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Hi Aussie Readers, welcome to another bumper batch of giveaways! We have an exciting list of upcoming titles including the latest book from the award-winning author Sujata Massey of A Murder at Malabar Hill. Enter now for the chance to win your own selection of advance reading copies from our list below!

The delightfully clever Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, returns in an adventure of treacherous intrigues and suspicious deaths in The Satapur Moonstone.

'Vivid and clever...love her to bits.' Kerry Greenwood, bestselling author of the Miss Phryne Fisher series.

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri Mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse has fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja and his teenage son are both dead. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow.

The royal ladies are in dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer's council is required - but the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one woman can help them: Perveen Mistry.

Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house, but when she arrives she finds that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Too late, she realises she has walked into a trap. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the deadly curse on the palace?

'… even better than the series' impressive debut ... The winning, self-sufficient Perveen should be able to sustain a long series.' - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Inspired by the true story of a young Jewish girl - Hedy Bercu - who fled to Jersey from Vienna only to find herself trapped on the island during the German occupation.

In June 1940, the horror-struck inhabitants of Jersey watch as the German army unopposed takes possession of their island. Now only a short way from the English coast, the Germans plan their invasion.

Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl from Vienna who fled to the isolation and safety of Jersey two years earlier to escape the Nazis, finds herself once more trapped, but this time with no way of escape.

Hiding her racial status, Hedy is employed by the German authorities and secretly embarks on small acts of resistance. But most dangerously of all, she falls in love with German lieutenant Kurt Neumann -- a relationship on which her life will soon depend.

The Viennese Girl by Jenny Lecoat is a remarkable novel of finding hope and love when all seems at its darkest.

A captivating, generous and exquisitely written memoir of family and a daughter discovering her father's multi-layered life.

‘Every family has secrets. Ours also has an award-winning biographer. My sister's discoveries astonished me.’ Geraldine Brooks

Who can ever truly know their parents?

He was a glamorous heart-throb, a famous American singer performing in front of Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable and other stars at the Academy Awards. In the 1930s, his recording of 'Hawaiian Paradise' outsold those of Bing Crosby and Guy Lombardo.

So how did he become an Australian infantryman, fighting alongside and performing for his fellow Diggers in Palestine, Beirut, Egypt and New Guinea? Why did he leave Hollywood and the ritziest hotels in America for a modest Californian bungalow in suburban Sydney? And what caused him to cease his endless drifting from one woman to another, one marriage to another, and settle with the love of his life?

She was a strong Aussie woman, a talented radio broadcaster and publicity agent. Why did she take a chance on this reckless vagabond and notorious womaniser?

Seeking answers, Darleen Bungey turns her biographical skills on her own family in Daddy Cool, exploring her father's multi-layered and at times tempestuous life with a truthful eye and loving heart.

‘This memoir does maximum honour to the idea that each family is its own unique story. And in the case of Darleen Bungey, the tale she tells of Robert Cutter/ Lawrence Brooks, her father, is a charming and engrossing record of an exuberant, gifted, contradictory and brave man whose nationality was as varied as his gifts and who kept his daughters enriched and fascinated to the end. In an era of catastrophic family confessions, it reads like silk.’ Tom Keneally

‘This is something beautiful. Bungey's writing is as spellbinding and wondrous as the subject she has so bravely, forensically, gracefully explored. Further evidence that the most interesting people in our worlds were always waiting outside our bedroom doors.’ Trent Dalton

You can learn more about all these books, and win one (or a few) advance reading copies, over on our website: www.allenandunwin.com/aussie-readers

Thanks as ever for all your reviews of our books!

Thank you Allen & Unwin. They all sound really good.

More excellent books to tempt us!!

Thank you A&U, some great reads there... :)

Thanks so much A&U :)

Great collection

Excellent choices! I’ve entered, thank you Allen & Unwin :)

Entered. Thank you so much A&U. Love your book selection.

Nice variety this month!

Thanks A&U. They all sound great!
I'd love The Satapur Moonstone as I really enjoyed The Widows of Malabar Hill.

Some more great choices - and so diverse!

Thank you A&U. great reads to choose from.

Thanks so much A&U! Daddy Cool looks intriguing.

Daddy Cool would be my choice for May. Been reading heaps of memoirs lately and getting a lot out of them. A good memoir can really connect you to someone's life.

Since I am at home now, started doing a little searching on Ancestry and discovered a family secret!!

Spoiled for choice yet again!

Wow, what an eclectic mix of books!!!

Just had an email that I've won a copy of Daddy Cool! Thanks so much A&U.

Thanks A&U I just received an email saying I have won a copy of The Viennese Girl. I'm so excited and thanks again.

And I received an email to say I'd won The Satapur Moonstone. Thanks A&U :)

Thanks A&U, I've also received an email saying I've won a copy of The Viennese Girl. Looking forward to reading it, thanks again :)

And I’m getting The Satapur Moonstone!
Thank you A&U

Ooh, got an email to say I've won Daddy Cool! Thanks A&U, can't wait to read this.

That’s for the Satapur Moonstone - now I have book 1 & 2 to read 🙂

Thanks for the The Satapur Moonstone A&U! I loved the first book, A Murder at Malabar Hill so am really looking forward to reading this. Arrived this morning - on a Sunday!

Good job Carolyn! I also received a parcel today - Australia Post is trying to catch up!

I received my book today. Thanks A&U

Thanks A&U, I’ve received my copy of The Viennese Girl today :)

I just received an email to say The Viennese Girl is on its way.
Thanks again A&U

I received email today that I win The Viennese Girl, thanks A&U

love the A&U giveaways! once again a diverse range of stories to take us to another time and place - just what we need right now!

Thanks very much for the book, I look forward to reading the Viennese Girl

Thanks I received my copy of that Viennese Girl yesterday and thanks A&U.

Thank you, A&U, for my copy of The Viennese Girl. It arrived today.

Thank you A&U for my copy of The Viennese Girl. It arrived yesterday :)

Thank you A&U for my copy of The Viennese Girl, very excited to get this package in the mail :)