APRIL 2018 NEW ZEALAND - LORRAINE DOWNES JOSEPHINE MOON JENNY ACKLAND FLEUR MCDONALD - ALLEN & UNWIN NZ
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Lorraine Downes
Josephine Moon
new zealand
Jenny Ackland
Fleur McDonald
APRIL 2018
new books
ALLEN & UNWIN
LIFE, LOSS, LOVE
Lorraine Downes
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760633493 | $36.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
The powerfully emotional story of the former Miss Universe’s life
shared with honesty and wisdom
On the face of it, Lorraine Downes has lived a charmed life. She
grew up in a loving, normal Kiwi family, started modelling at 18,
won the highly-coveted international title of Miss Universe in
1983, and then established a successful career as a model and
a model agency owner. She married and had two children. But
Lorraine has faced a number of challenges, including divorce
after fifteen years of marriage and rebuilding her life as a solo
mother before finding herself and her soulmate, Martin Crowe,
only to tragically lose him to cancer.
Life, Loss, Love tells her story, including the fairy-tale of winning
Miss Universe, which was considered virtually impossible for a
Kiwi girl, and the expectations foisted upon her as a 19-year-old,
the events and appearances she made, and how that experience
impacted the rest of her life. She talks about meeting her
soulmate and their happy marriage, about winning Dancing with
the Stars and going through fertility treatment. Lorraine also
shares how she had to learn how to cope with the deep grief
following Martin’s death and her time in Bali where she worked
towards healing. She shares her story with an honesty and
wisdom readers will find inspiring and engaging.
Lorraine Downes is a New Zealand dancer and beauty queen who
won the Miss Universe title in 1983 and the New Zealand version
of Dancing with the Stars in 2006.
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GIRLS AT THE PIANO
ALLEN & UNWIN
Virginia Lloyd
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760297770 | $36.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
A brilliant memoir that will resonate with music lovers everywhere
and with anyone who has tried to master the piano
Virginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence
learning and playing the piano and thought she would make a
career as a pianist. She originally started writing this book to
understand the mystery of her very musical and deeply unhappy
grandmother, Alice, and how their lives both at and away from the
piano intersected and diverged.
Girls at the Piano also explores the changing relationship between
women and the piano over the course of the instrument's 275-
year history. Taking us from the salons of 18th century Europe to
an amateur jazz workshop in Manhattan in the early 21st, this is
a richly layered memoir that traces the experiences of real and
fictional women at the piano over the course of the instrument's
history. Funny, tender and fascinating, it is an elegant and multi-
layered meditation on identity, ambition and doubt, and how
learning the piano had a profound effect on two women, worlds
and generations apart.
Virginia Lloyd is the author of The Young Widow's Book of Home
Improvement. She lives in Sydney.
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ALLEN & UNWIN
AM I THERE YET?
The loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
Mari Andrew
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760527907 | $27.99 | | HB | MEMOIR
Mari's astonishingly relatable medley of illustration, observation,
advice and breath-taking honesty will instantly earn a place in
your heart. This woman is a Real Life unicorn. - Zoe Foster Blake
This on-point guide to growing up by Instagram sensation
Mari Andrew captures the feelings and comical complexities of
millenials and adulthood with essays and illustrations. In the
journey toward adulthood, it is easy to find yourself treading
the path of those who came before you; the path often appears
straight and narrow, with a few bumps in the road and a little
scenery to keep you inspired. But what if you don't want to walk
a worn path? What if you want to wander? What if there is no
map to guide you through the detours life throws your way? From
creating a home in a new city to understanding the link between a
good hair dryer and good self-esteem to dealing with the depths
of heartache and loss, these tales of the twenty-something
document a road less travelled—a road that sometimes is just the
way you're meant to go.
Mari Andrew is a writer and illustrator with a widely popular
Instagram account. She currently lives in New York City.
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A CERTAIN LIGHT BRIDGE BURNING AND
ALLEN & UNWIN
Cynthia Banham OTHER HOBBIES
Kitty Flanagan
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760632106 | $36.99 | | PB | FICTION ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760632052 | $32.99 | | PB | MEMOIR
With great courage and empathy, Cynthia
Banham asks the difficult questions about family, Hilarious and honest life advice in a candid
about survival, and fearlessly tells the stories collection of cautionary tales
that are never told
Kitty Flanagan tells it like it is. In her stand-up
'Life is not defined by the bad things that shows, everyday topics such as how old people
happen to us. It certainly isn't for me.' Written talk (and love salt), visits to the doctor, the
for her young son so that he would know what serious, unaffected nature of newsreaders'
had happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham's voices—are twitched and turned and examined
inspiring family memoir uncovers a true picture until the ridiculous truth is unveiled. Other
of what survival means. Unable till now to write subjects that she takes on emphasise this, too—
her own story, Cynthia found that the lives of her from those fakely chummy boutique workers to
Italian grandfather, Alfredo, and his intriguing the selflessness of dishwashers, pregnant women
older sister, Amelia, resonated with her own. freaking out about toxoplasmosis on web forums
Discovering their sacrifice, joy, fear and love, and why it's harder working up the gumption to
from Trieste to Germany and America, and finally flash your penis from behind a rain coat than in
to Australia, their stories mirror and illuminate front of a mobile phone.
Cynthia's own determination and courage in
the face of overwhelming adversity. From a Kitty Flanagan is a writer, performer and
remarkable writer, and told with unflinching comedian. She lives in Sydney.
honesty and compassion, A Certain Light speaks
to the heart of what really matters in life.
Cynthia Banham is an Australian journalist,
academic and writer. She survived the
Yogyakarta plane crash in March 2007.
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ALLEN & UNWIN
TRIED, TESTED AND NO! HOW TO FIX THE
TRUE The power of disagreement in a world that
wants to get along
FUTURE
Liz Harfull Staying human in the digital age
Charlan Nemeth Andrew Keen
GRATIS
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Forget celebrity chefs. Tried, Tested and
True celebrates the amazing tradition of Famous management gurus share the view The ‘Christopher Hitchens of the internet'
community cookbooks. Based on extensive that harmony, cohesiveness and agreement describes his urgent worldwide search for
original research, it brings to light previously are the building blocks for effective ways in which humanity can protect itself
untold stories about the people who donated decision-making and creativity. But they are from the dark side of the digital future.
recipes, and those who benefited from the wrong. In No! the world's leading expert on Combining his experiences in Silicon Valley
fundraising efforts. A special feature is the dissent shows why we need rebels—and how with extensive interviews and analysis, he
carefully selected recipes, updated with fostering more disagreement and arguments identifies the strategies we need to tackle
additional tips and hints to ensure success can dramatically improve decision-making the huge challenges of this digital century
for the most inexperienced modern cook, and the production of good ideas. Explaining and how we can remain human in an age of
with help from the original donors, their why the devil's advocate technique doesn't digital machines.
descendants and the talented home-cooks work and why authentic disagreement
that still make them. is necessary to open our perspectives, Andrew Keen is a broadcaster, speaker,
this book has the power to revolutionise entrepreneur and author of The Internet Is
Liz Harfull is an award-winning rural business, creative organisations and society. Not the Answer, Digital Vertigo and The Cult
journalist and communicator, and bestselling of the Amateur.
6 author of The Australian Blue Ribbon Charlan Jeanne Nemeth is Professor of
Cookbook. Psychology at the University of California.
ALLEN & UNWIN
WAITING FOR THE TRUST ME I'M LYING SLEEPYHEAD
LAST BUS Confessions of a media manipulator Neuroscience, narcolepsy and the search
for a good night's sleep
Reflections on life and death Ryan Holiday
Richard Holloway Henry Nicholls
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CANONGATE
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9781786890214 | $32.99 | | HB | GENERAL In 2016, fake news became real news.
But it's not new—you've seen it all before. In the last century, the amount we
Where do we go when we die? Now in his Tired of a world where blogs take indirect sleep has fallen by 20%. Henry Nicholls
ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh bribes, marketers help write the news, doesn't have this problem —he suffers
Richard Holloway presents a positive, reckless journalists spread lies and no one from narcolepsy. For the overworked
meditative and profound exploration of the is accountable for any of it, Ryan Holiday is majority, this might sound like an enviable
lessons we can learn from death. Facing pulling back the curtain because he doesn't condition, but for Henry, the inability
death gives us the chance to think about not want anyone else to get blindsided. Trust Me to stay awake is profoundly disabling.
only the meaning of our own life, but of life I'm Lying will explain exactly how the media Through personal reflections, interviews
itself; and can mean the difference between really works. What you choose to do with with fellow narcoleptics, insomniacs and
ordinary sorrow and unbearable regret. this information is up to you. neuroscientists, anecdotes from medical
Radical, joyful and moving, Waiting for the history, and insights from art and literature,
Last Bus is an invitation to reconsider life's Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and he explores sleep. Sleepyhead is a scientific,
greatest mystery by one of the most revered bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the cultural and autobiographical journey, told
religious leaders of our time. Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic and with penetrating intelligence, humour and
Perennial Seller. gentleness.
Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer, 7
broadcaster and cleric. Henry Nicholls is a science journalist.
ALLEN & UNWIN
AGE OF CONQUESTS NAPOLEON VOLUME 2 RAW
The Greek world from Alexander to Hadrian The spirit of the age My journey into the Wu-Tang
(336 BC—AD 138)
Michael Broers Lamont "U-God"
Angelos Chaniotis
Hawkins
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'Surely will become the definitive life of
From Alexander the Great's early days Napoleon, The Times. Napoleon's life
building an empire via wars with Rome, The Wu-Tang Clan are considered hip-hop
reached its most extraordinary stage, royalty. Remarkably, none of the founding
rampaging pirates, Cleopatra's death and between 1805 and 1810. His stunning
the Jewish diaspora, right up to the death members have told their story—until now.
triumphs against Britain, Russia and Austria Raised by the streets, they sought to
of Hadrian, Age of Conquests examines the made Napoleon the master of the continent.
social structures, economic trends, political pursue the impossible: music as their ticket
But at a time of such victory, his own out of the ghetto. U-God's unforgettable
upheaval and technological progress of an family was torn asunder in the struggle for
era that spans five centuries and where, first-person account of his journey—from
survival. This second part of the two-volume the streets of Brooklyn to some of the
perhaps, modernity began. biography draws extensively from both biggest stages around the world—is not
primary and secondary sources to give a full, only thoroughly affecting, unfiltered and
Angelos Chaniotis is a Greek historian and dramatic and all-encompassing portrait of
Classics scholar. explosive, but paints, in vivid detail, the
this brilliant, violent leader. making of one of the greatest acts in
American music history.
Michael Broers is Professor of Western
European History at Oxford. Lamont 'U-God' Hawkins is one of the
8 founding members of the Wu-Tang Clan.
ALLEN & UNWIN
BREAKING UPWARDS SPACEPORT EARTH ROADMAP TO HELL
How to make divorce well—a guide from The reinvention of spaceflight Sex, drugs and guns on the Mafia coast
separation to renewal
Joe Pappalardo Barbie Latza Nadeau
Charlotte Friedman
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Divorce is not just a legal process, it's a describes the rise of private companies in along Italy's picturesque southern coast,
devastating emotional experience which all space tourism and how they are reshaping tens of thousands of refugees and migrants
too often brings both parties to the ground. the way the world is using space for industry are forced to work in the sex trade, as drug
But it doesn't have to be so traumatic. and science. From the Cape Canaveral to mules or weapon smugglers. This powerful
Whichever way you look at it, divorce is an the jungle launch site in French Guiana, expose follows the weapons trail, meets
end—but it is also a new beginning. This spaceflight fanatics will appreciate the close the trafficked women trapped by a voodoo
book is designed to guide you through, perspective to launch sites, while those curse, the brave nuns who try to save them
from separation to renewal, and give you new to the industry will be enamoured by and the Italian police who turn a blind eye as
the know-how and confidence to create a stories of the industrial titans, engineers, the most urgent issues facing Europe play
genuinely positive new story. billionaires, schemers and politicians who out in broad daylight.
are redefining what it means for humans to
Charlotte Friedman is a psychotherapist and be a spacefaring species. Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American
former barrister specialising in divorce and journalist in Rome working as Newsweek's
separation. She lives in London. Joe Pappalardo is an aerospace journalist Bureau Chief.
and contributing editor at Popular 9
Mechanics.
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expert tips and practical exercises on a range of business and self-help topics written by experts in their field.
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10LITTLE GODS
ALLEN & UNWIN
Jenny Ackland
A rare, original and stunning novel about a remarkable girl who
learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760297114 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
In the Mallee, wide flat scrubland in north-western Victoria, men
are bred quiet, women stoic and the gothic is never far away.
Olive Lovelock has just turned twelve. Olive is smart, fanciful
and brave and on the cusp of something darker than the small
world she has known her entire life. She knows that adults
aren't very good at keeping secrets and makes it her mission to
uncover as many as she can. When she learns that she once had
a baby sister who died—a child unacknowledged by her family—
she becomes convinced it was murder. Her obsession with the
mystery and relentless quest to find out what happened have
seismic repercussions. It is Olive herself who has the most to lose
as the secrets she unearths multiply and take on complicated
lives of their own.
Little Gods is a novel about the mess of family, about vengeance
and innocence lost. It explores resilience and girlhood and
questions how families live with their complexities and
contradictions. Resonating with echoes of Australian classics like
Seven Little Australians, Cloudstreet and Jasper Jones, Little
Gods is told with similar idiosyncrasy, insight and style. Funny
and heart-breaking, this is a rare and original novel about a
remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't
always set you free.
Jenny Ackland is a writer, teacher and author of The Secret Son.
She lives in Melbourne.
11THREE GOLD COINS
ALLEN & UNWIN
Josephine Moon
A deliciously complex novel of families, food, adversity,
hope and love
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781925266146 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
One coin for love, one for marriage, one to return to Rome. Two
days ago, Lara Foxleigh tossed three gold euros into the Trevi
Fountain. Now, she is caring for a cranky old man and living in
a picturesque villa, half a world away from her home and the
concerns of her loving but cloying family. Soon, it seems as if
those wishes she made in Rome just might be coming true, and
she may even be able to help heal a fifteen-year-old tragedy. Until
Lara's past threatens to destroy everything she loves...
Three Gold Coins is a masterfully written celebration of food,
family, triumph over adversity, love . . . and a deliciously
imperfect life.
Josephine Moon is the bestselling author of The Tea Chest, The
Chocolate Promise and The Beekeeper's Secret. She lives in
Queensland.
12FOOL'S GOLD
ALLEN & UNWIN
Fleur McDonald
When the stakes are high, and the rewards are measured in gold,
anything is possible . . .
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760293963 | $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
Newly badged Detective Dave Burrows' first posting to the far
West goldfields town of Barrabine holds everything he's looking
for but Melinda, his wife of two weeks, is devastated at leaving
behind her family, friends and career. More comfortable in heels
than RM Williams, Melinda walked away from her much-loved
job in the city as a paediatric nurse to follow Dave into the bush.
Dave settles in easily to the plain-speaking toughness of his new
town, determined to do well, knowing that Barrabine could be his
stepping stone into the elite Stock Squad. But will his marriage
last the distance?
As Dave investigates reports of mysterious late-night trespassing,
a missing person and guns being drawn on strangers, a local
prospector phones in with horrific news that could hold the key
to everything . . . Written with Fleur's trademark warmth and
outstanding storytelling, this first book in the Detective Dave
Burrows series is a compelling and exciting beginning.
Fleur McDonald is the best-selling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies,
Purple Roads, Silver Clouds, Crimson Dawn, Emerald Springs,
Indigo Storm, Sapphire Falls, The Missing Pieces of Us and
Suddenly One Summer. She has lived and worked on farms for
much of her life and currently lives in Esperance, WA.
13ALLEN & UNWIN
THE GUERNSEY BABYLON BERLIN
LITERARY AND POTATO Volker Kutscher
PEEL PIE SOCIETY
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Annie Barrows The first book in the bestselling German crime
series, coming to Netflix Australia in 2018
ALLEN & UNWIN Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath was a
9781760528089 | $24.99 | | PB | FILM TIE-IN successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide
Division before a shooting incident in which
The international bestseller that won the hearts he inadvertently killed a man. He has been
and minds of readers all over the world—now a transferred to the Vice Squad in Berlin, a job he
major motion picture detests, even though he finds a new friend in his
boss, Chief Inspector Wolter. There is seething
'I can't remember the last time I discovered a unrest in the city and the Commissioner of Police
novel as smart and delightful as this one. Treat has ordered the Vice Squad to ruthlessly enforce
yourself to this book, please—I can't recommend the ban on May Day demonstrations. The result is
it highly enough.' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the catastrophic with many dead and injured, and a
international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love. state of emergency is declared in the Communist
strongholds of the city. When a car is hauled
A celebration of literature, love and the power of out of Berlin s Landwehr Canal with a mutilated
the human spirit, this warm, funny, tender and corpse inside, the Commissioner decides to use
thoroughly entertaining novel is the story of an this mystery to divert the attention of press and
English author living in the shadow of World War public from the casualties of the demonstrations.
II and the writing project that will dramatically The biggest problem is that the corpse cannot be
change her life. This moving tale of post-war identified . . .
friendship, love and books is a captivating and
completely irresistible novel of enormous depth Volker Kutscher worked as a newspaper editor
and heart. prior to writing his award-winning series of
novels featuring Gereon Rath which have sold
Mary Ann Shaffer wrote The Guernsey Literary over one million copies worldwide. He lives in
and Potato Peel Pie Society when she was a Cologne.
retired bookseller and librarian, in her seventies.
She died just before her book was published.
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THE ILLUMINATION THE FRENCH GIRL THE SECOND CHILD
OF URSULA FLIGHT Lexie Elliott Caroline Bond
Anna Marie Crowhurst
CORVUS CORVUS
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Sarah and Phil love their children. They
They were six university students from have the same hopes as any parent. But
Born on the night of an ill-auguring comet
Oxford—friends and sometimes more than their expectations are shattered when they
just before Charles II's Restoration, Ursula
friends—spending an idyllic week together discover that their baby daughter has a
Flight has a difficult future written in the
in a French farmhouse. It was supposed life-changing glitch that is destined to shape
stars. Against the custom of the age, she
to be the perfect summer getaway until her future, and theirs. Over time, the family
begins an education with her father, who
they met Severine, the girl next door. And learn to adapt and even thrive. Then one day
fosters in her a love of reading, writing
then she disappeared. Now, a decade later, a blood test casts doubt on the very basis
and astrology. Following a meeting with
Severine's body is found in the well behind of their family . . . It tests their capacity to
an actress, Ursula yearns for the theatre
the farmhouse. Questioned along with love, each other and their children, and it
and thus begins her quest to become a
her friends, Kate Channing stands to lose raises the question of what makes—and what
playwright despite scoundrels, bad luck and
everything as suspicion mounts around breaks—a family.
heartbreak. A charming (and just a little bit
her. Desperate to resolve her own shifting
bawdy) tale of one woman's coming of age
memories, Kate finds herself buried under Caroline Bond has an MA in Creative Writing
both on and off the stage in seventeenth-
layers of deception. from Leeds Trinity University.
century England.
Lexie Elliott is a former banker and award-
Anna-Marie Crowhurst is a freelance
winning short story writer. She lives in the
journalist. She lives in London.
UK. 15ALLEN & UNWIN
THE PRAGUE ALL THE BEAUTIFUL SUNBURN
SONATA LIES Laura Lippman
Bradford Morrow Peter Swanson
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Pages of a weathered, eighteenth-century On the eve of his college graduation, Harry about a pair of lovers with the best
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immigrant living in Queens—come into their house on the Maine coast following locked in a passionate yet uncompromising
the hands of Meta Taverner, a young the unexpected death of his father. But who game of cat and mouse. But instead of
musicologist whose concert piano career really is Alice, his father's much younger rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden
was cut short by an injury. Leaving New York second wife? In a brilliant split narrative, desires, inevitable betrayals—and cold-
behind, Meta sets out on an unforgettable the stories and damage that lie in her blooded murder.
search to locate the remaining movements past entwine with Harry's in the present,
of the sonata. This literary quest reaches and things grow increasingly dark and Laura Lippman has been awarded every
from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the- threatening. A diabolically clever tale of major prize in crime fiction. She lives in the
millennium New York as Meta seeks to solve obsession, revenge and murder. USA.
the mystery and uncover a story that has
influenced the course of many lives. Peter Swanson is the acclaimed author of
Her Every Fear, The Kind Worth Killing and
Bradford Morrow is the award-winning The Girl With a Clock for a Heart.
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KNOW NEIGHBOURHOOD Lisa Halliday
Brad Parks Mario Vargas Llosa
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Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told,
charged detective novel weaving through much older writer. At Heathrow airport,
is always closer than you know. It was a
the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route
lesson she learned the hard way growing
the 1990s, during the deeply corrupt to Kurdistan, finds himself detained for
up in foster care. But now she's survived
years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two the weekend. What draws these characters
into adulthood—with a loving husband, a
wealthy couples of Lima's high society together, and how do their lives connect?
steady job and a beautiful baby boy—she
become embroiled in a disturbing vortex Playful and inventive, tender and humane,
thought turmoil was behind her. Until she
of erotic adventures and politically driven Asymmetry is a novel which illuminates
goes to pick up her son from childcare,
blackmail. A twisting, unpredictable tale, the power plays and imbalances of
only to discover he's been removed by
The Neighbourhood is at once a scathing contemporary life—between young and old,
Social Services. And no one will say why. A
indictment of Fujimori's regime and a crime West and Middle East, fairness and injustice,
taut, compulsively readable thriller, with a
thriller that evokes the vulgarity of freedom talent and luck, and the personal and the
cat-and-mouse plot of almost unbearable
in a corrupt system. political.
suspense.
Mario Vargas Llosa is a Nobel Laureate Lisa Halliday is a freelance editor and
Brad Parks is the award-winning author of
and Cervantes Prize-winning author with a translator in Milan.
Say Nothing. He lives in the USA.
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Sal planned it for a year. She bought a Glamorous international art dealer Elizabeth
compass, a knife and a first aid kit. She read April 1943: four boys playing in Hagley Teerlinc knows a thing or two about fakes.
the SAS Survival Handbook and watched Woods, Essex make a gruesome discovery. After all, she is one herself. Her real identity,
YouTube videos. And now Sal knows a lot of Inside an enormous elm tree, there is the Judith Rashleigh, is buried under a layer of
stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a body of a woman, her mouth stuffed with lies. Not to mention the corpses of the men
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