Jenny Darling & Associates

JENNY DARLING & ASSOCIATES CLIENT LIST For a full list of authors represented by Jenny Darling & Associates see our website: www.jd-associates.com.au PO Box 413 Toorak Victoria 3142 Australia T +61 3 9827 3883 F +61 3 9827 1270 www.jd-associates.com.au JENNY DARLING & ASSOCIATES PTY LTD abN 29 084 520 598 CONTENTS Featured titles/authors 3 Fiction authors 24 Non-fiction authors 29 Children’s/YA authors 33 PO Box 413 Toorak Victoria 3142 Australia T +61 3 9827 3883 F +61 3 9827 1270 www.jd-associates.com.au JENNY DARLING & ASSOCIATES PTY LTD abN 29 084 520 598 1 2 FEATURED TITLES/AUTHORS DAVID ASTLE I WAS A TWEENAGE VERBAHOLIC Forget Batman. My hero as a kid was The Riddler. Words can be an endless source of both fun and frustration. Some of us are word junkies. Some see words within words: where we simply see celebrate others see Crete and Elba; where we see Stolichnaya they see holy and satanic . David Astle should know. He loves words and celebrates them on a daily basis. From an early age he lost his head in language and letters and succumbed to the thrill of wordplay. Words are his profession and he has been designing word puzzles and cryptic crosswords for twenty-five years. At this very moment someone, somewhere is chewing on their pencil cursing DA (as he’s known in the trade)! In I WAS A TWEENAGE VERBAHOLIC David will examine and dissect his word brain for our benefit. His plan is to turn our brain strain into a reverie of words as he enlightens us about the secrets of cryptic crosswords and shows us how cryptic clues work. At the end of the book you’ll understand all the tricks of the cryptic world and have learnt the joy of the ‘aha!’ moment. David Astle is the author of two novels and two non-fiction works. Between books, he drives the world to delight and despair as the crossword setter DA appearing in both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. I WAS A TWEENAGE VERBAHOLIC will be published by Allen & Unwin in 2010. Rights Jenny Darling & Associates. Proposal available. Manuscript available October 2010. 3 GREGORY DAY THE GRAND HOTEL Day shapes his characters with a poet’s insight, and brings the simple things to life. It’s like watching a storm roll in from the sea: beautiful, powerful and moving. Good Reading Magazine In the coastal town of Mangowak the local hotel on the hill is demolished to make way for a new estate of luxury eco-apartments. In the riverflat below the hotel, artist Noel Lea lives on his family’s run-down property, which just happens to be on the site of the original hotel of the town—the Grand Hotel—which burnt down in the 1890s. Unable to believe the town’s only pub is going to be knocked down, Noel and a few friends begin to joke about re-opening the Grand Hotel and running it as a bohemian establishment. Noel finds himself the unlikely publican of an even unlikelier hotel as the Grand comes alive with the hopes, loves, and disappointments of all who drink in her. In THE GRAND HOTEL the borders between reality and the imagination become porous, the walls come down between history and the present day. Peopled with unforgettable characters, this stunning novel is a vivid and poignant sweep through the absurdities of contemporary life. Gregory Day is a poet, musician and the author of two novels, THE PATRON SAINT OF EELS (2005) and RON MCCOY’S SEA OF DIAMONDS (2007). THE GRAND HOTEL will be published by Random House in 2010. Awards ■■ Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2006 Rights Jenny Darling & Associates. Final manuscript available November 2009. 4 GARRY DISHER WYATT Think Elmore Leonard, Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, Patricia Cornwell…and pencil in there the name Disher. The Australian Disher is definitely not to be missed. Toronto Globe & Mail Always notable for the keen intellect of his tales…one of the best writers in this country. The Australian There’s no one quite like Wyatt. He can handle a weapon and move invisibly around the city. He can see an opportunity and make a plan. He’s not interested in morals. He knows how to keep emotions out of it – or thinks he does. When opportunity comes along in the form of Alain Le Page, international courier of stolen goods, Wyatt teams up with his old colleague Eddie Oberin and Oberin’s ex-wife Lydia Stark to pull off a heist that should set them up for the rest of their lives. Which might not be much time at all. And then there’s the question of Lydia. Garry Disher has written over 40 books. His works include literary, crime and children’s/young adult novels and story collections, history texts, anthologies and writers’ handbooks. His latest book, WYATT, sees the return of the eponymous professional criminal—a brilliant twist on the traditional detective novel—and is forthcoming from Text Publishing in February 2010. Awards ■■ KICKBACK Winner German Crime Fiction Prize, 2000 ■■ THE BAMBOO FLUTE CBC Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 1993 ■■ THE DIVINE WIND Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult Fiction, 1999 ■■ THE DRAGON MAN Winner German Crime Prize, 2002 Rights Text Publishing. Bound proof available. 5 MEM FOX Australia’s most beloved and best-selling children’s picture-book author. Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, POSSUM MAGIC, is the bestselling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million copies. Mem’s recent picture book TEN LITTLE FINGERS AND TEN LITTLE TOES is a New York Times Bestseller and is published by Harcourt in the USA, by Walker Books in the UK and Penguin Australia. Her latest books, HELLO BABY and THE GOBLIN AND THE EMPTY CHAIR, have both received starred reviews on publication. They are published by Penguin Australia and Beach Lane Books USA Other titles include WOMBAT DIVINE, WHOEVER YOU ARE and TIME FOR BED. Awards ■■ POSSUM MAGIC Highly Commended, Children’s Book Council Awards, 1984, NSW Premier’s Children’s Book Award, 1984, on bestseller lists for 32 months, 21 years old in 2005 and still in hardcover. ■■ WILFRID GORDON MCDONALD PARTRIDGE American Library Association Notable Book, 1985 ■■ WHERE IS THE GREEN SHEEP Winner Children’s Book Council Book of the Year: Early Childhood, 2005 ■■ TEN LITTLE FINGERS AND TEN LITTLE TOES Winner - Cuffy Award, 2008,Winner - ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children, 2009 Rights Contact Jenny Darling & Associates. STOP PRESS TEN LITTLE FINGERS, TEN LITTLE TOES is #1 on the Oprah’s Book Club Kids’ Reading List for children under 2! 6 LIAN HEARN TALES OF THE OTORI A cocktail of fantasy and historical fiction set in feudal Japan, the Otori books give the reader a world that is rich with character and detail, yet effortless to read… Hearn is to be congratulated for the pleasure she has brought into the world with this wonderful quintet. Sydney Morning Herald Original and exquisitely wrought. The Observer Equal parts historical fiction, high fantasy and revelatory Taoist fable, the now complete Tales of the Otori is a saga to be treasured. Publishers Weekly Lian Hearn is the author of the internationally acclaimed Tales of the Otori series, which has sales of three million copies in 36 territories worldwide. The original trilogy—ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW and BRILLIANCE OF THE MOON—took the world by storm, and was followed by the release of a prequel, THE HARSH CRY OF THE HERON, and the series’ concluding tale, HEAVEN’S NET IS WIDE. Lian Hearn is at work on a new novel of historical fiction set in Japan. Awards ■■ Preis der Jugendlichen (German Youth Literature Prize), 2004 Rights Jenny Darling & Associates. Finished copies available. 7 EVA HORNUNG DOG BOY In exploring what it might be like to be a dog from a human perspective, DOG BOY sheds much light on what it is like to be human. Utterly compelling and believable. Yann Martel An imaginative tour de force—a powerful, painful read. The Week She holds in constant tension the borders between our animal and our human selves…there is a terrible beauty at work in its pages. This is an amazing feat of imaginative power on Hornung’s part, a book that traverses every sensation from delight to utter heartbreak. … The true strength of this remarkable book is that Hornung encourages us to question where exactly the border between animal and human is located. Canberra Times Hornung’s writing is beautiful and assured: her descriptions of this dog boy life are vivid and visceral and sensual and utterly compelling. She also writes about the dogs with breath-taking beauty—the penultimate climactic scene will squeeze your heart. DOG BOY is an ambitious concept, magnificently realised—you’ll never look at a dog in the same way again. Sunday Telegraph Grotesque, moving and utterly astonishing…Horning has come up with something improbably different in DOG BOY…a story that never veers into the impossible. Hornung takes delicate footsteps between the disturbing and the moving. A bare plot outline can only highlight the grotesque and 8 freakish in DOG BOY, but the book is also heavy with themes of joy, loyalty and love…Who but a dog knows if Hornung has successfully penetrated the canine mind, but it’s hard to imagine anyone doing it better. Herald Sun Abandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year- old boy follows a stray dog to her lair.

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