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Kazuo Ishiguro Debra Oswald Ella Baxter Bridget Hustwaite MARCH 2021 Susan Johnson Samantha Wills new books
KLARA AND THE SUN Kazuo Ishiguro Faber 9780571364886 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction The first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 Klara and the Sun tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. This is a thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event. Kazuo Ishiguro is the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day. Born in Japan, he lives in Britain.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR Debra Oswald Allen & Unwin 9781760877781 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction A novel of searing emotional truth, told with the relentless pull of a thriller, from the award-winning creator of Offspring Paula is a dedicated suburban GP who is devastated by the murder of a friend and her children by their estranged husband and father. Stacey and the children had been staying with her after fleeing his control, and Paula is haunted by the thought that she couldn't protect them when they most needed it. How had she missed the warning signs? How had she failed to keep them safe? Not long after, a patient with suspicious injuries brings her anxious young son into Paula's surgery. The woman admits that her husband hurts her, but she's terrified to leave for fear of escalating the violence, and defeated by the consistent failures of the law to keep them safe. Can Paula go against everything she believes to make sure one woman is safe, one child? She isn't motivated by revenge. She's desperately trying to prevent a tragedy . . . A riveting, provocative novel about women's fury, traumatic grief, new love, deep friendship, and the preciousness of life, The Family Doctor asks the question: Should you cling to faith in a flawed system, or take control the only way you can? Can a good person justify taking a life to save a life? Debra Oswald is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award and was creator of the TV series Offspring.
NEW ANIMAL Ella Baxter Allen & Unwin 9781760877798 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction A stunning, heartbreakingly funny debut novel from a brilliant new literary voice. Sex, death, grief, running away . . . only one of these makes Amelia feel like a new animal It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she wants from them, that's it for her; she can't connect further. A terrible thing happened to Daniel last year and it's stuck inside Amelia ever since, making her stuck too. Maybe being a cosmetician at her family's mortuary business isn't the best job for a young woman. It's not helping her social life. She loves her job, but she's not great at much else. Especially emotion. And then something happens to her mum and suddenly Amelia's got too many feelings and the only thing that makes any sense to her is running away. It takes the intervention of her two fathers and some hilariously wrong encounters with other broken people in a struggling Tasmanian BDSM club to help her accept the truth she has been hiding from. And in a final, cataclysmic scene, we learn along with Amelia that you need to feel another person's weight before you can feel your own. Deadpan, wise and heartbreakingly funny, New Animal is a stunning debut. Ella Baxter is a writer, poet and artist. In her spare time, she runs a small business making bespoke death shrouds. She lives in Victoria.
FROM WHERE I FELL Susan Johnson Allen & Unwin 9781760876555 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction Two women from opposite ends of the earth begin corresponding by chance and start sharing the intimacies of their lives An anguished email from Pamela Robinson in Australia to her ex-husband in Paris accidentally ends up in the inbox of New York State teacher Chrisanthi Woods. Chrisanthi is sympathetic to Pamela's struggles and the women begin to tell each other the stories and secrets of their lives. Pamela, responsible for raising her three sons, must re-invent the meaning of home following her divorce, and Chrisanthi, her dreams long dampened, must find home by leaving it. Temperamental opposites, their emails turn into an exhilarating and provocative exchange of love, loss and fresh beginnings, by turns amusing, frank and confronting. Susan Johnson is an acclaimed Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays.
WE RUN THE TIDES THE LAST SNOW CONSENT Vendela Vida Stina Jackson Annabel Lyon Atlantic Corvus Atlantic 9781838951047 | $27.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781838952150 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781838952457 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction Teenage Eulabee and her alluring best In a small village in northernmost Sweden, Saskia and Jenny—twins—are alike in friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of their Liv Bjornlund lives in a derelict house appearance only. Still, when Jenny is oceanside San Francisco neighbourhood. together with her teenage son, Simon, and severely injured, Saskia puts her life on hold. Then everything changes. her ageing father, Vidar. Just why has Liv Sara and Mattie are sisters with another stayed by her domineering father's side difficult dynamic. When their mother dies, They have a disagreement and the rupture all these years? And is it true that Vidar is Sara inherits the duty of caring for her is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden sitting on a small fortune? His questionable intellectually disabled sister. Now, Sara and disappearance—a potential kidnapping that business decisions have made him many Saskia, both caregivers for so long, are on shakes the quiet community and threatens enemies over the years, and now someone their own—and come together through a to expose unspoken truths. An achingly wants back what is rightfully theirs. And cascade of circumstances. Razor-sharp and beautiful and wickedly funny story of female they will stop at nothing to get it, no matter profoundly moving, Consent is a thought- friendship and betrayal, We Run the Tides who stands in their way. provoking exploration of the complexities is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to of familial duty, of how love can become the wonders of youth, in all its beauty and Stina Jackson is the award-winning author entangled with guilt, resentment, and regret. confusion. of The Silver Road. Born in Sweden, she lives in Colorado. Annabel Lyon is the bestselling author of Vendela Vida is the award-winning author The Golden Mean. She lives in Canada. of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty. She lives in San Francisco.
LIGHT PERPETUAL THE DEATH OF FRANCIS THE LONG, LONG Francis Spufford BACON AFTERNOON Max Porter Inga Vesper Faber 9780571368730 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction Faber Manilla 9780571366514 | $14.99 | | HB | Fiction 9781838772277 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction November 1944. A German rocket incinerates a London store, and five young Madrid. It's the summer of 1959, and the well- lives are atomised in an instant. Jo and Unfinished. trimmed lawns of Sunnylakes, California, Valerie and Alec and Ben and Vernon Man Dying. wilt under the sun. At some point during are gone. But what if it were possible to A great painter lies on his deathbed. the long, long afternoon, Joyce Haney, resurrect them—to let them experience the wife, mother, vanishes from her home, unimaginable changes of the twentieth Max Porter translates into seven leaving behind two terrified toddlers and century; to live out all the personal triumphs extraordinary written pictures the explosive a bloodstain on the kitchen floor . . . A and disasters, the second chances and final workings of the artist's mind. beguiling, deeply atmospheric novel from redemptions denied them? the cracked heart of the American Dream, Max Porter is the award-wining author of The Long, Long Afternoon is at once a page- Ingenious and profound, Light Perpetual is Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny. turning mystery and an intoxicating vision a story of the everyday, the miraculous and He lives in the UK. of the ways in which women everywhere the everlasting—a sweeping and intimate are diminished, silenced and ultimately celebration of the gift of life. underestimated. Francis Spufford is the award-winning Inga Vesper is a journalist and editor. Born author of Golden Hill. He lives near in Germany, she lives in the UK. Cambridge.
THE ART OF DEATH MRS DEATH MISSES THE APPEAL David Fennell DEATH Janice Hallett Salena Godden Zaffre Profile 9781838773441 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction Canongate 9781788165297 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781838851194 | $29.99 | | HB | Fiction An underground artist leaves a gruesome Dear Reader, installation in Trafalgar Square: the corpses Enclosed are documents relating to the Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted of three homeless men. As more bodies events surrounding the Fairway Players' from spending eternity doing her job and are exhibited at London landmarks and live staging of All My Sons, and the tragic death now she seeks someone to unburden her streamed on social media, newly-promoted of one of its members . . . conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled Detective Inspector Grace Archer and young writer, becomes Mrs Death's scribe her caustic DS, Harry Quinn, must race In a town full of secrets, someone was and begins to write her memoirs. They travel against time. But when Archer discovers murdered. Someone went to prison. And across time and place to witness deaths that the killer might be closer than she everyone's a suspect. Can you uncover the of past and present and discuss what the originally thought, she realises he has his truth? The Appeal is unlike any novel you've future holds for humanity. As the two reflect sights set firmly on her . . . He is creating a read before—an extraordinarily inventive on the losses they have experienced—or masterpiece. And she will be the star of his thriller in which the reader is challenged to facilitated—their friendship grows into a show. solve the crime . . . and predict the victim. surprising affirmation of hope, resilience and love. David Fennell has been working in Janice Hallett is an award-winning CyberSecurity for fourteen years. He lives journalist, playwright and screenwriter who Salena Godden is one of Britain's best in the UK. co-wrote the psychological thriller feature loved poets and performers. film The Retreat.
THE MISTAKE BRIGHT BURNING THINGS THE SERPENT'S SKIN Katie McMahon Lisa Harding Erina Reddan Echo Bloomsbury Pantera 9781760686697 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781526624475 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781925700732 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction Can one decision change everything? Bec Being Tommy's mother is too much for It's a cold night in 1968, ten-year-old JJ's and Kate are sisters, but they couldn't be Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too mother isn't home and her dad won't answer less alike. Bec lives the domestic dream much longing for the cool wine she gulps any questions. The four children survive as with her surgeon husband Stuart and three from the bottle each night. Once there was best they can with their mother's absence perfect children. So why is she so attracted the thrill of a London stage, a glowing acting in their own ways. Fourteen years on, JJ to free-spirited Ryan? Kate's life is hardly career, fast cars, handsome men. But now has a new life, but she finds herself being a dream. But when she meets Adam—tall, there are blackouts and bare cupboards, and pulled back into the unsolved mystery of kind, funny—things start looking up. Until she Mrs O'Malley spying from across the road. her childhood. Will the tragic truth finally finds out he's been keeping secrets from her. There is the risk of losing Tommy forever. An set them all free? The Serpent's Skin is a Then there is the incident both sisters are immensely powerful and compulsive novel of gripping, literary crime novel about male desperate to ignore . . . Will they discover maternal love, control and a woman at the power and the secrets that can haunt a that some mistakes can't be put right? mercy of addiction. family. Katie McMahon is a writer and GP. She lives Lisa Harding is an actress, playwright and Erina Reddan is a Walkley award-winning in Tasmania. bestselling author of Harvesting. She lives journalist. She lives in Victoria. in Dublin.
RED DIRT THE SECRETS OF A THOUSAND COUNTRY STRANGERS MOONS Fleur McDonald Charity Norman Sebastian Barry NEW IN PAPERBACK NEW IN PAPERBACK NEW IN PAPERBACK Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Faber 9781760878979 | $19.99 | 9781760878962 | $19.99 | 9780571333394 | $19.99 | Detective Dave Burrows returns in another A gunshot rings out in a London cafe and the A moving study of one woman's determination suspenseful rural crime novel from the lives of five strangers will never be the same to write her own future, from the Costa Book of bestselling author. again—a compelling, heartfelt drama from the the Year-winning author of Days Without End. bestselling author of See You in September. THE LOST JEWELS THE DISCOMFORT WE BEGIN AT THE Kirsty Manning OF EVENING END Marieke Lucas Chris Whitaker Rijneveld NEW IN PAPERBACK NEW IN PAPERBACK NEW IN PAPERBACK Allen & Unwin Zaffre Faber 9781760879587 | $16.99 | 9781785769405 | $19.99 | 9780571349371 | $19.99 | From the bestselling author of The Jade Lily Winner of The Booker International Prize 'A beautifully written mystery, packed with comes a thrilling modern-day treasure hunt 2020—an extraordinary portrait of a farming unforgettable characters. An intricately woven brimming with family secrets. family distorted by grief. portrait of small town intrigue where old and new sins collide.' Jane Harper
OF GOLD AND DUST A memoir of a creative life Samantha Wills Allen & Unwin 9781760876548 | $32.99 | | PB | Autobiography A beautifully written, revealing memoir from one of Australia's most popular and successful business women Samantha Wills started her self-titled jewellery company on the kitchen table of her share house in the eastern suburbs of Sydney when she was just 21 years old. While her rise to the global stage looked meteoric to many, Samantha has said 'It took me twelve years to become an overnight success.' Following Samantha's journey, from being named a breakout star by The New York Times to barely being able to breathe on a hotel room floor, Of Gold and Dust is so much more than a business memoir. In her unique, confessional tone, Samantha tells the intimate details of her life and business, sharing her truths with a rare rawness and vulnerability. Funny, down-to-earth, revealing and heartfelt, Of Gold and Dust is a must-read for anyone who has a desire to start their own business, or a passion to live a creative life and follow their dreams. Her story is an inspiring blueprint for getting out there and finding the magic that awaits you. Samantha Wills has been in the spotlight as one of Australia's most dynamic speakers and creative personalities since she was 21 years of age. She lives in New York.
HOW TO ENDO A guide to surviving and thriving with endometriosis Bridget Hustwaite Allen & Unwin 9781760879082 | $29.99 | | PB | Health A vibrant, empowering guide to surviving and thriving with endometriosis, from triple j presenter and endometriosis advocate Bridget Hustwaite After years of dismissive doctors and misinformation, Bridget Hustwaite was relieved to finally receive a diagnosis for her intensely heavy periods, pulsing headaches and the excruciating abdominal pain that made her ovaries feel like they were on fire. She has endometriosis—hard to pronounce, hard to diagnose and even harder to live with. The further Bridget has travelled along the endo path—including two excision surgeries and the building of an endo community on Instagram—the more she's realised how much endo sufferers have to self-educate and self-advocate just to have their pain seen and acknowledged. With her trademark enthusiasm, Bridget has blended her personal experience with a raft of tips and tricks from health experts and endo warriors to help you thrive whenever you can, and survive on days when you just can't. Covering everything from diet to acupuncture; fertility to mental health, and surgery to sex, Bridget's guide to navigating this sucker punch of a chronic illness will make you laugh and cry and empower you to be proactive about your endo journey. Bridget Hustwaite is the Melbourne-based host of triple j's flagship new music program, Good Nights and founded the Instagram account @endogram.
GRIEF ON THE RUN PSYCHO-LOGICAL HOMO IRREALIS Julie Zarifeh Why mental health goes wrong—and how to André Aciman make sense of it A&U New Zealand Dean Burnett Faber 9781988547367 | $32.99 | | Psychology 9780571366453 | $27.99 | | PB | Essays Guardian Books Julie Zarifeh shares the tragic story of losing 9781783352333 | $22.99 | | PB | Popular Homo Irrealis is a collection of thoughts her 27-year-old son, Sam, in a whitewater on time, the creative mind, and great lives rafting accident just sixteen days after her Why are mental health problems like and works. From meditations on subway husband, Paul, died of pancreatic cancer. depression and anxiety so widespread? poetry and the temporal resonances of an She describes how she dealt with this double What is it about modern life that has such empty Italian street, to considerations of whammy and embraced the notion of 'active an impact on our mental health? Psycho- the lives and work of Sigmund Freud and grieving'. This included a 450-kilometre Logical sets out to answer these questions Marcel Proust, and portraits of cities such as cycle around Sri Lanka raising money for and more. Drawing on extensive scientific Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis disadvantaged children and running the research, along with revealing insights from is a deep reflection of the imagination's New York marathon on behalf of the Mental those who deal with mental health issues on power to shape our memories under time's Health Foundation. a daily basis, the result is an expertly written seemingly intractable hold. and extremely accessible primer on how and Julie's account of learning to live with why these problems arise, and what we can André Aciman is the bestselling author of grief, plus her experience as a clinical do to tackle them. Find Me and Call Me By Your Name. He lives psychologist, make this an inspirational and in New York. ultimately uplifting read. Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist, comedian and internationally bestselling author of Julie Zarifeh is a consultant clinical The Idiot Brain and The Happy Brain. He psychologist. She lives in New Zealand. lives in Wales.
MONEY AND POWER THE DELUSION OF THE UNUSUAL SUSPECT Vince Cable CROWDS The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood William Bernstein Atlantic Ben Machell 9781786495112 | $32.99 | | PB | Economics Grove Press 9781611854442 | $32.99 | | PB | Psychology Canongate Through economics, our politicians have 9781786897978 | $29.99 | | PB | True Crime the power to transform people's lives for Throughout human history, compelling better or worse. This magisterial history stories have catalysed the spread of Stephen Jackley was a young, British examines the legacy of sixteen world contagious narratives through susceptible Geography student with Asperger's leaders who transformed their countries' groups—with enormous, often disastrous, Syndrome. When the global financial economic fortunes and who also challenged consequences. Armed with the latest crisis hit in 2007, he became obsessed economic convention. From Thatcher to scientific research that explains the with the idea of Robin Hood. With no prior Trump, from Lenin to Bismarck, Money and biological, evolutionary and psychosocial experience, he resolved to become a bank Power provides a whole new perspective roots of human irrationality, The Delusion of robber. He would steal from the rich and on the science of government. Examining Crowds tells the stories of dramatic religious give to the poor. Against all likelihood, his the fascinating interplay of economics and and financial mania in western society over plan actually worked. That is until Jackley's politics, this is a compelling journey through the last 500 years. It reveals the huge cost ambition got the better of him. This is his some of the most significant people and and alarming implications of mass mania story. events of the last 300 years. and how we can avoid its frequently dire impact. Ben Machell is a feature writer for The Sir Vince Cable is a British economist, Times. He lives in the UK. politician and bestselling author of The William Bernstein is an American Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What neurologist, financial theorist and It Means. historian.
HOW TO BE ANIMAL THE HIDDEN SPRING THE LISTENING PATH A new history of what it means to be A journey to the source of consciousness The creative art of attention—a six week human Mark Solms artist's way programme Melanie Challenger Julia Cameron Canongate Canongate 9781788167628 | $32.99 | | PB | Popular Science Souvenir Press 9781786895738 | $29.99 | | PB | Popular Science 9781788167796 | $29.99 | | PB | Personal Development How does the mind connect to the body? For How to Be Animal is a remarkable story one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, A new, transformative guide to deeper, of what it means to be human, arguing solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's more profound listening and creativity. that at the heart of our psychology is a quest. Now at last, the man who discovered Over six weeks, readers will be given the profound struggle with being animal. As well the brain mechanism for dreaming appears tools to become better listeners—to their as piecing together how this psychology to have made a breakthrough. More than environment, the people around them, evolved, it examines the wide-reaching ways just a philosophical argument, The Hidden and themselves. As we learn to listen, our in which it affects our lives, from our politics Spring will forever alter how you understand attention is heightened and we gain healing, to the ways we distance ourselves from your own experience. There is a secret insight, clarity. But above all, listening other species. Combining nature writing, buried in the brain's ancient foundations: creates connections and ignites a creativity history and moral philosophy, this is a wide- bring it into the light and we fathom all the that will resonate through every aspect of ranging and radical new take on the human depths of our being. our lives. story and what it means for us today. Mark Solms is director of neuropsychology Julia Cameron is a poet, songwriter, Melanie Challenger is the author of On in the Neuroscience Institute of the filmmaker, playwright and bestselling Extinction: How We Became Estranged University of Cape Town. author of The Artist's Way. from Nature. She lives in the UK.
TURKEY THE SOUL OF A WOMAN LEAD THE WAY The Passenger Isabel Allende How to change the world, from a teen activist and school striker Europa Editions BLM Circus Jean Hinchcliffe 9781787702424 | $29.99 | | PB | Travel 9781526630810 | $22.99 | | HB | Feminism Pantera Poised between competing ideologies, This wise, warm, defiant book from a literary 9780648676980 | $24.99 | | PB | Politics secularism and piousness, a militaristic legend is a meditation on power, feminism nationalism and exceptional openness to and what it means to be a woman. On many Want to take action and fight for what's foreigners, Turkey defies easy labels and fronts, there is much work to be done, right, but don't know where to start? Lead categories. Through the voices of some of its and this book will 'light the torch of our the Way is your ultimate guide to activism best writers and journalists—many of them daughters and granddaughters with mine. and making systematic change, your way. in self-imposed exile—The Passenger tries to They will have to live for us, as we lived for From identifying your cause to finding allies, make sense of this fascinating, maddening our mothers, and carry on with the work still planning a march, nailing your messaging, country, analysing how it got to where it is left to be finished.’ public speaking and working with the media, now, and finding the bright spots of hope to the importance of self-care when you're that allow its always resourceful, often Isabel Allende is the author of twenty-four on your activist journey, Lead the Way will frustrated population to continue living, and bestselling and critically acclaimed books. guide you to start changing the world today. thriving. Born in Peru, she now lives in California. Jean Hinchliffe is a 16-year-old Australian climate activist and a lead organiser within School Strike 4 Climate.
PARISIAN LIVES Deirdre Bair NEW IN PAPERBACK Atlantic 9781786492685 | $22.99 | The award-winning biographer explores her years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone BLOOD GUN MONEY de Beauvoir, painting intimate portraits of two Iaon Grillo literary giants. Bloomsbury 9781526632838 | $29.99 | | True Crime TOGETHER A searing investigation into the enormous Loneliness, health and black market for firearms, essential to what happens when we cartels and gangs in the drug trade and find connection contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings. This ground-breaking new work Vivek H. Murthy of investigative journalism shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas, and their role as key NEW IN PAPERBACK accessories in our epidemics of addiction, Profile making the continent the most murderous 9781788162784 | $22.99 | on earth. Essential reading from Obama's Surgeon Ioan Grillo is a contributing writer at the General on the global loneliness epidemic—and New York Times and the acclaimed author how we can overcome it of El Narco. He is based in Mexico City.
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