Media Bites Catalogue April 2023

A PR I L 2 02 3 – CHI LDREN’ S & YA

Lies We Sing To The Seas SAR AH UND E RWOOD

Skullduggery Pleasant Hell Breaks Loose K ATR I NA NANN E S TAD

Amazing Mum Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost. Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued drowning, freezing men when the blizzard snow melted. He is one of the few trusted with the secret kept from even most of the officers: how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights. Based on first-hand accounts of those extraordinary last weeks of the Gallipoli campaign, this is the fascinating ‘lost story’ of how 150,000 men - and their horses and equipment - were secretly moved to waiting ships without a single life lost. An unforgettable story told through the eyes of a boy who lied about his age to defend his country. A L I SON BROWN

Bored #3 Evie Dreams Big MAT T S TANTON My name is Evie and I’m making plans. Actual plans. I’m going to build my own house. I’m not talking about some silly treehouse either. I’m going to build a real house. Only it seems everyone else who lives in Turtle Place has an opinion they’d like to share. Frog and Milo want to build something totally different, Mr Santos is grumpy, Mrs Katz is spying on us, my sister is the most annoying person on earth and my parents don’t believe in me at all. But I have a plan! I have big dreams when I’m bored ... From million-copy bestseller Matt Stanton, author of FUNNY KID and THE ODDS, comes this laugh-out-loud series about the complicated business of being a kid.

In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each spring brings the hanging of twelve maidens, a gift to the vengeful Poseidon. But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a long-forgotten island, its enigmatic keeper Melantho tells her that there’s only one way the curse can be broken. Leto must kill the last prince of Ithaca . . . In Lies We Sing to the Sea , debut author Sarah Underwood delivers a thrilling and breathtaking tale that will enthral readers from the very first page as they are transported to the cursed shores of Ithaca. A reclamation of a story from thousands of years ago, Lies We Sing to the Sea is about love and fate, grief and sacrifice, and, ultimately, the power we must find within.

As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled town in the Tuscan hills - not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers, but to save him. A rift has opened to a hellish dimension where a being of devastating power awaits, and only Mevolent is strong enough to seal it and save the world. A simple mission, then, which turns ever-so-slightly trickier when Skulduggery is presented with the opportunity to finally get revenge on Nefarian Serpine, the man who murdered him and killed his family thirteen years earlier. Return to the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in a short novel set hundreds of years before Valkyrie Cain is even born, and follow Skulduggery, Ghastly, Shudder, Ravel, Saracen, Dexter and Hopeless as they argue, bicker and battle their way through an army of their most hated enemies in order to save their oldest enemy so they can stop another, brand new, enemy - And that’s when things get complicated.

Released: 05/04/22 BPB| 320pp AU $29.99 NZ $31.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Released: 05/04/23 BPB | 288 pp AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 Imprint: ABC Books

Released: 05/04/23 BPB | 496pp AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Released: 05/04/23 B+H| 32pp AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Robodog DAV I D WA L L I AMS

Mulga Bill’s Bicycle - 50th Anniversary Edition J E AN LOU I S E Celebrating 50 years in print, this is a new edition of the classic children’s poem by Australia’s favourite poet, A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson. Mulga Bill’s Bicycle was written by Banjo Paterson in 1896. It was written at a time when cycling was a relatively new and popular social activity. Cycles were ridden everywhere, including in the outback by shearers and other workers who needed to travel cheaply. Mulga Bill’s Bicycle tells the hilarious story of Mulga Bill, who thinks he’s much better at cycling than he turns out to be. A resounding crash sends him back to his original mode of transport - his trusty horse. Kilmeny and Deborah Niland’s delightful illustrations catch the mood and humour of Paterson’s verse with great spirit, and this book has become an enduring classic.

Set in the city of Bedlam – home to a host of wicked villains – this action-packed comic caper introduces the Police Dog School’s newest recruit and future of crime fighting: Robodog! But can he stop the most feared duo in Bedlam, and their evil plans to ruin the city…? Packed with unlikely heroes, despicable baddies and a comedic cast of characters including an ice queen, a giant worm and a dastardly collective of cats, this latest Walliams adventure is supercharged family fun. Released: 05/04/2023 B+P| 320pp

AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Released: 05/04/23 BPB | 32pp AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

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