Brandl & Schlesinger Rights List Sydney 2017 www.brandl.com.au About Us Brandl & Schlesinger, established in 1994 is now celebrating twenty–three years of publishing. We have a reputation as one of Australia’s most renowned independent publishers with many of our titles winning major literary awards. We publish books that are both challenging and thought provoking as well as being good reads. Brandl & Schlesinger has a diverse list of quality fiction and non-fiction, literary memoir and biography, academic journals, translations and a distinctive poetry list. We focus on publishing books that appeal to the national and international market. We also publish Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary magazine and the journal, Modern Greek Studies. Please check our web site www.brandl.com.au for further information on all our authors and titles, awards, agents, distributors and news updates. Brandl & Schlesinger is a member of the Australian Publishers’ Association. Brandl & Schlesinger gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its art funding and advisory body. BACK TO CONTENTS Contact Brandl & Schlesinger Pty Ltd PO Box 127 Blackheath NSW 2785 Australia Phone: (+612) 4787 5848 www.brandl.com.au Veronica Sumegi (Schlesinger) Publishing Director / Editorial / Foreign Rights [email protected] András Berkes-Brandl Production Director / Publisher / Designer [email protected] Sue de Brett Editorial/marketing/publicity [email protected] BACK TO CONTENTS Contents Brandl & Schlesinger are pleased to present their titles for 2017 each of which has been chosen for its quality of page- turning, robust appeal to readers both nationally and internationally. Included are also some key backlist titles which have not lost any of their relevance. Please also check our website for more of our titles – www.brandl.com.au Brandl & Schlesinger John Stephenson: The Baker’s Alchemy – FICTION Judith White: Culture Heist – NON-FICTION/ART Lino Alvarez with Kim Deacon: The Hill End Table - POTTERY/ART/COOKERY Marilla North: Yarn Spinners – MEMOIR/LETTERS Nick Athanasou: Palindrome – CRIME FICTION Marcel Weyland: The Boy on the Tricycle - MEMOIR Winton Higgins: The Rule of Law - HISTORICAL FICTION David Brooks: Derrida’s Breakfast - ESSAYS Kellinde Wrightson: The Notorious Frances Thwaites – TRUE CRIME Vrasidas Karalis: Demons of Athens – NON-FICTION Adrian Newstead: The Dealer is the Devil – NON-FICTION/ART Damien Freeman: The Aunt’s Mirrors – MEMOIR John A. Scott: N – SPECULATIVE FICTION Igor Gelbach: Tsaplin’s testimony – FICTION Nick Athanasou: The Person of the Man – FICTION Jacob E Rosenberg: East of Time – MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY VRASIDAS KARALIS: RECOLLECTIONS OF MR MANOLY LASCARIS - BIOGRAPHY About Us Contact Awards Agents Awards David Brooks: Derrida’s Breakfast 2016 Shortlisted for the Best Avant-Garde Literary Awards Adrian Newstead: Dealer is the Devil 2016 Shortlisted for WA Premier’s Book Awards – WA History John A Scott: N 2015 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2014 Guardian Australia Best Books of 2014 Steven K Kelen: Island Earth 2014 Shortlisted for ACT Book of the Year Aidan Coleman: Asymmetry 2012 Shortlisted for Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2012 Shortlisted for Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards Rhyll McMaster: Late Night Shopping 2012 Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards for Poetry 2012 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Poetry 2013 Highly Commended – Prime Minister’s Literary Award Jacob G. Rosenberg: Sunrise West 2008 Winner of New South Wales Premier’s Community Award 2008 Winner of the SA Arts Award for Non-Fiction Jacob G. Rosenberg: East of Time 2007 Winner of National Biography Award 2006 Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2006 Shortlisted for the Australian Gold Medal for Literature 2006 Shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction 2006 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2006 Shortlisted for the SA Arts Award for Innovation in Fiction Chris Wallace-Crabbe: The Universe Looks Down BACK TO CONTENTS 2006 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Poetry Awards Stephanie Bishop: The Singing 2006 Shortlisted for the Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006 SMH Best Young Writer of the Year Rhyll McMaster: Feather Man 2008 Winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award 2008 Winner of the UTS Award 2008 Shortlisted for the Australian Gold Medal for Literature 2007 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction Emily Maguire: Taming the Beast 2006 Shortlisted for the Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006 Nominated for the Inaugural Dylan Thomas Award David Brooks: Walking to Point Clear 2006 Shortlisted for the SA Arts John Bray Award for Poetry Geoff Page: Freehold 2006 Shortlisted for the SA Arts John Bray Award for Poetry Aidan Coleman: Avenues & Runways 2006 Shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award for First book of Poetry 2006 Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Award for Poetry Sarah Day: The Ship 2005 Winner of Queensland Premier’s Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry 2005 Joint winner of the ACT Judith Wright Award 2004 Winner of Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry Wayne Grogan: Junkie Pilgrim 2004 Winner of Ned Kelly Award for First Book of Crime Ouyang Yu: The Eastern Slope Chronicle 2004 Winner of SA Arts Award for Innovation in Fiction 2003 Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award BACK TO CONTENTS Igor Gelbach: Notes from the Esplanade (Translated by Rae Mathew) 2004 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Award for Translation Awards Steven K. Kelen: Goddess of Mercy Lau Siew Mei: Playing Madame Mao 2003 Shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2001 Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2003 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 1999 Shortlisted for Queensland Premier's Literary Award 2003 Highly Commended for ACT Book of the Year George Alexander: Mortal Divide John Tranter: Ultra 1999 Winner of NSW Premier’s Literary Award 2003 Shortlisted for Tasmanian Pacific Region Poetry Prize 2002 Shortlisted for Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry Fay Zwicky: The Gatekeeper's Wife 1999 Winner of WA Premier's Literary Award for Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe: By and Large 1998 Shortlisted for SA Festival Awards 2002 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry 2002 Awarded Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Poetry 2002 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award for Poetry Gig Ryan: Heroic Money 2002 Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for Poetry Rosemary Dobson: Untold Lives & Later Poems 2001 Winner of The Age Book of the Year Award 2001 Winner of The Age Book of the Year for Poetry 2001 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry Richard Deutch: Heart with piano wire 2001 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Poetry Gerry Turcotte: Flying in Silence 2001 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Fiction Adam Aitken: Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles 2002 Shortlisted for SA Festival Awards 2000 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Poetry BACK TO CONTENTS John Stephenson The Baker’s Alchemy Literary Fiction To be Published: September 2017 World Rights It’s Spring, 1870. The kindly Polish baker and widower, Ignacy Wadowski, cannot get his new young wife Jadwiga to make love with him. Ignacy asks a friendly Jewish healer who lives in the forest, for something to make him more attractive, but unexpectedly gets a potion that, while its effect lasts, makes him young again. Now courting Jadwiga as the youthful stranger Adalbert, Ignacy wins her love. The key moral dilemma is, while Ignacy is now enjoying his lawful wife, she’s enjoying a man she thinks isn’t her husband. Can one of them sin and the other not? The scheme begins to unravel when village gossip arises with sympathy for Ignacy - who’s being cuckolded by himself. The novel becomes an allegory, not just of all marriage and its difficulties, but of the expansion of consciousness available to a humble man, taking him into unsuspected realms of history, literature, national destiny and moral confrontation. This novel is in the style of magical realism and evokes the work of Yann Martel. John Stephenson has had a career teaching English (predominantly as a Foreign Language); Text, Melbourne, in 1996 published his The Optimist, a portrait of the poet Christopher Brennan as a young man. Widely and positively reviewed, he was cited in the doctoral dissertation of Dr Helen O’Reilly (UNSW) as a contemporary exemplar of Late Modernism’s “collapsing of Time”. John continues to be a manuscript assessor, mentor, editor, and workshop conductor, has reviewed books for the weekend newspapers and has placed various pieces, including poems, in magazines such as Southerly and Overland. BACK TO CONTENTS Judith White Culture Heist Non-fiction, Art ISBN 978-0-9944297-5-9 (print) Publication date: May 2017 A much-loved cultural institution facing a cost-cutting government, a board dominated by the big end of town, and a management fixated on an ambitious building project. It’s a true story. Culture Heist lifts the veil on what goes on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Judith White worked there for 12 years and gives an insider’s account, with implications for art lovers and museum-goers everywhere. Culture Heist invites the broadest discussion to address the issues facing the arts in Australia and explore ways to protect its great public institutions. The story would have relevance for art institutions world- wide. “A visit to a great art gallery leaves one with as sense of indelible wonder. Judith White dances through the great times of AGNSW and warns us of its existential threats - dwindling public funding and testosterone inspired expansion plans.” Graeme Wood, philanthropist Judith White was Executive Director of the members’ organisation, the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, from 2000 to 2008 and again in 2014 and 2015, and is author of the Society’s history Art Lovers.