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In May we’ll celebrate the tenth birthday of WHERE IS THE GREEN SHEEP?, with sales of over 600,000 copies.
Mem Fox magic
Mem Fox’s books continue to inspire millions of Australians. POSSUM MAGIC, the best-selling picture book in Australia, turned 30 in 2013 and sold another 25,000 copies. Four of Mem’s other titles appeared on the best-seller lists. Illustrations from WHERE IS THE GREEN SHEEP? on the doors of the NICU at Canberra Hospital welcome visitors. HIGHLIGHTS
Ambitious . . . bold and audacious . . . engaging, entertaining and frequently mesmerising
J IM POE, T HE GUARDIAN
To read [Tim Winton] is to be reminded not just of the possibilities of fiction but of the human heart.
T HE T IMES
The Turning comes to life
Tim Winton’s THE TURNING came to life in 2013 in a film, linking 17 chapters by 17 talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines. David Wenham and Mia Wasikowska made their directorial debuts, while Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett and Rose Byrne were among the high profile actors who brought these haunting short stories to life in unexpected ways. www.theturningmovie.com.au Shrine shines
Tim Winton’s third play, SHRINE, was staged in several Australian cities in 2013 and widely reviewed.
The language is wonderful; the conversations have a natural ease while still maintaining elegance and intelligence, and the frequently descriptive dialogue is filled with poetic imagery that forces us to use our imaginations in the same way we would when reading a novel . . . This is a bold and rich work that takes us lovingly and hauntingly into dangerous territory, but brings us back home with care.
C I C ELY BINFORD, AUSSIETHEATRE. C OM NEW
DEEPER WATER Jessie Cole Weaknesses were far more potent when they stayed NEW hidden. Your own and other people’s. Rising up to Reaching out a hand for him to shake. I felt like I was ambush you in unexpected moments. The truth was, the world outside didn’t hold much interest for me. Hearing about conflicts in faraway places seemed suddenly in a play. A silly stage production. Formality makes me nervous. It’s hard to carry off.
I couldn’t help remembering the feel of my breasts A profound novel of grace and pressed up against his back, his fingers in mine. My skin I didn’t have a mobile. Wasn’t any point without reception. Round here we all had the same first four digits, so you just had to remember the last three. I knew tingled just thinking about it. I was in over my head. beauty from a stunning young Australian talent, praised by
Something insideJessie me opened, just a tiny crack. Cracks are how the light The Australian for ‘the exquisite gets in, so maybe it was just a glimpse of me I was seeing. Cole writing’ of her first book I don’t know what it was about those words, but they got inside me. When I was small, all around me seemed to He was older than me, not sure how much. Maybe in his early thirties. He had a kind of Anja is my oldest friend. She’s tall and gangly and strong like a horse and always wears the most revealing clothes she can manage. Mum says she’s a sight for sore eyes, but I invisible quality, like if he stood still enough he’d disappear against the walls. I thought perhaps in the daylight he’d be handsome. I was careful of beautiful people. There was flow, gentle and sweet like the quiet edge of the I tried to imagine what it must feel like to have everything that was important to something untrustworthy about them. They’d always been the ruin of us. you inside a small machine. It was hard to get my head around. creek. Then my brothers grew too large to be
I plunged down, feeling the water rush at the skin The grass was springy beneath my feet. I pondered how on my face, feeling hemmed in, and Sophie met a bloke, moved out flattened it got in a flood but how quickly it righted itself. my scalp prickle with the coldness, feeling the Everything stretching out towards the sun. current rush by. I loved that first plunge, and I and had babies, and things became harder. The stayed down there a few seconds just to let the water soak right in. older I got the louder those secret things inside Dawn is my favourite time of day, the sky so light and pale and clean you can I watched him in a way I hadn’t done before. Keenly, like he was the first man almost forget how dirty the world is. I’d seen. And just like that, everything changed, and it was fast, nearly knocking me became, all those knowns and unknowns, me off my feet. ‘Graceful, revealing, pitch perfect.’ Weekend Australian until – apart from Anja – I’d rather talk to animals than people.
DEEPER WATER Jessie Cole
Innocent and unworldly, Mema lives at home with her mother on a remote, verdantly lush hinterland property. It is a small, confined, simple sort of life, and Mema is content.
One day, during a heavy downpour, Mema saves a stranger from a flooded creek on their property and takes him into her family home. There, surrounded by floodwaters, he has to stay until the waters recede and without even realising it, he opens the door to a new world of possibilities that threaten to sweep Mema into the deep.
Fiction ANZ: Fourth Estate Forthcoming August 2014 Edited manuscript available. Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates A haunting tale that beguiles the reader with its deceptively simple prose . . .
J ESSIE COLES’ DEB UT NOVEL, P U B LISHED B Y F OURTH E STATE
DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN ALS Gold Medal 2012, shortlisted Kibble Literary Award 2013, longlisted
Jessie Cole’s debut novel DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN is on another level of storytelling altogether . . . It’s exquisite writing. Graceful, revealing, pitch perfect. Cole is an author who pays sharp attention to the world around her. And she deserves to have the world pay her some attention in return.
E D WRIG HT, T HE A USTRALIAN
Fiction, 354 pp ANZ: Fourth Estate, 2012 French: Actes Sud Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates FORTHCOMING
From the author of THE BOOKS OF PELLINOR.
Luminous ... Croggon’s world is rich and passionate, brimming with archetypal motifs but freshly splendorous in its own right.
K IRK US
ALISON CROGGON
THE RIVER AND THE BOOK Alison Croggon
All her life, Simbala has lived with her family on the bank of the great River. Like her mother and grandmother, she is a Keeper, someone who can read and answer questions from the most precious object in her village – the magical Book. But the forces of change are reaching even Sim’s remote village. Industrial cotton fields upriver are bringing pollution and war threatens the village’s existence. And when the Book is stolen, Sim’s life is shattered. She travels alone downriver to the City, where she makes a new life and finds new friends.
This deeply moving story follows Sim’s life as she writes her own book, finding loss and love, sorrow and joy, and healing in the midst of catastrophic change.
YA/Crossover ANZ: Walker Books UK/Comm: Walker Books Forthcoming Spring 2015 Edited manuscript available: May 2014 Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates Alison Croggon’s epic fantasy quartet, the critically acclaimed BOOKS OF PELLINOR, has sold more than half a million copies worldwide.
. . . a magical story that is reminiscent of Tolkien. This is a tale with passionate, inspiring characters, an enchanting protagonist and vividly described landscapes. THE GIFT is a powerful story and marks the beginning of a great series of fantasy novels.
T HE BOOK SELLER, U K
THE BOOKS OF PELLINOR Alison Croggon
The books, THE GIFT, THE RIDDLE, THE CROW and the last in the series, THE SINGING, have been praised for their compelling storytelling and narratives that entice readers into a magical place of beauty and terrors.
THE BOOKS OF PELLINOR YA/Crossover ANZ: Penguin Australia UK/Comm: Walker Books USA: Candlewick Press German: Bastei Lübbe Spanish: Ediciones Ambar Portuguese: Bertrand Polish: Galeria Ksiazki Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates FORTHCOMING
THE LAST GARDEN Forthcoming from Eva Hornung, the author of DOG BOY
We now have Nebelung here, but what a Nebelung! The grass ripens at a marvellous height, the baby animals gambol at their mothers’ sides, the heavens are mild, the rain enriching and the sun warm. Our gardens are places of praise. Our houses are places of worship, our fields ring with the songs of scythe and reaper and our children’s songs of joy. No fog and mist darkens our world, no ice bars our labours; no snow falls. We plan marriages and we harvest as we have sown.
On a mild Nebelung’s afternoon, having lived as an exclamation mark in the Wahrheit settlement, Matthias Orion killed himself.
A book about grief, harm and happiness . . . about being and belonging
Eva Hornung’s new novel, THE LAST GARDEN, is set in Australia about a hundred years ago, pre World War I, in an (imaginary) isolated community of ex-communicated Lutherans who voluntarily settled in Australia in the 1860s.
Benedict Orion, aged sixteen, arrives home from boarding school to find that his father Matthias has killed his mother Ada and then himself. This event precipitates a profound spiritual journey for the boy, as his own memories become unthinkable and his sense of self, past and future are wiped out.
Benedict undergoes a death of sorts, and a rebirth, followed by a gradual reconstruction of himself from all his parts. The pastor of the community undergoes a parallel journey involving complicity and self-doubt and a radical reappraisal of the messianic beliefs that have driven his people away from the parent church and into exile. This is a book about grief, harm and happiness and some fundamental elements of being and belonging.
Fiction Manuscript due December 2014 Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates DOG BOY This gritty, richly imagined tale . . . more than Eva Hornung lives up to its unlikely premise . . . Hornung knows how to wring emotion from a scene, making the bond between boy and dog deeply felt, while rarely Dog Boy is a wonderful novel, a tour de running afoul of sentimentality. In her hands, this force, morally and philosophically urgent in engrossing story becomes both an investigation into its core concerns. humanity and a vivid portrait of one of Russia’s T HE GUARDIAN, U K millions of lost children.
P U B LISHERS WEEK LY, USA DOG BOY Fiction, 294 pp ANZ: Text Publishing, 2009 USA (Viking), UK (Bloomsbury), Canada (HarperCollins), Germany (Suhrkamp), Italy (Piemme) Netherlands (House of Books) Spain (Salamandra), Sweden (Forum), Denmark (Klim), Brazil (Paz e Terra), Portugal (Presença), Marathi (India, Mehta), France (City Editions), Russia (Centrepolygraph), Hungary (Nouvion), Chinese (Apocalypse Press), Hebrew (Aryeh Nir Publishers) PROFESSOR PETER DOHERTY FORTHCOMING
Professor Peter Doherty
Immunologist, Nobel Laureate and best-selling author Peter Doherty has said that his success as a scientist stems from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for HOW DO WE KNOW ANYTHING? different perceptions in everything from novels, to art, to experimental results.
‘I like complexity, and am delighted by the unexpected.’
P ROFESSOR D OHERTY
HOW DO WE KNOW ANYTHING? Peter Doherty
How do we know what is true? Who should we believe? Science-based understanding, particularly in the last hundred years, has achieved enormous advances, but an increasing lack of confidence in science and the integrity of scientists, reports of scientific fraud and dubious findings from studies funded by those with serious conflicts of interests, undermine our confidence in the validity of research and potential solutions. The practice of – and respect for – science is essential if humanity is to have a viable future.
Peter Doherty’s ‘warts and all’ discussion of science – the good the bad and the ugly – presents a strictly personal view, but one that provides the layperson with the insights to probe both the science and the credentials of those who claim special knowledge. Doherty believes science represents both the best of what we are and our only hope for an even halfway decent future.
Popular science ANZ: MUP Forthcoming Fall 2015 Edited manuscript available: December 2014 Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO A LIGHT HISTORY WINNING THE NOBEL PRIZE OF HOT AIR A Life in Science – Peter Doherty A Life in Science – Peter Doherty An entertaining and inspiring insider’s guide into Peter Doherty’s enthusiasm and curiosity about discovery science and the people who work in it, the world around him informs this atmospheric by Nobel Prize–winner Peter Doherty. collection of stories on illumination, hot air and Topics are embellished with burning in all their guises. His narrative is stylish Doherty’s wisdom and wit. and engaging, intimate with stories, concerned with the world around him, and the simple beauty M EDIC AL JOURNAL OF A USTRALIA of science.
Non-fiction/memoir ANZ: The Miegunyah Press, MUP, 2006 Doherty’s fulminations on everything from USA/Can: Columbia University Press rising sea levels to the delights of domestic Chinese (Simplified): Science Press hearing are the extraordinary outpourings Chinese: (Complex): Commonwealth Publishing German: Elsevier/Spektrum of a brilliant mind. India: Overseas Press M ARTIN S TEVENSON, L AUNC ESTON E XAMINER Iranian: Enteshar Publishing Thailand: National Research Council General & world history Korean: Alma Publishing ANZ: The Miegunyah Press, MUP, 2007 Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates Doherty flits from fossils to migration patterns, from wingspan measurements to white blood cell studies of horseshoe crabs, but the analyses he reaches are simple and precise.
L IZA PO W ER,
T HE S ATURDAY A G E .
SENTINEL CHICKENS: WHAT BIRDS TELL US ABOUT OUR HEALTH AND OUR WORLD Peter Doherty
The idea of ‘sentinel chicken’ seemed pretty incongruous when I first heard the phrase as a young undergraduate . . . The notion of the humble chicken waiting like a trained soldier, alert and focused, for some unseen and approaching enemy just didn’t seem likely. Hens en garde!’
And yet guard they do. Not only chickens, but puffins, eagles, canaries and toucans – birds of all kinds are recruited by humans to help us interpret changes in our increasingly challenged and unpredictable world. These wonderful creatures continually sample the atmosphere, oceans, fields and forests, signalling toxic and environmental dangers that threaten all vertebrates. Through personal stories and fascinating examples, Peter Doherty shows us how birds provide insights at the cutting edge of science and merit our sustained attention.
Popular Science ANZ: The Miegunyah Press, MUP, 2012 USA/Can: The Experiment Chinese (Simplified): Hunan Science and technical China Chinese: (Complex): Acropolis Books Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates NEW
A powerful collection of fiction that lingers long after the last word
These stories . . . are often disturbing and beautiful in the same moment. A stark, moving and memorable collection.
E VA H ORNUNG
THE SECRET MAKER OF THE WORLD Abbas El-Zein
A boatman fishes bodies from the Yellow River searching for the one he can claim. A construction worker speeds through the Indonesian jungle to board his plane on time. Playing a terrifying game of cat and mouse, an isolated sniper in Beirut observes the city from his rooftop perch.
With profound insight El-Zein’s stories cross continents and time zones, effortlessly melding themes of loss and longing with larger questions of power, politics, faith and love. His characters, as provocative as they are diverse, confront issues of violence, justice and redemption with varying degrees of rage, suspense, satire and wit. With a sharp eye for the ridiculous, El-Zein’s collection cleverly illuminates stereotypes and contemplates global truths. These are worldly stories in the best sense, and wise ones.
Fiction, 192 pp ANZ: University of Queensland Press, February 2014 Finished copies / final pages available Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates Winner, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards
This is a powerful and fascinating reflection on today’s Middle East and its relationship with the West, but El-Zein transcends issues of race and religion to explore the human consequences of war.
T HE BI G I SSUE
LEAVE TO REMAIN: A MEMOIR Abbas El-Zein
El-Zein tells his story of growing up in a middleclass family in civil war Beirut, a city in the throes of self-destruction, yet obstinately clinging to its cosmopolitan past.
El-Zein traces the genesis of a contemporary Middle-Eastern identity – his own – under the influence of culture, religion, history and places far removed from where he grew up: Najaf and Baghdad, Paris, Palestine, London, Sydney and the American far west. With him we travel through a Middle-Eastern life, with an eye on the mundane and the everyday, as well as the cataclysmic events overshadowing them. Threaded throughout this evocative memoir is an awareness of the impact of war and history on individuals, families and countries, with dislocation running across generations.
Autobiography/Memoir, 304 pp ANZ: University of Queensland Press Publication date 2009 Finished copies / final pages available Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates Beirut. One Sunday in 1975: the day war took the city by surprise. Seven o’clock in the morning. Three teenagers gazed in silence at the world around them.
In El-Zein’s elegy for Lebanon’s lost youth, dispassion and stylistic poise keep the horror of civil war at a just bearable distance. Tell the Running Water A remarkable first novel. ABBAS EL ZEIN - F ELIC ITY BLOC H , T HE A G E
TELL THE RUNNING WATER Abbas El-Zein
Kareem Kader leads two lives – studying music by day and getting high on drugs and the thrill of battle at night. Kareem is in love with his fellow student Raawya Neayme whose capacity for risk-taking is only rivalled by the single-mindedness with which she stands up to her father and plans her escape. Meanwhile, Tony Mirshid, a quiet, young carpenter from the countryside, and an excellent marksman by all accounts, is given a spot on one of the tallest buildings in Beirut.
As the paths of these three cross and their lives become intertwined, they will find themselves in the city centre, once a thriving market place, now a scarred battleground.
In this beautiful, haunting novel rules are made and remade, and everyone is at once victim and perpetrator, helping to keep their landscapes of violence alive.
Fiction, 248 pp ANZ: Ligature Reissue forthcoming May 2014 Edited manuscript available April 2014 Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates NEW
Muir’s first novel is a powerful, thought-provoking and action- packed thriller set in the lawless wilds of the Congo
A SAVAGE GARDEN Chris Muir
Jack Norton is an ex-Navy Seal who came to Africa to make a difference. Now he’s a jaded mercenary who hires himself out to the highest bidder, whether for good or evil, Red Cross or war lord. However, when Jack agrees to fly some injured children to a hospital in the Congo, he has no idea that a year later the destiny of a whole country will rest on his shoulders. For Jack is employed to protect a man named Papa Jim and his troop of rescued child soldiers. Papa Jim’s plan - to educate these boys abroad for a future ‘intelligent revolution’ – offers hope, yet is funded by a secret diamond mine. And Papa Jim’s enemies won’t stop until they get their hands on those blood diamonds ... With the help of his old friend, former British Army Captain Mark Wilkinson, Jack embarks on an odyssey across Africa on a helter-skelter quest to save the boys, a broken country… and perhaps himself.
Commercial Fiction, 354 pp February 2014 ANZ: Random House Australia Finished copies / final pages available Rights: Jenny Darling & Associates. NEW
A heart-stopping, groundbreaking novel for our times – funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting.
From the opening pages . . . You know you are in the hands of a master . . .
W EEK END A USTRALIAN
The wonder, complexity, humour and tragedy of fallible, ordinary lives are encapsulated in EYRIE in what is for Winton an uncharacteristically suspenseful story, almost thriller-like EYRIE in its intensity. Tim Winton T HE D RUM
Fiction, 423 pp ANZ: Penguin Australia UK/Comm: Picador, coming May 2014 USA: FSG, coming June 2014 Canada: HarperCollins, coming June 2014 German: Luchterhand, forthcoming Spring 2015 Finished copies / edited manuscript available Rights: Jenny Darling & Assoc/ David Higham Associates JDACLIENT LIST Robyn Arianrhod Mathematician and writer Robyn Arianrhod is based at Monash University in Melbourne. Her first book EINSTEIN’S HEROES sold in France, Japan and Turkey. Both this and SEDUCED BY LOGIC were published by University of Queensland Press (ANZ) and Oxford University Press (USA). She is currently working on E=MC2, a short book for Hampress.
David Astle David Astle is a full-time word nerd and Australia’s most ‘loved’ crossword- maker. People wake up on Fridays and groan because they know Friday is DA day. His most recent publication is CLUETOPIA, a history of the first 100 years of the crossword.
Tegan Bennett Daylight Tegan has written three novels: BOMBORA, WHAT FALLS AWAY and SAFETY and is currently working on a collection of short stories. She is an author, critic and teacher and lectures in creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Jo Case Jo Case has worked as senior writer and editor at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas and is a regular contributor of reviews to major newspapers and literary magazines. Her first book was BOOMER & ME: A MEMOIR OF MOTHERHOOD, AND ASPERGER’S. Danielle Clode Danielle Clode has a BA in politics and psychology and completed her doctorate in conservation biology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Her books include THE MEGAFAUNA OF AUSTRALIA (Museum Victoria), VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS, which the Nettie Palmer Prize for non-fiction and A FUTURE IN FLAMES, a thought-provoking analysis of fire in Australia’s history. She is now writing an historical fiction series based on the French voyages to Australia.
Jessie Cole Jessie Cole grew up in an isolated valley in Northern NSW, and lived a bush childhood of creek swimming and barefoot free-range adventuring. In 2009 she was awarded a HarperCollins Varuna Award for Manuscript Development, leading to the publication of her highly praised first novel DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, Her work has also appeared in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Island Magazine, Big Issue, Daily Life and the Guardian. Her second novel DEEPER WATER is 4th Estate’s lead title for August 2014.
Steven Conte Steven’s debut novel THE ZOOKEEPER’S WAR was launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 2008 it won the inaugural Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. Steven is currently finishing his book about his recent year riding a bicycle around Italy.
Travis Cotton Travis Cotton is an award-winning Australian actor, director and playwright. He studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and most recently starred in Eddie Perfect’s THE BEAST. His play, ROBOTS Vs ART, has been performed around Australia and is published by Currency Press. Alison Croggon Alison Croggon is an Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist. She is the author of the acclaimed and internationally best-selling, young adult fantasy quartet, THE BOOKS OF PELLINOR. Her most recently published fantasy novel is BLACK SPRING, released in 2012–14 in Australia, the UK, US and Germany. A new novel, SIMBALA’S BOOK, is forthcoming in 2015 with Walker Books.
Sophie Cunningham Sophie is a writer and columnist, a former publisher and former Chair of the Australia Council’s Literature Board. WARNING, Sophie’s book about Cyclone Tracy, will be published by Text Publishing in August 2014.
Daryl Dellora Daryl Dellora is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He received an Australian Human Rights Award for his film Mr Neal is Entitled to be an Agitator, about the life of High Court justice Lionel Murphy. His film about Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon, The Edge of the Possible was awarded a Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Television Festival. Daryl is a director of the film production company Film Art Doco and Film Art Media. His most recent books are MICHAEL KIRBY: LAW, LOVE AND LIFE, and UTZON AND THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE published by Penguin Australia.
Hanifa Deen Human rights activist and social commentator, Hanifa is the author of CARAVANSERAI: JOURNEY AMONG AUSTRALIAN MUSLIMS (winner of a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award), THE JIHAD SEMINAR and ALI ABDUL v THE KING. Garry Disher Garry Disher is one of Australia’s best-known novelists. He’s published almost 50 books in a range of genres: crime thrillers, literary/general novels, short- story collections, novels for adolescents and children, and writers’ handbooks. Disher has toured Germany and the United States, where his crime and children’s/YA novels have appeared on bestseller lists and receive rave reviews and awards. His most recent book is BITTERWASH ROAD.
Peter Doherty Peter Doherty was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1996 for his research into human immune systems. He was head of the Immunology Department at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and in 2002 he became Laureate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. Professor Doherty’s most recent book is SENTINEL CHICKEN: WHAT BIRDS TELL US ABOUT OUR HEALTH AND OUR WORLD, published by MUP.
Mike Dumbleton Mike is the author of more than 20 books beginning with DIAL-A-CROC. His work has been adapted for stage and television and four of his picture books have been Children’s Book Council Notable Books. His most recent publication is SANTA’S SECRET. Mike divides his time between Australia and New York where he works as a Literacy Consultant. Abbas El-Zein Abbas El-Zein was born and raised in Beirut. Although from a family of religious scholars, he attended a French secular school and studied civil engineering at the American University of Beirut. He has lived in the UK, France and Australia. El-Zein essays and short stories about war, identity and displacement have been published in international magazines and papers. His first novel, TELL THE RUNNING WATER, is set in Beirut. His memoir LEAVE TO REMAIN won a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award in 2010. THE SECRET MAKER OF THE WORLD, a collection of short stories was published in March 2014. El-Zein is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He lives in Sydney with his wife Ann and their two sons.
Mem Fox Mem Fox is an international literacy consultant and author of more than 40 picture books for children with sales of around four million copies. Her latest release is BABY BEDTIME published by Penguin Australia. 2014 is the 10th anniversary of the best-selling WHERE IS THE GREEN SHEEP? (Penguin Australia) and the 21st anniversary of TIME FOR BED (Scholastic Australia).
Rosalie Ham Rosalie was born and raised in Jerilderie, New South Wales and now lives in Melbourne. She is the author of three novels: THE DRESSMAKER, SUMMER AT MOUNT HOPE and THERE SHOULD BE MORE DANCING with sales of more than 75,000. Ham is a gifted storyteller; her ideas are fresh, unusual and entertaining. A film of THE DRESSMAKER, starring Kate Winslet and Judy Davis starts shooting in October 2014. Lian Hearn 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 the writing of ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, the first in the internationally acclaimed TALES OF THE OTORI series, which has been sold into 38 territories and has sales of over four million copies.
Jenny Hocking Professor Jenny Hocking is a Research Professor and Fellow at Monash University. She has published widely on aspects of contemporary Australian politics, national security and labour history and is the author of the acclaimed two-volume biography GOUGH WHITLAM: HIS TIME, published by Melbourne University Press.
Judy Horacek Judy Horacek is a cartoonist, illustrator and author. Her first picture book, WHERE IS THE GREEN SHEEP?, written with Mem Fox won Children’s Book Council Book of the Year for Early Childhood. YELLOW IS MY COLOR STAR has just been published by Beach Lane Books (USA) and in Australia by Scholastic. Eva Hornung Eva Hornung (formerly Eva Sallis) is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and criticism: her first novel Hiam won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1997 and the Nita May Dobbie Award in 1999. Her novel The Marsh Birds, set in Iraq, Syria, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, won the Asher Literary Award 2005. Her latest novel, DOG BOY won the Fiction Prize category of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, 2010 and has been published in 16 languages. Eva lives on a property South Australia’s Adelaide Hills, where she breeds horses.
Elizabeth Jolley Elizabeth Jolley was the author of 15 novels and four short-story collections. Awards include Age Book of the Year Award, the Age Fiction Prize, Miles Franklin Award, National Book Council (Banjo) Award, NSW Premier’s Literary Award, WA Critical & Historical Prize and WA Premier’s Fiction Award. THE WELL has just been reissued as the first Australian Penguin Classic.
Carolyn Landon Carolyn Landon was born in the USA and arrived in Australia in 1968. She is an oral historian, teacher and author. Carolyn is co-author with Daryl Tonkin of JACKSON’S TRACK, MEMOIR OF A DREAMTIME PLACE. Her book JACKSON’S TRACK REVISITED tells the story behind the original memoir. She is also co-author of CUPS WITH NO HANDLES and the memoir BLACK SWAN. Carolyn is currently writing a memoir and a biography of botanical artist Celia Rosser. Simone Lazaroo Simone Lazaroo was born in Singapore and migrated with her family to Western Australia in 1963. Her novels THE AUSTRALIAN FIANCE, THE WORLD WAITING TO BE MADE and THE TRAVEL WRITER have all won the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel is SUSTENANCE, a compelling novel set in Bali. Dr Lazaroo is also a lecturer in creative writing at Murdoch University, WA.
Elaine Lewis Elaine Lewis opened the first Australian Bookshop in Paris. Her book LEFT BANK WALTZ tells the story of the shop and the struggle with the French bureaucracy to keep it open.
Megan Lewis Megan Lewis is a freelance photographer based in Perth. Her work has regularly appeared in international publications, including the Washington Post, International Herald Tribune and Time Magazine, and has been exhibited in Australia and Europe. For eight years she lived full-time with the Martu people, one of the last Indigenous groups in Australia’s Great Sandy Desert to come into contact with Europeans. Megan’s intimate photographic portrayal of the Martu won her a prestigious Walkley Award for journalism. Her book CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MOB (2008) captures the reality of the Martu’s life and the time Megan shared with them.
Meme McDonald Meme McDonald has written several award-winning books with Boori Monty Pryor including MAYBE TOMORROW, MY GIRRAGUNDJI, THE BINNA BINNA MAN and NJUNJUL THE SUN. Her latest work, the novel LOVE LIKE WATER, was shortlisted for Book of the Year: Older Readers at the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards. The film rights TO MY GIRRAGUNDJI are under option to Maggie Miles, Savage Films. Nelika McDonald Nelika McDonald was born in Brisbane in 1983 where she still lives with her husband and new baby. Her first book, THE VALE GIRL, published by PanMacmillan in 2013, is a delicate and layered exploration of secrets and lies, forgotten children and absent parents, and the long shadows of the past.
Humphrey McQueen Humphrey McQueen is a widely published writer, freelance historian and cultural commentator. He is the author of 19 books covering history, the media, politics and the visual arts. He is currently working on a history of one of Australia’s major unions.
Adrian Martin Internationally renowned film critic and author of many books on film and filmmakers and is the editor of the respected Lola Journal. He is currently based in Frankfurt.
Mark Mordue Mark Mordue is an internationally published journalist, essayist and founding editor of Australian Style magazine. Mark was awarded the Pascall Prize, Australia’s premier prize for critical writing, in 2010. He is currently at work on a biography of Nick Cave. Chris Muir Chris Muir has worked in advertising for 36 years and has won many creative awards. He currently owns and runs the advertising agency, Smoke Signals. He has travelled widely; trekked the Kokoda Track, been kidnapped by orang- utans in Borneo, driven herds of brumbies across the Australian Alps and lived in New York, London and Singapore. But it was Africa that stole his heart. Since his first trip in 1994 to experience his ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ moment in Rwanda, he has gone back many times to continue the adventure and his love affair with this amazing continent and its even more amazing people. His first novel A SAVAGE GARDEN was published in February 2014. He is working on a new thriller, THE DEVIL’S CHOICE, set in Somalia.
Sarah Myles The film rights to Sarah’s first novel TRANSPLANTED are under option to Victor Carson at FilmBuff Productions.
Sonia Orchard Sonia’s first book SOMETHING MORE WONDERFUL was a memoir about the year in which her close friend Emma was diagnosed with, and lost her life to, cancer. Her first novel, THE VIRTUOSO, draws on the life of Australian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. Dorothy Porter Dorothy Porter is an acclaimed poet, lyricist and librettist. She is the author of the best-selling THE MONKEY’S MASK, WHAT A PIECE OF WORK, and WILD SURMISE, all of which have won numerous literary awards. Her works have been translated into Italian, German and Dutch. Awards include the Age Poetry Book of the Year and the National Book Council’s Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize. BEFORE TIME COULD CHANGE US, for which she wrote the lyrics, won an ARIA for Best Jazz Album. Her second opera, ‘The Eternity Man’, for which she wrote the libretto, was staged in London and Sydney in 2003 and filmed for Channel 4 directed by Julien Temple. Dorothy passed away in December 2008 at the age of 54. THE BEST 100 POEMS OF DORTHY PORTER has recently been published.
Margaret Plant Margaret Plant is Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Monash University, Melbourne. Her book VENICE: FRAGILE CITY 1797–1997 (Yale University Press) was named one of the top ten books of the year in 2002. Her new book LOVE AND LAMENT: One Account of the History of Art In Australia in the Twentieth Century will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
Sian Prior Sian Prior is a journalist, essayist, critic and award-winning short-story writer. She is also a teacher of journalism and creative writing, broadcaster, an accomplished musician and singer. Sian’s first non-fiction book, SHY – A MEMOIR, will be published by Text Publishing in June 2014. Boori Monty Pryor Boori Monty Pryor is an Indigenous Australian from Townsville. Boori travels extensively as a performer and public speaker for school students and adult groups throughout Australia and overseas. He has written several award- winning books with Meme McDonald including MAYBE TOMORROW, MY GIRRAGUNDJI, THE BINNA BINNA MAN and NJUNJUL THE SUN. The film rights to MY GIRRAGUNDJI are under option to Maggie Miles. His picture book SHAKE A LEG, illustrated by Jan Omerod, won the Children’s Fiction category in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2011. In 2013 he was the inaugural Australian Children’s Laureate (with Alison Lester).
Matt Rubinstein Matt Rubinstein’s first novel, SOLSTICE, and third novel, VELLUM were both shortlisted for the Australian Vogel award. His latest novel, A LITTLE RAIN ON THURSDAY, was published by Text Publishing. He works as a lawyer and an e-publisher.
Tim Sinclair Tim Sinclair is a Sydney-based writer, an editor for his own micropress Cottage Industry Press, and poetry editor for Pan Magazine. He is, however, primarily a poet and his publications include the verse novel NINE HOURS NORTH and RUN, a YA thriller set in the world of parkour, recently published by Penguin Australia.
Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a writer and the editor of Overland, Australia’s pre-eminent progressive literary journal. His most recent book is MONEY SHOT: A JOURNEY INTO PORN AND CENSORSHIP, published by Scribe. Jeremy Stoljar A barrister for over fifteen years with a commercial law practice, Jeremy took silk in 2008. In 2011 Murdoch Books published his book THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK OF GREAT TRIALS, which tells the story of some of the most interesting and important trials in Australian history, including the first-ever civil case, brought by two convicts a short time after the First Fleet landed.
John Tait John Tait is a mad music buff and collector. His first book was on Vanda and Young, songwriters extraordinaire. John compiled the discography for John Bois’ new book THE DINGOES’ LAMENT. He is currently working on the story of the Melbourne jug band of the 1970s The Captain Matchbox Whoopee band. He has a secondhand record shop in Melbourne’s West.
Tim Winton The foremost Australian novelist of his generation, Tim Winton has published 25 books for adults and children and his work has been translated into 28 languages. Awards include the Miles Franklin Award, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the WA Premier’s Fiction Prize and the shortlist of the Mann Booker Prize. A new novel EYRIE was published in 2013 by Penguin (Australia) and will be published in 2014 by Picador (UK); Farrar, Straus & Giroux (USA); HarperCollins (Canada) and Luchterhand (German). He lives in Western Australia.
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