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Allen & Unwin authors will be appearing at the following festivals.

Melbourne Writers Festival (27 August – 5 September)
www.mwf.com.au

International authors

Nicolas Dickner | Louise Doughty | Tiffany Murray | DBC Pierre | Gavin Pretor-Pinney | Barbara Trapido | Jonathan Watts

Local authors

David Astle | Bernard Caleo | John Danalis | Sue Degennaro | Terry Denton | Ursula Dubosarky | Peter Corris | Ross Gittins | Nicki Greenberg | Karen Healy | Steven Herrick | Leigh Hobbs | Rebecca James | Nicholas Jose | Lisa Lang | Heath McKenzie | Michael Meehan | Glenda Millard | Alex Miller | Kirsty Murray | Charlie Pickering | Sally Rippin | Shaun Tan | Kristel Thornell | Jonathan Walker | Lili Wilkinson

Brisbane Writers Festival (1 – 5 September)
www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au

International authors

Nicolas Dickner | Louise Doughty | Tiffany Murray | Jaspreet Singh

Local authors

John Danalis | Anh Do | Leigh Hobbs | Alex Miller | Michel Streich

 

Featured books

Spotlight:

Lights Out in Wonderland

by DBC Pierre

An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre's third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which stands alone as a joyful expression of the human spirit.

Spotlight:

Sex and Stravinsky

by Barbara Trapido

A mix of people from different spheres, Sex and Stravinsky throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.

Spotlight:

Whatever You Love

by Louise Doughty

We think of our lives as linear, with a clear beginning and middle and end. The line is inexorable: time itself. Betty's death stopped time. The line dissolved and life became a point, fixed on the day that Betty died.
When two police officers knock on Laura's door, her life changes forever. Her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed, and Laura is left both devastated and desperate for revenge against the man responsible for Betty's death.
Laura's grief re-opens old wounds and she is thrown back to the story of her passionate love affair with Betty's father David, their marriage and his subsequent affair with another woman. When does lust become sexual jealousy - and when does the desire for justice become a bitter thirst for violence? What are the boundaries between love and the desire for possession or control?
Haunted by her past, and driven to breaking point by her desire for retribution, Laura discovers the lengths she is willing to go to for love.

Spotlight:

Diamond Star Halo

by Tiffany Murray

A seductive story of fate, magic, and rock 'n' roll, Diamond Star Halo shows what happens when a family and a farm become the breeding ground for fame.