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Book Buzz: ‘Afternoons with Harvey Beam’ 

Tuesday, 17 April 2018
About the book | About the author | Podcast | Author interview | Advance praise | Digital assets | Giveaway   About the book As a young man, Harvey Beam got the hell out of his...

Book Buzz: ‘Boy Swallows Universe 

Tuesday, 10 April 2018
About the book | About the author | Advance praise | Video | Hear from the author | A Harper House of Fiction event title | Chapter sampler | Giveaway   The extraordinary coming-of-age novel by one...

Book Buzz: ‘Shell’ 

Thursday, 5 April 2018
About the book | About the author | Advance praise | Hear from the author | Giveaway     A big, bold and heartbreakingly beautiful novel that captures a defining moment in Australia’s history. As the iconic...

Book Buzz: ‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ 

Monday, 26 March 2018
About the book | About the author | What readers are saying | What other writers are saying | Hear from Holly | Digital assets | Sample chapter and digital review copy | Giveaway   The novel...

Book Buzz: ‘Small Spaces’ 

Tuesday, 13 March 2018
About the book | About the author | Early praise | First look | Q&A | Reading copy giveaway ‘Small Spaces is a beautifully crafted psychological thriller. I couldn’t put it down.’—Fleur Ferris, author of...

Book Buzz: ‘The Paris Seamstress’ 

Tuesday, 6 March 2018
About the book | Video | Praise for Natasha Lester | Sample chapter | About the author | Reading copy giveaway   About the book 1940. Parisian seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee France...

Book Buzz: ‘Let Me Lie’ 

Monday, 26 February 2018
About the book | About the author | Video | Advance praise | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway   The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They’re both wrong. ‘Tightly...

Book Buzz: ‘The Rúin’ 

Monday, 19 February 2018
About the book | About the author | Early praise | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway | Digital assets ‘The Rúin is spectacularly good. So CONFIDENT ... excellently written and, at times, heart-catchingly sad.’—Marian...

Book Buzz: ‘Scrublands’ 

Wednesday, 14 February 2018
About the book | From the publisher | From the author | About the author | Events | Reading copy giveaway    Allen & Unwin is extremely excited to be publishing a stunning debut novel...

Book Buzz: ‘What the Light Reveals’ 

Monday, 5 February 2018
About the book | What people are saying | About the author | Sample chapter | Book group notes | Reading copy giveaway   In an increasingly divided and intolerant world, What the Light Reveals is a beacon:...

Book Buzz: ‘The Woman in the Window’ 

Tuesday, 30 January 2018
About the book | Advance praise | About the author | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway   The Woman in the Window is one of the most eagerly anticipated literary debuts of the...

Book Buzz: ‘The Lace Weaver’ 

Thursday, 18 January 2018
About the book | More advance praise | About the author | Video | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway A breathtaking debut about love and war, and the battle to save a precious legacy....

Book Buzz: The Secrets at Ocean’s Edge 

Tuesday, 9 January 2018
About the book | What people are saying | About the author | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway   About the book Every family has secrets that bind them together. A heart-rending story of...

Book Buzz: Jacqueline Harvey’s ‘Kensy and Max’ 

Wednesday, 15 November 2017
About the book | About the author | Trailer | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway   About ‘Kensy and Max’ Introducing a brand new series from bestselling author Jacqueline Harvey! ‘Kensy and Max’ is...

Book Buzz: Mrs. 

Wednesday, 11 October 2017
About the book | Early praise | About the author | Video | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway ‘Mrs. could be the next Big Little Lies.’—Entertainment Weekly Set on New York City’s Upper East...

Book Buzz: Dave Warner’s Clear to the Horizon 

Monday, 2 October 2017
About the book | About the author | Interview with the author | Meet the author | Praise | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway Three young women disappear from outside the Autostrada nightclub in the...

Book Buzz: The Wonderling 

Monday, 18 September 2017
About the book | About the author | Q&A with the author  | Early book buzz | Mira on The Wonderling | Sneak peek | Special giveaway  ‘Every now and then there is published a book...

Book Buzz: Jack McCool 

Monday, 11 September 2017
About the book and series | Q&A with the author  | Advance praise | Excerpt | Reading copy giveaway | Website An ordinary school boy. An ancient curse. A race against time. This new action-packed...

Book Buzz: Drawing Sybylla 

Monday, 4 September 2017
About the book | About the author | Author interview | Excerpt | Reading copy giveaway Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript, Odette Kelada’s Drawing Sybylla is an intriguing novel about...

Book Buzz: Nevermoor 

Monday, 21 August 2017
About the book | About the author | Watch the trailer | Listen to an excerpt | Read sneak peek | What people are saying |  Reading copy giveaway   About the book A breathtaking, enchanting new series by...

Book Buzz: Anatomy of a Scandal 

Wednesday, 9 August 2017
About the book | About the author | Advance praise | Sample chapter | Reading copy giveaway Part courtroom drama; part portrait of a marriage; part exploration of the extent to which our demons still haunt...

Book Buzz: Wish You Were Here 

Friday, 4 August 2017
Advance praise | About the book | About the author | Excerpt | Giveaway   Advance praise ‘Raw, hilarious and wise, this wild ride will have you crying with laughter.’—Amanda Keller ‘An absolutely riveting read....

Book Buzz: The Passage of Love 

Tuesday, 25 July 2017
About the book | From the publisher | Author’s letter | About the author | Events | Excerpt | Reading copy giveaway Allen & Unwin is extremely excited to be publishing critically acclaimed, two-time winner of the Miles Franklin...

Book Buzz: Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables 

Monday, 17 July 2017
Author interview | Early review | Excerpt | Reading copy giveaway   When Mr Bambuckle arrives, laughs, thrills, silliness and imagination are guaranteed to follow! Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Roald Dahl...

Book Buzz: Voyage of the Southern Sun 

Monday, 10 July 2017
About the book | About the author | Author interview | Documentary trailer | Advance praise | Excerpt The incredible true story of how Michael Smith became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in an amphibious plane,...

Book Buzz: Play Like a Girl 

Wednesday, 21 June 2017
About the series and books | About the author | Early review  | Advance praise | Excerpt | Reading copy giveaway Play Like a Girl is a celebration of Aussie girls kicking goals in the sport they love! This...

Book Buzz: The Last Hours 

Tuesday, 13 June 2017
About the book | Author’s letter | From the publisher | About the author | Excerpt | Reading copy giveaway Allen & Unwin is extremely excited to be publishing international bestselling author Minette Walters’ new novel The Last...

Book Buzz: Hinterland 

Monday, 5 June 2017
About the book | Advance praise | Publisher’s letter | About the author | Excerpt | Reading copy giveaway Award-winning author Steven Lang’s much-anticipated third novel, Hinterland, is coming in July.   About the book Winderran is a...

Book Buzz: Rain Birds 

Monday, 22 May 2017
About the book | About the author | Author interview | Publisher’s letter | Advance praise | Sample Chapter | Reading copy giveaway   Rain Birds, the stunning debut novel by Harriet McKnight, is coming in September 2017....