Echo Publishing Jan-Jun 2016 by Echo Publishing

Echo Publishing Jan-Jun 2016

Echo is a quality Australian publisher of books for adults. Our interests and fascinations include resilience, the effects of time, Australian landscapes, the dark underbelly of human societies, and the beauty that gives us a reason to celebrate. We publish narrative nonfiction, true crime, photographic and fiction titles. Echo was built on the strong foundations of The Five Mile Press’s adult list, founded in 1991. In 2015, it was given its own identity and a mission to expand its horizons, which included launching a crime fiction list featuring debut Australian and international authors. Echo Publishing’s logo captures the essence of our mission: the lyrebird, an animal known for its infamous ability to mimic and share calls, is the ‘storyteller’ in Aboriginal mythology. Like its sister company The Five Mile Press, which publishes children’s books and sells and distributes Echo titles, Echo is part of Bonnier, a seventh-generation family-owned Swedish company that has been in book publishing since 1804, and which now has diverse media operations in 16 countries around the world. Bonnier Publishing, based in the UK, is the English-language arm of Bonnier Books. True to the Bonnier values of freedom and entrepreneurship, Echo operates as an agile, people-orientated independent Australian publisher while enjoying the support of a global network.

For sales and distribution enquiries, please contact The Five Mile Press.

Echo Publishing 12 Northumberland Street South Melbourne Victoria, Australia, 3205 T + 61 (03) 9205 6800

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Cover: Totes strung out at the Rooftop Movies, Fringe World Festival (Northbridge, Perth), from Consider the Clothesline by Frances Andrijich

For publicity and marketing enquiries, please contact: Kirstin Corcoran Publicity and Marketing Manager KirstinC@echopublishing.com.au For sales and distribution enquiries, please contact The Five Mile Press: Amanda Rice Group Sales Director AmandaR@fivemile.com.au Laurance Wilson Account Manager, Trade and Key Accounts LauranceW@fivemile.com.au

The Five Mile Press 1 Centre Road Scoresby Victoria, Australia 3179 P +61 (03) 8756 5500

JANUARY 2016

TRUE CRIME

Invisible Women

Powerful and Disturbing Stories of Murdered Sex Workers Kylie Fox and Ruth Wykes When news of a murdered woman hits the headlines in Australia, people sit up and take notice. Unless that woman happens to be a sex worker. Invisible Women tells the stories of several murdered sex workers – all of whom are somebody’s mother, daughter, wife or sister – whose identities have been erased. Why do we see some lives as less valuable than others, and what price do we all pay for this shocking lack of care? These amazing stories of incredible women are both deeply moving and shocking in their insight and clarity. And definitely way overdue. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kylie Fox is a writer, editor and transcriptionist. Her short crime fiction stories have won the Dorothy Porter Award, and the 2015 crime with a political punch category in the Sisters in Crime’s annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Kylie is currently studying a degree in criminal justice and is based outside of Frankston. kyliesfox

Ruth Wykes is a writer, editor, feminist and a passionate human rights activist. Ruth’s interest in justice and concern for the most vulnerable people in society grew from her work with a community-based organisation. Her previous book, Women Who Kill, was published in 2011. Ruth lives and works in the Mornington Peninsula. strewwth

RRP: A$32.95 | Paperback: 9781760067434 | eBook available Rights held: World

FEBRUARY 2016

BIOGRAPHY

Bad Hair Year

Beating a Brain Tumour, Breast Cancer, and Healing a Broken Heart Bambi Smyth Just days before Christmas, Bambi Smyth is diagnosed with a brain tumour, throwing her life completely off kilter and seriously upsetting her plans for an adventurous second-half-of-life. Bad Hair Year tells the tale of how she copes – her stoicism, positivity and, above all, her enduring sense of humour. Which she will need again in spades because just as she’s getting back on her feet she discovers she has breast cancer. This is for anyone who wonders how it feels to have your very existence suddenly under threat, or wants some reassurance from a friend who has been there, and lived to tell the tale. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bambi Smyth was born in Scotland, but has lived in Melbourne all of her adult life. She worked as an illustrator and children’s book author for most of her career, before turning her hand to writing for adults. bambismyth.com.au |

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RRP: A$32.95 | Paperback: 9781760063856 | eBook available Rights held: World

MARCH 2016

CRIME FICTION

Ghost Girls Cath Ferla

Winter in Sydney. The city is brimming with foreign students. Sophie Sandilands takes a job teaching at an English language school. When one of her students leaps to her death it becomes clear that lurking within the psyche of this community is a deep sense of despair and alienation. When it is revealed that the dead woman on the pavement has stolen another’s identity, Sophie is drawn into the mystery. Unable to resist the investigative instincts that run in her blood, Sophie finds herself unravelling a sinister operation that is trawling the foreign student market for its victims. But as Sophie works on tracking down the criminals it becomes evident that someone has knowledge of her and the disappearances in her own past. Will Sophie solve the mystery before she too becomes a ghost? Ghost Girls richly evokes the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of Sydney’s Chinatown, and imagines dark exploitative demands behind closed suburban doors. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cath Ferla is a Melbourne-based writer with a background in screenwriting and script editing, educational publishing and arts writing. She has taught English as an Acquired Language in Melbourne, Sydney and Beijing. She has a keen interest in regional Chinese food and once took a solo food pilgrimage to China’s Sichuan province. cathferla.com |

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RRP: A$29.99 | Paperback: 9781760401177 | eBook available Rights held: World

APRIL 2016

NONFICTION

Things My Mother Taught Me Claire Halliday

Things My Mother Taught Me features stories of high profile mothers, and high profile people – from young actors, television personalities and older intellectuals to a famous chef, a fashion designer, a comedian, and many more – reflecting on their own relationship with their mothers. It is an exploration of all the stuff mothers know (or don’t know) and how that knowledge and the ability to share it – for good and bad – helps to shape a person. Through interviews ranging from funny to poignant, this book documents not only the important relationship that each and every human life begins with, but also the evolving nature of contemporary Australian society. Mother-child relationships, explored through the anecdotes of a range of Australians, provide a reflection on the recent history of changes in education, technology, feminism and employment, as well as changing morals, manners and parenting styles. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Claire Halliday has more than 19 years experience as a freelance feature writer, with articles published in major magazines and newspapers. Claire started her copywriting business – Copy Queens – in late 2011, which caters to a diverse range of corporate and small business clients. She has published three non-fiction books and lives in Melbourne with her husband and four children. 1clairehalliday RRP: A$32.95 | Paperback: 9781760069995 | eBook available Rights held: World

APRIL 2016

PHOTOGRAPHY

Consider the Clothesline

Vibrant Images of Laundry and Life Frances Andrijich and Susan Maushart

Photographer Frances Andrijich’s unusual fascination with the clothesline has made the world just a little brighter. Paired with Susan Maushart’s witty and illuminating text, these images are by turns whimsical, meditative and transgressive, and have all the intoxicating freshness of a basket of sun-dried sheets.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frances Andrijich is an award-winning photographer who has published thirteen books. She is based in Perth. andrijich.com.au

Susan Maushart is an author and journalist, the author of six books and lives between Perth and New York. susanmaushart.com

RRP: A$24.95 | Hardback: 9781760069254 Rights held: World

True Crime

APRIL 2016

Jail Birds

Australian Women Doing Crime Robin Bowles It is commonly believed that women are the gentle sex, but reading some of these accounts of crimes committed and lives endured may make you think again. The skill or sheer brazenness involved or, in other stories, the apparent miscarriages of justice, will take your breath away. Two of the cases in this new book by Australia’s leading female true crime writer, Robin Bowles, involve murder, including the lead story which, for the first time, details the controversial case of Tasmanian Susan Neill-Fraser. There is also a prison breakout, a mysterious disappearance, child abduction, protestations of innocence and obvious guilt. The protagonists themselves have contributed a new perspective on the information currently available via prison interviews Robin conducted with Tania Herman, Renae Lawrence (by illegal mobile phone in Renae’s case!) and Susan NeillFraser, plus other interviews with people never interviewed before about these cases. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robin Bowles is the author of nine true crime books. Her most recent, Smoke and Mirrors: A Tragedy of Love and Murder – Stuart Rattle and Michael O’Neill, was published in 2015. Robin lives in Melbourne with her husband and her dog.

RRP: A$32.95 | Paperback: 9781760403041 | eBook available Rights held: World

APRIL 2016

NONFICTION

The Real Mary Kelly Wynne Weston-Davies

Many researchers have tried over the decades to discover Mary Jane Kelly’s true identity. She was the final and most brutally murdered victim of Jack the Ripper, but almost nothing is known about her family or her earlier life. In this thrilling book, Mary’s great-nephew Wynne Weston-Davies, who is an author and surgeon, explores the inscrutable circumstances behind the Ripper’s fifth and final victim and how the elusive life of Mary Jane Kelly is wholly intertwined with the mystery of her legendary killer. With echoes of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Sherlock Holmes in his pomp, The Real Mary Kelly is not only a classic ‘whodunit’, but an engrossing and utterly original ‘whoisit?’ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Wynne Weston-Davies studied Anatomy as his specialisation for his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Mary’s Hospital and also taught dissection of the human body. He has worked as a senior surgeon at four hospitals in the UK. As the great nephew of Elizabeth Weston Davies, the author has unique access to his family’s history.

RRP: A$32.95 | Paperback: 9781905825387 | Rights held: ANZ

APRIL 2016

NONFICTION

7 Miles Out Carol Morley

In 1977, Carol Morley (fictionalised as ‘Ann’) was eleven years old and living in Stockport when her dad drove her to school one morning then drove home and killed himself. Trapped in a house with her emotionally distant mother, Ann starts drinking at twelve, drops out of school at 16, and spends her teens exploring her sexuality. In hedonistic 1980s Manchester, she finds the perfect playground for her self-destruction and promiscuity, hiding behind heavy drinking and drugs, ambitionless and empty, trying to come to terms with why her father wanted to end his life. This story reveals the often devastating consequences of family secrets, the lies we tell each other and ourselves, and a young woman’s struggle to find a place she belongs, finally finding a place at Central St Martins in London to study fine art and film and achieving international acclaim. Though names and some events have been changed, this is Carol’s compelling and inspirational true story. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carol Morley was born in 1966 in Stockport. She has written and directed the BAFTA nominated film The Alcohol Years, about her wild days on the Manchester music scene and the critically acclaimed Dreams of a Life. _CarolMorley

RRP: A$29.95 | ISBN: 9781910536155 | Rights held: ANZ

APRIL 2016

NONFICTION

Inner Bliss

Colouring and Doodling Your Way to Calm Tracy Loughlin

More like an interactive journal than a colouring book, Inner Bliss will help you to think, feel and dream. Be inspired by your own life and surroundings. Add your own thoughts and scribbles, colour and words. Making a beautiful pair with Domestic Bliss, Tracy concentrated here on the contemplative, the joy of making patterns, and experimenting with lines and shapes, and focusing on the beauty of nature in plants and flowers. Once again it’s an interactive journal where you add your own marks, colours and thoughts to the pages, including recipes. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tracy Loughlin is a Sydney based artist and designer. Her secret dream is to break out and go tagging one night and make some great graffiti art. Currently she has to restrain herself as she’s a parent and it’s illegal.

RRP: $A19.95 | Paperback: 9781760403140 | Rights held: World

APRIL 2016

NONFICTION

Domestic Bliss

Colouring and Doodling Your Way to Calm Tracy Loughlin

More like an interactive journal than a colouring book, Domestic Bliss will help you to think, feel and dream. Be inspired by your own life and surroundings. Add your own thoughts and scribbles, colour and words. Tracy wanted to colour her life so she drew her house – not her real house, but her dream home. She’s inspired by the everyday – by the old iron fence down the street, by everything that surrounds her. Tracy says her drawing is not perfect, nothing is except nature. She uses pen and ink, and they are not predictable. Her illustration is spur of the moment, created by a feeling or a memory or the weather. It’s about being brave. Putting yourself out there and making a mark. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tracy Loughlin is a Sydney based artist and designer. Her secret dream is to break out and go tagging one night and make some great graffiti art. Currently she has to restrain herself as she’s a parent and it’s illegal.

RRP: $A19.95 | Paperback: 9781760403157 | Rights held: World

MAY 2016

TRUE CRIME

Deadly Games

Kids Who Kill Kids Gabrielle O’Reilly and Liz Frame A little over twenty years ago the world was shocked and numbed when it learned that two 10-year-old boys had deliberately lured, tortured and murdered two-year-old James Bulger. Everyone wondered how this could happen. The reality is that this was nothing new. Throughout history there have been no shortage of cases where kids have deliberately and calculatingly killed kids. Deadly Games provides a detailed look at some of the most murderous children who have ever lived, spanning throughout time and across nations. Some have killed for retribution, others simply for the thrill. The shocking and unfathomable crimes committed by young children will leave you questioning what children are actually capable of, and whether society is appropriately dealing with this ongoing horror. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gabrielle O’Reilly was born in Melbourne and raised in Brisbane. She lives in Toowoomba with her four children and when not working, enjoys playing pool at the local pub. Liz Frame was born and raised in Sydney and studied English and History at the University of New England in Armidale. She lives in Toowoomba with her husband, two dachshunds and an old fluffy cat.

RRP: A$32.95 | Paperback: 9781760401443 | eBook available Rights held: World

MAY 2016

NONFICTION

Lure of the Thylacine

True Stories and Legendary Tales of the Tasmanian Tiger Col Bailey Speculation by an ever-growing band of Tasmanian tiger devotees that the thylacine still exists has not wavered, despite the dogmatic stance by the scientific fraternity that the animal is extinct. This collection of actual accounts and anecdotal yarns originated from discussions the author had with an old Tasmanian tiger trapper, Reg Trigg, who in the early days of the twentieth century established a mutual friendship with Lucy, a tiger he rescued from a trap. Covering a century and a half during which this animal’s status has changed from being a despised sheep killer to a magnificent survivor, these enthralling stories are for both the curious and the enthusiast. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Col Bailey is a retired landscape gardener who enjoys bushwalking. He is a canoeist and a marathon race walker who once held the Australian 50-mile walk race record. Col is also the author of Tiger Tales and Shadow of the Thylacine. He lives in Tasmania.

RRP: $32.95 | Paperback: 9781760400880 | eBook available Rights held: World

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