Australian Collective Catalogue - Frankfurt 2021

Australian Collective Stand Rights Catalogue Frankfurt Book Fair 2021

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Front cover image: from Sea Country by Aunty Patsy Cameron and illustrated by Lisa Kennedy, with permission from Magabala Books.

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Contents Affirm Press 4 Allen & Unwin 6 Berbay Books 8 Big Sky Publishing 10 Black Inc. 12 Blue Angel Publishing 14 Christmas Press 16 CSIRO Publishing 18 Exisle Publishing 20 Five Mile 22 Fremantle Press 24 Giramondo Publishing 26 Hachette Australia 28 Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing 30 HarperCollins Publishers Australia 32 Journeys to Words Publishing 34 Little Pink Dog Books 36 Magabala Books 38 Melbourne University Publishing 40 NewSouth Publishing 42 Pantera Press 44 Penguin Random House Australia 46 Scholastic Australia 48 Scribe Publications 50 Simon & Schuster Australia 52 Spinifex Press 54 Sydney University Press 56 Text Publishing 58 UQP 60 Wakefield Press 62 Walker Books Australia 64 Publisher Contact Details

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AFFIRM PRESS www.affirmpress.com.au | Tash Besliev | tash.besliev@affirmpress.com.au

Affirm’s first picture book, A Walk in the Bush by debut creator Gwyn Perkins, won the CBCA Picture Book of the Year (2018), and Tricky’s Bad Day by Alison Lester, Australia’s most-loved picture book creator, won Book of the Year, Early Childhood (2019). That’s Affirm Press: a combination of incredible emerging talent and some of the industry’s favourite creators.

SEVEN WHEREWITHAL WAY Samantha-Ellen Bound Celeste is having the worst summer ever. So when her eccentric cousin Ferd crash-lands a flying bus in the yard, Celeste follows Ferd to Seven Wherewithal Way. Wherewithal — Ferd’s house, and the gateway to the many Realms — is bursting with magic and mystery and otherworldly creatures. But when something tries to break in through the portal in the pantry, Celeste needs to find her adventurous side fast to save her cousin, their home, its inhabitants and possibly even all the Realms.

• Full of heart-in-your-mouth action, unforgettable characters and folkloreinspired magic.

• Unputdownable first book in an epic portal fantasy series.

• The perfect next read for devotees of Nevermoor and The Land of Stories.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781922419224 RRP (AUD): $17.99 FORMAT: PB, 400pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Middle-grade Fiction, Fantasy, Series

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THE BOOK FOR HAPPY HEARTS Maggie Hutchings and Jess Racklyeft This wondrous, uplifting and hope-filled treasury is packed with stories, poems and activities to inspire, cherish and share. Dip in any time of the day; wake up to positive morning thoughts, afternoon adventures in real and imagined worlds, or night-time wishes for tomorrow. A feast for the eyes and a balm for the soul, this joyful book will fill your heart with happiness.

• A beautiful collection of stories, poems and activities to inspire happiness and hope.

• Designed to mirror our natural daily rhythm (morning, noon and night) it can also be dipped into any time of day.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781922419491 RRP (AUD): $35.00 FORMAT: HB, 120pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Illustrated Treasury, Short Stories, Poetry, Activity Book

FOLLOW YOUR FEELINGS: MAX AND WORRY

BIG WORLD, TINY WORLD: FOREST

Kitty Black and Jess Rose

Jess Racklyeft

When Max has a hard time starting his maths work, he’s joined by someone new: Worry. But Worry doesn’t give Max the help he needs. It feels like Worry will never leave, even when Max does what Worry tells him to! But with the help of some deep breaths and a vow to just try his best, Max can say goodbye for now to Worry, and hello to someone new …

Follow Your Feelings is a touching, funny and charming new series about getting to know and love our emotions.

‘At times in this big universe you can feel rather small.

But there are worlds of every size to see, worlds for each and all.’

• Written by qualified children’s counsellor Kitty Black, it reframes so-called ‘negative’ emotions as part of the very normal range of feelings we experience.

• Encourages emotional acceptance as a healthy approach to growth and development.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781922419729 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book, Emotional Literacy, Child Psychology

Step into the forest and explore the many worlds that exist beneath the treetops, from birds that make their nests up high to neighbourhoods of bugs who are working hard underground.

A stunning ode to natural treasures and the interconnectedness of our worlds from one of Australia’s brightest creators.

• The first instalment in a gorgeous new series that explores the many worlds within our natural landscape.

• Jess Racklyeft’s signature whimsy with an educational angle makes her Australia’s answer to Britta Teckentrup.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9781922626752 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: HB, 24pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book, Non-Fiction, Biomes, Nature, Forests

Affirm Press • 5

ALLEN & UNWIN www.allenandunwin.com Carey Schroeter (Kids/YA) | careys@allenandunwin.com Sandra Buol | sandrab@allenandunwin.com

Allen & Unwin is Australia’s leading independent publisher and is regularly voted Publisher of the Year. We champion leading Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators and publish around 250 titles per year across literary and commercial fiction, a range of conversation-starting non-fiction, and books for children and young adults.

WHEN YOU’RE OLDER

WHISPER ON THE WIND

Sofie Laguna and Judy Watson

Claire Saxby and Jess Racklyeft

Beautiful, warm and evocative, this stunning picture book reveals an older brother’s hopes for the amazing adventures he will share with his new baby brother — when he’s older.

A triumph of illustration and storytelling.

A stunning and moving picture book about separation and reunion. With its lyrical, comforting text and whimsical, breathtaking artwork, Whisper on the Wind assures children and adults alike that love will find us — wherever we are.

• By two highly acclaimed, award-winning creators.

• Celebrates the joys of childhood adventures and imaginings, the creative spirit and the bond between brothers.

• Captivating illustrations that will dazzle readers of all ages.

• An instant classic.

• By the two highly acclaimed award-winning creators behind the glorious non-fiction picture book Iceberg.

• The perfect read-aloud bedtime story with its gentle, enchanting, cumulative text.

• A powerful celebration of the wonders of the ocean and the joys of coming home.

• Beautiful richly imagined illustrations to explore.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2022 ISBN: 9781760291341 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book, Fiction, Children’s

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RELEASE DATE: 04/2022 ISBN: 9781760526887 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 24pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book, Fiction, Children’s

THE HOUSEMATE

THE ISLANDS

Sarah Bailey

Emily Brugman

A decade ago an unsolved murder between housemates was Oli’s first case as a young journo. Now the missing former prime suspect is found dead, and Oli — now a seasoned crime reporter — sets out to find the truth of what really happened on that night ten years ago.

The Islands binds together multiple narratives from various perspectives.

Through glimpses into the lives of Finnish crayfisher families the reader is immersed in the spectacular and sometimes brutal landscape of the Abrolhos Islands in Western Australia.

• Bailey has become one of the world’s most beloved new crime writers, with her Gemma Woodstock trilogy published throughout the US, UK and in many translation territories.

• Shortlisted for the 2020 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award.

In traditional cultures, the elders are expert observers of the sky. They teach that everything on the land is reflected in the sky, and everything in the sky is reflected on the land. This is the first book to explain the rich knowledge of the stars and planets held by Indigenous peoples around the world.

• Emerging writer Emily Brugman draws inspiration from her migrant grandfather’s stories — he worked as a crayfisherman on the Abrolhos Islands from the 1950s to the 1970s.

• The author is Associate Professor of Cultural Astronomy, University of Melbourne. He has appeared on TEDx, BBC World Discovery Radio and in many other local and international programs.

• Reminiscent of Olive Kitteridge — a novel in stories bound to a particular landscape.

• He has worked for Meriam elders to record and preserve the astronomical knowledge of Torres Strait Islanders, and with other Indigenous elders internationally.

• Bailey has an exceptional talent for female characters — richly flawed and completely authentic.

• The Gemma Woodstock trilogy has sold over 73,000 copies across ANZ.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781760529338 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 464pp RIGHTS: World ex Turkish CATEGORY: Thriller, Fiction

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9781760878580 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, TBC RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

THE FIRST ASTRONOMERS Duane Hamacher

RELEASE DATE: 03/2022 ISBN: 9781760877200 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB, 360pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Popular Science.

Non-fiction

Allen & Unwin • 7

BERBAY BOOKS www.berbaybooks.com Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke | Alexandra@berbaybooks.com

Berbay is an award-winning independent children’s publishing house based in Melbourne, Australia with an established reputation locally and internationally for high-quality, original and enriching books for children up to 12 years. Berbay’s books contain stories with universal appeal and an eye for playfulness. We publish titles that provoke thoughtfulness, inspire empathy, and are directed towards children.

THE BEAR AND THE LITTLE GREEN THING

9 THINGS TO REMEMBER (AND ONE TO FORGET)

Diandian

Alison Binks

When the little green thing is dropped from the mouth of a bird, it finds an unexpected home — on the back of a bear. The little green thing just needs to convince the bear to let it stay. But when the seasons change, and it’s time for the little green thing to become a big green tree, how will their newfound friendship survive?

9 things to remember (and one to forget) is an ode to nature. Each turn of the page reveals a small wonder, something to investigate, discover and remember. With her playful interest in inspiring awe, Binks reminds readers of the secrets nature tells us when we listen closely.

• Jon Klassen meets Carson Ellis in this gorgeous debut picture book.

• Perfect for Earth Day and for inspiring an appreciation of the natural world.

• Features an eye-catching minimalistic colour palette and design and is printed on uncoated paper.

• For fans of Oliver Jeffer’s Here We Are and Sophie Blackall’s If You Come to Earth.

• Features foil on the front cover.

• Introduces an unlikely and heart-warming friendship.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2022 ISBN: 9780645069648 RRP (AUD): $25.99 FORMAT: HB, 40pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book

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RELEASE DATE: 03/2021 ISBN: 9780648785194 RRP (AUD): $25.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book

HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS A BEAR’S GUIDE

WHOSE DINOSAUR BONES?

NORTON AND THE BORROWING BEAR

Cat Rabbit

Chihiro Takeuchi

Gabriel Evans

Bear has lots of friends if you count her toys, but she’s not sure how to make real friends. And she especially wants to be friends with Koala and Lamb. They both have fluffy ears and like green things.

This is a story about making friends while keeping the qualities (and quirks) that make you unique.

Papercut artist Chihiro Takeuchi brings her talent to the world of dinosaurs in this scientifically accurate exploration of some of the most popular dinosaurs.

This creative and inventive approach allows readers to identify dinosaurs by their bone structures and learn more about each of the creatures with the fun facts spread in the back of the book.

Wouldn’t it be fun to have a friend living right next door?

Well, as Norton discovers, it can certainly pose some challenges when that friend wants to borrow all your favourite things.

This is a story about setting limits and learning to accept you friends — flaws and all.

• Melbourne textile artist Cat Rabbit has an international fanbase that includes 161k followers on Instagram.

• Cover features a die-cut design.

• Irresistible felt characters practically jump off the pages.

• Text and artwork are full of understated humour.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9780645069600 RRP (AUD): $25.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book

• Interactive format features dinosaurs with distinctive bone structures.

• Introduces readers to vertebrates and ties into STEM learning.

• Unique cut-paper artwork has made the author popular worldwide.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2022 ISBN: 9781922610409 RRP (AUD): $25.99 FORMAT: HB, 40pp RIGHTS: World ex NA CATEGORY: Picture Book

• A companion to CBCA Shortlisted Picture Book of the Year Norton and the Bear.

• For fans of Gus Gordon, Jon Klassen, Jory John and Mac Barnett.

• A humorous approach to handling the sensitive topics of conformity, individuality and belonging.

• Empowers readers to stand up for themselves.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9780645069655 RRP (AUD): $25.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex Simplified Chinese CATEGORY: Picture Book

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BIG SKY PUBLISHING

www.bigskypublishing.com.au | Emily Randle | emily@randleeditorial.co.uk

Big Sky Publishing is an Australian publisher proudly focussing on and supporting new and emerging talent. With an array of award-winning authors and illustrators, Big Sky’s mission is to entertain readers with something fresh and different. We have a strong adult non-fiction and children’s lists and a successful new historical and contemporary adult fiction list.

BRIMSTONE

A MANTRA 6 THRILLER Russel Hutchings

THE MADNESS LOCKER Eddie Russel

• Being developed into a major feature film script.

In the early hours of Christmas morning the body of an elderly widow is discovered inside a wheelie bin in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. There are no clues and no suspects and the police eventually file the crime as a cold case. Four decades earlier, two young girls living under the tyranny of the Nazi regime experience two fates: one escapes to freedom and the other is incarcerated in a concentration camp. Forty years later their paths will cross again.

• A new series by debut author and an ex SAS Officer.

• True-crime inspired debut novel from an exciting new voice in thriller fiction.

• ‘As real as it gets’ — Chris Ryan.

• Inspired by a true crime.

• ‘One of the most gripping and authentic reads in recent years’ — Director of Specialised Tactical Training Unit in the US.

• ‘Gripping and powerful’ — John Lescroart.

How far would you go to protect your country?

John Devereaux, an SAS Warrant Officer, is handed an operationally deniable mission that will test him to his very core. He must infiltrate Cambodia via parachute in the dead of night and assassinate two high-value targets, alone, with two dozen enemy soldiers in his way.

RELEASE DATE: 12/2021 ISBN: 9781922488985 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 350pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Thriller, Espionage

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• ‘Exceptional’ — Tom Keneally.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781922488756 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 266pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Thriller

THE OVERTHINKERS Lisa Portolan and Ben Cheong Four people, figuring out sex, love, and how to ‘adult.’

Sydney — one of those places that just consumes you. A private school boy, a tortured drug dealer, a starving artist and a gay outcast try to do their best as they navigate through the unspoken rules which govern the fast paced, status-obsessed harbour city.

• ‘I laughed. I cried. Sometimes at the same time!’ — Tim Ferguson.

• For fans of Twenties and Fleabag TV shows.

• A truly accurate depiction of millennial dating, with a diverse cast of characters.

ENTOMBED Tony Matthews Six German soldiers accidentally buried alive in a vast subterranean bunker in Poland, 1945. At first they believe they will be rescued, but as weeks stretch into years, it becomes appalling clear that the men will almost certainly face a terrifying death in the darkness.

Unless, the captain’s wife can discover what happened …

• Written by a prolific military historian.

• To be released to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the men in 1951.

• A remarkable true story of survival unmatched by any other in modern history.

• Film and television interest prior to release.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781922488176 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 294pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Contemporary

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781922488572 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 320pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Historical

LOVE AND RETRIBUTION Catherine McCullagh In the midst of a devastating war, a young widow finds two men washed up on the beach below her house on a Cornish cliff, a discovery that will eventually draw her across the continent to the British war crimes trials and plunge her into the dark world of post-war retribution. This is a page-turning wartime story of impossible romance in the most desperate of times, about balancing loyalty to your family and country against the desire to love and be loved.

• Setting spans the picturesque Cornish coast, to a U-boat base in France, to Germany.

• Catherine’s acute attention to detail shines through creating a story that is both enthralling and historically accurate.

RELEASE DATE: 01/2022 ISBN: 9781922488770 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 400pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Historical

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BLACK INC. www.blackincbooks.com.au | Erin Sandiford | erin@blackincbooks.com

An imprint of Schwartz Books, Black Inc. publishes a range of fiction and non-fiction titles. We are passionate about diversity, inclusivity, social justice, new ideas and writing which informs, entertains and inspires. We are fiercely independent, but also strongly commercial. Our list is sold and distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Penguin Random House.

THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF INDIA

THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF THE WORLD

John Zubrzycki

David Baker

Every reader will be grateful for this entertaining yet authoritative distillation, in which acclaimed popular historian and bestselling author, John Zubrzycki, traces India from its beginnings through to its current challenges.

The next instalment in the internationally best-selling Shortest History series (500,000+ copies sold), this is Big History at its best — history that blends science and historical events to shed new light on how humankind has developed — seen in the broadest context.

• A distilled history of India’s early origins and civilisations, to its kingdoms, colonial rule under the British, independence, right through to the present day.

• Answers the questions: What does India look like under Modi? How does it fit in as a geopolitical player? What are the impacts of COVID-19?

• From best-selling author of Empire of Enchantment.

RELEASE DATE: 05/2022 ISBN: 9781760641788 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: PB, 288pp RIGHTS: World ex Film/ TV CATEGORY: History

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• Promises to cover The Big Bang, the Earth and origin of life, the dawn of agriculture, the Anthropocene, the near and deep future, plus much more.

• David Baker wrote the script for the series Crash Course Big History, which has been viewed over three million times, and some of the coursework for the ‘Big History Project’ by the Gates Foundation.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2022 ISBN: 9781760643614 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: PB, 224pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: History

KOALA

A LIFE IN TREES Danielle Clode Koalas are so much more than just a sweet face on a postcard. This book explores their history, evolution, biology, ecology, their interactions with humans and other predators, where they have come from and what their future holds.

• From award-winning natural history author and documentary filmmaker, Danielle Clode, and for readers of Helen Macdonald, Robert McFarlane, Tim Flannery, Peter Wohlleben.

• Full of groundbreaking scientific revelations and brilliant storytelling. For example, did you know there used to be a giant koala that also lived in trees and was three times the size of the modern koala?

RELEASE DATE: 08/2022 ISBN: 9781760642884 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 288pp RIGHTS: World ex Film/TV CATEGORY: Natural World

SUNDRESSED

NATURAL FIBRES AND DRESSING CONSCIOUSLY IN A WORLD ON FIRE

THE CHILD OF OUR BRAINS

AI AND THE QUEST TO BUILD MORAL MACHINES

Lucianne Tonti

Toby Walsh

Written by a young designer from inside the industry, Lucianne Tonti, this is an energising debut that will inspire a love of natural, sustainable fabrics and beautiful garments. It’s time for a kinder type of fashion.

Toby Walsh, one of the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence researchers, provides a thought-provoking analysis of the increasing human reliance on robotics and what that might mean in the future, not only for humanity, but also for the planet.

• Combines the urgency of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s love of nature in Braiding Sweetgrass, with a dash of ‘the Michael Pollan of fashion’ Elizabeth Cline’s The Conscious Closet.

• Winner of the prestigious Humboldt research award, Toby Walsh’s previous two books on AI have sold to 15 territories around the world.

• Features case studies with a range of highprofile community and thought leaders who are revolutionising the debate on sustainability.

• Explores the ethical considerations and unexpected consequences AI poses: Can we build machines that behave ethically? What happens if an autonomous AI kills someone? Is Alexa racist?

Plus much more.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2022 ISBN: 9781760643164 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 288pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fashion

RELEASE DATE: 05/2022 ISBN: 9781760643423 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB, 336pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Technology

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BLUE ANGEL PUBLISHING

www.blueangelonline.com | Tanya Graham | tanya@blueangelonline.com

Blue Angel is a leading publisher of Mind, Body, Spirit titles. Our publications have been illuminating hearts and minds since 1997. Blue Angel has become one of the main publishers of oracle card decks in the world, renowned for crafting beautiful products that bring soulful messages and healing to the world.

THE ESOTERIC BUDDHISM OF JAPAN Yuzui Kotaki and Miki Okuda

Develop a meaningful connection with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Wisdom Kings, and other traditional messengers of Esoteric Buddhism with this uniquely crafted oracle set featuring 44 forms of the Buddha to open your awareness to your true wisdom.

• 44 forms of the Buddha beautifully rendered by artist Miki Okuda.

• Guidebook featuring mandalas, mantras, messages, and blessings to grow your understanding, deepen your compassion, and help you access profound and beneficial insight.

CIRCLES OF HEALING Alana Fairchild and Beth Wilson The 44 circular affirmation cards of this gorgeously crafted deck combine phrase, colour, symbolism and geometry to speak directly to your higher consciousness.

Breathe, shuffle and affirm yourself into energetic renewal.

• Round cards with affirmations inscribed around the outer edges.

• Spiral into healing, play with vibrant mandalas and vitalising language to activate enlightenment, healing, prosperity, protection and blessings.

• Create new soul patterning as you cycle into spiritual radiance and soul empowerment.

• Work with mudra, mantra, and mandala for mindfulness, meditation, and potent revelation.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781922573100 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FORMAT: Cards, 44 cards + 116pp guidebook RIGHTS: World ex Japanese, English CATEGORY: Mind, Body, Spirit

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RELEASE DATE: 03/2021 ISBN: 9780648746867 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FORMAT: Cards, 44 cards + 16pp booklet RIGHTS: World ex French, Dutch, English CATEGORY: Mind, Body, Spirit

SEEKER ORACLE Ravynne Phelan Seeker Oracle is for the inquisitive, the questioning, and those ready not just for greener pastures but for forsaken forests, overlooked woodlands and technicoloured timberland.

A seeker suspects there is something more … in the quiet of sunrise, the song of night and the overlapping folds of our present, our beyond, and our world. They are curious, not just for who they are, but for who they can become. The seeker finds wisdom in the wonderful, possibility in the peculiar and treasure in the strange and the mundane.

• Seek and discover yourself through the marvel, majesty and magic of Ravynne Phelan, bestselling creator of Dreams of Gaia Tarot and Messenger Oracle.

• 55 fantastical companions will walk with you, share their insight and nudge you further along your exquisite journey of discovery.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781922573124 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FORMAT: Cards, 55 cards + 136pp guidebook RIGHTS: World ex French, English CATEGORY: Mind, Body, Spirit

GREAT EASTERN ORACLE Rassouli Enliven your greater truth, open secret doors, and wander into beauty, inspiration, and spiritual enrichment as you journey into the hearts and wisdom of Confucius, Gurdjieff, Rumi, Gibran, and more, through the brilliance, and artistry of Rassouli.

• A potent combination of visual and textual cues, each card holds a thousand interpretations and unlocks even more possibilities.

• Offers gentle yet powerful concepts of the great sages of the East for contemplation, guidance, divination, and illumination.

• Go beyond the rational to a place where potential evolves and your passions, values, and loves are at the centre of your unfolding narrative.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781922573193 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FORMAT: Cards, 44 cards + 176pp guidebooks RIGHTS: World ex French, English CATEGORY: Mind, Body, Spirit

MANDALA HEALING ORACLE

JOURNEY TO YOUR HEART Denise Jarvie and Lindy Longhurst As you explore these beautiful mandalas from the outside in, you will delve into the hidden hues, rich imagery and glorious metaphor of your subconscious, your higher self, and your innate potential.

• Follow your breath on a colour-filled journey into healing, magic and inspiration and awaken the strength, peace and vibrant creativity at your core.

• Features 44 circular cards.

• Includes meditations, colour guide, unique card layouts, healing reflections and journal prompts.

• Enhance intuition, selfunderstanding, and enjoy your daily adventure in the beautiful world where we live.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781922573094 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FORMAT: Cards, 44 cards + 140pp guidebook RIGHTS: World ex French, English CATEGORY: Mind, Body, Spirit

Blue Angel Publishing • 15

CHRISTMAS PRESS www.christmaspresspicturebooks.com Mary Hare, ALC Agency | mary@alcagency.com

Christmas Press started in 2013 by publishing beautiful picture books for children, featuring traditional tales — folk tales, fairy tales, legends, myths — retold by well-known authors and stunningly illustrated in classic styles that reflect the cultures the stories come from. Later, we branched into anthologies and fiction for children, as well as reprints of classic plays and poetry. Original children’s fiction, from chapter books to middle-grade novels, is now our main focus.

FIL AND HARRY

FOUR ON THE RUN

Jenny Blackford and Kristin Devine

Sophie Masson and Cheryl Orsini

Fil always suspected that her cat Harry could talk if he really tried. But it was still a shock when he did start, on the worst afternoon of her life.

And Harry was the only one in the family who knew the way out of the tangle ...

• Accessible, lively, fresh junior fiction.

• Award-winning author and illustrator team.

Four friends — who just happen to have wheels. A plan to make a run for it. What could possibly go wrong?

• Fresh, original concept with appeal to both boys and girls.

• First in a planned series: sequel coming out in 2021.

• Acclaimed author and illustrator.

• Excellent reviews.

RELEASE DATE: 05/2021 ISBN: 9780648815402 RRP (AUD): $15.99 FORMAT: PB, 160pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Junior Fiction

16 • Christmas Press

RELEASE DATE: 09/2020 ISBN: 9780648194576 RRP (AUD): $13.99 FORMAT: PB, 72pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Chapter Book, Junior Fiction

THE BOY WHO COULD FLY AND OTHER MAGICAL PLAYS FOR CHILDREN Ursula Dubosarsky and Amy Golbach Eleven fabulous plays for children based on stories from Greek and Roman myth, by multi-award-winning author Ursula Dubosarsky, with lively illustrations by new illustrator Amy Golbach.

• Unique collection of plays, popular with children and schools.

• Written by the Australian Children’s Laureate.

• Accessible and engaging retelling of myths.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2019 ISBN: 9780994528094 RRP (AUD): $15.99 FORMAT: PB, 200pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Junior Drama, Junior Fiction

CHARLIE CHAPLIN: THE USUAL SUSPECT Phoebe McArthur Charlotte Chaplin, known as Charlie, is a cool city girl whose best friend is the Prime Minister’s daughter.

She has a perfect life — until her mother drags her off to a sleepy country town in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do. Until the jewel robbery … A fun, fast-paced mystery.

• A fast-paced contemporary mystery, in the tradition of Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden.

• Unique country town setting.

THE PHANTASMIC DETECTIVE AGENCY Julian Leatherdale and David Allan For teenagers Leo and Lily, the arrival of their detective uncle, Alfred, marks the start of a series of adventures that sees them confronting murderous spies and strange creatures. Set in London and Paris in 1911, this fabulous historical fantasy will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

• A unique blend of alternative history, steampunk adventure and original fantasy.

• First middle-grade novel by an author whose first book, chapter book Lucy Newton, Little Witch (also published

by Christmas Press), was shortlisted for a major award.

• Illustrated with elegant line drawings.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9780648815440 RRP (AUD): $17.99 FORMAT: PB, 250pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Middle-grade Fiction

RELEASE DATE: 05/2021 ISBN: 9780648194538 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: PB, 300pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Middle-grade Fiction

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CSIRO PUBLISHING www.publish.csiro.au | Claire Nance | claire.nance@csiro.au

CSIRO Publishing is an editorially independent science publisher within the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Our internationally recognised program covers a wide range of disciplines, including agriculture, plant and animal sciences, chemistry, health and the environment. Our product range includes journals, books and magazines, in digital and print formats, as well as Double Helix, a science magazine for kids aged 8–13.

COVER NOT FINAL

WILDLAND FIRE BEHAVIOUR Jason M Forthofer, Torben P Grumstrup and Sara S McAllister

POO, SPEW AND OTHER GROSS THINGS ANIMALS DO! Romane Cristescu and Nicole Gill

A detailed introduction to what is known and unknown about wildfire spread. It approaches wildland fire behaviour as the product of a dynamical system and summarises methods for studying fire behaviours at laboratory and field-scales.

This book will show you how being gross isn’t just hilarious — it can be an important survival strategy for animals all over the world. Take a deep breath, and dive deep into the world of poo, spew and other gross things animals do to make a living.

• Approaches wildland fire behaviour as the product of a dynamical system rather than as a steady-state property of fuels, topography and weather.

• Shows how gross, but fascinating, behaviours can be essential for animals to live.

• Introduces and applies the physical principles of heat transfer, combustion and ignition to the wildland fire context.

• Explores dynamical fire behaviours using a simplified model of wildfire spread.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781486309085 RRP (AUD): $140.00 FORMAT: PB, 376pp RIGHTS: World ex Australia and New Zealand CATEGORY: Non-fiction Reference, Geography and the Environment

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• Highlights some of the weird and not wellknown things scientists get up to.

• Packed with fabulous illustrations.

• Includes interviews with real scientists about cool and gross science.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2022 ISBN: 9781486314867 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 112pp RIGHTS: World ex Australia and New Zealand CATEGORY: Children’s Book, Non-fiction Reference

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A SHOREBIRD FLYING ADVENTURE Amellia Formby and Jackie Kerin Climb aboard with Microlight Milly for a birdwatching adventure around Australia and across the East Asian Australasian Flyway, raising awareness of migratory shorebirds.

Learn fun facts and how to tell one species from another!

• True story of an amazing adventurer and her quest to raise the profile of endangered shorebirds.

• Understand how migratory shorebirds connect us all through land, sea and sky.

• Recognise the importance of healthy ecosystems for the well-being of humans and birds.

• Learn how to identify the common migratory shorebird species that visit Australia.

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

GLOBAL IMPACTS, CHALLENGES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF PEST MANAGEMENT Peter Mason Provides an historical summary of organisms and main strategies used in biological control, as well as the key challenges confronting biological control in the 21st century.

An invaluable resource for conservation specialists, pest management practitioners and those who research invasive species, as well as students studying pest management science.

• Contributions from dedicated scientists and practitioners from around the world.

• Highlights important successes, failures and challenges in biological control efforts from around the world.

• Provides suggestions to move practices forward in a changing world.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2022 ISBN: 9781486314492 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex Australia and New Zealand CATEGORY: Children’s Book, Picture Book

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781486309344 RRP (AUD): $220.00 FORMAT: HB, 644pp RIGHTS: All languages ex English CATEGORY: Academic and Professional

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EXISLE PUBLISHING www.exislepublishing.com | Lucy Wawrzyniak | lucy@exislepublishing.com

Exisle Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of non-fiction, covering a broad range of subject areas, including self-help, health, psychology, mindfulness, nature, biography, history and many more. Our children’s imprint EK Books publishes ‘Books with Heart on Issues that Matter’ crafted by authors and illustrators whose backgrounds include teaching and psychology

THE HAPPINESS TRAP 2ND EDITION

STOP STRUGGLING, START LIVING Dr Russ Harris This million-copy bestseller has been extensively rewritten. Free yourself from depression and anxiety, and instead build a rich and meaningful life, with the world’s bestselling guide to escaping the ‘happiness trap.’

• The million-copy best-selling book, updated and expanded in its second edition, featuring new tools, techniques, exercises and research.

• New topics include how to break bad habits, push through procrastination, disrupt worrying and obsessing, deal with difficult dilemmas, and overcome perfectionism.

RELEASE DATE: 12/2021 ISBN: 9781922539199 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB, 320pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK, Italian, German, Dutch, Croatian, Japanese, Russia, Sweden, Turkey CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Psychology, ACT, Self-Help

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THE REALITY SLAP 2ND EDITION

HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE WHEN LIFE HITS HARD Dr Russ Harris We all have tough times in life, and here’s the manual to help. This fully updated edition of The Reality Slap contains a new expertise on coping effectively when life hurts, from serious illness to divorce; loneliness to the stress of a pandemic.

• Fully updated and rewritten edition of the highly successful The Reality Slap by bestselling author Dr Russ Harris, an expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

• Contains lots of mindfulness exercises, compassionate writing, and all the benefits of Dr Harris’ passion and practical living expertise.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2020 ISBN: 9781925820911 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB, 248pp RIGHTS: World ex French, Italian, German, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Turkey, US, UK CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Psychology, ACT, Self-Help

THE SCIENCE OF HOPE EYE TO EYE WITH OUR WORLD’S WILDLIFE

Dr Wiebke Finkler and Scott Davis A breathtaking visual journey that explores the science behind why certain animal species capture public attention. But why these creatures instead of other equally endangered animals?

The answer lies in their cuteness or charisma!

• Illustrated with images by one of the world’s leading wildlife photographers.

• Informs as it educates, describing the psychology and science behind our desire to connect with certain animals.

• Shares a hopeful message about how we can achieve sustainable human–wildlife interactions and highlights positive conservation efforts around the world.

YOUR ANXIETY BEAST AND YOU A COMPASSIONATE GUIDE TO LIVING IN AN INCREASINGLY ANXIOUS WORLD

Eric Goodman PhD and Louise Gardner Your Anxiety Beast and You is a more compassionate approach for people suffering from anxiety. Don’t live with an enemy inside your mind, see anxiety for what it really is — an inner hero. Train your anxiety through methods based on CBT and ACT with humour and compassion.

• Dr Goodman’s innovative approach combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with newer mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches (such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)) to form ‘CBT 2.0’.

• Readable, humorous at points, and devoid of extraneous scientific jargon.

TREE BEINGS Raymond Huber and Sandra Severgnini With a foreword by the worldrenowned anthropologist Jane Goodall, Tree Beings is an adventure through the secret world of trees. Learn about the science behind trees and read about some amazing people: a young woman who lived up a giant tree; a nine-year-old boy who found a way to plant a trillion trees ... and more!

• Brings a hopeful approach to the subject of climate change, with a unique combination of fact and feeling that will encourage kids to fall in love with the natural world and act to protect it.

• World-renowned conservationist Jane Goodall endorses the book and has written a foreword.

• Includes inspiring stories of famous people who love trees.

• Workbook format.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781925820645 RRP (AUD): $45.00 FORMAT: HB, 160pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Conservation, Gift, Natural History, Photography

RELEASE DATE: 04/2020 ISBN: 9781925820331 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 216pp RIGHTS: World ex Romania CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Psychology, CBT, ACT, Self-Help, Mindfulness

RELEASE DATE: 10/2020 ISBN: 9781925820539 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: HB, 96pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK CATEGORY: Children’s Non-fiction, Picture Book, Nature, Conservation, Ecology, Environment

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FIVE MILE www.fivemile.com.au Jessica Smith | fivemilesales@regencymedia.com.au

Five Mile is a boutique quality commercial publishing house, publishing up to 120 titles a year. We specialise in Picture Books, Board Books, Novelty, Activity Books, Fiction and Non-fiction. We publish our own home-grown program, in addition to licensing.

PETE CROMER: KOALA PUZZLE Pete Cromer For the first time Pete’s stunning artwork has been transformed into puzzles every art lover, animal fanatic and family needs in their life. Piece together your own beautiful Pete Cromer animal portrait, with this quality 500-piece koala puzzle.

• Pete Cromer is a beloved Australian artist, with over 96k followers on Instagram and a homewares collection with Maxwell & Williams.

• Pete’s first book, Australia, is the enduring best-selling Children’s Non-fiction title in Australia.

• The Pete Cromer range is expanding with a kookaburra puzzle, a wrap pack and his third picture book, Bushlife.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781922514387 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: Puzzle, 1 RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Puzzles

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HUMAN KIND: GRATITUDE Zanni Louise and Missy Turner Gratitude is noticing what you have, rather than focussing on what you don’t have.

Gratitude is saying thankyou. Being grateful for who you are and what you can do helps us learn. It inspires you to do things that make the world a better place.

• Goes beyond EI (emotional intelligence) to explore VI (values intelligence).

• Encourages a ‘more than me’ view of the world, celebrating community values as the binding agent of relationships.

• Each book includes supporting notes for parents and carers.

• Other titles in the series: Courage, Kindness, Honesty, Resilience, Persistence, Self-Belief.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781922514455 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book

WIZARD & CO Mitchell Toy Ride the magic elevator to find something special at the enchanted department store Wizard & Co. Every floor is filled with spectacular temptations. But the greatest magic of all might not be what you find on the shelves … so expect the unexpected.

• Mitchell Toy’s signature intricate artwork delights readers of all ages. This book takes readers on a magical adventure through an enchanted department store.

• Wizard & Co is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets The Magic Faraway Tree!

• Kids will spend hours poring over every page, discovering details deliberately hidden within the artwork.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781922514486 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book

COURAGEOUS QUEENS Angela Buckingham and Debora Islas These queen stories are not fairytales for small children.

They are true tales from around the world and across history that have been lost.

These stories tell of real courageous women who would prove themselves pioneers, problem-solvers, inventors and incredible leaders.

• A collection of stories about the realities of women holding and wielding power throughout history, from all corners of the globe.

• This book shows what life was like for these women and the magnitude of the challenges they faced. This is a collection of tales that allow for emotional exploration, character identification and imagination.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781922514493 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: HB, 96pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Children’s Non-fiction

SEARCH AND FIND: ANIMAL KINGDOM Laura Blythman Can you find the narwhal with a rainbow horn? Or the llamas wearing socks? How about the big teddy bear picnic? Have hours of fun finding the quirky animals in this fantastic search-andfind book featuring the work of Australian artist Laura Blythman.

• Featuring a variety of animals, like pandas, dinosaurs, narwhals, seahorses, llamas and sloths.

• Each spread includes several things children need to find, hidden in the artwork.

• Laura Blythman is a renowned paper collage artist with over 65k followers on social media.

• Kids will love the bright colours, playful aesthetic and happy design style.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781922514523 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: HB, 24pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Activity Book

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FREMANTLE PRESS www.fremantlepress.com.au | Jane Fraser | jfraser@fremantlepress.com.au

An independent publishing company based in Western Australia, for over 40 years Fremantle Press has published books by new and established writers across a range of genres including fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s literature. Our books have won national and international awards and have been published in territories around the world.

THE NIGHT VILLAGE

CROCODILE TEARS

Zoe Deleuil

Alan Carter

When Simone moves to London to start a career, having a baby is not on her agenda.

Now a new mum fighting sleep deprivation and a rising sense of unease, Simone begins to question the motives of a house guest who overstays her welcome. This is a riveting thriller set against the blurred backdrop of new motherhood.

Detective Philip ‘Cato’ Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in a suburban home. The trail leads to TimorLeste, with its recent blood-soaked history.

There, Cato reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato’s experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain.

• The book was shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award.

• The book is garnering excellent reviews for its frenetic pace and the tension that makes it impossible to put down.

• Deleuil is an Australian journalist based in Berlin, Germany.

• Multi-award-winning, international (France, UK, USA) crime writer whose books have been optioned by Endemol Shine for film and television.

• Final book in the award-winning Cato Kwong series (a Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction and shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award).

• A politically astute action thriller that’s part police procedural, part espionage.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781925815634 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 248pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Crime and Mystery

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RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781925816570 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 336pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Crime and Mystery

THE LAST BOOKSHOP Emma Young After a tough decade for retail, Cait’s bookshop is the last in the CBD. Profits are small, but clients are loyal.

When James breezes in, Cait realises life might hold more than her shop and her cat, but while the new romance distracts her, luxury chain stores are circling, and a more personal tragedy is looming.

• The Last Bookshop was shortlisted for the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award.

• The book, in its third print run in Australia, has been widely and positively reviewed.

• Emma Young has a background as a bookseller, and has worked as an award-winning journalist since 2011, winning six Media Awards.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2021 ISBN: 9781925816303 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 256pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

A YEAR OF LOVING KINDNESS TO MYSELF Brigid Lowry An uplifting book of contemplative, wry essays about living thoughtfully and with care amidst life’s challenges. Informed by contemporary psychology and Buddhist philosophy, Brigid’s essays offer reflections on everything from friendship to grief, and from gratitude to self-care.

• Chosen by Apple Books USA as its best book in April and one of its best books of 2021.

• The book has been well reviewed in Australia, described as profound, generous, insightful and full of beauty.

• The perfect antidote to negativity at a time when the world needs all the joy and wonder it can get.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2021 ISBN: 9781925816327 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: HB, 144pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Essays, Self-help

STELLARPHANT James Foley Heroes come in all shapes, sizes and species. Stella wants to be an astronaut.

There is only one problem: Stella is an elephant. Every time she applies to Space Command, they come up with a new reason why she can’t join. But Stella is determined to reach for the stars. Does she have the right stuff?

• Space exploration is back in the news and the book’s key themes are timely: science, invention and inclusivity.

• Multi-award-winning author who is listed on the International Youth Library’s White Ravens List and has won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award and the WAYRBA Hoffman Award.

• Stellarphant will be published by Kane Miller in the USA in 2022.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781760990732 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 40pp RIGHTS: World ex USA CATEGORY: Picture Book

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GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING

www.giramondopublishing.com Alexandra Christie | rights@giramondopublishing.com

Giramondo is an independent literary publisher of award-winning poetry, fiction and non-fiction, renowned for the quality of its writing, editing and book design. Giramondo was established in 1995 to publish innovative and adventurous literary work, and our titles have since won or been shortlisted for all the major Australian literary prizes.

COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW Jessica Au

LAST LETTER TO A READER

In Cold Enough for Snow, a daughter and mother travel to Tokyo in autumn. Jessica Au’s novel is at once a careful reckoning and an elegy, that questions whether any of us speak a common language, and what right we have to know another’s inner world.

The final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett’.

• Inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, selected from more than 1,500 entries.

• To be published simultaneously by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA).

• Translation rights sold in fourteen territories.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9781925818925 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 108pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK, Chinese (Simpliefied, Complex), Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, Netherlands, Croatia, Serbia, Romania CATEGORY: Fiction

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Gerald Murnane

• The final work by one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers, praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ben Lerner and Teju Cole, among others.

• Will appeal to Murnane’s legion of fans, and to those new to his work, attracted by his reputation as a truly original Australian writer.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781925818840 RRP (AUD): $26.95 FORMAT: PB, 140pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Essays

THE DANCER

A BIOGRAPHY FOR PHILIPPA CULLEN Evelyn Juers The new book by prizewinning biographer Evelyn Juers, author of House of Exile and The Recluse, portrays the life of a pioneering Australian dancer who died at the age of twenty-five in a remote town in India.

• New book from acclaimed biographer Evelyn Juers, whose book House of Exile was published internationally and won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction.

• Philippa Cullen was a uniquely talented dancer and choreographer, who was at the forefront of international electronic performance and music, and whose work is now being re-discovered.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781925818727 RRP (AUD): $39.95 FORMAT: PB, 592pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Biography

THE MAGPIE WING Max Easton Max Easton’s debut novel moves from the 90s to the present, between the suburbs and the inner city, exploring how communities that appear worlds apart — underground music scenes, rugby league clubs, communist splinter groups — share unexpected roots.

• Debut novel exploring how young characters from the suburbs discover new identities in the cultural world of the city.

• ‘A 2000s coming-of-age novel for a certain kind of Sydney: a book about fleeing the nest in search of oneself only to find that you’ve abandoned it — then wanting it back.’ — Shaun Prescott.

NO DOCUMENT Anwen Crawford A groundbreaking work by one of Australia’s most respected non-fiction writers, No Document is an elegy for a friendship and artistic partnership cut short by death. Anwen Crawford’s book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artworks, effaced histories, abandoned futures.

• Widely praised as ‘a masterpiece’, ‘a stunningly crafted testament to the enduring power of art and literature’, and ‘a farranging work of mourning and a profoundly moving act of remembrance’.

• Crawford is one of Australia’s most politically engaged and formally innovative writers of nonfiction.

• Publication forthcoming from Transit Books in the US.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781925818765 RRP (AUD): $26.95 FORMAT: PB, 256pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

RELEASE DATE: 04/2021 ISBN: 9781925818611 RRP (AUD): $26.95 FORMAT: PB, 160pp RIGHTS: World ex US CATEGORY: Non-fiction

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HACHETTE AUSTRALIA

www.hachette.com.au | Emma Dorph | emma.dorph@hachette.com.au

Hachette Australia is a team of expert publishers and passionate readers dedicated to discovering talented writers and working with them to craft exceptional stories. We select the very best, whatever the genre — from high-quality commercial fiction to literary award-winners, children’s picture books to memoirs and history, lifestyle and sport.

DINNER WITH THE SCHNABELS

THE VERY LAST LIST OF VIVIAN WALKER

Toni Jordan

Megan Albany

Since his business failed and he lost the family home, Simon is permanently unemployed and unshaven. When he agrees to landscape a friend’s backyard for a family event, he is derailed by the arrival of an unexpected guest and the discovery that his wife is harbouring a secret.

After a terminal diagnosis, self-professed control freak Viv makes a list of essential things to do, such as declutter the playroom and prepare her taxes. She doesn’t expect to become spiritually enlightened. She just wants to finish her unfinished business.

• Chaotic and joyful — as heart-warming as it is outrageously funny.

• ‘A wonderful, witty treat of a novel’ — Liane Moriarty.

• Jordan’s Addition was an international bestseller (17 territories) and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award; Nine Days won an Indie Award for Best Fiction and named in Kirkus’ Top 10 Historical Novels of 2013.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9780733645129 RRP (AUD): $37.99 FORMAT: PB (C Format, B Format), eBook, Audiobook, 400pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

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• Will make you ugly cry, snort with laughter and embrace humanity’s awkward beauty.

• This tragicomedy is inspired by the author’s dying friend whom she nursed, who taught her that dying can allow you to become a bigger, more fabulous and funny version of yourself.

• For fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Brooke Davis’ Lost and & Found.

RELEASE DATE: 01/2022 ISBN: 9780733646959 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB (C Format), eBook, 288pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

THE FURIES Mandy Beaumont When her mother is taken away by police one night, and her father subsequently disappears, sixteen-year-old Cynthia is left alone. A brutal, unflinching feminist tale of a young working-class woman and the strength and power of women.

• Debut explores deep isolation felt by many women, and how powerful we can be when we join together.

• Blazes forth from the terrain of Charlotte Wood, Margaret Atwood and Carmen Maria Machado.

• Beaumont’s short story collection: shortlisted for the Richell Prize and the UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award; won the MOTH International Short Story Award.

RELEASE DATE: 01/2022 ISBN: 9780733643071 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB (C Format), eBook, 272pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Literary Fiction

HOW DECENT FOLK BEHAVE Maxine Beneba Clarke ‘we are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you’re gasping for air’ A timely collection of timely topics, these poems speak of the world that is, and sing for a world that may one day be.

• This is a vibrant, thoughtprovoking collection from award-winning author.

• Maxine has been twice shortlisted for the Stella Prize, is a winner of ABIA, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, NSW Premier’s Literary Multicultural NSW Award, and Indie Awards.

WAKE Shelley Burr Mina grew up in the shadow of her twin’s disappearance — the impossible case of a rural girl who vanished in the middle of the night. When PI Lane Holland takes it on himself to reopen the case, Mina is sceptical. But what Lane uncovers will threaten not only the investigation but his and Mina’s lives.

• Acquired with Hodder & Stoughton UK at a hotlycontested auction. US rights have since been sold to William Morrow in a sixfigure pre-empt.

• Winner of the 2019 CWA Debut Dagger Award, shortlisted for Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Bath Novel Award.

• ‘One of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade’, — Overland, literary journal.

• A thrilling ride led by unreliable narrators and startling twists, for readers of Gillian Flynn and Jane Harper.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9780733647666 RRP (AUD): $26.99 FORMAT: PB (B Format), eBook, 192pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Poetry

RELEASE DATE: 06/2022 ISBN: 9780733647826 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB (C Format), 384pp RIGHTS: Translation, Film/TV CATEGORY: Crime and Thriller

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HARDIE GRANT CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING www.hardiegrant.com/au/hardie-grant-childrens-publishing Joanna Anderson | joannaanderson@hardiegrant.com

Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing is Australia’s largest independent children’s publisher, and the home of innovative, inclusive and entertaining books from tots to teens. With modern families and children at the core of everything we do, we have built our success on stories of kindness, diversity, resilience and courage.

MINTY MAE GRAY AND THE STRANGELY GOOD DAY Fifi Box and Freda Chiu An empowering story about self-confidence, and a unique introduction to some of the world’s greatest artworks and artists.

Children follow Minty Mae Gray as she goes on an adventure through art history and discovers the power of finding beauty from within.

• A bright, funny celebration of self-love, this picture book challenges negative self-talk and shows that beauty is all about perception — and that YOUR perception is the most important one of all.

MARKET DAY Carrie Gallasch and Hannah Sommerville When a girl is given a coin to spend at the market, she thinks carefully about how to use it. As her family revels in the wondrous atmosphere at the market, the girl sees lots of things she likes. But ultimately she finds a special way to use her coin.

• A story brimming with joy, generosity and magic from two of Australia’s beloved picture book creators.

• Explores themes of community and family, with soft, diverse illustrations.

• Gentle education value with a very first introduction to famous works of art.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781760508722 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex UK CATEGORY: Picture Book

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RELEASE DATE: 01/2022 ISBN: 9781760504076 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book

COVER NOT FINAL

GUSTAV AND HENRI VOLUME #1

BARKLY MANSION AND THE WEIRDEST GUEST

Andy Matthews and Peader Thomas

Melissa Keil and Adele K. Thomas

Opposites attract in this hilarious illustrated junior fiction series about best friends Gustav and Henri. Gustav is a goofy and naively enthusiastic pig, while Henri is a quietly sceptical dog. Includes two-colour internals, and three stories in one!

• With the visual appeal of Narwhal and Jelly, the irresistible humour of Dogman and the value of Real Pigeons (with three stories in one volume), this is the perfect series for kids who love comics and funny stories.

• Feel-good themes of friendship and loyalty.

• Meets the demand for graphic junior novels.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2022 ISBN: 9781760507909 RRP (AUD): $14.99 FORMAT: PB, 112pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Junior Fiction

The goofiest and most adorably funny series about a household of dogs that is turned upside down when a gorilla named Edmund comes to stay. Highly illustrated with a comicstyle narrative, each book contains three adventures to keep kids entertained!

• Warm, wholesome, funny, and silly with a high-energy ensemble cast — much like Sesame Street, Sullivan Street will feel like your very own neighbourhood.

• Packed full of mischief and mayhem, every book will feature three fish-out-of-water episodes about the ongoing hijinks of the loveable canine crew at Barkly Mansion.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781760507978 RRP (AUD): $14.99 FORMAT: PB, 220pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Junior Fiction

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HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS AUSTRALIA www.harpercollins.com.au Elizabeth O’Donnell | elizabeth.odonnell@harpercollins.com.au

HarperCollins Publishers Australia is the second largest trade publishing company in Australia, publishing both adult and children’s books, from multiaward-winning and best-selling authors, both locally and internationally, to cutting edge debut authors across several Harper Fiction and Non-fiction imprints, ABC Books, and Harlequin Australia. We are the proud home to many of Australia’s biggest names in literature, past and present.

THE BOY AND THE ELEPHANT

ELIZA VANDA’S BUTTON BOX

Freya Blackwood

Emily Rodda

The boy lives in the city, where everything is fast and loud. But amidst the bustle and the noise, the boy has a secret … In the overgrown lot next to his apartment, deep within the green, he has a friend. But one day progress arrives, bringing with it plans for something new, and the boy must find a way to save his friend …

Life hasn’t been much fun for Milly Dynes lately. There seem to be problems everywhere she looks. She’s always loved her home in Tidgy Bay, but at the moment she wishes she was somewhere — anywhere — else. Then Eliza Vanda turns up and magic comes with her …

• A moving and magical wordless picture book from seven-time CBCA winner Freya Blackwood.

• From multi-award-winning storyteller Freya Blackwood comes a magical and tender wordless picture book about the world we live in and our ability to change it.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781460759998 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 40pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book

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• A sparkling new fantasy adventure from multi-award-winning and best-selling author Emily Rodda.

• From the author of the award-winning His Name Was Walter comes another magical mystery story that will delight Emily Rodda fans.

RELEASE DATE: 05/2021 ISBN: 9781460759608 RRP (AUD): $22.99 FORMAT: HB, 288pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Middle-grade Fiction, Junior Fiction

HOUSE OF KWA Mimi Kwa Riveting, colourful and often darkly humorous, House of Kwa is an epic family drama spanning four generations, and an unforgettable story about how one woman finds the courage to stand up for her freedom and independence, squaring off against the ghosts of the past and finally putting them to rest.

• Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations.

• ‘Revelatory and remarkable.’

— Trent Dalton.

• ‘Mimi Kwa paints her Chinese heritage and life on the hard-knock streets of Scarborough in rich, kaleidoscopic detail; it is Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club meets Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe. […]

House of Kwa is a rich and riveting read which heralds a new chapter in Kwa’s life as a writer. The spirited tiger, full of life and driven to achieve, has many stories to tell yet.’ — Sue Smethurst, The Australian.

RELEASE DATE: 06/2021 ISBN: 9780733341137 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB, 320pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Biography, Autobiography

THE TRUTH ABOUT HER

THE OTHER SIDE OF BEAUTIFUL

Jacqueline Maley

Kim Lock

A tender, absorbing, intelligent and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger, and, in particular, mothering, with all its trouble and treasure. The Truth About Her, a striking, stylish and contemporary novel, is also about the nature of stories — who owns them, who gets to tell them, and why we need them.

Meet Mercy Blain, whose house has just burnt down.

Unfortunately for Mercy, this goes beyond the disaster it would be for most people: she hasn’t been outside that house for two years now.

After the chance purchase of a cult classic campervan, with the company of her sausage dog, Wasabi, and a mysterious box of cremated remains, Mercy heads north from Adelaide to Darwin.

• For fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler.

• ‘Read the first sentence of Jacqueline Maley’s debut novel, and you will be in it until the end. Electrifying, deeply unsettling and so, so satisfying. And, if you’ve ever tried to manage the sharp end of a career with the blunt demands of parenthood, fiercely recognisable.’ — Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss.

• Jacqueline Maley writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers covering politics, people and social affairs.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2021 ISBN: 9781460759165 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 368pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

• Kim Lock is an internationally published author of four novels. Her writing has also appeared in Kill Your Darlings, The Guardian, Daily Life and The Sydney Morning Herald online.

• Exquisite, tender and wry, Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in this stunning break-out novel where a vulnerable misfit is forced to re-engage with the world, despite her best efforts.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9781867214908 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 400pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

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JOURNEYS TO WORDS PUBLISHING

www.journeystowordspublishing.com Jen Hutchison, Publisher | jen@journeystowordspublishing.com

Releasing its first book in 2019, Journeys to Words Publishing is a small, indie publisher focussed exclusively on the work of mature age writers. Its authors come from Thailand, Kenya, Australia and New Zealand and its books are memoir, fiction and non-fiction.

THE PLACE BETWEEN Suzanne Moore Set in Perth and Sydney, this is an engaging novel bringing historic crime and time travel into contemporary life. Sarah used to know who she was — a doctor, a wife, a mother — but as she prepares for the birth of her second child, she feels set adrift from the life she had planned. When her mother, Beryl, announces she’s coming to Sydney, Sarah has to contend with more than her own insecurities. She hasn’t told Beryl she’s pregnant. She isn’t sure why not. Sarah’s secretive betrayal could be the final blow in her already fragile relationship with her mother.

PANDEMIC STRESS

REFLECTIONS ON THRIVING IN AN ANXIOUS WORLD Dr James Khong

• Intriguing and warming.

This book is a surprise, and inspirational. It’s written by a doctor but it’s not a medical book. In this unpretentious, gracious and humble full-of-learning memoir Dr James Khong shares his experiences of his decades in medicine, and observations about life and health and survival — and his suggestions for maintaining good health through any stressful challenge. As The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F-CK levelled the playing field around happiness, this informative, positive book will help readers manage stress in a world full of anxiety and lurking disease.

• Beautifully crafted.

• Stories from a healthy and mindful life.

• Time travel and suspense.

• Voice of experience.

• Recalibrate your attitude to your stress levels.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2020 ISBN: 9781925902105 (Print), 9781925902112 (e-Book) RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 270pp RIGHTS: World ex English CATEGORY: General Fiction

34 • Journeys to Words Publishing

RELEASE DATE: 07/2020 ISBN: 9781925902129 (Print), 9781925902136 (eBook) RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 224pp RIGHTS: World ex English CATEGORY: Lifestyle, Health and Wellbeing

SHADOW OVER EDMUND STREET Suzanne Frankham Edwina’s death is brutal, a swift and silent killer who leaves no clues. Her murder seems unsolvable until a casual comment sends Inspector Alex Cameron and his seasoned team trawling through the dead woman’s childhood. Raised in a poverty-scarred part of Auckland, New Zealand, Edwina was a battler. Life revolved around the church and her mundane job unpacking vegetables.

Meanwhile, a new generation gentrified her suburb. After winning a gym membership, she lost weight, got a new hairstyle, clothes, job — and made a new friend, Rose.

• ‘A riveting murder mystery packed with trueto life characters. All of the twists and turns of a police procedural and the suspense of a psychological thriller. I couldn’t put it down.’

— Leigh Redhead, award-winning crime writer.

• Investigative crime thriller.

• Contemporary crime from an award- winning writer.

• Witty and suspenseful.

• Love and loss.

NIKOLAI THE PERFECT Jim McIntyre While post-communist Moscow deals with political transition, Vassili is descending into despair at his wife Anna’s chronic infertility.

Given no choice but to follow his father Sergey’s footsteps, he travels to Melbourne to teach Russian at a prestigious university.

Accompanying him is a wrapped parcel to be delivered to a Helen Dalrymple of Mount Evelyn; a task that proves to be anything but straightforward. Miscast and adrift in his new home, Vassili awaits Anna’s arrival. She brings devastating news and it’s not long until old resentments surface.

At an idyllic guesthouse in the Dandenong Hills, the scene is set for a reckoning that will crack the secrets of the parcel Vassili’s father gave him.

• ‘In this assured, ambitious and intelligent debut, the reader is taken into one family’s turmoil in a country caught in its own turbulence. Private and public dramas mirror and often illuminate each other. The thread that unites them into a powerful whole is McIntyre’s original voice.’ — Lee Kofman.

• ‘Striking in its lyrical beauty, and profound in what it has to say about love, family and the vagaries of cultural dislocation ... a truly marvellous novel.’ — Bram Presser.

• Poignant tale of forbearance and patience within a marriage.

• Maturing through political turbulence.

• Moving between cultures.

• Love and loss.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2021 ISBN: 9781925902150 RRP (AUD): $32.50 FORMAT: PB eBook, 280pp RIGHTS: World ex English CATEGORY: Crime Fiction, Mystery and Detective, Police Procedural

RELEASE DATE: 09/2020 ISBN: 9781925902099 RRP (AUD): $32.95 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 255pp RIGHTS: World ex English CATEGORY: General Fiction

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LITTLE PINK DOG BOOKS

www.littlepinkdogbooks.com Lucy Wawrzyniak | lucy@exislepublishing.com

Little Pink Dog Books is an Australian independent publisher based in Armidale, New South Wales, specialising in picture story books for children.

Our areas of focus as a publisher include books on Mental Health, Animal Conservation, Family and Humour.

THE GREAT BARRIER THIEF

MONKEY MIND

Dr Sue Pillans aka Dr Suzie Starfish

REBECCA J PALMER

One day Anthia’s home on the Great Barrier Reef starts getting VERY hot. Soon all the colour starts disappearing! Join Anthia and her sea creature friends as they find the Great Barrier THIEF and bring the colours back to their underwater home.

• An important story drawing attention to the impacts of climate change and coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef.

• A story based on science written and illustrated by a scientist.

• An engaging story for children about a growing global issue.

Piper wants to try lots of new things, but something always stops her — her monkey!

Some monkeys are playful. Some monkeys are fun. Some are even helpful. Not Piper’s monkey. It’s VERY naughty! Everyone else can tame their monkeys. So why can’t Piper?

• Monkey Mind is a narrative picture book for parents, educators & health professionals: it is a starting point to address issues of anxiety for children.

• Learning Resources for Education: Extensive and professionally produced teacher’s notes on visual literacy and mindfulness.

• A fun, visual and interactive story which can be used as a visual learning and teaching resource.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9780648964049 RRP (AUD): $17.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK, Canada, ANZ CATEGORY: Picture Book, Conservation, Environment, Marine Life, Children’s

36 • Little Pink Dog Books

RELEASE DATE: 11/2020 ISBN: 9780648256380 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK, Canada, ANZ CATEGORY: Picture book, Mental Health, Anxiety, Children’s

HECTOR AND HIS HIGHLAND DANCERS

THE CAT THIEF

Anthony Sevil & Amy Calautti

Olive would love to own a pet cat but her plan to steal one doesn’t seem to be working.

Olive has another idea. Will she finally find the cat of her dreams? A humorous picture book for young children up to eight years.

Mr McFowler is an Australian chicken breeder, but failed in showing a champion chicken ... But the discovery of the chickens’ ability to dance leads to success in a very different arena to show judging.

• An uplifting story about finding your talent and helping others to do the same!

• Shows young readers what dancing celebrations look like in different exciting places.

PAT SIMMONS & LIZ DUTHIE

• The perfect adventure for cat lovers.

• Olive is an endearing protagonist who just wants a cat of her own — and makes a few failed attempts to steal other people’s cats.

• Humorous and fun.

CRANKY FRANKIE AND THE OCEANS OF TRASH Dr Sue Pillans aka Dr Suzie Starfish Frankie can’t splash when her home is full of trash, so she gets CRANKY and searches for a way to clean up the oceans. This story draws attention to the growing global issue of marine debris and provides children with messages of science and hope.

• An important story drawing attention to the impacts of marine debris and plastic pollution in our oceans.

• A story based on science written and illustrated by a scientist.

• An entertaining and funny story that will delight both children and adults!

• A fun and engaging and empowering story for children about a growing global ocean issue.

• An interactive story which can be used as a visual learning and teaching resource.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2020 ISBN: 9780648652892 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK, Canada, ANZ CATEGORY: Picture Book, Humour, Children’s

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9780648964018 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: PB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK, Canada, ANZ CATEGORY: Picture Book, Humour, Children’s

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9780648652830 RRP (AUD): $17.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK, Canada, ANZ CATEGORY: Picture Book, Conservation, Environment, Marine Life, Children’s

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MAGABALA BOOKS www.magabala.com | Natasha Solomun | natasha@therightshive.com

Magabala Books is Australia’s leading Indigenous publishing house.

Aboriginal owned and led, we celebrate and nurture the talent and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.

ALBERT NAMATJIRA

THE RIVER

Vincent Namatjira

Sally Morgan and Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr

Award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira tells the life story of his great-grandfather, Albert Namatjira, one of Australia’s most iconic artists. Vincent’s witty and moving paintings and evocative text record the pivotal moments in Albert’s life, capturing his triumphs and tragedy against a backdrop of social change and historical injustices.

• A unique artistically beautiful children’s picture book of historical importance.

• An excellent gift purchase and suitable for both children and art collectors.

• The artwork is part of a body of work called ‘Albert’s Story’ that was acquired by QAGOMA (Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art).

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781925936216 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Children’s Book, Picture Book

38 • Magabala Books

The River takes the reader on a journey of what their eyes can see and their ears can hear. See green ants crawling, hear frogs croaking, a goanna running, a fish splashing ... Sally Morgan’s beautiful words and Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr’s sensitive artwork combine to make this a unique, distinctive children’s picture book with global appeal.

• Sally Morgan is one of Australia’s bestknown Aboriginal artists and writers.

• Her widely acclaimed first book, My Place, has sold over half a million copies and is one of Australia’s most celebrated works.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781922613028 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Children’s Book, Picture Book

SEA COUNTRY Aunty Patsy Cameron and Lisa Kennedy In this delightful children’s picture book, Aunty Patsy Cameron shares the stories and traditions from her family’s seasonal island life in Tasmania. With evocative text and stunning illustrations, Sea Country shows you when to pick ripe wild cherries, when the moon (mutton) birds fly home and how the nautilus shells smell like the deepest oceans.

• Aunty Patsy Cameron, a descendant of the Pairebeenne/Trawlwoolway clan in Tasmania, weaves a cultural homage to life on Flinders Island.

EVERY SECRET THING Marie Munkara Set in the early days of missionary activity in far northern Australia, Every Secret Thing follows the Bush Mob as they try to evade the Mission Mob, who, along with everyone else, are trying to avoid having their souls saved by the Roman Catholic Missionaries. In these hilariously irreverent vignettes of mission life, everyone and everything is fair game.

• Winner of the David Unaipon Award.

• Optioned for film.

• Lisa Kennedy, through intricate collage and delicate illustration, reveals the love and connection to sea and Country.

RELEASE DATE: 06/2021 ISBN: 9781925936032 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 40pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Children’s Book, Picture Book

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9781925768909 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: PB, 167pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Adult Fiction

HOMECOMING Elfie Shiosaki Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together. This seminal collection of poetry, prose and historical colonial archives, tells First Nations truths of unending love for children.

• Universal themes of love, belonging, place, family and culture under draconian government policies.

• Exceptional reading for those that would like to know about First Nations history, poetry, voice and agency.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2021 ISBN: 9781925768947 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: PB, 152pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Adult Fiction

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING www.mup.com.au | Brian MacDonald | brian.macdonald@unimelb.edu.au

Publishing since 1922, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is Australia’s oldest university press. MUP is the home of agenda-setting political, history and current affairs titles, landmark illustrated art books, and the best in Australian academic research and writing.

THE CHLOROFORMIST

DOING FEMINISM

Christine Ball

Anne Marsh

In The Chloroformist, Christine Ball tells the captivating story of the innovative, hardworking and deeply humane pioneer of modern patient care, Joseph Clover.

Doing Feminism represents over 220 artists and groups with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists’ statements, curatorial writing and critique.

• A well-written historical account of anaesthesia use from a practising anaesthetist.

• Beautifully crafted art history book, makes a great gift.

• ‘Ball is in her element, and her enthusiasm is infectious.’ — The Australian.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9780522877748 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB, 328pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Biography, Memoir, History of Medicine

40 • Melbourne University Publishing

• 300 mm x 245 mm hardback, full colour, fully illustrated with 370 illustrations.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9780522877588 RRP (AUD): $199.99 FORMAT: HB, 544pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Art and Art History, Feminist Criticism

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA

A NARRATIVE OF DENIAL

Kevin Foster

Peter Job

From the ADFA Skype sex scandal to the IDF’s sophisticated integration of the real and virtual spaces of war, Anti-Social Media examines the good, the bad and the indifferent in the armed forces’ halting advance towards social media competence.

Based upon an extensive study of Australian foreign affairs archives, as well as interviews, A Narrative of Denial demonstrates how the Australian government worked to protect the Suharto regime during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975.

• Readers described the book as ‘very readable and enjoyable’ and ‘well-paced and engaging’.

• This book is the first examination of the role Australia played in supporting Indonesian aggression during the years 1975–83, when the conflict in East Timor was at its height.

• Includes insight into government operations surrounding social media as well as an exploration of terrorist organizations’ use of social media.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9780522878011 RRP (AUD): $49.99 FORMAT: PB, 256pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Communication and Culture, Defence Studies

• This book is a great combination of high-quality research and the first-hand account of an activist who worked to support the East Timor independence movement.

RELEASE DATE: 06/2021 ISBN: 9780522877601 RRP (AUD): $39.99 FORMAT: PB, 368pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific Studies

SECRETS OF WOMEN’S HEALTHY AGEING Cassandra Szoeke Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a study which tracked the health of hundreds of women in their mid-to-late lives to show how to promote overall wellness, and provides the ingredients for living a long and healthy life.

• This book is written by a professor of medicine, who is also a clinical researcher, and an expert in the field of women’s health.

• This book is meant for any women interested in healthy ageing.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9780522877236 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 240pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Health and Medicine

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NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING

www.newsouthpublishing.com Harriet McInerney | rights@unswpress.com.au

NewSouth Publishing is the publishing division of UNSW Press Ltd, a leading Australian university press. We create general, literary and illustrated nonfiction and scholarly titles across two imprints — NewSouth and UNSW Press.

We publish thoughtful, well-written books in areas such as history, politics, current affairs, biography and popular science.

HIPPOCRASY

SPACEWARP

Rachelle Buchbinder and Ian Harris

Fred Watson

HOW DOCTORS ARE BETRAYING THEIR OATH

In Hippocrasy, two world-leading doctors — rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris — reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down.

• This powerful exposé blows the lid off rampant overdiagnosis and overtreatment, the role of Big Pharma and the inherent problem of a medical system based on treating rather than preventing illness.

• Provides tips to empower patients and solutions to help restructure how medicine is delivered.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781742237350 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 256pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Health and Medicine

42 • NewSouth Publishing

COLLIDING COMETS AND OTHER COSMIC CATASTROPHES From stargazing to telescopes, space travel to black holes, killer asteroids to aliens, Fred Watson covers every question kids might ask about space — and then some!

• He’s covered the big space questions for adults, now Australia’s Astronomer-atLarge Fred Watson embarks on a grand tour of the Universe for children.

• With incredible illustrations and quirky mix of mind-boggling facts, Spacewarp is a fascinating book that kids will love — and parents and friends will undoubtedly learn a thing or two as well!

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781742237282 RRP (AUD): $27.99 FORMAT: PB, 176pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Children’s Book, Popular Science, Astronomy

TRUE TRACKS

RESPECTING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE Terri Janke Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius — nobody’s land, free to be taken. True Tracks is a groundbreaking work that paves the way for respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous cultures.

• Award-winning Wuthathi/Meriam lawyer Dr Terri Janke draws on extensive experience to inform and inspire people working across many industries — from art and architecture, to film and publishing, dance, science and tourism.

• Provides invaluable guidelines that enable Indigenous peoples to actively practise, manage and strengthen their cultural life.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9781742236810 RRP (AUD): $44.99 FORMAT: PB, 432pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Australian History, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Society and Culture

ROOT AND BRANCH Eda Gunaydin Mixing the personal and political, Eda Gunaydin’s bold and innovative writing explores race, class, gender and violence, and Turkish diaspora — both in Australia and around the world — in her compelling debut.

• Equal parts piercing, tender and funny, this book takes us from an overworked and underpaid café job to the mother-daughter tradition of sharing a meal in the local kebab shop.

• For readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Durga Chew-Bose, Root and Branch seeks to unsettle neat descriptions of migration and diaspora.

RELEASE DATE: 05/2022 ISBN: 9781742237312 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 224pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Essays, Memoir, Critical Race Studies

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PANTERA PRESS www.panterapress.com Katy McEwen | katy.mcewen@panterapress.com

Pantera Press is an independent book publisher and a social purpose business using their profits to fund literacy projects. They publish Fiction and Non-fiction, focussing on books that spark imagination, conversation and change.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT: A MEMOIR

THE THINGS WE SEE IN THE LIGHT

Shane Jenek aka Courtney Act

Amal Awad

Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney Act is more than the sum of her parts.

Told with Courtney’s trademark candour and wit, this is an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity, from a drag and entertainment icon.

Eight years ago, Sahar married Khaled and followed him to Jordan, leaving behind her family, her friends and a thriving cake business. But haunted by secrets, Sahar has returned to Sydney. How will she find her way back to a new normal?

• A fascinating no-holds-barred memoir of the life of Shane Jenek and his alter ego Courtney Act, Australia’s leading drag performer.

• A compelling journey of self-discovery — searching for and finding oneself.

• Complete with ‘Courtney Facts’ — clear explanations of terminology to open up conversations about sexuality, gender, body image and identity.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9780648795131 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 352pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ audio CATEGORY: Memoir

44 • Pantera Press

• A powerful story of new beginnings, old friends, love and chocolate.

• Insightful portrait of a conservative woman grappling with a world of modernity and the loss of her orthodox Muslim faith.

• Deeply drawn characters, with an exploration of the push and pull of long friendships as well as the blossoming of new relationships.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9780648456966 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 352pp RIGHTS: World ex audio CATEGORY: Fiction

THE SCARLET CROSS

YOU CAN LIVE ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

Lyn McFarlane

Lucy Bell and Astred Hicks

Meredith Griffin, a psychiatric nursing specialist, is also an expert at hiding her own problems. When women with the same fatal injury begin turning up in her emergency ward, their deaths are labelled as suicides. But Meredith isn’t so sure.

• An explosive debut with a gripping hunt for a serial killer.

• Atmospheric crime fiction set within a hospital where nothing is what it seems.

• Tightly plotted, intelligent and compulsively pageturning to appeal to fans of quality crime thrillers.

• A strong, sympathetic and deeply flawed main character with a complex past.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2022 ISBN: 9780648795193 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 252pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Crime

An action-packed book designed to teach kids easy activities and strategies to feel lighter, optimistic about the future, more confident, empowered and inspired to live a happy and healthy life.

• Beautifully designed accessible layout.

• Features interviews with kids from around the world who embody optimism.

• Perfect timing for kids impacted by lockdowns and the pandemic.

• Practical exercises and activities to engage kids and improve wellbeing.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9780648677031 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: HB, 264pp RIGHTS: World ex NA CATEGORY: Children’s Nonfiction

NO WAY! Dan Marshall A wonderful journey of discovery that will make you say, ‘No Way!’ A beautifully designed book filled to the brim with facts, games and questions that will teach you the wildest and weirdest things about the world around you.

• Beautifully designed and illustrated to attract attention.

• Full of fascinating and informative facts and information.

• Perfect layout to encourage reading and learning.

• Challenges and searches incorporated within the pages.

• Humorous and fun.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9780648677024 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: HB, 246pp RIGHTS: World ex Germany CATEGORY: Children’s Non-fiction

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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA

www.penguin.com.au Alice Richardson (adult list) | arichardson@penguinrandomhouse.com.au Jordan Meek (children’s list) | jmeek@penguinrandomhouse.com.au

We celebrate writers, stories and ideas that entertain, educate and inspire.

From future classics to cherished favourites, we champion emerging voices and bring readers the highest quality books from established, award-winning and best-selling authors.

SKIN DEEP Phillipa McGuinness A fascinating exploration of human skin — that wonderful thing that covers the body.

McGuinness weaves in both science and wideranging cultural criticism to explore beauty, aging, imperfection, health, illness, and racism.

What happens when something goes wrong; how the world responds to imperfection and difference, how skin makes us who we are.

• McGuinness has interviewed plastic surgeons, dermatologists, burns survivors, beauticians, melanoma sufferers, victims and perpetrators of racism, and all kinds of people who are and are not comfortable in their own skin.

• An all-consuming, big-ideas book in the vein of Sapiens.

• Science meets art and culture, history, politics and philosophy.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2022 ISBN: 9781760898731 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB (C Format), 352pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Popular Science, Culture

46 • Penguin Random House Australia

THE PROOF IS IN THE PLANTS Simon Hill A plant-based diet can help us live healthier for longer and protect our planet’s future.

From renowned nutritionist and podcaster Simon Hill, all the facts and advice for anyone curious about feeling and doing better through a plant-based diet.

• Accessible and non-judgmental, encouraging readers to eat flexibly, while demonstrating the benefits of a plant-focused diet.

• Hill has a huge, global community of followers.

• While there are many plant-based recipe books available, there is a distinct lack of books about the science that backs this diet and lifestyle.

RELEASE DATE: 05/2021 ISBN: 9781760890049 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 416pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Health and Fitness

SEMUT

BEAR AND RAT

KENSY AND MAX 1

Christine Helliwell

Christopher Cheng and Stephen Michael King

Jacqueline Harvey

1945 — a group of young Allied operatives parachute into the jungle of Japaneseoccupied Borneo, to recruit the island’s indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. This was Operation Semut, a secret operation in the final months of WWII. • Helliwell, a Professor of Anthropology, worked and lived with the Dayak tribes for nearly 30 years. She speaks the Dayak language and recorded first-hand accounts from the last surviving Dayak chiefs and the remaining Semut operatives.

Bear and Rat are the best of friends who do everything together, but Rat wonders if Bear will always be there to hold her hand, no matter what happens ...

• For 3–5 years and beyond — a story with sophisticated simplicity and a classic universal message.

• A highly personal story with incredible authenticity that has the classic impact of books like Guess How Much I Love You and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

• Accessible and engrossing, providing a detailed history of this brutal campaign.

• Themes include friendship, love, grief and dealing with loss.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9780143790020 RRP (AUD): $34.99 FORMAT: PB, 576pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Military History

RELEASE DATE: 05/2021 ISBN: 9781760896287 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book, Children’s

BREAKING NEWS

Twins Kensy and Max’s lives are turned upside down when they are whisked off to London, and discover their parents are missing. So many things don’t add up: their strange new school, the bizarre grannies on their street, the coded messages, and the adults are keeping secrets!

• The book will feature coded chapter headings for spiesin-training to decipher.

• Kensy and Max is characterdriven, features a richly created world, fantastic dialogue and plenty of situational comedy.

• Jacqueline Harvey’s Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose series have sold over one million copies in Australia and rights have been sold to North America, United Kingdom, Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Hungary and Indonesia.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2018 ISBN: 9780143780656 RRP (AUD): $16.99 FORMAT: PB, 336pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Middle-grade, Fiction series

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SCHOLASTIC AUSTRALIA

www.scholastic.com.au Claire Pretyman | claire_pretyman@scholastic.com.au

Scholastic is Australia’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books. No one reaches kids, parents and teachers the way Scholastic does.

We publish approximately 600 books a year, and in 2020, we represented approximately 40% of Australia’s best-selling children’s books. Our local imprints include Scholastic Press, Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia, Koala Books and Scholastic Australia licensed books.

A DUCK CALLED BRIAN

A PERFECT PIG

Al Murphy

Katrin Dreiling

All out of Duck Nuts, fresh out of milk, and Gregory is nowhere to be found! Only a miracle can save Brian’s day from total DISASTER!

Anton Pig likes his life to be in perfect order — just like his perfect side-part. But what happens when his PERFECT party plans twist and tumble into a terrible tangle?!

• Hilarious story about a blue duck named Brian.

• Bright, eccentric and full of humour for parents and children alike.

• Al Murphy is the best-selling illustrator of Clare Foges’ Kitchen Disco.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781761121166 RRP (AUD): $17.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex UK CATEGORY: Picture Book, Children’s

48 • Scholastic Australia

• A lovable new character who’s something of a perfectionist.

• Playfully exploring themes of adaptability and resilience from a child’s perspective.

• Katrin Dreiling’s stunning author/illustrator debut.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9781760974374 RRP (AUD): $17.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World ex Taiwan CATEGORY: Picture Book, Children’s

WE FOUND A CAT

ZOO CREW

Heidi McKinnon

Guy Edmonds, Matt Zeremes and Peter William Popple

Look! We found a cat. It has whiskers and a long tail, it has to be a cat … doesn’t it?

• A fun and mischievous story about a new pet that is not quite as it first seems.

• Perfect picture book for fans of Jon Klassen. Kids will love making up their own minds about this cute new kitty!

• From the celebrated CBCA short-listed author/ illustrator, Heidi McKinnon.

It’s the athletics carnival at Bazooglyville (Zoo) Primary and Eddie, Mabel and Princeton have to run, throw and jump their guts out so that mean, cheating bully Echo doesn’t win the day — again! Better get your sweatbands on … it’s ready, set, go time!

• Hilarious series with dynamic and funny illustrations.

• Themes of friendship, adversity, positivity and the highs and lows of school life.

• Directors, performers and Emmy Award-winning writers: Guy Edmonds and Matt Zeremes (2020 International Emmy Award for Best Children’s Live-Action Series; Best Children’s Fiction Program for 7–10 year olds in the Prix Jeunesse International Awards (for outstanding children’s television)).

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781761121005 RRP (AUD): $17.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book, Children’s

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781760976569 RRP (AUD): $15.99 FORMAT: PB, 192pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Children’s

WORST WEEK EVER Matt Cosgrove and Eva Amores HAVE YOU EVER HAD A BAD WEEK? Justin Chase sure has, and THIS is it! His mum has just married a vampire.

His dad is driving a giant toilet on wheels. His cat has probably been abducted by aliens. And it’s only …

MONDAY! • BRAND NEW series from Matt Cosgrove (creator of Macca the Alpaca series) and Eva Amores.

• Fast-paced publication schedule of this highly accessible, illustrated series.

• Enjoy the laugh-out-loud, cringe-worthy situations Justin Chase finds himself in in his worst week ever!

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781760979034 RRP (AUD): $15.99 FORMAT: PB, 192pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Children’s

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SCRIBE PUBLICATIONS www.scribepublications.com.au Khadija Rose | khadija@scribepub.co.uk

Scribe has been operating as a wholly independent trade-publishing house for more than 40 years. What started off in 1976 as a desire on publisher Henry Rosenbloom’s part to publish ‘serious non-fiction’ as a one-man band has turned into a multi-award-winning company with more than 25 staff members in Melbourne, Australia and London, England.

THE NEWCOMER

THE GOLDEN BOOK

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Kate Ryan

Newly arrived in a sleepy Pacific island town, Paulina Novak is known for her hard drinking, disastrous relationships and troubled past.

And when Paulina is found murdered, her mother Judy is determined to find justice for her daughter — whatever it takes.

On the cusp of adulthood, Ali and Jessie were inseparable — until a devastating accident changed everything. Years later, when Ali hears news of Jessie’s death, she is forced to reckon with the events of that summer.

As old secrets come to light, Kate Ryan asks profound questions about responsibility and blame — and, ultimately, about love.

• A chilling and evocative novel based on a real-life murder, The Newcomer is a tense psychological drama for readers of Kate Mildenhall and Ottessa Moshfegh.

• Laura Elizabeth Woollett explores the spectrum of human emotion with great psychological acuity, questioning the media’s fascination with murdered women and society’s need for ‘perfect’ female victims.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9781922310231 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 368pp RIGHTS: World ex North America CATEGORY: Fiction

50 • Scribe Publications

• ‘A gorgeous evocation of the wildness of youth, and of what it takes to find love after disaster. Kate Ryan writes from the heart.

Earthy, lovely, and profound. A beautiful, resonant book.’ — Peggy Frew, author of Islands.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781922310088 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 240pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

CRIMES AGAINST NATURE

A ROOM CALLED EARTH

Jeff Sparrow

Madeleine Ryan

Taking the familiar narrative about global warming — the one in which we are all to blame — and inverting it, Jeff Sparrow shows how, again and again, pollution and ecological devastation have been imposed on the population without our consent and (often) against our will.

A brilliant debut from a neurodiverse author that explores a young woman’s magical, sensitive, and passionate inner world. A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, and always honest — and by the end of the night, she’s shown us something radical about love, loss, and the need to belong.

• From global histories of destruction, Walkley Award-winning journalist Jeff Sparrow distils stories of hope, highlighting the yearning for a more sustainable world — and the power and promise of ordinary people.

• ‘The dazzling directness of her prose opens thrilling new doors into the female experience of the sexual, spiritual and social worlds … The smart, magical voice Madeleine Ryan has found in A Room Called Earth is unlike anything else you’ll find this year.’

— The Independent.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781922310705 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 240pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction

RELEASE DATE: 03/2021 ISBN: 9781925849776 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 304pp RIGHTS: World ex North America, Russia CATEGORY: Fiction

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SIMON & SCHUSTER AUSTRALIA www.simonandschuster.com.au cservice@simonandschuster.com.au

Simon & Schuster Australia is part of the Viacom CBS Corporation and is a major force in today’s publishing industry, dedicated to bringing an extensive range of books, in all formats, into the hands of readers. Simon & Schuster Australia publishes and distributes a variety of books in Australia and New Zealand across a range of genres including fiction, non-fiction and children’s books under our local and international imprints.

ECHOES OF WAR

WILD & WITCHY

Tania Blanchard

Allira Potter

Set in Mussolini’s Italy amid great upheaval, this is the story of one woman’s determination to find her place in a world that men are threatening to tear apart. Another heartrending novel inspired by a true story from Australia’s best-selling author of The Girl from Munich.

Manifesting queen and influencer Allira Potter has devised a ‘guidebook’ for life. Imagine your dream life. Who are you with? What are you doing? How do you feel? If you’re ready to call in everything you ever wanted, from a new lover to your perfect job, Allira knows the secret to creating an abundant AF life.

• S&S Australia’s fastest-growing author Tania Blanchard’s first three novels, The Girl from Munich (2017), Suitcase of Dreams (2018), and Letters from Berlin (2020), have sold more than 150,000 copies. Each have also made Better Reading’s Top 100 list.

• Tasks, tools, techniques and a few witchy rituals to help you bring in your most abundant life ever.

• Tania’s novels are inspired by her family history, ensuring authenticity and plenty of exciting PR opportunities.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781760852085 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 448pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Historical Fiction

52 • Simon & Schuster Australia

• Written in Allira’s trademark unapologetic, no-f*cks-given style.

• Allira is a proud Yorta Yorta woman, a trained reiki practitioner, intuitive reader, energy healer, life coach and meditation guide. She has over 35k followers on Instagram.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9781761101878 RRP (AUD): $35.00 FORMAT: HB, 256pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Health and Personal Development

THE NAZIS KNEW MY NAME SIGNS AND WONDERS Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee and David Brewster

DISPATCHES FROM A TIME OF BEAUTY AND LOSS

The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. The book is based on Magda’s personal account and completed by her daughter Maya’s extensive research and includes testimonies from fellow Auschwitz survivors.

Delia Falconer

• Rights sold (at proposal stage) to Simon & Schuster USA (author tour post COVID-19), Simon & Schuster UK, Italy, Finland, Poland , Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Romania, China, Mexico and The Netherlands.

• For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz (over 330,000 BookScan) and The Happiest Man on Earth (127,000).

• The book will feature personal photographs of Magda from the era, including postcards sent from Auschwitz.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781760859299 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 304pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction

The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author, Delia Falconer, writes on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show how our emotions, our art and our relationships with the generations around us, have been transformed.

• Falconer has written two novels (In the Service of Clouds 1997, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers 2005) and the non-fiction Sydney (9,300 HBs).

• Brilliant and evocative blend of memoir and non-fiction.

• Fresh take on how climate change is affecting our culture; exploring our emotional and imaginative relationship with our environment and each other.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781760857820 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 304pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction

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SPINIFEX PRESS www.spinifexpress.com.au Susan Hawthorne | hawsu@spinifexpress.com.au

Spinifex Press is an independent feminist publisher. We publish fiction, poetry and non-fiction by a diverse range of authors. Subject areas include radical feminism, Indigenous cultures, lesbians, violence against women, transgenderism, ageism, autobiography, biography, prostitution, surrogacy and many other contemporary topics.

NOT DEAD YET

DOUBLETHINK

Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne (Eds)

Janice G. Raymond

FEMINISM, PASSION AND WOMEN’S LIBERATION

What was it like to participate in the Women’s Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in different ways? Many of the 56 women from 14 countries, now over 70, were there. #NotDeadYet • The best way to learn the untold history of the Women’s Liberation Movement.

• Humour, trauma, lyrical, political punch, unheard stories.

• International in scope.

• #NotDeadYet is spreading like wildfire.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9781925950328 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 446pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Social Science, Women’s Studies

54 • Spinifex Press

A FEMINIST CHALLENGE TO TRANSGENDERISM In an age when falsehoods are commonly taken as truth, this book illuminates the ‘doublethink’ of a transgender movement that is able to define men as women, women as men, he as she, dissent as heresy, science as sham, and critics as fascists.

• Internationally recognised author, US based.

• The expert on this subject and author of The Transsexual Empire reviewed in The New York Times.

• A controversial subject, clearly explained in a relaxed style.

• The best informed and most up to date book in the field.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781925950380 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 300pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction

DETRANSITION BEYOND BEFORE AND AFTER Max Robinson Max Robinson goes beyond the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of the transition she underwent and takes us through the processes that led her to transition to get relief from her distress, and to detransition as she discovered feminist thought and community.

• A short book that sets out reasons for transitioning and then detransitioning.

• Compares transition with other kinds of plastic surgery and body modification as part of an ‘assimilation industry’.

OUT OF EDEN Cheryl Adam

THE KINDNESS OF BIRDS

Pregnant, abandoned, homeless, Maureen battles to survive a Swedish winter until she meets a mysterious woman. Threatened with deportation, Maureen learns who her real friends are when she is investigated because of links to a suspected criminal.

An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding-heart dove saves the day. A crow wakes a woman’s resolve. Owls help a boy endure isolation.

Cockatoos attend the laying of the dead. There are always birds in these stories that pay homage to kindness.

• Second in the Eden trilogy.

• Cheryl Adam tells a rollicking and poignant good story.

• Interesting, well drawn characters who leap off the page.

• On homelessness and single motherhood set in 1960s Australia and Sweden.

• She asks who benefits from transgender medicine and who has to bear the cost of these interventions?

Merlinda Bobis

• Multiple prize-winning author, including Christina Stead Award Winner.

• Previous novels translated into Spanish and Tamil.

• Linked stories that cross cultures and times.

• Gail Jones writes that she has a distinctive voice in Australian literature.

• A clear critique of patriarchy.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781925950403 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 200pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction

RELEASE DATE: 04/2021 ISBN: 9781925950267 RRP (AUD): $29.95 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 291pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

RELEASE DATE: 05/2021 ISBN: 9781925950304 RRP (AUD): $26.95 FORMAT: PB, eBook, 272pp RIGHTS: World ex Philippines CATEGORY: Fiction

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SYDNEY UNIVERSITY PRESS www.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au Susan Murray | susan.j.murray@sydney.edu.au

Sydney University Press (SUP) is a not-for-profit, scholarly publisher of research-based books that engage, inspire and stimulate debate. At SUP, we believe in the value of research, the power of knowledge and the ability of books to change the world. Our mission is to enable, support and facilitate the dissemination of outstanding research.

POISON OF POLYGAMY

MEATSPLAINING

Wong Shee Ping and Ely Finch (Translator)

Jason Hannan (Editor)

A SOCIAL NOVEL

This novel of the Chinese Australian experience is a roller-coaster tale of blackmail, murder, betrayal and even a thylacine attack, partly based on real people, places and events.

• A unique Australian novel translated into English for the first time.

• Of special interest to readers interested in Australian history and literature, ChineseAustralian stories, and the history of Melbourne and the gold rush.

• Parallel English and Chinese text allows easy comparison and makes the book a great resource for language learners.

RELEASE DATE: 06/2019 ISBN: 9781743326022 RRP (AUD): $35.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 420pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Historical Fiction

56 • Sydney University Press

THE ANIMAL AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY AND THE RHETORIC OF DENIAL With the global zoonotic pandemic and biodiversity crisis in our hands, this book is timely and extremely valuable in this era of mass extinction.

• Meatsplaining sheds new light on how meat is produced and promoted, and how animal agriculture avoids questions about its impact on health, animal welfare and the environment.

• Timely and thought-provoking book for anyone interested in the wider impacts of how we eat.

• Australian, North American and European authors give an international perspective.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2020 ISBN: 9781743327104 RRP (AUD): $45.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 334pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Animal Studies

ANIMAL WELFARE IN CHINA

PATRICK WHITE’S THEATRE

CULTURE, POLITICS AND CRISIS

AUSTRALIAN MODERNISM ON STAGE, 1960–2018

SOUTH FLOWS THE PEARL

Peter J Li

Denise Varney

Peter Li explores, through the lens of Chinese policymakers and activists from China’s growing animal rights movement, the key animal welfare challenges facing China. These include animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products.

In Patrick White’s Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White’s eight published plays. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts transforming Australian theatre over the last 60 years.

Mavis Gock Yen, Siaomen Yen (Editor) and Richard Horsburgh (Editor)

• Highly topical and timely subject matter given COVID-19.

• Author is an expert commentator in the international media, and during the pandemic he has been interviewed by The New York Times and Forbes.com.

• Li, a Chinese researcher living in the US, offers a perspective often missing from both Western and Chinese discussions.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2021 ISBN: 9781743324707 RRP (AUD): $40.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 378pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Animal Studies

CHINESE AUSTRALIAN VOICES

South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and Hong Kong to Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin, Broome and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1800s, as told in their own words.

• This is a book that offers a new way to be Australian in this country, and casts Chinese Australians as the protagonists in their own stories.

• Essential reading for anyone interested in Australian theatre, and for students and devotees of Patrick White.

• Illustrates the changes that have transformed Australian theatre practice over the last 60 years.

• Sheds important new light on White’s relationship to wider trends in Australian modernism.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781743327555 RRP (AUD): $45.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 212pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Literary Studies

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9781743327241 RRP (AUD): $40.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 350pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Asian Studies

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TEXT PUBLISHING www.textpublishing.com.au Lara Shprem | lara.shprem@textpublishing.com.au

Text Publishing is an independent, Melbourne-based publisher of outstanding fiction and non-fiction. Text has been awarded the ABIA Small Publisher of the Year three times and won the Leading Edge Books Small Publisher of the Year in 2018 and 2019.

THE LABYRINTH

LIMBERLOST

Amanda Lohrey

Robbie Arnott

In a rundown shack, Erica obsesses over creating a labyrinth. To build it she will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past.

The Labyrinth is a hypnotic story of guilt and denial, a meditation on how art can both be destructive and restore sanity.

Limberlost is an utterly captivating new novel by one of the rising stars of Australian fiction.

Loosely based on the life of the author’s grandfather, it is the story of Ned West, a teenager growing up during wartime on an orchard beside the Tamar River, in northern Tasmania.

• Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

• Robbie Arnott’s previous book, The Rain Heron was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and was recently named the Age Book of the Year.

• Bestseller in Australia.

• Robbie Arnott is a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2020 ISBN: 9781922330109 FORMAT: PB, 256pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Literary

58 • Text Publishing

RELEASE DATE: 10/2022 FORMAT: PB, 300pp RIGHTS: World. Rights Sold: UK & Comm (excl ANZ & Canada) — Atlantic Books. Option publishers: France — Actes Sud; Norway — Cappelen Damm CATEGORY: Fiction, Literary

THE WAY IT IS NOW

DANCING BAREFOOT

Garry Disher

Alice Boyle

In a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, burnt-out cop Charlie Deravin investigates the mystery of his mother’s disappearance twenty years ago, amid family fallout. Garry Disher is one of Australia’s most loved and celebrated crime writers.

Patch has fallen head-over-heels for the most popular girl at her new school, a school where she doesn’t feel she belongs and where she’s yet to come out. And, she’s trying to avoid a bully, forgetting to be supportive of her transitioning best friend and freaked out by a potential new stepmother.

• New standalone novel from a best-selling author.

• Garry Disher has won four German and three Australian awards for best crime novel of the year, and been longlisted twice for a British CWA Dagger Award. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

• Winner of the 2021 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.

• Joyous and uplifting depiction of LGBTIQ+ teen experience from an LGBTIQ+ author.

• ‘A giant not only of crime fiction but of Australian letters.’ — Ned Kelly Awards.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781922458162 FORMAT: PB, 416pp RIGHTS: World. Rights sold: UK & Comm (excl ANZ & Canada) — Viper Option publishers: Germany — Unionsverlag CATEGORY: Fiction, Crime

RELEASE DATE: 09/2022 FORMAT: PB, 300pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction, Young Adult

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UQP www.uqp.com.au | Kate McCormack | kate.mccormack@uqp.com.au

UQP is one of Australia’s leading publishing houses. Established in 1948 as a wholly owned subsidiary of The University of Queensland, UQP has consistently produced culturally significant works across genres such as fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as children’s and young adult books.

THE KEEPERS

AFTER STORY

Al Campbell

Larissa Behrendt

This daring and dazzling debut novel shines a light on those who are let down by the systems that are supposed to care for them, or by parents who can’t love, revealing the unsung heroes of our communities.

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother, Della, on a tour of England’s most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them reconcile the past.

• ‘Wildly beautiful, bravely honest, devastating and hopeful but most of all, brimming with love. The Keepers will break your heart.

Al Campbell is a major new voice … it’s like nothing else I’ve ever read.’ — Nikki Gemmell.

• A unique and groundbreaking novel that follows a bus tour to the classic English literary sites through the lens of an Indigenous Australian mother and daughter.

• Author has drawn on her own experiences as the mother of two sons with autism to look at how the system fails them and the carers who love them.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9780702265488 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB (C Format), 334pp RIGHTS: UK, US, Can, Translation, Audio, Film/TV CATEGORY: Adult Fiction

60 • UQP

• Larissa Behrendt won the David Unaipon Award with her debut novel, Home.

• She is also a leading documentary filmmaker, broadcaster and legal academic.

• Cover endorsements from authors Kate Grenville and Tony Birch, and actor Rachel Griffiths.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9780702263316 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB (C Format), 320pp RIGHTS: available: UK, US, Can, Translation, Audio sold: Audio ANZ (Audible) CATEGORY: Adult Fiction

HENRY HAMLET’S HEART Rhiannon Wilde A sparkling queer YA romance set in Brisbane, Henry Hamlet’s Heart follows one guy and his sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey to love.

• A funny book with cinematic dialogue and memorable characters — think Netflix’s Sex Education meets Cath Crowley’s Words in Deep Blue and Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

• Manuscript was the 2019 winner of the Queensland Literary Awards’s Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer.

• North American rights sold.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 ISBN: 9780702263149 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: PB (B Format), 328pp RIGHTS: UK, Translation, Audio, Film/ TV sold: US CATEGORY: Young Adult

MY BROTHER BEN Peter Carnavas Luke and Ben spend summer days by Cabbage Tree Creek, but when older brother Ben starts high school, the two start to drift apart. A timeless story of brothers, boats and birds, from an award-winning storyteller.

• The second novel from beloved children’s author and illustrator Peter Carnavas, following 2017’s The Elephant (14,000+ copies sold and huge international success).

TINY WONDERS Sally Soweol Han Bursting with colour, Tiny Wonders is the story of a small child trying to bring wonder back to her town through the language of flowers from talented debut Sally Soweol Han. • An empowering story showing one small girl bringing joy back to her town through a little seed.

• Introduces the concept of the Korean language of flowers with different flowers and their meanings shown on endpaper art.

• Strong pre-publication interest in My Brother Ben and UK rights sold to Pushkin Press.

• An ever-important reminder to slow down and appreciate the beauty of nature.

• ‘For everyone whose brother is a hero, even if they don’t know it yet.’ — Morris Gleitzman.

• A subtle message of loved ones living on through our memories of them.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9780702263330 RRP (AUD): $14.99 FORMAT: PB (B Format), 192pp RIGHTS: US, Can, Translation, Audio, Film/TV Sold: UK, Russian CATEGORY: Middle Reader

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9780702263477 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: UK, US, Can, Translation, Audio CATEGORY: Picture Book

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WAKEFIELD PRESS www.wakefieldpress.com.au Michael Bollen, Director | michael@wakefieldpress.com.au

Wakefield Press is a South Australian publishing house, celebrating 30 years. We publish approximately 30 titles plus reprints per year, and focus on literary fiction, history, creative non-fiction, art books and young adult fiction.

MOOD

A MEMOIR OF FRACTURED SELF Roz Bellamy In Mood, Roz Bellamy explores the intersections of mental illness, queerness, gender diversity and Jewish identity. A candid, absorbing inquiry into self, and the rewards and challenges of embracing who you are, in all its complexity and contradictions.

• Author explores their experiences as a firstgeneration Jewish Australian non-binary queer person.

• With diagnoses of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, the author digs deep into mental health issues.

• Blending storytelling and reflection, this incisive, thoughtful memoir will appeal to fans of Kate Richards, Maria Tumarkin, Leslie Jamison and Kylie Maslen.

RELEASE DATE: Late 2022 ISBN: 9781743058701 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FORMAT: PB, 350pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Memoir

62 • Wakefield Press

DANCING BEFORE STORMS THE STORY OF FIVE REVOLUTIONS

Robert Trevennel Harris The American and French Revolutions, the European Springtime of the Peoples, and the Chinese and Russian Revolutions broadly shaped the contours of the world as we know it.

This is the story of five revolutions that changed the world, and the unexplored connections between them.

• The narratives of founding revolutions are taught in idealised and often nationalistic terms, and therefore the interactions between great revolutions are often neglected or understated. This book will examine and reframe these five worldchanging revolutions and the people involved.

• Examines five fascinating active participants in the political struggles of the times.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2022 ISBN: 9781743058688 RRP (AUD): $40.00 FORMAT: PB, 300pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: History

HOMETOWN HAUNTS

#LOVEOZYA HORROR TALES Poppy Nwosu (Editor) This horror anthology unites a stellar cast of Australia’s finest YA authors.

From body horror to the supernatural, hauntings to transformations, and the everyday evil of humans to menacing outside forces, this book will have you glued to your chair … until you leap out of it!

• Stories by Wai Chim, Sarah Epstein, Alison Evans, Lisa Fuller, Margot McGovern, Poppy Nwosu, Michelle O’Connell, Emma Osborne, Emma Preston, Marianna Shek, Holden Sheppard, Jared Thomas, Vikki Wakefield and Felix Wilkins.

• Through a speculative horror lens Hometown Haunts explores relevant social and personal themes such as: self-discovery, identity, sexual and gender identity, heritage, history and culture (with included stories from Australian First Nation perspectives).

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781743058640 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 270pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Young Adult Fiction

TEMPERANCE Carol Lefevre Temperance, set between the 1960s and today, is a literary mystery about a damaged family, marked by absences and betrayal — and a violent act that will change everything.

This haunting novel by acclaimed author Carol LeFevre follows three generations, vividly inhabiting its characters and sensitively exploring the lingering effects of trauma on families.

• Carol Lefevre is a nationally acclaimed writer who has been published internationally, working at the height of her powers.

• Literary crime is a popular genre, and this novel is a page-turner whose central mystery is teased to the end of the novel.

RELEASE DATE: Late 2022 ISBN: 9781743058695 RRP (AUD): $30.00 FORMAT: PB, 300pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Literary Fiction

TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS

AN OLIVIA GRACE MYSTERY Lisa Walker Quick-quipping ex-teen-PI Olivia goes undercover in sunny Byron Bay to solve the mystery of a missing friend, with a stash of disguises, a nose for trouble … and her irresistible ex-boss on the case. Veronica Mars meets Elmore Leonard in this madcap sunshine noir.

• Genre entertainment with serious themes, including timely messages about coercive control and women’s empowerment.

• With its snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and spot-on satire, this is seriously entertaining.

• Byron Bay is a hub of international influencers, wellness culture and Hollywood celebrities — the perfect setting for escapist fun.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781743058442 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 250pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Young Adult Fiction

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WALKER BOOKS AUSTRALIA

www.walkerbooks.com.au Clare Hallifax | Clare.Hallifax@walkerbooks.com.au

Walker Books Australia has been bringing the best of children’s publishing to Australian children for over 20 years and is recognised as a market leader in quality children’s books, publishing award-winning authors and illustrators.

The company is dedicated to publishing books of unwavering quality for children and young adults to read and treasure.

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FRANK’S RED HAT Sean E Avery Frank is a penguin with ideas. Mostly terrible ones. That’s why his fellow penguins are nervous when he shows them his strange new creation. Something they’d never seen or expected to see in their cold and colourless Antarctic world — a red hat.

• Frank’s Red Hat is a story about never giving up on your talents, because even though what you do may not be appreciated right now, it may be in time. Possibly by someone you’d least expect.

• A fantastic read-aloud with witty text and hilarious visual humour.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2022 ISBN: 9781760654283 RRP (AUD): $24.99 FORMAT: HB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Picture Book

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FRIENDLY BEE AND FRIENDS Sean E Avery Friendly Bee’s cheerful attitude sometimes gets him into trouble — like becoming a delicious meal for the mildly homicidal Enormous Hairy Spider. Luckily, Friendly Bee’s reluctant best friend Angry Wasp is there to save this buzzing buffoon from certain doom — if he really has to.

• This graphic novel collection of four laughout-loud stories from talented authorillustrator Sean E Avery is sure to bee-witch young readers.

• A second Friendly Bee and Friends graphic novel is scheduled for 2023.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2022 ISBN: 9781760654351 RRP (AUD): $14.99 FORMAT: PB, 32pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Graphic Novel

EVIE AND RHINO Neridah McMullin and Astred Hicks When Evie finds a fullygrown rhinoceros washed up on a beach, she feels an immediate connection and knows she has to help him.

Side by side, these unlikely friends form a bond capable of overcoming the tragedies that saw one in chains and the other lose her parents and unable to speak.

• Neridah McMullin’s touching narrative is complemented by stunning illustrations from award-winning illustrator and designer Astred Hicks.

• A moving tale for middlegrade readers about love, connection and the healing powers of friendship.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2022 ISBN: 9781760654207 RRP (AUD): $22.99 FORMAT: HB, 240pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Middle-grade Fiction

THE GHOST LOCKET

THE HIDDEN GIRL Louise Bassett

Allison Rushby Eleven-year-old Lolli is faced with a seemingly impossible task — enter a historic house and make things right for two ghosts, one friendly and one decidedly not, and open her heart to people in both the living and twilight worlds.

• A captivating supernatural mystery set in a house haunted by secrets from the past.

• Allison Rushby is an awardwinning author and a master of spooky middlegrade mysteries including The Turnkey, The Mulberry Tree and When This Bell Rings.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2022 ISBN: 9781760654139 RRP (AUD): $17.99 FORMAT: PB, 238pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Middle-grade Fiction

Within the pages of a stolen diary, Melati discovers a coded cry for help — the diary belongs to Devi, an Indonesian teenager who is being held by traffickers. Mel races across the island of Java and against the clock to work out Devi’s identity and where she’s being held.

• Mel has everything to lose — but how can she stand back when she knows something’s not right?

• A gripping and original YA novel that delves into issues of ethics, privilege and responsibility.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2022 ISBN: 9781760654788 RRP (AUD): $19.99 FORMAT: PB, 336pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Young Adult Fiction

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Publisher Contact Details Affirm Press

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Allen & Unwin

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Berbay Books

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www.affirmpress.com.au Tash Besliev | tash.besliev@affirmpress.com.au www.allenandunwin.com Carey Schroeter (Kids/YA) | careys@allenandunwin.com Sandra Buol | sandrab@allenandunwin.com www.berbaybooks.com Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke | alexandra@berbaybooks.com

Big Sky Publishing

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Black Inc.

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Blue Angel Publishing

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Christmas Press

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CSIRO Publishing

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Exisle Publishing

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Five Mile

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www.bigskypublishing.com.au Emily Randle | emily@randleeditorial.co.uk www.blackincbooks.com.au Erin Sandiford | erin@blackincbooks.com www.blueangelonline.com Tanya Graham | tanya@blueangelonline.com www.christmaspresspicturebooks.com Mary Hare, ALC Agency | mary@alcagency.com www.publish.csiro.au Claire Nance | claire.nance@csiro.au www.exislepublishing.com Lucy Wawrzyniak | lucy@exislepublishing.com www.fivemile.com.au Jessica Smith | fivemilesales@regencymedia.com.au

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Fremantle Press

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Giramondo Publishing

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Hachette Australia

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Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing

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HarperCollins Publishers Australia

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Journeys to Words Publishing

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Little Pink Dog Books

36

Magabala Books

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Melbourne University Publishing

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NewSouth Publishing

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Pantera Press

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Penguin Random House Australia

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www.fremantlepress.com.au Jane Fraser | jfraser@fremantlepress.com.au www.giramondopublishing.com Alexandra Christie | rights@giramondopublishing.com www.hachette.com.au Emma Dorph | emma.dorph@hachette.com.au www.hardiegrant.com/au/hardie-grant-childrens-publishing Joanna Anderson | joannaanderson@hardiegrant.com www.harpercollins.com.au Elizabeth O’Donnell | elizabeth.odonnell@harpercollins.com.au www.journeystowordspublishing.com Jen Hutchison | jen@journeystowordspublishing.com www.littlepinkdogbooks.com Lucy Wawrzyniak | lucy@exislepublishing.com www.magabala.com Natasha Solomun | natasha@therightshive.com www.mup.com.au Brian MacDonald | brian.macdonald@unimelb.edu.au www.newsouthpublishing.com Harriet McInerney | rights@unswpress.com.au www.panterapress.com Katy McEwen | katy.mcewen@panterapress.com

www.penguin.com.au Alice Richardson (Adult list) arichardson@penguinrandomhouse.com.au Jordan Meek (Children’s list) | jmeek@penguinrandomhouse.com.au

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Publisher Contact Details Scholastic Australia

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Scribe Publications

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Simon & Schuster Australia

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Spinifex Press

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Sydney University Press

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Text Publishing

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www.scholastic.com.au Claire Pretyman | claire_pretyman@scholastic.com.au www.scribepublications.com.au Khadija Rose | khadija@scribepub.co.uk www.simonandschuster.com.au cservice@simonandschuster.com.au www.spinifexpress.com.au Susan Hawthorne | hawsu@spinifexpress.com.au www.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au Susan Murray | susan.j.murray@sydney.edu.au www.textpublishing.com.au Lara Shprem | lara.shprem@textpublishing.com.au

UQP 60 www.uqp.com.au Kate McCormack | katem@uqp.uq.edu.au

Wakefield Press

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Walker Books Australia

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www.wakefieldpress.com.au Michael Bollen, Director | michael@wakefieldpress.com.au www.walkerbooks.com.au Clare Hallifax | Clare.Hallifax@walkerbooks.com.au

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This project has been assisted by the Australian government through The Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

APA Representative: Freddy Thompson For all general enquiries, please contact freddy.thompson@publishers.asn.au