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Francoforte 2015
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Cess
A SPOKENING
GORDON LISH
ORBooks 2015
236 pages
“It's no overstatement to say that Lish is to the second half of
the 20th century what Gertrude Stein was to the first. . . . Lish
has produced a wealth of avant-garde prose, worthy of the
pioneers of literary modernism. His writing represents the US’s
answer to Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard.” —The
Guardian
A list. What could be more basic than a list? And a list by Lish is sure to intrigue. In this,
Lish’s latest work, he delivers a characteristic exhibition of his peculiar deformities of
candor, obsession, and wit, via two extended “notes” to the reader, including a pageslong list of essential but perplexing words. Amidst this stream of apparent incongruities,
the alert reader will discover an accruing narrative involving the narrator’s late, beloved
Aunt Adele—a medal-bedecked spy for the National Reconnaissance Office—and
cryptography, love, poetry, and of course: the nature of language
Gordon Lish is the author of Goings, Collected Fictions, Dear Mr.
Capote, Peru, What I Know So Far, Mourner at the Door, Extravaganza,
My Romance, Zimzum, and Epigraph. This body of work, together
with his activities as a teacher and editor, have placed him at the
forefront of the American literary scene.
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The Strangest
A NOVEL
MICHAEL J. SEIDLINGER
ORBooks 2015
202 pages
"Step back Camus, your anti-hero has been fragmented and dispersed via the free-fall of social media.
Michael J. Seidlinger's re-visioning enters the anthropocene without apology or oxygen masks, and asks
us to take the trip toward self discovery as if the self was moving particles. A kick-ass ride. A beautiful
dismemberment." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children
"If anyone at any time is in search of a novel that renders the dysphoria and fragmentation experienced
by the first generation to live through social media, then he or she should begin with The Strangest. Like
Camus, Seidlinger does not so much describe anomie as write from it; the result is a strangely resonant
book that feels, above all else, honest." —Will Chancellor, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
Michael Seidlinger has dared tackle one of the literary classics of the 20th century literature and
reimagined it for the 21st: and in Albert Camus’ anti-hero Meursault, at once apathetic and
violent, unable to connect with his fellow humans, Seidlinger exhumes a perfect metaphor for
the Internet Generation. Zachary Weinham, anchorless in terms of morals and committed to
nothing except commenting on comments and their comments etc., finds himself involved in
the sinister machinations of Rios, someone he meets in a bar, and allows himself to be set up
—whether out of apathy or a desire for self-destruction it’s hard to tell. A murder ensues.
Shunned by his friends and associates, not sure of what he has gotten into, Zachary heads for
confrontation with society—and his own moral values.
Michael J. Seidlinger is the author of a number of novels including The
Laughter of Strangers, The Fun We’ve Had and The Face of Any Other. He
serves as Electric Literature’s Book Reviews Editor as well as publisher-inchief of Civil Coping Mechanisms, an indie press specializing in
unclassifiable/innovative fiction and poetry.
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SOFRITO
by Phillippe Diederich
A Cuban-American travels to Havana searching for a
secret recipe but instead finds love and the truth about
his father. Turns out that Cuba binds Frank together
the way a good sofrito binds the flavors of a Cuban
dish. A mystery novel for foodies.
“Sofrito has the sweaty seduction of Havana’s streets
and the warm spirit of its food.” —Mark Kurlansky,
author of Salt: A World History and Cod: A Biography of
the Fish that Changed the World
“In this entertaining debut novel, Frank Delgado tries
to save his failing restaurant by returning to Cuba, his
dead father’s homeland, to get ahold of a top-secret
chicken recipe. But there is more than delicious
chicken at stake here. Food is the road home—
geographically, emotionally, metaphorically. Peppered
with cooking advice from chefs, ordinary folks, and celebrities including Fidel Castro himself (an
advocate of pork), Phillipe Diederich’s Sofrito is a love letter to the deepest recesses of
nostalgia’s heart.” —Cristina García, author of the King of Cuba and Dreaming in Cuban.
“A moveable feast full of folkloric flavors, comical rhythms and magic. One man's quest for the
perfect spice leads him towards love for a woman and for his lost Cuba. In heaven, I know Oscar
Hijuelos is smiling.” —Ernesto Quiñones, author of Bodega Dreams and Chango’s Fire.
Frank Delgado is no thief. He co-owns a failing Cuban restaurant in Manhattan's Upper East
Side. The restaurant, like Frank, is rudderless. Lost. He decides he'll save the restaurant by
traveling to Cuba to steal the legendary chicken recipe from the famed El Ajillo restaurant in
Havana. The recipe is a state secret, prized by Castro himself, so prized that no cook knows the
whole recipe. But Frank's rationale is ironclad—Fidel stole the secret from his family, so he will
steal it back. He will triumphantly bring that recipe back to Manhattan and turn his fortunes
around. Frank has no interest in Cuba. His parents fled after the Revolution. His dead father
spent his life erasing all traces of Cuba from his heart with barbeques, television, lawn mowing
and alcohol. So Frank is not prepared for the real Cuba. Sure, he gets beat up and almost killed,
the secret service threatens him, but in the midst of the chaos, he falls in love with a prostitute
and the city, and he unwraps the heroic story of his parents' life. Cuba begins to bind Frank
together, the way a good sofrito binds the flavors of a Cuban dish.
Asked why he wrote Sofrito, PHILLIPPE DIEDRICH
replied:
“This book is culmination of dozens of trips to Cuba in
the 1990s. I had been trying to write a novel, but did
not have a story and kept having a lot of false starts.
One day, things just clicked. The book came together.
Since I had spent a lot of time in the streets of Havana,
I had an idea that I would make that the setting. But
when I was finished, I noticed there was a lot about
the complicated feelings people have when they’re
exiles. People from my generation—men and women,
Latinos, who grew up in the country of exile of their
parents—don’t have as much interest in the ‘old
country.’ I was surprised to see all this come out in the
manuscript.”
Born in the Dominican Republic, PHILLIPPE DIEDERICH
was raised in Mexico City and Miami. His parents were kicked out of Haiti by the dictatorship of
Papa Doc Duvalier in 1963. He spent his youth listening to his parents and friends talking
politics and nostalgically dreaming of the day they would return to Haiti. In 1980, the family
moved to Miami, where they joined a community of exiles from all parts of Latin America.
Diederich traveled repeatedly to Cuba as a photojournalist throughout the 1990s. He has an
MFA in creative writing from the University of South Florida and lives in Florida. This is his first
novel.
Sofrito
978-1-941026-14-4, paper, $16.95
978-1-941026-15-1, ebook, $16.95
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Photo of Phillippe Diederich by Selina Roman
THE DO-­‐‑RIGHT: A Mystery Lisa Sandlin Trade Paper $16.95 / 978-­‐‑1-­‐‑941026-­‐‑19-­‐‑9 E-­‐‑Book $16.95 / 978-­‐‑1-­‐‑941026-­‐‑24-­‐‑3 Publishes October 2015 “The Do-­‐‑Right”—that’s old Southern talk for prison. Delpha Wade doesn’t want to go back there. Fourteen years is enough. 1973. That’s fourteen years of prison time after Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. She wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. So it’s hard to find a decent job. But Delpha’s persistence pays off. She lands a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, a neophyte private eye. Delpha is smart and prison-­‐‑wise to human nature. Phelan is a Vietnam vet and an ex-­‐‑roughneck who lost a finger working the oil rigs out in the Gulf. Together Phelan and Delpha stumble into the dark side of Beaumont, a small blue-­‐‑collar Cajun city dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client plots mayhem against company men whose new oilfield product is set to rock the industry. Teenage boys are disappearing and Phelan, following his hunches, uncovers a menagerie of exotic animals and a serial killer. And Delpha—
on a weekend outing—looks into the eyes of her rapist, the one who got away. The novel’s conclusion is classic noir, full of surprise, excitement, and karmic justice. Sandlin’s elegant prose, twisting through the dark thickets of human passion, allows Delpha to open her heart again to the wonders of friendship, compassion, and human sexuality.  [Lisa] Sandlin blends pathos, humor, and poetic prose in a strong debut. — KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW  “Sandlin’s clipped prose style is pleasingly eccentric, and can become downright Chandleresque.” — PW STARRED REVIEW “Sandlin’s tale of a young PI and his ex-­‐‑con insinuation of a secretary was engaging as hell. The writing was brisk, the genre style familiar enough — not quite subversive, nowhere near trite. The plot was jake, too, but it was only a hanger for characters — the private dick Phelan and his canny amanuensis Delpha Wade — that you wanted to spend entire novels getting to know. Over too soon, the story, goddammit — as if it were too good to last.” Austin Chronicle, reviewing the short story “Phelan’s First Case” in USA Noir (Akashic Books, 2014) “Thomas Phelan and Delpha Wade are unforgettable characters as gritty as the ramshackle office they inhabit. But their grit has soul, and plenty of it.” — Johnny Temple, editor, USA Noir Cinco Puntos Press is distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution Publicity contact: [email protected]; 915-­‐‑838-­‐‑1625 Lisa Sandlin talks about her first mystery—”I wrote The Do-­‐‑
Right because I wanted to reverse the detective story convention. To create not a grizzled P.I. but a novice taking a flyer at the job and a secretary who’s lived the dark side of life. Enter Tom Phelan, fed-­‐‑up roughneck who just lost a finger on an oil rig, and ex-­‐‑con Delpha Wade, paroled after 14 years in prison for murder and looking for a job. Hello, Thomas Phelan, Investigations. These two are making it up as they go.” Lisa Sandlin’s story “Phelan’s First Case” was anthologized in Lone Star Noir (Akashic) and was later re-­‐‑anthologized in Akashic’s Best of the Noir series, USA Noir. The Do-­‐‑Right, which takes off from the story, is her first full-­‐‑length mystery. Lisa was born in Beaumont, Texas, currently lives and teaches in Omaha, Nebraska, and summers in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cinco Puntos Press is distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution Publicity contact: [email protected]; 915-­‐‑838-­‐‑1625 new CRIME
bEfore it Breaks
Dave Warner
Crime fiction • ISBN: 9781925161175 PB • 344 pages
Detective Daniel Clement is back in Broome, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and
struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town cops. Here, in the oasis on the edge of the
desert, life is as stagnant as Clement’s latest career move.
But when a body is discovered at a local fishing spot, it is clearly not the result of a crocodile attack.
Somewhere in Broome is a hunter of a different kind. As more bodies are found, Clement races to
solve a decades-old mystery before a monster cyclone hits.
Praise for Before it Breaks
‘Warner’s tone is laid-back and laconic, but with sentences as snappy as a nutcracker.’
Books+Publishing
‘Warner nails laconic Australian characters’ Reading Monthly
‘Put on your raincoat and hang onto your book – its a wild ride.’ Reading Monthly
Rights held: World
9781922089205 PB • 352 pages
9781921888519 PB • 346 pages
AWARD-WINNING CRIME series
bad seed
Alan Carter
Crime series • ISBN: 9781925162257 PB • 348 pages
When a prosperous Chinese-Australian family is viciously murdered, Acting Detective Sergeant
Cato Kwong is forced to recall a personal history with the Tans that makes his investigation doubly
painful. Soon Kwong is on his way to Shanghai as part of the investigating team, with a whole lot
to learn about guanxi – the intricate connections and obligations that underpin the social, business
and criminal structure of the country of his ancestors. In a world of spoilt rich kids and cyber
dragons, the truth is both exotic and dangerous. Meanwhile, DI Hutchens, armed only with angina
spray, fronts an inquiry as some of his past misdeeds come back to haunt him, and Lara Sumich is
facing a job crisis of a kind she would never have dreamed.
Praise and awards for the Cato Kwong series
‘Getting Warmer is a winner.’ Sydney Morning Herald
‘Bad Seed is hard to beat.’ Weekend Australian
‘accomplished and entertaining.’ Sydney Morning Herald
‘I was gripped from beginning to end.’ Beattie’s Book Blog
Winner, Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, 2010 (Prime Cut)
Shortlisted, UK Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, 2010 (Prime Cut)
Rights held: World (Rights sold: Prime Cut UK, USA, Germany, FRANCE, SPAIN;
Getting Warmer UK, USA, GERMANY)
Haifa Fragments
Author: khulud khamis
New Internationalist
Dimensions: 210mm x 148mm
Format: Paperback
Page extent: 190 pages
Publication date: July 2015
Jewellery designer, Maisoon, wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn’t easy for a
tradition-defying, activist, Palestinian citizen of Israel, who refuses to be crushed by the
feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors.
She volunteers for Machsom Watch, a movement of peace activists who conduct daily
observations of IDF (Israel Defense Forces) checkpoints. Frustrated by the apathy of
her boyfriend Ziyad and her father Majid - who want her to get on with her life and
forget those in the Occupied Territories - she lashes out, only to discover her father isn’t
the man she thought he was.
Raised a Christian, in a relationship was a Muslim man and enamored with a Palestinian
woman from the Occupied Territories, Maisoon must decide her own path.
khulud khamis is a Palestinian feminists writer,
born to a Slovak mother and a Palestinian father.
She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature
from the University of Haifa and works in the field
of social change organizations. She is a member of
the feminist organization Isha L’Isha - Haifa
Feminist Center. She lives in Haifa with her
daughter.
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The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015
Author: Various
Newint
190 mm x 130 mm
Paperback 240 pages
Publication date: July 2015
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 brings together the five shortlisted authors'
stories along with 12 other stories from the best new writers. Insightful, arresting and
entertaining - this collection reflects the richness and range of current African writing.
Now in its 16th year, The Caine Prize for African Writing has become an established
prize on the literature calendar attracting high-calibre writers from all over the continent.
2015 has been no exception with a record number of eligible entries, 153 stories from 17
African countries. With the short-listed (which includes one past winner and two
previously shortlisted writers announced in May, the winner will be revealed at an event
taking place on Monday 6th July at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
In celebration of the award and to help bring African fiction to a wider audience, New
Internationalist is delighted to publish Lusaka Punk and other stories, an anthology that
includes not only this years’ five short-listed stories but also a further twelve stories that
are the result of a Writers’ Workshop that took place in Ghana in April.
Short-listed Stories:
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The Folded Leaf by Segun Afolabi (Nigeria)
Flying by Elnathan John (Nigeria)
A Party for the Colonel by FT Kola (South Africa)
Space by Masande Ntshanga (South Africa)
The Sack by Namwali Serpell (Zambia)
Zambia’s Namwali Serpell has won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, described
as Africa’s leading literary award, for her short story entitled “The Sack”
from Africa39 (Bloomsbury, London, 2014).
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Jörg Juretzka
Trailerpark
Rotbuch Krimi 2015
224 Pages
Non era stata proprio una buona idea truffare la mafia di Marsiglia, deve ammettere l'ex
investigatore privato ed ex barista Kristof Kryszinski. Dopo il colpo si nasconde nella
città portoghese di Jerusale, un posto di mare frequentato dai surfisti. Lì campa
travestito da operaio lettone dei cantieri navali. Ma con l'avvicinarsi dell'inverno osserva
il crescere delle onde, e dal suo viso provato capisce che è arrivato il momento. Deve
prendere subito una decisione: o fuggire o affrontare i suoi inseguitori. Se fugge, diventa
una preda, se rimane, si porta dietro e intorno a lui un pericolo mortale. La soluzione
migliore sembrerebbe quella di essere morto …
Dal 1998 Kristof Kryszinski ha affrontato undici casi e ne è sopravvissuto, e anche il
caso numero dodici contiene tutti gli ingredienti che amano i lettori di Jörg Juretzka:
una storia pazzesca, personaggi squallidi e dialoghi perfettamente scanditi nei tempi
giusti.
Jörg Juretzka è un esperto carpentiere e ha costruito chalet di legno in
Canada prima di dedicarsi alla scrittura. I suoi polizieschi con
protagonista il detective Kristof Kryszinski hanno vinto tre volte il
Deutsche Krimipreis e gli è stato anche assegnato il premio per la
letteratura della Ruhr. I suoi romanzi più recenti pubblicati da Rotbuch
sono Rotzig & Rotzig, Freakshow e Prickel.
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Riproposto il primo grande successo del popolare giallista tedesco
Jörg Juretzka
Prickel
Kriminalroman
Rotbuch Verlag
304 pagine, 12,5 x 21,0 cm
16,95 €
Premiato con il Deutsche Krimipreis
Prickel è un po' tardo e difficilmente spiaccica più di tre parole in fila. Il suo amico Det
è un tipo svelto e lo porta in un giro di birrerie in compagnia di Nina. Ma poi Prickel si
ritrova accanto a Nina morta e un coltello insanguinato tra le mani. Di Det nessuna
traccia. Il "macellaio di Bottrop" finisce in un ospedale per malati di mente...
La più affascinante avvocata di Mülheim incarica delle indagini Kristof Kryszinski, il più
scalcinato detective della città, perennemente sotto gli effetti dell'alcool.
Jörg Juretzka è un esperto carpentiere e ha costruito chalet di legno in
Canada prima di dedicarsi alla scrittura. I suoi polizieschi con
protagonista il detective Kristof Kryszinski hanno vinto tre volte il
Deutsche Krimipreis e gli è stato anche assegnato il premio per la
letteratura dell Ruhr. I suoi romanzi più recenti pubblicati da Rotbuch
sono Rotzig & Rotzig e Freakshow.
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Black Light
by K.A. Bedford
Fremantle press 2015
332 pages – 20,5 x 13,8 cm
Price $24.99
Ruth Black is an English novelist left widowed by the mysterious death of her husband
during the Great War. She immigrates to Australia and settles in the sleepy coastal town
of Pelican River to repair her broken heart and work on her next novel.
But her quiet life is thrown into disarray when Aunt Julia arrives with an urgent, dreadful
message. Ruth’s life is in danger and the threat is from a source not entirely of this
world. With the assistance of her butler Rutherford, and her good friend the inventor
Gordon Duncombe, Ruth finds herself caught up in a hair-raising race to defy her
impending doom.
K.A. Bedford is the author of Orbital Burn, Eclipse, Hydrogen Steel,
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait and Paradox Resolution. He has
twice won the Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction
Novel, been shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award, and in 2013
his novel Paradox Resolution was joint winner of the Tin Duck Award
for Best Western Australian Professional Long Written Work.
K.A. Bedford has been writing since he was a little kid, but started
writing seriously when he was 14.
His first novel, which was his first professional sale, was published in 2003, when he was
40. The lesson here, he says, is ‘stick with it’. K.A. Bedford attended Curtin and
Murdoch universities, where he studied writing, theatre and philosophy.
Awards
Western Australian Science Fiction Association Tin Duck Award (Shortlisted, 2009)
Philip K. Dick Award (Shortlisted 2009)
Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel (Winner 2005, 2008)
Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel (Shortlisted 2003, 2006)
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Bad Seed
by Alan Carter
Fremantle 2015
200 pages – 23 x 15 cm
When a prosperous Chinese-Australian family is found horribly murdered, Acting
Detective Sergeant Cato Kwong must face his past relationship with the Tan family in a
way that makes his role doubly painful.
There is a suspect, and he is very close to home, but somehow the obvious questions fail
to lead to obvious answers in this investigation, despite the pressure from DI Sandra
Pavlou to find a neat conclusion. Hutchens, in the hot-seat of a child abuse inquiry,
appears unable to maintain sufficient focus, and Cato’s unease grows as the investigation
unfolds.
Soon Cato is on his way to Shanghai as a lead takes investigating team to China. Cato has
much to discover about himself in the country of his ancestors. And he and his team
have a whole lot to learn about guanxi – the intricate connections and obligations that
underpin the social, business and criminal structure of China, where cyber dragons are
dangerously real and being found guilty under law can be lethal.
It begins to seem as if the murder of the Tans might be connected to the Chinese acquisition of
Australian land – and to those who resent the invasion of the ‘Yellow Peril’. Meanwhile a
stressed-out DI Hutchens, faces trouble outside the inquiry as well. One of the victims,
David Mundine – the abused boy whose allegations Hutchens dismissed all those years
ago – has a bone to pick with him. It’s not a great recipe for a man with an increasing
reliance on angina spray. And the unstoppable Lara Sumich – with her hazy moral code
when it comes to criminal investigation – has fallen pregnant; she is facing a job crisis of
a kind she would never have dreamed.
Alan Carter was born in Sunderland, UK. He immigrated to
Australia in 1991 and lives in Fremantle with his wife Kath and son
Liam. He works as a television documentary director. In his spare
time he follows a black line up and down the Fremantle pool. He is
the author of two previous Cato Kwong novels, Prime Cut and
Getting Warmer, and is hard at work on the fourth, Heaven Sent.
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Carousel
by Brendan Ritchie
Fremantle 2015
312 pages – 19 x 13 cm
Nox is a graduate wondering what to do with his life. Taylor and Lizzy are famous indie
musicians, and Rocky works the checkouts at Target.
When they find themselves trapped in a giant shopping centre, they eat fast food, watch
bad TV and wait for the mess to be sorted. But when days turn to weeks, a sense of
menace grows.
Brendan Ritchie is a writer and filmmaker from Fremantle, WA.
He tries to spend his mornings writing and the afternoons
swimming, drinking coffee and reading about football. Taking a
break from making films, Brendan wrote his first novel, Carousel,
within a creative writing PhD at Edith Cowan University.
www.brendanritchie.com
Lizzy and I stood looking at the sky through the open dome while Taylor pushed on the doors at the front of
the centre. None of them opened. The sky was crisp and blue. It was daytime and the centre was closed. Lizzy
left me and wandered over to the Coffee Club island. She opened a gate in the counter and walked inside. Taylor
turned from the doors and watched as Lizzy took some milk from a fridge and studied the shiny espresso
machine running along the counter. I trailed over and sat on a stool. A moment later Taylor joined me. Lizzy
pressed some buttons on the machine.
Steam shot out over the floor.‘Do you really want to do that?’ asked Taylor.
‘What?’ asked Lizzy.
‘Screw around with their stuff,’ said Taylor.'
Lizzy brushed this off. ‘We’re stuck in here, Taylor. What else are we going to do? '
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Sister Heart
by Sally Morgan
Fremantle Press
Forthcoming
192 pages – 11 x 18 cm
A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution
in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and, in the face of
tragedy, finds strength in new friendships.
Poignantly told from the child’s perspective, Sister Heart affirms the power of family
and kinship.
Sally Morgan was born in Perth, in 1951. She has published
books for both adults and children, including her acclaimed
autobiography, My Place. She has also established a national
reputation as an artist and has works in many private and public
collections.
Awards
Children’s Book Council of Australia (Notable Book 1998, 2012)
Order of Australia Book Prize (Winner 1990)
Human Rights Award for Literature (Winner 1987)
NSW Premier’s Literary Award (Shortlist 1987)
Sally Morgan could be seen as an Aboriginal ambassador, teaching indigenous
Australians to feel pride in their identity rather than shame. Her biographical
book My Place presented an Indigenous perspective of history and the storytelling
mode of the book is deeply connected with Aboriginal identity.
makinghistoryatmacquarie
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Double Madness
by Caroline Da Costa
87,000 words
Introducing Detective Senior Sergeant Cass Diamond …
As local residents and authorities in Far North Queensland assess the damage wreaked
by Cyclone Yasi, a woman’s body is found in bizarre circumstances, deep in the
rainforest. Diamond is assigned to investigate the murder of expat French woman and
fashionista Odile Janvier and it’s not long before she uncovers a disturbing connection
between the victim and the local medical profession. Double Madness takes us into the
sordid underbelly of psycho-sexual depravity and blackmail.
Author Caroline de Costa is Professor at the School of Medicine at James Cook
University in Cairns, Queensland. She has published a number of health books for
women. Double Madness is her first crime fiction title in a planned series of three, each
featuring DSS Diamond and each set in the exotic location of Far North Queensland.
The second, Blood Sisters, is complete, and de Costa is currently writing the third.
Double
Madness
will
be
published
in
Australia
in
August.
World rights excluding Australia and New Zealand are available. Advance reading copies
now available.
Review from Bookseller + Publisher May 2015
(four stars from five)
Three weeks after Cyclone Yasi swept through Far North Queensland, a woman is found tied to a tree
in the Kuranda rainforest, her limbs bound by silk Hermes scarves, her body battered by the storm.
The disappearance of a woman like this, clad in red-soled Louboutin shoes and the finest French
clothes, would surely be noticed, but detective Cass Diamond can’t find anyone who matches the
description. However, Cass soon finds a lead that connects the woman to Cairns’ close-knit medical
community and the secrets threaten their antiquated loyalties. This is a strong crime-fiction debut from
writer and doctor Caroline de Costa, set in a lush tropical environment full of rainforests, snakes and
sunburst skies. Cass is a revelation: tough yet charming, she is as capable of chasing down an offender
(which she does) as she is at endearing herself to the reader (which she will). One of the pleasures of
this novel is that de Costa is unafraid to spend time with the characters and the landscape, and Double
Madness benefits from this soaking in. While never brutal or bloodthirsty, it nonetheless feels heavy with
danger.
Fiona Hardy is a bookseller at Readings Carlton and a committee member of the Australian
Crime Writers Association
Clive Newman Writers' Agent
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Matthias Wittekindt
Ein Licht im Zimmer
(Una luce nella stanza)
Edition Nautilus 2014
320 pagine
Hardcover
€ 16,90
Bauge, una cittadina portuale della Bretagna, in novembre. È in costruzione un grosso
impianto idroelettrico offshore, le maestranze sono cinesi e vivono in baracche fuori
città. Quando sulla riva si scoprono parti smembrate di un corpo umano e una donna
viene aggredita in un parco, i sospetti ricadono immediatamente sugli stranieri. Per
aiutare nelle indagini arriva da Fleurville, un investigatore grasso e trasandato, il sergente
Ohayon, che deve fare i conti con i segreti e le omertà del paese. Seguono eventi
inspiegabili, poco lontano dal luogo dell'aggressione una ragazza è investita da un auto
che poi si dilegua. Ma perché la giovane si trovava in quel luogo isolato nel pieno della
notte? Stava fuggendo da qualcuno o da qualcosa?
Di tanto in tanto Wittekindt permette al lettore di sbirciare dietro alla spalle
dell'assassino, ma di quale crimine è costui davvero colpevole?
Matthias Wittekindt è nato a Bonn nel 1958, ha studiato
architettura e teologia, ha fatto l'architetto a Berlino e a Londra, poi
il regista teatrale. È autore di drammi per il teatro e per la radio, di
documentari televisivi, e dei romanzi polizieschi Marmormänner
(2013), Schneeschwestern (2010) pubblicati da Edition Nautilus
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Robert Brack
Die drei Leben des Feng Yun-Fat
Edition Nautilus 2015
192 pagine
Lenina Rabe è tornata: i cuochi cinesi di Amburgo si uniscono per formare un sindacato.
Ma non hanno fatto i conti con la resistenza della mafia dei ristoranti ...
Feng Yun-Fat, proprietario del ristorante cinese "Hong Kong Dragon" di AmburgoAltona, ha incaricato l'agenzia investigativa Rabe & Adler di ritrovare il suo chef, Wang
Shuo, scomparso senza lasciare traccia. Yun-Fat voleva metterlo a capo di un nuovo
gourmet-restaurant a quattro stelle.
Lenina e la sua socia Nadine Adler si impegnano con entusiasmo nell'indagine, ma ben
presto incontrano un'inspiegabile opposizione e omertà da parte dei cuochi cinesi.
Scoprono così che esiste un regime speciale per gli chef delle specialità asiatiche, che
facilita la concessione di un permesso di lavoro, ma dipende dal proprietario del
ristorante che assicura il suo ingresso. Così nel variopinto universo delle cucine cinesi
prevalgono condizioni di schiavitù.
Anche Yun-Fat risulta molto meno generoso di quanto sembrava. Si scopre che Wang
Shuo aveva cercato di creare un movimento di resistenza dei cuochi cinesi. Questo non
era piaciuto non solo ai proprietari del ristorante, ma anche alla Eight Treasures Inc., un
grande e potente organizzazione di import-export alimentare.
Robert Brack (1959) è uno dei più popolari autori tedeschi di
gialli. Vive ad Amburgo e per alcuni suoi romanzi gialli di
ambientazione storica si firma con lo pseudonimo Virginia Doyle.
È vincitore di numerosi premi, come il “Marlowe”, attribuitogli
dalla Raymond-Chandler-Gesellschaft, e il Deutschen Krimi-Preis.
Con le edizioni Nautilus ha pubblicato altri otto romanzi:
Blutsonntag, Haie zu Fischstäbchen, Kalte Abreise, Lenina kämpft,
Nachtkommando, Schneewittchens Sarg, Und das Meer gab seine Toten
wieder. Unter dem Shatten des Todes.
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Finir la guerre
Michel Serfati
Phébus
• Data di pubblicazione : 05/03/2015
• Formato : 14 x 20,5 cm, 144 p., 15.00 €
L’ombre de Camus plane.
Alice Ferney. Le Figaro Littéraire.
Davanti al brutale suicidio del padre, Alex vuole a tutti i costi capire le ragioni che lo
hanno spinto a commettere l'irreparabile.
Una misteriosa lettera dall'Algeria, arrivata pochi giorni prima della sua morte, suscita la
curiosità di Alex e lo induce a seguire una pista precisa, quella del servizio militare del
padre nella città algerina di Tebessa nel 1959. Laggiù scopre una cultura affascinante,
paesaggi imponenti e Kahina, l'autrice della famosa lettera, ma anche gli orrori di una
guerra che ha trasformato gli eroi in carnefici.
Alex è divorziato e vive con difficoltà il proprio ruolo di padre: sentire il bisogno di
sapere la verità su suo padre perché spera che questo gli serva a rafforzare la relazione
con suo figlio e a spezzare la cappa di piombo che soffoca la sua famiglia.
Nato a Belfort nel 1953, Michel Serfati ha lavorato in fabbrica come
operaio, poi si è specializzato come formatore, educatore e dirigente
di un centro per disabili nella regione di Strasburgo.
Oggi abita in un piccolo centro del sud dell'Alsazia.
Finir la guerre è il suo primo romanzo.
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Le Fleuve guillotine
di Antoine De Meaux
Phébus
• Data di pubblicazione: 20/08/2015
• Formato : 14 x 20,5 cm, 464 p., 23.00 €
10 agosto 1792. Alle Tuileries, un manipolo di fedeli si raduna intorno al re e alla sua
famiglia. I giacobini si apprestano a infliggere il colpo decisivo. La Francia è in
rivoluzione, cioè in pieno caos. Per Louis de Torbeil e per il suo giovane cognato Jean de
Pierrebelle è una giornata di lacrime e sangue.
Ma nella città industriosa di Lione monta la collera contro Parigi. Da ogni parte del paese
tutto in popolo si ribella, Ben presto l'esercito rivoluzionario cinge d'assedio la città.
Antoine de Meaux ci offre un primo romanzo a tinte forti e un affresco di un mondo
prossimo al crollo. I conflitti sanguinosi della guerra civile si intrecciano agli amori
nascenti. Le foreste selvagge fanno da sfondo alle tristi vicende delle marionette umane.
Lungo le rive del “fiume ghigliottina” nessuno sarà risparmiato.
Nato nel 1972, Antoine de Meaux ha scoperto la figura di Michel
Vieuchange nel 1998. La lettura del diario di viaggio (Smara, carnets
de route d’un fou du désert, Libretto, 2004) e degli archivi del giovane
avventuriero l'ha portato in Marocco, fino a Smara, nel cuore del
Sahara occidentale.
Da quella spedizione durata vari anni è nato il libro, tra biografia e reportage, L'Ultime
désert, vie et mort de Michel Vieuchange (Phébus, 2004, ried. Libretto, 2015). De Meaux ha poi
pubblicato Charles de Foucauld, l’explorateur fraternel (Points sagesse, 2008). Ha inoltre
realizzato diversi documentari per la televisione, compreso À la recherche de Michel
Vieuchange (con il regista Jacques Tréfouël, Les films du lieu-dit, 2007). Dal 2004 fa parte
della redazione della rivista Nunc.
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Lost Boi
By Sassafras Lowrey
A bold and beautiful retelling of the Peter Pan story.
Sassafras Lowrey's gorgeously subversive queer punk novel reimagines the classic Peter
Pan story. Prepare to be swept overboard into a world of orphaned, abandoned, and
runaway bois who have sworn allegiance and service to Pan, the fearless leader of
Neverland, and to the newly corrupted Mommy Wendi.
Pan's best boi Tootles narrates this tale of the lost bois who call the Neverland squat
home, creating their own idea of family, united in their allegiance to Pan, the boi who
cannot be broken, and in their refusal to join ranks with Hook and the leather Pirates.
Like a fever-pitched dream, Lost Boi situates a children's fantasy within a transgressive
alternative reality, chronicling the lost bois' search for belonging and purpose, and their
struggle against the biggest foe of all: growing up.
Sassafras Lowrey got hir start writing as a straight-edge queer
punk zinester in Portland, Oregon, and grew up to become the
2013 winner of the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award.
Along the way, ze changed coasts, genders, and several other
things besides
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At the heart of Lowrey's loving, amazing, and crafty re-telling of Barrie's classic Peter Pan story is love
and freedom, replete with bois and grrrls, sexy, sassy mermaids, leather pirates, and a melange of
preferred gender pronouns, rollicking fun, and danger that will leave readers longing to never grow up,
yet embracing becoming a new kind of grownup. Of the many adaptations of the classic Peter Pan tale,
Barrie would rise up and cheer Sassafras Lowrey's Lost Boi. —Charles Rice-Gonzalez, author of Chulito
I always suspected that something kinky and delicious was going on between Pan and his bois. But
make no mistake, the leather and protocol role play seen in Sassafras Lowrey's Neverland is only one
part of queering this fairytale. Lowrey queers the entire monomyth narrative by shifting the perspective
away from Wendi and allowing an insider -- Tootles, lead boi in service of Pan -- to tell the story.
Tootles' point of view is authentic and dire. Tootles knows exactly what is at stake for his chosen family
of tough lovers and lost bois. —Amber Dawn, author of Sub Rosa.
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Mouthquake
By Daniel Allen Cox
Arsenal Pulp 2015
A novel about a boy with a stutter, and the tangled barbs of repressed memory.
Montreal, 1979. A boy's speech starts to fracture along with the cement of le Stade
olympique. Do they share a fault line? Daniel Allen Cox's unconventional fourth novel
tells the story of a boy with a stutter who grows up and uses sound to remember the
past. A coming-of-age tale that telescopes through time like an amnesiac memoir,
Mouthquake finds its strange beat in subliminal messages hidden in skipping records, in
the stutters of celebrities, and in the wisdom of The Grand Antonio, a suspicious mystic
who helps the narrator unlock the secret to his speech. This is a loudly exclaimed book
of innuendo, rumours, and the tangled barbs of repressed memory that asks: How do
you handle a troubling past event that behaves like a barely audible whisper?
Daniel Allen Cox is the author of the novels Shuck, Krakow
Melt (both Lambda Literary Award finalists), Basement of
Wolves, Mouthquake, and the novella Tattoo This Madness In. He
co-wrote the screenplay for Bruce LaBruce's 2013 film
Gerontophilia. Daniel is a 2015 writer-in-residence at the
ZVONA i NARI Library & Literary Retreat in Linjan,
Croatia, the first Canadian writer to be invited. He lives in
Montreal, where he is vice president of Quebec Writers'
Federation.
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