Meet three of the amazing authors behind Atlantic Books Australia's biggest releases this year!
We're have three amazing books coming from Atlantic Books Australia this year. And it's time you meet their brilliant authors. A big round of applause for the class of 2025...
Meet Claire Zorn
Claire is the multi-award-winning author of four books for young adults and the author/illustrator of one picture book. She lives on the south coast of New South Wales with her husband and two sons.
Better Days
Twenty years ago, Grace only wanted to be with Trent – a boy with a guitar and a lot of promises. Her mother, Dorothy, wanted her daughter to fulfil her potential. In a fit of fury and heartbreak, Grace boards a plane to London where she builds a dazzling career in the music industry, marries Ed who would do anything for her, and has two children (one who might be a sociopath, but the other seems fine).
That glamorous lifestyle is a distant memory as Grace drags her kids and a particularly irritating dachshund back to the Blue Mountains, where Dorothy is waiting with a roast and inevitable questions about why Ed is no longer in the – seemingly perfect – picture. On a McDonald's pitstop, Grace bumps into a ghost from the past ... Trent.
If you love Taylor Jenkins Reid, you'll love Better Days - coming March 4.
Meet Jessica Dettmann
Jessica Dettmann is author of four novels and one book for children. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her family and her two cats. Before becoming a writer, she was a book editor. Even before that she once worked as the City of Sydney Christmas Angel, sitting on top of the Town Hall in a gown that reached the street, almost exclusively so she would have an interesting job to mention if she ever had the opportunity to write an author bio.
Your Friend and Mine
When Margot receives an email from her best friend, Tess, it comes as a shock. Tess has been dead for over twenty years.At once she is catapulted back to 2000, meeting the cool, confident English backpacker visiting Sydney, where their intense friendship led to plans to travel back to Europe together. But then Margot fell in love with Johnny, they opened a restaurant together and had a baby. Margot never made it to London, and Tess tragically died from ovarian cancer. The guilt Margot felt about letting her friend down has never completely subsided.
Now Tess is providing Margot with the means to fly to London and have the trip they never got to do together. But there are stipulations to Tess's beyond-the-grave generosity – Margot must scatter her ashes and carry out one or two 'tasks' in the company of Leo, Tess's childhood friend.Margot can't help but compare the dreams and aspirations of the girl who partied with Tess to the bored, exhausted woman she has become. How could Tess have predicted that Margot would need a second chance to get on that plane?
If you love Marian Keyes and Liane Moriarty, you'll love Your Friend and Mine - coming July 1.
Meet Clare Stephens
Clare Stephens is a Sydney-based digital content creator, screenwriter, editor and podcaster. She's the former editor-in-chief at Mamamia and former host of comedy podcast Cancelled, nominated for Best Comedy Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards. In 2023 she launched the podcast But, Are You Happy? which was Apple's #1 Best New Show of 2023.She is also a writer and producer on the Binge series Strife - seasons 1 and 2.
The Worst Thing I've Ever Done, out in October with Atlantic Books, is her first novel.
The Worst Thing I've Ever Done
On an ordinary Tuesday, Ruby Williams' name starts trending - for all the wrong reasons. An interview she wrote has outrages internet personality Felicity Cartwright. Suddenly, Ruby finds herself at the centre of a brutal public shaming.
As online hatred surges, she is pulled in wildly different directions by her employer, friends, family and partner. Surely, she can get on top of it if she can just explain it better! But the vitriol pouring through her phone cracks open a shameful secret she's kept hidden for year. Only Ruby knows that in the past, she's done something worse...
Coming Sept 30.
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