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6 DEBUT W&N Literary Fiction PBO April £8.99 304pp 978 1 4746 1164 0 eBook: £8.99 / 978 1 4746 1165 7 HEATHER ROSE The Museum of Modern Love a dazzlingly original novel inspired by the performance artist Marina abramović. Winner of the stella Prize 2017, the Margaret scott Prize 2017 and the Christina stead Prize 2017. Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his terminally ill wife that he will not visit her in hospital. She wants to spare him from a burden that will curtail his creativity, but the promise is tearing him apart. One day he finds his way to MoMA and sees Mariana Abramović in The Artist is Present. As the performance unfolds over seventy-five days, Arky meets others drawn to the exhibit and slowly starts to understand what he must do. ‘one of my stand-out australian reads . . . a glorious novel, meditative and special’ Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rights Heather Rose is the author of four novels, White Heart, The Butterfly Man, The River Wife and The Museum of Modern Love. She has also written the acclaimed Tuesday McGillycuddy series for children with fellow author Danielle Wood. author: Location: Tasmania, Australia heatherrose.com.au @Rose_HMD W&N Fiction • April / May 2019 W&N Fiction Literary Fiction HB / ETPB May / April £14.99 / £13.99 256pp 978 1 4746 0953 1 / 978 1 4746 0954 8 eBook: £14.99 / 978 1 4746 0956 2 Audio: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 8056 2 / 8 hrs CHIP CHEEK Cape May The Great Gatsby meets On Chesil Beach in this dark and sexy debut novel about marriage, love and betrayal. Cape May, New Jersey. September 1957. Newlyweds Henry and Effie arrive from Georgia for their honeymoon. As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their happily-ever-after fantasy. Just as they get ready to cut the trip short, a light goes on in one of the houses on their street, and a glamorous set suddenly disrupt their lives. The empty town becomes their playground, and as they experiment with love and sex and gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal . . . Chip Cheek’s stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Harvard Review and Washington Square. Cape May is his debut novel. author: Location: California, USA @ChipCheek

DEBUT 7 W&N Fiction Literary Fiction HB / ETPB May / March £14.99 / £12.99 272pp [ISBN tbc] eBook: £14.99 / [ISBN tbc] Audio: £19.99 / [ISBN tbc] / 9 hrs PETER HELLER The River a stunning tale of wilderness survival: a friendship tested by fire, white water, starvation and brutality. Wynn and Jack meet on a hiking trip during orientation week and become instant best friends. They both love the great outdoors and thus it feels only natural that they’d take off a term from their Ivy League college and spend it canoeing down the lakes and rivers on the border with Canada. But there is death in the air. A megafire is spreading quickly. The river is getting wilder with the approaching autumn. There are miles of river to paddle through before making it to a safe harbour. And when a distraught man suddenly appears, asking for Wynn and Jack’s help to find his missing wife, the race against time and the fight against nature’s destructive power become entangled with a deadly game of cat and mouse. Peter Heller is the author of four novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Dog Stars. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. He lives in Denver. author: Location: Colorado, USA www.peterheller.net W&N Fiction Crime / Literary Fiction HB / ETPB June £16.99 / £12.99 320pp 978 1 4746 1044 5 / 978 1 4746 1045 2 eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4746 1047 6 Audio: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 8350 1 / 9 hrs TIM MacGABHANN Call Him Mine a crime novel set in the dark heart of Mexico, with the pace of Netflix’s Narcos and the grit of a Don Winslow classic. Jaded reporter Andrew and his photographer boyfriend, Carlos, are sick of travelling around Mexico in their battered jeep: from cartel massacres to corrupt politicians, they think they’ve seen it all. But when they find a body even the police are too scared to look at, what started out as just another reportage becomes the sort of story all reporters dream of. Until Carlos winds up murdered, leaving Andrew grief-stricken and flailing for answers, justice, and revenge. Caught in a web of dirty money, Andrew must decide whether to save himself or find out who killed the man he loved. Tim MacGabhann has reported from all over Latin America for such outlets as Esquire, the Washington Post and Al Jazeera. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and lives in Mexico City. Location: Mexico City, Mexico author: W&N Fiction • May / June 2019

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W&N Literary Fiction PBO April £8.99 304pp 978 1 4746 1164 0 eBook: £8.99 / 978 1 4746 1165 7

HEATHER ROSE The Museum of Modern Love a dazzlingly original novel inspired by the performance artist Marina abramović. Winner of the stella Prize 2017, the Margaret scott Prize 2017 and the Christina stead Prize 2017.

Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his terminally ill wife that he will not visit her in hospital. She wants to spare him from a burden that will curtail his creativity, but the promise is tearing him apart. One day he finds his way to MoMA and sees Mariana Abramović in The Artist is Present. As the performance unfolds over seventy-five days, Arky meets others drawn to the exhibit and slowly starts to understand what he must do.

‘one of my stand-out australian reads . . . a glorious novel, meditative and special’ Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rights

Heather Rose is the author of four novels, White Heart, The Butterfly Man, The River Wife and The Museum of Modern Love. She has also written the acclaimed Tuesday McGillycuddy series for children with fellow author Danielle Wood.

author:

Location: Tasmania, Australia heatherrose.com.au @Rose_HMD

W&N Fiction • April / May 2019

W&N Fiction Literary Fiction HB / ETPB May / April £14.99 / £13.99 256pp 978 1 4746 0953 1 / 978 1 4746 0954 8 eBook: £14.99 / 978 1 4746 0956 2 Audio: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 8056 2 / 8 hrs

CHIP CHEEK Cape May

The Great Gatsby meets On Chesil Beach in this dark and sexy debut novel about marriage, love and betrayal.

Cape May, New Jersey. September 1957.

Newlyweds Henry and Effie arrive from Georgia for their honeymoon. As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their happily-ever-after fantasy.

Just as they get ready to cut the trip short, a light goes on in one of the houses on their street, and a glamorous set suddenly disrupt their lives.

The empty town becomes their playground, and as they experiment with love and sex and gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal . . .

Chip Cheek’s stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Harvard Review and Washington Square. Cape May is his debut novel.

author:

Location: California, USA @ChipCheek

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