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NEW ZEALAND
BARRY MAITLAND
MICHAEL MCGUIRE
JANUARY 2019
BARRY STONE
SUSAN ORLEAN
new books
FLIGHT RISK
ALLEN & UNWIN
Michael McGuire
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760632885 | NZ $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
A gripping debut thriller full of pure adrenaline, explosive action
and terrifying revelations
Disgraced former pilot Ted Roberts works for a top-secret
government organisation set up to investigate terror-related
incidents. Sent to Jakarta to find out as much as he can about
the pilot of a vanished Garuda flight, he discovers a flight
simulator in the pilot's apartment. When the investigation turns
sour, Ted escapes to New York as further disaster strikes. Another
plane disappears from the sky. Then another. Three planes and
hundreds of passengers and crew, vanished, without a trace.
Panic is widespread and the world is teetering on the brink.
Still no one has come forward to claim responsibility.
At an eerily deserted JFK airport trying to get a flight back
home, Ted witnesses a suspicious exchange between an airport
cleaner and a nonchalant airline pilot. He follows the pilot to his
destination: a Ukraine International Airlines flight, due to leave
in an hour. All his instincts tell him that this is the next plane
to go down. But what does he do? Take the flight and face
almost certain death, or fly back home and watch for the news
headlines? He does the unthinkable and gets on the plane.
Michael McGuire is an Australian journalist, former political
advisor and author of the political satire Never a True Word.
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THE PROMISED LAND
ALLEN & UNWIN
Barry Maitland
ALLEN & UNWIN
9781760632670 | NZ $32.99 | | PB | FICTION
Brock and Kolla return in an enthralling new mystery from a
master of the genre
Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla
investigates a series of brutal murders on Hampstead Heath.
Under intense pressure to find answers, she arrests the unlikely
figure of John Pettigrew, a failing London publisher who lives
alone on the edge of the Heath. Pettigrew's lawyer calls on
recently retired David Brock for advice, and soon, unable to resist
the pull of investigation, the old colleagues Brock and Kolla
are at loggerheads.
At the heart of the gripping mystery of the Hampstead murders
lies a manuscript of an unknown novel by one of the greatest
literary figures of the twentieth century. Brock believes that its
story will unlock the puzzle, but how?
Barry Maitland is the bestselling author of The Malcontenta,
which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction,
and Bright Air.
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FOX 8 THE RAINBOW THE VOGUE
George Saunders CONSPIRACY Eoin McNamee
Stuart Hopps
BLOOMSBURY FABER
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BLOOMSBURY
9780995482227 | NZ$26.99 | | PB | FICTION Late 1944, and two teenagers dance the
An exquisitely illustrated, enchanting and Vogue in silence on the projectionist's floor
darkly comic fable of human greed and The US of the late sixties offers freedoms of the Cranfield Aerodrome. Decades later, a
nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning a young Clive Spoke has not tasted in ghost returns to Mourne to identify a body
author. By hiding outside houses at dusk and Britain including handsome lifeguard Dennis found in the shifting sands. Names have long
listening to children's bedtime stories, Fox 8 Montrose. Years later, and now a leading since been changed; children long since cast
has learned to speak ‘yuman’. The power of theatrical agent, Clive is devastated to learn out; lies long thought forgotten. Set against
words is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic of the early death of that first love but finds an eerie landscape, awash with secrets, The
soul, but there is ‘danjur' on the horizon. To there is more to his demise than meets the Vogue is a grimly poetic dance through the
save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will eye. He sets out to investigate and uncovers intertwined stories of a deeply religious
have to set out on a harrowing quest from a devastating and destructive conspiracy community, an abandoned military base and
the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart aimed at the burgeoning gay community. a long-shuttered children's care home.
of suburbia. A riveting gay thriller set in the early days
of the AIDS epidemic. Eoin McNamee is the Irish author of
George Saunders is the acclaimed author of Resurrection Man, later made into a film,
nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo and The Blue Tango, which was longlisted for
Stuart Hopps is an eminent British the Booker Prize.
which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
choreographer.
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NIGHT TRAIN TOP DOG NORTH
Thom Jones Jens Lapidus Frank Owen
FABER CORVUS CORVUS
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A posthumous and definitive collection of The follow-up to Stockholm Delete in The It's been thirty years since the first
new and selected stories by the short-fiction Dark Stockholm series. For decades, a secret wind-borne viruses ended the war between
master and National Book Award finalist, network in Stockholm has been exploiting North and South USA. Both territories
with a stunning introduction by Amy Bloom. young girls, ruthlessly eliminating anyone remain at the mercy of the vicious dictator,
Thom Jones's stories are high-octane, who threatens to reveal their secret. As Renard. Two survivors, Dyce and Vida,
prose-drunk entertainment. His characters oddly paired duo Teddy and Emelie—the journeyed south in search of a cure for
are grifters and drifters, rogues and ne'er- thug and the lawyer—investigate, the Renard's chemical warfare. Now they find
do-wells—some lovable, some not—but each terrifying noose tightens. The police force themselves north on a new and far deadlier
with a voice that never fails to grab you by has established a special team to find out pursuit: to eliminate Renard himself.
the collar. Perfectly capturing the essence of just who's involved in the network but can't Could Dyce and Vida unite a fractured
this icon of the American short story, Night seem to get close enough. And who is it America—and at what cost? The second and
Train showcases the sheer breadth and that's trying to silence Teddy and Emelie, final instalment in a stunning high-concept
power of his inimitable stories. using any means necessary? post-apocalyptic series.
Thom Jones (1945-2016) was the award- Jens Lapidus is a former criminal defence Frank Owen is the pseudonym for two
winning American author of three story lawyer and bestselling Swedish author of authors—Diane Awerbuck, author of the
collections: The Pugilist at Rest, Cold Snap Stockholm Delete, Easy Money, Never Fuck Commonwealth Writer’s Prize-winning
and Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine. Up and Life Deluxe. Gardening at Night, and award-winning
writer and illustrator Alex Latimer.
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THE MOSCOW SLEEPERS THE KINSHIP OF SECRETS ALL THE TEARS IN CHINA
Stella Rimington Eugenia Kim Book 9 in the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries
Sulari Gentill
BLOOMSBURY BLOOMSBURY
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A man lies dying in a hospital in Vermont. The riveting story of two sisters, one raised
News of this suspected Russian illegal in the United States, the other in South Shanghai 1935. An expatriate playground
reaches MI5 in London where Liz Carlyle is Korea, and the family that bound them where fortunes are made and lost, where
contacted by a top-secret source. Meanwhile together even as the Korean War kept East and West collide, and the stakes
in Brussels, a Russian sleeper agent is them apart. Told through the alternating include life itself. Rowland Sinclair arrives
questioning his role, while suspicions are perspectives of the distanced sisters, and into this cultural melting pot, from Sydney
roused about a Suffolk boarding school inspired by a true story, The Kinship of to represent his brother at international
that has changed hands in mysterious Secrets explores the cruelty of war, the wool negotiations. The black sheep of the
circumstances. The latest expertly-plotted power of hope and what it means family, Rowland is under strict instructions
thriller in this bestselling series is a white- to be a sister. to commit to nothing . . . but a brutal murder
knuckle ride through the dark underbelly makes that impossible. All the Tears in
of international intelligence, simmering Eugenia Kim is the award-winning author of China throws a classic murder mystery into
political animosities and global espionage. The Calligrapher's Daughter. a glitzy, glamorous, tawdry and dangerous
world, entrancing both new and old readers.
Dame Stella Rimington is a former Director
General of MI5 and the author of six Liz Sulari Gentill is the author of the award-
Carlyle novels. winning and bestselling Rowland Sinclair
6 Mysteries.
ALLEN & UNWIN
HANGMAN THE NUCLEUS
Jack Heath LIGHTKEEPER'S Rory Clements
WIFE
Karen Viggers
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Meet Timothy Blake, known for solving A woman at the end of her life. A man unable Deadly forces threaten the fate of the world
impossible cases. He's also a psychopath with to restart his. The international bestseller that in this pulsating thriller from the award-winning
a dark secret, and the FBI's last resort. will steal your heart. author of Corpus.
WHITE GUM THE PERFECT
CREEK STRANGER
Nicole Megan Miranda
Hurley-Moore
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A romantic and uplifting tale about two people What happens when your best friend becomes
haunted by their pasts, played out against your worst nightmare? A twisting, compulsive
an authentically vivid rural backdrop. read from the bestselling author of All the
Missing Girls.
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AN UNEXPLAINED DEATH THE LIBRARY BOOK
The true story of a body at the Belvedere Susan Orlean
Mikita Brottman
ATLANTIC
CANONGATE 9781782392262 | NZ $32.99 | | PB | TRUE CRIME
9781786892652 | NZ $32.99 | | PB | TRUE CRIME
The bestselling author reopens the unsolved
The unnerving true story of an unexplained death mystery of one of the most catastrophic library
in Baltimore's historic Belvedere building fires in history and delivers a dazzling love letter
to a beloved institution
When the body of a missing man is discovered
in the Belvedere—an apparent suicide—resident After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean
Mikita Brottman becomes obsessed with the became fascinated by a mysterious local crime
mysterious circumstances of his death. that has gone unsolved since it was carried out
The Belvedere used to be a hotel dating back on the morning of 29 April 1986. Who set fire
to Baltimore's Golden Age but is now converted to the Los Angeles Public Library, ultimately
into flats, and as Brottman investigates the destroying more than 400,000 books,
perplexing case of the dead man, she soon and perhaps even more perplexing, why?
becomes caught up in the strange and violent
secrets of the Belvedere's past. Her compulsions With her characteristic humour, insight and
drive her to an investigation lasting over a compassion, Orlean uses this terrible event
decade. as a lens through which to tell the story of all
libraries—their history, their meaning and their
Utterly absorbing and unnerving, An Unexplained uncertain future as they adapt and redefine
Death will lead you down the dark and winding themselves in a digital world. Filled with heart,
corridors of the Belvedere and into the deadly passion and extraordinary characters,
impulses and obsessions of the human heart. The Library Book discusses the larger, crucial
role that libraries play in our lives.
Mikita Brottman, who lives in the Belvedere, is
a certified psychoanalyst and runs a true crime
Susan Orlean is a staff writer at The New Yorker
podcast called Forensic Transmissions.
and is the author of seven books, including Rin
Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, which was made
into an Academy Award-winning film.
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ONE HUNDRED LYRICS THE HARD STUFF SINGING IN THE RAIN
AND A POEM Dope, crime, the MC5, and my life of A happiness workbook
Neil Tennant impossibilities Rachel Kelly
Wayne Kramer
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AVAILABLE DECEMBER
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Over a career that spans four decades and This inspirational workbook shares 52
The missing link between free jazz
thirteen studio albums with the Pet Shop life-affirming exercises and activities to
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Boys, Neil Tennant has proved himself to be guide you towards a sense of peace and
and unstoppable. Their legendary guitarist
one of the most elegant of contemporary resilience. It focuses on 'small and do-able'
Wayne Kramer wanted to redefine rock 'n'
lyricists. One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem action because we are what we repeatedly
roll—which became a recipe for disaster,
presents an overview of his considerable do—our brains are not fixed and hard-
both personally and professionally. Kramer's
achievement as a chronicler of modern life: wired, but malleable and they change in
story is a revolutionary one, but it is also the
the romance, the break-ups, the aspirations, response to experience. Follow these small
deeply personal struggle of an addict and an
the changing attitudes, the history, the incremental steps in this creative and
artist. From the glory days of Detroit to the
politics, the pain. Contextualised by a interactive workbook to help combat stress,
junk-sick streets of the East Village, this is
personal commentary on each lyric, anxiety and depression.
the classic journeyman narrative, but with
it gives a fascinating insight into the genesis a twist: Kramer is here to remind us that
of writing. Rachel Kelly is the bestselling author of
revolution is always an option.
Happy Kitchen, Walking on Sunshine and
Neil Tennant is one half of the electronic pop Black Rainbow, and is an official Ambassador
Wayne Kramer is an American guitarist,
music duo, the Pet Shop Boys. singer, songwriter, producer and composer.
for SANE. 9
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FRANKENSTEIN'S BRAIN LAB RATS MILLION DOLLAR MATHS
Puzzles and conundrums in Mary Shelley's Why modern work makes people miserable The secret maths of becoming rich (or poor)
monstrous masterpiece Dan Lyons Hugh Barker
John Sutherland
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Personality tests. Team-building exercises. Million Dollar Maths is a fun but invaluable
On the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Open-plan offices. Acronyms. Diminishing guide to the straightforward and outlandish
perennially popular and influential gothic job security. Hot desking. Welcome to the mathematical strategies that can make you
tale, literary detective John Sutherland modern economy. This hilarious but deadly rich. Learn the techniques for growing your
turns his expert eye on Frankenstein and serious book looks at how the world of work everyday finances, as well as the common
unearths a trove of tantalising facts and has slowly morphed from one of unions and mistakes to avoid. Discover the skills, both
arcane puzzles. Among the topics to come steady career progression to a dystopia fair and foul, that offer an additional edge
under the microscope are: does the monster made of bean bags and unpaid internships. when investing and gambling. And discover
have a penis? Is he a monster or a From the gig economy to the new digital why we often misunderstand probability
baby—or both? And, most important of all: oligarchs, Lab Rats deliciously roasts the and statistics—with troubling financial costs.
who is the best on-screen Frankenmonster? new work climate, while asking what can be Million Dollar Maths is the quintessential
done to recoup some sanity and dignity for primer to the myriad ways maths and
the expanding class of middle-class serfs. finance intersect.
John Sutherland is an eminent scholar of
Victorian fiction and bestselling author of
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, Can Jane Eyre be Dan Lyons is a journalist, screenwriter Hugh Barker was accepted to study maths
Happy? and Who is Dracula's Father? and international bestselling author of at Cambridge University at sixteen years of
10 Disprupted. age.ALLEN & UNWIN
POLLEN STREET A BEER IN THE LOIRE BETRAYING BIG BROTHER
Jason Atherton Tommy Barnes Leta Hong Fincher
ABSOLUTE PRESS MUSWELL PRESS VERSO
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A luxury special edition celebrating this
Frustrated by a dead-end job, fed up with On the eve of International Women's Day
eponymous London restaurant. Discover the
renting in London and, to cap it all, failing in 2015, the Chinese government arrested
ingenious recipes and unrivalled attention
to make it as a comedian, Tommy Barnes five feminist activists. The Feminist Five
to detail that made Pollen Street Social a
was at breaking point. But he didn’t break— became a global cause célèbre but they
name in the restaurant world, and follow the
instead he took off to France with girlfriend are only symbols of a much larger feminist
remarkable journey of a chef who took
Rose to pursue his dream of brewing movement of civil rights lawyers, labor
a risk to fulfil his dreams. Pollen Street
beer. Settled in a dilapidated house in the activists, performance artists and online
Social is more than just a restaurant.
Loire they are beset by calamities, mad warriors that is prompting an unprecedented
Now, in this extraordinary book by the man
neighbours and an unexpected pregnancy. awakening among China's urban, educated
who made it a reality, you will find out why.
Featuring colourful characters, a stunning women. Betraying Big Brother argues that
location and a collection of beer recipes, this the popular, broad-based movement poses
Jason Atherton opened his flagship is an irresistible feast of humour and heart. the greatest threat to China's authoritarian
restaurant Pollen Street Social in 2011, regime today and could reconfigure China
winning a Michelin star within six months. and the world.
Tommy Barnes set up a microbrewery in
French wine country.
Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist, scholar
and author of Leftover Women.
11ALLEN & UNWIN
A MASSACRE IN MEXICO RUSSIA WITHOUT PUTIN A LIFE LESS LONELY
Anabel Hernandez Tony Wood Nick Duerden
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DEVELOPMENT
This is the definitive account of the mass This timely and provocative analysis looks
disappearance of 43 Mexican students and beyond Putin to explore the profound A Life Less Lonely shares stories of
the government that tried to cover it up. changes Russia has undergone since 1991. loneliness and social isolation, and looks
Hernandez reconstructs almost minute- What kind of country has emerged from for ways in which we can help one another
by-minute the events of those nights in Russia's post-Soviet transformations, and to future-proof ourselves against this most
late September 2014, giving us what is where might it go in future? Russia Without insidious affliction. By talking to those
surely the most complete picture available, Putin culminates in an arresting analysis of who suffer from it, and those who fight to
with unparalleled sources including the country's foreign policy, identifying the combat it, it offers guidance on how to spot
internal government documents and video real power dynamics behind its escalating the symptoms in yourself and in others, how
surveillance footage. She allows us to clashes with the West and with reflections to connect with those around you, and how
see exactly which parts of the state are on the paths Russia might take in the 21st we might just set ourselves free from it.
responsible for which component of this century. In this way, what is an epidemic today might
monumental crime. not be one tomorrow.
Tony Wood is a leading expert on post-Soviet
Anabel Hernandez is one of Mexico's leading Russia and author of Chechnya. He lives in Nick Duerden is a journalist and the author
investigative journalists and author of the New York. of Get Well Soon. He lives in London.
bestselling Narcoland.
121,423 QI FACTS LITTLE ME
ALLEN & UNWIN
TO BOWL YOU My autobiography
OVER Matt Lucas
John Lloyd,
James Harkin
and Anne Miller
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The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling ‘Raw, honest, funny and moving’ –
THE MOTHER OF ALL phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand-new James Corden. The hilarious and tear-jerking
JOBS selection of 1,423 facts. memoir from one of Britain's best-loved
comedians and actors.
Christine Armstrong
BLM GREEN TREE
9781472956224 | NZ$32.99 | | PB
Christine Armstrong found combining
work and small kids hard. Determined to
find a way forward, she looked for answers
by interviewing other working mums and
found that she wasn't alone. The Mother of
All Jobs brings together the wisdom of the
women who opened up about everything
(and we mean everything) into a manifesto
for happy professional families. Ignoring the
glossy lives presented on social media, this
book shows that working parents can thrive
if they have the knowledge others learnt the
hard way.
Christine Armstrong is a writer, speaker and
adviser to business leaders.
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