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- ANNIE ROBERTSON Juliet Pickering
- MONIQUE ROFFEY Isobel Dixon
- HENRIETTA ROSE-INNES Isobel Dixon
- AN OPEN MARRIAGE Contemporary
- THE LYING GAME Contemporary
- THE WIFE WHO RAN AWAY Contemporary
- THE KYDD SERIES Maritime Action-adventure
- IVAN VLADISLAVIĆ Isobel Dixon
- THE RESTLESS SUPERMARKET Literary Fiction
- TROY BLACKLAWS Isobel Dixon
- ANDY BRIGGS Julian Friedmann
SANDRA LEIGH PRICE idSandra Leigh Price lives in Sydney with her husband and young son. She graduated from the Australian National University, Canberra, with a Double Major in English Literature and Drama, and co-established a small theatre company before moving to Sydney to pursue a career as an actor, then turning to writing. Wet Ink magazine published an early chapter of A TABERNACLE FOR THE BIRDS, her debut novel. A TABERNACLE FOR THE BIRDS Historical fiction A vivid debut novel set to charm readers who loved THE NIGHT CIRCUS and OSCAR & LUCINDA. It’s 1920s Sydney, Australia, and three unusual young people who share a fascination with Houdini find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss du Maurier’s bohemian boarding house. Ari is a young Jewish man, a pogrom orphan who lives under the stern rule of his Orthodox rabbi uncle. Upon his hand he bears a mysterious mark, a forbidden tattoo spelling out the word abracadabra, and in his heart he aches to be a magician and dreams that his father was really Houdini. Lily is beautiful, but unnaturally pale, afflicted with albinism. Having fled her home town for the city, she longs to make contact with her father on the other side, just as Bess Houdini tried to speak to the dead. And Billy is a dangerous trickster, raised in an opium den by his no-good father. Returning from the Great War, he falls in with quack and conman Doctor Cuthbert Crisp, who he believes can teach him to control the minds of others. Powers he fervently wishes to use to lure Lily, ‘the purest woman in God’s creation’… Together with an array of wild birds, Ari and Lily devise a daring magical act for the local theatre, but then Ari receives word that his uncle has gone missing, on a crazed search for the Promised Land. As Ari sets off into the Blue Mountains to find him, Billy seizes the chance to get close to the woman he so desires. Will Ari be able to find his uncle, and his own path, and return in time to rescue the woman he truly loves? Ms available, 117,900 words. ANNIE ROBERTSON Juliet PickeringAnnie worked as a celebrity PA to some very famous celebrities, and has written a first novel based on these experiences. CARTIER AND CUPCAKES Women’s Commercial Grace Patterson has just turned 29 and is having a pre-thirties crisis. Having quit her job as PA to a stroppy princess, she decides that enough is enough and it’s time to pursue her dream of becoming an illustrator. There’s only one catch: she needs to save £20,000 to do so. So she takes one last PA job, working for ageing rockstar Keith Matlock and his nightmare ex-model wife Victoria. Although the salary is right, it’s clear from the beginning that the job is not.
As Grace discovers infidelities, deception and designer jewellery, she must keep her job but also keep her best friend. Will she survive the last year of her twenties before she loses her mind, her friends and her heart? Ms available, 89,000 words
MONIQUE ROFFEY Isobel Dixonwww.moniqueroffey.co.uk Grew up in Trinidad, now lives in London. Author of acclaimed debut SUN DOG (UK: Scribner 2011; US: Grove 2002/ title AUGUST FROST), a memoir WITH THE KISSES OF HIS MOUTH (UK: Scribner 2011, Turkey: Pegasus^, 472pp). 'Monique Roffey is a writer of verve, vibrancy and compassion.’ Sarah Hall HOUSE OF ASHES Literary Roffey’s third Caribbean-set novel, once again adeptly exploring the personal and political against the troubled backgrop of an island ‘paradise’. Inspired by real events, this is the haunting story of Ashes and Breeze, two disaffected young men who follow the charismatic Leader into a disastrous coup. Set over the period of the siege of the House of Power, where captors and their hostages see each other’s most brutal but also most vulnerable sides, HOUSE OF ASHES is a novel about fathers and sons, about failures of leadership – but also about how we confront our shadow sides, about coming through wreckage committed to peace. Scribner (editor: Clare Hey) publish in June 2014. Ms available October 2013, 65,000 words.
ARCHIPELAGO Literary Winner of the Bocas Prize, 2013. ‘Beautifully done. A brilliant piece of storytelling.’ – Andrew Miller ‘One to place on the shelf next to Moby Dick … A masterful writer.’ – Publisher’s Weekly ‘Mesmeric … a lesson in the power of odysseys.’ – Sophia Martelli, The Observer
THE WHITE WOMAN ON THE GREEN BICYCLE Literary Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010; A Telegraph Book of the Year 2010. Shortlisted for the Encore Award for best second novel 2011. ‘Heart-rending and thought-provoking.’ Elle Magazine 'Compelling and original. A bruised, sensuous love-letter to Trinidad.' Maggie Gee ‘A vibrant, provocative, satisfying novel.’ Suzanne Berne When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England, George is immediately seduced by the beguiling island, while Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill-at-ease. As they adapt to new circumstances, their marriage endures for better or worse, despite growing political unrest and racial tensions that affect their daily lives. But when George finds a cache of letters that Sabine has hidden from him, the discovery sets off a devastating series of consequences as other secrets begin to emerge. 439pp.
HENRIETTA ROSE-INNES Isobel Dixonwww.henriettarose-innes.com Twitter: @HenriettaRI Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2008 and the HSBC / PEN Short Story Prize 2007. Runner-up to the BBC Short Story Award 2012. Shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing 2007. Author of two previous novels, THE ROCK ALPHABET (South Africa: Kwela 2004; Romania: Tritonic 2008) and SHARK’S EGG (South Africa: Kwela 2000) and the short story collection HOMING (SA: Umuzi, 2010). Her work is included in the Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) and McSweeney’s Best American Non-Required Reading 2011, edited by Dave Eggers. A Fellow at Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation 2013. ‘Henrietta Rose-Innes writes an admirably taut clean prose.’ J M Coetzee. ‘Henrietta Rose-Innes’s writing is as entertaining as it is subtle.’ Steven Amsterdam GREEN LION Literary Con is unemployed and depressed, when he hears that an old school friend, Mark, has been badly mauled by a lion at the rare breeding programme where he was a keeper. Mark is in a coma, the lion is shot, and panicked staff abandon the project on the slopes of Table Mountain – but the consequences ripple further. When Con agrees to collect Mark’s possessions for his mother, he is fascinated by the surviving lioness, the only remaining Cape Black-Maned Lion in the world, and volunteers to step into his friend’s shoes as Keeper. Others share this obsession with the creature, including Mossie, a mysterious girl who is part of a shadowy group of new-age cultists. When Con is seduced by Mossie, the lioness escapes, and in his almost dream-like quest to track down the mythic beast, Con must confront dark memories of an incident he and Mark were involved in as boys, but also his own deepest fears. Unsettling and moving, GREEN LION is a page-turning story of containment and freedom, power and loss, examining the borderline between human and animal, and revealing the beast that crawls under every skin, itching to escape. Ms available, 68,500 words.
NINEVEH Literary Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2012 and the M-Net Prize 2012. ‘A gripping allegory … executed with wit, panache, and precision.’ Neel Mukherjee ‘A passionate homage to place and a sensuous exploration of metamorphosis.’ BooksLIVE KD is a Humane Pest Relocation Expert who ministers to the “unlovely and unloved” of the animal world. She polices the nooks and crannies of the city, keeping the beetles, rats and frogs in their place – and controlling her own troubling memories of life with an erratic, rootless father. But no borders are fixed, especially not in a city as changeable as Cape Town. When KD is hired by the enigmatic Mr Brand to cleanse the vermin-infested Nineveh walled estate, her own boundaries start to crumble. Just as the swamp water seeps into the foundations of Nineveh, so KD’s past returns – bringing with it all sorts of unexpected guests. 207pp.
TESS STIMSON Carole Blake www.tessstimson.com Twitter: @tessjstimson After writing 3 bestsellers in the 90s, THE ADULTERY CLUB (2007: 20 publishers) began her new powerful, multiple first-person narratives. Author of THE INFIDELITY CHAIN, THE CRADLE SNATCHER, WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE, all Macmillan UK. AN OPEN MARRIAGE ContemporaryDramatic and emotional story, of tangled relationships, told in Tess’ trademark style. Ms avlbl. 75,000 words (UK editor: Wayne Brookes).
THE LYING GAME ContemporaryWhat if the child you’ve raised isn’t your own? What if your child was raised by a stranger? What if, to save the child carrying your genes, you must risk losing the one holding your heart? 290 pp.
THE WIFE WHO RAN AWAY ContemporaryKate feels if she served her affable husband dinner stark naked, he wouldn’t notice. Her charming toddlers have grown into stroppy teenagers who only speak to her when they want something. Her boss is suddenly shunting her towards career Siberia, her demanding mother is never off the phone. With her 40th birthday fast approaching, all she wants to do is run away. One day she does. On impulse, Kate walks out of her job, her family and her life, and gets on a plane to Italy. With no ties and no responsibilities, she finds herself deliriously caught up in La Dolce Vita and the arms of a man barely half her age. When the unthinkable threatens her family, Kate is brutally forced to choose between her past and the future. Can she ever truly escape the ties that bind? And does she really want to? 323pp.
Lt Commander JULIAN STOCKWIN, MBE Carole Blake www.julianstockwin.com Twitter: @julianstockwin Joined a tough sea-training school at 14, followed by the Royal Navy, transferring to the Royal Australian Navy when his family emigrated. He saw service in the Far East, Antarctic, South Seas and Vietnam, and was on board the Melbourne at the time of its disastrous peace time collision with the Voyager. Later worked for NATO on the strategic deployment of merchant shipping. Shortlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Literary Award 2008. THE SILK TREE Historical The dramatic story of a pivotal point in history where a secret was stolen that changed the world forever. Global stakes, high personal risk, and atmospheric story-telling combine to tell of the quest to bring the closely-guarded secret of silk production out of China to the west. ‘Conn Iggulden meets Robert Harris’. Ms available. THE KYDD SERIES Maritime Action-adventure21 volumes will see Kydd rise through the decks, as his adventures take him around the world. Atmospheric, page-turning narrative, action and great characterisation. The first series to highlight the common seaman in the great age of fighting sail. Volumes 16 and 17 are already commissioned by Hodder (UK editor: Oliver Johnson).‘A terrifying account of the brutal life and casual death abroad an 18th century warship…in Stockwin’s hands, the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world.’ The Guardian ‘Stockwin has done a wonderful job of keeping control over a breakneck chain of events with his usual delicious sprinkling of salt to compliment it. Well done!’ Ty Martin, former commander, USS Constitution The series comprises KYDD (Hodder 2001; Scribner US 2001; Ullstein German 2001; Hayakawa Japan 2002; Ulisseia Portugal 2002, Presses de la Cite France 2007, McBook Press US 2008), ARTEMIS (Hodder 2002; Scribner US 2002; Ullstein Germany, 2002; Hayakawa Japan 2003; Presses de la Cite France 2008, McBook Press US 2008), SEAFLOWER (Hodder 2003; Scribner US 2003; Ullstein Germany 2003; Hayakawa Japan 2005; Presses de la Cite France 2009, McBook Press US 2008); MUTINY (Hodder 2003; Scribner US 2004; McBooks US 2005; Ullstein Germany 2003; Hayakawa Japan 2005; Presses de la Cite France 2010), QUARTERDECK (Hodder 2004; Ullstein Germany 2005, McBooks USA 2005, Hayakawa Japan 2006, Russia Mir Knigi 2007, Maritim Germany 2008); TENACIOUS (Hodder 2005, Ullstein Germany 2006, McBooks USA 2006, Hayakawa Japan 2008); COMMAND (Hodder 2006, McBooks 2008, Ullstein Germany 2006, Japan Hayakawa 2009), KYDD: The Admiral’s Daughter (Hodder 2007, McBooks USA 2007, Ullstein Germany 2009, Hayakawa Japan^) TREACHERY (Hodder 2008, McBooks USA 2008, Hayakawa^), INVASION (Hodder 2009, McBooks USA 2009), VICTORY (Hodder 2010, McBooks USA 2010), CONQUEST (Hodder 2011, McBooks USA 2011), BETRAYAL (Hodder 2012, McBooks 2012) and CARIBBEE (Hodder 2013, McBooks 2013). PASHA (Hodder ^, McBooks ^) ms available. TERRY TOMA Isobel DixonBorn in Kentucky, Terry Toma now lives in Lyon. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University. His short fiction has been published in journals like Black Warrior Review and Cimarron Review, and he received an Honorable Mention in Best American Short Stories. He is the author of BORDER DANCE (Southern Methodist University Press, 1996). Kirkus described his prose as ‘powerful, impressionistic, and deftly ironic’. THE MOON SEES ME Literary A potent, dark and witty novel about money and power, sex and belief, loneliness and the boundaries we hold to and cross. Martin and Lily Fowler are a wealthy Manhattan couple – Martin, a failed theoretical mathematician, is now a futures analyst, and Lily is an intellectual property lawyer. When long term nanny Paloma announces she is going to the West Coast to live a man she has met on the internet, they are devastated. Who will they get to look after their twin boys? How will Lily manage her high-powered job without her? The answer comes in the wholesome form of young Irish girl Saiorse, whose main qualification as a nanny is her horde of younger brothers back home. She is adept with the boys, an answer to prayer. But, unlike Paloma, she needs to live in with them. Lily is determined to keep her, and so the Fowlers make a plan. But soon their lives are adapting far more than they’d ever dreamed, and when they realise that the girl is watching them in bed, things begin to take a darker turn. Ms available, 81,800 words. IVAN VLADISLAVIĆ Isobel DixonAward-winning author of the novels DOUBLE NEGATIVE and THE RESTLESS SUPERMARKET and of three short story collections MISSING PERSONS (David Philip, 1991; Olive Schreiner Prize; Editions Complexe, France; dpa-Verlag, Germany), PROPAGANDA BY MONUMENTS (1996, two stories won the Thomas Pringle Award; Noma Award Honourable Mention; France, Editions Zoe 2006) and THE EXPLODED VIEW (SA: Umuzi 2004, France: Editions Zoe 2007, Sweden: Tranan^), collected together as FLASHBACK HOTEL (SA: Umuzi 2010). He is also author of the essay/story collection THE LOSS LIBRARY (SA: Umuzi 201*; WEL exSA: Seagull) and the novella THE FOLLY (David Philip, 1993; CNA Literary Award; UK: Serif; France: Editions Zoe, 2012; Germany: dpa-verlag; Croatia: Feral Tribune). His work is included in the GRANTA BOOK OF THE AFRICAN SHORT STORY and Sylph Editions published A LABOUR OF MOLES in the prestigious Cahiers Series. ‘One of the most interesting figures on the South African literary scene.’ Il Manifesto ‘Over the past two decades Ivan Vladislavić’s varied oeuvre has cemented his position as one of the most critically respected novelists currently at work in South Africa. ’ – Danny Byrne, Music and Literature THE RESTLESS SUPERMARKET Literary FictionWinner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2002, Shortlisted for the Book Data/SAPnet Bookseller's Choice Award 2002. Longlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award 2003. ‘A triumph of sympathetic imagination.’ – Danny Byrne, Music and Literature It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle’s world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa is already gone. Standards, he grumbles, are in decline, so bad-tempered, conservative Tearle embarks on a grandiose plan to enlighten his fellow citizens. The results are disastrous, hilarious and poignant. Brimming with surprising perspectives, urban satire, riotous imagery and outrageous wordplay, Vladislavić’s tour de force was awarded the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize. And Other Stories (Editor: Stefan Tobler) publish in April 2014. 304 pp.
DOUBLE NEGATIVE Literary Winner of the M-Net Award 2011, Winner of the University of Johannesburg Award 2010/2011, Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2011. With an introduction by Teju Cole. A haunting literary novel about photography and truth. Apartheid-era university dropout Neville Lister is in danger, his father thinks, of ‘falling in with the wrong crowd’ and so is sent to eminent photographer Saul Auerbach – ‘a man with strong convictions, who’s learned to direct them’ – to gain some sense of perspective and purpose. And so begins a delicate, funny and beautifully written exploration of the art of depiction, of the haunting power of photographs, those ‘odd little memorials that owe a lot to chance and intuition’. In three sections – ‘Available Light’, ‘Dead Letters’ and ‘Small Talk’ – this spare yet memorable novel tracks the changing face of Johannesburg and the crooked path of Neville’s career. Through all these changes, that first day spent with Saul Auerbach, what he photographed and what they saw together, are things Neville will never forget. A brilliant meditation on our ways of seeing and recording, on how and what we remember, and the art of getting lost. 204pp.
HARRY WHITEHEAD Isobel Dixon Was a freelance location manager in the film business, while studying for masters degrees in Medical Anthropology and Creative Writing. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. THE CANNIBAL SPIRIT Literary John Goodman’s 10 Great Reads of 2011, North Shore News 'Powerful, ambitious...The plot, which includes hand-to-hand combat, vivid dreams and seeming magic, guilty secrets galore and death-defying oceanic canoe travel, is fast-paced and full of surprises…A brave and ambitious book that sets out to retrieve lost history and turn it into high literature.' Tom Sandborne, Globe and Mail
CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT WENDY BEVAN-MOGG Tom Witcomb After working in script development and line-producing award-winning feature films for several years Wendy took a job with Creative England, which coincided with getting married and moving to Somerset. SPRING FORWARDS 9-11 Every spring we wind our clocks forwards. But did you ever wonder what happened to the lost hour? When the owner of a clock shop tasks Joe with winding all of the clocks one night, he is plunged into a world of adventure where the statues of London come to life! The statues are the Guardians of London, and there is an evil army of Stillnesses coursing its way through the City, led a Man, who is intent on reaching the Monument which still contains a spark of the Great Fire of London, which is far more powerful than anyone could imagine. Someone has stolen the clock which will make time start again and with the help of a ragtag group of actors, WW2 spies, soldiers and creatures of all shapes and sizes, Joe has to summon up every drop of courage he has ever possessed, to vanquish the Man and save the City. Ms available, 66,500 words.On UK submission. TROY BLACKLAWS Isobel Dixonwww.karooboy.com South African writer and photographer, who lives in Luxembourg. Author of BLOOD ORANGE, KAROO BOY and CRUEL CRAZY BEAUTIFUL WORLD (details available under adult fiction). BAFANA BAFANA 9-11 ‘A magical fable. Troy Blacklaws effortlessly conjures up the sights, sounds and rhythms of the South African landscape.’ Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE) llustrations by Andrew Stooke. Poetic quest tale about dreams, football and Nelson Mandela. 92pp.
ANDY BRIGGS Julian FriedmannTwitter: @aBriggswriter Successful scriptwriter with scripts sold to Hollywood and in Europe, including FOREVERMAN which was commissioned by Paramount Pictures (producers: Stan Lee and Robert Evans). TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY (Book 1) 12-16 "I fell in love with Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan when I was 11 years old…[this] is a stroke of brilliance...The Lord of the Jungle is with us still.’ -- Dame Jane Goodall, Conservationist Set in modern day Africa, the story honours the original characters and material as well as pushing it in new exciting and modern directions: cannibal tribes have been replaced by rebel guerrillas; Jane is a compelling, modern teenage girl – suited to a life amongst technology and civilization – who is thrust into the hot savagery of the jungle. Tarzan remains the iconic hero, the man raised by apes and protector of the wild – but in the 21st century he has more perils to face than his original conception: warring guerrillas, poaching of endangered animals, illegal logging and the decline of the environment are just some of the new perils he will combat. 283pp.
ROHAN GAVIN Isobel Dixon Rohan Gavin is an experienced screenwriter, and new father. He lives in London. Now writing the follow-up titles KNIGHTLEY & SON: K-9 and KNIGHTLEY & CO, and both the first two titles have been bought by Gallimard Jeunesse in France. KNIGHTLEY & SON 9-11 'Heaps of mystery, dry humor and tweed abound in this exemplar of crime fiction à la Doyle... A rousing page-turner with one fault: It ends.' – Kirkus (Starred Review) ‘Danger and excitement — not to mention quirky characters and wonderful writing — lurk around every page!’ — Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, Treasure Hunters, and I Funny: A Middle School Story Alan Knightley is an expert in crimes too strange for Scotland Yard to handle, but four years ago the unexplained finally caught up with him – and he fell into a mysterious coma. His son Darkus is determined to follow in his father’s footsteps and find out what really happened. But when Alan suddenly wakes up, his memory is wonky and he needs help. The game is afoot for Knightley & Son – with a mystery that gets weirder by the minute, a bestselling book that makes its readers commit terrible crimes, and a sinister organisation known as the Combination. A funny, warm, fantastical crime caper with an unlikely hero and a brilliant comic cast. 330pp. (UK ed: Rebecca McNally)
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