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Fiction pg. 3 Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey pg. 4 The Amber Amulet by Craig Silvey pg. 5 The Burial by Courtney Collins pg. 6 Amber Road by Boyd Anderson pg. 7 Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls by Boyd Anderson pg. 8 The 13th Tablet by Alex Mitchell pg. 9 Fractured by Dawn Barker pg. 10 Ideal Love by Alice Burnett pg. 11 Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu & Dancing Through Red Dust by Murong pg. 12 The Missing Ingredient by Murong pg. 13/14 New writing from China: Modern Chinese Masters pg. 15 Rock Soldier by Liu Jian pg. 16 X Girl Series: Book 1: Rev Girl (YA) by Leigh Hutton Non-Fiction pg. 17 China Cuckoo by Mark Kitto pg. 18 The Girl from Baghdad by Michelle Nouri pg. 19 Fusion Economics: Peaceful Revolution for a New Global Consensus by Laurence Brahm pg. 20 Zhu Rongji and the Transformation of Modern China by Laurence Brahm pg. 21 The Thirty Years that Transformed China: 1980-2010 by Caroline Puel pg. 22 Philosophy in the Garden by Damon Young pg. 23 Liar Liar by Damon Young pg. 24 ShortThink. How not to think about the future by Ben McNeil pg. 25 On The Unhappiness of Being Greek by Nikos Dimou pg. 26 Mr Snack and the Lady Water by Brendan Shanahan pg. 27 In Turkey I am Beautiful by Brendan Shanahan pg. 28 Gaysia by Benjamin Law pg. 29 The Family Law by Benjamin Law pg. 30 Chasing Bohemia: A Year of Living Dangerously in Rio by Carmen Michael pg. 31 Burlesquing China by Jenevieve Chan pg. 32 Nomadia: Life on Our Own Terms by Païvi Kannisto and Santeri Kannisto pg. 32 Ancient World Guides: Ancient China Towns, Villages and Cites ! 3! Craig Silvey (AUS) Jasper Jones USA Printz Honor Book for excellence in YA literature, 2012 Winner Australian Book Industry Awards, Literary Book of the Year 2010 Winner Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year 2010 Winner Australian Booksellers Choice Award 2010 Winner Australian Independent Booksellers, Book of the Year 2009 Winner Australian Independent Booksellers, Fiction Book of the Year 2009 Winner Indie Book of the Year Award 2009 Co-Winner West Australian Premier’s Award (fiction) 2010 with JM Coetzee Shortlisted Impac Dublin Literary Award 2011 Shortlisted Australian Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010 Shortlisted Christina Stead Award 2010 Shortlisted New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award 2010 Shortlisted New South Wales People’s Choice Award 2010 Shortlisted Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2010 LITERARY FICTION Longlisted United Kingdom Dylan Thomas Prize 2010 Highly Commended Kathleen Mitchell Award 2010 Published: Australia/NZ 2009 · Allen & Unwin UK 2010 · Windmill Books, Random Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a USA 2011 · Knopf, Random House precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock France 2010 · Calmann-Lévy, Hachette Spain 2010 · Seix Barral, Planeta on the window of his sleepout. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in Italy 2010 · Neri Pozza the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and Netherlands 2010 · Bezige Bij solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So Norway 2010 · Cappelen Damm AS when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by Germany 2011 · Rowohlt Verlag his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him Poland 2011 · Dom Wydawniczy Rebis through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it’s here that Israel 2011 · Modan Publishing House Charlie bears witness to Jasper’s horrible discovery. Brazil 2011 · Intrinseca China 2010 · ThinKingdom Taiwan 2010 · Solo Press With this secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by Korea 2010 · Tin Drum a town closing in on itself and in vainly attempting to restore the parts Turkey 2013 · Marti Publishing that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse. * Film rights sold to Porchlight Films * All other rights available ! 4! Craig Silvey (AUS)! The Amber Amulet You're in safe hands - The Masked Avenger and Richie the Power Beagle are here to protect you! A brilliant jewel of a book from the acclaimed, best-selling author of Jasper Jones. ! Dear Sir/Ma’am, Please find enclosed this AMBER AMULET. That must sound unusual to a citizen, but you will have to trust me on this count because the science is too detailed for me to outline here. All you need to know is that the AMBER AMULET will eliminate LITERARY FICTION / NOVELLA your unhappiness by counteracting it with POSITIVE ENERGY. FULL COLOUR / ILLUSTRATED This should see you straight. Fear not, you’re in safe hands now. Published: Take care, The Masked Avenger Australia/NZ 2012 · Allen & Unwin * All other rights available Meet twelve-year-old Liam McKenzie, who patrols his suburban ! neighbourhood as the masked avenger—a superhero with powers so potent not even he can comprehend their extent. ! ! Along with his sidekick Richie the Powerbeagle, he protects the people ! of Franklin Street from chaos, mayhem, evil and low tyre pressure— ! but can he save them from sadness? ! This perfect jewel of a book by the award-winning author of the 2009 ! Book of the Year Jasper Jones will hold all readers in its irresistible ! power. ! ! ! ! CRAIG SILVEY was raised on an orchard in Western Australia. At the age of 19, he wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, while living in Fremantle, where he now resides. In 2007 Silvey released The World According to Warren, a picture book starring the guide-dog from Rhubarb. In early 2008, he completed his second novel, Jasper Jones, an award-winning gothic tale that has become a global hit. In addition to his literary pursuits, Silvey is the singer/songwriter for the band The Nancy Sikes. The Amber Amulet was published ANZ in October 2012. ! ! 5! Courtney Collins (AUS) The Burial It is the dawn of the 20th Century in Australia and a woman has done an unspeakable thing. From her lonely outpost, the mountains beckon as a place to escape. First, she must bury the evidence. But how do you bury the evidence when the evidence is part of yourself? Jessie is 22. She has served a two-year sentence for horse rustling. As a condition of her release she is apprenticed to Fitzgerald “Fitz” Henry who wants a woman to allay his loneliness in a valley populated by embittered ex-soldiers. Fitz wastes no time in blackmailing Jessie into marrying him and involving her in his business of horse rustling and cattle duffing. LITERARY FICTION When Fitz is wounded in an accident he hires Aboriginal stockman, Jack Brown, to steal horses with Jessie. Soon both Jack Brown and Published: Jessie are struggling against the oppressive and deadening grip of Australia/NZ 2012 · Allen & Unwin Fitz. UK 2013 · Allen & Unwin France 2013 · Buchet Chastel, On a catastrophic night, while Jack Brown is on a drove, Jessie * All other rights available murders Fitz and burns down his house. That same night she miscarries her child and buries it in a sandy grave near a river. Broken and bloody, Jessie escapes to the mountains. There she meets a gang of young bushrangers whose impossibly brazen heists and mountain life are the freedom and the affection she has craved. But word has spread fast around the valley that she is both cattle thief and murderer. Soon there is a price on her head and gangs of men are crashing through the bush to be the first to claim her. Riding in their wake, is an opium-addled cop, Andrew Barlow, and Jack Brown, who has been hired to track her. They move up the mountain uncertain as to who the real enemies are and if they should first save Jessie or themselves. As Jessie finds herself pursued by all of them; gangs of men, tracker and sergeant, there is another compelling force drawing her closer. There can be no escaping this – it is her child calling back to her from the grave. The Burial is the debut novel of COURTNEY COLLINS. It has been optioned for a feature film by Pure Pictures. Courtney's next work is in progress, The Walkman Mix has already received attention through the Melbourne Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award 2011. Courtney grew up in the Hunter Valley in NSW. She now lives on the Goulburn River in regional Victoria. ! 6! Boyd Anderson (AUS) Amber Road As an empire is swept away a young woman’s world is ripped apart.