Andrea Levy, author of SMALL ISLAND, will be touring Australia in March 2010 to attend the Adelaide Writers’ Week. Levy’s new book, The Long Song, is a fascinating look at the life of young slave girl growing up on a sugar plantation in Jamaica in the 1800s.

The beautiful volume, The Life and Love of Trees, is a collection of photographs from around the world, celebrating the relationship between humans and trees in all habitats. An amazing tribute and a work of art; watch out for this book in Vogue Australia, Notebook and Better Homes and Garden magazine.

Karen Kissane, senior journalist with Melbourne’s The Age newspaper, takes us inside the tragic Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 in Worst of Days. As The Age’s primary reporter on the bushfires, Karen ventured deep into the worst affected areas to bring stories of courage and endurance in the face of huge devastation to the world. Worst of Days concentrates on one of the most deadly firestorms, the Kilmore blaze, in a powerful and gripping account of one of Australia’s worst disasters. Worst of Days is published to coincide with the first anniversary of the fire and an extract will be published in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, plus Karen will be giving interviews to magazines, newspapers and radio stations around the country.

Acclaimed biographer and author of the bestselling book Marie Antoinette, upon which Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning film was based, Antonia Fraser shares the story of her love for playwright Harold Pinter in Must You Go?, published this month. Look out for an extract from this touching memoir in Sydney and Melbourne’s Good Weekend Magazine, plus reviews around the country.

Also out this month: Robert Crais is back with his latest thriller The First Rule and this time Elvis Cole’s sidekick the shadowy Joe Pike takes the spotlight; and the haunting Joe Hill returns with Horns: Ignatius Perrish wakes one morning with the hangover from hell – literally – and a pair of devil’s horns adorning his head. Then things take a turn for the worse...

Becoming Scarlett
By Ciara Geraghty
Fiction published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1st February 2010, RRP $32.99, ISBN 9780340976562.

From the author of the beguiling and moving Saving Grace comes a new and unforgettable heroine.

Scarlett is brilliant at organizing everything- from her family to her job as a wedding planner, she loves the feeling of having things under control.

Except that suddenly, things are slipping out of her hands - like the fact that her boyfriend, always so reliable, has suddenly taken himself off travelling. And that after a one-night stand, she discovers that she’s pregnant…

From black and white, her life has exploded into glorious technicolour. Will Scarlett embrace the change?

As warm and addictive as Marian Keyes, and with that rare ability to make you laugh out loud as well as cry this is an author to watch for.

Praise for Saving Grace:
‘...the heroine is irresistible and the story is well structured and engaging, written with style, wit and warmth’ Sydney Morning Herald.

‘Light and fluffy on top with a hearty, meaty base that will make you sigh with satisfaction when finished...’ Courier Mail.

‘...a touching and entertaining read from a new Irish author’ Grazia.

COMING SOON! The highly-anticipated first volume in the graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight will be published 17 March 2010. Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 contains selected text from Meyer's original novel with illustrations by Korean artist Young Kim.

Go to www.stephenie-meyer.com.au for more info on The Twilight Saga.

Alexander McCall Smith, Elizabeth Kostova, Sarah Waters and Sarah Dunant will all be visiting Australia in February 2010, see On Tour page for more details.