MAY 2016 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Dominic Smith A dazzling and mesmerising story that charts the collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. A literary novel of breathtaking scope, ambition and achievement. Description 'Highly evocative of time and place, this stunning novel explores a triumvirate of fate, choice and consequence, and is worthy of comparison to Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch . A masterly, multilayered story that will dazzle readers.' Library Journal This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In this extraordinary novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, US-based Australian writer Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland, the first woman to be so honoured. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain-a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibit of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. As the three threads intersect with increasing and exquisite suspense, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerises while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present. About the Author Dominic Smith is the author of three previously published novels from Atria. His awards include a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, and a new works grant from the Literature Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781743439951 Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. His debut novel, The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre, was a Barnes & Format: Paperback - C format Noble Discover New Writers Book, and received the Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. His Dimensions: 234x153mm second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, was a Booklist Editors' Choice and optioned for film by Southpaw Extent: 384 pages Entertainment. His most recent novel, Bright and Distant Shores, was named by Kirkus as one of the 'Best Books of 2011' Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction and chosen by the ALA for its annual reading list. In Australia, he was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year and the Illustrations: Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Previous Titles: Author now living: Texas, USA Monthly. Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos 16 copy pack Includes: 16 copies The Last Painting of Sara de Vos plus header, poster, display piece/mobile and free reading copy (order dumpbin separately) Description About the Author Price: $527.84 (NZ$591.84) ISBN: 9324551050569 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos header Point of Sale Description About the Author Price: $0.00 (NZ$0.00) ISBN: 9324551050576 Format: Point of Sale Dimensions: xmm Extent: pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: WZ Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos poster Point of Sale Description About the Author Price: $0.00 (NZ$0.00) ISBN: 9324551050583 Format: Point of Sale Dimensions: xmm Extent: pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: WZ Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Vogel Winner 2016 Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016 Description The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award is Australia's richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript and has launched the careers of some of its most successful writers, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears, Brian Castro, Mandy Sayer, Andrew McGahan and Rohan Wilson. Vogel-winning authors have gone on to win or to be shortlisted for other major awards, such as the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Booker Prize. The announcement of the winner of the 2016 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award will be made on the evening of Tuesday 26 April. 'This is a poignant and beautifully written novel.' Jenny Barry 'The characters are deep and rich ... keeps you reading just through the sheer quality of it all.' Rohan Wilson About the Author The winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award of 2016. 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Description The winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2014 It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war. While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia. There, he learns to live among a group of men who are divided by culture and allegiance. As tensions at the isolated camp escalate, the doctor's long- held beliefs are thrown into question and he is forced to confront his dark past: the promise he made in Japan and its devastating consequences. 'Piper draws us deeper and deeper into the compelling story of Tomakazu Ibaraki, a man whose strengths - discretion, honour and loyalty - also lie at the heart of his personal tragedy.' - Danielle Wood, winner of the The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award in 2002; Vogel's judge 'After Darkness is about friendships that transcend cliched notions of mateship. It's also about a man silenced by a promise . a haunting novel that lingers in a most unsettling way.' - Fiona Stager, bookseller, Avid Reader; Vogel's judge 'A brave, profound meditation on identity, trauma, loss and courage . A novel that demands its place alongside Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Mark Dapin's Spirit House.' - Stephen Romei, literary editor, The Australian; Vogel's judge About the Author Christine Piper's short fiction has been published in Seizure, SWAMP and Things That Are Found In Trees and Other Stories. She was the 2013 Alice Hayes writing fellow at Ragdale in the United States. Christine has studied creative writing at Macquarie University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote a Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760113117 version of this novel as part of her doctoral degree. She has also worked as a magazine editor and writer for more than a Format: Paperback - B format decade. Both in South Korea in 1979 to an Australian father and a Japanese mother, Christine moved to Australia when Dimensions: 198x128mm she was one. She has previously taught English and studied Japanese in Japan, and currently lives in New York with her Extent: 304 pages husband. Christine is also the 2014 recipient of the ABR Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. The winner of The Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Australian/Vogel's Literary Prize 2014. After Darkness is Christine Piper's first novel. She was also shortlisted for the Illustrations: Readings New Australian Writing Award 2014.