HarperCollins Media Bites - MAY 2020

The Motion of the Body Through Space L I ON E L SHR I V E R

The Silence SUSAN A L LOT T

30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens’ next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared. At the time, it was thought she had gone to start a new life; but now Mandy’s family is trying to reconnect, and there is no trace of her. Isla’s father was allegedly the last person to see her alive, and now he’s under suspicion for murder.

All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled alone. But now she’s 60, all that activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery, her previously sedentary husband, Remington, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. When he announces his intention to compete in a legendarily gruelling triathlon, Serenata is sure he’s going to end up injured or dead – but the stubbornness of an ageing man in Lycra is not to be underestimated.

Released: 20/04/20 TPB | 358pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

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Released: 20/04/20 TPB | 352pp

Monstrous Heart C L A I R E Mc K E NNA AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: HarperCollins

The Girl and the Stars MARK L AWR E NC E

East of the Black Rock, out on the ice, lies a hole down which broken children are thrown. On the vastness of the ice there is no room for individuals. No one survives alone. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is different. Torn from her family, from the boy she thought she would spend her life with, Yaz has to carve a new path for herself in a world whose existence she never suspected. Only when it’s darkest can you see the stars.

Arden Beacon arrives in the salt-swept port of Vigil with a job to do. Tasked with using the magic in her blood to keep the lighthouse burning, she needs to prove herself worthy of her family name and her ancestors’ profession. But the coastline Arden must keep alight – battered by a sea teeming with colossal, ancient beasts – is far from the cultured, urban world she knows.

Released: 23/03/20 TPB | 400pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: HarperCollins clairemckenna.net

Released: 20/04/20 TPB | 480pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: HarperCollins

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