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THE STRAWBERRY THIEF
THE VAN APFEL GIRLS ARE GONE
Joanne Harris Paperback RRP $ 32.99
Felicity McLean Paperback RRP $ 32.99
9 April release, advance orders welcome
Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sousTannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home But when old Narcisse, the florist, dies, the life of the sleepy village is once more thrown into disarray. The compelling new novel from the author of the bestselling Chocolat.
Part mystery, part coming of age story, The Van Apfel Girls are Gone is set in a distant suburb on the encroaching bushland, over the long hot summer of 1992. It is the summer Tikka never forgot. The summer the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. Blackly comic, sharply observed and wonderfully endearing.
EIGHT LIVES Susan Hurley Paperback RRP $ 32.99 A smart, sophisticated debut thriller inspired by real events. When rising star scientist Dr David Tran dies in suspicious circumstances, his family, friends and colleagues are left to unravel the mystery. Through their stories, author and scientist Susan Hurley’s simmering drama unveils the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry, a world that affects everyone but is known by few.
NON-FICTION SEE YOU IN THE PIAZZA
WHITE
TEEN BRAIN
Frances Mayes Paperback RRP $ 34.99
Bret Easton Ellis Paperback RRP $ 32.99
David Gillespie Paperback RRP $ 32.99
2 April release, advance orders welcome
18 April release, advance orders welcome
Bestselling author Frances Mayes introduces us to the Italy only the locals know, as she and her husband eat and drink their way through fifteen regions – from Friuli to Sardinia. Along the way, she seeks out cultural and historic gems not found in traditional guidebooks and discloses the secrets that only someone who is on intimate terms with a place could find.
Combining personal reflection and social observation, White is the first work of nonfiction work from Bret Easton Ellis, the bestselling author of American Psycho. Ellis pulls no punches, no subject is off limits: his teen crush on Richard Gere, why ‘Moonlight’ shouldn’t have won the Oscar, that Twitter storm about Kathryn Bigelow - it’s all here.
From Australia’s most trusted nonfiction researcher and author comes the book that every parent needs to read. In Teen Brain, David Gillespie sets out clear, reasonable and effective rules to help you confidently manage your kids’ use of screens at this critical point in their lives.
MACHINES LIKE ME Ian McEwan Paperback RRP $32.99 9 April release, advance orders welcome
This audacious new novel occurs in an alternative 1980s London - Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Charlie, drifting through life, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever. A love triangle soon forms and these three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning author of seventeen books. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller.
CHILDREN’S & YA MY TREE AND ME
HOPPING WEIRD!: WEIRDO, BOOK 12
Jo Witek & Christine Roussey (Illus) Hardback RRP $ 21.99
Anh Do Paperback RRP $15.99
One little girl has a very special friend, the tall ancient tree in her backyard. She grows along with the tree, playing in its branches and basking in its shade. She learns to appreciate the natural world as something to be protected. From the bestselling author of In My Heart. Age: 2+
Mum’s got a cool new job at the animal hospital... but now Weir’s house is like a ZOO! How can Bella and Weir help look after all the animals AND finish their school project?! It won’t be easy... but it will be FUNNY! Age: 7+
THE SECRET RUNNERS OF NEW YORK Matthew Reilly Paperback RRP $16.99 A new city, a secret club and the end of the world - the new thriller from no.1 bestselling author Matthew Reilly. When Skye Rogers and her twin brother Red move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. As society crumbles, they race to figure out how to use their knowledge to survive the impending annihilation. Age: 12+
LANNY Max Porter Paperback RRP $29.99 A devastating story told with the anarchy, the humour and the enchantment Max Porter’s readers will recognise from Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. ‘It shouldn’t be possible for a book to be simultaneously heart-stopping, heart-shaking and pulse-racing, but that is only one of the extraordinary feats Max Porter pulls off in this astonishing novel.’ - Kamila Shamsie
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INDIE BOOK AWARDS
2019 WINNERS
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Australian independent booksellers have announced Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton as the Indie Book Awards 2019 Book of the Year. The Indie Book Awards are chosen by the country’s independent booksellers who select their favourite Australian books published in the previous calendar year. The individual category winners, in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Debut Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Children’s and Young Adult, were also announced. From these six category winners the independent booksellers selected the best of the best – the Indie Books Awards 2019 Book of the Year.
CATEGORY WINNERS
WINNER & CATEGORY WINNER DEBUT FICTION FICTION
NON-FICTION
ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
CHILDREN'S
YOUNG ADULT
Paperback RRP $ 29.99 This beautiful, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge, engaging in dangerous physical work, and the men take care of the children. A classic Lisa See story—one of women’s friendships and the larger forces that shape them—The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce and unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives.
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