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About Us
Brandl & Schlesinger, established in 1994 is now celebrating twenty–three years of publishing. We have a reputation as one of Australia’s most renowned independent publishers with many of our titles winning major literary awards. We publish books that are both challenging and thought provoking as well as being good reads. Brandl & Schlesinger has a diverse list of quality fiction and non-fiction, literary memoir and biography, academic journals, translations and a distinctive poetry list. We focus on publishing books that appeal to the national and international market. We also publish Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary magazine and the journal, Modern Greek Studies. Please check our web site www.brandl.com.au for further information on all our authors and titles, awards, agents, distributors and news updates. Brandl & Schlesinger is a member of the Australian Publishers’ Association. Brandl & Schlesinger gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its art funding and advisory body.
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Brandl & Schlesinger Pty Ltd PO Box 127 Blackheath NSW 2785 Australia Phone: (+612) 4787 5848 www.brandl.com.au
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Brandl & Schlesinger are pleased to present their titles for 2017 each of which has been chosen for its quality of page-turning, robust appeal to readers both nationally and internationally. Included are also some key backlist titles which
have not lost any of their relevance. Please also check our website for more of our titles – www.brandl.com.au
Brandl & Schlesinger
John Stephenson: The Baker’s Alchemy – FICTION Judith White: Culture Heist – NON-FICTION/ART
Lino Alvarez with Kim Deacon: The Hill End Table - POTTERY/ART/COOKERY Marilla North: Yarn Spinners – MEMOIR/LETTERS
Nick Athanasou: Palindrome – CRIME FICTION Marcel Weyland: The Boy on the Tricycle - MEMOIR Winton Higgins: The Rule of Law - HISTORICAL FICTION
David Brooks: Derrida’s Breakfast - ESSAYS Kellinde Wrightson: The Notorious Frances Thwaites – TRUE CRIME
Vrasidas Karalis: Demons of Athens – NON-FICTION Adrian Newstead: The Dealer is the Devil – NON-FICTION/ART
Damien Freeman: The Aunt’s Mirrors – MEMOIR John A. Scott: N – SPECULATIVE FICTION
Igor Gelbach: Tsaplin’s testimony – FICTION Nick Athanasou: The Person of the Man – FICTION
Jacob E Rosenberg: East of Time – MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY VRASIDAS KARALIS: RECOLLECTIONS OF MR MANOLY LASCARIS - BIOGRAPHY
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Awards
David Brooks: Derrida’s Breakfast 2016 Shortlisted for the Best Avant-Garde Literary Awards Adrian Newstead: Dealer is the Devil 2016 Shortlisted for WA Premier’s Book Awards – WA History John A Scott: N 2015 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2014 Guardian Australia Best Books of 2014 Steven K Kelen: Island Earth 2014 Shortlisted for ACT Book of the Year Aidan Coleman: Asymmetry 2012 Shortlisted for Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
2012 Shortlisted for Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards Rhyll McMaster: Late Night Shopping 2012 Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards for Poetry 2012 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Poetry 2013 Highly Commended – Prime Minister’s Literary Award Jacob G. Rosenberg: Sunrise West 2008 Winner of New South Wales Premier’s Community Award 2008 Winner of the SA Arts Award for Non-Fiction Jacob G. Rosenberg: East of Time 2007 Winner of National Biography Award 2006 Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2006 Shortlisted for the Australian Gold Medal for Literature 2006 Shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction 2006 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2006 Shortlisted for the SA Arts Award for Innovation in Fiction Chris Wallace-Crabbe: The Universe Looks Down 2006 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Poetry
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Awards
Stephanie Bishop: The Singing 2006 Shortlisted for the Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006 SMH Best Young Writer of the Year Rhyll McMaster: Feather Man 2008 Winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award 2008 Winner of the UTS Award 2008 Shortlisted for the Australian Gold Medal for Literature 2007 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction Emily Maguire: Taming the Beast 2006 Shortlisted for the Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006 Nominated for the Inaugural Dylan Thomas Award David Brooks: Walking to Point Clear 2006 Shortlisted for the SA Arts John Bray Award for Poetry Geoff Page: Freehold 2006 Shortlisted for the SA Arts John Bray Award for Poetry Aidan Coleman: Avenues & Runways 2006 Shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award for First book of Poetry 2006 Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Award for Poetry Sarah Day: The Ship 2005 Winner of Queensland Premier’s Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry 2005 Joint winner of the ACT Judith Wright Award 2004 Winner of Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry Wayne Grogan: Junkie Pilgrim 2004 Winner of Ned Kelly Award for First Book of Crime Ouyang Yu: The Eastern Slope Chronicle 2004 Winner of SA Arts Award for Innovation in Fiction 2003 Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award Igor Gelbach: Notes from the Esplanade (Translated by Rae Mathew) 2004 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Award for Translation
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Awards
Steven K. Kelen: Goddess of Mercy 2003 Shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2003 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2003 Highly Commended for ACT Book of the Year John Tranter: Ultra 2003 Shortlisted for Tasmanian Pacific Region Poetry Prize 2002 Shortlisted for Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe: By and Large 2002 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry 2002 Awarded Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Poetry 2002 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award for Poetry Gig Ryan: Heroic Money 2002 Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for Poetry Rosemary Dobson: Untold Lives & Later Poems 2001 Winner of The Age Book of the Year Award 2001 Winner of The Age Book of the Year for Poetry 2001 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry Richard Deutch: Heart with piano wire 2001 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Poetry Gerry Turcotte: Flying in Silence 2001 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Fiction Adam Aitken: Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles 2002 Shortlisted for SA Festival Awards 2000 Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Poetry
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Lau Siew Mei: Playing Madame Mao 2001 Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 1999 Shortlisted for Queensland Premier's Literary Award George Alexander: Mortal Divide 1999 Winner of NSW Premier’s Literary Award Fay Zwicky: The Gatekeeper's Wife 1999 Winner of WA Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 1998 Shortlisted for SA Festival Awards
John Stephenson
The Baker’s Alchemy
Literary Fiction
To be Published: September 2017
World Rights
It’s Spring, 1870. The kindly Polish baker and widower, Ignacy Wadowski, cannot get his new young wife Jadwiga to make love with him. Ignacy asks a friendly Jewish healer who lives in the forest, for something to make him more attractive, but unexpectedly gets a potion that, while its effect lasts, makes him young again. Now courting Jadwiga as the youthful stranger Adalbert, Ignacy wins her love. The key moral dilemma is, while Ignacy is now enjoying his lawful wife, she’s enjoying a man she thinks isn’t her husband. Can one of them sin and the other not? The scheme begins to unravel when village gossip arises with sympathy for Ignacy - who’s being cuckolded by himself. The novel becomes an allegory, not just of all marriage and its difficulties, but of the expansion of consciousness available to a humble man, taking him into unsuspected realms of history, literature, national destiny and moral confrontation. This novel is in the style of magical realism and evokes the work of Yann Martel.
John Stephenson has had a career teaching English (predominantly as a Foreign Language); Text, Melbourne, in 1996 published his The Optimist, a portrait of the poet Christopher Brennan as a young man. Widely and positively reviewed, he was cited in the doctoral dissertation of Dr Helen O’Reilly (UNSW) as a contemporary exemplar of Late Modernism’s “collapsing of Time”. John continues to be a manuscript assessor, mentor, editor, and workshop conductor, has reviewed books for the weekend newspapers and has placed various pieces, including poems, in magazines such as Southerly and Overland.
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Judith White
Culture Heist
Non-fiction, Art
ISBN 978-0-9944297-5-9 (print)
Publication date: May 2017
A much-loved cultural institution facing a cost-cutting government, a board dominated by the big end of town, and a management fixated on an ambitious building project. It’s a true story. Culture Heist lifts the veil on what goes on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Judith White worked there for 12 years and gives an insider’s account, with implications for art lovers and museum-goers everywhere. Culture Heist invites the broadest discussion to address the issues facing the arts in Australia and explore ways to protect its great public institutions. The story would have relevance for art institutions world-wide.
“A visit to a great art gallery leaves one with as sense of indelible wonder. Judith White dances through the great times of AGNSW and warns us of its existential threats - dwindling public funding and testosterone inspired expansion plans.” Graeme Wood, philanthropist
Judith White was Executive Director of the members’ organisation, the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, from 2000 to 2008 and again in 2014 and 2015, and is author of the Society’s history Art Lovers. Born in Lancashire, England, she holds two degrees from Oxford University, has worked in journalism and publishing and speaks Spanish, French and Italian. Cultural history remains her abiding interest and was the theme of the Society’s first-ever members’ tour to Cuba which she led in 2015. She lives in northern New South Wales.
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Lino Alvarez with Kim Deacon
The Hill End Table
Pottery, art, cookery
ISBN 978-0-9944297-4-2
Published: March 2017
Food photography by Gus Armstrong
Lino Alvarez and Kim Deacon were at the forefront of an exodus of artists over the last 20 years, seeking a more organic lifestyle in the historic gold mining town of Hill End, in Central West, New South Wales. This lavishly illustrated book, rich in both fine and culinary art, allows readers the chance to join that table, for an aromatic mix of Art, Food and Fire. It is a book redolent of the flavours, scents and images of this exceptional couple’s lives. The Hill End Table is a celebration of Lino Alvarez’s passion for food, ceramics and art and takes the reader on a journey from the deserts of Northern Mexico to the historic gold mining town of Hill End, NSW. It is a great example of the international trend to live simply and creatively.
Lino Alvarez studied ceramics in Hermosillo, Mexico and University of California, San Diego. He established La Paloma Pottery in Newtown which became renowned for producing large earthenware pots commissioned for spaces such as The Lodge in Canberra, Darling Harbour, Sydney, The National Gallery of Australia and for many private clients. In 1997 Lino with his wife Kim Deacon moved to Hill End.
Kim Deacon grew up in Melbourne and worked as an actress in such iconic feature films as The Getting of Wisdom, Winter of Our Dreams and Rebel and Australian TV productions such as Prisoner, Country Practice, GP and Water Rats. Working at La Paloma, Kim has become a significant potter in her own right and also continues to develop her projects for voice, harp and performance.
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Marilla North
Yarn Spinners
Memoir through letters
ISBN 978-0-9944296-0-5 (print), ISBN 978-0-9944296-1-2 (epdf), ISBN 978-0-9944296-2-9 (epub)
568 pp | 153×234 mm | RRP $39.95 Published: February 2017
Yarn Spinners is a story of friendship between three female
Australian writers in the mid 20th century – Miles Franklin, Dymphna Cusack and Florence James. Together and individually they produced an extraordinary body of work and their stories are becoming increasingly more relevant as we face the challenges of the 21st Century. Come in Spinner by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James published in 1951 went on to sell over a million copies world-wide, it became an ABC TV mini-series and has never been out of print. Dymphna Cusack had a well established international reputation, she wrote 12 books and her works were translated into 34 languages. Miles Franklin wrote the well-known My Brilliant Career which was a multi-award winning movie starring Judy Davis and directed by Gillian Armstrong.
Marilla North completed a dissertation on Come in Spinner. She has lectured in literature and life writing and worked as a journalist and teaches Australian literature to American students. The first edition of Yarn Spinners won the FAW Biography Prize.
Visit Yarn Spinners website
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Oxford Crime fiction
296 pp pb
ISBN 978-1-921556-26-5
World Rights
Published: March 2017
Anna Taylor is found with her throat cut, at the drug discovery firm where she works. In an atmosphere of ruthless ambition, high stakes and ulterior motives, her former mentor, Adam Gabriel, an Oxford pathology professor, investigates her murder through a series of meticulous scientific methods. Many of her colleagues stand to gain in some way by her death. Was Anna killed to disguise the dangerous effects of a highly marketable anticancer drug? Or was the motive professional jealousy? Palindrome is a cerebral detective fiction that focuses on a forensic crime. A falsification of pharmaceutical test results for an anti-cancer drug leads to a murder. Palindrome follows the ever popular “Oxford Crime Fiction” tradition of authors such as Val McDermid and Dorothy L Sayers and Edmund Crispin, creator of Inspector Morse.
Nick Athanasou grew up in Sydney, graduating in medicine at Sydney University. He is Professor of Pathology at Oxford University and a Fellow of Wadham College. He has a world wide reputation as one of the leading authorities on musculo-skeletal pathology. Athanasou’s scientific background adds strength and conviction to his forensic description and in creating the atmosphere of academia where much of Palindrome is set. He has published three novels, and received an Australia Council New Writing Award.
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Winton Higgins
The Rule of Law
Historical fiction
ISBN: 9780994429506 (PB)
Published: October 2016
World Rights
This novel follows four participants with contrasting backgrounds through the nerve-racking first Nuremberg trial (1945-6) and the turbulence of the war-damaged, polyglot ‘trial community’ thrown together and dumped into a small, bombed-out city. One participant is a defendant and former Nazi top propagandist fighting for his life. The other three – a Jewish German-American prosecution interpreter, a British judge, and a German woman (one of the tribunal’s pioneering simultaneous interpreters) – play active roles in the trial and come to identify with its breathtaking ambition to set a judicial precedent that will deprive perpetrators everywhere of their impunity, in aid of a new world where human rights hold sway. Katerina, the simultaneous interpreter, is newly married to an Australian member of the British prosecution, but is also struggling to restore the decency and honour of her own nation after its profound corruption during the Nazi era. All four work in the daily glare of global press and radio attention. Their encounter discloses the trial’s long-term legacy in the development of an international rule of law which has continued to have world-wide implications.
After an initial career in law, Winton Higgins has spent the rest of his working life as an academic in social science and history. He has a long list of academic publications, the most recent being his and Geoff Dow’s Politics against pessimism: Social democratic possibilities since Ernst Wigforss (Bern, CH: Peter Lang, 2013). He has a new co-authored book, The magnitude of genocide (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, March 2016). In the last 16 years he has also turned to creative writing. In 2002 he won the NSW Writers’ Centre’s short story competition. In 2003 his travel diary, Journey into darkness (Brandl & Schlesinger), was released.
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Marcel Weyland
The Boy on the Tricycle
Memoir
ISBN: 978-1-921556-96-8 pb
Published: May 2016
World Rights
“A twelve-year old boy flees with his family from the Nazi blizkrieg of Lodz, Poland and the highways east. Seventy-five years later he reflects on the journey that took him through the USSR, Japan and Shanghai to Australia and back to Poland and Lithuania. It is a journey of geography but more importantly of culture, a cosmopolitan expedition that saw the Jewish child survive the Holocaust to return to his birth-land a hero of literature. In Australia, his land of adoption, he is recognised for his prowess as a bridge between culture. Marcel Weyland hewed his path through some of the most important moments of world history. Their impact was to create in him a fierce love of story-telling, of the sound of language, and of the power of stories to bind families to their pasts and open up new adventures, their futures. This book tells of love, of passion, of awe and of heartache, but also of great fulfilment in a life well lived.” Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology, University of Technology, Sydney
Marcel Weyland escaped war-time Poland in 1940 and arrived in Australia as a war refugee in 1946. He is an architect with a law degree, and an interpreter and trans lator of Polish poetry, his previous translations being Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz, Echoes – Poems of the Holocaust, The Word: 200 Years of Polish Poetry and Władysław Szlengel’s What I Read to the Dead, recently published is Love, Sex and Death in the Poetry of Bolesław Leśmian, all published by Brandl & Schlesinger. He was awarded the Order of Merit by the Polish Minister of Culture (2005), the medal of the Order of Australia (2008), the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of Poland (2012) and the Gold Cross Gloria Artis by the Minister of Culture (2013).
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David Brooks
Derrida’s Breakfast
Essays
ISBN 978 1-921556-99 9
Published: June 2016
World Rights
2016 Shortlisted for the Best Avant-Garde Literary Awards
Four essays, three on the philosopher Jacques Derrida, whose writings have so influenced our time (one on his breakfast, one on his cat, one on his relationship with a snake, and one (on the killing of doves) on the great early twentieth century poet Rilke – each of them examining key failures and challenges in the relationship of poetry, philosophy and ‘the animal’, and each entertaining, absorbing, and thought-provoking well beyond its given subject. Jacques Derrida was one of the most well known and influential philosophers in the late 20th Century. A book that crosses with apparent ease the boundaries of philosophy, literary criticism (there are passages on Coleridge, on D.H. Lawrence, on Henry Lawson) and human-animal relations, by a writer recently described as ‘one of the most skillful, unusual and versatile of Australian writers’ (Sydney Morning Herald, January 2016). The book itself is very accesible and is a real page-turner.
David Brooks is a poet, novelist, short fiction writer and essayist. He has taught literature at various Australian universities and is currently Honorary Associate Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, and co-editor of Southerly, Australia’s premier journal of literature and new writing. A vegan and animal rights advocate, he lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, and spends a portion of each year in a village on the coast of Slovenia. In 2014 he was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship in Fiction for his distinguished contribution to Australian and international literature.
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Kellinde Wrightson
The Notorious Frances Thwaites
True crime/historical fiction
ISBN 978-1-921556-42-5 | 400 pages pb | World Rights
Published: November 2014
The Notorious Frances Thwaites is a stand alone novel of a trilogy – text available for Parts 2 & 3 on request
Frances Thwaites had the sort of face that men found irresistable, sometimes disturbingly, sensual. She was mercurial and wayward and had a will of her own to go with it. As punishment for being too headstrong, her London-based parents sent her to the rough and ready Colony of New South Wales where, it was hoped, she would learn to do as she was told. She did not. Instead spurred on by her belief that she could do as she wished, she wandered from one misadventure to another, her involvement in crime escalating from petty theft to baby farming to full scale murder. As the press became obsessed with her story, she was alternately demonised and fantasised over. She became as infamous and controversial as Ned Kelly, Australia’s most famous bushranger. This novel based on a meticulous re-examination of letters, trial transcripts and first-hand accounts, tells a tale readers who follow historical fiction with a strong female protagonist.
Kellinde Wrightson is an award-winning scholar and published academic researcher. She has a BA with First Class Honours and the University Medal as well as a PhD in English from the University of Sydney. She also has an LLB and is a qualified lawyer in the jurisdiction of New South Wales. She has been a research fellow and lecturer in English literature, lawyer, reviewer and writer. She was an Australian Bicentennial Fellow, a British Library Centre for the Book Fellow, and an Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow. Her doctoral thesis was published by University College, London, in 2001. She received a Literary Arts Residency at The Banff Centre during which she completed the final book in The Baby Farmer Trilogy. Born in Sydney, Australia, and raised in the idyllic setting of the South Coast of New South Wales, Kellinde Wrightson now lives in Canada where she spends her time writing and skiing.
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Vrasidas Karalis
The Demons of Athens
Literary non-fiction
ISBN 978-1-921556-41-8
Published: November 2014 | Length: 65,000 word | World Rights
The narrator of the books starts a journey of discovery around the meaning of home, in a diary form, with a trip to Athens in the midst of the economic and social implosion of the country. He fuses fiction, reportage and autobiography in an attempt to illustrate the social collapse of Greece and its subsequent lack of creative imagination. The book consists of brief snapshots based on episodes that take place in Athens, ranging from people eating rotten food in garbage bins, to contemporary political discussions at the Greek Parliament and the representation of the struggle of ordinary people to make their living. Demons of Athens belongs to the hybrid trans-generic literature which found its best expression in books such as Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana, Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines and Jonathon Raban's Coasting.
“This remarkable book about the current situation in Greece – passionate, moving, rich in insight and observation … This is a courageous, angry and powerful book in which, like James Joyce, Vrasidas Karalis can be said to have written a chapter in the moral history of my race.” Nicholas Murray – author of Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin
Vrasidas Karalis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published extensively, with special emphasis on Greek and European literatures, Greek Cinema, Balkan culture, European Union and Greece. He has also worked on modern European political philosophy, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Cornelius Castoriadis. He has also translated two novels by Patrick White and Greek poetry into English. He won the Greek literary prize on translation for Patrick White’s Voss. His literary work includes a book on Manoly Lascaris (2007) and two collections of poems in Greek. BACK TO CONTENTS
ISBN 978-1-921556-25-8
Autobiography/Art $49.95
480 pages with colour images
World Rights | Published: February 2014
2016 Shortlisted for WA Premier’s Book Awards – WA History
The emergence of the modern Aboriginal art movement is the most exciting and transcendent chapters of contemporary Australian history. Within the space of just 40 years Indigenous artists transformed the perception of their culture from something of strictly ethnographic interest, into a booming international industry worth millions. They produced art works that collectors have been prepared to pay thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire. These works have found their way into major international cities and art collections all over the world. This personal account of the story of the fluctuating fortunes and exponential success of the Aboriginal art movement is an incredibly exciting one with all of the elements one would expect of a complex drama, played out on a national and international stage.
“The Dealer is the Devil could have been called Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Aboriginal Art. … the text is a masterpiece of art writing. This is a great book to help readers understand the beauty and significance of Indigenous art. “ Clive Tilsley, Books + Publishing
Adrian Newstead OAM has worked to represent Aboriginal artists and promote their work to a National and International audience for more than 20 years. In 2016 he received a Medal in the Order of Australia for the promotion of indigenous arts. He has coordinated more than 250 Aboriginal art exhibitions, has been a valuer of Australian Aboriginal art for the past 6 years and has acted as the agent for artists in negotiating copyright and licensing agreements. He has travelled extensively throughout Aboriginal Australia each year and has well-established contacts with craft advisers, artists’ agents, exhibiting galleries, wholesalers, retailers and artists in most remote regions of Australia.
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68,000 words
ISBN 978-1-921556-46-3
World Rights
Published: October 2014
On the top shelf in his aunt’s dressing room, Damien Freeman discovered a collection of family memorabilia that told a story he had always assumed to be perfectly unexceptional. As he looked into the aunt’s mirrors, however, he realised that her house held the key to understanding the simple yet arresting values that had sustained seven generations of his family in Australia: the holiness of family life, love of ordinary people, commitment to communal life, attachment to objects, possibility of reclaiming the past, and reconciliation to the raging of family ghosts. The Aunt’s Mirrors reveals an unexpected story of how an immigrant family from Poland made a new life – whilst continuing an old one - through the shared sense of meaningfulness that permeated this Australian Jewish family.
“Damien Freeman’s memoir is utterly engaging, subtle where it counts, robust in its narrative and utterly charming. Its central device gives it a unity and a drive readers will enjoy.” Tom Kenneally, author of Schindler’s List.
“Jewish and Australian history converge in this compelling and beautifully documented memoir. The Aunt’s Mirrors is sure to resonate strongly with those readers who adore the details of history.” Richard Zimler, author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
Damien Freeman was born in Sydney in 1976 and educated at the University of Sydney and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has lectured in the Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge on Beauty, Art and Aesthetic Experience and at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. His particular research interests are
aesthetics, human value, the emotions, and psychoanalysis.
Visit Damien’s website.
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Speculative Fiction
ISBN 978-1-921556-20-3
600 pp pb | $32.95 | World Rights
Published: April 2014
Shortlisted for Victorian Premiers Literary Award 2015
2014 Guardian Australia Best Books of 2014
N is in the genre of Philip Roth’s masterwork of counter factual history. The novel imagines an alternative Australia under the heel of pro-Japanese fascists. N is a story of ordinary people at a time of crisis; how they survive, how they succumb, how they triumph. In 1942, with the Japanese army on Australia’s doorstep, the death of a moderate independent politician precipitates a crisis in the government and allows a core of extreme right-wing politicians, backed by the military, to seize power. N centres on a small number of Australians – artists, writers, soldiers, public servants, internees – who are implicated in this deception and whose lives are torn apart by it. It focusses on artists against fascism.
“... N is a significant contribution to the catalogue of Australian literature. Simply put this novel is a tour de force. ... N is nothing short of superb.” Readings monthly
“... One of the most ambitious novels of 2014.” Guardian Australia best books 2014
John A Scott is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose. His works have been published in the USA , UK and have appeared in French, German, Italian, Slovenian and Dutch translation. He has received Victorian Premier's prizes for both poetry and fiction. His screenplay for What I Have Written won an International Mystery Film Festival prize in Bologna and received an AFI nomination and an AWGIE award for best screenplay. His sequence of five short novels, Before I Wake, was shortlisted for the Banjo and the Miles Franklin awards and the Victorian Premier’s Prize. The Architect was shortlisted for the 2002 Biennial Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Fiction and the Miles Franklin award. In 2008 he received a Breaking New Ground award from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the speculative historical romance, Inland Sea.
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Igor Gelbach
Tsaplin’s testimony
Fiction (Translated from the Russian by Alexander Boot) ISBN 978-1-921556-38-8 352 pp pb | $29.95 World rights | Russian edition published by Rudomino Publishers in Moscow Published: August 2013
When and how did the Tsaplin case begin? With the 1942 murder of a British intelligence officer in Alexandria? In the chaotic days of the 1968 Prague Spring? At the 1973 interrogation in the Leningrad KGB office? And how was Tsaplin’s life altered by the novel he had translated? Forces of history and contingencies of fate drive Tsaplin across three continents to Melbourne, where some very old grievances and betrayals come to a head...
“This is a novel of remarkable richness, swaying evocatively between fictive characters, modern European history and something that feels very close to autobiography. The threads of Middle Europe are woven into a new, haunting pattern, framed at last by the soothing richness of an Australian landscape. And Gelbach’s interacting characters are emotionally larger than civil life.” Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Igor Gelbach is a Russian writer living in Australia since 1989. He graduated as a physicist from Tbilisi State University in Georgia, and lived in Riga, Moscow, Tbilisi, Leningrad and Sukhumi on the Black Sea, rather like the characters of his novels, the artists and intellectuals. He was first published in 1986. In 2001, Gelbach was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize for Confessions of a Clay Man (English translation published by Brandl & Schlesinger) and was admitted into the prestigious St Petersburg Writers’ Guild as an overseas member. In 2003, his second novel, Notes from the Esplanade (English translation published by Brandl & Schlesinger) was short listed for the Victorian Premier’s Award for Literary Translation. Gelbach’s Blum Lost was published in 2004 by Amphora in St Petersburg. It was acclaimed as one of the best Russian novels of the decade and short listed for Andrei Bely Literary Award. Tsaplin’s testimony, the writing of which was supported by an Australia Council grant.
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Fiction $26.95
68,000 words
ISBN 978-1-921556-07-4 | World Rights
Published: 2013
The Person of the Man takes the reader into the outwardly successful but severely flawed marriage of Alice, a lawyer and Martin, an ambitious Oxford academic. At the heart of their relationship is the ‘person of the man’ – a selfish weighing of the advantages each person brings to the marriage. Martin’s betrayal and the tragedy that follows leads Alice to realise that the person of the man is often hidden and that love cannot be analysed it can only be understood.
“A narrative with a twist - Through a very successful fusion of descriptive narrative and laconic dialogue, the dramatic soliloquy of a determined female voice silently constructs a deceptively linear story, which is however punctuated by unexpected turns and counter-turns. This is the narrative of the subconscious—despite the staunch rationalism of the central narrator, the book is full of sub-texts and anti-narratives , configured around languages of nuances, grades and shadings. Athanasou is the master of understatement—he knows how to unfold a story in which nothing happens but in which everything described is full of energy and emotional force. “ Professor Vrasidas Karalis – Professor of Modern Greek Studies
Nick Athanasou grew up in Sydney, graduating in medicine at Sydney University. He is Professor of Pathology at Oxford University and a Fellow of Wadham College. He has a world wide reputation as one of the leading authorities on musculo-skeletal pathology. Athanasou’s scientific background adds strength and conviction to his forensic description and in creating the atmosphere of academia where much of Palindrome is set. He has published three novels, and received an Australia Council New Writing Award.
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Cover image: Garry Shead
Memoir/Autobiography
ISBN 1 876040 66 1 200 pp pb $26.95
Rights: World; Polish rights sold to Jacek Santorski; Israel rights sold to Kinneret Zmora Bitan Dvir Publishing
Audio book available
2007 Winner National Biography Award
2006 Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction
2006 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction
2006 Shortlisted for the SA Arts Award for Innovation in Fiction
2006 Shortlisted for the Australian Gold Medal for Literature
REPRINTED SIX TIMES
East of Time is a rendezvous of history and imagination, of realities and dreams, hopes and disenchantments. This extraordinary book, by turns stark and poetic, unfolds in a succession of short reminiscences that weave together into a shimmering tapestry depicting a lost world. The setting is Lodz, Poland, during the author’s childhood, when he witnessed the grand belief in a just new world overtaken by the cataclysmic events of the 1930s, imprisoned between the walls of ghettos, and finally silenced at Auschwitz. “East of Time is the most ruthlessly honest book about the nature of humankind that I have ever read… Reading it has changed my life. How, after reading this book, can I ever again look into my heart and not weep?” Alex Miller “Only a writer of the first rank can weave his love of song lyrically into a story of suffering that knows no redemption without debasing the suffering that he recounts.” Raimond Gaita JACOB G. ROSENBERG (1922–2008) was a poet, storyteller and author who lived through one of history’s darkest nightmares, and in his writings created a passionate and unique testament.
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Vrasidas Karalis
Non Fiction, Australian Literature
ISBN 978-1-921556-95-6
World Rights | Published: 2008 178 pp – RRP $26.95
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Recollections of Mr Lascaris relate Vrasidas Karalis’ personal recollections of discussions and meetings with Manoly Lascaris, the Nobel Prize author, Patrick White’s life-partner. In these recollections, Lascaris, an obscure figure in the existing literature on White, appears as a distinct intellectual in his own right, talking about Patrick White, Australia and Greece. His ideas offer new perspectives in the interpretation of White’s work and indicate a different understanding of their relationship. This book sheds light on the life and the mind of an extremely enigmatic man who has been overlooked because of his elusive personality and who spent all his life almost ignored under the shadow of Australia’s most important writer. Lascaris was credited with being the driving force who kept White to his literary labours.
“Manoly Lascaris was a truly remarkable man, a character Patrick White might have wanted to invent. Vrasidas Karalis has written of him beautifully, with great sympathy. This is an engrossing and wise book, an altogether moving experience. “ Robert Gray.
Vrasidas Karalis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published extensively, with special emphasis on Greek and European literatures, Greek Cinema, Balkan culture, European Union and Greece. He has also worked on modern European political philosophy, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Cornelius Castoriadis. He has also translated two novels by Patrick White and Greek poetry into English. He won the Greek literary prize on translation for Patrick White’s Voss.
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