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02 Text Classics 22 When the Sky Fell Apart Caroline Lea JUNE 24 Medea’s Curse Anne Buist 45 Wasted Elspeth Muir JANUARY 46 I’m Thinking of Ending Things Iain Reid 04 Between You & Me Mary Norris APRIL 48 The Bones of Grace Tahmima Anam 05 This House of Grief Helen Garner 23 What the Light Hides Mette Jakobsen 49 Dead Men Don’t Order Flake Sue Williams 06 Quota Jock Serong 25 Dangerous to Know Anne Buist 50 Second-hand Time Svetlana Alexievich 26 Everywhere I Look Helen Garner FEBRUARY 28 The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion 07 Cure Jo Marchant TEXT FOR YA & CHILDREN 29 The Rosie Effect Graeme Simsion 54 Clancy of the Undertow Christopher Currie 08 The High Mountains of Portugal Yann Martel 30 The Trap Melanie Raabe 55 Iris and the Tiger Leanne Hall 10 Griffith Review 51 edited by Julianne 32 Bloodhound Ramona Koval 56 Max Sarah Cohen-Scali Schultz and Anne Tiernan 33 One Life Kate Grenville 57 Waer Meg Caddy 11 The Passion of Mademoiselle S. 34 The Notebook Trilogy Ágota Kristóf 58 Julius and the Watchmaker Tim Hehir edited and introduced by Jean-Yves Berthault 59 Julius and the Soulcatcher Tim Hehir MAY 60 A Toaster on Mars Darrell Pitt 12 Fever at Dawn Péter Gárdos 35 Griffith Review 52 edited by Julianne 14 The Interpreter Diego Marani Schultz and Brendan Gleeson 61 You Know Me Well David Levithan and Nina LaCour 15 Fear Is the Rider Kenneth Cook 36 The Most Good You Can Do Peter Singer MARCH 37 The Fighter Arnold Zable BACKLIST, RIGHTS ETC 16 The Life of Elves Muriel Barbery 38 Our Tiny, Useless Hearts Toni Jordan 64 fiction backlist highlights 18 How to Set a Fire and Why Jesse Ball 40 Second Life S. J. Watson 66 non-fiction backlist highlights 19 The Sick Bag Song Nick Cave 41 Keep Me Posted Lisa Beazley 68 YA & children backlist highlights 20 The Snow Kimono Mark Henshaw 42 Good People Nir Baram 70 ebooks & distribution 21 Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down 44 Men Marie Darrieussecq 72 rights Choose your next great read from the list of nearly 100 Text Classics. Forthcoming Classics include Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy, M. J. Hyland’s Carry Me Down, John Foster’s Take Me to Paris, Johnny, Herz Bergner’s Between Sky & Sea and a new edition of Kenneth Mackenzie’s The Young Desire It, all with special accompanying essays.
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2 TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY–JUNE 2016 TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY–JUNE 2016 3 BETWEEN YOU & ME CONFESSIONS OF A COMMA QUEEN MARY NORRIS
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‘Enlightening, useful, and often outright hilarious… From exclamation marks to emoticons, swear words to split infinitives, Mary Norris is the bomb.’ Australian Women’s Weekly JOSEF ASTOR ‘What is immediately beguiling about Between You & Me: Mary Norris joined the editorial staff of the New Yorker in 1978 and has been a Confessions of a Comma Queen is the extraordinary query proofreader at the magazine since amount of ground Norris covers…[She is] wise, funny, 1993. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, precise and knowledgeable.’ Sydney Morning Herald she lives in New York and Rockaway. ‘This book is so much fun to read. Get it and revel in the Between You & Me is her first book. delights and conundrums of a life spent amid words.’ commaqueen.net Good Reading @MaryNorrisTNY ‘So warm and un-fusty that the pages just slip by. Yet it manages in its final few to sneak in thoughtful discussions of, among other disputes, swearing, commas, colons and semicolons.’ Listener ‘Very funny, lucid, and lively.’ New Republic ‘Hilarious…[Between You & Me] charmed my socks off.’ RRP A$22.99 New York Times Book Review NON-FICTION PB ISBN 9781925240993, 240pp ‘Down-to-earth memoir interwoven with idiosyncratic, E-ISBN 9781925095807 often funny ruminations on the nuts and bolts of language.’ RIGHTS HELD ANZ OTHER RIGHTS W. W. Norton & Company Boston Globe
4 TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY 2016 THIS HOUSE OF GRIEF THE STORY OF A MURDER TRIAL HELEN GARNER
I saw it on the TV news. Night. Low foliage. Water, misty and black. Blurred lights, a chopper. Men in hi-vis and helmets. Something very bad here. Something frightful. Oh Lord, let this be an accident. Winner, 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime ON Father’s Day 2005, three young boys drowned when
NICHOLAS PURCELL the car their father was driving went off the road and Helen Garner writes novels, stories, plunged into a dam. screenplays and works of non-fiction. Was it possible that this could be a deliberate In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature. Her act, an embittered ex-husband’s revenge on his wife? most recent novel, The Spare Room, When the case went to court, it became Helen Garner’s published in 2008, won the Victorian obsession, and she followed the proceedings until the Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier’s Award for final verdict. Fiction and the Barbara Jefferis Award. In This House of Grief, Garner describes the theatre of the court—its actors and audience all gathered to bear witness to an elusive truth—in an extraordinary account of the quest for justice. ‘Helen Garner is an invaluable guide into harrowing territory and offers powerful and unforgettable insights. This House RRP A$23.99 NON-FICTION PB ISBN 9781925240689, 320pp of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with E-ISBN 9781921961434 In Cold Blood.’ Kate Atkinson RIGHTS HELD World RIGHTS SOLD Armenia—Guitank Publishing; ‘[Garner] has turned a courtroom drama into something deeply Germany—Berlin Verlag. human.’ Jennifer Byrne in Australian Women’s Weekly.
TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY 2016 5 QUOTA JOCK SERONG
‘What do you want me to say, Your Honour? Could you have cocked this thing up any worse? Bloody helpless kid and you know she’s back out on the street now. You know it, don’t you? You’re known throughout the state as a heartless old prick and a drunk and seeing I’ve gone this far, your daughter-in-law’s appointment to the court is widely viewed as a grubby political payoff. She’s got
MICK SOWRY about as much ability as you have…’ Jock Serong lives and works on the far southwest coast of Victoria. He is a Winner, 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction features writer and lecturer, and was founding editor of Great Ocean Quarterly. CHARLIE Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown and his girlfriend ‘Serong’s prose is evocative, has finally left him. When an old friend slings him a his dialogue convincing, and the atmosphere of small-town prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal life pungently suggested.’ town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea Sydney Morning Herald air might be good for him. The case is a murder. The victim was involved in the illegal abalone trade and the even more illegal drug trade. The witnesses aren’t talking. And as Dauphin closes ranks around him, Charlie is about to find his interest in the law powerfully reignited. RRP A$22.99 FICTION PB ISBN 9781925355055, 272pp E-ISBN 9781922148933 RIGHTS HELD World
6 TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY 2016 GARRY SIMPSON OTHER RIGHTSCanongateBooks RIGHTS HELDANZ E-ISBN 9781922148728 NON-FICTION PBISBN9781922147721,368pp RRP A$32.99 @JoMarchant jomarchant.com and worked asaneditoratNewScientist winning sciencejournalist,andhas medical microbiology. Sheisanaward- Jo MarchanthasaPhDingeneticsand JO MARCHANT A JOURNEYINTOTHESCIENCEOFMINDOVERBODY CURE Nature. Cure isherthirdbook.
how wecanusethe findingsinourownlives. and physiologicalprocessesinvolved. Andsheexplains ability toheal,delvingintotheneurological, hormonal is controlledwithhalfthenormaldose ofmedication. arctic worldtotreattheirburnsand childrenwhoseADHD faster fromsurgery. We meetwarveteransusingavirtual expectancy, andhowpatientswhofeelcaredforrecover and dementia,howsocialconnectionsincreaselife learn howmeditationprotectsagainstdepression on thecuttingedgeofanewworldmedicine.We world tomeetthephysicians,patientsandresearchers AWARD-WINNING sciencewriterJoMarchanttravelsthe practitioners. I’mtalking,ofcourse,aboutthemind. millions ofsane,intelligentpeopletoalternative contributing totheriseofchronicdiseaseandsending vital ingredientinphysicalhealth;anomissionthat’s they, alongwithconventionaldoctors,aremissinga have gotitcompletelyrighteither. Iwonderedwhether and healingenergyfields,Idon’tthinkthesceptics advocates aredeludedwiththeirtalkofwatermemory Although Ibelievethatthealternativemedicine Marchant exploresthevastpotential ofthemind’s TEXT PUBLISHING FEBRUARY 2016 7 EMMA LOVE YANN MARTEL THE HIGHMOUNTAINS OFPORTUGAL 8 OTHER RIGHTSWestwood CreativeArtists RIGHTS HELDANZ E-ISBN 9781925095722 FICTION PBISBN9781922182814,352pp RRP A$29.99 @WriterYann facebook.com/yannmartelauthor Man BookerPrize-winningLifeofPi. the internationallyacclaimed2002 Canada andthreenovels,including of letterstothePrimeMinister collection ofshortstories,abook Yann Martelistheauthorofa TEXT PUBLISHING FEBRUARY 2016
through thehumansoul. on aroadtripthroughPortugalinthe lastcentury, and ghost story, partcontemporaryfable—takes thereader quest willcometoanunexpectedconclusion. companion: achimpanzee.Andtherethecentury-old loss ofhisbelovedwife.Buthearriveswithanunusual his ancestralvillageinnorthernPortugal,grievingthe drawn intotheconsequencesofTomás’s quest. himself atthecentreofamurdermysteryhisownand devoted tothemurdermysteriesofAgathaChristiefinds out insearchofthisstrangetreasure. Travelling inoneofEurope’s earliestautomobiles,hesets artifact that—ifhecanfindit—wouldredefinehistory. an oldjournal.Ithintsattheexistenceofextraordinary IN From theinternationallybestsellingauthorofLifePi. Lisbon in1904,ayoungmannamedTomás discovers —part quest, part The HighMountainsofPortugal—partquest,part Fifty yearson,aCanadiansenatortakesrefugein Thirty-five yearslater, aPortuguesepathologist ‘A book of great wisdom and beauty: playful and profound, wry and enigmatic, it had me utterly enthralled.’ Gavin Francis on The High Mountains of Portugal ‘A short masterpiece…A serious and convincing work that demands to be read.’ Guardian on The Facts Behind the Helsinki What life was this, what gift? Roccamatios he had wondered. What were the ‘Somewhere between Beckett and Ionesco… instructions? Who was this Father with its textures of genre and allegory, there also comes an explosion of ideas that keep Ulisses? When he pried open the the pages turning…a wild, provocative volume, the spine made the sound novel.’ Independent on Beatrice and Virgil of small bones breaking. Handwriting ‘One encounters page after page of images burst out with startling freshness, and observations riveting in their precision and insight…A story to make you believe in the black ink standing in high contrast the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its to the ivory paper. The italic, quill- human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel.’ Los Angeles Times penned script was from another age. on Beatrice and Virgil ‘Fresh, original, smart, devious and crammed with absorbing lore.’ Margaret Atwood, Sunday Times on Life of Pi GRIFFITH REVIEW 51 FIXING THE SYSTEM EDITED BY JULIANNE SCHULTZ AND ANNE TIERNAN
ALL around the world politics and public life is engulfed in a strange malaise. Australia has never been richer, the people better educated or the country better connected internationally. But there is a crisis of confidence; a feeling that we are stuck, lacking direction and the capacity to act. Griffith Review 51: Fixing the System examines this chorus of complaint. It asks what is broken and examines Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the the reasons how and why. It considers what needs to be founding editor of Griffith Review, done to revive the lucky country in a way that replaces the award-winning literary and public affairs quarterly journal. ‘lucky’ with ‘smart’ to make our own good fortune. Anne Tiernan is a Professor in the School of Government and International Contributors include Julian Burnside, Murray Bail, Relations at Griffith University and Gabrielle Carey, Paul Ham, Lee Kofman, Carmen the author of four books. Lawrence, Peter van Onselen, Martin Parkinson, griffithreview.com facebook.com/griffithreview/ Kate Veitch, Chris Wallace, Clare Wright and more. @GriffithREVIEW
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10 TEXT PUBLISHING FEBRUARY 2016 VERSILIO OTHER RIGHTSSusannaLeaAssociates RIGHTS HELDANZ E-ISBN 9781922253262 NON-FICTION PBISBN9781925240504,288pp RRP A$29.99 Independent ForeignFictionPrize. the Sea.Shewasshortlistedfor2003 translation ofVéroniqueOlmi’s Beside won theScottMoncrieffPrizeforher Moore andLouisSanders.In2011she Jurgensen, AmélieNothomb,Viviane works byCatherineMillet,Geneviève Adriana Hunteristhetranslatorof letters forpublication.HelivesinParis. doing researchandpreparingthese service, hehasspentthepasttwoyears world. Nowretiredfromtheforeign diplomat whohasworkedaroundthe Jean-Yves BerthaultisaFrench EDITED ANDINTRODUCEDBYJEAN-YVESBERTHAULT LETTERS TOALOVER THE PASSION OF MADEMOISELLES.
woman—we shallcallherSimone.’ I spottedadate:1929.Andtheywere allsignedbya with extraordinaryeroticaudacity. Ononeoftheletters clearly loveletters,writtennotmerelyindaringtermsbut in thesamehandwriting. came toaheavyleatherbag.Inside,somanyletters,all ploughed hastilythroughthelayersofpaperandjars I fingertips; itwasoneofthosegoose-bumpmoments.So that anextraordinaryadventurelayrightthereatmy between layersofnewspaper. Ihadtheunusualfeeling forgotten cellar, Ifoundacasefilledwithemptyjars ‘WHILE words: ‘ourlove’. the fire,allmadnesscontainedwithinthosetwo words, howevereloquent,toexpressallthepassion, Do youwantmetotalkofourlove?Thereareno TRANSLATED FROMTHEFRENCHBYADRIANAHUNTER ‘I started to read one, then another of what are ‘I startedtoreadone,thenanotherofwhatare helping a friend clear out an apartment with a helping afriendclearoutanapartmentwith TEXT PUBLISHING FEBRUARY 2016 11 MARIANN SÁRKÖZY TRANSLATED FROMTHEHUNGARIANBYELIZABETHSZÁSZ PÉTER GÁRDOS FEVER AT DAWN 12 USA—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. UK &Comm.excl.ANZ & Canada—Transworld; RIGHTS SOLDCanada—HouseofAnansi Press; OTHER RIGHTSLibriKiadó RIGHTS HELDWorld English E-ISBN 9781922253439 FICTION PBISBN9781925240771,240pp RRP A$29.99 living inBudapest. Elizabeth Szászisafreelancetranslator is hisfirstnovel. true storyofhisparents,FeveratDawn film andtheatredirector. Basedonthe 1948. Heisamultiple-award-winning Péter GárdoswasborninBudapest TEXT PUBLISHING FEBRUARY 2016
story thatwillstaywithyoulongafter itshappyending. the lettersofauthor’s parents,it’s asadandjoyous work outhowtogetmarriedwhilethereisstilltime… December 1945theyfindawaytomeet.Nowhave to writeback.And,letterbyletter, thepairfallinlove.In become hiswife. garden. Oneofthoseyoungwomen,heissure,will hand, sittingintheshadeofatreehospital a lettertoeachofthem—obsessively, inhisbeautiful who arealsoinrefugeecampsSweden,andhewrites months tolive. bone, andhasnoteeth.Thedoctorsaysheonly arrives inarefugeecampSweden.Heisskinand IN face ofvasttragedy.’ Joan London the ‘A magnificentnovel,tonallyflawless, itshumourdefiantin July 1945, Miklós, a Hungarian survivor of Belsen, July 1945,Miklós,aHungariansurvivorofBelsen, is a love story for the ages. Based on Fever atDawnisalovestoryfortheages.Basedon In acamphundredsofkilometresaway, Lilidecides He acquiresalistof117youngHungarianwomen But Miklóshasotherplans. ‘How many have replied?’ ‘Almost twenty.’ ‘Are you going to write back to all of them?’ ‘She’s the one,’ Miklós answered, prodding the pocket where he had hidden the letter. ‘How do you know?’ Text is offering a money-back guarantee that readers will ‘I just do.’ love Fever at Dawn
TEXT PUBLISHING FEBRUARY 2016 13 RITRATTO TRANSLATED FROMTHEITALIAN BYJUDITHLANDRY DIEGO MARANI THE INTERPRETER 14 OTHER RIGHTSDedalus RIGHTS HELDANZ E-ISBN 9781922253057 FICTION PBISBN9781925240245,256pp RRP A$29.99 translation ofNewFinnishGrammar. Weidenfeld Translation Prizeforher Judith Landrywonthe2012Oxford- by Text. and Book Award), TheLastoftheVostyachs Fiction Award andtheBestTranslated (shortlisted fortheIndependent short stories.NewFinnishGrammar other novels,collectionsofessaysand Commission andhaswrittenseveral and policyofficerfortheEuropean in 1959.Hehasworkedasatranslator Diego MaraniwasborninFerrara,Italy God’s Doghaveallbeenpublished TEXT PUBLISHING FEBRUARY 2016 Foreign Foreign
AFTER contaminated bythegermsofanothertongue. hygiene, ofgoodmanners;it’s dangeroustoletyourselfbe should putintoyourmouthisown.It’s aquestionof Languages areliketoothbrushes:theonlyoneyou “genius” ofitsauthor.’ Guardian or whenIwaslastso stronglytemptedtousetheword ‘I can’trememberwhenIreadamore extraordinary novel, for anyoneinterestedinlanguage. is essentialreadingforfansofDiego Marani,and a thriller, to confrontthedeepmysteriesoflife. Aquestand of dolphins,whistlesandsqueaks—andisforced gibberish asthemissinginterpreter—thelanguage once spokenbyalllivingcreatures. on thevergeofdiscoveringprimordiallanguage language. Before he disappears, he insists that he is language. Beforehedisappears,insiststhatis mysterious illness:histranslationsresemblenoknown at anorganisationinGeneva,issufferingfroma exploration oflanguageandidentity. of theVostyachs, TheInterpretercontinuesMarani’s trilogy His boss,FelixBellamy, startsspeakingthesame Günther Stauber, headofTranslation andInterpreting the acclaimedNewFinnishGrammarand as wellacomiccaper, TheInterpreter The Last The Last
FEAR IS THE RIDER KENNETH COOK
A chilling new novel by the author of Wake in Fright. She smelt her attacker before she saw him. A heavy stench hit her with such force that she started with shock. It was a smell she’d never encountered before. Not man, not animal, something like carrion, but alive. It seemed to envelop and suffocate her, then became tangible as two arms wrapped around her body and began tearing at her clothing. Kenneth Cook’s classic novel Wake in Fright was published in 1961 and later A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work made into an acclaimed film. Cook wrote more than twenty books in a variety decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns of genres, and was well known in film his hatchback onto a notoriously dangerous track that circles as a scriptwriter and independent bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under film-maker. He died in 1987, aged fifty- seven. Fear Is the Rider is a previously the baking sun, people can die within hours. unpublished manuscript from the early He’s not far along the road when a distraught young 1980s that was recently rediscovered woman stumbles from the scrub and flags him down. among his papers. A journalist from Sydney, she has just escaped the clutches of an inexplicable, terrifying creature. Now this desert- dwelling creature has her jeep. Her axe. And her scent… Fear Is the Rider is a nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its centre. RRP A$19.99 FICTION PB ISBN 9781925240856, 208pp ‘This lost Ozploitation gem is pure horror adrenaline, as E-ISBN 9781922253491 characters and reader alike are hunted by a relentless golem.’ RIGHTS HELD World excl. France OTHER RIGHTS Curtis Brown Australia Chris Flynn
TEXT PUBLISHING FEBRUARY 2016 15 CATHERINE HÉLIE OTHER RIGHTSEditionsGallimard RIGHTS HELDANZ E-ISBN 9781922253460 FICTION PBISBN9781925240825,304pp RRP A$29.99 Muriel Barbery’s earliernovels. Nothomb, HélèneGrémillon,aswell J-M.G. LeClézio,AnnaGalvada,Amélie include novelsbyNobelPrizewinner Alison Anderson’s manytranslations sequel toTheLifeofElves. lives inFranceandisworkingonthe over sixmillioncopiesworldwide.She Elegance oftheHedgehog,whichsold novels, 1969. Sheistheauthoroftwoprevious Muriel BarberywasborninMorocco TRANSLATED FROMTHEFRENCHBYALISONANDERSON MURIEL BARBERY THE LIFEOFELVES 16 TEXT PUBLISHING MARCH2016 The Gourmet RhapsodyandThe one inItaly—havethepowertochangeworld? DO courageously andweowethemthehopethatenlivensus… waiting for?Nooneknowsyet.Buttheyhavebeenfighting dreams. AreMariaandClaratheoneswehavebeen women aspiringtobuildfootbridgesfromnatureand Following theexampleoflittlegirls,weseemenand and artbyoneoftheworld’s mostbelovedauthors. A movinganddeeplyfelthomagetothepowerofnature our livesmorefully. invokes thepowerofloveandrole ofintuitioninliving With itscastofunforgettablecharacters, TheLifeofElves that seemstohaveforgottensuch a thingeverexisted. the domestic,aboutquestforenchantment inaworld returns withaluminousnovelabout findingthedivinein bestseller shape thecourseofhistory. all odds,theycanbebroughttogether, theirmeetingmay with magicalworldsandmalevolentforces.If,against whose extraordinarytalentswillbringthemintocontact the grace and gifts of two young girls—one in France, the graceandgiftsoftwoyounggirls—oneinFrance, is the story of Maria and Clara, The LifeofElvesisthestoryMariaandClara, Seven years after the publication of her international Seven yearsafterthepublicationofherinternational , Muriel Barbery The EleganceoftheHedgehog,MurielBarbery
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‘An ingenious work of fiction.’Boston Globe ‘A fascinating story, filled with dreams and hopes for a better, more harmonious world. It might just herald a new era in French ‘Clever, informative and moving…admirable.’ Observer literature.’ Aujourd’hui ‘The publishing phenomenon of the decade.’ Le Figaro ‘The power of her poetic language and the endearing characters ‘Resistance is futile…you might as well buy it before someone will make all her readers happy.’ La Vie recommends it for your book group. Its charm will make you ‘Let yourself take this ride, it’s truly magical.’ say yes.’ Guardian Madame Figaro ‘The novel wins over its fans with a life-affirming message, ‘An ode to nature and to the power of poetry…Muriel Barbery a generous portion of heart and Barbery’s frequently wicked is not optimistic about the fate of humanity, but she never moralises. Her task, through literature, is to evoke dreams and sense of humour.’ Time Magazine do battle with the mind’s shadows. And she’ll add magic where ‘A book of great charm and grace.’ Metro necessary.’ Lire ‘The book’s attractive, Amélie-esque Parisian setting and cast ‘Unlike any other novel.’ Express of eccentrics will appeal to many.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Hypnotic.’ Quotidien du Medecin ‘This breathtakingly singular novel…is totally French yet ‘As well as an intriguing story, and a fantasy reminiscent of completely universal.’ Good Housekeeping Lord of the Rings or a philosophical fable, The Life of Elves is a poetic ‘Reveals itself as a version of the Cinderella fairytale.’ novel, written in a rich, enhanced language.’ Livres Hebdo Financial Times JOE LIESKE JESSE BALL HOW TOSETAFIREANDWHY 18 OTHER RIGHTSKnopfUSA RIGHTS HELDUK&Comm.excl.Canada E-ISBN 9781922253989 FICTION PBISBN9781925355475,304pp RRP A$29.99 @llabessej facebook.com/JesseBallAuthor jesseball.com of Chicago. teaches attheSchoolofArtInstitute Once BegunandACureforSuicide.He novels: notes’, JesseBallhaswrittenfiveprevious young geniuswhohitsalloftheright Described bytheChicagoTribune as‘a Through Doors, TEXT PUBLISHING MARCH2016 Samedi theDeafness, The Curfew, Silence Silence The Way
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OUR MAGIC HOUR JENNIFER DOWN
Later, when they were all adrift, Adam in his frenzied grief, Audrey had imagined she might have come across a signal or a clue. But Katy was a dark blur. She’d left no explanation, no notes, just an exhausting blackness that yielded no reason. She was an insect caught in amber, a leaf in resin.
AUDREY, Katy and Adam have been friends since Jennifer Down was born in 1990. high school—a decade of sneaky cigarettes, drunken Our Magic Hour was shortlisted misadventures on Melbourne backstreets, heart-to- for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s hearts, in-jokes. Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Her work has appeared But now Katy has gone. And without her, Audrey is in the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, thrown off balance: everything she thought she knew, Saturday Paper, Australian Book everything she believed was true, is bent out of shape. Review, ABC’s The Drum and Blue Mesa Review. She writes a monthly Audrey’s family is likely to fall apart. Her boyfriend, column on words and language Nick, tries to hold their relationship together. And for Overland. Audrey, caught in the middle, needs to find a reason jenniferdown.com to keep going when everything around her suddenly @jenniferdown seems wrong. Evocative and exquisitely written, Our Magic Hour is a story of love, loss and discovery. Jennifer Down’s
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TEXT PUBLISHING APRIL 2016 29 THE TRAP MELANIE RAABE
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY IMOGEN TAYLOR
I know who killed my sister. I wrote this book for him.
TWELVE years ago, Linda’s sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him. Now, all these years later, she’s just seen him again, on TV. He’s become a well-known journalist, and Linda— a famous novelist and infamous recluse—knows no CHRISTIAN FAUSTAS Melanie Raabe grew up in Thuringia, one will believe her if she accuses him. Germany, and attended the Ruhr University She does the only thing she can think of: she Bochum, where she specialised in media sets a trap, writing a thriller called Blood Sisters studies and literature. After graduating, she moved to Cologne to work as a about the unsolved murder of a young woman. journalist by day and secretly write books When Blood Sisters is published, Linda agrees by night. The Trap is her debut novel. to give just one media interview. melanieraabe.de At home. facebook.com/MademoiselleRaabe @MelRaabe To the one person who knows more about the case than she does… Imogen Taylor is a freelance literary translator and academic based in Berlin. She recently translated Sascha Arango’s The Truth and Other Lies.
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30 TEXT PUBLISHING APRIL 2016 My eyes are fixed on the television. I can’t look away, I can’t; my eyes are wide open and I’m staring at it, staring at the monster from my dreams, and I’m trying to wake up at last, trying to die and then wake up, the way I always do when I see the monster up close in a dream. But I’m already awake.
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GRIFFITH REVIEW 52 IMAGINING THE FUTURE EDITED BY JULIANNE SCHULTZ AND BRENDAN GLEESON
AUSTRALIAN politics and national life are trapped in a permanent present. There are few opportunities to imagine the future, and even fewer to create it. Politics, commerce, media all focus relentlessly on the here and now. This breeds a corrosive cynicism. Yet when alternatives are presented they are often embraced and quickly become the new normal. Griffith Review 52: Imagining the Future will Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the founding imagine new possibilities. It is time to envisage editor of Griffith Review, the award- winning literary and public affairs the future, without fear, as a landscape to be won quarterly journal. through human striving and expression. Professor Brendan Gleeson is Director Contributors include Al Gore, Tim Flannery, of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Maria Tumarkin, Anthony Funnel, Margaret Simons, Institute at the University of Melbourne. Tony Birch, Don Henry, Ashley Hay, Leah Kaminsky, His latest book is The Urban Condition (2014). Graeme Davison, Tony Davis, Jane Gleeson-White griffithreview.com and many more. facebook.com/griffithreview/ Published with the support of the University @GriffithREVIEW of Melbourne and the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
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TEXT PUBLISHING MAY 2016 35 THE MOST GOOD YOU CAN DO HOW EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM IS CHANGING IDEAS ABOUT LIVING ETHICALLY PETER SINGER
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TEXT PUBLISHING MAY 2016 37 DARREN JAMES TONI JORDAN OUR TINY, USELESSHEARTS 38 RIGHTS HELDWorld E-ISBN 9781922253910 FICTION PBISBN9781925355451,336pp RRP A$29.99 @tonileejordana facebook.com/authortonijordan tonijordan.com Toni livesinMelbourne. historical novelsof2013. was namedasoneofKirkus’best Award forBestFictionand,intheUS, novel, published insixteencountries.Herlast Miles Franklinin2009andhasbeen Best DebutNovel,waslonglistedforthe Addition, wonthe2008IndieAward for professional writing.Herdebutnovel, and qualificationsinmarketing Toni JordanhasaBSc.inphysiology TEXT PUBLISHING MAY 2016 , won the 2013 Indie Nine Days,wonthe2013Indie
flair tothisbrilliant, hilariousnovel. she isfamous,Toni Jordanbrings allherwit,wisdomand to thenarrativepower andemotionalintelligencefor which like amangoandmoreanonion. Completewithtears. the door, thingsgetcomplicated.Itturnsoutmarriage isless Brayden thepizzaguy. airport inseparatetaxis—andlet’s notevengetstartedon threats. Henry, CarolineandMarthaarrivebackfromthe Lesley stormsinwithajealousheartandmouthfulof expecting atrystwithCarolineandfindsJaniceinherbed. make asololifeafterherdivorcefromAlec. the beautyofscientificmethodandadeterminationto A microbiologistwithajobsheloves,ferventbeliefin to lookafterthegirls—becauseJaniceissensibleone. all-night row. door tocatchuponthefalloutfromHenryandCaroline’s suits, hasgoneafterthem. to NoosawithMercedes’gradethreeteacher, Martha. HENRY Harnessing the exquisite timing of the great comedies Harnessing theexquisitetimingof the greatcomedies Janice cancopewithallthat.Butwhen Alecknockson Then Craigreturnsthroughthebedroomwindow And Janice,Caroline’s sister, isstayingfortheweekend Craig andLesleyhavedroppedoverbrieflyfromnext Caroline, havingshreddedawardrobe-fullofHenry’s has ended his marriage to Caroline and headed off has endedhismarriagetoCarolineandheadedoff if mangoes were your favourite food, you’d be pretty HENRY’S SQUATTING ON THE FLOOR sick of mangoes after fifteen years, wouldn’t you?’ of the dining room, doing his best to eyeball his ‘Are biscuits allowed, for little lunch?’ says girls. My nieces, Mercedes and Paris. Paris, through Mercedes. ‘Let me put it this way,’ he says to them. ‘You ‘Mangoes or nothing.’ like bananas, right? Everyone likes bananas.’ ‘Can we have ice cream next to the mango?’ Paris stretches on her tippy-toes and whispers ‘Only mangoes. That’s it. Forever. Oh, you’re in Mercedes’ ear. surrounded by other fruit all right. Everywhere you ‘We like mangoes better,’ Mercedes says, after go, strawberries brush against you and mandarins advisement, ‘but only when Mummy cuts them up slink around the office in their tight little skirts, for us because otherwise our hands get sticky.’ bending over the photocopier to fix paper jams. And ‘Right. No one likes sticky hands. Mangoes. the lychees. Don’t get me started on the lychees.’ Sure. Well, marriage is like a mango.’ Henry folds ‘What’s a lychee?’ says Mercedes. his arms and it’s clear he expects this gem to ‘It doesn’t matter. What I’m trying to say is: can make his case. But these are solemn little people, either of you comprehend the kind of discipline it staring steady and blue, and they’re not smiling. takes to be married for fifteen years?’ ‘OK,’ he says. ‘Imagine if mangoes were all ‘Not really, Daddy,’ Mercedes says. ‘I’ve never you got to eat, breakfast lunch and dinner. Even been married. I’m seven.’ ANNABEL STAFF S. J.WATSON SECOND LIFE 40 OTHER RIGHTSConville&Walsh RIGHTS HELDANZ E-ISBN 9781921961472 FICTION PBISBN9781925240979,432pp RRP A$22.99 @sj_watson facebook.com/S.J.Watson.Writer sjwatson-books.com Colin FirthandMarkStrong. major moviestarringNicoleKidman, the world,andwasadaptedintoa in morethanfortylanguagesaround which hassoldoverfourmillioncopies the award-winningBeforeIGotoSleep, and livesinLondon.Hisfirstnovelwas S. J.Watson wasbornintheMidlands TEXT PUBLISHING MAY 2016
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TJ KLING GOOD PEOPLE NIR BARAM
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‘Quite possibly, Dostoyevsky would write IT’S late 1938. like this if he lived in Israel today.’ Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung market researcher for an American advertising company. ‘The novel is written with great talent, In Leningrad, twenty-two-year-old Sasha Weissberg momentum and ingenuity…It expands has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual the borders of young literature and conversations in her parents’ literary salon. opens new landscapes for it.’ Amos Oz They each have grand plans for their lives. Neither of ‘Good People is a masterful them thinks about politics too much, but after catastrophe metaphysical novel written by a true strikes they will have no choice. artist.’ Livres Hebdo Thomas puts his research skills to work elaborating ‘One of the most intriguing writers in Nazi propaganda. Sasha persuades herself that working as Israeli literature today.’ Haaretz a literary editor of confessions for Stalin’s secret police is ‘In Good People the young Israeli author the only way to save her family. Nir Baram writes about the terrors When destiny brings them together, they will have to of living under the regimes of Stalin and Hitler. It is done so majestically face the consequences of the decisions they have made. that it reaches the same level as Nir Baram’s Good People has been showered with books by Varlam Shalamov and Vasily praise in many countries. With its acute awareness of the Grossman.’ NRC Handelsblad individual amid towering historical landscapes, it is a tour de force: sparkling, erudite, a glimpse into the abyss.
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42 TEXT PUBLISHING MAY 2016 She remembered what he had said to her in the parking lot on the evening of the NKVD assembly: the only consistent thing in history is the terrifying elasticity of the human soul. Then she believed he was referring to human cowardice and the citizens’ willingness to be reconciled with any lie, to praise someone and a week later to demand his death. Now she understood that he was describing something else: the flexibility that allowed Nir Baram was born into a political family in Jerusalem in 1976. His grandfather and father people to lie in bed at night and imagine or dream about the were both ministers in Israeli Labor Party governments. He has worked as a journalist and most horrible crimes, but wake up the next morning feeling an editor, and as an advocate for equal rights for Palestinians. He began publishing fiction when that everything was fine. he was twenty-two, and is the author of five novels, including The Remaker of Dreams, Good People and World Shadow. His novels have been translated into more than ten languages and received critical acclaim around the world. He has been shortlisted several times for the Sapir Prize and in 2010 received the Prime Minister’s Award for Hebrew Literature. His most recent book is a work of reportage, Walking the Green Line, which Text will publish in late 2016. nirbaram.com facebook.com/BaramNir @NirBaram Jeffrey Green is a writer and translator living in Israel. He has a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard, and has also published, among other things, a novel in Hebrew, a book of poetry and a book about translation. HÉLÈNE BAMBERGER TRANSLATED FROMTHEFRENCHBYPENNYHUESTON MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ MEN 44 OTHER RIGHTSEditionsP.O.L. RIGHTS HELDWorld English E-ISBN 9781922253538 FICTION PBISBN9781925240917,272pp RRP A$29.99 female anxietyaboutmen.’Télérama ‘Marie Darrieussecqbrilliantlyexplores in Melbourne. Penny Huestonisaneditorandtranslator All theWay. DarrieussecqlivesinParis. Text hasalsopublishedTom IsDeadand was publishedinthirty-fourcountries. in Bayonne,France.HernovelPigTales Marie Darrieussecqwasbornin1969 TEXT PUBLISHING MAY 2016
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WASTED A STORY OF ALCOHOL, GRIEF AND A DEATH IN BRISBANE ELSPETH MUIR
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I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.
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TEXT PUBLISHING JUNE2016 49 SECOND-HAND TIME SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
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Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature How much can we value human life when we know that not so long ago, people were Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine dying by the millions? We’re full of hatred and superstition. All of us come from the in 1948 and grew up in Belarus. As a country where the Gulag stood and the terrifying war raged…This was socialism and newspaper journalist, she spent her early it was also just our life. Back then, we didn’t talk about it much. But now that the career in Minsk compiling first-hand accounts of World War II, the Soviet- world has transformed irreversibly, everyone is interested in that old life of ours… Afghan War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Chernobyl meltdown. Her ‘COMMUNISM had an insane plan: to refashion the “old” breed of man, ancient Adam,’ unflinching work—‘the whole of our writes Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature. ‘This was history…is a huge common grave and perhaps communism’s only achievement. Seventy plus years in the Marxist-Leninist a bloodbath’—earned her persecution from the Lukashenko regime and she was laboratory gave rise to a new kind of man, the Homo sovieticus.’ forced to emigrate. She lived in Paris, In this magnificent requiem to a civilisation in ruins, the author of Voices from KABAKOVA MARGARITA Gothenburg and Berlin before returning to Chernobyl brings together dozens of witnesses. Alexievich’s method is simple: ‘I don’t Minsk in 2011. She has won a number of prizes, including the National Book Critics ask people about socialism, I ask about love, jealousy, childhood, old age. Music, Circle Award, the Prix Médicis, and the dances, hairstyles. The myriad sundry details of a vanished way of life…It never Oxfam Novib/PEN Award. In 2015, she was ceases to amaze me how interesting ordinary, everyday life is. There are an endless awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. number of human truths…I am fascinated by people.’ www.alexievich.info/indexEN.html From this fascination emerges a hugely important, brilliant and deeply moving Bela Shayevich is a writer, translator portrait of post-Soviet society. As Alexievich puts it: and illustrator. Her translations have I’m writing a history of human feelings. What people thought, understood and appeared in journals such as Little Star, remembered during the event. What they believed in or mistrusted, what illusions, RRP A$34.99 St. Petersburg Review, and Calque. She NON-FICTION PB ISBN was the editor of n+1 magazine’s hopes and fears they experienced. This is impossible to imagine or invent, at any rate 9781925355567, 520pp translations of the Pussy Riot closing in such a multitude of real details. We quickly forget what we were like ten or twenty E-ISBN 9781922253996 statements. Of Alexievich’s writing, she or fifty years ago. Sometimes we are ashamed of our past and refuse to believe in RIGHTS HELD ANZ says it is ‘resounding with nothing but OTHER RIGHTS the truth’. what happened to us in actual fact. Art may lie but document never does. Fitzcarraldo Editions
50 TEXT PUBLISHING JUNE 2016 ‘The force of her work, the source of its power and plausibility, is the choice of a generation (her own) as a major subject and the close attention to its ‘For the past thirty or forty years she’s been major inflection point, which was the end of the Soviet Union…Her method busy mapping the Soviet and post-Soviet is the close interrogation of the past through the collection of individual individual. But it’s not really a history of voices; patient in overcoming cliché, attentive to the unexpected, and events. It’s a history of emotions.’ restrained in the exposition, her writing reaches those far beyond her own Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary, experiences and preoccupations, far beyond her generation, and far beyond Swedish Academy the lands of the former Soviet Union…Her central attainment, the recovery of experience from myth, has made her an acute critic of the nostalgic ‘Alexievich builds her narratives about dictatorships in Belarus and Russia…Her non-fiction works as a kind Russian national traumas…by interviewing of anti-fiction, and alternative to the alternative realities which, in both those who lived them, and immersing herself Russia and Belarus, arise behind the blindfold of a double nostalgia: of deeply in their testimonies. But her voice is today’s ruling elite for the 1970s and 1980s, which were themselves a time much more than the sum of their voices.’ of manufactured nostalgia for the Soviet 1930s and 1940s…Her Nobel New Yorker Prize will expand the Russian world of letters, since her prose is accessible not only to those who share her background and concerns but to younger people who can learn from her what the Soviet Union was and what its legacy means.’ New York Review of Books TEXT FOR YA & CHILDREN JANUARY 54 Clancy of the Undertow, Christopher Currie
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JUNE 58 Julius and the Watchmaker, Tim Hehir 59 Julius and the Soulcatcher, Tim Hehir 60 A Toaster on Mars, Darrell Pitt 61 You Know Me Well, David Levithan and Nina LaCour 52 TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY–JUNE 2016 THE TEXT PRIZE
The Text Prize for Young Adult & Children’s Writing uncovers WINNERS 2011: Myke Bartlett great new books for kids and teenagers written by Australian 2008: Richard Newsome Fire in the Sea (published 2012) and New Zealand authors. Each year the prize is awarded to The Billionaire’s Curse (published 2009) 2012: A. J. Betts one outstanding unpublished manuscript. see also The Emerald Casket (2010), The Zac & Mia (published 2013) Both published and unpublished writers of fiction and Mask of Destiny (2011), The Crystal Code non-fiction manuscripts are invited to enter. Submissions for (2012) and The House of Puzzles (2014) 2013: Diana Sweeney the 2016 Prize will open on Monday 1 February and close The Minnow (published 2014) 2009: Leanne Hall Friday 4 March. This Is Shyness (published 2010) 2014: David Burton The winning book is chosen by a panel of Text editors and see also Queen of the Night (2012), How to Be Happy (published 2015) announced in May. Iris and the Tiger (Feb 2016) 2015: Kimberley Starr The winner receives a publishing contract with Text and a 2010: Jane Higgins The Book of Whispers $10,000 advance against royalties. For entry information see (September 2016) textpublishing.com.au/text-prize. Get writing! The Bridge (published 2011) see also Havoc (2015) TEXT PUBLISHING JANUARY–JUNE 2016 53 CLANCY OF THE UNDERTOW CHRISTOPHER CURRIE
We’re sitting there with matching milkshakes, Sasha and me, and somehow, things aren’t going like I always thought they would. We’re face to face under twenty- four-hour fluorescents with the thoroughly unromantic buzz of aircon in our ears and endless flabby wedges of seated trucker’s arsecrack as our only view. IN a dead-end town like Barwen a girl only has to be a Christopher Currie is a Brisbane writer. little different to feel like a freak. And Clancy, a typical His first book, a novel for adults called sixteen-year-old misfit with a moderately dysfunctional The Ottoman Motel, was shortlisted family, an interest in Nature Club and a major crush on for the Commonwealth Book Prize and the local hot girl, is packing a capital F. the Queensland Literary Awards in 2012. Clancy of the Undertow is his As the summer begins, Clancy’s dad is involved in first YA novel. a road smash that kills two local teenagers. While the furioushorses.com family is dealing with the reaction of a hostile town, facebook.com/christophercurrieauthor Clancy meets someone who could possibly—at last— @furioushorses become a friend. Not only that, the unattainable Sasha starts to show what may be a romantic interest. In short, this is the summer Clancy has to figure out who the hell she is.
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new talentinspeculative fiction. writer MegCaddy heraldstheemergenceofanexciting bring downDaemanLeldh. Luthan where,shesays,theywillfind alliestohelpthem escape. Andnowtheymustfindtheir waytothecityof Lowell andthemysteriousstrangerareamongfewto Leldh soondescendonthevillagewithfireandsword. hunted oneatthat,threatenstheirverysurvival. persecution. Thearrivalofafellowtraveller, anda of awolf.Hissmallcommunitylivesquietly, freefrom is likehim:waer. Human,butabletoassumetheform dead ontheriverbank,heisstartledtofindthatshe WHEN their waythroughthewebofforest. bough assoldierstoreoverthedeadleafmatter, hacking black ofthewoods.Thesmellsmokeliftedthrough apart. Flashesofcrimsonuniformcutthesmothering shrieked, risingintotheairaspeacecrackedandfell As nightfell,somethingstirredthedarkness.Birds The brilliantYA fantasydebutfromyoungAustralian If shecanpersuadethemnottokill her. Sure enough,thesoldiersofblood-puristDaeman The prisonerran. Lowell Sencha finds the strange girl lying as if Lowell Senchafindsthestrangegirllyingasif TEXT PUBLISHING MARCH2016 57 JULIUS AND THE WATCHMAKER THE WATCHMAKER NOVELS, BOOK ONE TIM HEHIR
‘Hehir’s style is fast paced and A spinning pocketwatch. action packed. He plays with some A gentleman wielding a deadly walking cane. fascinating ideas of time, time slips, An instruction manual for making a time machine. travel, vortexes, time jumps into And a boy about to embark on the adventure of possible time lines, alternate futures a lifetime. and dimensions...an engrossing read.’ BuzzWords WHEN Jack Springheel, a mysterious clock collector, visits Julius’s grandfather’s bookshop looking for the fabled RRP A$19.99 diary of John Harrison, the world’s greatest watchmaker, FICTION PB ISBN 9781925355048, 352pp E-ISBN 9781922148582 Julius finds himself entangled in an intricate web of time RIGHTS HELD World travel and parallel realms. Not to mention a deal with RIGHTS SOLD Israel—Modan; Italy—Feltrinelli. Jack Springheel that he’ll live to regret.
‘Alternate worlds, time travel, mechanical horror, the demimonde of Victorian England and evil trickery all come together to make this novel a compelling read…a winner for those who love good fantasy.’ Reading Time ‘Hehir’s storytelling is clear and has some vivid touches, as when the careful gait of the clockwork men remind Julius of the wading birds on the Thames, or their voices are described as sounding like ball-bearings rolling on a drum skin.’ Age ‘The ideas about time and time travel are intricate…they have been created, sorted and ingeniously assembled…Teen readers will also particularly enjoy the fight scenes, sly ironic humour and steampunked flights of fantasy.’ Australian
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It was a screaming face, the skin like dried leather. Stems ran from its gaping mouth, nostrils and empty eye sockets, and from them the orchids grew and spread to fill the whole room. ‘It’s the soulcatcher,’ said Julius. ‘Like the painting in Mr Darwin’s diary.’ IT’S 1838 and London is gripped by orchid fever. Charles Tim Hehir writes novels, short stories Darwin’s diary turns up in Higgins’s bookshop, closely and plays. His short story God Bless Us followed by two ex-bodysnatchers and a peculiar fellow One and All was published by Structo with small teeth. magazine (UK) and his play Pride and Why do they want the diary? Could it have something Prejudice in 10 Minutes Flat has been performed in various countries and at to do with the terrifying painting of an orchid it contains? the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Hehir is And what about the withered orchid that Emily took home based in Melbourne. to Mrs Trevelyan’s Academy for Young Ladies? timhehir.com.au Before he knows it Julius is spinning through time facebook.com/watchmakerseries and parallel realms in a race to rid London of the soulcatcher and a future too horrible to imagine. Julius and the Soulcatcher is a fabulous time-travel adventure full of richly imagined characters and meticulously crafted time twists, an exciting sequel to RRP A$19.99 the much-loved Julius and the Watchmaker. FICTION PB ISBN 9781925240177, 368pp E-ISBN 9781925095975 RIGHTS HELD World
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