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Belinda Alexandra has been published to wide acclaim in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Norway and Russia. She is the daughter of a Russian mother and an Australian father and has been an intrepid traveller since her youth.

Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages

Rights Licenced (previous titles): Belinda Alexandra’s fiction has been published in 14 languages, with international sales of over 1 million copies sold.

Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse hasn’t seen her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a rich American and left France. So when Emma receives a summons from New York, she is intrigued. But what she hoped would be an emotional reunion with her only family isn’t quite as Emma imagined.

Caroline lives a life of unimaginable excess as one of New York’s Gilded Age millionaires, but the society she moves in has a set of complicated and mysterious rules that bohemian Emma struggles to understand.

As she is increasingly seduced by the luxury surrounding her, she begins to lose sight of what is really important. But when a tragedy strikes she realises that there is much more going on beneath the surface. The glamour of New York society hides a seething nest of deceit, betrayal … and perhaps even murder.

THE INV ITAT IONBEL I NDA ALEXANDRA

The sumptuous new novel from Belinda Alexandra, author of Tuscan Rose and White Gardenia.

Manuscript Available August 2018

November 2018 | 488pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9780732296452

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Jesse Blackadder is an award-winning author of three other adult and three children’s books, and a budding screenwriter. This story is inspired by an event that occurred in her own family.


Rights Licenced: US (St Martin’s Press, Macmillan), Chinese – Simplified (Beijing Xiron)

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The Brennans − parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby − have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart to subtropical Murwillumbah. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they’re still adjusting to work, school, and life in a sprawling purple weatherboard, when one morning, tragedy strikes.

In the devastating aftermath, the questions fly. What really happened? And who’s to blame?

Determined to protect his family, Finn finds himself under the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged, Bridget spends nights hunting answers in the last place imaginable. Jarrah − his innocence lost − faces a sudden and frightening adulthood where nothing is certain.

Sixty Seconds is a haunting, redemptive story about forgiveness and hope.

‘Blackadder’s masterful, moving novel explores the unraveling of a family in the face of unimaginable loss- and how they ultimately stitch themselves back together. A searing study of grief, marriage and forgiveness, this book grabbed me by the heart and didn’t let go.’ – Colleen Oakley, author of Before I Go and Close Enough to Touch

‘Sixty Seconds is devastating, heartbreaking, and gut-wrenching. It is also immeasurably beautiful and by far one of the most powerful and compelling explorations of loss and grief I have ever encountered.’— Rhiannon Navin, author of Only Child

S IXTY S E C O NDSJESSE BLACKADDER

A novel of hope.

Manuscript Available

October 2017 | 384pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460754245

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BOY S WALLO W S UNIVE R S E T RENT DALTON

A utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in a violent working class suburban fringe – from one of Australia’s most exciting new writers.

Manuscript Available April 2018

July 2018 | 488pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460753897

Trent Dalton is an award-winning journalist who writes for The Weekend Australian Magazine. A former assistant editor of The Courier-Mail, he has won a Walkley, been a four-time winner of the national News Awards Feature Journalist of the Year Award, and was named Queensland Journalist of the Year at the 2011 Clarion Awards for excellence in Queensland media. His journalism has twice been nominated for a United Nations of Australia Media Peace Award.

His writing includes several short and feature-length film screenplays. His latest feature film screenplay, Home, is a love story inspired by his non-fiction collection Detours: Stories from the Street (2011), the culmination of three months immersed in Brisbane’s homeless community, the proceeds of which went back to the 20 people featured within its pages.


Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It’s not as if Eli’s life isn’t complicated enough already. He’s just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way – not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.

But if Eli’s life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He’s about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Prison on Christmas Day, to save his mum.

A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.

‘An astonishing achievement. Dalton is a breath of fresh air - raw, honest, funny, moving, he has created a novel of the most surprising and addictive nature. Unputdownable.’ – David Wenham

‘This novel is a raucous, moving, hilarious triumph - a major new voice on the Australian literary scene has arrived.’ – Nikki Gemmell

‘Enthralling - a moving account of sibling solidarity and the dogged pursuit of love.’ – Geoffrey Robertson QC

‘I couldn’t stop reading from the moment I started, and I still can barely speak for the beauty of it. Trent Dalton has done something very special here, writing with grace, from his own broken heart.’ – Caroline Overington

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Tess Evans’s first novel, the bestselling Book of Lost Threads was published in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Indie Awards 2011 and longlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has since published The Memory Tree and Mercy Street. Previous to her writing debut, Tess taught and counselled a wide range of people: youth at risk, migrants, Indigenous trainees, apprentices, sole parents and unemployed workers of all ages and professions.


Rights Licensed (previous titles): Over 4 million copies of Jackie French’s titles have been sold internationally, and her work has been published in 36 languages.

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Jack McPhail is a man on the run from his past, a drifter who lands by accident in a sleepy outback Australian town called Banjo Crossing. Jack – almost despite himself – becomes slowly drawn into the town, its community, its characters and its concerns. He’s on the brink of falling in love with Mardi, a young widow and owner of the local coffee shop, when the community is confronted and divided by an unexpected development. A coal mining company has come to town, intent on buying up the local properties to build an open cut mine.

The town of Banjo Crossing rallies together to fight off the threat. Jack wants to help out his new friends, but if he does, he’s at risk of his past being exposed. Having his secret out there could change everything for him. Will he help them out, even if it costs him his second chance at happiness?

THE B ALLAD OF BANJ O CR OSS INGT ESS EVANS

A tender, heart-warming and utterly appealing novel about the power of community, love, loss and second chances.


December 2017 | 336pp | 190x135mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460754184

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THE L I LY AN D THE ROSE JA CKIE FRENCH

In this sequel to the bestselling Miss Lily’s Lovely Ladies, Jackie French draws us further into a compelling story that celebrates the passion and adventure of an unstoppable army of women who changed the world.


April 2018 | 384pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460753590

Heiress Sophie Higgs was ‘a rose of no-man’s land’, founding hospitals across war-torn Europe during the horror that was WWI.

Now, in the 1920s, Sophie’s wartime work must be erased so that the men who returned can find some kind of ‘normality’.

Sophie is, however, a graduate of the mysterious Miss Lily’s school of charm and intrigue, and once more she risks her own life as she attempts to save others still trapped in the turmoil and aftermath of war.

But in this new world, nothing is clear, in politics or in love. For the role of men has changed too. Torn between the love of three very different men, Sophie will face her greatest danger yet as she attempts an impossible journey across the world to save Nigel, Earl of Shillings – and her beloved Miss Lily.

Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator and was the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-2015 and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to children’s literature and her advocacy for youth literacy.


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There have been fires before, but not like this.

In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who live at Gibber’s Creek know their land can burn.But when you love your land, you fight for it.

For Jed Kelly, an even more menacing danger looms: a man from her past determined to destroy her. Finding herself alone, trapped and desperate to save her unborn child, Jed’s only choice is to flee – into the flames.

Heartbreaking and powerful, Facing the Flame celebrates the triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land so deep that not even bushfire can erode it.

FACIN G THE FLAME

JACKIE FRENCH

There have been fires before, but not like this. Heartbreaking and powerful, Facing the Flame is a story of the triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land so deep that not even bushfire can erode it.



Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator and was the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-2015 and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to children’s literature and her advocacy for youth literacy.


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It’s 1921, and after two years at home in Australia, Katherine King Button has had enough. Her rich parents have ordered her to get married, but after serving as a nurse during the horrors of the Great War, she has vowed never to take orders again. She flees her parents and the prison of their expectations for the place of friendship and freedom: Paris.

Paris in 1921 is the city of freedom, the place where she can remake herself as Kiki Button, gossip columnist extraordinaire, partying with the rich and famous, the bohemian and bold, the suspicious and strange.

But on the modelling dais, Picasso gives her a job: to find his wife’s portrait, which has gone mysteriously missing. That same night, her old spymaster from the war contacts her – she has to find a double agent or face jail. Through parties, whisky and informants, Kiki has to use every ounce of her determination, her wit and her wiles to save herself, the man she adores, and the life she has come to love – in just one week.

Full of witty banter, gorgeous frocks, fast action and skulduggery galore, April in Paris,1921 is playful, charming, witty, sexy, and very, very entertaining – and Kiki Button, the fearless, beautiful and blonde-bobbed ex-Army nurse, gossip-columnist-turned-detective, and reluctant spy, is a heroine to win hearts.

Tessa Lunney is a novelist, poet, and academic. In 2013, she graduated from the Western Sydney University with a Doctorate of Creative Arts that explored silence in Australian war fiction. In 2016 she won the prestigious Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature for ‘Chess and Dragonflies’ and the A Room Of Her Own Foundation Orlando Prize for Fiction for her story ‘Those Ebola Burners Them’.

Rights Held: World English (excl. US and its territories); Translation – all languages

APRIL IN PAR IS , 1921T ESSA LUNNEY

Meet the glamorous, witty and charming Kiki Button: socialite, private detective and spy. We all have secrets – it’s just that Kiki has more than most …


June 2018 | 304pp | 234x152mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460755778

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Sydney-based Meg Mason is the author of the popular ‘Mum Vs. World’ column for Sunday Magazine, where she served as Managing Editor in 2010. Meg began her career at the Financial Times in London before switching to The Times. After relocating to Sydney she began writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, Russh, Cosmopolitan and GQ.


Rights Licensed (previous titles): Canada (HarperCollins Canada)

The only thing Abi ever wanted was a family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Southfields fast enough, to start all over in Sydney.

It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the only person she knows in this hot, confusing city, where the job of making friends is turning out to be harder than she thought. That is, until she meets Phyllida, a charming, imperious older neighbour, recently widowed, rattling around in her enormous house. Phil is hankering for a little project, and as much in need of company as Abi. The unusual pair become fast friends, anchors in each other’s otherwise featureless days.

If only Abi had not told Phil one tiny lie, the very first day they met…

A delightful, warm, funny and totally endearing novel about families – the ones we have, and the ones we want – and the stories we tell ourselves about them. For fans of India Knight, Allison Pearson and Nina Stibbe.

YOU B E MO T HER

M EG MASON

A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies.


September 2017 | 320pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780732293536

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James Moloney is one of Australia’s most respected and awarded authors. All but two of his books have been shortlisted for or won CBC awards, and he’s also been awarded Family Awards for Children’s Literature, Children’s Peace Literature Awards, Multicultural Children’s Literature Awards and had titles selected for inclusion in the International Youth Library in Munich


Margot Baumann has left school to take up her sister’s job in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.

Margot is shielded from the camp’s brutality as she has no contact with prisoners. But she does handle their mail and, when given a cigarette lighter and told to burn the letters, she is horrified by the callous act she must carry out with her own hands. This is especially painful since her brother was taken prisoner at Stalingrad and her family have had no letters from him. So Margot steals a few letters, intending to send them in secret, only to find herself drawn to their heartrending words of hope, of despair, and of love.

This is how Margot comes to know Dieter Kleinschmidt – through the beauty and the passion of his letters to his girlfriend.

And since his girlfriend is also named Margot, it is like reading love letters written for her.

THE LOV E THAT I HAVEJA M ES MOLONEY

For fans of The Book Thief, a powerful and heartbreaking story set during WWII that stays with you long after the final page is read.



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THE R ULE S OF BACKYAR D CROQUETSUNNI OVEREND

All’s fair in love and couture, in the stylish new novel from the author of The Dangers of Truffle Hunting.


March 2018 | 400pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460752111

Disgraced fashion prodigy Apple March has gone into hiding, concealing herself within the cashmere and silk folds of a formerly grand fashion boutique – the hanging of blouses and handling of difficult patrons now her only concern.

But when her sister Poppy needs a wedding dress, old passions are reignited … along with threats from her past. As Apple finds herself falling for someone she shouldn’t, her quest to re-emerge becomes entangled in a time she wants forgotten, and life unravels as quickly as it began to mend. From the cool heart of Melbourne, to Paris and New York, in an effervescent world of croquet, Campari and cocoon coats, can Apple prevail over demons past to come of age and inhabit the woman she was born to be?

Sunni Overend is a graphic design grad, and the daughter of the late, award-winning children’s author Jenni Overend. Sunni worked briefly in creative advertising before building an online fashion store and concurrently wrote two women’s fiction manuscripts. She married her architect husband in 2013 (yes, he did look good on paper), sold her online store, and merged her areas of expertise to self-publish her first novel, March.


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Luke Slattery is a Sydney-based journalist, editor and columnist whose work appears in The Australian, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review. Internationally he has been published at The New Yorker online, the LA Times, the International Herald Tribune, the UK Spectator and the US Chronicle of Higher Education. Mrs. M is his fifth book, and his first novel.


Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgraced former Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning – not only for her husband, but the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony into a bright new world.

Over the course of one long sleepless night on the windswept isle of Mull, she remembers her life in that wild and strange country; a revolution of ideas as dramatic as any in history; and her dangerous alliance with the brilliant, mercurial Francis Greenway, the colony’s maverick architect. A stirring, provocative and thrilling novel of passion, ideas, reforming zeal and desire.

MRS. MLUKE SLATTERY

From one of Australia’s foremost journalists comes a bravura literary achievement, a rich and intense novel of an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman.


November 2017 | 320pp | 210x153mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780732271817

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Julie Thomas worked in the media for over 25 years in radio, television and film, before turning to full-time writing. The Keeper of Secrets was originally self-published as an ebook titled The Secret Keeper, and sold more than 30,000 copies and received many five-star reviews.


Rights Licenced: Dutch (VBK Media)

Rights Licensed / Publication (previous titles): US (William Morrow, HarperCollins)

What family Levi Horowitz has left after the Holocaust assume that their silent observer spent WWII interred in a camp for ‘foreign aliens’ on the Isle of Man and that his experience was so different from Simon’s in Dachau, that shame kept him quiet. These assumptions could not be further from the truth. Enraged by what he sees The Third Reich doing to his homeland, Levi volunteers for a program that uses his language skills and his acting ability but demands tremendous courage.

He is parachuted behind enemy lines into France in late 1940 and helps to establish the resistance network there, before heading north to Denmark and Norway. A botched raid sees him arrested by the Gestapo and condemned to transportation to a ‘labour camp’ out east. But he escapes from the moving cattle train and makes his way to Italy. When the medieval town of Assisi is over-run by German troops Levi is in a unique position to participate in one of the most extraordinary true stories of WWII. He battles with his own inner demons, becomes one of the most unlikely Partisans and unlike so many, he survives with his secrets intact.

LEV I ’S WARJUL IE THOMAS

Levi’s War follows on from The Keeper of Secrets and Rachel’s Legacy, tracing the story of the eldest Horowitz son, Levi, who is smuggled out of Berlin to London the day after the Kristallnacht in 1938.


June 2018 | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781775540922

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Sarah Barrie lives with her husband and children in a rural area inland from the Central Coast of NSW. She divides her time between writing, being a mum and her position as editor of an Australian equestrian magazine. When she finds a spare moment or two, she enjoys spending time with her Arabian horses and the various other animals that call the farm home. Though her writing career has traditionally revolved around producing articles for various publications, her true passion lies in writing fiction.

Rights Held: World English language

Indiana O’Meara is no stranger to the forces of evil. Her own past is full of violence. Now a policewoman, Indy is always fighting to redeem herself and defeat the dark. So when girls begin to go missing at a remote cattle station in Tasmania, she is quick to agree to go undercover to investigate chief suspect, the owner of Calico Mountain Lodge, Logan Atherton, even though last time she went undercover it came to a bloody end.

But her early encounter with Logan Atherton reveals a man full of contradictions. His deep empathy for horses and those he cares for is obvious but he is also taciturn to the point of rudeness, and there is a strange atmosphere at the lodge. It doesn’t add up.

As Indy begins to dig deeper into the secrets at the Lodge, she finds herself embroiled in a murderous web more complex and terrifying than she could ever have imagined …

BLOO D TR E E R IVERSA RAH BARR IE

From the author of the bestselling Hunters Ridge series comes this stand-alone twisty rural suspense, set against the dark backdrop of Tasmanian mountains.


May 2018 | 352pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489255273

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USA Today bestselling author Alissa Callen is a country girl happiest living far from the city fringe. She draws inspiration from the countryside around her and from the resilience of local bush communities. Once a teacher and a counsellor, she remains interested in the life journeys that people take.


Rights Licensed / Publication (previous titles): Germany (Bastei Lubbe/Rural Romance)

Dr Fliss Knight returns to small town Woodlea after losing a patient. Her confidence and city career in tatters, she buys a rundown farm. She intends to live a solitary life and hopes that the slow country pace will help her heal.

Pick-up rider Hewitt Sinclair is no stranger to when things can get hairy in a rodeo arena. But when it is the life of his twin brother he can’t save, he hangs up his spurs. Determined to provide for his brother’s widow and young family, he gives himself no time to grieve. But when a motor bike accident proves he needs to also look out for himself, he accepts an old friend’s invitation to stay at an isolated property while his body heals.

When Fliss meets the cowboy living in the bluestone stables across the garden, all her hopes for a quiet and peaceful life fade when they find themselves drawn to each other.

But as a family secret threatens every truth Fliss has ever believed, and the heavy spring rain continues to fall, both Fliss and Hewitt must face their deepest fears. Will love be enough to guarantee happiness or will the past refuse to relinquish its dark hold?

THE R E D D IR T ROADA LI SSA CALLEN

A moving rural love story about two people who, in the face of life’s tragedies, realise the strength they have within themselves and that they could be even stronger together.


February 2018 | 352pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781489246738

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Tea Cooper lives in a stone cottage on one hundred acres of bushland, just outside the timewarp village of Wollombi, NSW. When she isn’t writing, Tea can be found haunting the local museum or chatting to the locals, who provide her with a never-ending source of inspiration.


A woman’s bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations uncovering secrets, lies and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century – the classification of the platypus.

1808 Agnes Banks, NSW: Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his groundbreaking study of the platypus that could turn the scientific world on its head.

1908 Sydney, NSW: Tamsin Alleyn has been given a mission: travel to the Hunter Valley and retrieve an old sketchbook of debatable value, gifted to the Public Library by a recluse. But when she gets there, she finds there is more to the book than meets the eye, and more than one interested party.

As the lives of two women a century apart converge, discoveries rise up from the past and reach into the future, with irrevocable consequences …

THE N ATUR AL IST ’S DAUGHTE RT EA COOPER

Scientific Discovery Set in the 19th Century. A story of powerful women at a time when women’s power was curtailed.


January 2018 | 356pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781489242426

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For Darry Fraser, writing is her journey and the Australian landscape – from rural to coastal, arid lands to desert – is her home and hearth. History, hidden stories, catalysts and powerful connections between humans drive her stories. She enjoys writing well-developed characters and layered stories, weaving in her life experience, and is passionate about telling a great tale.


Ard O’Rourke is Linley Seymour’s perfect man. They’ve known each other since they were children and she has never wanted anyone else. But when she discovers Ard has fathered a child with another woman, her dreams turn to dust.

Then fate takes a hand. Linley and her Aunt Cee Cee run a women’s refuge and Linley finds herself unexpectedly and painfully the guardian of Ard’s baby: a child that needs her protection from the greed–filled schemes of a violent man.

Ard knows he has no hope with Linley and decides to follow his own path: one that brings him close to redemption. But when he learns Linley and the child are in danger, his own child at that, he cannot stop himself speeding to their aid.

Will he prevail? Can Linley find it in her heart to forgive him? Or will their love come to nothing at the hands of a violent man?

A compulsively readable historical adventure, set on the banks of the mighty Murray River.

WHE R E THE MURRAY R IVE R R UN SDA RRY FRASER

From a bestselling debut author, this historical adventure romance is a compulsively readable story of hate, honour and an overwhelming love.


December 2017 | 400pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489248862

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Cathryn Hein was born in South Australia’s rural south-east. With three generations of jockeys in the family it was little wonder she grew up horse mad. Cathryn currently lives at the base of the Blue Mountains, near Penrith in Sydney’s far west, with her partner of many years, Jim.

Rights Held: World English language

After landing a major cookbook deal, star food blogger Tash Ranger swaps city life for the family farm. But Tash’s homecoming is bittersweet, for now she can no longer avoid seeing her best friend Maddie, who was severely injured in a riding accident and unable to communicate. No one knows that Maddie and Tash had a deep falling out and with every visit Tash must pretend to be the friend everyone believes her to be.

Patrick Lawson, Maddie’s fiancé, battles despair and hope daily as Maddie lies imprisoned in her body, gradually losing his faith in her recovery. When Tash returns to Castlereagh Road with her joy and boundless appetite for life, he realises finally what his loved ones have been trying to tell him for months – that Maddie wouldn’t want him to throw his life away. It’s time to move on. But letting go is no easy feat, especially if moving on means Tash. He’s a country boy and she is a star on the rise with ambitions that could propel her out of reach.

Can these two friends step out of the shadow of Maddie’s tragic life and accept love, or is the past forever destined to dictate their future?

THE C O UNTRY G IRLCAT HRYN HE IN

Bestselling author Cathryn Hein returns with a moving and uplifting rural romance about facing hard truths and moving on in pursuit of life.


January 2018 | 352pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781489242488

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Born and brought up in Wales, Jennie Jones loved anything with a romantic element from an early age. At eighteen, she went to drama school in London then spent a number of years performing in British theatres, becoming someone else two hours, eight performances a week. Jennie wrote her first romance story at the age of twenty-five whilst ‘resting’ (a theatrical term for ‘out of work’).


Jaxine Brown has made a good life for herself with her café and her animal rescue shelter in Western Australian outback town, Mt Maria. But the homecoming of her secret teenage daughter, Frances, changes everything. At only seventeen, Jax was coerced to give up the baby to Frances’s father and his wife. Finally, she has a chance to make it right for her resentful and awkward teenager, and hasn’t got time to think about the recently returned handsome former detective, who inexplicably disappeared in the middle of their only date last year.

Detective Senior Sergeant Jack Maxwell arrives in Mt Maria, seemingly back in uniform as Officer In Charge, while his mate Senior Sergeant Luke Weston is on leave. But Jack’s real purpose is investigating suspicion of drug trafficking and the man they’re watching works in the closest mine to the town. He expects to have this case wrapped up in four weeks, and feels he can take his time, not only with the case but also with Jaxine Brown, the woman he hasn’t been able to get out of his mind.

When graffiti and vandalism escalate in an issue involving stolen animals, Jax and Frances are unwittingly drawn into a mystery that suggests a connection to the same mine Jack has under surveillance.

A PLAC E WIT H HEAR T JENNIE JONES

Can three misfits build a family in this remote town?


April 2018 | 352pp Paperback | ISBN 9781489246790

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Emily Madden covets books like some women covet shoes and handbags (although she has a decent collection of each of those too!). While she reads anything and everything, stories that touch the heart and uplift the soul are what she loves the most. Emily lives in Sydney with her two girls and husband. She’s a coffee lover and can often be found writing at her local haunts.

Rights Held: World (excl. Germany) English language

From Pearl Harbour to the shores of Sydney, a family secret that spans generations could unite a family – or destroy it.

Honolulu, Hawaii 1941. On the evening of her sixteenth birthday party, Catherine McGarrie wants nothing more than for the night to be over, even though the opulence of the ballroom befits the daughter of a US Navy Rear Admiral. Then she meets Charlie, a navy officer from the other side of the tracks, a man her parents would never approve of.

As rumours of war threaten their tropical paradise, Catherine and Charlie fall in love. But the bombing of Pearl Harbour on 7th December 1941 changes their lives forever.

Seventy-five years later, addled by age and painkillers, Catherine tells her granddaughter Kit her story and reveals the tale of a long-lost treasure. Can Kit uncover the secret and reunite her family? Or will the truth tear them apart?

THE LOS T PE A RLEMI LY MADDEN

A sweeping family saga of long lost love, a forbidden secret and a family reunited.

Manuscript Available June 2018

September 2018 | 400pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489251343

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Mandy Magro lives in Far North Queensland with her daughter, Chloe Rose. With pristine aqua-blue coastline in one direction and sweeping rural landscapes in the other, she describes her home as heaven on earth. A passionate woman and a romantic at heart, she loves writing about soul-deep love, the Australian rural way of life and all the wonderful characters that live there.


Alexis Brown was thirteen when her parents were killed. The police labelled it a murder-suicide, but Alexis has grown up believing her loving father could never have hurt her mother. So when, seventeen years later, Alexis receives an anonymous note telling her the police were wrong and her parents were both murdered, she’s determined to return to Blue Ridge and find out the truth.

When Alexis arrives at the newly renovated cottage hoping to awaken her lost memories, she can’t help but notice how strong and handsome her childhood friend Ethan King has become. But she’s not here for love. As soon as the truth is uncovered she has to return to her life, and falling for him would only leave her with a broken heart.

For Ethan, getting to know the resilient woman that Alexis has blossomed into leaves his world upside down. But as they spend the days together and with their mutual love for horses, it doesn’t take long for Alexis and Ethan to discover their friendship is much more than they’d first thought … But will it all be threatened by a shocking secret from all those years ago?

MOM E N T OF TRUTHM A NDY MAGRO

With over 65,000 copies sold in print, Mandy Magro is a leading writer of Australian rural fiction. Romance meets mystery in her newest book, where a woman’s search for justice uncovers murky family secrets.


December 2017 | 320pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489241177

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Victoria Purman is a multi-published, award-nominated author. Victoria has worked in and around the Adelaide media for nearly thirty years as an ABC television and radio journalist, a speechwriter to a Premier, political adviser, editor, media adviser and private sector communications consultant. She is a Vice President of Romance Writers of Australia, and a longstanding member of the SA Writers Centre Board and the Carclew Youth Arts Board. She is a regular guest at writers’ festivals and has been nominated for a number of readers’ choice awards.


The war is over, but their fight for a new life is about to begin …

1954: When sixteen-year-old Hungarian Elizabeta arrives in Australia with her family, she is hoping to escape the hopelessness of life as a refugee in post–war Germany. Her first stop is the Bonegilla Migrant Camp, a temporary home for thousands of new arrivals, all looking for work and a better life. There, Elizabeta becomes firm friends with the feisty Greek Vasiliki; quiet Italian Iliana; and the adventurous Frances, the daughter of the camp’s director.

In this vibrant and growing country, the Bonegilla girls rush together towards a life that seems full of promise, even as they cope with the legacy of war, the oppressive nature of family tradition and ever-present sorrow. So when a ghost from the past reaches out for Elizabeta and threatens to pull her back into the shadows, there is nothing that her friends wouldn’t do to keep her safe.

THE LAS T OF THE BONE G ILLA G IRLSVI CT ORIA PURMAN

Their friendship transcends nationality and background, but can it overcome the horrors of the past?



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Lily Malone trained as a journalist and worked in newspapers before becoming editor of Australia’s largest wine industry trade publisher. After the birth of her two boys, she discovered writing romantic stories set in Australia’s vineyards was much more fun than writing about diseases of grapevines or the latest French clone.


Ella Davenport hasn’t been in a swimming pool since a bad decision ruined her chance of Olympic gold. So when Ella decides on a new career selling property, she chooses Chalk Hill. The country town is a long way from the water, with no pool in sight. Perfect!

Jake Honeychurch doesn’t want to sell his nanna’s house, but circumstances force his hand. Listing the property with the rookie real estate agent in town and asking a hefty price means it shouldn’t find a buyer. Perfect!

But determination and persistence are traits Jake admires, and Ella has them in spades. After all, no one ever made an Olympic team by being a quitter. When news breaks of a proposed waterski park, a local developer starts sniffing around Honeychurch House. Ella’s first sale is so close she can taste it, until a sharp-eyed local recognises her. Between sale negotiations with Jake that keep getting side-tracked, and a swimming pool committee hellbent on making a splash, Ella has more to contend with than kisses and chlorine.

Can she throw off the failures of the past and take the chance of a new start? Or will her dreams of a new life be washed away?

WATE R UNDER THE BR IDGE L I LY MALONE

The first book in an all-new series of loosely-linked romances where the three Honeychurch brothers each find love.


March 2018 | 384pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489250469

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Tricia Stringer is a bestselling and multiple award-winning author. Her books include the rural romances Queen of the Road, Right as Rain, Riverboat Point, Between the Vines, A Chance of Stormy Weather and Come Rain or Shine. She also writes historical fiction. Her sagas Heart of the Country, Dust on the Horizon and Jewel in the North are set in the 19th Century Flinders Ranges. Tricia grew up on a farm in country South Australia and has spent most of her life in rural communities, as owner of a post office and bookshop, as a teacher and librarian, and now as a full-time writer. She now lives in the beautiful Copper Coast region with her husband Daryl. From here she travels and explores Australia’s diverse communities and landscapes, and shares this passion for the country and its people through her stories.


A cruise, no matter how magical, can’t change your life...can it?

Clever, charming dressmaker Ketty Clift is embarking on her final cruise from Sydney before she must make serious changes in her life. Supported by the ship’s all-powerful maitre d’ Carlos, she has a mission: transform the lives of those who join her at her dining table every evening. Not only can Ketty turn Cinderellas into princesses with her legendary style-eye, but she has a gift for bringing people together.

But this trip is different. As the glamour and indulgence of the cruise takes hold, and the ship sails further away from Sydney towards the Pacific Islands, it becomes clear that her fellow travellers – a troubled family, a grieving widower and an angry divorcee determined to wreak revenge on her ex – are going to be harder work than usual.

As Ketty tries to deal with her own problems, including the unexpected arrival on board of her long-lost love, Leo – the man who broke her heart – as well as troubling news from home, she begins to realise that people are not always who they seem, including Leo. Could this be the one cruise that defeats her?

Suffused with gentle humour, this warm, uplifting story shows the importance of being true to yourself and how important to real happiness are faith, generosity and learning to let go...

TAB LE F OR E IGHTT RI C IA STR INGER

From bestselling Australian author and master storyteller Tricia Stringer comes this uplifting novel of unlikely dining companions thrown together on a transformative journey.


October 2018 | 400pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489246806

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Annie Seaton lives on the edge of the ocean with her own hero of many years. Since their two children fled the nest and three beautiful grandchildren arrived, they share their home with Toby, the naughtiest dog in the universe, and a lively rag doll cat called Barney. Each winter, Annie and her husband leave the beach to roam the remote areas of Australia for researching her eco-adventure stories.


When Olivia Sheridan arrives in the Whitsundays as spokesperson for big mining company Sheridan Corp, it should be a straightforward presentation to the town about their proposed project. But when a handsome local fisherman shows her what ecological impact the proposal will have, Olivia is forced to question her father’s motives in the project.

Struggling with newly divided loyalties, Olivia is thrown further into turmoil when she is mistaken for a woman who disappeared more than 60 years before. When it becomes clear that Captain Jay is also keeping secrets, Olivia realises that there is more to these sunshine-soaked islands than she ever expected.

Seeking to uncover the truth, Olivia is drawn into a dangerous game where powerful businessmen will stop at nothing to ensure their plan goes ahead, even if that means eliminating her…

Against the epic Far North Queensland landscape, this is the story of two women, separated by history, drawn to Whitsunday Island where their futures will be changed forever.

WHITS UN DAY DAWNA N NIE SEATON

With the pristine beauty of the Whitsundays under threat, can they expose the truth in time?

Australian author Annie Seaton brings to life a new area of romance – Eco-Adventure. Perfect for fans of Di Morrissey

Manuscript Available May 2018

August 2018 | 352pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489257802

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Adelaide-based freelance journalist Carla Caruso was a gossip columnist and fashion editor at Adelaide’s daily newspaper, The Advertiser. She has since freelanced for titles including Woman’s Day, Cleo and Shop Til You Drop. These days, in between writing warm and romantic novels (sometimes with a touch of cosy mystery), she plays mum to twin sons Alessio and Sebastian.


Eight years ago, Nella Martini ditched Adelaide’s ’burbs for the bright lights of Melbourne’s fashion scene. With her dreams in tatters, Nella has returned to the last place she wants to be – Torrente Blu, the market garden she has inherited from her late nonna.

Nella’s goal is to get straight back to Melbourne and start again. She just needs to clean up the property, sell it quickly, and avoid runins with her neighbour: attractive but surly Adrian Tomaso – childhood friend turned ardent organic farmer.

But when Nella comes across a handwritten cookbook in her nonna’s belongings things start to change. The place, with its endless tomato plants and gallons of olive oil in storage, gets under her skin, as does Adrian with his passion for this life. But her dreams have always meant being anywhere but here – haven’t they? Or has the right place been here all this time?

For Esta Feliciano in the 1950s, the right place was her Italian village. But in search of a better life than war-torn Italy has to offer, her husband has moved Esta and their daughter to this alien country, settling on a small, flat piece of land that he calls Torrente Blu.

THE R IGHT P LACECARLA CARUSO

Can the past show you the way home? Charming and memorable, The Right Place is a novel, combining warm romance with family drama and the longing to fit in.


September 2018 | 320pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489257819

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Alex Cearns of Houndstooth Studio is an internationally award-winning animal photographer who lives in WA. Her previous book was Zen Dogs (2016). Houndstooth Studio has over 150,000 social media followers worldwide.


Meet special little Vegemite with the permanent wink; Bali Pip, the playful pup who lost her fur; Raul, who takes partial paralysis in his stride; and many more, all seen through the lens of internationally award-winning photographer Alex Cearns.

In this inspiring portrayal of difference, Alex captures the intrinsic beauty and spirit; the sweetness, resilience and strength of 60 perfectly imperfect dogs. They adapt to their unique bodies without complaint, they survive with determination and they live with joy. The bond between these endearing dogs and their humans shines through – and sometimes they even save each other.

For anyone who’s ever loved a dog …

PERF E C T IMPERFECTION: DOG POR TR AITS OF RES IL IE N CE AND LOVEA LEX CEARNS

These perfectly imperfect dogs have gentle lessons for us all …


April 2018 | 144pp | 180x200mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780733339189

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First Dog on the Moon lives in Tasmania and is having a lovely time being the cartoonist of choice at The Guardian, holding the nation to account and generally being adorable. A Walkley Award winner and national treasure, he is Australia’s only marsupial-based cartoonist.


Never have so many worked so hard to bring about the end of life as we know it, but what to wear? When Armageddon arrives, will it still be okay to walk around in your underpants?

Full of handy tips on what to pack, where to go and how to wave a cricket bat menacingly when interlopers try to steal the family pets that you were saving for dinner, this gentle book is fun for all the family.

If you don’t buy it, you will probably be eaten by an enormous mutant Nazi tapeworm the size of a school bus. So when the ‘SHTF’, don’t say we didn’t warn you, and don’t come to the First Dog On the Moon Institute bunker, because there isn’t one, it is a secret.

‘When I stumbled across First Dog on the Moon’s Cartoons last year I fell into a goofball swoon.’ – Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons

FIRST DOG ON THE MOON’S GUIDE TO LIVING THROUGH THE IMPENDING APOCALYPSE AND HOW TO STAY NICE DOING ITF I RST DOG ON THE MOON

Join beloved cartoonist First Dog On the Moon in this tender frolic through the looming collapse of civilisation. With a foreword and testimonial by Matt Groening.


December 2017 | 192pp | 279x203 mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780733334252

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James Phelps is an award-winning senior reporter for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph in Sydney. Following the bestselling Dick Johnson: The Autobiography of a TrueBlue Aussie Sporting Legend, James returned to his roots to delve into the criminal underworld with a series of crime books: Australia’s Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail; Australia’s Most Murderous Prison; and Australia’s Toughest Prisons: Inmates. James is a twice V8 Supercar media award winner and a former News Awards ‘Young Journalist of the Year’ and ‘Sport Reporter of the Year’.


In June 15, 1862 a gang of bush rangers pulled off the largest Gold Robbery in Australia’s history at Eugowra Rocks. The gang escaped with bank notes and 82.5kgs of gold worth about GBP14,000, now about $15 million.

It remains Australia’s largest gold robbery.

The story of how Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, John O’Mealley, John Gilbert, Harry Manns, Alex Fordyce, John Bow and Dan Charters - planned and executed the robbery; what happened to them; how they were all either captured or killed; which one turned crown witness; and what happened to all that gold (it was never recovered) is the stuff of a brilliant, modern, exciting crime book with a twist.

AUS TR AL IAN HE ISTJAMES PHELPS

Australia’s Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia’s Greatest Gold Robbery.


August 2018 | 400pp | 234x153mm | Hardback | ISBN 9781460756232

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Katrina Lawrence first fell in love with Paris at the age of five, and since then her roads have continually led her back to this most beautiful city, the City of Lights.

Telling us the story of why Paris continually fascinates her, Katrina also gives us a mesmerising journey around Paris’s most spectacular sights and most beguiling nooks and crannies, as well as a profound musing on Paris and its people – from feminism to femininity, politics to perfume, and of course, those stylish Parisiennes who captivate us, from Catherine de Medici and Coco Chanel to Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve, making Paris Dreaming the ultimate chic, personal and charming memoir.

Studded with fascinating anecdotes and intriguing tidbits of trivia, Katrina shares the lessons Paris has taught her. Written with warmth, gaiety, elegance and very real insight, Paris Dreaming is a book not just for women who love Paris, but for anyone in search of that elusive good life.

PARIS D R E AMINGKAT RINA LAWRENCE

How the City of Lights gave her lessons in life and love. An Australian beauty journalist shares her obsession with Paris – a city which has been her guide through a lifelong journey of self-discovery.


December 2017 | 288pp | 210x152mm | Hardback | ISBN 9781460753606

Katrina Lawrence has specialized in beauty journalism for more than 15 years. After starting her career as the beauty and lifestyle editor of Cleo magazine, she then went on to help launch SHOP Til You Drop magazine, where she held the reins as deputy editor/beauty director for several years. She has also written for titles including Madison, Harper’s BAZAAR, Cosmopolitan and Sunday Life. She lives in Bondi Beach with her husband and two sons, but her spiritual home will always be Paris, which she has visited countless times (seriously: she has lost count) since the age of five.


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Jamelle Wells is a television and radio presenter and the Senior Court Reporter for New South Wales. She works across television, radio and online. Jamelle has covered some of Australia’s highest profile cases.


As a seasoned court reporter, Jamelle Wells has filed thousands of stories on murderers, sex offenders, thieves, bad drivers, family feuds and business deals gone wrong. In more than 15 years, Jamelle has witnessed many of Australia’s most notorious and high-profile court cases. In the line of duty, she has sat next to criminals and their families, been chased, spat on, stalked and carted off by ambulance for emergency surgery after an accident outside ICAC.

Every day in courts across Australia the evidence, facts and theories are played out in a kind of theatre, with their own characters, costumes and traditions. But ever-present is the human tragedy of ordinary people’s lives disrupted, destroyed and forever altered. The judges, the lawyers and barristers, the witnesses and the victims – all striving to play their part in the quest for fairness, justice and, always, the truth of what really happened. From the calculated and cruel, to the unfair and unlucky, from pure evil to plain stupid – Jamelle Wells, the court reporter – has seen it all.

‘Vivid and gripping. I had to read it in one go.’ – ABC Sydney Drive with Richard Glover

THE CO UR T REPOR TERJA MELLE WELLS

The Court Reporter is a tough and fearless journalist’s memoir that looks at the cases that have shocked, moved and never left us.



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Sydney-based artist Sami Sparrow was born with a crayon in her hand. After completing her fine and visual arts degree, Sami Sparrow found her creative home at Dinosaur Designs, where her art was nurtured and refined. She has continued to pursue her passion and explore her abundant creativity across illustrations, clothing, painting and hand-stitched drawings. Inspired by design, bold colours, graffiti, bygone eras and pop culture, for Sami, the sky is never the limit. Follow her on Instagram: samisparrow020


You’ve planned your journal, you’ve mapped out your months, you’ve organised your modules, you know your theme... then something fails. Whether it’s ideas, techniques, confidence or time that you lack, let Sami Sparrow be your guide with this easy-to-flick-through book of icons, banners, borders, lettering, illustrations and how-to steps. Creating your designs should be fun, adventurous and, most importantly, express the sentiment, mood and character of your moment. With traceable illustrations and bonus stencils, this is a resource for every bullet journaler, scrapbooker and cardmaker to keep by their side.

SAM I S PAR R OW’S BU LLET COM PE N DIUM OF DEC O R ATIV E DES IGNS: A PR ACTIC AL , EASY RES O UR C E FOR BULLET JOUR NALS , SCRAPBOOKS AND CAR D MAKINGSA MI SPARROW

Decorative ideas for bullet journallers, scrapbookers, cardmakers and other creative compulsive planners and decorators.



From the trusted bestselling Slow Cooker Central series comes a book packed with more than 200 recipes that your kids will love to eat and are simple enough for them to help cook!

How do we know that? Because these are recipes from real mums and dads, who’ve road-tested these dishes in their own families, with their own kids. With so many recipes to choose from, you don’t need to cook the same old boring meals week in week out – you can try something new with the confidence that there will be smiling faces and happy tummies at the table.

SLOW C O OKER CEN TR AL K ID S PAULENE CHRIST IE

A book for every parent who wants to be free from mealtime tussles with their kids!



Slow-cooking internet sensation Paulene Christie is a busy working mum with a passion for sharing new and exciting recipes for the slow cooker. She now has over 500,000 members in her Facebook group Slow Cooker Recipes 4 Families, and a hugely successful website, Slow Cooker Central.


Rights Licenced (previous titles): US (Harper360), UK (Haprer360), Canada (Harper360)

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Imaginarium is a glorious large-format book of images that reflect the things that inspire and motivate interior stylist, historian and globetrotter Sibella Court. Immersing you in a world of travel, nature, interiors, art, oddities and curiosities, Imaginarium will open your eyes to the world around you and fuel your imagination for your own creativity, design and adventures. Themed by colour and featuring more than 300 beautifully shot and curated photographs, Imaginarium is the ultimate picture book for lovers of design and interior styling, and anyone looking for fresh ideas or inspiring daydreams.

The book’s French-fold jacket is printed in 4-colours on both sides and, when unfolded, the inner side becomes a keepsake photograph. Embellishments include foil stamping and debossing on both the jacket and the hardcover book, which is covered with high-quality wibalin, printed to match a custom colour from Sibella’s Murobond paint range. The book is made with premium paper stock to showcase the spectacular photography, and includes head and tail bands, as well as 4-colour printed endpapers reproducing handmade marbled paper that Sibella created herself.

IMA G IN AR IUM S I BELLA COUR T

A sumptuous picture book of style and design inspiration from award-winning stylist Sibella Court.


May 2018 | 272pp | 330x260mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780733338649

Sibella Court is an interior stylist, owner of the society inc. store and author of the bestselling and award-winning books Etcetera, The Stylist’s Guide to NYC, Nomad, Bowerbird, and Gypsy. Sibella creates commercial and residential interiors in Australia and internationally, holds regular workshops and is also a contributor to leading interior and fashion magazines.

Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languagesRights Licensed (previous titles): UK (Hardie Grant UK), US (Harper Design), Italy (L’ippocampo)

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Voted magazine brand of year, over the past fifteen years delicious. has established itself as the highest-selling premium food title in the Australian market. From its beginnings as the first celebrity chef magazine, the brand has evolved to encompass the best of the best in all aspects of food lifestyle – interpreting the latest in trends for home cooks, offering exclusive content from high-profile chefs, sourcing the finest local produce, and highlighting the hottest new restaurants and travel destinations in Australia and around the world.


Rights Licensed (previous titles): The Netherlands (Fontaine Uitgevers), UK (Quadrille Publishing), Canada (HarperCollins Canada)

Fill your kitchen with the gorgeous aromas of simply great food and shake up your recipe repertoire with this book full of fantastic twists on your go-to favourites. With cook’s tips and creative variations from the team at delicious. magazine, these tried-and-tested recipes will inspire you from breakfast to bedtime with sensational dishes to make every day of the week.

Start your morning right with Chia and Oat Pancakes or a Vintage Cheddar and Zucchini Slice. Reinvented classics such as our Succulent No-Fail Roast Chicken with Chilli Brown Rice Stuffing and Oven-Baked Pork Meatballs will have family and friends asking for more. From nourishing soups, homemade gourmet pizzas and meat-free mains to Zesty Oregano and Lemon Prawns, Caramelised Pork Belly and a decadent Toffee Ice-cream-inspired cake, there’s plenty here for everyone to enjoy. Food is life. Make it delicious. Every single day.

DEL IC IOUS M AGAZINEDEL I C IOUS . DAILY

Everyday meals can be made extraordinary with delicious. daily, an essential collection of more than 100 new recipes, each with a genius twist.


November 2017 | 240pp | 265x202mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780733338656

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At the age of eight, Donna Hay skipped into a kitchen, picked up a mixing bowl and never looked back. She moved to the world of magazine test kitchens and publishing, where she established her trademark style of simple, smart and seasonal recipes all beautifully put together and photographed. It is food for every cook, every food lover, every day and every occasion. Her unique style turned her into an international food-publishing phenomenon as a bestselling author of 20 cookbooks, publisher of donna hay magazine, newspaper columnist, and creator of a homewares and food range.


Rights Licenced: German (AT Verlag), Canada (Harper360), Dutch (Unieboek Spectrum), US (Harper360), UK (Harper360)

Rights Licensed (previous titles): Over six million copies sold world-wide, Donna Hay titles have been published in the UK, US, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Korea, Complex Chinese, Polish and Hebrew.

Basics to Brilliance Kids is the latest gorgeous new book from Australia’s bestselling cookbook author, Donna Hay. As a mum, Donna knows that there is nothing more enjoyable than introducing your children to the wonders of taste, food and flavours.

Her new book highlights the importance of mastering the basics, celebrates fresh, healthy food, and the joy of cooking, eating and sharing delicious food with the people we love. Featuring over 120 fantastic, fun-filled, simple, family-friendly recipes, Basics to Brilliance Kids gives you and your kids endless ideas for birthday parties, picnics, school fairs and bake sales, family and celebration dinners, brilliant breakfasts, beach days, backyard movie nights and sleepovers.

BASIC S TO BR ILL IANCE K IDS DONNA HAY

Australia’s Number 1 Bestselling cookbook author returns with a cookbook for the modern family who love to eat, cook, celebrate and have fun together.


October 2017 | 240pp | 297x230mm | Hardback | ISBN 9781460754726

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The idea for this book came from the team at Over60, a hugely popular website and Facebook community with more than 420,000 members. Over60 Editor Alexandra O’Brien’s love of cooking was inspired by her grandmother, and she is passionate about unearthing family secret-style recipes that have been passed down for generations and sharing these, along with the beautiful stories behind them, with the Over60 community.


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A jam-packed collection of household and life advice – a handy go-to guide for tips on everything from health and beauty, cleaning and repairs, to travel and gardening, food and health. Like having your mum or your grandmother or best friend at your side, these pearls of wisdom will guide and rescue you with ingenious, practical and simple-to-follow advice.

Do you need to know how to keep an avocado fresh for up to six months? Defrost meat safely? Get a nasty stain out of your carpet? Extend the life of your beauty products? Discover the seven beauty secrets of baking soda? Use Epsom salts effectively in your garden? Make sure your luggage never gets lost?

Reflecting real-life experiences and advice from Australian women – including tips from some of our favourite personalities – The Way Mum Does It is the book that everyone will want on their bookshelf – forget Google, the answers are here!

THE WAY MUM DOES ITALEXANDRA O’BR IEN

Trusted household advice from real women and contributors to the hugely popular Over60 online community.



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Inspired by a wish to make sweet yet wholesome treats for her family, Bianca Slade started creating delicious recipes based on whole foods, which she shared with friends. As demand grew, she started a successful blog, Wholefood Simply. She now has over 270,000 social media followers from over the world and has self-published several cookbooks. Bianca’s delectable recipes are accompanied by her own mouth-watering photographs. She lives in Ballarat, Victoria, and has three young children.


WHOLE F O OD S IMPLY: NATUR AL IN DU LGENCEBI A NCA SLADE

The ultimate cookbook for anyone who wants to feed their family delicious treats that are oh so natural!


May 2018 | 224pp | 245x216mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780733338564

Bianca Slade of the blog Wholefood Simply has a passion – to recreate traditional desserts, treats, snacks and sweets to suit her wholefood ways by minimising processed ingredients and maximising raw and natural ingredients. And because they avoid refined sugar, gluten and dairy, the 100 recipes in this book cater for many food intolerances.

Bianca keeps her ingredients and methods simple without compromising on taste, and her delicious morsels accompanied by photography good enough to eat, have garnered Wholefood Simply a huge following. From her moreish take on chocolate brownies to Not Quite a Snickers Slice, you’ll find a host of quick and easy recipes for delectable bliss balls, bars, cookies, cakes, ice creams and smoothies, as well as classic sweets reinvented, from peppermint creams to all kinds of fudge. Delicious, simple, easy – and healthy, too!


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Sophie Thomson, gardening writer and popular Gardening Australia presenter, lives in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Around her historic cottage, Sophie has developed a sustainable organic garden with a large vegie patch and more than 100 fruit trees. Gardening Australia viewers have been following the development of the Patch, a work in progress, over several years. Sophie lives there with her husband Richard, their five young children and a menagerie of animals including a dog, cats, geese, chooks, ducks and stick insects.


Sophie has transformed what was once a dry, windswept cow paddock surrounding her historic stone cottage into a lush garden. But it’s not a mere showplace – it’s a working garden that reflects all Sophie’s passions: a kids’ garden, an ‘obsessive-compulsive’ gardener’s treasure trove, a recycled/repurposed garden, a haven for beneficial insects & bees, and a productive garden supplying her family with fruit, veg and eggs year-round. It’s also a work in progress that everyone can learn from!

SOPHIE ’S PATCHSOPHIE THOMPSON

A gorgeous, inspirational and fun gardening book jam-packed with ideas, tips, projects and great advice.



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After working as a chef in some of Australia’s top restaurants, Guy Turland, together with Mark Alston, started their Bondi Harvest cooking show on YouTube in 2012, with only a surfboard, a camera and a camp oven, cooking food al fresco in some of Australia’s most iconic beauty spots. They’re all about healthy food and cooking, sunshine and good times. Bondi Harvest has over 74K subscribers to their YouTube cooking channel, 22.5K followers on Facebook,2.2K Twitter followers, and 46.4K Instagram followers.


Rights Licenced (previous title): US (Harper360), UK (Harper360)

If Jamie Oliver was fifteen years younger and had grown up in Australia, surfing, diving and cooking by the beach, you’d have Guy Turland from Bondi Harvest.

Guy is a chef, surfer, health fanatic, free-diver and an Australian YouTube cooking sensation. He runs the Depot café in Bondi Beach and the Bondi Harvest cafe on Santa Monica Beach (yes, Gwynneth Paltrow is a fan) and his new Bondi Harvest cookbook, Balance, is all about eating for energy, vitality, wellness and wellbeing, with over 150 simple and simply delicious recipes. This is wholefood food that’s not only good for you, is delicious, seasonal, vibrant, and full of zingily fresh flavours, designed to be eaten and enjoyed by friends and family.

BALANCE : TH E AUS TR AL IAN WHOLE F O OD COOKBOOKG UY TURLAND

Find the right balance in your life: over 150 delicious wholefood recipes for maximum health, wellness, energy and vitality, from YouTube cooking sensation, Guy Turland.



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Polish-born health coach, blogger and cookbook author Martyna Angell is passionate about living the real-food life and encouraging generations of home cooks to do the same. Recognising that everyone is different and no single diet fits everyone is the basis of her food philosophy. Martyna is a regular wholefood columnist for the Australian Nourish magazine and her work is consistently featured in various media in Australia and abroad.


Have you noticed that as you moved from teenage to adulthood your food tastes change? That what used to work for you as a 30-year-old career woman, no longer works for you as a retired woman of a certain age? That you can’t eat the same dishes as your friend and feel good? That your energy dips dramatically if you eat the wrong foods?

Like the calendar year, the body has its seasons. In her new book, The Wholesome Cook: Eating for Life’s Seasons, Martyna focuses on bio-individualism – the recognition that we are all physiologically different – and offers 160 endlessly flexible recipes that can be adapted to support your individual health and well-being, no matter what your age or stage of life.

All recipes emphasise seasonal wholefoods, fresh fruit and vegetables and pasture-raised meat. Every recipe is refined sugar and gluten-free and many cater to dairy-free, nut-free, egg-free, lactose-free, paleo, vegan and vegetarian diets. Every recipe is also tagged to show you the healthiest options for babies, children, teenagers, and men and women at various stages of life, so you have complete control over your individual healthy eating plan.

THE WHOLE S OME COOK: RECIPE S F O R L IFE ’S SEASONSMA R TYNA ANGELL

Real food to nourish you, no matter your age or stage in life.


March 2018 | 352pp | Hardback | ISBN 9781489251220

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Michèle A’Court is a stand-up comedian and writer. She won ‘Comedienne of the Decade’ at the 2010 NZ Comedy Awards.


How We Met is based on a collection of ‘How We Met’ stories – those lovely stories couples love to tell (and we all love to hear) about how they got together. The author’s theory: that these stories of how couples meet – the romantic, absurd, serendipitous, convoluted, scandalous, breath-taking moments of connection – help to weave their lives together. Partly as ‘proof ’ that they were meant to begin this couple-journey, and also because in each retelling they go back to those first falling-in-love feelings and rekindle the passion.

The theory is based on a hunch, which itself is based on nothing more than the author’s observations of watching couples as they talk. Michele then tests her thesis out on a neuroscientist and a psychologist, and by the end of the book, has some useful things to say not only about how great love starts, but how it stays great.

HOW WE M ETM I CHELE A’COUR T

Stand-up comedian Michele A’Court rekindles the passion, with a brilliant collection of ‘How We Met’ stories.



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Natalie Isaacs is the founder and CEO of 1 Million Women, a global movement of women and girls who take practical action to fight climate change by changing the way they live. A former cosmetics manufacturer, Natalie realised that individual action is key to solving the climate crisis.

Deciding to leave behind the over-packaged world of skin and beauty care, she set out to create an organisation that inspires and empowers women to act. Under Natalie’s leadership, 1 Million Women has since become one of Australia’s largest networks acting on climate change, and has grown to more 700,000 women and counting. More than 40,000 Australian women have participated in a 1MW event and more than 100,000 have taken the 1MW carbon challenge.


Sydney mother of four and former cosmetics manufacturer Natalie Isaacs used to think climate change was someone else’s problem. But when she set out to reduce her power bill by 20 per cent and achieved it easily, she had an epiphany. Realising that women make most of the purchasing decisions in the home and so have genuine power to make a difference, she went on to found 1 Million Women. With members and followers now numbering more than 700,000 and counting, the community is a global movement that actively empowers women to engage with and take action on climate change by making simple changes to the ways they and their families live their lives.

Every Woman’s Guide to Saving the Planet is Natalie Isaacs’ inspiring story combined with a practical tool kit for reducing your carbon footprint and mobilising your community around the biggest issue of our time – climate change. With loads of tips, tricks, easy-to-understand info graphics and an inspiring can-do message, this book is for every woman who wants to make a difference but just isn’t sure how.

EVERY WO M AN’S GU IDE TO S AV ING TH E PLANETNATAL IE ISAACS

Part memoir, part toolkit by the inspiring founder of 1 Million Women, the global movement empowering women to take action on climate change.

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Barnes’s career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist of the legendary band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most successful and distinctive artists in Australian music history. He has amassed more #1 albums in Australia than the Beatles: four with Cold Chisel and eleven as a solo artist, including the iconic For the Working Class Man. Across his career Jimmy has sold over 12 million albums and he has been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame twice.


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It’s a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives – from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan. In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Boy, Jimmy picks up the story of his life as he leaves Adelaide in the back of an old truck with a then unknown band called Cold Chisel.

A spellbinding and searingly honest reflection on success, fame and addiction; this self-penned memoir reveals how Jimmy Barnes used the fuel of childhood trauma to ignite and propel Australia’s greatest rock’n’roll story. But beyond the combustible merry-go-round of fame, drugs and rehab, across the Cold Chisel, solo and soul years – this is a story about how it’s never too late to try and put things right.

WOR KING C LASS MANJI MMY BARNES

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Hazel Baron lives in country New South Wales with her husband Bill, the man she married to get away from her mother. They have four children, six grandchildren and have fostered 100 children.

Janet Fife-Yeomans is an award-winning journalist, currently the chief reporter with The Daily Telegraph. She has written or co-written seven earlier books, including a biography of Heath Ledger.


Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring. The officers at the local police station found Dulcie witty and charming, and looked forward to the scones and cakes she generously baked and delivered for their morning tea.

That was one side of her. Only her daughter Hazel saw the real Dulcie. And what she saw terrified her.

Dulcie was in fact a cold, calculating killer who, by 1958, had put three men in their graves – one of them the father of her four children, Ted Baron – in one of the most infamous periods of the state’s history. She would have got away with it all had it not been for Hazel.

MY MO THE R , A SER IAL K ILLERHAZEL BARON & JANET F IFE -Y EOMANS

A chilling story of a murderous mother and the courageous daughter who testified against her and put her in jail.



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It’s hard to remember a time when Osher Gunsberg wasn’t on TV – he was always there, beaming a big smile, with a questionable haircut.

But while everything looks great from the outside, the real picture has not always been quite so rosy. Osher has always known he has a different brain to most other people. Struggling with anxiety, panic attacks and weight issues since he was young, he tried for years to drink away the anxiety and depression. On antidepressants since 2007, he ended up unemployed, divorced, suicidal and certifiable on the other side of the world – yet somehow he managed to put the broken pieces back together and make a life for himself again. He lives with a mental illness – and he’s come to terms with it to live an authentic, rich and fulfilling life.

A revealing, raw, funny and heartfelt memoir.

Osher Gunsberg is one of Australia’s most recognisable media personalities. He first came to the country’s attention as the face of Australian Idol and the voice of Australia’s largest weekly radio countdown, Take 40 Australia. Osher is a keen advocate for mental health awareness shining a light on Men’s Mental Health.


BACK, AF TE R THE BREAKOSHER GUNSBERG

Shocking, frank, funny and compelling – Osher Gunsberg opens up about living with a mental illness.



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Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM is the CEO and founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He grew up in a working-class family in a small country town in Victoria. Kon’s personal experience of racism and witnessing the exploitation of his parents in factories planted the seeds for his passion for human rights.


From 18 to 28 I learned how to do the work that I do now. I spent those 10 years doing volunteer work. Outside of my mum and dad and sister – who loved me deeply – I felt so unloved in this world. I wanted to take all the hurt and pain of my childhood and say, Okay, if no one will give me that love, I need to at least find a way to give it back to the world. I’ve got to do something good with this, because it’s going to kill me otherwise. It was poisoning me. It was going to break me. I was 18 and my first volunteer job was in a homeless drop-in centre. I found more compassion and kindness in a drop-in centre full of homeless men who had lost everything than I ever had with a bunch of middle-class kids at school or at university. And I was like, Ah. I’m home now. This is where I belong. These are my people. This is my community.

A simple, small but powerfully inspiring memoir that tells the heartbreaking story of one migrant boy and his journey from despair to optimism, the extraordinary organization he founded; and the importance of hope, the power of community, and the value of kindness.

THE POWE R OF HOPEKON KARAPANAGIOTID IS

A powerful, inspiring memoir from the founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which argues that by putting community, love and compassion at the centre of our lives, we have the power to change our world.

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July 2018 | 240pp | 21x135mm | Hardback | ISBN 9781460755136

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Mark Warren is a farmer, fourwheel-drive instructor and competitor from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. Mark’s upbringing in the South Island’s Mackenzie Country was the beginning of a life lived off-road, from the snowy tracks of the Southern Alps to the muddy slopes of his Hawke’s Bay hill-country station, Waipari. Find Mark on Facebook at Mark Warren, Waipari Station and Skid Sprint UTV.


Mark Warren is a larger-than-life character. He grew up with an obsession with Land Rovers, council tip trucks, bulldozers, hill-country tractors, snow-plows – if it had four wheels, it warranted Mark’s attention. Interwoven with his stories of working as a grease monkey, rallying in a purpose-built Toyota land cruiser, rescuing ski-bunnies off icy mountain roads, is his tale of being thrust into single-handedly managing a muddy Hawke’s Bay farm in his twenties, just as Rogernomics was introduced and the removal of subsidies would change the face of farming forever.

Many a Muddy Morning is a funny, original and affecting read that will appeal to petrol-heads and

farmers alike.

MAN Y A MUDDY MOR NIN GM A RK WARREN

The off-roading, hill-seeking and muddy-morning adventures.


May 2018 | 320pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781775541080

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Adam Courtenay, son of Bryce Courtenay, is a Sydney-based writer and journalist. He has had a long career in the UK and Australia, writing for papers such as the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review.


In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen’s Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a ‘beer-machine maker’, was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen’s Land as hell on earth.Many had tried to escape Macquarie Harbour; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Wresting control of the ship they’d been building to transport them to their fresh hell, the escapees instead sailed all the way to Chile. What happened next is stranger than fiction, a fitting outcome for this true-life picaresque tale.The Ship That Never Was is the entertaining and rollicking story of what is surely the greatest escape in Australian colonial history. James Porter, whose memoirs were the inspiration for Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of his Natural Life, is an original Australian larrikin whose ingenuity, gift of the gab and refusal to buckle under authority make him an irresistible anti-hero who deserves a place in our history.

An entertaining and rollicking story from an exciting new voice in popular history.

THE S HIP THAT NEVER WASA DA M COUR TENAY

The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history, by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller.



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Richard Fidler presents ‘Conversations With Richard Fidler’, an in-depth interview program broadcast across Australia on ABC Radio. He is the author of the bestselling book Ghost Empire.

Kári Gíslason is a memoirist, travel writer and creative writing teacher who lectures in creative writing and literary studies at QUT. He is the author of The Promise of Iceland and The Ash Burner.


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Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland – the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that remote island in the Middle Ages. These are tales of blood feuds, of dangerous women, and people who are compelled to kill the ones they love the most. The sagas are among the greatest stories ever written, but the identity of their authors is largely unknown.

Together, Richard and Kári travel across Iceland, to the places where the sagas unfolded a thousand years ago. They cross fields, streams and fjords to immerse themselves in the folklore of this fiercely beautiful island. And there was another mission: to resolve a longstanding family mystery – a gift from Kári’s Icelandic father that might connect him to the greatest of the saga authors.

SAG A LAN DRI CHARD F IDLER & KÁR I G ÍSLASON

A gripping blend of family mystery, contemporary stories and the beautiful and bloody Viking tales, set against the starkly stunning landscape of Iceland.



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John Gatfield is a well-known journalist and broadcaster who works closely with the RSL (The Returned and Services League of Australia).


Riveting true stories, written by a host of ordinary Australians – Diggers, POWs, nurses, entertainers, sailors, airman and many more – that capture the impact of war on those who took part.

With eyewitness accounts ranging from the Fall of Singapore to the Kokoda Track and from Europe to the Middle East, these stories bring the Australian experience of the Second World War to life with humour, pathos and vivid detail.

There’s the ordeal of the 13 survivors of the sinking of HMAS Yarra as the sharks took their mates; life in the Japanese POW camps, Sandakan and on the Burma Railway; taking part in RAAF air raids on Berlin; a glimpse of life as a Rat of Tobruk – and much more. Collected in one volume for the first time, this is a must-read chronicle of Australians at war.

GREAT AUS TRAL IAN WWI I S TO R IE S EDI TED BY JOHN GATF IELD

True stories of courage and mateship during World War II.



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Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 – 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth’s surface, were uncharted – but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything changed.

The Pacific with Sam Neill is the book of the documentary series Uncharted, in which actor and raconteur Sam Neill… takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of James Cook, Europe’s greatest navigator, and the immense Pacific Ocean itself.

Voyaging on a wide variety on vessels, from container ships to fishing trawlers and sailing boats, Sam crosses the length and breadth of the largest ocean in the world to experience for himself a contemporary journey in Cook’s footsteps, engaging the past and present in both modern and ancient cultural practice and peoples.

THE PACIF IC WITH SAM NEILL : IN TH E WAKE OF CAP TAIN C OOKSA M NEILL & MEAGHAN WI LSON ANASTAS IOS

Fascinating, engaging, fresh and vital – this is history – but not as you know it.


August 2018 | 272pp | 234x153mm | Hardback | ISBN 9781460756393

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Bev Aisbett is Australia’s leading author in books around managing anxiety. In 1993, after recovering from severe anxiety and depression herself, Bev turned to her artistic talents to create the first of her ground-breaking illustrated self-help books Living with IT- A Survivor’s Guide to Panic Attacks, which rapidly became a national bestseller, with over 200,000 copies sold. In 2013, HarperCollins published the fully revised and updated 20th anniversary edition of this classic book.


Rights Licensed (previous titles): Bev Aisbett’s work has been published in Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese and Portuguese translation.

30 DAYS 3 0 WAYS TO OVER C O M IN G ANXIETYBEV A ISBETT

From bestselling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes a proven and practical workbook to help people manage their anxiety, with simple daily strategies for work and for home.



A clear, practical day-by-day workbook, written by experienced counsellor and bestselling author of the classic national bestseller about anxiety, Living with IT, Bev Aisbett, to help people control their anxiety.

Based on many of the exercises Bev has been teaching and writing about for the past twenty years, the book provides clear, simple daily building blocks to help people manage their anxiety and assist in recovery. Designed to be carried in handbags or backpacks as a daily companion, this is a highly approachable, concise, practical, simple and above all proven method of overcoming anxiety.

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FINDING YOUR PATH: A GUIDE TO LIFE AND HAPPINESS AFTER SCHOOLA M BA BROWN

A joyous and practical book to help school leavers find their direction in life, because working out what you want to do once you leave school can be terrifying…


September 2017 | 112pp | 229x152mm | Hardback | ISBN 9781460754511

Amba Brown holds a Psychology Degree with Honours in Positive Psychology. She is currently a member of the International Positive Psychology Association and is passionate about alleviating youth anxieties. Amba is from Sydney and has also lived in Asia and America.


Finding Your Path is a smart, upbeat, simple and fun guidebook written to inspire graduating students in the next all-important phase of their life.

Helping to ease the transition for students from school to adulthood, each chapter explores different pathways that young people can take after school, including work, study and travel, so readers can consider their options and make informed decisions.

Most of all, it provides reassurance that whatever you do now, you’ll likely get to where you want to go. The focus of the book is all about positive psychology – encouraging the reader to trust themselves to create a path of integrity and happiness for themselves, no matter what they choose to do.

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After his first child became a toddler, Justin Coulson realised he wasn’t the dad he wanted to be. To learn more about parenting, he quit a successful radio broadcasting career and started studying, eventually completing a PhD in Positive Psychology and Parenting. Justin is an honorary fellow at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne. Justin now lives with his wife and six daughters in Brisbane, Queensland, and travels Australia constantly, giving talks to parents, teachers and professionals. He is the author of 21 Days to a Happier Family and 9 Ways to a Resilient Child.


From the author of 21 Days to a Happier Family and 9 Ways to a Resilient Child, 10 Things Every Parent Needs to Know draws on positive psychology to give simple and effective strategies for the key issues parents of 2-12 year olds confront in everyday family life.

Parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson shares his secrets of effective attention, communication and understanding; how to discipline effectively and set limits; and how to manage hot-button issues such as sibling conflict, chores, school and screens – yet still have fun as a family.

10 TH IN GS E VERY PARENT NEED S TO KNOWJUST IN COULSON

Positive solutions for everyday parenting challenges!



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Sarah has over 15 years experience in Paediatric Emergency Nursing, and has a passion for all things paediatrics. With a love of lifelong learning, Sarah has a Masters Degree in Clinical Practice, and has worked in various roles in Paediatric Emergency Departments including Nurse Unit Manager and Clinical Nurse Specialist. Sarah founded CPR Kids in 2012, and she has made it her mission to empower every person who cares for children with lifesaving skills of Paediatric CPR, First Aid and recognition of the sick child. Visit CPR Kids at cprkids.com.au.


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Rapidly becoming Australia’s Number 1 practical First Aid book specifically for your child, A Life. A Finger. A Pea Up a Nose. is the essential guide to give parents and carers practical paediatric advice on what to do in a medical emergency. Based on the enormously popular CPR Kids First Aid program, this completely revised and expanded edition will empower you with the knowledge and skills to recognise and respond to your sick or injured child − with confidence.

Unlike other First Aid manuals, Sarah takes real situations and combines them with her wealth of experience to make A Life. A Finger. A Pea Up a Nose. a thoroughly entertaining read as well as a treasure trove of sound advice.

Easy-to-follow advice, nurse and parent-tested methods and clear illustrations will show you how to: assess a situation and stay calm, treat an injury in a child-friendly way, recognise the warning signs that show your child has a serious illness, know when to get help, make your home child-safe, and keep yourself in peak condition so you can care for your kids.

This is the one book you’ll hopefully never need. Read it now. You never know – the child whose life you save could be yours.

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The essential Australian guide to First Aid for babies and children.



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Matt Noffs is the co-founder of the Street Universities and CEO of Noffs Foundation, Australia’s largest drug and alcohol treatment service provider for young people under 25. The Noffs Foundation is a leader in providing drug and alcohol services for young people in Australia.


This book is about addictions of all kinds. Addictions to smartphones, sex, games, social media, gambling, money, but most of all to alcohol and drugs.

The words ‘addict’ and ‘addiction’ are loaded with baggage. The world over, addicts are considered to be sub-human, if not alien. This book aims to reclaim their dignity. It aims to rescue the word ‘addiction’ from its kidnappers and restore its humanity. It offers personal accounts from inspirational people who have found themselves in the grips of such addictions, and their amazing stories of survival.

At the Ted Noffs Foundation, Matt Noffs and Kieran Palmer spend their lives working with young people who have serious and often debilitating drug addictions. This book shares the tools they use every day. It offers insights into why addiction takes place and why it’s a natural part of being human. It journeys across the spectrum of addictive behaviours, from social media to drugs like heroin. It questions the assumptions and begins to debunk the myth that all addiction is identical and predictable.

ADDICTED: HOW ADDICTION AFFECTS EVERY ONE OF US AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT ITMATT NOFFS & KIERAN PALMER

Addiction is something that could affect any of us. This is a book that everyone should read.

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Stan Rodski is a neuroscientist in private practice specializing in brain performance. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a doctorate of science in biological statistics. Dr Rodski has worked as a psychologist for over 30 years and more recently has focused on the neurosciences. He has helped many people, schools, sporting teams and organisations with improving performance and in particular memory, concentration, agility and resilience. It was through the discovery of the positive neurological effects of colouring-in using Dr Rodski’s designs which has sparked a worldwide sensation resulting in three of Dr Rodski’s colouring-in brain science books being featured by Oprah Winfrey in her 2016 Christmas Wish List.


Neuroscientific studies are finding that our brain circuits for emotions are just as tangible as circuits for our other five senses. Advanced imaging techniques can now observe this. Recent fascination with colouring – in for adults joins a long list of techniques that have been employed by humans to calm the brain and help us with our emotions. Our ways of dealing with this intuitively have included tasks with some return for our time and effort. Tasks such as knitting and gardening.

However, we now enter a world where these tasks are redundant for many of us. We employ gardeners and buy scarves. The discoveries of focused activities which take our minds away from the emotions of day to day living are returning again but in new formats such as colouring-in books and even Lego building blocks for adults.

In this book, Dr Rodski explores the science behind these activities and many others which we humans crave for to help us through our emotional world. The world of mindfulness, the world of our 6th sense.

THE NE UR OSCIENCE OF M IN DF ULNESS : THE ASTONIS HING SCIENCE BEHIND WHY EVERYDAY HOB B IE S AR E GOOD FOR YOUR B R AINDR STAN RODSKI B.EC D.SC(BIO)

Our Emotional Sixth Sense.


August 2018 | 256pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460753811

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Amanda Tiffen is a working mum and wife who discovered something amazing and wrote a book about it to share her journey. ‘Weight will always be a part of my life, but now it’s in a positive light, I am a much happier and healthier me.


How many teaspoons of sugar do you consume a day? Amanda Tiffen went from 30 teaspoons of sugar per day (unknowingly) to 6 teaspoons of sugar per day and in doing so lost an astonishing 20kg. After years of dieting and fighting to control her weight, Amanda easily went from a size 16 to a size 8 in 9 months.

A Life Less Sugar is the inspiring story of how an ordinary and busy working mum used information from a documentary she had seen on TV and turned that information into her reality. She lost 20kgs by reducing her sugar consumption, teaspoon by teaspoon, and then wrote New Zealand’s biggest selling sugar book of 2016 about how she did it.

Enlisting the help of good friend Leigh Brown who is an amazing cook (something Amanda is not!) to create some low-sugar, low-carbohydrate delicious dishes. The recipes are easy to follow with nothing complicated.

Part memoir, part diet and recipe book, A Life Less Sugar will help you to find high sugar content in some of the most common foods that Amanda found in her (and maybe your) pantry.

A L IFE LE S S S UGARA M A NDA T IFFEN & LE I G H BROWN

That bestselling New Zealand sugar book completely revised and updated.


January 2018 | 256 pp | 210x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460754436

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Fran Chavasse is a registered general nurse, registered midwife and a child & family health nurse. Fran’s specialty is infant mental health. As senior nurse educator for Tresillian, she regularly provides a range of infant mental health workshops for child and family health nurses, allied health professionals and childcare workers.


Tresillian helps thousands of parents with their babies’ sleep issues every year. Their gentle settling methods are informed by expert knowledge and deep experience. This book covers sleep and settling from birth to twenty-four months, sharing simple ways to help your baby establish sleep cycles and support your baby’s changing sleep needs as they grow, while offering guidance and solutions for the sleep problems that parents of 0-2 year olds struggle with. It includes:

• Establishing day and night routines and the role of circadian rhythms

• How to create the best sleep environment for your baby

• Why babies cry and strategies to cope

• How babies ‘talk’ to you

• The development stages and sleep – from newborns to toddlers

• Helping your baby learn to settle and resettle themselves

• Premmies, twins and sibling issues

• Getting back on track after disruptions, from illness, night terrors and early wakers to disrupted routines and travelling.

With plenty of stories from parents who share what worked for them, this comprehensive guide will help babies – and their parents – get those much-needed zzz.

TRES ILL IAN SLEEP BOOKT RES ILL IAN

Gentle, expert advice for tired parents of babies and toddlers.

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Joe Williams is a proud Wiradjuri First Nations Aboriginal man born in Cowra and raised in Wagga Wagga, NSW. Joe played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for many years before switching to professional boxing in 2009 and winning two welterweight championships despite suffering severe mental illness. Joe currently spends his time between Australia and the United States, travelling across both continents delivering workshops and talks to inspire people to think differently about their mental health.


Former NRL player, world boxing title holder and proud Wiradjuri First Nations man Joe Williams was always plagued by negative dialogue in his head, and the pressures of elite sport took their toll. Joe eventually turned to drugs and alcohol to silence the dialogue, before attempting to take his own life in 2012. In the aftermath, determined to rebuild, Joe took up professional boxing and got clean.

Defying the Enemy Within is both Joe’s story and the steps he took to get well. Williams tells of his struggles with mental illness, later diagnosed as Bipolar Disorder, and the constant dialogue in his head telling him he worthless and should die.

‘In telling his powerful story, Joe Williams is helping to dismantle the stigma associated with mental illness. His courage and resilience have inspired many, and this book will only add to the great work he’s doing.’ – Dr Timothy Sharp, The Happiness Institute

DEFY IN G THE ENEMY WITHINJOE WILL IAMS

How I silenced the negative voices in my head to survive and thrive.



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Herb Nerd Reece Carter holds a Bachelor degree in Health Science (Naturopathy) and has a lifelong passion for all things green. From the planter box to the pantry, Reece reveals how to turn leaves and petals into remedies through his web series ‘The Garden Apothecary’. His written work regularly features in The Australian Women’s Weekly, Women’s Fitness Magazine, GQ and numerous online blogs. Reece has his own clinic and herbal product, Dose Vitality Tonic, and also works as a model with Chadwicks.


The whole wellness world is going nuts for guts, and with good reason. The discovery that the gut and brain are not distinct and separate entities but closely connected is life-changing for everyone. Now, it is impossible to ignore the importance of gut health to chronic health complaints. As we discover strong links between bloating and brain fog, diarrhoea and depression, and aches and anxiety, it seems clearer than ever that we need to support our guts with the utmost care.

In this vibrant book, naturopath, Garden Apothecary guru and Herb Nerd Reece Carter offers gentle traditional remedies born of the naturopathic tradition that you can make at home, as well as the most effective, easy and delicious ‘food as medicine’ recipes to help you feel better. The Happy Gut contains remedies and recipes to:

• Enhance digestion

• Naturally manage indigestion, IBS and inflammation

• Nurture happy, healthy gut bacteria

• Lift mood

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Traditional holistic remedies you can make at home as well as ‘food as medicine’ recipes to help treat a range of everyday gut ailments.



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Eliza Henry-Jones is the talented author of the celebrated novels In the Quiet and Ache. She has qualifications in English, psychology and grief, loss and trauma counselling. She is currently completing honours in creative writing – exploring bushfire trauma – and works in community services. She lives in the Dandenong Ranges with her husband and too many animals.


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Your body is talking… it’s time to listen!

Manuscript Available August 2018

January 2019 | 352pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781489256638

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Feeling empowered and comfortable in your skin, understanding how hormone health affects your physical and emotional health, making good choices in your sexual relationships, and looking and feeling good — all this is possible with Dr Nat Kringoudis at your side.

Let’s face it, as young women we aren’t necessarily taught everything we need to know about managing our hormones, our fertility and our sexual health; even our friends don’t always share with us their anxieties about their bodies, or their emotional and sexual wellbeing. In Beautiful You, doctor of Chinese medicine, fertility queen and hormone health guru Nat Kringoudis will open the discussion on understanding your own body, balancing hormones and sexual empowerment.

Through her clinical practice and her online resource, the Pagoda Tree, and her powerful fusion of Western and Chinese medicine, Nat has helped thousands of women change the way they think about their health, and so transform their lives: now you too can learn how to make your hormones happier than a Pharrell Williams song!

‘Nat’s methods have helped thousands of women stay vital, feel sexy, and fall pregnant.’ – Melissa Ambrosini

Nat Kringoudis is a doctor of Chinese medicine, acupuncturist, author, speaker and all-round natural fertility expert. I’m also the founder of Melbourne women’s health clinic, The Pagoda Tree, and producer of HealthTalks TV. Nat helps women come out of hormone hell and embrace their sexual health. Nat also aims to help those women who want to have children become as fertile as possible, naturally.


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In this revised classic, medical researchers at The Gut Foundation provide all the basics on gut health and disorders, as well as the most recent data on things such as microbiomes and radical treatments. Highly respected nutritionist Dr Rosemary Stanton shows us that good eating doesn’t mean boring food and difficult recipes, but can actually lead to fresh, simple, tasty meals and – most importantly – a calm, regular and healthy gut.

With around 150 recipes, The Good Gut Cookbook delivers clear, concise advice, backed by the authority of Australia’s top-tier gut institution and our most trusted nutritionist.

The gripping account of how Australia’s greatest warship was lost and found.

For sixty-six years it was Australia’s greatest maritime mystery: what happened to the ‘pride of the fleet’ HMAS Sydney – was she beaten in a fair fight with the German cruiser Kormoran, or was there treachery involved? With Sydney’s extraordinary discovery came answers to the mystery; closure to relatives still grieving the 645 men dead; and a sad but gripping explanation of the staggering naval disaster.

THE GO OD GUT COOKB OO KT HE GUT FOUNDATION & DR ROSEMARY STANTON




THE S INK IN G OF THE HMAS S YD NEY: HOW AUS TR AL IA’S GREATEST MAR IT IME MYSTERY WAS SOLV E D DAVID L . MEARNS



Rights Held: World German language

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A carefully abridged edition of the award-winning biography of Australia’s most iconic author, leading feminist and humanitarian.

Author, union organiser, WWI volunteer, women’s rights agitator, nationalist, Miles Franklin worked, wrote and talked for many causes, none more passionately than Australian literature. Propelled to fame aged only twenty-one in the wake of her bestselling novel My Brilliant Career, she never again achieved the same literary success, but her life was rich and productive. She published sixteen novels, numerous non-fiction books and articles, was a noted speaker on radio and at events, and maintained a prolific and entertaining correspondence with friends and acquaintances.

Exact reproduction of the original Pocket Editions for the Trenches as published by Angus & Robertson 1916–1918. These are the perfect collector’s items! Titles include: The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, Digger Smith, Ginger Mick, Glugs of Gosh, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, and The Australian and Other Verses.

MILE S F R AN KL IN : A SHOR T B IO G RAPHYJI LL ROE


May 2018 | 432pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460755792


8 X PO C KE T TREN CH E DIT IONS C. J DENNIS | WILL H . OG I LV IE | A . B . PATTERSON


April 2018 | 140x114mm | Hardback


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