FRANKFURT PREVIEW
the way people live their lives, with an authentic humour that belies the anger burning beneath the surface. It’s for hipsters, boomers and anyone in-between.’ Author Emmett Stinson shares the publisher’s enthusiasm, calling it, ‘as vital as any Australian writing since Ned Kelly’s “Jerilderie Letter”’.
will be promoting this title at Frankfurt along with Gentill’s follow-up, A Decline in Prophets. The third and fourth books in this series, set in 1930s Australia, will be in out in February and August next year. Not content with having just one critically acclaimed series on the go, Sulari Gentill (writing as S D Gentill) is also working on a new youngadult series called ‘The Hero Trilogy’. Based on the ancient Greek classic, Chasing Odysseus is the first in this trilogy which The Sun-Herald has called ‘gripping’ and ‘utterly enthralling’. Gentill studied astrophysics and then law before throwing in her law career to commence a career as a writer, so we can look forward to more complex and intelligent prose from this young Aussie author.
Pantera Press is one of the new kids on the Australian publishing block, bringing with it a passion for discovering and nurturing talented new authors. These include John M Green, who P J O’Rourke called ‘the new Michael Crichton … but better’. Green has a new book which Pantera will be promoting at Frankfurt, called Born to Run, set during the next US presidential election in which an Hispanic woman is running for office amidst treason, terror and murder.
Spinifex Press is another independent Australian publisher that will again have a strong presence at Frankfurt. ‘What we stand for is having a chance to hear diverse and marginal voices’, explain the team at Spinifex. This is evident in one of
Another Pantera author, Sulari Gentill, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize this year for Best First Book with her historical crime novel, A Few Right Thinking Men. Pantera
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