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Ben Sanders
Rebecca Starford
Rebecca Wilson
Richard Beasley
FEBRUARY 2021
Tom Gilling
Sandra Hogan new books
THE DEVILS YOU KNOW
Ben Sanders
Allen & Unwin
9781760877873 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction
Ben Sanders, author of American Blood, strikes again in a mile-
a-minute, white-knuckle ride through the heart of darkness in
sunny California
Vincent needs a change. He's spent the last fifteen years in
covert operations for the U.S. government, but after a botched
and fatal mission, he decides he's done with pulling triggers for
shadowy officialdom. He wants a rest from the violence.
Vincent accepts a job in Santa Barbara, California, as head of
security for supermarket mogul Eugene Lamar. It's perfect: his
main duty is driving the boss to and from golf, which means
ample down-time for contemplating life—and how to live it with
a zero body-count. He's intrigued too by Lamar's daughter—
journalist Karen Jones—on tour to promote a book about the
benefits of war. There's only one problem: if Lamar's business is
confined to supermarkets, why does he need a panic room full of
assault rifles, and a .357 revolver in his car?
It seems that Santa Barbara is a sunny town full of dark talent,
and Vincent worries he'll have to revert to dark talents of his own
if he's going to stay alive . . .
Ben Sanders is the author of American Blood, Marshall's
Law and The Stakes, as well as three New Zealand Fiction
Bestsellers: The Fallen, By Any Means and Only the Dead. He
lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
THE IMITATOR
Rebecca Starford
Allen & Unwin
9781760529796 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction
A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events
Out of place at boarding school, scholarship girl Evelyn Varley
realises the only way to fit in is to be like everyone else. She hides
her real self behind the manners and attitudes of those around
her and by the time she graduates from Oxford University in 1939,
she has perfected her performance.
War is looming. Evelyn soon finds herself recruited to MI5, and
the elite counterintelligence department of Bennett White,
the enigmatic spy-runner. Recognising Evelyn's mercurial
potential, White assigns her the dangerous task of infiltrating
an underground group of Nazi sympathisers working to form an
alliance with Germany.
But befriending people to betray them isn't easy. Evelyn is drawn
deeper into a duplicity of her own making and her increasing
distrust of everyone, including herself, begins to test her better
judgement. Evelyn's loyalty is pushed to breaking point, forcing
her to make an impossible decision.
A powerfully insightful and luminous portrait of courage and
loyalty, and the sacrifices made in their name.
Rebecca Starford is publishing director of Kill Your Darlings
magazine and the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviour, which is
being adapted into a TV series. She lives in Brisbane.
CRACKENBACK WHAT COULD BE
Lee Christine SAVED
Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
Allen & Unwin
9781760878900 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction Allen & Unwin
9781760879266 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction
A thrilling tale of snow-bound rural suspense,
from the bestselling author of Charlotte Pass 'A harrowing tale of the lies of omission and
the lies of commission that can break a family
When an injured man bursts into the Thredbo apart, . . . a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama,
lodge that Eva Bell manages, her first thought is and elegance: rich with detail, lush in language,
to protect her daughter, Poppy. But the bloodied and capable of keeping you on the edge of your
figure turns out to be Jack Walker, the man she'd seat.' - Jodi Picoult
had a brief fling with four years earlier—Poppy's
father. His arrival turns Eva's world upside down, An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok
as she tries desperately to shield Poppy from the in 1972 and Washington, DC in 2019 about
dangerous consequences of her father's return. an expatriate child who goes missing, and a
‘…a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance… family who is contacted decades later by a man
capable of keeping you on the edge of your seat.’
JODI PICOULT
Meanwhile, Detective Pierce Ryder of the Sydney claiming to be the vanished boy.
Homicide Squad is on the hunt for serial killer
Liese O’Halloran Schwarz Gavin Hutton. After months of dead ends, he's Alternating between past and present as all of
W H AT finally got some solid leads that trace Hutton
back to the Crackenback Range in the Snowy
the secrets are revealed, What Could Be Saved is
an unforgettable novel about a family shattered
COULD
Mountains. Though they don't know it yet, by loss and betrayal, and the beauty that can
Jack Walker and Ryder are tangled in the same exist even in the midst of brokenness.
treacherous web—and they'll both do anything in
BE their power to protect the ones they love . . . Liese O'Halloran Schwarz is an emergency
medicine doctor and much-praised author of
S AV E D Lee Christine is the author of six romantic
suspense novels. She lives in Newcastle, NSW.
Near Canaan and The Possible World. She lives
in the USA.
THE SHAMAN
Roland Perry
Allen & Unwin
9781760529758 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction
A gripping international thriller from a
bestselling author
When a maverick genius called the Shaman
develops a cold-fusion reactor that could change
our world, he finds himself the target of a
ruthless international organisation who will do A CROOKED TREE
anything to gain control of the new technology.
Una Mannion
All that stands in their way is Victor Cavalier, an
investigative reporter and former soldier with Faber
lethal skills and a talent for getting to the bottom 9780571357963 | $27.99 | | PB | Fiction
of the story.
Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as
Roland Perry is one of Australia's best-known Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-
authors. He has written 28 books including Bill shoulder and orders her daughter out onto
the Bastard, Bradman's Invincibles, The Changi the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her
Brownlow and Monash: The Outsider Who Won other children, she accelerates away, leaving
a War. Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her
school pinafore and knee socks as the light
fades. This is the story of Libby and her
siblings over one long hot summer, and how
one decision can have terrible unintended
consequences . . .
Una Mannion has won numerous prizes for
her work including the Hennessy Emerging
Poetry Award. She lives in Ireland.
THE THREE PARADISES THE SPIRAL LITTLE SCRATCH
Robert Fabbri Iain Ryan Rebecca Watson
Corvus Echo Faber
9781786498014 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781760686178 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9780571356584 | $27.99 | | PB | Fiction
In the second instalment in the breakneck, Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but little scratch tells the story of a day in the
brutal Alexander's Legacy series, the fight entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-
to control the largest empire in the world in a targeted attack by a colleague, her quiet case world of office politics, clock-watching
continues . . . Alexander the Great's sudden existence is shattered in an instant. With and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice
and unexpected death has left the largest, her would-be murderer dead, no one can that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and
most formidable empire the world has ever give Erma the answers she needs to move increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays
seen leaderless. As the fight to take control on from her trauma. Why her? Why now? what it takes to get through that single
descends into ruthless scheming and bloody So begins Erma's quest for the truth and a trajectory while processing recent sexual
battles, no one—man, woman or child—is dangerous, spiralling journey into the heart violence. It is a powerful evocation of what it
safe. Can one champion vanquish all? of darkness. means to live out the course of a single day
consumed by trauma.
Robert Fabbri is the author of the Iain Ryan is the author of Four Days and
bestselling Vespasian series. He lives in The Student which were both shortlisted Rebecca Watson is a British writer and
London and Berlin. for the Ned Kelly Award. He lives in editorial assistant at the Financial Times.
Melbourne.
A RIVER CALLED TIME THE MASK FALLING LIGHTSEEKERS
Courttia Newland Samantha Shannon Femi Kayode
Canongate Bloomsbury Bloomsbury
9781838854096 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781408865576 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781526617606 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction
The Ark was built to save the lives of the The triumphant fourth instalment of the The launch of a major new international
many, but rapidly became a refuge for international bestselling Bone Season crime series featuring investigative
the elite. A chance of survival is granted series: an unforgettable adventure in the psychologist Philip Taiwo. Three young
to a select few who can prove their underworld of a dystopian Paris. Paige students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian
worth. Among their number is Markriss Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched university town, their killings—and their
Denny, whose path to future excellence is from the jaws of captivity and consigned to killers—caught on social media. The world
marred only by a closely guarded secret: a safe house in the Scion Citadel, she finds knows who murdered them; what no one
without warning, his spirit leaves his body, herself caught between those factions that knows is why. The more Philip digs, and the
allowing him to experience a world beyond seek Scion's downfall and those who would more people he meets with a connection to
his physical limitations. A monumental kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire. the case, the more he begins to realise that
speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, there is something very wrong concealed
politics and conscience set in parallel Samantha Shannon is the New York Times somewhere in this community.
Londons. bestselling author of The Bone Season
series. She lives in London. Femi Kayode trained as a clinical
Courttia Newland is the author of The psychologist in Nigeria. He lives in Namibia.
Scholar and The Gospel According to Cane.
He lives in the UK.
FAIR WARNING BURIED
Michael Connelly Lynda La Plante
NEW IN PAPERBACK NEW IN PAPERBACK
A&U - Michael Connelly Zaffre
9781760879174 | $19.99 | 9781838770327 | $19.99 |
Stalwart journalist Jack McEvoy—the hero of A burnt-out cottage, a fortune buried in the
The Poet and The Scarecrow—tracks a serial ashes and a body that could solve a decades-
THE REACH killer who has been operating under the radar old crime—a new thriller series by the Queen of
. . . until now. Crime Drama.
B. Michael Radburn
Pantera
9781925700510 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction
WEATHER
In secluded Devlins Reach, on the shores Jenny Offill
of the Hawkesbury River, three bodies are
unearthed in an excavation site. When
a wilderness expert, Park Ranger Taylor
Bridges, is called in to assist local police, he
soon discovers the town has an unsettling
history—one to match Taylor's own haunted NEW IN PAPERBACK
past. As a torrential storm surges, and the
Granta
river swells at the levee walls, Taylor finds
himself in a race against the power of nature
9781783784776 | $19.99 |
to find a desperate killer before the whole
Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction
town goes under.
2020—a dazzling and deadpan novel about
hope and despair in times of environmental and
political turbulence.
B. Michael Radburn is an award-winning
writer of Blackwater Moon, The Falls and
The Crossing, which is being made into a
film. He lives in the Southern Highlands of
NSW.
KATE KELLY
The true story of Ned's little sister
Rebecca Wilson
Allen & Unwin
9781760879679 | $32.99 | | PB | Biography
Kate Kelly has always been overshadowed by her famous
brother Ned, but the talented young woman was a popular
public figure in her own right. This moving biography tells her
astonishing story in full for the first time
Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly,
was mysteriously found dead in a lagoon outside the town of
Forbes in 1898. Was it suicide, accident or murder, and why had
she changed her name to Ada?
Kate's exploits as a decoy and runner for the Kelly gang are well
known, as is her presence at the gruesome Glenrowan siege,
and the street protests that failed to save Ned's life. In the years
after Ned's execution, she appeared at public gatherings around
Australia. Huge crowds came to see her talk and ride, and she
helped to popularise the Ned Kelly story, becoming a celebrity in
her own right. Then she disappeared from the public eye.
Rebecca Wilson is the first to uncover what really happened to
Kate Kelly. It will surprise anyone who thought they already knew
the story of Australia's most famous outlaw.
Rebecca Wilson grew up in Forbes NSW and has been
researching, painting and writing Kate's tragic story for over a
decade.
DEAD IN THE WATER
A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe
. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin
Richard Beasley
Allen & Unwin
9781760878450 | $29.99 | | PB | Politics & Government
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to
save our most precious natural resource
Richard Beasley is angry man. He's angry about vested interests
killing off Australia's most precious water resource. He's angry
about the political cowardice and negligence that has allowed
Big Agriculture and irrigators to destroy a river system that can
sustain both the environment and the communities that depend
on it. He's angry that the wilful, the self-interested and the plain
stupid are choosing to deny the science of climate change because
it is a truth that doesn't suit them and their commercial and
political interests.
He pulls no punches. He's provocative, he's outrageous, he points
the finger without shame. And he will leave you very, very angry.
Dead in the Water is political satire of the highest order . . . if it
weren't all so tragically true.
Richard Beasley is a Senior Counsel at the Sydney Bar. He was
the Counsel Assisting the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Royal
Commission established by the South Australian Weatherill
Government in 2018. He is also the author of five novels
including Hell Has Harbour Views, which was adapted for TV.BASTARD BEHIND THE LINES
The extraordinary story of Jock McLaren's escape from
Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese
Tom Gilling
Allen & Unwin
9781760875879 | $29.99 | | PB | History
He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp
to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla
fighters
Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. He escaped Singapore
twice, participated in numerous raids on the Japanese and was so
successful in his land and sea guerrilla actions to disrupt enemy
operations that the Japanese eventually placed a bounty on his
head.
In command of a 26-foot whaleboat called The Bastard, McLaren
sailed into Japanese controlled ports in broad daylight, shot
up the supply vessels and piers, then turned tail and ran. He
also made many solo forays into Japanese held areas to gather
intelligence for the US and Australian high commands. Eventually
he was transferred to the sabotage Z Special Unit, the joint Allied
Special Forces unit formed to operate behind enemy lines. But his
extraordinary feats and death-defying courage went beyond his
secret missions. One of the many tales told of McLaren was the
removal of his own appendix without anaesthetic and with the
use of a mirror and an 'ordinary knife'.
Action-packed and surprising, Bastard Between the Lines gives
rich life to one of Australia's greatest World War II Diggers.
Tom Gilling is an acclaimed author of The Lost Battalions, The
Sooterkin, Miles McGinty and Dreamland. He is also co-author of
the highly successful Smack Express, Blood Money, Evil Life and
The Dark Side.WITH MY LITTLE EYE
The incredible true story of the family of spies in the suburbs
Sandra Hogan
Allen & Unwin
9781760878467 | $29.99 | | PB | Memoir
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their
parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s
Growing up in the suburbs in the 1950s, the three Doherty
children were trained by their parents to memorise car number
plates, to spot unusual behaviour on the street, and most
important of all, to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
The children became unwitting foot soldiers in Australia's tense
Cold War struggle against Soviet infiltration. They observed
activists at political rallies and stood watch on houses owned by
communist sympathisers. In the summer of 1956, the Doherty
family went on a road trip in Queensland with Vladimir and
Evdokia Petrov and were chased from town to town by KGB
agents determined to kill the famous Soviet defectors.
Dudley and Joan Doherty swore their children to secrecy, and for
decades, they didn't even discuss among themselves the work
they did for ASIO. This is a poignant and very funny account of a
peculiar childhood in 1950s suburban Australia.
Sandra Hogan is a Brisbane-based journalist and author.SLEEP EASY
Bernice Tuffery
A&U New Zealand
9781988547459 | $32.99 | | PB | Health
Say goodbye to lousy sleep with this six-week,
step-by-step programme to help you kick
insomnia to the curb forever
Sleep deficiency defies our biology and
sabotages our days. Yet more than a third of us
struggle to get to sleep or stay asleep at night. PAIN
Suffering from chronic insomnia, Bernice Tuffery The science of the feeling brain
tried everything—from melatonin to supplements,
meditation to sleeping pills—but nothing worked.
Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
As a qualitative market researcher, she was
determined to know how to sleep naturally again. Atlantic
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She discovered a proven, natural and very
learnable way to improve chronic sleep Pain is part of human existence, but we
difficulties. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for understand very little of the mechanics of
insomnia (CBTi) is recognised internationally by it. The truth is that pain is a complex mix of
sleep experts as the gold-standard treatment. nerve endings, psychological state, social
From her discussions with sleep professionals, preconceptions and situational awareness.
extensive research and her lived-experience
of restoring her own sleep, Bernice shares this Told through case studies and medical
knowledge with humour and heart. Confident history, Pain is the first book to explain the
that CBTi can be self-taught, she offers this current issues and complexities surrounding
practical and inspiring six-week, step-by-step the treatment of pain and how society deals
guide to getting a good night's sleep. with those in pain, exploring how our bodies
relate to pain and what the future holds.
Bernice Tuffery is a qualitative market
researcher. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalken is a British doctor
who has been working in pain management
for more than ten years.FRACTURE RELAX TALKING WITH
Stories of how great lives take root in A user's guide to life in the age of anxiety PSYCHOPATHS AND
trauma Timothy Caulfield SAVAGES: SPREE KILLERS
Matthew Parris AND MASS MURDERERS
Faber
Profile
Christopher Berry-Dee
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We make, and worry about, a thousand big John Blake
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Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Too often these decisions are dictated by
Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the concerns or beliefs about our world that The leading criminologist directs his
world in ways that still influence our lives. simply aren't true. With precision and wit, uncompromising gaze on a growing
And all men and women who experienced, award-winning public health expert Timothy phenomenon—'rampage killers'. Because of
in childhood, trauma so severe it should Caulfield analyses the innumerable cultural, the ease of obtaining firearms in the USA,
have broken them. They succeeded not only social and psychological forces that shape many are American, but there have been
in spite of their backgrounds, but perhaps these misperceptions—and provides a other recent examples in New Zealand and
even because of them. In bringing each scientifically informed way out of this mess. Norway. What is more difficult to establish,
individual's story to life in this compelling however, is the motivation behind such
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most infamous mass killings of the past fifty
Matthew Parris is the bestselling author Timothy Caulfield has won numerous years.
of The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase academic and writing awards and is a
and Scorn, and is a winner of the Best Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Christopher Berry-Dee is the leading
Columnist award at the British Press Sciences. British writer on crime and the pathology
Awards. of criminals.SQUARE
HAUNTING
Five women, freedom
and London between the
wars
Francesca Wade
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Faber
9780571330669 | $22.99 |
Five exceptional women; one London square.
A spellbinding group biography by a luminous
WE ARE BELLINGCAT THIS IS HOW THEY TELL talent.
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Bloomsbury Bloomsbury
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Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat few unsung heroes along the way.
and sits on the technical advisory board
of the International Criminal Court in the Nicole Perlroth is an award-winning
Hague. journalist covering cybersecurity for the
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