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In Trouble in Mind, neuro-psychologist Jenni Ogden, author of Fractured Minds, transports the reader into the world of some of her most memorable neurological patients as she explores with compassion, insight, and vivid description the human side of brain damage. These are tales of patients who, as the result of a stroke, brain tumour, car crash, or neurological disease, begin thinking and behaving strangely, and with their loved ones’ support embark on the long journey to recovery, acceptance of disability and, sometimes, death. There is Luke, the gang member who loses his speech but finds he can still sing his favourite blues number, ‘Trouble in Mind’, and HM, who teaches the world about memory and becomes the most studied single case in medical history. You will meet Julian, who misplaces his internal map of the human body, and Melody, a singer who risks losing her song when she undergoes brain surgery to cure her epilepsy.

Trouble in Mind is written in an accessible narrative style that is both accurate and intimate. It will be enjoyed by readers — whether students, researchers or professionals in mental health and neuroscience, patients with neurological disorders and their families, or general readers — who want to learn more about brain disorders and the doctors who care for those who suffer them.

Trouble in Mindstories from a neuro-psychologist’s casebook

Jenni Ogden

HEALTH/MEMoiRoCToBER 2013Rights held: AUS & TranslationMaterial: PDF available432pp

JENNI OGDEN holds a PhD in psychology and worked as a university professor, researcher, and practitioner in the fields of clinical psychology and neuropsychology for 27 years. The author of the popular text Fractured Minds: a case-study approach to clinical neuropsychology, she now lives with her husband on a remote island off the coast of New Zealand and writes non-fiction and fiction with a psychological or medical theme.

Non-Fiction

When psychologist David Roland found himself in an accident and emergency ward at a local hospital, he had little idea of who he was, let alone what had happened to him. He wondered if he’d had a nervous breakdown, if the strain of treating individuals in similar situations had become too much. The truth was far more complex.

How I Rescued My Brain tells the story of David’s neurological problem and of his emotional and cognitive recovery, describing the tools that helped to restore his sense of self: psychotherapy, mindfulness, and meditation. In the tradition of Marc Lewis’s Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, Barbara Arrowsmith Young’s The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, and Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight, this is an amazing story of a man’s resilience, and his determination to overcome one of the most frightening situations imaginable — the fear that he had lost his mind, and may not get it back.

How I Rescued My BrainDavid Roland

MEMoiR/PoPULAR SCiENCEMARCH 2014Material: manuscript available Sept 2013 (approx 70,000 words)

DAvID ROLAND studied psychobiology as part of his undergraduate psychology training, majored in zoology, and trained in neuropsychological assessment with a clinical psychology PhD. He has been studying neuroscience findings with James Bennett-Levy and Daniel Siegel. This is his first book.

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Carole Hungerford

From the author of the bestseller Good Health in the 21st Century

About one in six people experience chronic headaches: that’s 50 million Americans, almost six million Canadians, or a staggering 500 million Chinese. In the UK, about six million adults get migraines; every day 200,000 will have one, with about half missing work or school. And the number of headache sufferers around the world is growing.

Why is this the case? Why do particular drugs work for some people and not others? How much of a role do genetics, the environment, and diet play? And what could you try if you’ve done everything for relief and got nowhere?

In this timely book, family doctor and former headache sufferer Carole Hungerford addresses what we know about treating this common health problem, including what triggers headaches, foods and chemicals to avoid, and the latest research on the role that genetics play in causing migraine. She explores the evolutionary role of headaches and examines which treatments work best for which types of patients. It’s an essential book for any headache sufferer.

HEALTHFEBRUARY 2014Material: manuscript available April 2013 (approx 65,000 words)

DR CAROLE HUNGERfORD became a general practitioner in 1975. After working for five years in London, she has shared her time during the last 15 years between her rural practice in Bathurst, New South Wales, and her inner-city practice in Sydney. She has helped educate young graduates for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and she is also a fellow of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.

Headache

Idan Ben-Barak

Why Aren’t We Dead Yet?the survivor’s guide to the immune system

Disease — specifically infectious disease — is what eventually kills the overwhelming majority of us. In fact, it’s amazing that it doesn’t get us sooner: we fight off millions of disease-causing germs every day.

So why aren’t we dead yet? In this lively and accessible book, Idan Ben-Barak tells us why. He explores the immune system and what keeps it running, how germs are destroyed, and why we develop immunities to certain disease-causing agents, and he examines the role of antibiotics and vaccines. Ben-Barak also looks at what the future holds for our collective chances of not being dead. That is, of course, if we manage not to die by then; let’s hang in there.

This is entertaining and thoughtful science writing in the tradition of Natalie Angier’s The Canon and Sam Kean’s The Disappearing Spoon, with the wit and verve of Bill Bryson.

PoPULAR SCiENCE/ BioLoGYAUGUST 2014Material: manuscript available July 2013 (approx 60,000 words)

IDAN BEN-BARAK holds a BSc in medical science and an MSc in microbiology from the Hadassah School of Medicine at the University of Jerusalem, and is currently working towards a PhD in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. His first foray into writing for a popular readership was submitting a couple of quirky pieces of fiction to New Scientist. His first book, Small Wonders, was published by Scribe in 2008 and has been translated into five languages to date.

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Gordon Peake

Beloved Landstories of Timor-Leste

At the stroke of midnight on 20 May 2002, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the first new nation of the 21st century. from that moment, those who fought for independence have faced a challenge even bigger than shaking off Indonesian occupation: running a country of their own.

Beloved Land picks up the story where world attention left off. Blending narrative history, travelogue, and personal reminiscences based on four years of living in the country, Gordon Peake shows the daunting hurdles that the people of Timor-Leste must overcome to build a nation from scratch, and how much the international community has to learn if it is to help rather than hinder the process — for in this land of intrigue and rumours, family politics, squabbles, power struggles, old romances, and even older grudges are woven into life in the most intriguing of ways.

Yet above all, Beloved Land is a story about the one million East Timorese who speak nearly 20 different languages, and who are exuberantly building their nation. Written with verve and deep affection, the book introduces a set of colourful Timorese and international characters, and brings them to life unforgettably.

CURRENT AFFAiRS/PoLiTiCSoCToBER 2013Material: manuscript available May 2013 (approx 75,000 words)

GORDON PEAKE was born in Belfast, and gained a Doctor of Philosophy in Politics and International Relations from the University of Oxford. He has worked as a researcher and consultant in a number of third-world countries for the UN, and has published widely on policing and police reform, especially in Timor-Leste. Dr Peake has held positions at the University of Ulster, the International Peace Academy in New York, and Princeton University. Most recently, he has worked for the Australian federal Police in Dili, and as a senior policy advisor to the Timor-Leste Development Program. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.

David Day

Flaws in the Icein search of Douglas Mawson

Prize-winning historian David Day takes off on a five-week odyssey in search of the real Douglas Mawson

Setting out on a ship bound for the Antarctic, Day asks the difficult questions that have hitherto lain buried about Mawson — his intimate relationship with Lady Scott, his leadership of the ill-fated Australasian Antarctic Expedition, and his conduct that led to the death of his two companions. Day also explores the ways in which Mawson concealed his failures as an explorer, creating for himself a heroic image that has persisted for a century.

for many decades, there has only been one published first-hand account of the expedition — that written by Mawson. Only now have alternative accounts become available. The most important of these is the long-suppressed diary of Mawson’s deputy, Cecil Madigan, who is scathing of the explorer. Other accounts have appeared from leading members of the expedition that also challenge Mawson’s official story.

In this compelling, revealing book, Day draws upon this new evidence, as well as on the vast research he undertook for his international history of Antarctica. What he finds will change perceptions of Mawson forever.

BioGRAPHYNoVEMBER 2013Material: manuscript available June 2013 (approx 70,000 words)

DAvID DAY has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge and a visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Aberdeen, and the Centre for Pacific and American Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is currently a research associate at La Trobe University in Melbourne. His many books include best-selling histories of the Second World War, biographies of Australian prime ministers, and a study of Winston Churchill and Robert Menzies that has been made into a television documentary. His books have won or been short-listed for several literary prizes.

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Most of us know what it is to be offended. In a society bound by complicated behavioural codes, the potential for offence is ever-present, the varieties of emotional trespass legion. A person who claimed never to have taken offence would either be lying or uniquely tolerant. Offence, it seems, is as intimately mapped into the human condition as hunger and lust.

Yet in the last 50 years, the way in which we take offence has undergone a radical change. Everyone is offended; hurt feelings are paraded like union banners. It has opened the door to a new mood of censoriousness, self-pity, and self-righteousness: a world of ‘offensitivity’. And it is poisoning public debate — political and religious leaders seek to turn offence to their advantage, while the media makes it entertainment.

On Offence will consider how this phenomenon came about. What, exactly, is offence? What is the relationship between offence and religion? How is offence used by politicians, media commentators, and social-media pundits? Is there anything we can do to halt the spread of offensitivity?

On Offencethe politics of indignation

Richard King

CURRENT AFFAiRS/ CULTURAL CRiTiCiSMSEPTEMBER 2013Material: manuscript available (approx 60,000 words)

RICHARD KING was born in 1971 in England, and now lives in fremantle, Western Australia. He is a freelance writer and has a master’s degree in literary history. Richard writes and reviews books for The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as for numerous journals and magazines, including Meanjin, Australian Book Review, Southerly, Overland, Quadrant, Poetry London, PN Review, and The London Magazine.

in the tradition of narrative non-fiction by such authors as Rebecca Solnit and James Hamilton-Paterson, Rebecca Giggs argues that the role of whales in Australia’s cultural imagination may no longer be matched by the reality of the creatures themselves.

Whales loom large in the world’s environmental imagination. While no nation claims the whale as a native species, the Australian people are particularly inclined to see whales as symbolic animals. from the nation’s history of harpooning to today’s eco-tourism operators, the story of whales in Australia is a redemptive one.

But whales are changing. Even as the international community draws ever closer to a global ban on factory whaling, whales are surfacing with more disturbing news from the deeps. Whale bodies are riddled with man-made toxins; their stomachs are full of plastic. Distemper and infertility are on the rise in some whale populations.

After the Whales asks what it would mean to live in a world devoid of such a creature. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Giggs examines just how captive our ideas of animals are.

After the WhalesRebecca Giggs

ENViRoNMENT/ NARRATiVE NoN-FiCTioNMARCH 2014Material: manuscript Sept 2013 (approx 40,000 words)

REBECCA GIGGS is an essayist and fiction writer whose work focuses on environmental themes. She grew up in Western Australia and now lives in Sydney. Her work has been published widely, including in Meanjin, Overland, Review of Australian Fiction, The Lifted Brow, and Best Australian Stories.

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Michael Corballis

Pieces of Mind 21 short walks around the human brain

‘A small but attractively formed way to awake your inner scientist.’ — NZ Listener

The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe. Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that we humans enjoy. In this book, Michael Corballis introduces us to what we’ve learned about the intricacies of the human brain over the last 50 years.

Leading us through behavioural experiments and neuroscience, cognitive theory, and Darwinian evolution with his trademark wit and wisdom, Corballis punctures a few hot-air balloons (‘You only use 10 per cent of your brain!’ ‘Unleash the creativity of your right brain!’) and explains just what we know — and don’t know — about our own minds. from language to standing upright, composing music to bullshitting, he covers some of the fascinating activities and capabilities that go towards making us human.

At one time or another, we’ve all wished that we could get inside someone else’s head. Here’s how.

PoPULAR SCiENCE/PSYCHoLoGYJUNE 2012Rights sold: World English ex ANZ (Duckworth), Greek (Aiora Press), Korean (Banni), Serbian (Karpos)Material: book available (112pp, pb)

MICHAEL CORBALLIS is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Auckland. An outstanding science communicator, he is the author of From Hand to Mouth: the origins of language (2003) and, most recently, The Recursive Mind: the origins of human language, thought, and civilization (2011).

‘The new classic of scenario planning’ — Adam Kahane

The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead.

Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? Perhaps a greater social consciousness and community-based living will take over — or, conversely, the competition for limited resources may result in everyone fighting for themselves.

Drawing on these four possible futures, Richard Watson and Oliver freeman invite us to critically examine the risks and opportunities to come. They discuss the key factors, trends, critical uncertainties, and wildcards that will shape the future, guiding us to a greater awareness of long-term problems and possible solutions — and empowering us not only to adapt to what might happen, but also to shape our future and to generate change.

It’s impossible to know for certain what the future holds, but we can remove some of its surprises by engaging in a meaningful debate about the choices we face now. This book shows us how.

Futurevisionscenarios for the world in 2040

Richard Watson & Oliver Freeman

BUSiNESS/ECoNoMiCSNoVEMBER 2012Rights sold: Simplified Chinese (Beijing Tianlue Books); Korean (Chungrim)Material: book available (336pp, B+ format pb)

RICHARD WATSON is the publisher of What’s Next, a quarterly report on global trends, and works with various governments, corporations, and non-profit organisations on scenario-planning projects. He is the author of Future Files (2009), which has been translated into 14 languages to date.

OLIvER fREEMAN has been a publisher for more than 40 years. He worked for McGraw-Hill and Pearson Longman before setting up Prospect Media, Richmond Publishing, and Third Millennium Information. He is the co-founder of eBooks.com, leagle.com, and homepageDAILY.com.

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Gina Perry

Behind the Shock Machinethe untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments

‘An intriguing tale about science, ethics, and storytelling.’ — The Age

In the summer of 1961, a group of men and women volunteered for a memory experiment to be conducted by young, dynamic psychologist Stanley Milgram. None could have imagined that, once seated in the lab, they would be placed in front of a box known as a shock machine and asked to administer a series of electric shocks to a man they’d just met. And no one could have foreseen how the repercussions of their actions, made under pressure and duress, would reverberate throughout their lives. for what the volunteers did not know was that the man was an actor, the shocks were fake, and what was really being tested was just how far they would go.

When Milgram’s results were released, they created a worldwide sensation. Milgram became both hero and villain, and his work seized the public imagination for more than half a century, inspiring books, plays, films, and art. for Gina Perry, the story of the experiments never felt finished. Listening to participants’ accounts and reading Milgram’s unpublished files and notebooks, she pieced together an intriguing, sensational story: Milgram’s plans went further than anyone had imagined.

PoPULAR PSYCHoLoGY/ PoPULAR SCiENCEMAY 2012Rights sold: North America (The New Press)Material: book available (432pp, B+ format pb)

GINA PERRY is an Australian psychologist, writer, and broadcaster. Her feature articles, columns, and short fiction have been published in many of Australia’s leading newspapers and literary magazines. Gina’s ABC Radio National documentary about the obedience experiments, Beyond the Shock Machine, won the Silver World Medal for a history documentary in the 2009 New York festivals radio awards.

Susan Swingler

The House of FictionLeonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley

Susan Swingler is the stepdaughter of one of Australia’s most revered writers — Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father, Leonard, at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one when she met with her father’s sister, Laura. Here, in her newly found aunt’s house, Susan discovered that Leonard and Elizabeth had, for the previous 17 years, been weaving an elaborate fiction that led Leonard’s family to believe that he, Susan, and her mother, Joyce, had moved first to Scotland, and then, after having two more children, emigrated to Australia.

This was far from the truth. Leonard had abandoned his wife and child in order to live with his lover (Elizabeth) and her little girl — his other daughter, just five weeks older than Susan, whose name was Sarah. These two children shared, in the eyes of their father’s family, one fictional identity: Sarah was passed off as Susan. The meeting with her aunt set Swingler off on a quest to untangle the web of deceit that had been woven around her life and to seek to understand the motivation of the key characters in the story: Leonard, Elizabeth, and Joyce.

The House of Fiction traces a remarkable journey of discovery that lasted 40 years.

MEMoiRAPRiL 2012Rights held: UK & translationMaterial: book available (320pp, B format pb)

SUSAN SWINGLER was born in Birmingham and lives in Gloucestershire. Her jobs have ranged from freelance photographer to gardener, university lecturer, and researcher. She has also written exhibition texts and catalogue essays, and some short fiction for radio.

CHRIS WOMERSLEY’S fiction and reviews have appeared in Granta; The Best Australian Stories 2006, 2010, 2011, and 2012; Griffith REVIEW; Meanjin; and The Age. His debut novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best first fiction. His second novel, Bereft, won the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary fiction and the Indie Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for the Miles franklin Literary Award, The Age fiction prize, and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.

frustrated by country life and eager for adventure and excitement, eighteen-year-old Tom Button moves to the city to study. Once there, and living in a run-down apartment block called Cairo, he is befriended by an eccentric musician, Max Cheever; his beautiful wife, Sally; and their close-knit circle of painters and poets.

Tom is delighted at his new life, but he starts to suspect his charismatic older friends aren’t quite what they appear to be. As he falls increasingly under their sway, Tom enters a bohemian world of parties and gallery openings, but also of more sinister events involving murder, deception, and betrayal, not to mention one of the greatest unsolved art heists of the twentieth century: the infamous theft of Picasso’s Weeping Woman.

Set among the demimonde — where nothing and nobody is as they seem — Cairo is a novel about growing up, the perils of first love, and finding one’s true place in the world.

FiCTioN — SEPTEMBER 2013 Material: manuscript available (approx 90,000 words)

Winner, 2011 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the YearWinner, 2011 Indie Award for FictionShortlisted, 2011 Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted, 2011 The Age Fiction Book of the YearLonglisted, 2012 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world.

In the town of flint, Quinn Walker returns to the home he fled ten years earlier when he was accused of an unspeakable crime. Aware that his father and uncle would surely hang him, Quinn hides in the hills surrounding flint. There, he meets the orphan Sadie fox — a mysterious young girl who seems to know more about the crime than she should.

A searing gothic novel of love, longing, and justice, Bereft is about the suffering endured by those who go to war and those who are forever left behind.

FiCTioN — B-format edn March 2011; original edn Sept 2010Rights sold: UK & Cw ex ANZ (Quercus); North America (Silveroak); French (Albin Michel); German (DVA); Croatian (Fraktura); Turkish (Aspendos); Japanese (East Press); Audio (Bolinda); film option (Emerald Productions)Material: book available (272pp, B-format pb). Sample Chinese translation available.

Winner, 2008 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction

Lee, a petty criminal, wakes in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money, his memory hazy as to how he got there. Soon he meets Wild, a doctor who is escaping his own disastrous life, and the two men set out for the safety of the countryside.

As they flee the city, they develop an uneasy intimacy, inevitably revisiting their pasts even as they seek to evade them. Lee is haunted by a brief stint in jail; Wild is on the run from the legacy of medical malpractice. But Lee and Wild are not alone: they are pursued through the increasingly gothic landscape by the ageing gangster Josef, who must retrieve the stolen money and deal with Lee to ensure his own survival. A brilliant debut novel.

FiCTioN — B-format edn Dec 2011; original edn Sept 2007Rights sold: UK & Cw ex ANZ (Quercus); North America (Silveroak); French (Albin Michel); Vietnamese (Le Chi Culture & Communications); Spanish (Es Pop Ediciones); Audio (Bolinda)Material: book available (288pp, B-format pb)

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Chris Womersley Cairo

Chris Womersley Bereft

Chris Womersley The Low Road

Fiction

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Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2013Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript

‘A novel of heart-rending beauty. Seldom have grace and nature, spirit and flesh, spoken to each other so wonderfully.’ — Michael McGirr

Ruth and her cousin Naomi live in rural Wisconsin, part of an isolated religious community. The girls’ lives are ruled by the rhythms of nature — the harsh winters, the hunting seasons, the harvesting of crops — and by their families’ beliefs. Beneath the surface of this closed, frozen world, hidden dangers lurk.

Then Ruth learns that Naomi harbours a terrible secret. She searches for solace in the mysteries of the natural world: broken fawns, migrating birds, and the strange fish deep beneath the ice. Can the girls’ prayers for deliverance be answered?

Sufficient Grace is a story of lost innocence and the unfailing bond between two young women. It is at once devastating and beautiful, and ultimately transcendent.

Sufficient GraceAmy Espeseth

FiCTioNSEPTEMBER 2012Material: book available (336pp, B+ format pb)

Born in rural Wisconsin, AMY ESPESETH immigrated to Australia in the late 1990s and lives in Melbourne. A writer, publisher, and academic, she is the recipient of the 2007 felix Meyer Scholarship in Literature, the 2010 QUT Postgraduate Creative Writing Prize, and the 2012 CAL Scribe fiction Prize. Sufficient Grace won the 2009 victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.

Winner, 2012 Scribe Fiction Prize

The accident was twenty years ago, but in a small town no one forgets – and everyone, it seems, is involved somehow. Adam Downwind’s life has been shadowed by the night his father ploughed a truck into a car full of teenagers. Adam has tried to leave the shame — and the town — behind, but his mother and her best friend won’t allow it. They insist that he get to the bottom of the accident, even if it means confronting the law. Meanwhile retired, former sheriff Pete Kowalski just wants to live out his golden years fishing and hunting. And he doesn’t have time to be haunted by past mistakes: Pete’s got his hands full trying to keep both his wayward daughter and his family’s land safe. But in Siron, Wisconsin, once there’s blood on your hands, there’s no getting clean.

Trouble Telling the Weather is a compelling mystery that gradually reveals the secrets buried deep in one small town.

Trouble Telling the WeatherAmy Espeseth

FiCTioNAUGUST 2014Material: Material: manuscript Sept 2013 (approx 60,000 words)

Born in rural Wisconsin, AMY ESPESETH immigrated to Australia in the late 1990s and lives in Melbourne. A writer, publisher, and academic, she is the recipient of the 2007 felix Meyer Scholarship in Literature, the 2010 QUT Postgraduate Creative Writing Prize, and the 2012 CAL Scribe fiction Prize. Her first novel, Sufficient Grace, won the 2009 victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.

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Melanie Joosten

Berlin Syndrome

Winner, 2012 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Winner, 2012 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers

‘A psychological thriller of the highest order, this is a strong first showing. More, please.’ — Sunday Herald Sun

2006, Berlin. The once-divided city still holds its share of secrets.

One afternoon, near the tourist trap of Checkpoint Charlie, Clare meets Andi. There is an instant attraction, and when Andi invites her to stay, Clare thinks she may finally have found somewhere to call home.

But as the days pass and the walls of Andi’s apartment close in, Clare begins to wonder if it’s really love that Andi is searching for … or something else altogether.

Berlin Syndrome is a closely observed and gripping psychological thriller that shifts between Andi’s and Clare’s perspectives, revealing the power of obsession, the fluidity of truth, and the kaleidoscopic nature of human relationships. A startling debut from a talented new writer.

FiCTioNJULY 2011Rights sold: Film option (Aquarius Films)Material: book available (256pp, trade pb)

MELANIE JOOSTEN was born in 1981, and lives and works in Melbourne. She has an honours degree in creative arts, a Master of Arts (editing), and a Master of Social Work. Her first novel, Berlin Syndrome (2011), saw her named as a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and awarded the Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers. Berlin Syndrome has been optioned for a film.

Melanie Joosten

Gravity Well

Lotte is an astronomer who spends her nights peering into deep space rather than looking too closely at herself. When she returns to her hometown ten years after her mother’s death, she finds that much has changed. for a start, Lotte’s father has remarried, and his new wife Eve is not much older than she is. Initially Lotte’s return causes disharmony, but then it is the catalyst for a much more shocking event.

If families are like solar systems – bodies that orbit in time with one another, sometimes close and sometimes far away – what is it that drives them? And what are the consequences when the force of one planet tugs others off course?

Over two weeks of summer, one family is reminded of how the force that holds them together is the very same thing that will drive them apart.

FiCTioNAPRiL 2014Material: manuscript Sept 2013 (approx 90,000 words)

MELANIE JOOSTEN was born in 1981, and lives and works in Melbourne. She has an honours degree in creative arts, a Master of Arts (editing), and a Master of Social Work. Her first novel, Berlin Syndrome (2011), saw her named as a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and awarded the Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers. Berlin Syndrome has been optioned for a film.

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Joanne Riccioni

The Onorati

In 1948, the arrival of a family of Italian peasants sets tongues wagging in the village of Benford, a close-knit East Anglian farming community still recovering from the war. Connie farrington, a 17-year-old shop assistant at Cleat’s Corner Store, sees in the Onorati brothers a window to the world beyond the petty confines of rural English life. But the Onorati boys are discovering an England very different from the one promised to them by their domineering father, Aldo. Once the fascist Commissioner of Montelupini, Aldo seems unable to allow himself to rise beyond the prisoner-of-war status he once held on the farm where he has returned with his sons to escape the depression in Italy. The charismatic vittorio embraces all things English, determined to reinvent himself, but the more sensitive Lucio is haunted by the secrets of the past, by events that tether him to Italy, so that he can only see what he once was and not what he might become.

This cross-cultural love story is set in a period of intense social change both in Italy and England, and explores love, prejudice, and identity in the aftermath of the Second World War. for one family, surviving is only the beginning.

FiCTioNFEBRUARY 2014Material: manuscript August 2013 (approx 90,000 words)

JOANNE RICCIONI was born in the UK to an Italian father and English mother. She worked in Singapore and Paris before settling in Sydney. She has a master’s in literature from Leeds University. Her short stories have been read on the BBC and Radio National, and published in The Best Australian Stories 2010 and 2011. Her story, ‘Can’t Take the Country out of the Boy’, has been optioned for a short film.

Peter Cotton

Dead Cat Bounce

A federal election campaign is thrown into chaos when a popular government minister goes missing and then turns up dead on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.

With Detective Darren Glass on the case, the investigation into the minister’s murder quickly becomes entangled in a game of high-stakes politics. All the while, the body count mounts.

Glass’s suspects include some of the most powerful people in the land, and the press gallery journalists who cover their every move. It’s a murky world of shifting allegiances, half-truths, and finger pointing, where everyone has a motive for murder.

As Election Day nears, Glass risks everything for a breakthrough in the case, and his life is soon hanging by a thread. But if he thought he’d hit rock bottom, he was wrong …

FiCTioNJULY 2013Material: ARC available

PETER COTTON has been the media advisor to three federal cabinet ministers, worked as a foreign correspondent for the ABC, been a senior reporter on the ABC’s AM and PM programs, and had stories published in most major print outlets in Australia.

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‘The Holiday Murders offers everything you could want in a crime novel: tension, intrigue, complex characters and a powerful social context.’ — Herald Sun

On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide’s Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political.

If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence. for Constable Helen Lord, it is an opportunity to make her mark in a male-dominated world where she is patronised as a novelty. for Detective Joe Sable, the investigation forces a reassessment of his indifference to his Jewish heritage. Simmering tensions are uncovered among secretive, local Nazi sympathisers, and a psychopathic, fascist usurper makes his move.

The Holiday Murders explores a little known and sometimes violent corner of Australian history, and finds oddly modern echoes in its paranoia, xenophobia, and ugly fervour.

The Holiday MurdersRobert Gott

FiCTioNFEBRUARY 2013Material: book available (320pp, B+ format pb)

ROBERT GOTT was born in the small Queensland town of Maryborough in 1957, and now lives in Melbourne. He has published many books for children, and is also the creator of the newspaper cartoon The Adventures of Naked Man. He is the author of the William Power trilogy of crime-caper novels set in 1940s Australia: Good Murder, A Thing of Blood, and Amongst the Dead.

Lesley Jørgensen

Cat & Fiddle

Winner, 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize

‘occasionally you love a book so much that it’s difficult to close the door on its world. Cat & Fiddle by Lesley Jørgensen – with its warm, evocative and hysterically funny story – is such a book.’ FiVE STARS — Good Reading

Cat & Fiddle centres on two families whose lives become entwined at the country estate of Bourne Abbey. While Dr Choudhury is busy advising Henry Bourne on the restoration of the abbey to its former glory, his wife’s main concern is marrying off their three children, whose chances of good matches are dwindling by the day. Thankfully, the royal family always seems to have a solution to her problems: how to find a wife for a reluctant son; how to manage a difficult father-in-law; and, of course, how not to deal with an inter-faith relationship.

Then there’s the Bourne family. Henry’s wife, Thea, is feeling lost, now that she’s got the lifestyle she’s always longed for. His elder brother, Richard, a successful London barrister, finds himself increasingly drawn to the family home — the inheritance that he’s given up. Meanwhile, Henry just wants to keep the peace, but that’s proving to be tricky …

And, finally, there’s Bourne Abbey itself: the repository of an ancient mystery that links the histories and cultures of the Bournes and the Choudhurys in a way that no one could have anticipated.

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LESLEY JØRGENSEN trained as a registered nurse while also completing simultaneous arts and law degrees, and has worked as a medical-negligence lawyer in Australia and England. While in England, she married into a Muslim Anglo–Bangladeshi family, and then returned with her husband to live in Australia. Cat & Fiddle is her first novel.

CATE KENNEDY is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires, and The Taste of River Water, which won the victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2011.

Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2013; Longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2013

‘This is a heartfelt and moving collection of short stories that cuts right to the emotional centre of everyday life.’ — Bookseller & Publisher

from prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices, and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. In ‘Laminex and Mirrors’, a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor’s orders. In ‘Cross-Country’, a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex’s new life. And in ‘Ashes’, a son accompanies his mother on a journey to scatter his father’s remains, while lifelong resentments simmer in the background. Cate Kennedy’s poignant short stories find the beauty and tragedy in illness and mortality, life and love.

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‘Stunning … This collection is a joy to read.’ — The Age

In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her stories are populated by people at tipping points in their lives — moments that find them poised between a familiar past and an unfamiliar future. A cancer sufferer boards a plane with three kilos of cocaine in her luggage; a neglected wife plans an unsavoury revenge on her boorish husband; a married couple realise their too-tight wedding rings may symbolise wider aspects of their relationship. Heartbreaking, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures, and the coincidences that drive our lives.

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Winner, People’s Choice Award, 2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

‘Cate Kennedy is a brilliant storyteller. She possesses the power to find in ordinary lives their poetic and mythic dimensions and to remind us that vernacular speech and everyday experiences betoken the tender mysteries that lie beneath family life.’ — Gail Jones

Once, Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle age — although they’ve gone about it in very different ways. The only thing they have in common these days is their fifteen-year-old daughter, Sophie.

When Rich decides to take Sophie, whom he hardly knows, on a trek into the Tasmanian wilderness, his overconfidence and her growing disillusion with him set off a chain of events that no one could have predicted. Instead of respect, Rich finds antagonism in his relationship with Sophie; and in the vast landscape he once felt an affinity with, he encounters nothing but disorientation and fear.

Ultimately, all three characters will learn that if they are to survive, each must traverse not only the secret territories that lie between them but also those within themselves.

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Cate Kennedy Like a House on Fire

Cate Kennedy The World Beneath

Cate Kennedy Dark Roots

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