the bukowski agency selected international rights list Fall 2015 For excerpts and additional information, please visit www.bukowskiagency.com Contents New Titles Claire Cameron ........................... 2 Eden Robinson. 4 Alan Bradley ............................. 6 Simon Choa-Johnston ..................... 10 George Elliott Clarke ...................... 11 Liam Durcan ............................ 12 Colin Ellard ............................. 14 Alix Hawley ............................. 16 Yasuko Thanh ........................... 17 Lori Lansens ............................ 18 Selected Backlist Anita Rau Badami ........................ 22 Judy Fong Bates .......................... 24 Wayson Choy ........................... 26 Cecil Foster ............................. 28 Stephen Miller ........................... 29 Frances Greenslade ....................... 30 CLIENTS ............................... 31 CO-AGENTS ............................ 32 New Titles CLAIRE CAMERON The Bear In a nail-biter of psychological suspense told by a six-year-old in a voice reminiscent of Room, two small children are left alone at a remote island campground when their parents are killed by a bear 240 pages / Finished books available The Bear grabs you by the throat and will not let you go. Written by an author who has much experience of both wilderness survival and motherhood, it is a brilliant examination of how children help each other and themselves in extreme circumstances. PRAISE FOR CLAIRE CAMERON’S THE BEAR “The Bear had me up all night, and when I finally put it down I knew that I wouldn’t forget Anna and her little brother Stick for a long time. Claire Cameron is an absolute master in letting us feel grief and loss by RIGHTS SOLD never using those words. The ending is very moving and offers us real US: Reagan Arthur Books/ consolation at the same time.” Little, Brown, 2014 – HERMAN KOCH, AUTHOR OF THE DINNER Canada: Doubleday, 2014 “A tender, terrifying, poignant ride. Hang on.” UK: Harvill Secker, Random — OPRAH.COM House UK, 2014 “A gripping survival thriller … [an] agonizing odyssey of loss and being Netherlands: Cargo/De lost also has humour. The book’s anguished yet hopeful ending provides Bezige Bij a touching terminus for Anna and Stick’s journey to adulthood. This Brazilian Portuguese: expertly crafted novel could do for camping what Jaws did for swimming.” Bertrand Brasil/Grupo — PEOPLE Editorial Record “Harrowing suspense. The Bear is a survival thriller that is told from a Turkey: Nefes Yayinevi child’s-eye point-of-view, which is not only convincing but doubles the Vietnam: Skybook tension. A heartbreaking, white-knuckle read.” Film: John Tatoulis – ANDREW PYPER, AUTHOR OF THE DEMONOLOGIST France: Kero “The Bear is a taut and touching story of how a child’s love and denial become survival skills. Claire Cameron takes a fairytale situation of children pitted against the wilderness, removes the fairies, and adds a terrifying and ravenous bear. I devoured this wonderful new novel in one day—if I can use the word ‘devoured’ for a book about a bear.” – CHARLOTTE ROGAN, AUTHOR OF THE LIFEBOAT “Claire Cameron plunges us in to the dark terrors of the wilderness. The Bear is a survival story that is heart-pounding and moving. I devoured this book.” – TANIS RIDEOUT, AUTHOR OF ABOVE ALL THINGS “The Bear faultlessly captures the wonder, bewilderment, fear and self- centeredness of five-year-old Anna, and beautifully balances the darkness of her tale with a hopeful, sensitively told back story and moments when she grasps her situation with just enough clarity to shoulder her burden.” – CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN, AUTHOR OF THE PAINTED GIRLS 2 FICTION NEW! The Last Neanderthal A riveting literary thriller set at the end of the Neanderthal era 75,000 words / Final manuscript January 2016 “In a flash, she could see that that the cat knew her plan. He had watched her eyes flicker and guessed her moves exactly. He jumped, but to the side. One beat of the heart and she had missed the mark. The stick would hit at the side of his mouth. Rather than stab through the back of his head as intended, it would glance off his tooth or nose. Without perfect aim, she would not be able to kill him in one move. There was no second move. She was the eaten.” — From The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron The Last Neanderthal is based on the life of Girl, who finds herself photo by: Katrina Alfonso alone as her family members die off and disappear. It is inspired by the new science that has come to light in the 35 years since the RIGHTS SOLD publication of The Clan of the Cave Bear and by Claire Cameron’s US: Little, Brown, Jan 2017 extensive experience in wilderness survival. Through the lives of Canada: Doubleday, three women—a Neanderthal and two modern-day women—it Jan 2017 integrates the notions that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Netherlands: Cargo/ co-existed, and that they were a lot more like us than we have been De Bezige Bij led to believe. The Line Painter A twist on the classic road trip story, The Line Painter explores how the past, fear, and memory alter perception 231 pages / Finished books available Fleeing guilt and grief over her recently deceased boyfriend, Carrie McDonald is on a solo cross-country road trip when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere in Northern Ontario. PRAISE FOR CLAIRE CAMERON’S THE LINE PAINTER “It takes a certain amount of courage to tread such well-covered ground; it takes significant talent to make such a familiar conceit feel fresh and original, to lift it beyond the constraints of the cliché. In her debut novel The Line Painter…Toronto writer Claire Cameron demonstrates that she has both, in abundance. … The opening pages of The Line Painter are a masterful balancing act of suspense and relief, a dance RIGHTS SOLD between expectation and surprise that steadily increases the tension to Canada: HarperCollins, an almost unbearable point. Writing in a tight, parsed, minimalist tone, 2007 Cameron acutely conveys the tension inherent in the situation and, more Vietnam: Skybook significantly, builds on readerly expectations with this motif. … It’s a bravura performance. … Some of Carrie’s actions are shocking, but Visit Claire online at nonetheless fully in character. That’s a difficult trick for a writer to pull www.claire-cameron.com off but Cameron manages it with aplomb.” — THE GLOBE AND MAIL FICTION 3 EDEN ROBINSON NEW! Son of a Trickster A return to the tumultuous cross-cultural Native territory of Monkey Beach 86,000 words / Edited manuscript available January 2016 Son of a Trickster combines aboriginal belief systems and wacky family dynamics with fantasy, horror, and edgy, mordant humour in an unorthodox coming-of-age story. One of seventeen-year-old Jared Martin’s grandmothers insists that he is the son of Wee’git the Trickster, that dangerous shape-shifter who looks innocent but wreaks havoc. His other grandmother insists that “If you weren’t your dad’s and your momma tried to pass you off as his, I’d have slit her throat and left her in a ditch to die like a dog.” Jared’s far-northern west-coast Native community is closing in on him: his mom’s psycho ex-boyfriend, Death Threat, tries to kill him; Jared is beaten senseless photo by: Mark Raynes Roberts for his weed, essential to the cookie business with which he supports RIGHTS SOLD his father, who plays him for all he is worth; his mom takes up with a biker who moves in along with his pit bull, Baby Killer. Canada: Knopf, fall 2016 PRAISE FOR EDEN ROBINSON’S MONKEY BEACH “Beautifully written and haunting, this is an impressive debut.” — THE TIMES, UK “Monkey Beach is far more than a novel of psychological transformation, though it is that. It is, in the best sense, a thriller, a spiritual mystery…. The novel also contains some of the truest passages I have read on what it is like to be a teenager…. Puberty has rarely received such a perceptive and unflinching gaze. You can tell Monkey Beach is an original because you actually want to read it again. [This is a] startlingly accomplished first novel.” — THE WASHINGTON POST “Although death hangs like a Pacific mist over these pages, Robinson, herself a Haisla, fills this edifying book with the stuff of the living, from the tiniest details of Haisla life to the mightiest universals of tradition, desire and family love.” — THE LOS ANGELES TIMES “Robinson’s paean to the Pacific Northwest and Haisla culture, embodied in her stout-hearted hero and all her other vital and complex characters, does what good literature does best: It moves meaningfully from the particular to the universal and back again. And Robinson performs this enlightening feat with genuine insight, wry humor and translucent lyricism.” — THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE 4 FICTION Monkey Beach A darkly humorous aboriginal coming-of-age story set in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest 374 pages / Finished books available • Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2002 • Finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, 2000 • Winner of the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction, 2001 • Now in its 15th printing in paperback On the peaceful shore of the Douglas Channel lies the remote Haisla community of Kitamaat, British Columbia. Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Hill, ambitious and handsome, is the pride of the village. Serious-minded Jimmy shows little interest in courtship until he falls in love with Karaoke, the village beauty. But their young romance is cut short by the news of a horrifying accident at sea and Jimmy’s RIGHTS SOLD mysterious disappearance. US: Houghton Mifflin UK: Little, Brown Book Group Blood Sports Canada: Knopf Germany: Rowohlt Verlag Young people are caught up in the violent, seamy underbelly Netherlands: Prometheus of Vancouver France: Albin Michel Estonia: Hotger 278 pages / Finished books available Czech: Havran Tom Bauer is an epileptic who has hooked up with fellow ex-junkie Film: Eagle Eye Films Paulina.