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Rain Fall by Ella West

Title: Rain Fall Author: Ella West Genre: YA Mystery Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 2nd January 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Price: $16.99 Synopsis: A tense, engaging read that will have you racing through the pages. I'm not running late like I usually am. Maybe that's why I look in the river, maybe that's why… Continue reading Rain Fall by Ella West

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Murder on Christmas Eve edited by Cecily Gayford

Title: Murder on Christmas Eve Author: Various Authors, Edited by Cecily Gayford Genre: Crime, short stories Publisher: Profile Books Published: 22nd November 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: The follow up to the bestselling crime collection Murder under the Christmas Tree Christmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents… Continue reading Murder on Christmas Eve edited by Cecily Gayford

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Into the World by Stephanie Parkyn

Title: Into the World Author: Stephanie Parkyn Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 1st December 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 448 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: Abandoned by her lover and fleeing the wrath of her family, Marie-Louise must make a desperate choice. Find a man or become one. In the midst of the French Revolution,… Continue reading Into the World by Stephanie Parkyn

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Sleep No More by P.D. James

Title: Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales Author: P.D. James Genre: Crime Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin/Faber Fiction Published: 25th October 2017 Format: Hardcover Pages: 176 Price: $24.99 Synopsis: A second collection of short stories from P.D. James. Six further stories are published together for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition. As a… Continue reading Sleep No More by P.D. James

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The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington

Title: The Red Ribbon Author: Lucy Addlington Genre: Historical Fiction/Young Adult Publisher: Bonnier/Hotkey/Allen and Unwin Published: 25th October 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. This was Birchwood. For readers of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped… Continue reading The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington

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The Last Hours by Minette Walters

Title: The Last Hours Author: Minette Walters Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 27th September 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 568 Price: $32.99 Synopsis: For most, the Black Death is the end. For a brave few, it heralds a new beginning. When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire… Continue reading The Last Hours by Minette Walters

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The Secret Books by Marcel Theroux

Title: The Secret Books Author: Marcel Theroux Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Faber Fiction Published: 27th September, 2017 Format: Hardback Pages: 352 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: A world on the brink of catastrophe. A two-thousand-year-old mystery. A lost gospel. Both a page-turning adventure and an examination of the stories that humans are willing to kill and die… Continue reading The Secret Books by Marcel Theroux

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We That Are Left by Lisa Bigelow

Title: We That Are Left Author: Lisa Bigelow Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 23rd August 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 400 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: A moving debut novel about love and war, and the terrifyingly thin line between happiness and tragedy, hope and despair. Melbourne, 1941. Headstrong young Mae meets and falls head… Continue reading We That Are Left by Lisa Bigelow

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The Cursed First Term of Zelda Stitch: Bad Teacher, Worse Witch by Nicki Greenberg

Title: The Cursed First Term of Zelda Stitch: Bad Teacher, Worse Witch Author: Nicki Greenberg Genre: Children’s Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 23rd August, 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 272 Price: $14.99 Synopsis: Imagine if you read your teacher's diary... and discovered she was a witch! With courage, imagination and a certain amount of recklessness,… Continue reading The Cursed First Term of Zelda Stitch: Bad Teacher, Worse Witch by Nicki Greenberg

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Evie’s Ghost by Helen Peters

Title: Evie’s Ghost Author: Helen Peters Genre: Children’s Historical Fiction Publisher: Nosy Crow/Allen and Unwin Published: 28th June 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 304 Price: $14.99 Synopsis: Classic children's fiction from the author of The Secret Hen House Theatre. Evie couldn't be angrier with her mother. She's only gone and got married again and has flown off… Continue reading Evie’s Ghost by Helen Peters