Pip CameronWendyl NissenCherie MetcalfeNiva Kay and Yotam Kay

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A HIGH COUNTRY LIFEPip Cameron

A&U New Zealand 9781988547473 | $45.00 | | HB | Memoir

High Country memoir of life through the seasons on a large sheep station, with delicious recipes

Life on Otematata Station, a 40,000 hectare high country station in Otago, is busy and varied. Philippa Cameron and her husband, Joe, who is the fifth generation to work the farm, help care for this vast tract of land with 30,000 merino sheep and 500 head of cattle.

It's a sparse environment completely at the mercy of the elements, bringing with it many challenges and seasonal demands. Told through the eyes of Philippa in her role as station cook, this is the story of mustering in autumn, lambing in spring, the freezing days of winter and the scorching heat of summer.

Along with looking after her two small girls, her garden and various animals, Philippa feeds the teams of workers. She collects and shares a selection of delicious, hearty recipes with other farm cooks on her popular Instagram page @whats_for_smoko. A High Country Life features Philippa's most trusted recipes, tested on many approving musterers.

Pip Cameron lives on Otematata Station in the South Island of New Zealand.

MY MOTHER AND OTHER SECRETS

Wendyl Nissen

A&U New Zealand 9781988547213 | $36.99 | | PB | Memoir

Uncovering old family secrets leads Wendyl Nissen to a better understanding of her mother in this compelling and moving

memoir

When Wendyl Nissen's mother was suffering from Alzheimer's, she told some extraordinary stories about her background that Wendyl had never heard before.

Wendyl was determined to get to the bottom of these family secrets, and what she found were some wild and intriguing stories of loss, grief and love.

She uncovered new relatives, deeply sad adoptions, harsh parenting, complex marriages and a few rogues—stories of how women struggled in an era when childhoods were tough and women had to fight for every bit of independence they gained.

This compelling and moving book is about mothers and daughters, ageing and the way deep family traumas echo down through the generations. Because these secrets and tales emerged through the effects of Alzheimer's, the book is also spliced with wisdom on caring for someone with dementia.

Wendyl Nissen is a journalist, broadcaster and former magazine editor who is the author of seven books, mostly about living a chemical-free, old-fashioned life. She lives in the Hokianga.

A&U New Zealand 9781988547213 $34.99 PB Memoir NZ$36.99

KEEPERS Classic recipes with a delicious twist from Pepper & Me

Cherie Metcalfe

A&U New Zealand9781988547558 | $45.00 | | HB | Food & Drink

Classic recipes you'll turn to again and again

Take your cooking to the next level without fuss with these fabulous recipes which are easy to prepare and that your family and friends will love.

Created with heart by trained chef Cherie Metcalfe of Pepper & Me and featuring some of her most popular recipes, this cookbook will see you step up your cooking game without the hard work. Featuring a delicious range of accessible recipes—from breakfasts, to light delights, main courses, sides, condiments and baking—and beautifully photographed, you'll find the recipes in Keepers are ones you'll return to again and again.

Whether you are already an avid user of Cherie's fantastic range of pastes and sauces, grinds and rubs or if you just want to take your dishes to the next level, Cherie has options for every keen cook, no products required.

Cherie Metcalfe is the creator of Pepper & Me, a successful food brand in New Zealand with a range of delicious products that help make meal preparation easier and tastier. She lives in Tauranga.

A&U New Zealand 9781988547558 $32.99 HB Food & Drink NZ$36.99

THE ABUNDANT GARDEN A practical guide to growing a regenerative home garden

Niva Kay and Yotam Kay

A&U New Zealand9781988547718 | $45.00 | | PB | Lifestyle

Home gardening the natural way

Niva and Yotam Kay of Pakaraka Permaculture, on the Coromandel Peninsula of Aotearoa New Zealand, share their long experience in organic gardening in this comprehensive book on how to create and maintain a productive and regenerative vegetable garden.

They work with nature, enhancing the soil life and fertility, and providing plants with what they need to thrive. This is grounded in the latest scientific research on soil health, ecological and regenerative practices.

Vegetable gardening, in this way, repeatedly demonstrates that every loved garden bed can produce high-yielding, resilient, nourishing and delicious vegetables year after year.

The Abundant Garden has simple, reliable strategies and techniques to help maximise your ability to feed yourself and share the abundance with those around you. With information on growing a wide variety of vegetables, there are also helpful charts to help you plan and plant your garden year-round. In addition there are details on how to grow microgreens and great recipes for ferments, preserves and pickles you can stock the pantry with your garden's bounty.

Niva and Yotam Kay run the Pakaraka Permaculture Garden on the Coromandel Peninsula.

A&U New Zealand 9781988547718 $45.00 PB Lifestyle NZ$45.00

MY INNER SKY Mari Andrew

Allen & Unwin 9781760879426 | $32.99 | | HB | Memoir

A collection of essays and illustrations, divided into phases of the sky—twilight, golden hour, night, and dawn—that serves as a

loyal companion for life's curveballs

A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. In this insightful and warm book, writer and illustrator Mari Andrew explores all the emotions that make up a life, in the process offering insights about trauma and healing, the meaning of home and the challenges of loneliness, finding love in the most unexpected of places—from birds nesting on a sculpture to a ride on the subway—and a resounding case for why sometimes you have to put yourself in the path of magic.

My Inner Sky empowers us to transform everything that's happened to us into something meaningful, reassurance that even in our darkest times, there's light and beauty to be found.

Mari Andrew is the New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? whose witty comics on Instagram have garnered a global audience.

Allen & Unwin 9781760879426 $29.99 HB Memoir NZ$32.99

THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICESharon Stone

Allen & Unwin9781760879969 | $32.99 | | PB | Memoir

Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love and purpose

She was one of the most renowned actresses in the world—until a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life, and the slow road back to wholeness and health. In an industry that doesn't accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to make a difference in the lives of women and children around the globe.

Over the course of these intimate pages, as candid as a personal conversation, Stone talks about her pivotal roles, her life-changing friendships, her worst disappointments and her greatest accomplishments. She reveals how she went from a childhood of trauma and violence to a business that in many ways echoed those same assaults, under cover of money and glamour. She describes the strength and meaning she found in her children and in her humanitarian efforts. And ultimately, she shares how she fought her way back to find not only her truth, but her family's reconciliation and love.

Sharon Stone is an actress, human rights activist, artist and writer. She lives in Los Angeles.

Allen & Unwin 9781760879969 $29.99 PB Memoir NZ$32.99

HOW TO FAKE BEING TIDYAnd other things my mother never taught

me

Fenella Souter

Allen & Unwin9781760878443 | $32.99 | | PB | Memoir

These wise and funny stories explore the hits and misses of domestic life—from the art of running a house like a grown-up, to cooking well, to managing a batch of home-made dilemmas and disasters. Touching on friendship, loyalty, marriage, overpacking, indecision, loss and finding joy without leaving home, they will have you smiling with recognition at the everyday dramas and adventures that can make or break friendships, turn a house into a home, or let chaos get the upper hand.

Fenella Souter is an award-winning feature writer.She lives in Sydney.

Allen & Unwin 9781760878443 $29.99 PB Memoir NZ$32.99

THE INEVITABLEStories of choosing the end

Katie Engelhart

Atlantic9781786495648 | $32.99 | | HB | Ethics

The Inevitable explores one of our most abiding taboos: that of assisted suicide. From Avril, the 80-year-old British woman illegally importing pentobarbital, to the Australian doctor dispensing suicide manuals online, it reveals the stories behind one of today's most hotly debated ethical dilemmas. At once intensely troubling and profoundly moving, The Inevitable interrogates our most uncomfortable moral questions. But it also does something more. In examining our end, it sheds crucial light on what it means to flourish and live.

Katie Engelhart is a writer, documentary filmmaker and award-winning journalist. She lives in New York.

Atlantic 9781786495648 $29.99 PB Ethics NZ$32.99

THE MUSLIM PROBLEMWhy we're wrong about Islam and why it

matters

Tawseef Khan

Atlantic9781786499523 | $32.99 | | PB | Ethics

Across western societies, Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to believe in Islam today, to have forged your beliefs and identity in the shadow of 9/11? Exploding stereotypes from both inside and outside the faith, The Muslim Problem shows that we are often wrong about even the most basic facts. Bold and provocative, it is both a wake-up call for non-believers and a passionate new framework for Muslims to navigate a world that is often set against them.

Tawseef Khan is a qualified solicitor and a human rights activist. He lives in the UK.

Atlantic 9781786499523 $29.99 PB Ethics NZ$32.99

HELLO, MUM Polly Dunbar

Faber9780571365104 | $27.99 | | HB | Humour

'Go away, I'm busy writing about the beauty of motherhood.' When Polly Dunbar had her own sons, she started recording the beautiful and maddening moments of parenthood with a doodle. Hello, Mum is her visual diary of the magical highs and absurd lows that many parents will recognise—from the shock and awe of the baby days to the delight (and terror) of the toddler years and the mayhem of sibling rivalry. Dunbar's fantastically funny, wise and enchanting drawings capture this precious and fleeting time with heart-touching perfection.

Polly Dunbar is an award-winning illustrator and creator of Penguin. She lives in the UK.

Faber 9780571365104 $24.99 HB Humour NZ$27.99

CONFLICTED Why arguments are tearing us apart and

how they can bring us together

Ian Leslie

Faber9780571346943 | $32.99 | | PB | Popular Science

In a world where it's easier than ever for people to share their opinions, we should be reaping the benefits of diverse views. Conflicted draws essential lessons on how to disagree well from world-class experts. It tells inspiring stories of productive disagreements combined with fascinating insights from the science of human communication. Whether it's at work, at home, or in public, confronting our differences is the only way to make the most of them. Conflicted is about how to do that successfully.

Ian Leslie is a journalist, communications consultant and author of Born Liars and Curious. He lives in London

Faber 9780571346943 $29.99 PB Popular Science NZ$32.99

HAD I KNOWN Collected essays

Barbara Ehrenreich

Granta9781783786886 | $24.99 | | PB | Reportage

A selection of the most provocative, incendiary and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and activists. Written with remarkable tenderness, humour and incisiveness, Ehrenreich describes an America of struggle, inequality, racial bias and injustice. Her extraordinarily prescient and relevant perspective announces her as one of most significant thinkers of our day.

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of over twenty books, including the bestselling Smile or Die and Nickel and Dimed. She lives in Virginia, USA.

Granta 9781783786886 $22.99 PB Reportage NZ$24.99

KARACHI VICE Life and death in a contested city

Samira Shackle

Granta9781783785391 | $36.99 | | HB | Reportage

Karachi. The capital of Pakistan is a sprawling mega-city of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. It is a society where lavish wealth and absolute poverty live side by side, and where the lines between idealism and corruption can quickly blur.

Written with intimate local knowledge and a global perspective, Karachi Vice paints a nuanced and vivid portrait of one of the most complex, most compelling cities in the world.

Samira Shackle is a freelance British journalist who travels to Pakistan regularly.

Granta 9781783785391 $32.99 HB Reportage NZ$36.99

GAY BAR Why we went out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

Granta9781783785810 | $39.99 | | HB | History

Gay Bar is a sparkling, richly individual history of the gay bars of London, San Francisco and Los Angeles, focusing on the post-AIDs crisis years of the 1990s to the present day. It is also the story of Jeremy Atherton Lin's own experiences as a gay man, and the lifelong romance that began one restless night in Soho. In prose both playful and challenging, he immerses his reader in the unique experience of a life lived in and out of these spaces.

Jeremy Atherton Lin is a writer, editor and critic. Originally from California, he is now based in London.

Granta 9781783785810 $34.99 HB History NZ$39.99

WHO POISONED YOUR BACON SANDWICH?

The dangerous history of meat additives

Guillaume Coudray

Icon9781785786112 | $32.99 | | PB | Food & Society

The result of more than five years of detailed research, this powerful exploration of the use of carcinogenic nitro-additives in the meat millions of people eat every week demonstrates why many in the media are now comparing the processed meat industry with Big Tobacco. The story it unearths—of the investigations into big business flying in the face of countless scientific health warnings—is one that too few of us have yet heard.

Guillaume Coudray is a French author and director of documentary films.

Icon 9781785786112 $29.99 PB Food & Society NZ$32.99

THE DISCONNECT A personal journey through the internet

Roisin Kiberd

Serpent’s Tail9781788165778 | $32.99 | | PB | Memoir

We all live online now. Roisin Kiberd knows this better than anyone. She has worked for tech start-ups and explored the strangest communities on the web. She has traced the ripples these hidden worlds have sent through our culture and politics, and experienced the disorienting effects on her own life. In interlinked essays, The Disconnect asks what we have gained, what we have lost, and what we have given willingly away in exchange for this connected life.

Roisin Kiberd has written features on technology and culture for numerous publications including the Guardian. She lives in Dublin.

Serpent’s Tail 9781788165778 $29.99 PB Memoir NZ$32.99

GOOD RIDDANCE Stacey Currie

Pantera9780648676904 | $34.99 | | PB | Biography

Keen to make changes in your life? Sometimes, it's easier to get rid of the things you're not happy with and take it from there. Stacey Currie is living proof that it works. Raised in housing commission, pregnant at 15, homeless at 19 and a victim of domestic violence at 21, Stacey turned her life around. Today she is an award-winning businesswoman and motivational speaker, keen to share her life lessons through this powerful, gutsy memoir full of street-smart wisdom.

Stacey Currie is a qualified leadership coach.

Pantera 9780648676904 $32.99 PB Biography NZ$34.99

IN CONTROL Jane Monckton-Smith

Bloomsbury9781526613202 | $32.99 | | PB | Popular Science

Domestic violence has a clear pattern. Jealousy. Controlling behaviour. Stalking. Verbal abuse. A history of violence.

Specialising in homicide, stalking and coercive control, internationally renowned forensic criminologist and former police officer Jane Monckton-Smith has spent decades researching domestic violence. Part case study, part social commentary and part memoir of a woman dealing with domestic homicide, In Control shows that there are clear signs when a relationship is about to turn violent, we've just been trained not to see them.

Dr Jane Monckton Smith is a Forensic Criminologist. She lives in the UK.

Bloomsbury 9781526613202 $29.99 PB Popular Science NZ$32.99

A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN

George Saunders

Bloomsbury9781526624284 | $36.99 | | HB | Essays

From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to live. Funny, frank, and rigorous, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain ultimately shows how great fiction can change a person's life and become a benchmark of one's moral and ethical beliefs.

George Saunders is the author of nine books and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Bloomsbury 9781526624284 $34.99 HB Essays NZ$36.99

A searing account of the struggle between the indigenous people of the Amazon and hungry global industries of gold, wood and oil.

The bestselling—and hugely timely—guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19.

'A majestic must-read'—Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England.

WARS OF THE INTERIORJoseph Zarate

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Granta9781783786152 | $24.99 |

THE RULES OF CONTAGION Why things spread—and why they stop

Adam Kucharski

NEW IN PAPERBACK Profile9781788160209 | $24.99 |

MOREThe 10,000-year rise of the world economy

Philip Coggan

NEW IN PAPERBACK Profile9781781258095 | $27.99 |

LOVE OBJECTSEmily Maguire

Allen & Unwin9781760878337 | $36.99 | | PB | Fiction

A stunning, simply told story of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated

Incident

Nic is a forty-five-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood's stray cats. She's also the owner of a decade's worth of daily newspapers, enough clothes and shoes to fill Big W three times over, along with crates of Happy Meal toys and towers of Vegemite jars, take-away containers and cat food tins.

Nic's closest relationship is with her niece Lena. One Sunday, when Nic fails to turn up to lunch, Lena arrives at the house she hasn't visited in years to find Nic unconscious under an avalanche of stuff. Devastated that her beloved aunt has been living in such squalor all this time, Lena gets to work cleaning things up while Nic is in hospital.

This heroic effort is not appreciated by the plastered up, crutch-wielding Nic. She returns to an empty, alien place unrecognisable as her home and the unbearable pity of her family who have no idea what they've destroyed. How can she live in this place without safety and peace? And how can she ever forgive the niece who has betrayed her?

Emily Maguire is the author of six novels, including the Stella Prize and Miles Franklin Award shortlisted An Isolated Incident. She lives in Sydney.

Allen & Unwin 9781760878337 $32.99 PB Fiction NZ$36.99

THE FRENCH GIFTKirsty Manning

Allen & Unwin9781760528096 | $36.99 | | PB | Fiction

A WWII story of female friendship, longing and sacrifice through war and loss, bringing together the present and the past

A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past . . .

Fresnes Prison, 1940: Margot Bisset, former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter, Josephine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for generations to come.

Contemporary Paris: Evie Black lives in Paris with her teenage son Hugo above her botanical bookshop, La Maison Rustique. Life would be so sweet if only Evie were not mourning the great love of her life. When a letter arrives regarding the legacy of her husband's great-aunt, Josephine Murant, Evie clutches at an opportunity to spend one last magical summer with her son. They travel together to Josephine's house, now theirs, on the Cote d'Azur. Here, Evie unravels the official story of this famous novelist, and the truth of a murder a lifetime ago.

The redemptive beauty of nature and the promise of new love offer light at the end of the tunnel in this stirring novel delving into Europe's past.

Kirsty Manning is the author of The Midsummer Garden, The Jade Lily and The Lost Jewels. She lives in Melbourne.

Allen & Unwin 9781760528096 $32.99 PB Fiction NZ$36.99

SOMETHING TO HIDE Fleur McDonald

Allen & Unwin9781760876821 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

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

With the sickening realisation that his cover has been blown, Detective Dave Burrows knows his family is in serious danger from Bulldust and his brother Scotty, vicious stock thieves and murderers. Bent on revenge, they are hiding out close to Dave and Mel's old hometown of Barrabine. When devastating news brings Dave back there, he has to question his determination to stay in the police force. How could he face himself if anything happened to Mel and the kids?

Mel, understandably frightened, must decide who she'll listen to. Can she live with this threat hanging over her family, or is her father right to argue that she should leave Dave immediately?With her acclaimed skill for tension and drama, Fleur McDonald has delivered another compelling rural story.

Fleur McDonald is the best-selling author of sixteen novels including Starting from Now, Red Dirt Country and The Shearer's Wife. She lives in Esperance, WA.

Allen & Unwin 9781760876821 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

THE LADY WITH THE GUN ASKS THE QUESTIONS

The ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher collection

Kerry Greenwood

Allen & Unwin9781760878191 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

The elegant Miss Phryne Fisher returns in this scintillating collection, featuring four brand-new

stories

The 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth, the Honourable Phryne Fisher—she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips and diamante garters—stars in each of these surprising, compulsively readable and entertaining stories. With the ever-loyal Dot, the ingenious Mr Butler and all of Phryne's friends and household, the action is as fast as Phryne's wit and logic.

Kerry Greenwood is the author of more than fifty novels including her beloved Phryne Fisher series which became the successful ABC TV series, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

Allen & Unwin 9781760878191 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

LEGACY OF WAR Wilbur Smith with David Churchill

Zaffre9781838772246 | $45.00 | | HB | Fiction

The action-packed new book in the Courtney Series and the sequel to Courtney's War

The war is over, Hitler is dead—and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe . . .

Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial empire is feeling the stirrings of rebellion. As the situation becomes violent, and the Courtney family home is under threat, Leon Courtney finds himself caught between two powerful sides—and a battle for the freedom of a country. Legacy of War is a nail-biting story of courage, bravery, rebellion and war from the master of adventure fiction.

Wilbur Smith has published over forty global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series and the Hector Cross Series. David Churchill is the acclaimed author of The Leopards of Normandy.

Zaffre 9781838772246 $39.99 HB Fiction NZ$45.00

JUDAS HORSE Lynda La Plante

Zaffre9781785769818 | $36.99 | | PB | Fiction

Not all killers can be tamed . . . The thrilling second book in the bestselling Detective Jack

Warr crime series

Wild mustangs are difficult to rope, their lead stallion wary and protective of his herd. To capture that special stallion takes time. He is separated, roped and lead back to the ranch. Once tamed, he is sent back into the wild. And before long, he will lead the entire herd back to the ranch. He is given the name 'Judas Horse'.

When Detective Jack Warr identifies an informer, the terrified man begins to give details of a massive robbery planned by a team of unscrupulous and dangerous men. Warr and his team must use their informant as a 'Judas Horse' to draw in the unsuspecting robbers, so that they go ahead with the planned robbery. However, one false move, and more blood will be spilled . . .

Lynda La Plante is known as the Queen of Crime Drama with 38 bestselling novels and over 170 hours of international television including the series, Prime Suspect.

Zaffre 9781785769818 $32.99 PB Fiction NZ$36.99

THOSE HAMILTON SISTERS

Averil Kenny

Echo9781760686710 | $36.99 | | PB | Fiction

Beautiful, irrepressible Esther Hamilton had a reputation in the small Queensland town of Noah Vale. That was until she ran away, twenty years ago, under a cloud of shame. It's now 1955 and the Hamilton sisters—Sonnet, Fable and little Novella Plum—have returned to Noah Vale. But in a small town where everyone thinks they know everything about each other, will their mother's scandalous past decide their futures? Those Hamilton Sisters is a warm, captivating and irresistible story of love, family, secrets and finding your place in the world.

Averil Kenny is a writer living in Far North Queensland.

Echo 9781760686710 $32.99 PB Fiction NZ$36.99

THE FAVOUR Laura Vaughan

Corvus9781838952020 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Fortune favours the fraud . . . When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was destined to lead. Now, at eighteen, she is given a second chance when her wealthy godmother gifts her with an extravagant art history trip to Italy. And when a member of the cultured and privileged group dies in suspicious circumstances, Ada seizes the opportunity to permanently bind herself to this gilded set. A sumptuous debut, laced with secrets, lies and dangerous obsessions.

Laura Vaughan is a YA author and studied Art History in Italy. She lives in London.

Corvus 9781838952020 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

STELLATakis Würger

Grove Press 9781611854497 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

1942. Fritz arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland, and is hypnotised by the beautiful Kristin who becomes his guide to the cosmopolitan city. But the Nazis are increasingly taking control over the intimate lives of German residents and Kristin has good reason to be afraid: her real name is Stella Goldschlag, and she is Jewish. As Fritz is forced to confront the reality of Stella's situation, he finds himself woefully unprepared for the history he is living through. Stella is a powerful exploration of naiveté, young love, betrayal and the horrors of history.

Takis Würger is a reporter for the German news magazine Der Spiegel and is the internationally bestselling author of The Club.

Grove Press 9781611854497 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

EVERY VOW YOU BREAK Peter Swanson

Faber9780571358502 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

After a whirlwind, fairy-tale romance, Abigail Baskin marries freshly-minted Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb. For their honeymoon, he whisks her away to an exclusive retreat off the Maine coast on Heart Pond Island. But once there, Abigail's perfect new life threatens to crash down around her as she recognises one of their fellow guests as the good looking, charismatic stranger who, weeks earlier, had seduced her at her own Bachelorette party . . . An exceptionally twisty—and twisted—new thriller from the master of suspense.

Peter Swanson is the acclaimed author of The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, The Kind Worth Killing and Rules for Perfect Murders. He lives in Massachusetts, USA.

Faber 9780571358502 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

TEMPORARY Hilary Leichter

Faber9780571363865 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

18 boyfriends. 23 jobs. One ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice. Welcome to the world of the Temporary. Aided by her bespoke agency and a cast of boyfriends, she is happy to fill in for any of us: for the Chairman of the Board, a ghost, a murderer, a mother. Even for you, and for me. Wild, hopeful, infinitely sad and infinitely funny, this cult American hit is the smartest, most humane story of what it is to work and live, here and now.

Hilary Leichter teaches writing at Columbia University.

Faber 9780571363865 $27.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE Imbolo Mbue

Canongate9781838851354 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Told through the perspective of the family of a girl named Thula, it is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.

Imbolo Mbue is the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Behold the Dreamers. Born in Cameroon, she lives in New York.

Canongate 9781838851354 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

LITTLE GODS Meng Jin

Pushkin9781911590439 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions that she inherited from that night onwards. Ambitious, multifaceted yet intimate, Little Gods is a gripping story of migrations both literal and emotional and of the tragic impact of history on individual lives.

Meng Jin is a writer whose narrative prose appears in the Best American Short Stories 2020. Born in Shanghai, she has lived in the UK and the US.

Pushkin 9781911590439 $27.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

TOURING THE LAND OF THE DEAD

Maki Kashimada

Europa Editions9781787702806 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Natsuko is well accustomed to financial hardship. One day, she sees an ad for a spa resort and recognises the place as a former luxury hotel, a symbol of that time in her mother's youth when she wanted for nothing. When Natsuko and her husband visit the much-changed hotel, the building triggers memories and epiphanies relating to the complicated history of her family. The overnight trip becomes a voyage into the netherworld—a journey to the doors of death and back to life.

Maki Kashimada won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's National Book Award, for Touring the Land of the Dead.

Europa Editions 9781787702806 $27.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

HIS ONLY WIFE Peace Adzo Medie

Oneworld9780861540723 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana when she is offered a life-changing opportunity—a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo. Marriage could be the key to the life she's always wanted, but when she meets Eli, she starts to question whether she has made the right choice. Bursting with warmth and humour, His Only Wife is a witty, smart and moving comedy-of-manners about the search for independence, and the rules that might have to be broken along the way.

Peace Adzo Medie is a Ghanaian writer and Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol.

Oneworld 9780861540723 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99

MOTHER MAY I Joshilyn Jackson

Raven Books9781526633859 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

Revenge doesn't wait for permission. A stranger has taken Bree's baby—and she won't get him back alive unless she performs one small task. But nothing is ever that easy . . . A pulse-racing, heart-pounding domestic thriller that will have you turning the pages in the race to find the kidnapper and save Bree's baby.

Joshilyn Jackson is the New York Times bestselling queen of domestic suspense and author of Never Have I Ever. She lives in the USA.

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SPRING CLEAN FOR THE PEACH QUEEN

Sasha Wasley

Pantera9780648676942 | $32.99 | | PB | Fiction

One tanked career, one badly timed glamour shoot and one dead boyfriend later, thirty-year-old Lottie Bentz is finally going home. In the orchard town where she grew up, Lottie tries to declutter her life, Marie Kondo-style. But home has its own problems and as Lottie learns to cleanse herself and those around her, she reconnects with what's really important and encounters a few surprises along the way. This beautifully nuanced, slow-burn love story deals with failed expectations, second chances, grief and the importance of family and community.

Sasha Wasley works as a copywriter. She lives in Perth.

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An unforgettable novel of family secrets from the New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins.

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