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THIRTY NIGHTS IN AMSTERDAM LiteraryWinner of University of Johannesburg Award, 2008; and WA Hofmeyr and M-Net Award, 2009. An extract appeared on the Words Without Borders website, 2010. Translator: Michiel Heyns ‘Gripping and moving; the themes of exile and belonging are handled with superb skill. If South Africa produces a better novel than this one this year, I will be surprised.’ The Witness ‘The writing is extraordinary; the story is like a carnival.’ The Star Henk de Melker is a lowly museum assistant from a small Eastern Cape town who is unexpectedly informed that he is the sole beneficiary of his late, long-lost Aunt Zan’s estate. But to inherit, he must travel to Amsterdam, where his beautiful but eccentric aunt had spent her final years. Aunt Zan was an extraordinary woman, prone to seizures and wild behaviour…but her “other life” – her political activism, her acting ability and her involvement in cloak-and-dagger scenarios – was known to very few. Upon Henk’s arrival in Amsterdam his own life becomes inextricably bound to that of his late aunt. And over the next thirty nights in Holland’s capital city many secrets will be revealed and Henk will return to South Africa a changed man. 453 pp.
MICHIEL HEYNS Isobel Dixonwww.michielheyns.co.za Michiel’s Blog: Books and Dogs www.michielheyns.blogspot.com Professor Emeritus in English at Stellenbosch University. Also author of INVISIBLE FURIES (Jonathan Ball, 2012); BODIES POLITIC (Jonathan Ball 2008); THE RELUCTANT PASSENGER (Jonathan Ball 2003, France: Lattes 2007), THE CHILDREN’S DAY (Jonathan Ball 2002, US: Tin House 2009; France: Philippe Rey, 2010), and an acclaimed translator. Was a Civitella Ranieri Fellow in 2012.
A witty and surprising story of vanity and artistry, Caravaggio and social media, and love and revenge under the Tuscan sun… There are some strange characters following Michael on his research trip around Tuscany. An old man, who cuts in front of him in the airport queue, and an elegant elderly woman who sat near him on the plane both keep appearing in unexpected places around Florence. But worst of all Cedric, the belligerent London bouncer with no taste for high culture, deliberately checks into the same hotel and insists on crashing at the countryside villa he has rented. Things take a turn for the stranger when Michael arrives at his villa and finds that that the old man from the airport is in fact its owner, and the mysterious woman is his artist partner. And there is a painting of a man uncannily like himself, though they insist it was painted many years ago. Unnerved by this series of coincidences, Michael begins to fear for his life. What’s really going on in this foreign country, and who can he really trust? Jonathan Ball (Editor: Jeremy Boraine) publish in May 2014. Final ms available in March. 86,500 words.
LOST GROUND Literary Winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2012 & Herman Charles Bosman Prize 2012 Shortlisted for the M-Net Prize and the University of Johannesburg Prize ‘So much more than just great storytelling. It is Heyns’ mastery of language, his wonderful sense of place, and deftly drawn characters that make this book superlative. I loved it.’ – Deon Meyer Peter, a freelance writer in London, returns to his South African home town for the first time in years, after the brutal murder of his beautiful cousin, in search of a career-defining story. Desirée had already caused a stir when she married ANC soldier turned policeman, Hector Williams, in the town’s first mixed-race marriage, and with Hector now in jail as key suspect, Peter is teasing out Othello-like themes of murderous jealousy even before he arrives. But soon he has to question his assumptions and realise how little he knows about his much-changed country, perhaps how little he knew before he left. In search of Desirée’s story, he now starts to rewrite his own – till events take an even more shocking turn… 304pp.
THE TYPEWRITER’S TALE LiteraryShortlisted: Prix Femina 2012; Commonwealth Prize Africa 2006, Herman Charles Bosman Prize. Frieda Wroth is Henry James’s fictional typist, caught up in the friendships and rivalries at James’s house in Rye, in particular the affair between charming American Morton Fullerton and novelist Edith Wharton. A thought-provoking novel on love, art and how life is fully lived. Heyns is guest speaker at the Henry James Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2014. 233pp.
DENIS HIRSON Isobel Dixon South African poet, actor and lecturer, now living in Paris. Author of a collection of poetry GARDENING IN THE DARK (SA: Jacana, France: Le Temps qu’il fait) as well as THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR TO AFRICA (SA: David Philip), and from Jacana: I REMEMBER KING KONG (THE BOXER); WE WALK STRAIGHT SO YOU BETTER GET OUT THE WAY and WHITE SCARS: On Reading and Rites of Passage – a lyrical meditation on reading and its significance in our lives, which was runner-up for the South African Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize 2007. THE DANCING AND THE DEATH ON LEMON STREET LiteraryShortlisted for Commonwealth Book Prize 2012 ‘An elegant bittersweet novel, which brilliantly recreates an entire world.’ Africabookclub.com It is early 1960 in a leafy, peaceful suburb of Johannesburg, where Lemon Street’s residents lead orderly lives. Felicity Glanville, a young widow, believes she has finally met the new man of her life, the elegant Mr Van Aarden with his dove-grey Stetson. In a narrow room at the back of the garden, her maid Rosy impatiently awaits the arrival of her lover. Across the street, while his parents engage in yet another heated argument, a schoolboy dreams of a girl. And down past the willow trees at the bottom of the street this girl’s mother prepares a party to celebrate her twentieth wedding anniversary, which will hardly turn out as she expected. Meanwhile, tremors run through South Africa. Hundreds die in the great Clydesdale mine disaster, there is an assassination attempt upon the Prime Minister and there is the Sharpeville Massacre, which will radically shape the political climate of the country, and permanently alter the lives of certain people on Lemon Street. 276pp.
MARTIN HOWE Carole Blake BBC news and current affairs producer and presenter. WHITE LINEN As the last of the Magdalene laundries is about to close in Dublin in 1996, 4 women who have been virtually imprisoned for more than 40 years each, are saying their goodbyes in the pub opposite the convent. Faced with leaving the only home they have known for decades, they tell each other for the first time of the events that led to their families incarcerating them. When their priest arrives and hands over to one of the women a letter he had hidden for many years, yet another betrayal is brought to light. A moving novel with much to say about family betrayal, friendship, loyalty. A bittersweet story told against the backdrop of one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the Catholic church in Ireland. Howe’s ability to write convincingly in the voices of 4 different women is impressive. The last line of the novel delivers a stunning surprise. Ms available, 92, 500 words. KERRY HUDSON Juliet Pickering www.kerryhudson.co.uk Twitter: @KerrysWindow Born in Aberdeen, Kerry’s childhood in a succession of council estates, B&Bs and caravan parks provided her with a keen eye for idiosyncratic behaviour, material for life, and a love of travel. She currently divides her writing time and affections between Hackney and Hanoi, and is working on final edits for her second novel, THIRST, after her debut was nominated for eight literary prizes and won Scottish First Book of the Year. THIRST Contemporary Alena and Dave are both on the run from disaster, and meet during a London heatwave to begin a love affair as dark, joyful and frenetic as the city itself. Dave, who has built a carefully controlled world of self-denial and isolation, is drawn to Alena's passion for life, while Alena discovers that sex can be more than a transaction and that love and safety are priceless commodities. But a relationship founded on secrets is easily shattered, and when Alena's ex-lover arrives, threatening to expose her, Alena flees. By the time Dave overcomes his mistrust about Alena and her past, and follows her into the bitter Russian winter, he can only hope he's not too late to convince her that just as spring will come, second and even third chances can always be found. THIRST is a heartbreaking romance of almost unbearable fragility based in contemporary East London and rural Russia. MS (not final) available, 105,000 words. (ed: Becky Hardie)
TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA Contemporary Winner of Scottish Book Awards First Book and shortlisted for Author’s Club Best First Novel, Guardian First Book Award, South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award, Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, Green Carnation Prize, Polari First Book Award, Portsmouth First Fiction Award TONY HOGAN… tells the story of Janie Ryan, who, having narrowly avoided the abortion clinic, is born into a matriarchal Aberdonian clan of fishwives famous for ‘The Ryan Temper'. It’s the 1980s, and the air is thick with Human League, greed, and the scent of Findus Crispy Pancakes, but the yuppie boom couldn’t be further away from Janie’s existence on the edges of society. Moving from women’s shelters to grotty B&Bs and crumbling council estates, Janie must protect both herself and her little sister, Tiny, from the disreputable men her mother brings home. Forced to witness unspeakable acts, she often escapes to her interior world to make sense of the brutality of their itinerant life. But as she grows up, and hits adolescence with a vengeance, is she able to rescue herself from making the same mistakes as her mother? Funny, affecting and redemptive, TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA is an intimate and authentic story about mothers, daughters, and what it means to grow up with only yourself to rely upon. 272 pp. (ed: Becky Hardie)
CORMAC JAMES Isobel Dixon www.cormacjames.com Born in Ireland, he lives in France. Graduate of the UEA Creative Writing course, he was the recipient of the largest Literature Bursary awarded in 2010 by Arts Council of Ireland. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status katalogi -> Harvard University Press katalogi -> 2013 rights list non-fiction adshade, Marina dollars and sex: An Economist Puts a Price on Sex and Love katalogi -> Foreign rights guide katalogi -> Rights guide atlantic books corvus katalogi -> Harpercollinspublishers foreign rights guide william Morrow HarperBusiness Avon Avon Impulse Download 0.6 Mb. Share with your friends:
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