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THE PLOT LOUNGE J E N N Y D A R L I N G & ASSOCIATES I N T E R N AT I O N A L RIGHTS GUIDE L O N D O N B O O K FA I R 2013 www.theplotlounge.com THE PLOT LOUNGE CONTENTS FICTION 3 The Storyteller and his Three Daughters Lian Hearn, Historical If I Should Lose You Natasha Lester, Women’s There Should be More Dancing Rosalie Ham, Women’s Darkness on the Edge of Town Jessie Cole, Contemporary A Savage Garden Christopher Muir, Thriller Mateship with Birds Carrie Tiffany, Literary Black Spring Alison Croggon YA/Crossover The Reluctant Hallelujah Gabrielle Williams YA NON FICTION 12 Seduced by Logic Robyn Arianrhod Biography Love and Hunger Charlotte Wood Personal Essays/Food Writing BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS, FICTION 15 Dog Boy Eva Hornung, Literary The Zookeeper’s War Steve Conte, Historical Thought Crimes Tim Richards, Short Stories Play Abandoned Garry Disher, Commercial Animal People Charlotte Wood, Contemporary The Dressmaker Rosalie Ham, Women’s Elizabeth Jolley Modern Classics CONTACTS 19 Translation co-agents The Plot Lounge Jenny Darling & Associates Page 2 www.theplotlounge.com THE PLOT LOUNGE FICTION Page 3 www.theplotlounge.com THE PLOT LOUNGE NEW FICTION, HISTORICAL The Storyteller and his Three Daughters Lian Hearn Hachette Australia, September, 2013 From the bestselling author of Across the Nightingale Floor ‘Storytellers are all thieves. They pilfer from old legends, history books, newspaper reports.’ So Akabane Sei IX is told by his manager. A professional storyteller for over fifty years, as the book opens Sei recalls the inspiration behind the story that made him famous, ‘The Silk Kimono’. It was a story pilfered, not from any of these sources, we learn, but from his own life. He transports us to Tokyo, 1884, a time change. It is summer and the country is gripped by the words of Jack Green, an Englishman who spins exotic tales from his European past and even Sei’s wife is won over by the heady melodrama. Sei himself is feeling old, beyond passion, but he knows passion is what people want so that, he decides, is what he will give them. Soon everywhere he looks, everyone he sees, is involved in some form of intrigue - political, sexual, emotional - and each conversation leads to a possible plotline, each person a possible character, an adulterer, a murderer, a mistress, a spy. Yet even as his imagination tries to embroider his world, real life draws Sei back. Two of his daughters return home, unhappy with their husbands; a play produced by his third daughter’s husband opens and a real sword is substituted for a false one; Sei is attacked after performing a new story. Secret societies, samurai warriors, vendettas and illicit love: the story that will save Sei is all around, all he has to do is recognise it, tame it, and, of course, survive it. Then he can really begin to write. KEY POINTS *Lian Hearn’s books have sold over four million copies worldwide and been sold into 36 territories. *A compelling novel in which a master storyteller unpicks, through story, the art of storytelling. *A sensuous depiction of life in late nineteenth century Japan. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lian Hearn studied modern languages at Oxford University and worked as a film critic and arts editor in London before settling in Australia. A lifelong interest in Japan led to the study of the Japanese language and many trips to Japan. This fascination culminated in Across the Nightingale Floor, the first in the internationally acclaimed Tales of the Otori series. Across the Nightingale Floor (2002) was followed by Grass for his Pillow (2003), Brilliance of the Moon (2004), The Harsh Cry of the Heron (2006), Heaven’s Net is Wide (2007) and Blossoms and Shadows (2010). In 2004, Lian Hearn was awarded the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. RIGHTS SOLD TO TALES OF THE OTORI ANZ, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, The Netherlands, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, US. (Publisher details available on request). Page 4 www.theplotlounge.com THE PLOT LOUNGE FICTION, WOMEN’S If I Should Lose You Natasha Lester Fremantle Arts Centre Press (FACP), September 2012, 272pp ‘Through a cast of memorable characters, If I Should Lose You pitches art against life, and in the process exposes life in all its frailties. Here is a story that resonates long after reading.’ Andrea Goldsmith Alix is a brilliant heart transplant surgeon. She sees hearts as purely functional – until she falls in love with Dan. Then a sudden tragedy forces Alix to rethink the way she views love and medicine and the consequences of this are felt many years later, by her daughter Camille. Camille has two small daughters of her own and one is critically ill. Camille has no time to caretake her failing relationship with her husband and no time to face up to a niggling suspicion she holds about her mother, as Camille is the one person who can save her daughter. Camille is an organ donor coordinator and her daughter needs a new liver. Just how far will she go to keep her daughter alive - and what might the costs be? A sensitive exploration of ethical boundaries, impossible choices and the sacrifices we make for love. PRAISE ‘Well written and structured, this moody read will leave you thinking.’ Canberra Times ‘I was captivated by this honest, beautiful story that fuses love and art with the most profound challenges of motherhood. Written with extraordinary emotional wisdom and intelligence.’ Liz Byrski ‘a subtle and sensitive work that eloquently tackles loss, love and life’ The West Australian ABOUT THE AUTHOR Natasha Lester’s debut novel What is Left Over, After won the T.A.G. Hungerford Award for Fiction. Her short stories and poems have been published in collections and journals. She divides her time between writing novels, raising three children and teaching creative writing. www.natashalester.com.au RIGHTS SOLD Australia and New Zealand (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) Page 5 www.theplotlounge.com THE PLOT LOUNGE FICTION, WOMEN’S The Should Be More Dancing Rosalie Ham Vintage/Random House, 2011, 354pp ‘So very very funny…utterly brilliant.’ Pages & Pages What drove Margery Blandon to the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel? As she waits for the crowds in the atrium far below to disperse, she contemplates what went wrong. Her best friend kept an astonishing secret from her. She can’t trust the home help. It’s possible her firstborn son has betrayed her, that her second son, Morris, has committed a crime, that her only daughter is trying to kill her and her dead sister Cecily helped her to this, her final downfall. Even worse, it seems Margery’s life-long neighbour and enemy—now demented—always knew the truth. There Should Be More Dancing is a poignant and wickedly funny novel; the story of Margery’s reckonings on loyalty, grief and love. PRAISE ‘There Should Be More Dancing is a deceptively frivolous title, a wistful phrase with more sagacity than it might suggest: research shows dancing might help delay or prevent the onset of dementia. Its playful message hints at Ham's skill in disguising her informed eloquence on a serious subject behind sparkling, entertaining prose.’ The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Rosalie Ham has written a hilarious cautionary old-age tale’ The Sun-Herald ‘Ham deftly balances grief and trauma with a gentle humour, and her characters spring off the pages and settle (at times uncomfortably) in your heart. ‘ Australian Bookseller + Publisher ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rosalie Ham is a failed rouseabout but a successful writer now based in Melbourne. Get to know Rosalie in a delightful video interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY9Eu-Zw01Y. She is also the author of the bestseller, The Dressmaker and Summer at Mount Hope. RIGHTS SOLD Australia and New Zealand (Random House) Page 6 www.theplotlounge.com THE PLOT LOUNGE NEW FICTION, CONTEMPORARY Darkness on the Edge of Town Jessie Cole Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, July 2012, 336pp ASL Gold Medal, Shortlisted, 2013 Vincent is nearly forty years old, with little to show for his life except his precious sixteen-year-old daughter, Gemma: sensitive, insightful and wise beyond her years. When a stranger crashes her car outside Vincent and Gemma′s bush home, their lives take a dramatic turn. In an effort to help the stranded woman, father and daughter are drawn into a world of unexpected and life-changing consequences. Darkness on the Edge of Town is a haunting tale that beguiles the reader with its deceptively simple prose, its gripping and unrelenting tensions, and its disturbing yet tender observations. P R A I S E ‘One of the standout debuts of 2012’ The Adelaide Advertiser ‘Jessie Cole’s spellbinding first novel is the kind of book that you can describe with words such as ‘beautiful’, ‘touching’ and ‘tender’ as easily as you can with words like ‘uncomfortable’, ‘painful’ and ‘disturbing’ … I can’t wait to see where this talented new voice takes us next.’ 4 and 1/2 stars, Good Reading Magazine ‘Jessie Cole's debut novel Darkness on the Edge of Town is on another level of storytelling altogether…It's exquisite writing.’ The Australian ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jessie Cole was born in 1977 and grew up in an isolated valley in northern New South Wales. In 2009 she was awarded a HarperCollins Varuna Award for Manuscript Development, and her work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, and the Big Issue.