Booksellers’ CHOICE Christos Tsiolkas Patti Smith Ann Patchett Archie Roach Margaret Atwood Bill Bryson Helen Garner Christian White Charlotte Wood Favel Parrett Adam Spencer Tyson Yunkaporta Clare Bowditch William Dalrymple Josh Niland Peter Temple Rick Stein Tim Flannery Heather Rose Chris Hammer Kitty Flanagan Thomas Mayor Matthew Evans Grantlee Kieza Elliot Perlman Geoffrey Robertson Andrew McGahan Bri Lee Jason Chongue Roland Perry Lucy Treloar Jessie Burton Zadie Smith Erin Morgenstern Heather Morris Vicki Hastrich Maxine Beneba Cla Jessie rke F Anna Krien Anna Krien Christos Tsiolkas Garry Disher Heather Rose Philip Pullman Michael Palin Julian Barnes Anna Krien Margaret Atwood Archie Roach Chris Hammer Helen Tim Thomas Mayor Clare Bowditch Bill Bryson Vicki Hastrich Helen Garner Christian White Yunkaporta Clare Bowditch William Dalrymple Josh Niland Peter Temple Rick Stein Tim Flannery Rick Stein Favel Parrett Andrew McGahan Adam Spencer Charlotte Wood Tyson Heather Rose Chris Hammer Kitty Flanagan Thomas Mayor Matthew Evans Grantlee Kieza Elliot Perlman Geoffrey Robertson Lucy Treloar Bri Lee Jason Chongue Roland Perry Jessie Burton Zadie Smith Erin Morgenstern Heather Morris Garry Disher Vicki Hastrich Maxine Beneba Clarke Flea Donna Hay Philip Pullman Michael Palin Julian Barnes Anna Krien Bill Bryson Archie Roach Christos Tsiolkas Patti Smith Ann Patchett Helen Garner Tim Flannery Patti Smith AUSTRALIAN FICTION Damascus Bruny There Was The Wife and The Red Hand Welcome to the Booksellers’ Christos Tsiolkas Heather Rose Still Love the Widow Peter Temple Choice Summer Guide! ALLEN & UNWIN ALLEN & UNWIN Favel Parrett Christian White TEXT PUBLISHING We are delighted to share with you PB $32.99 PB $32.99 HACHETTE AUSTRALIA AFFIRM PRESS PB $32.99 a selection of the best books for the PB $29.99 PB $32.99 season as chosen and reviewed by Damascus is an In a not-too-distant world The late Peter Temple was considered among Australia’s leading booksellers. imaginative work of America has retreated from Favel Parrett’s eagerly Set in a coastal town in soaring ambition and the UN, Australia’s closest awaited third novel is a the middle of winter, the very best: the first There is something to suit everyone achievement, immense ally is China, and Daesh’s mesmerising and heart- this murder mystery is Australian to win the – new Australian and international power and epic scope, influence is spreading. When construction of a wrenching story of a family told from two different Gold Dagger and the fiction, compelling life stories, history, taking as its subject the events surrounding the high-tech bridge to the tourist island of Bruny is separated by war and politics. Alternating scenes perspectives, Kate, the widow of the man only crime writer to win nature and science books, gorgeous birth and establishment of the Christian church. bombed, Astrid Coleman agrees to investigate. in Melbourne and Prague capture the immigrant murdered and Abby, the wife of the man the Miles Franklin Literary Award. This collection of short fiction, reviews, essays and an original illustrated editions and a great Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul Navigating her family and the politics of the experience both for those who stay behind and accused of his murder. As events unfold, both and some characters two generations on from bridge, Astrid uncovers a startling truth about the those making a new life in far-away lands, and women come to realise they didn’t really know screenplay, plus most of an unfinished Jack selection of children’s and YA reads. the death of Christ, Tsiolkas explores the themes lengths people and governments will go to for the strength of the love that can stretch between their husbands as well as they thought they did. Irish novel, is connected by Temple’s trademark wit, intelligence and love of Australia. An Happy reading! of religion, masculinity, patriarchy, colonisation, their beliefs. From the winner of the 2017 Stella the two. A book that will stay with you long after Full of twists and turns like White’s The Nowhere exile and the ways in which individuals, families Prize The Museum of Modern Love. you read the last sentence. Child that will have you guessing right up until entertaining introduction by publisher Michael and communities are united and divided. the very end. Heyward rounds out this tribute to a master. The Weekend The Rich Maybe the The Bee and the Silver Cilka’s Journey Charlotte Wood Man’s House Horse Will Talk Orange Tree Chris Hammer Heather Morris ALLEN & UNWIN Andrew McGahan Elliot Perlman Melissa Ashley ALLEN & UNWIN ECHO PB $29.99 ALLEN & UNWIN VINTAGE AUSTRALIA AFFIRM PRESS PB $32.99 PB $32.99 PB $32.99 PB $32.99 HB $35.00 When Sylvie, the linchpin in Troubled journalist Martin In 1942, at just sixteen, a group of four old friends A billionaire’s controversial Everyone has problems. The incredible story of Scarsden returns to his Cilka is imprisoned in dies, it creates a distance mansion sits atop a peak Stephen Maserov has the woman who invented hometown, Port Silver, Auschwitz-Birkenau. There between the others, with adjacent to the Wheel, a them too; work, marriage, ‘fairy tales’. In 1699 the this time with his new she captures the eye old secrets and resentments coming to the mountain rising 25 kilometres above the Southern money. To save it all, he will have to do things salons of Paris are filled partner, Mandy Blonde. of the Commandant at surface. Jude, who ran a successful restaurant, Ocean. The architect, Richard Gausse, and several he has never done before… This fast-paced, with the creative energy of fierce, independent- Upon arrival he learns Birkenau, Schwarzhuber. Wendy, a respected academic, and Adele, a workers were killed during construction. When laugh-out-loud, account of life in a big legal minded women, but the patriarchal forces of of the brutal murder of his best friend from his On eventual release, she is charged as a mostly unemployed actress, gather over the Gausse’s daughter Rita accepts an invitation to the firm is a love story, a reflection on contemporary Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are curbing schooldays, with Mandy becoming the prime collaborator and sent to the Siberian gulag. Christmas weekend to clear out Sylvie’s beach mansion, she and the other guests find themselves marriage, and further, an examination of the their freedoms. Three women’s illusions will be suspect in the murder. In his quest to pursue the There a female doctor takes her under her wing house. Often darkly funny, this is an exploration trapped in a fight for survival. The last novel by the greater issues that affect us in workplaces shattered as they learn how far they will go to truth, Martin must overcome many obstacles to and teaches her to care for patients. Heather of growing old, growing up, and what happens winner of the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, everywhere in the twenty-first century. By the preserve their liberty in a society determined to clear his partner from the crime. The past is ever Morris has written an uplifting novel that when we are forced to uncover the protective The White Earth. author of Seven Types of Ambiguity and control them. A portrait of a time, a place, and present and this time there is no escape. From captures the kindness and love possible in even lies we tell ourselves. The Street Sweeper. the subversive power of the imagination. the bestselling author of Scrublands. the darkest of atrocities. From the bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Being Black ‘N Wolfe Island The Old Lie Chicken & Chips Lucy Treloar Claire G. Coleman 2019 AWARD WINNERS Boy Swallows Universe Matt Okine PICADOR AUSTRALIA HACHETTE AUSTRALIA Trent Dalton HACHETTE AUSTRALIA PB $29.99 PB $32.99 PB $29.99 4TH ESTATE AUS | PB $19.99 The Erratics From the author of Salt Similar to Claire G. Coleman’s Vicki Laveau-Harvie Creek, this is the tale of debut book Terra Nullius, we Winner of the ABA Booksellers’ Choice Book of Mike Amon is a teenager, 4TH ESTATE AUS | PB $22.99 which in itself brings enough Kitty Hawke who lives are presented with a familiar the Year Award. A wonderful novel of love, crime, challenges. Between first alone on an island in the Australia in an unfamiliar magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane’s kisses and fitting in, he doesn’t want to worry US north-east —a witness to the island’s erosion way. Set in an intergalactic war between the violent working-class suburban fringe–from one Winner of the 2019 Stella about his mum having cancer and living with a while clinging to the ghosts of her past. News Federation (Earth) and the Conglomeration of Australia’s most exciting new writers. Now also Prize. When her elderly mother is dad he doesn’t really know. Matt Okine, a of mainland turmoil is distant until threats draw (other planets), Coleman recontextualizes our available in a gorgeous gift edition, RRP$39.99*. hospitalised unexpectedly, Vicki stand-up comedian, best known for his time as closer and refugees arrive. Forced to flee for history with war and Country asking us again to *while stocks last. travels to her parents’ isolated ranch a Triple J breakfast presenter, is able to tackle their lives, they journey north through winter, and draw parallels with the experience of Indigenous home in Alberta, Canada, to help grief, puberty and racism with a unique lightness Kitty must decide what she will do to protect the Australian’s through a sci-fi story. her father. She has been estranged and humour that makes this book an emotional people she loves.