return to France and Written while on a writer's residency in Warsaw, be reunited with her child? Inspired by a true a city scarred by the violence of the past, the story, Into the World is a compelling novel of the narrator finds herself haunted by the story amazing life of Marie-Louise Girardin battling of her older sister, who died two hours after perilous seas and her own self-doubt, and finding birth. The White Book is a book like no other. unforeseen loves on a journey to reclaim her Illustrated with black and white photographs, it child. is a meditation on a colour, on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to Stephanie Parkyn is a writer and environmental graft new life from the ashes of destruction. scientist. She lives in Tasmania. Han Kang is the multi-award winning Korean author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts. 3 ALLEN & UNWIN THE ALARMING PALSY OF NINE LESSONS MURDER ON CHRISTMAS JAMES ORR Nicola Upson EVE Tom Lee Classic mysteries for the festive season FABER Various GRANTA 9780571324774 | $29.99 | HB | FICTION | 9781783783939 | $24.99 | HB | FICTION | PROFILE BOOKS In the years before the Great War, M.R. 9781781259184 | $19.99 | PB | FICTION | James Orr—husband, father, reliable James told ghost stories by candlelight employee and model citizen—wakes to find to a handful of friends and scholars. Now, Christmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow himself quite transformed. He wanders the twenty-five years later, those men are falls gently from the sky, presents await uniform streets and manicured lawns of his dying, killed off one by one . Josephine under the tree . and murder is afoot. perfect suburban home. But there are cracks Tey is in Cambridge, a town gripped by fear In this collection of ten classic murder in the veneer. And it seems that in James and suspicion as a serial rapist stalks the mysteries from the best crime writers in himself there was only ever the thinnest streets, and in the shadow of King's College history, death and mayhem takes many of lines holding the monstrous at bay. The Chapel, Detective Chief Inspector Archie festive forms, from the inventive to the story of an everyday man who has become Penrose faces some of the most horrific and unexpected. From a Santa Claus with a inexplicable to himself, The Alarming Palsy audacious murders of his career. grudge to missing diamonds spirited away of James Orr is an exquisite nightmare in by a mysterious visitor, this second volume suburbia. Nicola Upson is the author of the highly- of the bestselling crime collection Murder praised Josephine Tey series. She lives in under the Christmas Tree presents more Tom Lee teaches postgraduate creative Cambridge. stories to enjoy—and be mystified by. writing at Goldsmiths College, UK. 4 ALLEN & UNWIN THE WORLD GOES ON LIKE A FADING SHADOW THE FUTURE WON'T BE Laszlo Krasznahorkai Antonio Munoz Molina LONG Jarett Kobek TUSKAR ROCK TUSKAR ROCK 9781788160117 | $29.99 | HB | FICTION | 9781781258934 | $32.99 | HB | FICTION | SERPENT’S TAIL 9781781258552 | $32.99 | HB | FICTION | In The World Goes On a narrator tells twenty- Like a Fading Shadow is the hypnotic new one unforgettable stories; A Hungarian novel by one of Spain's most important It's 1986 and Baby is the freshest-faced interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at an contemporary authors. Aided by the young homo in all of New York City, straight abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic recent declassification of FBI case files, off the bus from backwoods Wisconsin. streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling this hypnotic retelling of James Earl Ray’s Adeline is his rich-art-school-kid saviour from the sights of Varanasi, encounters a assassination of Martin Luther King boldly with a spare bed. The Future Won't Be Long man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on weaves a taut, true-crime tale of Ray's follows Baby and Adeline through a decade the nature of a single drop of water. A child time on the run and his eventual capture of mad, bad New York life punctuated by the labourer in a Portuguese quarry wanders with a highly original, fearlessly honest death of Warhol and the gentrification of the off into a surreal realm utterly alien from examination of the novelist's own past. It East Village. Riotously funny, provocative his daily toils. This is an outstanding new explores the borders between the imagined, but tender, it is a sprawling, ecstatic elegy to work of fiction from the 2015 Man Booker the reported and the experienced past in the New York, and to the friendships that have International Prize winner. construction of identity. the power to change—and save—our lives. Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2015 Man Antonio Munoz Molina is the award-winning Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer Booker International Prize. He lives in Spanish author of more than a dozen novels, and author of I Hate the Internet. 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She lives in Helsinki. 6 ALLEN & UNWIN ALLEN & UNWIN SECRET PASSAGES IN A STRANGER THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF HILLSIDE TOWN David Bergen EURIDICE GUSMAO Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen Martha Batalha BLOOMSBURY PUSHKIN 9780715652411 | $34.99 | HB | FICTION | BLOOMSBURY 9781782273370 | $27.99 | PB | FICTION | 9781786072986 | $24.99 | PB | FICTION | Iso is a young Guatemalan woman working In a small hillside town, Olli Suominen— at a fertility clinic catering to rich, northern The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao is a publisher and discontented husband—is women. There she meets the American wildly inventive, wickedly funny and keenly constantly losing umbrellas.
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