June 2021

PUBLICITY MAGAZINE
STILL
An evocative,
confronting and
page-turning thriller
from a brilliant
Australian writer.

THE BOYS’ CLUB

LIFTING THE LID ON THE
SCANDALS, SECRETS AND
DEALS THAT HAVE SHAPED
AFL, AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST
SPORT. THE OTHER
HALF OF YOU
A novel as potent
and powerful as
the Miles Franklin
shortlisted The Lebs,
driven by a tender
and defining love.

THE BOOK OF
AUSTRALIAN TREES
A LOVE SONG TO
AUSTRALIAN TREES
FOR CHILDREN BY ONE
OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST
BELOVED AUTHORS.

THE PLATOON
COMMANDER
One soldier’s extraordinary
account of a war that still
haunts Australia.
 CONTENTS
SPOTLIGHT
Still 1
5 minutes with Matt Nable 2

FICTION
The Other Half of You 3
The Maidens 4
Legacy 5
Palace of the Drowned 5
Fault Lines 6
Voyeur 6
Widowland 7
The Sweetness of Water 7
Shoko’s Smile 8
With Teeth 8

NON-FICTION
The Boys’ Club 9
The Platoon Commander 10
Curate 11
Belonging 12

FANTASTIC NEW The Menopause Manifesto

Hitting Against The Spin
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The Book of Australian Trees 14
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 STILL

An evocative, confronting and

page-turning thriller from a brilliant
Australian writer. If you loved The
Dry and Scrublands, you will love
Still.

Darwin, Summer, 1963.

The humidity sat heavy and thick over the town

as Senior Constable Ned Potter looked down at
a body that had been dragged from the shallow
marshland. He didn’t need a coroner to tell him
this was a bad death. He didn’t know then that
this was only the first. Or that he was about to risk
everything looking for answers.

Late one night, Charlotte Clark drove the long

way home, thinking about how stuck she felt, a
23-year-old housewife, married to a cowboy isn’t
who she thought he was.

The days ahead felt suffocating, living in a town

Matt Nable where she was supposed to keep herself nice and
Trade Paperback 9780733644740 | $32.99 wait for her husband to get home from the pub.
Ebook 9780733644757 | $15.99 Charlotte stopped the car, stepped out to breathe
Hachette Australia
in the night air and looked out over the water to
the tangled mangroves. She never heard a sound
before the hand was around her mouth.

Both Charlotte and Ned are about to learn that the

world they live in is full of secrets and that it takes
courage to fight for what is right. But there are
Location: Sydney, NSW people who will do anything to protect themselves
and sometimes courage is not enough to keep
Touring: Y
you safe.
Interviews: Y
Contact: @Ailie.Springall

MATT NABLE is a novelist, scriptwriter and actor. He wrote

and starred in The Final Winter (2007), an independent
Australian film that has been released internationally,
and is currently appearing in cinemas in The Dry
alongside Eric Bana. He has appeared on-screen
alongside Vin Diesel, Clive Owen, Guy Pearce and Robert
De Niro. With his wife and three children, Matt divides his
time between Sydney and Los Angeles. Still is his fourth
novel and his first with Hachette Australia.

SPOTLIGHT 1
 5 MINUTES WITH
MATT NABLE
In three words Still is . . . humid. Evocative. Sweaty.

As well as being a novelist, you’re an actor and

scriptwriter. How does your background in the
screen industry inform your writing? I’ve written
screenplays, which is a very different process to a
novel. A screenplay is much more collaborative,
whereas I find a novel more indulgent and
personal. However there’s definitely a cinematic
influence in how I write. Though not conscious of
it most of the time, I tend to conjure imagery and
situations through a cinematic lens.

I started writing because . . . it’s what I always

wanted to do. From a young age I wanted to be
a writer. So it was never a chore to write. I have
hundreds of thousands of unpublished words
that are simply unpublishable. But I enjoyed those
stories as much as anything I’ve written. Writing to
me is a real joy. I’m very lucky I get to write!

The book that changed my life was . . . there’s not

one in particular. But there are many that sat with
me for months, even years. I remember reading
Hemmingway for the first time, The Sun Also Rises.
I was floored by the economy of his prose. And I
wanted to go to Paris and Spain immediately. The
Bone People by Keri Hulme left some scabs. The
violence juxtaposed with love, the scenery. Breath
by Tim Winton I’ve read three times. I will never tire
of that man’s ability to tell stories.

What authors inspire you? Tom Keneally.

Prolific. And has been a wonderful supporter of
mine. I love him. As mentioned above, Winton,
Hemingway, and I love David Sedaris. I wish I had
more time to read. I often daydream of having a
year off and doing nothing but that.

SPOTLIGHT 2
 THE OTHER HALF OF YOU

A novel as potent and powerful

as the Miles Franklin shortlisted
The Lebs, driven by a tender
and defining love.

‘I only ever asked you for one thing,’ my father said,

a quiver in his voice. ‘Just this one thing.’ It was as
though I had smashed the Ten Commandments.

‘Oh father,’ I cried, grovelling at his ankles while my

mother and siblings looked on. ‘The one thing you
asked of me is everything.’

Bani Adam has known all his life what was

expected of him. To marry the right kind of girl. To
make the House of Adam proud.

But Bani wanted more than this — he wanted

to make his own choices. Being the first in his
Australian Muslim family to go to university, he
could see a different way.
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Paperback 9780733639036 | $32.99 Years later, Bani will write his story to his son, Kahlil.
Ebook 9780733639043 | $14.99 Telling him of the choices that were made on
Hachette Australia Bani’s behalf and those that he made for himself.
Of the hurt he caused and the heartache he
carries. Of the mistakes he made and the lessons
he learned.

In this moving and timely novel, Michael

Mohammed Ahmad balances the complexities of
modern love with the demands of family, tradition
Location: Sydney, NSW
and faith. The Other Half of You is the powerful,
Touring: Y
insightful and unforgettable new novel from the
Interviews: Y Miles Franklin shortlisted author of The Lebs.
Contact: @Rosina.DiMarzo

MICHAEL MOHAMMED AHMAD is the founding director

of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and editor of the
critically acclaimed anthology After Australia (Affirm
Press, 2020). Mohammed’s debut novel, The Tribe
(Giramondo, 2014), won the 2015 Sydney Morning Herald
Best Young Novelists of the Year Award. His second
novel, The Lebs (Hachette Australia, 2018), won the 2019
NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award and was
shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

FICTION 3
 THE MAIDENS

The highly anticipated second

thriller from the record-breaking,
international bestselling author of
The Silent Patient.

From the author of the global No. 1 bestselling

debut The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding
literary thriller which weaves together Greek
mythology, psychology, and murder . . .

St. Christopher’s College, Cambridge, is a closed

world to most.

For Mariana Andros — a group therapist struggling

through her private grief — it’s where she met her
late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it’s the tragic
scene of her best friend’s murder.

As memory and mystery entangle Mariana, she

finds a society full of secrets, which has been
shocked to its core by the murder of one of its
Alex Michaelides students.
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Ebook 9781409181699 | $15.99 Because behind the college’s idyllic beauty is a
Orion web of jealousy and rage which emanates from
an exclusive set of students known only as The
Maidens. A group under the sinister influence of
the enigmatic professor Edward Fosca. A man
who seems to know more than anyone about
the murders — and the victims. And the man
who will become the prime suspect in Mariana’s
Location: London, UK investigation — an obsession which will cost her
everything . . .
Touring: N
Interviews: Y The Maidens is a story of love, and of grief — of
Contact: @Jemma.Rowe what makes us who we are, and what makes us kill.

ALEX MICHAELIDES was born and raised in Cyprus. He

has an MA in English Literature from Trinity College,
Cambridge University, and an MA in Screenwriting from
the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent
Patient was his first novel, and was the biggest-selling
debut in the world in 2019. It spent over a year on the
New York Times bestseller list and sold in a record-
breaking 49 countries. Alex lives in London.

FICTION 4
LEGACY PALACE OF THE DROWNED

Nora Roberts Christine Mangan

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Piatkus Little, Brown

Thoughts of her lived in that angry and patient Sequestered within an ageing palazzo, Frances
brain. But there was time, so much time yet. And Croy finds comfort in the emptiness of Venice in
there were others. Many others who would come winter. Desperate to rediscover the success of
before. She, a crescendo, a culmination. But before her first novel, she attempts to return to the page
the crescendo, one needed to begin. — ignoring the strained relationship with her best
friend, the increasing phone calls from her editor,
Adrian Rizzo is a beautiful young woman with a and the growing fear that the end of her career is
successful business, and a wonderful family and imminent.
friends. She’s worked hard to build a happy life
for herself. When she receives a death threat in A young woman appears claiming a connection
the post, she puts it down to someone’s jealousy from back home, one that Frankie can’t quite seem
of her success and tries to forget about it. But to recall.
Adrian doesn’t realise that it’s more than just spite.
Set in the days culminating the 1966 Venice flood,
Someone is very angry about her happy life and
the trajectory of the disaster that forever altered
will stop at nothing to bring it all crashing down.
the city mirrors Frankie’s own inner turmoil as
‘If you’re after the perfect pick-me-up, take- she struggles to make sense of what the truth
me-away-from-the-world read, then she’s your is, leaving her questioning her own role and
woman’ — The Guardian responsibility — as well as her sanity.

Location: United States Location: UK

Touring: N Touring: N
Interviews: Y Interviews: Y
Contact: @Jemma.Rowe Contact: @Bella.Lloyd

NORA ROBERTS is the number one New York Times CHRISTINE MANGAN has her PhD in English from
bestseller of more than 200 novels. More than 500 University College Dublin, focusing on 18th-century
million copies of her books are in print. She is both a Gothic literature, and an MFA in fiction writing from the
Sunday Times bestseller in the UK and a No. 1 bestseller University of Southern Maine. Her first novel, Tangerine,
in Australia. was an international bestseller.

FICTION 5
FAULT LINES VOYEUR

Emily Itami Francesca Reece

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Phoenix Tinder Press

Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hard- Leah is a young woman aimlessly adrift in Paris.
working husband, two adorable children and Tired of odd jobs in cafés and teaching English to
a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It’s everything a unresponsive social media influencers, her heart
woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders skips a beat when she spots an advert for a writer
whether it would be more fun to throw herself off seeking an assistant.
the high-rise balcony than spend another evening
Michael was once the bright young star of the
not talking to her husband or hanging up laundry.
London literary scene, now a washed-up author
Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a with writer’s block. He doesn’t place much hope in
successful restauranteur. In him, she rediscovers the advert, but after meeting Leah is filled with an
freedom, friendship, a voice, and the neon, electric inspiration he hasn’t felt in years.
pulse of the city she has always loved. But the
When he offers Leah the opportunity to join his
further she falls into their relationship, the clearer
family in their glorious property in the south of
it becomes that she is living two lives — and in the
France, she finally feels her luck is turning. But
end, we can choose only one.
as she begins to transcribe the diaries from his
Alluring, compelling, startlingly honest and darkly debauched life in 1960s Soho, something begins to
funny, Fault Lines is a daring exploration of modern nag at Leah’s sense of fulfilment; that there might
relationships from a writer to watch. be more to Michael than meets the eye.

Location: London, UK Location: London, UK

Touring: N Touring: N
Interviews: Y Interviews: Y
Contact: @Jemma.Rowe Contact: @Bella.Lloyd

EMILY ITAMI grew up in Tokyo before moving to London, FRANCESCA REECE grew up in Wales and having spent
where she now lives with her young family. She has most of her twenties in Paris, now lives in London. She
been published widely as a freelance journalist and was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize
travel writer. This is her first novel. for her short story So Long Sarajevo/They Miss You So
Badly.

FICTION 6
WIDOWLAND THE SWEETNESS OF WATER

C.J. Carey Nathan Harris

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Quercus Little, Brown

Thirteen years have passed since a Grand In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly
Alliance between Great Britain and Germany was freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves
formalised. Edward VIII rules as King, yet all power is cast into the world without a penny to their names.
vested in Alfred Rosenberg, Britain’s Protector. The Forced to hide out in the woods near their former
role and status of women is Rosenberg’s particular Georgia plantation, they’re soon discovered by the
interest. land’s owner, George Walker, a man still reeling
from the loss of his son in the war.
Outbreaks of insurgency have been seen across
the country and graffiti is made up of lines from When the brothers begin to live and work on
forbidden works, subversive words from the voices George’s farm, the tentative bonds of trust and
of women. Suspicion has fallen on Widowland, the union begin to blossom. But this sanctuary survives
run-down slums where childless women over fifty on a knife’s edge, and it isn’t long before the
have been banished. inhabitants of the nearby town of Old Ox react with
fury at the alliances being formed only a few miles
An alternative history with a strong feminist twist,
away.
perfect for fans of Robert Harris’ Fatherland,
Christina Dalcher’s Vox and the dystopian novels of Conjuring a world fraught by tragedy and violence
Margaret Atwood. yet threaded through with hope, this is a debut
unique in its power to move and enthral.

Location: UK Location: Austin, USA

Touring: N Touring: N
Interviews: Y Interviews: Y
Contact: @Publicity Contact: @Bella.Lloyd

C. J. Carey is a pseudonym for an already established Nathan Harris is a Michener fellow at the University of
author writing in a different genre. Texas. He was awarded the Kidd prize, as judged by
Anthony Doerr, and was also a finalist for the Tennessee
Williams fiction prize. The Sweetness of Water is his
debut novel. He lives in Austin, Texas.

FICTION 7
SHOKO’S SMILE WITH TEETH

Choi Eunyoung Kristen Arnett

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John Murray Corsair

In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung Working from home in the close quarters of their
paints intimate portraits of the lives of young Florida house, Sammie Lucas lives with one wary
women in South Korea, balancing the personal eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy
with the political. who resists her every attempt to bond with him.

In the title story, a fraught friendship between Uncertain in her own feelings about motherhood,
an exchange student and her host sister follows she tries her best — driving, cleaning, cooking,
them from adolescence to adulthood. In ‘A Song prodding him to finish projects for school — while
from Afar’, a young woman grapples with the growing increasingly resentful of Monika, her
death of her lover, travelling to Russia to search confident but absent wife.
for information about the deceased. In ‘Secret’, the
As Samson grows from feral toddler to surly
parents of a teacher killed in the Sewol ferry sinking
teenager, Sammie’s life begins to deteriorate into
hide the news of her death from her grandmother.
a mess of unruly behaviour, and her struggle to
In the tradition of Sally Rooney, Banana Yoshimoto, create a picture-perfect queer family unravels.
and Marilynne Robinson — writers from different When her son’s hostility finally spills over into
cultures who all take an unvarnished look at physical aggression, Sammie must confront her
human relationships and the female experience — role in the mess — and the possibility that it will
Choi Eunyoung is a writer to watch. never be clean again.

Location: South Korea Location: Miami, USA

Touring: N Touring: N
Interviews: Y Interviews: Y
Contact: @Madison.Garratt Contact: @Publicity

CHOI EUNYOUNG is a South Korean writer acclaimed KRISTEN ARNETT is the New York Times bestselling author
for her nuanced yet poignant stories about women, of the debut novel Mostly Dead Things. She is a queer
queer people, victims of state violence, and other fiction and essay writer. Her work has appeared in
marginalised voices. She is the author of the best- the New York Times, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, the
selling story collection Someone Who Can’t Hurt Me. Guardian and elsewhere.

FICTION 8
 THE BOYS’ CLUB

The Boys’ Club lifts the lid on the

scandals, secrets and deals that
have shaped AFL, Australia’s
biggest sport.

The Boys’ Club is the must-read inside story behind

the power and politics of AFL, Australia’s biggest
sport.

Revealing how the fledgling state administrative

body evolved into the Australian Football League
and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest
and most powerful organisations in the land,
award-winning investigative journalist Michael
Warner delivers a fascinating insight into key
figures and their networks.

Tracking the rise of the game and the AFL

figureheads, The Boys’ Club lifts the lid on the
scandals, secrets and deal-making that have
shaped the Australian game.
Michael Warner
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Ebook 9780733644979 | $16.99
Hachette Australia

Location: Melbourne, VIC

Touring: Y
Interviews: Y
Contact: @Emily.Lighezzolo

MICHAEL WARNER is an award-winning investigative

journalist with Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper. He
won the 2018 Alf Brown Award as the Australian Football
Media Association’s most outstanding performer
and has collected multiple Melbourne Press Club
Quill Awards, News Awards and an Australian Sports
Commission award for his coverage of the Essendon
doping scandal, West Coast Eagles illicit drugs saga
and Melbourne tanking affair.

NON-FICTION 9
 THE PLATOON COMMANDER

When first called up to serve, John

O’Halloran never expected to be
sent overseas. He would go on to
lead with distinction as a platoon
commander at three of the biggest
conflicts of the Vietnam War.

As a tough and determined 21-year-old conscript,

John O’Halloran guided 6 RAR’s B Company 5
Platoon through some of the biggest conflicts of
the war, including the Battle of Long Tan. He faced
his biggest military challenge at Operation Bribie,
leading the charge against a deadly Viet Cong
jungle stronghold.

O’Halloran’s sense of duty, sense of humour, and

his indomitable spirit inspired 5 Platoon to fight
against the odds to achieve the mission – no
matter how treacherous – and even away from
the action, O’Halloran kept the respect of his men.
He is now regarded by many of his peers as a
national treasure.
John O’Halloran with Ric Teague
The Platoon Commander is an unmissable and
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devastating first-hand account of the realities and
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Hachette Australia brutalities of a war fought in jungles and a tribute
to those who served.

Quoted in almost every important book written

about Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War,
John O’Halloran has never told his own remarkable
story. Until now.

Location: Perth, WA
Touring: Y
Interviews Y:
Contact: @Madison.Garratt

JOHN O’HALLORAN led 6 RAR’s B Company 5 Platoon

through some of the toughest conflicts of the Vietnam
War, including Operation Hobart, the Battle of Long Tan
and Operation Bribie.

RIC TEAGUE is a retired journalist and documentary

maker with a career spanning 46 years. His first book,
Born on Anzac Day, was published in 2015.

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 CURATE

An inspirational guide to
decorating a home with the
perennially popular elements, from
influential stylist and decorator,
Lynda Gardener and interiors writer,
Ali Heath.

Doyenne of the unique and decorative, Australian

interior stylist and boutique hotelier, Lynda
Gardener, is always on the hunt for finds to
enhance her homes and decorating projects.

Her ability to curate and display these personal

treasures has created a trademark style that is
loved internationally.

Curate, the highly anticipated book by creative

duo Lynda Gardener and journalist and stylist Ali
Heath, reveals how to create a home that is truly
individual.

With their shared love of a monochrome aesthetic

and natural imperfections, they explore the eight
Lynda Gardener and Ali Heath Elements that bring a space to life: palette, nature,
Hardback 9781409181675 | $55.00 textiles, lighting, a combination of old and new,
Ebook 9781784727840 | $24.099 storage, collections and art.
Mitchell Beazley
Ten aspirational homes show the style in practice,
including a converted warehouse, one-bedroom
studio, bijoux apartment, historic cottage, country
estate, new-build barn, remote shack, period
townhouse and rural retreat.

With gloriously evocative photography and plenty

Location: Melbourne, VIC and UK of down-to-earth ideas, Curate will encourage the
Touring: N reader to embrace their individual style, dream big
Interviews: Y and create a timeless interior of their own.
Contact: @Ailie.Springall

LYNDA GARDENER is an Australian-based interior stylist.

She has been credited internationally as the founder of
one of the first global lifestyle stores, Empire, which she
started in her twenties in Melbourne.

ALI HEATH is a UK-based interiors writer, stylist and

content creator and has over 15 years’ freelance
experience, working with prestigious interior and lifestyle
magazines.

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BELONGING THE MENOPAUSE MANIFESTO

Owen Eastwood Dr Jennifer Gunter

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Quercus Piatkus

Whakapapa is a Maori idea which embodies our The only thing predictable about menopause
universal human need to belong. It represents a is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread
powerful spiritual belief — that each of us is part misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture
of an unbroken and unbreakable chain of people of shame around women’s bodies, and it’s no
who share a sacred identity and culture. wonder women are unsure what to expect during
the menopause transition and beyond.
Owen Eastwood places this concept at the core of
his methods to maximise a team’s performance. Menopause is not a disese — it’s a planned
In this book he reveals, for the first time, the ethos change, like puberty. And just like puberty, we
that has made him one of the most in-demand should be educated on what’s to come years
Performance Coaches in the world. in advance, rather than the current practice of
leaving people on their own with bothersome
In Belonging, Owen weaves together insights from
symptoms and conflicting information. Knowing
Homo sapiens’ evolutionary story and ancestral
what is happening, why and what to do about it is
wisdom. He shines a light on where these powerful
both empowering and reassuring.
ideas are applied around our world in high-
performing settings encompassing sport, business, Filled with practical, reassuring information, this
the arts and military, and how these methods can frank, funny and essential guide will revolutionise
be used to help your team unlock it’s full potential. how women experience menopause.

Location: United Kingdom Location: San Francisco

Touring: N Touring: N
Interviews: Y Interviews: Y
Contact: @Bella.Lloyd Contact: @Emily.Lighezzolo

OWEN EASTWOOD has worked with some of the most DR JENNIFER GUNTER, MD, is an OB/GYN and a pain
elite teams and groups in the world, including the medicine physician. She writes a lot about sex, science,
Command Group of NATO, the South African Cricket and social media and is the New York Times bestselling
Team, elite ballet and the British Olympic team. author of The Vagina Bible. She has been called Twitter’s
resident gynaecologist and the internet’s OB/GYN.

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HITTING AGAINST THE SPIN UNWELL WOMEN

Nathan Leamon and Ben Jones Elinor Cleghorn

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Constable Orion

In an era of big-data, how are leaders in sport, From the ‘wandering womb’ of ancient Greece, the
business, politics and education supposed to use rise of witch trials in Medieval Europe, through the
the power of this new tool productively? Hitting dawn of Hysteria, to modern day understandings
Against the Spin is an object lesson in how to use of autoimmune diseases, the menopause and
data and analytics to elucidate the science and conditions like endometriosis, feminist cultural
structure of cricket. historian Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the
perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and
Easy to read and packed with illustrative diagrams,
misdiagnosis of women’s bodies.
it manages to be both enjoyable and accessible
to the newcomer who wants to understand the Packed with character studies of women who
game better, and also shocking and absorbing to have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical
the expert. orthodoxy, and drawing on her own experience
of un-diagnosed Lupus disease, this is a ground-
From one of the world’s foremost cricket thinkers
breaking and timely exposé of the medical world
— the man who first introduced modern data
and a woman’s place within it.
analysis to cricket and who works alongside some
of the best players and coaches in the world —
Nathan Leamon has written the book that no one
else could write.

Location: UK Location: United Kingdom

Touring: N Touring: N
Interviews: Y Interviews: Y
Contact: @Publicity Contact: @Publicity

NATHAN LEAMON is England Cricket’s Lead for Research DR ELINOR CLEGHORN is a feminist cultural historian.
and Innovation, and the Lead Analyst with the England After receiving her PhD in 2012, Elinor spent three years
One-Day team. BEN JONES is an analyst at CricViz, the as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of
world’s leading cricket analytics provider. Oxford. She now works as a writer and researcher, and
lives in Sussex.

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 THE BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN
TREES

Trees tell stories about places, and

Australia has some of the tallest,
oldest, and most unusual trees in
the world. From the red ironbark to
the grey gum, trees are each a little
different, just like people.

Trees tell stories about places. They have changed

over thousands of years, adapting to this
continent’s deserts, mountains, and coasts. Many
have found clever ways of dealing with drought
and fire.

Their leaves, flowers and seeds are food for birds,

insects and mammals. Old trees have lots of
hollows, which make good homes for possums,
sugar gliders, birds and bees. But trees aren’t just
important for other animals, we need them too.
What trees breathe out, we breathe in. They are a
vital part of the Earth’s ecosystems.

When you first stand in a forest, the trees all seem

the same. But if you look more closely, they are
Inga Simpson
each a little different, like people. This book is a
Hardback 9780734418531 | $26.99
Ebook 9780734418548 | $9.99 love song to Australian trees, from the red ironbark
Lothian Children’s Books to the grey gum, the Moreton bay fig to the
Queensland bottle tree.

The first book for children from one of Australia’s

most beloved authors.

Location: South Coast, NSW

Touring: Y
Interviews: Y
Contact: @Bella.Lloyd

INGA SIMPSON began her career as a professional writer

for government before gaining a PhD in creative writing.
In 2011, she took part in the Queensland Writers Centre
Manuscript Development Program and, as a result,
Hachette Australia published her first novel, Mr Wigg, in
2013. Nest, Inga’s second novel, was published in 2014,
before being longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary
Award and the Stella Prize, and shortlisted for the ALS
Gold Medal. Inga’s third novel, the acclaimed Where the
Trees Were, was published in 2016.

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 RACHEL’S WAR

An inspiring story about the bravery

and sacrifices of Australian nurses
in World War I, by award-winning
author and illustrator Mark Wilson.

Growing up on a farm in country Victoria, all Rachel

wants is to help people.

When war comes, she travels to distant Europe

and the Middle East, working tirelessly to care for
wounded and sick soldiers from the battlefields of
Gallipoli and the Western Front.

Inspired by the life of Rachel Pratt, a World War

I Australian army nurse who was awarded the
Military Medal for bravery, this is an incredible story
of bravery and sacrifice.

Mark Wilson
Hardback 9780734420114 | $26.99
Ebook 9780734420121 | $11.99
Lothian Children’s Books

Location: Frankston, VIC

Touring: VIC
Interviews: Y
Contact: @Ailie.Springall

Acclaimed author/illustrator MARK WILSON’s picture

books include the war-themed series, My Mother’s Eyes:
The Story Of A Boy Soldier, Angel Of Kokoda, Vietnam
Diary and Digger, The Dog Who Went To War. He has
also written and illustrated Migaloo, The White Whale,
Beth: The Story Of A Child Convict, Never Lose Hope:
The Story Of Australia’s First School and the art-themed
books Ben & Gracie’s Art Adventure and Inside The
World Of Tom Roberts. Mark lives in Frankston, Victoria.

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THE EXPLODING LIFE OF THE WIZARDS OF ONCE: NEVER
SCARLETT FIFE AND FOREVER

Maz Evans Cressida Cowell

Paperback 9781444957679 | $14.99 Paperback 9781444957136 | $15.99
Ebook 9781444957686 | $9.99 Ebook 9781444956412 | $9.99
Hodder Children’s Books Hodder Children’s Books

Scarlett Fife has BIG feelings. And she’s about to Xar and Wish have found the ingredients for the
get into BIG trouble. From the bestselling Maz Evans Spell-to-get-rid-of-Witches. Now the Kingwitch is
comes a heartfelt and hilarious new series, perfect calling them to the lake of the lost. But first they
for fans of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. must mix the potion in the Cup of Second
Chances . . .
Scarlett Fife has BIG FEELINGS. And when she has
BIG FEELINGS, they explode out of her like an over- Can they defeat the hungry Tatzelwurm monster
squeezed stress ball. and escape with the cup? And will the spell be
strong enough to lift the CURSE OF THE WILDWOODS
Scarlett’s in big trouble after a BIG FEELINGS . . . or will Witches reign FOREVER?
episode leads to a runaway hamster getting into
the vicar’s trousers at her aunty’s engagement The final book in the magical The Wizards of Once
party. If she loses her temper ONE MORE TIME, she’s series.
going to miss out on her trip to Mega Awesome
Sicky Fun World, the best theme park on the planet.

‘A laugh-out-loud story full of warmth, Big Feelings

and explosive results.’ — Dominique Valente, author
of Starfell

Location: United Kingdom Location: London, UK

Touring: N Touring: N
Interviews: Y Interviews: Y
Contact: @Bella.Lloyd Contact: @Emily.Lighezzolo

MAZ EVANS is one of the funniest authors writing today. CRESSIDA COWELL is the author and illustrator of the
She visits hundreds of schools, libraries and festivals bestselling The Wizards of Once and How to Train Your
across the world each year to talk about her books. She Dragon books series, and the author of the Emily Brown
has been an award-winning songwriter, TV journalist picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton.
and scriptwriter.

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