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An unforgettable collaboration between an award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon and the and #1 international bestselling writer Harlan Coben.

Maggie McCabe is on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge.

But now, after a devastating series of personal tragedies, Maggie is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy - as well as absolute discretion.<p>Halfway across the globe, one of the world's most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfils her end of the agreement.</p>But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself - or she will be the next one who is . . .

Gone Before Goodbye.

In Gone Before Goodbye, the unique storytelling talents of Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben combine in one masterpiece of suspense fiction.

From bestselling author John Boyne comes a gripping and profound exploration of responsibility, guilt, blame, trauma, and our capacity for redemption.

<p>John Boyne's acclaimed quartet of Water, Earth, Fire and Air come together at last.

 Human life is governed by the elements - water, earth, fire and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us.

In The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction- a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim.

From a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives.

Boyne's most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience. In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way.</p>

Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he goes on an Australian adventure in this touch-and-feel board book!

Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he goes on an Australian adventure in this touch-and-feel board book.

Read the rhyme and join The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this first introduction to Australian landscapes and the animals that live there.

There is so much for little hands to explore in this colourful, sensory, touch-and-feel board book.

Alex Cross is back in the next instalment of James Patterson's globally bestselling series... but so is an old enemy he thought he'd laid to rest...

<p>'Alex Cross is a legend' HARLAN COBEN

Discover the next book in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series... now the inspiration for the original series CROSS on Prime Video starring Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross.

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Alex Cross thought serial killer Gary Soneji was dead and buried.</p><p>But when a hidden cabin reveals a stash of gruesome trophies and diaries, Cross realises the Spider's evil influence has spread wider than he ever thought possible.</p><p>The chilling truth soon becomes clear- Cross imprisoned the wrong man.</p><p>As he studies the clues, Cross becomes enmeshed in a web of evil designed to ensnare him all along.</p><p>Now he must retrace the steps of a long-ago investigation and face...the Return of the Spider.</p>________________

PRAISE FOR THE ALEX CROSS SERIES

'Patterson never, and I mean never, disappoints' USA TODAY

'Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it' LEE CHILD

'Alex Cross ... only gets better and better' LISA SCOTTOLINE

'I wrote, \"Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name.\" A household name, indeed' NELSON DEMILLE

' Alex Cross has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages' DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD

From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet

'One of the finest writers alive' Sunday Times

2014- A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.

2119- The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.

Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.

When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.

A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

'A true master' Daily Telegraph

'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' New York Times

Dark Renaissance is the thrilling story of the writer who transformed culture in Elizabethan England, bringing it out of the darkness and into the light.

Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.

From one of the greatest writers on the Elizabethan era, Dark Renaissance is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe - Shakespeare's inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the cultural darkness and into the light.

In brutally repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world comes an ambitious cobbler's son from Canterbury with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry - which to him is a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous scepticism.

What Christopher Marlowe finds on the other side of that door, and what he does with it, brings about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture, enabling the success of many others, including his youthful collaborator William Shakespeare. By the time of his murder in a Deptford tavern in 1593, the 29-year-old Marlowe will be the most celebrated dramatist of his time.

Stephen Greenblatt grippingly reconstructs the involvement with the queen's spy service that shaped Marlowe's brief, troubling life and gave us his masterpieces about power and its costs. And he explores how the people Marlowe knew, and the transformations they wrought, gave birth to the economic, scientific, and cultural power of the modern world - involving Faustian bargains with which we reckon still.

Dark Renaissance is a scintillating life of a writer whose blazing talent catapulted England from cultural backwater to crucible of creativity.

The unmissable new mystery in the bestselling, record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman

Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan?

It's been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal.

But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who fears for their life, the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code and will stop at nothing to get it. Plunged back into their most explosive investigation yet, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?

A masterful story of friendship and how much we're willing to risk to possess one of life's most treasured mercies- a second chance

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Ocean Vuong returns with an achingly beautiful novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond.

The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which our lives are changed by the most unexpected of people. When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, his fellow workers become the family he didn't expect to find. United by desperation and circumstance, and existing on the fringes of society, together they bear witness to each other's survival.

'Some of the most beautiful writing I've experienced in my lifetime' OPRAH WINFREY

'Perfectly tuned... May well be the first millennial Great American Novel' ArtReview

'A fine-grained social panorama driven by the developing camaraderie of an ensemble cast bonded in precariousness and pain' Observer

'His most vivid, ambitious work yet' Dazed

'A poetic, dramatic and vivid story. It has an epic sweep but it also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality' COLM T IB N

'This stunning book moved me so much, I fell in love with its characters and grieved their absence in my life when I turned the last page' CAITR ONA BALFE

'Tender and moving' REBECCA SOLNIT

'A masterwork' BRYAN WASHINGTON

#1 New Zealand bestseller

#1 Amazon bestseller

#2 Audible bestseller

#3 New York Times bestseller

#3 Sunday Times bestseller

#4 Australian bestseller

From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world's youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders.

What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer, a Mormon girl plagued by self-doubt. But as prime minister she commanded worldwide respect for her empathetic leadership, made political history, and changed our assumptions about what a global leader can be.

 When Jacinda Ardern became prime minister at age thirty-seven, the world took notice. But it was her compassionate, powerful response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, resulting in swift gun-control reforms, that exemplified a new kind of leadership-one that is caring and effective. She guided New Zealand through unprecedented challenges-a volcanic eruption, a major biosecurity breach, and a global pandemic-and advanced visionary new policies to address climate change, reduce child poverty, and secure historic international trade deals. She did this all while juggling first-time motherhood in the public eye.

 She is a global icon, and now in this remarkable book she shares her story, from the struggles to the surprises, including the full details of her decision to step down during her sixth year as prime minister.

 Jacinda Ardern is a model for anyone who has ever doubted themselves or has aspired to lead with compassion, conviction, and courage. A Different Kind of Power is more than a political memoir; it's an insight into how it feels to lead, ultimately asking- What if you, too, are capable of more than you ever imagined?

Twenty years in jail- Kathleen Folbigg's extraordinary story of wrongful conviction, and how science, advocacy and friendship freed her.

In 2003 Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of killing her four babies. Her trial relied on her husband's accusations and diary entries expressing her guilt over her children's deaths. She was sentenced to forty years in prison.

 In Inside Out Kathleen takes us back to her traumatic childhood, her difficult marriage, her dream of nurturing a family, and the profound souring of that dream into a nightmare.

 This is also , however, a story of unwavering friendship and resilience. Tracy Chapman and Kathleen were close at school. After Kathleen was jailed, Tracy renewed contact and, convinced her friend could never have committed such crimes, began advocating for her with extraordinary tenacity. She never doubted Kathleen's innocence, relentlessly petitioning for new evidence to be examined, and for a new approach to be taken as doubts about the safety of the conviction grew among scientists and the legal community.

 Ultimately, these two women together faced down a misogynistic justice system and forged a friendship that supported Kathleen as she endured the trauma of the prison system. And finally, after many devastating setbacks, came the leaps forward needed to overturn one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Australia's history- in 2023 Kathleen was released, pardoned and exonerated.

 For the first time, in Inside Out Kathleen lays bare her time in prison, her life before she was wrongfully accused, and her hopes for the future; while Tracy describes with passion and insight the fight she took up to help to free her friend, and shares her hopes that their story will prevent other women from suffering as Kath did over those long twenty years.

Fascinating, candid and insightful, Quentin Bryce- The Authorised Biography tells the remarkable story of one of Australia's most impactful changemakers.

When Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's first female governor-general in 2008, she made history. It was one of many firsts in a trailblazing career dedicated to reform and serving community.

Her early childhood in a western Queensland bush town shaped her sense of self and her destiny. Young Quentin dreamed of changing the world and then set out to do it. She was the first from her school to go to university and among the first women admitted to the Queensland Bar. In revolutionary times her advocacy for human rights - especially for women, children and First Nations Australians - underpinned her every role, which included teaching in the male-dominated university law faculty, federal sex discrimination commissioner, CEO of the National Childcare Accreditation Council, principal of Sydney's Women's College, governor of Queensland and Australia's governor-general.

This biography traces the triumphs and the barriers as Quentin shattered glass ceilings and reveals the woman behind the high offices she held. Mother of five and grandmother to twelve, it is her partnership with soulmate Michael Bryce and the love of family, enduring friendships and belief in community that have sustained her. Her passion for the arts and elemental connection to Australia's ancient landscape feed her soul.

Fascinating, candid and insightful, Quentin Bryce- The Authorised Biography tells the remarkable story of one of Australia's most impactful changemakers.

A wonderful first-concepts format for little hands based around days of the week.

'... brightly coloured, informative and educational, giving younger children things to do as they are read to.' ReadPlus

What day is it today?

From Making Monday to Signing Sunday, discover the days of the week with Emma Memma and her friends.

This tabbed board book takes readers through the days of the week with a short narrative, encouraging movement and fun. The final spread asks what today's day is.

Join Emma Memma and her friends as they dance, sing and sign on these special days of the week-

- Making Monday

- Twirly Tuesday

- Wombat Wednesday

- Thank You Thursday

- Friendship Friday

- Sporty Saturday

- Signing Sunday

Sing, dance and sign the alphabet with Emma Memma's Alphabet Day

The sun is rising, the birds are tweeting and Emma Memma is ready to start her day . . .

Sign the Auslan alphabet with Emma Memma and friends as they twirl through the day and prepare for a special surprise.

Sing, dance and sign the much-loved nursery rhyme with Emma Memma.

The wheels on the bus go round and round . . .

Join Emma Memma on the Butterfly Bus as she drives around town to pick up her friends. Can you guess who lives in each house along the way? Beep! Beep! All aboard!

The long-awaited sequel to the genre-defining classic, The Odessa File - a groundbreaking thriller that became a hit film and inspired generations of storytellers. The Nazis were never defeated; they were just biding their time.

The bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal returns with his most explosive book yet.

 The Nazis may have lost the battle. But the war is just beginning...

Summer, 2025. A US senator is burned to death in his Washington townhouse. Masked gunmen massacre supporters during a football match in Berlin. And an old man is murdered while he sleeps in the dementia ward of a German hospital. Three apparently unconnected events, three steps on the countdown to apocalypse.

When journalist and podcaster Georg Miller starts joining the dots between them, he finds himself the target of professional killers. His investigation soon reveals that his would-be assassins are from an organisation known as the Odessa, a menacing and powerful Nazi group intent on regaining power.

The Odessa has spread its poison from a covert compound in the Bavarian countryside all the way to the halls of the American Capitol. And now, as their campaign to destabilise the Western political system accelerates, Georg must stop the next attack, before it changes the course of history...

Jack Reacher, "the coolest continuing series character" (Stephen King), returns in 2025 with his 30th adventure - a brand new, pulse-pounding read from global No.1 bestselling authors Lee and Andrew Child.

'If there is a more iconic character in modern fiction than Jack Reacher, I'd like to meet them.' DAILY MIRROR

THE 2025 JACK REACHER THRILLER

Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for.

First - a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing about. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can't deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There's no problem. Nothing is missing.

Second - a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch when he heads to warmer climes. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note. A desperate plea for help.

Third - wherever this bend in the road takes him. Impressed by the guy's technique and intrigued by the message, Reacher makes it his mission to find out more . . .

DON'T MISS THE 30^TH JACK REACHER ADVENTURE - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW.

We all need Jack Reacher - a righteous avenger for our troubled times.

'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' MICK HERRON

'It's no wonder Jack Reacher is everyone's favourite rebel hero.' KARIN SLAUGHTER

'These books are absolutely addictive. When you pick them up you can't put them down.' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

You don't need me to tell you Keneally is a brilliant storyteller, but with Fanatic Heart he proves it once again.

ARTS HUB

'The novel's resonance for our time is deafening.'

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

A retelling of the life and exploits of Irish patriot John Mitchel, with a particular focus on his time in exile on Van Diemen's Land.

John Mitchel is one of the most celebrated of Irish rebels. In the midst of the dreadful Famine of the 1840s, his exhortations to his countrymen to stand up against the British were as controversial as they were compelling. Charged with treason felony, he was transported to Van Diemens Land, courtesy of a law passed in Westminster specifically to silence the charismatic minister's son.

Jenny Mitchel, when she too could have been punished for airing her beliefs on Irish nationalism, had publically championed her husband's campaigns, with a diverse crew of supporters including Thomas Meagher and Jane 'Speranza' Wilde, future mother of Oscar. Devotedly, Jenny packed up their children and followed her prisoner and convict spouse across the continents, to continue to support the cause of Ireland with her boundless love and passion.

In this vivid reimagining of Mitchel's life, Tom Keneally proud Irishman and descendant of convicts, confronts some of the biggest conflicts of our time- slavery, industrialisation, dispossession of land and famine.

Inspired by Bob Marley's iconic song "Jamming," this joyful picture book by eight-time Grammy winner Ziggy Marley about a fun-filled pajama party celebrates screen-free family time, creativity, and connection.

Join a family’s pajama party sleepover as they spend a fun night together filled with games, pillow fights, music, and stories. It’s a time to break normal routines, turn off electronics, build a blanket fort, and stay up late—to start family traditions and make memories that will last a lifetime.

Using the most iconic lines from reggae legend Bob Marley’s “Jamming” as a jumping-off point, Pajammin’ reinvents the song for kids and caregivers, celebrating mindfulness, togetherness, and the power of imagination.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780062442437
• ISBN 10: 0062442430
• Imprint: HarperCollins US
• On Sale: 22/08/2025
• Pages: 0
• List Price: 29.99 AUD
• Age: From 4 years

BISAC1: JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Beginner