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2017 Adult Rights Catalogue NON-FICTION FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2017 FOR RIGHTS QUERIES CONTACT: Nerrilee Weir, Senior Rights Manager Tel: +61 2 8923 9892 Email: [email protected] www.penguinrandomhouse.com.au/rights Awards and Nominations 2017 Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket by Gideon Haigh Shortlisted: NSW Premier’s History Awards in the category of Australian History Prize 2017 Winner to be announced 1 September 2017 The Truffle Cookbookby Rodney Dunn Winner: Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2017 (Truffle and Mushroom cateogy) Travels Through Dali by Zhang Mei Joint Winner: Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2017 (Prestige section) Denny Day by Terry Smyth Shortlisted: Ned Kelly Awards 2017 Of Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea by Marie Munkara Shortlisted: NSW Premier’s Literary Award 2017 Girl Stuff by Kaz Cooke Shortlisted: Australian Book Industry Awards; General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2017 Witi Ihimaera Awarded prestigious Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2017 Appointed French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres) 2017 2 FRANKFURT 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE RIGHTS SOLD 2017 City of Devils The Art of Gratitude Paul French Meredith Gaston North America (Macmillan, Germany (Grafe und Unzer Picador) Verlag) United Kingdom (Hachette – Hodder, Quercus) © Lucy Cavender © Lucy The Pleasures of Leisure Homemade Happiness Robert Dessaix Chelsea Winter Korea (Dasan Books) Germany (Ars Vivendi) The Great Wall in 50 Objects NeuroSlimming William Lindesay Dr Helena Popovic China (SDX) Taiwan (Yuan-Liou) Lolcatz, Santa and Death by Spoonfed Generation Dog Michael Grose Andrew Masterton China (Beijing Tianlue Books) Romania (Editura Niculescu) A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley Vietnam (Triducbooks ), Portugal (Editorial Presenca), Sri Lanka (Sarasavi Publishers) Russia (Hemiro), Estonia (Turdus), Bosnia (MY BOOK Spain (Ediciones Peninsula), China Publishing House), Turkey (Epsilon), (Central Radio and TV University Press), Georgia (Palitra L Publishing Ltd); India (Mehta Publishing House; Marathi), previous rights sales include: India (Penguin Random House India; United States (Penguin), Canada English), (Penguin), Italy (Grupo Editoriale Fabbri), United Kingdom (Penguin), France Japan (Say-zan-sha Publications Ltd), (City Editions Paris), Korea (Invictus Media co.), Germany (Ullstein Buchverlage), Taiwan (Business Weekly Publications), The Netherlands (Meulenhoff Hungary (Atheneaum), Boekerij), Indonesia (PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama), Poland (Spoleczny Instytut Brazil (Grupo Record) Wydawniczy Znak), 3 FRANKFURT 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE RIGHTS SOLD 2017 The Modern Family Survival The Youngs: The Brothers Guide Who Built AC/DC Nigel Latta Jesse Fink Romania (Niculescu Japan (Diskunion Company Publishing House) Limited); Serbia (Psihopolis institut) previous rights sales include: previous rights sales include: North America (St Martin’s), Hungary (Kulinaria Kiado Kft) United Kingdom (Black and White), Brazil (Gutenberg Editora), Denmark (ArtPeople), Italy (Giunti Editore), Czech Republic (Volvox), The Confidence Gap Serbia (Dereta Doo), Russ Harris Germany (Koch), China (China Machine Press/ Argentina (Paidos), Beijing Huazhang Graphics & France (Camion Blanc), Infomation), Lithuania (Versus aureu) Estonia (AS Aripaev); previous rights sales include: North America (Shambhala Publications), Grant & I United Kingdom (Constable & Robert Forster Robinson), Germany (Verlagsgruppe Spain (Editorial Salterrae), Random House), Germany (Arbor Verlag United Kingdom (Omnibus) GmbH), France (Editions de l’homme), Denmark (Dansk Psykologist Forlag), Turkey (Diyojen Yayincilik), Thailand (Tree Publishing) Midnight in Peking World of Wanderlust Paul French Brooke Saward China (Penguin China ); The Netherlands (Blossom previous rights sales include: Books) United Kingdom (Penguin Random House), North America (Viking [Penguin Random House]), Brazil (Editora Fundamento Educacional), China (Penguin China), France (Editions Belfond), Italy (Einaudi), Japan (Engine Room Co. Ltd.), Norway (Forlaget Oktober), Girl Stuff: For Girls Aged 8-12 Poland (Wydawnictwo Kaz Cooke Czarne), Portugal (Bertrand Greece (Psichogios) Editora), Spain (Plataforma previous rights sales for Editorial), Taiwan (Locus), previou edition include: Film (Kudos Film and TV) United Kingdom (Rough Guides) Lithuania (Alma Littera) France (Editions Leduc) Poland (Wydawnictwo Insignis) China (Qing Dao Publishing House Co., Ltd) Spain (Santillana Ediciones Generales) Hungary (Sanoma Media) 4 FRANKFURT 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE RIGHTS SOLD 2017 Absolutely Beautiful Things A Short History of Anna Spiro Christianity United Kingdom (Octopus Geoffrey Blainey Publishing Group UK) China (Shaanxi People’s Publishing House), United Kingdom (SPCK Publishing); previous rights sales include: North America (Rowman and Littlefield), Brazil (Editora Fundamento) Fifty Years of Silence 100 Ways to Happy Children Jan Ruff O’Herne Timoth Sharp Korea (Samcheolli Publishing Romania (Editura Trei) Co.), India – Kannada previous rights sales include: (Chanda Putska); Vietnam (Zenbooks) previous rights sales include: Japan (Babel Press) India – English and Marathi Indonesia (Penebar Swadaya) (Mehta Publishing), Taiwan (Hsin Yi Publications) Indonesia (Elex Media), North America (MJF BOOKS - Chinese Simplified Fine Communications) (Chongqing Publishing) Passchendaele The Penguin History of New Paul Ham Zealand United Kingdom (Transworld) Michael King Korea (Kyungpook National University Press) 5 FRANKFURT 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Narrative GEOFFREY ROBERTSON QC is a leading human rights lawyer and a UN war-crimes judge. He has been counsel in many notable Old Bailey trials, has defended hundreds of men facing death sentences in the Caribbean, and has won landmark rulings on civil liberty from the highest courts in Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. He was involved in cases against General Pinochet and Hastings Banda, and in the training of judges who tried Saddam Hussein. His book Crimes Against Humanity has been an inspiration for the global justice movement, and he is the author of an acclaimed memoir, The Justice Game, and the textbook Media Law. He is married to Kathy Lette. Mr Robertson is Head of Doughty Street Geoffrey Robertson Chambers, a Master of the Middle Temple, a © Recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University of London. Rather His Own Man Geoffrey Robertson QC has had a distinguished Geoffrey Robertson career as a trial counsel and human rights Pub date: March 2018 advocate. He has handled hundreds of death Format: 496pp – 153 x 234mm sentence appeals; prosecuted Hastings Rights held: World Banda and defended Salman Rushdie; acted Imprint: Knopf Australia for terrorist suspects at the Old Bailey and for Human Rights Watch in the proceedings The riveting autobiography from inimitable against General Pinochet. He was counsel to Geoffrey Robertson. Funny, personal, and the Antiguan Royal Commission which exposed bringing Robertson’s fascinating and colourful arms traffic to the Medellin drugs cartel and career up to date following The Justice Game. was involved in training the judges to try The comprehensive, brilliantly told, gloriously Saddam Hussein. He serves as an appeal judge candid autobiography from Australia’s inimitable for the UN war crimes court in Sierra Leone Geoffrey Robertson. In this book he pays and has authored landmark decisions on the homage to his family and an incredible career limits of amnesties, the illegality of recruiting across the world. He describes his childhood child soldiers and other critical issues in the as a Bondi baby turned Eastwood boy and development of international criminal law. imbues the early chapters with fascinating Geoffrey Robertson is founder and head family history against a backdrop of beautifully of Doughty Street Chambers and sits as a drawn social history – of the Menzies years, recorder (part-time judge) in London, where he the restrictive fifties and sixties that propelled is a Master of the Middle Temple and visiting Geoffrey away from Australia to the UK. He talks professor in human rights law at Queen Mary honestly about girlfriends, including Nigella College. His books include Freedom, the Lawson and Jennifer Byrne, and of course Individual and the Law; Does Dracula Have of meeting and marrying Kathy Lette. He AIDS?; Media Law; and an acclaimed memoir, writes movingly about his children, Julius and The Justice Game. In 2005 he published The Georgina, and the challenges of bringing up a Tyrannicide Brief - the story of how Cromwell’s son on the autistic spectrum, his great pride lawyers mounted the first trial of a head of at both his children’s achievements. There are state. He has made many television and radio stories of Geoffrey’s battles for student rights programmes, notably Geoffrey Robertson’s at Sydney Uni; his move to Oxford as a Rhodes Hypotheticals, and has won a Freedom scholar; and his early career from the Oz trial of Information award for his writing and through Spycatcher; devising and broadcasting broadcasting. Hypotheticals; his death penalty cases; his many freedom of speech fights; the work of his Praise for The Statute of Liberty London chambers, who were forerunners in legal ‘[Robertson’s] forensic intelligence can circles in the nineties when they set up (and penetrate where professional historians have not who now employ Amal Clooney). He writes about reached’ LITERARY REVIEW Assange, Snowden, corruption