LONDON BOOK FAIR 2018 SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS GUIDE Enquiries to: Allen & Unwin Book Publishers 83 Alexander Street, Crows Nest, Sydney, NSW 2065, Australia Email: Emma Dorph (Translation) & Maggie Thompson (English Language) [email protected] - [email protected] Phone +61 2 8425 0100 CONTENTS FICTION NEW TITLES 2 INTO THE NIGHT – SARAH BAILEY 3 CEDAR VALLEY – HOLLY THROSBY 4 LITTLE GODS – JENNY ACKLAND 5 LOVESOME – SALLY SELTMANN 6 THE FAR-BACK COUNTRY – KATE LYONS 7 ELEANOR’S SECRET – CAROLINE BEECHAM 8 UNDERSTOREY – KAREN VIGGERS 9 2028 – KEN SAUNDERS 10 FLIGHT RISK – MICHAEL MCGUIRE 11 HEY BROTHER – JARRAH DUNDLER 12 THE MUMMY BLOGGERS TWO – HOLLY WAINWRIGHT 13 A ROOM AT THE MANOR – JULIE SHACKMAN 14 THE SPOTTED DOG – KERRY GREENWOOD RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 15 THE CHOKE – SOFIE LAGUNA 16 THE PASSAGE OF LOVE – ALEX MILLER 17 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE – HEATHER ROSE 18 THE SISTERS’ SONG – LOUISE ALLAN 19 SIGN – COLIN DRAY 20 THE NECESSARY ANGEL – C. K. STEAD 21 THE OPAL DRAGONFLY – JULIAN LEATHERDALE NON-FICTION CURRENT AFFAIRS 24 THE DARKEST WEB – EILEEN ORMSBY 25 TOTAL PROPAGANDA – HELEN RAZER 26 HEADSTRONG DAUGHTERS – NADIA JAMAL 27 THE MESS WE’RE IN – BERNARD KEANE 28 GOD IS GOOD FOR YOU – GREG SHERIDAN 29 COLONIAL FANTASY – SARAH MADDISON 30 DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE ROBOTS – DR JO CRIBB AND DAVID GLOVER POPULAR SCIENCE & CULTURE 31 HOW A WOMAN WORKS – GABRIELLE JACKSON 32 WORDS THAT GO PING - BARBARA LASSERRE 33 REWORDING THE BRAIN – DAVID ASTLE 34 101 MARVELLOUS MOVIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED – DAVID STRATTON BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR 35 GIRLS AT THE PIANO – VIRGINIA LLOYD 36 THE BAREFOOT SURGEON – ALI GRIPPER 37 MORE THAN A REFUGEE – EMMA ADAMS 38 OUR STORY – RALPH AND KATHY KELLY 39 A CERTAIN LIGHT – CYNTHIA BANHAM 40 MICHAEL HUTCHENCE – CHRISTINA HUTCHENCE AS TOLD TO JEN JEWEL BROWN 41 BECOMING – ANNE SUMMERS 42 JOURNEY TO HEALTH – SIMONE ANDERSON 43 AM I DOING THIS RIGHT? – TANYA HENNESSY HEALTH, PARENTING & SELF-IMPROVEMENT 44 UNF*CK YOUR FINANCES – MELISSA BROWNE 45 AFTER THE FIRST SIX WEEKS – MIDWIFE CATH 46 THE BABY BIBLE – BEC JUDD HISTORY 47 MARATHON – JOHN SMAILES 48 MISSING IN ACTION – MARIANNE VAN VELZEN 49 HILLARY’S ANTARCTIC – NIGEL WATSON AND JANE USSHER 2018 FOREIGN PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS EXCLUSIVE SUBAGENTS FICTION 1 Fiction INTO THE NIGHT Sarah Bailey Into the Night is Sarah Bailey’s stunning new crime novel featuring the troubled and brilliant Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock. This time Gemma finds herself lost and alone in the city, broken-hearted by the decisions she's had to make. When a homeless man is murdered and Gemma is put on the case, she can't help feeling a connection with the victim and the lonely and isolated life he led despite being in the middle of a bustling city. Then a movie star is killed in bizarre circumstances on the set of a major film shoot, and Gemma and her new partner Detective Sergeant Nick Fleet have to put aside their differences to unravel the mysteries surrounding the actor's life and death. Who could commit such a brazen crime and who stands to profit from it? Far too many people, she soon discovers - and none of them can be trusted. THE DARK LAKE Sales Points: A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with • Longlisted, Indie Book red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be Awards, Debut Fiction Book 2018 assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high • Longlisted, Australian Book school years before. But that's not all Gemma's trying to hide. As the investigation digs Industry Awards, Fiction Book deeper into the victim's past, other secrets threaten to come to light, secrets that were of the Year 2018 supposed to remain buried. • Sarah Bailey's acclaimed debut novel The Dark Lake was a Praise for The Dark Lake: bestseller around the world and Bailey's taut and 'The Dark Lake is a stunning debut that gripped me from page one and never eased suspenseful storytelling up. Dark, dark, dark--but infused with insight, pathos, a great sense of place, and razor- earned her fitting comparisons sharp writing. It's going to be big and Sarah Bailey needs to clear a shelf for awards.' – with Gillian Flynn and Paula C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author Hawkins • Immediately sold in 5 ‘Hooked me from page one! Sarah Bailey combines the very best elements in this territories with exceptional stunning debut thriller--a troubled detective still trying to find her way as a female deal in North America investigator, a small town haunted by secrets both past and present, and a beautiful • 20,000 copies sold in Australia victim whose unsettling allure appears to be her biggest asset and largest • Publisher’s Lunch ‘Buzz Books’ downfall. With clever twists and all-too-human characters, this book will keep you for Fall/Winter 2017! racing toward the end.’ – Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling crime novelist • ‘Tense and thought provoking… [a] stellar first SARAH BAILEY is a Melbourne based writer with a background in advertising and novel’ – Starred review in communications. Publishers Weekly Pub Date June 18 Extent 420pp ISBN 9781760297480 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Previous Rights North America (Grand Central), UK (Atlantic), Italian Sold (Edizioni Piemme), German (C. Bertelsmann), Chinese Simplified (Beijing White Horse Time Culture Development) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Crime Fiction 2 Fiction CEDAR VALLEY Holly Throsby On the first day of Summer in 1993, two very different strangers arrive in the small historic town of Cedar Valley. One of them is an impeccably dressed man, who has arrived on the morning bus. After wandering around a bit, he sits down on the footpath to enjoy the sun. Before anyone can tell him to move along, it is discovered that he is dead. His cause of death is a mystery; he carries no form of identification or even any money; and all the labels have been meticulously removed from his clothing. The other stranger who arrives this day is Benny Moon, a 21-year-old university student, whose mother, Vivian, once lived briefly in Cedar Valley and has a very mixed reputation in the town. Vivian has recently died and her once best friend, Odette, has offered Benny the opportunity of living in a vacant house she owns. Is there any connection between the dead man and Benny’s quest to learn more about her mother? GOODWOOD Sales Points: In 1992, when Jean Brown is seventeen, a terrible thing happens. Two terrible things. • Throsby writes delightful Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood's novels of secrets and most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes small-town obsessions home. People die in Goodwood, of course, but never like this. They don't just for lovers of Maria disappear. Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Praise for Goodwood: • 20,000 copies sold in ‘A little bit Twin Peaks and a little bit Picnic at Hanging Rock.’ – Hannah Richell, Australia Australian Women’s Weekly • 4.5/5 stars ‘laconic wit and deft plotting… a ‘With laconic wit and deft plotting, Throsby seamlessly weaves Jean’s coming-of-age touching sense of with the novel’s central mystery, lending the narrative a touching sense of nostalgia. nostalgia.’ – Books + Throsby hits all the right notes in Goodwood’ – Books + Publishing Publishing ‘Holly Throsby’s debut novel is lyrical without being abstruse, colloquial without being contrived…Goodwood approaches small-town violence through a softer lens, but the undercurrents and ramifications are no less chilling.’ – Readings online HOLLY THROSBY is an accomplished and awarded musician who lives in Sydney. She's released five solo albums and has been nominated for four ARIA awards. Pub Date Oct 18 Extent 350pp ISBN 9781760630560 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Dimensions 234x153mm Category Cosy Crime Fiction 3 Fiction LITTLE GODS Jenny Ackland This is a rare and original novel about a remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free. When Olive holds still and turns her mind inwards, she can see there are many versions of herself concertinaed within like a string of paper dolls. There she is, six years old, then nine, then eleven, a repeating pattern of girl children, thoughts fluid yet certain. She is grown now but what separates her from them? … When Olive learns she had a baby sister who died—a child unacknowledged by her close but challenging family—she is determined to discover what happened. Intelligent, fanciful and brave, Olive's growing obsession with the mystery and her relentless attempts to find out have seismic repercussions for the rest of her family and their community. But as everything starts to change, it is Olive herself who might have the most to lose as the secrets she unearths multiply and take on complicated lives of their own. Funny, heartbreaking and dazzlingly original, this is a rare and original novel about a Sales Points: remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free. • In-house reaction: ‘Reading it Praise for Little Gods: for the first time gave me goosebumps and that amazing 'A delicate evocation of a uniquely Australian childhood with moments of poignant feeling I was reading almost-painful recognition. Ackland captures the bewildering nature of what it is to something that was already a be young in the inexplicable world of adults.' – Sofie Laguna, award-winning author classic. Not since I started of The Eye of the Sheep and The Choke reading Jasper Jones have I had Praise for The Secret Son: felt anything like that sensation – fresh, original and ‘A powerful story of good and evil, and belonging’ – The Sydney Morning Herald captivating, but coming out of ‘Ackland holds this complex narrative together with a beautiful sense of place and a tradition and a sense of character.’ – Derek Parker, Spectator assurance that made it already seem an essential item… And ‘Powerful and elegant’ – Australian Book Review oh, the character of Olive! JENNY ACKLAND was born in Melbourne.