Allen&Unwin
january 2015
new books
• Amy Hatvany • Philippa Christian • Lisa Heidke • Ava Reilly • Dr Sarah Boston • Anne Holt
NANNY CONFIDENTIAL
Philippa Christian
A deliciously gossipy novel about the rich and famous from the Nanny who has seen it all
When Lindsay Starwood moved from a small town to Melbourne, she had no idea that her after-school babysitting job
would turn into a career as a nanny for the rich and famous in Hollywood. After working for a football player famous
for his extramarital activities, word gets out about the Australian nanny who is great with kids and capable of keeping
secrets. But being a celebrity nanny is no Mary Poppins fantasy. Especially when Lindsay finds herself caring for a
fame-hungry reality television star’s daughters with a film crew watching her every move and duties way outside her job
description. From affairs to bomb threats and suspicious deaths, it’s a side of Tinseltown not seen in the magazines.
This fast-paced, outrageous novel with a cast of millionaires ripped straight from the headlines is for anyone who loves
gossip, glamour and a sneak peek into the unbelievable world of a nanny to the stars.
Philippa Christian has worked as a nanny for the rich and famous. Born in Melbourne, she has lived and worked in LA.
Allen & Unwin 9781760111014 $24.99 PB
FICTION
OUTSIDE THE LINES
Amy Hatvany
A powerful and intriguing father and daughter story about being lost and found
When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to
her parents’ divorce, and David all but vanished from her life. Twenty years later, after a series of failed relationships
and a health scare from her mother, Eden decides it’s time to find him. Her search takes her to a downtown Seattle
homeless shelter, and to Jack Baker, its charming director. Jack convinces Eden to volunteer her skills as a chef and,
in return, he helps her in her quest. As the connection between Eden and Jack grows stronger, and their investigation
brings them closer to David, Eden must come to terms with her true emotions, the secrets her mother has kept from
her, and the painful question of whether her father, after all these years, even wants to be found.
Amy Hatvany is the author of Heart Like Mine, Safe with Me, Best Kept Secret and The Language of Sisters. She lives
in the USA.
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781743317082 $29.99 PB
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FICTION
IT STARTED WITH A KISS
Lisa Heidke
Can Friday find true love and the fresh start her life needs via internet dating?
Friday Jones is shattered when Liam, her husband of almost twenty years and the father of their teenage daughters,
tells her their marriage is over. Still heartbroken many months after Liam’s departure, Friday is deeply flattered when
a funny, handsome man shows an interest in her. Unable to control her desire, she embarks on an intense affair with
him, despite numerous warning signals. When Friday’s best friend, Rosie, discovers Friday is risking further emotional
pain she convinces her to join a dating website. But not long after Friday dives into the murky world of online romance
she starts receiving anonymous gifts and letters. Clearly one of her flings has become a little too obsessed with her.
It Started with a Kiss is about the secrets and lies that tie a couple togetherem and those that can also tear them and
their family apart.
Lisa Heidke is the author of Lucy Springer Gets Even, What Kate Did Next, Claudia’s Big Break and Stella Makes
Good. She lives in Sydney.
arena 9781743319758 $29.99 PB
FICTION
VOLCANO STREET
David Rain
In the tradition of great Australian literature, a wonderfully vivid portrayal of small-town life and the uncertainties
of childhood
What would Germaine do?’ This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the
twists and turns that life brings. After their mother is sectioned, they are farmed out to relatives in a backwater town
called Crater Lakes. Sixteen-year-old Marlo spends her days working in the family hardware store, while twelve-year-old
Skip spends hers avoiding their overbearing aunt and fighting at the local school. Both sisters dream daily of escape,
but first impressions can be deceiving. When they meet their new neighbours, Skip’s classmate Honza and his older
brother Pavel, they begin to see a different side to the town. As the hot Australian days roll by, the Wells sisters begin
to settle into Crater Lakes, where they discover that prejudice and violence run deep, but belonging and family run
deeper.
David Rain is the author of The Heat of the Sun. An Australian writer, he is currently living in London.
ATLANTIC 9780857892072 $27.99 PB
FICTION
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THE LION’S MOUTH
Anne Holt
Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. But was it a politically motivated
assassination or personal revenge? The hunt for her killer is complicated, intense and gruelling. Hanne Wilhelmsen must contain
the scandal before a private tragedy becomes a public outrage, in what will become the most sensitive case of her career. This
powerful story of lies, intrigue and politics questions who really holds the power in Norway, and how far they will go to use it.
Anne Holt is Norway’s former Minster for Justice and bestselling female crime writer with over 6 million books sold in 30 languages.
CORVUS 9780857898135 $29.99 PB
CRIME FICTION
FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
Robert Bausch
Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As
he stumbles around the West, he finds meaning in the people he meets—settlers and native people—and the violent history he both
participates in and witnesses. Far as the Eye Can See is a story of survival, and how two people—a white man and a mixed-race
woman—in the midst of such majesty and violence can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity.
Robert Bausch is the award-winning author of six novels including Almighty Me. He lives in the USA.
bloomsbury circus 9781408844304 $29.99 PB
THE RUMOUR
MILL
A Jazzy Lou novel
Roxy Jacenko
A fast-paced peek inside
the glamorous world
of Sydney’s hottest PR
agency.
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760111373
$19.99
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FICTION
ARCTIC
SUMMER
Damon Galgut
A literary tour-de-force
evoking EM Forster’s
travels to India, and the
inspiration he found
there.
ATLANTIC 9781782391593 $19.99
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THE GIRL WITH
A CLOCK FOR
A HEART
Peter Swanson
A thriller about the
memories we hold
closest to our hearts.
FABER 9780571301911 $19.99
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CONFESSIONS OF A MILLIONAIRE’S MISTRESS
The true story of a young woman, an illicit affair and a world of wealth and
glamour
Ava Reilly
An extraordinary story of opulence and overpowering desire already followed by
more than 100,000 Facebook fans
When Ava Reilly first met Hugh, she was shocked at the depth of feeling that she
instantly felt. Soon, they had embarked on a passionate, stormy love affair that
seemed inescapable. An affair was never something she thought she would have.
Never something she believed in or could justify. But there was something more
powerful happening between her and Hugh.
Confessions of a Millionaire’s Mistress is the full story of how they came together,
fell in love and tried to break apart. It is a fast-paced, sexually-charged romp that will
take you inside an elaborate world of excessive wealth, great glamour and irresistible
seduction.
Ava Reilly is a young Australian woman. By day she works in Media PR and Marketing.
By night she writes her much loved Confessions of a Millionaire’s Mistress blog and
keeps her 130,000 social media followers up-to-date and eager for another hit of
the story.
Allen & Unwin 9781760112035 $29.99 PB
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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BEHIND THE GATES OF GOMORRAH
Life inside one of America’s largest hospitals for the criminally insane, treating the real Hannibal Lecters of the
world
Stephen Seager
A gripping, eye-opening look inside the world of the criminally insane
Nothing could have prepared Psychiatrist Stephen Seager for what he encountered when he accepted a job at
California’s Gorman State hospital, known locally as ‘Gomorrah’. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, is reserved
for the ‘bad actors’, the mass murderers, serial killers, and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world. It is a place of
remarkable violence, a place where a small staff of clinicians are expected to manage a volatile population of prisonhardened ex-cons, where lone therapists lead sharing circles with psychopaths, where homemade weapons and
contraband circulate freely, and where patients and physicians often measure their lives according to how fast they can
run. Honest, reflective, and at times darkly funny, Seager’s gripping account of his experiences give us an extraordinary
insight into a unique and terrifying world, inhabited by figures from our nightmares.
Stephen Seager is a psychiatrist, a former professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine and a multiply-published
author.
Allen & Unwin 9781760112301 $29.99 PB
TRUE CRIME
LUCKY DOG
How being a veterinarian saved my life
Dr Sarah Boston
An hilarious and heart-warming memoir about what our beloved pets can teach us about our health and
ourselves
What happens when a veterinary cancer surgeon thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who
suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the moment she uses a portable ultrasound machine
to investigate her lump, it’s clear this will not be your typical crisis-and-recovery memoir. Sarah takes us on a funny and
thought-provoking journey through the human health care system from the perspective of an animal doctor. Weaving
funny and poignant stories of dogs she’s treated along the way, this is an insightful memoir about what the human
medical world can learn from the way we treat our canine counterparts. Lucky Dog teaches us to trust our instincts, be
our own advocates, and most of all to laugh while we’re doing it.
Sarah Boston is an associate professor of surgical oncology and has practised veterinary medicine in Canada, the USA
and New Zealand. She lives in Florida.
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760111991 $29.99 PB
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The great reformer
Francis and the making of a radical pope
Austen Ivereigh
The first in-depth biography of Pope Francis draws on extensive interviews to trace the life of this revolutionary thinker, from his
childhood in Argentina to the world leader he is today. It shows how his experiences have shaped his beliefs and enabled him to
challenge and redirect the Church. Identifying the Pope’s innovative vision, it also explores the obstacles he faces in an institution still
strongly defined by its conservative past.
Austen Ivereigh is a British writer, journalist and founder of media group, Catholic Voices.
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760113162 $39.99 HB
BIOGRAPHY
The Internet is Not the answer
Why the internet has been an economic, political and cultural disaster—and how it can be transformed
Andrew Keen
Now a quarter of a century old, there can be no doubt that the worldwide web has transformed the world. But this controversial new
book argues that this disruption has been a terrible failure—debasing culture, empowering mob rule, and encouraging vulgarity and
narcissism. So what is to be done? The Internet is Not the Answer lays out a five-part solution to rethink the web, revive government
authority, rebuild the value of content, resurrect privacy and, above all, reconceive humanity.
Andrew Keen is an Anglo-American entrepreneur, broadcaster, speaker and author of Digital Vertigo and The Cult of the Amateur.
atlantic 9781782393412 $29.99 PB
HISTORY
EPILOGUE
A memoir
Will Boast
When Will Boast’s father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief.
Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he discovers he has two half-brothers living in England. In
exquisite prose, Boast sets about piecing together a new sense of himself, attempting as he does to understand, forgive and heal
the mistakes of his father’s past. Epilogue is a gripping and poignant literary memoir about grief, identity and family secrets.
Will Boast is the award-winning author of Power Ballads. Born in England, he grew up in Ireland and the USA.
GRANTA 9781847088208 $27.99 PB
MEMOIR
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HUMANS: AN A-Z
Matt Haig
Whether you are planning a high level of human interaction or just a casual visit to the planet, this user-guide to the human race will
help you translate their sayings, understand exotic concepts such as ‘democracy’ and ‘sofas’, and make sense of their habits and
bizarre customs. A phrase book, a dictionary and a survival guide, it unravels all the oddness, idiosyncrasies and wonder of the species,
allowing everyone to make the most of their time on Earth. It is the perfect guide to the human race for the perplexed, heartbroken or
confused.
Matt Haig is the bestselling author of five novels including The Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans. He lives in the
UK.
CANONGATE 9781782115427 $16.99 PB
GENERAL
the MILLIONAIRE MYSTIQUE
How working women become wealthy—and how you can too!
Jude Miller Burke
Fifty years ago, The Feminine Mystique uncovered the hidden world of the housewife. Now The Millionaire Mystique looks at today’s
self-made female millionaires and how they successfully manage career and family life. Learn how to banish guilt while balancing work
and home responsibilities, what personality factors wealthy working women have and how to foster them, how to overcome obstacles
to success, and how to build on early career experiences to create a stronger pathway to your goals.
Jude Miller Burke is a business psychologist, executive coach, and a millionaire. She lives in the USA.
NICHOLAS BREALEY 9781857886214 $27.99 PB
BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT
GATECRASHING PARADISE
Misadventures in the real Maldives
Tom Chesshyre
To many the Maldives is the dream destination: turquoise waters, white sands, palm trees. Until recently outsiders were banned
from islands not officially endorsed as resorts but now 1,000 sandy shores have opened up. Rather than the glitzy, five-star
hideaways, Tom Chesshyre travels around the many islands and atolls of the remote nation to communities that haven’t seen an
outsider for decades. Staying at simple guesthouses, and using cargo ships and ferries, he discovers the real Maldives with both
gorgeous beaches and colourful characters aplenty.
Tom Chesshyre is the author of A Tourist in the Arab Spring, Tales from the Fast Trains, How Low Can You Go and To Hull and
Back: On Holiday in Unsung Britain. He lives in the UK.
NICHOLAS BREALEY 9781857886276 $27.99 PB
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TRAVEL
THE TEST BOOK
Fifty tools to lead you to success
Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler
This pocket-sized compendium of the world’s fifty most useful psychological tests is a vital tool for anyone looking to gauge their
abilities and improve their performance. From intelligence to personality type via creativity and leadership skills, it will help you see
how you fare on every essential trait you need to succeed. The Test Book also provides sample diagnostic tests for your career,
relationship and business, sketching out not just what your skills are but how well you’re utilising them. It is the fastest way to equip
yourself for happiness and success.
Roman Tschõppeler and Mikael Krogerus are the authors of the international bestsellers The Decision Book, The Question Book and
The Change Book.
profile books 9781781253205 $22.99 HB
PSYCHOLOGY
EMPTY
MANSIONS
NOT YOUR
ORDINARY
HOUSEWIFE
UNSTOPPABLE
Nikki Stern
Nick Vujicic
Bill Dedman and
Paul Clark Newell Jr
An unflinching account
of the incredible life of
the queen of Australian
erotica.
Guidance and inspiration
for having faith in
yourself, your talents and
your purpose.
The #1 bestselling true
story of wealth and loss
in the world of a reclusive
heiress’s lost fortune.
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760112189
$22.99
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INSPIRED LIVING 9781760112158
$19.99
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ATLANTIC 9781782394785 $22.99
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THE SNOWDEN FILES
Luke Harding
The story of the individuals behind the
biggest leak in history and the forces
that tried to stop them.
FABER 9781783350377 $22.99
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The incredible power of
faith in action
cool gray city of
love
Gary Kamiya
A love song to an extraordinary city,
taking 49 different sites as inspiration.
BLOOMSBURY 9781620401262 $19.99
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DIARY OF A GOLF PRO
DIARY Of a BASKETBALL HERO
Shamini Flint
Marcus the maths whiz and his sport-loving Dad are back for a hilarious
7th and 8th instalment
Marcus Atkinson is a maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a selfhelp author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to—with
hilarious results. Now Marcus is a golf pro and basketball hero (not!). But his dad
is convinced that Marcus has magic in his bounce and in his swing. In illustrated
diary format, Marcus’s gentle, satiric humour and comic drawings will have readers
laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about sport. For ages 7-11.
Shamini Flint is the author of six other ‘Diary of a . . .’ titles. She lives in Singapore.
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760111496 9781760111502 $9.99 PB
CHILDREN
ANDERS AND THE COMET
Gregory Mackay
A sweet and funny adventure story in cartoons that will delight fans of Peanuts and Tom Gates
Anders isn’t a super hero: he’s an average little kid with a big imagination who likes low tech fun, is sometimes afraid
of things and is often klutzy and a bit difficult. He is not the fastest, the bravest or the toughest, but he is the most
curious. It’s the last day of school and there is a new kid in Anders’ class. It’s Bernie. And soon Anders and Bernie,
and Anders’ older cousin Eden set off on a series of unexpected adventures. The first in a new series, Anders and
the Comet is a delightfully humorous adventure story that celebrates the everyday things kids get up to.
For ages 6-9.
Gregory Mackay is a renowned cartoonist who has published numerous comics. He lives in Australia.
Allen & Unwin 9781760111151 $12.99 pb
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CHILDREN
ATTICUS CLAW LEARNS TO DRAW
Jennifer Gray
The latest in this popular series about master-criminal, turned police-cat, Atticus Claw. Famous works of art are going
missing. Atticus is on the case. The prime suspect is Ricardo Butteredsconi—Italian theme park entrepreneur and
art connoisseur. Then Inspector Cheddar goes missing from the Tate Modern, and Atticus and his friends suspect
Butteredsconi and his evil pet pig. In the scariest adventure of his nine lives, Atticus has to act fast if he wants to stop
Inspector Cheddar becoming a waxwork! For ages 7-9.
Jennifer Gray is the author of a number of popular children’s series including Guinea Pigs Online, Chicken Mission and
Atticus Claw. She lives in the UK.
FABER 9780571305339 $12.99 PB
CHILDREN
LOVE ALWAYS EVERYWHERE
Sarah Massini
A glorious, inspirational celebration of love to warm the heart of everyone
All you need is love! And this joyful, inspirational book celebrates love in its many forms. Whether
quiet, loud, shy or proud, the lyrical text champions love for a faithful pet, a best friend or simply your
most favourite person in the WHOLE world. Heart-warming and tender, with charming artwork, this is
the perfect Valentine’s gift to share and read aloud. For ages 3-7.
Sarah Massini is the illustrator of Books Always Everywhere. She lives in the UK.
NOSY CROW 9780857632494 $19.99 HB
CHILDREN
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SNAPPY BIRTHDAY
Mark Sperring and Laura Ellen Anderson
One day an invitation came to number 24. It was from a next-door neighbour who they’d never met before. The children can’t
wait—a birthday party? What fun! But their next-door neighbour is not all he seems. For starters, there’s his large snout and very
sharp teeth. Not to mention his scaly skin . . . Erm, crocodiles don’t eat children, do they? A riotous romp of a picture book that is
the perfect present for any child whether it’s their birthday, or not. For ages 3-6.
Mark Sperring is the author of Dino-Baby, Dino-Mummy. Laura Anderson illustrated Cerrie Burnell’s Snowflakes. They live in
the UK.
bloomsbury 9781408852613 $22.99 hb
CHILDREN
THERE WILL BE LIES
Nick Lake
Shortly after being struck by a car, Shelby and her mother set out on a winding journey toward the Grand Canyon. All she knows is that
they’re running from dangers only her mother understands. And the further they travel, the more Shelby questions what’s real, what isn’t,
and who she can trust . . . if anybody. This heart-pounding new novel from a master storyteller takes an emotionally charged thrill ride to
a shocking ending that will have you flipping back to the beginning. For ages 12+.
Nick Lake is the much-acclaimed author of In Darkness and Hostage Three. He lives in England.
BLOOMSBURY 9781408853818 $22.99 HB
YA
THE PRINCESS AND THE
PRESENTS
Caryl Hart
A comic tale for pampered princesses everywhere—
with a free audio reading.
NOSY CROW 9780857633026 $13.99
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Coming in February 2015
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• Ros Reines
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Mal Leyland
• Eric Bogle
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