APRIL 2016 Maggie's Kitchen Caroline Beecham Amid the heartbreak and danger of London in the Blitz of WWII, Maggie Johnson finds her courage in friendship and food. Sales points • Take our word for it: read it, love it, or your money back • A warm hearted novel of family secrets and great love, told with poignancy and humour • Influencer marketing to famous foodies (Julie Goodwin, Stephanie Alexander, Maggie Beer, Annabel Crabb etc) • Includes wartime recipes • Author is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy • Targeted social media advertising to fans of Call the Midwife, Foyle's War etc (estimated reach 45,000) • CATEGORY: Popular fiction Description They might all travel the same scarred and shattered streets on their way to work, but once they entered Maggie's Kitchen, it was somehow as if the rest of the world didn't exist. When the British Ministry of Food urgently calls for the opening of restaurants to feed tired and hungry Londoners during WWII, Maggie Johnson seems close to realising a long-held dream. Navigating a constant tangle of government red-tape, Maggie's Kitchen finally opens its doors to the public and Maggie finds that she has a most unexpected problem. Her restaurant has become so popular that she simply can't find enough food to keep up with the demand for meals. With the help of twelve-year-old Robbie, a street urchin, and Janek, a Polish refugee dreaming of returning to his native land, she evades threats of closure from the Ministry. But breaking the rules is not the only thing she has to worry about. as Maggie fights to keep her beloved Kitchen open, she discovers that some secrets have the power to change Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) everything. ISBN: 9781760293048 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Caroline has worked as a writer, television producer and director in Europe, the US and Australasia. With an MA in Main Category: F Fiction Creative Writing from UTS, she now lives in Sydney with her family and Maggie's Kitchen is her first novel for adults. Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Birchgrove, NSW Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Maggie's Kitchen 8 copy pack Includes: 8 copies Maggie's Kitchen plus free reading copy Sales points Description About the Author Price: $239.92 (NZ$263.92) ISBN: 9324551052136 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Fighting Season Bram Connolly Introducing Matt Rix... Australian commando. An explosive thriller from the heart of Afghanistan. Sales points • An action-packed thriller that's as authentic as it gets • Author is a decorated former Australian Special Forces commander • For fans of Andy McNab and Chris Ryan • 'City Lights' outdoor advertising campaign in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane CBDs • One of Chris Masters' "Uncommon Soldiers", Bram has had multiple tours to Afghanistan • Now living in Dubai, he will be in Australia for publication • CATEGORY: Thriller Description Afghanistan, 2010, Matt Rix is the platoon commander of Yankee Platoon, an Australian Special Forces Unit operating within the badlands of Uruzghan Provence. At the beginning of its 6-month deployment, one of the platoon's vehicles is destroyed by a huge roadside bomb and a popular member of the platoon is killed instantly. Objective Rapier, a shadowy Taliban commander, is identified as the most likely culprit, and Rix vows to pursue him across the troubled country until he is neutralised. But things are not at all what they seem. In the end Matt is left with only one choice, follow the rules and survive Afghanistan, or gamble everything in an effort to beat Rapier at his own game. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781760290382 With a number of tours to Afghanistan under his belt, Bram Connolly turned to writing fiction after a twenty-year career Format: Paperback - C format with the Australian Army. Having joined as a seventeen year old, he rose through the ranks to retire from the Special Dimensions: 234x153mm Forces as a Major in 2011. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for Leadership in Combat in 2010 and is Extent: 336 pages Main Category: F Fiction featured in Chris Masters' Uncommon Soldier. Sub Category: FH Thriller / Suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Dubai, UAE Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Fighting Season 8 copy pack Point of Sale Includes: 8 copies The Fighting Season plus free reading copy Sales points Description About the Author Price: $239.92 (NZ$263.92) ISBN: 9324551052471 Format: Dimensions: xmm Extent: pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: WZ Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Landing Susan Johnson Jonathan Lott, recently divorced, is about to find how much love really matters in a funny, delightful and poignant novel that lays out the human condition - looking for love in all of its many forms with secrets, polite lies, desperation, compromise and joy. Sales points • A warm and funny novel about love and mid-life from one of Australia's best writers • Ideal for reading groups • For readers who loved The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide • My Hundred Lovers sold more than 6000 copies across all formats • CATEGORY: Popular fiction Description Jonathan Lott is confused. His wife has left him for a woman and he doesn't like living alone. Is it true that an about-to-be- divorced man in possession of a good fortune is in need of a new wife? Would Penny Collins do, divorced herself, school teacher and frustrated artist? What about beautiful Anna, blown in from who knows where, trailing broken marriages behind her? There's a lot happening at The Landing, where Jonathan has his beach house, and he's about to find out how much love matters. Susan Johnson's stunning new novel, written with her trademark wit and insight, brilliantly observes what it is to be human and to love: the betrayals, the long and the short alliances, the disappointments and the joys. The Landing celebrates all of it with verve and style. About the Author Susan Johnson was shortlisted for the 1991 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel Flying Lessons, shortlisted for the 1994 National Book Council's Banjo Award for the novel A Big Life and shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2000 for her memoir A Better Woman. Her other books include Hungry Ghosts, Messages from Chaos, Women Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) Love Sex (editor and contributor) and Life in Seven Mistakes. The Broken Book was shortlisted for the 2005 Nita B ISBN: 9781760294014 Kibble Award; the Best Fiction Book section of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award; the Westfield/Waverley Library Format: Paperback - B format Literary Award, and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal Award for an Outstanding Australian Literary Work. Her Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 288 pages last novel, My Hundred Lovers, was published in 2012 to critical acclaim. Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction In 2010 she returned from ten years in London to live in Brisbane. She is a feature writer at Qweekendmagazine. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Kangaroo Point, QLD Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Windy Season Sam Carmody From an impressive new voice in Australian literature, a novel where safe harbour seems always just out of reach. Sales points • Shortlisted in the 2014 Australian/Vogel's Award • A rich combination of the poetic and the coarse - think Andrew McGahan meets early Tim Winton • It's pacey with writing that's often starkly beautiful • Fantastic descriptions of life on a trawler and those hard coastal towns • Extensive pre-publication promotion via social reading sites • Targeted social media advertising to fans of Australian literary fiction including Tim Winton (estimated reach 35,000) • CATEGORY: Literary fiction Description Sam Carmody is a real literary talent, with an artist's inquiring mind and a natural feel for the beauty and toughness of language. Charlotte Wood, author of the award-winning The Natural Way of Things A young fisherman is missing from the crayfish boats in the harsh West Australian coastal town of Stark. There's no trace at all of Elliot, there hasn't been for some weeks and Paul, his younger brother, is the only one who seems to be active in the search. Taking Elliot's place on their antagonistic cousin's boat, Paul soon learns how many opportunities there are to get lost in those many thousands of kilometres of lonely coastline. Fierce, evocative and memorable, this is an Australian story set within an often wild and unforgiving sea, where mysterious influences are brought to bear on the inhospitable town and its residents. About the Author Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Western Australia. The Windy Season was shortlisted for the 2014 Vogel's literary Award, Australia's most prestigious ISBN: 9781760111564 award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five. Carmody's short fiction and non- fiction has Format: Paperback - C format been published widely online and in print, including the Griffith Review and ABC's The Drum, and in The Review of Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Australian Fiction. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Main Category: F Fiction Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards. He has won a WA Music Award for his song-writing.