Award-winning journalist, Jay Rayner takes on the world in his search for the perfect meal. The Man Who Ate the World is a journey through the great cities of the globe, it’s about extraordinary restaurants and the people who visit them. And, of course, it’s about dinner. Warning: Just don’t read it if you’re hungry! For further information please contact Alexandra Barlow: T 02.8248.0800 or E alexandra.barlow@hachette.com.au

If you loved The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, don't miss A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley. In this mesmerising crime debut, Michael Stanley uncovers the real Botswana: a modern land caught between traditional culture and globalism, colonial paternalism and independence; a beautiful, vibrant country threatened by the poverty, crime and brutal trade in blood diamonds of its neighbours.

Catch the internationally bestselling author and publisher David Davidar in Sydney, as the guest of the 2008 Writers' Festival. Davidar's critically acclaimed The House of Blue Mangoes was followed last year by the beautifully atmospheric novel The Solitude of Emperors. Davidar will be talking about both books, and his work as Publisher at Penguin Canada, in three events throughout the festival.

And making her debut at the festival is local author Camilla Noli, whose controversial new book Still Waters was recently dubbed 'the watercooler book of the year' by Harper's Bazaar magazine. See www.camillanoli.com and www.swf.org.au for details.

And Hold Tight for the new rollercoaster ride from Harlan Coben, which will be reviewed everywhere!

Must read this month is The welsh Girl by critically acclaimed author Peter Ho Davies, who will be a guest at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Also, don’t miss Remember Me... by Melvyn Bragg, a passionate love story of great emotional intensity, which leaves an unforgettable impression.

 

The Front goes on sale 15th May 2008. The second book featuring At Risk’s Winston Garano – you will never guess what lies behind The Front.

 

 

Cassandra Eason – author of a multitude of books on the psychic world will be in and around Sydney for the Mind, Body, Spirit festival early May and in late May we will have psychological thriller writer Michael Robotham (Suspect, Lost, The Night Ferry, Shatter) and foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson (The Fall of Baghdad and Guerrillas) taking part in the Sydney Writers’ Festival as well as Hermione Lee (Willa cather: A life Saved Up) and Michael White ( C S Lewis; The Boy who chronicled Narnia).