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Factory 19 4 The Inheritors 5 Melting Moments 6 On the Line 7 A Couple of Things Before the End 8 Act of Grace 9 One Hundred Days 10 Sly Fox 11 The Beat of Life 12 We, Hominids 13 Shanghai Acrobat 14 Everything Harder Than Everyone Else 15 Men at Work 16 The Shortest History series 17 The Winter Road 21 Car Crash 22 Muddy People 23 The Town that Told the Story 24 See What You Made Me Do 25 The Honey Factory 26 Writers on Writers series 27 Jacinda Ardern 29 The Mutant Project 30 Contest for the Indo-Pacific 31 China Panic 33 Brothels of Little Lon 34 Animals and the Law 35 My Tongue is My Own 36 Russians, White and Red 37

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BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 3 Factory 19 Dennis Glover In the spirit of George Orwell’s Animal Farm comes a darkly funny satire on technology, the gig economy and the smartphone – and what would happen if we re-created a world without them.

They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022: a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA. One day the city’s residents are awoken by a high- pitched sound no one has heard for two generations – a factory whistle. GoFA’s owner, world-famous JULY 2020 tycoon Dundas Faussett, is creating his most LITERARY FICTION ambitious installation yet. He’s going to defeat the Imprint: Black Inc. internet’s dominance over our lives by establishing RRP: AU$32.99 a new Year Zero: 1948. Those whose jobs and lives Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 304pp have been destroyed by Amazon and Uber and Airbnb are invited to fight back in the only way that Manuscript: Available can possibly succeed: by living as if the internet Rights held: World; film/TV and the smartphone had never been invented.

Praise for The Last Man in Europe The hold over our lives by Gates, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest, starts to loosen as the “Dennis Glover has written a novel that revolutionary example of Factory 19 spreads. Can captures George Orwell as he began to write nostalgia really defeat the future? Can the little the book he saw as the culmination of all people win back the world? We are about to find out. he’d learned in a bloody century about DENNIS GLOVER, the son of factory labourers, tyranny, fear, valor, and love.” —NPR grew up in a town just like Factory 19. Educated at Monash and Cambridge universities, he has made a “Rivetingly told . . . A terrifically assured career as one of Australia’s leading speechwriters and hybrid of fiction and life-writing” political commentators. His first novel, The Last Man —The New Statesman in Europe, was nominated for several literary prizes, including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. “Engrossing, timely and finely detailed . . . a Factory 19 is his second novel. must read for lovers of history, literature, or politics” —Library Journal (starred review) RIGHTS SOLD TO THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE: NORTH AMERICA (OVERLOOK PRESS) AND UK/ COMM EX ANZ (POLYGON)

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 4 The Inheritors Richesse Oblige Hannelore Cayre Translated by Stephanie Smee An unforgettable new novel by the award-winning author of the international French bestseller The Godmother.

“She had been dead now for four days and I had become rich. Unimaginably rich.” Blanche de Rigny has always considered herself the black sheep of the family. And a black sheep on crutches at that. But it turns out her family tree has branches she didn’t even know existed. And many of them are rotten to the core. As Blanche becomes aware of the legacy left by her wealthy Parisian ancestors, she wonders about engaging in a little family tree pruning of her own. SEPTEMBER 2020 LITERARY FICTION However, with great wealth comes great responsibility – a form of richesse oblige, perhaps – Imprint: Black Inc. and Blanche also has a plan to use her inheritance to RRP: AU$29.99 cure the world of its ills. Paperback | 210 × 135mm | 224pp Spanning two centuries, from Paris on the eve of the Manuscript: March 2020 Franco-Prussian war to the modern day, this Rights held: World English-language unforgettable family saga lays bare the persistent Other rights: Éditions Métailié and poisonous injustice of inequality. In her trademark razor-­sharp style, Hannelore Cayre again delivers the sardonic humour and devilish creativity that made The Godmother an international bestseller. HANNELORE CAYRE is a French novelist, screenwriter, director and criminal lawyer. Her most recent work, The Godmother (La Daronne), won the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and featured on the 2019 New York Times List of 100 Notable Books. It has been made into a major film starring Isabelle Huppert.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 5 Melting Moments Anna Goldsworthy A charming, sharply observed first novel from one of Australia’s best writers

Sometimes events occur as one might wish but sometimes they do not. So says the ever-practical Ruby, always striving for what is right and proper, from the time we meet her as a striking soldier’s fiancée through to the rather less steady years of her old age. With an eyebrow pencil in one hand and gardening shears in the other, Ruby navigates the intervening years doing her duty as a woman, allowing marriage and motherhood to fill her with purpose and pleasure – and only occasionally wondering, Is this all there is? In her moving, captivating fiction debut, award- MARCH 2020 winning author Anna Goldsworthy recreates LITERARY FICTION Adelaide and Melbourne of half a century ago, Imprint: Black Inc. bringing a family to life as they move through the RRP: AU$29.99 decades, challenging and caring for and loving one Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 240pp another, often in surprising ways. Charming and sharply observed, Melting Moments is, like Ruby Manuscript: Available herself, a gentle powerhouse. Rights held: World English-language Other rights: Curtis Brown Australia ANNA GOLDSWORHY is the award-winning author of Piano Lessons, Welcome to Your New Life and the Quarterly Essay Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom “A tender evocation of times past, and a and Misogyny. Her writing has appeared in The Monthly, subtle, elegant portrait of one woman’s life The Age, The Australian, The Adelaide Review and and loves as she grows and adapts to a The Best Australian Essays. changing world” —Ceridwen Dovey, “A delightful and beautifully written book, suffused award-winning author of Only the Animals with humour and enquiry into the domestic habits, and In the Garden of the Fugitives social expectations and morals of a period and place” —Joan London, author of The Golden Age, Publisher’s Weekly book of the year 2016

AUTHOR’S PREVIOUS BOOK, PIANO LESSONS, WAS PUBLISHED AROUND THE WORLD IN MULTIPLE EDITIONS

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 6 On the Line À la ligne Joseph Ponthus Translated by Stephanie Smee

Unable to find work in his field, Joseph Ponthus enlists with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. Day after day he records with infinite precision the nature of work on the production line: the noise, the weariness, the dreams stolen by the repetitive nature of exhausting rituals and physical suffering. But he finds solace in a life previously lived. Shelling prawns, he dreams of Alexandre Dumas. Pushing cattle carcasses, he recalls Apollinaire. And, in the grace of the blank spaces created by his insistent return to a new line of text – mirroring his continued return to the JULY 2020 production line – we discover the woman he loves, LITERARY FICTION the happiness of a Sunday, Pok Pok the dog, the Imprint: Black Inc. smell of the sea. RRP: AU$27.99 In this celebrated French bestseller, translated by Paperback | 210 × 135mm | 272pp Stephanie Smee, Ponthus captures the mundane, Manuscript: Available the beautiful and the strange, writing with an Rights held: World English-language elegance and humour that sit in poignant contrast Other rights: Editions La Ronde Table with the blood and sweat of the factory floor. On the Line (À la ligne) is a poet’s ode to manual labour, “Joseph Ponthus has positioned himself as and to the human spirit that makes it bearable. one of the great authors of our times with After studying literature and social work, JOSEPH his arrival on the literary scene” —L’Alsace PONTHUS worked for over ten years as a social worker and special needs teacher in the suburbs of Paris. In 2012 he co-authored Nous . . . La Cité (The Suburbs are STEPHANIE SMEE is the translator of Ours). He lives and works in Brittany, France. Hannelore Cayre’s prize-winning work of literary crime fiction, The Godmother. Her translation of rediscovered WWII OVER 40,000 COPIES SOLD IN FRANCE memoir, No Place to Lay One’s Head, won the JQ–Wingate Prize. AWARDS INCLUDE: GRAND PRIX RTL / READ 2019; PRIX RÉGINE DEFORGES 2019; JEAN AMILA- MECKERT PRIZE 2019; PRIZE FOR THE FIRST NOVEL FOR LIBRARY READERS OF THE CITY OF PARIS; PRIX EUGÈNE DABIT 2019

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 7 A Couple of Things Before the End Stories Sean O’Beirne This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of an old and a new Australia.

A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild Barry Humphries. A man looks back to the 1970s and his time as a member of Australia’s least competent scout troop. In 1988, a teenage boy recalls his sexual initiation, out on the tanbark. In 2015, two sisters text in Kmart about how to manage their irascible, isolated mum.

FEBRUARY 2020 Then, in the near future, a racist demagogue LITERARY FICTION addresses the press the day after his electoral triumph. As the cities heat up and lose their water, a lady Imprint: Black Inc. from one of the “better suburbs” makes every effort RRP: AU$27.99 to get her family into an exclusive gated community. Paperback | 210 × 135mm | 208pp Outstandingly original, bitingly satirical and written Manuscript: Available in a remarkable range of voices, A Couple of Things Rights held: World; film/TV Before the End is a powerful vision of where we are – and where we may be headed. SEAN O’BEIRNE is a bookseller and critic. He grew up in Melbourne’s “The Victorians were superlative hypocrites, which is why outer suburbs, and studied arts, law Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues packed such and acting. This is his first book. punch. How unfortunate, then, that O’Beirne’s updated versions succeed so marvellously in this place at this moment. Collectively, they suggest things would be greatly improved if we followed Browning’s admonition – to ‘be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.’” —The Australian

“The collection is shaded dark and light, by turns hilarious and a warning beacon. Like George Saunders or Miranda July, O’Beirne captures the weirdness of inner-life.” —Five-star review, ArtsHub

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 8 Act of Grace Anna Krien From an award-winning author comes an electrifying story of fear and sacrifice, and what people will do to outrun the shadows.

Iraqi aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Australia, decades later, Gerry is in fear of his tyrannical father, Toohey, who has returned from the Iraq War bearing the physical and psychological scars of conflict. Meanwhile, Robbie is dealing with her own father’s dementia when the past enters the present. These characters’ worlds intertwine in a brilliant narrative of guilt and reckoning, trauma and survival. Crossing the frontiers of war, protest and MONTH 2018 reconciliation, Act of Grace is a meditation on SUBJECTS inheritance: the damage that one generation passes on to the next, and the potential for transformation. ISBN: ANNA KRIEN is the author of the award-winning Imprint: Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as two AU$ Quarterly Essays, Us and Them and The Long Goodbye. NZ$ Her writing has been published in The Monthly, The Age, Paperback, size, pp The Best Australian Essays, The Best Australian Stories and The Big Issue. In 2014 she won the UK William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, and in 2018 she received a Sidney Myer Fellowship. OCTOBER 2019 LITERARY FICTION “Act of Grace is bold, brilliant and breathtakingly humane.” Imprint: Black Inc. —Anna Funder, author of All That I Am RRP: AU$32.99 “Masterful – a far-reaching tapestry of a novel. Nuanced Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 336pp and whip-smart, this is a work of profound empathy – a book Manuscript: Available of and for our times. As Act of Grace unfolds with precise Rights held: Translation; film/TV muscularity, Krien’s inhabitation of each character approaches Rights sold: UK/Comm ex ANZ (Serpent’s the divine.” —Peggy Frew, author of Islands and Hope Farm Tail); ANZ audio (Wavesound) Other rights: InkWell Management

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BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 9 YOUNG ADULT FICTION

One Hundred Days Alice Pung

Wise, witty and tautly written, One Hundred Days grips from the beginning. Part bildungsroman, part psychodrama and part intergenerational novel, it follows the story of a young Asian-Australian teen who falls pregnant, and her suffocatingly close relationship with a traditional and overprotective mother. A subtle and poignant meditation on class, gender and ethnicity, it is sure to resonate with new and existing fans of Pung: a writer who never repeats herself. In high school, a few of my friends seemed to disappear after they got pregnant, and I’d often wonder what happened to them. It wasn’t until I had my own son that I understood the cultural practice of confinement. I realised my friends’ mothers had been keeping them “safe” APRIL 2021 at home during the pregnancy, away from prying eyes; YOUNG ADULT FICTION but also confining them for a month after birth. For a Imprint: Black Inc. fifteen- or sixteen-year-old to be sequestered away for all RRP: AU$19.99 those months would seem like an eternity. One Hundred Days is about time – how it feels to have too Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 288pp much of it or too little – and what it’s like to be too young Manuscript: Available to understand how finite time is. Rights held: UK/Comm; film/TV Other rights: Curtis Brown Australia One Hundred Days is the period of time my character, Karuna, is isolated at home in the public housing apartment she shares with her mother – “Grand Mar” to Praise for Alice Pung the baby. In East-Asian (China, Korea, Japan) and “Alice Pung totally nails it with Laurinda. Southeast Asian cultures, one hundred days was the Funny, horrifying, and sharp as a serpent’s critical period within which a baby might not survive infancy. So when the baby safely reached this milestone, fangs.” —John Marsden, two-time winner families would hold a Hundred Days party, to celebrate of the American Library Association Book the child’s healthy continuing existence in the world. But of the Year Award ultimately, my novel One Hundred Days is a celebration

“Alice Pung is a gem. Her voice is the real of a teenage mother’s resilience. —Alice Pung thing.” —Amy Tan, author of The ALICE PUNG is an award-winning writer, editor, Joy Luck Club teacher and lawyer based in Melbourne. She is author of the internationally bestselling memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her first young adult novel, Laurinda, sold over 20,000 copies in ANZ.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 10 Sly Fox The Unauthorised Biography of Lachlan Murdoch Paddy Manning

He has grown up in the media spotlight, and in 2019 emerged as clear winner of the family’s drawn-out succession war, but Lachlan Murdoch remains a mysterious figure and a mess of apparent contradictions. Always his father’s favourite, Lachlan was independent enough to walk away from it all in 2007. Yet the rebellious, tattooed playboy has become the family’s hardline-conservative standard-bearer. Over a 25-year career Lachlan has survived a string of own-goals – including expensive disasters from Super-League to One.Tel – and dodged the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal that nearly wrecked the Murdoch business globally. NOVEMBER 2021 He is now poised to inherit control of the dominant BIOGRAPHY Fox and News conglomerates, perhaps the most Imprint: Black Inc. powerful media empire in the world. RRP: AU$32.99 Sly Fox will investigate: who is Lachlan Murdoch, Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 320pp and where will he take the family empire – to new Manuscript: TBA 2021 extremes of fact-free populism, or back towards the Rights held: World ex film/TV political centre? At a time of disruption in business Other rights: Curtis Brown Australia and politics, can Lachlan keep the Murdoch empire afloat? Praise for Inside the Greens PADDY MANNING is the contributing politics editor to The Monthly, and the author of biographies “A much-needed work: comprehensive, of Malcolm Turnbull and Nathan Tinkler, and an detailed and impressively sourced.” investigation into fracking in Australia. During almost —Inside Story twenty years in journalism he has worked for Crikey, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review “A monumental effort . . . Inside the and The Australian, and has won several awards for Greens manages to be not just a fine journalistic excellence. His previous book with Black resource on a single party, but of the times Inc. is Inside the Greens. that produced them.” —Crikey

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 11 DR. REINHARD FRIEDL

The Beat of Life THE A Surgeon Reveals the Secrets of the Heart Dr Reinhard Friedl and Shirley Seul BEAT Translated by Gert Reifarth The heart is our most important – and perhaps most mysterious – organ. Every day it pumps 9000 litres OF of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major LIFE human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why is this so? A surgeon reveals the secrets of the heart Having witnessed the extraordinary complexity and unpredictability of human hearts in the operating theatre – each one individual in its make-up, like a fingerprint – heart surgeon Reinhard Friedl went on a search for answers. SEPTEMBER 2020 HEALTH; MEDICINE He closely examined the latest findings in neurocardiology and psychocardiology, and in The Imprint: Black Inc. Beat of Life he shares his discoveries. In the tradition RRP: AU$34.99 of Giulia Enders’ Gut and Norman Doidge’s The Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 320pp Brain that Changes Itself, he uses riveting personal Manuscript: May 2020; sample stories to illustrate the complex relationship between available now the heart, the brain and the psyche. Rights held: World English-language The Beat of Life ends with a plea: that we recognise Other rights: Random House Germany the heart’s wisdom and adopt a more heart-centred way of living, which will lead to greater health. DR REINHARD FRIEDL is an eminent German surgeon who has held thousands of hearts in his hands. He has operated on premature babies and repaired the heart valves of the very old; implanted artificial heart turbines and stitched up stabbing wounds to the heart.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 12 We, Hominids Frank Westerman Translated by Sam Garrett A roving philosophical field trip into what makes us human.

In We, Hominids, one of Holland’s greatest non-­ fiction writers hunts down answers to anthropology’s most fundamental questions: Who are we? What makes us different from animals? With an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the globe, tracing the search for the first human being – the missing link between humans and apes. The result is a compelling mixture of reportage, travelogue and essay. Westerman discovers a plethora of origin hypotheses; introduces us to the world of skull hunters, leading experts in our fossil ancestry; and AUGUST 2021 critically reviews the work of illustrious ANTHROPOLOGY anthropologists. He examines the influence of new DNA technology and the rise of female scientists. Imprint: Black Inc. RRP: AU$32.99 The search for the first human picks at the dividing Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 284pp line between normalcy and anomaly. Any Manuscript: April 2021 description of who we are and where we come from is coloured by the zeitgeist. The constantly changing Rights held: World English-language theories of human evolution show that we are Other rights: Querido Fosfor doomed to continuously review what we think we “This is Sapiens behind the scenes: know. Still, Westerman emphasises the importance exciting, shocking and real.” —Dr. José of evidence: “The facts cling to me and I cling to the facts. I will continue to pick them up, turn them Joordens, Naturalis around and illuminate them with the headlamp of “In We, Hominids, Westerman reaches the my imagination.” apex of his abilities [. . .] Vivid, wonderful, FRANK WESTERMAN is a highly acclaimed Dutch entertaining, exotic, captivating” —Hans non-fiction writer. His work has been translated into Cottyn, De Standaard der Letteren sixteen languages and has received numerous awards, including the Kapuściński Prize (Poland), the Premio Terzani (Italy) and the Prix du Livre du Réel (France). SAM GARRETT is an award-winning translator of over thirty novels and works of non-fiction. He is the only TRANSLATION RIGHTS SOLD TO ITALY (IPERBOREA); translator to have twice won the British SWEDEN (WEYLER FÖRLAG); FRANCE (ÉDITIONS Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for STOCK); POLAND (AGORA); GERMANY (AUFBAU) Dutch–English translation.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 13 Shanghai Acrobat An Orphan Boy’s Inspiring True Story of Courage and Determination in Revolutionary China Jingjing Xue Translated by Bo Ai For readers of Mao’s Last Dancer comes the inspiring true story of a world-famous acrobat who escaped communist China to begin a new life in Australia.

Jingjing Xue was born in China in the 1950s, during one of the worst times in the reign of communist leader Mao Zedong, or Chairman Mao. Mao’s extreme five-year industrialisation plan – the Great Leap Forward – left much of the population starving, destitute and gripped with fear. Jingjing, abandoned to an orphanage as a young boy, was AUGUST 2020 destined to a life of hardship before officials singled MEMOIR him out and enlisted him to train with the Shanghai Imprint: Black Inc. Acrobatics School. RRP: AU$32 .99 This autobiography tells the moving story of his rise Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 336pp from poverty to become an admired performer in Manuscript: March 2020 China and beyond – and of his extraordinary escape Rights held: World ex film/TV from Mao’s repressive regime to secure his freedom. Other rights: Golvan Arts Management Set in China from the early years of the communist era, through the turbulent period of the Cultural Revolution, and to a new life in Australia, this is a story of hope and perseverance, of overcoming adversity and of finding a place to belong. JINGJING XUE was a star performer with the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. Considered one of China’s best acrobats, from 1961 to 1987 he performed around the world with the Shanghai Circus. He trained performers in China and, later, at the National Institute of Circus Arts in Melbourne, the city where he now lives.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 14 Everything Harder Than Everyone Else Jenny Valentish

When journalist Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction, she met many who treat drug- taking like an Olympic sport, exploring their capacity to push their bodies, enjoying their notoriety. It is this breed of person who, when they quit, might take up marathon running, getting the same kick out of five a.m. starts as two a.m. lines of coke, or become obsessed with rock-climbing, Instagramming cheesy thumbs-ups from sunset mountaintops. In Everything Harder Than Everyone Else, Valentish interviews pro-wrestlers, bodybuilders, adult-­film performers, iron women, performance artists and JUNE 2021 extreme athletes, exploring what motivates some SOCIETY AND CULTURE people to adopt one seemingly extreme persona after another. A curious Venn diagram can be drawn: Imprint: Black Inc. retired porn stars put on wrestling leotards; RRP: AU$32.99 ex-wrestlers exploit their alter egos in adult films; Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 288pp dog-tired MMA fighters roleplay S&M. It seems Manuscript: January 2021; sample the sense of self can be so shaky that if they quit one available now persona, they must leap to another or feel adrift. Rights held: World ex film/TV But these rambunctious examples provide a lens for Other rights: Jane Novak Literary Agency our own lives and habits. Valentish explores relatable themes, such as sensation-seeking and the role of JENNY VALENTISH is the author of dopamine; impulsivity and instant gratification; the acclaimed Women of Substances, a steroids and body dysmorphia; competition and regular contributor to The Sydney catharsis; self-sabotage; obsession; reinvention. By Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper, understanding those who must always push the and former editor of Time Out Melbourne boundaries, we can recognise and illuminate our and Triple J’s Jmag. She grew up in own motivations. Slough, a satellite town of London, and moved to Australia in 2006. RIGHTS SOLD TO WOMAN OF SUBSTANCES: WORLD ENGLISH-­LANGUAGE EX ANZ (HEAD OF ZEUS); WORLD AUDIO (WAVESOUND)

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BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 15 Men at Work Australia’s Parenthood Trap Annabel Crabb

When New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Australia’s Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first prime minister and treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on their roles while bringing up young children, this detail passed largely without notice. Why do we still accept that fathers will be absent? Why do so few men take parental leave in this country? Why is flexible and part-time work still largely a female preserve? In the past half-century, women have revolutionised the way they work and live. But men’s lives have AUGUST 2020 changed remarkably little. Why? Is it because men SOCIETY AND CULTURE don’t want to change? Or is it because, every day in various ways, they are told they shouldn’t? Imprint: Black Inc. In Men at Work, Annabel Crabb deploys political RRP: AU$22.99 observation, workplace research and her characteristic Paperback | 198 × 128mm | 176pp humour and intelligence to argue that gender equity Manuscript: Available cannot be achieved until men are as free to leave the Rights held: World ex film/TV workplace (when their lives demand it) as women are Other rights: Curtis Brown Australia to enter it.

“[A topic that is] crucial for the quality of ANNABEL CRABB is an ABC political writer and broadcaster. Her books include Losing It, Rise of the life on the both domestic and work front” Ruddbot, The Wife Drought and the Quarterly Essay —Steven Carroll, The Sydney Morning Herald Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm “An earnest, affable attempt to understand Turnbull, which won a 2009 Walkley Award. why and how Aussie fathers are dissuaded . . . from redressing their work– home balance.”—Beejay Silcox, The Weekend Australian

“Hands down, it’s the most comprehensive assessment of Australia’s lack of parental leave equality to be written” —Emma Walsh, Women’s Agenda

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BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 16 The Shortest History of Europe John Hirst

Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation. The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning, Christianity and German warrior culture. Over the centuries, this unstable blend produced highly distinctive characters – pious knights and belligerent popes, romantics spouting folklore and revolutionaries imitating Rome – and its coming apart provided the dynamic of European history in modern times. APRIL 2018 HISTORY Accompanied by lively illustrations, The Shortest History of Europe is a clear, humorous and thought- Imprint: Black Inc. provoking account of a remarkable civilisation. This RRP: AU$22.99 new edition brings the story into the present, Paperback | 198 × 128mm | 192pp covering the world wars and beyond. Manuscript: Available JOHN HIRST was a member of the History Rights held: World; film/TV Department at La Trobe University from 1968 to Rights sold: Simplified Chinese character 2007. He has written many books on Australian (Guangxi Normal University Press); history, including Convict Society and Its Enemies, The Traditional Chinese character (Domain Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy, The Sentimental Publishing Company); Germany (Hoffmann Nation, Sense and Nonsense in Australian History and und Campe); Finland (Kustantamo); Greece The Shortest History of Europe. (Metaichmio Publications); Sweden (Natur och Kultur); UK/Comm ex ANZ & Canada “An entertaining, learned piece of historical compression” (Old Street Publishing); Saudi Arabia (Dar —The Age El Shorouk); Italy (Giunti Editore Spa); “A wise, illuminating little book” —The Sydney Morning Portugal (Publicacoes Dom Quixote); Spain Herald (RBA Libros); Turkey (Say Yayinlari); Korea (Wisdomhouse Publishing Co.); Brazil “Crisp, lucid and evocative” —Australian Book Review (Editores Sextante); France (City Editions); Japan (Tokyo Shoseki Co. Ltd.); ANZ & North America audio (Tantor); Estonia (Eesti Raamat); Poland (Polskie RIGHTS SOLD IN TWENTY-ONE TERRITORIES Wydawnictwo Naukowe); Russian (Eksmo Publishing); Ukraine (Nash Format) OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD IN CHINA

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 17 The Shortest History of England James Hawes With the British Empire gone, Brexit looming and the break-up of the United Kingdom a possibility, there’s no better time to discover the true history of England.

In the latest addition to the acclaimed Shortest History series, James Hawes demonstrates that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a pacy narrative packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day. A gallop through England’s past shows that it is shot through with ancient fault lines, locked into European history and overlaid with that most English of factors: class. The world’s most successful colonial culture has been rife with tension and SEPTEMBER 2020 HISTORY challenge, from the Roman invasion through the Britons, Anglo-Saxons and Danes; to the Norman Imprint: Black Inc. Conquest, the Anglo-French Empire and the RRP: AU$22.99 Reformation; to the Empire and the wars of the Paperback | 198 × 128pp | 160pp twentieth century; and up to the question-filled Manuscript: July 2020 present. Rights held: ANZ JAMES HAWES is the author of the internationally Other rights: Old Street Publishing acclaimed and bestselling The Shortest History of Germany. He has published a biography of Kafka and Englanders & Huns, the real story of the fatal Anglo- German antagonism.

Praise for James Hawes

“Absolutely brilliant and utterly infuriating” —The Guardian

“full of enlightening surprises” —The Times

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 18 The Shortest History of China Linda Jaivin

China is a much-storied land: the home of the red dragon; a sleeping lion; the Middle Kingdom, or ‘land between’. For centuries, China led the world in science, technology, astronomy and maths. The Chinese invented porcelain, silk, gunpowder and the magnetic compass, among other things. In the twentieth century China saw the rise of communism under Chairman Mao and the bloody Cultural Revolution – estimated to have resulted in up to two million deaths. China today is just as storied: depending on what you read, it is an economic powerhouse; a beacon of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation; a top travel destination filled with cultural and natural beauty; a secretive political state rife with propaganda; one NOVEMBER 2020 of the globe’s worst environmental polluters; an HISTORY aggressive geopolitical player seeking world Imprint: Black Inc. domination. RRP: AU$22.99 As we enter the Asian Century, China – one of the Paperback | 198 × 128mm | 160pp world’s great superpowers – will become more and Manuscript: July 2020 more important. Linda Jaivin, an expert in Chinese Rights held: World ex film/TV politics, language and culture, distils a vast history Other rights: The Naher Agency into a short, readable account that tells you what you really need to know about the Middle Kingdom, from its philosophical origins to its political system Praise for The Empress Lover and where its future is likely to lead. ‘[. . .] Surely this is the novel to gain her a Accessible and entertaining, this is a book you can reputation as one of Australia’s best and read in an afternoon that will change your view for most versatile writers.’ —Sara a lifetime. Dowse, Sydney Morning Herald LINDA JAIVIN is an American-born Australian “. . . Jaivin skilfully interweaves fact and translator, essayist, novelist and sinologist. She has written several works of fiction, non-­fiction and fiction, contemporary events with those of criticism, and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper, Beijing in 1989 and in 1944, within a The Monthly and Australian Foreign Affairs. narrative rich with literary, poetic and philosophical references.” —South China Morning Post

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 19 The Shortest History of Democracy John Keane

MARCH 2021 The latest addition to this invaluable series is a very HISTORY timely distilled history of democracy, which traces it Imprint: Black Inc. from its beginning through to its current challenges. RRP: AU$29.99 Travelling from Ancient Greece to China, looking closely at Europe and the US, this book explains Paperback | 198 × 128mm | 192pp how democracy evolved and what is essential to Manuscript: October 2020; know about it. sample in June 2020 JOHN KEANE is professor of politics at the University Rights held: World ex film/TV of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Other rights: AM Heath & Co (WZB), and is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network. Among his many books, The Life and Death of Democracy was shortlisted for the 2010 Non-Fiction Prime Minister’s Literary Award. It was the first full-scale history of democracy for over a century.

The Shortest History of India John Zubrzycki

India contains multitudes. Every reader will be grateful for this entertaining yet authoritative distillation, in which acclaimed popular historian John Zubrzycki traces India from its beginnings through to its current challenges. Encompassing APRIL 2021 north and south, the mountains, desert and coast, HISTORY religion and culture, this book captures the colour Imprint: Black Inc. and conflict of a remarkable history. RRP: AU$29.99 JOHN ZUBRZYCKI is a Sydney-based author, Paperback | 198 × 128mm | 192pp journalist and researcher, specialising in South Asia, in Manuscript: November 2020 particular India. His latest book is Empire of Enchantment: Rights held: World ex film/TV The Story of Indian Magic. He is the best-selling author Other rights: Curtis Brown Australia of The Last Nizam: An Indian Prince in the Australian Outback and The Mysterious Mr Jacob: Diamond Merchant, Magician and Spy.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 20 The Winter Road A Murder at Moree Kate Holden An epic true story of greed and malice, power and revenge, from an acclaimed storyteller.

2014, Moree, New South Wales: Ian Turnbull, a 79-year-old farmer from a legacy of graziers stretching back to the area’s settlement, is embroiled in a legal case sparked by Glen Turner, an environmental officer who witnesses illegal land clearing on Turnbull’s property. When Turnbull apprehends Turner on a road abutting the property, he stalks him for over twenty minutes, finally ending his life with a shot in the back.

NOVEMBER 2020 The explosive effects of this murder rip through the TRUE CRIME local community, the courts and all who come into the story’s orbit. Kate Holden brings her discerning Imprint: Black Inc. eye to this gripping tale of land, law retribution and RRP: AU$32.99 clemency. Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 320pp KATE HOLDEN is the author of two acclaimed Manuscript: June 2020 memoirs, In My Skin and The Romantic, as well as a Rights held: World; film/TV regular contributor to The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and the Fairfax papers.

Praise for In My Skin

“Quite simply in a class of its own.” —The Guardian

“Her story resists the obvious clichés. It confounds and surprises and challenges preconceived ideas.” —Courier-Mail

“Subtle and elegant” —Kirkus Review

AUTHOR’S PREVIOUS BOOK, IN MY SKIN, WAS PUBLISHED AROUND THE WORLD IN MULTIPLE EDITIONS, INCLUDING BRAZIL, CZECH REPUBLIC, FINLAND, GERMANY, ITALY, NETHERLANDS, NORTH AMERICA, TURKEY AND THE UK.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 21 Car Crash A Memoir Lech Blaine Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life.

On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver – who was not drunk or high – made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew off the road. One passenger died on impact. Others were flung from the car. Lech walked away uninjured. In the aftermath, two more died in hospital and one was left disabled, in an incident that convulsed their rural community. Crippled by guilt, Lech turned to social media, cultivating a persona as the ultimate “grateful AUGUST 2020 survivor”. Over time, he spiralled into risk-taking MEMOIR and depression. His public bravado fell away as he Imprint: Black Inc. tried to accept how an accident – one wretched error of youth and inexperience – had changed the RRP: AU$32.99 trajectory of so many lives. Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 304pp Manuscript: Available How do we grieve in an age of social media? How Rights held: World; film/TV does tragedy shape a community? And how does a boy on the cusp of manhood develop a sense of self when his world has exploded? This stunning memoir pulls no punches. It marks Lech Blaine as a writer to watch. LECH BLAINE is a writer from Toowoomba, Queensland. His work appears in The Best Australian Essays, Meanjin, The Guardian and The Monthly, among others. His work has been nominated for several prizes and he was an inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writers Fellowship.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 22 Muddy People Sara El Sayed A hilarious and heartwarming memoir of growing up and becoming yourself in an Egyptian Muslim family

In the outer suburbs of Brisbane at the turn of the millennium, Soos is growing up in an eccentric family: her Baba, who thinks Islam forbids taking out life insurance; her Mama, who is plotting divorce; her Nana, who collects stray dogs and encourages small lies; her infuriating older brother, Mohamed, and his white girlfriend; and her can-do- no-wrong perfect sister, Aisha. MAY 2021 Soos’ family is muddy. Their skin is brown – kids say MEMOIR Soos is mud-coloured. Their culture and religion are Imprint: Black Inc. puzzling to those around them. In their white- RRP: AU$32.99 majority neighbourhood, Soos, Mohamed and Aisha Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 304pp are bullied by racists. Their parents are discriminated against at work. Manuscript: December 2020 Rights held: World; film/TV Soos, the baby of the family – her name means “little tooth” – is working out how to balance her “As an immigrant to Australia, my parents’ strict rules with having friendships, crushes developing identity is a constant wrestle and a normal teenage life. With each rule Soos between resentment and reliance.” comes up against, she is forced to choose between —Sara El Sayed, Overland doing what her parents say is right and following her instincts. As her parents’ marriage collapses, and her dad is diagnosed with leukemia, the cancer cells clouding his blood, she comes to see her parents as fallible, with morals based on a muddy logic. But they are also her strongest defenders. For readers of Benjamin Law’s The Family Law, Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race and Mishna Wolff ’s I’m Down, this quick, clever, warm-hearted book introduces a talented new voice. SARA EL SAYED was born in Alexandria, Egypt. She teaches at Queensland University of Technology and is completing a master of fine arts. Her work features in the anthologies Growing Up African in Australia and Arab-Australian-Other, and in publications including frankie, Overland and The Lifted Brow. Her work was shortlisted for the 2019 Richell Prize, and she tweets @sarakelsayed.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 23 The Town that Told the Story 160 Years on an Australian Frontier Dean Ashenden

The story of Tennant Creek is the story of the Australian frontier. Beginning with a relatively minor clash between black and white and the subsequent construction of an apparently benign telegraph line, the story includes widespread and deadly violence, the complete dispossession of the local Aboriginal people, the transformation of Tennant Creek from telegraph station to gold-rush town and refugee centre, the installation there of an apartheid regime (in which Dean Ashenden lived as a boy), the collapse of that regime in the face of an Aboriginal rebellion, and Tennant Creek’s descent into dystopia.

MARCH 2021 The “second story” is of the struggle – driven by HISTORY conflict between conscience and conduct, frontier and post-frontier, black and white – over whether Imprint: Black Inc. and how these events should be recorded, depicted, RRP: AU$29.99 and remembered. It includes several of Australia’s Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 240pp leading anthropologists, land rights claims and a Manuscript: August 2020 key stolen generations case. “Not once, but twice,” Rights held: World; film/TV Ashenden shows, “poor beaten-down smashed-up Tennant Creek managed to make its struggles into

Australia’s.” “I left Tennant Creek in 1955, aged 13. What DEAN ASHENDEN has worked as an academic, I couldn’t understand then was that my family a political adviser, and in journalism. He has written for had returned from the frontier, the place The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, that all of Australia has been at one time or Guardian Australia, the Financial Review, Inside Story, another, and much of it still is.” Meanjin, Crikey, and History Australia. He was a presenter of ABC Radio National’s Education —Dean Ashenden Issues program.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 24 LONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2020 BLACK INC. BESTSELLER

See What You Made Me Do Power, Control and Domestic Abuse Jess Hill

Women are abused or killed by their partners at astonishing rates: in the UK, 1.5 women are killed each week, and in the US, it’s 2.5 women every day. In this confronting and deeply researched account, journalist Jess Hill uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest – and most intimate – ways imaginable. She asks: What do we know about perpetrators? Why is it so hard to leave? What does successful intervention look like? What emerges is not only a searing investigation of the violence so many women experience, but a dissection of how that violence can be enabled and reinforced by the judicial system we trust to protect us. MONTH 2018 SUBJECTS Combining exhaustive research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do dismantles ISBN: the flawed logic of victim-blaming and challenges Imprint: everything you thought you knew about domestic AU$ and family violence. NZ$ JESS HILL is an investigative reporter who contributes Paperback, size, pp regularly to Radio National’s Background Briefing and The Monthly. She has reported extensively on domestic violence and is the recipient of three Our JUNE 2019 Watch Walkley Awards, including the Gold Award for SOCIETY AND CULTURE reporting on violence against women. Imprint: Black Inc. RRP: AU$32.99 AWARDS INCLUDE: LONGLISTED, 2019 INDIE BOOK Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 416pp AWARDS; SHORTLISTED, 2019 VICTORIAN Manuscript: Available PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS; SHORTLISTED, 2019 Rights held: World; film/TV WALKLEY BOOK AWARD; FINALIST, 2019 HUMAN Rights sold: North America (Sourcebooks); RIGHTS MEDAL FOR THE MEDIA AWARD; A Hungary (Alexandra Kiado); Russia (Eksmo READINGS BEST AUSTRALIAN NON-­FICTION BOOK Publishing); UK/Comm ex ANZ (Hurst OF 2019; LONGLISTED, 2020 STELLA PRIZE Publishing); Film/TV (Northern Pictures); UK/Comm audio (Audible); Traditional Chinese (Sharp Point Press)

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 25 The Honey Factory Inside the Ingenious World of Bees Jürgen Tautz and Diedrich Steen

Beehives might look like seething anarchy at first glance, but bees know exactly what they are doing. The universe of the beehive is an intricately organised, delicately balanced ecosystem. From the mighty queen to the lowliest worker bees, each bee plays its part in the whole. The Honey Factory plunges the reader into the invisible life of a bee colony and reveals the secrets of this fascinating world. How do worker bees come to a collective decision? What does the honeybees’ waggling dance communicate? What provokes the sexual excesses of the young queen bee? And why is the precious relationship between humans and bees SEPTEMBER 2018 a matter of species survival? ENVIRONMENT Combining the most fascinating scientific discoveries Imprint: Black Inc. and greatest secrets in bee research, The Honey Factory answers these questions and more. RRP: AU$32.99 Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 288pp JÜRGEN TAUTZ is an internationally recognised expert on bees and professor emeritus at Würzburg Manuscript: Available University. Since 2006 he has been in charge of the Rights held: World English-language HOneyBee Online Studies (HOBOS) interdisciplinary Other rights: Random House Germany project. Tautz has authored numerous publications and “An enriching read for anyone who is moved been awarded several prizes for his work in science education. by the secret beauty of our world and who cares about the future of our ecosystems.” DIEDRICH STEEN is a publishing director. Bees have —Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden been kept in his family for over 100 years, and he has Life of Trees been an active beekeeper himself for twenty years.

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BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 26 On Robyn Davidson Writers on Writers Richard Cooke

Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Davidson’s relationship with place and freedom, and her singular presence in Australian letters. In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and well-written, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, MAY 2020 and introduce some intriguing and talented authors BIOGRAPHY and their work.

Imprint: Black Inc. The Writers on Writers series is published by Black RRP: AU$17.99 Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne Hardback | 181 × 111mm | 96pp and State Library Victoria. Manuscript: Available RICHARD COOKE is The Monthly’s US Rights held: World ex film/TV correspondent and contributing editor. His work appears in The New York Times, The Best of Longform, Other rights: The Wylie Agency UK The Best Australian Essays, The Saturday Paper, The “Showcase[s] the work of an ascendant Guardian and Australian Foreign Affairs. He is the talent . . . Cooke has a knack for off-the-cuff current Mumbrella Publish Columnist of the Year, and anecdotes that gently sidestep into was a finalist in the 2018 Walkley–Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism. profundities . . . This is not a particularly shining portrait of America, but it is brilliant.” —The Saturday Paper

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 27 On Beverley Farmer Writers on Writers Josephine Rowe

Beverley Farmer’s novels and short stories focused on loss, migration and homecoming. In this beautifully hewn essay, fellow novelist and short- OCTOBER 2020 story writer Josephine Rowe finds a kindred spirit BIOGRAPHY and argues for a celebration and reclamation of this Imprint: Black Inc. long-neglected Australian woman writer. RRP: AU$17.99 JOSEPHINE ROWE was born in 1984 in Hardback | 181 × 111mm | 96pp Rockhampton and raised in Melbourne. Her novel, Manuscript: May 2020 A Loving, Faithful Animal, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, selected as a New York Times Rights held: World; film/TV Editors’ Choice and led to her being named a 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist. Her work has appeared widely in Australia and overseas, including in McSweeney’s, The Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, The Paris Review Daily and Freeman’s.

On Thomas Keneally Writers on Writers STAN GRANT THOMAS KENEALLY is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright and essayist. He is best known for writing Schindler’s Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler’s rescue MAY 2021 of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker BIOGRAPHY Prize in 1982 Imprint: Black Inc. STAN GRANT is Indigenous Affairs editor for the RRP: AU$17.99 ABC and Chair of Indigenous Affairs at Charles Hardback | 181 × 111mm | 96pp Sturt University. He won the 2015 Walkley Award Manuscript: December 2020 for coverage of Indigenous Affairs and is the author of The Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country. Rights held: World ex film/TV Other rights: Curtis Brown Australia

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 28 Jacinda Ardern A New Kind of Leader Madeleine Chapman The fascinating story of an international icon – one of the world’s most inspiring, progressive leaders

Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mosque shooting. Oprah Winfrey invited us to “channel our inner Jacindas” as praise for Ardern flooded headlines and social media. The world’s youngest female head of government, and only the second elected world leader to give APRIL 2020 birth while in office, Ardern describes herself as a BIOGRAPHY progressive and a social democrat. In this revealing Imprint: Nero biography, journalist Madeleine Chapman discovers the woman behind the headlines. Politically engaged RRP: AU$34.99 from an early age, Ardern has encountered her fair Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 304pp share of sexism, but rather than let that harden her + 8pp colour picture section she advocates “rising above” critics. In her first press Manuscript: Available conference, she announced an election campaign Rights held: World; film/TV of “relentless positivity”. The tactic was a resounding Rights sold: Hungary (Alexandra Kiado); success: donations poured in and Labour rebounded North America (Skyhorse Publishing); in the polls. UK/Comm audio (Ulverscroft) But can Ardern live up to her promise? What does her new style of leadership look like in practice? And what can we learn from the world’s reaction to this inspiring leader? MADELEINE CHAPMAN is the co-author of Steven Adams’ bestselling autobiography Steven Adams: My Life, My Fight (Penguin Random House NZ), and a staff writer at The Spinoff. She was named the 2018 Young Business Journalist of the Year.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 29 The Mutant Project Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans Eben Kirskey

News of the world’s first “edited” babies broke in November 2018 from Hong Kong. Chinese researcher Jiankui He was preparing for an international summit when reports of his secret experiment began to leak. Anthropologist Eben Kirksey was in Hong Kong, speaking at the summit, as the scientific community reacted to the news with shock and speculation. Few experts were surprised it was possible – indeed, earlier studies had shown that the gene editing tool known as CRISPR works in human embryos. But Dr He was the first to throw caution to the wind and implant genetically modified human embryos into their mothers. OCTOBER 2020 POPULAR SCIENCE; Gene editing has captured the public imagination. ANTHROPOLOGY Some hail it as an end to disease, while others predict wild and creative directions for humanity’s Imprint: La Trobe University Press future. Based on exclusive access to key actors and RRP: AU$34.99 materials from Dr He’s lab, The Mutant Project is one Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 336pp of the first books to be published on this subject. The Manuscript: May 2020; sample available now story moves from the centres of biotech innovation Rights held: UK/Comm in China, the United States and England to the Other rights: North America (St Martin’s experimental zones of Thailand and Indonesia. Press); translation and film/TV (Janklow & Thoughtful and thrilling, The Mutant Project Nesbit Associates) examines the politics, ethics and economics of gene therapies, and the scientists, lobbyists, entrepreneurs and activists remaking the human race. EBEN KIRKSEY is an expert on science and justice. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Atlantic and Wired. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and an associate professor of anthropology at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kirksey is author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds and Emergent Ecologies.

AUTHOR WAS A MARSHALL SCHOLAR AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, AND HAS BEEN A COLUMNIST FOR THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, THE SUNDAY TIMES

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 30 Contest for the Indo-Pacific Why China Won’t Map the Future Rory Medcalf

The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor for collective action. If diplomacy fails, it will be the theatre of the first general war since 1945. But if its future can be secured, the Indo-Pacific will flourish as a shared space, the centre of gravity in a connected world. What we call different parts of the world – Asia, Europe, the Middle East – seems innocuous. But the name of a region is totemic: a mental map that guides the decisions of leaders and the story of international order, war and peace. In recent years, the label “Indo-Pacific” has gained wide use, including among the leaders of the United States, India, Japan, Australia, Indonesia and France. But what does it really mean? Written by a recognised expert and regional policy insider, Contest for the Indo-Pacific is the definitive guide to tensions in the region. It deftly weaves together history, geopolitics, cartography, military strategy, economics, games and propaganda to address a vital question: how can China’s dominance be prevented without war? RORY MEDCALF is a professor and Head of the MARCH 2020 National Security College at the Australian National FOREIGN AFFAIRS University. His experience as an Australian diplomat includes postings to New Delhi, Tokyo and Papua New Imprint: La Trobe University Press Guinea. He was a senior strategic analyst in Australia’s RRP: AU$32.99 peak intelligence agency, the Office of National Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 320pp Assessments and was the founding director of the Manuscript: Available international security program at the Lowy Institute. Rights held: World; film/TV He has been published widely, including in The New York Rights sold: World English-language ex ANZ Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, The South China Morning Post and The Hindu, (Manchester University Press); Traditional as well as on the ABC, BBC and CNN. Chinese (Business Weekly Publications)

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 31 International Praise for Contest for the Indo-­Pacificby Rory Medcalf

“Rory Medcalf has written a masterful “Medcalf’s book is essential reading for tutorial on the Indo-Pacific, which any scholar or practitioner seeking to even the US recognizes is a holistic understand the geopolitics of a region geopolitical force. Tightly organized that will define all our futures.” and appealingly written, this is a superb —Michael J. Green, Center for Strategic primer on understanding the history, and International Studies and Georgetown the power and the future implications University, author of By More Than of this potential economic juggernaut. Providence and Arming Japan A must-read, in my view, for laymen and experts alike.” —James Clapper, former director of “Rory Medcalf gives us a fast-paced ride US National Intelligence around the world’s newest, and most important, strategic arena. He has done more than anyone to introduce the world “The complexities of our region to the idea of the Indo-Pacific and this can easily bewilder those used to the book is a convincing manifesto for a new Manichaean simplicity of the Cold War. vision of connectedness. This is the world Rory Medcalf’s book is an elegant, with all the difficult bits left in.” keenly insightful tour of the Indo-­ —Bill Hayton, author of The South China Sea: Pacific’s strategic horizon.” The Struggle for Power in Asia, and —Malcolm Turnbull, former Associate Fellow, Chatham House Australian prime minister

“All of us struggling to understand great “The Indo-Pacific is an idea whose time power competition need to become has come. Rory Medcalf has been crucial ambidextrous if we are to develop to both defining and promoting the idea policies to cope with a rising – or a of an Indo-Pacific region – and has now collapsing – China, and learning from written a fast-paced and fascinating guide Rory Medcalf’s Contest for the Indo-Pacific to this vital strategic concept.” is a great place to start.” —Gideon Rachman, author —Kori Schake, Deputy Director-General, of Easternisation and Zero-Sum Future International Institute for Strategic Studies

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 32 China Panic Australia’s Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering David Brophy

When he visited Australia in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping said there was an “ocean of goodwill” between our country and his. Since then that ocean has shown dramatic signs of freezing over. Australia is in the grip of a China Panic. How did we get here and what’s the way out? We hear, weekly, alarming stories of Chinese influence, interference or even espionage – in politics, on campus, in the media, in community organisations and elsewhere. The United States now sees China as a strategic rival, and pressure on Australia to “get tough on China” will only intensify. While the xenophobic right hovers in the wings, AUGUST 2020 some of the loudest voices decrying Chinese FOREIGN AFFAIRS subversion come, unexpectedly, from the left. Imprint: La Trobe University Press Aligning themselves with hawkish think tanks, they call for new security laws, increased scrutiny of RRP: AU$32.99 Chinese Australians and, if necessary, military Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 272pp force – a prescription for a sharp rightward turn in Manuscript: May 2020 Australian politics. Rights held: World; film/TV In this insightful critique, David Brophy offers a progressive alternative. Instead of punitive measures Praise for Uyghur Nation that restrict rights and stoke suspicion of “. . . deserves to be read by anyone with an minorities – moves that would only make Australia interest in nation-building.” —Nick more like China – we need democratic solutions that strengthen Australian institutions and embrace, not Holdstock, Times Literary Supplement alienate, Chinese-­Australians. Above all, we need “Nothing I have read in the last fifteen forms of international solidarity that don’t reduce years comes close to this work in terms of human rights to a mere bargaining chip. intellectual breadth, rigorous analysis, and DAVID BROPHY is a historian of Uyghur nationalism contribution to the field.”— Laura Newby, and the author of Uyghur Nation. He is a frequent University of Oxford commentator on the Xinjiang crisis and a senior lecturer on modern Chinese history at the University of Sydney.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 33 Brothels of Little Lon Sex Workers in Nineteenth Century Melbourne Barbara Minchinton

Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were abused, harassed and judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them, and then largely MARCH 2021 forgotten by history. HISTORY While today a popular bar and a city lane are Imprint: La Trobe University Press famously named after Madame Brussels, the names RRP: AU$32.99 and backstories of the other “flash madams”, the Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 288pp “dressed girls” who worked for them, or the hundreds of women who solicited on the streets of Manuscript: October 2020 Little Lon, Melbourne, are not remembered. Rights held: World; film/TV Who were these women? What did their daily lives look like? How did their world work? What became of them? Reconstructing the lives of these sex workers, historian Barbara Minchinton considers these questions and more. Drawing on the findings of archaeological excavations she worked on, and on rare archival material and family records, Minchinton paints a fascinating picture of an underground industry run by women, the experiences and the material realities of those involved, and the legal and social frameworks that were intended to contain them. BARBARA MINCHINTON has a doctorate in history and works as a researcher at Deakin University. For several years she collaborated with a team of archaeologists and historians on the analysis and interpretation of artefacts from the Little Lon district of inner-city Melbourne.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 34 Animals and the Law Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans

Animal law has a long and intriguing history. The problem of what to do with animals that injure or kill people goes back to Biblical times when laws APRIL 2021 sought to deal with “the goring ox”. Most startlingly, SOCIETY AND CULTURE in medieval Europe “killer” animals were put on Imprint: La Trobe University Press trial, including horses, cattle and most often pigs, RRP: AU$32.99 which were then notorious for eating young Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 288pp children. Even in the early twentieth century, violent circus elephants in America were summarily Manuscript: November 2020 executed for their crimes. Rights: World; film/TV Animal law experts Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans guide readers through this fascinating history of the philosophy and practice of animal-related law, from the very earliest cases to the issues we are debating today. KATY BARNETT is a professor of law at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of the young-adult novel The Earth Below and co-author of Remedies in Australian Private Law. JEREMY GANS is a professor of law at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Modern Criminal Law of Australia and The Ouija Board Jurors: Mystery, Mischief and Misery in the Jury System, a true-crime book. He is a co-author of Uniform Evidence.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 35 My Tongue is My Own A Life of Gwen Harwood

Ann-Marie Priest

Gwen Harwood is one of Australia’s most important poets, renowned for her brilliance, but loved for her humour, rebellion and mischief. A public figure by the end of her life, she was always deeply protective of her privacy, and even now, some twenty-five years after her death, little is known of the experiences which gave rise to her extraordinary poems. This book tells the story of her life, from her childhood in Brisbane in the 1920s to her final years in Hobart in the 1990s. It is the story of how a lively, sardonic and determined young woman built a career for herself as a poet in the conservative 1950s, blasting her way into the patriarchal strongholds of the NOVEMBER 2020 Australian poetry world and making a lasting space BIOGRAPHY for herself there. Imprint: La Trobe University Press As both poet and woman, Harwood refused to be RRP: AU$32.99 bound by convention, liberating herself – her Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 336pp phrase – before there was such a thing as women’s Manuscript: June 2020 lib. Yet she also struggled for much of her life to Rights held: World; film/TV combine wife-and-motherhood with a life of her own. In this way, she is a twentieth-century everywoman. She is also a unique and powerful Praise for A Free Flame presence in Australian literary history, a “lady poet” “Ann-Marie Priest writes with admirable who challenged orthodoxies and spoke in an clarity and a strong sense of appreciation for extraordinary range of voices. In her work and her life, we cannot reduce her to a single identity, a her subjects.” —James Ley, critic and judge single set of meanings or way of being; we can only of The Dorothy Hewett Award seek her in the place she most loved to be: on the fine edge of now. ANN-MARIE PRIEST is the author of A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century, which was highly commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award, and Great Writers, Great Loves: The Reinvention of Love in the Twentieth Century. In 2017, she won the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her work on this biography of poet Gwen Harwood.

BLACK INC. BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 | 36 Russians, White and Red A Story of Postwar Migration to Australia Sheila Fitzpatrick

Over 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after World War II – yet we know very little about their experiences. Many preferred to keep a low profile and some attempted to “pass” as Polish, West Ukrainian or Yugoslavian. They had good reason to do so: to the Soviet Union, Australia’s resettling of Russians amounted to the theft of its citizens, and undercover agents were deployed to convert them to repatriation. Australia regarded the newcomers with wary suspicion, even as it pragmatically sought to build its population by opening its door to more immigrants. FEBRUARY 2021 Making extensive use of newly discovered Russian- HISTORY language archives and drawing on a lifetime’s study Imprint: La Trobe University Press of Soviet history and politics, award-winning author Sheila Fitzpatrick examines the early years of a RRP: AU$34.99 diverse and disunited Russian-Australian Format: Paperback | 234 × 153mm | 336pp community and how Australian and Soviet Manuscript: August 2020 intelligence agencies attempted to track and Rights: World; film/TV influence them. While anti-Communist “White” Russians dreamed a war of liberation would overthrow the Soviet regime, a dissident minority Praise for On Stalin’s Team admired its achievements and thought of returning home. “A tour de force through the political SHEILA FITZPATRICK is the multi-award-winning history of Stalinism” author of My Father’s Daughter, Mischka’s War, On —Professor Mark Edele Stalin’s Team and The Russian Revolution, among other titles. She is a regular contributor to the London “Unputdownable” —Bernard Wasserstein, Review of Books. author of Barbarism and Civilization

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