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ISBN: 9781444787825
Title: CHINA
Author: RUTHERFURD EDWARD
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China

China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all other things but lacks the silver to buy it. Instead, western adventurers resort to smuggling opium in exchange.

The Qing Emperor will not allow his people to sink into addiction. Viceroy Lin is sent to the epicentre of the opium trade, Canton, to stop it. The Opium Wars begin - heralding a period of bloody military defeats, reparations, and one-sided treaties which will become known as the Century of Humiliation.

From Hong Kong to Beijing to the Great Wall, from the exotic wonders of the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City, to squalid village huts, the dramatic struggle rages across the Celestial Kingdom. This is the story of the Chinese people, high and low, and the Westerners who came to exploit the riches of their ancient land and culture.

We meet a young village wife struggling with the rigid traditions of her people, Manchu empresses and warriors, powerful eunuchs, fanatical Taiping and Boxer Rebels, savvy Chinese pirates, artists, concubines, scoundrels and heroes, well-intentioned missionaries and the rapacious merchants, diplomats and soldiers of the West. Fortunes will rise and fall, loves will be gained and lost.

This is an unforgettable tale told from both sides of the divide. The clash of worldviews, of culture and heritage, is shown in a kaleidoscope of jaw-dropping set pieces. China is a feat of the imagination that will enthral, instruct and excite, and show us how things once were, and how the turmoil of the nineteenth century led to modern China's revolution and rebirth.

Imprint: Hachette Publishers
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9781474620253
Title: FAULT LINES
Author: ITAMI EMILY
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun to throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband or hanging up laundry.

Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, a voice, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives - and in the end, we can choose only one.

Alluring, compelling, startlingly honest and darkly funny, Fault Lines is a bittersweet love story and a daring exploration of modern relationships from a writer to watch.

Imprint: Phoenix Publishers
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9780008283360
Title: STILL LIFE
Author: WINMAN SARAH
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

By the bestselling, prize-winning author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood… and the ghost of E.M. Forster.

We just need to know what the heart's capable of, Evelyn.

And do you know what it's capable of?

I do. Grace and fury.

It is 1944 and in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops advance and bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening together.

Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier and one-time globe-maker, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered EM Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view.

These two unlikely people find kindred spirits in each other and Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses mind that will shape the trajectory of his life – and of those who love him – for the next four decades.

Moving from the Tuscan Hills, to the smog of the East End and the piazzas of Florence, Still Life is a sweeping, joyful, richly-peopled novel about beauty, love, family and fate.

Imprint: Fourth Estate
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9780008318840
Title: WOOD AGE : How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History
Author: ENNOS ROLANS
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed.

In a journey to appreciate how much wood matters – and has done since prehistory – Roland Ennos takes the reader chronologically through four key phases: the impact of wooded habits on the lives of primates; human emergence and the discoveries of fire and woodwork; wood's role in an environment both pre- and post-industrialisation; and lastly, the possible future of wood in an increasingly technologized world.

In an original and essential investigation, The Wood Age challenges the traditional model of historical development – stone, bronze, iron – and instead guide readers through a revealing and innovative wooded history of the world.

Imprint: Harper Collins
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9780008458560
Title: SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO
Author: SHRIVER LIONEL
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“The Cassandra of American letters.”-New York Times

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief?

Both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many of their elderly NHS patients in similar states of decay. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: they should agree to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed in 1991, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together.

But then they turn eighty.

By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should We Stay or Should We Go portrays twelve parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril, from a purgatorial Cuckoo's-Nest-style retirement home to the discovery of a cure for ageing, from cryogenic preservation to the unexpected pleasures of dementia.

Weaving in a host of contemporary issues – Brexit, mass migration, the coronavirus – Lionel Shriver has pulled off a rollicking page-turner in which we never have to mourn deceased characters, because they'll be alive and kicking in the very next chapter.

Imprint: Fourth Estate
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9780063117792
Title: RADIO OPERATOR : A Novel
Author: LENZE ULLA
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Based on a true story, a gripping historical novel about a German immigrant who becomes embroiled in a Nazi spy ring operating in New York City in the early days of World War II.

At the end of the 1930s, Europe is engulfed in war. Though America is far from the fighting, the streets of New York have become a battlefield. Anti-Semitic and racist groups spread hate, while German nationalists celebrate Hitler's strength and power. Josef Klein, a German immigrant, remains immune to the troubles roiling his adopted city. The multicultural neighborhood of Harlem is his world, a lively place full of sidewalk tables where families enjoy their dinner and friends indulge in games of chess. Josef's great passion is the radio. His skill and technical abilities attract the attention of influential men who offer him a job as a shortwave operator. But when Josef begins to understand what they're doing, it's too late; he's already a little cog in the big wheel-part of a Nazi espionage network working in Manhattan. Discovered by American authorities, Josef is detained at Ellis Island, and eventually deported to Germany.

Back in his homeland, fate leads him to his brother Carl's family, soap merchants in Neuss-where he witnesses the seductive power of the Nazis and the war's terrible consequences-and finally to South America, where Josef hopes to start over again as José. Eventually, Josef realizes that no matter how far he runs or how hard he tries, there is one indelible truth he cannot escape: How long can you hide from your own past, before it catches up with you

Imprint: HarperVia
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9781760641832
Title: ONE HUNDRED DAYS
Author: PUNG ALICE
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

One hundred days. It's no time at all, she tells me. But she's not the one waiting.

In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. Not on purpose, but not entirely by accident, either. Incensed, Karuna's mother, already over-protective, confines her to their fourteenth-storey housing-commission flat, to keep her safe from the outside world - and make sure she can't get into any more trouble.

Stuck inside for endless hours, Karuna battles her mother and herself for a sense of power in her own life, as a new life forms and grows within her. As the due date draws ever closer, the question of who will get to raise the baby - who it will call Mum - festers between them.

One Hundred Days is a fractured fairytale exploring the fault lines between love and control. At times tense and claustrophobic, it is nevertheless brimming with humour, warmth and character. It is a magnificent new work from one of Australia's most celebrated writers.

Imprint: Black Inc.
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9781760642648
Title: HEARTBEAT OF TREES
Author: WOHLLEBEN PETER
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

In an era of mobile phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature - but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the natural world remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilises near trees, the colour green calms us and being in the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans can have with nature, exploring the language of the forest, the consciousness of plants and the eroding boundary between flora and fauna. Wohlleben shares how to see, feel, smell, hear and even taste your journey into the woods. Above all, he reveals a wondrous cosmos where humans are part of nature, and where conservation is not just about saving trees - it's about saving ourselves, too.

Imprint: Black Inc.
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9780241535868
Title: BOMBER MAFIA : A Story set in War
Author: GLADWELL MALCOLM
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A riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war, from the international bestselling author of Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History

Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points - industrial or transportation hubs - cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal?

In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell delves deep into questions of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war.

Imprint: Allen Lane
RRP: $35.00

ISBN: 9780241530795
Title: THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS : Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline
Author: POLLAN MICHAEL
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From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs

Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness- to stimulate, calm, or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine, and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos.

In a unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively. In doing so, he proves that there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. This ground-breaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world.

Imprint: Allen Lane
RRP: $35.00

ISBN: 9781760879808
Title: WHO GETS TO BE SMART : Privilege Power and Knowledge
Author: LEE BRI
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian was named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf described almost a century earlier as the 'stream of gold and silver' that flows through elite institutions and dictates decisions about who deserves to be educated there. The question that forms in her mind drives the following two years of conversations and investigations: who gets to be smart?

Interrogating the adage, 'knowledge is power', and calling institutional prejudice to account, Bri once again dives into her own privilege and presumptions to bring us the stark and confronting results. Far from offering any 'equality of opportunity', Australia's education system exacerbates social stratification. The questions Bri asks of politics and society have their answers laid bare in the response to the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.

Imprint: Allen and Unwin Publishers
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781409181675
Title: MAIDENS
Author: MICHAELIDES ALEX
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

From the author of the global #1 bestselling debut The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding literary thriller which weaves together Greek mythology, psychology, and murder...

Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike. Particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.

Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated when one of The Maidens, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered.

Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld?

When another body is found, Mariana's obsession with proving Fosca's guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything - including her own life.

One of the most highly anticipated books of the year, THE MAIDENS is sure to become your new obsession...

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Praise for Alex Michaelides and his #1 global bestseller THE SILENT PATIENT:

'Absolutely brilliant' STEPHEN FRY

'Excellent' JOANNE HARRIS

'Terrific' THE TIMES, Crime Book of the Month

'Smart, sophisticated suspense' LEE CHILD

'Compelling' OBSERVER

'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY

'Hugely impressive' STEVE CAVANAGH

'Totally original' DAVID BALDACCI

'The pace and finesse of a master' BBC CULTURE

'Genuinely chilling' SHARON BOLTON

'Unforgettable' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

'Impossible to put down' MARK EDWARDS

'Shocking, mind-blowing' BLAKE CROUCH

'Highly recommended' C. J. TUDOR

'The definition of a page turner' JOHN MARRS

Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9781529041279
Title: BOOKSHOP CAT
Author: WUME CINDY
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A joyous and dazzlingly original picture book about a beloved bookshop cat, the power of reading and the importance of family and community, from exciting new talent Cindy Wume.

The Bookshop Cat loves his job at the Children's Bookshop, where he spends his time reading, purring and recommending his favourite books to all the children that come into the shop. But one day, disaster strikes! The bookshop is flooded, and the children stop coming to visit. With a bit of help from his family and friends, the Bookshop Cat comes up with a brilliant plan to bring the Children's Bookshop back to life!

Imprint: MACMILLAN
RRP: $14.99

ISBN: 9781460757062
Title: FALSE WITNESS
Author: SLAUGHTER KARIN
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

He saw what you did ... He knows who you are. The stunning new standalone from the no.1 international bestselling author

AN ORDINARY LIFE ...Leigh Coulton has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defence attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilised - her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be.HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ...But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence.BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP ...Then a case lands on her desk - defending a wealthy man accused of rape. It's the highest profile case she's ever been given - a case which could transform her career, if she wins. But when she meets the accused, she realises that it's no coincidence that he's chosen her as his attorney. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he knows what happened twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades running.AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT.If she can't get him acquitted, she'll lose much more than the case. The only person who can help her is her younger, estranged sister Calli, the last person Leigh would ever want to ask for help. But suddenly she has no choice ...

Imprint: Harper Collins
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9781460759493
Title: TRIVIAL GRIEVANCES : On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s
Author: JABOUR BRIDIE
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

An oddly optimistic, witty and insightful generation-defining book for a lost generation, the miserable Millennials, from Bridie Jabour, opinion editor at Guardian Australia

In the last days of 2019, journalist Bridie Jabour wrote a piece for The Guardian about the malaise of 31 year-old millennials and how the painful, protracted end of their adolescence is finally hitting home; they're hitting their thirties and the vast majority are neither famous, award-winning or rich - and that's making them miserable.The article went viral overnight, the response from readers was overwhelming, and Bridie decided the time had come to write a book about her generation - those much-maligned millennials. After all, she reasoned, this generation is coming of age in a fairly unique set of social and economic circumstances, including precarious work, delayed baby-making, rising singledom, a pandemic, a heating planet, loss of religion and increased unstable housing. But much to her surprise, despite her assumption that this generation of 31-year-olds is the most miserable ever, she discovered that wasn't the whole truth...Forthright, funny, incisive, provocative and insightful, Trivial Grievances is truly a book for our times, and for every twenty- or thirty-something anxious about their place in the world.

Imprint: Harper Collins
RRP: $34.99

ISBN: 9781743797204
Title: POWER PLAY : Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs
Author: BANKS JULIA
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world, from the trailblazing Julia Banks.

Julia Banks shocked Australia when in 2018 she announced she would stand as an independent MP, resigning from the Coalition Government’s Liberal Party, having experienced a toxic workplace culture in the country’s centre of power. Julia doesn't just know what power looks like in a political sense; she made it to the top of her game in the legal and corporate sectors before running for parliament. And at every level, she had to navigate through the barriers and bias that can block, delay or deter women from attaining leadership roles.

This incredibly honest book reveals the unvarnished realities of what the path to leadership looks like, and shows why it's so important to have women in decision-making positions. Julia provides practical takeaways to overcoming and dismantling the gender politics that permeate any field: the unequal opportunities, sexism and workplace misconduct, the pressures around looks, age and family responsibilities, the difficulties in speaking out, and the systems that allow double standards to continue.

For anyone who is aspiring to a leadership role, Power Play will help you to navigate there. And for anyone who believes that women's voices need to be heard equally, it will inspire you to fight until that is our reality.

Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
RRP: $34.99

ISBN: 9781760878184
Title: TOO MIGRANT TOO MUSLIM TOO LOUD
Author: FARUQI MEHREEN
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

This book is a memoir and a manifesto. It is about a life lived challenging dominant mindsets, bucking the trend and pushing boundaries, in Pakistan where I grew up, and in Australia where I migrated with my husband, one year old son and two suitcases to make a new life three decades ago.

As the first Muslim woman in any Australian parliament, the one hundredth woman in the Senate, and the only engineer in the Senate, Mehreen has a unique and crucial perspective on our country and how things are changing for the better or worse.

This is the story of a brown, migrant Muslim woman breaking into a white man's world and striving to change it without being changed. It is an honest, no holds barred account of what happens when reality meets perception and when you shatter long held stereotypes and confront a system steeped in privileged hierarchies, racism and sexism. It is the tale of a political outsider fighting for her right and the rights of others like her to be let inside on their terms.

From her beginnings in Pakistan and remaking in Australia, Mehreen recounts her struggle to navigate two vastly different, changing worlds without losing herself. The insights gathered through life in two culturally differed continents, as an engineer, a migrant and politician inform her way forward and hope for the future on the climate crisis, gender, racial and social equity.

Imprint: Allen and Unwin Publishers
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9780571360987
Title: DREAM GIRL
Author: LIPPMAN LAURA
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

'She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now.' - Gillian Flynn

'Laura Lippman is the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell.' - Stephen King

'When you reach for one of her books, you know you will be lost to your world for a bit, and totally immersed in hers.' - Daily Mail

How can a woman who never existed come back to haunt you?

Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He's unwell - bed-bound - and has only his night nurse and his PA for company. But what's really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the 'real' Aubrey.

But that can't be. Aubrey's just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago.

Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived?

Imprint: Faber and Faber
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781760875176
Title: COUNTESS FROM KIRRIBILLI : The mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world
Author: MORGAN JOYCE
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

'She was "amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle". She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a blessing.'

Elizabeth von Arnim was a bestselling novelist likened to Jane Austen for her witty and observational style. After one of her books had a cameo on Downton Abbey, she was rediscovered as 'the forgotten feminist who is flowering again'.

She may have been born on the shores of Sydney Harbour as the daughter of a shipping merchant, but after young Elizabeth travelled from Sydney to London in 1869 she discovered society and society discovered her. She made her court debut before Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace and was pursued by the Prussian count Henning August von Armnin-Shlagenthin, whom she married even though she was full of doubt. The very formal world of European aristocracy became her life and the subject for her early novels that soon turned her into a literary sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Despite having five children, her marriage to the count was never happy. Nor was a second marriage to Bertrand Russell's brother, but by then she had made her way into the great literary, society and intellectual circles of London and Europe. She mixed widely, bringing into her orbit Nancy Astor and Lady Mary Cunard as well as her cousin Katherine Mansfield and other writers such as E.M. Forster and H.G. Wells, with whom she had a tempestuous affair.

Elizabeth von Armin was an extraordinary woman who lived an exceptional life during exciting, glamorous and changing times. She is brought to rich and vivid life by Joyce Morgan in this fascinating and beautifully written biography that spans a shifting world that started with the innocence of Victorian Sydney and finished with the march of Hitler through Europe.

Imprint: Allen and Unwin Publishers
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9780733641145
Title: OTHERS
Author: BRANDI MARK
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

I heard voices talking last night. I've never heard my father talk to someone else. Not that I can remember. I was in bed, and I heard my father's voice first. He was talking to someone, and then I heard another man with a deep voice. The man got angry, I could tell, even though I couldn't hear exactly what he was saying. Then my father said, 'I'd kill you first.'

On his eleventh birthday, Jacob's father gives him a diary. To write about things that happen. About what he and his father do on their farm. About the sheep, the crop, the fox and the dam. But Jacob knows some things should not be written down. Some things should not be remembered.

The only things he knows for sure are what his father has taught him. Sheltered, protected, isolated. But who is his father protecting him from? And how far will his father go to keep the world at bay?

All too soon, Jacob will learn that, sometimes, people do the most terrible things.

From the bestselling author of WIMMERA and THE RIP comes an unforgettable novel that explores the darkness in our world with the light only a child can find.

Imprint: Hachette Publishers
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9780733645921
Title: WHEN YOU ARE MINE
Author: ROBOTHAM MICHAEL
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

For as long as we both shall live? A pulse-racing standalone thriller by the #1 bestselling author of The Secrets She Keeps, now a major TV series

Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and become a promising young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite being the daughter of a notorious London gangster. Called to the scene of a domestic assault one day, she rescues a bloodied young woman, Tempe Brown, the mistress of a decorated detective. The incident is hushed up, but Phil has unwittingly made a dangerous enemy with powerful friends.

Determined to protect each other, the two women strike up a tentative friendship. Tempe is thoughtful and sweet and makes herself indispensable to Phil, but sinister things keep happening and something isn't quite right about the stories Tempe tells. When a journalist with links to Phil's father and to the detective is found floating in the Thames, Phil doesn't know where to turn, who to blame or who she can trust.

This exhilarating thriller from the bestselling author - whose books have sold more than 6 million copies - is Michael Robotham's finest page-turner yet.

'Don't try to get anything else done; just keep reading. The only way this book will let you go is if you walk, or run, to the last page' New York Journal of Books

'As darkly beautiful as a crime novel can be' Australian Crime Fiction

Imprint: Hachette Publishers
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9780733646768
Title: SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR YOU
Author: SWAN NORMAN
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Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

We all want to be healthier, but do you know what's good for you?

For over thirty years, Dr Norman Swan has been delivering straight, honest, common-sense health information to ordinary Australians as both a physician and much-loved broadcaster. And when Australia needed clear, scientifically backed COVID-19 facts and advice, it was Norman Swan who stepped up every day to provide the answers we required.

After many years of listening, Norman Swan knows what medical issues people are curious and concerned about. Drawing on the questions he hears time and again, from millennials to baby boomers and all the generations between, So You Think You Know What's Good For You? is a one-stop handbook that will settle fruitless anxieties and allow people to focus on what matters to them. Replace medical myths, half-truths and misconceptions with the information you need to make better decisions about how to eat and how to live to put your mind at ease and ensure your and your family's health is the best it can be.

So You Think You Know What's Good For You? is the new authoritative must-have for every health-conscious Aussie household.

Imprint: Hachette Publishers
RRP: $39.99

ISBN: 9780648964018
Title: CAT THIEF
Author: SIMMONS PAT
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Olive would love to own a pet cat but her plan to steal one doesn’t seem to be working. Olive has another idea. Will she finally find the cat of her dreams?

A humorous picture book for young children up to eight years. The book includes some intertextuality which will amuse adults reading the book out loud. Cheeky, fun illustrations encapsulate Olive’s unfortunate efforts as a cat thief.

Imprint: EXISLE PUBLISHING
RRP: $24.99

ISBN: 9780522877854
Title: FARMERS OR HUNTER-GATHERERS? : The Dark Emu Debate
Author: SUTTON PETER / WALSHE KERYN
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production

Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led to believe because it resembled more closely the farming communities of Europe. In Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe ask why Australians have been so receptive to the notion that farming represents an advance from hunting and gathering. Drawing on the knowledge of Aboriginal elders, previously not included within this discussion, and decades of anthropological scholarship, Sutton and Walshe provide extensive evidence to support their argument that classical Aboriginal society was a hunter-gatherer society and as sophisticated as the traditional European farming methods. Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? asks Australians to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal society and culture.

Imprint: Melbourne University Press
RRP: $34.99

ISBN: 9780857527028
Title: MAD WOMENS BALL
Author: MAS VICTORIA
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

For fans of The Doll Factory and The Familiars, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women - one deemed mad, the other sane - who find their salvation at The Mad Women's Ball

'A darkly sumptuous tale of wicked spectacle, wild injustice and the insuppressible strength of women' EMMA STONEX, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LAMPLIGHTERS

'Enter the dance of this little masterpiece and let yourself be dazzled. Assured of hitting the bestseller lists' THE PARISIAN

The Salpatri re asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much more complicated - for these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives or strong-willed daughters. Once a year a grand ball is held at the hospital. For the Parisian elite, the Mad Women's Ball is the highlight of the social season; for the women themselves, it is a rare moment of hope.

Genevi ve is a senior nurse. After the childhood death of her sister, she has shunned religion and placed her faith in Doctor Charcot and his new science. But everything begins to change when she meets Eugenie, the 19-year-old daughter of a bourgeois family. Because Eugenie has a secret, and she needs Genevi ve's help. Their fates will collide on the night of the Mad Women's Ball...

'Essential reading' COSMOPOLITAN

'A deftly woven tale of hope and pain, judgement and redemption, cruelty and kindness. Utterly captivating and profoundly affecting.' Sunday Times bestseller, MIRANDA DICKENSON

'A lovely, moving first novel, a cri de coeur against the condition of women in this world' MARIE FRANCE

'The Mad Women's Ball is as lush on the inside as it is on the outside! It's richly immersive, taking us right into the heart of nineteenth-century Paris.' SHELLEY HARRIS, author of the Sunday Times bestseller JUBILEE

Imprint: Random House Publishing
RRP: $32.99