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January to June 2020 THE TEXT PUBLISHING COMPANY JANUARY–JUNE 2020 Level 10, 22 William Street Publicity [email protected] Cover design Jessica Horrocks Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia Sales [email protected] Cover images iStock p: +613 8610 4500 f: +613 9629 8621 Rights [email protected] Design/production Simone Geary textpublishing.com.au [email protected] Export [email protected] Editorial/co-ordination Stefanie Italia 2 Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann 25 Three Brothers Yan Lianke 48 Hunting Game Helene Tursten 2020 26 Cafe Scheherazade Arnold Zable 50 Flames Robbie Arnott 26 Time without Clocks Joan Lindsay JANUARY JUNE 4 Why We Can’t Sleep Ada Calhoun APRIL 47 Elizabeth Costello & Slow Man J. M. Coetzee 5 Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson 27 Dirty Linen Rachel Ward 49 Winter Grave Helene Tursten 6 Necessary People Anna Pitoniak 28 Friends and Rivals Brenda Niall 51 The Rain Heron Robbie Arnott 8 Two Girls Down Louisa Luna 30 City of Trees Sophie Cunningham 52 Wintering Krissy Kneen 12 The Helpline Katherine Collette 31 The Shadow Melanie Raabe 53 One Day I’ll Tell You Everything Emmanuelle Pagano 14 Bitter Wash Road Garry Disher 32 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 54 Lapse Sarah Thornton 33 Exploded View Carrie Tiffany FEBRUARY 55 Room for a Stranger Melanie Cheng 9 The Janes Louisa Luna 34 Grandmothers Edited by Helen Elliott 56 Pluses and Minuses Stefan Buijsman 10 Cherry Beach Laura McPhee-Browne 36 The Italian Teacher Tom Rachman 13 Universal Love Alexander Weinstein 37 A Strange Country Muriel Barbery TEXT FOR YA & CHILDREN 60 19 Love Songs David Levithan 15 The Sunken Road Garry Disher MAY 16 Griffith Review 67 Edited by Ashley Hay 38 The Mountain Massimo Donati 61 The Republic of Birds Jessica Miller 17 Indelicacy Amina Cain 39 The Long Shadow Anne Buist 62 The List of Things that Will Not Change Rebecca Stead MARCH 41 Soldiers Tom Remiger 18 The Watermill Arnold Zable 42 The Freedom of Emma Herwegh 63 Please Don’t Hug Me Kay Kerr 20 The Last Homeland Matteo Righetto Dirk Kurbjuweit 64 The End of the World Is Bigger than Love 21 Blueberries Ellena Savage 43 Anaesthesia Kate Cole-Adams Davina Bell 22 The Death of Noah Glass Gail Jones 44 Greek to Me Mary Norris RIGHTS, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. 23 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 45 The Rosie Result Graeme Simsion 66 ebooks & distribution 24 The Fragments Toni Jordan 46 Griffith Review 68 Edited by Ashley Hay 68 rights DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT LUCY ELLMANN Lucy Ellmann’s first novel, Sweet Desserts, …the fact that at least the chickens really do love won the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her short me, the fact that we kill fifty or sixty billion chickens stories have appeared in magazines, newspapers and anthologies, and she a year, not me, other people, the fact that Mommy’s has written for the New York Times, illness wrecked my life, the fact that it broke me, the Washington Post, Guardian, Independent, fact that I am broken, heartbroken, heart operation, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Telegraph, New Statesman heart scar, broke… and Society, Spectator, Herald, Scottish Review of Books, Time Out (London), Art SHORTLISTED for the 2019 Booker Prize Monthly, Thirsty Books, Bookforum, Aeon, AN Ohio mother bakes pies while the world bombards her Evergreen and Baffler. American by birth, she now lives in Scotland. with radioactivity and fake facts. She worries about her @FictionAtelier children, caramelisation, chickens, guns, tardigrades, medical bills, environmental disaster, mystifying confrontations at the supermarket, and the best time to plant nasturtiums. She regrets most of her past, a million tiny embarrassments, her poverty, the loss of her mother, and the genocide on which the United States was founded. But in Lucy Ellmann’s scorching indictment of American barbarity comes a plea for kindness. Ducks, Newburyport is a heresy, a wonder, and a revolution in the novel. It is also unforgivably funny. RRP A$34.99 FICTION PB ISBN 9781922268938, 1040pp EBOOK ISBN 9781925923421 RIGHTS HELD ANZ OTHER RIGHTS Galley Beggar Press 2 TEXT PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2019 ‘Lunatic and splenetic ‘One of the outstanding and distinctive…[Lucy Ellmann] books of the century.’ might be some sort of genius.’ ‘As accumulative, as pointed, as Irish Times Telegraph death-addled, as joyous, as storied, as multitudinous and as large as life.’ New York Times Book Review ‘Hilarious, eye-wateringly funny… I have found a new hero in Lucy Ellmann.’ ‘No other novel published this ‘A triumph.’ Scotsman year is likely to have a stronger claim on the attention of Guardian contemporary or future readers.’ ‘Ulysses has nothing on this.’ Literary Review Cosmopolitan ‘Ellmann has created a wisecracking, melancholy Mrs Dalloway for the internet age.’ Financial Times ‘A wildly ambitious and righteously angry portrait of contemporary America.’ Observer WHY WE CAN’T SLEEP WOMEN’S NEW MIDLIFE CRISIS ADA CALHOUN Why We Can’t Sleep is reassuring, empowering and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them. WHEN Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she felt she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. Why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other GILBERT KING GILBERT Ada Calhoun is the author of the memoir Generation X women were miserable, too? Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, named an Research into housing costs, HR trends, debt figures Amazon Book of the Month and one of the and divorce data, and speaking to women across the top ten memoirs of 2017 by W Magazine; country, revealed a pattern: Gen X women were facing and the history St Marks Is Dead, one of the best books of 2015, according to new problems as they entered middle age, problems that Kirkus and the Boston Globe. She has were being largely overlooked. collaborated on several New York Times In Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun opens up the bestsellers, and written for the New York Times, New York and the New Republic. cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament adacalhoun.com and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the facebook.com/ada.calhoun abyss—and keep the next generation of women from @adacalhoun falling in. ‘Ada Calhoun’s artistry as a writer makes her the perfect guide through the rough business of middle age.’ Kathleen Hanna of RRP A$32.99 NON-FICTION PB ISBN 9781922268419, 288pp Bikini Kill EBOOK ISBN 9781925923070 RIGHTS HELD ANZ OTHER RIGHTS Grove Atlantic 4 TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY 2020 NOTHING TO SEE HERE KEVIN WILSON ‘I took a class in fire safety, too,’ I said. ‘I know how to use a fire extinguisher.’ ‘On a child?’ he asked. ‘If they’re on fire,’ I told him. He walked over to the kitchen and opened the door to what I thought was a pantry. Instead, it was filled top to bottom with gleaming red fire extinguishers. BUCK BUTLER ‘Well, then I guess you’ll be fine.’ Kevin Wilson is the author of the collections Tunneling to the Center of the LILLIAN and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet Earth, which received an Alex Award from inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. Then the American Library Association and the Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, as well as two novels: of a scandal and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, The Family Fang and Perfect Little World. when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for He lives with his family in Sewanee, her help. Tennessee, where he is an associate professor in the English department Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her at the University of the South. family and she wants Lillian to be their carer. However, wilsonkevin.com there’s a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. RRP A$29.99 A moving and hilarious novel about finding meaning FICTION PB ISBN 9781922268334, 288pp in the most unlikely of places. EBOOK ISBN 9781925923032 RIGHTS HELD UK & Comm excl Canada OTHER RIGHTS Abner Stein in association with The Book Group TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY 2020 5 NECESSARY PEOPLE ANNA PITONIAK As the subway roared into the station, I felt the urge to jump. It wasn’t that I wanted to die. It was a kind of curiosity, testing the limits of personal freedom. What would it be like, to do the worst possible thing? FROM the moment they met in college, Stella and Violet were best friends. Beautiful, privileged Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking Violet stays behind the scenes. ANDREW BARTHOLOMEW Anna Pitoniak is the author of Necessary When they graduate and move to New York, Violet People and The Futures. She graduated finally steps out of Stella’s shadow and begins to make from Yale, where she majored in English a life and career for herself in cable news. But an envious and was an editor at the Yale Daily Stella uses her family’s clout to get a job at the same News. She worked for many years in book publishing, most recently as a Senior network, quickly rising through the ranks. As the two Editor at Random House. Anna grew up in women strive for success, each reveals just how far she’ll Whistler, British Columbia, and now lives go to get what she wants—even if it means destroying the in New York City. other along the way. annapitoniak.com facebook.com/annacpitoniak/ Written with propulsive intensity, Necessary People @annapitoniak explores the dangerous fault lines of female friendships, and the limits of ambition, loyalty and love.
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