Media Bites August 2020

The Jacaranda House D E BOR AH CHA L L I NOR

Polly is living in Sydney’s notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She’s desperate to bring her young daughter, Gina, to live with her, but beneath her brash confidence lie dark secrets which threaten to drag her under. Rhoda and Star, transgender performers and Polly’s flatmates, bring stability to Polly’s and Gina’s lives. Yet this unlikely little family will find themselves threatened in more ways than one.

Man In Armour S I OBHAN M c K E NNA

How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a leading business insider. Man in Armour is a story about Charles, a man in crisis. Charles is a master of this dog-eat-dog world. Each day he shrugs on a metaphorical suit of armour and goes out to accumulate power and make money. But there is a price to pay. Now, at the peak of his career, his armour is rusted and bloodstained and no longer protecting him the way it once did. He finds himself empty. Always cold. No friends. A family that is falling apart. Over the course of two days, everything in Charles’s life comes into question. His carefully constructed world is starting to splinter – and he’s splintering too.

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 432pp AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

deborahchallinor.com

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill SOPH I E HANNAH The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile – returns to solve a fiendish new mystery. Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate, where Richard Devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancée is innocent of the murder of his brother. But there is a strange condition attached to this request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there.

Released: 05/08/20 TPB | 352pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: 4th Estate

Released: 20/08/20 TPB | 400pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: HarperCollins

sophiehannah.com

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