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Cee wakes up on an abandoned island. Her only companion is a protective and agreeable robot. Her sister Kasey is a long way away on Earth''s last unpolluted zone. Kasey wants to escape from the home she thought she trusted and the science that sees her questioning her reality and her future. She has choices to make. Big choices. Kasey thinks Cee is dead; Cee knows Kasey needs her. Encountering everyone from robots, to climate experts, competitive scientists and mysterious castaways, the connected siblings find their paths to each other through the fallout of a dying planet.

Sarah Sentilles, the ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed author of Draw Your Weapons, returns in 2021 with Stranger Care, a powerful and extraordinary memoir about her experiences adopting a child in America. Sarah and her husband make the decision to adopt, and after several years and an involved process, they come to take in a baby in need of immediate care. With the goal of this process ultimately a reunion with the birth family, Sarah explores what it means to care for a child that is not your own and who you may one day have to give up.

Meg lives alone: a little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That''s one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who''s escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it''s like to live with an abusive partner. Nerine is jumpy and her two little girls are frightened. It tells Meg all she needs to know where they''ve come from, and she''s not all that surprised when Nerine asks her to get hold of a gun. But she knows it''s unnecessary. They''re safe now. Then she starts to wonder about some little things. A disturbed flyscreen. A tune playing on her windchimes. Has Nerine''s ex tracked them down? Has Meg''s husband turned up to torment her some more? By the time she finds out, it''ll be too late to do anything but run for her life.

Della can''t work out why her adored older sixteen-year-old sister Suki screams in her sleep. Suki has always been Della''s protector, especially after their mother went to prison and her boyfriend took the sisters in. But who has been protecting Suki? When Suki tries to kill herself, Della decides it''s time to tell their secrets and speak out about the terrible things that happened to Suki. Bound by love and trauma, these two sisters must find their own voices before they can find their way back to each other.

It''s 1966. Hal and his little brother, newly arrived in Moorabool with their parents, are exploring the creek near their new home when they find the body of a dog, mutilated. Constable Mick Goodenough, recently demoted from his city job as a detective, is also new in town - and one of his dogs has gone missing. He''s experienced enough to know what it means when someone tortures an animal to death: it means they''re practising. So when Hal''s mother starts getting anonymous, threatening calls, Goodenough, alone among the Moorabool cops, takes her seriously. The question is: will that be enough to keep her safe?

Journalist Kate leaves New York for a fresh start in California and a new job: as an archivist for the estate of late famed photographer Miranda Brand. Miranda''s son, Theo, has returned to the family home and needs Kate to organise his mother''s work and the mess of her personal effects. The further Kate digs into the material, the more a picture begins to emerge of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood and marriage. But Kate has secrets of her own, including a growing attraction to the enigmatic Theo, and when she stumbles across Miranda''s diary, her curiosity spirals into a dangerous obsession.

A tender, unique novel folliwng a young girl''s experience as an Iraqi refugee in Melbourne.

Lona spends her days developing photographs in the dark room of the art school she dropped out of, and her nights DJ-ing the roller disco at Planet Skate. She is in inexplicable, debilitating love with a bespectacled former classmate. She is in comfortable, platonic love with her best friend Tab. When Lona''s grandfather moves into her home, she finds herself bonding with him just as she watches his health decline. When she meets a bass-playing, cello-shredding, charming-as-all-hell suitor, she is bewildered the idea of finding herself in a romantic relationship with another human being.

Adele and her younger brother Axel grew up in a hamlet in the spectacular mountains of the Ardeche region in south-east France. Ten years later they have returned to their childhood home, and Adele now drives the school bus. Adele is desperate to keep the secret of her past - of when she was a boy. No one recognises her here now, but teenagers have a way of getting to the truth... When a terrifying snowstorm strands the bus on the mountain, Adele and her passengers take shelter in a cave, and that''s when the stories come out.

''On February 11 you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm. Of your own free will. And for a good reason.'' Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for good when a homeless woman spits these words at her. Norah is unnerved: many years earlier, something terrible happened to her on February 11. She shrugs this off as a mere coincidence, however, until shortly afterwards she meets a man called Arthur Grimm. Soon Norah begins to have a dreadful suspicion: does she have a good reason to take revenge on Grimm? What really happened in the worst night of her life all those years ago? And can Norah make sure that justice is done without herself committing murder?

Here at last, by popular demand, is the weekly system of food preparation that Professor Don Tillman, star of the Rosie trilogy, lives by - everything from his signature lobster salad to the world''s best risotto, across the four seasons. This essential guide also includes handy tips about losing weight, mixing cocktails and stress-free entertaining. Don Tillman''s Standardised Meal System will not only show you how to make delicious meals: it will open your mind a different way of shopping, cooking and living. The Don Tillman way.

Daniel is a 16-year-old drug dealer, and he's going to jail. Then, suddenly, he's not. A courtroom intervention. A 'lifeline'; a 'last chance' and a long car ride to a big country house. Other 'gifted delinquents'. Where are they? It's not a school, despite the 'lessons' with the headsets and changing images. It's not a psych unit-not if the absence of medication means anything. It's not a jail, because Daniel's free to leave. Or that's what they tell him. He knows he's part of an experiment. But he doesn't know who's running it or what they're trying to prove. And he has no idea what they're doing to him.

The standalone sequel to the critically acclaimed thriller The Girl Without Skin! When journalist Matthew Cave’s half-sister disappears, leaving behind a trail of blood in an abandoned hut, he realises that they are both pawns in a game of life and death. As a young US soldier stationed in Greenland, their father took part in a secret experiment with deadly consequences. Accused of double homicide, Tom Cave fled. Now his case is reopened, and the demons of the past are unleashed. Is the father Matt’s been searching for his entire life a cold-blooded murderer? And can Matt track him down before the US military does? Tupaarnaq Siegstad, a young Inuit woman, returns to Nuuk to help her only friend save his sister’s life – and settle a few scores of her own. But as the pressure mounts, Matt starts to wonder: is Tupaarnaq really who he thinks she is? Translated by Charlotte Barslund. Danish title: 'Kold angst'.

These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White''s great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events - a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper, truer reality.