* Widespread review coverage in major newspapers in Australia and New Zealand * Review and feature coverage in influential literary and general publications * Widespread online review coverage * Select radio interviews in Australia and New Zealand * Bound proof and early reading copies to be available to the trade * Cinema advertising in key art-house cinemas in capital cities * Display advertising on literary and current affair websites such as Fairfax and Book Riot * Major social media campaign including targeted Facebook, Instagram and Goodreads giveaways and advertising * Widespread promotion of an online chapter sample via social media and featured on Text and bookseller websites * Advertisements in literary and current affairs publications such as ABR, Monthly, Big Issue, and on their associated websites * Promotions and giveaways at national education conferences and inclusion in Text's education enewsletter * Advertisements in YA and education publications such as Magpies * Significant budget for advertising in bookseller newsletters and catalogues * An ideal book club title, notes available at textpublishing.com.au

'A fearsomely gifted writer.' Independent 'Ammaniti's writing is sharp, lean and pacy.' Herald Sun 'Ammaniti excels...in capturing the thought processes and fears and desires of children... once you start reading him, you can't put him down.' Sunday Telegraph (UK)

Niccolo Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He has written two collections of short stories and six novels, four of which have been translated into English. He was the youngest ever winner of the Italian Viareggio Literary Prize for Fiction for his best-selling novel I'm Not Scared, which has been translated into thirty-five languages. The Crossroads received the Premio Strega Prize in 2007, Italy's equivalent to the Booker Prize.