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Jane Novak Literary Agency JANE NOVAK LITERARY AGENCY Client catalogue 1 Jane Novak is a literary professional with twenty-fve years experience in bookselling and publishing. She is passionate about Australia’s local industry and the creation and promotion of Australian books and writers. She worked for both Pan Macmillan Australia and Text Publishing before taking over the Barbara Mobbs Agency in 2016. The Jane Novak Literary Agency represents writers of literary and commercial fction and non-fction, children’s and young adult. Her clients include Helen Garner, Kate Grenville, David Malouf, Katrina Nannestad, Gerald Murnane, Gail Jones, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Behrouz Boochani. The agency also represents a number of literary estates, including Nobel Prize winner Patrick White, Norman Lindsay (The Magic Pudding), George Johnston (The Far Road, My Brother Jack) and Joan Lindsay (Picnic at Hanging Rock). Jane Novak Literary Agency Jane Novak PO BOX 894 Broadway, Sydney NSW 2007 Australia [email protected] +61(0)2 9281 8648 +61(0) 414 576 201 www.janenovak.com 2 JNLA Clients Debra Adelaide Ginger Gorman Sir Jonathan Mills Michael Aiken Andrea Goldsmith Drusilla Modjeska Richard Anderson Kate Grenville Di Morrissey Meera Atkinson Wayne Harris Gerald Murnane Sunil Badami Chloe Higgins Katrina Nannestad Jill Baker Nette Hilton Imbi Neeme Duncan Ball Kate Holden Poppy Nwosu Caroline Baum Lucinda Holdforth Kristina Olsson Bronwyn Blake John Hughes Louise Omer Behrouz Boochani Troy Hunter Sonia Orchard Bernadette Brennan Gabrielle Jackson Amber Petty Ellen Broad Petra James Bastian Phelan Fran Bryson George Johnston Estate Andrew Pippos Liz Byrski Gail Jones Donna Rawlins Adrian Caesar Toni Jordan Nicola Redhouse Gabrielle Carey Jacqueline Kent Rosalind Reines Rod Clement Krissy Kneen Judith Ridge Charmian Clift Estate Natalie Kon-yu Peter Rose Natalie Conyer Ramona Koval Candy Royalle Ruth Cracknell Estate Sarah Krasnostein Kate Ryan Josepha Dietrich Mimi Kwa Claire Saxby Desmond Digby Estate Steven Lang Lisa Shanahan Siboney Duff David Legge Craig Sherborne Virginia Duigan David Leser Beejay Silcox Quinn Eades Joan Lindsay Estate Peter Skrzynecki Ali Cobby Eckermann Lionel Lindsay Estate Maria Speyer Suzanne Falkiner Norman Lindsay Estate Maree Fenton Smith Tim Flannery Kim Mahood Ashleigh Synnott Morag Fraser David Malouf Jenny Valentish Simon French L.M. McMahon Lisa Walker Peggy Frew Carol Ann Martin Tim Watson-Munro Bernard Gallate Lorraine Marwood Frances Watts Helen Garner Fiona McGregor Allayne Webster Alice Gorman Siobhan McHugh Patrick White Estate 3 Our government No Friend But jailed his body, but his soul the Mountains remained that of a free man. By Behrouz Boochani RICHARD FLANAGAN, Translated by Omid Tofighian Booker Prize winner He may be the most significant political voice in a country he has never visited. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Wholly engrossing ... the absorbing record of a life- transforming episode whose effects on his inner self the writer is still trying to plumb. J.M. COETZEE, New York Review of Books MEMOIR | Foreword by Richard Flanagan | July 2018 | Picador | 374 pages | Rights sold: UK – Picador, North America – House of Anansi, Germany – Random House, Spain - Rayo Verde, Portugal – Grupo Leya, Italy – Add Editore, Netherlands – Jurgen Maas Uitgeverij, Taiwan – Homeward, France – Hugo, Egypt – Alarabi, Turkey – Mitani, Poland – Artrage, Denmark – Gyldendal, Hungary – Europa, Slovenia – Sanje 4 Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the A powerful land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Do Kurds have any friends other than account ... the mountains? Behrouz’s In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was writing is illegally detained on Manus Island, in Papua New lyrical and Guinea. He has been in PNG ever since. poetic, though This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a the horrors he mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a describes are voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric frst-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through unspeakable. six years of incarceration and exile. SOFIE LAGUNA, Miles Franklin winner No Friend But the Mountains was frst published in August 2018. In its frst few months of sale the book reprinted more than twenty times, One of the most becoming a national bestseller. It has since been celebrated awarded multiple literary awards, most of which made exceptions to allow Behrouz Boochani to cultural figures be considered as an Australian author. The author in the country. and the other men on Manus Island have been transferred to Port Moresby. He does not know what He just can’t will happen to them next. come onshore. MASHA GESSEN, The New Yorker Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate and WINNER flmmaker. He is an Associate Professor in 2019 Victorian Premier’s Social Sciences at UNSW; non-resident Visiting Prize for Literature Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacifc Migration 2019 NSW Premier’s Centre (SAPMiC), University of Sydney; Honorary Special Award Member of PEN International; and winner of 2019 ABIA Non-fction an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice 2019 National Biography Award, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Prize Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya award for journalism. He publishes regularly with The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Huffngton Post, New Matilda, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of NSW and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck Law School at the University of London. 5 A beautiful The Girls achievement. FIONA WRIGHT By Chloe Higgins An astounding MEMOIR new voice. July 2018 Picador Australia FELICITY CASTAGNA 320 pages 9781760782238 An urgent, poetic and skinless A contemporary literary memoir howl of a book. from an exciting LEE KOFMAN new talent. Chloe Higgins has crafted an exquisite work out Higgins spares of terrible personal tragedy. nothing in her telling of the slow violence of grief. normal family. A KATE HOLDEN Maurice is a property valuer who loves Titanic and The Sound of Music. His wife, Rhonda, attends every one of her three daughters’ sporting events and school nights. Lisa, aged nine, has cerebral palsy and plays the saxophone. Carlie, aged 14, is a kind- hearted tomboy who loves football. Chloe, aged seventeen, is a studious and introverted student about to sit her fnal high school exams. On July 31, 2005, Maurice takes Carlie and Lisa on a ski trip. On the way home, they are involved Chloe Higgins is the in a head-on collision. Maurice survives, the two founder and Chair of girls do not. Rhonda, Maurice and Chloe are each Wollongong Writers tragically and irrevocably redefned by the accident. Festival. In 2017, she Maurice blames himself for the girls’ deaths. Rhonda won the Feminartsy hides her grief, and tries to hold the three of them Memoir Prize. The Girls together. Chloe spends the next few years in a drug is her frst book but and sex-fuelled spiral. she has begun work on a second about the The Girls offers nuanced insight into the reality connections between of grief, guilt and its impact on mental health and grief and (sex)uality. sexuality. 6 The Innocent Reader By Debra Adelaide A standing ovation to the MEMOIR, NONFICTION wonder and October 2019 Picador Australia glory of books. 272 pages 9781760784355 CARMEL BIRD, Weekend Australian “Every book I have Has the power read becomes part of me, and discarding to ignite a love any is like tearing out of stories and a page from my own life.” sentences. SUSAN WYNDHAM An indispensable guide for ooks are impractical companions and housemates: every student Bthey are heavy when you are travelling, and in of creative the home take up a lot of space, are hard to keep clean, and harbour insects. It is not a matter of the writing, an ideal physical book, it is the deep emotional connection that companion for stretches back to my early years. Living without them is unimaginable. the avid reader. FIONA MCGREGOR These collected essays share a joyous and plaintive glimpse into the reading and writing life of novelist, editor and teacher of creative writing, Debra Debra Adelaide is an Adelaide. author and academic who has published six With immediate wit and intimacy, Adelaide explores works of fction, as what shapes us as readers, how books inform, well as many edited console and broaden our senses of self, and the collections. She works constant conversation of authors and readers at the University of with the rest of their libraries. Drawing from her Technology Sydney, experiences in the publishing industry, the academic where she is an world, her own life and the literary and critical Associate Professor in communities, she paints a vibrant portrait of a creative writing. life lived in and by books, perfect for any student, bibliophile, editor, or simply: reader. 7 Lucky’s FICTION By Andrew Pippos FORTHCOMING August 2020 ucky Mallios works as a cook on a US air force Picador Australia Lbase in Sydney, 1945. People say he looks like Benny Goodman, which stings a little, because Lucky A family saga spanning is a failed musician. On leave, as a remedy for his ffty years, Lucky’s frustration, he pretends to be Goodman on a USO is a novel about tour. During this fraud he encounters another scam failure, success, artist, Ian Asquith, who offers Lucky a large sum migration, violence and of money seemingly without strings. With this gift commerce. Lucky begins a restaurant franchise which becomes wildly successful. But success comes at a price, Lucky’s marriage breaks down and his dearest friend betrays him. After a mass shooting at one of the restaurants, the business ultimately fails. In New York in 2002, Asquith’s daughter Emily, is facing her own disappointments.
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