Non-fiction
Black Inc win auction for Nicolas Rothwell’s The Red Highway
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Nicolas Rothwell’s new non-fiction manuscript, The Red Highway, has just been acquired by Black Inc in a strongly contested auction. The Red Highway is set in different parts of the north of Australia: Darwin, the Kimberley, the Centre, and the Pilbara, and is centred on ideas of friendship, loss and return. Black Inc’s Chris [...]
Simon Capp: Italy? It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Italy. Land of pizza, pasta, piazzas and palazzos … Mild-mannered suburban father Simon Capp took his young family off to the Italian countryside for a change of lifestyle and to test our theory of the global internet worker. All he needs is electricity and a phone line. What could go wrong? This is the story [...]
Edrei Cullen & Gregory Rogers: Flitterwig
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008The understated cover for Edrei Cullen’s novel for young readers, Flitterwig, which is illustrated by Gregory Rogers. What if wandering around in your neighbourhood, are people with a bit of pixie in them, or a bit of elf, or a bit of goblin? Ella always thought she was odd, but when a mysterious purple package [...]
Simon Capp: A Very Italian Affair
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Simon Capp is a Japanese translator who took his wife and two young children over to Italy on a 16-month working holiday in 2003. Their rollercoaster ride is recounted in hilarious detail in A Very Italian Affair, which has just been acquired by New Holland for publication in mid-2008. A Very Italian Affair tells the [...]
Nicolas Rothwell: Another Country
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Nicolas Rothwell’s highly-praised Another Country has just been released by Black Inc in B format with a new cover. Nicolas is currently writing a new non-fiction work, an excerpt of which appears in Black Inc’s monthly magazine. The subject is tradition, loss and return in remote Australia, and it is divided into four chapters: they [...]
Evil Genius showcased in New York Times
Sunday, May 27th, 2007Following great reviews, Catherine Jink’s Evil Genius has featured in this advertisement on page 2 of New York Times Book Review. First published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2005, Evil Genius is the story of a brilliant, 14-year-old computer hacker, Cadel Piggot, who is studying for his degree in World Domination. An engrossing [...]
Kate Jennings: Stanley and Sophie
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Prize-winning novelist, poet and essayist Kate Jennings often combines all three of these modes of writing into a single sentence. She also has always been able to produce concise and vivid meditations on the largest issues of our time while seeming to describe the trivial details of daily life. On one level her new memoir, [...]
Alex Buzo
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Alex Buzo Estate Ingenious playwright, novelist, humorist, travel writer, and sportsman. Norm and Ahmed (also known as Normie and Tuan), Macquarie, Coralie Lansdown Says No, Pacific Union, and many other plays; The Search for Harry Allway and Prue Flies North (novels); Tautology, The Longest Game, Kiwese, Legends of the Baggy Green (humour and sports).
Nicholas Rothwell: Another Country
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007‘One of the images of Northern and Central Australia that most often comes to me is … that of mosaic, a dance of broken, gleaming fragments: the landscape that varies in its unending, subtle rhythms: the human presences within the country that glint and catch the eye like metallic rooftops shining in the late sun.’ [...]
