Graeme Simsion

Anne Buist

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project comes a story of taking chances and learning to love again as two people, one mourning her husband and the other recovering from divorce, cross paths on the centuries-old Camino pilgrimage from France to Spain. “The Chemin will change you. It changes everyone…” The Chemin, also known as the Camino de Santiago, is a centuries-old pilgrim route that ends in Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. Every year, thousands of walkers—some devout, many not—follow the route that wends through quaint small villages and along busy highways alike, a journey unlike any other. Zoe, an artist from California who’s still reeling from her husband’s sudden death, has impulsively decided to walk the Camino, hoping to find solace and direction. Martin, an engineer from England, is road-testing a cart of his own design…and recovering from a messy divorce. They begin in the same French town, each uncertain of what the future holds. Zoe has anticipated the physical difficulties of her trek, but she is less prepared for other challenges, as strangers and circumstances force her to confront not just recent loss, but long-held beliefs. For Martin, the pilgrimage is a test of his skills and endurance but also, as he and Zoe grow closer, of his willingness to trust others—and himself—again. Smart and funny, insightful and romantic, Two Steps Forward reveals that the most important journeys we make aren’t measured in miles, but in the strength, wisdom, and love found along the way. Fans of The Rosie Project will recognize Graeme Simsion’s uniquely quirky and charming writing style.

A Novel

Two Steps Forward

• The latest instalment in the Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist series of gripping psychological thrillers from Professor Anne Buist. • Natalie King is a protagonist with bipolar disorder, and Anne brings more-than 25 years experience working in perinatal psychiatry and protective services to telling her stories. She is currently the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. • In This I Would Kill For, Natalie finds herself reluctantly embroiled in a custody dispute where it becomes clear the mother’s claims of child sexual abuse have some basis in fact—but was the abuse at the hands of the ex-husband, or someone else? • In Medea's Curse, which sold over 5k copies across ANZ, readers were introduced to the dark, sexy, but troubled heroine Natalie King, a forensic psychiatrist working with women who are victims and perpetrators of violent crime against their own children. • Anne's previous novel is Two Steps Forward, a romantic comedy co-written with husband and author of The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion. • The most compelling episode in the Natalie King saga yet, This I Would Kill For is a gripping, intelligent page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seat.

Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist

This I Would Kill For

A compelling, addictive novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine told with heart, humour and insight by Anne Buist and The Rosie Project's Graeme Simsion

Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital.

Amongst unrelenting hours, hospital politics, fraught relationships and new friendships, Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system, navigating the conflicting practice of her boss, Nash, who puts his faith in pharmaceuticals, and his boss, Professor Gordon, who takes the Freudian line. Meanwhile, the new manager thinks they're all part of the problem.

Hannah and her fellow trainees are dealing with the common and the bizarre, the hilarious and the tragic, the treatable and the confronting. Every day brings new patients: Chloe, who has life-threatening anorexia nervosa; Sian, suffering postpartum psychosis and fighting to keep her baby; and Xavier, the MP whose suicide attempt has an explosive story behind it. All the while, Hannah is trying to figure out herself.

With intelligence, frankness and humour, eminent psychiatrist Anne Buist tells it like it is, while co-writer Graeme Simsion brings the light touch that made The Rosie Project an international bestseller and a respected contribution to the autism conversation.

A novel of mental health

The Glass House

A smart and funny story from the author of The Rosie Project - two misfits walk 2,000 km along the Camino to find themselves and, perhaps, each other. A novel of second chances and reinvention from Graeme Simsion, and his wife Anne Buist. Optioned for film. Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past - for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce. Looking to make a new start, each sets out alone to walk two thousand kilometres from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino (the Way) for centuries. The Camino changes you, it's said. It's a chance to find a new version of yourself, and a new beginning. But can these two very different people find themselves? Will they find each other? In this smart, funny and romantic journey, Martin's and Zoe's stories are told in alternating chapters by husband-and-wife team Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist. Two Steps Forward is a novel about renewal - physical, psychological and spiritual. It's about the challenge of walking a long distance and of working out where you are going. And it's about what you decide to keep, what you choose to leave behind and what you rediscover along the way. Optioned by Fox Searchlight for Ellen DeGeneres to produce through A Very Good Production

Internationally bestselling husband-and-wife writing team Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist are back with another smart, romantic adventure

Two Steps Onward

Zum Glück gibt es Umwege

Psychologist Isabel Harris must figure who has a troubled mind—and who has trouble on their mind—in this new standalone psychological thriller from Anne Buist

The Long Shadow

Natalie King is back: back from a stay on the psych ward. Her reluctance to live a quiet life has contributed to a severe depressive episode, and now it's time for a retreat to the country. A borrowed house on the Great Ocean Road; a low-key research job at a provincial university nearby. But Natalie and trouble have a strange mutual fascination. Her charismatic new boss Frank is friendly, even attractive. But it turns out his pregnant wife is an old enemy of Natalie's. And when Frank's tragic personal history is revealed—then reprised in the most shocking way—Natalie finds herself drawn deep into a mystery. And even deeper into danger.

Dangerous to Know

Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Women with a history of abuse, mainly. She rides a Ducati a size too big and wears a tank top a size too small. Likes men but doesn’t want to keep one. And really needs to stay on her medication. Now she’s being stalked. Anonymous notes, threats, strangers loitering outside her house. A hostile former patient? Or someone connected with a current case? Georgia Latimer—charged with killing her three children. Travis Hardy—deadbeat father of another murdered child, with a second daughter now missing. Maybe the harassment has something to do with Crown Prosecutor Liam O’Shea—drop-dead sexy, married and trouble in all kinds of ways. Natalie doesn’t know. Question is, will she find out before it’s too late? Anne Buist, herself a leading perinatal psychiatrist, has created an edge-of-the-seat mystery with a hot new heroine—backed up by a lifetime of experience with troubled minds.

Medea's Curse

'Satisfying and twisty.' --PS News The new Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist thriller from Anne Buist, the Davitt Award-shortlisted author of Medea's Curse. A harrowing and thrilling mystery. Perfect for fans of Rachel Abbott, Lisa Gardner and Lynda la Plante

A Psychological Thriller featuring Forensic Psychiatrist Natalie King

Anne Buist brings us the third instalment in the Natalie King series. Buist takes a routine psychiatric evaluation and develops it into an insightful look into the intricacies and agendas within custody battles. Dealing with the continuing themes of mental illness and family dynamics, this crime thriller is not one to miss.

A Psychological Thriller Featuring Forensic Psychiatrist Natalie King

Psychiatrist Natalie King is the expert witness in a vicious child custody battle, and the stakes are high. Getting it wrong means handing a child over to an abuser—or depriving that child of the only father she knows. Is Jenna gaming the system, or is her ex-husband Malik as dangerous as she suggests? How can Natalie best protect the child? And now that Natalie’s pregnant—and still unsure of the child’s paternity—how is a growing preoccupation with her own lost father affecting her judgment? Court dramas, cultural clashes and media backlash create an explosive mixture that forces Natalie to make life and death choices. How far will a parent go to keep—or save—their child? Anne Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. She has over twenty-five years’ clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry, and works with protective services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder. Professor Buist is married to novelist Graeme Simsion and has two children. Her novels featuring forensic psychiatrist Natalie King are Medea’s Curse, Dangerous to Know and This I Would Kill For. ‘The strength of this crime novel by Professor Anne Buist, Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, lies in its exploration of the workings of the Family Court and its experts...This book should come with a warning: you may never be able to look at your own children’s drawings in the same way again.’ Age ‘Buist, chair of mental health at the University of Melbourne, is deeply versed in the institutional, legal and emotional implications of such a case. She has crafted a skilled and multi-layered procedural, one that is more about psychological than criminal matters, although their intersection is inevitable and crucial...Buist has given us a three-dimensional heroine and richly imagined scenes of conflict in public and private. Most of these disputes are managed within legal bounds. Buist’s insights into the enmities and frustrations of bodies bound to help children are sharp.’ Australian ‘Buist gives the reader a plot that is original and believable, with more than one twist to keep the reader guessing right up to a heart-stopping climax. Her expertise in the mental health field is apparent in every paragraph...Buist is certainly setting the bar high for her next literary foray: this one has to be her best yet.’ BookMooch ‘When psychiatrist Natalie King is asked to be an expert witness in a custody battle between Jenna and Malik for their daughter Chelsea, it’s the kind of low-key thing she’s interested in now that she’s pregnant...Anne Buist, Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, lays bare the emotional carnage of these battles in this harrowing thriller.’ Readings ‘Buist uses her own professional knowledge to present a highly-charged situation of suspected child abuse, differing cultural norms in raising children and relationships between the range of professionals involved...There is highly insightful and succinctly presented description and explanation of the pitfalls in such a case, where supporting a suspected abuser may result in a dangerous custody decision. The interweaving of individuals characters, their fears and motivations and their strategies to gain the results they seek makes for suspenseful and compelling reading...A book for the adventurous reader.’ Otago Daily Times ‘[A] well-informed, fast-paced look at the dangers in the child welfare system.’ Kirkus Reviews

Roadtrip is het langverwachte vervolg op Camino van Graeme Simsion (Het Rosie Project) en Anne Buist. Drie jaar geleden liepen veertigers Zoë en Martin samen de Camino. Op zoek naar zichzelf vonden ze elkaar. Toen hield hun relatie geen stand, nu krijgen ze een tweede kans als ze Zoë’s vriendin Camille vergezellen op weg naar Rome. Camille heeft MS en wil koste wat kost de lange voettocht volbrengen. De tocht is heel anders dan de vorige. Dit keer geen vriendelijke dorpsbewoners en lekkere maaltijden. Nee, het is ruig, het plenst in de Alpen en ze logeren vaak in ongastvrije hotels waar mensen een jachtgeweer in de keuken hebben staan. Voor de everzwijnen. Gelukkig is er wel altijd wijn. In de voetsporen van talloze pelgrims worden de relaties op de proef gesteld, maar Camilles ziekteverschijnselen worden heviger. Iedereen is erop gebrand om Rome te halen. En dan slaat het noodlot toe, maar natuurlijk niet zoals je zou verwachten...

Roadtrip

Graeme C. Simsion

Een Britse ingenieur die tobt over zijn vechtscheiding en de relatie met zijn puberdochter en een Amerikaanse kunstenares die rouwt om haar overleden man ontmoeten elkaar tijdens een lange pelgrimstocht naar Santiago.

Camino van Graeme Simsion (Het Rosie Project) en Anne Buist is een humoristische feelgoodroman over vriendschap, familie, liefde en de grote uitdagingen van het leven. Camino van Graeme Simsion (Het Rosie Project) en Anne Buist is een humoristische feelgoodroman over vriendschap, familie, liefde en de grote uitdagingen van het leven. Wat maakt het leven de moeite waard? En wat is het verschil tussen het leven dat je leeft en het leven dat je kiest? De Amerikaanse kunstenares Zoë en de Engelse ontwerper Martin zijn beiden in het schilderachtige Cluny, Frankrijk. Om een nieuwe start te maken, gaan ze – alleen – de lange weg afleggen die van Cluny naar Santiago de Compostela in het noordwesten van Spanje leidt, over de beroemde Camino de Santiago, de pelgrimsroute van Sint-Jakob. Ze kijken ernaar uit om in de voetsporen van de pelgrims te stappen die hun al eeuwen voorgaan op de Camino. Er wordt gezegd dat de Camino je verandert. Hij geeft je de kans een nieuwe versie van jezelf te vinden. Maar kunnen deze twee heel verschillende mensen ook elkaar vinden?

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