Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 Rights Catalogue: Frontlist Fiction FOR RIGHTS QUERIES CONTACT FOR RIGHTS QUERIES CONTACT Nerrilee Weir, Senior Rights Manager Alice Richardson, Rights Executive TEL +61 2 8923 9892 TEL +61 2 8923 9815 EMAIL [email protected] EMAIL [email protected] penguin.com.au/rights penguin.com.au/rights Awards and Nominations 2019 & 2018 Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson Shortlisted: Ned Kelly Award 2019 Under Your Wings by Tiffany Tsao Longlisted: Ned Kelly Award 2019 The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan Finalist: Aurealis Awards 2018 The Man Who Would Not See by Rajorshi Chakraborti Longlisted: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman Winner: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 Winner: New Zealand Booklovers Award 2019 Shortlisted: Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel 2019 Winner: New Zealand Heritage Book Awards 2018 The Tea Gardens by Fiona McIntosh Longlisted: Australian Book Industry Awards 2018 The Girl in Kellers Way by Megan Goldin Shortlisted: Ned Kelly Awards 2018 Shortlisted: Davitt Awards 2018 Shortlisted: Australian Book Designers Awards 2018 All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman Longlisted: International Dublin Literary Award 2018 Billy Bird by Emma Neale Longlisted: International Dublin Literary Award 2018 2 FRANKFURT FRONTLIST RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2019 RIGHTS SOLD - Recent Highlights The Yield Jane in Love Tara June WInch Rachel Givney North America North America (HarperCollins) (HarperCollins) France (Actes Sud) Under Your Wings The Pearl Thief Tiffany Tsao Fiona McIntosh Film (Lingo Pictures) United Kingdom (Penguin Also licensed to: Random House – Ebury) North America (Simon & Italy (DeA Planeta) Schuster - Atria) Audio (Penguin Random House Australia) Potiki This Mortal Boy Patrica Grace Fiona Kidman United Kingdom (Penguin United Kingdom (Gallic Books) Random House – Penguin Film Option (South Pacific Press) Pictures) France (Au Vent Des Iles) Audio (Bolinda) The Escape Room Megan Goldin The Kookaburra Creek Cafè Czech Republic (Mlada Fronta) Sandie Docker Also licensed to: Germany (Verlagsgruppe Random House) North America (St Martin’s) Audio (W F Howes) United Kingdom (Hachette) The Netherlands (Ambo Anthos) Germany (Piper Verlag) Spain (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial) Poland The Mannequin Makers (Wydawnictwo Bukowy Las) Craig Cliff Greenlight United Kingdom (Melville Benjamin Stevenson House) North America (Sourcebooks) Also licensed to: United Kingdom (Hachette) North America (Milkweed Audio (Audible) Editions) Romania (Editura Univers) Meet Me in Venice Love Song Barbara Hannay Sasha Wasley Czech Republic (Baronet) Germany (Droemer Verlag) Audio (WaveSound) Audio (Ulverscroft) Large Print (W F Howes) Large Print (Ulverscroft) FRANKFURT FRONTLIST RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2019 3 RIGHTS SOLD- Recent Highlights A Lifetime of Impossible Days The Gift of Life Tabitha Bird Josephine Moon Audio (WaveSound) Large Print (W F Howes) Moonlight Sonata The Roadhouse Eileen Merriman Kerry McGinnis Audio (Ulverscroft) Audio (Bolinda) Large Print (Ulverscroft) Sixty Summers The Yellow Villa Amanda Hampson Amanda Hampson Audio (W F Howes) Italy (Newton Compton Editori) Large Print (Ulverscroft) Czech Republic (Baronet) Audio (W F Howes) The Country Wedding The Dangerous Crossing Barbara Hannay Rachel Rhys Czech Republic (Baronet) Audio (Ulverscroft) Also licensed to: Audio (W F Howes) Heart of the Grass Tree The Blue Rose Molly Murn Kate Forsyth Audio (W F Howes) Large Print (Ulverscroft) Large Print (Ulverscroft) An American Marriage The Desert Midwife Tayari Jones Fiona McArthur Large Print (W F Howes) Audio (Bolinda) Large Print (Ulverscroft) 4 FRANKFURT FRONTLIST RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2019 Upmarket © MILES STANDISH The Spill Her first manuscript, The Hidden Drawer, made the judges’ commended list in the 2015 Victorian Imbi Neeme Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Awards and Pub date: June 2020 was selected for the 2015 Hachette/Queensland Format: 320pp – 153mm x 234mm Writers Centre Manuscript Development Rights held: World Program. Audio: Penguin Random House Australia She blogged for many years at Not Drowning, Imprint: Viking Australia Mothering, which won the 2010 Bloggies award Winner of the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize. for best Australian/New Zealand Weblog. In 1981, a car overturns on a remote West Awards for Imbi Neeme’s Writing Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the • Winner – 2019 Penguin Literary Prize impact is felt for decades. The Spill explores • Winner – 2019 Newcastle Short Story Awards how two people never experience or remember the same event in the same way, • Winner – 2019 Henry Handel Richardson especially when they are sisters. Fellowship Following a car crash, sisters Nicole and • Winner – 2018 Boroondara Literary Awards Samantha each for different reasons blame • Shortlisted - 2018 Peter Carey Short Story themselves and carry that guilt into adulthood. Awards It also proves the final act in the tumultuous • Commended – 2015 Victorin Premier’s relationship of their parents. Nicole spends Unpublished Manuscript Awards her teenage years living with her mother (who was driving the car at the time of the crash), • Selected – 2015 Hachette/Queenland Samantha living with their father and his new Writer’s Centre Manuscript Development wife. Program After the death of their mother, secrets come • Finalist – 2011 Sydney Writers’ Centre’s Best out and the sisters interrogate why they have Australian Blogs been busy misunderstanding each other • Winner – 2010 Bloggies Awards and sabotaging their own opportunities for happiness. IMBI NEEME is a recovering blogger, impending novelist and compulsive short story writer. Her manuscript The Spill was awarded the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize. She was also the recipient of the 2019 Henry Handel Richardson Fellowship for excellence in Short Story Writing. Her short fiction has won prizes in the 2019 Newcastle Short Story Awards and the 2018 Boroondara Literary Awards, and has been shortlisted for the 2018 Peter Carey Short Story Award. FRANKFURT FRONTLIST RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2019 5 Upmarket Filming for The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson feature film will begin in late 2019. The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Leah will write, direct and star in the film adapation. It is to be released in 2020. Molly Johnson Leah Purcell Her awards culminated in Leah being placed in the Australian Financial Review Top 10 Power List Pub date: December 2019 for Culture. Format: 272pp – 153mm x 234mm Leah is a proud Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Rights held: World Murri woman from Queensland. Film Rights: Optioned A note from the publisher Audio: Penguin Random House Australia Imprint: Hamish Hamilton Australia ‘. [Leah Purcell] has created a figure, Molly Johnson, who is as resonant and significant The Drover’s Wife is undeniably authentic, as Ned Kelly, whose story speaks to many of brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and our nation’s contemporary themes. Penguin entirely of our times exploring race, gender, Random House is very proud to be working with violence and inheritance. Leah on this project and bringing The Drover’s The novel’s inspiration is the play of the same Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson to the widest name, a theatrical and ground-breaking retelling possible readership.’ – Nikki Christer, Publisher of Henry Lawson’s famed The Drover’s Wife. The at Large play caused a sensation on perfromance and Awards for The Drover’s Wife, the play won the NSW Premier’s Prize Book of the Year. NSW Premier’s Literary Awards That play has now been extended into a film • Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting and book that are both still ‘Tarantino meets Deadwood’, but so much more. • Book of the Year In Leah Purcell's novel she reimagines Lawson’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards story vividly and deeply to portray the drover’s • Prize for Drama heroic wife as a righteous avenger – on behalf of • Victorian Prize for Literature herself, her children and what turns out to be her race – in a savage male world. Sydney Theatre Awards 2017 A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover’s • Best New Australian Work Wife is full of fury, power and has a black sting to • Belvoir Production Best Mainstage the tail, reaching from our nation’s infancy into Production our complicated present. Helpmann Awards 2017 LEAH PURCELL is one of this nation’s most • Best Play eminent cultural figures. She is arguably Australia’s most outstanding cultural polymath • Best New Australian Work – a multi award-winning author, director, AWGIE Awards 2017 playwright, actor, filmmaker, theatre-maker and • Major Award across all writing genres screenwriter. That she directs her prodigious talents towards Indigenous and First Nations • Stage Award themes, characters and issues, has resulted in • David Williamson Prize for excellence in a body of work already considered canonical in writing our library and stage history. 6 FRANKFURT FRONTLIST RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2019 Upmarket The Origin of Me BERNARD GALLATE began his professional life Bernard Gallate in the animation industry with Hanna-Barbera, later working for Walt Disney and a multimedia Pub date: March 2020 agency. After studying acting, he ran climbing Format: 400pp – 153mm x 234mm tours of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for six years Rights held: World while writing and illustrating books for younger Audio: Penguin Random House Australia readers. Bernard currently teaches programs Imprint: Vintage Australia on early Sydney life and archaeology at historic sites across the city. The