HarperCollins Media Bites September 2021

Magpie E L I Z AB E TH DAY From award-winning author and broadcaster Elizabeth Day (her chart- topping podcast How To Fail celebrates all that has not gone right), her novel Magpie , looks at the relationships women have with each other and themselves. She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Marisa may have only known Jake a few months, but she has never felt this certain about anyone. When he asks her to move in with him and they start trying for a baby, she knows she has finally found the steadfast love and support she has been looking for all her life. But their relationship is tested when they take in a lodger, Kate, who has little regard for personal boundaries and seems to take an uncomfortable interest in Jake – as well as the baby they are hoping to have. Why is Kate so obsessed with the couple? And, more worryingly, why doesn’t Jake share Marisa’s concern? In her determination to find the answers, Marisa risks losing everything she holds dear…

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

HONOR É E FANNON E J E F F E RS The 2020 National Book Award- nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the problem of race in America, and what he called ‘double consciousness,’ a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors – Indigenous, Black, and white – in the Deep South. In doing so, Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story – and the song – of America itself.

Released: 01/09/21 B+P | 336pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: 4th Estate elizabethdayonline.co.uk

Released: 01/09/21 TPB | 816pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: 4th Estate honoreejeffers.com

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