Jennifer Fallon — Fantasy fiction
Jennifer Fallon
A fantasy author with great freshness and style. Jennifer’s Demon Child trilogy, consisting of Medalon, Treason Keep and Harshini, was published by HarperCollins Australia. The books are very popular, and the trilogy was also sold to the US, Germany and Russia.
Her second series, the Second Sons Trilogy, was also published by HarperCollins. The three books are Lion of Senet, Eye of the Labyrinth and Lord of the Shadows, and they have all been sold into the US (Tor) and the UK (Orbit).
Wolfblade, Warrior (cover detail, right), and Warlord, making up Jenny’s third series, The Hythrun Chronicles, were released in 2005. This series will be released by Tor in the US.
Her latest work, The Tide Lords, a four-title series, has been contracted to HarperCollins for Australian rights and to Tor for North America and Canada. Book One is titled The Immortal Prince:
“He’s insisting he’s a Tide Lord and he’s begging us
to try again ...
to kill him, that is.”
When a routine hanging goes wrong, the survivor announces he is Cayal the Immortal
Prince, a Tide Lord. However, the only known record of the immortal beings
of Amyrantha is the Tide Lord Tarot... and everyone knows it is just a
parlour-game, an amusement. Arkady Desean, an expert on the legends of the
Crasii — a part-animal, part-human race — is sent to interrogate
Cayal. But, in exposing this would-be immortal, Arkady’s own web of deceit
threatens to unravel. Nothing is really as it seems around the Immortal Prince.
The lies seem plausible, his stories improbable ... and the truth is more than
any of them bargained for.
Praise for Jennifer Fallon:
——— ‘in a word: captivating’ HERALD SUN on Wolf blade
——— ‘an outstanding fantasy read’ AUSSIEREVIEWS on Wolf
blade
——— ‘sparkling high fantasy’ KIRKUS REVIEWS on
Medalon
——— ‘The Immortal Prince is the beautifully woven story of Cayal’s journey to immortality and his gradual seduction of Arkady. Featuring Fallon’s usual snappy dialogue, intricate plots and three-dimensional characters, this is epic fantasy at its best. Four and a half stars.’ — Good Reading Magazine, April 07.
A new trilogy, Rift Runners, has been contracted to HarperCollins for Australian and New Zealand rights.
Jennifer’s website:
www.jenniferfallon.com
Susan Fraser — Fiction
is an Australian living in France. Her first novel, Déjà Vu, is a beautifully written account of a couple who get another chance at life. The novel opens with Annie and Marc driving through the pouring rain. They are having a row and have decided the best solution would be to separate. When they arrive home they hear their son upstairs on the computer. The door bell rings and the son, Charlie, races downstairs to answer it. A poiceman is standing in the doorway. He tells the boy there has been a car accident and both his parents are dead. And so begins a journey back in time to see if the course of their lives can be changed.
Susan trained as a lawyer. She taught French and English in Sydney and later in Paris. She now lives in Northern France with her son and her French husband. Déjà Vu has been sold into Germany, Russia and Turkey.
Pamela Freeman — Children’s and young adults fantasy and non-fiction
Pamela Freeman
Her delightful fable Victor’s Quest was shortlisted for The Children’s Book Council of Australia Award in 1996 and The Centre of Magic was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award in 2000.
Allen & Unwin published the Floramonde Trilogy, which consists of The Willow Tree’s Daughter, Windrider and The Centre of Magic. This highly imaginative trilogy has secured Pamela a position as one of Australia’s leading writers of fantasy for children.
The illustrated fairytale Cherry Blossom and the Golden Bear was released by Omnibus in February 2000. Pamela is also completing a series of titles for Koala Books. Those already published include The Hair of the Skeleton, Scum of the Earth and Trick of the Light.
A work on the early life of Mary McKillop titled The Black Dress was published by Black Dog Books. It won the 2006 New South Wales Premier’ Priize for History.
Pamela’s Blood Ties, the first book of her new adult fantasy sequence for adults, The Castings Trilogy, was published in 2007 by Hachette Livre. Deep Water, the second book in the trilogy, was published in 2008 and the third book Full Circle is due to be published in September 2009. The trilogy has also been sold to Orbit in Britain and the US. American film producer John Flavin has recently optioned the first book in the trilogy, Blood Ties.
The Eleven Domains were forged in blood a thousand years ago. The blood is about to flow again.
Bramble is as wild as the animals she follows deep into the forest near her village. Her dark eyes betray her heritage — she’s a Traveller, one of the despised original people of the Domains. And for as long as she can remember, she has wanted to take to the Road like her grandfather. But the gods who dwell near the alders always say no … In Turvite, where ghosts drift along dark cobbled streets, Ash must leave his parents, and the Road, to begin an apprenticeship with the only person who will accept a Traveller — the scheming, yet irresistible, Doronit. But the gods who linger in the gloomy square have other plans for him … From different ends of the Eleven Domains, death casts Bramble and Ash on journeys across valleys and mountains, deep into themselves and the dark history of their ancestors.
Nobel Prize for Literature 2000
Gao Xingjian — Novels, plays (in Chinese and French)
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian was born in China but now lives in France. It was there that his novel La Montagne de L’ame or Soul Mountain was originally published and became a best-seller, going into three editions. Mabel Lee’s English language translation of the novel was first published by HarperCollins Publishers Australia in July 2000 (see below). Mabel Lee is represented by Australian Literary Management, and ALM is the lead agent for the English language translation of Soul Mountain.
You can read the first chapter of Soul Mountain on
this website, as well as Mabel’s perceptive and informative Introduction to
the book, and the Swedish Academy’s bibliographical note published on the
occasion of the 2000 Nobel Prize:
Soul Mountain - Chapter One
Mabel Lee -
Introduction to Soul Mountain
Swedish Acedemy -
bibliographical note
"On the traveller’s journey to Soul Mountain he visits a nature reserve, listens to toothless old men and women squatting along the river banks, hears atrocious stories which make up the history of the country: women violated by outlaws of the Red Army, women who know how to embroider but who have guns hidden under their clothes, women with flashing eyes hungry for love, young women singing for the festival of the boat dragons, women who threaten their unfaithful lovers with a knife. Portraits of these admirable women punctuate the journey in the form of temptations towards drunkenness, nostalgias and violent sexuality." (Le Figaro, 11/1/96)
Gao’s second novel One Man’s Bible focuses the political horrors of the twentieth century through the lens of desire and memory. It has received rave reviews in the US.
Gao has also released a beautiful collection of short stories Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather, HarperCollins 2004.
The Case for Literature, a collection of Gao Xingjian’s essays, including his Nobel Laureate address, was released by HarperCollins Australia in 2006 and has been contracted to Yale University Press.
ALM represents the English language translations of Gao’s novels internationally.
Gao Xingjian is also known as a painter with a strong yet subtle style. You can view some of his watercolors on the website of the Art Gallery La Tour des Cardinaux in France, at http://www.cardinaux.com/site_eng/gao_eng.htm
Mabel Lee — Translation from the Chinese
Mabel Lee
After a distinguished academic career in South-east Asian studies at Sydney University, Mabel Lee turned to literature.
HarperCollins Australia published her translation of Soul Mountain in June 2000. It won the NSW Premier’s Prize for Translation in 2001. HarperCollins released Soul Mountain in hardcover in the US and printed 85,000 copies to meet demand in the first two months of publication. HarperCollins UK released their edition early in 2001.
Mabel’s translation of Gao’s next novel, One Man’s Bible , was published by HarperCollins in the US, UK and Australia in 2002. Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather, a beautiful collection of Gao’s short stories, was translated by Mabel and published by HarperCollins in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.A. in 2004.
Leon Gettler — Organisations Behaving Badly
Modern corporations, like the mythical hero and king Oedipus Rex, are often afflicted with a refusal to acknowledge the truth. A strange power seems to draw company directors, managers and accountants into a grotesque and deadly dance of collusion and self-deception...
Why else would Arthur Anderson, a venerable but now failed accounting firm whose integrity was once an industry benchmark, happily approve the accounts associated with some of the biggest company disasters the world has ever seen?
How was Hollinger International able to be looted of virtually 440 million US dollars over a seven-year period? Was everyone asleep?
Greed, hidden unconscious forces and disaster!
Combining an understanding of the tragedies of Sophocles with the psychoanalytical insights of Freud and others, journalist Leon Gettler explorers a litany of corporate disasters from the 18th-century South Sea Bubble to the rich stew of present-day scandals.
Published by John Wiley and Sons.
Marlish Glorie — Fiction
“If only life was like a book… in that everything made sense and you know all will be resolved in the end. If only life was like a book so that if you decided you didn’t like it, you could take it back and get another one.”
The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street is a brilliant black comedy by Marlish Glorie, a unique new Australian voice, its world peopled by an extensive cast of misfits – eccentrics, innocents, cranks and pariahs – and driven by an inexorable urge to make order out of chaos.
Published by Freemantle Press 2009
Glenda Guest
Siddon Rock
“… best first book, 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize”
When Macha Connor came home from the war she walked into town as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn and shining boots, a dusty slouch hat, and the .303 rifle she held across her waist.
Macha patrols Siddon Rock by night, watching over the town’s inhabitants: Brigid and Granna and the melancholic men of the Aberline clan; Sybil Barber, scrubbing away at the bloodstains in her father’s butcher shop; the tailor, Alistair Meakins, with his elegant fantasies; Reverend Siggy, afraid of the vast landscape and the district’s strange saltpans; silent Nell with her wild dogs; publican Marge, accompanied as always by her cloud of blue; and the inscrutable new barman, Kelpie Crush.
It is only when refugee Catalin Morningstar and her young son Josis arrive and stir up the town that Macha learns there is nothing she, or anyone, can do to keep the townspeople safe. Siddon Rock is an ordinary outback town made extraordinary by a remarkable new Australian voice.
Glenda Guest
In April 2010 Siddon Rock was announced as the winner of the £5000 (A$8,250) best first book award in this year’s Commonwealth Writers Prize. The judges praised Siddon Rock for its rich cast of odd characters and blending of the everyday with fantasy. “Behind every door in town lurk secret desires and wild imaginings. The novel,” they concluded, “deftly delves into the hauntings and disjunctions of settler Australia, and in its fable-like quality captures the laconic mannerisms of the Australian outback.” Guest, whose debut novel has also been longlisted for the Miles Franklin award in Australia, said the award was “verification that this is any good, that I can actually write”. Now in her 60s, Guest said: “Although I started to write late in my life I always knew that I would become a novelist. I am stunned to be receiving this attention which is a huge boost to my confidence and will help me to press on with writing my next novel. This shows that it’s never too late to start a new endeavour”.
Meredith Curnow, publisher of the Vintage imprint at Random House Australia, said the team was “thrilled”. “Particularly so for Glenda whose journey to writing this remarkable book is a tale in itself”.
Siddon Rock has also been shortlisted for the Glenda Adams/ UTS/ Best first novel award and the NSW Premiers Prize.
Glenda Guest grew up in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, and that landscape still influences her writing. Since leaving the west, she has lived in cities and country towns in Victoria, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and south-east Queensland, all experiences that add to the richness that writers draw on for their fiction. She is currently living in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
Amanda Hampson — Fiction:
The Olive Sisters
and
Two For the Road
“A moving novel of journeys, family and finding yourself — by an exciting new Australian author.” — Bryce Courtenay
“I open the gate and walk into the field… As the sun pours a river of light down this valley, I realise there are hundreds and hundreds of trees and I’ve seen those silver leaves before, not here in Australia, but shimmering in the groves that grace the terraced hillsides of Tuscany!”
When Adrienne’s marketing company goes down, her lifestyle does too. She retreats from the city to the beautiful, abandoned olive grove once owned by her Italian grandparents. A ‘tree change’ isn’t what Adrienne has in mind, however, and life in the country delivers some surprises as she confronts the past and learns the secrets of the Olive Sisters… Old loves, new loves, warm toast and rich traditions are all part of the delicious blend of this absorbing story.
You can read an excerpt from the book on Amanda’s Internet site at http://www.amandahampson.com/, as well as a Q&A with Amanda, and a discussion for reading groups.
The Olive Sisters was published by Penguin in 2006 and has been contracted to Heyne in Germany.
Two For the Road
When Cassie Munrow fled her hometown of Bilkara to follow the charismatic Dan to the other side of the world, she never expected to return. Now, devastated by revelations of Dan’s betrayal and the news of a brutal attack on her father, she returns home with nothing left to lose.
Against her better judgement, she finds herself battling to save the family business. In the midst of her struggle, Cassie is reunited with her first love, Mack, who forces her to confront a guilty secret and the tragic past they share.
Christine Harris — Young adults, illustrated children’s books, public speaking
Christine Harris, 2008
Christine is a prolific and popular author for young readers. Her young adult novel, Foreign Devil(Random House, 1999), won an Aurealis award for best novel in the horror genre.
Random House published her collection of witty anecdotes Oddballs in 1998 and have also recently released Warped, a bizarre collection of short stories. An illustrated book I Don’t Want to go to School, with Craig Smith, was released by Random in January 2000 and has proved very popular.
The Little Book of Elephants was published in March 2000 by Hodder Headline, who have also published a three-book series, Brain Drain, Windbag and Psycho Gran. Christine’s other titles include Hairy Legs, Sleeping In and Jamil’s Shadow. Christine’s series Spy Girl, made up of four volumes, has been published by Scholastic in Australia, Britain, the US, Japan and Brazil.
Christine’s latest series, Audrey of the Outback, has been published by Little Hare. The first volume has been short-listed for the year’s Children’s Book Council awards. The second volume, Audrey Goes to Town, was followed by Audrey’s Big Secret.
You can visit Christine Harris’s website at: www.christineharris.com.au
Vicki Hastrich — Novels
Vicki Hastrich
A new author with a great gift for humour and characterisation. Vicki’s novel, Swimming with the Jellyfish, evokes an Australian country town through the eyes of an eccentric woman, still coming to terms with the disappearance of her mother twenty years ago. The novel has a fantastic cast of characters: the pale, body-pierced librarian; the retired football hero with an interest in local history; and the socialite wife who escapes the seaside town for night-time window shopping in the city. A fresh, original voice, filled with wonderful ironic touches. Swimming with the Jellyfish was published by Simon & Schuster Australia in 2001.
Her second novel, The Great Arch, was inspired by real people and events involving the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge which began in the 1920s. The Reverend Ralph Cage becomes obsessed. He sets out to minutely chronicle the building of the great arch and to draw himself into the orbit of its human and spiritual grandeur. But Ralph is tragically ill-equipped for his own mighty task. A social bungler, and helpless when confronted by the demands of everyday, Ralph presides ineptly over his diminishing parish, finds himself in trouble with church authorities, and struggles to meet the needs of his long-suffering wife Stella and their four children. As the Bridge rises up to loom over their parish, and the great Depression takes its toll on their lives, Ralph’s parishioners live an altogether different life than that promised by Ralph’s idyll.
This ambitious novel is a deeply, moving and emotional journey. Vicki Hastrich’s language is surprising and rich, the writing energetic and compelling, and her characters are funny, heartbreaking and human in a way that is truly memorable.
Annette Henderson
Wild Spirit
How a year in the African rainforest
changed an Australian woman's life
This well-written memoir tells how a country captures a woman’s heart. It describes anthropologist Annette Henderson’s time in the mountainous forests of Gabon, West Africa, living among gorillas, and the events that change her own life and the lives of some of the world’s most magnificent animals. The book was published in 2009 by Random House.
There was no precedent in my life for this moment. I was approaching an eight year old male gorilla who had never seen me before. He already had the strength of several men. All I had to rely on was Hugo’s assurance that he was gentle. In seconds, I took in everything about him: his round-topped head, not yet mature enough to have the sagittal crest that would mark him as a mature male; the leathery texture of his fingers and face; the pushed in shape of his nostrils; the cleanness of his thick black hair, and the intensity of his gaze. His body language conveyed a deep calmness. His movements were relaxed and deliberate. He was not afraid — so, taking my cue from him — nor was I.
This is just one of the life-changing African experiences which would resonate with her for all time — “the day I looked into Ikata’s eyes and glimpsed eternity.”
Annette is a committed conservationist. Her articles on Australian birds and reptiles have appeared in Wildlife Australia Magazine. Annette and her husband share seven acres of bushland near Brisbane with koalas, wallabies, powerful owls, over 100 species of native birds and their dog Bentleigh. She is a classically trained singer, enjoys regular workouts at the gym, and runs half marathons.
Aust/NZ Rights: Random House Australia.
Sally Henderson
When an elephant saved Sally Henderson’s life in Botswana, it was to change her irrevocably. A passion to conserve this majestic species was ignited, and in 1990 she left Australia to join an elephant research project in the wilds of Zimbabwe. What follows is a remarkable journey into the world of Africa’s elephants, and a deeply personal memoir of one woman’s awakening and the choices she makes to follow her calling. Sally paints a rare and unforgettable portrait of a herd and its matriarchs, and the perils they face in an unforgiving landscape further torn apart by civil strife.
But it is the daily pleasures of being in their mighty presence that gives her story its countless wonders. Beautifully written, Silent Footsteps is a love letter to the spirit of Africa and a jubilant portrayal of the lives of elephants.
Silent Footsteps has sold to Limes/Blanvalet in Germany.
Rights in UK and US territories are available.
Sally Henderson’s long love affair with Africa and its elephants was brought to life in the bestselling Silent Footsteps. Her new book Ivory Moon continues that affair in one of the most inhospitable landscapes on the planet…
When Sally and her husband Jer volunteer to run a remote safari camp in the parched Namib Desert where existence depends on the life-giving fog from the Skeleton Coast, she has no idea if it is heaven or hell that awaits her. Sally is tested by the camp staff, who come from many different tribes, and challenged by the intractable men’s men who make Africa their hunting ground.
Vivid and immediate, Sally’s depiction of the wildlife that rules Africa is unparalleled. Ivory Moon takes us into the heart of a strange desert world where nothing is as it seems.
Karen Hitchcock — fiction
Fresh and new and full of shocking beauty, Karen Hitchcock’s debut collection of thirteen short stories Little White Slips was published by Pan MacMillan in 2010 and has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award (Glenda Adams Award for new writing) and for the Dobbie Award for a first published work by a woman author of fiction or non-fiction classifiable as “life writing”, part of the Nita B. Kibble Literary Awards.
Karen’s stories are painful to read in their honesty, and yet they are also at times hilarious and crazy. The narrative moves at an exhilarating pace and just when you think it will spin out, deftly turns a corner and becomes quietly gratifying and beautiful.
Karen Hitchcock
Karen is a medical registrar at the John Hunter Hospital and a lecturer in Medicine at the University of Newcastle, and has also completed her PhD in English/Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Her intelligent, wry and frequently surprising stories often draw on her background as a doctor, giving her work idiosyncratic insights that make for compelling reading.
Karen is currently working on a novel that is set in an inner suburb of a large city, to be completed in 2010.
Australia and New Zealand rights: Pan Macmillan
Sarah Hopkins
Sarah Hopkins has worked in the area of social justice and prisoner rights for 15 years. She is currently working as a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney.
Billy Fish is granted parole. After serving three years for a violent robbery he walks out of the prison gates. His life has revolved around drugs, crime and custody, while his sister Rose has lived a structured existence working and caring for her son. When Rose's life unravels after a tragic accident, it is up to Billy to leave his crimes behind him and to find the strength to save his sister.
World rights: ABC Books
Her new novel Speak to Me was released by Penguin in May 2010.
Michael, a psychiatrist, is trying to put his life together after a brain tumour. His lawyer wife Elizabeth is wrestling with her new role as breadwinner. Their children are acting out the chaos their parents refuse to confront. This is the story of a troubled daughter who cannot talk to her mother, a mother who does not know how to listen, a father who listens but cannot see, and a son who will only talk to God.
Over the course of one week, events will threaten to tear this family apart — but also bring them from the brink of darkness towards a kind of redemption. From one of Australia’s most acclaimed new novelists, Speak to Me is a compelling tale of love, loss and survival.
Lyn Hughes
Lyn Hughes — Novels
Lyn’s novel The Bright House (Random House, 2000) is set in South Africa and Britain, and explores the devastation caused by a passion that crosses the borders of racial segregation and the trauma following the stillbirth of a child.
Born in Wales in 1952, Lyn spent eighteen years in South Africa before settling in Australia in 1982. Her first two novels were The Factory (1990) and One-Way Mirrors (1993). She has recently completed a new novel, Flock, which is contracted to HarperCollins Australia.
Neil James — Plain English:
Writing at Work
As Executive Director of the Plain English Foundation, Dr Neil James is on a
mission to simplify Australia’s writing style, influence public language
and bring real results for business and government. Here he talks about his new
book, Writing at Work.
‘As someone with a loveof words, I have an ideal job: I spend my days helping professionals to improve their workplace writing. This can be confronting because it usually means using a simpler and less formal style. Many professionals feel that this will diminish their status or the technical content, but they are delighted to discover that the opposite usually happens… We have so much work ahead of us, which is partly why I decided to write the book Writing at Work.... Like many people, I had to make up for being part of the grammar-less generation. We stopped teaching grammar in the Australian school system for 20 years. This was a great mistake.... Because writing is such a threshold skill, this is now affecting their careers. I’d also like to see civic rhetoric — the art of speaking and writing effectively and persuasively — restored to the curriculum. This is the classic craft of communication that was tossed out over 100 years ago, having been at the heart of education for centuries.’
Adib Khan — Novels
Adib Khan
Born in Bangladesh, Adib Khan came to Australia in 1973. Adib’s debut novel Seasonal Adjustments won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers Prize. This was followed by Solitude of Illusions in 1996 and The Storyteller in June 2000, and Homecoming in 2005.
His new novel is Spiral Road. Masud Alam has lived in Australia for the past 30
years. Now his father is dying, drifting in a haze of Alzheimer’s, and
Masud has returned to Bangladesh to say goodbye and to reconnect with his
family. As Masud reacquaints himself with the country whose independence he
fought for, he is surprised by the shifting, complex views of his old friends
and neighbours. He also discovers some family secrets, when a chance remark by
his father prompts him to examine old family papers. But most disturbing of all
are the secrets of his young nephew, Omar, recently returned from America with a
quiet steeliness in his gaze.
“Spiral Road is a rare work that gives insights into the ties that bind and the world views that reverberate beyond the placid, prosperous streets of Australia.” The Sydney Morning Herald April 14 2007
Rights sold: Australia/New Zealand (HarperCollins Australia)
Margo Kingston — Journalism and non-fiction
Margo is a Canberra-based journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Her personal account of Pauline Hanson’s 1998 election campaign, Off the Rails, was published by Allen and Unwin in 1999 and won the Dobbie Award for the most outstanding first book by a female author. Margot’s analysis of the Howard Government, Not Happy, John!, was published by Penguin in 2004 and went straight to the best-seller lists.
Malcolm Knox
Malcolm Knox — Fiction, non-fiction, journalism
Website: http://www.malcolmknox.com.au/
One of Australia’s most highly acclaimed and versatile writers, Malcolm Knox has published five books. The former literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, Malcolm won a Walkley award in 2004 for the expose of fraudulent author Norma Khouri. He was runner up for Journalist of the Year 2004.
Malcolm was named as one of 2001’s Best Young Novelists by the Sydney Morning Herald for his first novel, Summerland, which was published by Random House in 2004 and sold into the U.K. and U.S.A by Picador. It was published in Germany, Italy, Argentina and The Netherlands.
Malcolm’s third novel, Jamaica, was published by Random House Australia in 2007.
The liveliest pages of this novel — and there are many — chart the absurd, sometimes terrifying adventures of these not-so-innocents abroad… His journalist’s ear, eye and attention to detail have stood him in good stead… The account of the great race and its unexpected aftermath is a tour-de-force. — Andrew Riemer, SMH, August 31, 2007, on Jamaica
“As a remembrance of things past, Knox’s novel is exquisite, blending a lyricism and exuberance of language with subtle undertones that point towards the denouement… Summerland works on many levels and Knox is, quite simply, a fabulous writer.” — Literary Review, UK
“This is one of the most intense depictions of family love and strife in Australian fiction (think Christina Stead)… The book is a dark, exacting triumph.” — The Bulletin on A Private Man
Scattered, the terrifying story of ‘ice’ or “speed” in Australia, was published by Allen and Unwin in 2008.
Malcolm’s latest novel The Life has been contracted to Allen and Unwin in Australia and to Atlantic in the UK.
Susan Kurosowa — Travel and fiction
Susan Kurosawa
Susan is an award-winning travel editor and columnist in The Australian newspaper. Her debut novel Coronation Talkies was published by Penguin in 2004.
This is a rollicking romp of a story set in India and featuring the indefatigable Mrs Banerjee, whose obsession with the glamorous age of Hollywood has left her just a little divorced from the real world. A hilarious over-the-top novel, full of lies, lust and seduction, that will entrance all those who are familiar with the British Raj. A UK edition will be released in 2007.
Susan is currrently working on a sequel to this book, which is also contracted to Penguin.
Rights available: US and translation.
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