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The market down under

Our annual overview of the Australian book market

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The rights stuff Our 10th annual survey of Australian rights managers and literary agents

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The Australian Publishers Association’s guide to Australia’s presence at Frankfurt, with a comprehensive listing of Australian exhibitors, their specialities and locations

15 Australian award winners We round up some of the most-awarded Australian books of the past year

16 Australian bestsellers The top-selling Australian titles of the past year, provided by Nielsen BookScan

18 Titles to look out for A look at some of the leading Australian titles being featured at this year’s fair

22 Title showcase/exhibitor listings More details on some of Australia’s titles and exhibitors

Introduction

Hello and welcome to Think Australian 2012. Produced by Bookseller+Publisher, Australia’s number one source of book industry news, this publication is brought to you in partnership with Publishing Perspectives, and is your comprehensive guide to the Australian book trade.

Now in its 10th year, Think Australian brings you our annual overview of the Australian market, details of digital developments down under, Australia’s bestseller charts, information on our most awarded titles and details about the Australian books that will be featured at the fair.

You’ll also find our annual survey of Australian rights managers and literary agents, and details of where to find Australian publishers, should you wish to know more about the titles Australia has on offer.

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We hope you enjoy this insight into our country’s publishing, and that you have a productive and enjoyable fair!

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Market overview

The

market

down under

It has been ‘a challenging year’ for all in the Australian book market, as Tim Coronel reports.

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f there was one word to sum up the book industry in Australia in the past year, it would be ‘challenging’. A year on from the collapse of Australia’s largest book retailer, the REDgroup, it is clear that a proportion of the Australian retail book market has probably gone for good, with the demand largely moving online and often offshore. In the crucial preChristmas quarter of 2011, retail sales in bricks-and-mortar bookstores, as measured by Nielsen BookScan, were down 18.3% in value and 13.9% in volume on the previous year. For the first half of 2012 value was down 21% and volume was down 18%, compared to the same period in 2011.

The sales of the bestselling titles are down on previous years, largely overwhelmed by the success of the ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy (which has sold over 1.2 million copies in Australia) and the ‘Hunger Games’ series. With publishers responding to concerns about book prices, the average recommended retail price of books has fallen between three and seven percent.

These disappointing figures aren’t restricted to books: Australia is seeing a general retail downturn. While our economy remains very strong, with record low inflation, interest rates and unemployment, our dollar remains at record high, hovering around US$1.05 (against a long-term average of 75-80 cents). Consumers are rebelling at perceived high domestic prices for all sorts of goods and are shopping online and from offshore in record numbers.

One piece of good retail news is that independent bookshops, which have traditionally had about a 20% market share, now have a larger slice (albeit of a smaller pie). The ‘indies’, as they are known, now make up about a third of all bricks-and-mortar book sales, level-pegging with the remaining chain stores (most of which are privately owned franchise businesses) and mass-market department stores and discounters. Also, if we remove the fall in the market attributable to the collapse of the REDgroup, sales of children’s books are up by six percent; however, fiction is down seven percent and nonfiction down 10%. Nielsen BookScan’s 2011 full-year turnover figure for the Australian book retailers it tracks was approximately A$1.1 billion, more than A$200 million down on 2010.

Local online-only booksellers are doing well, led by Booktopia, which is persistently in the Business Review Weekly’s 100 fastest-growing businesses list, with turnover this year expected to top A$20 million. Now under the ownership of Pearson, the venerable Angus & Robertson retail brand lives on as an online-only retailer, but Pearson recently killed off the Borders name in Australia for good, rebranding the Borders.com.au website as Bookworld.

This retail downturn has of course had an impact on Australian publishers. Many have reduced print runs, trimmed lists, announced reviews and restructures, and a number have shed staff. Murdoch Books appears to be the largest casualty to date: after a major restructure earlier this year, at the time of writing discussions were underway on the sale of this once very successful independent Australian publisher to the largest Australian-owned publisher, Allen & Unwin.

Book production stable; digital formats increase in popularity Figures extracted from Bowker’s Global Books in Print database show that during 2011 some 4132 different publishing entities in Australia produced 19,778 new titles. (This is slightly down on 2010 when 4252 publishers produced 19,831 new titles.) Only three publishers released more than 500 new titles in 2011: audiobook publisher Bolinda, Random House Australia and Macmillan Education Australia. Thirteen publishers produced between 200 and 499 titles, and 14 published between 100 and 199 titles. After these 30 largest publishers, 89 publishers produced between 20 and 99 titles each. At the other end of the scale, 2788 publishers only released one title in the year, representing 67.5% of all publishing entities and 14.1% of titles produced. We can infer that many of these are self-publishers.

Market overview

When it comes to formats, print still rules the roost, but digital is growing fast. Paperback is still clearly the preferred format, with 55.1% of the year’s titles being printed between soft covers. Hardcovers made up only 9.1%. Paperback and hardback have declined slightly on 2010 figures: last year 57% of titles were paperback and 12% hardback. Audiobooks were 3.7% of all titles in 2011, and miscellaneous bindings made up nine percent. While 18.6% of all titles were specifically identified as ‘ebooks’, adding other digital formats such as CD-ROM and DVD, 23% or 4555 titles were published in digital formats in 2011. This number of titles published in digital formats (4555) is almost double the number published in 2010.

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Market overview

Looking at genres, 1853 fiction titles were published in Australia during 2011; 2435 were described as ‘children’s, teenage and educational’; and 11,159 titles ranged across nonfiction categories in both trade and educational areas. The most popular nonfiction subjects include ‘Society & social sciences’, ‘Lifestyle, sport & leisure’ and ‘Health & personal development’.

Some 4429 titles had no identifiable top-level BISAC subject code.

Digital developments There have been a number of developments in Australia’s ebook marketplace in the past year. While many publishers large and small have been busy digitising backlist and producing frontlist as ebooks for the past few years, we have now seen a number of digital-first or ebook-only publishers emerge.

PanMacmillan started Momentum, with a staff of three and a digital-only strategy that ranges widely across genres and combines fast turn-around with canny social media marketing. More recently, Penguin Australia and Harlequin Australia have both announced digital-first romance imprints, capitalising on the massive popularity of romance and related genres as ebooks. SPUNC, the umbrella body for small publishers, is now offering an ebook conversion service that is assisting books and literary magazines from Australia’s burgeoning small-publisher sector to reach local and international audiences in digital formats.

Book retailer Dymocks entered the ‘author services’ market, launching D Books. On the ebook platform side, Melbourne-based HTML5-centric ebook platform Booki.sh increased its number of retail partners among independent bookshops and was then acquired by Overdrive. Another Australian platform, ReadCloud, has partnered with many other of the country’s independent bookshops. And industry-owned price-andavailability service TitlePage announced a partnership with data services provider Thorpe-Bowker, and the development of an ebook solution with Copia.

Unfortunately, there is still no reliable mechanism to measure ebook and online sales. A recent Bowker consumer report identified Australia as a prime growth market for ebook takeup, but best estimates are that the proportion of ebook sales to overall revenue for most publishers is still in high single figures.

Online sales of print books to Australian readers have been growing year by year and might now make up to 20% of all book sales. Of concern to Australian book retailers and publishers is that Amazon and the Book Depository are clear leaders in selling both print books and ebooks to Australians online. Estimates are that each turns over more than A$100 million in sales to Australian customers.

Among the ebook platforms available to Australian consumers, it is estimated the Amazon Kindle is still the clear leader, with approximately 60% market share. Kobo has proved popular in Australia, and is likely on par with Apple iBooks, with Google eBooks following behind. Local platforms ReadCloud and Booki.sh would come next. With Google eBooks announcing its withdrawal from retail partnerships, a number of Australian vendors will have to find a new ebook partner by the end of this year.

Policy and legislation In 2010 the Australian Government founded a Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG), with a wide remit to look into many aspects of the trade and to recommend innovations to assure its future. BISG made its recommendations in late 2011, but to the disappointment of many in the book industry, they were largely ignored by government.

One positive outcome was the establishment of an ongoing Book Industry Collaboration Council. The council’s membership includes representatives from the publishing, bookselling, and printing industries, as well as representatives for authors and agents, libraries, the telecommunications industry, the research community and government.

With the boom in online shopping in recent years, an issue for all retailers, not only booksellers, is that Australia’s 10% goods and services tax (GST) is not charged on incoming parcels unless they have a value of over A$1000. Retailers including booksellers are lobbying government to charge and collect GST on all items delivered to Australian consumers. Online shopping habits have also hit Australia Post, which has to bear the end cost of delivering a hugely increased volume of small parcels.

Australia’s book industry currently operates under parallel important restrictions that give a publisher that holds or acquires Australian territorial rights 30 days to establish copyright of an overseas-published title in Australia and thereby restrict booksellers from importing the title from overseas distributors (except on a single-copy basis). Responding to concerns that this existing so called ‘30/90-day rule’ no longer reflects the speed of the digital world, the book industry agreed on a 14/14-day compromise to speed up local releases of overseas-sourced titles. Australia’s copyright regime is currently in the midst of a massive review which aims to bring legislation and industry practices in line with rapidly changing digital realities. It is expected that this review won’t release a report until late 2013, however.

International appeal Australian publishers continue to produce books with international appeal, with many titles finding rights and translation deals in diverse territories long after their initial domestic publication. As our annual rights survey shows, rights sales of Australian titles continue to be strong, with traditional markets such as the US, UK and European countries being joined by growing markets in South East Asia, India, Eastern Europe and South America (see pages 8-10 for details).

As well as visiting many international book fairs, Australian companies are setting up permanent presences overseas: Allen & Unwin and Hardie Grant, for example, now have offices in the UK. And vice versa: Bloomsbury opened an office in Sydney in 2011. In October last year, Canongate ended its partnership with Text Publishing, with Tony and Maureen Wheeler, former owners of Lonely Planet, buying into one of Australia’s most-awarded independent publishers.

With this challenging domestic market, rights sales for Australianoriginated titles and clever buy-ins of overseas-published ones are all the more essential, which is why over 50 Australian companies have made the long trip to Frankfurt, to show you their wares and for you to pitch them yours. Have an enjoyable and successful Fair!

Market overview

See the Australian book industry first-hand

Australia’s book culture is buzzing. Every major city, and many regional centres, have annual writers festivals that attract audiences of many thousands of keen readers. The Australia Council organises the Visiting International Publishers program, which brings publishing and rights professionals from around the world to either the Sydney Writers Festival or Adelaide Writers Week in alternating years. See http://www. australiacouncil.gov.au/special_projects/initiatives/ visiting_international_publishers for details.

This November the inaugural SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference will be held over two days at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, with a keynote to be given

by Thomas Minkus, Vice-president of Emerging Media and English Language Markets for the Frankfurt Book Fair. It is hoped that the conference will become an annual event. See http://spunc.com.au/independent-publishers-conference

Books and eBooks

Invisible Women of Prehistory Judy Foster with Marlene Derlet Did women invent culture?

Did men invent war?

Australia’s Frankfurt HQ

For many years, aisle B in Hall 8 has been the hub for Australian exhibitors at the Frankfurt Book Fair, although many Australians will also be found on the stands of global parent companies, in the Rights Centre or ‘wandering the halls’ from appointment to appointment. The hub for the Aussie contingent is the Australian Publishers Association (APA) stand at Hall 8.0, B956. To let your hair down, loosen your tie and experience Aussies in party mode, the annual Australian party will again be held from 5pm on the Thursday of the fair, with the APA stand (8.0 B956) doubling as a bar serving Australian beer and wine.

Fish-Hair Woman

Australia at a glance

population: 22.7 million (Sept 2012) number of books published annually: 19,778 (2011) Australian titles in print: approx. 250,000 number of Australian publishers: 4132 (2788 of which only published one title last year) total number of active publishers: 433 (published more than five titles last year) publishers’ turnover: approx. $A1.8 billion (10% drop on 2010) retail sales of books in 2011: A$1.1 billion (18% drop on 2010)

Merlinda Bobis Fans of Barbara Kingsolver’s fiction, [and] early Isabel Allende … will appreciate this book.

–Bookseller & Publisher

sources: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Thorpe-Bowker, Nielsen BookScan, Australian Publishers Association currency conversion At the time of writing, one Australian dollar is worth approximately €0.81, US$1.05 and £0.65

Tim Coronel is a freelance editor and publishing consultant, and a former editor and publisher of Bookseller+Publisher magazine. He will be speaking on the future of the Australian publishing industry at the inaugural SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference in Melbourne on 8-9 November.

My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus International prize-winning novel: 2012 Edmund White Debut Fiction

Hall 8.0 B954 www.spinifexpress.com.au

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Rights survey

The rights stuff For the 10th year in a row, Think Australian has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. Andrew Wrathall reports on the survey’s findings.

Rights survey

More publishers reporting rights income growth

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ustralia’s income from publishing rights deals is starting to look up, according to Think Australian’s annual survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers.

While many rights managers and literary agents (44%) agree that income has remained the same in the past 12 months, this is fewer than the 54% who believed the same thing last year. The number of respondents reporting positive income growth from rights deals has increased this year to 44%, up from 38% last year and bucking the downward trend of smaller income growth since the 2007/08 financial year. However, income growth of more than 10% over the past 12 months was reported by just 28% of survey respondents, which is slightly down on last year when 31% reported growth above 10%. The number of respondents reporting a decline in income has increased to 11%, which is slightly up on the eight percent who reported a decline last year, but still much better news than in our surveys in 2010 and 2009 when 21% and 28% of respondents, respectively, reported a decline in rights income.

According to our survey, the average number of rights deals executed by an Australian publisher or literary agent during the past 12 months was 30, similar to last year’s figure of 29, but down on the previous year’s spike of 74. The largest deal reported was worth £120,000/€191,000, which is slightly down on the value of last year’s biggest deal (A$270,000/€201,000). The smallest deal reported was only A$250/€210. The average highest deal was worth A$55,000/€46,200, up on last year’s average of A$35,000/€26,200. The average smallest deal was worth A$1240/€1040, which was also up on last year’s average of A$750/€560, but closer to the previous year’s average (A$1600/€1200).

Many respondents (42%) believe the rights market for Australian books overseas has remained the same over the past 12 months (see figures on page 10), which is up on last year’s figure (36%).

There was less optimism this year, with only 11% feeling an improvement, compared to the 14% who reported feeling an improvement last year and the 23% who reported feeling an improvement the year before. As in 2011, 43% of respondents suggested the rights market has become slightly worse. Another five percenr feel it has become much worse—only a slight change from last year (seven percent).

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SISTERS OF MERCY Caroline Overington

The haunting story of two sisters – one has vanished, the other is behind bars.

Who is buying Australian books?

The United States, Germany and the United Kingdom are the big three markets for Australian books, according to Australian rights agents and managers. While China climbed above the United Kingdom on the list of top markets by income last year, it fell to seventh place this year (see list on page 10). Similarly, while China was at the top of the list for the number of deals for two years (see list on page 10), it fell below the United States and United Kingdom this year. Korea remains a viable marketplace and the surprise new entry onto the top 10 list is Japan. Respondents report a decline in interest for Australian books in Spain, United Kingdom and China.

Just over half of rights deals (51%) were for markets in languages other than English, but this has slipped from last year’s figure (77%), signalling a return to the traditional English-language markets. The most lucrative foreign-language territories were identified as Germany, France, Korea, Japan, China, Poland, Brazil and Spain, which is quite similar to last year’s list, except for the addition of Japan and disappearance of the Netherlands.

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Developing markets Each year, respondents are asked to nominate the territories that they feel are increasing in importance. Up-and-coming markets most commonly nominated were China, Korea, India, Poland and Brazil. The difference from last year’s list is the addition of India, which has increased in importance for Australian books.

Which categories are selling?

The highest selling category for rights sold overseas was the nonfiction books sector this year, which was slightly above children’s books and well above fiction. In the nonfiction category, memoirs were the most popular, followed by popular science. Most respondents reported no surge of interest in any particular category, however, some respondents noted that erotica has shown a surge of interest, perhaps due to E L James’ ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy (Arrow) remaining at the top of many bestseller charts over several months. Some respondents suggested a decline in general nonfiction, but many reported that there was no real decline for any particular category.

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Preferred ways to reach the world market The Frankfurt Book Fair is still ranked number one among Australian rights managers and agents as the preferred way of reaching the world rights market, however the importance of other fairs is changing: formal arrangements with overseas rights agents have become more important than the London Book Fair according to this year’s respondents and attendance at the Bologna Children’s

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Rights survey

Book Fair has this year become more important than the Australia Council’s Visiting International Publishers program. Like last year, attendance at BookExpo America continues to drop in importance for Australian rights managers and agents (see table on page 10).

On the question of what the Australian government should do to encourage exports, respondents asked for increased funding to the Australia Council, continuance of the Visiting International Publishers program, subsidies for participation in international marketing forums, funding for travel to book fairs, and funding for small publishers to travel overseas.

The digital era Ebooks and digital rights continue to grow in importance. As was the case last year, when responding to survey questions on digital rights, half of the rights managers and literary agents agreed that retaining geographic/territorial restrictions on ebooks is essential and that obtaining separate Australian/ANZ digital rights is crucial. Another half said that obtaining world digital rights is crucial and that when selling Australian titles overseas publishers demand digital rights along with print. Again like last year, a majority of respondents agreed that established contractual conventions have to be changed to match the new digital world.

Future prospects Australian rights managers and literary agents are expecting little change in growth of rights sales over the next 12 months. Some optimistic respondents (24%) believe the rights market will improve, as did 25% of respondents last year. Almost half of respondents (47%) are expecting the market to stay the same, up from 42% last year and 34% the previous year. Another 24% believe it will become slightly worse (the same as last year) and a final five percent feel it will become much worse (less than the eight percent who believed this last year). When asked why they felt this way about future prospects, survey participants pointed to the economic downturn in Europe, markets fluctuations and a decline in English-language licenses. We’ll be back in 12 months to see how they’ve gone.

Most important conduits for selling international rights 2012

The top markets for Australian rights sales 2012 By income 1. United States 2. Germany 3. United Kingdom 4. France 5. Korea 6. Japan 7. China 8. Poland 9. Brazil 10. Spain

(1) (3) (4) (8) (5) (-) (2) (7) (9) (10)

By number of deals 1. United States 2. United Kingdom 3. China 4. Korea 5. France 6. Germany 7. Japan 8. Brazil 9. Taiwan 10. Poland

(2) (3) (1) (4) (6) (7) (-) (5) (8) (10)

(Last year’s ranking is in brackets.)

Source: Think Australian survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, August 2012

1. Frankfurt Book Fair (1) 2. Formal arrangements with (2) overseas rights agents 3. London Book Fair (3) 4. Bologna Book Fair (5) 5. The Australia Council’s Visiting (4) International Publishers program 6. Literary Scouts (6) 7. Formal arrangement with sister (10) companies overseas 8. Internet-based rights marketplaces (7) 9. Think Australian export magazine (9) 10. BookExpo America (9)

(Last year’s ranking is in brackets.)

Source: Think Australian survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, August 2012.

Past and expected future growth in the rights market

Great improvement Little improvement About the same Slightly worse Much worse

Past 12 months 0% 11% 42% 42% 5%

Next 12 months 0% 24% 47% 24% 5%

Source: Think Australian survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, August 2012.

award winners

And the winner is…

Australia has many book awards, and every year there are standout titles that collect multiple prizes. Tiffany Bridger highlights some of the most-awarded Australian books in 2011 and 2012.

FICTION

NONFICTION

Children’s

ALL THAT I AM

AN EYE FOR ETERNITY

THE DEAD I KNOW

(ANNA FUNDER, HAMISH HAMILTON)

(MARK MCKENNA, MIEGUNYAH PRESS)

(SCOT GARDNER, ALLEN & UNWIN)

Awards include: • Miles Franklin Literary Award • Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) Book of the Year • ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year • Indie Book of the Year • Indie Best Debut Fiction Book • Barbara Jefferis Award • Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction (shortlisted) • Queensland Literary Award for Fiction (shortlisted) • Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers’ Choice Award • Western Australian Premier’s Fiction Book Award

FOAL’S BREAD (GILLIAN MEARS, ALLEN & UNWIN) Awards include: • Prime Minister’s (PM’s) Literary Award for Fiction • The Age Fiction Book of the Year • Australian Publishers Association (APA) Best Designed Literary Fiction Book • Australian Literary Society Gold Medal • ABIA Book of the Year (shortlisted) • ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year (shortlisted) • Indie Book Best Fiction Book (shortlisted) • Barbara Jefferis Award (shortlisted) • Miles Franklin Literary Award (shortlisted) • Nita B Kibble Literary Award (shortlisted) • Western Australian Premier’s Fiction Book Award (shortlisted) SARAH THORNHILL (KATE GRENVILLE, TEXT PUBLISHING) Awards include: • ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year • PM’s Literary Award for Fiction (shortlisted) • Independent Booksellers Week Book Award (shortlisted) (UK) • Queensland Literary Award for Fiction (shortlisted)

These are just a few of the many a ward-winning books published in Australia each year. To keep track of all the awards and award-winners, see www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au and search for ‘awards’

Awards include: • PM’s Literary Award for Nonfiction • Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction • Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction • Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, Nonfiction

Awards include: • Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Older Readers Book of the Year • Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, Young Adult Fiction (shortlisted) • Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award (highly commended) • Western Australian Premier’s Young Adult Book Award (shortlisted)

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WHEN WE WERE TWO

(JANE GLEESON-WHITE, ALLEN & UNWIN) Awards include: • The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year (shortlisted) • Queensland Literary Award for Nonfiction (shortlisted)

WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA (WILLIAM MCINNES & SARAH WATT, HACHETTE) Awards include: • ABIA General Nonfiction Book of the Year • Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award (shortlisted)

HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI (PAUL HAM, HARPERCOLLINS) Awards include: • APA Best Designed Nonfiction Book • The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year (shortlisted) • Western Australian Premier’s Nonfiction Book Award (shortlisted)

1835: THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE AND THE CONQUEST OF AUSTRALIA (JAMES BOYCE, BLACK INC.) Awards include: • The Age Book of the Year Award (overall) • The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year • PM’s Literary Award for Australian History (shortlisted) • Western Australian Premier’s Nonfiction Book Award (shortlisted) • Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction (shortlisted)

(ROBERT NEWTON, PENGUIN) Awards include: • PM’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction • CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year (honour book)

CROW COUNTRY (KATE CONSTABLE, ALLEN & UNWIN) Awards include: • Western Australian Premier’s Young Adult Book Award (shortlisted) • CBCA Younger Readers Book of the Year

A BUS CALLED HEAVEN (BOB GRAHAM, WALKER BOOKS) Awards include: • CBCA Picture Book of the Year • Western Australian Premier’s Children’s Book Award (shortlisted)

THE RUNAWAY HUG (NICK BLAND & FREYA BLACKWOOD, SCHOLASTIC) Awards include: • CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year

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Bestsellers

AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLERS NONFICTION

FICTION

(ILLUSTRATED AND TEXT-BASED) 1 Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves

134,000

104,000 66,000

Monica McInerney, Michael Joseph ($29.95 pb)

4 The Slap *

66,000

Christos Tsiolkas, Allen & Unwin ($24.99/$24.99 pb)

5 All That I Am

64,000

Anna Funder, Penguin ($29.95/$22.95 pb)

6 Tiger Men

55,000

Judy Nunn, William Heinemann ($32.95 pb)

7 The Girl and the Ghost-grey Mare 31,000 Rachael Treasure, Michael Joseph ($29.95 pb)

8 Red Dog

31,000

Louis de Bernieres, Vintage ($19.95 pb)

9 Caleb’s Crossing

30,000

Geraldine Brooks, HarperCollins ($32.99 pb)

10 The Street Sweeper

26,000

Elliot Perlman, Vintage ($32.95 pb)

11 Jasper Jones

25,000

Craig Silvey, Allen & Unwin ($23.99 pb)

12 Golden Earrings

24,000

Belinda Alexandra, HarperCollins ($32.99 pb)

13 The Book Thief

23,000

Markus Zusak, Picador ($19.95 pb)

14 Nowhere Else

23,000

Fiona McCallum, Harlequin Mills & Boon ($32.99 pb)

15 The Briny Café

22,000

Susan Duncan, Bantam ($32.95 pb)

16 With My Body

19,000

Nikki Gemmell, HarperCollins ($29.99 pb)

17 African Dawn

19,000

Tony Park, Macmillan ($29.99 pb)

18 Matilda is Missing

17,000

Caroline Overington, Bantam ($32.95 pb)

19 The Light between Oceans

17,000

M L Stedman, Vintage ($32.95 pb)

20 Sarah Thornhill

16,000

Kate Grenville, Text ($39.95 hb) *Multiple editions/formats released—sales totals combined

62,000

Anh Do, Allen & Unwin ($32.99 pb)

3 Darren Lockyer

Di Morrissey, Macmillan ($32.99 pb)

3 Lola’s Secret

99,000

Donna Hay, HarperCollins ($39.99 pb)

2 The Happiest Refugee

Matthew Reilly, Macmillan ($44.99, hb)

2 The Opal Desert

1 Simple Dinners

60,000

Darren Lockyer & Dan Koch, Ebury ($49.95 hb)

4 Mawson

58,000

Peter FitzSimons, William Heinemann ($49.95 hb)

5 4 Ingredients Kids

57,000

Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham, 4 Ingredients ($19.99 pb)

6 The Heart of the Home

36,000

Julie Goodwin, Ebury ($49.95 hb)

7 MasterChef Australia: The Cookbook (Series 3)

36,000

HarperCollins ($39.99 pb)

8 Zumbo

35,000

Adriano Zumbo, Murdoch Books ($49.99 hb)

9 Sins of the Father

33,000

Eamonn Duff, Allen & Unwin ($35.00 pb)

10 Women’s Stuff

30,000

Kaz Cooke, Viking ($59.95 hb)

11 The Long Road to Paris

30,000

Cadel Evans, Hardie Grant ($39.95 hb)

12 Delicious: Simply the Best

30,000

Valli Little, ABC Books ($39.99 pb)

13 Losing the Last 5 Kilos

28,000

Michelle Bridges, Viking ($29.95 pb)

14 The No Excuses Cookbook

26,000

Michelle Bridges, Viking ($29.95 pb)

15 Brain Food

26,000

Karl Kruszelnicki, Macmillan ($32.99 hb)

16 The Master

25,000

Les Carlyon, Macmillan ($59.99 hb)

17 Underbelly: Razor

23,000

Larry Writer, Macmillan ($24.99 pb)

18 Hazel: My Mother’s Story

23,000

Sue Pieters-Hawke, Macmillan ($49.99 hb)

19 Fast Fresh Simple

23,000

Donna Hay, HarperCollins ($39.99 pb)

20 I’ve Been There (and Back Again) 22,000 Joy McKean, Hachette ($39.99 hb)

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JULY 2011 – JUNE 2012 CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS

CHILDREN’S FICTION

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

(ILLUSTRATED AND TEXT-BASED) 1 Where is the Green Sheep? *

56,000

Mem Fox & Judy Horacek, Penguin ($14.95/$19.95/$29.95 hb)

2 Possum Magic *

46,000 21,000

Jackie French, HarperCollins ($24.99 hb)

4 Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes 18,000 Mem Fox, Puffin ($16.95 hb)

5 The Jewel Fish of Karnak

14,000

Graeme Base, Viking ($29.95 hb)

6 Koala Lou

11,000

Mem Fox, Puffin ($14.95 pb)

7 Isabella’s Secret

11,000

Jane Tanner, Puffin ($14.95 pb)

8 The Little Refugee

11,000

Anh Do & Suzanne Do, Allen & Unwin ($24.99 hb)

9 Hoot’s Lullaby

2 Just Doomed!

3 The Lost Stories

9000 9000

32,000 27,000 26,000 23,000 12,000 11,000

John Flanagan, Random House ($17.95 pb)

8 What Body Part is That?

10,000

Marcia Vaughan, Scholastic ($15.99 pb)

14,000

5 The Third Day, The Frost *

11,000

6 Darkness, Be My Friend *

10,000

John Marsden, Pan ($16.99/$18.99 pb)

7 Burning for Revenge *

9000

8 The Night is for Hunting *

9000

John Marsden, Pan ($16.99/$18.99 pb)

10,000

Gabrielle Lord, Scholastic ($14.99 pb) Morris Gleitzman, Puffin ($16.95 pb)

4 The Dead of the Night *

John Marsden, Pan ($16.99/$18.99 pb)

Andy Griffiths, Pan ($12.99 pb)

10 Pizza Cake

16,000

John Marsden, Pan ($16.99/$18.99 pb)

Jacqueline Harvey, Random House ($15.95 pb)

7 The Invaders

3 Hades

John Marsden, Pan ($16.99/$18.99 pb)

Emily Rodda, Omnibus ($16.99 pb)

6 Alice-Miranda at School

18,000

Alexandra Adornetto, HarperCollins ($24.99 pb)

John Flanagan, Random House ($17.95 pb)

5 The Golden Door

2 The Sending Isobelle Carmody, Viking ($32.95 pb)

John Flanagan, Random House ($17.95 pb)

4 The Outcasts

1 Tomorrow, When the War Began * 19,000 John Marsden, Pan ($16.99/$18.99 pb)

Andy Griffiths, Pan ($12.99 pb)

9 Revenge: Conspiracy 365

ABC Books ($12.99 hb)

10 Wombat Stew

60,000

Andy Griffiths, Pan ($9.99 pb)

Mem Fox, Omnibus ($15.95/$29.99 hb)

3 Christmas Wombat

1 The 13-Storey Treehouse

9 The Other Side of Dawn *

9000

John Marsden, Pan ($16.99/$18.99 pb)

10,000

10 Shift

7000

Em Bailey, Hardie Grant Egmont ($22.95 pb) *Multiple editions/formats released—sales totals combined

*Multiple editions/formats released—sales totals combined

A note on prices

Data supplied by Nielsen BookScan’s book sale monitoring system. © Nielsen BookScan 2012.

The figure in the right-hand column is the approximate sales volume.

All prices given are the recommended retail price (RRP) set by publishers. Under Australian law, this is only a recommended price and retailers are free to discount (or in some cases mark up) prices at their discretion. At the time of going to press, one Australian dollar is worth approximately 0.81, US$1.05 and £0.65.

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Titles to look out for Australian publishers and agents are taking an exciting and eclectic array of titles to Frankfurt this year. Tiffany Bridger reports on some of the highlights.

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ndependent publisher Fremantle Press is promoting a strong contemporary fiction list at Frankfurt this year. Among the titles are I’m Not Here, a suspenseful new novella by Julienne van Loon, which has already been praised by author Janette Turner Hospital. She describes the book as ‘a miracle of compression, subtly and obliquely structured, exquisitely written, and suffused with a tough and totally unsentimental compassion’.

Receiving similar hype is Annabel Smith’s novel Whiskey Charlie Foxtrot, which explores the rivalry between identical twins Whiskey and Charlie. Fremantle Press’ sales, distribution and rights manager Clive Newman says ‘it’s a pageturner from beginning to end’.

Another independent publisher hailing from Australia’s west is Dragonfall Press. The sciencefiction and fantasy specialist recently published The Airmen: Part I: The Pirates of Aireon by R J Ashby, set in an ocean-covered world in which the protagonist Jardan is ‘cast adrift with nothing but a knife and a troublesome young woman’, while escaping ‘hordes of pirates, a sociopathic bounty hunter, and a sadistic madwoman bent on world conquest’.

Black Pepper Publishing, one of Australia’s many independent publishers, is showcasing The Peastick Girl by Susan Hancock. The Canberra Times gives Hancock’s debut novel a glowing review, calling it ‘ambitious and extraordinary ...

The novel’s scale and scope are Joycean’. The story revolves around protagonist Teresa Matheson, who, after five years in Melbourne, returns to her native city of Wellington, to her sisters and to a mystery surrounding the death of her mother.

Clan Destine Press is passionate about promoting genre fiction from emerging Australian writers, and is promoting two particular titles at Frankfurt this year. Linda Cameron’s Redback is the action-packed tale of Commander Byrn Gideon and his Australian ‘Redback Revival Team’, racing to uncover the truth behind a series of violent incidents, including ‘ritual killings in London and Tokyo, a bomb on a European train, an assassination on an Australian beach, and an attack on a US army base’.

The Price of Fame by R C Daniels mixes crime and paranormal activity in a thrilling story about Antonia Carlyle, a filmmaker who accidentally discovers new material surrounding the murder of the lead singer in a famous 1980s band. Clan Destine Press describes it as a story about ‘sex, drugs and rock music: the demons of youth’.

New independent press MidnightSun Publishing is off to a great start: one of its titles, Pangamonium, is already shortlisted for the Ilura Fiction Quest Award. Zanesh Catkin’s comedy ‘parodies travel tales and satirises globalisation’, says the publisher. ‘It’s a hilarious mock epic that’s got more vibrators than Imelda Marcos has shoes.’

Regular fair-goers Spinifex Press will be

bringing five highly successful titles to Frankfurt this year. Winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (US), shortlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award and shortlisted again for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction (US), it’s no wonder that My Sister Chaos

by Lara Fergus is being promoted.

Also on the list is Fish-Hair Woman by Merlinda Bobis, which has been described as another ‘potential prize-winning novel with its themes of war and love’ by the Age’s Lucy Sussex.

Ed Wright from the Australian calls it a ‘tour de force’.

Judy Foster and Marlene Derlet’s groundbreaking study Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War will also be featured at the fair. It looks at the meaning of ‘civilisation’ and highlights many significant discoveries about human origins, including important historical and cultural roles for women.

Another Spinifex title, recently shortlisted for the Australian Educational Publishing Awards (Secondary Reference Resource), is Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry, edited by Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray. Featuring a range of local and international contributors, the book challenges current perspectives on the multi-billion dollar industry and ‘reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime and degradation’.

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Last but not least from Spinifex Press is Help!

I’m Living with a Man Boy by Betty McLellan, ‘a perennial favourite at Frankfurt’, says director Susan Hawthorne. With 41 common relationship situations and suggestions for how women can deal with them, the book encourages partners to reassess the way they treat each other, and to aim for mutual understanding, love and respect.

First Power & the Temple of Blood is the first book in the ‘Lili Tigre’ series from independent publisher Fabelhaus. This is the story of a ‘feisty trans cultural teenage heroine’ adventuring to ‘the farthest corners of the world, where she fights for the rights and freedom of disadvantaged and enslaved children—often to the death’.

From Acorn Press comes a biography by Dr Peter Cotterell called Muhammad: The Man Who Transformed Arabia. This is a discussion of Islam’s central figure from a man who has spent decades living and working in Ethiopia and lecturing in Islam.

Random House is bringing some big names to the fair this year. Caroline Overington’s first three novels sold in the tens of thousands in Australia and New Zealand alone, and her latest book Sisters of Mercy—the haunting story of two sisters, one vanished and the other behind bars—is attracting high hopes. Run to Me by Diane Hester, a new thriller about a mother and son on the run, with plenty of twists and turns, is also on Random House’s list.

From Matthew Condon, the acclaimed author of The Trout Opera, comes a new novel called The Toe Tag Quintet. It’s the story of a former detective who, after years pursuing some of Australia’s most murderous criminals, attempts to retire on Queensland’s Gold Coast, along with half of the criminal milieu he once pursued.

After winning the Age Book of the Year Nonfiction award for his previous bestseller

Hiroshima Nagasaki, Random House rights manager Nerrilee Weir is excited to announce Paul Ham’s new book Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches. ‘This important and harrowing book narrates the full story of Sandakan, as told through the experiences of many of the participants,’ says Weir, who adds that rights have been sold in the United Kingdom.

Random House will also be promoting the updated edition of Dr Christopher Green’s classic bestseller Toddler Taming. First published in 1984, this guide to the first few years of parenting has never been out of print, and is now aimed at a whole new generation.

Passionate about stories with cultural diversity, and the meeting of East and West, independent publisher Transit Lounge has high hopes for three forthcoming publications this year. After Love by Subhash Jaireth is set in 1960s India, Russia and Italy. It is a tale of love and loss feauring Vasu, a young Indian student of architecture, and Anna, a Russian archaeologist.

Having visited some 60 countries, awardwinning journalist Dominic Dunne knows a thing or two about travel. In his debut book Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller Dunne offers stories and insights from a healthy addiction to globetrotting.

Another novel that spans the globe, from Transit Lounge, is Las Vegas for Vegans, a compilation of beautifully written short stories by author A S Patri . Patri ’s previous work has won him the 2011 Ned Kelly Short Story Award, and he has been published in numerous literary journals.

Established in 2010, Wild Dingo Press has been working to bring to light ‘the stories of individuals quietly doing extraordinary things, be it exposure of corruption and systemic flaws or the experiences of the disenfranchised, disempowered

and dispossessed’. True to its mission statement, the publisher has just released I Confess: Revelations in Exile, the incredible story of Kooshyar Karimi’s survival of kidnapping and torture in Iran.

Also from Wild Dingo Press is Blood on My Hands, Adelaide surgeon Craig Jurisevic’s account of volunteering with the International Medical Corps to help the victims of torture and genocide during the Kosovo war in 1999.

From Sydney-based publisher Pantera Press comes an eclectic list of new fiction. Following the success of Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair’ series—the first book, A Few Right Thinking Men, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book—comes Gentill’s fourth title in the series, Paving the New Road. Pantera Press describes it as ‘historical crime fiction at its best: gripping, beautifully written and deeply researched’.

Those who enjoyed Robin Baker’s novel Killing Richard Dawson will be looking forward to his latest, Chasing the Sun. It’s a ‘gripping black comedy’ about ‘murder and, ultimately, redemption’, and a Generation Y readership will be ‘glued to the very last page’, says Pantera Press.

Crime fiction fans can also look forward to the second novel from B Michael Radburn, Blackwater Moon—a story of secrets, betrayal, and the quest for redemption.

Also on Pantera Press’ list is a new book from co-founder John M Green. The Trusted, the first book in his ‘Tori Swyft’ series, is described as an ‘eco-thriller’ or ‘cyber-thriller’: for 10 years, a band of elite ‘eco-terrorists’ have been infiltrating the highest security levels in the world, attempting to save the planet by ‘slashing its population and annihilating its resource-hungry economy’. It’s up to Tori Swyft, ex-CIA, to stop them.

These are only a few of the very many books Australian publishers will be bringing to the world at Frankfurt.

Make sure to call in to the Australian stand headquartered at Hall 8.0 B956 to see a broad range of Australian exhibitors, and consult the comprehensive guide to Australian exhibitors at the fair in the centre pages of Think Australian, provided by the Australian Publishers Association.

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THE SMALL PRESS NETWORK

SPUNC

www.spunc.com.au

ACORN PRESS

BLACK PEPPER PUBLISHING

CLAN DESTINE PRESS

MUHAMMAD: THE MAN WHO TRANSFORMED ARABIA

THE PEASTICK GIRL

THE PRICE OF FAME

SUSAN HANCOCK

R C DANIELLS

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Fiction PH: +61 3 9489 1716 FAX: +61 3 9489 5318 EMAIL: bpepper@blackpepperpublishing.com WEB: www.blackpepperpublishing.com

RIGHTS: World (ex ANZ) GENRE: Paranormal crime PH: +61 3 5983 9429 EMAIL: books@clandestinepress.com.au WEB: www.clandestinepress.com.au

PETER COTTERELL RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Nonfiction EMAIL: kargall@acornpress.net.au WEB: www.acornpress.net.au Biographies of Muhammad present him as a man who could do nothing right or else a man who could do nothing wrong.

Somewhere in between is the real Muhammad.

Teresa Matheson confronts her family ghosts in Wellington, New Zealand in this literary tour de force. Hallucinatory, evocative and ironic. A complex tragi-comedy of manners.

Sex, drugs and rock music: the demons of youth. Filmmaker Antonia Carlyle is researching cult 80s band The Tough Romantics, whose rise to international fame was fuelled by their cutting-edge sound and their history of betrayal and murder. As the past spills into the present, Antonia’s psychic link with the band’s doomed singer forces her to face her own demons and those that haunt the house where the band once lived.

CLAN DESTINE PRESS

DRAGONFALL PRESS

FABELHAUS

REDBACK

THE AIRMEN (PART 1)

LINDY CAMERON

R J Ashby

FIRST POWER & THE TEMPLE OF BLOOD: BOOK 1 IN THE LILI TIGRe SERIES D D STOY

RIGHTS: World (ex ANZ) GENRE: Action thriller PH: +61 3 5983 9429 EMAIL: books@clandestinepress.com.au WEB: www.clandestinepress.com.au

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Fiction, fantasy PH: +61 8 6102 6291 FAX: +61 8 6102 2101 EMAIL: sales@dragonfallpress.com WEB: www.dragonfallpress.com

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Young Adult EMAIL: go@fabelhaus.com WEB: www.fabelhaus.com

Pirates are a treacherous lot. Jardan does his best to avoid them, but when his airship is destroyed he finds himself stuck with a troublesome pirate girl hell-bent on revenge.

Feisty trans cultural teenage heroine adventures throughout the farthest corners of the world, where she fights for the rights and freedom of disadvantaged and enslaved children—often to the death. And she loves cats—mild and very wild … and they can be very, very helpful …

FREMANTLE PRESS I’M NOT HERE

MIDNIGHTSUN PUBLISHING

TRANSIT LOUNGE

PANGAMONIUM

AFTER LOVE

JULIENNE VAN LOON

ZANEsH CATKIN

SUBHASH JAIRETH

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Fiction PH: Ph: +61 8 9430 6331 FAX: +61 8 9430 5242 EMAIL: cmiller@fremantlepress.com.au WEB: www.fremantlepress.com.au

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia/NZ) GENRE: Fiction PH: +61 400 047 426 FAX: +61 8 8232 0661 EMAIL: editor@midnightsunpublishing.com WEB: http://midnightsunpublishing.com

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Fiction PH: +61 3 9332 7847 EMAIL: info@transitlounge.com.au WEB: www.transitlounge.com.au

Full of suspense, I’m Not Here is the tightly woven story of eight-year-old Amanda, whose father is in prison after the death of his Thai lover. It is the story of Rattuwat, a man burying his daughter in a strange land.

Pangamonium is a classic adventure novel. Not. This screwball comedy parodies travel tales and satirises globalisation. It’s a hilarious mock epic that’s got more vibrators than Imelda Marcos has shoes. *Shortlisted for the Ilura Fiction Quest*

TRANSIT LOUNGE

TRANSIT LOUNGE ADVENTURES OF A COMPULSIVE TRAVELLER

WILD DINGO PRESS

DOMINIC DUNNE

KOOSHYAR KARIMI

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Fiction PH: +61 3 9332 7847 EMAIL: info@transitlounge.com.au WEB: www.transitlounge.com.au

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Nonfiction PH: +61 3 9332 7847 EMAIL: info@transitlounge.com.au WEB: www.transitlounge.com.au

From Las Vegas to Melbourne, from Europe to a doomed airplane in mid-flight, from a seedy motel to the local bookstore, the true setting of these stories is the human heart. Original, hip and cool and a must read.

A wild and humorous ride in search of the famous and the infamous in the world’s strangest locations. Cate Blanchett, Hillary Clinton, Nana Mouskouri, Pamela Stephenson, the ghosts of Elvis Presley, and the author’s namesake, the late Dominic Dunne, feature.

RIGHTS: World (ex Australia/NZ) GENRE: Nonfiction, memoir PH: +61 3 9523 0922 FAX: +61 3 9523 0822 EMAIL: clewis@wilddingopress.com.au WEB: www.wilddingopress.com.au

The Redbacks: a crack team of Aussie retrieval agents, led

by Bryn Gideon, are experts at covert hostage rescue. Scott Dreher is an American reporter investigating war games training.

Separately, they cross paths with an assassin with a very long hit list; together, they uncover a bizarre and international terrorist plot. Page-turning thrills and action.

LAS VEGAS FOR VEGANS ´ A S PATRIC

A haunting novel of love, betrayal and redemption, set in India, Russia, Italy and Australia. This story of an Indian architect and a Russian cellist is full of music, drama and a lived truth.

I CONFESS: REVELATIONS IN EXILE

In 1998 Jewish writer and doctor Kooshyar Karimi was kidnapped from the streets of Mashhad in Iran, blindfolded and tortured. When he was eventually released, it was only as a spy for the Islamic Secret Service. I Confess is the true and chilling story of his survival and flight from his homeland.

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OUTSIDE THE BOX PRESS LOVE AND FUCK POEMS: THE DELUXE EDITION KORALY DIMITRIADIS RIGHTS: World (ex Australia) GENRE: Erotic fiction (poetry) PH: +61 3 9388 0808 EMAIL: info@outsidetheboxpress.com WEB: www.outsidetheboxpress.com

Title showcase

Sexually repressed, separated Greek girl on a rampage.

There’s no love here, just fucks. But is she fucking him or fucking herself? The sell-out success of the original Love and Fuck Poems zine brings you more love and fuck with this special Deluxe Edition. It’s the same love and fuck reworked, revamped, plus bonus never-before-seen poems. Love and Fuck Poems is a story told through poetry. No fluff, no birds and trees, just honest, raw poetry.

AUSTRALIAN PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION

Exhibitors list

FREMANTLE PRESS CONTACT: Clive Newman POSITION: Sales, distribution and rights manager ADDRESS: PO BOX 158, North Fremantle WA 6159 PH: +61 8 9430 6331 / +61 408 949 961 FAX: +61 8 9430 5242 EMAIL: cnewman@fremantlepress.com.au WEB: www.fremantlepress.com.au

CONTACT: Maree McCaskill POSITION: CEO ADDRESS: 60/89 Jones Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 PH: +61 2 9281 9788 EMAIL: apa@publishers.asn.au WEB: www.publishers.asn.au The Australian Publishers Association is the peak industry body representing the publishers of books, scholarly journals and educational materials.

APA: Hall 8, stand B954

PANTERA PRESS CONTACT: Alison Green POSITION: CEO ADDRESS: PO BOX 1989, Neutral Bay NSW 2089 PH: +61 2 8096 5192 FAX: +61 2 8096 5192 EMAIL: info@panterapress.com WEB: www.panterapress.com Pantera Press is an Australian independent book publisher with some big differences. Its core goal is to be ‘a great new home for Australia’s next generation of best-loved authors’. So its passions are to publish books that readers will rave about by discovering and nurturing the talented new authors who create them—previously unpublished authors of well-written, riveting reads in quality popular fiction or nonfiction. Pantera’s motto, ‘Good books doing good things’, outlines the company’s philosophy of profits for philanthropy.

Fremantle press: Hall 8, Hall 8, stand B957

RANDOM HOUSE

PERIBO CONTACT: Jane Coffey POSITION: Director ADDRESS: 58 Beaumont Road, Mount Kuring-Gai NSW 2080 PH: +61 2 9457 0011 FAX: +61 2 9457 0022 EMAIL: info@peribo.com.au WEB: www.peribo.com.au

Peribo is an Australian book distribution company dedicated to representing leading and emerging independent publishers from the UK, US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Established in 1986, Peribo provides exclusive sales, marketing and distribution services to all key markets including booksellers, art galleries, libraries, schools, specialist and gift retailers in Australia and New Zealand. With an exceptional range of imported and local books, Peribo is proudly one of Australia’s premier distributors of high-quality fiction, art, architecture, fashion and design books. Our exceptional range of international children’s books places us at the forefront of children’s bookselling.

PANTERA PRESS: Hall 8, stand B953

Spinifex Press

Fremantle Press is an independent publisher established to identify and develop Western Australian authors and artists. Since 1976 it has promoted Australian stories to audiences world-wide.

It was the first to publish works by poets, scholars and novelists who have gone on to national and international success. The press is well known for its authentic Indigenous stories, its awardwinning poets, its culturally significant works of history and fiction, its engaging children’s literature and its beautifully illustrated and produced volumes of cookery, travel, art and photography.

CONTACT: Nerrilee Weir POSITION: Rights manager ADDRESS: Level 3, 100 Pacific Highway, North Sydney NSW 2060 PH: +61 2 8923 9892 EMAIL: nweir@randomhouse.com.au WEB: www.randomhouse.com.au Random House Australia has established a firm reputation for an impressive array of Australian titles from literary fiction to popular fiction, nonfiction, illustrated and children’s books.

Our authors enjoy considerable success on national bestseller lists and are the recipients of major Australian literary prizes.

Authors published under local imprints include: Elliot Perlman, Caroline Overington, John Flanagan, Jacqueline Harvey, Richard Flanagan and Tom Keneally.

RANDOM HOUSE: Hall 8, stand S983

THORPE-BOWKER

SPUNC INC. THE SMALL PRESS NETWORK

CONTACT: Susan Hawthorne POSITION: Publisher ADDRESS: 504 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051 PH: +61 3 9329 6088 EMAIL: hawsu@spinifexpress.com.au WEB: www.spinifexpress.com.au Spinifex Press is an independent Australian feminist press that was co-founded in 1991 by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein. It publishes innovative and controversial feminist books and ebooks with an optimistic edge.

spinifex press: Hall 8, stand B954

CONTACT: Zoe Dattner POSITION: General manager ADDRESS: 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 PH: +61 3 9094 7896 EMAIL: zoe@spunc.com.au WEB: www.spunc.com.au

SPUNC

SPUNC (The Small Press Network) is a representative body for small and independent Australian publishers. It was formed in 2006 to promote independent publishing and support the principle of diversity within the publishing industry as a vital component of Australian literary culture.

SPUNC INC.: Hall 8, stand B954

CONTACT: Andrea Hanke POSITION: Editor ADDRESS: Level 1, 607 St Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC 3004 PH: +61 3 8517 8347 FAX: +61 3 8517 8399 EMAIL: andrea.hanke@thorpe.com.au WEB: www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au Thorpe-Bowker is the key supply-chain solutions and industry intelligence provider for Australia and the Australasian region.

Thorpe-Bowker’s trade magazine BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER is the publisher of Think Australian 2012.

MUST-READS FOR FRANKFURT JOHN M. GREEN “A spectacular political thriller... it kept me up at nights...”

- P.J. O’Rourke “... the sophistication of John le Carré and the pace of Jeffrey Archer...” - ABC RADIO “A cracking political thriller...” - The Daily Telegraph

SULARI GENTILL “Breathtakingly Tense...” -The Women’s Weekly “Before the engine on Rowly's Mercedes has cooled, the young artist is embroiled in scandal...” - The Sun-Herald “Evelyn-Waugh-meets-Agatha-Christie...” - The Age

ROBIN BAKER “...a startling, original voice on the crime scene...”

- Booktopia “Baker’s strangely compelling voice reels you in” - The Courier Mail “...tight and fast-paced... a darkly comic take on contemporary society... for lovers of urban fantasies... stays with you long after the book is finished” - Bookseller + Publisher

B.MICHAEL RADBURN “Stephen King-meets-Honey Brown-meets -Jon Clinch-and-Mark Twain... What an amazing read...”

- Berkelouw Books “... innovative... gripping...fast pace & three-dimensional characters... delivers the thrills.”

- GoodReading Magazine Please come and visit us at Frankfurt Book Fair Hall 8. B953 Alison Green Twitter: @PanteraPress Email: info@PanteraPress.com PO Box 1989, Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia, 2089

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