Australian Small Publisher of the Year 2011, 2010, 2008, 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair 2011 Rights Guide World rights in each title are held by Scribe, unless otherwise stated. Please address rights enquiries to: Amanda Tokar Rights & Contracts Manager [email protected] Scribe Publications Pty Ltd 18–20 Edward Street, Brunswick Victoria 3056 Australia Tel: +61 3 9388 8780 Fax: +61 3 9388 8787 2 Non-Fiction Forthcoming FALLOUT FROM FUKUSHIMA Richard Broinowski (Current Affairs/Environment, November 2012) An investigation of a disaster that has changed everything — especially how governments and citizens around the world think about nuclear power. On a calm, northern spring morning on 11 March 2011, a force-9 earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed 66 kilometres due east of the Japanese city of Sendai. Within 20 minutes, a black tsunami wave 14 metres high rolled in from above the earthquake’s epicentre and crashed onto the nearby coast. Entire towns collapsed, villages turned into rubble, and up to 20,000 men, women, and children were swept either inland or out to sea, along with animals, cars, buses, trucks, and trains. While struggling to convey to the world some idea of the unfolding destruction, Japan had to cope with a third calamity — the consequent malfunctioning of a nuclear-power complex near the town of Fukushima. Fallout from Fukushima looks first at the meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi reactors and how these have almost bankrupted their owners, TEPCO — the largest electricity-supply company in the world. It describes how the Japanese authorities delayed warning the public about the extent and severity of radiation, and how locals reacted once they found out. It traces the nuclear fallout and how this is likely to inhibit rehabilitation of many areas in northern Honshu. It assesses the probable psychological effects on people who, unable to return to their farms and villages, may become permanent nuclear refugees. And it examines the effects of the disaster on the future of nuclear energy, both in Japan and across the world, and on major uranium-suppliers to Japan. Richard Broinowski has been an Australian diplomat and ambassador. He became general manager of Radio Australia in 1990 and, on his retirement in 1997, became an honorary professor, first at the University of Canberra and then at the University of Sydney. Material: sample chapters available 3 MODERN MANGLISH: gobbledygook made plain Neil James & Harold Scruby [cartoons by Alan Moir] (Language/Cartoons, December 2011) A funny, irreverent, and hilarious look at the ways in which we mangle and mispronounce the English language. The information superhighway brings more text to our door than ever before. It’s just that most of it gets mangled along the way. Twenty years ago, Harold Scruby’s original Manglish became an instant bestseller. This version preserves some of his classic Manglish examples with mostly new material from the shame files of the Plain English Foundation. Modern Manglish explores the traditional linguistic traps of mixed metaphors and mispronunciation, new words and old clichés, and euphemisms, tautologies, and jargon. It also exposes the latest Manglish in serially offending professions such as politics, business, and the law. When exactly did we all become ‘stakeholders seeking to leverage our paradigms to achieve best- practice scenarios moving forward’? Alongside these are the newest contenders for the Manglish crown, ranging from sports talk to silly signs, from IT speak to Twitterese, and from food speak to fancy-pants job titles. For your delectation and perhaps chagrin, here are the worst excesses of Manglish in 21 handy chapters, illustrated with more than 60 cartoons from Australia’s premier editorial cartoonist, Alan Moir. Neil James is a regular commentator on language in the electronic media in Australia, where he features on the ABC radio network. He is also active internationally in plain language, and was elected in 2008 to chair the International Plain Language Working Group. Harold Scruby was born in Singapore and educated in Sydney. He spent over 25 years in the rag trade, while writing two books: Waynespeak and Manglish. Alan Moir has worked for The Bulletin and The Courier-Mail, and is currently editorial cartoonist on The Sydney Morning Herald. He has won the Stanley Award for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year six times, two Walkley Awards, and second prize in the United Nations Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award in 2004. Material: manuscript available (app 20,000 words + cartoons) THE SPIES WITHIN Scott Johnson (Memoir/Current Affairs, May 2012) What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good? Growing up, Scott Johnson always suspected that his dad was somehow different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy. When Johnson later became a war correspondent, he returned to the countries of his youth — the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the cold urbanity of Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. Here, he came face to face with his father’s murky past. The Spies Within is an account of Johnson’s life as the son of a CIA operative and his attempt to reconcile his past with his own moral imperatives as a journalist. The book chronicles Johnson’s confusing adolescence having to live with secrets and lies, and his lifelong confrontation with a series of difficult questions about the duties we owe to ourselves as well as to others. The Spies Within is a provocative, meditative reckoning of how the choices of two men defined their own relationship to slippery and often uncomfortable ideas like truth, deception, and manipulation, and to the historic world events that shaped their times. It is also an intensely personal 4 story of how a close bond between father and son endured when tested by one of the world’s most secretive and unforgiving institutions. Scott Johnson was the chief of Newsweek magazine’s Africa bureau until its recent close. He spent most of the last decade in the Middle East, covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in Mexico, covering politics and the economy in Latin America. He was Baghdad bureau chief for two years, and has been based in South Africa since 2007. He has appeared on NPR, The World, MSNBC and CNN, and was part of the Iraq team that contributed to Newsweek’s 2003 National Magazine Award. The Spies Within is his first book. Rights held: World English language Material: manuscript available (app 110,000 words) THE POWER OF SEVEN FRAMEWORKS: the keys to business success Kazuyo Katsuma [translated by Stacy Smith] (Business/Management, February 2012) Truly great businesspeople become leaders in their industry because of the quality of their ideas — and here are seven that are proven to work. In The Power of Seven Frameworks, bestselling Japanese business writer Kazuyo Katsuma synthesises the strategies of the world’s top business thinkers, and distils them into techniques to help you hone your problem-solving ability and consistently produce exceptional ideas. She believes that learning to use the power of frameworks will release your creative potential and turn it into successful business practice. The seven frameworks will help you to interpret information quickly and make fast, effective decisions; make accurate forecasts about a new business or venture; communicate effectively with words, diagrams, and images; understand statistics and use them to your advantage; and turn chance and coincidence into opportunities. The seven frameworks are the keys to achieve success, inspiration, and balance in business. Unlock their power and find out how to be a step ahead of everyone else. Kazuyo Katsuma has worked for some of the world’s top financial firms, such as Arthur Andersen, McKinsey & Company, and JP Morgan. In 2005, The Wall Street Journal anointed her one of the ‘Top 50 Women to Watch’, and in 2009 she was chosen as one of the Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum. Katsuma’s books have sold over four million copies in Japan, Taiwan, China, and Korea. Rights held: UK & Cw excl. Canada, English language Material: manuscript available (app 60,000 words) THERE STANDS MY HOUSE Hans Keilson [translated by Elena Lappin] (Memoir, February 2012) A memoir by one of Europe’s recently rediscovered great writers. Hans Keilson was a German-Jewish psychiatrist, writer, and poet. He survived the Holocaust in hiding in Holland, where he emigrated in the 1930s and settled after the war. Shortly before his death 5 in 2011 at the age of 101, his two masterpieces, The Death of the Adversary and Comedy in a Minor Key, were re-published in many languages, to great acclaim. In this memoir, Hans Keilson revisits the key periods of his life, spanning an entire century of dark European history: his childhood in a small German spa town, the first rumblings of the Nazi era, studies in Berlin, and his exile and war years spent in hiding in Holland. This memoir is a distillation of poignant memory fragments, adding up to a deeply humane, insightful, and moving portrait of the life of a man who was the last surviving witness of both world wars. The memoir is followed by an in-depth interview with one of his editors. Hans Keilson was born in Germany but, following the Nazis’ rise to power, was forced to move to the Netherlands before the outbreak of World War II. An award-winning psychiatrist, he was particularly renowned for specialising in the traumatic effects of the Holocaust on Jewish survivors. Keilson’s other best- known works include his novel The Death of the Adversary, first published in 1959, and Comedy in a Minor Key. Rights held: ANZ + English-language translation Material: manuscript available (app 20,000 words) BEYOND THE SHOCK MACHINE: the untold story of the Milgram obedience experiments Gina Perry (Popular Science/Biography, May 2012) The true story of the most controversial psychological experiments of the modern era.