February 2013 - HarperCollins NZ

February 2013

Fiction
My Brother’s Keeper
Donna Malane
Diane Rowe, missing persons
expert, once again takes us on a
dark ride through the underbelly
of a city not prepared to give up
its secrets easily.
Ex-con Karen needs Diane’s help
to track down her fourteen-yearold
daughter who she’s lost contact
with while she’s been in prison ...
Donna Malane is a successful television producer and
scriptwriter who has written for all genres of television,
including a number of successful crime dramas, and worked
on the television series Crimewatch. Surrender, her first
adult novel, was the winner of the inaugural New Zealand
Society of Authors–Pindar Publishing prize in 2010. This is
her second novel.
Praise for Surrender:
‘Clever and compelling, Surrender is a must read for
crime-fiction fans.’ — New Zealand Woman’s Weekly
HarperCollins NZ | February | $29.99
Chasing the Light:
A Novel of Antarctica
Jesse Blackadder
A fictional recounting of the
little-known true story of the
first woman to ever set foot
on Antarctica, and her
extraordinary fight to get
there.
Jesse Blackadder has
captured the drama, danger
and magnetic pull of exploring uncharted places in our
world and our minds.
Jesse Blackadder is an award-winning Australian
short story writer and freelance journalist, fascinated by
landscapes and belonging. Her first novel was After the
Party and her second novel, The Raven’s Heart, was
published in 2011. Jesse is currently the Antarctic Arts
Fellow.
HarperCollins AUS | February | $34.99
Close to the Bone
Stuart MacBride
Detective Inspector Logan
McRae is finally getting back on
his feet after the events of the
last few years …
But it was never going to last.
Bodies are turning up on the
outskirts of Aberdeen: burned
from the neck up, hands chained
behind their backs.
Stuart MacBride is the author of several bestsellers. The
McRae novels have won him the CWA’s Dagger in the
Library, the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel and Best
Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 crime thriller awards.
‘Ferocious and funny’ —Val McDermid
Little Exiles
Robert Dinsdale
A stunning novel set in the wake
of World War Two, it tells the
extraordinary true story of the
little boys and girls who were
torn from their families and
shipped to Australia by the
Children’s Crusade.
Epic in scope, this is the
incredibly moving and heartbreaking
story of one boy’s struggle to get home. Rooted
in historical fact, this novel shines a light on the appalling
human cost of the Children’s Crusade.
Robert Dinsdale is the author of two previous novels, The
Harrowing and Three Miles. Rob lives in London where he
works as a literary agent and freelance editor for agents
and editorial consultancies.
HarperCollins UK | February| $34.99
HarperCollins AUS | February | $34.99

Fiction
Destined to Fly
Indigo Bloome
The compelling and satisfying
climax to Alexandra Blake’s
exhilarating journey, from the
author of Destined to Play and
Destined to Feel.
Alexandra has returned to the
world after her captivity and is
left with a heady mix of
emotions. Strangly empowered,
her feelings of pleasure and exhilaration are tinged with
fear, but now she must reconcile the decisions of her past
and how they may determine her future.
Indigo Bloome is married with two children. She has lived
and worked in Sydney and the UK, with a successful career
in the finance industry. Her love of reading, deciphering
dreams, stimulating conversation and the intrigue of the
human mind led her to writing her first novel, Destined to
Play.
The Demon Cycle Book 3:
The Daylight War
Peter V. Brett
Continuing the impressive debut
fantasy series from author Peter
V. Brett, The Daylight War is
book three of the Demon Cycle.
Humanity is fighting back.
Although the night still belongs
to the demons that arise as the
sun sets, new wards and
weapons are giving those willing to fight in the darkness a
chance to retaliate against their core-spawned enemies.
Peter V. Brett went to the University at Buffalo, where he
studied Dungeons & Dragons, fencing, and girls.
Following college, Peter spent eight months managing a
comic shop and pondering what to do with his life. He then
went into medical publishing before writing full time.
HarperCollins AUS | February| $19.99 Voyager| February| $32.99
Biography
Remembering Whitney
Cissy Houston
The definitive account of
Whitney Houston’s astonishing
life, groundbreaking career and
tragic death, from Whitney’s
mother, gospel singer Cissy
Houston.
After keeping stoically silent to
the press, now, in her own words,
Cissy Houston describes
Whitney’s triumphant, heartbreaking life, from childhood
memories to adult turmoil, as well as the grief of a mother
coming to terms with impossible loss.
A portion of the author’s proceeds will be donated to the
New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, where
Whitney sang as a child.
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life
Inside Scientology and My
Harrowing Escape
Jenna Miscavige Hill
The niece of the Church of
Scientology’s leader, David
Miscavige, tells the true story of
her bizarre childhood in
Scientology, her teenage years,
her dramatic escape, and her
struggle to integrate into
mainstream society.
From its creation by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard
to its roster of celebrity acolytes, disturbing questions have
swirled around the religion and the organisation behind it.
Jenna Miscavige Hill reveals the strange and disturbing
details of her childhood. Since leaving the organisation in
2005, she has become one of its most prominent critics.
Embargoed until 31 January 2013 Embargoed until 5 February 2013
HarperCollins UK | February | $32.99
HarperCollins US | Mid February | $29.99

Non fiction
Fish Like a Drink:
Joe Bennett Writes Again
Joe Bennett
Since his last collection of columns,
Joe Bennett’s been shaken and
stickered, protected from
bureaucrats by a Bulgarian in a
frock and deprived of his
favourite drinking hole.
He’s defied a council, eaten a
rabbit, witnessed a marriage,
saved a dog, failed to save a Venetian pigeon, and much,
much more. Throughout it all he has maintained the presence
of mind to write columns of grace, wit and sense. Here are
45 of them.
Joe Bennett’s newspaper columns are syndicated
throughout the country. Joe’s latest book, Double
Happiness, was published in August 2012.
‘A delight to read.’ — North and South
Wonders of Life
Brian Cox and
Andrew Cohen
Professor Brian Cox takes us
on an incredible journey to
discover how a few
fundamental laws gave birth to
the most complex, diverse and
unique force in the universe —
life itself.
Brian Cox’s television series, Stargazing will screen
Sundays from 17 February at 8.30pm on SKY’s BBC
Knowledge.
A special astronomy event comprising three 50 minute
shows, Stargazing will be broadcast from the control room
of the Jodrell Bank radio observatory in Cheshire.
Presented by renowned particle physicist Professor Brian
Cox, Dara O’Briain and BBC astronomer Mark Thompson,
each episode will be themed concentrating on a
different area of astronomical interest: Mars, Earth and
The Big Bang.
HarperCollins NZ | February | $24.99
HarperCollins UK | Mid February | $49.99
The Slow Fix: Solve
Problems, Work Smarter
and Live Better in a Fast
World
Carl Honoré
The problems facing us today
are bigger and more urgent
than ever before, and we
need to learn to start fixing
things properly, rather than
settling for short-term
solutions.
The Slow Fix offers real, lifechanging
solutions to tackling these problems, and extends
the movement defined by Carl Honoré in his global bestseller,
In Praise of Slow, to offer a recipe for problem-solving that
can be applied to every walk of life, from business and politics
to relationships, education and health reform.
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Carl Honoré is an award-winning journalist who has written
for a large number of leading publications. His first book, In
Praise of Slow, was an international bestseller.
HarperCollins UK | Mid February | $34.99