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FREMANTLE PRESS NEWS Welcome to the Fremantle Press newsletter for retailers. Can we help? Contact us for merchandise, event bookings, co-promotion opportunities, reading copies and more. WHAT’S NEW: JUNE 2015 Overview Detective Daniel Clement is back in Broome, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town inexperienced cops. But stagnation and lethargy soon evaporate when a man is found dead in a crocodile-infested watering hole. As a monster cyclone brews on the horizon, Clement finds himself following the murky trail of a decades old mystery. Crime fiction * 9781925161175 (PB) What’s planned Media: Interviews in Good Reading Magazine, Scoop Magazine, The West Australian and local newspapers in Sydney and Perth. Reviews in Herald Sun, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Advertiser, Austra and The Examiner. Radio interviews on ABC Perth and Sydney, 6PR, RTR FM, 2SER and more. Advertising: Good Reading Magazine, Australian Book Review, plus book trade advertising in Sydney and Melbourne and online advertising on Google, Facebook and the Australian Crime Writers Association website. 9781925 161175 About the author Dave Warner is the author of nine novels and six non-fiction titles, and has written for feature film, stage, television, radio and newspapers. His first book, City of Light, won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction. Dave Warner originally gained national recognition as a musician-songwriter. His nine albums include the gold album Mug’s Game. In 1992 he was the inaugural inductee into the West Australian Rock’n’Roll of Renown. Dave has also written screenplays – two that have been made into films are Cut (1999), starring Molly Ringwald and Kylie Minogue, and Garage Days, co- written and directed by Alex Proyas and starring Pia Miranda. Warner was a guest of the Perth Fringe Festival in February 2015 and will return to Perth to play with his band and to launch his book in June. Dave Warner is based in Sydney. Find us on Facebook @FremantlePress WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING Feature author: Brendan Ritchie FREMANTLE PRESS Brendan Ritchie is a writer and filmmaker who grew up in Esperance and now lives crime & mystery near Fremantle, WA. COLLECTION Brendan is a poet whose work ‘Please Lord – make my boy famous’ was selected by Les Fremantle Press is building a list of quality Murray for The Best Australian Poems 2005. crime novels. Here’s a selection from the backlist. His film credits include Woody Island, which premiered at the Festival of the Wind in Praise for the‘It’s aauthors winner’ Esperance 2011; the post-apocalyptic short Sydney Morning Herald film Bridgetown, which was shortlisted in the WA Screen Awards and won Best Drama at ‘riveting reading’ The Examiner the Murdoch Media Festival; and Matinee, ‘... an excellent read’ which won Best Film and Best Director at 9781925162257 (PB) The West Australian the Grass Roots Short Film Festival. ‘an atmospheric and sharply Taking a break from making films, Brendan written thriller’ The Saturday Age wrote his first novel, Carousel, within Young adult * 9781925162141 (PB) adult Young a creative writing PhD at Edith Cowan 9781925 162257 University. He is a sessional tutor and lecturer in ‘a quirky blend of fantasy and screenwriting and creative writing at crime fiction.’ 9781925 162141 > The West Australian Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University and is a guest of the inaugural ‘a cleverly plotted period piece Mazenod College Literature Festival in April 9781925161410 (PB) with sharply realised characters.’ 2015. Sydney Morning Herald 9781925 161410 ‘This extraordinary novel com- bines the grip and pull of a good thriller with the complexity, ISBN 9781922089755 intelligence and passion of a 9781922089755 (PB) writer with plenty to say and exceptional talent to say it.’ The Age Young adult * 9781922089854 (PB) adult Young Picture book * 9781925161151 (HB) Picture 9781922 089755 ‘reminiscent of Alex Garland’s 9781925 161151 > The Beach.’ Canberra Times 9781922 089854 > ‘fast-moving and engaging crime Crashing Down by Kate McCaffrey andThe Last Viking Returns 9781922089540 (PB) fiction’ The West Australian by Norman Jorgensen and James Foley are on the shortlist for the 2015 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards. 9781922 089540 DISTRIBUTION Contact your local Penguin sales representative. FREMANTLE PRESS E: [email protected] T: 08 9430 6331 W: fremantlepress.com.au.