Welcome to the website of Selwa Anthony Author Management Agency - one of the leading literary agencies in Australia. Here you will find information about Selwa, her authors and the books she has helped get published.
New and up and coming publications:
All I Know
Starting with a colourful childhood in Collingwood and Doncaster, under the shadow of her father’s mortality, and ending in sunny Bondi, supported by a tight circle of girlfriends who got her through a death even more painful, Mary Coustas takes …
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Song of the Slums
In the slums of Brummingham, the outcast gangs are making a new kind of music, with pounding rhythms and wild guitars. Astor Vance has been trained in refined classical music. But when her life plummets from riches to rags, the …
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Kumar’s Family Cookbook
At the request of his sons, Kumar Pereira created beautifully handwritten and illustrated recipes for them to cook from while he and his wife were away from home. Kumar’s Family Cookbook collects these recipes for family meals, together with their …
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This Red Earth
It’s 1939, another war in Europe. And Bernie Cooper is wondering what’s ahead for her. She knows Gordon Brock is about to propose. An honest country boy and graduating geologist, he’s a good catch. And she’s going to say no.…
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Sex, Drugs and Meditation
Mary-Lou Stephens was lucky to make it into her forties. Therapy and AA helped her recover from her upbringing in an evangelical household; her habit of shoplifting through drama school; her addictions to food, drugs and alcohol; a string of …
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Not a Cloud in the Sky
Come Fly with Bird, meet Cloud, and find a friendship as big as the sky.
From award-winning author and illustrator Emma Quay…
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Australian Heroines of World War One
The outstanding book tells the stories of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, photos, paintings and specifically drawn maps. These women had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renown and the compassion and tenderness that only a …
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Beyond the Frame’s Edge
Adyn Cole returns from New York to Australia for the final farewell of his uncle, leaving a decade of life behind him- a career ended, a relationship in ruins.
Back in Sydney, Adyn discovers his uncle has generously favoured him …
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Between the Lives
Sabine isn’t like anyone else. For as long as she can remember, she has had two lives. Every twenty-four hours she ‘Shift’s, living each day twice. She has one life in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and another, completely different life in Roxbury, …
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Father Bob: The Larrikin Priest
This is the life story of Father Bob Maguire – a rare behind-the-scenes look at the much-loved ‘people’s priest’. The enigmatic champion of the down-and-out was shaped by a lonely childhood in poor circumstances, an early priesthood that collided with …
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Educating Alice
A footloose city backpacker was hardly the ideal candidate to answer an ad for a governess on a Queensland cattle station.
But Alice Greenup was game for anything, until she fell for a handsome young jackaroo with a devastating smile. …
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Destined to Fly
Alexandra Blake has returned to the world after her captivity and is feeling a heady mix of emotions. Strangely empowered, her euphoria becomes tainted with fear, forcing her to acknowledge how the decisions of her past will now determine her …
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