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

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.

• Being developed into a major feature film script. • A new series by debut author and an ex SAS Officer.

• ‘As real as it gets’ — Chris Ryan.

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

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

THE MADNESS LOCKER

Eddie Russel

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.

• True-crime inspired debut novel from an exciting new voice in thriller fiction. • Inspired by a true crime. • ‘Gripping and powerful’ — John Lescroart. • ‘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.

• 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

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.

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