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PO Box 413 Toorak Victoria 3142 Australia T +61 3 9827 3883 E PO Box 413 Toorak Victoria 3142 Australia T +61 3 9827 3883 E [email protected] www.jd-associates.com.au JENNY DARLING & ASSOCIATES PTY LTD ABN 29 084 520 598 INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE JDA LONDON BOOK FAIR 2014 HIGHLIGHTS 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.
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