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1. The Slap Christos Tsiolkas ALLEN & UNWIN
2. The Scarecrow Michael Connelly A&U - CONNELLY
3. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows ALLEN & UNWIN
4. Handle With Care Jodi Picoult ALLEN & UNWIN
5. Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert BLOOMSBURY
6. My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult ALLEN & UNWIN
7. Tales of Beedle the Bard J.K. Rowling BLOOMSBURY
8. Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini BLOOMSBURY
9. The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry FABER
10. Forgotten Garden Kate Morton ALLEN & UNWIN

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Michael Connelly
A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of the bestselling Harry Bosch thrillers and several stand-alone bestsellers, including the highly acclaimed legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer. His latest book is The Scarecrow.
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The Australian Book Industry Awards

Allen & Unwin is delighted to have taken home the following awards at this year's ABIAs:

Booksellers Choice Award
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

Illustrated Book of the Year
Tales from Outer Suburbia - Shaun Tan

General Fiction Book of the Year
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton

Literary Fiction Book of the Year
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

Overall Book of the Year
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

Congratulations to Christos, Kate and Shaun!

The Colony

Grace Karskens

The Colony is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest city.

Your Mother Would Be Proud

Edited by Tamara Sheward Jenny Valentish

The famous, the infamous and a few odd bods you've never heard of, share their outrageous, hilarious and all too true confessions of the stupidest and most disastrously embarrassing times of their lives.

Coming Soon

The Sea Bed

Marele Day

A novel of desire, duty and secrets, The Sea Bed follows the journey of a Buddhist monk who leaves the safe predictability of his mountain monastery and ventures into the world to carry out a fellow monk's dying request.

Don't Look Behind You, But ...

Peter Allison

Another serving of campfire stories, hair-raising and hilarious tales of Africa, animals and close escapes from Australia's intrepid safari guide Peter Allison.