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International Rights Catalogue -INTERNATIONAL - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RIGHTS- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CATALOGUE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT DETAILS Affirm Press 1 Jacksons Road Mulgrave, Victoria AUSTRALIA 3170 tel +61 3 8561 7455 [email protected] Rights enquiries Rebecca Starford, Associate Publisher [email protected] Media enquiries: Belle Place: [email protected] Trade orders: Hardie Grant Books Janelle Heald: [email protected] tel +61 3 8520 6444 www.affirmpress.com.au FICTION A Break in the Chain TANGEA TANSLEY.................................................................5 Paradise Updated MIC LOOBY.............................................................................6 Under Stones BOB FRANKLIN.............................................................................8 Nineteen Seventysomething BARRY DIVOLA .......................................................9 Known Unknowns EMMETT STINSON ...............................................................10 Having Cried Wolf GRETCHEN SHIRM .............................................................11 Bearings LEAH SWANN.........................................................................................12 Two Steps Forward IRMA GOLD....................................................................................13 NON-FICTION 1001 Australian Nights DAVE GRANEY..................................................................15 Peace of Wall CHRIS PARKINSON.........................................................................16 The Boy and the Crocodile......................................................................................................17 -Affirm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press- - - - - FICTION 5 A Break in the Chain The Early Kozminskys by Tangea Tansley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ‘Splendidly- - - illuminating, A Break in the Chain is an emotionally dense and intriguing Australian story of high achievement.’ Michael Meehan ‘A beautifully written imagining of three generations of her family.’ Herald Sun ‘This is a warm, lively, empathetic novel full of fascinating social history.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘A gripping book.’ Alan Gold, J-Wire - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In- - 1856,- Simon Kozminsky travelled from Prussia to begin a new life in the fledgling British colony of Fiction, July 2011 Victoria. In the heady days of the gold rush, he estab- 256 pp RRP: $27.95 (pbk) lished a jewellery house that would gain world renown. 978-0-9807904-6-7 But behind the glittering facade of wealth, glamour and Rights: World influence lay a darker, sadder story: a mysterious rift between Simon and his eldest son. In an extraordinary Why international audiences will love coincidence, the answer to this life-long estrangement A Break in the Chain... was painted by Australia’s pre-eminent artist of the time, - It’s an epic drama that spans three Frederick McCubbin. The cover depicts a shy Eileen continents and three generations Watkins, the Irish woman who would unwittingly drive - A unique story of the Jewish diaspora a wedge between father and son. - Brilliant characters facing universal The Early Kozminskys is a brilliant imagining of three challenges – love, faith, business and family generations of real-life Kozminskys. With authenticity - A modern-day Richard Mahoney, one of and dramatic verve, Tangea Tansley brings alive Australia’s most iconic novels Melbourne of the past in a tantalising tale of fortune and - Kozminskys is what Tiffany & Co. is to New faith, love and betrayal. York, and Skinner & Co. is to London Tangea Tansley was born WILL APPEAL in Zimbabwe and moved to TO FANS OF Australia when she was fifteen, and since then has lived all Charles Dickens around the world. She is a direct Henry Handel Richardson descendent of the Kozminsky John Galsworthy’s family. She holds a PhD in The Forsyte Saga comparative literature from Murdoch University. Tangea lives in Western Australia. 6 Paradise Updated by Mic Looby - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ‘A- - -satirical package with political nous and a social conscious...Sharp and brave.’ Sunday Age ‘Hilarious and engaging.’ Max Barry ‘Best rookie novel of the year - like early Waugh: comic with a sense of threat.’ Australian Book Review ‘Hilarious characters’ and ‘a cheeky insiders’ romp.’ The Age - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There are precious few places still untouched by Fiction, September 2009 tourism. Paradise Lost? More like Paradise Packaged, 256 pp, RRP: $29.95 (pbk) Marketed and Sold in Easy-to-Enjoy Portions. And ISBN: 978-0-9803746-6-7 if there’s money to be made shining light into the Rights: World (excl. Czech Republic, darkest corners of the world, SmallWorld™ wrote the Slovak Republic) book on it. Robert Rind is a legend in guidebook circles. He’s Why international audiences will love fiercely independent and resolutely old-school. Little Paradise Updated... wonder the Company decides he’s updated his last - Everyone’s familiar with guidebooks edition. Mithra is young, pliable and fits SmallWorld’s - It’s a cheeky expose of what really goes sense of itself Going Forward. She’s sent into tropical on in some of the world’s most famous Maganda to reel Rind in. But as any seasoned traveller publishing houses knows, things rarely go as planned... - Brilliant international locales Mic Looby’s masterful debut novel weaves a hilarious - From backpackers to luxury-travellers, and hair-raising tale about corporate shenanigans, everyone can relate to the wonderful compromised idealism and life on the road with a characters found within Paradise Updated guidebook author. Mic Looby worked for many years as an author and editor for WILL APPEAL Lonely Planet, the world’s largest TO FANS OF: and most influential guidebook Alex Gartland’s publisher. He is a regular columnist The Beach at The Big Issue and his work has (except it’s funny!) also appeared in the Australian, the Age and the Herald Sun. Paradise Updated is his first novel. 7 About Long Story Shorts... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Award- - - - ‘Affirm Press is well-named; in their Long Story Shorts project they give affirmation to Australian winning writers everywhere: the short story is alive, part of our fiction collective national voice, and a form to be treasured. If there’s a renaissance on the cards, it’s vision like this which is going to kick-start it.’ Cate Kennedy Long Story Shorts is a project by Affirm ‘I don’t know where Affirm Press is finding its Press to publish six collections of short new fiction writers but this is the second time in fiction from individual authors. months that I’ve been amazed by the quality of a debut short-story collection from it by a previously The books have been created as a series, unknown writer.’ designed and illustrated by award- Sydney Morning Herald, on the Long Story winning illustrator Dean Gorissen. Shorts Series - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AWARDS FOR THE LONG STORY SHORTS SERIES COVER ART: Gold in the Illustrators Australia 2012 Award Bronze in the 3x3 Illustration Annual (United States) 8 Under Stones by Bob Franklin AWARDS FOR UNDER STONES: Shortlisted for Best Collection and Best Horror Short Story in the Aurealis Awards 2010 Winner of the 2010 Australian Shadows Award for Long Fiction - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -‘A - -consistently engaging and surprising book.’ Australian Literary Review ‘What a bruising collection...Franklin turns a coolly amused, beautifully composed eye on the darkest, Fiction, February 2010 saddest, oddest, most ordinary corners of the world.’ 224 pp, RRP: $24.95 (pbk) Sonya Hartnett ISBN: 978-0-9806378-4-7 ‘They are horrors of a different kind, edgy and Rights: World unsettling, holding up a mirror to the underside of Australian society.’ Sunday Herald Sun Why international audiences will love Under Stones... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A brilliant mix of horror, suspense and -Dip - - into the world of Bob Franklin’s fiction at your the supernatural, Under Stones has gripped own risk. The calm surface belies a swift undertow Australian readers and snags galore. These are not horror stories in the - Like the best genre writing, these stories traditional sense; they are more unsettling than that. are intriguing critiques of contemporary Under Stones are uneasy tales, set in familiar society surrounds. They are journeys into the human psyche - From decaying English seaside towns to and powerful critiques of contemporary Australian lakes in the USA, Bob’s stories are set all society. Bob Franklin pokes and prods at human fears around the world and foibles, revealing with forensic glee truths that you - Under Stones is the first book in Affirm might prefer were, well, left under stones. Press’s Long Story Shorts series, a critically acclaimed initiative to revive a passion and appreciation for Australian short fiction Bob Franklin was born in Hillingdon, England, in 1965. He WILL APPEAL has lived in Melbourne, Australia, TO FANS OF: since 1989, working as a stand-up comic, writer, actor and director. Stephen King In 2011, Bob was awarded an Daphne Du Maurier Australian
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