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The third instalment Fleabag: The Scriptures 2

Orphan Warriors 3
of INTERNATIONAL Sibling Assassins 3
BEST-SELLING 5 minutes with Lian Hearn 4
Nevermoor series Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof 5
is almost here! Wild, Fearless Chests 6

The year
Golden In Death 7
American Dirt 8
A Good Neighbourhood 9

RIPPED is well on
The Last Smile in Sunder City 10
The Holdout 11
FROM THE A Beginner’s Guide to Essential Oils 11

HEADLINES its way. Natural Home Remedies

How to Argue With a Racist
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Find out why Haven’t They Grown 13

American Highfire
The Year Without Summer
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Dirt was the The Nine Hundred 14
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2020
An explosive and news-
making look at Donald Trump
and his relationships with
women, from his girlfriends
to his multiple marriages,
painting a portrait of a
pathological liar, serial
philanderer and misogynist.
ALL THE
PRESIDENT’S NOVEMBER
RELEASE
WOMEN
Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy
Trade Paperback 9781409196884 | $32.99
Ebook 9781409196907 | $15.99
Trapeze
Based on groundbreaking original reporting,
an extensive new look at Donald Trump’s
relationships with women, revealing new
accusations of sexual misconduct, exploring
the roots of his alleged predatory behaviour,
and illustrating how Trump’s presidency has
helped catalyse the #MeToo movement and
revitalise women’s activism.
BARRY LEVINE is a veteran investigative
reporter and editor in print and television. He
received the Huffington Post’s Game Changer
award in 2010 for his ‘shoe leather reporting’
and led a reporting team to a Pulitzer Prize
nomination for investigative reporting and
national news reporting.
MONIQUE EL-FAIZY is a Paris-based
journalist and the author of God and Country:
How Evangelicals Have Become America’s
New Mainstream. Her writing has appeared
in numerous publications, including The
New York Times, The Guardian, Washington
Post, Financial Times, Marie Claire, GQ and
Glamour.
Location:
Barry Levine – New York, USA
Monique El-Faizy – Paris, France
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NOVEMBER
RELEASE
NOVEMBER
RELEASE
WESTWIND FLEABAG: THE SCRIPTURES
Ian Rankin Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Trade Paperback 9781409196051 | $32.99 Hardback 9781529394801 | $39.99
Ebook 9781409196075 | $15.99 | Orion Ebook 9781529394818 | $16.99 | Sceptre
Europe, 1990. Martin Hepton, an English Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing
ground control technician, watches as they from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the
lose contact with the most advanced satellite in filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage
Europe. A colleague of Hepton’s who suspects directions from the award-winning series.
something strange is going on is signed off
sick, and never comes back. Hepton decides to
PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE is a multi-award-
investigate his friend’s suspicions and his trail
winning actor, writer, creator and showrunner.
leads him to Mike Dreyfuss (the only surviving
She is the writer and performer of Fleabag,
crew member of a space shuttle crash), MI6,
which debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
the American military and back to his former
as a one-woman show in 2013, followed by
girlfriend, Jill, who is an up-and-coming
journalist with the contacts and the courage to award-winning London and New York runs.
Fleabag was adapted into a critically acclaimed
cover the story.
BBC Three television series, for which
But there is much more at stake than anyone Waller-Bridge won a BAFTA for Best Female
realises – and many more people on their trail Performance in a Comedy Program.
than they can possibly evade . . .
IAN RANKIN is a No.1 bestseller in the UK
and has received the OBE for services to
literature.
Ian Rankin
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Location: Edinburgh,
Location: San Francisco, USA
Scotland
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ORPHAN WARRIORS:
CHILDREN OF THE OTORI
BOOK 1
Lian Hearn
Trade Paperback 9780733641213 | $32.99
Ebook 9780733641220 | $14.99 | Hachette Australia
The bitter struggles of the Tribe and the clans
have left many children orphaned. Among
them are Sunaomi and Chikara, sons of Arai
Zenko, who face death after their parents’
treachery. Their aunt, Kaede, is able to save
their lives on condition they become novice
monks and never leave the temple at Terayama.
Sunaomi has been brought up as a warrior, yet
his grandmother is Muto Shizuka. He cannot
escape that he is also a child of the Tribe. As he
discovers unimagined talents within himself
he comes up against Hisao, Takeo’s son, the
ghostmaster, as well as Saga Hideki, the most
powerful warlord in the realm, the Emperor’s
General.
Taking place in the magical medieval world
of Tales of the Otori, Orphan Warriors is a
coming-of-age adventure story in a human
world of courage and sacrifice, behind which
always hovers a supernatural world of danger
and dread.
5 minutes with ...
SIBLING ASSASSINS:
CHILDREN OF THE OTORI
BOOK 2
Lian Hearn
Trade Paperback 9780733643545 | $32.99
Ebook 9780733643552 | $14.99 | Hachette Australia
As a boy Arai Sunaomi was known as the
Miracle Child and crossed between the worlds
to walk among the dead. Now he has put aside
his past to follow the way of the warrior. His
aunt, Kaede, is considering making him her
heir, and her General, Miyoshi Kahei, hopes
to betroth Sunaomi to his daughter, Kinu. But
there is one girl whom Sunaomi cannot forget:
Utahime, who has been dead for seven years.
Will he dare bring her back to life?
When Utahime’s brother, Masao, disappears
after a fight in the city, Sunaomi is charged
with finding him. With his cousins, Kiyoko
and Kichizo, sibling assassins from the Tribe,
Sunaomi sets out on a journey which will take
him into an enthralling and dangerous world of
spirits and supernatural beings, rebels, pirates
and saints.
LIAN HEARN
Before I was an author I was . . . a baby.
I’ve been making up stories for as long as I
can remember.
In three words Children of the Otori is . . .
warriors, ghosts, love.
The best part about creating the Otori
universe is . . . I have complete freedom
there.
Which authors most inspire you? Ones
who use language like a sword.
What was your writing process for
Children of the Otori? Get up at 5.00am
and write three pages a day by hand before
breakfast.
LIAN HEARN’s Tales of the Otori series has
sold more than four million copies worldwide
and has been translated into nearly 40
languages. Lian has made many trips to Japan
and has studied Japanese. She read Modern
Languages at Oxford and worked as an editor
and film critic in England before emigrating to
Australia.
Lian Hearn
Location: Mullumbimby,
NSW
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As a member of Victoria
Police’s Air Wing, Cameron
Hardiman felt like he was ten
feet tall and bulletproof. The
air wing brought him plenty of
excitement and drama – from
searching for missing aircraft
to accidentally discovering
marijuana crops to working
with paramedics. But it also
brought him plenty of trauma.
TEN FEET TALL
AND NOT QUITE
BULLETPROOF
Cameron Hardiman
Trade Paperback 9780733642395 | $32.99
Ebook 9780733642418 | $13.99
Hachette Australia
Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young
boys could only dream of. Every morning he
put on a navy blue police flight suit, grabbed
his flight helmet, and prepared to work on
the police helicopter. He could be called to
anything during a shift; to search for a missing
child, to pull an injured driver from a wrecked
car, or a dangerous sea rescue.
He saw his fair share of trauma and dealt with
it like most coppers would: he quickly put each
dangerous job out of his mind as soon as it was
over. But one particular rescue in Bass Strait
brought about a reckoning – and Cameron was
never the same again.
This is the brilliantly told, white-knuckle story
of one cop learning every lesson the hard way
– and coming to find out that being not quite
bulletproof doesn’t mean that you’re not a good
cop.
CAMERON HARDIMAN joined the Victoria
Police at 18 years old and served over 32 years
in policing. He eventually joined the Australian
Federal Police and served overseas. He then
transferred into an investigations role.
Cameron Hardiman
Location: VIC
Brutal. Uncompromising.
Magnificent. Complex.
Unforgettable. A timely
debut short story collection
that breaks open the idea of
women from a powerful new
Australian literary voice.
WILD, FEARLESS
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CHESTS
Mandy Beaumont
Demy 9780733643033 | $28.99
Ebook 9780733643040 | $14.99
Hachette Australia
As women’s voices begin to rise
together, Mandy Beaumont’s brutal and
uncompromising stories are a compelling
reminder of the ways in which women have
fallen, been dismissed, hurt, hated and loved
from afar. These are the stories we have always
known, have always heard about and are
perhaps just short moments away from. They
are yours, ours, mine. They are booming anger.
They are wild love. They are the distorted and
the decided, the imagined and the wanted.
They are the shaking ground beneath our feet.
A powerful call to arms. They compel us to
stand tall. To break free. To defy the gaze. To
claim our space.
Wild, Fearless Chests is the sound of a certain
revolution.
MANDY BEAUMONT’s debut short story
collection Wild, Fearless Chests was shortlisted
for the 2018 Hachette Richell Prize, the 2019
UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award and a short
story from the collection won the Moth
International Short Story Award. Mandy was
the Poet in Residence at the State Library of
Queensland, and the co-editor of The Idea of
Women edition of Overland.
Mandy Beaumont
Location: Melbourne, VIC
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The thrilling new Eve Dallas
novel from international
number one bestseller J.D.
Robb.
GOLDEN IN DEATH
J.D. Robb
Trade Paperback 9780349422084 | $29.99
Ebook 9780349422107 | $14.99
Piatkus
When Kent Abner – baby doctor, model
husband and father, good neighbour – is found
dead in his townhouse in the West Village,
Eve and the team are at a loss as to who would
want to kill such a good man.
When a second victim is discovered it
becomes clear that, as spring arrives in
New York City, Eve is dealing with a serial
killer with a motive she can’t fathom and a
weapon of choice which could wipe out half of
Manhattan.
NORA ROBERTS published her first novel
using the pseudonym J.D. ROBB in 1995,
introducing Eve Dallas, a New York City
police lieutenant with a dark past, and
billionaire Irish rogue, Roarke. Since then,
the In Death series has sold over 66 million
copies, with each new novel reaching number
one on bestseller charts the world over.
J.D. Robb
Location: USA
The extraordinary story
of a mother who will risk
anything to save her son
from the fate that destroyed
their family: a novel with the
topicality of Exit West and
the urgency of Room.
AMERICAN DIRT
Hachette Australia | February 2020
Jeanine Cummins
Trade Paperback 9781472261410 | $29.99
Ebook 9781472261380 | $14.99
Tinder
The most anticipated book of 2020.
When the rest of her family is gunned down
by members of a notorious drug cartel, Lydia
knows that if she and her son are to survive
they must flee their home of Acapulco. The
reach of the cartels is so far that Lydia quickly
realises two things: that they must cross the
US/Mexico border as quickly as possible,
and that they cannot risk travelling by road.
So begins a harrowing journey of survival
along one of the most fraught migrant routes
in the world – riding illegally atop the freight
trains, known as la bestia, hidden amongst
the thousands of migrants who will risk
everything in the desperate hope of a new
start in the United States.
American Dirt is the most heart-stopping
story of a mother and son on the run since
Emma Donoghue’s Room, a novel that brings
an unforgettably human face to the story of
the US/Mexico border.
JEANINE CUMMINS was born in Spain to
Irish and Puerto Rican parents, before settling
in the US. American Dirt was in part inspired
by her experience of fostering a migrant child
separated from her parents at the US/Mexico
border, which she has written about in the
New York Times.
Jeanine Cummins
Location: USA
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This provocative novel
explores class, race and
star-crossed love in America
today from New York Times
bestselling author Therese
Anne Fowler.
A GOOD
NEIGHBOURHOOD
Therese Anne Fowler
Trade Paperback 9781472269355 | $32.99
Ebook 9781472269348 | $15.99
Headline
In Oak Knoll, a tight-knit North Carolina
neighbourhood, professor of forestry and
ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her
bright and talented biracial son. All is well
until the Whitmans move in next door - an
apparently traditional family with new money,
ambition, and a secretly troubled teenage
daughter.
With little in common except a property line,
these two very different families quickly find
themselves at odds over an historic oak tree in
Valerie’s yard.
But as they fight, they fail to notice that there
is a romance blossoming between their two
teenagers. A romance that will challenge the
carefully constructed concepts of class and
race in this small community. A romance that
might cause everything to shatter . . .
THERESE ANNE FOWLER is the author of
the New York Times bestselling novel Z: A
Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald and A Well-Behaved
Woman. Raised in the American Midwest, she
moved to North Carolina in 1995. She holds a
BA in sociology/cultural anthropology and an
MFA in creative writing from North Carolina
State University.
Theresa Anne Fowler
Location: North Carolina,
USA
A brilliantly voiced
contemporary fantasy for
fans of Ben Aaronovitch,
Rotherweird or Terry
Pratchett’s Discworld, and
the debut novel from actor
Luke Arnold, best known
for his lead role as Michael
Hutchence in INXS: Never
Tear Us Apart.
THE LAST SMILE IN
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SUNDER CITY
Luke Arnold
Paperback 9780356512884 | $22.99
Ebook 9780356512877 | $12.99
Orbit
I’m Fetch Phillips, just like it says on the
window. There are a few things you should
know before you hire me:
1. Sobriety costs extra.
2. My services are confidential – the cops can
never make me talk.
3. I don’t work for humans.
It’s nothing personal – I’m human myself.
But after what happened, humans don’t need
my help. Not like every other creature who had
the magic ripped out of them when the Coda
came . . .
I just want one real case. One chance to do
something good.
Because it’s my fault the magic is never coming
back.
LUKE ARNOLD has spent the last decade
acting his way around the world, playing
iconic roles such as Long John Silver in the
Emmy-winning Black Sails an award-winning
turn as Michael Hutchence in the INXS mini-
series Never Tear Us Apart. When he isn’t
performing, Luke is a screenwriter, director,
novelist and ambassador for Save the Children
Australia.
Luke Arnold
Location: Australia
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A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO
ESSENTIAL OILS
Lisa Butterworth
Paperback 9780733643569 | $14.99
Ebook 9780733643576 | $9.99 | Hachette Australia
Essential oils and natural plant remedies have
been employed by humans for millennia, used
for both preventative and reactive care for our
minds, bodies and spirits.
From blending oils to remedy headaches, insect
bites or inflammation to creating bespoke
fragrances to cleanse your physical and mental
space, this book includes everything you need
to begin integrating essential oils into your
everyday. It also features specific information
on the properties and uses of over 65 natural
plant essences, and the variety of methods
for getting the most out of each to boost your
health and wellbeing. In other words, there’s
something for everybody!
LISA BUTTERWORTH is a writer and editor
covering wellness, women’s issues, food,
fashion and pop culture.
Lisa Butterworth
Location: Los Angeles, USA
THE HOLDOUT
Graham Moore
Trade Paperback 9781409196808 | $32.99
Ebook 9781409196822 | $15.99 | Orion
15-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-
dollar fortune, vanishes on her way home from
school. Her teacher, Bobby Nock, is the prime
suspect. It’s an open-and-shut case for the
prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all
but guaranteed.
Until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury,
persuades the rest of the jurors to vote not
guilty.
10 years later, one of the jurors is found dead,
and Maya is being framed for his murder. Is
Maya being forced to pay the price for her
decision all those years ago?
GRAHAM MOORE is a New York Times
bestselling novelist and Academy Award-
winning screenwriter. His screenplay for The
Imitation Game won the Academy Award and
WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in
2015.
Graham Moore
Location: Los Angeles, USA
NATURAL HOME REMEDIES
Fern Green
Paperback 9780733643606 | $19.99
Ebook 9780733643613 | $9.99 | Hachette Australia
Would you like to include some natural
alternatives in your home medicine cupboard?
Are you interested in exploring more
traditional medicinal ingredients?
This book will provide you with a wealth
of plant-based remedies to treat the whole
family. From stress to stomach aches, rashes
to respiratory complaints – and with dedicated
sections on women’s, men’s and children’s
health – you and your family’s wellbeing is
covered. You’ll build your very own herbal
firstaid kit in no time!
FERN GREEN is a UK-based food stylist.
Following the success of Green Smoothies
and Green Proteins, Fern has written Super
Smoothies, Fermenting, Green Teas and Tonics,
Green Soups, Power Snacks, Smoothie Bowls,
Detox Smoothies, Power Smoothies, Power
Breakfasts, Power Drinks, Natural Cleaning,
High Performance Smoothies and Turmeric.
Fern Green
Location: London, UK
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DRAFT
HOW TO ARGUE WITH A
RACIST
Dr Adam Rutherford
Hardback 9781474611244 | $29.99
Ebook 9781474611268 | $15.99 | W&N
Stereotypes and myths about race are
expressed not just by overt racists, but also by
well-intentioned people whose experience and
cultural baggage steers them towards views
that are not supported by the modern study
of human genetics. Even some scientists are
uncomfortable expressing opinions deriving
from their research where it relates to race. Yet,
if understood correctly, science and history can
be powerful allies against racism, granting the
clearest view of how people actually are, rather
than how we judge them to be.
DR ADAM RUTHERFORD is a science writer
and broadcaster. He is the author of Creation, A
Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived and
The Book Of Humans.
Dr Adam Rutherford
Location: London, UK
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HAVEN’T THEY GROWN
Sophie Hannah
Trade Paperback 9781444776195 | $29.99
Ebook 9781444776225 | $15.99 | H&S
On her way to her son’s Under-14s away
match, driving past her former best friend’s
house, Beth can’t resist trying to catch a
glimpse. She parks outside Flora’s house and
watches from across the road as Flora and her
children, Thomas and Emily, step out of the
car. Except something is terribly wrong.
Flora looks the same, only older – just as Beth
would have expected after 12 years. But 12 years
ago, Thomas and Emily were five and three
years old. Today, they look precisely as they
did then. They are still five and three. They
are Thomas and Emily without a doubt – Beth
hears Flora call them by their names – but they
haven’t changed at all. They are no taller, no
older. Why haven’t they grown?
SOPHIE HANNAH is an internationally
bestselling crime fiction writer, translated into
49 languages and published in 51 countries.
Sophie Hannah
Location: Cambridge, UK
HIGHFIRE
Eoin Colfer
Trade Paperback 9781529402025 | $32.99
Ebook 9781529402018 | $15.99 | Jo Fletcher Books
An apprenticeship with the local moonshine
runner servicing the bayou looks like the only
way for swamp-wild Squib Moreau to pay off
the family debts and get he and his momma
a place in town, far from crooked Constable
Regence Hooke’s unwanted courtship.
Unfortunately for Squib, Hooke has his own
eye on that very same stretch of bayou – and
neither of them have taken into account
the fire-breathing dragon hiding out in the
Louisiana swamp . . .
EOIN COLFER is the author of the
internationally bestselling Artemis Fowl
series, which has been translated into over 40
languages. Eoin’s books have won numerous
awards including The British Children’s Book
of the Year, The Irish Book Awards Children’s
Book of the Year and The German Children’s
Book of the Year.
Eoin Colfer
Location: Ireland
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THE YEAR WITHOUT THE NINE HUNDRED
SUMMER Heather Dune Macadam
Guinevere Glasfurd Trade Paperback 9781529329322 | $34.99
Ebook 9781529329339 | $16.99 | H&S
Trade Paperback 9781473672307 | $32.99
Ebook 9781473672314 | $15.99 | Two Roads
From National Book Award nominee, The Nine
Hundred is the untold story of the 999 young,
In 1815, a supervolcanic eruption led to the
unmarried Jewish women who were tricked into
extraordinary ‘Year Without Summer’ in 1816:
boarding a train in Poprad, Slovakia on March
a massive climate disruption causing famine,
25, 1942. It became the first official transport to
poverty and riots. Snow fell in August. Mary
Auschwitz. Believing that they had been called
Shelley wrote Frankenstein. The artist, John
up for three months of government service,
Constable, sought refuge in Suffolk. As crops
these women were sold to the Nazis as slave
failed, the dispossessed rose up in rebellion,
labour by their own government. Drawing on
threatening to burn the old order to the ground.
extensive interviews with survivors, historians,
The Year Without Summer is a story of six
witnesses and relatives of those first deportees,
separate lives, connected only by an event The Nine Hundred is an important addition to
many thousands of miles away. Few had heard
Holocaust literature and women’s history.
of Tambora – but none could escape its effects.
HEATHER DUNE MACADAM actively fights
GUINEVERE GLASFURD’s debut novel, The
against Holocaust denial and is the director of
Words in My Hand, was shortlisted for the 2016
the Rena’s Promise Foundation. Her work has
Costa First Novel Award and Authors’ Club
been featured in National Geographic, NPR,
Best First Novel Award. Her writing has also
The New York Times and The Guardian.
appeared in The Scotsman, Mslexia and The
National Galleries of Scotland.
Heather Dune Macadam
Guinevere Glasfurd Location: New York, USA
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK & Herefordshire, UK
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COVER
TO BE
REVEALED
AN ARTISTIC RESISTANCE
Tori Amos
Trade Paperback 9781529325621 | $29.99
Ebook 9781529325638 | $15.99 | H&S
Structured chronologically around her
most famous songs, Amos opens up the
lyrics to broader discussions of issues from
climate change to women’s rights to fascism
encroaching on the world’s most powerful
countries. She draws on her wide experience
and travels to make sense of what divides us,
and shows us how music can bring people
together.
TORI AMOS is a Grammy-nominated singer-
songwriter, pianist, composer and – with Ann
Powers – the New York Times-bestselling
author of Tori Amos: Piece by Piece. She has
released 15 albums, including her latest, Native
Invader, in 2017.
Tori Amos
Location: USA, Ireland
& England
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE
DAUGHTER
Elle Croft
Trade Paperback 9781409187226 | $29.99
Ebook 9781409187240 | $15.99 | Orion
Imogen Brown is a normal 16-year-old girl.
She’s obsessed with beach volleyball, she
occasionally enjoys the company of her
younger sister Jemima, she’s saving for her first
car . . . and she feels like she doesn’t belong.
She thinks that her parents, Kat and Dylan, are
hypocrites, playing the perfect family when she
knows they really argue all the time.
One Friday evening, Kat and Dylan have their
biggest fight yet and when Kat goes to wake
Imogen the next day, she’s not in her bed. Kat
and Dylan call her friends, but no one has seen
her since the previous day at school. Imogen
has gone missing.
ELLE CROFT grew up in Australia and works
as a freelance social media specialist and also
blogs about travel, food and life in London. Her
debut novel, The Guilty Wife, is a top 10 Kindle
Bestseller.
Elle Croft
Location: London, England
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HUNT FOR MORRIGAN
CROW
Jessica Townsend
Hardback 9780734419705 | $24.99
Paperback 9780734418241 | $17.99
Ebook 9780734418258 | $9.99
Lothian Children’s Books
Morrigan Crow and her friends have survived
their first year as proud scholars of the elite
Wundrous Society, helped bring down
the nefarious Ghastly Market, and proven
themselves loyal to Unit 919. Now Morrigan
faces a new, exciting challenge: to master the
mysterious Wretched Arts of the Accomplished
Wundersmith, and control the power that
threatens to consume her.
But a strange and frightening illness has taken
hold of Nevermoor, turning infected Wunimals
into mindless, vicious unnimals on the hunt.
As victims of the Hollowpox multiply, panic
spreads. And with the city she loves in a state
of fear, Morrigan quickly realises it’s up to her
Something wicked is taking to find a cure for the Hollowpox, even if it will
hold of Nevermoor . . . In put her - and everyone in Nevermoor - in more
danger than she ever imagined.
Morrigan Crow’s third
Wundrous adventure, she
JESSICA TOWNSEND’s Nevermoor: The
faces her most dangerous Trials of Morrigan Crow was the biggest-selling
challenge yet. Australian children’s debut since records began.
It has won the 2018 ABIA for Book of the Year,
Book of the Year for Younger Readers and Matt
Richell Award for New Writer of the Year.
Jessica Townsend
Location: London, UK
& Sunshine Coast, QLD

5 minutes with ...
MARK WILSON
As a child my favourite book was . . .
Ferdinand the Bull by the American author
Munro Leaf, and later, any stories about Sir
Lancelot and the other Knights of the Round
Table, not to mention an obsession with
Phantom comics (by the brilliant Lee Falk).
I started writing because . . . I simply need
to tell stories – about us, our history, our land,
our environment and the wonderful creatures
we share this planet with. There are so many
great ideas for stories, just in our own family
histories, and I challenge myself to make the
next story better than the last one.
Eureka! was inspired by . . . I wrote a fictional
story, completely made up, about a Chinese
boy in the 1850s escaping persecution and
civil war in China and travelling to Australia to
work on the goldfields in Ballarat. My wife Ros
came home from work one day and said, ‘You’ll
never guess… I told a colleague about your
story, and she said every word of it is actually
true.’ Her ancestors were Catherine Martin and
Pan Ah Shin, and it was as if I had written her
family story and just had the names wrong!
Which authors most inspire you? Bernard
Cornwell, John Flanagan, the Australian
author Peter Watt, who is brilliant at Australian
Historical fiction. Jackie French, whose writing
is simply inspiring, Ann James and Leigh
Hobbs, whose stories remind me that the little
things are the most important in life.
A stirring story of the
goldfields and the Eureka
Rebellion, by award-winning
author/illustrator Mark
Wilson.
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EUREKA!
Hachette Australia | February 2020
Mark Wilson
Hardback 9780734416810 | $26.99
Ebook 9780734416827 | $11.99
Lothian Children’s Books
Molly and her father have emigrated to
Australia to try their luck as gold prospectors
in Ballarat, Victoria. Life on the diggings is hard
and Molly misses her mother, who died before
they left England.
A Chinese teenager, Chen, shows Molly and
her Papa how to pan for gold and helps them
when their food and money run out. Not
everyone on the goldfields is friendly, however.
Chen and other Chinese diggers are often
bullied and the police lock up miners who
haven’t paid the exorbitant gold licence fee.
Before long, Molly, Papa and Chen are caught
up in a protest that will become known as the
Eureka Rebellion – a legendary battle that will
profoundly affect them all.
From award-winning author and illustrator
Mark Wilson, this powerful story is inspired by
real people and historical events.
MARK WILSON has written Whitley Award-
winning and Wilderness Society Award-
winning books, as well as many others.
Mark Wilson
Location: Frankston, VIC

Everyone’s favourite grumpy
Panda is looking for love in
this laugh-out-loud funny
picture book.
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WE LOVE YOU, MR PANDA
Hachette Australia | February 2020
Steve Antony
Paperback 9781444927924 | $15.99
Ebook 9781444927931 | $12.99
Hodder Children’s
Everyone’s favourite grumpy Panda is looking
for love in this laugh-out-loud funny picture
book!
Mr Panda is offering free hugs to all his animal
friends. But they are all too busy hugging each
other! Does nobody love Mr Panda?
STEVE ANTONY is a highly talented and
versatile author-illustrator. He has had a
passion for storytelling from an early age, but
it was the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at
Cambridge that really enabled him to channel
this passion. Since embarking on the MA
course, he has enjoyed creating picture books
on a range of subjects from the Queen’s hat to
a war between rectangles and lizards! He aims
to create picture books that are slightly “off
the wall”, books that children will laugh at and
adults will tweet about, but most of all, books
that he enjoys.
Steve Antony
Location: Swindon, UK