Your guide to Australian exhibitors and books at the Frankfurt Book Fair THINK Australian 2016 Australian Publishers at Frankfurt Hall 6.2 A59 / A62 JOIN US ON THURSDAY AT 17:30 FOR OUR STAND PARTY
COMPANY CONTACT EMAIL WEBSITE
ATF Press Hilary Regan [email protected] www.atfpress.com
Australian Self Publishing William Webster [email protected] www.australianselfpublishinggroup.com
Big Sky Publishing Denny Neave [email protected] www.bigskypublishing.com.au
Blue Angel Publishing Tanya Graham [email protected] www.blueangelonline.com
Book Systems International Harald Dittmer [email protected] www.booksystems.com
Brolga Publishing Mark Zocchi [email protected] www.brolgapublishing.com.au
Era Publications Rod Martin [email protected] www.erapublications.com
Exisle Publishing Benny Thomas [email protected] www.exislepublishing.com.au
Melbourne University Publishing [email protected] www.mup.com.au
NewSouth Publishing Kathy Bail [email protected] www.newsouthpublishing.com
Pantera Press Katy McEwen [email protected] kwww.panterapress.com.au
R.I.C. Publications Debbie Hendriks [email protected] www.ricgroup.com.au
Renbro Publishing Renato Simionato [email protected] www.renbro.com.au
Rockpool Publishing Paul Dennett [email protected] www.rockpoolpublishing.com.au
Scribe Publications Amanda Tokar [email protected] www.scribepublications.com.au
Spinifex Press Susan Hawthorne [email protected] www.spinifexpress.com.au
The Drummond Agency Sheila Drummond [email protected] www.drummondagency.com.au
Text Publishing Khadija Caffoor [email protected] www.textpublishing.com.au
University of Queensland Press Kate McCormack [email protected] www.uqp.uq.edu.au
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Are you an international publisher, editor, The VIPs Program is a fellowship-style, week-long program rights manager, literary agent or scout? of meetings, networking events and industry forums. The Australia Council provides funding for flights and Expressions of interest are closing soon for the accommodation for the selected VIPs, welcoming over Australia Council’s Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) 230 international editors, publishers and literary agents program, held alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival from to Australia since 1998. 22–28 May 2017.
For more information visit the Australian Publishers Association stand at Hall 6.2 A62 or our website: Contact Karen Le Roy / +61 2 9215 9054 australiacouncil.gov.au/strategies-and-frameworks/visiting-international-publishers-2017/ [email protected]
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Australian 2016 elcome to Think Australian 2016, your comprehensive guide to the Australian book trade. This publication is produced by Books+Publishing and is brought to you in partnership with Publishing Perspectives. Now in its 14th year, Think Australian brings you our annual overview of the Stay in touch AustralianW market; our survey of Australian rights managers and literary agents; bestseller charts and Books+Publishing is the number-one information on our most-awarded titles; a round-up of Australian publishers’ recent rights successes; source of news, views and information and features on Australian YA, and film and TV tie-ins. on the publishing scene in Australia, You’ll also find information on where to find Australian publishers, should you wish to find out more New Zealand and the region. about the titles Australia has on offer. For more information about our Feel free to share Think Australian with your colleagues and contact us at think.australian@thorpe. publications visit www. com.au to be alerted to future editions and to receive email updates about the book market in Australia, booksandpublishing.com.au. New Zealand and the region. You can also find us on twitter at @BplusPNews or on Facebook at We hope you enjoy this insight into our country’s publishing industry, and that you have a productive www.facebook.com/ and enjoyable fair! booksandpublishing. Think Australian 2016 is produced by Books+Publishing and published by Thorpe-Bowker, a division of Andrea Hanke R R Bowker LLC, Editor-in-chief Level 1, 607 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia Books+Publishing Tel +61-3-8517-8333 www.booksandpublishing.com.au © 2016 Thorpe-Bowker, a division of ProQuest LLC Editor-in-chief Andrea Hanke Tel: +61-3-8517-8347 [email protected] Editorial contributors: Brad Jefferies, Contents Vicki Stegink, Jackie Tang, Sophie Teague and Andrew Wrathall 4 The market down under Design/production manager: Silvana Paolini An overview of the Australian book market Advertising manager: Fi Tunnicliff [email protected] 8 Selling strong Australian publishers report on their recent rights successes 12 Australian exhibitors The Australian Publishers Association’s guide to Australian exhibitors and locations at the Frankfurt Book Fair 14 Australian award winners A round-up of some of the most-awarded Australian books of the past year 16 Australian bestsellers The top-selling Australian titles of the past year, provided by Nielsen BookScan On the Cover The illustrations on the cover of 18 The rights stuff Think Australian 2016 come from Our annual survey of Australian rights managers and literary agents the children’s picture book Kookoo Kookaburra, written and illustrated by Gregg Dreise and published by 20 #LoveOzYA gathers momentum Australian Indigenous publishing An overview of the grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books house Magabala Press. For more information visit www.magabala.com. 22 Screen stories A look at some of the Australian books being adapted for film and TV 23 Title showcase and exhibitors list www.booksandpublishing.com.au More details on some of Australia’s titles and exhibitors
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The market down under
Book sales edged up in Australia for the second year in a row as the market continues its recovery. Brad Jefferies presents an overview of the Australian book industry.
he Australian retail book market posted marginal growth in 2015, not include ebooks and audiobooks, as their sales in Australia aren’t tracked making it the second year in a row that sales have grown by single- in any reliable way. digit figures after a period of decline. Sales were up 2.4% in value Ebook sales are estimated to comprise around 20% of the market with and flat in volume, boosted in no small part by the sales of adult the prevailing view that this has plateaued for the time being. Notably, Pan Tcolouring books. Macmillan Australia’s digital-only imprint, Momentum, was scaled down Standing out among the local bestsellers once again was Andy Griffiths and folded back into the publisher earlier this year. Australian audiobook and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ children’s books series. The series sold more publisher Bolinda has reported a fourfold increase in revenue over the past than 700,000 copies in the past year (July 2015 to June 2016), led by The several years. 65-Storey Treehouse, which alone sold 347,000 copies. It was far ahead of The media has jumped on the narrative of the recovering market, with the bestselling Australian adult fiction book, Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel The stories about the resilience of bookshops replacing those bemoaning the death Dressmaker (Duffy & Snellgrove), which sold 131,000 copies on the back of of print. Several prominent independent bookstores in Sydney and Melbourne the film adaptation’s release. have opened or announced plans to open new stores over the past 12 months, Sales tracking service Nielsen BookScan reports the total turnover of contributing to the sense of revival, while the largest chain has reported its the Australian print book market in 2015 was A$979m (56.4m books), up fourth straight year of growth. Indie bookstores represent just over 26% of from A$938m (55.5m books) in 2014. Although the book market peaked at the print book market in Australia; chain and online-only stores represent A$1.3b in 2010, after two years of successive growth it’s continuing to edge around 44%; and discount department stores are taking an increasingly larger away from its low of $917m in 2013. It’s also worth noting these figures do proportion of sales, accounting for 29.8% of the market, up 4.4% on 2014. Market overview 5
Figure 1: Growth in titles published in Australia 28234 30000
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Book numbers fall, digital format steady between 20 and 99 titles each, and 78 published between 11 and 20 titles. At the other end of the scale, 2355 publishers only released one title in the year. In 2015, 3996 different publishing entities in Australia produced 19,971 Many of these are likely to be self-publishers. new titles, according to figures extracted from ISBN records added to When it comes to formats, print continues to dominate the market. Bowker’s Books in Print. This is down from 2013, when the number of new Paperback titles made up half of all sales in 2015, falling from 54% in 2014. titles peaked at 28,234, and marginally down from 2014, when 20,877 titles Digital made up 22%, up from 20% in 2014 but down from the market were published. These figures includes both print and ebook editions, which high of 29% in 2013. It is possible that there was a spike in 2013 as a number have different ISBNs. of publishers began to release ebook editions of their backlist titles. At the big end, 27 companies published over 100 titles during 2015, According to Nielsen BookScan, 46% of books bought by Australian down from 33 companies in 2013 but up from 24 companies in 2014. readers in 2015 were nonfiction, 24% were fiction and 30% were children’s. Below the big publishers is a middle ground, where 90 publishers produced
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Contact: Jane Fraser, CEO, Rights and Sales [email protected] 6 Market overview
Politics and legislation Productivity Commission but ultimately decided to keep PIRs in place. The major industry bodies, including the Australian publishing, The government is again threatening to throw open the doors of the bookselling and authors associations, copyright body and printing industry Australian bookselling market to the global economy with plans to repeal groups, have united to lobby the government against the proposed change, the protectionist parallel import restrictions (PIRs) on books, which have as well as the recommendation to introduce a US-style fair use provision to been enshrined in Australia’s copyright laws since the early 1990s. The its copyright law. current rule gives Australian publishers 30 days from overseas publication to establish their copyright by making it available in Australia, with publishers International appeal prohibited from importing titles for sale during this time. The debate has consumed the major industry bodies since April, when Australian publishers continue to produce books with international appeal, the Productivity Commission—the government’s economic advisory body— with many titles finding rights and translation deals in diverse territories long recommended the abolition of PIRs in a draft report reviewing Australia’s after their initial domestic publication. We round up some of these rights intellectual property. The issue, however, is not a new one: in 2009 the sales highlights on page 8. Also turn to page 18 for our annual survey of the then-government also received a recommendation to repeal PIRs from the Australian rights scene.
Figure 3: Change in book formats (binding codes) 2008-2015
100% 4% 2% 3% 3% 3% 4% 3% 4% 7% All other formats 90% 6% 13% 8% 19% 23% 20% 22% 7% 8% 9% 29% 80% Ebooks, online resources and other digital 9% 8% 6% 5% 4% 70% 13% 8% 6% formats 10% 4% 9% 12% 7% 4% 12% 60% 9% 8% Stapled, spiral and ringbound materials 8% 9% 8% 50% 40% CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, DVD-ROMs 64% 30% 59% 57% 55% 52% 51% 54% 50% 20% Cloth/hardback 10% All paperback formats 0% 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Market overview 7
Books and Australia’s Frankfurt HQ eBooks This year the hub for Australian exhibitors at the Frankfurt Book Fair will be in Hall 6.2, Stands A59 and A62—although many Australians will also be found on the stands of global parent companies, in the Rights Centre or ‘wandering the halls’ from appointment to appointment. To let your hair down, loosen your tie and experience Aussies in party mode, the annual Australian party will be held from 5pm on the Thursday of the fair, with the Australian Publishers Association stand (Hall 6.2, A62) doubling as a bar serving Australian beer and wine.
Locust Girl: A Lovesong Australia at a glance ISBN: 9781742199627
Population: 24.2 million (Aug 2016) Number of books published annually: 19,971 (Australian ISBN records for 2015, including educational titles, Australian editions of overseas-originated titles, and multiple formats of the same title) Number of Australian publishers: 3996 (2355 of which only published one title last year) Total number of active publishers: 371 (published more than five titles last year) Book retail outlets: Over 1000 Retail sales of books in 2015: A$979m Wave (56.4m books) ISBN: 9781742199689 Sources: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Thorpe-Bowker, Nielsen BookScan, Australian Booksellers Association Currency conversion: At the time of writing, one Australian dollar is worth approximately 0.68, US$0.76 and £0.58.
See the Australian book industry first-hand
Australia’s book culture is buzzing. Every major Prostitution Narratives city and many regional centres have annual writers’ festivals that attract audiences of ISBN: 9781742199863 many thousands of keen readers. The Australia Council organises the Visiting International Publishers program, which brings publishing and rights professionals from around the world to the Sydney Writers’ Festival (see www.australiacouncil.gov.au). The publishing industry will also gather in Melbourne from 9-12 November for the fifth annual Independent Publishing Conference (see smallpressnetwork. com.au).
The End of Patriarchy ISBN: 9781742199924
Hall 6.2 A62 www.spinifexpress.com.au 8 Rights sales
Selling strong
Vicki Stegink rounds up Australian publishers’ and agents’ recent rights successes. Allen & Unwin manager Wenona Byrne. ‘[This] built excitement titles attracting attention internationally,’ says and momentum and we have subsequently sold co-owner Sharon Evans. Allen & Unwin has seen a rise in adult fiction rights in 10 territories.’ titles sold to UK publishers this year, including Black Inc. Maggie’s Kitchen (Caroline Beecham), Swimming Big Sky Publishing Home (Mary-Rose MacColl) and The Teacher’s Black Inc. was delighted when Chronicle Books Secret (Suzanne Leal). In nonfiction, The Memory Last year was Big Sky Publishing’s second year picked up UK and US rights to This Annoying Code (Lynne Kelly)—about a ‘powerful memory at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which saw UK and Life, a satirical colouring book by Oslo Davis. technique’ used by Indigenous people around US rights sold for the following nonfiction titles: The book was also picked up in Germany, as were the world—has been sold to the UK, US Shot Down: A Secret Diary of One POW’s Long Kayte Nunn’s rural romance novels Rose’s Vintage and China. Another major success was Mark March to Freedom (Alex Kerr), The Easy Day Was and The Angel’s Share. The Shortest History of Lamprell’s novel The Lovers’ Guide to Rome, a Yesterday: The Extreme Life of an SAS Soldier (Paul Europe (John Hirst) reached a sales milestone in multi-stranded love story set over one day in Jordan) and Lost at Sea: Found at Fukushima China, selling over 100,000 copies, with Swedish Rome: ‘Prior to the Frankfurt Book Fair last (Andy Millar). ‘With a vast number of titles and Finnish translation rights making a total of year, we had a pre-emptive offer from Flatiron that extend beyond the boundaries of Australia, 13 sales territories for the book. Rights successes Books for North American rights,’ says rights it’s wonderful to see our Australian authors and in the UK included Kate Mildenhall’s debut Rights sales 9
novel Skylarking and Paul Cleary’s Trillion Dollar and parenting. One big success this year was with Chinese rights sold for Can a Skeleton Have Baby: How Tiny Norway Beat the Oil Giants and Heartfulness (Stephen McKenzie), which offers a an X-ray? (Kyle Hughes-Odgers) and renewed for Won a Lasting Fortune. powerful new take on the practice of mindfulness. Crocodile Cake (Palo Morgan & Chris Nixon). Another standout was Stuart Passmore’s Parenting Newly released picture book Pandamonia by CSIRO Publishing for a Happier Home, with rights already sold to Chris Owen and Chris Nixon is also ‘proving several countries. a winner overseas’, says CEO Jane Fraser; it Science specialist CSIRO Publishing has bought Other highlights on this year’s list were The has already been successfully launched in and sold rights for a number of its titles over Essential Edible Pharmacy (Sophie Manolas), Feed Singapore, and rights have been sold in Taiwan its 20-year history. Most recently, the publisher Your Brain (Delia McCabe) and Mindfulness on and North America. has sold the rights to Rays of the World—‘a title the Run (Chantal Hofstee), while backlist title The of international importance’—and Biology and Happiness Trap (Russ Harris) continued to sell Hachette Australia Evolution of Crocodylians to Cornell University well in over 30 countries. ‘We are proud to say Press in the US; and Indicators and Surrogates that our titles resonate in all territories,’ says rights Rights highlights for Hachette Australia over of Biodiversity and Environmental Change and director Benny Thomas. the past year include J D Barrett’s debut novel Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes to The Secret Recipe for Second Chances, which CRC Press in the US. CSIRO Publishing has also has sold into five territories, and J L Perry’s partnered with the National History Museum and Fremantle Press contemporary romance Bastard, which has Wild Nature Press in the UK. Fremantle Press’ growing crime-fiction list is sold into France and Hungary so far. English- performing well in overseas markets, with Alan language rights for the Indian Subcontinent Exisle Publishing Carter’s ‘Cato Kwong’ books sold in the UK, US, were licensed to Hachette India for Rajith Germany, Spain, France and Switzerland, and Savanadasa’s debut novel Ruins; ‘The novel is set Exisle Publishing has continued gaining ground David Whish-Wilson’s new crime novel Old Scores in Sri Lanka, so it’s wonderful news that there on the international scene with rights sales across (Australian release in November) already sold in is now a local edition on sale,’ says rights and genres including self-help, health, nutrition Germany. Picture books were another success, publishing manager Sarah Brooks.
LEADING THE WAY IN AUSTRALIAN NON-FICTION & INSPIRING CHILDREN’S TITLES
Hall 6.2 Stand A59 CONTACT: Denny Neave, Rights Manager, [email protected] SHOWCASING AUSTRALIA TO THE WORLD
/Big Sky Publishing /Bigskypub +61 2 9918 2168 WWW www.bigskypublishing.com.au 10 Rights sales
The first three books in the children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the series, author Lian Hearn is already enjoying adventure series ‘Mapmaker Chronicles’ (A L Year Awards and has sold into Germany, France, international success with her new series ‘The Tale Tait) have been sold in the US, with previous Spain, Finland, Slovenia, China and Korea. Molly of Shikanoko’, which has been sold into North translation deals to Turkey and Lithuania. Among & Mae, the next title by the same authors, will be America, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Poland, the picture book highlights are Origami Heart published in October and has already sold into Hungary, Bulgaria and Indonesia so far. (Binny Talib), which has been sold in the UK and five territories. Other rights successes include Charlotte Commonwealth market, and Migaloo: The White Wood’s award-winning novel The Natural Way Whale (Mark Wilson), which will be published in HarperCollins Australia of Things, a ‘gripping and deeply moving novel Turkish, Korean and simplified Chinese. [that] is resonating with readers around the HarperCollins has licensed the first three books world’, says agent Jenny Darling. The Dressmaker Hardie Grant Egmont / Little in the ‘Books That Drive Kids Crazy!’ series by by Rosalie Ham also continues to sell well Bec and Matt Stanton to Little, Brown in the US following the hugely popular film, with rights in Hare Books in ‘a very hotly contested auction’, according to 15 territories to date. international rights manager Elizabeth O’Donnell. Hardie Grant Egmont is delighted with the Debut author Lesley Truffle’s historical mystery sale of its middle-grade series Penelope Perfect novel Hotel Du Barry has been licensed to four Monash University Publishing (Chrissie Perry), which has been snapped up in HarperCollins affiliates in Germany, France, Italy Monash University Publishing recently sold the US, French Canada and the Czech Republic. and Spain; and cookbook author Donna Hay’s Southeast-Asian rights for Witch-hunt and Steve Lochran’s Paladero—‘described by many as titles continue to sell strongly, with over five Conspiracy: The ‘Ninja Case’ in East Java(Nicholas Jurassic World meets Game of Thrones,’ according million copies sold internationally, and a 26% Herriman) to National University of Singapore to rights and export executive Joanna Anderson— increase in sales since 2013. Press. The publisher is also in negotiations over has been licensed to Germany with more territories UK rights for Trans-national Radicalism: The under negotiation. Jenny Darling & Associates Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Hardie Grant Egmont has also had success with Ross (Neville Kirk). Director Nathan Hollier its picture books: Perfect (Danny Parker & Freya With over five million copies sold and rights says, ‘we’re getting good interest in a number of Blackwood) was shortlisted for the Children’s sales in 40 territories for the ‘Tales of the Otori’ our titles that I’ll be seeking to sell rights for at Rights sales 11
Frankfurt this year’, in particular, Knowledge and and China. Another successful fiction export was and accessible exploration of the immune system Global Power: Making New Sciences in the South The Toymaker (Liam Pieper), which was published and what keeps it running,’ according to rights (Fran Collyer, Raewyn Connell, João Maia and in Australia in mid-2016, and has had early rights and contracts manager Amanda Tokar, as well as Robert Morrell). sales in Italy and Russia. There is ‘much more to The Middlepause (Marina Benjamin) and Digital vs come for this provocative novel’, promises senior Human (Richard Watson); and in fiction, The Ice- Pantera Press rights manager Nerrilee Weir. Cream Makers (Ernest van der Kwast) and The Heart Illustrated cookbook Eat Drink Paleo (Irina Tastes Bitter (Víctor del Árbol). ‘Scribe is also very It has been a successful year in selling rights for Macri) was also very successful, with rights sales pleased to report an increase in audio and large print Pantera Press. Sulari Gentill’s award-winning in the UK, US, Germany, the Netherlands, the rights deals over the last 12 months,’ says Tokar. historical crime series, the ‘Rowland Sinclair Czech Republic, Hungary and Portugal. Mysteries’, was sold to Poisoned Pen Press in John Flanagan’s ‘Rangers Apprentice’ and Spinifex Press North America and audio rights to Wavesound in ‘Brotherband’ children’s book series continue to Australia. Other successes include quirky comedy sell in huge numbers, with books in 29 territories Spinifex has had ‘a very good year for translations Killing Adonis (Josh Donellan), The Trusted (John and some 20 titles across three related series. with books going into six languages across fifteen M Green), and The Crossingand The Falls(Michael Meanwhile, Marc Martin’s ‘ground-breaking’ territories’, reports director Susan Hawthorne. B Radburn)—with the film option to The Crossing picture book A River continues to gain traction, These include Haifa Fragments (khulud khamis), recently sold to an independent producer. with rights sold in five territories. which has been translated into Italian and Turkish, and Hawthorne’s Bibliodiversity: A Penguin Random House Manifesto for Independent Publishing, which has Scribe Publications recently been published in French and Arabic. A Australia Scribe is delighted with the rights success of its Tamil translation of My Sister Chaos (Lara Fergus) A rights highlight for Penguin Random House award-winning picture book The Underwater Fancy- is underway, as well as a Spanish translation Australia this year was Joan London’s novel The Dress Parade by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys— of Fish-Hair Woman (Merlinda Bobis). ‘What Golden Age, which was recently released in the US rights have sold in France, Italy, China and Bulgaria. really pleases us is that our books are reaching and UK, and has also sold into Spain, France, Italy Among the nonfiction successes are Idan Ben-Barak’s into markets that are not on the usual horizon of Why Aren’t We Dead Yet?—‘a highly entertaining Australian publishers,’ says Hawthorne.
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www.publishing.monash.edu AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITORS
COMPANY CONTACT EMAIL WEBSITE HALL STAND Allen & Unwin Wenona Byrne [email protected] www.allenandunwin.com 6.0 E54
ATF Press Hilary Regan [email protected] www.atfpress.com 6.2 A59
Australian Self Publishing Group William Webster [email protected] www.australianselfpublishinggroup.com 6.2 A62
Bauer Media Books Brian Cearnes [email protected] www.awwcookbooks.com.au 6.2 B111
Big Sky Publishing Denny Neave [email protected] www.bigskypublishing.com.au 6.2 A59
Blake Publishing Nadeem Ansari [email protected] www.blake.com.au 6.1 E111
Blue Angel Publishing Tanya Graham [email protected] www.blueangelonline.com 6.2 A59
Book Systems International Harald Dittmer [email protected] www.booksystems.com 6.2 A59
Brolga Publishing Mark Zocchi [email protected] www.brolgapublishing.com.au 6.2 A62
CSIRO Publishing Richard McKenzie [email protected] www.publish.csiro.au 4.2 F27
Era Publications Rod Martin [email protected] www.erapublications.com 6.2 A62
Exisle Publishing Benny Thomas [email protected] www.exislepublishing.com.au 6.2 A59
Hachette Australia Fiona Hazard [email protected] www.hachette.com.au 6.0 D95
Hardie Grant Egmont Charlotte Bodman [email protected] www.hardiegrantegmont.com.au 6.1 A76
HarperCollins Australia Elizabeth O'Donnell [email protected] www.harpercollins.com.au 6.0 D129
Hinkler Books Stephen Ungar [email protected] www.hinklerbooks.com 6.1 A66
Kaisercraft [email protected] www.kaisercraft.com.au 6.0 D75
Macmillan Education Australia Peter Huntley [email protected] www.macmillaneducation.com.au 4.2 F8
Melbourne University Publishing [email protected] www.mup.com.au 6.2 A62
NewSouth Publishing Kathy Bail [email protected] www.newsouthpublishing.com 6.2 A62
Pantera Press Katy McEwen [email protected] www.panterapress.com.au 6.2 A62
Papoose Books [email protected] www.papoosebooks.com 6.1 C74
R.I.C. Publications Debbie Hendriks [email protected] www.ricgroup.com.au 6.2 A62
Renbro Publishing Renato Simionato [email protected] www.renbro.com.au 6.2 A62
Rockpool Publishing Paul Dennett [email protected] www.rockpoolpublishing.com.au 6.2 A59
Scholastic Australia Claire Pretyman [email protected] www.scholastic.com.au 6.2 C57
Scribe Publications Amanda Tokar [email protected] www.scribepublications.com.au 6.2 A59
Spinifex Press Susan Hawthorne [email protected] www.spinifexpress.com.au 6.2 A62
Text Publishing Khadija Caffoor [email protected] www.textpublishing.com.au 6.2 A59
Thames & Hudson Australia Kirsten Abbott [email protected] www.thameshudson.com.au 6.1 B126
The Drummond Agency Sheila Drummond [email protected] www.drummondagency.com.au 6.2 A62
The Five Mile Press [email protected] www.fivemile.com.au 6.1 A120
The Images Publishing Group [email protected] www.imagespublishing.com 6.1 C129
University of Queensland Press Kate McCormack [email protected] www.uqp.uq.edu.au 6.2 A62
Ziptales Valerie McRoberts [email protected] www.ziptales.com 4.2 C86
4 Ingredients is the highest selling Kim will be demonstrating the self-published cookbook in Australian ease of her recipes at Gourmet history. After 8 million sales and 26 Gallery's Show Kitchen titles, author and owner Kim McCosker will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 Thursday: 12.30pm - 1.30pm Gourmet Gallery, Hall 3, Stand L130. Friday: 11.15am - 12.15pm and in the Gourmet Salon Saturday: 12.00pm - 12.30pm Australian exhibitors 13 AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITORS
COMPANY CONTACT EMAIL WEBSITE HALL STAND Allen & Unwin Wenona Byrne [email protected] www.allenandunwin.com 6.0 E54
ATF Press Hilary Regan [email protected] www.atfpress.com 6.2 A59
Australian Self Publishing Group William Webster [email protected] www.australianselfpublishinggroup.com 6.2 A62
Bauer Media Books Brian Cearnes [email protected] www.awwcookbooks.com.au 6.2 B111
Big Sky Publishing Denny Neave [email protected] www.bigskypublishing.com.au 6.2 A59
Blake Publishing Nadeem Ansari [email protected] www.blake.com.au 6.1 E111
Blue Angel Publishing Tanya Graham [email protected] www.blueangelonline.com 6.2 A59
Book Systems International Harald Dittmer [email protected] www.booksystems.com 6.2 A59
Brolga Publishing Mark Zocchi [email protected] www.brolgapublishing.com.au 6.2 A62
CSIRO Publishing Richard McKenzie [email protected] www.publish.csiro.au 4.2 F27
Era Publications Rod Martin [email protected] www.erapublications.com 6.2 A62
Exisle Publishing Benny Thomas [email protected] www.exislepublishing.com.au 6.2 A59
Hachette Australia Fiona Hazard [email protected] www.hachette.com.au 6.0 D95
Hardie Grant Egmont Charlotte Bodman [email protected] www.hardiegrantegmont.com.au 6.1 A76
HarperCollins Australia Elizabeth O'Donnell [email protected] www.harpercollins.com.au 6.0 D129
Hinkler Books Stephen Ungar [email protected] www.hinklerbooks.com 6.1 A66
Kaisercraft [email protected] www.kaisercraft.com.au 6.0 D75
Macmillan Education Australia Peter Huntley [email protected] www.macmillaneducation.com.au 4.2 F8
Melbourne University Publishing [email protected] www.mup.com.au 6.2 A62
NewSouth Publishing Kathy Bail [email protected] www.newsouthpublishing.com 6.2 A62
Pantera Press Katy McEwen [email protected] www.panterapress.com.au 6.2 A62
Papoose Books [email protected] www.papoosebooks.com 6.1 C74
R.I.C. Publications Debbie Hendriks [email protected] www.ricgroup.com.au 6.2 A62
Renbro Publishing Renato Simionato [email protected] www.renbro.com.au 6.2 A62
Rockpool Publishing Paul Dennett [email protected] www.rockpoolpublishing.com.au 6.2 A59
Scholastic Australia Claire Pretyman [email protected] www.scholastic.com.au 6.2 C57
Scribe Publications Amanda Tokar [email protected] www.scribepublications.com.au 6.2 A59
Spinifex Press Susan Hawthorne [email protected] www.spinifexpress.com.au 6.2 A62
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4 Ingredients is the highest selling Kim will be demonstrating the self-published cookbook in Australian ease of her recipes at Gourmet history. After 8 million sales and 26 Gallery's Show Kitchen titles, author and owner Kim McCosker will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 Thursday: 12.30pm - 1.30pm Gourmet Gallery, Hall 3, Stand L130. Friday: 11.15am - 12.15pm and in the Gourmet Salon Saturday: 12.00pm - 12.30pm 14 Award winners AND THE WINNER IS... Australia has many book awards, and every year there are standout titles that collect multiple prizes. We highlight some of the most-awarded Australian books over the past year.
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THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS RECKONING: A MEMOIR THE BAD GUYS, EPISODE 1 (Charlotte Wood, Allen & Unwin) (Magda Szubanski, Text Publishing) (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) Stella Prize Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Indie Award for Children’s Books Indie Book of the Year Book of the Year Readings Children’s Book Prize Miles Franklin Literary Award (shortlisted) Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) (shortlisted) Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Booksellers Choice Award Fiction (shortlisted) Indie Award for Nonfiction RUN, PIP, RUN Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction (J C Jones, Allen & Unwin) THE WORLD WITHOUT US Dobbie Literary Award (shortlisted) Readings Children’s Book Prize (Mireille Juchau, Bloomsbury) Matt Richell Award for New Writer Children’s Book Council of Australia Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for (shortlisted) (CBCA) Book of the Year Award for Fiction Younger Readers (shortlisted) Stella Prize (shortlisted) SMALL ACTS OF DISAPPEARANCE Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (Fiona Wright, Giramondo) THE 65-STOREY TREEHOUSE (shortlisted) Kibble Literary Award (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) Stella Prize (shortlisted) Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) SALT CREEK NSW Premier’s Literary Award Book of the Year for Younger Children (Lucy Treloar, Picador) (shortlisted) Dobbie Literary Award CLOUDWISH Indie Award for Debut Fiction SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN (Fiona Wood, Macmillan) Matt Richell Award for New Writer (Gerald Murnane, Text Publishing) Children's Book Council of Australia Miles Franklin Literary Award (shortlisted) Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for (CBCA) Book of the Year for Older Nonfiction Readers BLACK ROCK WHITE CITY Miles Franklin Literary Award (longlisted) Indie Award for Young Adult (A S Patric, Transit Lounge) Inky Award (shortlisted) Miles Franklin Literary Award
Honouring Matt Richell The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year—presented annually at the Australian Book Industry Awards—was created in memory of Hachette Australia’s former CEO Matt Richell, who died in a surfing accident in 2014. Richell was a passionate advocate for emerging writers. In 2015, Brooke Davis won the inaugural award for her debut novel Lost and Found (Hachette) and in 2016, the award went to Lucy Treloar for her historical novel Salt Creek (PIcador), about a pioneering family living in remote South Australia in the 1850s. Another award established in honour of Matt Richell is the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, which is open to unpublished writers of adult fiction and narrative nonfiction and offers the winner a 12-month mentorship with a Hachette publisher. 15
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Academic Printing and Boogie Books Publishing Imagine The Mirror of Epic: The Iliad Emma Mactaggart, and History illus by Ester De Boer B K M Brown Rights offered: World (ex Australia) Rights offered: Available on request Category: Children’s picture book Category: Homer, Iliad Tel: +61 438 990 211 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: http://academicprintingandpublishing.com/ Web: www.boogiebooks.com.au the-mirror-of-epic.htm The gloriously creative indulgence of simply sitting and day- dreaming has given rise to the greatest creations in human history! In order to treat the Iliad as historical evidence one must first We have to give ourselves permission to do so, and to Imagine consider the interpretative implications of its performance as what will be. Of course, sometimes, ‘what will be’ may be very an historical event. Brown approaches the Iliad as the trace of silly indeed! a historically motivated speech act whose ritual function was to distil new social possibilities from the context of its performance. In its narrative performance the Iliad charts a passage from stasis to funerary agon giving shape to emergent discourses about value Melbourne Books and subjectivity. In essence an aetiological narrative, the Iliad, Midnight Oil: The Power and Brown argues, stages the foundation of political society. the Passion Michael Lawrence Academic Printing and Rights offered: World (ex Australia and Publishing New Zealand) Reflections on Plato’s Poetics: Category: Popular music Essays from Beijing Tel: +61 3 9662 2051 Email: [email protected] Edited by Rick Benitez & Keping Wang Web: www.melbournebooks.com.au Rights offered: Available on request Category: Plato—poetics Every Midnight Oil performance is so intense that witnesses swear Email: [email protected] they have each seen the greatest Oils gig ever! Born from the Web: http://academicprintingandpublishing.com/ Australian pub rock scene that gave us AC/DC and INXS, Midnight reflections-on-platos-poetics.htm Oil, with their raw energy and social conscience, have captivated a global audience. Written by one of Australia’s foremost music Reflections on Plato’s Poetics presents the reflections of leading writers, Michael Lawrence, this timely book brings to life the full, scholars from China and the West on the form, nature and significance vibrantly illustrated story of Midnight Oil, as they prepare to re-form of Plato’s engagement with poetry. The book openly explores Plato’s attitudes to poetry, both comprehensively and within the intricate and embark on a world tour in 2017. confines of particular dialogues. These reflections reveal a Plato who is deeply influenced by poetry; a Plato who writes, at least very often, from within a poetic paradigm; a Plato whose concerns about the Scale Free Network influence and ambiguity of words force him to play with meaning and The Invisible War: A Tale on to provoke questions about meaning. Two Scales Ailsa Wild with Jeremy Barr, Gregory Smudge Publishing Crocetti & Briony Barr; illus by Ben Hutchings Flavours of Bali Rights offered: World (ex Australia and Rights offered: World (ex Australia and New Zealand) New Zealand) Category: Graphic novel, science, history Category: Cookbook, travel Tel: +61 403 733 628 Tel: +61 3 9525 1112 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.theinvisiblewar.com.au Web: www.smudgeeats.com.au The Invisible War is a ground-breaking new graphic novel created Bali’s thriving food scene has never been so exciting, encompassing by a team of Australian artists, scientists, writers, historians and everything from fine dining at luxurious restaurants to sunset educators. Aimed at teenagers and adults, the story combines cocktails at beach-side bars. Whether you’re after seafood in stunning artwork and cutting-edge science to take readers on a unique journey into the human body. Set in 1916, between the Seminyak or coffee in Canggu, we’ve got the ultimate guide on muddy trenches of World War I and the mucus-lined trenches of a where to eat, drink and stay, so that every day is a new culinary nurse’s large intestine, it describes a vast, unseen world populated adventure. With signature recipes, insights into the local culture and by bacteria and viruses, where microscopic battles between ancient profiles of the island’s best chefs, you’ll be returning home with enemies are waged on a daily basis. Sample copies are available for more than just memories of your tropical escape. viewing at Book Systems International Hall 6.2, Stand A59. 16 Bestsellers
AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLERS July 2015 – June 2016
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1 I Quit Sugar: Simplicious 99,000 1 The Dressmaker 131,000 Sarah Wilson, Macmillan ($39.99 pb) Rosalie Ham, Duffy & Snellgrove ($22.99 pb) 2 Fromelles and Pozieres 62,000 2 The Lake House 87,000 Peter FitzSimons, William Heinemann ($49.99 hb) Kate Morton, Allen & Unwin ($32.99 pb) 3 Life in Balance 58,000 3 The Husband’s Secret 83,000 Donna Hay, HarperCollins ($39.99 pb) Liane Moriarty, Pan ($14.99 pb) 4 Super Green Smoothies 53,000 4 Rain Music 72,000 Sally Obermeder & Maha Koraiem, Allen & Unwin Di Morrissey, Macmillan ($35 hb) ($19.99 pb) 5 Spirits of the Ghan 70,000 5 Fast Food for Busy Families 52,000 Judy Nunn, William Heinemann ($32.99 pb) Pete Evans, Plum ($39.99 pb) 6 Big Little Lies 42,000 6 Reckoning 52,000 Liane Moriarty, Pan ($14.99 pb) Magda Szubanski, Text Publishing ($49.99 hb) 7 The Secret Chord 40,000 7 Legacy 40,000 Geraldine Brooks, Hachette ($39.99 hb) Tim Cahill, HarperCollins ($39.99 hb) 8 The Natural Way of Things 29,000 8 Island Home 39,000 Charlotte Wood, Allen & Unwin ($29.99 pb) Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton ($39.99 hb) 9 The Patterson Girls 26,000 9 A Mother’s Story 38,000 Rachael Johns, Mira ($29.99 pb) Rosie Batty & Bryce Corbett, HarperCollins 10 The Perfumer’s Secret 24,000 ($32.99 pb) Fiona McIntosh, Michael Joseph ($32.99 pb) 10 Inside 37,000 11 The Mountain Shadow 23,000 Chris Judd, Allen & Unwin ($39.99 hb) Gregory David Roberts, Picador ($46.99 hb) 11 Slow Cooker Central 37,000 12 The Rosie Project 21,000 Paulene Christie, ABC Books ($24.99 pb) Graeme Simsion, Text Publishing ($29.99 pb) 12 Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography 36,000 13 Jasper Jones 21,000 Malcolm Knox & Peter Lalor, Macmillan ($45 hb) Craig Silvey, Allen & Unwin ($23.99 pb) 13 Going Paleo 33,000 14 The Light between Oceans 21,000 Pete Evans & Nora T Gedgaudas, Plum ($39.99 pb) M L Stedman, Vintage ($22.99 pb) 14 Adam Spencer’s World of Numbers 33,000 15 What Alice Forgot 20,000 Adam Spencer, Xoum ($34.99 pb) Liane Moriarty, Pan ($14.99 pb) 15 Thermo-Struck 33,000 16 An Empty Coast 19,000 Kim McCosker, 4 Ingredients ($29.99 pb) Tony Park, Macmillan ($29.99 pb) 16 Keating 33,000 17 The Narrow Road to the Kerry O’Brien, Allen & Unwin ($49.99 hb) Deep North 18,000 17 Aussie Grit 32,000 Richard Flanagan, Vintage ($19.99 pb) Mark Webber, Macmillan ($39.99 hb) 18 The Dry 18,000 18 The Road to Ruin 32,000 Jane Harper, Macmillan ($32.99 pb) Niki Savva, Scribe ($32.99 pb) 19 Outback Sisters 18,000 19 Flesh Wounds 30,000 Rachael Johns, Mira ($29.99 pb) Richard Glover, ABC Books ($29.99 pb) 20 Standing Strong 17,000 20 The Healthy Life 29,000 Fiona McCallum, Mira ($29.99 pb) Jessica Sepel, Macmillan ($34.99 pb)
Mad for Moriarty Health kick Australian author Liane Moriarty leads the Cookbooks, in particular those promoting field with three books in the Australian healthy eating, continue to dominate fiction bestsellers chart—The Husband’s Australia’s nonfiction bestsellers chart. Secret, Big Little Lies and What Alice Among the bestsellers are Sarah Wilson’s Forgot—while her latest, Truly Madly Guilty, I Quit Sugar: Simplicious, the latest released in Australia in August 2016, is cookbook in Wilson’s ‘I Quit Sugar’ also storming up the charts. But Moriarty brand, which now boasts five print books is not just a local success. Her books have and numerous digital-only books; and been sold in over 40 territories, regularly Super Green Smoothies by sisters Sally appear on US and UK bestseller lists, Obermeder and Maha Koraiem, who share and are being snapped up for TV and film their enthusiasm and recipes for a ‘green adaptation left, right and centre. smoothie lifestyle’. Bestsellers 17
AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLERS July 2015 – June 2016 CHILDREN’S PICTURE CHILDREN’S FICTION YOUNG ADULT BOOKS BOOKS (ILLUSTRATED AND TEXT-BASED)
1 Where is the Green Sheep? 45,000 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse 347,000 1 The Red Queen 18,000 Mem Fox & Judy Horacek, Puffin ($14.99 hb) Andy Griffiths, Pan ($14.99 pb) Isobelle Carmody, Viking ($32.99 pb) 2 Possum Magic 43,000 2 The 13-Storey Treehouse 102,000 2 Illuminae 9000 Mem Fox, Omnibus Books ($15.99 pb) Andy Griffiths, Pan ($14.99 pb) Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, Allen & Unwin 3 Pig the Pug (gift pack) 31,000 3 The 26-Storey Treehouse 87,000 ($19.99 pb) Aaron Blabey, Scholastic ($29.99 hb) Andy Griffiths, Pan ($14.99 pb) 3 Zeroes 8000 4 The Very Noisy Bear 31,000 4 The 52-Storey Treehouse 86,000 Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan & Deborah Biancotti, Allen & Unwin ($19.99 pb) Nick Bland, Scholastic ($16.99 hb) Andy Griffiths, Pan ($14.99 pb) 4 The Singing Bones 6000 5 Pig the Fibber 30,000 5 The 39-Storey Treehouse 82,000 Shaun Tan, Allen & Unwin ($35 hb) Aaron Blabey, Scholastic ($16.99 hb) Andy Griffiths, Pan ($14.99 pb) 5 Tomorrow, When the War Began 4000 6 Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas 29,000 6 Totally Weird! WeirDo 53,000 John Marsden, Pan ($16.99 pb) Aaron Blabey, Scholastic ($16.99 hb) Anh Do, Scholastic ($14.99 pb) 6 Risk 4000 7 Pig the Pug 24,000 7 Super Weird! WeirDo 37,000 Fleur Ferris, Random House ($19.99 pb) Aaron Blabey, Scholastic ($16.99 hb) Anh Do, Scholastic ($14.99 pb) 7 Obernewtyn 4000 8 The Very Cranky Bear 20,000 8 Crazy Weird! WeirDo 35,000 Isobelle Carmody, Penguin ($22.95 pb) Nick Bland, Scholastic ($14.99 pb) Anh Do, Scholastic ($14.99 pb) 8 Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club 3000 9 Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes 20,000 9 The Bad Guys 28,000 Alison Goodman, HarperCollins ($19.99 pb) Mem Fox, Puffin ($16.95 hb) Aaron Blabey, Scholastic ($9.99 pb) 9 The Ghost by the Billabong 3000 10 There is a Monster under My Bed Who Farts 17,000 10 WeirDo 28,000 Jackie French, HarperCollins ($19.99 pb) Tim Miller, ABC Books ($24.99 hb) Anh Do, Scholastic ($14.99 pb) 10 Cloudwish 3000 Fiona Wood, Macmillan ($19.99 pb)
Treehouses and weirdos Humour and cartoon drawings rule in the Australian children’s fiction bestseller chart, which is dominated by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series and Anh Do’s ‘WeirDo’ series. The former continues to go from strength to strength: the latest instalment, The 78-Storey Treehouse, released in Australia in August 2016, sold more copies on its first day than any previous Australian book.
A note on prices All prices given are the recommended retail price (RRP) set by publishers. Under Australian law, this is only a recommended price and retailers are free to discount (or in some cases mark up) prices at their Data supplied by Nielsen BookScan’s book sale monitoring system. © Nielsen BookScan 2016. discretion. At the time of writing, one Australian dollar The figure in the right-hand column is the approximate sales volume. is worth approximately 0.68, US$0.76 and £0.58. 18 Rights survey The rights stuff 2016 For the 14th year in a row, Think Australian has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. Andrew Wrathall and Andrea Hanke report on the survey’s findings.
Majority of rights managers report 12 months, up from 32% last year. Twenty-five year) and nine percent said it had declined (27% steady income percent said it had improved in the past 12 last year). After taking a positive turn in 2014-15, the months, down from 47% last year, and 20% said The average number of rights deals executed Australian rights market has remained relatively it had become worse (21% last year). by an Australian publisher or literary agent during stable over the past year, according to Think Over half (55%) of Australian rights managers the past 12 months was 65, more than double last Australian’s annual survey of Australian literary and literary agents also reported that income year’s average of 31. The average highest deal was agents and rights managers. from overseas rights deals has stayed ‘about the A$51,400/€35,500, down on last year’s average Over half of respondents (55%) said the rights same’, compared to six percent last year. Of those highest deal of A$64,788/€42,036. The average market had remained ‘about the same’ in the past reporting fluctuations, 36% said their income smallest deal was A$715/€490, also down on last from overseas rights deals had grown (67% last year’s average smallest deal of A$1259/€817. The Rights survey 19
largest reported deal was A$140,000/€96,600 and books were also strong categories, while illustrated, geographic/territorial restrictions on ebooks is the smallest reported deal was A$150/€103. business and health books were highlighted as essential (69% last year), with just 10% saying categories in decline. YA was mentioned as both that ‘in time, all geographic restrictions for digital Who is buying Australian books? an increasing and declining category. books will have to disappear’ (38% last year). The UK, US and China are the three strongest Forty percent believe that established markets for Australian rights sales, with the UK Preferred ways to reach the world contractual conventions have to be changed placing at the top of the chart for rights sales by market to match the new digital world, and 30% that income and China for rights sales by number Attendance at the Frankfurt, Bologna and London authors are justified in expecting larger royalties of deals. Germany, Korea and Turkey were also book fairs are the top three conduits for selling on ebooks. near the top of both charts, while Brazil, Russia, rights, according to Australian rights managers One third of respondents said they conduct Hong Kong and Singapore were new entrants. and literary agents, followed by formal sub- e-only deals in markets such as the US, Taiwan Over half of all rights deals (56%) were for agency arrangements with overseas rights agents and China. ‘It’s not even a conversation—except markets in languages other than English, up from and the Australia Council’s Visiting International maybe for Germany, where they’re building ebook 51% last year. Publishers (VIP) program. libraries in romance,’ said one respondent. ‘Some On the question of what the Australian territories (Brazil, China, Taiwan) are still not Developing markets government should do to encourage exports, even asking for ebook rights to go with print.’ Each year, respondents are asked to nominate respondents asked for greater promotion of the territories that they feel are increasing in Australian literary culture and rights successes Future prospects importance. The markets nominated as ‘up and directly to international publishers; financial Australian rights managers and literary agents coming’ this year include China and Korea— assistance to travel to book fairs, industry remain confident in the future of rights which were also on last year’s ‘up and coming conferences and emerging markets; and the sales—50% believe sales will improve in the next list’—as well as Poland. Brazil, Germany and retention of Australia’s parallel import restrictions 12 months and 40% believe they will remain the Spain were nominated as markets in decline. and protection of Australian copyright. same. Just 10% believe they will become slightly worse. Which categories are selling? The digital era The best-performing categories for international When responding to survey questions on digital rights sales were middle-grade fiction, adult rights, 80% said that overseas publishers demand fiction, film and TV tie-ins, and audio. Children’s digital rights along with print, down slightly from picture books, biography, history and parenting 85% last year. Ninety percent said that retaining
The top markets for Australian Most important conduits for rights sales 2016 selling international rights 2016
By Income By Number deals 1. Attendance at Frankfurt Book Fair (1) 2. Attendance at Bologna Book Fair (4) 1. United Kingdom (1) 1. China (3) 3. Attendance at London Book Fair (3) 2. United States (3) 2. United Kingdom (1) 4. Formal sub-agency arrangements with overseas rights agents (2) 3. China (5) 3. United States (2) 5. The Australia Council’s Visiting International Publishers program (5) 4. Germany (2) 4. Germany (4) 6. Scouts (6) 5. Korea (7) 5. Korea (5) 7. Internet-based rights marketplaces (10) 6. Turkey (-) 6. Turkey (7) 8. Formal relationships with sister companies overseas (9) 7. France (4) 7. Brazil (-) 9. Attendance at Taipei International Book Exhibition (7) 8. Norway (10) 8. France (6) 10. Attendance at Australia-China Publishing Forum (-) 9. Poland (9) 9. Hong Kong (-) 10. Singapore (-) 10. Russia (-) (Last year’s ranking is in brackets.) Source: Think Australian survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, (Last year’s ranking is in brackets.) July 2016 Source: Think Australian survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, July 2016 Vol. 69(4) 2016 Pages 361–484 AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF Vol. 69, No. 4, 2016 CHEMISTRY AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF
AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CHEMICAL SCIENCE Vol. 69(4) 2016 Pages 361–484 VOL. 28(1–2) 2016 PAGES 1–268 AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF Vol. 69, No. 4, 2016 Reproduction, Fertility Volume 69 Number 4 2016 Reproduction, Fertility AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF and Development CHEMISTRYCONTENTS AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CHEMICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH FRONT: 5th Molecular Materials Meeting (M3) @ Singapore CHEMISTRY and Development Guest Editors: Curt Wentrup and Yun Zong VolumeForeword 69 Number 4 2016 The 5th Molecular Materials Meeting (M3) @ Singapore AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CHEMICAL SCIENCE Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Y. Zong, T. S. A. Hor 361 Contents Volume 28 Issue 1–2 2016 CONTENTS the International Embryo Transfer Society, Full Papers AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY – AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CHEMICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHCationic Micelles FRONT: Based 5th on PolyhedralMolecular Oligomeric Materials Silsesquioxanes Meeting (M3) for @ Enhanced Singapore Gene Transfection CHEMISTRY C. K. Liu, Q. Dou, S. S. Liow, J. N. Kumar, X. J. Loh 363 Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Embryo Transfer Society, Louisville, Kentucky, 23–26 January 2016 Guest Editors: Curt Wentrup and Yun Zong Louisville, Kentucky, 23–26 January 2016 Hybrid 1,2,3-Triazole Supported CuII Complexes: Tuning Assembly and Weak Interaction-Driven Crystal Growth ForewordS.-Q. Bai, L. Jiang, D. J. Young, T. S. A. Hor 372 5th M3@Singapore StructuralThe 5th Molecular Basis for Materials the Structure–Activity Meeting (M3) Behaviour @ Singapore of Oxaliplatin and its Enantiomeric Analogues: A Molecular AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CHEMICAL SCIENCE Volume 28(1–2 ) 2016 Y. Zong, T. S. A. Hor 361 Recipient of the 2016 IETS Pioneer Award: Charles Earle Pope, PhD xix Dynamics Study of Platinum-DNA Intrastrand Crosslink Adducts J. Yang, J. Chen, Z. Li 379 Causes and consequences of oxidative stress in spermatozoa Full Papers AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY – AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CHEMICAL SCIENCE
R. J. Aitken, Z. Gibb, M. A. Baker, J. Drevet and P. Gharagozloo 1 REPRODUCTION, FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT CationicAn Injectable Micelles Double-Network Based on Polyhedral Hydrogel Oligomeric for Cell Encapsulation Silsesquioxanes for Enhanced Gene Transfection C.P. L.K. Chee, Liu, Q. L. Dou,Lakshmanan, S. S. Liow, S. J.Jiang, N. Kumar, H. Ye, X.D. J. Kai, Loh X. J.363 Loh 388 Fertility and genomics: comparison of gene expression in contrasting reproductive tissues of female cattle II P. A. McGettigan, J. A. Browne, S. D. Carrington, M. A. Crowe, T. Fair, N. Forde, B. J. Loftus, A. Lohan, P. Lonergan, K. Pluta, HybridEnhancement 1,2,3-Triazole of Oxidation Supported of Formic Cu AcidComplexes: in Acid Tuning Medium Assembly on Zirconia-Supported and Weak Interaction-Driven Phosphotungstate-Decorated Crystal Growth S. Mamo, A. Murphy, J. Roche, S. W. Walsh, C. J. Creevey, B. Earley, S. Keady, D. A. Kenny, D. Matthews, M. McCabe, NobleS.-Q. Metal Bai, (Pd,L. Jiang, Pt) Nanoparticles D. J. Young, T. S. A. Hor 372 5th M3@Singapore D. Morris, A. O’Loughlin, S. Waters, M. G. Diskin and A. C. O. Evans 11 StructuralI. A. Rutkowska Basis for the394 Structure–Activity Behaviour of Oxaliplatin and its Enantiomeric Analogues: A Molecular Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Low-Bandgap Conjugated Polymers with Siloxane Side Chains for Electrochromic Applications Mechanisms of epigenetic remodelling during preimplantation development Dynamics Study of Platinum-DNA Intrastrand Crosslink Adducts P. J. Ross and S. Canovas 25 J.Z. Yang,Shi, W. J. T.Chen, Neo, Z. H. Li Zhou, 379 J. Xu 403 AnPolyaniline-Supported Injectable Double-Network Bacterial Hydrogel Biofilms foras Active Cell Encapsulation Matrices for Platinum Nanoparticles: Enhancement of Electroreduction Measuring embryo metabolism to predict embryo quality of CarbonP. L. Chee, Dioxide L. Lakshmanan, S. Jiang, H. Ye, D. Kai, X. J. Loh 388 J. G. Thompson, H. M. Brown and M. L. Sutton-McDowall 41 EnhancementE. Seta, W. ofA. OxidationLotowska, I.of A. Formic Rutkowska, Acid A.in Wadas,Acid Medium A. Raczkowska, on Zirconia-Supported M. Nieckarz, K. Brzostek,Phosphotungstate-Decorated P. J. Kulesza 411 Determinant molecular markers for peri-gastrulating bovine embryo development NobleEfficient Metal Synthesis (Pd, Pt) of NanoparticlesAll-Aryl Phenazasilines for Optoelectronic Applications I. Hue 51 I.S. A.Xu, Rutkowska H. Li, Y. Tang, 394 R. Chen, X. Xie, X. Zhou, G. Xing, W. Huang 419 Role of progesterone in embryo development in cattle Diketopyrrolopyrrole-BasedAu-Pd Bimetallic Nanoparticle Low-Bandgap Electrodes for Conjugated Direct Electroreduction Polymers with ofSiloxane Hexavalent Side ChromiumChains for ElectrochromicComplexes Applications P. Lonergan, N. Forde and T. Spencer 66 Z.R. Shi,S. Moakhar, W. T. Neo, M. H. B. Zhou,Hariri, J. A.Xu Kushwaha, 403 A. Dolati, M. Ghorbani, G. K. L. Goh 423 Empirical Formulae in Correlating Droplet Shape and Contact Angle Adaptability and potential for treatment of placental functions to improve embryonic development and postnatal health Polyaniline-Supported Bacterial Biofilms as Active Matrices for Platinum Nanoparticles: Enhancement of Electroreduction J. C. Cross 75 of CarbonT. I. Wong, Dioxide H. Wang, F. Wang, S. L. Sin, C. G. Quan, S. J. Wang, X. Zhou 431 E. Seta, W. A. Lotowska, I. A. Rutkowska, A. Wadas, A. Raczkowska, M. Nieckarz, K. Brzostek, P. J. Kulesza 411 Pregnancy losses in cattle: potential for improvement Efficient Synthesis of All-Aryl Phenazasilines for Optoelectronic Applications M. G. Diskin, S. M. Waters, M. H. Parr and D. A. Kenny 83 S. Xu, H. Li, Y. Tang, R. Chen, X. Xie, X. Zhou, G. Xing, W. Huang 419 Breeding animals for quality products: not only genetics Au-Pd Bimetallic Nanoparticle Electrodes for Direct Electroreduction of Hexavalent Chromium Complexes P. Chavatte-Palmer, A. Tarrade, H. Kiefer, V. Duranthon and H. Jammes 94 R. S. Moakhar, M. B. Hariri, A. Kushwaha, A. Dolati, M. Ghorbani, G. K. L. Goh 423 Continued on inside back cover Livestock in biomedical research: history, current status and future prospective Empirical Formulae in Correlating Droplet Shape and Contact Angle I. A. Polejaeva, H. M. Rutigliano and K. D. Wells 112 T. I. Wong, H. Wang, F. Wang, S. L. Sin, C. G. Quan, S. J. Wang, X. Zhou 431
Assisted reproduction with gametes and embryos: what research is needed and fundable? G. E. Seidel Jr 125
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A grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles has been gathering momentum, writes Sophie Teague.
n 2015, a group of authors, teachers and other YA literature lovers that differs from contemporary and historical YA going on in the US. It’s a from around Australia met up to discuss how to get more Australian different type of writing, perhaps slightly tighter in execution. I think there’s content into the hands of local readers. The conversation was sparked also less focus on romance in Australian YA than in US—books like Fiona by the release of the Australian Library Information Association’s ‘most Wood’s Wildlife (Pan Macmillan) is about friendship in a way we don’t see Iborrowed’ books list; of the top 10 most borrowed YA novels in Australian much of in the US because we see much more romance.’ libraries in the first quarter of 2015, just two were Australian, alongside eight Binks describes Australian YA as a ‘kaleidoscopic landscape’—‘while American ones. we may be best known for being “fresh and voice-y and unique” writers of The #LoveOzYA campaign emerged from these discussions, inspired contemporary-literary stories, there’s a whole underworld of genre toiling by the UK campaign ‘Project UK-YA’ by UK blogger Lucy Powrie. Both away in alternate realities and galaxies that we offer too.’ campaigns have a similar aim: to shine a light on local content and encourage ‘I do think Australian YA is especially well known and admired in the US teens to look beyond the ‘flood of American YA’. for its contemporary “literary” YA and character-driven novels,’ says Binks, Since its launch, #LoveOzYA has been steadily gathering momentum. citing Melina Marchetta’s On the Jellicoe Road (Penguin), which won the The campaign’s social media includes a Facebook group, a Twitter account, prestigious Michael L Printz Award in the US, as well as shortlisted titles YA podcast and an interactive #LoveOzYA website, which features a Sonya Hartnett’s Surrender (Penguin) and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief dedicated section on diversity in Australian YA. The campaign has also (Pan Macmillan). ‘Those authors are still incredibly popular overseas and produced a series of posters matching Aussie YA novels to popular US novels, they very much set the pace for how Aussie YA is viewed internationally.’ encouraging Australian teens to look beyond their favourite US bestsellers More recently, a new crop of contemporary Aussie YA books have broken and discover similar Australian titles. into the US market, including Alice Pung’s Laurinda (Black Inc.), published But #LoveOzYA isn’t just gathering support online. Bookstores, libraries as Lucy and Linh in the US, a ‘rumination on high school power dynamics’; and schools are joining in to promote Australian literature for teens. A J Betts’s Zac & Mia (Text Publishing), a ‘thoughtful and tender portrayal Australian bookselling chain Dymocks has held a #LoveOzYA promotion of teens living through the worst time in their life’; and Girl Defective by celebrating over 40 Australian YA titles, while several indie bookstores have Simmone Howell (Pan Macmillan), ‘at once a contemporary mystery and held events discussing Australian YA literature and promoting forthcoming homage to music and art’. There’s also The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon YA releases. Girl by Melissa Keil (Hardie Grant Egmont), which has ‘a protagonist with The publishing industry has also taken notice, with HarperCollins a very timely obsession with Wonder Woman and comic illustration, that’s Australia commissioning a YA anthology inspired by the #LoveOzYA interwoven with an end-of-the-world doomsday scenario and love triangle’; campaign, which will be edited by #LoveOzYA committee member Danielle and Ellie Marney’s ‘Every’ crime trilogy (Allen & Unwin), a ‘contemporary Binks and published in May 2017. spin on Sherlock Holmes’. Binks is also keen to highlight the success of Australia’s ‘pretty kick-butt spec-fic writers’. ‘The biggest right now are probably Amie Kaufman and Jay Aussie appeal Kristoff, who have teamed up for the blockbuster “Illuminae Files” (Allen & How do international audiences perceive Australian YA? US blogger Unwin) series. As individual writers they’ve also had some incredible success.’ and editor at BookRiot Kelly Jensen describes it as ‘fresh and voice-y and ‘Then there’s the “Zeroes” series (Allen & Unwin)—about superhero unique’. ‘It’s very layered writing and storytelling, with a voice and feel to “zeroes”—written by Australian authors Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti it that differs from American YA in a way I can’t quite put my finger on,’ and Scott Westerfeld (okay, he’s American—but married to superstar Aussie says Jensen. ‘I think about books like Friday Never Leaving (Friday Brown author Justine Larbalestier, so we claim him for our own!),’ says Binks. by Vikki Wakefield, Text Publishing) and The Golden Day (by Ursula To find out more about the #LoveOzYA campaign, visit loveozya.com.au. Dubosarsky, Allen & Unwin) and they just have this voice and style to them YA Publishing 21 22 Screen adaptations Screen
stories An increasing number of Australian books are being turned into films or television series, reports Jackie Tang.
he past five years has seen a significant Australian-born author Anna Snoekstra found Williams believes a ‘unique voice’ and ‘international rise in Australian books adapted for herself fielding film interest in her debut thriller appeal’ are important for nonfiction adaptations, and the screen, with adaptations currently Only Daughter (Harlequin) after it was listed says one of the reasons why Benjamin Law’s memoir- making up nearly 50% of Australian in the Publishers Marketplace trade newsletter. turned-television series The Family Law (Black Inc.) TTV and film producers’ slated projects in 2016. ‘This one-paragraph blurb immediately got the was so adaptable was because of its ‘strong central Penguin Random House senior rights manager attention of a book-to-film agent at Creative character of young Benjamin’ and ‘universal themes Nerrilee Weir reports ‘it’s been fantastic’ for the Arts Agency,’ says Snoekstra. ‘He asked to read of humour and family love’. publisher. ‘There’s more interest than ever in the manuscript, finished it within twenty-four Australian producers are also slowly turning books as source material for film and television hours and started passing it along to directors to children’s literature, with Screen Australia adaptation, and it’s been that way for the past and producers we thought might be interested.’ approving funding for a number of projects in three to five years,’ she says. ‘We’re doing more Snoekstra, who sold the film option to Working 2015-16, including Tales from Outer Suburbia and more film options across all lists—adult, Title, thinks what makes her Australia-set novel (Shaun Tan, Allen & Unwin), This is Shyness children’s fiction, nonfiction, memoir, true crime.’ relevant to a US audience is the subject matter: (Leanne Hall, Text Publishing) and The Farseekers For Australian publishers, the main benefit ‘It’s about the paranoia of our current cultural (Isobelle Carmody, Penguin). from this increased interest is the boost in sales, climate; I guess Americans could relate.’ Weir believes ‘producers are all looking for particularly for backlist titles that are re-released Letting the local screen industry know such different things that it’s difficult to say into bookstores with a film tie-in cover and about their titles is also a priority for Australian what generates interest’. ‘It’s not necessarily renewed publicity. ‘A book can have a whole publishers, with both Weir and Williams touting the bestsellers or the most awarded titles, but second sales life—in many cases much bigger than the value of government-supported programs something intrinsic in the writing that simply its initial sales,’ says Black Inc. senior rights director such as ‘Books at MIFF’ at the Melbourne grabs a producer and their imagination,’ she says. Sophy Williams, who works with producers on International Film Festival and ‘From Page to Passion was what drew Emma Dockery and timing the book’s re-release to capitalise on sales. Screen’ at Sydney’s Vivid Ideas festival, where Katia Nizic to successfully pitch for the film option She notes that ‘a feature film tie-in will generally creatives from the publishing and screen industries to Charlotte Wood’s 2015 novel The Natural Way of outsell a tie-in to a documentary or series’. can discuss potential new adaptations. Penguin Things (Allen & Unwin). Nizic says she ‘instantly’ Nowhere is this more evident than in Random House also send a bi-monthly newsletter saw the book’s potential to be a film after she first the success of Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel The to producers on their mailing list, but Weir notes read it, and recommended it to Dockery, who Dressmaker (Duffy & Snellgrove). The 2015 that film ‘remains strangely passive’. ‘Most of the ‘read it in one sitting and fell equally in love with film adaptation starring Kate Winslet prompted queries come to us via a producer seeing a review it’. Having received several awards nominations, independent publisher Duffy & Snellgrove to of a title or seeing it in a bookshop. Producers are Wood’s novel was generating plenty of adaptation release a film tie-in edition in mid-2015, the actively looking at books but they’re doing it on interest. ‘We knew that there were other producers first new book from the publisher in a decade. their own terms,’ she says. in contention, pitches from people who would It has since sold over 130,000 copies, making it have undoubtedly had more experience (and the bestselling Australian adult title for the past Selection criteria money) than us,’ says Dockery. ‘Our pitch [for a year. Ham’s agent Jenny Darling sold the rights in micro-budget film adaptation] really relied on the the title to 11 territories and attributes the flurry When it comes to the types of books that are fact we passionately loved the book, and we wanted of global interest to ‘the sheer ambition of the generating the most interest, it’s difficult to pin to do something different with it.’ film’ and its rare mix of international and down a common theme. ‘Good quality Australian Looking to the future, Williams believes Australian stars. fiction seems to lend itself best to adaptation,’ recent campaigns for diversity may lead to more says Williams, who singles out the ‘particular adaptations of multicultural and non-mainstream Getting noticed adaptability of short fiction’ such as Tim Winton’s voices and a wider proliferation of delivery collection The Turning (Penguin) and the channels. ‘There is a trend away from feature films Global attention for Australian books is growing television-friendly nature of Christos Tsiolkas’ and into television series or mini-series, with a with The Dry (Jane Harper, Macmillan), Burial novels The Slap and Barracuda (both Allen & growing variety of online delivery platforms,’ says Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador), Illuminae (Amie Unwin). Forthcoming adaptations of Australian Williams. ‘So long as governments continue to Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, Allen & Unwin) and novels Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, Allen & Unwin), support the arts, including film and television, Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies (Pan) and Truly Breath (Tim Winton, Penguin), Berlin Syndrome digital and publishing, there will be opportunities Madly Guilty (Macmillan) all being optioned by (Melanie Joosten, Scribe) and The Wrong Girl for exciting collaboration and promotion for high-profile US production companies. (Zoe Foster, Penguin) back this up. Australian stories.’ title showcase / Exhibitors list 23
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