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The Ballad of Melodie Rose by Kate Gordon University of Queensland Press January ‒ June 2021 Cover elements from Dropbear Design by @jenna.mlee Design elements from Dropbear Design by @jenna.mlee CONTENTS Adult Titles 5 Born Into This by Adam Thompson 6 Swallow the Air (B-format edition) by Tara June Winch 7 Mind Your Brain: The Essential Australian Guide to Dementia by Kailas Roberts 8 Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen 9 Smokehouse by Melissa Manning 10 A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong 11 A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt 12 Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now edited by Ellen van Neerven 13 A Paper Inheritance by Dymphna Stella Rees 14 Whisper Songs by Tony Birch Children’s and Young Adult Titles 17 Footprints on the Moon by Lorraine Marwood 18 Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman 19 The Bird in the Herd by Kathryn Apel & Renée Treml 20 The Edge of Thirteen by Nova Weetman 21 When We Are Invisible by Claire Zorn 22 Fozia and the Quest of Prince Zal by Rosanne Hawke 23 The Tale of the Whale by Karen Swann and Padmacandra 24 The Ballad of Melodie Rose by Kate Gordon 26 Award winners & bestsellers 27 Backlist titles: July to December 2020 28 About UQP 29 Print sales and distribution 3 Adult Titles FEBRUARY Adam Thompson Born Into This Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes from a wholly original perspective. The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism. With humour, pathos and the ISBN 9780 7022 6311 8 occasional sly twist, Thompson’s characters RRP $29.99 confront discrimination, untimely funerals, Category Fiction/Short Stories classroom politics, the ongoing legacy of Format C-format paperback, 224pp Rights held World Rights cultural destruction and – overhanging all like a discomforting, burgeoning awareness for both white and black Australia – the inexorable disappearance of the remnant natural world. Drenched in swagger and Adam Thompson is an emerging originality,‘’ the blows are Aboriginal (pakana) writer from Tasmania, head-on, but the comfort is who writes contemporary short fiction. In swiftly delivered in the wit 2016−17, Adam received writing awards and delicacy of Thompson’s through the Tamar Valley Writers Festival phrasing. He has the reader and the Tasmanian Writers and Readers in the boat, on the shore and drowning in the sea at once. Festival. Adam has been awarded a First Nations Fellowship at Varuna — The Writers’ House, several Arts Tara June Winch Tasmania grants and was one of ten recipients of The Next Chapter initiative through the Wheeler Centre. 5 FEBRUARY Tara June Winch Swallow the Air (B-format edition) The much-loved debut of 2020 Miles Franklin Award winner Tara June Winch available in paperback for the first time. When May’s mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn’t seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, not the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong. ISBN 9780 7022 6330 9 RRP $22.99 Category Fiction/Short Stories Swallow the Air is an unforgettable story of Format B-format paperback, 216pp living in a torn world and finding the thread Rights held World Rights to help sew it back together. Tara June Winch’s Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, witing ‘’is startling: born in Australia in 1983 and based in visceral, fresh France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air, and poetic. was critically acclaimed and named Tara a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Vogue Australia Australian Novelist. Tara was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, and her second book, story collection After the Carnage, was published in 2016. Her most recent novel, The Yield, won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. 6 MARCH Kailas Roberts Mind Your Brain An invaluable guide to understanding and living with dementia, and for maintaining a healthy brain. Over 400,000 Australians are currently living with dementia, yet misunderstanding about the condition is widespread. Few people realise they can take action to lessen their chances of it developing. There are also effective interventions and treatments now available to address dementia-related symptoms. Dr Kailas Roberts works as a specialist in memory loss and dementia. In Mind Your Brain he brings a wealth of knowledge from his medical practice and ISBN 9780 7022 6309 5 RRP $34.99 presents it in plain and accessible language. Category Non-fiction He explains how dementia affects the brain Format C-format paperback, 344pp Rights held World Rights and body, what to expect in the event of a diagnosis, and how to manage each step along the way. Dr Kailas Roberts is a consultant psychiatrist and psychogeriatrician with over ten years’ experience in the field of old-age psychiatry. He runs a busy private practice caring for people with cognitive difficulties, and advises on management of the behavioural and psychological difficulties that often accompany dementia. He lives in Brisbane, and this is his first book. 7 MARCH Evelyn Araluen Dropbear I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alternately playful, tender and mournful intertextual voice, deftly navigating the responsibilities that gather from sovereign country, the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality. This innovative mix of poetry and essay offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, ISBN 9780 7022 6318 7 RRP $24.99 and an embattled but redemptive hope for a Category Poetry decolonial future. Format B-format paperback, 112pp Rights held World Rights Her verse has an Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and unrivalled‘’ and mercliess co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. clarity of expression Her widely published criticism, fiction and purpose. and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, Alison Whittaker the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship, and a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant. Born and raised on Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung Nation. 8 APRIL Melissa Manning Smokehouse An accomplished story collection that is deeply rooted in the Tasmanian landscape and those moments in people’s lives when everything changes. Set in southern Tasmania, the linked stories in Smokehouse bring into focus a small community and capture those moments when life turns and one person becomes another. As we get to know these characters – a mother whose fresh start leads to a fractured future, a stonemason seeking connection, a woman grieving her adopted mother, a couple torn apart by their daughter’s drug addiction – we learn how their lives intersect, in various ways, ISBN 9780 7022 6302 6 across time and place. RRP $29.99 Category Fiction/Short Stories With insight and empathy, Melissa Manning Format B-format paperback, 264pp Rights held Aust & NZ Rights only interrogates how the people we meet and the places we live shape who we become. Bookended by a Melissa Manning is a Melbourne-based captivating‘’ love story, writer and lawyer. She grew up in southern this collection is as raw Tasmania and has lived and worked in and true as the rugged London and Hungary. Her writing has Tasmanian coast it been recognised in awards and published widely, including in The Best Small Fictions traverses. (US), To Carry Her Home (UK), Award Winning Australian Carrie Tiffany Writing and Overland. Smokehouse is Melissa’s debut collection. 9 APRIL Eileen Chong A Thousand Crimson Blooms The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong – her most personal and accomplished work yet. Eileen Chong’s luminous poetry examines the histories—personal, familial and cultural—that form our identities and obsessions. A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or fraught mother–daughter relations. Entwined throughout are questions of migration and belonging. ISBN 9780 7022 6319 4 Viewed as a whole, this collection is a field of RRP $24.99 Category Poetry flowers, aflame with light. Format B-format paperback, 96pp Rights held World Rights Her most powerful Eileen Chong is an Australian poet of collection‘’ yet ... the Chinese descent. Born and raised in word “courage” rings Singapore, she came to Australia as an through these poems. adult migrant. Eileen is the author of eight books published in Australia and Lisa Gorton the US. Her work has been shortlisted for numerous prizes, and her first book, Burning Rice, is teh first single-author poetry collection by an Asian- Australian to be studied as part of the NSW HSC. She lives and works on unceded Gadigal land of the Eora Nation. 10 MAY Billy-Ray Belcourt A History of My Brief Body A dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt.
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