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Fiction
CHRIS WOMERSLEY’S fiction and reviews have appeared in Granta, The Best Australian Stories 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012, Griffith REVIEW, Meanjin and The Age. His debut novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. His second novel, Bereft, won the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction and the Indie Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Age fiction prize and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.
Frustrated by country life and eager for adventure and excitement, eighteen-year-old Tom Button moves to the city to study. Once there, and living in a run-down apartment block called Cairo, he is befriended by an eccentric musician, Max Cheever, his beautiful wife, Sally, and their close-knit circle of painters and poets.
Tom is delighted at his new life, but he starts to suspect his charismatic older friends aren’t quite what they appear to be. As he falls increasingly under their sway, Tom enters a bohemian world of parties and gallery openings, but also of more sinister events involving murder, deception, and betrayal, not to mention one of the greatest unsolved art heists of the twentieth century: the infamous theft of Picasso’s Weeping Woman.
Set among the demimonde — where nothing and nobody is as they seem — Cairo is a novel about growing up, the perils of first love, and finding one’s true place in the world.
FICTION — OCTOBER 2013 Material: manuscript available January 2013 (app 90,000 words)
Winner, 2011 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the YearWinner, 2011 Indie Award for FictionShortlisted, 2011 Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted, 2011 The Age Fiction Book of the YearLonglisted , 2012 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world.
In the town of Flint, Quinn Walker returns to the home he fled ten years earlier when he was accused of an unspeakable crime. Aware that his father and uncle would surely hang him, Quinn hides in the hills surrounding Flint. There, he meets the orphan Sadie Fox — a mysterious young girl who seems to know more about the crime than she should.
A searing gothic novel of love, longing, and justice, Bereft is about the suffering endured by those who go to war and those who are forever left behind
FICTION — Previously published – B-format edn March 2011; original edn Sept 2010Rights sold: UK & Cw excl. ANZ (Quercus); North America (SilverOak); French (Albin Michel); German (DVA); Croatian (Fraktura); Turkish (Aspendos Yayincilik); Audio (Bolinda); film option (Emerald Productions)Material: book available (272pp, B-format pb)
Winner, 2008 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction
Lee, a petty criminal, wakes in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money, his memory hazy as to how he got there. Soon he meets Wild, a doctor who is escaping his own disastrous life, and the two men set out for the safety of the countryside.
As they flee the city, they develop an uneasy intimacy, inevitably revisiting their pasts even as they seek to evade them. Lee is haunted by a brief stint in jail; Wild is on the run from the legacy of medical malpractice. But Lee and Wild are not alone: they are pursued through the increasingly gothic landscape by the ageing gangster Josef, who must retrieve the stolen money and deal with Lee to ensure his own survival. A brilliant debut novel.
FICTION — Previously published – B-format edn Dec 2011; original edn Sept 2007Rights sold: UK & Cw excl. ANZ (Quercus); North America (SilverOak); French (Albin Michel); Vietnamese (Le Chi Culture & Communications); Audio (Bolinda)Material: book available (288pp, B-format pb)
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Chris Womersley Cairo
Chris Womersley Bereft
Chris Womersley The Low Road
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Praise for Chris Womersley’s Bereft
Praise for Chris Womersley’s The Low Road
‘Bereft is a bleak and brilliant performance that confirms [Womersley] as one of the unrepentantly daring and original talents in the landscape of Australian fiction.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘Beautifully written and conceived, Bereft pushes at the borders of literary fiction and thriller, spinning a horrific incident in one man’s life into a page-turning reflection on grief and guilt, on the nature of storytelling and its inevitable joys and shortcomings, on what we have to believe in order to survive.’ — The Age
‘From the hook of its first sentence, Bereft is a hard book to put down … Womersley combines really beautiful and eloquent writing with a compelling story, and Bereft has a literary sensibility flavoured with the drama of a mystery … [It] will surely deliver an excellent Australian writer to a much wider audience.’ — The Sunday Telegraph
‘Just once in a while a thriller comes along that is so good it takes your breath away. Australian journalist Womersley’s second novel does that in a heartbeat … It’s a thriller worthy of Hitchcock: taut, poignant and unexpected.’ — Daily Mail (UK)
‘The descriptions of the Australian bush, the physicality of its earth and wildlife, have a precise and transporting intensity. But the real brilliance of the book lies in the character of Quinn … This is a distinguishable novel.’ — The Independent (UK)
‘[Womersley] succeeds, most of all, in creating small everyday moments stamped with truth … he offers the credibility and insight we seek in fiction.’ — Time Out London
‘This is a haunting, perturbing novel which grabs the reader and doesn’t let go after the last page has been turned.’ — Irish Examiner
‘Bereft is a beautiful novel … Chris Womersley writes with such compelling power it is barely possible to put the book down.’ — Debra Adelaide
‘Bereft is a dark brooding story of war, family secrets and a man’s search for justice. Chris Womersley knows how to shine light into the darkest corners of rural Australia.’ — Michael Robotham
‘As unflinching as Cormac McCarthy and as perverse as Ian McEwan, The Low Road blazes, too, with the lyricism of T.C. Boyle. It is a surprising and stunning debut.’
— Australian Financial Review Magazine (Book of the Year 2007)
‘On the cover of this book are the usual claims re. brilliant first novel, gripping, hypnotic, thrilling, and so on. This time you can believe every word. In some ways it’s a merciless read, taking you by the throat and
not letting go for a minute … Beyond all the enviable descriptions, the truly original images, the compelling pace of the sentences themselves, is the overall powerful ambivalence found in reading experiences like this,
where your desire to learn about the sordid failings and shocking crimes of the characters is matched by your fear of learning something dark and disturbing about yourself.’ — Australian Literary Review
‘The Low Road is richly and powerfully written. It is also an almost unbearably intense, tragic and unrelentingly dark story of addiction, regret, despair and failed dreams that left this reader
mightily impressed.’ — Australian Bookseller & Publisher ****
‘Womersley’s taut, almost monosyllabic prose creates a relentless momentum as it plunges into a black dreamscape with echoes of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Samuel Beckett, Horace McCoy,
Georges Simenon and Philip K. Dick … Maybe it is Cormac McCarthy of whom the reader is so naggingly reminded. It’s a big call, but Womersley’s mastery of rhythm and image is, like the crusty American’s, able to sustain complexity at the level of a sentence and a paragraph while holding the structures of his novel together …
This is writing you often stop to read aloud.’ — The Australian
‘It is difficult to believe that The Low Road is a first novel. It has the controlled pace of an experienced hand … Womersley’s language is polished and assured, each word precisely chosen,
and every image finely constructed.’ — The Age
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Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript
‘As disturbing as they are, there are stories that demand to be written. This is such a story, delivered by a writer of remarkable talent. Long after reading Sufficient Grace you will not forget it, and will be left with wanting more from Amy Espeseth.’ — Tony Birch
‘A novel of heart-rending beauty. Seldom have grace and nature, spirit and flesh, spoken to each other so wonderfully.’ — Michael McGirr
Ruth and her cousin Naomi live in rural Wisconsin, part of an isolated religious community. The girls’ lives are ruled by the rhythms of nature — the harsh winters, the hunting seasons, the harvesting of crops — and by their families’ beliefs. Beneath the surface of this closed, frozen world, hidden dangers lurk.
Then Ruth learns that Naomi harbours a terrible secret. She searches for solace in the mysteries of the natural world: broken fawns, migrating birds, and the strange fish deep beneath the ice. Can the girls’ prayers for deliverance be answered?
Sufficient Grace is a story of lost innocence and the unfailing bond between two young women. It is at once devastating and beautiful, and ultimately transcendent.
Sufficient GraceAmy Espeseth
FICTIONSEPTEMBER 2012Material: book available (336pp, B+ format pb)
Amy Espeseth
Trouble Telling the Weather
Winner, 2012 Scribe Fiction Prize
Trouble Telling the Weather is a novel that unfolds through the voices of rural folk sharing a hash present and a difficult past in Siren, Wisconsin. There’s Charlie and Scott Carpenter, a small-town couple with big-city problems. Then there’s Charlie’s dad, Pete Kowalski, an ex-cop whose retirement hopes of fishing and hunting might be sunk by a horrible mistake. Charlie’s mom, Trudie, can’t seem to move forward, away from the faith of her family; Reverend Vern Skogen, her brother, won’t — or can’t — let her escape. The Downwinds, Sheila and her son Adam, are also stuck: trapped by poverty, prejudice, and misplaced trust. Lavonne Lillesand, Sheila’s closest confidante, proves that some friends are worse than enemies. And there’s no faith, trust, or even love wasted inside Myron Snowbank’s family either, as his daughter Myrna well knows.
The pastoral beauty of the town is undermined by racial, economic, and social inequalities that refuse to remain buried beneath the snow. The modern world has come, and reconciling dreams, hopes, memories, and nightmare realities is an almost impossible task for the people of Siren.
FICTIONAUGUST 2013Material: manuscript available (app 60,000 words)
AMY ESPESETH lives in Melbourne, having immigrated to Australia in the late 1990s. A writer, publisher, and academic, she is the recipient of the Felix Meyer Scholarship in Literature, the 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript, the 2010 QUT Postgraduate Creative Writing Prize, and the 2012 CAL/Scribe Fiction Prize. Her fiction has appeared in various journals including Wet Ink, antithesis, and The Death Mook.
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On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide’s Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political.
If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence. For Constable Helen Lord, it is an opportunity to make her mark in a male-dominated world where she is patronised as a novelty. For Detective Joe Sable, the investigation forces a reassessment of his indifference to his Jewish heritage. Simmering tensions are uncovered among secretive, local Nazi sympathisers, and a psychopathic, fascist usurper makes his move.
The Holiday Murders explores a little known and sometimes violent corner of Australian history, and finds oddly modern echoes in its paranoia, xenophobia, and ugly fervour.
The Holiday MurdersRobert Gott
FICTIONFEBRUARY 2013Material: manuscript available (app 85,000 words)
ROBERT GOTT was born in the small Queensland town of Maryborough in 1957, and now lives in Melbourne. He has published many books for children, and is also the creator of the newspaper cartoon The Adventures of Naked Man. He is also the author of the William Power trilogy of crime-caper novels set in 1940s’ Australia: Good Murder, A Thing of Blood, and Amongst the Dead.
Lesley Jørgensen
Cat & Fiddle
Winner, 2011 Scribe Fiction Prize
A delightfully comic and wry multicultural saga in the vein of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand.
Cat & Fiddle centres on two British families, the Muslim Chaudrys and the landowning Bournes, whose lives become intertwined at the country estate of Bourne Abbey in rural Wiltshire. Mrs Begum’s main concern is to marry off her daughters, whose chances of good matches seem to be dwindling by the day. Meanwhile, her son, Tariq, a former fundamentalist, is wrestling with his own problems. Her husband, Dr Chaudry, is of no help, preoccupied as he is with his work advising Henry Bourne on the restoration of Bourne Abbey to its former glory.
The Bourne family dynamics are also messy. Eldest son and barrister Richard, who earlier ceded his inheritance, is feeling increasingly dissatisfied with London life, and more and more connected to the family home. And Henry’s wife, Thea, seems to be having a mid-life crisis.
This is a charming comic novel of contemporary life.
FICTIONFEBRUARY 2013Material: manuscript available (app 120,000 words)
LESLEY JØRGENSEN trained as a registered nurse while also completing simultaneous arts and law degrees, and has worked as a medical-negligence lawyer in Australia and England. While in England, she married into a Muslim Anglo–Bangladeshi family, and then returned with her husband to live in Australia. Cat & Fiddle is her first novel.
CATE KENNEDY is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2011.
From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices, and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. In ‘Laminex and Mirrors’, a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor’s orders. In ‘Cross-Country’, a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex’s new life. And in ‘Ashes’, a son accompanies his mother on a journey to scatter his father’s remains, while lifelong resentments simmer in the background. Cate Kennedy’s poignant short stories find the beauty and tragedy in illness and mortality, life and love.
FICTIONOCTOBER 2012Material: book available (288pp, B-format pb)
‘Stunning … Each story picks you up, takes you out of your life and smack bang into the middle of another place and time where the troubles and joys are laid bare and stripped back to their essence with incredibly spare and gifted writing. This collection is a joy to read.’ — The Age
In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her stories are populated by people at tipping points in their lives – moments that find them poised between a familiar past and an unfamiliar future. A cancer sufferer boards a plane with three kilos of cocaine in her luggage; a neglected wife plans an unsavoury revenge on her boorish husband; a married couple realise their too-tight wedding rings may symbolise wider aspects of their relationship. Heartbreaking, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures, and the coincidences that drive our lives.
FICTIONPreviously published – B-format edn October 2012; original edn September 2006Rights sold: North America (Grove Atlantic); UK & Cw, excl ANZ (Atlantic Books)Material: book available (196pp, B-format pb)
Winner, People’s Choice Award, 2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
‘Cate Kennedy is a brilliant storyteller. She possesses the power to find in ordinary lives their poetic and mythic dimensions and to remind us that vernacular speech and everyday experiences betoken the tender mysteries that lie beneath family life.’ — Gail Jones
Once, Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle age — although they’ve gone about it in very different ways. The only thing they have in common these days is their fifteen-year-old daughter, Sophie.
When Rich decides to take Sophie, whom he hardly knows, on a trek into the Tasmanian wilderness, his overconfidence and her growing disillusion with him set off a chain of events that no one could have predicted. Instead of respect, Rich finds antagonism in his relationship with Sophie; and in the vast landscape he once felt an affinity with, he encounters nothing but disorientation and fear.
Ultimately, all three characters will learn that if they are to survive, each must traverse not only the secret territories that lie between them but also those within themselves.
FICTIONPreviously published – B-format edn Aug 2010; original tpb edn Sept 2009Rights sold: North America (Grove Atlantic); UK & Cw, excl ANZ (Atlantic Books); ANZ & North America audio (Bolinda Audio); Complex Chinese (Morning Star) Material: book available (352pp, B-format pb)
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Cate Kennedy Like a House on Fire
Cate Kennedy The World Beneath
Cate Kennedy Dark Roots
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Praise for Cate Kennedy’s Dark Roots
Praise for Cate Kennedy’s The World Beneath
‘Stunning … Each story picks you up, takes you out of your life and smack bang into the middle of another place and time where the troubles and joys are laid bare and stripped back to their essence with incredibly spare and gifted writing.
This collection is a joy to read.’ — The Sunday Age
‘This warm and tender collection is by turns funny, wise and achingly sad, the stories tracing the fault lines between the inner life, riddled with hopes and anxieties, and the constraints of the outer world in which we are forced to act.
The power of the collection lies in Kennedy’s ability to capture the precise psychological moment of this crossover, when the pressure of an inner world explodes into action, often altering a life forever.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘Cate Kennedy’s story collection Dark Roots is a revelation. Here’s a writer who can be dark, moody, funny and provocative, often in the same story. With breathtaking efficiency, she gets right into her character’s skin,
sets up the locale and action and lets it unfold seamlessly, in unexpected ways.’ — The Weekend Australian
‘Although her subject matter is vastly different from Hemingway’s bullfighters and boozers, Kennedy’s narrative restraint has echoes of his work and is perfect for the short-story form …
radiant with startling language and wickedly perverse plots.’ — The Age
‘Australia new and old, urban and rural is the subject of Cate Kennedy’s compassionate, award-winning first collection … These are precisely observed pieces, deserving of a wide audience.’ — The Guardian
‘Note-perfect, ironic, mischievous stories by a prize-winning Australian. Each is — like the greatest short stories — a whole world rendered into a bouillon cube.’ — The Times
‘Kennedy’s milieu tends to be contemporary Australia, but the strength, subtlety and poetic precision of her writing, coupled with her deep connection to the inner lives of her characters, mean that geography
is both crucial and irrelevant; the worlds she creates are universal, seamless … The best of these stories linger long after reading them, holding up mirrors to the world.’ — The Irish News
‘An accomplished set of stories that will be read for a long time to come.’ — The Sunday Herald, Scotland
‘Written in precise and singing prose, Cate Kennedy’s powerful first novel begins with three unlikeable characters and blos-soms into a work of mythic depth, lyrical description and gripping suspense.’ — Adelaide Advertiser
‘Vivid and robust realism shading occasionally into satire, full of humour and drama, told through different and conflicting points of view ... an unsentimental, beady-eyed look at contemporary Australian middle age
and its treatment of its children.’ — Australian Literary Review
‘The World Beneath displays all the hallmarks of the short-story writer’s art; acute observation and concise execution.’ — The Courier Mail
‘Cate Kennedy, celebrated for her short fiction, this year began her long-distance career with The World Beneath. To my mind, she enters the stadium a hundred metres in front of the next novice and with the best time
for many years.’ — Peter Temple, The Age
‘The World Beneath is an intelligent, equivocal, unusual and often amusing novel, one that comprehends the comfort of stereo-types and pushes beyond them.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘Cate Kennedy manages to address serious subjects with an entertaining and sometimes humorous light touch. But she doesn’t shy away from the big questions or neglect to offer hope when there seems to be none. This is what makes her writ-
ing so deeply attractive, transformative and satisfying.’ — The Big Issue ★★★★★
‘The World Beneath is a rare combination of a pacy, gripping plot with very real characters and spare, elegant writing. Beautifully observed, Kennedy’s novel is painfully honest about the ways in which
family members hurt — and heal — each other.’ — Who ★★★★
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‘A born storyteller.’ — Cate Kennedy
‘Shirm is able to reveal in a handful of words and a patchwork of images, deep emotional truths … Shirm homes in on emotional and psychological complexities with astonishing regularity.’ — The Canberra Times
When Hazel first begins an affair with Greg, a high-profile Sydney lawyer, falling in love seems easy. However, once they move from Sydney to Evans Head, a small fishing village on the north coast of New South Wales, Hazel becomes increasingly isolated and alienated from Greg, and comes face to face with certain memories that she’s been avoiding. Meanwhile, she’s also learning things about Greg’s early life that don’t entirely add up. Who is Greg really? And is Hazel safe with him?
At once a mystery and an exploration of the importance of memory to our identities, The Forgetting Curve uses shifting perspectives so that the reader is never quite sure which of its characters to believe. The effect is a thought-provoking and unsettling book that keeps the reader guessing about where the truth really lies. At its core, The Forgetting Curve questions what happens to people who aren’t honest with themselves about the past.
The Forgetting CurveGretchen Shirm
FICTIONMARCH 2013Material: manuscript available (app 85,000 words)
GRETCHEN SHIRM’S first book of interwoven short stories, Having Cried Wolf, published in 2010, resulted in her being named as one of the 2011 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists. Having Cried Wolf was also shortlisted for the UTS/Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and highly commended in the Dobbie Award. Her short stories have been published in Southerly, Best Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings, UTS Writers’ Anthology and broadcast on ABC Radio National. She lives in Sydney where she works as a lawyer.
Georgia BlainIn this haunting collection of short stories, Georgia Blain explores human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires, and our shortcomings. The men in these tales frequently linger at the edges — their longings and failures exerting a subterranean pull on the women in their lives. In ‘The Secret Lives of Men’, a woman revisits her hometown and learns a long-held secret about her first boyfriend. In ‘Bad Dog Park’, a man’s devotion to his dog ultimately forces him to confront his true hopes and fears. And in ‘The Other Side of the River’, we watch as a woman makes a snap decision about her life’s future direction, with devastating consequences for her family. Written in Blain’s trademark unadorned yet powerful prose, these stories resonate long after they are finished. The Secret Lives of Men is an exceptional collection by one of Australia’s leading writers.
THE SECRET LIVES OF MENFICTIONMAY 2013Material: manuscript available (app 58,000 words)
GEORGIA BLAIN has written a number of novels for adults, including the bestselling Closed for Winter, which was made into a feature film. She was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists and has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Nita B Kibble Award. Her most recent novels include Too Close to Home and Darkwater, her first young adult book.
Infidelity, school refusal, post-natal depression, cancer: Esther is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the woes of the middle class. Meanwhile, she is no longer talking to her own sister, and her mother has plans to end her life without her children knowing.
In a novel that celebrates the shimmering beauty of what it is to be alive, alongside the darker despairs we all face, How to Build a Fire centres around a single day in Esther’s life — a day in which she wants to let herself fall in love again despite knowing how incendiary love can be.
The Secret Lives of Men
How to Build a Fire
HOW TO BUILD A FIREFICTIONJULY 2014Material: manuscript available December 2013 (app, 60,000 words)
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How far would you go for the one you love?
It’s a sweltering summer’s day, and Anja Aropalo is on her way home with two errands in mind: first, to water the roses, and then to commit suicide. She is slowly losing her husband to Alzheimer’s disease, and she has made him a terrible promise — one she’s not sure she can keep.
For Anja’s niece, Mari, death is a teenage fantasy of grieving family and eternal beauty, an escape from the dullness of her life. But the adventure she longs for seems to come within reach when she begins a relationship with her charismatic teacher, Julian. His six-year-old daughter, Anni, is a witness to their blossoming affair, observing the lies and truths of those around her as she tries to discover what it is to be an adult.
The Limit draws together these four people, all struggling to work out where their boundaries lie. In vivid, incandescent prose, Riikka Pulkkinen reveals how our limits can show us who we really are.
The LimitRiikka Pulkkinen translated by Lola Rogers
TRANSLATED FICTIONAPRIL 2013Rights held: World Eng languageMaterial: manuscript available (app 82,000 words)
RIIKKA PULKKINEN was born in 1980 and studied literature and philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of True, which was published in 17 countries and shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize for Literature 2010. The Limit, her debut novel, was a bestseller in Finland and the Netherlands, and won the Kaarle and Laila Hirvisaari prizes.
Fists and Lace lends fictional voice to a little-known episode from Brazil’s recent history: the collaboration of a number of its diplomats with the military dictatorship that followed the coup in 1964 and lasted until 1985.
What at first appears to be a novel of manners set to the soundtrack and trappings of a specific generation quickly reveals itself to be a thriller centred upon the meticulous but unrelenting investigation by a younger colleague of his enigmatic ex-mentor.
Telles Ribeiro explores his fictional diplomat’s role in Operation Condor, as well the collusion between various secret services of the Southern Cone with that of the United States, when democratic regimes were being reduced to so many houses of cards, tumbling like dominoes; and exiles were watched, when not sequestered, tortured and executed, with the help of a diplomatic corps posted in missions throughout the region.
The themes of the novel have significant contemporary political relevance, with a current scrutiny of torture and human-rights abuses in South America specifically, and an increased international political awareness of them.
Fists and LaceEdgard Telles Ribeirotranslated by Kim Hastings
TRANSLATED FICTIONMARCH 2014Rights held: World Eng languageMaterial: Sample translation available. Complete manuscript (app 120,000 words) available Aug 2013
EDGARD TELLES RIBEIRO is a Brazilian diplomat and former film-maker, and a widely published multi-award-winning writer. A previous novel, One-Eyed Man, won the Brazilian Academy of Letters Prize, and his prize-winning short stories have won him comparisons to Chekhov, as well as to Machado de Assis. Fists and Lace is his tenth book and seventh novel.
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‘Peggy Frew shows real talent in her debut novel, which is sophisticated and extremely well written … Readers of all ages will enjoy Frew’s engaging prose.’ — Bookseller & Publisher
Bonnie has given up her life as a musician to become a stay-at-home mum. She tells herself she has no regrets, but sometimes the isolation and the relentless demands of three small children threaten to swamp the love between Bonnie and her partner, Pete.
Then an old mate of Pete’s arrives. Doug is eccentric and intrusive, and his unsettling presence disrupts Bonnie’s world further. Yet as the cracks really start to show in the life that Bonnie and Pete have built together, it seems the dangers might also come from within.
House of Sticks is a revealing portrait of contemporary family life, its joys and compromises, and how quickly things can unravel. It’s about trying to stay connected in our disconnected society; a story of identity and community, loyalty and love.
House of SticksPeggy Frew
FICTIONPreviously published – SEPT 2011Material: book available (288pp, trade pb)
PEGGY FREW’S debut novel, House of Sticks, won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Her story ‘Home Visit’ won The Age short story competition in 2008. She has been published in New Australian Stories 2, Kill Your Darlings, and Meanjin. Peggy is also a member of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Melbourne band Art of Fighting.
Cédric Banneltranslated by Polly McLean
The Mandrake File
‘The Mandrake File is the first of this French author’s thrillers to be translated into English, and Polly McLean’s winning translation does it proud.’ — The Age
In a Kabul ravaged by violence and corruption, Murder Squad boss Osama Kandar still believes in integrity, a code of honour, and loyalty to old friends. But the apparent suicide of a businessman called Wali Wadi changes everything. As Kandar’s routine investigation starts to suggest murder, the Minister for Security attempts to foil his every move, motivating him even more to solve the alleged crime.
Meanwhile, a Swiss-based secret organisation known as The Entity is doing everything in its power to terminate Kandar’s investigation, even if it means putting an end to his life and those of innocent civilians. Wali Wadi’s murderer must not be found, whatever the cost.
At the same time, Entity analyst Nick Snee is looking for a man named Leonard Mandrake, who has information that The Entity is desperate for. When Snee discovers that Mandrake’s information is related to Wali Wadi’s death, he joins forces with Kandar to find out what everybody is after. What they discover is far more important than either could have possibly imagined.
TRANSLATED FICTION/ POLITICAL THRILLERPreviously published – JULY 2012Rights held: UK & Cwlth, English language translationMaterial: book available (384pp, trade pb)
CÉDRIC BANNEL began his career as a French foreign diplomat and as a senior public official working on financial sanctions against Iraq. He has gone on to found and head one of France’s biggest Internet companies.
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‘The tenderness and spirit of the characters make this a moving read. Verdict: Sustaining, provocative family study.’ — Courier Mail
At forty-nine, Celeste has long renounced the religion of her childhood. Yet she finds herself reluctantly accompanying her mother and sister to a pilgrimage site in Romania, where her devout mother seeks a miracle — a cure for her terminal illness.
As Celeste tries to come to terms with her mother’s impending decline, she realises she has to confront the unspoken conflicts buried in the foundations of her family. Away from her husband, she must also face her fear of what the future holds for them both.
Full of compassion, warmth, and grace, Pilgrimage is a powerful meditation on how our personal histories haunt us, and an affirmation of the hope and sustenance that may be found in our imperfect families.
PilgrimageJacinta Halloran
FICTIONPreviously published – AUG 2012Material: book available (336pp, B+ format pb)
JACINTA HALLORAN lives in Melbourne, where she works as a GP. She has written on medical science for The Sunday Age, and her short stories have been published in New Australian Stories 2 and The Pen and the Stethoscope. Her first novel, Dissection, was published by Scribe in 2008.
Melanie Joosten
Berlin Syndrome
Winner, 2012 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Winner, 2012 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers
‘A psychological thriller of the highest order, this is a strong first showing. More, please.’ — Sunday Herald Sun
2006, Berlin. The once-divided city still holds its share of secrets.
One afternoon, near the tourist trap of Checkpoint Charlie, Clare meets Andi. There is an instant attraction, and when Andi invites her to stay, Clare thinks she may finally have found somewhere to call home.
But as the days pass and the walls of Andi’s apartment close in, Clare begins to wonder if it’s really love that Andi is searching for … or something else altogether.
Berlin Syndrome is a closely observed and gripping psychological thriller that shifts between Andi’s and Clare’s perspectives, revealing the power of obsession, the fluidity of truth, and the kaleidoscopic nature of human relationships. A startling debut from a talented new writer.
FICTIONPreviously published – JULY 2011Rights Sold: Film option (Aquarius Films)Material: book available (256pp, trade pb)
MELANIE JOOSTEN was born in 1981, and lives and works in Melbourne. She has an honours degree in creative arts and a Master of Arts (editing) from the University of Melbourne.
Non-Fiction
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BUSINESS/ECONOMICSNOVEMBER 2012Rights sold: Simplified Chinese (Beijing Tianlue Books)Material: book available (336pp, B+ format pb)
‘A rich, provocative, imaginative and rigorous guide to thinking about the future.’ — Peter Schwarz, futurist
The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead.
Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? Perhaps a greater social consciousness and community-based living will take over — or, conversely, the competition for limited resources may result in everyone fighting for themselves.
Drawing on these four possible futures, Richard Watson and Oliver Freeman invite us to critically examine the risks and opportunities to come. They discuss the key factors, trends, critical uncertainties, and wildcards that will shape the future, guiding us to a greater awareness of long-term problems and possible solutions — and empowering us not only to adapt to what might happen, but also to shape our future and to generate change.
It’s impossible to know for certain what the future holds, but we can remove some of its surprises by engaging in a meaningful debate about the choices we face now. This book shows us how.
Richard Watson & Oliver Freeman
Futurevisionscenarios for the world in 2040
RICHARD WATSON is the publisher of What’s Next, a quarterly report on global trends, and works with various governments, corporations, and non-profit organisations on scenario-planning projects. He is the author of the bestselling Future Files, which has been translated into 14 languages.
OLIVER FREEMAN has been a publisher for more than 40 years. He worked for McGraw-Hill and Pearson Longman before setting up Prospect Media, Richmond Publishing, and Third Millennium Information. He is the co-founder of eBooks.com, leagle.com, and homepageDAILY.com.
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On a calm afternoon in March 2011, a force-nine earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan. Forty minutes later, a 21-metre tsunami crashed onto the coast of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures. Towns collapsed, villages were destroyed, and 16,000 people were swept away. The earthquake and tsunami also resulted in another terrifying calamity — explosions and meltdowns at a nuclear plant near the city of Fukushima.
Fallout from Fukushima tells the story of Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, and the attempts to suppress, downplay, and obscure its consequences. Former diplomat Richard Broinowski travelled into the irradiated zone to speak to those affected and to find out why authorities delayed warning the public about the severity of the radiation. He reveals the extent of the disaster’s consequences: the ruinous compensation claims faced by electricity supplier TEPCO; the complete shutdown of Japan’s nuclear reactors; and the psychological impact on those who, unable to return to their farms and villages, may become permanent nuclear refugees.
In this illuminating account, Broinowski examines what the Fukushima disaster will mean for the international nuclear industry. With reference to Tokyo, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl, he explores why some countries are abandoning nuclear power, while others continue to put their faith in this dangerous technology.
Fallout from FukushimaRichard Broinowski
CURRENT AFFAIRS/ENVIRONMENTOCTOBER 2012Material: book available (276pp, B+ format pb)
RICHARD BROINOWSKI is a former Australian diplomat and ambassador. He became general manager of Radio Australia in 1990 and, on his retirement in 1997, became an adjunct professor, first at the University of Canberra and then at the University of Sydney. His previous book, Fact or Fission: the truth about Australia’s nuclear ambitions was also published by Scribe.
Ken Crispin
The Chamberlain Casethe legal saga that transfixed the nation
A baby disappears from a tent near Uluru in the sandy desert of central Australia. The Aboriginal trackers say she has been taken by a dingo. But amidst a melange of sinister rumours, suspicion falls on the parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. There are no eyewitnesses, no body, no confession, no motive — and, apparently, credible evidence of their innocence. Yet the mother is convicted of murder; her husband, of concealing her crime.
The case captures the public imagination like no other in Australia’s history, and virtually divides the nation. Two appeals fail, and Lindy spends more than three years in prison before being released pending a royal commission. The convictions are quashed, but more than three decades pass before there is a finding that little Azaria was actually taken by a dingo.
Ken Crispin, QC, appeared for the Chamberlains at the royal commission. In The Chamberlain Case, he provides an authoritative account of this saga, against a backdrop of Aboriginal spirituality and the Chamberlains’ own religious beliefs. He examines the case against them at the trial, and the evidence that subsequently emerged — blood, dingoes, clothing, tracks — and he asks disturbing questions. Why were so many people convinced they were guilty? How could our legal system have failed? And could any of us fall victim to a similar miscarriage of justice?
TRUE CRIME / LAW & JUSTICESEPTEMBER 2012Material: book available (360pp, B+ format pb)
KEN CRISPIN began practice as a Sydney barrister in 1973, became a Queen’s Counsel in 1988, and was appointed DPP for the Australian Capital Territory in 1991, chairman of the Bar Association in 1996, a Supreme Court judge in 1997, and president of the ACT Court of Appeal in 2001. In his spare time, Dr Crispin has completed a PhD in ethics, and written three books, including The Quest for Justice (also published by Scribe), and numerous articles on law and ethics.
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In the tradition of narrative non-fiction by such authors as Rebecca Solnit and James Hamilton-Paterson, Rebecca Giggs argues that the role of whales in Australia’s cultural imagination may no longer be matched by the reality of the creatures themselves.
Whales loom large in the world’s environmental imagination. While no nation claims the whale as a native species, the Australian people are particularly inclined to see whales as symbolic animals. From the nation’s history of harpooning to today’s eco-tourism operators, the story of whales in Australia is a redemptive one.
But whales are changing. Even as the international community draws ever closer to a global ban on factory whaling, whales are surfacing with more disturbing news from the deeps. Whale bodies are riddled with man-made toxins; their stomachs are full of plastic. Distemper and infertility are on the rise in some whale populations.
In After the Whales, Rebecca Giggs asks what it would mean to live in a world devoid of such a creature. In her thought-provoking and timely book, she examines just how captive our ideas of animals are.
After the WhalesRebecca Giggs
ENVIRONMENTAL ESSAYJULY 2013Material: manuscript available February 2013 (app 40,000 words)
REBECCA GIGGS is an essayist and fiction writer whose work focuses on environmental themes. She grew up in Western Australia and now lives in Sydney. Her work has been published widely, including in Meanjin, Overland, Review of Australian Fiction, The Lifted Brow, and Best Australian Stories.
Magnus Lintontranslated by John Eason
Cocaínaa book on those who make it
A unique insight into the cocaine industry and what hangs off it.
When the world’s greatest ‘King of Cocaine’, Pablo Escobar, was killed in 1993 in a joint military operation undertaken by the CIA, the Colombian military, and Escobar’s enemies, the entire world celebrated the event, thinking that cocaine production would fall rapidly. But 20 years later, Colombia produces five times as much cocaine as it did during the Escobar era, and consumption worldwide is on the rise.
How has this come to pass? Based on three years of research and more than 100 interviews, Cocaína tackles these questions by following coca growers, drug traffickers, refugees, hit men, anti-drug police, cocaine processors, politicians, intellectuals, DEA directors, cocaine tourists, guerrilla fighters, death squads, and the many victims of violence.
Cocaína is an exceptional book with a rare political edge. It provides a unique insight into drug production, drug corruption, and drug-related misery, as well as the failed war on drugs and the future of drug consumption.
CURRENT AFFAIRS/TRUE CRIMEMAY 2013Rights held: World EnglishMaterial: manuscript available December 2012 (app 36,000 words)
MAGNUS LINTON is a Swedish writer and reporter, and lives in Stockholm and Bogotá. Cocaína was first published in Swedish in 2010 and was nominated for the Best English Non-fiction Book of the Year in the 2010 August Prize, Sweden’s most important literary prize.
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In the tradition of memoirs such as Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club and Blake Morrison’s And When Did You Last See Your Father?
My father was a liar, a grifter, a con man, a thief. He was husband to a woman who wasn’t my mother, and a closeted gay man. He was a solider, a spy, and possibly a war hero. He traded millions on the stock market and lost everything our family had. He died destitute at sixty-four, and I knew almost none of these things while he was alive.
So begins Elmo Keep’s riveting memoir in which she delves into a knotted family history to try to find the father she thought she knew. After his death, Keep learnt that her father had kept many secrets from their family and had, in essence, lived a double life. The Two Fathers takes her back in time to investigate her father’s military records from the Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam, to find his former male lover, and to trawl the archives of one of Australia’s most famous business empires, where her father worked for a while, in order to understand the man she didn’t know. Along the way, Keep comes to learn much more about him and the genetic legacies he left to her.
A compelling, remarkable and superbly written memoir of a charismatic yet unreliable man, and the child who can never be sure of who she really is.
The Two FathersElmo Keep
MEMOIRJULY 2014Material: manuscript available September 2013 (app 60,000 words)
ELMO KEEP is a writer and broadcaster whose work has been widely published, including in The Age, The Global Mail, The Rumpus, The Awl, Men’s Style and Meanjin. She was a writer/producer on three series of ABC TV’s Hungry Beast.
Luke Ryan
You’re Only as Sick as You Feel
A heartwarming, comic memoir about dealing with serious illness
In late 2007, at the age of twenty-two, Luke Ryan discovered that he had cancer. For the second time. First at eleven, second at twenty-two; he is eyeing off thirty-three warily. Still, it’s fair to say that having to move across Australia and back into the family home to undertake an eight-month regimen of chemotherapy and radiotherapy was not how he planned to spend his year. Obviously there was only one thing for it: stand-up comedy.
Growing out of his 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, ‘Luke’s Got Cancer’, You’re Only As Sick As You Feel is a warm-hearted and hilarious collection of stories about a life marked by cancer, but not defined by it. These are stories of growing up, getting sick, getting better, getting sick again, dating while bald, drinking while on chemo, and providing sperm samples for freezing. But above all, it’s a book about family and the ties that bind, and the strange but unbreakable unit that remains when everything else solid has fallen apart.
MEMOIR/COMEDYJULY 2013Material: manuscript available November 2012 (app 60,000 words)
LUKE RYAN is a 27-year-old Melbourne-based freelance writer and comedian. He has written for a number of publications, including The Vine, The Age, Smith Journal, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, and many more, and performs with a sketch comedy outfit called the Lords of Luxury. He also has a law degree, but would rather physically explode than use it.
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A riveting account of a day that stopped a nation — and a community
The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people — wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia’s history. Ten of those people died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne’s outskirts. It was a beautiful place, which its residents had long treasured and loved. By the evening of 7 February 2009, it looked like a battlefield.
Prize-winning historian Peter Stanley tells the dramatic stories of this small town on that one terrifying evening — of epic fights to save houses, of escapes, and of deaths. But Black Saturday at Steels Creek also tells the tale of a community — of people’s attachments to the valley and to each other — and how, over the weeks and years that followed, they lived with the aftermath of the fire.
Black Saturday at Steels Creek Peter Stanley
CURRENT AFFAIRS/HISTORYAPRIL 2013Material: manuscript available (app 64,000 words)
PETER STANLEY heads the National Museum of Australia’s Research Centre. He has published 25 books, mainly in Australian military social history, such as Tarakan, Quinn’s Post, and Men of Mont St Quentin (also published by Scribe). In 2011, he jointly won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History for his 2010 Bad Characters: sex, crime, mutiny, murder and the Australian Imperial Force. An adjunct professor in the School of History at the Australian National University, he wrote Black Saturday at Steels Creek in partnership with its Centre for Environmental History, and with the people of Steels Creek.
Michael Corballis
Pieces of Mind 21 short walks around the human brain
‘A small but attractively formed way to awake your inner scientist.’ — NZ Listener
The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe. Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that we humans enjoy. In this book, Michael Corballis introduces us to what we’ve learned about the intricacies of the human brain over the last 50 years.
Leading us through behavioural experiments and neuroscience, cognitive theory, and Darwinian evolution with his trademark wit and wisdom, Corballis punctures a few hot-air balloons (‘You only use 10 per cent of your brain!’ ‘Unleash the creativity of your right brain!’) and explains just what we know — and don’t know — about our own minds. From language to standing upright, composing music to bullshitting, he covers some of the fascinating activities and capabilities that go towards making us human.
At one time or another, we’ve all wished that we could get inside someone else’s head. Here’s how.
POPULAR SCIENCE/ POPULAR PSYCHOLOGYPreviously published – JUNE 2012Rights Sold: World English ex ANZ (Duckworth), Greek (Aiora Press), Korean (Banni), Serbian (Karpos)Material: book available (112pp, pb)
MICHAEL CORBALLIS is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Auckland. An outstanding science communicator, he is the author of From Hand to Mouth: the origins of language (2003) and, most recently, The Recursive Mind: the origins of human language, thought, and civilization (2011).
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‘A mesmerising book … Part spy story and part love story, The Wolf and the Watchman is beautifully written, deeply moving, and compulsively readable.’ — David Finkel, author of The Good Soldiers
Growing up, Scott Johnson always suspected that his dad was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA’s most trusted officers. And, as Scott came to realise, his father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate from the truth.
When an adult Scott embarked on a career as a war correspondent, he found himself returning to many of the troubled countries of his youth. In the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid the cold urbanity of Yugoslavia, and down the mysterious alleys of Mexico City, he came face to face with his father’s murky past — and his own complicity in it.
The Wolf and the Watchman is a provocative, meditative reckoning on truth, deception, and manipulation, and the fidelities we owe to ourselves and to our families. It is also an intensely personal story of a bond between father and son that endured in the shadow of one of the world’s most secretive and unforgiving institutions.
The Wolf and the Watchman a CIA childhood
Scott Johnson
MEMOIR/CURRENT AFFAIRSPreviously published – JULY 2011Rights held: World EnglishRights sold: North America (W W Norton)Material: book available (360pp, B+ format pb)
SCOTT JOHNSON has spent much of the last decade in the Middle East, covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in Africa, reporting on politics. He has been the chief of Newsweek’s Mexico, Baghdad, and Africa bureaus, as well as a special correspondent from Paris. He was part of the team that contributed to Newsweek’s 2003 National Magazine Award for reportage of the Iraq war, and in 2004 the Overseas Press Club honoured his reports on Latin America. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio, and his work has been featured in publications such as Granta, Guernica, and National Geographic Explorer.
Gina Perry
Behind the Shock Machinethe untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments
‘An intriguing tale about science, ethics and storytelling.’ — The Age
In the summer of 1961, a group of men and women volunteered for a memory experiment to be conducted by young, dynamic psychologist Stanley Milgram. None could have imagined that, once seated in the lab, they would be placed in front of a box known as a shock machine and asked to administer a series of electric shocks to a man they’d just met. And no one could have foreseen how the repercussions of their actions, made under pressure and duress, would reverberate throughout their lives. For what the volunteers did not know was that the man was an actor, the shocks were fake, and what was really being tested was just how far they would go.
When Milgram’s results were released, they created a worldwide sensation. Milgram became both hero and villain, and his work seized the public imagination for more than half a century, inspiring books, plays, films, and art. For Gina Perry, the story of the experiments never felt finished. Listening to participants’ accounts and reading Milgram’s unpublished files and notebooks, she pieced together an intriguing, sensational story: Milgram’s plans went further than anyone had imagined.
POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY/ POPULAR SCIENCEPreviously published – MAY 2012Material: book available (432pp, trade paperback)
GINA PERRY is an Australian psychologist, writer, and broadcaster. Her feature articles, columns, and short fiction have been published in many of Australia’s leading newspapers and literary magazines. Gina’s ABC Radio National documentary about the obedience experiments, Beyond the Shock Machine, won the Silver World Medal for a history documentary in the 2009 New York Festivals radio awards.
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