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Australia and NEW ZEALAND 2016 Adult Rights Catalogue- RANDOM HOUSE BOOKS AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND 2016 Adult Rights Catalogue- RANDOM HOUSE BOOKS FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016 FOR RIGHTS QUERIES CONTACT: Nerrilee Weir, Rights Manager Tel: +61 2 8923 9892 Email: [email protected] www.penguinrandomhouse.com.au/rights Awards and Nominations 2015 and 2016 The Perfumer’s Secret by Fiona McIntosh Shortlisted: Australian Book Industry Awards; General Fiction Book of the Year 2016 Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska Shortlisted: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016 Shortlisted: Kibble Literary Award 2016 The Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky Longlisted: Voss Literary Prize (winner to be announced in November 2016) Lethal in Love by Michelle Sommers Winner: Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year; Long Romance 2016 The Painted Sky by Alice Campion Longlisted: Davitt Awards (Sisters in Crime) 2016 Missing You by Kylie Kaden Longlisted: Davitt Awards (Sisters in Crime) 2016 Northern Heat by Helene Young Longlisted: Davitt Awards (Sisters in Crime) 2016 The Golden Age by Joan London Shortlisted: Western Australia Premier’s Books Awards (winner to be announced in October 2016) Winner: The Nita B. Kibble Awards 2015 Winner: Patrick White Literary Award 2015 Winner: The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2015 Winner: Queensland Literary Awards 2015 (Fiction Book) Joint Winner: New South Wales Premier’s People’s Choice Award at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (voted for by the public) Shortlisted: The Colin Roderick Award Shortlisted: The Miles Franklin Award 2015 Shortlisted: Australian Literary Society Gold Medal 2015 Shortlisted: The Stella Prize 2015 Shortlisted: 2015 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) Shortlisted: Australian Book Industry Awards 2015 (Literary Fiction Book of the Year) Named: Western Australian State Living Treasure Longlisted: 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlisted: The Voss Literary Prize 2015 The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman Longlisted: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 King of the Road by Nigel Bartlett Shortlisted: Ned Kelly Awards 2015 Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti Longlisted: 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award Winner: Nga Kupu Ora - Aotearoa Maori Book Awards 2014 2 FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Awards and Nominations 2015 and 2016 Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska Shortlisted: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016 Shortlisted: Kibble Literary Award 2016 Certain Admissions by Gideon Haigh Winner: Ned Kelly Awards; Best True Crime 2016 Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley 2016 Shortlisted: Australian Book Industry Awards; Illustrated Book of the Year 2016 Villa at the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell Shortlisted: 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Maori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood by Witi Ihimaera Winner: General Non-Fiction Award: 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards The War on Journalism by Andrew Fowler Longlisted: 2015 Walkley Book Award The Wife Drought by Annabel Crab Shortlisted: Australian Book Industry Awards 2015 Shortlisted: Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2015 Shortlisted: The John Button Prize 2015 Shortlisted: Queensland Literary Awards 2015 3 FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016 RIGHTS CATALOGUE PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA FICTION RIGHTS SOLD 2016 Beneath Outback Skies Chappy Alissa Callen Patricia Grace Germany (Verlagsgruppe French Polynesia (Editions Lübbe) Au Vent Des lles) The Golden Age Golden Boys Joan London Sonya Hartnett North America (Europa North America (Candlewick Editions) Press) United Kingdom (Europa Italy (Rizzoli Libri) Editions) Sweden (Atrium Forlag) Spain (Sílex Ediciones) Italy (E/O Edizioni) Chinese Simplified (Beijing Xinhua Pioneer Culture and Media) The Perfumer’s Secret The Toymaker Fiona McIntosh Liam Pieper Poland (Wydawnictwo Filia) Russia (Family Leisure Book Czech Republic (Baronet a.s.) Club) Portuagal (Oficina Do Livro) Italy (De Agostini Libri) All Day at the Movies The Tailor’s Girl Fiona Kidman Fiona McIntosh United Kingdom (Aardvark) Brazil (Editora Fundamento) Russia (Eksmo) Marrow Yan Lianke North America (Grove Atlantic) 4 FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016 RIGHTS CATALOGUE PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA NON-FICTION RIGHTS SOLD 2016 101 Moments of Joy and Before I Forget Inspiration Christine Bryden Meredith Gaston Brazil (Pensamento), North America (Andrews Japan (Creates Kamogawa), McMeel) The Netherlands (WPG Uitgevers Belgium) The Confidence Gap Russ Harris Eat Drink Paleo Estonia (AS Aripaev); Irena Macri previous rights sales include: Germany (AZ Fachverlage AG, North America (Shambhala AT Verlag); Publications), previous rights sales include: United Kingdom (Constable & North America (Chronicle Robinson), Books), Spain (Editorial Salterrae), United Kingdom (Penguin), Germany (Arbor Verlag The Netherlands (Karakter GmbH), Uitgevers), France (Editions de l’homme), Portugal (Bertrand Editora), Denmark (Dansk Psykologist Czech Republic (Synergie Forlag), Publishing) Turkey (Diyojen Yayincilik), Thailand (Tree Publishing) Dragons in Diamond Village David Bandurski Grant & I North America (Melville Robert Forster House) Germany (Heyne Verlag) Greek George Calombaris Leila’s Secret The Netherlands (Good Cook Kooshyar Karimi Publishing), Poland (Proszynski Media), Poland (Wydawnictwo Pascal) Italy (Giunti Editore) The Modern Family Survival Guide Where Song Began Nigel Latta Tim Low Hungary (Kulinaria Kiado Kft) North America (Yale University Press) 5 FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016 RIGHTS CATALOGUE PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA NON-FICTION RIGHTS SOLD 2016 A Long Way Home What Katie Ate Saroo Brierley Katie Quinn Davies Brazil (Grupo Record); China (Beijing Rzbook Co); Previous rights sales include: previous rights sales include: United States (Penguin), North America (Penguin), Canada (Penguin), United Kingdom United Kingdom (Penguin), (HarperCollins Publishers), France (City Editions Paris), Italy (Guido Tommasi Editore), Germany (Ullstein Russian (Eksmo Publishers), Buchverlage), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), The Netherlands (Meulenhoff France (Hachette Livre), Boekerij), Taiwan (Come Together Press), Poland (Spoleczny Instytut The Netherlands (Karakter Wydawniczy Znak), Uitgevers BV), Portugal (Editorial Presenca), Germany (Neuer Umschau Russia (Hemiro), Buchverlag), Spain (Ediciones Peninsula), Mexico (Vergara Y Riba China (Central Radio and TV Editoras), University Press), Poalnd (Wydawnicza Foksal), India (Mehta Publishing Argentina (Vergara Y Riba House; Marathi), Editoras) India (Penguin Random House India; English), Italy (Grupo Editoriale Fabbri), The Raw Food Kitchen Japan (Say-zan-sha Amanda Brocket Publications Ltd), The Netherlands (Terra Korea (Invictus Media co.), Lannoo) Taiwan (Business Weekly Publications) Out of the Rough Steve Williams Wisdom Man United Kingdom (Random Banjo Clarke and Camilla House), Chance Korea (Young Chang French Polynesia (Editions Au Publishing Company), Vent Des lles) France (Elinvest SAS) North America (Penguin) A Short History of Christianity The Youngs: The Brothers Geoffrey Blainey Who Built AC/DC United Kingdom (SPCK Jesse Fink Publishing); France (Camion Blanc), previous rights sales include: Lithuania (Versus aureu); North America (Rowman and previous rights sales include: Littlefield), North America (St Martin’s), Brazil (Editora Fundamento) United Kingdom (Black and White), Brazil (Gutenberg Editora), Denmark (ArtPeople), Italy (Giunti Editore), Czech Republic (Volvox), Serbia (Dereta Doo), Germany (Koch), Argentina (Paidos) 6 FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Quality Fiction The Earth Cries Out BONNIE ETHERINGTON grew up in West Papua Bonnie Etherington and her experiences there inspired her first novel. Currently, she is studying towards a PhD Pub date: March 2017 in English Literature at Northwestern University Format: 288pp – 153 x 234mm in the USA (Chicago), focusing on Asia-Pacific Rights held: World transnational literature. She was shortlisted Division: New Zealand – Random House for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and has had poetry, short fiction, and travel Fresh, different and exquisitely written. writing published in literary magazines and anthologies in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, One day we were in a dream world, where Julia and Malaysia. She was shortlisted for the BNZ was dead and the space where she once was Katherine Mansfield Award in 2013, and named became large and silent, and then we were in AA Directions’ New Travel Writer of the Year in another country altogether – where stories and 2011. She has also won and/or been placed in voices made their way into our house any way several smaller writing competitions. they could. They heaved under the floorboards, whispered in the windows. Creaked in the attic like a python grown too big on rats. And I collected them all to fill that silence Julia left. After the accidental death of five-year-old Julia, Ruth’s father decides that atonement and healing are in order, and that doing aid work in a mountain village of Irian Jaya is just the way to find it. It is the late 1990s, a time of civil unrest and suppression in what is now known as West Papua, Indonesia. The family drops into what seems the middle of nowhere, where they experience a vibrant landscape, an ever- changing and disorientating world, and – for Ruth – new voices. While the family finds it a struggle to save themselves let alone anyone © Josh Eastwood else, Ruth seeks redemption in bearing witness to and passing on the stories of those who have been silenced – even as she is haunted by questions about what
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