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Cover reveal for Matt Davies’ debut YA novel, This Thing of Darkness

We are delighted to share the beautiful cover of Matt Davies’ debut YA novel, This Thing of Darkness. This powerful and inspiring book hits shelves in October through Scholastic Australia.

Allen & Unwin acquires Sonia Henry’s debut novel about the brutal world of medical training

We are very happy to announce that Allen & Unwin will be publishing Sydney doctor Sonia Henry’s darkly funny, sad and inspiring debut novel that lifts the lid on the brutal world of medical training. This important novel is sure to start many conversations about power struggles, bureaucracies and sexual harassment in medicine, and is set to be published in mid-2019.

Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth II receive copies of The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers

We are thrilled to share photos of Prince Charles receiving his copy of Michael C. Madden’s wonderful book, The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers. Queen Elizabeth II has also been presented with a copy of the book, which continues to receive extraordinary press and praise both in Australia and overseas.

To book Michael as a speaker, please email us directly at admin [at] hindsight.net.au

Triptych by Julie Keys to be published by Hachette

We are very pleased to announce that Julie Keys’ debut novel will be published by the wonderful team at Hachette in mid-2019.

Speaking to Books+Publishing, Robert Watkins, head of literary and illustrated at Hachette, said, ‘I was completely swept away by the story of Muriel Kemp and her inquisitive neighbour Jane … It’s a novel I think many readers will love and want to talk about the minute they’ve turned the last page.’

The manuscript was shortlisted for the 2017 Richell Prize and is an immensely captivating and evocative book by an extremely talented emerging author.

“[This] is at once a romp through the annals of the Australian art world, and an interrogation of the power structures at play within it, told through the eyes of renegade artist Muriel Kemp and investigative reporter Jane Cooper … An intriguing premise and a clever & evocative weaving together of the 1920s Australian art world with a more contemporary strand.” [Richell Award judges’ comments]

Catherine Cole shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

Congratulations to Catherine Cole whose beautiful short story collection has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark is one of the six titles nominated for the prestigious Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. The $40,000 prize will be announced on 30 April.

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-awards-nsw-premiers-literary-awards/christina-stead-prize-fiction-0

Judges comments:  “In this elegant, delicately crafted collection of short stories, Catherine Cole brings a poetic sensibility to the examination of apparently unremarkable moments in ordinary lives … This intelligent, understated collection offers a powerful reflection on the transience of life and the fragility of home.”

Murder at Dusk cover reveal

“May 1942, Melbourne is torn between fearing Japanese invasion and reveling in the carnival atm

osphere brought by the influx of American servicemen. But it is also a city gripped by terror – a serial killer is on the loose in the darkened streets, and three women have already been brutally strangled.”

Check out the wonderful cover for Ian W. Shaw’s upcoming true crime book, Murder At Dusk. To be released by Hachette in June.

Elisabeth Holdsworth book acquired by Brio Books

We are delighted to announce that award-winning essayist Elisabeth Holdsworth will publish a book on Progressive Judaism with Brio Books in early 2019. The book builds on Elisabeth’s recent ABR RAFT fellowship essay, If This Is A Jew.

Elisabeth will be appearing at Melbourne Jewish Book Week (May 3-10, 2018).

April in Paris: Australian cover reveal + reviews

The gorgeous cover for the Australian release of Tessa Lunney’s April in Paris, 1921 has just been revealed!

The novel will be released by HarperCollins Australia in mid-2018 and concurrently in the US by Pegasus Books.

Early reviews of April in Paris, 1921:

“Fascinating characters, beautifully written.”
– Kate Williams, New York Times bestselling author of ‘Becoming Queen Victoria’

“Tessa Lunney brilliantly evokes the Années folles of the Roaring Twenties as her heroine―an Australian debutant-turned-nurse-turned-spy―Kiki Button traipses through Paris’s sensual bohemian culture hunting for a World War I mole and stolen Pablo Picasso painting.”
– Julie McElwain, author of ‘A Murder in Time’ and ‘A Twist in Time’

“An irresistible debut! Adventurous and whip-smart, Kiki Button is Jazz Age Paris’s most dazzling ex-pat.”
– David Krugler, author of ‘The Dead Don’t Bleed’

“Liberated from her wartime duties as a nurse, Kiki Button, Tessa Lunney’s main character of her debut April in Paris, 1921, is a gossip columnist-cum-detective who finds herself mixed up in a mystery set against the backdrop of post-WWI Paris. Lunney takes the reader on a breathless, page-turning journey through cafes, streets, and dark alleys of this Bohemian time period, searching for a stolen piece of art. Kiki, who is charming, self-possessed, and sexually free, is readable and fun, a modern woman blazing though the Années folles no holds barred.”
– John Copenhaver, author of ‘Dodging and Burning’

Hachette acquires Ian W Shaw’s next nonfiction book

We are pleased to share the news that, following the success of The Rag Tag Fleet, Hachette will be publishing Ian W Shaw’s next nonfiction book in mid-2018.

Ian’s sixth book will explore the fascinating story of Eddie Leonski and Melbourne’s ‘brownout murders’ of 1942. Based on extensive archival and documentary research, the book is an insightful investigation into one of Australia’s most intriguing serial killers.

Kate Murdoch’s second novel acquired by Regal House Publishing

Just days before the release of her debut novel, Stone Circle, we’re delighted to announce that Kate Murdoch’s second novel, The Orange Grove, will be published in early-2019 by Regal House Publishing. The Orange Grove is an irresistibly dark and richly-drawn book about the passions and intrigues of court mistresses in eighteenth-century France.

Tessa Lunney’s debut novel sold to HarperCollins in Australia and Pegasus Books in the US

We are twice as excited to announce that Tessa Lunney’s sparkling novel April in Paris, 1921 has been acquired by HarperCollins in Australia AND by Pegasus Books in the US!

April in Paris, 1921 is an upmarket female spy thriller set in post-war France that follows the exploits of Kiki Button – war veteran, party girl, detective, and spy. This is Tessa’s debut novel and will be released in Australia and the US in July 2018.

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