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We celebrate writers, stories and ideas that entertain, educate and inspire. From future classics to cherished favourites, we champion emerging voices and bring readers the highest quality books from established, award-winning and best-selling authors.

SKIN DEEP

Phillipa McGuinness

A fascinating exploration of human skin — that wonderful thing that covers the body. McGuinness weaves in both science and wideranging cultural criticism to explore beauty, aging, imperfection, health, illness, and racism. What happens when something goes wrong; how the world responds to imperfection and difference, how skin makes us who we are.

• McGuinness has interviewed plastic surgeons, dermatologists, burns survivors, beauticians, melanoma sufferers, victims and perpetrators of racism, and all kinds of people who are and are not comfortable in their own skin.

• An all-consuming, big-ideas book in the vein of Sapiens. • Science meets art and culture, history, politics and philosophy.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2022 ISBN: 9781760898731 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB (C Format), 352pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Popular Science, Culture

THE PROOF IS IN THE PLANTS

Simon Hill

A plant-based diet can help us live healthier for longer and protect our planet’s future. From renowned nutritionist and podcaster Simon Hill, all the facts and advice for anyone curious about feeling and doing better through a plant-based diet.

• Accessible and non-judgmental, encouraging readers to eat flexibly, while demonstrating the benefits of a plant-focused diet.

• Hill has a huge, global community of followers.

• While there are many plant-based recipe books available, there is a distinct lack of books about the science that backs this diet and lifestyle.

RELEASE DATE: 05/2021 ISBN: 9781760890049 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 416pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Health and Fitness

SEMUT

Christine Helliwell

1945 — a group of young Allied operatives parachute into the jungle of Japanese occupied Borneo, to recruit the island’s indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. This was Operation Semut, a secret operation in the final months of WWII.

• Helliwell, a Professor of Anthropology, worked and lived with the Dayak tribes for nearly 30 years. She speaks the Dayak language and recorded first-hand accounts from the last surviving Dayak chiefs and the remaining Semut operatives.

• Accessible and engrossing, providing a detailed history of this brutal campaign.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9780143790020 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB, 576pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Military History

BEAR AND RAT

Christopher Cheng and Stephen Michael King

Bear and Rat are the best of friends who do everything together, but Rat wonders if Bear will always be there to hold her hand, no matter what happens ...

• For 3–5 years and beyond — a story with sophisticated simplicity and a classic universal message.

• A highly personal story with incredible authenticity that has the classic impact of books like Guess How Much I Love You and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

• Themes include friendship, love, grief and dealing with loss.

RELEASE DATE: 05/2021 ISBN: 9781760896287 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book, Children’s

KENSY AND MAX 1

BREAKING NEWS

Jacqueline Harvey

Twins Kensy and Max’s lives are turned upside down when they are whisked off to London, and discover their parents are missing. So many things don’t add up: their strange new school, the bizarre grannies on their street, the coded messages, and the adults are keeping secrets!

• The book will feature coded chapter headings for spiesin-training to decipher.

• Kensy and Max is characterdriven, features a richly created world, fantastic dialogue and plenty of situational comedy.

• Jacqueline Harvey’s Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose series have sold over one million copies in Australia and rights have been sold to North America, United Kingdom, Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Hungary and Indonesia.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2018 ISBN: 9780143780656 RRP (AUD): $16.99 FORMAT: PB, 336pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Middle-grade, Fiction series