AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Life Before Carmel Reilly Suspense and family secrets surround a pair of estranged siblings in a compelling debut thriller. Description She knew she should talk to him. But what was she to say? Once there had been blame to apportion, rage to hurl. Now she no longer had a sense of that. Who knew what the facts of them being here together like this meant. What was she to make of the situation? Scott lying unconscious here in this bed, unknown to her in almost every way. She now a wife, a mother, but in her mind no longer a sister. Not a sister for a very long time now. Lori Spyker is taking her kids to school one unremarkable day when a policeman delivers the news that her brother, Scott Green, has been injured and hospitalised following a hit and run. Lori hasn't seen Scott in decades. She appears to be his only contact. Should she take responsibility for him? Can she? And, if she does, how will she tell her own family about her hidden history, kept secret for so long? Twenty years before, when she and Scott were teenagers, their lives and futures, and those of their family, had been torn to shreds. Now, as Lori tries to piece together her brother's present, she is forced to confront their shared past-and the terrible and devastating truth buried there that had driven them so far apart. Compassionate, wise and shocking, Life Before tells the gripping story of an ordinary family caught in a terrible situation. What if the worst thing you can imagine isn't the worst thing to happen? How do you go on? And what steps will you take to protect yourself from further pain? About the Author Carmel Reilly is one of Australia's busiest educational writers, with over 300 titles to her name. She has written a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction for ages five to teens, with subjects that encompass topics from democracy, global cultures and the solar system to everyday life, adventurous aliens and silly superheros. Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760529314 Outside of writing for children, she won the 2013 Partners in Crime Short Story Award for her entry Another Life. In 2016 Format: Paperback - C format she was awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship, and was shortlisted for a 2018 Varuna Publisher Introduction Program Dimensions: 234x153mm Fellowship. Life Before is Carmel's first novel for adults. She currently lives in Melbourne. Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: St Kilda East VIC Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Life Before 12 copy pack Point of Sale Includes 12 copies of Life Before. Description About the Author Price: $359.88 ISBN: 9324551069028 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Wonder of Lost Causes Nick Trout A single mum learns that her son can talk to a very special dog - and the lessons the dog teaches will transform them all. Description Kate, an overprotective single mother and overworked veterinarian, already has her hands full running an animal shelter and sheltering her fragile, ailing son Jasper from life. And then an extraordinary dog, Whistler, appears. Scarred, badly mistreated, and preternaturally wise, Whistler forms an immediate bond with Jasper - the two seem to communicate without words. But that's only the beginning, because Whistler has a mission and a message: to make Jasper, and Kate, find the most in every moment, to fully embrace what lies before them - no matter how heartbreaking. About the Author Dr. Nick Trout is a British staff surgeon at the prestigious Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston. He's also the author of five books: three memoirs (including the NYT Bestseller Tell Me Where It Hurts - published in the UK by LittleBrown) and two novels (published Hyperion in the US and Allen & Unwin in ANZ). Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760527884 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 450 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Massachusetts, USA Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Wonder of Lost Causes 10 copy pack Point of Sale Includes 10 copies of The Wonder of Lost Causes plus free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $299.90 ISBN: 9324551067208 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Daughter of Bad Times Rohan Wilson A suspenseful, truthful and compelling novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Roving Party. Description 'Ferocious and brilliant' The Australian Book Review on To Name Those Lost 'What better pitch than helping the refugees of the world? Who doesn't want to help refugees, right? The five Australian facilities are immigration detention centres, sure, but they're also manufacturing plants. That means two revenue streams for one facility. And we also clean up our image. We're not just a corrections company anymore-now, we're building communities, we're saving lives.' Rin Braden is almost ready to give up on life after the heartbreaking death of her lover Yamaan and the everyday dread of working for her mother's corrupt private prison company. But through a miracle Yamaan has survived. Yamaan turns up in an immigration detention facility in Australia, trading his labour for a supposedly safe place to live. This is no ordinary facility, it's Eaglehawk MTC, a manufactory built by her mother's company to exploit the flood of environmental refugees. Now Rin must find a way to free Yamaan before the ghosts of her past and a string of bad choices catch up with them both. In its vision of the future, Daughter of Bad Times explores the truth about a growing inhumanity as profit becomes the priority. About the Author Rohan Wilson is an award-winning writer and critic. He is a bestselling author of three novels, The Roving Party (2011) To Name Those Lost (2014), and Daughter of Bad Times (2019). Rohan lives in Brisbane where he lectures in creative Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760529130 writing. He can be found on Twitter: @rohan_wilson Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Kelvin Grove, QLD Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Daughter of Bad Times 8 copy pack Point of Sale Includes 8 copies of Daughter of Bad Times. Description About the Author Price: $239.92 ISBN: 9324551069035 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Mr Right Now Karly Lane Romantic and exciting, the story of the Callahans of Stringybark Creek continues. Readers of Fiona Palmer and Rachael Johns will love this. Description THE CALLAHANS OF STRINGYBARK CREEK - Book 2 Griffin Callahan and Olivia Dawson were inseparable. Everyone in town knew it. But when Griff went off to Ag College, Liv told him it was over and fled her family's farm to study law. Griff had never understood her reasons but eventually accepted that first loves don't last. Until now. Currently back on the farm to help her twin brother with the harvest, Liv is the same gorgeous, laughing, hazel-eyed girl he'd always loved. Yet Griff can sense a difference, an uncertainty playing beneath the surface that wasn't there before. Amidst crossed wires, drunken declarations, and families on a mission, will Griff and Liv finally have a second chance? Or will the old saying - If you love someone set them free - become their reality? About the Author Karly Lane lives on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four children and wife of one very patient mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most - being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia. Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses, Six Ways to Sunday, Someone Like You and The Wrong Callahan, the first in the Callahans of Stringybark Creek series. Mr Right Now is her thirteenth novel. Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760632663 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Romance Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 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, 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.