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Author Photo Credits: Peter Ackroyd: Charles Hopkinson; Patience Agbabi: Lyndon Douglas; Tahmima Anam: Abeer Y Hoque; Melanie Challenger: Alice Little; Kerri ní Dochartaigh: Wendy Barrett; Gavin Francis: Chris Austin; Salena Godden: Simon Booth; Matt Haig: Kan Lailey; Steven Hall: Jerry Bauer; Mick Kitson: Alan McCredie; Billy Kenber: Mary Turner; Jess Kidd: Travis McBride; Jamal Mahjoub: Romain Slocombe; Jarred McGinnis: Sarah McGinnis; Chris Mould: Jonathan Ring; Courttia Newland: Wallace Sharron; Jay Parini: Oliver Parini; Ambrose Parry: Alan Trotter; Nina Mingya Powles: Sophie Davidson; Alan Rusbridger: Greg James; Tom Sears: Claire Birch; Michael Spicer: David Goodson; Tracey Thorn: David Bishop; Shaun Usher: Eva and Craig Sanders Contents FICTION 5 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY Matt Haig 6 LEARWIFE J.R. Thorp 7 THE STARTUP WIFE Tahmima Anam 8 THE COWARD Jarred McGinnis 9 MR CADMUS Peter Ackroyd 10 MRS DEATH MISSES DEATH Salena Godden 11 MAXWELL’S DEMON Steven Hall 12 THE FUGITIVES Jamal Mahjoub 13 FEATHERWEIGHT Mick Kitson 14 A RIVER CALLED TIME Courttia Newland 15 BLACK SUNDAY Tola Rotimi Abraham / THE ISLAND CHILD Molly Aitken 16 RECENT FAVOURITES

CRIME AND THRILLERS 18 THE ART OF DYING / THE WAY OF ALL FLESH Ambrose Parry 19 THE BEIJING CONSPIRACY Shamini Flint/ THE HEIGHTS Parker Bilal 20 THE CURSED GIRLS. / ABSOLUTION. Caro Ramsay 21 HEADLONG Cynthia Harrod-Eagles / A BAD BAD THING Elena Forbes 22 RECENT FAVOURITES

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 24 EVERYDAY MAGIC Jess Kidd 25 THE TIME-THIEF Patience Agbabi 26 THE CHRISTMAS SERIES Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould 27 A MOUSE CALLED MIIKA Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould 28 I GET LOUD David Ouimet 29 THE BIGGEST FOOTPRINT Rob Sears, illustrated by Tom Sears 30 RECENT FAVOURITES

NON-FICTION 32 WE ARE ELECTRIC Sally Adee 33 THIN PLACES Kerri ní Dochartaigh 34 SICK MONEY Billy Kenber 35 THE HUMAN COSMOS Jo Marchant 36 HOW TO BE ANIMAL Melanie Challenger 37 NEWS: AND HOW TO USE IT Alan Rusbridger 38 LETTERS OF NOTE SERIES Shaun Usher 40 MY ROCK ’N’ ROLL FRIEND Tracey Thorn 41 THE GO-BETWEEN Osman Yousefzada 42 SMALL BODIES OF WATER Nina Mingya Powles 43 ISLAND DREAMS Gavin Francis 44 BORGES AND ME Jay Parini 45 EXPLORER Benedict Allen 46 THE SECRET POLITICAL ADVISER Michael Spicer 47 CHOOSE YOUR OWN APOCALYPSE / VLADIMIR PUTIN: LIFE COACH Rob Sears 48 COMING UNDONE Terri White / THE ART OF REST Claudia Hammond 49 STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES Richard Holloway / THE OAK PAPERS James Canton 50 STRANGER THAN KINDNESS Nick Cave / A LONG STRIDE Nicholas Morgan 51 BE MY GUEST Priya Basil / RADICAL ACTS OF LOVE Janie Brown 52 RECENT FAVOURITES 53 RECENT ACQUISITIONS & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS 56 SUB-AGENTS

3 FICTION HOWTHE MIDNIGHT TO STOP LIBRARYTIME The No.1 Sunday Times MattThe new life-affirming Haig Haignovel from the number one Bestseller Thebestselling touching, author funny of Reasons and heartwarming to Stay Alive andnew Thenovel from the Humans Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Stop Time and TheReasons first rule to isStay that Aliveyou don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Betweenbut that is thelife main and one. death No fallingthere inis love.a library. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your Whenmind . . .’Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been fullTom of Hazard misery hasand a regret. dangerous She feelssecret. she He has may let everyonelook down, includinglike an ordinary herself. 41-year-old, But things butare abouthe was to born change. in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. FromThe booksShakespeare’s in the Midnight England Libraryto jazz enableage Paris Nora and to live as if voyagingshe had done the Pacific,things differently. Tom has seen With a lot, the andhelp nowof an craves old friend, anshe ordinary can now life. undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined Alwaysthey’d be, changing and soon his her identity choices to placestay alive, the library Tom now and herself in hasextreme the perfect danger. cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- what is the best way to live? hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching ‘A celebration of life’s possibilities . . . ‘Haigup with is him.one ofThe the only most thing inspirational Tom mustn’t popular do is fall writers in A beautiful concept . . . Charming’ onlove. mental health of our age and, in his latest novel, he Guardian has taken a clever, engaging concept and created a heart- warmingHow to Stop story Time that is offers a wild, bittersweet,wisdom in the time-travelling, same deceptively ‘[Nora is] a protagonist to root for, ably simplestory about way losingas Mitch and Albom’s finding bestyourself; tales’ about Independent the carrying this whimsical yet shrewd fable of certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are the shrivelling effects of regret’ Observer doomed‘A beguiling to repeat. read, filledAnd about with the warmth lifetimes and it humour,can take toand a ‘Fiction meets therapy in a life-affirming learnvibrant how celebration to live. of the power of books to change lives’ Sunday Times fable that’s quintessential Haig’ Mail on Sunday ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ Click here to watch Matt talk about The Times ‘An uplifting, poignant novel about regret, The Midnight Library hope and second chances’ David Nicholls ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writerUK Publication: to cherish, Augustand The 2020 Humans is undoubtedly his MATT HAIG is the number one bestselling author magnumRights Held: opus’ World Guardian of Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet and Rights Sold: Arab States (Kalemat), Brazil (Record), six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including Bulgaria‘Extraordinary’ (Intense /Independent Locus), Canada (HarperCollins), How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. He has China (Ginkgo), Finland (Aula), France (Fayard), also written many books for children and he has Germany (Droemer Knaur), Hungary (Gabo Kado), won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Indonesia (PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama), Israel Book Prize and been nominated three times for (Armchair Publishing House), Italy (Edizioni E/O), Matt Haig is the numberthe one Carnegie bestselling Medal author. He of hasReasons sold to more Stay thanAlive aand Korea (Influential), Mongolia (United Business Review The Humans and fourmillion other books books for in adults. the UK As a and writer his for work children has been and Group), Netherlands (Lebowski), Poland (Zysk), young adults he has wontranslated the Blue Peterinto overBook fortyAward, languages. the Smarties Book Prize Romania (Nemira), Russia (Gayatri), Spain (Alianza), and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.@matthaig1 | matthaig.com Sweden (Polaris), Taiwan (Azoth Books), Ukraine Backlist: How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Radleys, (Zhorzh), US (Penguin) Reasons to Stay Alive, Notes on a Nervous Planet Other Rights: Clare Conville, C&W 5 Extent: 304 pages HOWLEARWIFE TO STOP TIME

MattJ.R.The new life-affirming Thorp Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans Inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear, this debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, buthistory. that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind“I am . .the .’ queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl, mother of Tomthree smallHazard animals, has a dangerous now gone. Isecret. am fifty-five He may yearslook old. I am likeLear’s an wife. ordinary I am 41-year-old,here.” but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. FromWord Shakespeare’shas come. Care-bent England King to jazz Lear age is dead,Paris anddriven mad voyagingand betrayed. the Pacific, His three Tom daughters has seen too, a lot, broken and nowin battle. craves anBut ordinary someone life. has survived: Lear’s queen. Exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name Alwaysforgotten. changing Now she his can identity tell her to story.stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a LondonThough school.her grief Here, and herage can may teach threaten the kids to crackabout the wars earth andopen, witch she knowshunts asshe if must he’d neverseek answers. witnessed Why them was first- she sent hand.away inHe shame can try and and disgrace? tame the What past hasthat happened is fast catching to Kent, upher witholdest him. friend The and only ally? thing And Tom what mustn’t will become do is fall of inher love.now, in this place of women? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice – one upon which Howher destiny, to Stop and Time that is of a wild,the entire bittersweet, abbey, rests.time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certaintyGiving unforgettable of change, and voice the to mistakes a woman humans whose areabsence has In the vein of feminist alternative histories doomedbeen a tantalising to repeat. mystery, And about Learwife the lifetimes is a breathtaking it can take novel to like Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, learnof loss, how renewal to live. and how history bleeds into the present. Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls or Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, but with the ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ temporal layering and poetic lyricism of The Times George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, Learwife is a thrilling debut novel about ‘A masterpieceClick . . here. Matt to Haig watch is a supremeJ.R. Thorp talent talkand a a woman thwarted, a woman forgotten, a writer to cherish,about andLearwife The Humans is undoubtedly his woman fighting back. magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’UK Publication: Independent April 2021 J.R. THORP is 31 years old and was born in Australia. She was a Rights Held: World Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford, where she gained Other Rights: Clare Conrad, her PhD. She won the London Short Story Award in 2011, has had Janklow & Nesbit creative work published in the Cambridge Literary Review, Manchester Review, Extent: 304 pages antiTHESIS,Matt Haig Wave is the Composition number one and bestselling elsewhere. author She of is Reasonsalso a lyricist to Stay andAlive and librettistThe Humans whose and works four haveother been books commissioned for adults. As a bywriter the forArts children Council, and theyoung Wellcome adults heTrust has andwon Stthe Paul Blue’s Peter Cathedral, Book Award, and her the scoresSmarties have Book Prize beenand publishedbeen shortlisted by OUP three and times Editions for the Peters.Carnegie She Medal. wrote His the work libretto has been fortranslated the highly into acclaimed 30 languages. recent modern opera, Dear Marie Stopes, about the life of the birth control advocate and sex-advice writer Dr Marie Carmichael Stopes (1880–1958). She lives in Cork, Ireland. 6 6 HOWTHE STARTUP TO STOP WIFE TIME

MattTahmimaThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number Anam one Abestselling quirky, funny, author deeply of Reasons intelligent to Stay story Alive of and love, The big dreams, Humans starting up and feminist geekdom, from the award-winning Theauthor first ofrule A is Golden that you don’tAge fall in love. There are other rules too, Halfwaybut that is thethrough main one. her No PhD falling and in love.already No staying dreaming in love. of No running daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped mind . . .’ out. But a chance meeting with an old classmate Cyrus and his Tombest friend Hazard Jules has inspires a dangerous her with secret. a life-changing He may look idea: building likea social an ordinary networking 41-year-old, app that butcould he bring was born meaning in 1581. to millions Owingof lives. to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. SoonFrom theShakespeare’s inseparable England trio are invitedto jazz toage join Paris Utopia, and a startup workspacevoyaging the run Pacific, by intimidatingly Tom has seen confident a lot, and women, now craves offering limitlessan ordinary hemp life. shakes, Unbearably Hot Yoga, and ideas that range from genius to outright insane. As Asha networks with Praise for A Golden Age: ventureAlways changingcapitalists his and identity builds toempowering stay alive, Tom friendships now amidst ‘A stunning debut. Anam writes exposedhas the perfect brickwork, cover her - working app explodes as a history into the teacher next big at athing. of torture, brutality, refugees and SoLondon why does school. she Here,feel invisible he can teachat the theboardroom kids about tables wars of her desperation, but she also writes of love ownand witchcompany? hunts And as if why he’d are never decisions witnessed being them made first- without and joy, food and song’ Observer her?hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in ‘This is storytelling at its best . . . A Gripping, witty and razor-sharp, The Startup Wife is a love. beautiful story of hope, heroism and blistering novel about dreaming big, speaking up and fighting human survival amid cruelty’ Daily to be where you belong. How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, Express story‘The aboutStartup losing Wife and is an finding extremely yourself; enjoyable, about thefeminist ‘In this striking debut novel . . . Anam certaintyrom-com of – gloriouslychange, and readable, the mistakes irresistibly humans funny are deftly weaves the personal and the doomedand smarter to repeat. than youAnd realise about untilthe lifetimes you turn it canthe takefinal, to political, giving the terrors of war spare, learntriumphant how to page.live. I loved this novel’ Gillian Anderson powerful treatment’ New Yorker ‘A‘Fresh, wonderfully funny, brave,funny, grippingsavage, smart and inventive – Tahmima novel’ Anam hits ‘Beautifully told, intimate and Theevery Times note perfectly in this novel about our new reality and touching; Anam has a knack for the age-old problems of men and women that no app can making you care so desperately for her ‘Afix’ masterpiece Kamila Shamsie . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his characters that you admire their failings magnum opus’ Guardian as much as their strengths’ Daily Mail Click here to watch Tahmima talk about ‘Extraordinary’The IndependentStartup Wife

UK Publication: June 2021 TAHMIMA ANAM is the award-winning author of three novels including the Rights Held: World excluding Commonwealth Writer’s Prize-winning A Golden Age. Her work has been published India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, in Granta, the New York MattTimes Haigand theis the Guardian number. Inone 2013 bestselling she was author selected of Reasons as one toof Stay Granta Alive and Sri Lanka and Nepal magazine’s Best of YoungThe Humans British and Novelists four other. Her books short for stories adults. haveAs a writerbeen awardedfor children an andO. young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Rights Sold: Italy (Garzanti), Henry Award and shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. She is a Harvard- educated anthropologistand and been board shortlisted director three of times music for technology the Carnegie start-up Medal. HisROLI. work The has Startup been North America (Scribner) translated into 30 languages. Other Rights: Sarah Chalfant, Wife is her fourth novel with her previous trilogy of novels The Good Muslim, A Golden Age and Wylie Agency The Bones of Grace also published by Canongate. Extent: 256 pages 7 HOWTHE COWARD TO STOP TIME

MattJarredThe new life-affirming Haignovel from McGinnis the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans A startling and intimate novel which explores masculinity, Thefamily, first disability rule is that andyou don’tlove fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming‘When I woke of love. up Becausein the hospital,otherwise, ofthey course, told you me slowly my girlfriend lose your had mindbeen .killed. . .’ She wasn’t my girlfriend, but I didn't correct them. The first weeks were a confusion of morphine and fluorescent Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look strip lighting. A scrubs-clad stranger told me I wouldn't walk like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. again. She said something about a wheelchair and I said I Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. preferred crutches, still not understanding’ From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves This is not the tale of redemption and hope one would an ordinary life. expect. In this bold act of auto-fiction, Jarred McGinnis is a man whose life has been hedonistic, downright self- Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now destructive, filled with reckless decisions and driven by anger has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a at the world. Until a car accident one night. When he wakes London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars up, it’s to discover he will never walk again. and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching Discharged from the hospital ahead of time, he is forced to up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in return home to a father he has not seen in ten years. Jarred love. struggles to reconcile memories of abuse and pain with the man helping him now, even as he struggles to adjust to life How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, in a wheelchair. Resentful and feeling guilty, Jarred lashes out story about losing and finding yourself; about the through a familiar pattern of self-destructive behaviour. The certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are relationship between father and son is tense and filled with doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to misunderstandings – but also, surprisingly, with jokes. As learn how to live. time passes the pair cautiously find a way forward and Jarred ‘Abegins wonderfully to see a futurefunny, forgripping himself. and inventive novel’ The Times The Coward is a compelling and darkly humorous ‘Aexploration masterpiece of what . . . Matt it means Haig to is comea supreme to terms talent with and a brokena writerbody, rebuildto cherish, a broken and The relationship Humans andis undoubtedly find love whenhis it magnumseems like opus’ there Guardian is no hope.

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: July 2021 JARRED McGINNIS is the co-founder of The Special Relationship, which was chosen Rights Held: World for the British Council’s International Literature Showcase. His short fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4 and appeared in respected journals in the UK, Canada, Other Rights: Will Francis, Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Janklow & Nesbit USA and Ireland. HeThe is Humansan Associate and four Writer other for books Spread for adults.the Word, As a writera fellow for of children the London and Extent: 304 pages Library’s Emerging youngWriter adults Programme he has won and the a Writer-in-ResidenceBlue Peter Book Award, for the First Smarties Story. Book He Prize also has a PhD in Artificialand beenIntelligence, shortlisted but three mostly times he for inspires the Carnegie the able-bodied Medal. His workby using has been public transport and takingtranslated his daughters into 30 to languages. the playground. The Coward is his first full-length book. wickedtomocktheafflicted.com 8 8 HOWMR CADMUS TO STOP TIME

MattPeterThe new life-affirming Haig novelAckroyd from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans A wickedly satirical novel, filled with mystery, revenge, Theoutlandish first rule iskillings, that you don’tgreed fall andin love. jealousy, There are fromother rules the too, butmulti-award-winning that is the main one. No fallingauthor in love.of Hawksmoor No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mindTwo .apparently . .’ harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne.Tom Hazard Miss has Fincha dangerous and Miss secret. Swallow, He may cousins, look have putlike theiran ordinary pasts behind 41-year-old, them andbut hesettled was intoborn conventional in 1581. countryOwing to life. a rare But condition, when a mysterious he’s been foreigner, alive for centuries.Theodore CadmusFrom Shakespeare’s – from Caldera, England a Mediterranean to jazz age Paris island and nobody hasvoyaging heard theof –Pacific, moves intoTom the has middle seen a lot,cottage, and thenow safe craves monotonyan ordinary of life. their lives is shattered.

TheAlways fates changing of the twohis identitycousins toand stay Mr alive, Cadmus, Tom nowand those ofhas Little the perfect Camborne cover and - working Caldera, as become a history inextricably teacher at a enmeshed.London school. Long-hidden Here, he secrets can teach and the long-held kids about grudges wars threatenand witch to hunts surface, as ifdrawing he’d never all into witnessed a vortex them of subterfuge, first- theft,hand. violence,He can try mayhem and tame . . the. and past murder. that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.‘Mr Cadmus is a treat of a tale. To a “polite” English village add a sprinkling of sinister. The result? Cosy and Howtwisted, to Stopcomic Time and is gothic, a wild, withbittersweet, a show-stealing time-travelling, parrot’ Praise for Dan Leno and the Limehouse storyJess Kidd about losing and finding yourself; about the Golem: certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed‘Follows tothe repeat. mysterious And about Mr Cadmus the lifetimes who ithails can fromtake to a ‘[A] cerebral, rollicking murder-mystery’ learnMediterranean how to live. island nobody has heard of and turns life The Times in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne upside down’‘A wonderfully The Times funny, gripping and inventive novel’ ‘Mesmerising, macabre and totally The Times brilliant’ Daily Mail Praise for Hawksmoor: ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his ‘A flawlessly good read’ Observer ‘Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well magnum opus’ Guardian executed’ Independent on Sunday ‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: October PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning author of novels 2020 including Hawksmoor, Chatterton and The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, Rights Held: World biographies of Ezra Pound, Blake and Dickens among others, Matt Haigand is acclaimed the number non-fiction one bestselling bestsellers author of London: Reasons The to Biography Stay Alive and and Rights Sold: Turkey (Yapi The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Kredi) Thames: Sacred River. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, young adultsthe Royal he has Society won the of Blue Litera Peterture’s Book WilliamAward, the Heinemann Smarties Book Award Prize , Other Rights: Sonia Land, and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Sheil Land Associates Limited translated into 30 languages. Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Extent: 192 pages Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. 9 HOWMRS DEATH TO STOP MISSES TIME DEATH Salena Godden MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Mrsbestselling Death author tells her of intoxicatingReasons to Stay story Alive in thisand life-affirmingThe Humans fire-starter of a novel MrsThe first Death rule ishas that had you enough.don’t fall in She love. is Thereexhausted are other from rules too,spending eternitybut that is doingthe main her one. job No and falling now in love. she No seeks staying someone in love. Noto daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled mind . . .’ young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now Tomhadn’t Hazard met Death has a in dangerous person – asecret. black, He working-class may look woman likewho an shape-shifts ordinary 41-year-old, and does her but work he wasunseen. born in 1581. EnthralledOwing to a by rare her condition, stories, Wolf he’s becomesbeen alive Mrs for Death’s centuries. scribe, andFrom begins Shakespeare’s to write her England memoirs. to jazz Using age theirParis desk and as a vessel andvoyaging conduit, the Pacific,Wolf travels Tom across has seen time a andlot, placeand now with craves Mrs Deathan ordinary to witness life. deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity. As the two reflect on theAlways losses changing they have his experienced identity to stay – or, alive, in the Tom case now of Mrs Death,has the facilitatedperfect cover – their - working friendship as a growshistory into teacher a surprising at a affirmationLondon school. of Here,hope, resiliencehe can teach and thelove. kids All about the while,wars despite herand world-weariness,witch hunts as if Deathhe’d never must witnessed continue themto hold first- humans’ ‘Salena Godden’s debut novel is timeless, fateshand. in He her can hands, try and appearing tame the in past our thatlives iswhen fast catchingwe least expect brave and beautiful. By her open-hearted herup with. . . him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in embrace of Mrs Death, Godden shows that love. ‘In this timely and exquisite meditation on breath and its life always flowers among friendship and connections’ John Higgs Howbest rhyme, to Stop we Time see isa astunning wild, bittersweet, performance time-travelling, poet crowding storyall the about energy, losing wisdom, and finding passion yourself; and laughs about of the her live work ‘A life-affirming and unflinching treatise certaintyinto the solidof change, ingot andof this the astoundingmistakes humans novel, are as profound on death and its stark realities. Mrs Death’s doomedas Cohen, to asrepeat. playful And as aboutBrautigan. the lifetimes Salena itGoddess, can take moreto finale is some of the most powerful writing learnlike’ Alanhow toMoore live. I’ve read in years. Here is necessary, ‘Exquisite. A daring, poetic offering that establishes beautiful work. Thank God for Godden’ Godden‘A wonderfully as one funny, of our gripping most exciting and inventive voices. novel’ I loved it’ Courttia Newland The Times Irenosen Okojie ‘A rhythmic and powerful poetic meditation ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a on death, life and love and the hidden writer to cherish,Click here and Theto watch Humans Salena is undoubtedly talk about his mysteries of the universe; both playful magnum Mrsopus’ Death Guardian Misses Death and sombre, hilarious and human’ Nikesh Shukla ‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: January SALENA GODDEN is one of Britain’s best loved poets and performers. 2021 She is also an activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist and is widely Rights Held: World anthologised. Salena Godden has published several volumes of poetry, the Other Rights: Crystal latestMatt of Haigwhich is wasthe numberPessimism one is for bestselling Lightweights author and a of literary Reasons childhood to Stay Alive memoir, and Mahey-Morgan, Own It! SpringfieldThe Humans Road. In and 2017 four Godden other books was forshortlisted adults. As for a writer the Ted for Hugheschildren andAward young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Extent: 304 pages for new work in poetry and her short fiction, Blue Cornflowers, was shortlisted for andthe 2016been shortlisted Guardian andthree 4th times Estate for the BAME Carnegie Short Medal. Story His Prize work .has Mrs been Death Missestranslated Death is herinto debut30 languages. novel. A BBC Radio 4 documentary was broadcast in December 2018, following Godden’s work-in-progress on the novel over twelve months. 10 @salenagodden | salenagodden.co.uk 10 MAXWELL’S DEMON Steven Hall The absurdly brilliant and mind-twisting second novel from Steven Hall, author of the acclaimed The Raw Shark Texts Thomas Quinn is having the strangest autumn . . .

Nine years ago, his mentor Andrew Black wrote a million- copy-selling mystery novel – and then disappeared. Now could it be that Thomas is being stalked by the hero of Black’s book? And that new answerphone message sounds a lot like his own father. His father who has been dead for years.

Thomas’s wife Imogen usually has the answers but she’s on the other side of the world. If he can just find Black, perhaps Thomas might start finding some answers . . .

With the same white-knuckle thrills as Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell’s Demon is a freewheeling investigation into the magic power locked inside the alphabet, love through the looking glass, the bond between parents and children, and, at its heart, the quest for meaning in a chaotic and untidy world. ‘A cracking detective story that seems to ‘I enjoyed Maxwell’s Demon a great deal. Anyone who be investigating its own existence’ enjoyed The Raw Shark Texts will be delighted by it’ Jeff Noon Toby Litt ‘Dazzlingly clever, wickedly playful, ‘Labyrinthine, mind-twisting and deliciously diabolical, devastatingly poignant’ M.R. Carey yet also unexpectedly warm-hearted. Maxwell’s Demon is fantastic’ Christopher Brookmyre

Click here to watch Steven talk about Maxwell’s Demon

UK Publication: February 2021 STEVEN HALL is the author of The Raw Shark Texts and was lead Rights Held: World writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield ,1 for which he Rights Sold: Australia (Text), received a Writer’s Guild nomination. His 2007 debut novel, Canada (HarperCollins), Germany The Raw Shark Texts, won the Somerset Maugham Award and (Berlin), Israel (Kinneret-Zmora), was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was an Italy (Il Saggiatore), US (Grove international bestseller and has been translated into over 30 Atlantic) languages. In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta’s Best of Other Rights: Simon Trewin, Young British Novelists. Maxwell’s Demon is his long-anticipated Simon Trewin Ltd. second novel. @stevenha11 | steven-hall.org Extent: 352 pages 11 Backlist: The Raw Shark Texts THE FUGITIVES Jamal Mahjoub

Moving from Khartoum, Sudan to Washington D.C., and then across the US in a road trip unlike any other, this is a book about music, friendship and the desire for home

The Kamanga Kings, a Khartoum jazz band of yesteryear, is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime when a surprise letter arrives inviting them to perform in Washington, D.C. The only problem is . . . the band no longer exists.

Rushdy is a disaffected secondary school teacher and the son of an original Kamanga King. Determined to see a life beyond his own home, he sets out to revive the band. Aided by his unreliable best friend, all too soon an unlikely group are on their way, knowing the eyes of their country are on them.

As the group moves from the familiarity of Khartoum to the chaos of Donald Trump’s America, Jamal Mahjoub weaves a gently humorous and ultimately universal tale of music, belonging and love.

Praise for A Line in the River:

‘A most absorbing and rewarding book’ Michael Palin Praise for The Drift Latitudes:

‘I have been waiting more than fifty years for this book’ ‘Impressive . . . Time, memory, music, Jim Crace architecture and identity are all played off JAMAL MAHJOUB is a British-Sudanese writer. Born in London, he one another, making the book a kind of echo chamber’ Guardian

‘There is a beautiful density and control Click here to watch the editor’s summary to his writing – he jumps in and out of The Fugitives of the heads of his characters with impressive confidence and ease’ The Times

UK Publication: March 2021 JAMAL MAHJOUB is a British-Sudanese writer. Born in London, Rights Held: World he was raised in Khartoum where his family remained until 1990. Other Rights: Euan He has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Thorneycroft, A.M. Heath Spain and, currently, the Netherlands. His novels include: In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier and The Drift Latitudes. Under Extent: 336 pages the pseudonym Parker Bilal he is the author of the Inspector Makana crime series and, most recently, the Crane and Drake series. His latest non-fiction book, A Line in the River, was longlisted for the Ondaatjie Prize. 12 jamalmahjoub.com HOWFEATHERWEIGHT TO STOP TIME

MattMickThe new life-affirming Kitson Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans A story of overcoming all the odds, and a woman centuries Theahead first of rule her is time, that you set don’t on thefall incanals love. ofThere 19th are centuryother rules England too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingAnnie Perry of islove. born Because beside otherwise, the coal-muddied of course, you slowly canals lose yourof the mindBlack . .Country, .’ at the height of the industrial revolution. The youngest in a large Romani family who cannot afford toTom keep Hazard her, when has a shedangerous is eight secret.years old He Annie may lookis sold as a servantlike an ordinaryto the famous 41-year-old, and feared but hebare-knuckle was born in boxer 1581. Bill Perry,Owing The to a rareTipton condition, Slasher. he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and Billvoyaging is starting the Pacific, to lose hisTom strength, has seen but a lot, refuses and tonow give craves up hisan ordinarycrown. When life. it looks like a fight might become Bill’s last, Annie steps into the ring, fists raised in his defence. FromAlways that changing moment his she identity is determined to stay alive, to train Tom and now follow in Bill’shas the footsteps, perfect coverto learn - working to fight asfor a historyherself. teacherBut Annie at a has Praise for Sal: beenLondon doing school. this allHere, along. he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- ‘Kitson writes clearly and concisely . . . Ahand. whole He new can worldtry and opens tame up the for past Annie, that isone fast of catching love, The girls’ capability, humanity and humour fortune,up with him.family The and only education, thing Tom but mustn’t also of danger.do is fall One in are inspiring and wonderful. Sal is an wronglove. move, one misstep, and the course of her life will ambitious and skilled novel. Literature be changed forever. needs more stories like this’ Guardian How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the ‘Atmospheric . . . Distinctive . . . A certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are vivid, moving tale about the strength of doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to sisterhood and the struggle to survive’ learn how to live. Observer

‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ ‘Kitson inhabits the girls’ voices with The Times credible authenticity . . . This short, Click here to watch the editor’s impressive debut is an uplifting tale of ‘A masterpiecesummary . . . Matt of HaigFeatherweight is a supreme talent and a survival, shot through with humour, writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his compassion and humanity’ Mail on Sunday magnum opus’ Guardian UK Publication: May 2021 MICK KITSON was born in South Wales, and studied Rights‘Extraordinary’ Held: World Independent English at university before launching the prolific 80s Option Publishers: Brazil (Intrinseca), China pop band, The Senators, with his brother Jim. He (Beijing White Horse Media), France (Métailié), worked as a journalist for several years, then went on Germany (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), Israel (Lesa to become an English teacher. His debut novel, Sal, Press), Italy (Giulio Einaudi), Netherlands Matt Haig is the numberwas the one winner bestselling of the author Saltire of ReasonsFirst Book to Stay Award Alive. andMick The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and (Cossee Uitgeverij), Russia (Arkadia/Arcadia), lives in Fife, Scotland. young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Spain (Duomo Ediciones), Spain Catalan (Angle and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Editorial), Turkey (Africano Kitap) translated into 30 languages. Other Rights: Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown Extent: 304 pages 13 HOWA RIVER TOCALLED STOP TIME TIME Courttia Newland MattTheA monumental new life-affirming speculative Haignovel fiction from story the numberof love, loyalty,one politics and bestsellingconscience setauthor in parallel of Reasons Londons to Stay Alive and The Humans The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became Thea refuge first rulefor isthe that elite, you don’tthe fallentrance in love. closedThere are without other rules warning. too, Yearsbut that after is the the main Ark one. was No cutfalling off in fromlove. No the staying world, in love.a final No chance of survivaldaydreaming within of love. its Because confines otherwise, is granted of course, to youa select slowly fewlose yourwho can prove mind . . .’ their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to future excellence is marred only by a closely guarded secret: Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look without warning, his spirit leaves his body, allowing him to see like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. and experience a world far beyond his physical limitations. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. OnceFrom insideShakespeare’s the Ark, England Denny learns to jazz of age another Paris withand the same power,voyaging whose the Pacific,existence Tom could has spell seen catastrophe a lot, and fornow humanity. craves He isan forced ordinary into life. a desperate race to understand his abilities, and in doing so uncovers the truth about the Ark, himself and the people heAlways thought changing he once his knew. identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a ‘A masterful reimagining of the African diaspora’s influence London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars on England, and on the world. It’s a grand tale and still an and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- ‘Courttia Newland’s alternative, intimate portrait of loss and love. What glory and influence hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching decolonised vision of London is a would Africa enjoy if colonialism had never occurred? Courttia up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in staggering feat of imagination. There’s Newland reshapes our vision of the past, present and future love. so much to love here: an everyman hero by taking this one question seriously. The result is something who discovers he has abilities that are truly special’ Victor LaValle How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, anything but ordinary, parallel cities across a multiverse, African cosmology story‘A real about gem oflosing a book and .finding . . an excellent, yourself; beautifulabout the read that belief systems, a keep-them-guessing certaintywill make of you change, think and while the taking mistakes your humans breath are away’ Dorothy ending . . . An amazing achievement’ doomedKoomson to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to Noel Clarke learn how to live. ‘A master storyteller returns with this piece of astonishing ‘A River Called Time is an incredible speculative fiction, interrogating social inequality, the ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ read. Perfectly plotted and layered with complexities of truth and the very essence of what it is to The Times complex ideas, a heartbreaking love be human, all in Newland’s precise and powerful prose’ triangle and an astonishing ending’ Nikesh Shukla ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a Irfan Master writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian Courttia Newland’s new book of short Click here to watch the editor’s summary stories, Cosmogramma, will be published in ‘Extraordinary’of A River Independent Called Time November 2021

UK Publication: January COURTTIA NEWLAND is the author of The Scholar, Snakeskin and The Gospel 2021 According to Cane. He co-edited The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, Rights Held: World andMatt his Haigshort is stories the number have onefeatured bestselling in various author anthologies. of Reasons to NewlandStay Alive toursand The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Rights Sold: North America extensively for the British Council, and has been writer-in-residence for Trinityyoung College, adults he Dublin has won and the BlueGeorgetown Peter Book University, Award, the Washington Smarties Book D.C. Prize He and Caribbean (Akashic) and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been has taught creative writing workshops and performed readings globally. He Other Rights: Crystal translated into 30 languages. Mahey-Morgan, Own It! was shortlisted for the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library Award, the 2010 Extent: 464 pages Alfred Fagon Award and longlisted for the 2011 Frank O’Conner Award. @courttianewland 14 14 BLACK SUNDAY 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist TolaHOW Rotimi TO Abraham STOP TIME Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life MattinThe Lagos new inlife-affirming 1996. Then Haignoveltheir frommother the loses number her jobone due to political strife andbestselling their father author gambles of Reasons away totheir Stay home. Alive As and their The parents’ marriage collapsesHumans in the aftermath, the twins and their two younger siblings, Andrew and Peter, are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional YorubaThe first grandmother.rule is that you don’t Inseparable fall in love. whileThere arethey other had rules their too, parents to care for but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No them, the twins’ paths diverge once the household shatters. daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your Writtenmind . . .’ with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Black Sunday delves into the chaotic heart of family life. In the process,Tom Hazard it tells has a talea dangerous of grace insecret. the midst He may of dailylook oppression, and of howlike an two ordinary women 41-year-old, carve their ownbut he distinct was born paths in of 1581. resistance. UK Publication: August 2020 Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. Rights Held: World excl. North ‘Simultaneously unique and universal’ NPR From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and America (Catapult) voyaging‘Abraham the mightily Pacific, captures Tom has a seensense a oflot, the and stresses now craves of daily life in Rights Sold: France (Autrement) a family, city and culture that always seems on the edge of self- Other Rights: Meredith Kaffel an ordinary life. Simonoff, DeFiore & Company destruction’ Publishers Weekly Extent: 288 pages Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now hasTOLA the ROTIMI perfect ABRAHAM cover - working is a writer as froma history Lagos, teacher Nigeria. at Shea lives in Iowa City and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in journalism. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has taught writing at the University of Iowa.London Her school.fiction andHere, non-fiction he can teach have appearedthe kids in Catapultabout ,wars the Des Moines Register, the Nigerian Literary Magazine and other places.and witch @thatTola hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in THElove. ISLAND CHILD

How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, storyMolly about losing Aitken and finding yourself; about the Twentycertainty years of change, ago, Oona and leftthe themistakes island humans of Inis forare the very first time. A wind-blasteddoomed to repeat. rock ofAnd fishing about boatsthe lifetimes and turf itfires, can take where to girls stayed in theirlearn homeshow to until live. they became mothers themselves, the island was a gift for some, a prison for others. Oona was barely more than a girl, but promised‘A wonderfully herself funny, she would gripping leave and the inventive tall tales novel’ behind and never return. The Times The Island Child tells two stories: of the girl who grew up watching births ‘Aand masterpiece betrayals, storms . . . Matt and Haig secrets, is a andsupreme of the talent adult andOona, a desperate to writerfind a tosecond cherish, chance, and The only Humans to discover is undoubtedly she can never his completely escape. magnumAs the strands opus’ of Guardian Oona’s life come together, in blood and marriage and motherhood, she must accept the price we pay when we love what is UK Publication: January 2020 never‘Extraordinary’ truly ours Independent. . . Rights Held: World Rich, haunting and rooted in Irish folklore, The Island Child is a Rights Sold: Italy (Garzanti), North America (Knopf) spellbinding debut novel about identity and motherhood, freedom and Matt Haig is the number one bestsellingOther author Rights: of Reasons Hellie to Ogden,Stay Alive Janklow and fate, and the healing power of stories. The Humans and four other books for& Nesbit adults. As a writer for children and ‘An exquisite debut’ Daily Telegraph young adults he has won the Blue PeterExtent: Book Award,320 pages the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been MOLLY AITKEN was born in Scotland in 1991 and broughttranslated up in into Ireland. 30 languages. She studied Literature and Classics at Galway University and has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa. She was shortlisted for Writing Magazine’s fairy tale retelling prize in 2016 and has a story in the Irish Imbas 2017 Short Story Collection. Currently, she works as an editor and ghostwriter and lives in Sheffield. The Island Child is her debut novel. @MollyAitken1 15 RECENT FAVOURITES HOW TO STOP TIME

MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans

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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves THEan ordinary RAW SHARK life. TEXTS by Steven Hall The award-winning cult classic. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award RightsAlways Sold: changing Australia his (Text), identity Canada to stay (HarperCollins), alive, Tom now Italy (Il Saggiatore), US (Grove) MURMURhas the perfect by Will cover Eaves - working as a history teacher at a MurmurLondon evokes school. the extraordinaryHere, he can life teach of Alan the Turing,kids about the beautywars and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness. Winnerand witch of the hunts Wellcome as if Prizehe’d andnever shortlisted witnessed for them the Goldsmiths first- Prize Rightshand. 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Alasdair And Gray about the lifetimes it can take to 40thlearn anniversary how to live. commemorative hardback edition of the modern classic, introduced by William Boyd Rights Sold: China (Yilin Press), France (Métailié), Italy (Safarà), Netherlands (Koppernik), Turkey (Metis) STAY‘A wonderfully WITH ME funny, by Ayòbámi gripping Adébáyò and inventive novel’ ThisThe Nigerian Times debut, shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, is the heart-breaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person, a marriage and a family; a powerful and vivid story of what it means to love not wisely but too well Rights‘A masterpiece Sold: Arabic . .Worldwide . Matt Haig (Dar is Al-Muna), a supreme Brazil talent (HarperCollins), and a Bulgaria (Orange International AD), China (Beijing Whitewriter Horse to cherish, Media), andCzech The Republic Humans (Albatros), is undoubtedly Finland (Atena), his France (Editions Le Duc.s), Germany (Piper), Greece (Brainfood),magnum opus’ Israel Guardian (Achuzat Bayit), Italy (La nave di Teseo), Netherlands (A.W. Bruna), Poland (Marginesy),Portugal (20|20 Editora), Romania (Art Grup), Slovakia (ARThur/Inaque), Spain (Gatopardo), Spain Catalan (Angle), Sweden (Piratforlaget), Turkey‘Extraordinary’ (hep kitap) Independent A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR by Curdella Forbes A vivid epic following an unusual couple’s mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica and England Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Rights Sold: France (GLOBE) The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and THE PENELOPIAD by Margaret Atwood young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Penelope’s slyly brilliant side of the story, from the Bookertranslated Prize-winning into 30 languages. author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Rights Sold: Australia (Text), Belarus (Logvino), Brazil (Rocco), Canada (Knopf), French Canada (Boréal), China (Chongqing), France (Flammarion), Italy (Ponte Alle Grazie), Portugal (20|20 Editora), Russia (Gayatri), Spain (Salamandra), Taiwan (Locus), Turkey (Alfa Yayinlari), US (Grove Atlantic) 16 16 CRIME AND THRILLERS AmbroseA CORRUPTION Parry OF BLOODShortlisted for the HOW TO STOP TIMEMcIlvanney Prize THEAmbrose ART OF Parry DYING Edinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with The new life-affirming novel from the number one doctorsMatt finding their remedies Haig powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer. Humans Determined to clear Simpson’s name, his protégé Will Raven and former Film and TV Rights for The housemaidThe first rule Sarah is that Fisher you mustdon’t fall plunge in love. into There Edinburgh’s are other rules deadliest too, streets and Way of All Flesh optioned by findbut thatout iswho the mainor what one. is No behind falling thein love. deaths. No stayingSoon theyin love. discover No that the SunnyMarch causedaydreaming of the deaths of love. has Because evaded otherwise, detection of course, purely you because slowly lose it isyour so unthinkable. mind . . .’ ‘Parry’s Victorian Edinburgh comes vividly alive – and it’s a world of UK Publication: August 2018 pain’ Val McDermid Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look Rights Held: World UKlike Publication: an ordinary August 41-year-old, 2019 but he was born in 1581. Rights Sold: Canada Rights Held: World Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. (HarperCollins), Czech Rights Sold: Czech Republic (Dobrovsky), Denmark (Modtryk), France (Seuil), Germany (Piper),Republic Greece (Dobrovsky), (Pedio), Sweden (Southside)From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and Denmark (Modtryk), France Optionvoyaging Publishers: the Pacific, Hungary Tom (Konyvmolykepzo), has seen a lot, Italyand (Rizzoli), now craves Poland (Zysk), Russia (Eksmo),(Seuil), Spain (Salamandra) Germany (Piper), OtheranPraise ordinary Rights: for TheSophie life. 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Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the and‘The witch Way huntsof All asFlesh if he’d is a treat.never Thewitnessed historical them settingfirst- is United Agents brilliantfascinating, and renowned and all Dr of Simpson.Brookmyre's Sarah witFisher and is Simpson’sstorytelling housemaid, Extent: 416 pages andhand. has allHe of can Raven’s try and intelligence tame the but past none that of ishis fast privileges. catching upverve with are him. evident The onlyin this thing tale Tom of scalpels mustn’t and do issecrets’ fall in Aslove.The bodies Times begin to appear across the Old Town, Raven and Sarah find themselves propelled headlong into the darkest shadows of Edinburgh’s UK Publication: August 2019 Rights Held: World underworld.‘A rip-roaring And iftale either of murderof them areamid to make the medical it out alive, they will have to workHow together to Stop to Timefind isout a wild,who’s responsiblebittersweet, for time-travelling, the gruesome deaths. Rights Sold: Czech Republic storyexperiments about losing of 19th-century and finding Edinburgh.yourself; about The the book (Dobrovsky), Denmark ‘Acertaintybrings rip-roaring both of tale change,city of and murder and period the amid mistakes to thecolourful medical humans life experiments areand is a joy of 19th (Modtryk), France (Seuil), century Edinburgh. The book brings both city and period to colourful doomedto read’ Ianto repeat. Rankin And about the lifetimes it can take to Germany (Piper), Greece life and is a joy to read’ Ian Rankin (Pedio), Sweden (Southside) learn how to live. UK Publication:Option August Publishers: 2018 Hungary ‘APraise thoroughly for The entertaining Art of Dying tale :of murder and misadventure in 1840s Rights Held:(Konyvmolykepzo), World Italy Edinburgh‘A wonderfully’ Sunday funny, Times gripping and inventive novel’ Rights Sold:(Rizzoli), Canada (HarperCollins),Poland (Zysk), Russia Czech The‘A gripping Times Victorian thriller’ Sunday Express Republic (Dobrovsky),(Eksmo), Spain Denmark (Salamandra) (Modtryk), The third book in the series, France (Seuil),Other Germany Rights: (Piper), Sophie GreeceScard, ‘A‘Full masterpiece of twists and. . . Mattturns Haig – a great is a supreme read’ The talent Evening and a (Pedio), HungaryUnited (Konyvmolykepzo), Agents Italy (Rizzoli), Poland (Zysk), Russia (Eksmo), writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his Extent: 416 pages TimesA Corruption of Blood will be published in Spain (Salamandra), Sweden (Southside) magnum opus’ GuardianAugust 2021 Other Rights: Sophie Scard, United Agents Extent: 416 pages ‘Extraordinary’ Independent AMBROSE PARRY is a pseudonym for a collaboration between AMBROSEUK Publication: PARRY is Augusta pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and2021 Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland. and live in Scotland. Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author Rights Held: World Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award- of over 20 novels, including Black Widow, winner of both theMatt Theakston Haig is the Old number Peculier one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Other Rights: Sophie Scard, winning author of over 20 novels, including Black Widow, winner of Crime Novel of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize for ScottishThe Humans Crime and Novel four other of books for adults. As a writer for children and United Agents both the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the Year. young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Extent: 416 pages the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of 20 years’and beenexperience, shortlisted whose three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of 20 years’ research for her Master’s degree in the History of Medicinetranslated uncovered into the 30 materiallanguages. experience, whose research for her Master’s degree in the History upon which this series is based. of Medicine uncovered the material upon which this series is based. @ambroseparry @ambroseparry 18 18 THE BEIJING CONSPIRACY Shamini Flint One man is caught up in a lethal global conspiracy in this explosive spy thriller A long-lost daughter. An explosive secret. A lethal conspiracy. Ex-Delta Force soldier Jack Ford is trying to put the past behind him. But when he receives a letter from someone he hasn’t spoken to in thirty years, claiming he has a daughter, he can’t resist investigating for himself. Soon he’s on a plane to China, a country he hasn’t returned to since witnessing the atrocities of the Tiananmen Square massacre. But on his search he stumbles upon explosive information which both the Chinese and American governments are desperately chasing. Now Jack is trapped in an impossible dilemma: save his daughter or prevent a war where thousands will lose their lives. Praise for Shamini Flint: UK Publication: March 2021 Rights Held: World ‘A fascinating plot and an unexpected ending’ Library Journal Other Rights: Severn House Extent: 288 pages ‘An atmospheric whodunit that also provides insights into the historic traumas casting shadows upon a country’s psyche’ Publishers Weekly SHAMINI FLINT was born and brought up in Malaysia. Having studied law at Cambridge University, she travelled extensively throughout Asia for her work as a corporate lawyer, before giving it up to become a writer, part-time lecturer and environmental activist. Shamini now lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Inspector Singh mystery series. THE HEIGHTS Parker Bilal The gripping second book in the Crane and Drake series from crime writer Parker Bilal What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He’s joined forces with enigmatic forensic pathologist Dr Rayhana Crane and it’s not long before the case leads them to the darkest corners of the nation’s capital and in dangerously close contact with an international crime circuit, a brutal local rivalry and a very personal quest for retribution. With the murder victim closely tied to Drake’s past, his new future is about to come under threat. ‘Inventive and original . . . The Heights is a complex and satisfying UK Publication: September 2020 mystery involving finance, gangland, trafficking and prostitution. A Rights Held: World layered, no nonsense thriller that is intriguing and exciting’ NB Magazine Option Publishers: France PARKER BILAL is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary (Gallimard), Germany (Rowohlt) novelist. The Ghost Runner, the third novel in the Makana Investigations series, was longlisted Other Rights: Euan for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Thorneycroft, A.M. Heath Extent: 320 pages 19 Caro Ramsay THE CURSED GIRLS Megan Melvick has returned home after a three-year absence to visit her dying sister, Melissa, for the last time. As she approaches the grand Scottish country estate where she grew up, the memories come flooding back. Just what did happen on the night of Melissa’s wedding five years before? Where has Megan and Melissa’s mother disappeared to? And why does Melissa whisper that solitary word before she finally slips away: Sorry. In order to overcome her demons, Megan must confront her painful recollections of that terrible night, the night of Melissa’s wedding. The night somebody died. But can she really trust her memories? And who is it who’s determined that she should forget . . . ? UK Publication: June 2021 ‘A skilfully written thriller with a palpable sense of dread and Rights Held: World disaster that will grab readers from the first page through to the Other Rights: Jane Gregory, David shocking conclusion’ Booklist, starred review Higham Associates Extent: 256 pages ‘A chilling psychological thriller told in two voices . . . A wild ride packed with mysterious questions and shocking answers’ Kirkus The 11th book in the Anderson and Costello series, The Red, Red Snow was published in February 2020 ABSOLUTION Shortlisted for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger for Best Debut of the Year In their first case together, Glaswegian police team DI Anderson and DS Costello chase the Crucifixion Killer The Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow, leaving victims’ mutilated bodies in a Christ-like pose. DCI Alan McAlpine is drafted in to lead the hunt, supported by local officers DI Anderson and DS Costello. But the past holds horrific memories for McAlpine. He last worked this beat some twenty years earlier, when he was assigned to guard a woman – faceless after a sadistic acid attack – at a Glasgow hospital. An obsession was born at that hospital room that has never quite left McAlpine and now it seems to be resurfacing. As the chase to halt the gruesome murders intensifies, so Anderson and Costello find UK Publication: April 2020 chilling cause for concern uncomfortably close to home . . . Rights Held: World excl. Germany (Blanvalet), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), ‘A cracker of a debut . . . Many shivers in store for readers Norway (Cappelen Damm), Russia (AST), followed by a shattering climax’ The Times Turkey (Artemis) Other Rights: Jane Gregory, David ‘Absolution is among the year’s best literary thrillers’’ Higham Associates Washington Post Extent: 416 pages

CARO RAMSAY is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed DI Anderson and DS Costello series, the first of which – Absolution – was shortlisted for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018. 20 @CaroRamsayBooks | caroramsay.com HEADLONG Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Bill Slider and his team investigate the death of a prominent literary agent in this intriguing contemporary mystery When one of London’s best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman’s past. An embittered ex-wife. A discarded mistress. A frustrated would-be author. A disgruntled former employee. Many had reason to hold a grudge against the late lamented literary agent. But who would feel UK Publication: August 2021 strongly enough to kill him? Any leads in the investigation seem only Rights Held: World to result in more questions – not least of which is the identity of the Rights Sold: Italy (Golem) elusive Calliope Hunt. Who is she – and what is her connection to the Other Rights: Severn House Extent: 224 pages train of events? ‘An immensely enjoyable ride . . . Readers will wish for Slider’s career to Books 1–10 in the series continue for many years to come’ Publishers Weekly, starred review have been reissued by Little, Brown. Severn House holds CYNTHIA HARROD-EAGLES is the author of over 90 books, including the rights in all further series internationally acclaimed Bill Slider mysteries and her Morland Dynasty series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. cynthiaharrodeagles.com A BAD BAD THING Elena Forbes Eve West, a police officer with a hidden past, is drawn into a dark and complex case when she’s asked to investigate a miscarriage of justice in this first in a new series After a police operation ends in catastrophe, DCI Eve West is suspended. She faces expulsion from the force, until John Duran – a violent criminal Eve incarcerated herself and who is still serving his sentence – offers to help clear her name. But nothing comes for free. Duran wants Eve to help free a fellow prisoner, who he claims has been wrongly convicted of murder. But as her investigation grows darker, Eve finds that more than just her job is at stake, and Duran is a dangerous man to trust . . . ‘A master at complex plots’ Globe and Mail UK Publication: May 2021 Rights Held: World ELENA FORBES worked for a number of international investment groups before Other Rights: Sarah Lutyens, becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of four previous thrillers in the Mark Lutyens & Rubinstein Tartaglia series, the first of which, Die with Me, was shortlisted for the CWA John Extent: 448 pages Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award. She lives in central London. @ElenaForbes5 | elenaforbes.com 21 RECENT FAVOURITES HOW TO STOP TIME

MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans

Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- hand.THE BURNING He can try LANDand tame by Georgethe past thatAlagiah is fast catching upThe with exhilarating him. The debut only political thing Tom thriller mustn’t from dobeloved is fall BBC in broadcaster love.THE LAST NIGHT OUT by Catherine O'Connell A heart-stopping thriller on female friendship, deadly secrets and a night out that goes horribly wrong HowRights to Sold: Stop Brazil Time (Editora is a wild, Planeta), bittersweet, France (Albin time-travelling, Michel), Germany (Droemer Knaur), Italy (De Agostini), Portugal story(Planeta), about Spain losing and andSpain finding Catalan (Grupoyourself; Planeta) about the certaintyLOOSE TONGUESof change, byand Chris the mistakes Simms humans are doomedDC Sean toBlake repeat. tackles And a series about of thebrutal lifetimes killings itin can his takefirst toweek on the Greater Manchester Police force learn how to live. DARK QUEEN RISING by Paul Doherty First in a new historical mystery series featuring Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII and matriarch of the ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ Tudor dynasty TheRights Times Sold: France (Univers Poche)

‘ALAIDLAW masterpiece by William. . . Matt McIlvanneyHaig is a supreme talent and a writerIn the tobeginning cherish, there and wasThe Laidlaw. Humans The is CWA undoubtedly Silver Dagger-winning his masterpiece that launched a genre, from the magnumgodfather opus’of Scottish Guardian crime fiction Rights Sold: Germany (Kunstmann), Italy (Feltrinelli), Turkey (Ayrinti), US (Europa) ‘Extraordinary’ Independent THE PAPERS OF TONY VEITCH by William McIlvanney The second instalment in the Laidlaw trilogy Rights Sold: Germany (Kunstmann), Italy (Feltrinelli), Spain (Salamandra), Turkey (Ayrinti), US (Europa) Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and STRANGE LOYALTIES by William McIlvanneyThe Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and The third book in the Laidlaw crime series young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Rights Sold: Germany (Kunstmann), Italy (Feltrinelli),and Turkey been shortlisted(Ayrinti), threeUS (Europa) times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

22 22 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN HOWEVERYDAY TO STOP MAGIC TIME The Adventures of Alfie Blackstack MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Jessbestselling author Kidd of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans

TheMagical, first rule mischievous is that you don’t and fall mysterious, in love. There Everyday are other rulesMagic too, butis an that enchanting is the main one.mix No of fallingThe inWitches, love. No Nevermoor staying in love. and No daydreamingLemony Snicket of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .’ Welcome to Little Snoddington, where nothing is Tomnormal Hazard and every has a day dangerous is magic secret. . . . He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. OwingNine-year-old to a rare Alfie condition, Blackstack’s he’s been parents alive have for centuries.met a Fromvery unfortunate Shakespeare’s end. England Now he’s to livingjazz age in Paristhe dark and and voyagingcobwebby the Switherbroom Pacific, Tom Hall has withseen hisa lot, mad-haired and now cravesAunt anGertie ordinary and warty life. Aunt Zita, who would really like to pickle him. Before long, Alfie realises his aunts aren’t just Alwaysthe weird changing local chemists, his identity they’re to staywitches! alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London‘This charming school. Here, crazy hestory can teachhad methe giggling kids about all thewars andway witchthrough hunts – a as magical if he’d neverstory aboutwitnessed the thempower first- of hand.true friendship He can try – and I loved tame it!’ the Jasbinder past that isBilan fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.‘Everything you’d expect from Jess Kidd, with an especially naughty twinkle in its eye! I loved it’ HowEmma to Carroll Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty‘Featuring of daring change, circus and the tricks, mistakes mischievous humans arelittle doomedsisters, the to repeat.mysterious And Switherbroomabout the lifetimes Hall, it canand take to learnso much how enchantment to live. that the pages practically crackle with it, Everyday Magic is action-packed and ‘Abursting wonderfully with fun’funny, Sinéad gripping O’Hart and inventive novel’ The Times

‘A masterpieceClick . here. . Matt to Haig watch is a Jesssupreme talk talent about and a writer to cherish,Everyday and Magic The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

UK‘Extraordinary’ Publication: IndependentFebruary 2021 JESS KIDD was brought up in London as part of a large family Rights Held: World from County Mayo. Her first novel, Himself, was shortlisted for Rights Sold: Russia (Eskmo) the Irish Book Awards in 2016 and she was the winner of the Costa Short Story Award in the same year. In 2017, Himself was Other Rights: Sue Armstrong, Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and C&W shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and The longlistedHumans and for four the other CWA books John for Creasey adults. As(New a writer Blood) for childrenDagger. and Her Extent: 304 pages youngsecond adults novel,he has wonThe Hoarder the Blue, was Peter shortlisted Book Award, for the the Smarties Kerry GroupBook Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translatedIrish intoNovel 30 oflanguages. the Year Award in association with Listowel Writers’ Week. Both books were BBC Radio 2 Book Club picks. Her third novel, Things in Jars, was published by Canongate in April 24 2019. Everyday Magic is her first book for children. 24 THEHOW TIME-THIEF TO STOP TIME Patience Agbabi Elle is back! This time she’s leaping almost three whole centuries The new life-affirming novel from the number one backMatt in time, to catch a thief,Haig help her friend and save our future. bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The The second book in The Leap Cycle series Humans It’s mid-summer’s day and thirteen-year-old Elle and her LeaplingThe first ruleclassmates is that you are don’t visiting fall in love. The There Museum are other ofrules The too, Past, The Presentbut that isand the Themain one.Future. No falling But inon love. the No day staying of the in love.school No trip, disasterdaydreaming strikes, of love. and Because the mostotherwise, unique of course, and you valuable slowly lose piece your in the mind . . .’ museum, The Infinity Glass, is stolen! And worse still, Elle’s friendTom Hazardand fellow has Infinite,a dangerous MC² secret. is arrested He may for lookthe crime! Tolike prove an ordinary his innocence 41-year-old, Elle must but heleap was back born centuries in 1581. in time, toOwing a London to a rarevery condition, different fromhe’s been today. alive Along for centuries.the way she will meetFrom new Shakespeare’s friends, face England dangers to unlike jazz ageany Paris she has and ever known, andvoyaging face an the old Pacific, enemy whoTom ishas determined seen a lot, toand destroy now craves her. Can Ellean ordinary find the life. missing Infinity Glass and return it to its rightful home before it’s too late? Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now Praise for The Infinite: has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a ‘TheLondon Infinite school. is vivid, Here, funny, he can exciting teach the and kids inventive. about wars Patience Agbabiand witch has hunts created as ifsomething he’d never fresh witnessed and original them first- here’ Philip Pullmanhand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in ‘Alove. fascinating, original and smart adventure tale with a rhythmic prose style that leaps off the page into scintillating life.How It to has Stop a magic Time allis aof wild, its own’ bittersweet, Bernardine time-travelling, Evaristo story about losing and finding yourself; about the ‘Whatcertainty an ofinspiration. change, and The the future mistakes just humans got so aremuch better’ Benjamindoomed to Zephaniah repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. ‘Highly original . . . It’s 2048 and kids have gone missing. It's‘A wonderfullyup to Elle and funny, a cadre gripping of friends and inventive to unravel novel’ what’s really goingThe Times on across time’ Observer

‘Elle‘A masterpiece is an engaging, . . . Matt self-aware Haig is charactera supreme . talent. . and and the a environmentalwriter to cherish, theme and Thewill Humansstrike a chordis undoubtedly with young his readers’ UK Publication: April 2020 Guardianmagnum opus’ Guardian Rights Held: World Other Rights: Simon Trewin, ‘Extraordinary’ Independent Simon Trewin Ltd. Click here to watch Patience talk about Extent: 256 pages The Time-Thief Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and UK Publication: May 2021 PATIENCEThe Humans AGBABI and four was other born books in London for adults. in 1965 As a writerto Nigerian for children parents, and Rights Held: World spentyoung her teenageadults he years has won living the inBlue North Peter Wales Book Award,and now the lives Smarties in Kent Book with Prize her husbandand been andshortlisted children. three She times has for been the Carnegiewriting poetry Medal. for His over work twenty has been Other Rights: Simon Trewin, translated into 30 languages. Simon Trewin Ltd. years, The Infinite is her first novel. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers Extent: 256 pages and pepper soup, but, disappointingly, she was born in August. 2525

HOWA BOY CALLED TO STOP CHRISTMAS TIME Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestsellingFilm adaptationauthor of Reasons for to Stay release Alive and in The Christmas 2021 Humans by StudioCanal, Netflix and Blueprint Pictures The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that isFeaturing the main one. No fallingan all-starin love. No staying cast in love.including No Sally daydreamingHawkins, of love. Because Jim otherwise, Broadbent of course, you slowly and lose Maggieyour Smith mind . . .’

TomThe firstHazard magical has a dangerousbook in the secret.festive Heseries, may from look number one bestselling likeauthor an ordinaryMatt Haig, 41-year-old, and featuring but heenchanting was born illustrationsin 1581. from Chris Mould OwingYou are to about a rare to condition, read the true he’s storybeen ofalive Father for centuries. Christmas. FromIt’s a story Shakespeare’s that proves England nothing to is jazz impossible. age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves anA Boyordinary Called life. Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow and a boy called Nikolas, who isn't afraid to believe in magic.

AlwaysUK Publication: changing November his identity 2015 to stay alive, Tom now hasRights the Held: perfect World cover - working as a history teacher at a LondonRights Sold: school. Brazil Here,(Ciranda he Cultural), can teach Bulgaria the (Prozoretz),kids about Canada wars (HarperCollins), China (Beijing Xiron Books), Croatia (Mozaik andKnjiga), witch Estonia hunts (Gallus), as if Finland he’d never (Aula), witnessed France (Helium), them Germany first- (DTV), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Libri Könyvkiadó Kft), Italy (Salani), Japan (Nishimura), Korea (Mirae), Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Netherlands (Moon), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (Zysk), hand.Portugal He (Booksmile), can try andRomania tame (Nemira), the past Russia that (AST), is fast Serbia catching (Vulkan), Spain (Planeta), Spain Catalan (Planeta), Sweden (Alfabeta), upTaiwan with (Eastern), him. The Ukraine only (Zhorzh), thing TomUS (Knopf) mustn’t do is fall in love.Other Rights: Clare Conville, C&W Extent: 272 pages HowTHE to GIRL Stop TimeWHO is a SAVEDwild, bittersweet, CHRISTMAS time-travelling,FATHER CHRISTMAS AND ME story about losing and finding yourself; about the certaintyA journey toof the change, edge of and magic the mistakes humans are Let the battle for Christmas begin . . . doomedIf magic has to arepeat. beginning, And can about it also the have lifetimes it can take toIt isn't always easy, growing up as a learnan end? how to live. human in Elfhelm, even if your adoptive When Amelia wants a wish to come true parents are the newly married Father Christmas and Mary Christmas. ‘Ashe wonderfully knows just the funny, man togripping ask - Father and inventive novel’ TheChristmas. Times For one thing, Elf School can be But Amelia isn't just any ordinary girl. annoying. Also it can get very, very cold. ‘AAnd masterpiece - as Father Christmas . . . Matt isHaig going is to a supreme talent and a But when the jealous Easter Bunny writerfind out to -cherish, if Christmas and isThe going Humans to be is undoubtedly his launches an attack to stop Christmas, magnumsaved, he might opus’ not Guardian be able to do it it's up to Amelia, her new family and alone . . . the elves to keep Christmas alive. ‘Extraordinary’UK Publication: NovemberIndependent 2016 UK Publication: October 2017 Rights Held: World Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Prozoretz), Canada (HarperCollins), China Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Prozoretz), Canada (HarperCollins), (Beijing Xiron Books), Croatia (Mozaik Knjiga), Finland (Aula), Finland (Aula), France (Helium), Germany (DTV), Greece (Patakis), France (Helium), Germany (DTV), Greece (Patakis), HungaryMatt Haig Hungaryis the number (Libri one Könyvkiadó bestselling Kft), author Italy of Reasons(Salani), toJapan Stay (Nishimura),Alive and (Libri Könyvkiadó Kft), Italy (Salani), Japan (Nishimura), KoreaThe HumansKorea and (Mirae), four other Lithuania books for (Tyto adults. Alba), As aPoland writer (Zysk), for children Portugal and (Mirae), Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Polandyoung adults(Booksmile), he has won Romania the Blue Peter(Nemira), Book Russia Award, (AST), the Smarties Spain (Planeta),Book Prize (Zysk), Portugal (Booksmile), Romania (Nemira), Russia (AST),and been shortlistedSpain Catalan three (Planeta), times for Swedenthe Carnegie (Alfabeta), Medal. Ukraine His work (Zhorzh) has been translated into 30 languages. Serbia (Vulkan), Spain (Planeta), Spain Catalan (Planeta), Sweden Other Rights: Clare Conville, C&W (Alfabeta), Ukraine (Zhorzh), US (Knopf) Extent: 304 pages Other Rights: Clare Conville, C&W Extent: 336 pages 26 26 HOWA MOUSE TO STOPCALLED TIME MIIKA Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestsellingMiika emerged author from of preview Reasons screenings to Stay Alive of A andBoy TheCalled HumansChristmas as the audience’s favourite character. Now, this little mouse has his very own story to tell . . . The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, butWhen that pooris the mainyoung one. Nicholas No falling lostin love. all No his staying friends in love.and No family it daydreamingwas just one of forestlove. Because mouse, otherwise, Miika, of whocourse, kept you slowly him losecompany, your mindand it. . was.’ Miika who accompanied him on his journey to the Far North, in search of his father. But this little mouse Tomhad lived Hazard a large has lifea dangerous . . . secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. OwingA Mouse to Called a rare Miikacondition, is an he’sepic been adventure alive for story centuries. on a Fromminiature Shakespeare’s scale. It is Englanda tale of miceto jazz and age men Paris (and and more voyagingmice). the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves anIt is ordinary about one life. independent mouse who gets fed up with other mice, sets out on a quest of his own to prove that Alwayscheese exists, changing and hislearns identity to appreciate to stay alive, other Tom creatures. now It is hasalso thea tale perfect of great cover love - working(of cheese) as anda history great teacherdanger. atAnd a Londonlearning school.the lesson Here, that, he with can cheeseteach the as withkids aboutlife, what wars andmatters witch most hunts is not as ifhow he’d strongly never witnessed you smell thembut how first- strong hand.you are He on can the try inside. and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.Funny, cheeky, wise and packed full of Matt Haig’s signature warmth, this is set to become a new year-round Howchildren’s to Stop favourite. Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.

‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ The Times

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnumUK Publication: opus’ Guardian September 2021 As well as being a number one bestselling Rights Held: World writer for adults, MATT HAIG has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book ‘Extraordinary’Rights Sold: Canada Independent (Harper Collins), Germany (DTV), US (Knopf) Option Publishers: Brazil (Ciranda Cultural), Bulgaria (Prozoretz), Prize and been nominated three times for the China (Beijing Xiron Books), Croatia (Mozaik Knjiga), Estonia (Gallus), Carnegie Medal for his stories for children Finland (Aula), France (Helium), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Libri and young adults. Könyvkiadó Kft), Italy (Salani), Japan (Nishimura), KoreaMatt (Mirae),Haig is the number oneCHRIS bestselling MOULD author went of Reasonsto art school to Stay at Alive the and Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Netherlands (Moon), Norway (CappelenThe Humans Damm), and four otherage booksof sixteen. for adults. He has As awon writer the for Nottingham children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Poland (Zysk), Portugal (Booksmile), Romania (Nemira), Russia (AST), Children’s Book Award and been commended Serbia (Vulkan), Spain (Planeta), Spain Catalan (Planeta),and Swedenbeen shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.by the Sheffield Children’s Book Award. He (Alfabeta), Taiwan (Eastern), Ukraine (Zhorzh) loves his work and likes to write and draw the Other Rights: Clare Conville, C&W kind of books that he would have liked to have Extent: 208 pages had on his shelf as a boy. 27 HOWI GET LOUD TO STOP TIME David Ouimet MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestsellingThe gorgeously author illustrated of Reasons sequel to Stayto the Alive acclaimed and The I Go HumansQuiet, which Neil Gaiman called ‘astonishingly beautiful’

TheI Get first Loud, rule seesis that the you introverteddon’t fall in love. heroine There arego other out rulesinto too, the butworld that asis theshe main gains one. confidence No falling in love.in herNo stayingvoice andin love. makes No a daydreamingfriend for theof love. first Because time. otherwise, It is a taleof course, of the you emboldeningslowly lose your mindnature . . .’of the imagination, the redemptive power of friendship and why we should all embrace our own Tombeautiful, Hazard singular has a weirdness.dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Praise for I Go Quiet: Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. ‘HauntingFrom Shakespeare’s . . . Enchanting’ England Psychologiesto jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an‘Exquisite ordinary . life.. . The illustrations are gothic and haunting but beautiful . . . It’s the kind of book you wish you ‘I Go Quiet is poetical, magical and eerily Alwayscould send changing to your his childhoodidentity to self,stay alive,and the Tom kind now that creepy. It is bewildering and mysterious haswarms the theperfect heart cover as an - workingadult. A as simple a history but teacherstunning at a and a master at somehow finding the Londonstory ’The school. Skinny Here, he can teach the kids about wars words to capture something so abstract – isolation, loneliness, solitude and sadness. ‘Beautifuland witch hunts and engaging, as if he’d neverthis book witnessed brought them tears first- of joy But the book is not bleak – it offers light tohand. my Heeyes. can I havetry and no tame doubt the that past this that book is fast will catching inspire and shade, it is full of hope and comfort. thoseup with who him. discover The only its thing magic Tom to embrace mustn’t doand is nurturefall in It will become a solid silent friend to theirlove. own voice in this noisy world’ Coralie Bickford- many readers’ Laura Dockrill Smith How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, ‘This is the kind of book the child I was story‘Astonishingly about losing beautiful and finding . . . I wishyourself; this aboutbook thehad been would have stared at for days on end’ certaintyaround when of change, I was anda child: the mistakesI would nothumans have are felt quite Dave Eggers doomedas alone’ to Neil repeat. Gaiman And about the lifetimes it can take to UK Publication: September learn how to live. ‘Completely original. Unique, in fact’ Philip Pullman 2019 Rights Held: World ‘A wonder’wonderfully Matt funny, Haig gripping and inventive novel’ Rights Sold: Brazil The Times (Companhia das Letras), ‘Stunning . . . David Ouimet understands that to Germany (mvg Verlag), North comfort‘A masterpiece means . to. . Mattstrengthen, Haig is not a supreme to coddle. talent I want and a America (W. W. Norton), Spain towriter send to it cherish, back in and time The to Humansmy seven-year-old-self’ is undoubtedly his (Planeta), Turkey (Cinar) Stephenmagnum Fryopus’ Guardian Other Rights: Canongate Extent: 48 pages ‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: July 2021 DAVID OUIMET’s illustrations have featured on album covers Rights Held: World and books, including Robert D. San Souci’s Dare to be Scared book series and Nancy Etchmendy’s Cat in Glass and other Tales of Option Publishers: Brazil Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and the Unnatural. Most recently he illustrated Daydreams for Night by (Companhia das Letras), Germany The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and (mvg Verlag), Spain (Planeta), young adultsmusician he has John won Southworth. the Blue Peter Ouimet’s Book Award, work the was Smarties selected Book for Prize Turkey (Cinar) and beenthe shortlisted Society of three Illustrator’s times for theAnnual Carnegie 59 and Medal. was His exhibited work has at been the Rights Sold: North America translatedMuseum into 30 of languages. American Illustration in New York City in February (W. W. Norton) 2017. Other Rights: Canongate 28 28 Extent: 48 pages THE BIGGEST FOOTPRINT Rob Sears, illustrated by Tom Sears

An illustrated, fact-filled book about climate change, by bestselling author of The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump As climate change becomes more of a concern, this is a fresh way of addressing the subject in an accessible way for children and adults alike.

There are 7.7 billion of us.

All breathing, eating, drinking and thinking deep thoughts.

It’s an unimaginably large number. Or is it?

Meet the megahuman: all the people in the world smooshed into one giant human being. Even though it’s a big, lumbering creature, the megahuman is slowly beginning to understand the problems it has created for Planet Earth’s future . . .

Drawing on brain-bending stats and the work of biomass boffins,The Biggest Footprint is a journey of self-discovery suitable for anyone and everyone identifying as human.

Praise for The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump:

‘A triumph’ Telegraph

‘Hilarious’ Stewart Lee

Click here to watch Rob talk about The Biggest Footprint

UK Publication: June 2021 ROB SEARS has written comedy and Rights Held: World fiction for McSweeney’s and is the Other Rights: Clare Conville, author of the hit humour titles The C&W Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump and Vladimir Extent: 96 pages Putin: Life Coach. He lives in Finsbury Park with his wife Grace.

TOM SEARS is a London-based illustrator whose work has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, two zoos and on an ice cream van. 29 RECENT FAVOURITES HOW TO STOP TIME

MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans

Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in EVIE AND THE ANIMALS by Matt Haig, illustrated by Emily Gravett love. A brilliant chapter book for children, from number one bestselling author Matt Haig and featuring illustrations throughout by the award-winning Emily Gravett HowRights to Sold: Stop Arab Time States is a (Kalemat), wild, bittersweet, Canada (HarperCollins), time-travelling, China (Beijing Publishing Group), Finland (Aula & Co), storyGermany about (Hanser), losing Greeceand finding (Patakis), yourself; Hungary about(Libri), the Italy (Edizioni E⁄O), Japan (Holp), Korea (Weneedabook), Lithuania certainty(Tyto Alba), of Netherlandschange, and (Moon), the mistakes Portugal humans(Booksmile), are Russia (AST), Spain and Spain Catalan (Planeta), Sweden (Alfabeta), doomedTurkey (Yapi to repeat. Kredi), AndUkraine about (Zhorzh), the lifetimes Vietnam it(Thaihabooks can take to JSC) learnEVIE how IN THE to live. JUNGLE by Matt Haig, illustrated by Emily Gravett A brilliant story created especially for World Book Day 2020 ‘ARights wonderfully Sold: Ukraine funny, (Zhorzh) gripping and inventive novel’ TheTHE Times TRUTH PIXIE by Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould A hilarious and heartwarming book for younger readers ‘ARights masterpiece Sold: China . . .(Beijing Matt Haig Publishing is a supreme Group), Finlandtalent and (Aula a & Co), Germany (dtv), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Libri), writerIsrael (Knafayim),to cherish, Italyand (EdizioniThe Humans E⁄O), Japanis undoubtedly (Nishimura), his Korea (Mirae-N), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Poland (Zysk), Romania magnum(Nemira), opus’ Russia Guardian(AST), Spain and Spain Catalan (Planeta), Sweden (Alfabeta), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Ukraine (Zhorzh) THE TRUTH PIXIE GOES TO SCHOOL by Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould ‘Extraordinary’The sequel to the Independent Sunday Times bestseller The Truth Pixie; an uplifting, illustrated story about beating back-to-school nerves Rights Sold: China (Beijing Publishing Group), Finland (Aula & Co), Hungary (Libri), Japan (Nishimura),Korea (Mirae-N), Spain and Spain Catalan (Planeta), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Ukraine (Zhorzh) THE WORLDQUAKE SERIES: Dragon's Green, The Chosen Ones and Galloglass by Scarlett Thomas Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and A thrilling children’s series from Scarlett Thomas, Theauthor Humans of the and bestselling four other booksadult fornovel adults.The EndAs a of writer Mr Y for children and Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Prozoretz), Greece (Psichogios),young Iran adults (Porteghal), he has won Italy the (Newton Blue Peter Compton), Book Award, Netherlands the Smarties (De Book Fontein/ Prize De Kern), North America (Simon & Schuster), Romaniaand (ART), been shortlisted Russia (AST), three times Spain for (Salamandra)the Carnegie Medal. His work has been THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN by Russell Brand,translated illustrated into 30 languages. by Chris Riddell The inimitable Russell Brand brings his trademark humour to the classic children’s tale, in this beautiful edition fully illustrated by the award-winning Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell 30 Rights Sold: Finland (Art House Group), Italy (Editrice Il Castoro), North America (Simon & Schuster), Russia (AST) 30 CRIME AND THRILLERS

NON- FICTION HOWWEIMAGINE ARE TOAELECTRIC COUNTRY STOP TIME InsideIdeas forthe a200-Year better future Hunt for the Bioelectric Code edited by Val McDermid and Jo Sharp MattThe newfirst life-affirming step on the road Haignovel to fromchange the is numberto imagine one possibility. Sallybestselling author ofAdee Reasons to Stay Alive and The BringingHumans together voices from across the spectrum of Scottish life, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians, visual artists to A thrilling book that breaks open the field of bioelectricity: academics,The first rule Imagineis that you Adon’t Country fall in love. reveals There the are dreamsother rules of too, a future country what it is, why it’s so misunderstood and why it’s so vital for they’dbut that likeis the to main inhabit. one. No It falling is a challengein love. No tostaying politicians in love. No everywhere, a daydreamingour future, of from love. theBecause award-winning otherwise, of course, writer you slowly lose your provocation to us all, and a much-needed recipe for hope. mind . . .’ “WeBioelectricity want to isprovoke the electricity conversations that runs about through our everyfuture living based around hopething.Tom Hazardand It is imagination.the has reason a dangerous why Too our often secret. brains lately Hecan may sendit seems look signals that to we the have shunned debaterestlike anof our ordinaryin favourbodies, 41-year-old, of but the also slings why but and we he developarrowswas born ofin in 280the 1581. womb characters. 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And yet the Rights Held: World fieldhasVAL theMcDERMID is perfectstill emerging coveris a number -from working one two bestselling ascenturies a history and of award-winning teacherscepticism at a and author, whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold over Other Rights: Jenny Brown, Jenny entanglementLondon school. with Here, medical he can quackery teach the – allkids stemming about wars from Brown Associates andsixteen witch million hunts copies. as ifJO he’d SHARP never is a witnessedProfessor of them Geography first- at the University of St Andrews.an eighteenth-century The pair entered scientific into a civil partnershipwar about inthe 2016. nature of Extent: 272 pages electricityhand. He canbetween try and Luigi tame Galvani the past (the that father is fast of catchingbioelectricity, famousup with forhim. shocking The only frogs) thing and Tom Alessandro mustn’t do Volta is fall (the in Ainventorlove. LONG of the battery). STRIDE InHow We to Are Stop Electric Time, award-winning is a wild, bittersweet, science time-travelling, writer Sally Adee takesstoryThe usabout Story through losing the andof thrilling finding the history World'syourself; of bioelectricityabout theNo. and 1 Scotch Whisky intocertainty the future of change, of this and discipline: the mistakes from humansGalvani areversus Volta, toNicholasdoomed the medical to repeat. charlatans And aboutMorgan claiming the lifetimesto use electricity it can take to tocure learn how to live. Theeverything history from of Johnnie infertility Walker, to cancer, beginning to the in advances 1820, is in also the the history offield Scotch helped whisky. along But by thewho axons was Johnof giant Walker squids, – the and man finally who startedto the‘A wonderfully amazing brain funny, implants gripping and and healing inventive cuffs novel’ that await us Thethe story? Times And how did his business grow from the shelves of a small groceryin the future. shop inIt’s Kilmarnock engaging, well-written, to become the and world’s uses the number history one Scotch? of bioelectricity to help us understand why we need to know ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writerAabout treat itto for nowcherish, whisky – and and aficionados, why The it Humanswill be A Long so is important undoubtedlyStride tells in the the his story future. of how John Walkermagnum and opus’ a succession Guardian of ingenious and progressive business leaders embraced their Scottish roots to walk confidently on an international SALLY ADEE is an award-winning science and technology writer. Most recently, she was a features ‘Extraordinary’UK Publication: Independent Maystage. 2022 Ultimately the storyeditor is ata testamentthe New Scientist to, howwhere an she obsession wrote some with of its most lasting content, including a 2012 feature Rightsquality Held:and a Worldrelentless ondrive transcranial to always direct move current forward stimulation created (tDCS), the most that broke this bioelectricity technology to the Otherrecognised Rights: Scotch Carrie whisky general brand public in theand world.is still talked about, including most recentlyUK in Yuval Publication: Noah Harari’s October bestselling Plitt, Felicity Bryan book Homo Deus. Since then, sheMatt has Haig been is the completely number one obsessed bestselling with2020 author bioelectricity of Reasons and to Stayhas formedAlive and NICHOLAS MORGAN is Headclose ofrelationships Whisky Outreach, with many tasked of thewith field’s reinvigorating leading researchers. Now a freelance journalist, her Associates The Humans and four other books forRights adults. AsHeld: a writer World for children and heritage blends, including Johnnie Walker. He is the winner of an Outstanding Extent: 320 pages writing has appeared in publicationsyoung adults including he has wonthe Newthe Blue York TimesPeterOther, BookBBC FutureAward, Rights:, the the CanongateEconomist Smarties andBook Quartz Prize. Achievement in Scotch WhiskyShe has Award also. spokenHis work on has Radio earnedand 5, beenCanadian him shortlisted a place Broadcasting’s on three the times Thefor Currentthe Carnegie, The Economist’ Medal. Hiss Intelligence work has been 256 pages Queen Elizabeth Scholarshippodcast, Trustee and board, BBC further Breakfast, supportingtranslated and given excellence into talks 30 at languages. a in number British of festivals.Extent: She is currently the science Craftsmanship. 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MattKerriThe new life-affirming Haignínovel from Dochartaighthe number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and history, Humans this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s story of a wild Ireland, an invisible border, an old conflict and the healing power of the The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, natural world but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No Kerridaydreaming ní Dochartaigh of love. Because was otherwise, born inof Derry,course, you Northern slowly lose Ireland,your atmind the . . very.’ height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a grey and impoverished council estate on the wrong sideTom of Hazard town. hasBut afor dangerous her family, secret. and manyHe may others, look there waslike anno ordinaryright side. 41-year-old, One parent but was he Catholic, was born the in other1581. was Protestant.Owing to a Inrare the condition, space of onehe’s year been they alive were for forcedcenturies. out of twoFrom homes Shakespeare’s and when England she was toeleven jazz agea homemade Paris and petrol bombvoyaging was the thrown Pacific, through Tom herhas bedroomseen a lot, window. and now Terror craves was inan theordinary very fabric life. of the city, and for families like Kerri’s, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there wasAlways no escape.changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a LondonIn Thin school.PlacesKerri Here, explores he can how teach nature the kids kept about her sane wars and andhelped witch her hunts heal, howas if violencehe’d never and witnessed poverty arethem never first- more hand.than a He stone’s can throwtry and from tame beauty the past and that hope, is fast and catching how we are, uponce with again, him. allowing The only our thing borders Tom to mustn’t become do hard, is fall and in terror love.to creep back in. Kerri asks us to reclaim our landscape ‘A profound and moving work of art. through language and study, and remember that the land we This is a really special book – certainly, Howfight toover Stop is Timemuch ismore a wild, than bittersweet, lines on a time-travelling,map. It will always I’ve never read one quite like it’ Christine storybe ours about but, losingat the andsame finding time, it yourself; never really about was. the Dwyer Hickey certainty‘A special, of beautiful, change, and many-faceted the mistakes book’ humans Amy are Liptrot ‘An eloquent, moving work of politics, ‘Adoomed remarkable to repeat. piece And of writingabout the . . lifetimes. Luminous’ it can Robert take to geography and the self. Full of wisdom and Macfarlanelearn how to live. deeply engaging’ Sinéad Gleeson ‘Thin Places is a book for our times, and ‘A‘I’m wonderfully so glad this funny, book gripping exists; I and feel inventive rather short novel’ of words Theto do Times it justice. Kerri's writing is so powerful, her ability a work of rare power and authenticity’ to tell her story so deft, her innate understanding of the Neil Hegarty world‘A masterpiece around her. . . Mattsuch Haiga beautiful is a supreme thing’ Alicetalent Vincentand a ‘A beautiful and harrowing book about writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his trauma, the potential to heal and the subtle magnum opus’ Guardian Click here to watch Kerri talk about magic of the wild. Kerri ní Dochartaigh offers us a fragile kind of redemption, full ‘Extraordinary’Thin Independent Places of truth and solace’ Katherine May UK Publication: January KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH was born in 1983, in Derry-Londonderry 2021 at the border between the North and South of Ireland. She read English Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Rights Held: World excl. Literature and Classical Civilisation at Trinity College Dublin and trained The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and North America as ayoung Waldorf adults teacher he has in won Edinburgh. the Blue Peter She Book taught Award, in Edinburgh the Smarties and Book Bristol, Prize Other Rights: Kirsty beforeand returningbeen shortlisted to Ireland three timesin her for early the Carnegie thirties. Medal.She writes His work about has nature, been McLachlan, David Godwin literaturetranslated and into place 30 forlanguages. the Irish Times, Dublin Review of Books, Caught by the River Associates and others. She now lives in a railway cottage in the very heart of Ireland. Extent: 320 pages Thin Places is her first book. 33 @kerri_ni 333333 HOWSICK MONEY TO STOP TIME The Truth about the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Billybestselling author of KenberReasons to Stay Alive and The Humans An urgent call to build a new model for the pharmaceutical industry,The first rule from is that the you multi-award-winning don’t fall in love. There areTimes other journalist rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American mind . . .’ hedge fund manager who put the price of an AIDS pill Tomup from Hazard $13.50 has to a dangerous$750 overnight secret. to He the may children’s look cancer likedrugs an left ordinary intentionally 41-year-old, to expire but hein awas Spanish born warehouse,in 1581. Owingthe signs to are a rare all around.condition, A system he’s been that alive was fordesigned centuries. to Fromdrive innovationShakespeare’s and England patient careto jazz has age been Paris co-opted and to voyagingdrive profit. the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. What drugs are being researched, how medicines are Alwayspriced, whochanging has access his identity to which to staymedicines alive, Tom is now now being hasdictated the perfect by share-holder cover - working value, not as a the history good teacher of the publicat a London– who enjoy school. ever-diminishing Here, he can teach benefits the kidsfor ever-higher about wars andprices. witch Drugs hunts companies as if he’d are never being witnessed fined for them bribing first- hand.doctors He in can Eastern try and Europe tame whilethe past patients that is desperate fast catching for uplife-saving with him. medicines The only are thing being Tom driven mustn’t to the do black is fall market in love.in search of drugs the NHS can’t afford.

HowSick Money to Stop argues Time that is a thewild, way bittersweet, we research time-travelling, medicines and storypay for about them losing is no andlonger finding working. yourself; Unless about we take the action certaintywe risk a ofdramatic change, decline and the in mistakesthe pace humansof drug developmentare doomedand a future to repeat. in which And medicines about the are lifetimes only available it can take to the to learnhighest how bidder. to live. In this book Billy Kenber reports from the frontline of the Big Pharma battles, investigates how ‘ACovid-19 wonderfully has changed funny, gripping the industry and inventive(for better novel’ or worse), Theand offersTimes a diagnosis of an industry in crisis and a prescription for how we can fight back. ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish,Click here and The to watchHumans Billy is undoubtedly talk about his magnum Sickopus’ MoneyGuardian ‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: April 2021 BILLY KENBER is an investigative journalist at The Times and has worked at the newspaper since 2010. He has won several Rights Held: World accolades including prizes at the UK Press Awards, the British Rights Sold: Poland (Proszynski Matt HaigJournalism is the number Awards one bestsellingand two prizes author from of Reasons the toMedical Stay Alive Journalists’ and Media), Taiwan (Heliopolis) The HumansAssociation and four including other books the for 2017 adults. award As afor writer Outstanding for children and Other Rights: Heather young adultsContribution he has won to the Health Blue Peter or MedicalBook Award, Journalism the Smarties. In Book2013 Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Holden-Brown, HHB Agency he won the Laurence Stern Fellowship and worked for the translated into 30 languages. Extent: 320 pages Washington Post for three months. He lives in London. @billykenber 34 34 THE HUMAN COSMOS AHOW Secret History ofTO the Stars STOP TIME Jo Marchant AMattThe journey new life-affirmingthrough the history Haignovel of from science the andnumber man’s one relationship withbestselling the night author sky and of Reasonsthe cosmos to Staybeyond, Alive from and the The author ofHumans the New York Times bestselling and Royal Society Prize- shortlisted Cure The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Forbut thatmost is theof mainhuman one. history,No falling we in love.have No led staying not justin love. an No earthly existencedaydreaming but of love.a cosmic Because one. otherwise, Celestial of course, cycles you droveslowly loseevery your aspect ofmind our . . daily.’ lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are – our religious beliefs, power structures, scientificTom Hazard advances has a dangerousand even our secret. biology. He mayBut lookover the last few centurieslike an ordinary we have 41-year-old, separated ourselves but he was from born the in universe 1581. that surroundsOwing to us.a rare And condition, that disconnect he’s been comes alive at for a cost.centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and Invoyaging The Human the Pacific, Cosmos , TomJo Marchant has seen takesa lot, usand on now a tour craves throughan ordinary the historylife. of humanity’s relationship with the heavens. We travel to the Hall of the Bulls in Lascaux and witnessAlways thechanging winter his solstice identity at ato 5,000-year-old stay alive, Tom tomb now at Newgrange.has the perfect We covervisit medieval - working monks as a history grappling teacher with at the a ‘A tour of the heavens that centres not so natureLondon of school.time and Here, Tahitian he can sailors teach navigating the kids about by the wars much on outer space as what it does to our stars.and witch We discover hunts as how if he’d light never reveals witnessed the chemical them compositionfirst- inner beings . . . Readers interested in the cognitive aspects of cosmology will enjoy ofhand. the sun,He can and try we and are tamewith Einsteinthe past thatas he is works fast catching out that Marchant’s explorations’ Kirkus spaceup with and him. time The are onlyone andthing the Tom same. mustn’t A four-billion-year- do is fall in oldlove. meteor inspires a search for extra-terrestrial life, and we ‘Science journalist Marchant explores the discover why star-gazing can be really, really good for us. relationship between humans and the How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, celestial in this luminous and fascinating It is time for us to rediscover the full potential of the universe story about losing and finding yourself; about the journey through science, religion, culture and we inhabit, its wonder, its effect on our health and its certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are everything in between’ Newsweek potential for inspiration and revelation. doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to ‘Marchant charts the history of humanity’s ‘Thought-provokinglearn how to live. . . . The book’s broad scope is made fascination with the night sky and explores manageable by punchy storytelling . . . Integrating science, the way the stars have shaped art, faith, history,‘A wonderfully philosophy funny, and gripping religion, and Marchant’s inventive epic novel’ account is one science and society, and what our modern forThe readers Times to savour’ Publishers Weekly, Starred Review disconnect from the stars has cost us’ USA Today ‘This‘A masterpiece thematic, .engaging . . Matt Haigoverview is a ofsupreme our stars talent and skiesand ahas somethingwriter to cherish, for all readers’ and The Library Humans Journal is undoubtedly his ‘A tour de force on par with Sapiens by Yuval magnum opus’ Guardian Noah Harari’ Booklist, Starred Review

UK Publication: September DR JO MARCHANT is an award-winning science journalist. ‘Extraordinary’ Independent 2020 She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Rights Held: World Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London, and an MSc in Rights Sold: China (Citic Press), Science Communication from Imperial College. She has worked as India Marathi (Mehta), North Mattan Haigeditor is theat New number Scientist one and bestselling Nature, andauthor her of articles Reasons have to Stay appeared Alive and in America (Dutton), Spain (Espasa), Thethe Humans Guardian and, Wired four, otherObserver books, New for Scientist adults. and As Naturea writer. She for childrenis the author and Thailand (Gypsy Group) youngof Decoding adults hethe has Heavens won, the shortlisted Blue Peter for Book the Award, Royal theSociety Smarties Prize Book for Prize Other Rights: Will Francis, andScience been shortlisted Books, and three Cure times, shortlisted for the Carnegie for the Medal. Royal His Society work hasPrize been for Janklow & Nesbit translatedScience into Books 30 languages. and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Extent: 368 pages @JoMarchant | jomarchant.com Backlist: Cure 35 HOWHOWTHE REALITY TO TO BE STOP ANIMAL BUBBLE TIME ABlind New Spots, History Hidden of What Truths, it Means and theto Be Dangerous Human Illusions that Shape our World MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Melaniebestselling author of Reasons Challenger to Stay Alive and The CombiningHumans nature writing, history and moral philosophy, this isZiya a wide-ranging and radicalTong new take on the human story and whatThe first it means rule is thatfor youus todaydon’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Abut groundbreaking that is the main one. look No falling at the in hidden love. No thingsstaying inthat love. shape No Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, ourdaydreaming lives in of unexpected love. Because andotherwise, sometimes of course, dangerousyou slowly lose your aggressiveways,mind . .from .’ and one baffling of the world’s animals most on engagingthe planet. science But how well do wejournalists really know ourselves? Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look HowWhat to are Be weAnimal not seeing? writes a remarkable story of what it means tolike be an human ordinary and 41-year-old, argues that atbut the he heart was bornof our in psychology1581. Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are isOwing a profound to a rare struggle condition, with beinghe’s been animal. alive As for well centuries. as piecing blind in comparison to the x-rays that peer through skin, togetherFrom Shakespeare’s the mystery Englandof how this to jazz psychology age Paris evolved, and the book the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the examinesvoyaging thethe wide-reachingPacific, Tom wayshas seen in whicha lot, andit affects now ourcraves lives, living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with froman ordinary our politics life. to the ways we distance ourselves from other artificial intelligence. species. We travel from the origins of homo sapiens through theAndAlways agrarian we changingare andblind industrial hiscompared identity revolutions, to to the stay animals alive, the Tomage that of nowcan the see internet, andinhas infrared, onthe to perfect futures or ultraviolet, cover of AI - working and or human-machinewith as 360-degree a history teacher interface.vision. at aWe examineTheseLondon animals howschool. technology live Here, in the he influences samecan teach world the ourwe kids do,sense aboutbut of they ourwars seeown animalsomethingand witch nature huntsquite and differentas our if he’drelationship whennever they witnessed with look the around. themother first-species with hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching ‘Melanie Challenger’s wonderful book whomIn The weReality share Bubble, this fragile Ziya Tong planet. illuminates this hidden up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in is a huge, complex and triumphant world and takes us on a journey to examine ten of Drawinglove. on new evidence from a wide range of disciplines, ‘Thisthing: book challenging,will tear through but also your celebratory, humanity’s biggest blind spots. What she reveals is not on Challenger proposes that being an animal is a process, beautifulpreconceptions courageous, like mournful a meteor and through apprehensive. space the things we didn’t evolve to see but, more dangerously, andHow unpredictable, to Stop Time and is a that wild, we bittersweet, have a chance time-travelling, to tell ourselves . .a . PrepareHer language to have is your lovely: bubble exact well and and lyrical the blindness of modern society. Fast-paced, utterly newstory story, about to losing realise and that finding if we matter, yourself; so doesabout everything the else.trulyand burst’ sparklingly New Scientist full of suggestion and fascinatingcertainty of and change, deeply and humane, the mistakes this vitally humans important are new ‘Erudite, lyrical, delightfully troubling, and full of ‘Pageimplication. after page, Ziya I know Tong it willprovides be something bookdoomed gives to voicerepeat. to And the senseabout we’ve the lifetimes all had –it thatcan takethere to is unexpected convergences. A wonderful exploration of the clear Ilenses will return for looking to again at theand world, again’ Adamand morelearn howto the to world live. than meets the eye. tensions that beset the human animal trying to find our entertaininglyNicolson insists we use them – like, now, ‘Stunning . . . Considering how much she gets way’ David George Haskell please’ Wired through,‘A wonderfully the tone funny, is lightgripping and andaccessible. inventive It novel’feels ‘How to be Animal is an utterly likeThe beingTimes shown around a fascinating exhibit by an ‘Withchallenging, thrilling facts, wholly questions, essential and book: it enthusiastic curator . . . It is not just a book that tells juxtapositionsshows us howon every to be page. human’ A kaleidoscopic Philip Hoare ‘A masterpieceClick .here . . Matt to Haigwatch is aMelanie supreme talenttalk aboutand a a story of humanity; it is a gentle but highly effective guide to everything we’re missing’ writer to Howcherish, To and Be TheAnimal Humans is undoubtedly his Naomi‘A rareKlein and important marvel’ Lucy Jones wake-upmagnum call’opus’ Guardian Guardian UKUK Publication: Publication: February January 20202021 MELANIEZIYA TONG CHALLENGER is the Vice Chair works of as WWF a researcher Canada. on She Rights‘Extraordinary’Rights Held: Held: World World Independent excl. Korea theanchored history of Daily humanity Planet, Discovery and the natural Channel’s world, flagship and Rights(Cocoon), Sold: Lithuania Canada (Liutai(Penguin Ne Avys), environmentalscience programme, philosophy. until Her its finalfirst seasonbook, On in Extinction: 2018. 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TheNothing first rule in islife that works you don’t without fall in love. facts. There are other rules too, butA society that is the that main isn’t one. sure No fallingwhat’s in truelove. Nocan’t staying function. in love. WithoutNo daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. mind . . .’ Trust evaporates. TomPeople Hazard everywhere has a dangerousfeel ever more secret. alienated He may from look – and likemistrustful an ordinary of – 41-year-old,news and those but whohe was make born it. inWe 1581. no longer Owingseem to to know a rare who condition, or what he’sto believe. been alive We forare centuries.living through Froma crisis Shakespeare’s of ‘information England chaos’. to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves anNews: ordinary And How life. to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From Accuracy to Hypocrisy, from Invisible Mending to AlwaysLügenpresse, changing from his Clickbait identity to Snackingstay alive, (andTom more),now here is hasthe definitivethe perfect user’scover guide - working for how as ato history stay informed, teacher at tell a truth Londonfrom fiction, school. and Here, hold he those can inteach power the accountablekids about wars in the andmodern witch age. hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- hand.Praise He for can Breaking try and News tame: the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in ‘Eloquent in its argument for love.‘[Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range . . . well-resourced journalism, and never The brilliant Breaking News is essential – and entertaining better than in its central narrative of Howreading’ to Stop Sir Harold Time is Evansa wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, how an old profession struggled to cope story about losing and finding yourself; about the with a new technology that threatened it ‘Just when we were feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are with obsolescence’ Guardian fake news and journalism in crisis, Alan Rusbridger lights doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to his torch and leads the way. Essential’ Steve Coogan ‘Alan Rusbridger is one of the most learn how to live. important journalists of his generation ‘A fascinating book and an important one’ Scotsman ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ . . . this book needs to be read’ The‘Engaging Times . . . We love a good newspaper yarn, and Independent Rusbridger provides a dandy’ Financial Times ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian UK Publication: ALAN RUSBRIDGER was Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media November‘Extraordinary’ 2020 Independent from 1995 to 2015. He launched the Guardian in the US and Australia Rights Held: World as well as building a website which today attracts more than 100 Other Rights: million unique browsers a month. The paper’s coverage of phone- hacking led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and ethics. Rebecca Carter, Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Janklow & Nesbit GuardianThe Humans US won and the four 2014 other Pulitzer books for Prize adults. for As public a writer service for children for its and Extent: 304 pages leadingyoung adultsglobal he coverage has won ofthe the Blue Snowden Peter Book revelations. Award, the He Smarties is the Bookauthor Prize ofand Play been It Again shortlisted and Breaking three News times. He for livesthe Carnegie in London Medal. and His Oxford, work has where been hetranslated is Principal into of30 Lady languages. Margaret Hall and chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. @arusbridger | arusbridger.com 3737 HOW TO STOP TIME

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3939 MYIMAGINE ROCK A COUNTRY 'n' ROLL FRIEND IdeasHOW for a better TO future STOP TIME Traceyedited by Val Thorn McDermid and Jo Sharp MattThe newfirst life-affirming step on the road Haignovel to fromchange the is numberto imagine one possibility. bestsellingAn exploration author of female of Reasons friendship to Stay and Alive women and in The music, BringingHumansfrom the iconictogether singer-songwriter voices from across and thebestselling spectrum author of Scottish life, fromof Another comedians Planet to and economists, Bedsit Disco writers Queen to musicians, visual artists to The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Inacademics, 1983, backstage Imagine atA Countrythe Lyceum reveals in London, the dreams Tracey of a Thornfuture country they’dbut that likeis the to main inhabit. one. No It falling is a challengein love. No tostaying politicians in love. No everywhere, a daydreamingand Lindy ofMorrison love. 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AThe heart-rending first rule is that memoir you don’t offall living in love. between There are worlds other rules and too, learningbut that is howthe main to findone. No one’s falling own in love.– from No stayingfashion in love.designer No Osmandaydreaming Yousefzada of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .’ The son of Afghan parents, Osman Yousefzada was raisedTom Hazard in post-industrial has a dangerous Birmingham. secret. He Osman’s may look father was alike carpenter, an ordinary and 41-year-old,his mother, tobut help he wasmake born ends in meet, 1581. took upOwing sewing to aand rare became condition, a seamstress. he’s been Womenalive for from centuries. Indian- EastFrom African, Shakespeare’s Israeli, EnglandShia and to Afghan jazz age communities Paris and came togethervoyaging inthe the Pacific, Yousefzada Tom householdhas seen a lot, to haveand clothesnow craves madean ordinary and mended life. by his mother. Osman learned the craft at her knee and became enraptured by what was deemed a woman’sAlways changing job, and hisincreasingly identity to found stay alive, himself Tom at nowodds with thehas highlythe perfect patriarchal cover -culture working he asgrew a history up in. teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars Whetherand witch secretly hunts as bringing if he’d hisnever sister witnessed books andthem magazines first- fromhand. theHe localcan try library, and tamelusting the after past forbidden that is fast jelly catching in the localup with shop, him. or The chatting only tothing the Tomarea’s mustn’t prostitutes, do is Osman fall in quietlylove. weaved in and out of different spheres.

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‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ The TimesClick here to watch the editor’s ‘A masterpiecesummary . . . Matt of Haig The is aGo-Between supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnumUK Publication: opus’ Guardian April OSMAN YOUSEFZADA was born in Birmingham. He studied 2021 anthropology at SOAS and fashion at Central Saint Martins. ‘Extraordinary’Rights Held: World Independent He later went on to do a Masters at Cambridge. 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The Go-Between is his first book. 41 SMALLIMAGINE ABODIES COUNTRY OF WATER IdeasHOW for a better TO future STOP TIME Ninaedited by Mingya Val McDermid Powles and Jo Sharp MattThe newfirst life-affirming step on the road Haignovel to fromchange the is numberto imagine one possibility. bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Winner of the Nan Shepherd Prize 2019 BringingHumans together voices from across the spectrum of Scottish life, Homefrom comedians is many people to economists, and places and writers languages, to musicians, some visual artists to The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, separatedacademics, by Imagine oceans. A Country reveals the dreams of a future country they’dbut that likeis the to main inhabit. one. No It falling is a challengein love. No tostaying politicians in love. No everywhere, a daydreaming of love. 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MattGavinThe new life-affirming HaignovelFrancis from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans An exploration of isolation and connectedness based on Thethirty first years rule isof that travel, you fromdon’t fall the in Sundaylove. There Times are other bestselling rules too, butauthor that isof the Adventures main one. No in fallingHuman in love. Being No andstaying Empire in love. No daydreamingAntarctica of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your Inmind Island . . .’ Dreams, Gavin Francis recounts stories of his own travels and blends the personal with those great journeysTom Hazard from has literature a dangerous and metaphysical secret. He may exploration. look Helike exploresan ordinary the concept41-year-old, of islands but he and was their born place in 1581. in our collectiveOwing to consciousness.a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyagingComparing the the Pacific, life of freedomTom has ofseen over a lot, twenty and yearsnow craves anof extraordinaryordinary life. travel – from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands – Alwayswith his changing life of responsibility his identity toin middlestay alive, age, Tom as a now doctor, hasparent the and perfect member cover of - theworking community, as a history Island teacher Dreams at a Londonriffs on theschool. twin Here, poles hewe can all swingteach thebetween, kids about of rest wars and andmotion, witch never hunts more as if relevant he’d never than witnessed in today’s them perennially first- hand.connected He can world. try and tame the past that is fast catching ‘Wonderful . . . Beautifully illustrated Illustratedup with him. with The maps only throughout, thing Tom mustn’tthis is a docelebration is fall in of throughout, it’s an enchanting meditation humanlove. adventures in the world and within our minds. on rest and motion, independence and attachment, and what these mean in our ‘Gavin Francis is a wonderful writer – thoughtful, How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, hyper-connected world’ The Bookseller engaging, immensely knowledgeable and supremely story about losing and finding yourself; about the human’ Bill Bryson ‘[An] ode to navigation and adventure’ certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are New Statesman doomed‘An intoxicating to repeat. voyage And about during the which lifetimes maps it can become take to learnfictions how and to live.fictions verifiable facts. Myths of ‘This gorgeous book from Gavin Francis returning and older legends carry us out in a shared looks at our collective fascination with fugue‘A wonderfully of obsession funny, and gripping release. and Here inventive is a worthy novel’ islands by blending his own experiences companionThe Times to the dream labyrinths of Borges’ with great voyages from literature as well Iain Sinclair as a splash of psychology and philosophy. ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a It’s at heart, an exploration of isolation and ‘Explores our fascination with islands’ Observer writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his connectedness that's particularly timely’ ‘Genre-defying’magnum opus’ Guardian Herald The List

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: October GAVIN FRANCIS is an award-winning writer and GP. 2020 He is the author of non-fiction titles Adventures in Human Rights Held: World Being – which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Rights Sold: Germany Matt Haig is theSaltire number Scottish one bestselling Non-Fiction author ofBook Reasons of the to StayYear Alive Award and, (DuMont), Italy (EDT) The Humans andShapeshifters four other, Empire books Antarctica for adults. – which As a writer won thefor childrenSaltire Bookand young adults heof has the won Year the Award Blue Peter and Bookwas shortlisted Award, the forSmarties the Ondaatje Book Prize Other Rights: Jenny and been shortlistedPrize andthree the times Costa for thePrize Carnegie, and TrueMedal. North His. He work has has written been Brown, Jenny Brown translated intofor 30 thelanguages. Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and Associates the London Review of Books. He lives in Edinburgh. 256 pages Extent: @gavinfranc | gavinfrancis.com 4343 HOWBORGES TO AND STOP ME TIME An Encounter

MattJayThe new life-affirming Parini Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The HumansA memoir of a remarkable road trip through Scotland with Borges, from award-winning author Jay Parini The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Fifty years ago, Jay Parini fled the United States for but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingScotland. Heof love. was Because in frantic otherwise, flight of course,from youthe slowlyVietnam lose your War mindand desperately. . .’ in search of his adult life. There, through circumstance, he met Jorge Luis Borges. BorgesTom Hazard was blind, has a in dangerous his seventies secret. and He frail. may Parini look was asked tolike look an ordinaryafter him 41-year-old, while his translator but he was was born unexpectedly in 1581. calledOwing away to a rareto a familycondition, emergency. he’s been When alive Borgesfor centuries. heard that PariniFrom Shakespeare’sowned a 1957 England Morris Minor, to jazz heage declared Paris and a long-held wishvoyaging to see the the Pacific, Scottish Tom Highlands has seen and a lot, this and unlikely now craves couple soonan ordinary set out. life. As they travelled among historic landmarks, the brilliantly chatty Borges took Parini on a grand tour of westernAlways changingliterature hisand identity ideas while to stay promising alive, Tom to nowteach him abouthas the love perfect and poetry.cover - Theirworking escapades as a history took teacher a surreal at turna on severalLondon occasions school. Here, as Borges’s he can world teach of the labyrinths, kids about mirrors wars and doublesand witch shimmered hunts as if into he’d being. never witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching ‘A classic comic-philosophical road story, upBorges with and him. Me The is a onlyclassic thing road Tom story, mustn’t but also do ais magical fall in tour playfully conscious of its own traditions love.of an era that mirrors our own, when uncertainties abound, . . . A fun, tightly crafted, tender-hearted and when – as ever – it’s the young and the old who hear literary adventure, an improbable tale Howvoices to and Stop dream Time dreams. is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, that, like many improbable tales, happens ‘Astory jewel about of a losing book. and Very finding funny, yourself; clever, moving, about the luminous to be true’ Wall Street Journal withcertainty love of of change,literature and and the landscape’ mistakes humans Ian McEwan are ‘A tender bond forms between the doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to ‘The memoir is an important contribution to the eccentric sage and his caretaker . . . Fans learn how to live. biography of a major writer . . . For readers who already of both Borges and Parini will delight in this touching coming-of-age memoir’ ‘Aadmire wonderfully Borges, funny, this memoir gripping will and be inventive a delicious novel’ treat. Times Literary Supplement TheFor thoseTimes who have yet to read him, Parini provides the perfect entry point to a writer who altered the way many ‘A captivating chronicle and homage’ ‘Athink masterpiece of literature’ . . . Matt New Haig York isTimes a supreme Book talentReview and a Kirkus Reviews writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnumUK Publication: opus’ Guardian August JAY PARINI is Axinn Professor of English at 2021 Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels include ‘Extraordinary’Rights Held: World Independent excl. The Last Station and The Apprentice Lover. In addition to North America (Doubleday) biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and Rights Sold: Argentina/Spain William Faulkner, he has written a volume of essays on literature and politics, as well as The Art of Teaching. (Planeta Argentina), China Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and He edited The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and (Yilin Press), Turkey (Sia The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Kitap) young adults he haswrites won the regularly Blue Peter for Book the Award,Guardian the and Smarties other publications.Book Prize Other Rights: Peggy Boulos and been shortlistedjayparini.com three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Smith, Writers House translated into 30 languages. Extent: 320 pages Backlist: The Last Station, The Passage of Herman Melville. 44 44 HOWEXPLORER TO STOP TIME The Quest for Adventure MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The HumansBenedict Allen

TheThis first enquiry rule is thatinto you the don’t explorer fall in love.mindset There isare part other meditation,rules too, part butmemoir, that is fromthe main one one. of No the falling Daily in Telegraphlove. No staying’s greatest in love. ever No British daydreamingexplorers of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .’ What does it mean to be an explorer in the 21st century? Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look likeExplorer an ordinary is the story 41-year-old, of what firstbut he led was Benedict born in Allen 1581. to head Owingfor the farthestto a rare reaches condition, of our he’s planet been –alive at a for time centuries. when there Fromwere still Shakespeare’s valleys and Englandranges known to jazz only age toParis the and remote voyagingcommunities the Pacific,who inhabited Tom has them. seen It a islot, also and the now story craves of anwhy, ordinary thirty yearslife. later, he is still exploring. It’s the story of a journey back to a clouded mountain in New Guinea to find a Alwaysman called changing Korsai his who identity had once to stay been alive, a friend, Tom nowand to fulfil a haspromise the perfect made as cover young - working men. It asis alsoa history a story teacher of what at ait is to Londonbe ‘lost’ andschool. ‘found’. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- hand.Honest, He sensitive can try and tamepacked the with past insight, that is fastin Explorer catching upAllen with considers him. The the only lessons thing he Tom has learntmustn’t from do ishis fall numerous in love.expeditions – most importantly, from the communities he has encountered: there is a value in disconnecting from all Howthat we to areStop familiar Time iswith, a wild, particularly bittersweet, in today’stime-travelling, crowded Praise for The Faber Book of Exploration: storyworld. about And therelosing is and a value finding in connecting yourself; about with worldsthe certaintyunfamiliar of to change, us, some and of the whom mistakes have livedhumans in harmony,are not ‘Immaculately edited and shrewdly doomedcompetition, to repeat. with natureAnd about for generations. the lifetimes it can take to considered . . . a hugely readable learn how to live. compendium’ Independent on Sunday We explore not to plant a flag, or leave a mark, but to open ‘A monumental feat of compilation and up‘A wonderfullyand allow the funny, place gripping and people and to inventive leave their novel’ mark on us. The Times editing, and will satisfy every armchair traveller’ Literary Review ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a ‘A generous, handsome volume, that will writer to cherish,Click here and The to watch Humans Benedict is undoubtedly talk abouthis magnum Exploreropus’ Guardian provide hours upon hours of absorption and revelation’ The Times ‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: March 2021 BENEDICT ALLEN is an explorer, and a former member of Council and Trustee of the Rights Held: World Royal Geographical Society, Patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation, The Tony Other Rights: Victoria Foundation and Save the Rhino Trust. He is the editor of The Faber Book of Exploration. Hobbs, A M Heath @benedictallen | benedictallen.comMatt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Extent: 288 pages young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

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He lives in London. 46 @MrMichaelSpicer | michaelspicer.co.uk 46 Rob Sears CHOOSE YOUR OWN APOCALYPSE, WITH KIM JONG-UN & FRIENDS There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of global doom, YOU decide how humanity perishes.Will we be turned to grey goo by Elon Musk’s nanobots? Driven collectively insane by Russia’s most potent memes? Or smashed to atoms by someone sitting on the wrong button in North Korea? In this book, YOU will meet the leaders with the future of civilisation in their hands. And YOUR wits and judgement will decide how we all inevitably die. Or then again, maybe, just maybe, with a little positive thinking, YOU will find a way to keep us all safe long enough to expire of old age and global warming instead. Just don’t get too hopeful. On every page of Choose Your Own Apocalypse, with Kim Jong- un & Friends, the end of your choice is most definitely nigh. VLADIMIR PUTIN: LIFE COACH What can the rise and reign of this century’s most feared politician teach us about life, work and love? Rob Sears shows how the machinations that enabled Putin to dominate the Kremlin and undermine the United States of America could also help you take control of your mundane life. Filled with stories from Putin’s extraordinary time in power, and ideas and illustrations to help you em- ulate him on a small scale, Vladimir Putin: Life Coach is the ultimate guide to releasing the pseudo-elected, judo black belt, 5D chess-playing autocrat inside each and every one of us. Praise for The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump: ‘A triumph’ Telegraph

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ROB SEARS has written comedy and fiction for McSweeney’s and is the author of the hit humour titles The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Life Coach. He 47 lives in Finsbury Park with his wife Grace. 47 COMING UNDONE A Memoir Terri White To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio’s Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her. 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As the presenter Poland (Czarna Owca), Romania (Baroque of All in the Mind she is BBC Radio 4’s voice of psychology and mental health. Books and Arts), Russia (Gayatri), Taiwan @claudiahammond | claudiahammond.com (Business Weekly), Thailand (B2S), Ukraine Backlist: Time Warped, Mind Over Money (Yakaboo), Vietnam (Stylory) 48 Other Rights: Will Francis, Janklow & Nesbit Extent: 304 pages STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES HOWMaking Meaning in aTO Meaningless STOP Universe TIME Richard Holloway MattThroughoutThe new life-affirming history we Haignovelhave toldfrom ourselvesthe number stories one to try and make sensebestselling of what author it all ofmeans: Reasons our toplace Stay in Alive a small and corner The of one of billionsHumans of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingto the biggest of love. of questionsBecause otherwise, are. He of course,examines you slowly what lose we your know about mindthe universe . . .’ into which – without any choice in the matter – we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the Tomstories Hazard we have has told a dangerous about where secret. we comeHe may from, look and the stories we liketell toan get ordinary through 41-year-old, this muddling but he experience was born of in life. 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. 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A former Gresham Professor andof Divinity witch and hunts Chairman as if he’d of the never Joint witnessedBoard of the them Scottish first- Arts Council and Scottish Screen, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Leaving Alexandria won the PEN/Ackerley Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. His most recent book, Waitinghand. for He the canLast Bus try, wasand a tameSunday Timesthe pastbestseller. that is fast catching Backlist:up with him.On Forgiveness, The only Doubts thing and Loves, Tom Looking mustn’t in the Distance, do is fallLeaving in Alexandria, Waiting for the Last Bus love. THEHow to Stop OAK Time is a wild, PAPERS bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomedJames to repeat. CantonAnd about the lifetimes it can take to learnJames how Canton to live. spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when‘A wonderfully the Magna funny, Carta gripping was signed. and inventiveInevitably novel’ he needs to slow downThe Times in order to appreciate it fully, to tune in to its slower time frame, to connect with the ecosystem that lives around it, inside it‘A andmasterpiece beneath it.. . He. Matt examines Haig is our a supreme long-standing talent anddependency a on thewriter oak, to andcherish, how andthat The has developedHumans is and undoubtedly morphed intohis myth and legend.magnum The opus’ Oak Guardian Papers is a stunning, meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we ‘Extraordinary’ Independent slow down enough to listen.

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HOWSTRANGER TO THAN STOP KINDNESS TIME Nick Cave A Sunday Times bestseller This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost MattcoreThe newof the life-affirming creative process Haignovel and from paves the the number way for one an entirely new andbestselling intimate author meeting of Reasons with the to artist, Stay presentingAlive and The Cave’s life, work and inspirationHumans and exploring his many real and imagined universes. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingcommentary of love.and Because meditations otherwise, from of course, Nick you Cave, slowly Janine lose your Barrand and mindDarcey . . .’ Steinke. 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His themrecent first-Conversations events (HarperCollins) Other Rights: Suzi Goodrich, ATC hand.and Red He Hand can Files try andwebsite tame have the seen past Cave that exploring is fast deeper catching and more direct relationships with his fans. Management upBacklist: with him.The Sick The Bag Song, only The thing Death ofTom Bunny mustn’t Munro do is fall in Extent: 276 pages love. HowA LONGto Stop Time is a wild,STRIDE bittersweet, time-travelling, storyThe Storyabout losing of the and World's finding yourself; No.1 Scotchabout the Whisky certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learnNicholas how to live. Morgan The history of Johnnie Walker, beginning in 1820, is also the history ‘Aof wonderfullyScotch whisky. funny, But gripping who was and John inventive Walker –novel’ the man who started Thethe story? Times And how did his business grow from the shelves of a small grocery shop in Kilmarnock to become the world’s No. 1 Scotch? ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writerA Long to Stride cherish, tells and the Thestory Humans of how Johnis undoubtedly Walker and his a succession of magnumingenious opus’ and progressive Guardian business leaders embraced their Scottish roots to walk confidently on an international stage. Ultimately the ‘Extraordinary’story is a testament Independent to how an obsession with quality and a relentless drive to always move forward created the most recognised Scotch whisky brand in the world. Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and NICHOLAS MORGAN is Head of Whisky Outreach, taskedThe Humans with reinvigorating and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and heritage blends, including Johnnie Walker. He is the winneryoung of adults an Outstanding he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Achievement in Scotch Whisky Award. His work has earnedand been him shortlisted a place on three the timesUK for Publication:the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trustee board, further supportingtranslated into excellence 30 languages. in October 2020 British Craftsmanship. Nicholas was made the forty-eighth inductee into the Rights Held: World Whisky Hall of Fame in March 2018. He lives in London. Other Rights: Diageo 50 50 Extent: 336pages HOWBE MY GUEST TO STOP TIME Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity Priya Basil MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Thebestselling dinner author table, ofamong Reasons friends, to Stay is whereAlive theand bestThe conversations take place Humans – talk about the world, religion, politics, culture, love and cooking. In the Thesame first way, rule Be is thatMy youGuest don’t is fall a conversationin love. There are about other rulesall these too, things, mediated butthrough that is the main sharing one. Noof food.falling inWe love. live No in staying a world in love. where No some have too much daydreamingand others ofnot love. enough, Because otherwise,where migrants of course, youand slowly refugees lose your are both welcomed and mindvilified, . . .’ and where most of us spend less and less time cooking and eating together. Priya Basil explores the meaning and limits of hospitality today, and inTom doing Hazard so she has invites a dangerous us to consider secret. Hethat may how look much we have in common maylike an depend ordinary on what41-year-old, we are willingbut he wasto share. born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From‘A powerful Shakespeare’s meditation England on hospitality to jazz age .Paris . . Packed and with such brilliance’ UK Publication: October 2019 Observer, Best Food Book of the Year Rights Held: World excl. voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves Germany (Suhrkamp) anPRIYA ordinary BASIL life. was born in London to a family with Indian roots and grew up in Kenya. Rights Sold: France (Delcourt), She is a novelist and essay-writer whose work has been nominated for the Commonwealth Italy (Il Saggiatore), Spain Writers’ Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now (Plataforma), US (Knopf) Award. She is the co-founder of Authors for Peace, a political platform for writers and Other Rights: Nora Mercurio, hasartists. the She perfect lives in cover Berlin. - working as a history teacher at a Suhrkamp Londonpriyabasil.com school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- Extent: 128 pages hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in RADICALlove. ACTS OF LOVE How We Find Hope at the End of Life How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, Janiestory about losing Brown and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomedIn Radical to Acts repeat. of Love And, Janie about Brown, the lifetimes oncology it can nurse take of to 30 years and learncounsellor how toof live. cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying, including those personally close to ‘Aher. wonderfully Each conversation funny, gripping uncovers and a differentinventive perspective novel’ and experience of Thedeath, Times while at the same time exploring its universalities. As well as offering an extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown ‘Aoffers masterpiece practical .ways . . 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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. THEFrom OUTRUN Shakespeare’s by Amy England Liptrot to jazz age Paris and Thevoyaging Sunday the Times Pacific, runaway Tombestseller has seen– an exhilaratinga lot, and now nature craves memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney Rights Sold: China (Beijing Land of Wisdom Books), Finland (Viisas Elämä Oy), France (GLOBE), Georgia (Klio), Germany (btb),an ordinary Korea (KL life. Publishing Inc.), Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos), Poland (Marginesy), Romania (Black Button Books), Russia (Ad Marginem Press), Spain (Volcano Libros), Sweden (Albert Bonniers), Taiwan (Ecus), US (Norton) AAlways SHORT changing HISTORY his OFidentity MYTH to bystay Karen alive, TomArmstrong now Ahas ‘visionary the perfect . . . crisp cover and - workinglucid exploration as a history of myth-making’ teacher at aDavid Mitchell RightsLondon Sold: school. Australia Here, (Text), he canAzerbaijan teach (Europeanthe kids about Azerbaijan wars Society), Canada (Knopf), French Canada (Boréal), China (Chongqing), France (Flammarion), Korea (Munhakdonge), Spain (Siruela), Taiwan (Business Weekly), US (Grove Atlantic) and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- THE ARTIST'S JOURNEY: ON MAKING ART AND BEING AN ARTIST by Kent Nerburn Guidancehand. He and can wisdom try and for tame young the artists, past thatfrom is award-winningfast catching artist and writer Kent Nerburn upCONSOLATIONS: with him. The only THE thing SOLACE, Tom NOURISHMENTmustn’t do is fall inAND UNDERLYING MEANING OF EVERYDAY love.WORDS David Whyte explores the underlying meaning of 52 ordinary words, with an introduction by Maria Popova HowRights to Sold: Stop China Time (Beijing is a wild, Green bittersweet, Beans Book time-travelling,Co. Ltd.), Italy (TEA), Korea (Catholic Publishing House), Norway (Cappelen storyDamm), about Spain losing (Koan and Libros), finding Taiwan yourself; (ACME) about the A SHORT HISTORY OF PROGRESS by Ronald Wright Inspiringcertainty aof documentary change, and featuring the mistakes Margaret humans Atwood, are Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall, A Short History of Progress examinesdoomed theto repeat.downside And of human about advancementthe lifetimes it can take to Rightslearn how Sold: to China live. (Beijing Times), Taiwan (Ye-Ren) MY NAME IS WHY by Lemn Sissay ‘AThe wonderfully Number One funny, Sunday gripping Times Bestseller and .inventive A memoir novel’ with a message – about growing up in care and finding hope, Thedetermination Times and creativity – from British poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay Rights Sold: Mozambique (Editora Trinta Zero Nove) ‘AREASONS masterpiece TO STAY. . . Matt ALIVE Haig by is Matt a supreme Haig talent and a The Number One Bestseller – warm, witty, honest and human, a manifesto for staying alive, whatever your demons writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his Rights Sold: Arabic Worldwide (Kalemat), Argentina (Planeta), Azerbaijan (The European Azerbaijan Society), Brazil magnum(Intrinseca), opus’ Bulgaria Guardian (Intense/Locus), Canada (HarperCollins), China (Post Wave Publishing Consulting), Croatia (Mozaik Knjiga), Czech Republic (Dobrovsky), Denmark (Tiderne Skifter), Estonia (Varrak), Finland (Viisas Elämä Oy), France ‘Extraordinary’(Philippe Rey), Germany Independent (DTV), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Libri Könyvkiadó), India (Manjul), Indonesia (PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama), Iran (Elmi-Farhangi), Israel (Matar), Italy (E/O), Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (KPI), Latvia (Zvaigzne ABC), Lithuania (Sofoklis), Netherlands (Lebowski), Norway (Libretto), Poland (Sonia Draga), Portugal (Porto), Romania (Nemira), Russia (Eksmo), Slovak Republic (Premedia), Slovenia (Ucila), Spain Catalan (Empuries), Sweden (Massolit), Taiwan Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and (CommonWealth), Ukraine (RANOK), US (Penguin), Vietnam (Bloom Books) The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and THE LIVING MOUNTAIN by Nan Shepherd young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize A masterpiece of nature writing introduced by Robertand Macfarlane been shortlisted and with three an times afterword for the Carnegie by Jeanette Medal. Winterson His work has been Rights Sold: China (ThinKingDom), Denmark (A Mocktranslated Book), intoFrance 30 (Christianlanguages. Bourgois), Germany (Matthes & Seitz), Italy (Ponte alle Grazie), Korea (Tindrum), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Poland (Zysk), Slovenia (UMco), Spain (Errata Naturae), Spain Catalan (Sidilla), Taiwan (ThinKingDom), Turkey (Kolektif) 52 52 RECENT ACQUISITIONS & FORTHCOMING HOW TOPUBLICATIONS STOP TIME FICTION

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