Feature Titles for July
|
Fiction
|
|
David Rollins, A$32.99, trade paperback
The Cold War is going badly for President Reagan's administration. Enter Roy Garret, a bright young NSA analyst with a plan. It goes into effect in September 1983 when flight KAL007 takes off from Alaska, heading for Seoul. The airliner flies over a Soviet submarine base and is then shot down off Sakhalin Island ... Or is it?
|
Literary |
|
Alison Wong, A$32.99, trade paperback
It is 1905 and brothers Yung and Shun eke out a living as green grocers in Wellington 's bustling Chinatown. On the other side of town, Katherine McKechnie struggles to raise her children alone. When Katherine chances upon Yung's grocery store, she is touched by the Chinaman's unexpected generosity. Soon a clandestine relationship develops between the immigrant and the widow, a relationship Katherine's son Robbie cannot abide...
|
Non-Fiction |
|
Malalai Joya, A$34.99, trade paperback Malalai Joya has been described as the bravest woman in the world. As a teenager she worked as a woman's rights activist under the Taliban. Malalai was elected to represent her province to frame a new Afghan constitution. Here she dared to speak out against the war lords who now ruled the country. Her public denunciation resulted in several attempts to assassinate her. On the back of her courage she was elected to Afghan's first parliament.
|
Children's |
|
Andy Griffiths (Illust by Terry Denton), A$14.99, b-format paperback
Take one Shakespearean tragedy: Macbeth. Add Andy, Danny and Lisa – the Just trio, whose madcap exploits have already delighted hundreds of thousands of readers for the last ten years. Mix them all together to create one of the most hilarious, moving stories of love, Whizz Fizz, witches, murder and madness, from the bestselling and funniest children's author in Australia.
|
July New Titles
All Titles
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Children's
|
|
What's Hot? (week ending 20th June)
|
|
David Baldacci, A$32.99, trade paperback |
|
Wilbur Smith, A$49.99, hardback |
|
Markus Zusak, A$19.95, b-format paperback |
|
Jeffrey Archer, A$49.99, hardback |
|
Colm Toibin, A$32.99, trade paperback |
|
Latest News
Twitter...
Pan Macmillan Australia is now (slightly
irreverently) on Twitter. Follow us here.
Winner of Silent Predator competition
The winner of the luxury trip for two to South Africa is Kelvin Smith, from Port Kennedy, Western Australia. For more information, visit Tony Park's website.
Dorothy Porter 1954-2008
Born and raised in Sydney, Dorothy Porter established a reputation as one of Australia's most exciting and innovative writers at an early age. Her poetry collections, Little Hoodlum (1975) and Driving Too Fast (1989), as well as the provocative verse novel Akhenaten (1992) drew critical praise both here and abroad. But it was her eighth book, The Monkey's Mask, first published in 1994, that took her work to a broader audience, and confirmed her place as a true pioneer. A detective romance novel in verse, The Monkey's Mask won the Age Poetry Book of the Year and the National Book Council's Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize, was published to considerable success and critical acclaim in the UK, the US and Europe, and in 2001 was made into a film directed by Samantha Lang and starring Susie Porter.
Ever a keen collaborator, Dorothy wrote libretti for the chamber operas The Ghost Wife (2000) and The Eternity Man (2005) with composer Jonathan Mills, and lyrics with musician Paul Grabowsky for the CD Before Time Could Change Us (2005). In recent months she had been working with Tim Finn on the rock opera January. Her latest verse novel, El Dorado, was published by Picador in 2007, and was shortlisted for the Age Poetry Book of the Year, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the Prime Minister's Literary Award, and the Ned Kelly Award. Throughout her career, Dorothy taught in schools, universities, prisons and community centres and toured extensively to promote her work.
A big-hearted maverick and a spirited, independent thinker, Dorothy connected with most everyone she met, and her energy and passion were utterly infectious. Her work will live on, but she is sorely missed.
|