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Our bookstores are teeming with new releases and old favourites and our booksellers are ready to help you select the perfect gift! Shopping early is important this year due to the high demand for books and the potential for supply delays. Check with your local BOOK FACE store on how you can shop with them - whether instore or via phone or email.

To help you with your holiday shopping we have summer reading guides for both kids and adults available at all of our stores and online that include a carefully curated selection of both Australian and international new releases chosen by local independent booksellers. Still not sure what to get? Check out some of our staff favourites below!

fabulous fiction

crime

notable non-fiction

for the little ones

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Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction novelist, author of international bestsellers Scrublands and Silver. Watch Chris introduce his latest thriller Trust, the gripping new Martin Scarsden novel, below and enter our Instagram competition in partnership with Allen&Unwin for the chance to win all three Martin Scarsden novels.

Chris Hammer Book Giveaway

To celebrate the highly anticipated release of Trust, we’ve partnered with Allen&Unwin to host an amazing giveaway where you can win all three books in Chris’s Martin Scarsden series!

The giveaway is open to Australian residents only and will close on Sunday 18 October with the winner Being announced the following day.

More details on how to enter can be found on our Instagram!

About Trust

Martin Scarsden's new life seems perfect, right up until the moment it's shattered by a voicemail: a single scream, abruptly cut off, from his partner Mandalay Blonde.

Racing home, he finds an unconscious man sprawled on the floor and Mandy gone. Someone has abducted her. But who, and why?

So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life so deep she has never mentioned it.

And for the first time, Mandy finds denial impossible, now the body of a mystery man has been discovered, a man whose name she doesn't know, a man she was engaged to marry when he died. It's time to face her demons once and for all; it's time she learned how to trust.

Set in a Sydney riven with corruption and nepotism, privilege and power, Trust is the third riveting novel from award-winning and internationally acclaimed writer Chris Hammer.

'Chris Hammer is a great writer - a leader in Australian noir.'

- Michael Connelly

About Chris Hammer

Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction novelist, author of international bestsellers Scrublands and Silver. His new book, Trust, will be published in Australia and New Zealand in October 2020 and internationally from early 2021.

Scrublands was an instant bestseller upon publication in 2018, topping the Australian fiction charts. It was shortlisted for major writing awards in Australia, the UK and the United States. In the UK it was named the Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Year 2019 and won the prestigious UK Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award.

Scrublands, Silver and Trust all feature troubled journalist Martin Scarsden and his partner Mandalay Blonde.

The books are notable for their atmospheric Australian settings, range of colourful characters, intricate plots, descriptive language and emotional depth

Before turning to fiction, Chris was a journalist for more than thirty years. He reported from more than 30 countries on six continents for SBS TV. In Canberra, roles included chief political correspondent for The Bulletin, senior writer for The Age and Online Political Editor for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Chris has written two non-fiction books The River (2010) and The Coast (2012), published by Melbourne University Press.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Charles Sturt University and a master’s degree in International Relations from the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

for more information about chris’s books or general stock enquiries, get in touch with our well-read staff members at your local book face…