Giveaways

The death of Dora Black

Author: Lainie Anderson

Publisher: Hachette Australia

The first novel in the Petticoat Police Mystery series, The Death of Dora Black is inspired by Australia’s pioneering policewoman, Kate Cocks.

Summer, Adelaide, 1917. The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks is a household name, wrangling wayward husbands into repentance, seeing through deceptive clairvoyants and rescuing young women (whether they like it or not) with the help of a five-foot cane and her sassy junior constable, Ethel Bromley.

When shop assistant Dora Black is found dead on a city beach, Miss Cocks and Ethel are ordered to stay out of the investigation and leave it to the men. But when Dora’s workmate goes missing soon after, the women decide to take matters into their own hands.

Margaret, are you leaving?

Author: Dianne Yarwood

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Now in her forties, Maggie Reid has built a good life for herself, surrounded by good people. She has an adorable but needy dog and a new relationship. She has tried hard to leave her painful past behind her, but when her beloved brother calls with news of their adopted mother’s death, he also delivers a bombshell about Maggie’s birth mother.

So begins a journey to trace her mother’s identity, a quest that brings fresh heartbreak but also unexpected joy. Maggie has spent her whole life leaving, but now, for the first time, will she want to stay?

Margaret, are you leaving? celebrates the messiness of family and the beauty of life in all its heartache and wonder.

The enigmatic echidna

Secrets of the world’s most curious creature

Author: Danielle Clode

Publisher: Black Inc.

There are few animals more unusual than the echidna – a spiky, egg-laying mammal that eats ants.

Most of us don’t know the most striking things about echidnas. For instance, they use their snout like a snorkel when they swim and can sense electromagnetic fields. They have complex brains, startling physical strength and ‘backwards’ back feet. They go into torpor when conditions are poor and can survive fires by sheltering underground.

In The Enigmatic Echidna, biologist and award-winning author Danielle Clode follows the echidna on a surprising journey into their world.

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