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AUGUST 2 02 0 – F ICT ION

The Hunted GABR I E L B E RGMOS E R

The Bourne Evolution BR I AN F R E EMAN

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide – an electrifying, heart-pounding, truly unputdownable thriller from a startling new Australian talent. A ferociously fast-paced, filmic, visceral, tense and utterly electric novel, unlike anything you’ve read before. Set on a lonely, deserted highway, deep in the Australian badlands, The Hunted is white-knuckle suspense matched to the fast-paced adrenaline of a Jack Reacher novel and the creeping menace of Wake in Fright . This is unmissable reading.

America’s most enduring hero, Jason Bourne, returns – with old skills and new plot twists – in an explosive addition to the Bourne canon. After the death of his wife in a mass shooting, secret agent Jason Bourne is convinced that there is more to her murder than it seems. Worse, he believes that the agency that trained him is behind the killing.

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 416pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: Head of Zeus

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 288pp

AU $29.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: HarperCollins gabrielbergmoser.com

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The Jacaranda House D E BOR AH CHA L L I NOR

Polly is living in Sydney’s notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She’s desperate to bring her young daughter, Gina, to live with her, but beneath her brash confidence lie dark secrets which threaten to drag her under. Rhoda and Star, transgender performers and Polly’s flatmates, bring stability to Polly’s and Gina’s lives. Yet this unlikely little family will find themselves threatened in more ways than one.

Man In Armour S I OBHAN M c K E NNA

How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a leading business insider. Man in Armour is a story about Charles, a man in crisis. Charles is a master of this dog-eat-dog world. Each day he shrugs on a metaphorical suit of armour and goes out to accumulate power and make money. But there is a price to pay. Now, at the peak of his career, his armour is rusted and bloodstained and no longer protecting him the way it once did. He finds himself empty. Always cold. No friends. A family that is falling apart. Over the course of two days, everything in Charles’s life comes into question. His carefully constructed world is starting to splinter – and he’s splintering too.

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 432pp AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

deborahchallinor.com

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill SOPH I E HANNAH The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile – returns to solve a fiendish new mystery. Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate, where Richard Devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancée is innocent of the murder of his brother. But there is a strange condition attached to this request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there.

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 352pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: 4th Estate

Released: 20/08/20 TPB | 400pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: HarperCollins

sophiehannah.com

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The German Midwife MANDY ROBOTHAM

Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive. But when Anke’s work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva Braun is pregnant with the Führer’s child, and Anke is assigned as her midwife. Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?

Across the Water I NGR I D A L E X ANDR A In a remote, boat-access-only house, Liz’s lifeline to the real world is her window, where she watches the people who live in the three identical houses that sit side by side across the creek. But it’s the middle house Liz finds herself drawn to most: the beautiful young mother, Dee Waters, and her baby. When Dee and her baby go missing, last seen by the murky waters of Oyster Creek, it is a suspected murder-suicide. After all, it’s no secret that Dee never wanted children. She wasn’t coping with the baby. Everyone in the town believes she leapt to her death, taking her child with her. Everyone except Liz.

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 386pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: Avon

Olive EMMA GANNON

Olive is many things. It’s OK that she’s still figuring it all out, navigating her world without a compass. But life comes with expectations, there are choices to be made, boxes to tick and – sometimes – stereotypes to fulfil. And when her best friends’ lives start to branch away towards marriage and motherhood, leaving the path they’ve always followed together, Olive starts to question her choices – because life according to Olive looks a little bit different.

ingridalexandrabooks.com

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 346pp AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 416pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

emmagannon.co.uk

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People Like Us LOU I S E F E I N ‘I nearly drowned and Walter rescued me. That changes everything.’ A love story set in 1930s Germany. Hetty, daughter of an SS officer, falls in love with Walter, a Jew – but will the steady march of dark forces destroy their world, or can love ultimately triumph?

The Healer A L I SON BUT L E R

An Englishwoman, a Scottish laird ... a love that will surpass all borders. A sumptuous romance in the spirit of Diana Gabaldon and Darry Fraser. 1402, the Anglo-Scottish border. When her half-brother is captured by Scottish raiders, Lynelle Fenwick, daughter of an English lord, offers to be held captive in his place. Across the turbulent border, Lynelle agrees to spend two weeks in Laird William Kirkpatrick’s castle, tending his brother who needs a healer’s care. But William distrusts all healers – and Lynelle has exaggerated her healing skills. Nonetheless, they are drawn to each other ...

Released: 18/05/20 TPB | 528pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: Head of Zeus

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The Road to Ironbark K AY E DOBB I E

1874: Aurora Scott already faces the loss of her hotel. But when bushrangers storm the bar, wanting the nearby mine’s freshly delivered payroll, things seem hopeless. Danger escalates… And when the dust settles, the money has vanished – as has Aurora. In 2017, Melody Lawson discovers the mystery continues. But the answers are much closer than she ever suspects… A story of danger and adventure from Australian storyteller Kaye Dobbie.

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 320pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: Mira

allison-butler.com

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 320pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: Mira

kayedobbie.com

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AUGUST 2 02 0 – NON - F ICT ION

Lawyer X ANTHONY DOWS L E Y & PATR I CK CAR LYON

Melbourne’s Gangland War was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence and bring down criminal kingpins Carl Williams and Tony Mokbel, and their accomplices. When the police finally closed the case file, just how they really won the war, with the help of an unlikely police informer, would become a closely guarded secret, and its exposure the biggest legal scandal of our time.

The Altar Boys SUZ ANN E SM I TH

Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Newcastle, NSW. Both altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city’s Catholic boys’ high schools. Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. But when Glen discovered another priest was sexually abusing boys, he reported the offending to police, breaking canon law and his vows to the Catholic ‘brotherhood’ in the process. Just weeks before he was due to give evidence against the highest cleric to ever be charged with covering up child abuse, Father Glen Walsh was dead. Two months later, his friend Steven also died. Ensuing investigations revealed they were among at least 60 men in the region who had taken their own lives. The Altar Boys is a powerful expose of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in one Australian city, and how the cover- up in the Catholic Church extended from parish priests to every echelon of the organisation.

Released: 20/08/20 TPB | 304pp AU $34.99 NZ $36.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

The Golden Maze R I CHARD F I D L E R Beloved ABC broadcaster and

bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land , Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. Following the story of Prague from its origins in medieval darkness to its uncertain present, Fidler does what he does so well – curates an absolutely engaging and compelling history of a place. You will learn things you never knew, with a tour guide who is erudite, inquisitive, and the best storyteller you could have as your companion.

Released: 20/08/20 TPB | 320pp AU $34.99 NZ $36.99 Imprint: ABC Books

Released: 20/08/20 NSH | 304pp AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 Imprint: ABC Books

richard-fidler.com

NON - F ICT ION

The Smallest Lights in the Universe SAR A S E AGE R In The Smallest Lights in the Universe , MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love. In this probing, invigoratingly honest memoir, Seager tells the story of how, as she stumblingly navigated the world of grief, she also kept looking for other worlds. Equally attuned to the wonders of deep space and human connection, The Smallest Lights in the Universe is its own light in the dark. How to Sell a Massacre PE T E R CHAR L E Y One Nation, the NRA and $20 million – inside journalism’s most audacious sting. By the mastermind who infiltrated the NRA and One Nation and based on the award-winning documentary seen on ABC TV. Set during the period of Donald Trump’s rise to power and the US’s worst mass shootings, including Las Vegas and Orlando, award-winning journalist Peter Charley’s, How to Sell a Massacre reads like a pacey spy thriller with a deadly truth at its heart: that an Australian political party would seek foreign money in a bid to seize power and destroy the gun laws that keep Australians safe. Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 320pp AU $34.99 NZ $36.99 Imprint: ABC Books

The World Aflame DAN JON E S & MAR I NA AMAR A L

The epic, harrowing and world- changing story – in words and colourised images – of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the dropping of the first atom bomb. The World Aflame will embrace not only the total conflagrations of 1914–18 and 1939–45 and the international tensions, conflicting ideologies and malign economic forces that set them in train, but also the civil wars of the interwar period in Ireland and Spain; wars in Latin America; Britain’s imperial travails in such places as Ireland, Somalia and Palestine; and events on the domestic ‘fronts’ of the belligerent nations.

DAN JON E S

MAR I NA AMAR A L

Released: 05/08/20 NSH | 448pp AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 Imprint: Head of Zeus

Released: 18/08/20 TPB | 272pp AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Imprint: 4th Estate

NON - F ICT ION

Finding Freedom OM I D SCOB I E & CAROLYN DU R AND With unique access and written with the participation of those closest to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom is an honest, up-close, and disarming portrait of a confident, influential, and forward-thinking couple who are unafraid to break with tradition, determined to create a new path away from the spotlight, and dedicated to building a humanitarian legacy that will make a profound difference in the world. As members of the select group of reporters that cover the British Royal Family and their engagements, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand have witnessed the young couple’s lives as few outsiders can.

Buddhist on Death Row DAV I D SH E F F From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places. With uncanny clarity, David Sheff describes the gradual but profound transformation of death row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters from a man dedicated to hurting others to one who has prevented violence on the prison yard, counselled high school kids by mail, and helped prisoners - and even guards – find meaning in their lives.

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 272pp AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 Imprint: HQ Non-Fiction

davidsheff.com

Released: 12/08/20 TPB | 368pp AU $34.99 NZ $37.99 Imprint: HQ Non-Fiction

OM I D SCOB I E

CAROLYN DU R AND

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AUGUST 2 02 0 – CHI LDREN’ S & YA

MAT T S TANTON Meet Pea and Nut: best friends and also ... best rivals! When a chilled-out panda and a hyperactive flamingo go head to head, there can be only one winner. Pea the panda relaxes by the pool. Nut the flamingo doesn’t do relaxing. It’s time for a race, and this time Nut is going for gold! The second book in the hilarious bestselling series featuring two adorable oddballs by bestselling author Matt Stanton. Pea and Nut: Go for Gold! Marshmallow Pie the Cat Superstar C L AR A VU L L I AMY A hilarious new series from Clara Vulliamy, the author-illustrator of Dotty Detective, about grumpy cat Marshmallow Pie and his reluctant pursuit of stardom. Perfect for fans of Toto the Ninja Cat or The Secret Life of Pets. Marshmallow Marmaduke Vanilla- Bean Sugar-Pie Fluffington-Fitz- Noodle is a big, fluffy (and grumpy) cat. He LOVES the easy life. His new owner, Amelia Lime, has grand plans to turn Pie into a STAR… But Pie thinks he’s a star already, to be honest! Released: 05/08/20 BPB | 128pp | Ages 7+ AU $9.99 NZ $12.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Marshmallow Pie the Cat Superstar On TV C L AR A VU L L I AMY The second book in the Marshmallow Pie the Cat Superstar series by Clara Vulliamy, the author-illustrator of Dotty Detective. Perfect for fans of Toto the Ninja Cat or The Secret Life of Pets. Told in the hilarious voice of Marshmallow Pie himself, his antics are illustrated throughout in black and white.

Released: 05/08/20 BPB | 128pp | Ages 7+ AU $9.99 NZ $12.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Loveless A L I C E OS EMAN The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman – one of the most authentic and talked-about voices in contemporary YA. This wise, warm and witty story of identity and self-acceptance sees Alice Oseman on towering form as Georgia and her friends discover that true love isn’t limited to romance.

Released: 05/08/20 BPB | 320pp | Ages 14+ AU $17.99 NZ $19.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Released: 05/08/20 NSH | 24pp | Ages 3+ AU $17.99 NZ $19.99 Imprint: ABC Books

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CH I LDR EN ’ S & YA