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Highlights London Book Fair 2016 Highlights Highlights London Book Fair 2016 Highlights Welcome to our 2016 International Book Rights Highlights For more information please go to our website to browse our shelves and find out more about what we do and who we represent. Contents Fiction Literary and Upmarket Fiction 1 - 7 Crime and Thrillers 8 - 13 Commercial Fiction 14 - 24 Non-Fiction Anthropology and History 25 - 29 Essays, Biography and Memoirs 30 - 35 Natural World 36 - 38 Roald Dahl Centenary 39 James Herriot Centenary 40 2016 Highlights 41 Sub-Agents 42 Agents US Rights: Veronique Baxter; Toby Eady; Georgia Glover; Anthony Goff (AG); Andrew Gordon (AMG); Lizzy Kremer; Caroline Walsh; Alice Williams; Jessica Woollard Film & TV Rights: Nicky Lund; Georgina Ruffhead Translation Rights: Alice Howe: [email protected] Direct: Brazil; France; Germany; Netherlands Sub-agented: Italy Emma Jamison: [email protected] Direct: Arabic; Croatia; Estonia; Greece; Israel; Latvia; Lithuania; Portugal; Scandinavia; Slovenia; Spain and Spanish in Latin America; Ukraine Sub-agented: Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Romania; Russia; Slovakia; Turkey Emily Randle: [email protected] Direct: Afrikaans; Georgian; all Indian languages; Vietnam; Wales; plus miscellaneous requests Sub-agented: China; Bulgaria; Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Serbia; Taiwan; Thailand Camilla Dubini: [email protected] Audio rights: all territories Contact t: +44 (0)20 7434 5900 f: +44 (0)20 7437 1072 www.davidhigham.co.uk The Power Naomi Alderman An impressive and original novel investigating the roots of power and how sometimes it only takes a spark to ignite the greatest challenges in society A girl in the deep South overcomes her abuser. A Nigerian man films a woman fighting back in a supermarket. The daughter of an East London criminal watches as her mother is murdered. A Senator in New England struggles to protect her daughter. As this extraordinary and devastating new power sparks across the globe, the changing current of day-to-day life is documented through the eyes of these four people as tensions built by centuries of imbalance threaten to engulf them all. What if women had the Power? UK: Penguin (Viking) – November 2016 UK Editor: Mary Mount US Rights: Little,Brown - September Naomi Alderman’s first novel,Disobedience, was published 2017 US Editor: Asya Mushnik in ten languages; it won the Orange Award for New Writers. Translation Rights: DHA Her second, The Lessons, was published by Penguin in April Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) 2010, and her third, The Liars’ Gospel, in 2012. All three books featured on the BBC’s Book at Bedtime. In 2007, Rights sold: she was named The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Spanish - Roca Editorial and one of Waterstones’ 25 Writers for the Future. She was Additional Info: also one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2012. Extent - TBC Illustrations - YES, line drawings Praise for Naomi Alderman: commissioned by author Material Available - Edited manuscript; final edited manuscript The Power feature in lists of literary fiction highlights for ready due April 2016 2016 including the Guardian, the Evening Standard and the New Statesman. All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘A remarkable achievement.’ - The Observer (on The Liar’s Gospel) Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media ‘Written in a characteristically vivid and sensuous style ... Japanese - English Agency Japan a fluent and powerful writer.’ - The Sunday Times (on The Liar’s Gospel) ‘This is a very visceral novel, filled with historical detail, clamouring egos, fears, manipulations, the instinct for survival, disjuncts and mis-told tales. Expect to be sucked in. Superb.’ - The Daily Mail (on The Liar’s Gospel) ‘Ambitious, genius.’ - Guardian (on The Liar’s Gospel) Literary and Upmarket Fiction 1 An Unsafe Haven Nada Awar Jarrar Imagine trying to live a normal life in a world which changes daily and where nothing is certain… Set in contemporary Beirut, An Unsafe Haven is a rich, illuminating and deeply moving novel about a group of friends whose lives are shaped and affected daily by the war in Syria. Hannah has deep roots in Beirut, the city of her birth and of her family. Her American husband, Peter, has certainty only in her. They thought that they were used to the upheavals in Lebanon, but as the war in neighbouring Syria enters its fifth year, the region’s increasingly fragile state begins to impact on their lives in wholly different ways. An incident in a busy street brings them into direct contact with UK: The Borough Press - 25th August a Syrian refugee and her son. As they work to reunite Fatima 2016 with her family, her story forces Hannah to face the crisis of the UK Editor: Cassie Browne expanding refugee camps, and to question the very future of US Rights: DHA (TE) her homeland. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) And when their close friend Anas, an artist, arrives to open his exhibition, shocking news from his home in Damascus raises Additional Info: uncomfortable questions about his loyalty to his family and his Extent - 400 pages Illustrations - NO country. Material Available - Copyedited manuscript Heartrending and beautifully written, this is a universal story of people whose lives are tested and transformed, as they wrestle with the anguish of war, displacement and loss, but also with Subagents: the vital need for hope. Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Nada Awar Jarrar was born in Lebanon to an Australian mother and a Lebanese father. She has lived in London, Paris, Sydney and Washington DC and is currently based in Beirut where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and Lebanon’s English language newspaper, The Daily Star. Her first novel,Somewhere, Home won the Commonwealth Best First Book award for Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. Praise for Nada Awar Jarrar: ‘A picture of lyrical simplicity … her style is subtle and leaves the reader with an urge to find out more about the places and people she has created.’ - Observer (on Somewhere, Home) ‘It’s an intense encounter with a mysterious and complicated place. Jarrar’s movement between tenses and time zones serves to convince the reader that past and present cannot be separated…’ - Time Out (on A Good Land) Literary and Upmarket Fiction 2 Inch Levels Neil Hegarty A portrait of loyalty and disloyalty, love and possible redemption that is by turns lyrical, tense and deeply moving It’s 1983 and a child vanishes as she cycles home from school in rural Ireland. Later, her remains are found in shallow water at Inch Levels, but her killer is never discovered. Another unspeakable, unsolved mystery. But Patrick Jackson knows who killed her. And now, as he lies dying in a hospice bed and looks back on his life cut short, Patrick knows that he too has acquiesced silently in the crime and he senses that this is one element in a long- established family pattern of guilt, secrecy and grief. For, as Patrick is bent beneath a weight of dreadful knowledge, so too is his beloved sister Margaret – and so has the happiness of his troubled mother Sarah been destroyed through knowledge UK: Head of Zeus - 11th August 2016 of a trauma which took place decades previously. UK Editor: Neil Belton US Rights: DHA (VB) Taking us from quiet suburb and shingled Irish seashore to the Translation Rights: DHA shabby bedsits of 1970s London and further back in time to Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) an Ireland electrified and divided by the Second World War, Hegarty meshes together distant lives and demonstrates the Additional Info: power of the past and of silence to shape the destinies of future Extent - TBC generations. Illustrations - NO Material Available - Edited manuscript Neil Hegarty was born in Derry, Northern Ireland and received his BA and PhD degrees in English from Trinity College Dublin. Subagents: He has published five non-fiction titles: The Secret History of our Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Streets (BBC Books, 2012); the bestselling Story of Ireland (BBC Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Books, 2011; with a US edition, 2012); Dublin: A View from the Ground (Piatkus, 2007); Waking Up in Dublin (Sanctuary, 2004) and most recently the authorised biography of David Frost, That Was the Life That Was, for Random House. Literary and Upmarket Fiction 3 Beast Paul Kingsnorth Beast continues the loose Buccmaster Trilogy, which began with the acclaimed and prize-winning novel, The Wake Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on a west country moor in search of enlightenment. What he has left behind we don’t yet know, but will discover; what he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and with something he begins to see on the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession. This short, shocking, exhilarating novel confirms Paul Kingsnorth as one of the most daring and rewarding English novelists writing in the Modernist tradition of Ted Hughes and William Golding. UK: Faber and Faber - May 2016 Paul Kingsnorth’s debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon UK Editor: Lee Brackstone Burn Prize, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Folio US Rights: Graywolf Press - Spring 2017 Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the US Editor: Ethan Nosowsky Goldsmiths Prize. He is also the author of two non-fiction books, Translation Rights: DHA One No, Many Yeses and Real England, and a poetry collection, Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Kidland. He co-founded the Dark Mountain Project, a global network of writers, artists and thinkers in search of new stories for Additional Info: a world on the brink.
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