True History of the Kelly GangThis story is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart wrenching. The author gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank robber, police killer and as his country's Robin Hood.

author of A Far Wilder Magic

and deeper still into its tumultuous past

Fighting for survival in a war with no rules

As their relationship develops

and as shells fall in Flanders

' Naomi Novik'Darkly beautiful and deeply humane

for only this knowledge can stop the cruel hand of death from turning another page

The murky alleyways of the City are crowded with people from all walks of life

Whatever dreadful entity has entered Alaizabel's soul has turned her into a strange and unearthly magnet - attracting evil and drawing horrors from the very depths of hell

it is 1917 and Daniel's great grandfather Andrew is preparing to go over the top at Passchendaele

Set in a publishing firm housed in a mock-Venetian palace on the Thames

who faces hostility and jibes of tokenism