Media Bites Catalogue April 2023

The Hike LUCY C L ARK E

Between Us MHA I R I MC FAR L AN E

The Valkyrie K AT E H E AR T F I E L D

Thomas Brussig’s classic German satire, translated into English for the first time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in East Berlin before the Fall of the Berlin Wall Thomas Brussig’s slim novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee , is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed “boulevard of the sun” in East Berlin. Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on The Short End of the Sonnenallee THOMAS BRUS S I G, JONATHAN F R ANZ E N & J E NNY WAT SON

Discover your new escape – the gripping, twisty new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of One of the Girls Step into the mystery. There’s no turning back . . . Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history, adventures, old secrets. And now, bound by murder.

The brilliant new romcom from the bestselling author of Mad About You When Joe and Roisin join their group of friends for a weekend away, it’s a triple celebration – a birthday, an engagement and the launch of Joe’s new crime drama on TV. For Roisin, it’s a chance to connect with old friends. But for Joe, it’s a distraction as his writing career soars. As the weekend unfolds Roisin’s sense of foreboding buildings. And when she sees secrets she shared with Joe play out on the TV screen, she knows that between us means nothing at all. Searching for clues to the truth, about

From Sunday Times bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes a glorious, lyrical retelling of one of Norse mythology’s greatest epics Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather, chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen, flightless in her exile. Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy, a daughter of the Rhine, a prize for an invading king – a king whose brother Attila has other plans, and a dragon to call upon.

They lace up their hiking boots for the adventure of a lifetime in the Norwegian wilderness: a place of towering mountains, glass-like lakes, log cabins and forests stolen from a fairytale. It’s the perfect place to lose yourself – until a broken body is found at the bottom of a ravine. Somewhere out there, someone knows exactly why a woman has died. And in this deep, dark wilderness, there’s a killer on the trail...

And in the songs to be sung, there is another hero: Sigurd, a warrior with a sword sharper than the new moon. As the legends tell, these names are destined to be lovers, fated as enemies. But here on Midgard, legends can be lies… For not all heroes are heroic, nor all monsters monstrous. And a shieldmaiden may yet find that love is the greatest weapon of all. Released: 05/04/23 TPB | 320pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: Voyager kateheartfield.com

her life and the man she thought she loved, Roisin finds the most unexpected twist of them all. Among those same old friends, there’s a surprising potential for new beginnings… Released: 05/04/23 TPB | 448pp www.mhairimcfarlane.com

the West side. “Look, a real Zonie. Can we take your picture?” Hopelessly in love with the most beautiful girl on the street, Michael is batted away in favour of the Western boys who are free to cross the border. What chance does Michael have, and how much trouble will he get into by pursuing her? Laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly silly, Brussig’s novel follows the bizarre, grotesque quotidian details of life in the German Democratic Republic. As this new translation shows, the ideas at its heart – freedom, democracy and life’s fundamental hilarity – hold great relevance for today.

AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

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Released: 05/04/2023 TPB | 400 pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Released: 05/04/2023 B+P | 160 pp AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Imprint: 4th Estate

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