WAKEFIELD PRESS

www.wakefieldpress.com.au Michael Bollen | michael@wakefieldpress.com.au

Wakefield Press is a South Australian publishing house, celebrating 30 years. We publish approximately 30 titles plus reprints per year, and have a dedicated award-winning YA Fiction list, which includes Mallee Boys (CBCA Honour Book in 2018) and Making Friends with Alice Dyson (shortlisted for 2019 Readings YA Book Prize).

TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS:

AN OLIVIA GRACE MYSTERY Lisa Walker

Quick-quipping ex-teen-PI Olivia goes undercover in Byron Bay to solve the mystery of a missing friend, with a stash of disguises, a nose for trouble … and her irresistible ex-boss on the case. Veronica Mars meets Elmore Leonard in this madcap sunshine noir. • Genre entertainment with serious themes, including timely messages about coercive control and women’s empowerment. • With its snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and spot-on satire, this is seriously entertaining. • Byron Bay is a hub of international influencers, wellness culture and

Hollywood celebrities — the perfect setting for escapist fun.

ROAD TRIPPING WITH PEARL NASH

Poppy Nwosu

Pearl Nash is on a road-trip to middle of nowhere, to save a dying friendship, when she’s landed with her too-charming nemesis as travelling companion, an AWOL nana and a series of obstacles. A gorgeous rom-com about friendship, family, love, loss. • Poppy Nwosu’s debut Making Friends with

Alice Dyson is published in America by

Walker Books US.

• Features a hate-to-love romance with crackling chemistry and sparkling banter. • Stunning setting of coastal desert

Australia.

• Themes include friendship and letting go, being your authentic self, discrimination and race, grief, and connection to place.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781743058442 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 250pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Young Adult RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781743058435 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 260pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Young Adult, Fiction

TAKING DOWN EVELYN TAIT

Poppy Nwosu

Impulsive Lottie — heavymetal fan, expert tomatogrower and frequent visitor to the principal’s office — vows revenge against her mortal enemy, good-girl Evelyn Tait, but things don’t exactly go to plan. A story about family, friends and embracing who you are. Even if that person is kind of weird.

• Poppy Nwosu’s debut book Making Friends with

Alice Dyson is published in America by Walker

Books US.

• Themes include found and blended family, divorce, friendship, and love. • ‘A joyous and accessible read for fans of To All the

Boys I Loved Before and 10

Things I Hate About You.’ — Books+Publishing.

SNOW

Gina Inverarity

In a world gone wild, where the sun has disappeared behind clouds for good, Snow makes a promise to a hunter she isn’t sure she can keep. And then she runs. A dark and lyrical Snow White retelling set in a postclimate-change world, Snow is a fairytale of the future. • A retelling of Snow White in a post-climate-change apocalypse world. • ‘Snow’s voice drew me in deep from the very first page and held me fast until the end. An evocative, powerful story full of heart and spirit.’ — Juliet

Marillier, author of the

Warrior Bards series.

INDIGO OWL

Charlie Achbold

After Earth was destroyed by climate change and overpopulation, private corporations colonised new planets. Now the fertility of citizens is tightly controlled. Indigo Owl is a fast-paced dystopian adventure from author Charlie Archbold, winner of a 2018 Children’s Book Council of Australia Honour Book for Older Readers.

• A chilling view of an off-world mass exodus due to climate change, and a future ruled by corporations. • Like The Handmaid’s Tale and Children of Men, this is a dystopia where control of fertility stands for control of society.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2020 ISBN: 9781743056974 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 246pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Young Adult, Fiction RELEASE DATE: 04/2020 ISBN: 9781743057001 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 208pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Young Adult, Fiction RELEASE DATE: 04/2020 ISBN: 9781743057001 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 208pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Young Adult, Fiction