JULY–DECEMBER 2015 THE TEXT PUBLISHING COMPANY JULY–DECEMBER 2015 Swann House, 22 William Street General [email protected] Catalogue design/production Imogen Stubbs Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia Publicity [email protected] Editorial/co-ordination Alaina Gougoulis p: +613 8610 4500 f: +613 9629 8621 Marketing [email protected] Typesetting Jess Horrocks textpublishing.com.au Rights [email protected] JULY OCTOBER DECEMBER 02 Blockbuster! Lucy Sussex 20 Something for the Pain Gerald Murnane 43 My Relations Robin Dalton 03 Let Me Die in His Footsteps Lori Roy 22 Gamelife Michael Clune 04 Text Classics 23 Ash Island Barry Maitland TEXT FOR YA & CHILDREN 06 A Cure for Suicide Jesse Ball 24 Nein. Eric Jarosinski 45 Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars Martine Murray 07 Day Boy Trent Jamieson 25 History’s People Margaret MacMillan 46 Burn Paula Weston 26 The Story of the Lost Child Elena Ferrante AUGUST 48 Afterlight Rebecca Lim 08 The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante NOVEMBER 49 Adrift Paul Griffin 08 Troubling Love Elena Ferrante 28 Recipes for Love and Murder Sally Andrew 51 How to Be Happy David Burton 08 The Lost Daughter Elena Ferrante 30 Reckoning Magda Szubanski 52 The Lost Sword Darrell Pitt 10 An Astronaut’s Life Sonja Dechian 32 The Truth Neil Strauss 53 Another Day David Levithan 11 Griffith Review 49: New Asia Now 34 A Dog Named Jimmy Rafael Mantesso 54 Goodbye Stranger Rebecca Stead edited by Julianne Schultz and Jane Camens 35 Freeman’s: Arrival edited by John Freeman 56 We Are the Rebels Clare Wright 12 Paris Nocturne Patrick Modiano 36 A Few Days in the Country 57 Julius and the Soulcatcher Tim Hehir 13 Little Jewel Patrick Modiano Elizabeth Harrower 58 Inbetween Days Vikki Wakefield 38 The Brain Electric Malcolm Gay SEPTEMBER 60 The After-Room Maile Meloy 39 Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, 14 Beauty Is a Wound Eka Kurniawan They Change It Daniel Klein BACKLIST, RIGHTS ETC 15 Two Futures Clare O’Neil and Tim Watts 40 The Heat Garry Disher 62 fiction backlist highlights 16 Atmosphere of Hope Tim Flannery 42 Griffith Review 50: Tall Tales Short— 66 non-fiction backlist highlights 18 Don’t Get Me Wrong Marianne Kavanagh The Novella Project III edited by 68 YA & children backlist highlights 19 J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing Julianne Schultz and Aviva Tuffield 70 ebooks & distribution David Attwell 72 rights BLOCKBUSTER! FERGUS HUME AND THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB LUCY SUSSEX From the printing presses of Kemp & Boyce the copies of Hansom Cab emerged, ready for the waiting market of readers. His fellow colonials hadn’t recognised Hume’s talent—it was English actors and managers, and the ex-Londoner Trischler, who tended to see his potential. But nobody, except perhaps Trischler, could foresee what was coming with Hansom Cab. DARREN JAMES Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand. Before Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, there She has edited four anthologies including was Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab—the She’s Fantastical, which was shortlisted biggest- and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s, for the World Fantasy Award. Her award- and Australia’s first literary blockbuster. winning fiction includes books for younger readers and the novel The Scarlet Rider. FERGUS Hume was an aspiring playwright when he moved She has published five short-story from Dunedin to Melbourne in 1885. He wrote The Mystery of collections as well as literary criticism and reviews. a Hansom Cab with the humble hope of bringing his name www.sussex.id.au/home/ to the attention of theatre managers. The book sold out its first run almost instantly and became a runaway word-of- ‘Well researched and well written... mouth phenomenon—but its author sold the copyright for a informative yet entertaining.’ mere fifty pounds, missing out on a potential fortune. Books+Publishing Blockbuster! is the engrossing story of a book that would help define the genre of crime fiction, and a portrait of a great city in full bloom. Rigorously researched and full RRP A$32.99 NON-FICTION PB ISBN 9781922147943, 336pp of arresting detail, this captivating book is a must-read for EBOOK ISBN 9781922148940 fans of true crime, history and crime fiction alike. RIGHTS HELD World 2 TEXT PUBLISHING JULY 2015 LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS LORI ROY Everyone knows Hollerans don’t go near Baines. Aunt Juna was the start of all the hatred between the families, and even though she’s been gone a good many years, the hatred has stayed put. ON a dark Kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses over into forbidden territory. It’s been KATHLEEN HALL KATHLEEN Lori Roy won the top US prize in crime that way since Joseph Carl Baine was hanged in 1936. writing, the Edgar Award, for her debut, But local superstition says that tonight Annie can see Bent Road, and was an Edgar finalist for her future in the Baines’ well. her second novel, Until She Comes Home. Critics compare her works to such literary What she sees instead, there in the moonlight, is a greats as William Faulkner and Harper dead woman. And suddenly the events of 1936, events Lee. Let Me Die in His Footsteps is her that have twisted and shaped the lives of Annie and all third novel. her kin, are brought back into the present. loriroy.com facebook.com/Lori-Roy-Author Juna will come home now, to finish what she started. @LORIROYauthor And if Annie is to save herself, her family and this small ‘Rich and evocative, Lori Roy’s voice is Kentucky town, she must face the terrible reality of what a welcome addition to American fiction.’ happened all those years ago. Dennis Lehane Inspired by the true story of the last lawful public hanging in the United States, Let Me Die in His Footsteps RRP A$29.99 FICTION PB ISBN 9781925240474, 336pp is a gothic masterpiece filled with tension and dread. EBOOK ISBN 9781922253248 RIGHTS HELD UK & Commonwealth (excl. Canada) ‘Writing with a delicate touch but great strength of purpose, Roy OTHER RIGHTS Penguin Random House USA creates stark studies…and subtle portraits.’ New York Times TEXT PUBLISHING JULY 2015 3 In September, Text will republish five novels by one of Australia’s greatest writers, Randolph Stow, each accompanied by a specially commissioned essay: To the Islands, introduction by Bernadette Brennan Tourmaline, introduction by Gabrielle Carey Visitants, introduction by Drusilla Modjeska The Girl Green as Elderflower, introduction by Kerryn Goldsworthy The Suburbs of Hell, afterword by Michelle de Kretser 4 TEXT PUBLISHING JULY–DECEMBER 2015 And look out for other forthcoming Text Classics: JULY OCTOBER Peter Ryan Kate Jennings Fear Drive My Feet Moral Hazard introduced by introduced by Peter Pierce Gideon Haigh AUGUST DECEMBER Janet Frame Robin Dalton In the Memorial Room Aunts Up the Cross introduced by introduced by Simon Van Booy Clive James JOHN MONEY MARTINEZ NATALIE Explore the Classics at textclassics.com.au TEXT PUBLISHING JULY–DECEMBER 2015 5 A CURE FOR SUICIDE JESSE BALL You are here because you have been very sick. You almost died…It is my job to make you better. You and I shall become good friends as you grow stronger, and as you learn. There is much for you to learn. JESSE Ball brings us an audacious new novel about a man starting over, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. JOE LIESKE Jesse Ball is the author of four other The man and the woman move into a small house novels, Samedi the Deafness, The Way in a village. The woman is an ‘examiner’, the man, Through Doors, The Curfew and Silence her ‘claimant’. The examiner is both doctor and guide, Once Begun. His prizes include the 2008 charged with teaching the claimant a series of simple Paris Review Plimpton Prize and his verse has been included in the Best American functions. The woman makes notes in her journal about Poetry series. He gives classes on lucid his progress: he is showing improvement, yet his dreams dreaming and lying at the School of the are troubling. One day, she brings him to a party where Art Institute of Chicago. he meets Hilda, a charismatic woman who throws jesseball.com facebook.com/JesseBallAuthor everything the claimant has learned into question. jesseball.tumblr.com What is this village? Why is he here? And who is Hilda? A Cure for Suicide is a fascinating novel of love, illness, despair and betrayal. RRP A$29.99 FICTION PB ISBN 9781925240030, 272pp PRAISE for Silence Once Begun: EBOOK ISBN 9781925095852 ‘Beginning as a work of seeming reportage, Silence Once RIGHTS HELD UK & Commonwealth (excl. Begun transforms into a graceful and multifaceted fable Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia) OTHER RIGHTS Penguin Random House USA on the nature of truth and identity.’ Wall Street Journal 6 TEXT PUBLISHING JULY 2015 DAY BOY TRENT JAMIESON He told me once what they dream of. ‘The Sun, blessed and pure, a long shore, a wave that breaks, and the hunt. These are the endless things, so deep in us that we are nothing without them. We dream of a place that is all predation; a place between the light and the dark where the blood is hot and sweet, and everything is possessed of purity.’ Trent Jamieson has been part of the Mark is a Day Boy. Brisbane literary scene as a writer and bookseller since 1997.