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July new releases

This July we’re publishing an excellent list of books to curl up with in the wintertime, featuring new Australian fiction, and an array of international titles.

Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s latest novel The Newcomer is a thrilling crime novel based on a haunting true story; Let’s Talk About Hard Things is a book by the host of popular podcast ​​Death, Sex & Money​, Anna Sale, that tackles life’s tricky subjects; Winter in Sokcho is a captivating and unexpected novel in translation by French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin; Zero Fail is the first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius, Carol Leonnig; Seven Fallen Feathers is Tanya Talaga’s true-crime investigation into racism, death, and human rights violations in a small Canadian town; and The Snow Line is a rich and powerful novel by the award-winning author of Shame On Me, Tessa McWatt.

Find out more about the titles below, and to win a copy of one of our new releases, head to our Facebook or Instagram.

The Newcomer

There's no such thing as a perfect victim.

In a hotel room on a sleepy Pacific island, Judy Novak waits. And worries. It isn’t the first time 29-year-old problem child Paulina has kept her mother waiting. But Judy can’t ignore the island’s jagged cliffs and towering pines — or the dread that Paulina has finally acted on her threats to take her own life.

When Paulina’s body is discovered, Judy’s worst fears seem confirmed. Only, Paulina didn’t kill herself. She was murdered.

So begins a thorny investigation, wherein every man on the island is a suspect yet none are as maligned as Paulina: the…

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Let’s Talk About Hard Things

Death. Sex. Money. Tricky subjects we’re taught to avoid in polite conversation. But if they’re so unpleasant, why do so many people tune in regularly to hear Anna Sale asking perfect strangers about them? What if, rather than declaring them off-limits, we could all benefit from discussing them more?

In Let’s Talk About Hard Things, Sale — the host of cult podcast Death, Sex & Money, which tackles life’s hard questions — takes her quest for more honest communication into her own life. She considers her history of facing (and sometimes avoiding) difficult subjects, both personal and cultural;…

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Winter in Sokcho

Winner of the Prix Robert Walser — a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author.

It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. A young French-Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy relationship. When she agrees to accompany him on trips to…

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Zero Fail

'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work — the determinative work — in this field … Terrifying.'
—Rachel Maddow

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 — by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius

Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets,…

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Seven Fallen Feathers

The bestselling true-crime investigation by the author of All Our Relations.

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks of a northern Canadian city after running away from residential school. An inquest was called, and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied.

More than thirty years later, between 2000 and 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Each of them was hundreds of miles away from family, forced to leave home and live in a foreign, unwelcoming city in order to…

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The Snow Line

Old and young. White and brown. Male and female. British. Indian. Other.

Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain — but will they see the same thing from the top?

Londoner Reema, who left India before she could speak, is searching for a sign that will help her make a life-changing decision. In pensioner Jackson’s suitcase is something he must let go of, but is he strong enough?

Together with two unlikely companions, they take a road trip up a mountain deep in the Himalayas, heading for the snow line — the place where the ice begins.

But even…

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To win a copy of one of our new releases, head to our Facebook or Instagram. Entries close Friday 16 July. AU & NZ residents only.

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The Newcomer

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Winter in Sokcho

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Zero Fail

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The Snow Line

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Let’s Talk About Hard Things

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Seven Fallen Feathers

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