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FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS GUIDE Enquiries to: Allen & Unwin Book Publishers 83 Alexander Street, Crows Nest, Sydney, NSW 2065, Australia Email: Emma Dorph & Maggie Thompson [email protected] - [email protected] Phone +61 2 8425 0100 CONTENTS FICTION NEW TITLES 2 THE DARK LAKE & CITY OF STARS – SARAH BAILEY 3 SIGN – COLIN DRAY 4 TRYST – JARRAH DUNDLER 5 THE MAN ON THE STAIR – KATE LYONS 6 LITTLE GODS – JENNY ACKLAND 7 LOVESOME – SALLY SELTMANN 8 THE SISTERS’ SONG – LOUISE ALLAN 9 ELEANOR’S SECRET – CAROLINE BEECHAM 10 THE SILVER BRACELET – JULIE SHACKLEMAN 11 THE OPAL DRAGONFLY – JULIAN LEATHERDALE RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 14 THE CHOKE – SOFIE LAGUNA 15 THE PASSAGE OF LOVE – ALEX MILLER 16 THE NECESSARY ANGEL – C. K. STEAD 17 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE – HEATHER ROSE 18 THE LOST PAGES – MARIJA PERICIC 19 WE THAT ARE LEFT – LISA BIGELOW 20 THE MUMMY BLOGGERS – HOLLY WAINWRIGHT 21 OFF RESERVATION & THE FIGHTING SEASON – BRAM CONNOLLY 22 THE TWENTIETH MAN – TONY JONES NON-FICTION CURRENT AFFAIRS 24 TOTAL PROPAGANDA – HELEN RAZER 25 POLITICS WILL EAT ITSELF! – BERNARD KEANE 26 THE DARKEST WEB – EILEEN ORMSBY 27 FIGHT LIKE A GIRL – CLEMENTINE FORD 28 THE PHOENIX YEARS – MADELEINE O’DEA 29 NEW WOMEN OF THE MOSQUE – NADIA JAMAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR 30 GIRLS AT THE PIANO – VIRGINIA LLOYD 31 TEACHER – G J STROUD 32 UNTITLED MEMOIR – HANNAH GADSBY 33 DANGER MUSIC – EDDIE AYRES 34 MICHAEL: INXS’S LOST BOY REMEMBERED – TINA HUTCHENCE 35 WOMAN IN THE WILDERNESS – MIRIAM LANCEWOOD 36 SAM’S BEST SHOT – JAMES BEST 37 IN HIS SECRET HANDS – DR SANDUK RUIT AND ALI GRIPPER 38 BECOMING – ANNE SUMMERS 39 DAUGHTER OF GLORIAVALE – LILIA TARAWA MILITARY 40 NO FRONT LINE – CHRIS MASTERS 41 CREW: THE MEN OF LANCASTER J FOR JIG – MIKE COLMAN 42 THE BODY SNATCHERS – MARIANNE VAN VELZEN HEALTH & SELF-IMPROVEMENT 43 SLOW – BROOKE MCALARY 44 UNF*CK YOUR FINANCES – MELISSA BROWNE 45 A GOOD LIFE TO THE END – DR KEN HILLMAN 46 WRITING TRUE STORIES – PATTI MILLER FOOD & DRINK 47 CHAMPAGNE – ROBERT WALTERS 48 SUPER GREEN SIMPLE AND LEAN – SALLY OBERMEDER AND MAHA KORAIEM HUMOUR 49 OZZY MAN’S MAD WORLD – OZZY MAN 50 HOW TO DAD VOL. 1 & 2 – JORDAN WATSON EXCLUSIVE SUBAGENTS FICTION 1 Fiction THE DARK LAKE Sarah Bailey Publisher’s Lunch ‘Buzz Books’ for Fall/Winter 2017! A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of secrets, waiting to explode. A brooding, suspenseful and explosive debut that will grip you from the first page to the last. There had been a few minutes when I was alone with her in the autopsy room. I'd felt wild. Absent. Before I could stop myself, I was leaning close to her, telling her everything. The words draining out of me as she lay there. Her long damp hair hanging off the back of the steel table. Glassy eyes fixed blindly on the ceiling. She was still so beautiful, even in death. A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high school years before. But that's not all Gemma's trying to hide. As the investigation digs deeper into the Praise for The Dark Lake victim's past, other secrets threaten to come to light, secrets that were supposed to remain buried. The lake holds the key to solving the murder, but it also has the power to ‘Tense and thought drag Gemma down into its dark depths. provoking… [a] stellar first novel’ – Starred review in Publishers Weekly CITY OF STARS ‘Hooked me from page Senior Detective Gemma Woodstock returns not wholly the same person that she was one! Sarah Bailey combines before the murder of Rosalind Ryan, but perhaps an even better detective. Woodstock has the very best elements in this left behind the (mostly) sleepy town of Smithson and is working the big-time cases in the stunning debut thriller--a metropolitan headquarters of the Melbourne homicide squad. As Gemma struggles with troubled detective still trying being so far away from her son, Ben, back in Smithson, an up-and-coming Australian to find her way as a female movie star, Sterling Wade, is stabbed to death while the cameras are rolling on a new investigator, a small town blockbuster film. haunted by secrets both past How can it be so hard to catch the crazed culprit with the whole thing caught from multiple and present, and a beautiful angles? And who would want to hurt Sterling Wade, Australia’s boy next door? Has an victim whose unsettling allure adoring fan taken an obsession to violent ends, or has someone much closer to the star appears to be her biggest turned? Sterling's bit-part actress girlfriend, his headline Hollywood co-star, his gay asset and largest lover, and even his jealous brothers are all on the hook of Gemma and her detective downfall. With clever twists partner, Fleet. Will they solve the murder or just unravel the many secrets the famous try and all-too-human characters, to hide from their adoring public? this book will keep you racing toward the end.’ – Lisa SARAH BAILEY is a Melbourne based writer with a background in advertising and communications. Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling crime novelist Pub Date June 18 Extent 420pp ISBN 9781760297480 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold North America (Grand Central), UK (Atlantic) Previous Rights North America (Grand Central), UK (Atlantic), Italian Sold (Edizioni Piemme), German (C. Bertelsmann), Chinese Simplified (Beijing White Horse Time Culture Development) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Fiction 2 Fiction SIGN Colin Dray A compelling novel told from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy, Sam, who is recovering from a cancer operation that leaves him unable to speak ever again. Sam lives with his mother, sister Katie and Aunt Dettie, his father's sister, who help to look after Sam and Katie. His father is notably absent, and has been for some time, and when Sam and Katie’s mother begins to date again, Aunt Dettie reacts very badly. One day Aunt Dettie unexpectedly packs Sam and Katie into the backseat of her car and tells them that she's taking them to Perth to be reunited with their father. As Dettie drives the children across Australia in the middle of a sweltering and dangerous bushfire season, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the children begin to realise that there is something very wrong. Sign is an unputdownable, ultimately heartwarming novel about family, illness and the back roads of life, reminiscent of Lost and Found by Brooke Davis and Little Miss Sunshine. Dray is a gifted writer who has produced a novel that is evocative, perceptive and original. COLIN DRAY was shortlisted for the 2015 Vogel’s Award. He lives on the South Coast of NSW. Pub Date Feb 18 Extent 232pp ISBN 9781760294731 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Dimensions 234x153mm Category Fiction 3 Fiction TRYST Jarrah Dundler A genuine and engaging portrayal of a 14-year-old country lad, with a tonne of adolescent awkwardness and a family who loves each other despite crises big and small. Tristen is like any other 14-year-old country boy. He catches the bus to school with his best friend, Ricky, has a crush on the new girl at school, Jessica, and tries to be a peacekeeper between his loving mum and bumbling dad, Old Greggy Boy, who lives in a caravan down near the lake after a tiff that doesn’t quite mend. When Tristen’s brother, Shaun, is sent off to fight in Afghanistan in the 2000s war everything goes a bit pear shaped. Shaun’s mum starts drinking and Old Greggy Boy has a fight with Shaun before he ships off, condemning him to his caravan. When Uncle Trev, a hard- drinking former drug dealer also shows up, Tristen has a lot to work out at home while trying to keep his promises to Shaun to look after everyone. When the family receives news that Shaun is coming home, no minute is spared in celebrating the return of their beloved son and brother. But, like all who return from the trauma of war, Shaun isn’t quite the same as when he left, carrying more damage Praise for Tryst than victory. A story with sharp contemporary relevance: the plight of a soldier who served in Afghanistan. This post-battle stress is a huge and little-discussed issue and ‘Good knack for writing here Dundler handles it with restraint but makes a powerful case for empathy voices… a classic story of through the eyes of an adoring Tristen, looking up to the brother he has always teenage love and family’ worshipped, struggling like he has never seen anyone struggle before. – Judges, The Australian/Vogel Literary A totally believable coming-of-age story with beautifully drawn characters Award Panel 2017 who you’re sure Dundler has cut from real life. Tryst is a funny and engaging novel, that shows a slice of country life without treating its characters as socioeconomic curiosities. Dundler creates well-paced tension across the multiple storylines that reflect being a teenage kid with a whole lot of problems, but some sweet young love action on the side. JARRAH DUNDLER is the author of several published short stories. Tryst is his first novel and was shortlisted in the 2017 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Pub Date Jul 18 Extent 238pp ISBN 9781760631123 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Dimensions 234x153mm Category Popular Fiction 4 Fiction THE MAN ON THE STAIR Kate Lyons Told between two narrators in split time frames six months apart, Man on the Stair is a mysterious and absorbing exploration of memory, mistaken identity, and family secrets.