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About the author 

Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Quentin Sprague is a Geelong-based writer who has worked variously as a curator, academic, art coordinator and artist. His essays and criticism have regularly appeared in publications including The Monthly, The...

Note from the author 

Tuesday, 18 February 2020
I was motivated to write The Stranger Artist for numerous reasons, many of them hard to fully articulate. But at one level it was simple too: after working in the northern Aboriginal...

Sample chapter 

Tuesday, 18 February 2020
For a preview of The Stranger Artist, download the first few pages here.

Reading copy giveaway 

Tuesday, 18 February 2020
If you’d like to receive a copy of The Stranger Artist, send an email with the subject line ‘The Stranger Artist’ and your postal address in the body of the email...

 

Monday, 17 February 2020
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide—an electrifying, heartpounding, truly unputdownable thriller.   'A truly terrifying, breathlessly exciting novel. It gut punches you in the first few pages and doesn't let...

About the book 

Monday, 17 February 2020
Frank is a service station owner on a little-used highway who just wants a quiet life. His granddaughter has been sent to stay with him to fix her attitude, but...

About the author 

Monday, 17 February 2020
Gabriel Bergmoser is an award-winning Melbourne-based author and playwright. He won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award in 2015, was nominated for the 2017 Kenneth Branagh Award for...

Further praise 

Monday, 17 February 2020
‘A rollercoaster of a novel: breakneck, visceral, and utterly impossible to stop once you’ve started.’—Felicity McLean, author of The Van Apfel Girls are Gone ‘Fast, furious, emotionally powerful. Move over,...

Sample chapter 

Monday, 17 February 2020
Read the first chapter of The Hunted here.

Advance copy giveaway 

Monday, 17 February 2020
Be one of the first to read the blockbuster book of 2020. Email kimberley.allsopp@harpercollins.com.au with ‘The Hunted’ in the subject line for the chance to receive one of 50 reading copies.

 

Thursday, 13 February 2020

Advance reading copy 

Thursday, 13 February 2020
Be one of the first to read My Dark Vanessa. Email lara.wallace@harpercollins.com.au with ‘My Dark Vanessa’ in the subject line for the chance to receive one of 10 reading copies.

Sample chapter 

Thursday, 13 February 2020
Read the first chapter of My Dark Vanessa here.

About the author 

Thursday, 13 February 2020
Kate Elizabeth Russell is originally from eastern Maine. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Indiana University. My Dark Vanessa is...

About the book 

Thursday, 13 February 2020
Vanessa Wye was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017,...

 

Thursday, 13 February 2020
‘All he did was fall in love with me, and the world turned him into a monster.’

Advance praise 

Thursday, 13 February 2020
‘A hard story to read and a harder one to put down … a well-constructed package of dynamite.’­—Stephen King ‘Powerful, compulsive and brilliant … An important book, we should all...

Intro 

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
A middle-grade coming-of-age story inspired by true events in Australia’s not-too-distant past.

About the book 

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
One extraordinary year will change them all . . . Sorrento, Victoria, 1999. Fred’s family is a mess. Her mother died when she was six and she’s been raised by...

A note from the author 

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
This book took five years to research and write; but in many ways, it’s been two decades in the making. You see, I grew up on the Mornington Peninsula, out...

Endorsements 

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
'This timely and beautiful story reveals the invisible lines of kindness and empathy that connect us all.'—Sally Rippin, author and illustrator ‘A brilliant gem that will make you see the...

Read an extract 

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
  We have 10 advance reading copies of The Year the Maps Changed to give away! Email childrens.books@hachette.com.au with ‘The Year the Maps Changed’ in the subject line for the...