SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE
•
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
BLACKSTONE EXCLUSIVE
THE ROVING PARTY A Novel By Rohan Wilson Reader to be announced
A
surprisingly
beautiful
evocation
of
horror
and
brutality, The Roving Party is a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw.
“An extremely skillful book…Wilson writes in spectacularly beautiful prose.” —Courier Mail
(MAY NOT BE FINAL ART)
“[A] grim and astonishing novel.” Fiction / Literary (FIC019000)
—Australian Book Review
Unabridged • Book #9310
1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, single-minded; four convicts,
the
downtrodden
youngest
still
farmhand;
only
two
a
free
stripling; black
Gould,
trackers;
a
and
powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up as a white man— this is the roving party, and their purpose is massacre. With
9½ hours • 8 CDs • 1 MP3 CD ISBN-13: Digital Library Digital Retail Library CD MP3 CD
978-1-4829-6827-9
978-1-4829-6828-6
978-1-4829-6830-9,
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promises of freedom and money, each is willing to risk his life
for
the
prize.
Passing
over
many
miles
of
tortured
country, the roving party searches for Aborigines, taking
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few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning
Author’s Home: Tasmania
the visceral intensity of his hunt. And all the while, Black Bill
Setting: Tasmania
pursues
Sales Territory: North America
his
personal
quarry,
the
much-feared
warrior
Manalargena.
Publishing Background: Soho Press Book ISBN: 9781616953119 Retail per Carton: 52 CDs, 50 MP3 CDs
R O H A N W I L S O N lived a long, mostly lonely life until a
Retail Ship Date: 2/4/14
lucky turn of events led him to take up a teaching position in Japan, where he met his wife. They have a son who loves books, as all children should. They live in Launceston but don’t know why. Rohan holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland, and Melbourne.
MARKETING Winner of the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, one of Australia’s richest and most prestigious prizes for unpublished manuscripts Email marketing: solicitation and outreach via library, general interest, and lit blogger lists Social media outreach via Twitter, Goodreads, and Facebook Will appeal to readers of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers and David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 133