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THE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE 

Against All Odds

In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the Wild Boars soccer team were trapped deep in a cave in Thailand. Marooned beyond flooded cave passages after unexpected rains, they were finally rescued, one-by-one, against almost impossible odds, by an international cave-diving team which included Australians Dr Richard Harris and Dr Craig Challen.

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Extract: Blue Moon by Lee Child

At that same moment Jack Reacher was seventy miles away, in a Greyhound bus, on the interstate highway. He was on the left side of the vehicle, towards the rear, in the window seat over the axle. There was no one next to him. Altogether there were twenty-nine other passengers. The usual mixture. Nothing special. Except for one particular situation, which was mildly interesting. Across the aisle and one row in front was a guy asleep with his head hanging down. He had grey hair overdue for a trim, and loose grey skin, as if he had lost a lot of weight. He could have been seventy years old. He was wearing a short blue zip jacket. Some kind of heavy cotton. Maybe waterproof. The butt end of a fat envelope was sticking out of the pocket.

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FROM FIONA MCINTOSH, THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PEARL THIEF

Start Reading The Diamond Hunter

From the harsh desert of South Africa’s Kimberley diamond mine to the misty, green plains of northern England, The Diamond Hunter is a breathtaking adventure story about trust and betrayal, the ultimate quest for truth, and a love that is truly priceless.

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Extract: Criss Cross by James Patterson

CHAPTER 1

It was a miserable mid-March afternoon, chill and sleeting, as John Sampson and I ran to the main gate of the Greensville Correctional Center, a hexagon-shaped high-security prison in the rural, southern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

We ducked inside the security shack, showed our badges and identifications, and surrendered our service weapons. A gate rolled back, and we walked through.

As a homicide detective with the DC Metropolitan Police and as a behavioral specialist with the FBI, I have been to many jails, prisons, and penitentiaries over the years, but I am still unnerved by the sound of steel-barred gates slamming shut behind me. We passed through seven such gates, following Warden Adrian Yates and several reporters who’d arrived before us.

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Keep your finger on the throbbing pulse of publishing. Here we've gathered some of the immediate, authentic and most exciting debut voices of 2020. 

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At Penguin Books Australia the only thing we love more than reading is talking about books with anyone who will listen. It's a little hard to do right now, so we are responding to this challenge by launching a weekly book club on Facebook, where we can chat about books with the people who read and write them. Readers, meet The Huddle.

THE HUDDLE 1: FRIDAY 17 APRIL

The Trip of a Lifetime by Monica McInerney

On Friday 17 April at 3pm AEST Monica McInerney will be ready and waiting on Facebook to answer your questions and discuss her inspiration for The Trip of a Lifetime.

This beautiful book is a delightful, emotional story about the huge-hearted Quinlan family. The eccentric Lola Quinlan is off on the trip of a lifetime, taking her beloved granddaughter and great-granddaughter with her. More than sixty years after immigrating to Australia, she''s keeping a secret promise to return to her Irish homeland.

THE HUDDLE 2: FRIDAY 24 APRIL

Khaki Town by Judy Nunn 

On Friday 24 April at 3pm AEST Judy Nunn will be joining us on Facebook to share insights into the process of researching and writing Khaki Town.

This breathtaking historical novel is set in Queensland during World War II and is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years.

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It's impossible to say how the vanishing began or if it was already ended, thought Anna. Or, for that matter, how to begin. Whether it's about me or her or him, whether it's she or we or you, whether it's now or then or sometime soon. And not having even the right voice tense pronoun makes it so much harder. Perhaps even impossible.