MARCH 2022NEW ZEALAND

new books

I AM AUTISTIC An interactive and informative guide to autism

(by someone diagnosed with it)

Chanelle Moriah

A&U New Zealand 9781991006066 | $29.99 | | HB | Health

An essential guide to understanding autism—for autistic people and their families, friends and workmates

When Chanelle Moriah was diagnosed with autism at 21, life finally began to make sense.

Hungry for information, Chanelle looked for a simple resource that could explain what autism is and how it can impact the different areas of an autistic person's life, but found that there was little written from the perspective of someone who is autistic. So Chanelle decided to create that missing resource.

Chanelle discovered just how difficult it can be for autistic adults—particularly females or those assigned female at birth—to be diagnosed or even be assessed for autism. This is partly because there is very little understanding of the different ways autism can present itself.

I Am Autistic is a tool for both diagnosed and undiagnosed autistics to explain or make sense of their experiences. It also offers non-autistic people the chance to learn more about autism from someone who is autistic.

With clear sections describing the different aspects of autism, accompanied by Chanelle's beautiful illustrations, and with space for readers to write down their thoughts, this book is designed to be personalised to the individual's experience.

Chanelle Moriah lives in Wellington and is a keen illustrator.

A&U New Zealand 9781991006066 $29.99 HB Health NZ$29.99

DANCING WITH THE MACHINEAdventures of a rebel

Jo Morgan

A&U New Zealand9781988547749 | $36.99 | | PB | Memoir

Extraordinary escapades from a late-life adventurer

Mountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.

The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and she has always had an adventurous side. As soon as she turned 15, Jo bought her first motorbike: the start of a lifelong love affair.

After meeting and marrying, Jo and her husband Gareth Morgan revamped a passenger bus to live in with the first of their four children, setting the scene for a life less ordinary.

Jo, along with Gareth and friends, has driven a motorbike through more than 110 countries and visited nearly 140 in total.

But she would leave her greatest adventures till later in life when she took up climbing in her late fifties. She set herself a goal of summiting all 24 of New Zealand's 3000-metre-plus mountain peaks, with the help of her guide and friend, Wolfgang, nicknamed The Machine. They would ascend all but two of them before tragedy struck, killing both Wolfgang and his colleague Martin.

In Dancing with the Machine, Jo recounts the remarkable, often hair-raising and occasionally tragic story of her unconventional life.

Jo Morgan is an adventurer, writer, Unicef goodwill ambassador, philanthropist and grandmother. She lives in New Zealand.

A&U New Zealand 9781988547749 $34.99 PB Memoir NZ$36.99

THE FIRST ASTRONOMERS How Indigenous Elders read the stars

Duane Hamacher, with Elders and Knowledge Holders

Allen & Unwin9781760877200 | $39.99 | | PB | Popular Science

The first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world

Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons, or plant our gardens. Most of us cannot even see the Milky Way. But First Nations Elders around the world still maintain this knowledge, and there is much we can learn from them.

These Elders are expert observers of the stars. They teach that everything on the land is reflected in the sky, and everything in the sky is reflected on the land. How does this work, and how can we better understand our place in the universe?

Guided by six First Nations Elders, Duane Hamacher takes us on a journey across space and time to reveal the wisdom of the first astronomers. These living systems of knowledge challenge conventional ideas about the nature of science and the longevity of oral tradition. Indigenous science is dynamic, adapting to changes in the skies and on earth, pointing the way for a world facing the profound disruptions of climate change. Duane Hamacher is Associate Professor of Cultural Astronomy at the University of Melbourne.

Allen & Unwin 9781760877200 $34.99 PB Popular Science NZ$39.99

THE GHOST TATTOO Discovering the hidden truth of my father's

Holocaust

Tony Bernard

Allen & Unwin9781761065415 | $36.99 | | PB | Memoir

The profoundly moving story of a son's quest to uncover his father's Holocaust secret

Henry Bernard was a hard-working family doctor on Sydney's northern beaches. He was an Auschwitz survivor who took extreme steps for his family's security. He kept an Auschwitz uniform by his bed with a picture of his mother, who had died in the war. These obsessions destroyed his marriage and restricted any hope he had of conventional domestic happiness.

The Ghost Tattoo is the story of how Tony Bernard, Henry's son, went on a forty-year journey with his father to solve the mystery of why Henry was the way he was, and how he finally came to understand the desperate choices Henry had made in the ghetto to try to keep himself and his family alive.

Tony Bernard is an accident and emergency doctor at the Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney.

Allen & Unwin 9781761065415 $32.99 PB Memoir

NZ$36.99

NABBING NED KELLY The extraordinary true story of the men who

brought Australia’s notorious outlaw to justice

David Dufty

Allen & Unwin9781761067341 | $36.99 | | PB | True Crime

David Dufty goes back to the records to uncover the real story of the capture of the Kelly Gang

For over a century, the Ned Kelly legend has grown and grown. He's become Australia's Robin Hood, and leader of a colonial Irish resistance. How much of the legend is true? This is the real story of the hunt for the Kelly Gang over two long years.

By recounting the story from the perspective of the law, for the first time, David Dufty gets to the heart of the story and finds answers to many unresolved questions. As gripping as any police procedural, it is an account of poorly trained officers unfamiliar with the terrain, in pursuit of the most dangerous men in the state.

David Dufty is an historian and award-winning author of The Secret Code Breakers of Central Bureau and Radio Girl.

Allen & Unwin 9781761067341 $32.99 PB True Crime NZ$36.99

THE IDEA OF AUSTRALIA Julianne Schultz

Allen & Unwin9781760879303 | $39.99 | | PB | Cultural Studies

What is the idea of Australia? What defines the soul of the nation? Is it an egalitarian, generous, outward-looking country? Or is Australia a nation that has retreated into silence and denial about the past and become selfish, greedy, and insular? A lifetime of watching the country as a journalist, editor, academic and writer has given Julianne Schultz a unique platform from which to ask and answer these big urgent questions. Urgent, inspiring, and optimistic, The Idea of Australia presents the vision needed to fully appreciate its great strengths and crucial challenges.

Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the publisher and founding editor of Griffith Review.

Allen & Unwin 9781760879303 $34.99 PB Cultural Studies NZ$39.99

IN THE MARGINSOn the pleasures of reading and writing

Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Europa Editions9781787704251 | $27.99 | | PB | Literature

A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults. Ferrante's writing has been described as compulsive (The Times) and astonishing (Guardian), her novels have sold millions and been translated into many languages as well as adapted for TV internationally. In the Margins contains her latest reflections on literature, and the works and authors that have influenced her throughout her career.

Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist widely known for her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels.

Europa Editions 9781787704251 $24.99 PB Literature NZ$27.99

THE SOCIAL LIVES OF ANIMALS

How co-operation conquered the natural world

Ashley Ward

Profile9781788168847 | $45.00 | | HB | Animal Sciences

Some animal societies hold a mirror up to the human world: elephants hold funerals, Pinyon jays run collective creches. Others seem intensely alien. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together and what that means for us. Travelling the world from the Serengeti to the frozen Antarctic Ocean, the result is a world-expanding, myth-busting tour of some of nature's greatest marvels, in delightfully broad-minded company.

Ashley Ward is a professor in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sydney.

Profile 9781788168847 $39.99 HB Animal Sciences NZ$45.00

NO ONE ROUND HERE READS TOLSTOY

Memoirs of a working-class reader

Mark Hodkinson

Canongate9781786899972 | $36.99 | | HB | Memoir

Mark Hodkinson grew up as a working-class lad during the 1970s in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens. In recounting his own life-long love affair with books, Mark also tells the story of how writing and reading has changed over the last five decades, starting with the wave of working-class writers where he saw himself reflected in books for the first time.

Mark Hodkinson is an acclaimed British author and has written for The Times for two decades.

Canongate 9781786899972 $32.99 HB Memoir NZ$36.99

IN THE CAMPS Life in China's high-tech penal colony

Darren Byler

Atlantic9781838955922 | $32.99 | | PB | Current Affairs

In China's vast north-western region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, one of the leading experts on Uyghur society uncovers their plight. A definitive account of one of the world's gravest human rights violations, In the Camps is also a potent warning against the misuse of technology and big data.

Darren Byler is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado.

Atlantic 9781838955922 $27.99 PB Current Affairs NZ$ 32.99

THE REACTOR Nick Blackburn

Faber9780571367740 | $32.99 | | PB | Memoir

After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief. This is a book about looking for, and finding, chain reactions and human connection—a work of enduring fragmentary beauty.

Nick Blackburn is a therapist and holds a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge.

Faber 9780571367740 $27.99 PB Memoir NZ$32.99

LET'S GET PHYSICAL How women discovered exercise and

reshaped the world

Danielle Friedman

Icon9781785788093 | $36.99 | | HB | History

Only in the 60s, thanks to a few forward-thinking fitness pioneers, did women begin to move en masse. In doing so, they were pursuing not only physical strength, but personal autonomy. Exploring barre, jogging, aerobics, weight training and yoga, this untold history of women's exercise culture tells the story of how, with the rise of late-20th century feminism, women discovered the joy of physical competence—and how, going forward, we can work to transform fitness from a privilege into a right.

Danielle Friedman is an award-winning journalist. She lives in New York City.

Icon 9781785788093 $32.99 HB History NZ$36.99

STICKYThe secret science of surfaces

Laurie Winkless

Sigma9781472950840 | $32.99 | | PB | Popular Science

Sticky explores the amazing world of surface science: the glues, adhesives and textures that rule and improve stickiness to give plants and animals an advantage, as well as uncovering the physics behind our sense of touch. By exploring the tiniest of interactions, Laurie Winkless shows how civilization owes a great deal to our knowledge of the science of stickiness.

Laurie Winkless is a physicist and the author of Science and the City. She lives in New Zealand.

Sigma 9781472950840 $29.99 PB Popular Science NZ$32.99

GRANTA 157: SHOULD WE HAVE STAYED AT HOME?

Ed. William Atkins

Granta9781909889439 | $27.99 | | PB | Anthology

In 1984 Granta published its first issue devoted to travel writing. Nearly forty years after that genre-defining volume, a new generation of writers from around the globe offers a new vision of what travel writing can be. From Antarctica and the deserts of the US-Mexico border to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei, these dispatches describe a world in perpetual motion (even when it is 'locked-down'). To travel, we are reminded, is to embrace the experience of being a stranger—to acknowledge that one person’s frontier is another's home.

William Atkins is an award-winning travel writer.

Granta 9781909889439 $24.99 PB Anthology NZ$27.99

MINDWANDERINGHow it can improve your mood

and boost your creativity

Moshe Bar

Bloomsbury9781408888063 | $32.99 | | PB | Popular Science

Mindwandering is the first book to expose readers to the multi-faceted phenomenon of their wandering minds, the new and exciting research of the brain behind this default mode of ours, and how we can gain some control over our mental lives. In doing so, it illustrates the rare and marvellous convergence of advanced neuroscience with ancient wisdom; cognitive psychology with creativity and mood; and the brain's default state linked to the quality of our daily experience.

Moshe Bar is the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School.

Bloomsbury 9781408888063 $29.99 PB Popular Science NZ$32.99

I MAY BE WRONGAnd other wisdoms from life

as a forest monk

Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad

Bloomsbury9781526644817 | $32.99 | | PB | Self-help

For seventeen years, Bjurn Natthiko Lindeblad lived as a forest monk. After returning to society, he was diagnosed with a progressive, incurable disease: ALS. In this award-winning and #1 Swedish bestseller, he shares his hard-won insights into how one can live a more present life, and what stands out as most important when things are coming to an end. The result is a beautiful, powerful and urgent last lesson on how we can come to accept the uncertainty that is a part of all we do.

Bjurn Natthiko Lindeblad is a Swedish public speaker, meditation teacher and former Buddhist monk.

Bloomsbury 9781526644817 $29.99 PB Self-help

NZ$32.99

CREATIONArt since the beginning

John-Paul Stonard

Bloomsbury9781408879689 | $65.00 | | HB | History

A panoramic history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse. Our instinct to produce images in response to nature allowed the earliest Homo sapiens to understand the world around us, and to thrive. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Creation is an ambitious, thrilling and landmark work that leads us from Benin to Belgium, China to Constantinople, Mexico to Mesopotamia and asks how and why we create.

John-Paul Stonard is a British art historian and writer.

Bloomsbury 9781408879689 $60.00 HB History NZ$65.00

An inspiring guide to the lives of Stoicism's greatest practitioners from the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic.

LIVES OF THE STOICS Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

NEW IN PAPERBACK Profile 9781788166010 | $24.99 |

THE FRENCH ART OF NOT TRYING TOO HARD Ollivier Pourriol

NEW IN PAPERBACK Profile9781788163286 | $22.99 |

The answer to overwork and burnout, the route to fulfilment and success: letting go.

THE UNUSUAL SUSPECT Ben Machell

NEW IN PAPERBACK Canongate9781786897992 | $24.99 |

The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood.

Finally, a book that resists the sanitised, acceptable face of parenting. You might not feel better, but at least you'll feel less alone.

SAD MUM LADY Ashe Davenport

NEW IN PAPERBACK Allen & Unwin 9781761067334 | $22.99 |

PAINAbdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

NEW IN PAPERBACK Atlantic9781786497079 | $24.99 |

An enlightening, in-depth book on the fascinating science behind pain and the complexities of its treatment.

REMEMBER ME Charity Norman

Allen & Unwin9781761065170 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

A heartfelt, page-turning suspense novel from the bestselling author of The Secrets of Strangers

They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me that day, she vanished off the face of the earth.

A close-knit community is ripped apart by disturbing revelations that cast new light on a young woman's disappearance twenty-five years ago.

After years of living overseas, Emily Kirkland returns to New Zealand to care for her father, Felix, who suffers from dementia. As his memory fades and his guard slips, she begins to understand him for the first time—and to glimpse shattering truths about his past. Truths she'd rather were kept buried.

A heartfelt, page-turning suspense novel—ideal reading-group fiction, perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty.

Charity Norman is a former family law barrister and the acclaimed author of Freeing Grace, See You in September and The Secrets of Strangers. She lives in New Zealand.

Allen & Unwin 9781761065170 $29.99 PB NZ$32.99

THE MOTHER Jane Caro

Allen & Unwin9781760879662 | $36.99 | | PB | Fiction

From the award-winning journalist, social commentator and author comes a gripping domestic thriller with a moral dilemma

at its core

Just like the garden, the fuse-box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just something else she'd now have to take care of herself.

In response to escalating and almost daily media reports of incidents of horrifying family violence, feminist icon and fearless commentator Jane Caro has written a stunning novel that asks what any of us might do when faced with a threat to the people we hold most dear.

Miriam Duffy is a respectable North Shore widow, real estate agent and devoted mother and grandmother. She was thrilled when her younger daughter, Ally, married her true love, but as time goes by Miriam watches in disbelief and growing fear as Ally's perfect husband starts controlling her and their children and cutting them off from the rest of the world. As the situation escalates and the law proves incapable of protecting them, Miriam is faced with an unthinkable decision. But she will do anything for the people she loves most in the world. Wouldn't you?

Jane Caro AM is an award-winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator.

Allen & Unwin 9781760879662 $32.99 PB Fiction NZ$36.99

LOVELAND Robert Lukins

Allen & Unwin9781760879846 | $36.99 | | PB | Fiction

Compelling, compassionate and profoundly moving, the new novel by the acclaimed author of The Everlasting Sunday

Two women stand in the shallows, a man dead at their feet, while around them buildings burn.

Amid the ruins of a fire-ravaged amusement park and destroyed waterfront dwellings, one boarded-up building still stands. May has come from Australia to Loveland, Nebraska to claim the house on the poisoned lake as part of her grandmother's will. Escaping the control of her husband, will she find refuge or danger?

As she starts repairing the old house, May is drawn to discover more about her silent, emotionally distant grandmother and unravel the secrets that Casey had moved halfway around the world to keep hidden. How she and Casey's lives interconnect, and the price they both must pay for their courage, is gradually revealed as this mesmerising and lyrical novel unfolds.

Robert Lukins is the critically acclaimed author of The Everlasting Sunday, which was shortlisted for a number of awards including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Allen & Unwin 9781760879846 $32.99 PB Fiction NZ$36.99

SUMMER AT KANGAROO RIDGE

Nicole Hurley-Moore

Allen & Unwin9781760875558 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

A stunning new rural romance from the bestselling author of The McCalister Legacy and

Lawson's Bend.

The Carrington family own the only pub in the small country town of Kangaroo Ridge in rural Victoria. It's been many years since the five Carrington siblings became orphans but, with the help of their aunt Maddie, twins Sebastian and Tamara stepped up and looked after their younger brothers and sister.

Now, seven years after the accident, Seb is silent and stoic. Tam, on the other hand, wants to kick over the traces and catch up on the life she missed out on. To complicate matters, Tam is having a secret relationship which she's sure Seb will question. But can Tam ever give herself a happy future while she still, deep down, blames herself for the accident that killed her parents?

Nicole Hurley is the author of the immensely popular novels McKellan's Run, Hartley's Grange, Country Roads, White Gum Creek, Lawson's Bend and The McCalister Legacy. She lives in the Central Highlands of Victoria.

Allen & Unwin 9781760875558 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THE PLANT HUNTER T.L. Mogford

Welbeck9781787399372 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

1867. The glossy emporiums of Chelsea’s plant nurseries, catering to the Victorian obsession with rare and exotic flora, are fuelled by adventurers sent into uncharted lands in search of untold wonders. When planthunter Harry Compton receives a rare specimen and a map, he sets out to find fame and fortune. But where there is wealth there is corruption, and soon Harry is fleeing England, sailing up the Yangtze alongside a young widow—both in pursuit of the plant that could change their futures.

T.L. Mogford is a British author and journalist who can trace his roots back to a line of famous horticulturalists.

Welbeck 9781787399372 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

MOUTH TO MOUTH Antoine Wilson

Atlantic9781838955205 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

In a lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate, shares the uncanny story of how his life changed after resuscitating a drowning man. Upon discovering that the man is a renowned art dealer, Jeff begins a job at his gallery. There, he is initiated into a world where value is constantly shifting, calling into question what is real, and what matters. A brilliant literary thriller about how a beach-side rescue can become life-long entrapment, and the irresistibility of money and power.

Antoine Wilson is the author of Panorama City and is a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Los Angeles.

Atlantic 9781838955205 $27.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

NO LAND TO LIGHT ON Yara Zgheib

A&U UK9781838954864 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

A breathtaking novel about a young Syrian couple on the cusp of their bright future, when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son’s birth. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for the life they’d dreamed up together. But does that life exist, or was it only an illusion? Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught up in forces beyond their control, fighting for the freedom they found in one another.

Yara Zgheib is the Lebanese author of the critically acclaimed The Girls at 17 Swann Street.

A&U UK 9781838954864 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THOSE WHO PERISH Emma Viskic

Echo9781760686772 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

An addictive new thriller from a multi-award-winning author. Deaf PI Caleb Zelic has always been an outsider, estranged from family and friends. But when he receives a text that his brother, Anton, is in danger, Caleb sees it as a chance at redemption. He tracks Anton down to a remote, wind-punished island, where secrets run deep and resentments deeper. When a killer starts terrorising the isolated community, the brothers must rely on each other like never before. But trust comes at a deadly price. . .

Emma Viskic is the acclaimed author of the award-winning Caleb Zelic series which has been published worldwide. She lives in Melbourne.

Echo 9781760686772 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

BOOTH Karen Joy Fowler

Serpent’s Tail9781788169677 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers of the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise—but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history—the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.

Karen Joy Fowler is the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and the PEN/Faulkner Prize winner We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

Serpent’s Tail 9781788169677 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THE GIFTS Liz Hyder

Manilla9781786580740 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

October 1840. A woman staggers through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of wings rip themselves from her shoulders. When rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the woman in the most terrible danger. Gripping and ambitious, The Gifts explores science, nature and religion, enlightenment, the role of women in society and the dark danger of ambition.

Liz Hyder is the multi-award-winning author of Bearmouth. She lives in the UK.

Manilla 9781786580740 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THE SECOND CUT Louise Welsh

Canongate9781838857394 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Auctioneer Rilke has been keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow so when an old friend, Jojo, gives him a tip-off for a house clearance, things seem to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead. Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs—is that the reason the police won't investigate? And if Rilke doesn't find out what happened to Jojo, who will? Thrilling and atmospheric, this follow-up to the cult classic, The Cutting Room, delves into the dark side of twenty-first century Glasgow.

Louise Welsh is the award-winning author of The Cutting Room and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

Canongate 9781838857394 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THE COLONY Audrey Magee

Faber9780571367603 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Mr Lloyd and Mr Masson arrive on the island for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place—one in his paintings, the other with the language he hopes to preserve. But the people who live here have their own views on what is being taken and what is given in return. Over the summer, each member of the household this French and Englishman join are forced to question what they value and what they desire. At the end of the summer, as the visitors head home, there will be a reckoning.

Audrey Magee is the acclaimed Irish author of The Undertaking which is being adapted for film.

Faber 9780571367603 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THE TWYFORD CODE Janice Hallett

Viper9781788165327 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book, its margins full of strange annotations. He took it to his English teacher, Miss Isles, who became convinced it was the key to solving a puzzle. Then she disappeared. Now, Steven decides to investigate the mystery that has haunted him for decades. Was Miss Isles murdered? Was she deluded? Or was she right about the code? It soon becomes clear that the Twyford Code has great power, and he isn't the only one trying to solve it . . .

Janice Hallett is the bestselling author of The Appeal. She lives in London.

Viper 9781788165327 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THE MAN IN THE BUNKER Rory Clements

Zaffre9781838777661 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Germany, 1945. The war is over, but the country is in ruins. Adolf Hitler is said to have killed himself in his Berlin bunker. But no body was found—and many people believe he is alive. Even Stalin, whose own troops captured the bunker, has told President Truman he believes the former Führer is not dead. Day by day, American and British intelligence officers subject senior members of the Nazi regime to gruelling interrogation. Enter Tom Wilde, the Cambridge professor and spy sent in to find out the truth . . .

Rory Clements is the bestselling author of Hitler's Secret and A Prince and a Spy. He lives in London.

Zaffre 9781838777661 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

LAND OF SNOW AND ASHES

Petra Rautiainen

Pushkin9781782277361 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

A hauntingly beautiful, gripping novel about Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes against the Sami people. Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young Finnish soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.

Petra Rautiainen is a Finnish writer.

Pushkin 9781782277361 $27.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THE LEVIATHANRosie Andrews

Raven Books9781526637345 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Norfolk, 1643. Civil war soldier Thomas Treadwater returns home to find his father insensible, felled by a stroke, and his servant in prison, facing charges of witchcraft. As he unravels the mystery of what has happened, Thomas uncovers not a tale of superstition but something dark and ancient, linked to a shipwreck years before. Something has awoken, and now it will not rest. Richly researched, incredibly atmospheric, and deliciously unsettling, The Leviathan is a spellbinding story of impossible things.

Rosie Andrews studied history at Cambridge and teaches English. She lives in the UK.

Raven Books 9781526637345 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

AT CERTAIN POINTS WE TOUCH

Lauren John Joseph

Bloomsbury9781526631336 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise it's the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. At Certain Points We Touch is a riotous, razor-sharp, coming-of-age story of first love and last rites, conjured against a vivid backdrop of London, San Francisco and New York.

Lauren John Joseph is the author of the plays Boy in a Dress and A Generous Lover. They live in London.

Bloomsbury 9781526631336 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

SEND NUDES Saba Sams

Bloomsbury9781526648983 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

An electrifying collection exploring the paradoxes and ambiguity that make up girlhood, womanhood and the realms that lie in between. Strange and arresting, dirty but shining, the girls of Send Nudes traverse girlhood and womanhood in all its glorious complications. Negotiating absent mothers, intense friendships, wanting and fearing being desired, Saba Sams’s characters are brought to life with striking wit, originality and tenderness.

Saba Sams has been shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. She lives in London.

Bloomsbury 9781526648983 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

From the Booker Prize-winning author, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint.

KLARA AND THE SUN Kazuo Ishiguro

NEW IN PAPERBACK Faber 9780571364909 | $22.99 |

SOMETHING TO HIDE Fleur McDonald

NEW IN PAPERBACK Allen & Unwin 9781761066405 | $22.99 |

A riveting novel of rural suspense from the bestselling Voice of the Outback.

The incandescent novel from the Miles Franklin-winning author of The Eye of the Sheep.

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