Giramondo The Giramondo Publishing Company is an independent Publishing Australian university-based literary publisher of award- winning poetry, fction and non-fction, renowned for the quality of its writing, editing and book design. Giramondo’s frst publication, in July 1996, was the book-length magazine HEAT, which soon established itself as the premier literary magazine in Australia. Its forty issues appeared in two series from 1996–2011. Following on from the success of HEAT, Giramondo began publishing books by individual authors in 2002. Giramondo now publishes up to twenty titles a year, all of which are of literary quality, and excellent design. Our authors have consistently won major Australian prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award, the Prime Minister’s Award, and all of the state Premiers’ Literary Awards. We specialise in poetry, essays, creative non-fction, and novels which push the limits of what fction can achieve. Our books also often work across the genres. Many have been published overseas and in translation. In return, we have published authors from China, India, France, Germany, the United States, New Zealand, Mexico and Argentina. Because of our geographical location, we have a special interest in literature of the Asian region, and have recently inaugurated a series called Southern Latitudes, devoted to writing from the southern hemisphere. Another of our series, called Giramondo Shorts, promotes the shorter forms of literature, particularly the essay and the novella. As an independent literary publisher which enjoys support from the Australia Council and Western Sydney University, Giramondo is able to take risks, and to concentrate on literary quality. We are driven by ideas and by a cultural mission based on recognition and reciprocity, as much as by the imperatives of the marketplace. Ivor Indyk Publisher Gerald Murnane Border Districts Fiction Gerald Murnane is the author of eleven books of fiction and a collection of essays, the majority published by Giramondo. He is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, Melbourne Prize for Literature, Adelaide Festival Literature Award Shortlisted for the for Innovation and Victorian Miles Franklin Literary Premier’s Literary Award. Award 2018 Giramondo’s publication The effect of his writing of Border Districts, and is to induce images in the Murnane’s Collected reader’s own mind, and to Short Fiction, coincides hold the reader inside a with their publication by world in which the reader is Farrar, Straus and Giroux. at every turn encouraged to turn his or her attention to those fast flocking images. Praise for Gerald Murnane NEW YORK TIMES A strong case could be made for Murnane…as the greatest Border Districts lives living English-language writer most people have never resolutely in the narrator’s heard of. own head. Like Marilynne NEW YORK TIMES Robinson’s Gilead, it is a philosophical proposition as No living Australian writer, not even Les Murray, has higher much as a work of fiction – Conceived as Gerald Murnane’s last work of claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction.’ and often an act of devotion. fction, Border Districts was written after the author SYDNEY MORNING HERALD WASHINGTON POST moved from Melbourne to a small town on the western edge of the Wimmera plains, near the The emotional conviction...is so intense, the somber A remarkable conclusion border with South Australia. The narrator of this lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiseled to a body of writing many fction has made a similar move, from a capital city sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.’ are only now recognising to a remote town in the border country, where J.M. COETZEE for its true originality and he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is importance. a time for exploring the enduring elements of his Murnane is interested in what part of consciousness – THE AGE experience, as these exist in his mind, images whose of sensation, of emotion – might be shareable and what persistence is assured, but whose signifcance needs part is irreducibly individual, a private territory. November 2017 to be rediscovered. As Murnane’s narrator declares, BEN LERNER PB 160pp 198 x 130 mm ‘the mind is a place best viewed from borderlands’. 9781925336542 In this work, Border Districts also refers to the A genius on the level of Beckett. Rights: World ex. N.Am, country between life and death; and to the border TEJU COLE UK, Spain districts which separate, or unite, two human beings. Also by Gerald Murnane from Giramondo Gerald Murnane Collected Short Fiction Tamarisk Row (Fiction) Fiction March 2008 (1st ed. 1974) PB 294pp 9781920882396 Rights: World ex. UK Murnane’s frst novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, an unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s. Inland (Fiction) May 2013 (1st ed. 1988) PB 256pp 9781922146281 Rights: World One of Murnane’s most complex and rewarding works, A monumental achievement a study of guilt, longing and regret, and of worlds within from one of Australia’s most worlds, rich in metaphysical insights and pressing towards important writers...Murnane the edges of what fction can accomplish. is an accomplished master, and this collection is a vital Barley Patch (Fiction) resource. October 2009 PB 320pp PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 9781920882532 Rights: World ex N. Am The book written after a fourteen-year break in Murnane’s A house of fiction with a career, and beginning with the question, ‘Must I write?’ multitude of windows... What follows is a chronicle of the images that have an ideal opportunity to see endured in the author’s mind. the author’s approach in the round. A Million Windows (Fiction) THE AUSTRALIAN June 2014 PB 216pp 9781922146533 Rights: World ex N.Am, UK A prose that mixes Woven from images, and the feelings associated with them, musicality and precision, A Million Windows focuses on the importance of trust, and written in a manner at once the possibility of betrayal in storytelling as in life. serious, cunning, and gently self-mocking. Each fiction is Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs (Essays) an attempt to read the book The defnitive collection of the short fction by a August 2005 PB 230pp being written in his mind. master storyteller, regarded by many as Australia’s 9781920882099 Rights: World ex. UK SYDNEY MORNING HERALD most innovative writer of fction. This volume gathers This collection of essays describes Murnane’s youth in the Gerald Murnane’s shorter works of fction, published 1950s, his debt to writers as unlike as Marcel Proust and between 1979 and 2012, for the frst time. These Jack Kerouac, and his obsession with racehorses, grasslands short works are marked by Murnane’s intricate and and the Hungarian language. eccentric imagination and his distinctive literary style. His stories imbue ordinary situations and A History of Books (Fiction) memories with magical and allegorical signifcance, May 2012 PB 208pp bringing the ideal constantly into dialogue with 9781920882853 Rights: World lived and remembered experience. There is no April 2018 one to match Murnane in his sensitive portraits of Landscape with Landscape (Fiction) PB 480pp 235 x 135 mm family members – parents, uncles and aunts, and July 2016 (1st ed. 1985) PB 328pp 9781925336641 particularly children – and in his probing of situations 9781925336115 Rights: World Rights: World ex. N.Am, UK which contain anxiety, embarrassment or delight. Felicity Castagna No More Boats Fiction Felicity Castagna spent her youth in Asia and North America before moving to Parramatta in Western Sydney, where she has worked as a teacher, arts worker and editor. She won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted for the for The Incredible Here Miles Franklin Literary and Now, which was also Award 2018 shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia No More Boats offers us and NSW Premier’s a way of understanding the Literary Awards and adapted contradiction of one migrant for the stage by the National turning against others. Theatre of Parramatta. This is an important book. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW If we need new ways of Felicity Castagna speaking to each other, novels The Incredible Here and Now such as this can only help. Young adult fction THE SATURDAY PAPER Something terrible happens the summer Michael It is 2001. 438 refugees sit in a boat called Tampa turns ffteen. But The Incredible Here and Now is not off the shoreline of Australia, while the TV and about tragedy. It is about his place, the West, where radio scream out that the country is being fooded, ‘those who don’t know any better drive through the inundated, overrun by migrants. Antonio Martone, neighbourhood and lock their car doors’. Michael once a migrant himself, has been forced to retire, knows it intimately and lets the reader in: to the his wife has moved in with the woman next door, unsettled life of his family, the friends who gather in his daughter runs off with strange men, his deadbeat the McDonald’s car park at night, the one girl who son is hiding in the garden smoking marijuana. Amid will acknowledge he’s alive, the classmates who his growing paranoia, the ghost of his dead friend drool at the Coke factory on their way to school, shows up and commands him to paint ‘No More and the white Pontiac Trans Am that lights up his life Boats’ in giant letters across his front yard. The like an omen. It is here that he fnds an escape from Prime Minister of Australia keeps telling Antonio that his mother’s growing silence and the absence of his ‘we will decide who comes to this country and the brother Dom, who could charm the whole world June 2017 circumstances in which they come’.