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TRANSLATION RIGHTS LIST FICTION London Book Fair 2017 General ......................................................... p.2 Commercial ............................................... p.10 Crime, Mystery & Thriller ............................ p.14 Young Adult ................................................ p.21 Science Fiction & Fantasy ....................... p.22 ANDY HINE Rights Director (for Brazil, Germany, Italy, Poland, Scandinavia, Latin America and the Baltic States) [email protected] KATE HIBBERT Rights Director (for the USA, Spain, Portugal, Far East and the Netherlands) [email protected] SARAH BIRDSEY Rights Manager (for France, Turkey, Arab States, Israel, Greece, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Macedonia) [email protected] JOE DOWLEY Rights Assistant [email protected] Little, Brown Book Group Ltd Carmelite House 50 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DZ Tel: +44 020 3122 6209 Rights sold displayed in parentheses indicates that we do not control the rights * Indicates new title since previous Rights list Titles in italics were not published by Little, Brown Book Group GENERAL * CLOSING DOWN by Sally Abbott Contemporary fiction | Hachette Australia | 288pp | April 2017 A glimpse into a world fractured by a financial crisis and global climate change No matter how strange, difficult and absurd the world becomes, some things never change. The importance of home. Of love. Of kindness to strangers. Of memories and dreams. Australia's rural towns and communities are closing down, much of Australia is being sold to overseas interests, states and countries and regions are being realigned worldwide. Town matriarch Granna Adams, her grandson Roberto, the lonely and thoughtful Clare - all try in their own way to hold on to their sense of self, even as the world around them fractures. What would you do if all you held to be familiar was lost? More importantly, where do you belong? Sally Abbott is a former journalist and a PR Director who lives in Melbourne with her partner. She was the inaugural winner of The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2015. CLOSING DOWN is her first novel. THE LITTLE CAFÉ OF SECOND CHANCES by J.D. Barrett Contemporary fiction | 336pp | Piatkus | February 2017| Korea: KCC | Japan: Uni A surprising, smart, charming novel that shows every day is a second chance Lucy Muir is leaving her husband. It's complicated. They're joint owners and chefs at one of the best restaurants in town, so making a clean break is tough. Despondently driving around the back streets of Woolloomooloo one night, Lucy happens upon an old, empty terrace that was once the city's hottest restaurant: Fortune. When Lucy fires up Fortune's old kitchen she discovers a little red recipe book that belonged to the former chef, the infamous Frankie Summers. It's strange, Lucy can sense Frankie beside her, almost see him there. This fiery chef, who lived with a passion for food and women in almost equal measure, just might help Lucy cook herself up a better life. J.D. Barrett is an Australian television writer and producer with a passion for good food and creating great meals. She has worked on the writing teams for LOVE MY WAY, EAST OF EVERYTHING, BED OF ROSES and WONDERLAND and worked as a writer/producer on THE STORY OF AUSTRALIA. THE LITTLE CAFÉ OF SECOND CHANCES is Barrett’s debut novel. Bulgarian rights Hermes German rights Blanvalet Hungarian rights Libri Polish rights Foksal Spanish rights Urano * THE SONG OF US by J.D. Barrett Contemporary fiction | 336pp | Hachette Australia | April 2017 If Bridget Jones had a sister, she would be Zoe Wylde Zoe Wylde is a woman at the crossroads. Five years ago, she fled her successful career as a concert harpist in London to return to her Bondi home. She still plays, but now her audience is on the way out ... literally. It's complicated and complication is something Zoe understands well. Her best friend is chasing a new love, her brother's chasing too much love and her father has been married far too many times. Compared to them she thought she was doing okay. She’s met the guy she is sure is the ONE. He wooed her and has been sleeping with her for almost five years. It would all be perfect ... if he wasn't married. Zoe is over the old tune. She’s learning that hearts, like harps, can be tricky to manoeuvre, but are capable of beautiful music if treated the right way. Does Zoe have the courage to rewrite the song of her own life? 2 THE BOY ON THE BRIDGE by M. R. Carey Science Fiction | 400pp | Orbit | May 2017 M. R. Carey returns to the world of his phenomenal word-of-mouth bestseller, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS, for the first time Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. M. R. Carey is a pen name for an established British writer of prose fiction and comic books. He has written for both DC and Marvel, including critically acclaimed runs on X- Men and Fantastic Four, Marvel's flagship superhero titles. His creator-owned books regularly appear in the New York Times graphic fiction bestseller list. He has several previous novels, including THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS and FELLSIDE, and one Hollywood movie screenplay to his credit. Option publishers: Bulgarian (Art Line Studios), Chinese complex (Faces Publication), Chinese simplified (Phoenix Power), Croatian (Znanje), Czech (Host), Dutch (AW Bruna), Finnish (Like Kustannus), French (L’Atalante), German (Droemer Knaur), Hebrew (Yaniiv), Hungarian (Kossuth), Icelandic (Bokabeitan), Indonesian (Mizan), Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha), Korean (EunHaeng Numu), Norwegian (Schibsted), Parsi (Behdad), Polish (Otwarte), Portuguese (Penguin Random House), Portuguese in Brazil (Editora Rocco), Romanian (Nemira), Russian (EKSMO), Serbian (Vulkan), Slovene (UCILA), Spanish (Planeta), Thai (Earnest Publishing), Turkish (Pegasus), Vietnamese (Kim Dong). Italian rights Newton Compton Swedish rights Ordfront US rights Orbit THE LIE OF THE LAND by Amanda Craig Contemporary fiction | 432pp | Little, Brown | June 2017 | Korea: Duran Kim | Japan: A funny, moving and brilliantly characterised novel about what happens when the cosmopolitan dream goes sour There is no money and the Bredins can’t afford to divorce. Lottie and Quentin have fallen drastically out of love with each other, mainly thanks to his serial infidelities. To make matters worse, each of them has lost their jobs. Their only course of action is to stick together, move to a remote house in rural Devon with their three children, and rent their London property. But while the couple fight and bicker, and their teenage son tries to adjust on an assembly line in the local food factory, dark secrets begin to emerge about the previous occupant of their new home. Like a British Anne Tyler, Amanda Craig has written a brilliant and moving novel about the way we live now. Praise: ‘I loved the The Lie of the Land. A panoramic, superbly-plotted novel about the ways we live now, about money and desire, cruelty and generosity, crime and vengeance, country and city. Craig is at the top of her game in the sweep of her storytelling, the richness of her characters, her black comedy, irony and commitment’ – Helen Dunmore, author of A Spell of Winter. Amanda Craig is a well-known journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of A PRIVATE PLACE, A VICIOUS CIRCLE and IN A DARK WOOD. 3 LISTENING IN by Jenny Eclair Contemporary Fiction | Sphere | 256pp | June 2017 An addictive short story collection by Sunday Times bestseller Jenny Eclair In this short story collection, twenty very different women reach a pivotal moment in their lives. A widow is liberated by a new job, but keeps it secret from her family. A date in suburbia has dramatic results. A seamstress takes revenge on an unsuspecting customer, while in France, a mother is promised 'fantastic news' - and lets her imagination run away with her. With each story, Jenny Eclair introduces a fascinating new character. And behind each woman lies a gripping tale - of betrayal, of love, of hope and defiance. Funny, heart-breaking, inspiring - and packed with wicked one liners - this wonderful collection shows Jenny Eclair's exceptional talent for observation at its very best. Jenny Eclair is the author of four critically acclaimed novels: CAMBERWELL BEAUTY; HAVING A LOVELY TIME; LIFE, DEATH AND VANILLA SLICES and MOVING. One of the UK's most popular writer/performers, she was the first woman to win the prestigious Perrier Award and has many TV and radio credits to her name. She lives in South-East London. Option publishers: German (Bastei Luebbe), Italian (Sperling), Polish (Foksal), Turkish (Altin Kitaplar). SPLASH! by Stephen Glover Contemporary Fiction | Constable | 320pp | June 2017 A satire of the Press and politics in a modern London, by the co-founder of The Independent Sam Blunt is a drunken, broken-down tabloid reporter, working for a once-mighty newspaper struggling to come to terms with the digital age. With the assistance of Benedict, an earnest though clever wet-behind- the-ears young intern on the paper, Sam grapples to uncover the story of the century which reveals the political corruption and cynicism at the heart of a rotten Establishment. As they try to nail the story amid a series of capers, Sam and Benedict are frustrated by the self-serving proprietor of the Daily Bugle, various self- appointed do-gooders who want to rein in the Press, and Trevor Yapp, the malign and untrustworthy editor of Bugle Online. Yet however self-serving newspapers may sometimes be, Sam and Benedict are ultimately on the side of the angels as they battle to write their triumphant story.