Highlights London Book Fair 2016 Highlights
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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
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US Rights: Veronique Baxter; Toby Eady; Georgia Glover; Anthony Goff (AG); Andrew Gordon (AMG); Lizzy Kremer; Caroline Walsh; Alice Williams; Jessica Woollard
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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. Extent - 208 pages Illustrations - No Material Available - Page proofs As well as Paul’s next novel, Faber will also publish his next non- fiction book,The Meadow and the Machine, an explanation of Subagents: the consequences of our accelerating age of technology and Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg its ecological collapse as he works a small holding in Ireland, his Japanese - Tuttle-Mori new home.
Praise for The Wake:
‘Extraordinary.’ - Philip Pullman
‘A resonant, eloquent ballad of English identity, pride and fierce independence. It is a thrilling story. Read it out loud. It is like nothing else.’ - Mark Rylance
‘The Wake is a masterpiece. My top book of the year.’ - Eleanor Catton
‘As beautiful as it is riveting.’ - Eimear McBride, New Statesman
‘A literary triumph.’ - Guardian
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 4 Alexander McCall Smith
My Italian Bulldozer A romantic comedy set in idyllic Tuscany – with added bulldozers When food and travel writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his book, it seems like the perfect escape from the stressful ending of a love affair. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hire car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available, it looks like Paul is stuck at the airport. That is, until an enterprising stranger offers him an unexpected alternative: a bulldozer. With little choice in the matter, Paul accepts and so begins a series of laugh out loud adventures through the Italian countryside, following in the wake of Paul and his Italian Bulldozer. A story Italian Bulldozer of unexpected circumstance and a lesson in making the best UK: Polygon/Birlinn - May 2016 of what you have, My Italian Bulldozer is a warm holiday read UK Editor: Neville Moir guaranteed to put a smile on your face. US Rights: Pantheon/ Anchor - TBC US Editor: Edward Kastenmeier The Bertie Project Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) The latest from 44 Scotland Street Additional Info: A chance encounter with Armistead Maupin inspired Alexander Extent - 240 pages McCall Smith to write his serial novel about the residents of 44 Illustrations - No Material Available - Final files Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. With its multiple-occupancy flats, 44 Scotland Street is an interesting corner of the city; a very Edinburgh mix of Bohemians, haute bourgeoisie, students and the more colourful members of the intelligentsia. In this latest episode, Bruce has a new Australian girlfriend who is 6ft tall and into extreme sports – will Bruce survive? And Irene, Bertie’s mother, back home after a long sojourn in a remote desert harem, is busy finding fault with the care provided by her mother-in-law during her absence. The battle lines are soon drawn…
Praise for Scotland Street series: ‘Delightful…Sweet…Graceful…Wonderful…gentle but powerfully The Bertie Project addicting fiction’ - Entertainment Weekly UK: Polygon/Birlinn - August 2016 UK Editor: Neville Moir ‘Smith’s characters are so deftly drawn that you feel you know them US Rights: Anchor Books - February intimately after a couple of appearances’ - The Times 2017 US Editor: Edward Kastenmeier ‘A joyous, charming portrait of city life and human foibles’ Translation Rights: DHA - Sunday Express Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) All Titles and Previous Publishers Additional Info: Extent - 330 pages Subagents: Illustrations - b/w by Iain McIntosh Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg; Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Material Available - Unedited manuscript due March 2016 Literary and Upmarket Fiction 5 Augustown
Kei Miller
A powerful novel about the struggle to rise above poverty, injustice and oppression
Augustown, Jamaica is named from the fact that freedom came to the enslaved people of that country on ‘Augus Mawnin’ – 1st August, 1838. It later became notable when a prophet, whose name was Bedward, arose, proclaiming that he was God and could fly.
When Kaia comes home from school one day with his dreadlocks shorn off by a teacher, old Ma Taffy has reason to fear that his mother Gina will take it badly. Even more dangerous than a rudeboy with a gun and a gang is a mother with a deep anger inside her.
UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson - 14th While they await Gina’s return, Ma Taffy, her own dreadlocks July 2016 wound tight in a yellow and green turban, recalls the story of UK Editor: Kirsty Dunseath the flying preacherman, and a great thing that did not happen US: Knopf - March 2017 in Augustown many years ago. US Editor: Erroll McDonald Translation Rights: DHA Meanwhile, Gina is bringing news to her family too that day Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) – a life-changing letter that could lift her and Kaia out of the ghetto… Additional Info: Extent - 240 pages Illustrations - NO Material Available - Edited Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet and novelist. He teaches creative manuscript, proofs due March 2016 writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2014, his poetry collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion was Rights Sold for The Last Warner shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and won the prestigious Woman: Forward Prize for Best Collection. His collection of stories, The French - Editions Zulma Fear of Stones, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Polish - Swiat Ksiazki Prize for Best First Book. Augustown is his third novel.
Subagents: Praise for Kei Miller: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - English Agency Japan ‘This is a deceptive spellbinder, a metafiction so disguised as old-time storytelling that you can almost hear the crackle of home fire as it starts. But then it gets you with twists and turns, seduces and shocks you even as it wrestles with the very nature of storytelling itself.’ - Marlon James (on The Last Warner Woman)
‘…combines the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy, to create an island saga richly brocaded in folklore and West Indian culture.’ – The Independent (on The Same Earth)
‘A novel for those who are prepared to be teased, willing to roll their tongues around colourful patois and willing to suspend disbelief, relinquishing their need for things to turn out as they ought to, in exchange for exploring things as they might be. ’ – Scotland on Sunday (on The Same Earth) Literary and Upmarket Fiction 6 The Constant Soldier
William Ryan Secrets, guilt and desperation fester as war and judgement come ever closer
A German soldier finally makes it back home from the Eastern Front. Disabled and disillusioned, returning to a remote mountain village suffering the deprivations of being on what looks increasingly like the losing side, it is hardly a hero’s welcome.
With the war still on, despite his injuries he finds a job as a servant at a grand ski lodge, the Sola Hut. A place where officers from a nearby concentration camp come for weekends to get drunk, to relax, to forget. A place, it transpires, where the other servants are prisoners.
As the artillery fire from the approaching Soviet army grows ever UK: Pan Macmillan – 28th August louder, the Sola Hut is used less and less. But some remain: some 2016 guilty, some innocent, all of them wondering how to survive – UK Editor: Maria Rejt either the coming onslaught, or each other. US Rights: George Lucas (Inkwell) Translation Rights: DHA Atmospheric and haunting, this is a standalone thriller that Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) unfurls its dark secrets to gripping effect.
Additional Info: William Ryan is the author of the acclaimed series featuring Extent - 288 pages Illustrations - NO Alexei Korolev, a detective working for the Moscow Criminal Material Available - copyedited Investigation Division in 1930s Russia. The Holy Thief was a finalist manuscript for the 2010 Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction All Titles and Previous Publishers Award and the 2011 Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. William’s books have been translated into over a dozen languages. Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Praise for William Ryan: Japanese - English Agency Japan ‘Ryan writes with narrative drive and urgency, a good sense of place and a central character who is conflicted, moral and above all likeable: whodunnit heaven.’ – Times Literary Supplement (on The Holy Thief)
‘Both thrillerishly pacey while also allowing his characters to grow in moral stature.’– Spectator (on The Bloody Meadow)
‘Among the very best crime novelists working in a period setting… the balance of pungent period details and increasingly tense plotting are handled with total authority.’ – Daily Express (on The Twelfth Department)
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 7 Kill Me Again
Rachel Abbott • UK’s #1 independent best-selling author ever, Amazon • UK’s #14 overall bestselling author of all time, Amazon Kindle • Rachel Abbott’s overall sales have now reached 2 million!
When your life is a lie, who can you trust?
When Maggie Taylor accepts a new job in Manchester, she is sure it is the right move for her family. The children have settled well although her husband, Duncan, doesn’t appear to be so convinced.
But nothing prepares her for the shock of coming home from work one night to find that Duncan has disappeared, leaving their young children alone. His phone is dead, and she has no UK: Black Dot Publishing (via KDP) - idea where he has gone, or why. And then she discovers she’s 17th February 2016 UK Editor: N/A not the only one looking for him. US Rights: Michelle Brower (Kuhn Projects) When a woman who looks just like Maggie is brutally murdered Translation Rights: DHA and DCI Tom Douglas is brought in to investigate, Maggie Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) realises how little she knows about Duncan’s past. Is he the man she loves? Who is he running from? Rights Sold: Czech - Mlada Fronta She doesn’t have long to decide whether to trust him or betray Polish - Filia him. Because one thing has been made clear to Maggie – another woman will die soon, and it might be her. Additional Info: Extent - 369 pages Illustrations - NO Rachel Abbott’s debut thriller, Only the Innocent, was an Material Available - Final files international bestseller, reaching the number one position in the Amazon charts both in the UK and US. This was followed by the All Titles and Previous Publishers number one bestselling novels The Back Road, Sleep Tight and Stranger Child, which was the UK’s bestselling self-published ebook in 2015, and named as one of Amazon’s Top Ten Books of the Year. Rachel Abbott is the highest-selling indie author in Subagents: the UK since the launch of Kindle UK. Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - English Agency Japan Praise for Kill Me Again: ‘This surpasses the previous novels; I was wowed by Kill Me Again on many different levels...’ CleopatraLovesBooks ‘The twists and turns of the story absolutely gripped me - the pace is relentless, the timing perfect - and at no point did I second guess the unexpected and shocking conclusion.’ - BeingAnneReading ‘An absolutely brilliant book which left me feeling completely exhausted at the end with a twist right at the very end that I NEVER saw coming at all!’ - KimtheBookworm
‘This book is fantastic. It will take you on a rollercoaster right up to the last page. I loved it and totally recommend it.’ - Novelkicks Crime and Thrillers 8 The Sinking Admiral
The Detection Club
The new collaborative novel by members of The Detection Club
The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club’s collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members, including Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie and G.K Chesterton, wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral.
‘The Admiral’ is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The Admiral Byng, which is threatened with closure due to falling takings. ‘The Admiral’ is also the nickname of its landlord, Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, and also the name of the landlord’s dinghy. When Fitzsimmons is found dead in his UK & US: HarperCollins - 16th June tethered boat, the villagers assume a simple case of suicide 2016 and fear that their debt-ridden village pub will now sink without UK Editor: David Brawn a trace. But they weren’t banking on the fact that this story has Translation Rights: DHA been written by 14 extremely competitive crime-writers – arch Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) bamboozlers who will stop at nothing to save a good pub.
Rights Sold: The contributing authors, all members of The Detection Club, Russian - AST are: Simon Brett, Kate Charles, Natasha Cooper, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Stella Duffy, Martin Edwards, Tim Heald, Mike Jecks, Additional Info: Extent - 352 pages Janet Laurence, Peter Lovesey, Michael Ridpath, David Roberts, Illustrations - NO L C Tyler and Laura Wilson. Material Available - Final files
All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘The Detection Club is a private association of writers of detective fiction in Great Britain, existing chiefly for the purpose of eating Subagents: dinners together at suitable intervals and of talking illimitable Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg shop … Its membership is confined to those who have written Japanese - Tuttle-Mori genuine detective stories (not adventure tales or ‘thrillers’) and election is secured by a vote of the club on recommendation by two or more members, and involves the undertaking of an oath.’- Dorothy L. Sayers, Detection Club member.
Reviews for previous Detection Club novels:
‘A must for all connoisseurs of detective fiction.’ -Literary Review
‘This year’s most welcome reissue.’ - Sunday Telegraph
‘A book of irresistible charm for students of the detective story.’ - Times Literary Supplement
Crime and Thrillers 9 Between the Crosses
Matthew Frank The new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed debut If I Should Die, featuring ex-soldier turned detective Joe Stark
Trainee detective Joseph Stark, newly burdened with a Victoria Cross earned during his previous career as a soldier, is learning his new job fast. South-east London’s criminals have scant regard for such medals though, and Stark and his boss DS Fran Millhaven find themselves puzzling over a nasty double homicide. A middle-aged couple, found dead in their home; reports of a fast-disappearing motorbike; and soon, clues that the case may be linked to a crime that’s haunted Detective Chief Inspector Groombridge for twenty years …
Matthew Frank is the author of the acclaimed debut If I Should Die, introducing the Detective Constable Joseph Stark. If I UK: Penguin (Michael Joseph) – June Should Die was the winner of the 2015 Waverton Good Read 2016 Award. UK Editor: Rowland White US Rights: DHA (AMG) Praise for If I Should Die: Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) ‘A gripping murder story … Frank brilliantly maintains a balance between the demands of a complex plot and his character’s difficulty in returning to civilian life.’ Additional Info: Extent - TBC – Sunday Times Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited ‘Well researched and totally convincing.’ – Sunday Mirror manuscript ‘Very powerful … So good that it is difficult to believe that this is a debut.’ – New Books Magazine Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Crime and Thrillers 10 Coffin Road
Peter May
A top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from award-winning author, Peter May
A man is washed up on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris, barely alive and borderline hypothermic. He has no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clue to his identity is a map tracing a track called the Coffin Road. He does not know where it will lead him, but filled with dread, fear and uncertainty he knows he must follow it.
A detective crosses rough Atlantic seas to a remote rock twenty miles west of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With a sense of foreboding he steps ashore where three lighthouse keepers disappeared more than a century before – a mystery that remains unsolved. But now there is a new mystery – a man UK: Quercus - 14th January 2016 found bludgeoned to death on that same rock, and DS George UK Editor: Jon Riley Gunn must find out who did it and why. US Rights: Quercus/Hachette, 2017 Translation Rights: DHA A teenage girl lies in her Edinburgh bedroom, desperate to Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) discover the truth about her father’s death. Two years after the discovery of the pioneering scientist’s suicide note, Karen Rights Sold: Fleming still cannot accept that he would wilfully abandon her. Croatian - Znanje And the more she discovers about the nature of his research, the Czech - Host French - Editions Rouergue more she suspects that others were behind his disappearance. Italian - Stile Libero Swedish - Modernista Coffin Road follows three perilous journeys towards one shocking truth - and the realisation that ignorance can kill us. Additional Info: Extent - 392 pages Before becoming a novelist, Peter May was a journalist and Illustrations - NO screenwriter, accruing more than 1,000 television credits. In Material Available - Final files addition to his standalone thrillers, he is the author of successful series, including The Lewis Trilogy and The Enzo Files. Peter’s All Titles and Previous Publishers books have sold more than 1.5 million copies, receiving critical acclaim and multiple awards in the UK, US and France.
Praise for Coffin Road: Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media ‘May conjures a clever, twisty eco-thriller in the mode of le Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Carré’s The Constant Gardener… making the atmospheric most of his isolated locations.’ – Guardian
‘A riveting, atmospheric read.’ – The Times
‘A chilling standalone mystery.’ – Daily Record
Crime and Thrillers 11 Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough
A chilling supernatural thriller that poses the question... can we ever truly know who is behind someone’s eyes?
When Louise starts working for the new psychiatrist in town, handsome, quiet Dr. David Martin, she finds herself attracted to him. Then she meets his beautiful, fascinating wife, Adele. Louise suffers from night terrors and sleep disturbances and Adele, having spent time being treated in a sleep clinic when she was 21, offers to help her through. Louise starts a sleep diary and learns techniques from Adele to control her dreaming. She’s a good student and a natural, just as Adele was.
When Adele drops hints about a terrible event in the couple’s past that binds them, and a young man Adele has got involved with vanishes, Louise is caught in a game of cat and mouse UK: Harper Fiction – February 2017 between the couple. She starts to dig into their history, leading UK Editor: Natasha Bardon her to the death of a young man called Rob ten years before: US Rights: Flat Iron Books - February a death the couple covered up... 2017 US Editor: Christine Kopprasch But whose version of those terrible events should she trust? Translation Rights: DHA David’s or Adele’s? To finally uncover the truth she must put her Film/TV Rights: Sean Gascoine trust in Adele – body and soul - and learn one final skill in her (United Agents) sleep training. A skill Adele has kept secret. The ability to ‘fly’. Rights Sold: Chinese Simplified - CITIC Sarah Pinborough is a critically acclaimed horror, thriller and YA Czech - Metafora author. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies Dutch - The House of Books and she has a horror film Cracked currently in development French - Le Livre de Poche and another original screenplay under option. She has recently German - Rowohlt branched out into television writing and has written for New Greek - Psichogios Tricks on the BBC and has an original series in development with Korean - Mirae M World Productions and ITV Global. Hungarian - XXI Század Kiadó Lithuanian - Baltos Lankos Praise for Sarah Pinborough: Polish - Proszynski Media Portguese in Brazil - Intrinseca Portuguese in Portugal - Presença ‘Sarah Pinborough is a literary chameleon of astonishing power Russian - Azbooka Atticus and grace, carving out whole continents of fiction as her own.’ Serbian - Vulkan - Neil Gaiman (on Behind Her Eyes) Spanish - Alianza Swedish - Massolit ‘A cunning puzzle-box of a novel, a masterfully engineered thriller that brings to mind Hitchcock at his most uncanny, Additional Info: and Rendell at her most relentless. Lean and mean, dark and Extent - TBC disturbing, this is the kind of novel that takes over your life. Sarah Illustrations - NO Pinborough slays.’ - Joe Hill (on Behind Her Eyes) Material Available - Edited manuscript ‘Pinborough writes with vividness and emotional resonance. I Subagents: couldn’t put [her] down.’ - Stephen King Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘A writer at the very top of her game.’ - Independent
Crime and Thrillers 12 The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid
Craig Russell
Award-winning author Craig Russell returns with a new investigation for Lennox
Lennox liked Quiet Tommy Quaid. Perhaps it’s odd for a private detective to like - even admire - a career thief, but Quiet Tommy Quaid was the sort of man everyone liked. Amiable, easy-going, well-dressed, with no vices to speak of - well, aside from his excessive drinking and womanising, but then in 1950s Glasgow those are practically virtues. And besides, throughout his many exploits outside the law, Quiet Tommy never once used violence. It was rumoured to be the police who gave him his nickname - because whenever they caught him, which was not often, he always came quietly. So probably even the police liked him, deep down.
UK: Quercus - 4th August 2016 Above all, the reason people liked Tommy was that you knew UK Editor: Jane Wood exactly what you were dealing with. Here, everybody realised, US Rights: DHA (AMG) was someone who was exactly, simply and totally who and Translation Rights: DHA what he seemed to be. Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) But when Tommy turns up dead, Lennox and the rest of Glasgow Additional Info: will find out just how wrong they were. Extent - 467 pages Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited manuscript Craig Russell served for several years as a police officer in Scotland, before becoming an advertising copywriter and later All Titles and Previous Publishers creative director. He has been translated into 23 languages, and his Lennox and Jan Fabel series have both been highly Subagents: acclaimed. His most recent novel, The Ghosts of Altona, from Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg the Fabel series, won the 2015 Bloody Scotland Crime Book of Japanese - Tuttle-Mori the year. He lives in Scotland.
Praise for the Lennox series:
‘A great writer at the top of his game.’ – Peter James
‘Lennox is a crime story that transcends the genre. Craig Russell brilliantly uses the character of his tough, funny and hopeful man Lennox to give us the eyes and ears on a time and place. This is storytelling at its very best!’ – Michael Connelly
‘Lennox is a private eye for the ages - tough, uncompromising and insightful, with concrete fists and a heart of gold. Russell has brilliantly captured post-war Glasgow.’ – Michael Robotham
Crime and Thrillers 13 The Inheritance
Katie Agnew A priceless family heirloom holds the key to captivating secret stories, and brings three women together across the generations
I can still recall how cold the pearls felt on my bare neck as Mr Fitzroy secured the clasp, and how heavy they were. I also remember that they were far, far too long for me. But, oh how mesmerising I found those pearls...
Sophia Beaumont-Brown was an It girl. But now she’s in the papers for all the wrong reasons. Single, sofa-surfing and not speaking to her family, only her grandmother has any faith left in her. From her hospital bed, Tilly Beaumont sends Sophia letters about her life: dispatches about wartime England, about family secrets and finally, about the most beautiful thing she ever owned - a necklace of the most incredible pearls. UK: Orion - 14th July 2016 UK Editor: Genevieve Pegg If Sophia’s prepared to listen, she’ll unlock the secret story US Rights: David Forrer (Inkwell) of generations of incredible women, from the pearl divers of Translation Rights: DHA Japan, to high society in pre-war England, and find that the Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) necklace has changed the lives of all who have worn it. The only problem? No one knows where it is. Rights Sold: Sophia must find out if she’s ready to take on the search for German - Heyne something so perfect it has the power to change a life. Wouldn’t Polish - Czarna Owca a girl do anything to hold that in her hands? Additional Info: Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO Katie Agnew was born in Edinburgh and educated in Material Available - Edited Aberdeen and London. She worked as a journalist for Marie manuscript Claire, Cosmopolitan, Red and the Daily Mail before becoming features editor on Marie Claire. Her first novel, Drop Dead All Titles and Previous Publishers Gorgeous, won a WHSmith Fresh Talent award. Her subsequent novels, Before We Were Thirty, Wives v Girlfriends and Too Hot to Subagents: Handle have been published to glowing reviews. Katie lives in Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Bath with her family.
Commercial Fiction 14 The Last Kingdom series #10
Bernard Cornwell
The new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one best- selling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg The tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.
Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since.
Praise for Bernard Cornwell: UK: HarperCollins - Autumn 2016 UK Editor: Susan Watt ‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or US Rights: HarperCollins - November present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.’ 2016 - US Editor: George R.R. Martin Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: Carnival ‘A tense, powerful and compulsive story.’ - The Times Additional Info: Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO Praise for The Last Kingdom series: Material Available - Unedited manuscript due May 2016 ‘Bernard Cornwell does the best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present.’- George R.R. Martin All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘Gripping, exciting, and engaging. It is another great read from Subagents: the masterful author. . . . It will have you on the edge of your Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media seat.’ - New York Journal of Books Japanese - English Agency Japan ‘Strong narrative, vigourous action and striking characterisation, Cornwell remains king of the territory he has staked out as his own.’ - The Sunday Times
‘A violent, absorbing historical saga, deeply researched and thoroughly imagined.’ - Washington Post
‘Moves from one spectacular battle to the next…. The tangled politics and social mores of the day are intricately interwoven into the plot, placing the frenzied action firmly into historical context.’ - Booklist
‘Historical fiction fans, especially of this period, as well as viewers of BBC America’s The Last Kingdom (based on this series) will want to read the entire set.’ - Library Journal
Commercial Fiction 15 All I Ever Wanted
Lucy Dillon
Are some things better left unsaid?
Nancy Reardon is four, nearly five. She used to talk all the time: in the car, on the way to nursery, to her extrovert older brother Joel, to next door’s cat Greg, to her collection of bears. But ever since her parents Caitlin and Patrick split up, Nancy has stopped talking.
Her aunt Eva Quinn didn’t expect to be the third, and final, wife of semi-retired bad boy actor Michael Quinn but it was the love of a lifetime for them both - until Mickey died suddenly, leaving Eva alone with his gossipy diaries, their two pugs and a distressing voice in the back of her mind, wondering if perhaps she’d sacrificed more than she meant to. And that is before UK: Hodder & Stoughton - January Mickey’s diaries turn everything she believed about her late 2017 husband, her self - and her own heart - on its head. UK Editor: Sara Kinsella US Rights: David Forrer (Inkwell) When Eva offers to look after her brother’s children every other Translation Rights: DHA weekend, so that they can spend time with their father, Eva Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) realises that silent Nancy has a tiny voice after all. Not when adults are around, only when she’s alone with the smaller, quieter Additional Info: of her two dogs, Bumble. Through the whispered, cautious Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO conversations between child and dog, a trust slowly begins to Material Available - Unedited form between an anxious little girl with a heartbreaking secret manuscript due April 2016 and a woman who has realised too late that what her soul yearns for. All Titles and Previous Publishers Lucy Dillon won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Contemporary Romantic Novel prize in 2015 for A Hundred Pieces of Me, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award Subagents: in 2010 for Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts. This is her seventh Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg novel. All her novels feature dogs, although none as large as Japanese - Tuttle-Mori the two basset hounds who share her some in Herefordshire.
Praise for One Small Act of Kindness:
‘Such a brilliant book. So satisfying and clever and deeply moving. I’ll be passing it on to all my friends.’- Sophie Kinsella
‘Bittersweet, lovely and ultimately redemptive; the kind of book that makes you want to live your own life better.’ - Jojo Moyes
‘Lucy Dillon’s books make the world a better place.’ - Heat
‘An uplifting novel which will appeal to fans of David Nicholls.’ - Daily Mail
Commercial Fiction 16 Falling
Jane Green
A new novel from the number one bestselling author about finding a home – and family – where you least expect them Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind her upper-crust English life to pursue a successful financial career in New York City. But she soon discovered that her soulless, all-consuming job was another life she didn’t want. Answering an online ad, Emma finds a beach cottage in the small town of Westport, Connecticut. It needs work – lots of work – but it’s the perfect project to satisfy Emma’s passion for interior design and gardening, if her new landlord, Dominic, is agreeable to the small changes she yearns to make.
To Emma, Dominic himself is also somewhat of a fixer-upper. A local handyman with a six-year-old son, he’s a world away UK: Macmillan -14th July 2016 from the men she would normally be interested in, but he’s UK Editor: Jeremy Trevethan comfortable in his own skin, quiet and kind. And slowly, over a US Rights: Berkley Books -12th July shared garden, Emma finds herself falling for Dominic. 2016 US Editor: TBC From friends to lovers happens as naturally as the changing Translation Rights: DHA seasons. But setting down roots doesn’t come easily when Film/TV Rights: DHA (Christy Fletcher two lives as different as their own merge into one. And Emma at Fletcher & Company) will realise that the seeds of happiness must be nurtured and cherished to grow into something strong enough to shelter all Additional Info: Extent - TBC their hopes and dreams… Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited manuscript due April 2016 A former feature writer for the Daily Express, Jane Green took a leap of faith when she left in 1996 to freelance and work on her book. She is now the bestselling author of several novels All Titles and Previous Publishers including Saving Grace, The Beach House and Summer Secrets. Jane lives in Connecticut with her husband and their blended family of six children. Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Praise for Jane Green:
‘I’m in awe of Jane Green… A truly gripping read.’ – Marian Keyes
‘Warm, witty, sharp and insightful.’ – Sophie Kinsella
‘Jane Green is women’s fiction royalty.’ –Glamour
Commercial Fiction 17 Sunshine Over Wildflower Cottage
Milly Johnson
Escape to Wildflower Cottage this summer with the brilliant new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Viv doesn’t like animals. And the feeling is mutual: animals seem to hate Viv too. So when she applies for a job at Wildflower Cottage, a tumbledown animal sanctuary which caters for a variety of unloved animals, she is not sure she will fit in. But then she catches sight of Heath, the owner, and things start looking up...
Geraldine runs the Wildflower Cottage sanctuary. She’s a woman who has a secret in her past and who was drawn to the sanctuary just as Viv was. But her sanctuary is about to come under threat. Can she keep her past a secret and her future safe? UK: Simon and Schuster - 16th June 2016 Back home, Viv’s mother Stel thinks she might have found a UK Editor: Clare Hey man who will treat her right for once. Ian is kind, considerate, US Rights: DHA (LK) and clearly head over heels for her. That’s what she has wanted Translation Rights: DHA all along, isn’t it...? Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR)
Additional Info: Milly Johnson is the sparkling and irrepressible author of ten Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO bestselling novels. She is also a columnist, greetings card Material Available - Unedited copywriter, poet and after-dinner speaker. Her books are about manuscript, copyedited manuscript the universal issues of friendship, family, betrayal, babies, rather due March 2016 nice food and a little bit of that magic in life that sometimes visits the unsuspecting. All Titles and Previous Publishers Praise for Milly Johnson: ‘Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre.’ - Jill Mansell (on An Subagents: Autum Crush) Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg ‘Warm, optimistic and romantic.’ - Katie Fforde (on Here Come Japanese - Tuttle-Mori the Girls)
‘An irresistibly feel-good read.’ - Jane Costello on (on Here Come the Girls)
Commercial Fiction 18 Should You Ask Me
Marianne Kavanagh
A wartime story of deception, betrayal and revenge
In May 1944, as Dorset prepares for the D-Day landings, human remains are discovered in the fields surrounding the stone quarries on the Isle of Purbeck. An elderly woman confesses to the murders to a young constable who has been invalided out of the army. Over the next six days, William listens to Mary’s story which takes place in 1878, in the poverty-stricken village of Langton Matravers on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. It’s a passionate account of what happened to her husband John Ball, landlord of the Ship Inn, and the disappearance of their childhood friend, stonemason Arthur Corben. William – struggling to hear, head full of recent wartime events UK: Hodder and Stoughton - Spring which explode in a series of violent scenes – must decide 2017 which parts of Mary’s story are true, and what punishment fits UK Editor: Ruth Tross the crime. This is a story of deception, betrayal and revenge. US Rights: DHA (VB) Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) Marianne Kavanagh has worked on a number of UK magazines, Additional Info: including Woman, Tatler and the Telegraph’s Saturday magazine Extent - Approx 70,000 words before she joined the launch team of Marie Claire and became Illustrations - NO deputy editor. Marianne Kavanagh contributes to a wide variety of Material Available - Edited newspapers, magazines and websites, including The Telegraph, manuscript due April 2016 Daily Mail, Guardian, Marie Claire, Easy Living, MyDaily and Red.. All Titles and Previous Publishers
Praise for Don’t Get Me Wrong :
Subagents: ‘Hilarious, poignant and profund.’ - Daily Mail Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘Beautifully written, enlivened by witty and wise observation.’ - Sydney Morning Herald ‘Packs a powerful emotional punch.’ - Stephanie Calman, author of Dressing for Breakfast
Commercial Fiction 19 The Late Blossoming of Frankie Green
Laura Kemp
How far would you go for love...?
Frankie Green’s happy ever after is put on hold when her childhood sweetheart husband complains things are boring in bed, tearfully ending their one year long marriage after a lifetime of love.
Frankie is the perfect heroine - broken-hearted, determining: she plans to win her husband Jason back. Her friend Letty knows just what Frankie needs: A Sex Education! Letty herself knows all about the pleasures of the flesh - she’s currently enjoying a very passionate, steamy affair with her Personal Trainer. And then he leaves his wife and moves in.... with his toddler...
UK: Aria (Head of Zeus) - June 2016 Their usually-sensible friend Emma knows just where lust can get UK Editor: Caroline Ridding you: in love with a colleague who doesn’t feel the same way; US Rights: DHA (LK) secretly pregnant with his baby. If she knew that her brother Translation Rights: DHA Floyd had volunteered to be Frankie’s sex tutor, she’d be Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) shocked...
Additional Info: Floyd’s genuine, loving and funny attempts to help Frankie are Extent - TBC as sweet, as tender, as sexy as anyone could wish for. It’s clear Illustrations - NO Material Available - Edited for us all to see, that when Frankie blossoms into the woman she manuscript deserves to be, she might not want Jason back after all...
Laura Kemp’s novel is a romp com - a sexy rom com with a Subagents: deliciously awkward British edge. Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Laura Kemp writes tender but hilarious romantic comedies which are unashamed love letters to the everywoman. Her uplifting message - based on the notion that everything is research apart from the rude bits - is ‘You Don’t Know How Brilliant You Are!’. A journalist who has written for the Guardian, The Daily Mail and The Sun amongst others, she is married with a son in Cardiff, where she pretends to be a domestic revolutionary so she doesn’t have to do the ironing.
Praise for Laura Kemp:
‘Funny and poignant, it’s an enjoyable read that many women will relate to.’ - The Sun
‘Witty, brilliantly written...We love it!’ - Fabulous Magazine Book Club
Commercial Fiction 20 The Chocolate Lovers’ Wedding
Carole Matthews
The only thing sweeter than chocolate is love!
Four friends meet every day at their local chocolate shop and café. Lucy is worried about her financial situation and it keeps distracting her from her forthcoming wedding plans. Should she accept an offer of help from an old flame? Nadia may have a real chance at finding love but other areas of her life aren’t so rosy. Something needs to change - but what? Autumn can’t wait to meet someone she hasn’t seen in a very long time. She’s full of hope for the future but then things don’t exactly go to plan . . . UK: Little, Brown - 21st April 2016 (PB) Chantal has been through so much and she’s finally starting to UK Editor: Catherine Burke feel settled. The last thing she needs is the kind of bad news that US Rights: DHA (LK) Translation Rights: DHA could change her life all over again. Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) And yet, despite all the ups and downs, the Chocolate Lovers’ ladies know they can get through it all as long as they have Rights Sold: Polish - Harper Collins Polska each other. They’re not going to let anything get in the way of their happy-ever-afters in . . . The Chocolate Lovers’ Wedding. Additional Info: Carole Matthews is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Extent - 372 pages Illustrations - NO twenty-seven novels, including the Top Ten bestsellers A Cottage Material Available - Published HB by the Sea, Calling Mrs Christmas, The Christmas Party and The finished copy Cake Shop in the Garden.
All Titles and Previous Publishers Carole’s novels dazzle and delight readers all over the world. She was given an award for Outstanding Achievement by the Romantic Novelists’ Association in 2015. She is published in more than thirty countries and her books have sold to Hollywood. Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Praise for The Chocolate Lovers’ Christmas: ‘I’m a Carole Matthews addict!’ - Mary Berry ‘Fabulously enjoyable . . . full of heart and fun.’ - Milly Johnson ‘A wonderful story of friendship and romance.’ - Katie Fforde ‘Simply brilliant.’ - Closer ‘The perfect escape.’ - Woman
Commercial Fiction 21 The Night That Changed Everything
Laura Tait and Jimmy Rice
The perfect couple – or so they thought…
Rebecca is the only girl she knows who didn’t cry at the end of Titanic. Ben is the only man he knows who did. Rebecca’s untidy but Ben doesn’t mind picking up her pieces. Ben is laid back by Rebecca keeps him on his toes. They’re a perfect match. Nothing can come between them. Or so they think.
When a throwaway comment reveals a secret from the past, their love story is rewritten.
Can they recover from the night that changed everything? And how do you forgive when you can’t forget?
UK: Transworld - 24th March 2016 The Night That Changed Everything is a funny, feel-good and UK Editor: Harriet Bourton bittersweet story, told in alternate chapters by Laura Tait and US Rights: DHA (LK) Jimmy Rice. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Jimmy Rice is a sports journalist. Laura Tait is a writer for Shortlist Rights Sold: and Stylist magazines. Jimmy and Laura met studying journalism Simplified Chinese - Beijing Daheng at Sheffield University, so sitting in pubs talking about life and Translation Service Company German - DuMont love is something they’ve been doing for the last ten years. Not much has changed since then except they take their laptops Additional Info: to the pub and write it all down. Extent - 406 pages Illustrations - NO Material Available - First page proofs Praise for The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me:
Rights Sold for The Best Thing That ‘Brilliantly written and laugh-out-loud funny!’ - Paige Toon Never Happened To Me: Simplified Chinese - Beijing Daheng ‘What a gorgeously funny book! I loved Alex and Holly, and Translation Service Czech - Jota you will too.’ - Lucy Diamond French - Editions Bragelonne German - DuMont Buchverlag ‘The Best Rom-Com That’s Happened To Me This Year!’ Italian - De Agostini - Ali McNamara Macedonian - Congress Service Centre ‘A Richard Curtis rom-com of a novel.’ - Glamour Polish - Czarna Owca Brazil - LeYa Turkish - Kultur
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Commercial Fiction 22 The One We Fell in Love With
Paige Toon
When three sisters share everything, accidents can happen...
We are Phoebe. We are Eliza. We are Rose.
Everyone knew about us. We weren’t just sisters, we were ‘The Triplets’. It was almost as if we didn’t have names of our own. We were like celebrities at school, a novelty act. People loved that we all looked alike with our blonde hair and green eyes to the power of three.
But while the same blood may have run through our veins, we were very different girls. We weren’t one. We were three. And when we fell in love, this suddenly mattered more than ever.
UK: Simon and Schuster - 19th May If only there had been three of Angus, like there were three 2016 of us... Almost ten years on, Phoebe and Angus are getting UK Editor: Suzanne Baboneau married. But for Eliza and Rose, it’s time to put history behind US Rights: DHA (LK) them once and for all. Translation Rights: DHA If only it were that simple... Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Falling in love with Angus was easy. Falling out of love with him Additional Info: is proving to be difficult. Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO Material Available - Edited Paige Toon was born in 1975 and grew up between England, manuscript Australia and America, following her racing driver father around the globe. A philosophy graduate, she worked at teen, film and All Titles and Previous Publishers women’s magazines, before ending up at Heat magazine as Reviews Editor. Paige is married, has two small children and lives in Cambridge. The One We Fell In Love With is her eleventh book. Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Praise for Paige Toon: Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘You’ll LOVE it, cry buckets over it and then be uplifted by it.’ – Marian Keyes (on The One We Fell in Love With)
‘I can’t tell you how shocked I was at the almighty twist. I sat in silence for a moment or two just looking at the words over and over. I blubbed, I laughed and I fell in love... What a gorgeous piece of work. Flipping wonderful and utterly heart wrenching!’ - Giovanna Fletcher (on The One We Fell in Love With)
‘We devoured this in one sitting, relaxing on a sun-lounger… it’s the perfect beach read.’ - Cosmopolitan (on The Sun in her Eyes)
Commercial Fiction 23 The Man Who Didn’t Call
Rosie Walsh
Where is Eddie David? Who is holding his telephone hostage? Sarah Mackey is in agony. She knows she isn’t the first woman in the world to meet the perfect man, only for that man not to call her back in the cold light of the morning after. But: she knows, she just knows, that Eddie David loved her. Loves her. So where is he?
Sarah brainstorms possible solutions to this puzzle of the heart with her best friends Jo and Tommy - and every stranger she meets. Is Eddie with Someone Else? Is he married? Has he dropped his phone? Lost his memory? Might he be dead? In need of help? Sarah can’t stop herself from messaging him, from rebooting her phone, from hitting refresh on her Facebook page. She knows UK: Mantle (Macmillan) - March 2017 this isn’t the behaviour of a woman in her thirties. A woman who UK Editor: Sam Humphreys has travelled the world, survived a tragedy, run a company... US Rights: DHA (LK) but, still, this obsessed and sleepless person is who she has to Translation Rights: DHA be, now. She must know what happened to Eddie: and so her Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) search - and our adventure - begins.
Additional Info: Might Eddie’s past and Sarah’s be somehow connected? Did Extent - TBC they really meet by chance? And, although Eddie seems to be Illustrations - NO Material Available - Partial, in some sort of trouble, and Sarah only wants to help, what if she manuscript due April 2016 is the trouble he is in? What if meeting Sarah was both the worst, and best, thing that ever happened to Eddie David?
Subagents: The Man Who Didn’t Call is a beautifully crafted book by Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Rosie Walsh, an author who has had four novels published to Japanese - Tuttle-Mori acclaim under the name Lucy Robinson. Through Rosie’s tender investigations into matters of the heart, The Man Who Didn’t Call asks us what kind of happiness we are all looking for. It reminds us of how vulnerable we are when we leave ourselves open to love. It prompts us to forgive others and, most of all, ourselves, for that vulnerability. And it teaches us, that ultimately, the only cure for love lost, is love.
Commercial Fiction 24 British Iliad
Alan Allport
An important new two-volume narrative history of the British experience of the Second World War
British Iliad is an epic both in the ambition of its scope and the grand scale of its subject: the national story of Britain in the Second World War. In this major two-volume work, Alan Allport seeks to give a clear-sighted and comprehensive account of the conflict from a British perspective, taking in the experiences of troops on the frontline, statesmen in the cabinet rooms and ordinary citizens on the home front. Surveying events on both a micro and macro level, Allport also re-addresses questions whose answers many have taken for granted: Could war have been avoided? How did the Allied forces triumph? What was the lasting significance of the war on Britain?
UK: Profile - Vol. 1: 2019; Vol. 2: 2022 The first volume, Rout, will consider the political and social UK Editor: Cecily Gayford conditions of 1930s Britain, both at home and throughout its US Rights: Knopf - TBC empire, leading up to the outbreak of war. It will then examine US Editor: Keith Goldsmith the demoralising series of defeats and setbacks experienced Translation Rights: DHA by Britain in the early stages of the war up to the pivotal year Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) of 1942.
Additional Info: The second volume, Rally, will show how Britain – in coalition Extent - TBC Illustrations - 20-30 illustrations on with the Allied powers – succeeded in reversing its fortunes from plate sections + 6 maps 1942 onwards, finally emerging victorious yet traumatised from Material Available - 70-page the defining conflict of the 20th century. proposal available; manuscript due December 2018 Alan Allport is a British-born historian and is currently Assistant Professor of History in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He has previously published Subagents: two books with Yale University Press, Demobbed: Coming Home Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media after the Second World War (2009), which won the Longman- Japanese - Tuttle-Mori History Today Award, and Browned off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 (2015). A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has written for The Times, the Literary Review and the London Review of Books.
Praise for Demobbed:
‘Wonderfully researched, sensitively written… an important, underappreciated story that still resonates today.’ – David Kynaston
‘A wonderfully insightful study... remarkably moving.’ – Sunday Times
‘Thoughtful, well written ... an important book.’ – Spectator
Anthropology and History 25 Out of Our Minds
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A stunning history of the human imagination – from our earliest cave-dwelling ancestors to the present day
In this magisterial new work, acclaimed historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto attempts nothing less than a history of the human imagination, the power of seeing what is not there, and of the ideas that our imagination has generated, from the first tools we used to hunt with as early modern man, to our present digital age.
A masterclass in erudition and readability, Out of Our Minds offers education and entertainment in equal measure and is perfect reading for fans of big-sweep history like Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel or Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens.
UK Rights: DHA (AMG) - on submission US Rights: Random House US – 16th Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a globally acclaimed and November 2016 distinguished historian and author of many best-selling books US Editor: Will Murphy including Millennium, Civilizations and Food: A History. He is a Translation Rights: DHA Professor of History of the University of Notre Dame. His work has Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) been translated into nearly 30 languages.
Rights Sold: Praise for Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Complex Chinese - Rive Gauche Simplified Chinese - CITIC Korean - MaeKyung ‘He makes history a smart art.’ – The Times Portuguese in Brazil - Companhia das Letras ‘In a class of his own for serious scholarship.’ – Spectator
‘Fernández-Armesto specialises in works of scrupulous Additional Info: scholarship and staggering breadth.’ – Financial Times Magazine Extent - TBC Illustrations - TBC Material Available - Final unedited manuscript
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Anthropology and History 26 Viva La Revolución
Eric Hobsbawm Writings from the great historian on the region where he had hoped socialist revolution might flourish: Latin America
A collection of essays on Latin America from the man widely acknowledged as the most important left-wing historian of the twentieth century. Assembled and edited by his friend Leslie Bethell, himself an expert on South American history, Viva La Revolución presents Eric’s writings on this politically charged continent over a period of fifty years, covering issues as diverse as the hacienda system, Peruvian peasantry and the delights of bossa nova.
Born in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm grew up in Vienna and Berlin in the 1930s. After coming to Britain he taught at Birkbeck College, UK: Little, Brown - 2nd June 2016 University of London, where he eventually became Emeritus UK Editor: Richard Beswick Professor, as well as holding visiting fellowships at universities US Rights: DHA (AMG) around the world. He had seventeen honorary doctorates and Translation Rights: DHA many other awards and honours. Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) His books on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Rights Sold: a memoir, have been translated into many languages. He died Complex Chinese - Rive Gauche in 2012. Simplified Chinese - CITIC Italian - Rizzoli Portuguese in Brazil - Companhia das Letras Praise for Fractured Times: Spanish - Critica Turkish - Iletisim Yayincilik ‘Hobsbawm is a historian of exceptional lucidity, with a staggering range and ease of reference...the essays catch Additional Info: fire.’ - Spectator Extent - 400 pages Illustrations - NO ‘Gaining encyclopaedic knowledge was impressive enough; Material Available - Final files knowing how to convey its essence to a vast audience involved the rarest kind of authorial talent.’ - Financial Times All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘He wrote with extraordinary wit, grace and power…His ability Subagents: to see the big picture and devise a framing concept to sort Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media out the diverse and unruly detail of history was breathtaking.’ - Japanese - English Agency Japan Guardian
Anthropology and History 27 Progress
Johan Norberg A riveting and thought-provoking corrective to the assumption that ‘things aren’t what they used to be’
Wars, famine, poverty, environmental or financial disaster … it sometimes feels like mankind has learned nothing from our past mistakes and that everything is terrible and getting worse. The twenty-four-hour news cycle, desperate to be fed, exacerbates a sense of doom and gloom.
But, as acclaimed author and commentator Johan Norberg shows, the reality is that by almost any serious, statistical index, things are markedly better now for vastly more people around the world than they were 150 years ago. Looking at the ten problems that mankind has solved, including early death, hunger and disease, Norberg makes a brilliant case for human UK & US: Oneworld - September 2016 ingenuity and resourcefulness. UK Editor: Alex Christofi Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) Johan Norberg is an author, commentator and documentary- maker. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington Rights Sold: DC, and author of the award-winning In Defence of Global Portuguese in Brazil - Editora Record Capitalism, which has been published in twenty-five countries. Additional Info: Extent - TBC Praise for Johan Norberg: Illustrations - TBC Material Available - Edited ‘One of Sweden’s sharpest liberal writers and thinkers.’ manuscript – The Economist
‘A glamorous young pro-capitalist.’ – Washington Post Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media ‘Giving clear and verifiable sources, he nails one by one the Japanese - Tuttle-Mori fallacies and selective statistics that are used by the anti- capitalist protesters.’ – Financial Times (on In Defence of Global Capitalism)
‘Excellent and easily accessible, the book is written in a totally sincere, matter-of-fact, and extremely convincing way – and at the same time not losing its visionary touch.’ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (on In Defence of Global Capitalism)
Anthropology and History 28 Secret Sisterhood
Emma Claire Sweeney and Emily Midorikawa
A fascinating look into the world of female literary friendships
Many male writing friendships have become the stuff of legend: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, for instance, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. But did Jane Austen have a fellow writer with whom she shared her ideas? What about George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, or Virginia Woolf? Since 2013, Emma and Emily have uncovered a wealth of hidden yet startling collaborations and have blogged about their discoveries on SomethingRhymed.com, a site that has built up a close-knit community of readers from around the world and attracted high-profile supporters, coverage across the literary pages and speaking engagements around the country. UK: Aurum Books - 18th July 2017 UK Editor: Jennifer Barr From these trailblazing literary duos, they’ve learnt valuable US Rights: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt lessons about how to sustain their own writerly relationship, - TBC and, in the process, they’ve developed some theories about Nicole Angeloro US Editor: why these fascinating friendships still have a cloak of secrecy Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) around them.
Additional Info: Extent - TBC Emma Claire Sweeney has won Arts Council, Royal Literary Illustrations - NO Fund and Escalator Awards, and has been shortlisted for several Material Available - Proposal and others, including the Asham, Wasafiri and Fish. Her debut novel, early sample chapter available, full Owlsong at Dawn, will be published by Legend Press on 1st July manuscript due early 2017 2016.
Emily Midorikawa is the winner of the 2015 Lucy Cavendish Subagents: Fiction Prize, and was previously a runner-up in the Yeovil Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - English Agency Japan Literary Prize (judged by Tracy Chevalier), and the SI Leeds Literary Prize. Emily is represented by Ariella Feiner (United Agents). Emma and Emily both teach creative writing at New York University, London and they co-run SomethingRhymed.com – a website on female literary friendship; and publish features and pieces on disability for the likes of the Guardian, Independent on Sunday and The Times.
Anthropology and History 29 Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression
Jay Griffiths
A raw and poetic account of a mind lost in madness - and how the author found her way back from the wilderness ‘There are galaxies within the human mind, and madness wants to risk everything for the daring flight, reckless and beautiful and crazed...Tristimania is an old term for manic depression, precisely capturing that sense of grief and hilarity, of violent sadness and mad highs.’
In 2013, while completing work on her last book, Kith, Jay Griffiths suffered a devastating year-long episode of manic depression. Tristimania is the lyrical and painfully honest account of that year.
‘I had three wishes: Not to go mad (failed), not to commit UK: Hamish Hamilton - 26th May 2016 suicide (succeeded), to bring something back (this book).’ UK Editor: Simon Prosser US Rights: Counterpoint - TBC Lost in the depths of her illness, Jay eventually decided to walk US Editor: Jack Shoemaker the Camino de Santiago - undertaking this ancient pilgrimage Translation Rights: DHA in her fragile condition despite medical advice against it, Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) determined to find a kind of cure for her torment.
Additional Info: Extent - 224 pages Illustrations - NO Jay Griffiths was born in Manchester in 1965. She is the author Material Available - Final manuscript of Pip Pip, Wild, A Love Letter from a Stray Moon and Kith. She won the Orion Book Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for the best new non-fiction writer in the USA. She has Subagents: also been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the World Book Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Day award. Jay is a contributor to various publications and Japanese - Tuttle-Mori platforms including the Guardian, London Review of Books and the Radiolab podcast.
Praise for Jay Griffiths:
‘If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does.’ - John Berger (on Tristimania)
‘One of the bravest books I’ve read in a long time.’ - Paul Kingsnorth (on Tristimania)
‘A movingly honest dispatch from the depths; startlingly open, taut with insight… A high-wired praise song to friendship [and] to the psyche’s own resilience in extremis’ - Gareth Evans (on Tristimania)
‘Her work isn’t just good – it’s necessary.’ - Philip Pullman (on Kith)
‘An impassioned, visionary plea to restore to our children the spirit of adventure, freedom and closeness to nature that is their birthright. ’ – Iain McGilchrist (on Kith) Essays, Biography, Memoir 30 Almost Home
David Guss
A life of astonishing bravery and adventure: the very first biography of WWII’s most prolific escaper: Alastair Cram
From his initial capture in North Africa in November 1941 to his repatriation from Germany in April 1945, Alastair Cram attempted no fewer than twenty-one escapes from enemy camps during the Second World War – a record for a prisoner of war. Based on years of research and access to newly discovered material, including Cram’s wartime journals, in Almost Home David Guss tells the incredible story of one of the war’s most daring heroes for the first time.
Attempting escapes from ten different camps and three Gestapo prisons, perhaps Cram’s most audacious break- out, planned with future SAS founder David Stirling, was from UK: Macmillan - Winter 2017 the impregnable medieval fortress at Gavi, an Italian Colditz UK Editor: Georgina Morley from which no-one had previously succeeded in fleeing. Guss US Rights: DHA (AMG) portrays these dramatic exploits through the eyes of those Translation Rights: DHA who lived them and reveals the philosophy, ingenuity and Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) camaraderie of the escapers, who considered their conduct not just a pragmatic duty, but – in Cram’s words – ‘a spiritual Additional Info: necessity’. Extent - TBC Illustrations - YES (TBC) Material Available - Proposal and sample chapters David M. Guss is a writer and anthropologist who has lived and worked in various parts of Latin America and Europe. Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University, Subagents: his most recent book was The Festive State, which traces the Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media complex histories of four separate festivals in Venezuela. In Japanese - English Agency Japan addition to his anthropological work, Guss is a published poet and translator.
Essays, Biography, Memoir 31 Commander in Chief
Nigel Hamilton
The second instalment of the ‘splendid memoir Roosevelt nigel hamilton didn’t get to write’ (New York Times)
Nigel Hamilton’s The Mantle of Command, long-listed for the Commander in Chief National Book Award, drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray Franklin D. Roosevelt up close, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Now the second volume, Commander in Chief, reveals the astonishing truth — suppressed by Winston Churchill in his commander memoirs — of Roosevelt’s battles with Churchill to maintain that in chief strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should take Sicily but avoid a FDR’s battle with chu Rchill, 1943 wider battle in southern Europe, building experience but saving strength to invade France in early 1944. Churchill seemed to UK: Biteback - 1st August 2016 agree at Casablanca — only to undermine his own generals UK Editor: Mick Smith and the Allied command, testing Roosevelt’s patience to the US: Houghton Mifflin - 1st August 2016 limit. Churchill was afraid of the invasion planned for Normandy, US Editor: Bruce Nichols and pushed instead for disastrous fighting in Italy, thereby almost Translation Rights: DHA losing the war for the Allies. In a dramatic showdown, FDR finally Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) set the ultimate course for victory by making the ultimate threat.
Rights Sold: Commander in Chief reveals FDR’s resolute leadership over the Dutch - Historisch Nieuwsblad course of 1943, a pivotal year in the modern history of the West. Additional Info: It will be followed by a third and final instalment, examining his Extent - 450 pages influence on the war’s conclusion. Illustrations - 2 eight-page full colour plate sections, 2 maps Nigel Hamilton is a best-selling and award-winning biographer Material Available - Page proofs of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. Subagents: He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media University of Massachusetts, Boston. Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Praise for The Mantle of Command:
‘The Mantle of Command is splendid: it’s the memoir Roosevelt didn’t get to write.’ - New York Times
‘Masterly.’ - Wall Street Journal
‘A definitive volume... essential reading for anyone interested in WWII, the Roosevelt Presidency, and presidential leadership.’ - Publishers Weekly
‘Convincingly written and gripping... essential for historians, political scientists, and history buffs’ - Library Journal, STARRED
Essays, Biography, Memoir 32 Nine Lives
David Nott
The gripping memoirs of one of the world’s most experienced warzone surgeons
David Nott is probably the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world.
Since the mid-1990s, he has taken unpaid leave to devote several weeks or even months of almost every year to volunteer in the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, carrying out field surgery and life-saving operations often in primitive conditions with few resources.
From his first mission to Sarajevo under siege in 1993, where he was almost killed twice, the list of war zones he has worked in reads almost like a chronology of twenty-first-century combat: UK: Macmillan - TBC Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, UK Editor: Georgina Morley Libya, Gaza and Syria. He has also flown out to help after natural US Rights: DHA (AMG) disasters like the major earthquakes in Haiti in 2010 and Nepal Translation Rights: DHA in 2015. Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Driven both by compassion and passion, the desire to help Additional Info: others and the thrill of extreme personal danger, he has Extent - TBC been described as the ‘Indiana Jones of surgery’ and is now Illustrations - NO Material Available - Proposal establishing a Foundation to disseminate the knowledge he has gained, raising money to train other doctors in the art of saving lives threatened by bombs and bullets. Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Nine Lives is his extraordinary story. It is a tale of both man’s Japanese - English Agency Japan humanity and inhumanity to man; of the worst that people do and the skill and courage of those who try to pick up the pieces.
When not risking his life in war zones, David Nott works in several London hospitals and from his consulting rooms off Sloane Square. He is married with a baby daughter.
Essays, Biography, Memoir 33 Spymaster
Martin Pearce
A tale of Cold War espionage and the life of spymaster and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
The extraordinary story of the most highly decorated British spymaster of the Cold War, Sir Maurice Oldfield. Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (commonly known as the SIS or MI6), he was the first Chief to be named and pictured in the press, and often alleged by them to be the model for the screen versions of both Ian Fleming’s M and John le Carré’s George Smiley. This major study of Oldfield’s life portrays one of the UK’s most important and complex spies of the Cold War era. He was the first Chief of MI6 that hadn’t come from an upper-class background or studied at Eton or Oxbridge. Rather, he was a farmer’s son from a provincial grammar school who found Transworld - 17th November 2016 UK: himself accidentally plunged into the world of espionage by UK Editor: Doug Young the outbreak of the Second World War. Oldfield was our man US Rights: DHA (AMG) Translation Rights: DHA in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL - under assassination of JFK, and was largely responsible for keeping option) Britain out of the Vietnam War.
Additional Info: This is the fascinating life story of Maurice Oldfield, written by his Extent - 320 pages nephew Martin Pearce, who remembers asking his uncle what Illustrations - YES (colour photograph he did for a job. ‘Oh it’s quite boring really, dear boy. I’m a kind plate section) of security guard at embassies,’ was the reply... Material Available - Unedited manuscript Martin Pearce studied Agricultural Economics at Newcastle University before working in the family business. He is the Director Subagents: of Rugby for Bakewell Mannerians RFC and lives in Derbyshire Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media with his partner and three sons. Japanese - English Agency Japan
Essays, Biography, Memoir 34 Tim Winton
Island Home
‘I grew up on the world’s largest island.’ From his childhood, Tim Winton’s relationship with the landscape around him - Australia’s swamps and bush, rockpools, seacaves and scrub - has been as vital as any other connection. Whether camping in hidden inlets, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, or diving at Ningaloo Reef, Winton has felt the place seep into him - its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance. Island Home is the story of how that relationship with the landscape came to be. Charged with love for the huge, besieging force of Australia’s wild spaces, this book is a passionate call for their conservation, a memoir that urges us all to feel the ground beneath our feet. Island Home UK: Picador - 5th May 2016 The Boy Behind the Curtain UK Editor: Sophie Jonathan AUS: Penguin (Hamish Hamilton) - In these remarkable true stories, Tim Winton takes us behind 15th October 2015 the scenes for an intimate view of an imagination at work US Rights: Joe Regal (Regal Hoffman and play & Associates) This collection of autobiographical essays charts a course Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: Jenny Darling & through Tim Winton’s life, providing snapshots of a childhood and Associates adolescence of joy and wonder but also one where danger and disaster lurked in the shadows. This sense of life’s unpredictability Rights Sold: and wildness has followed him into adulthood and shaped his German - Luchterhand view of the world, and respect for the natural order around him. From accounts of coping with the way a road accident inexorably Additional Info: changed the man he knew his father to be to watching 2001: A Extent - 256 pages Space Odyssey at a younger-than-advisable age, each essay Illustrations - NO in this collection is incredibly personal, completely immersive Material Available - Final files and leads the reader on their own journey of self-reflection and discovery. The Boy Behind The Curtain UK: Picador - 18th May 2017 Tim Winton has published 26 books for adults and children, and AUS: Penguin (Hamish Hamilton) - his work has been translated into 28 languages. Since his first November 2016 novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in UK Editor: Sophie Jonathan 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, US Rights: Joe Regal (Regal Hoffman Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted & Associates) for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: Jenny Darling & Praise for Tim Winton: Associates ‘Winton’s novels are microcosms of Wet Australia…I gobbled Additional Info: up this short but shimmering book in one windswept afternoon’ Extent - TBC - Independent (on Land’s Edge: A Coastal Memoir) Illustrations - NO Material Available - Final manuscript ‘Vividly written in a seemingly effortless prose that never puts a foot wrong, pulling off fine effects without strain … (a) triumphant novel keeps you turning the page.’ - Sunday Times (on Dirt Music) All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘His stories artfully clarify life’s abrupt turns, but it is his prose that makes the work exceptional with its liveliness and flow.’ -The Subagents: Observer (on The Turning) Essays, Biography, Memoirs 35 Being a Beast
Charles Foster A lyrical exploration of what it is really like to ‘be a beast’, from swimming with otters to burrowing with badgers, and what this can tell us about the beast inside us all Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.
So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms, he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter and he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London and rooting in bins like an urban fox.
A passionate naturalist, Foster shows us that every creature UK Rights: Profile Books - 28th January encounters the world differently. As humans, we share sensory 2016 experiences, sights, smells and sound, but trying to explore UK Editor: Rebecca Gray what it is actually like to live in the world of another species, is a US Rights: Metropolitan - 21st June fascinating and unique neuro-scientific challenge. For Foster it 2016 is also a literary challenge. Looking at what science can tell us US Editor: Riva Hocherman about what happens in a fox’s or badger’s brain when it picks Translation Rights: DHA up a scent, he then uses this to imagine their world for us, to Film/TV Rights: 3 part TV series (under- write it through their eyes or rather through the eyes of Charles offer); Sovereign Films feature film the beast. Rights unavailable: German - Under offer An intimate look at the life of animals, neuroscience, psychology, Turkish - sold to Kolektif nature writing, memoir and more, it is a journey of extraordinary thrills and surprises, containing wonderful moments of humour and joy, but also providing important lessons for all of us. Additional Info: Extent - 256 pages Charles Foster is a writer, barrister and traveller. His books Illustrations - NO cover many fields, including books on travel, evolutionary Material Available - Final files biology, natural history, anthropology, theology, archaeology, philosophy and law. Ultimately they are all attempts to answer Subagents: the questions ‘who or what are we?’ and ‘what on earth are Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media we doing here?’. Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Praise for Being a Beast:
‘Unimaginably different from any book you have ever read.’ - Iain McGilchrist
‘A strange kind of masterpiece: the song of a satyr, perhaps, or nature writing as extreme sport.’ - Financial Times
‘Illuminating and unfailingly entertaining, this book is a tour de force of modern nature writing, and shows us how to better love the world beyond ourselves.’ - Guardian
Natural World 36 Ice Diaries
Jean McNeil
What do we stand to lose in a world without ice?
Novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer in residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is protected and governed by international treaty.
Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil’s years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent.
Canada (English and French volume In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon in North America): ECW Press - 15th Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular March 2016 science and memoir to examine the history of our fascination UK Rights: DHA (VB) - On submission with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself Translation Rights: DHA confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) effects of growing up in a cold place and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life. Ice Additional Info: Diaries is a haunting story of the relationship between beauty Extent - 365 pages Illustrations - Intext photographs by and terror, loss and abandonment, transformation and triumph. the author Material Available - Final files Jean McNeil is the author of ten books including four novels and a collection of short fiction. Her work has been shortlisted for the Subagents: Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Journey Prize, and she Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media has won the Prism International prize for short fiction and narrative Japanese - English Agency Japan non-fiction. She is the co-director of the Masters in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia and lives in London, England.
Natural World 37 Raptor: A Journey Through Birds
James Macdonald Lockhart
A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald
Fifteen birds of prey, 15 different landscapes. A journey in search of raptors, a journey through the birds and into their worlds.
James Macdonald’s eyes quiver for birds of prey. From the hen harrier swimming over the land in the dregs of a May gale, to the peregrine with its third eyelide to protect its sight when diving on prey at 200 mph. A portrait of a lifelong passion that unravels the complicated relationship between raptors and man.
James Macdonald Lockhart is an associate editor of, and regular contributor to, Archipelago Magazine, and a literary agent at Antony Harwood Limited. Raptor is the winner of UK: Fourth Estate - 11th February 2016 The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction UK Editor: Nicholas Pearson in 2011 and winner of the Authors’ Foundation Roger Deakin US Rights: DHA (JW) - Under offer Award in 2011. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) Praise for James Macdonald Lockhart:
Additional Info: ‘James MacDonald Lockhart puts the rapture back in the raptor. Extent - 384 pages A true heir to J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine, and T.H. White’s The Illustrations - YES, b&w chapter headings Goshawk, this is a unique and wonderful work.’ - Philip Hoare Material Available - Final files ‘In this delicate, complex, open-ended book, full of freshness Subagents: and movement, he captures that wild spirit without ever making Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg it feel captive.’ - Sunday Times Japanese - English Agency Japan ‘Lockhart’s prose is usually so intimate, urgent, and visceral as to make his darkly resonant ruminations almost unfailingly gripping.’ - Independent
‘From the first page, his exquisite, poetic language is a sensuous delight without sacrificing scientific accuracy. Raptor is, quite simply, a tour de force.’ - Daily Mail
Natural World 38 Roald Dahl 100
Marking 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl – the world’s number one storyteller
Born on 13th September 1916 in Cardiff, Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults and became one of the world’s best- selling authors. He has been referred to as ‘one of the greatest storytellers of the 20th century’.
Throughout 2016, there will be celebrations for Roald Dahl 100, focusing on Roald Dahl’s gloriumptious stories and characters and delivering a year packed with squiffling surprises and treats for everyone.
Centenary highlights include:
- A new BFG film, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Mark Rylance, will be released in July 2016.
- Cardiff has been named the ‘City of the Unexpected’ - involving theatre, art and performance, with Quentin Blake unveiling an exhibition of illustrations especially for World Book Day.
- The unveiling of the ‘Roald Dahl Rose’ at the Chelsea Flower Show.
- Yearlong celebrations at Tatton Park, Cheshire ranging from themed Roald Dahl character trails through the Estate, to outdoor theatre and cinema treats, a birthday picnic, learning courses and special events with a Roald Dahl twist.
- The centennial year will see celebrations of the ‘world’s greatest storyteller’, headed by the RD 100 Patron, The Duchess of Cornwall, in all corners of the globe, with party packs for all publishers to get involved in Roald Dahl Day celebrations on the 13th September 2016 and to build on Dahl’s huge international success to date.
Dahl fans must wonder where his inspiration for his magical stories comes from, and in June 2016 John Murray will publish something that may just reveal the secret… From his first painfully scribbled note home at boarding school until his death 64 years later, Roald Dahl was a prolific letter writer. From the tens of thousands of letters he left behind, his acclaimed biographer Donald Sturrock has collated his opinions, advice, anecdotes and confessions in Love From Boy: Roald Dahl’s Extraordinary Letters to his Mother, which will be published in September 2016.
Dahl’s short stories are known for their unexpected endings and often very dark humour. His short stories have been published in various collections, including The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life and Kiss Kiss.
For more information on centenary events, please refer to the timeline on the Dahl website: www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/roald-dahl-100
Roald Dahl Centenary 39 James Herriot 100
2016 marks 100 years since the birth of James Herriot
James Alfred Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym of James Herriot, became one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. His books, a series of stories based on his experiences as a young veterinary surgeon working among the farming community of North Yorkshire, sold in their millions throughout the world. Their great success spawned two feature films in the mid 1970s, fol- lowed by a television series, All Creatures Great and Small, which enjoyed global success in the late 1970s and early 80s.
Alfred Wight died in 1995 but his books still sell, the television series is still played throughout the world, and thousands of visitors continue to flock to The World of James Herriot Museum, which was established in 1999 in his hometown of Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
Praise for James Herriot:
‘The attraction of Herriot’s ever popular memoirs of a country vet...is their alternating highs and lows, humour and pathos, and gripping anecdotes ... And, of course, there’s a powerful nostalgia element in these stories about our green and pleasant land in the day before the ravages of ribbon development.’- Daily Mail
‘He can tell a good story against himself, and his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is infectious.’ - Daily Telegraph
‘Full of warmth, wisdom and wit.’ - The Field
‘It is a pleasure to be in James Herriot’s company.’ - Observer
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James Herriot centenary 40 2016 Highlights
The BFG by Roald Dahl The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins The Kaiser’s Last Kiss by Alan Judd Puffin film tie-in Transworld film tie in Harper Perennial film tie-in Spielberg directs, Disney production starring Dreamworks productions starring Emily In production with Egoli Tossell starring Chris- Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall and Bill Hader Blunt, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans topher Plummer, Lily James, Jai Courtney Scheduled release: US 1st July 2016 Scheduled release: Scheduled release: & UK 22nd July 2016 US & UK 7th October 2016 US & UK 2016
H is for Hawk Mao: A LIfe Otley, Complete Series by Helen Macdonald by Philip Short by Martin Waddell New DHA Client Reissued by IB Tauris Reissued by Soho Press (UK) (Agent: Jessica Woollard) Publishing 30th May 2016 and Syndicate (US) Publishing Autumn 2016
The Secrets of Happiness Black Rabbit Hall While my Eyes Were Closed by Lucy Diamond by Eve Chase by Linda Green Pan Macmillan paperback publication Penguin paperback publication Quercus paperback publication 2nd July 2016 19th May 2016 5th May 2016
2016 Highlights 41 SUB-AGENTS
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42 Rachel Abbott Marianne Kavanagh
Katie Agnew Laura Kemp
Naomi Alderman Paul Kingsnorth
Alan Allport Carole Matthews
Nada Awar Jarrar Peter May
Eve Chase Helen Macdonald
Bernard Cornwell James Macdonald Lockhart
Roald Dahl Alexander McCall Smith
The Detection Club Jean McNeil
Lucy Diamond Kei Miller
Lucy Dillon Johan Norberg
Felipe Fernández- David Nott Armesto Martin Pearce Charles Foster Sarah Pinborough Matthew Frank Craig Russell Jane Green William Ryan Linda Green Philip Short Jay Griffiths Emma Claire Sweeney Davis Guss and Emily Moridikawa
Nigel Hamilton Laura Tait and Jimmy Rice
Paula Hawkins Paige Toon
Neil Hegarty Martin Waddell
James Herriot Rosie Walsh
Eric Hobsbawm Tim Winton
Alan Judd
Milly Johnson