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JODI
PICOULT

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR

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Jodi's coming to Australia!

Australian Jodi fans, it's time to get your diaries out and mark THE date! Jodi Picoult is coming to Australia for the first time in 8 years and she'll be talking about her new book By Any Other Name. This is where you'll find Jodi during her travels:
 

Thursday 17 October - Sydney - tickets on sale midday 4 July

Sydney Writers Festival presents Jodi Picoult

 

Friday 18 October - Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney

Dymocks - Literary Events Club

Monday 21 October - Byron Bay

Byron Writers Festival presents Jodi Picoult

Tuesday 22 October - Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane

Brisbane City Library presents Jodi Picoult

Wednesday 23 October - Robina Library, Robina

Gold Coast Libraries Network presents Jodi Picoult

Thursday 24 October - Newcastle

Newcastle Writers Festival presents Jodi Picoult

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By Any Other Name is out now!

The wait is finally over! Jodi Picoult's new book is available now. 

By Any Other Name is about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard. And one could well be the real author behind Shakespeare's plays. 

As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theatre critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has never recovered, although she has just completed a work that she thinks is her best yet. It is based on the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, the first published female poet in England—and rumoured to be the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets—but whom some scholars suspect may be the real author of a number of his plays. Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, and then her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits it to a festival under a male pseudonym.

In 1581, the young orphan Emilia Bassano is being raised in the ways of English aristocracy by the Baron Willoughby and his sister. Her lessons on languages, reading, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling. But like most women of her day, she has no control over her fate, and is ripped from her old life and forced to become a courtesan to Lord Hunsdon, a man knighted by Queen Elizabeth as the Lord Chamberlain in charge of all theatre in London. Though she has no other freedoms and inspired by the work of the most brilliant playwrights of the time, she pseudonymously sets her own pen to paper to tell a story.

Told in dual intertwining timelines, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers on two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. As Emilia alters the course of her life and therefore the course of the world, she blazes a trail. Centuries later, will Melina face the same terrible fate—to have her work celebrated, but only at the price of letting another take credit?

Buy it in-store or online below. 

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The new format of Mad Honey is here and it's absolutely beautiful! 

After a messy divorce Olivia finds herself back in her sleepy New Hampshire home town, taking over her father's beekeeping business. Meanwhile, Ava is also in search of a fresh start, moving to Adams with her daughter Lily, who is in her final year of high school.

Olivia's son Asher falls for the new girl at school, and Lily can't help loving him in return. With Ash she feels happy for the first time, yet she wonders if she can trust him completely.

Then one day Olivia receives a phone call. Lily is dead and Ash is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent, but she also recognises the flashes of his father's dangerous temper in him . . .

Mad Honey is a soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind.

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