ANDREW NURNBERG ASSOCIATES Literary Agency Frankfurt Book Fair

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 Highlights

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Contents

Literary fiction pp. 3-15 Commercial fiction pp. 16-30

Non-Fiction pp. 31-38

Children’s & Young Adult pp. 40-52

Agents Andrew Nurnberg Managing Director Sarah Nundy Deputy Managing Director. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, UK, US Jenny Savill UK, US, Children’s Authors Charlotte Seymour UK, US Sabine Pfannenstiel Germany Halina Kościa Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia Giulia Bernabè Italy, Brazil, Spain, Latin America Juliana Galvis Italy, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Latin America Eleonoora Kirk The Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden Marei Pittner The Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden Rachael Sharples France

CONVERSATIONS OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY

‘CONVERSATIONS D’UN ENFANT DU SIÈCLE’ Frédéric Beigbeder

Over many a pleasant meal in the hub of Parisian life, Frédéric Beigbeder has met countless famous authors and prolific thinkers of our time. And with Beigbeder’s talent for conversation, they have all shared funny, witty thoughts about life.

Among these dining companions are: Antonio Tabucchi, Umberto Eco, Chuck Palahniuk, Catherine Millet, Jay McInerney, Françoise Sagan, Tom Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Michel Houellebecq, Jean d’Ormesson, Bernard -Henri Lévy, Bret Easton Ellis, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and James Salter - to name but a few.

Combining their knowledge and his award-winning writing, Beigbeder in- vites the reader to be privy to these shared conversations, as he brings them all together in his latest title, Conversations of a Child of the Century. And for a while, the reader is welcomed into the conversation as warmly as if he were seated at the same table with them.

France: Grasset, September 2015 Frédéric Beigbeder (born 1965) published his first novel, Mémoires d’un jeune homme dérangé, at the age of just twenty-four, going on to become a Rights sold: reviewer for acclaimed magazines including Elle, Paris Match and Voici. He Ukraine - Krajina Mriy has since worked in advertising (an experience on which he based his best- Available material: selling novel, 99 Francs), later becoming the executive director of a French French edition and digital ms adult entertainment magazine, and continuing to write novels, essays and 368 pp short stories, whilst regularly contributing to magazines and literary jour- Illustrations - No nals, including French television. In 1994, he founded the Prix de Flore, which rewards young authors writing in the French language, and has been Previous publications: awarded to, amongst others, Michel Houellebecq, Amélie Nothomb and Oona & Salinger (2014), Un roman français (2009), Windows on the World Christine Angot. In 2009, Beigbeder was awarded the Prix Renaudot for (2003), 99 francs (2000) literary French novels for Un roman français. He lives in Paris.

Publishers of Oona & Salinger: Azerbaijan - Qanun Bulgaria - Colibri “The bad boy of French literature’s (new) book consists of around twenty joyfully Estonia - Varrak spontaneous interviews with the most famous contemporary authors. Attention: some France - Grasset & Fasquelle Germany - Piper little dirty secrets revealed.” Hungary - Europa - Anne-Sylvie Sprenger, Le Matin Dimanche Iceland - Forlagid Italy - Mondadori “In capturing this beautiful world, Beigbeder manages to instil in us the urge to re-read Latvia - Zvaigzne ABC the work of these writers and due to the close proximity he initiates; between the reader, Lithuania - Tyto Alba himself and the interviewee, he has made them more accessible, like they are simply Poland - Noir sur Blanc coming down from their mansions or luxury hotels for lunchtime.” Romania - Trei Russia - Azbooka-Atticus - Constance Fischbach, Nonfiction.fr Le Quotidien des livres et des idees Slovenia - Chiara B Spain - Anagrama Spain: Catalan - Ara Libres Ukraine - Krajina Mriy

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WHAT ISN’T HELL ‘CIÒ CHE INFERNO NON È’ Alessandro D’Avenia

*165,000 copies in print*

“Take away love and you will have hell” you told me, Father Pino. “Give love and you will have what hell is not.”

Palermo, May 1992. A group of high school students are celebrating at a pool, when they see on TV images of the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone, his car bombed by the mafia. Months later, teenage Federico is about to leave Palermo for an English summer school in Oxford, when he agrees to help out his teacher, Father Pino Pu- glisi, who runs a youth centre in a deprived area of Palermo, domi- nated by mafia and misery. Father Puglisi believes that change can only come from the children, if they are given the possibility of imag- ining a future that is different from the violent lives of their fathers.

Federico doesn’t know this will be the beginning of a new life for Italy: Mondadori, October 2014 him, a real life, forcing him to re-evaluate everything he thought he knew before. Leaving behind his safe and privileged life, Federico Rights sold: wants to learn from the darkness of Palermo’s alleyways, from the Brazil - Bertrand often incredibly tough lives of the children who attend the youth cen- Germany - btb tre, and also from Lucia, a beautiful girl full of courage and light. Slovenia - Druzina World English - Oneworld On the day of his fifty-sixth birthday, Father Puglisi is murdered by Available material: the mafia. From that day, the hope for Palermo and its beauty are Italian edition and digital ms entrusted to Federico’s young hands… 300 pp Sample English chapter Alessandro D’Avenia, himself a student of Father Puglisi at this high Illustrations - No school, draws a powerful, unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary

Previous publications: and contradictory city, of a society suffocated by silence yet capable Cose che nessuno sa (Things That of incomparable acts of courage. Nobody Knows, 2011), Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue, (White as Alessandro D’Avenia holds a PhD in Classical Literature, and Milk, Red as Blood, 2010) teaches Ancient Greek, Latin and Literature at a high school in Mi- lan. His debut novel, Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue, published Previous publishers: by Mondadori in 2010, was translated into 21 languages and became Albania – Botime Dudaj; Brazil – Bertrand; Bulgaria – Obsidian; a movie in 2012. His second novel, Cose che nessuno sa, was published Catalunya – Rosa Dels Vents; Chi- in 2011 by Mondadori. The two books have been in the Italian fic- na - Sichuan Xinhua Winshar; tion top ten bestseller list for three years, and sold more than one Croatia -Algoritam; Czech million copies in Italy alone. Republic – Jota; France – Lattes; Germany – Btb; Greece – Patakis; “Like blades over glass, with a firm hand D’Avenia draws up his characters Hungary - Europa; Indonesia – PT with fast and poignant dialogues […]. The dark story of Father Pino’s passion Bhuana Lumu Populer of Kompas; Israel - Modan; Lithuania and death is a long cry of grief, but it is not in vain: it is also a hymn to love that – Alma Littera; Netherlands – becomes beauty.” Cargo; Poland – Znak; Portugal – - Antonia Arslan Lua de Papel; Russia – Ripol; Serbia – Algoritam; Slovenia – “A mature work, that looks the theme of evil and violence in the eye.” Druzina; Spain (WS) – Grijalbo; - Libero Sweden - Contempo; Taiwan – Morning Star; Turkey – Turkuvaz 4 Literary Fiction

SEASICK IN MUNICH ‘SJÓVEIKUR Í MÜNCHEN’ Hallgrimur Helgason

A young man arrives in Munich from a magical island in the north to study painting. He’s never been to a restaurant or a pub, never had a beer, but he knows exactly what he wants to be: an artist. Almost sick with shyness, the student has to battle through even though he doesn’t speak a word of German. At the Academy of Arts he remains an out- sider: the latest fad, Die Neuen Wilden (the New Wild Painting), is not for him. The world outside, too, is much colder than on the island. The Cold War is at its zenith, and the young man wakes up every morning fearing that World War Three has already broken out. On top of everything it becomes apparent that he has a strange gift that doesn’t make him very appealing… Helgason’s hero is just like his author: quirky, full of humour and brilliantly maladjusted.

Hallgrímur Helgason was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. He started out as a painter and has held over 30 exhibitions in various countries. His best known book is 101 Reykjavik, which has appeared in 13 languages and was nominat- Iceland: Forlagid, October 2015 ed for the Nordic Prize for Literature. A movie based on the novel was re- leased in 2000 to international acclaim. Hallgrímur’s novel The Author of Ice- Rights sold: land received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2001. Beside his novels, Germany - Klett-Cotta Hallgrímur has written plays, poetry and countless articles for newspapers and magazines home and abroad, as well as being an active political analyst in Available material: the Icelandic media. In 2008 The Hitman’s Guide to House Cleaning, the first Icelandic digital ms book Hallgrímur has ever written in English, was published in Iceland. It English outline and sample won the German prize, The Quaintest Title Award, in 2010. His title, The material Woman at 1000°C, was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 299 pp approx 2013. Illustrations - no

Previous publications: The Woman at 1000°C (2011), The Hitman’s Guide to Housecleaning “The characters Helgason comes up with are really magnificent. You immediately fall for his cracking, absurd fantasies.” (2008), Mr Universe (2003), Reykja- - Anne Haeming, Spiegel Online vik 101 (2002)

“A word acrobat, a storyteller in the vein of Grimmelshausen.” Publishers of The Woman at - Uwe Stolzmann, Neue Züricher Zeitung 1000°C: Spain (Catalan) - Ediciones 62; “Like John Irving on speed.” Denmark - Lindhardt & Ringhof; - Volker Huehn, Lift France - Presses de la Cite; Germa- ny - Klett-Cotta; Hungary - Scolar “There seems to be a rule for writers: the more boring their works, the more exciting their Kiado; Italy - Mondadori; Lithua- private life – if this maxim is true, Halgrímur Helgason’s private life must be very nia - Alma Littera; Norway - Cap- boring.” pelen Damm; Poland - Znak; Rus- - Rainer Moritz, Stuttgarter Zeitung sia - Corpus; Spain - Penguin Ran- dom House; UK - Oneworld; US - Algonquin

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LEAVING BERLIN

Joseph Kanon

From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage – called a ‘fast- moving thinking man’s thriller’ by The Wall Street Journal – comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.

Berlin 1949. Four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted sup- plies; in the East, the heady days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espio- nage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors.

Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the cross- hairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the US: Atria Books, March 2015 loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in UK: Simon & Schuster, Novem- ber 2014 his native Berlin. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds Rights sold: himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment – to Croatia - Znanje spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. France - Editions du Seuil Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But Germany - C. Bertelsmann where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? Betrayal? Sur- Italy - Newton Compton vival? Murder?

Available material: Filled with intrigue, and the moral ambiguity of conflicted loyalties, Finished copies and digital ms Joseph Kanon’s latest novel is a compelling thriller and a love story 384 pp that brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life. Illustrations - No Joseph Kanon is the author of five novels: Los Alamos, which won Previous publications: the Edgar Award for best first novel; The Good German, which was Istanbul Passage (2012), Stardust (2010), Alibi (2006),The Good Ger- made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett; The man (2001), The Prodigal Spy (1999), Prodigal Spy and Alibi, which earned Kanon the Hammett Award of Los Alamos (1998) the International Association of Crime Writers; and Istanbul Passage. He is also a recipient of The Anne Frank Human Writers Award for his writings on the aftermath of the Holocaust. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. He lives in New York City.

“...hugely exciting, and just as heart-breaking.” - The Telegraph

“‘Leaving Berlin’ evokes comparisons to John Le Carre and Alan Furst. Such good company.” - NY Daily News 6 Literary Fiction

BARBARIC GROWTH Sheng Keyi

For the sake of a breath of fresh air or a ray of sunshine in a crevice, they reach out like weeds, never giving up their hope in life… Spanning four generations and a century of recent history, Barbaric Growth tells the story of the Li family, revealing through their fates the real face of contemporary Chinese society. Growing up in rural Hunan province as part of a poor farming family, the narrator Li Xiaohan (‘Little Winter’) tells of how her despotic grandfather, Li Jiaxu, arouses resentment and rebellion in his children, while also contaminating them to varying degrees with his own bent nature. Everyone uses his or her own method to oppose the patriarchal tyr- anny in the family; only the oldest brother Li Shunqiu bows to it, and he ends up in prison for fishing in a river, an experience from which he never recovers. Examples of familial and social dysfunction include Li Jiaxu sleeping with his own son’s wife, and his eldest daughter, seven months pregnant, being coerced by the family planning group, nearly dragging the whole clan into court. The narrator, seeking a better life for herself, goes to study Journalism in Beijing, where China: Beijing October Literature her eyes are opened to widespread corruption and horrors such as Publishing House, January 2015 the SARS virus, which she catches, but survives. Available material: This is an unflinching look at the life of the rural poor in today’s Chi- Chinese edition and digital ms na, populated by characters who are nonetheless fully alive and deter- 288 pp mined to wring all they can from the little they have. English sample and synopsis

Previous publications: Death Fugue (2014), Ode to Virtue Sheng Keyi is a contemporary Chinese novelist, born in 1973 in a (2007), Northern Girls (2004), Water remote village in Yiyang, Hunan. She migrated to Shenzhen in the and Milk (2003), Time’s Girl (2003) early 1990s and is currently living in Beijing. She formerly worked in a securities company, and as a secretary, correspondent, reporter, and Previous publishers: editor, among many other occupations. In 2002, she resigned and Indonesia - Gagasmedia began writing novels. Her works include Northern Girls, Ode to Vir- Korea - Vowel Sounds Press tue, Death Fugue, Barbaric Growth, and several short story collections, including Leaving a Room for You. Her works have been translated into English, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and other languages. Sheng was the winner of the Chinese People’s Literature Prize, the Yu Dafu Prize for Fiction, the Chinese Literature Media Award, the Top 20 Novelists of the Future Prize, and many other awards. Northern Girls, published by Penguin Books in 2012, was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her works depict the real lives of China’s poor, the survival of its women, and situations re- volving around the human spirit, written in language that is violent, enthusiastic, and experimental.

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DEATH FUGUE Sheng Keyi

Unpublished in China, and published for the first time in English by Giramondo, Death Fugue is the bold attempt by a prominent Chinese novelist to confront the legacy of protest and suppression which haunts her generation.

This is an absurdist allegorical tale about the pursuit of freedom that leads to shackles and a rebellion that ends up in dictatorship. In a large square in the centre of Beiping, the capital of Dayang, a huge tower of excrement appears one day, causing unease in the population, and ultimately widespread civil unrest. The protest, in which poets play an important part, is put down violently. Haunted by the violence, and by his failure to support his girlfriend Qizi, who is one of the protest leaders, Yuan Mengliu gives up poetry in favour of medicine and the antiseptic environment of the operating theatre. But every year he travels in search of Qizi, and on one of these trips, caught in a storm, he wakes to find himself in a perfect society called Swan Valley. In this utopia, as he soon discovers, impulse and feeling are completely controlled, and every aspect of life regulated for the good of the nation, with terrible consequences. Australia: Giramondo (WEL, 2014)

A brave work of speculative fiction, Death Fugue is a cross between Cloud Available material: Atlas and 1984, scathing in its irony, ingenious in its use of allegory, and English edition and digital ms acute in its understanding of the power of writing. 392 pp Illustrations - No

Previous publications: “Full of clever observations, energy, wit, imaginativeness, and endless lush, colorful Ode to Virtue (2007), Northern Girls landscapes that toe the line between the beautiful and the fantastical.” (2004), Water and Milk (2003), Time’s Girl (2003) - Amanda Calderon, Words Without Borders

Previous publishers: Indonesia - Gagasmedia “A withering, absurdist allegory of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 and the Korea - Vowel Sounds Press shadows the events have cast on a generation.” - Philip Wen, Sydney Morning Herald

“Anyone remotely interested in an insider’s untrammelled, authoritative vision of what’s going on in China will jump into this fascinating cauldron of a novel, at risk of being boiled alive.” - Nicholas Jose, Sydney Review of Books

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THE GUILT OF OTHERS ‘DIE SCHULD DER ANDEREN’

Gila Lustiger

It is summer in Paris and the heat is stifling when a small article in a newspaper catches the eye of journalist Marc Rappaport.

The twenty-seven-year-old murder case of a prostitute has apparently been solved with the help of modern technology. Marc is intrigued and when he starts to find out more he soon realises that it is not as straightforward as it would seem and he begins to investigate.

His investigations lead him deep into the French hinterland and to a chemical company whose workers have been dying of a terrible disease for the last thirty years. An abyss of corruption and cover-ups opens up in front of him and Rappaport almost falls victim himself as old cliques are still in power—not only in political circles but very close to home.

The Guilt of Others is a deeply atmospheric, wonderfully written and incredibly smart novel about French society as a mirror of our times.

Gila Lustiger was born in 1963 in Frankfurt am Main. She studied Germany: Berlin Verlag, January German and comparative literature in Jerusalem before settling in 2015 Paris in 1987, where she continues to live and work to this day. She is the author of six published novels to date and was shortlisted for Rights sold: the German Book prize with So Sind Wir in 2005. France - Actes Sud Italy - Neri Pozza

Available material: German edition and digital ms “Very entertaining and well researched crime novel… A concise portrait of 496 pp French society, especially the entanglements of politics and money, violence and English sample translation corruption. Remarkable are the vivid characters and the thrilling plot.” Illustrations - No - Die Welt

Previous publications: Woran denkst du jetzt? (2011), “Gita Lustiger draws a complex and atmospheric picture of a country and its Mathilda & Co. (2008), Herr Grin- people. A social novel narrated almost effortlessly, which deserves to be read along- berg & Co. (2008), So Sind Wir side the great Masters.” (2005), Aus einer schönen Welt - Buchmarkt (1997), Die Bestandsaufnahme (1995)

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THE ITALIAN ‘AL TALYANI’ Shukri Mabkhout

** Winner of the International Arabic Prize for Fiction 2015 **

The Italian, set in Tunisia, tells the story of Abdel Nasser, who is dubbed “Al-Talyani” (The Italian) for his good looks. During his own father’s funeral procession, Abdel makes a mysterious assault on the Imam, who is also his neighbour. The narrator, one of Abdel’s friends, attempts to uncover the motivation behind the attack, reconstructing Abdel’s troubled history from childhood. From his time as a left-wing student at the University of Tunis, during the final years of the Bour- guiba era, before the coup of Ben Ali and his ousting of Bourqiba’s regime in the late 1980s, we move through to the period of radical changes that subsequently rocked Tunisian society when the dreams of a generation were torn apart by the fierce struggle between Islamists and the Left. The novel reveals the mechanisms of control and censor- ship exercised through the press as well as the fragility of human be- ings, their secret histories and buried wounds.

Shukri Mabkhout was born in 1962, in Tunisia, where he still lives Tunisia: Dar Tanweer, June 2014 and works as Head of the Manouba University. The Italian is his debut novel and was awarded the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Rights sold: Fiction, as well as two literary prizes in Tunisia. Spain (Spanish): Pygmalion

Available material: Arabic ms Praise for The Italian 344 pp

English sample. Further excerpts and synopsis due October 2015 “The Italian is an accomplished novel. It never lets go of the reader who willingly Illustrations - No follows its intriguing characters on their converging and diverging journeys through a world full of incremental surprises.” - Professor Yasir Suleiman, chair of the board of IPAF trustees

“The novel brilliantly depicts the unrest both of the small world of its characters and the larger one of the nation, as well as exploring themes of personal desire, the estab- lishment, violation and opportunism. Whilst it lifts the lid on Tunisian society, the book may also surprise many of its Arab readers who may recognise aspects of their societies in its pages too. Gripping the read from the first line to the last, The Italian is a work of art and an important contribution to Tunisian, and Arab, literary fiction.” - Mourid Barghouti, chair of the 2015 IPAF judges

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INDECENT ACTS IN A PRIVATE PLACE ‘ATTI OSCENI IN LUOGO PRIVATO’ Marco Missiroli

Indecent Acts in a Private Place is the fifth novel by Campiello Prize-winning author Marco Missiroli.

This is a coming-of-age story, steeped in eroticism. Libero Marsell, who is twelve years old, half-French, half-Italian, has just moved to Paris with his parents. While witnessing his parents’ separation, he plunges with the enthusiasm of early puberty into the theatre of onanistic imagination, and the mysterious world of adults. As he explores the city’s magic maze, Libero becomes aware, first with a child’s intuition, then with a youth’s urgency, of women, their gener- osity and devotion. “Le grand Liberò”– Marie the librarian’s affec- tionate sobriquet – is ready to lose himself in a storm of sexual passion.

His first love is the resplendent Lunette, but their relationship is soon sabotaged by Libero’s desire for experimentation. Having broken his Italy: Feltrinelli, February 2015 own heart, Libero goes in search of change… From Paris to Milan, from Camus to Buzzati, from the long afternoons spent discussing Rights sold: literature at Les Deux Magots, to earning – and learning – a living at France - Payot & Rivages Germany - Klett-Cotta a shady osteria in one of Milan’s darkest corners. And from Lunette Spain - Salamandra to the thirty-one notches he carves on his soul, Libero’s new forays in sex and literature, friendship and rejection, will fatefully take him Movie rights optioned: on the road to the freedom contained in his name, and enduring love. Fandango

Available material: Marco Missiroli was born in 1981 in Rimini, Italy. His first novel Italian edition and digital ms 238 pp Senza coda (Fanucci, 2005) won the prestigious Campiello Debut English synopsis and sample Novel Prize. This was followed by Il buio addosso (Guanda, 2007; In- Illustrations - No sula Roana prize winner), and Bianco (Guanda, 2009) which won three prizes: Commisso, Tondelli and della Critica. The English translation Previous publications: of Il senso dell’elefante was published by Picador in September 2015. Il senso dell’elefante (2012), Bianco Marco writes for the culture pages of national newspaper Corriere della (2009), Il buio addosso (2007), Senza Sera. coda (2005)

Publishers of Il senso dell’elefante: UK - Picador (WEL) “Atti osceni in luogo privato is a novel of absolute beauty and that overturns all France - Payot & Rivages the levels of hierarchy of contemporary Italian literature. At 34 years old Marco Germany - Ullstein Missiroli becomes the writer of reference, the one we won’t be giving up […] A Spain - Siruela (WS) marvel of the cosmos” Sweden - Contempo - Sette, Il Corriere della Sera

“An obscene novel? Of course, but in other ways, considering this mature offering by Marco Missiroli. A coming-of-age novel sustained by great writing, that explores the space between male and female, and more importantly between freedom and licentiousness” - Vogue Italia

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BANDIT Itamar Orlev

Twenty years after running away with his mother and siblings from his violent father and immigrating from Poland to Israel, and shortly after his wife takes their five-year-old son and leaves him, Tadeusz decides to visit his homeland. The family has never forgiven the father, Stefan, for his brutality and reckless drinking, but Tadeusz suddenly feels an inexplicable urge to meet him again, perhaps for the last time, and see him through the eyes of a grown man.

He returns to a foreign, crumbling Poland and finds his aging father in a retirement home for war veterans in Warsaw. The two men set out on an unexpected journey to the small village where Stefan grew up. As the journey advances, Stefan recounts his experiences from World War Two, painting a shocking picture of the cruelty he experienced and witnessed and casting a heavy shadow on the landscapes they pass. The physical journey to his estranged homeland and the evocative encounter with his perplexing father force Tadeusz to re- flect on his life, past and present, and the complex relationship between fathers and sons.

Itamar Orlev was born in 1975 in Jerusalem. He has published short Israel: Am Oved Publishers, 2015 stories in prominent Israeli literary magazines, such as Moznaim, Mass- merim and Mitaam. His script for a play won first prize at the annual Available material: Beit Lessin Theatre Open Stage festival. He is a graduate of the Hebrew digital ms Scriptwriting Program at Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem and 426 pp earned a BA in History at Tel Aviv University. He works as an editor English sample and synopsis and ghostwriter and lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two sons. Illustrations - No “A bandit book. A f***ing good book. A son of a bitch that blows you over and won’t let go. […] The Bandit won’t let go and you don’t want him to sleep or die, just to go on cursing and drinking all the way through to the last page. And so he does.” - Igal Sarna, Yediot Acharonot, Shiva Yamim Weekend Supplement

“Itamar Orlev’s book is an exhilarating surprise. One feels that a true writer has been born here. The topic is singular and the writing – classical in its approach on one hand and utterly authentic in its content, style and characters’ language on the other. You can’t help but ask: Where have you been up till now, Itamar? Why did we have to wait forty years?” - Havatzelet Farber, Makor Rishon Weekend Supplement

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FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD ‘FRANKENSTEIN FI BAGHDAD’ Ahmed Saadawi

**Winner of the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.**

From a country that has experienced recent decades through a fog of upheaval and violence comes a spellbinding contemporary novel exploring the reality of violence in Iraq and the world at large today by an as- cending literary star among Iraqi voices and winner of the IPAF 2014.

Rag-and-bone-man Hadi al-Attag lives in a populous district of Bagh- dad. In the spring of 2005, angered by the indifference shown to the accumulating victims of bombings, he takes the body parts of the dead and sews them together to create a new body. When a displaced soul enters the body, a new being comes to life; a being Hadi calls ‘the- Whatsitsname’. The authorities name it ‘Criminal X’ and others refer to it as ‘Frankenstein’.

Thus, the vengeful Frankenstein begins a campaign against those who killed all the people of its component parts, before making the grim realisation that it requires fresh flesh in order to survive. The novel is told through the interconnected stories of Frankenstein, General Surur Majid Lebanon: Manshurat al-Jamal, of the Department of Investigation, and a young journalist, Mahmoud January 2013 al-Sawadi, who gets the chance to interview Frankenstein.

UK: Oneworld, autumn 2016 Tinged with dark humour and fantasy, Frankenstein in Baghdad offers a US: Penguin, autumn 2016 panoramic view of a city where people live in fear of the unknown, una-

Rights sold: ble to act in solidarity, haunted by the unknown identity of the criminal France - Piranha who targets them all. Israel - Kinneret-Zmora Italy - Edizioni e/o Spain - Turner Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet and screenwriter, born in Taiwan - Eurasian 1973 in Baghdad, where he works as a documentary film maker. He is the author of a volume of poetry, Anniversary of Bad Songs (2000), and Available material: Arabic digital ms three novels, The Beautiful Country (2004), Indeed He Dreams or Plays or 352 pp Dies (2008) and Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013). He has won several prizes Illustrations - No and in 2010 was selected for the Beirut39 as one of the 39 best Arabic English sample translation authors under the age of forty.

Previous publications: Indeed He Dreams or Plays or Dies (2008), The Beautiful Coun- “Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad courageously confronts the bizarre events set in try (2004) motion by the violence after the American occupation of Iraq…a painful and powerful story that goes beyond the limits of reality, in an attempt to reach the essence of the cruelty of wars that disfigure the human spirit and society, as fire disfigures skin.” - Hassan Blasim, author of The Corpse Exhibition, for Publishers Weekly

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FISHING THE CLOUDS Martin Cruz Smith

The novel begins in April 1945 in German-occupied Italy. Hitler has set up Mussolini as a puppet ruler in the resort town of Salò. Rome is in the hands of the Allies and Salò is, in effect, the new capitol of Fascist Italy.

Cenzo Barbarino, a young fisherman, has managed to keep his distance from the war until he finds a dead girl in the Venice Lagoon and pulls her into his boat. She is, in fact, not dead but alive and on the run. Her name is Giulia and she is bold and inquisitive and on the cusp of being a woman. What is worse, she is Jewish, at a time when the German SS is round- ing up Italian Jews by the thousands and sending them to death camps. Cenzo has no choice but to take her home.

Home for Cenzo is a fishing shack in Pellestrina, a fishing village on the Lido. There, he teaches Giulia the mysteries of fishing. As they survive storms and the fanatical Black Brigade, their feelings become as complicated as the lagoon itself. UK/US: Simon & Schuster, Summer 2016 Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park (1981), Stallion Gate

(1986), Polar Star (1989), Red Square (1992), Rose (1996), Havana Bay (1999), Available material: Wolves Eat Dogs (2004), Stalin’s Ghost (2007) and Three Stations (2010). His Digital ms most recent novel prior to Fishing The Clouds, Tatiana (2013), continues the 76,300 words approx Arkady Renko series. A recipient of the CWA Gold Dagger for fiction in Illustrations - no the UK, he is also two-time winner of the Hammett Prize in the United States. He was awarded the Italian Grinzane Cavour Prize at the Piemonte Previous publications: Noir Festival in 2008. Arkady Renko series: Tatiana (2013), Three Stations (2010), Stalin’s Ghost (2007), Wolves Eat Dogs (2005), Ha- vana Bay (1999), Red Square (1992), Praise for Tatiana Polar Star (1989), Gorky Park (1981) “Smith is a master storyteller, delivering sharp dialogue, a tight plot, memorable de-

Publishers of Tatiana: scriptions and an understated hero in Arkady Renko.” France - Calmann-Levy - Kirkus Germany - Random House Greece - Harlenic Hellas “...one of the finest entries in a series that is as much social commentary as it is crime Italy - Mondadori fiction, an accomplishment that only a few writers in this or any genre can hope to Poland - Albatros achieve.” Spain - Ediciones B - LA Times

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A PLACE FOR LOST THINGS Tor Udall

A speculative, contemporary debut novel of grief, magic and unrequited love, set in the Botanical Gardens at Kew.

Jonah is trying to love again after the death of his wife, Audrey. Chloe, an ori- gami artist, falls in love with Jonah but doesn’t tell him that she has discov- ered Audrey’s diary. Harry Barlcay is a mysterious figure in the garden who tries to save Audrey. Milly is an eight-year-old who often plays in the garden. Audrey teeters between life and death. All of these characters are learning to let go of how they expected life to be; all are struggling with the cost of inti- macy; and all are asking the question ‘Who is Harry Barclay?’ including Harry himself…

As the tragedy at the heart of the novel unravels, the characters journey through the seasons of the garden and learn that stories, like paper, can be refolded into different shapes. It depends on who is doing the telling. Elegiac, sometimes bizarre, at once concerned with the momentous and the mundane, Available material: and with the decisions we all make about how far we let another person into Digital ms our lives, the novel explores the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born, 81,000 words approx be that a child, a piece of art, a sapling, or a miscarried love. And the gardens Illustrations - no – the gardens! Readers will be able to revel in the smell of damp, newly

Rights sold: turned earth, the sound of a heron’s wings as it lands on the lake, the buzzing Italy - Garzanti and humming of bees… Russia - Eksmo A Place For Lost Things tears up the genre rule book on almost every level and promises to be as powerful and poignant as it is mesmerising. Combining a 21st century love story with elements of the metaphysical, it would attract readers of The Time Traveller’s Wife, The Book Thief, The History of Love, and The

Miniaturist. It will also appeal to fans of Kew Gardens; Kew receives 1.5-2 million visitors a year. In 2015 it will be hosting its first literary festival: Write on Kew.

Following a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Theatre at Bristol University, Tor (Victoria) Udall co-founded a dance-theatre company that performed at Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Festival Hall. She also devised and directed a play for the Olivier stage at the National Theatre and choreographed an opera for the Royal College of Music. She has attended Arvon, TLC and Festival of Writing workshops, and enjoys a mentoring relationship with Ben Okri. On submitting A Place For Lost Things to agents, Tor received six offers of repre- sentation. She currently works part-time as an editor for a creative consultan- cy. She lives in London with her husband and two young children.

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THE FIERY FINGER 'OGNENNYY PERST' Boris Akunin

The first fiction instalment in Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State series.

The Fiery Finger has all the ingredients Akunin's readers have come to ex- pect: explosive action, colourful characters, unexpected twists in the plot, passion, unrequited love, revenge and truly "Byzantine intrigue" as the story occurs when the Byzantine Empire is at its height. The hero, Dami- anos, is an accomplished imperial spy, whose missions take him to the outposts of the Empire to engineer the destruction of tribes which, in the view of the ruling administrative bureaucracy in Constantinople, are becoming too powerful and may pose a threat to Byzantium.

Damianos is the super-spy of his day: utterly fearless, a master of disguise and deception, capable of finding a way out of any dangerous situation Russia: AST, 2013 and dealing with crosses and double-crosses as well as villains of all

kinds. Available material: Russian edition and digital ms However, his latest mission brings him face to face with personal dilem- English outline/synopsis mas and moral choices that have never troubled him before. Such as dis- Illustrations - Yes covering suddenly that he no longer cares whether he lives or dies, but that choosing life will require a heavy price. Other fiction titles in the History of the Russian State series: The meticulously researched historical background provides a fascinating Bosch and Schelm (2014) glimpse of the lives of the tribes asserting themselves on the fringes of the Empire, the early Rus, and the Norsemen who have established Previous publishers: themselves around Lake Ladoga and who would later become a domi- Brazil - Objetiva; Bulgaria - Ednorog; nant force in the lives of the early Slavs. China - Shanghai People’s Publishing House; Columbia - Polonka; Croatia - Profil; Czech Republic - Albatros; Den- Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He has been mark - Gyldendal; Estonia - Tanapaev; compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast Finland - Into Kustannus; France - Fandorin books have sold over eighteen million copies in Russia alone as Presses de la Cite; Georgia - Intelecti; well as being translated into some thirty languages, including English. Germany - Random House; Greece - Akunin won the Antibooker prize for The Coronation and was named Rus- Synhroni Orizontes; Hungary - Europa; sian Writer of the Year in 2000. He is currently working on the sixteenth Iceland - Gedda; Israel - Books in the novel in the Fandorin series, alongside The History of the Russian State se- Attic; Italy - Frassinelli; Japan - Iwanami; ries which will consist of both fiction and non-fiction titles. The first two fiction titles in the series, The Fiery Finger (2013) and Bosch and Schelm Korea - Golden Bough; Latvia - Janis (2014) were published in Russia by AST, with the third title due to be Roze; Lithuania - Metodika; Macedonia published in winter 2015. - Dragica Nejceska; The Netherlands - de Geus; Norway - Aschehoug; Poland - Noir sur Blanc, Świat Książki, Znak, Replika; Portugal - Presenca; Romania - Humanitas; Serbia - Bash Kniga; Slove- nia - Mohorjeva; Spain - Salamandra; Sweden - Norstedts; Taiwan - VS Press; Turkey - Altin Kiplar; UK - Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Ukraine - Hemiro; USA - Random House; Vietnam - Tan Viet Investment 16 Commercial Fiction

PLANET WATER ‘PLANETA VODA’ Russia: Zakharov, spring 2015 Rights sold: Ednorog (BG); Tanapaev (EE); Świat Książki (PL) Available material: Russian edition and digital ms. Extent - 416 pp. Illustrations - Yes.

Meet Russia’s most popular detective, Erast Fandorin, as he takes on another mystery in the penultimate title in the bestselling Fandorin series from Boris Akunin!

Following crime into the 20th century, Erast Fandorin faces a slew of mysteries over the course of three novellas, each of which explores a different genre and traces the detective’s adventures from 1903-1912.

In his “Technocratic Adventure”, our detective finds himself on a mysterious island in the Atlantic. Drawn into the hunt for a treasure galleon, Fandorin’s case is played out both on land and underwater, as he finds himself aboard a submarine in pursuit of answers.

The year is 1907 and Fandorin is back on dry land as he is faced with the cruel murder of an abbess from a distant monastery. In Akunin’s “Nostalgic Adventure”, the detective’s work and personal life collide and he must keep a level head to solve the mystery, when the victim is a former lover from his youth.

In the concluding novella - an “Idiotic Adventure” - Akunin’s writing is as fast paced and harsh as the early 20th century itself. On the last day of 1912, a bloody murder takes place on a train in Poland. Hot on his heels, Fandorin chases the devilishly cruel culprit across Poland to the ancient town of Krakow, where the story reaches a shocking climax…

THE BLACK CITY ‘CHERNYY GOROD’ Russia: Zakharov, 2012 Rights sold: Ednorog (BG); Tanapaev (EE); Presses de la Cite (FR); Europakiado (HU); Świat Książki (PL); Bash Kniga (RS) Available material: Russian edition and digital ms. Illustrations - Yes

The year is 1914 and the famous detective Erast Fandorin is in hot pursuit of a daring ter- rorist, following him all the way to the city of Baku, located on the Caspian Sea. The plot unfolds against the backdrop of both Russia’s fabulously rich oil industry and the movie set where Fandorin’s wife is shooting a silent movie.

With the greatest war in Europe’s history close to breaking out, Fandorin must face his enemy, a prominent leader of the revolutionary movement financing the secretive Party, and stop the march of war before it is too late.

Previous titles in the Fandorin series: All The World’s a Stage (2009), The Jade Rosary (2007), The Diamond Chariot (2003), He Lover of Death (2001), She Lover of Death (2001), The Coronation (2000), The State Counsellor (1999), Special Assignments (1999), The Death of Achilles (1998), Leviathan (1998), The Turkish Gambit (1998), Azazel (The White Queen) (1998)

“Whether in skittish or sombre mood, Akunin is immensely readable (and excellently translated by Andrew Bromfield); the be- guiling, super-brainy, sexy, unpredictable Fandorin is a creation like no other in crime fiction” - The Times

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THE PENNY HEART Martine Bailey

The Penny Heart is the second compelling historical novel by Martine Bailey, author of An Appetite for Violets, her first fiction novel published last year to glowing reviews.

Manchester 1809. Would-be industrialist Michael Croxon chases young street hawker Mary Jebb into a wretched warren after she cons his brother out of his money. In an unguarded moment he develops a suppressed attraction to the girl. After he bears witness in court against her, Mary sends him a Penny Heart token from the prison hulks bearing a strange verse, the reverse announcing that she will be transported for seven years.

Two years later, Michael has married awkward Jane Moore, who is overjoyed at her luck, but soon disappointed to learn it was only to gain her land. Using her conning skills, Mary returns home and adopts the identity of ‘Peg’. When Jane unwittingly employs Peg as her cook, she at first finds a friend to help her compile a book of UK: Hodder & Stoughton, May husband-pleasing delights. But her discovery of two matching ‘Penny 2015 Heart’ convict tokens draws her into a world of deceit and shadows, until she is forced to uncover a tale of revenge that culminates in US: St. Martin’s Press, May 2015 murder.

Available material: Finished copies and digital ms 393 pp Martine Bailey is inspired by eighteenth-century household books Illustrations - No of recipes, and writing historical fiction allows her to indulge in her obsessions with food, history and travel. In pursuit of authenticity Previous publications: she has studied with food historian Ivan Day and experienced Geor- An Appetite for Violets (2014) gian food and fashion at first-hand with an historic re-enactment so-

Publishers of An Appetite for ciety. Violets: As an amateur cook, Martine won the Merchant Gourmet Recipe UK - Hodder & Stoughton Challenge and was a former UK Dessert Champion, cooking at Le US - St. Martin’s Press Meurice in Paris. She lives in Cheshire, England and Auckland, New Croatia - Mozaik Kniga Zealand, and is married with one son. Germany - Rowohlt Spain - Algaida

“An ingenious exercise in pastiche gothic, this is a richly rewarding read.” - The Sunday Times

“Martine Bailey has certainly succeeded in cooking up another treat – this is a must-read novel.” - The Bookbag

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THE TRUE WEIGHT OF LOVE ‘IL PESO SPECIFICO DELL’AMORE’

Federica Bosco

“One day love is over, and that’s it. And it happens with no notice, on a random Wednesday night. And they don’t tell you this in the movies, or in books, because it happens as soon as the credits are over. Because the truth is that Richard Gere has never forgiven Julia Roberts for working Sunset Boulevard, and that Julia Roberts got bored after ten minutes of sitting on that bench in freezing Notting Hill with Hugh Grant (...). Life works like this, there is never a happy ending, there is only an ending.”

Francesca is trying to deal with this bitter realisation by working like crazy, because work is the only area of her life that she seems to be able to keep under control. The rest is a disaster: her boyfriend, devoted but dead boring; her boss, a power-crazy publisher nicknamed Mr Big, who enslaves her with the promise of a promotion; Paola, her friend who is stalked by Italy: Mondadori, March 2015 her ex-husband; and her mother, who suffers from depression and is a prisoner of Francesca’s hideous aunt. To escape the insomnia that inevita- Rights sold: bly results from all this, during the night Francesca bakes cakes until she Hungary - Libri Kiado drops (and she doesn’t even like cakes!). Always at the mercy of Mr Big’s Latvia - Zavaigzne ABC every whim and the moods of their egocentric and narcissistic authors – Spain - Urano the prime example being Leonardo Calamandrei, who is favoured for a

Available material: prestigious literary prize – Francesca only has her irony to sustain her… Italian edition and digital ms English sample translation and synopsis 307 pp Federica Bosco lives in Rome and is the author of several bestselling nov- Illustrations - No els for women. Adored by readers of all ages, her humorous, smart and ironic books have sold over 1 million copies in Italy and have been pub- Previous publications: S.M.S. Storie Mostruosamente lished in ten languages. Sbagliate (T.E.X.T Telephones, Excuses and Extramarital Trau- mas, 2014), Non Tutti Gli Uomini “Now that her army of fans is big enough to risk not satisfying all of them, [Federica Vengono Per Nuocere, October Bosco] goes ever deeper in her writing. And the experiment works: her readership contin- (Every Man Has a Silver Lining, ues to grow and each novel is better than the last.” 2013), Pazze Di Me (Crazy About - Debora Attanasio, Marie Claire Me, 2012), Cercasi Amore Disper- atamente (Desperately Seeking Love, 2010), SOS Amore (SOS Love, 2010), 101 Modi Per Dimenticare Il Tuo Ex (101 Ways to Get Over Your Ex and Find a New Boyfriend Immediately, 2009), 101 Modi Per Riconoscereil Tuo Principe Azzurro (Senza Dover Baciare Tutti I Rospi) (101 Ways to Find Your Prince (Without Kissing All the Frogs)), 2007

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THE GIRL IN THE FOG ‘LA RAGAZZA NELLA NEBBIA’ Donato Carrisi

A winter’s night. A car accident caused by heavy fog. The vehicle is wrecked, but the driver is unharmed, and yet the police detain him anyway. If he doesn’t even have a scratch on him, whose is the blood in his car?

The driver is a policeman called Vogel. Every time there’s a big news story, his face is sure to appear on TV. He doesn’t have any criminological exper- tise, he’s not interested in fingerprints or DNA, and he doesn’t follow foot- prints or clues. He uses the media. ‘The public don’t want justice; they just want a monster, to give a name to their fear, to pretend to themselves that they are safe. I give them exactly what they want: someone to blame.’ It’s a story of suffering - and Vogel is the star.

In a valley high up in the Alps, a sixteen-year-old girl has disappeared. She left no clues behind her, not a trace. When Vogel arrives on the scene, he thinks he has found the perfect story. He convinces the media to take it up Italy: Longanesi, November 2015 and, without there being the slightest evidence that this is an abduction, the hunt for the monster begins. The subject of speculation on the TV, inter- Available material: net and in the papers, the monster is identified. He is a humble teacher of Italian ms due late October 2015 literature, implicated only by suspicion, which, thanks to a hasty-trial-by- English synopsis media, becomes widely accepted as the truth. He loses everything: his fami- 259pp approx ly, his job, his dignity.

Previous publications: When Vogel eventually finds a way to frame the teacher, the real monster L’Ipotesi Del Male (2013), Il Tribu- contacts him anonymously. The policeman must decide whether to clear the nale Delle Anime (2011), Il Sugger- name of an innocent man, or save himself by covering up what has hap- itore (2009) pened. But now the monster wants the attention that awaits him.

Publishers of Il Cacciatore del Buio: Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 in Martina Franca, and currently lives in France - Calmann Levy Rome. Following a law degree at university, and further studies in criminol- Serbia - Vulkan ogy and behavioural science, he became a scriptwriter for television series UK - Little, Brown and film. He is a contributor to the Corriere della Sera and author of the international bestselling novels ll suggeritore (The Whisperer), Il tribunale delle anime (The Lost Girls of Rome), La donna dei fiori di carta (The Girl with the Paper Flow- ers), L’ipotesi del male (The Vanished Ones) and Il cacciatore del buio (The Hunter of the Dark), all published in Italy by Longanesi. He wrote and presented the Saturday evening prime-time TV program ‘The Sixth Sense’ on Rai 3.

“Shiveringly intelligent.” - The Times

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THE HUNTER OF THE DARK ‘IL CACCIATORE DEL BUIO’ Italy: Longanesi, September 2014 Rights sold: Calmann Levy (FR); Vulkan (RS); Little, Brown (UK) TV Rights: Fox America/Sky Italia, 2017 Available material: Italian and English editions. Digital ms. Extent - 391pp. Illustra- tions - No

A brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy.

A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes and her own past. Sandra's shared history with Marcus, a member of the ancient Penitenzeri - a unique Italian team, linked to the Vatican, and trained in the detection of true evil, means that the two are brought together again in the pursuit of a malignant killer.

Soon Marcus and Sandra notice the emergence of a disturbing pattern running alongside the latest killings - and every time they think they have grasped a fragment of the truth, they are led down yet another terrifying path.

A sensational new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Whisperer, this novel captures the beautiful atmosphere of Rome and explores its dark and hidden secrets.

The author is currently working on the third title in the series, Il Maestro Delle Ombre, which will be published by Longanesi in 2016.

THE LOST GIRLS OF ROME ‘IL TRIBUNALE DELLE ANIME’

Italy: Longanesi, September 2011 Rights sold: Record (BR); Art People (DK); Calmann Levy (FR); Piper (DE); Oceani- da (GR); Alvabet (ID); Hayakawa (JP); Sigongsa (KR); Matica (MK); Wereldbibliotheck (NL); Albatros (PL); Porto (PT); Alnari (RS); Slovart (SK); Planeta (ES); Spring (TW); Pegasus (TR); Little, Brown (UK); Mulholland Books (US/Canada) Available material: English and Italian editions. Digital ms. Extent - 462pp. Illustra- tions - No

Marcus Hunter, a darkness-hunter, and Clemente, his guide, are investigating the disappearance of a young woman in Rome. A series of anomalies make it a case worth Mar- cus’ attention, as he is trained to recognise them and dig out the hidden sides of evil. But the scar on his forehead is there to remind him about the gunshot that made him lose his memory a few months earlier.

In the meanwhile, Sandra, a photo-detector whose skill is to work on the details out of place, is hunted by the thought that her husband, David, lied to her before dying in a suspicious accident.

While following different paths, Sandra and Marcus meet each other and uncover a terrible reality hidden within the recesses of Rome: somebody is putting in contact the families of the victims of unsolved cases with the still unpunished culprit. And when justice is no longer an option, there is only one solution left - the decision must be made between forgiveness or revenge.

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THE SANTANGELOS

Jackie Collins

In the sequel to Confessions of a Wild Child, bestselling author Jackie Collins returns on top form with a new instalment on the infamous Santangelo family.

A vicious hit. A vengeful enemy. A drug-addled Colombian club owner. A sex-crazed Italian family. And the ever powerful Lucky Santangelo has to deal with them all, while Max, her teenage daughter, is becoming The “It” girl in Europe’s modeling world. And her Kennedyesque son, Bobby, is being set up for a murder he didn’t commit. But Lucky can deal. Always strong and unpredictable, with her husband, Lennie, by her side, she lives up to the family motto— “Never fuck with a Santangelo.”

Lucky rules. The Santangelos always come out on top. The Santange- US: St Martin’s Press, June 2015 los is an epic family saga filled with love, lust, revenge and passion. UK: Simon & Schuster, September 2015 Jackie Collins (1937-2015) has been called a “raunchy moralist” by Rights sold: the late director Louis Malle and “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust” Hungary - Erawan by Vanity Fair magazine. With more than 500 million copies of her The Netherlands - Meulenhoff Boekerij books sold in more than forty countries, and with some thirty New York Times bestsellers and a cookery book to her credit, Jackie Collins Available material: is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. She is known for giving Finished copies and digital ms her readers an unrivalled insider’s knowledge of Hollywood and the 448 pp glamorous lives and loves of the rich, famous, and infamous. “I Illustrations - No write about real people in disguise,” she says. “If anything, my char- Previous Lucky Santangelo acters are toned down—the truth is much more bizarre.” titles: Confessions of a Wild Child (2013) Goddess of Vengeance (2011) Drop Dead Beautiful (2007) “It’s an absolute triumph and I was gutted when I finished it.” Dangerous Kiss (1999) Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge (1997) - The Daily Mail Lady Boss (1990) Lucky (1985) “Sassy, sexy and addictive - you’ll be hooked from page one.” Chances (1981) - Heat

Previous publishers: “Full of glitz, drama and scandal, this is Jackie Collins at her very best.” Bulgaria - Prozorets; China - Mod- - Bella magazine ern Press; Czech Rep. - Alpress; Estonia - Eram Books; France - Leduc/Editions Guy Saint-Jean; Greece - Compupress; Hungary - JLX; Israel - Modan; Italy - Fa- nucci; Latvia - Kontinents; Neth- erlands - Meulenhoff Boekerij; Norway - Bokvennen; Poland - Foksal; Romania - S.C. Editura Litera; Russia - Eksmo; Serbia - Sezam; Slovak Republic - Ikar; Spain - Urano; Turkey - Artemis; Ukraine - Dopomoga 22 Commercial Fiction

A ROBOT IN THE GARDEN

Deborah Install

“I have to admit that the idea of travelling across Texas in a Dodge Charger with a shit robot and a radioactive sausage dog is not something I would have imagined myself doing…”

What would you do if you found a robot in your back garden? For 34 -year-old Ben Chambers the answer is obvious: find out where it came from and return it home, even if it means losing his wife in the process. Determined to achieve something for once in his life, Ben embarks on a journey that takes him and the robot to the far side of the globe...and back again. Along the way he begins to change, subtly at first, and then in ways that only become clear on his return to the house he’s always lived in.

Funny, touching, charming, and with things to say about, well, being a man and being sentient, A Robot In The Garden is a gem of a first novel, perfect for book clubs; perfect for anyone, male or female, who has ever found it difficult to connect with the world.

UK: Transworld, April 2015

Canada: Random House, June Deborah Install has been writing fiction since childhood, submitting 2015 her first book to a publisher at the age of eight. Though ‘Sammy the Squirrel’ never saw the light of day the love of writing persisted, lead- US: Sourcebooks, autumn 2015 ing to a number of jobs, including web journalism at university and her most recent role as copywriter at a design and marketing agen- Rights sold: cy. This role morphed into maternity leave, which turned out to be Germany - S. Fischer more closely associated with writing than expected. Deborah’s debut Italy - Piemme Japan - Shogakukan novel – A Robot in the Garden – came about whilst caring for her new Poland - Wydawnictwo WAM baby. Spain - Grijalbo Thailand - The Post Publishing Turkey - Altin Kitaplar “An unusual and delightful book. A robot to remember.” Available material: - Alexander McCall Smith Finished copies and digital ms 336 pp Illustrations - No “I’ve been smiling all week – thank you Deborah Install for introducing me to Tang. Who knew a robot could be so loveable?? I envy those who have yet to read it and can’t wait for A Robot in the Garden to be available for all readers.” - Marion Garner, VP, Deputy Publisher, Random House of Canada

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MARLENE Hanni Münzer

The sequel to Honigtot

At the new novel’s outset, Marlene witnesses the destruction of Deborah’s house on Munich’s Prinzregentenplatz by US Air Force bombs. Convinced that her friend has been killed, Marlene decides to leave Germany and join the French resistance, but after the Allied Normandy landings and the imminent liberation of Paris, her ser- vices are no longer needed there, and the General Command of the European Anti-Nazi Resistance decides to send her back to occupied Poland.

Marlene, whose real name is Anna von Durkheim, the daughter of a German aristocrat and his family’s Jewish servant, again uses all her intelligence, beauty, charm and bravery to cause trouble and damage to the Nazi occupiers. Several times she puts her own life on the line, and soon the Nazis search for her as one of the most wanted women in all of Europe - dead or alive. Underground, she develops Germany: Piper, September 2016 close friendships with other resistance fighters and falls in love with an extraordinary man, a fighter who constantly risks his life to save Available material: the children he is determined to protect. German digital ms due March 2016 Toward the end of 1944, Marlene is suddenly faced with the gravest, Illustrations - No most difficult, painfully heart-breaking decision she ever had to take:

Previous publications: She could ultimately change the course of the war, possibly saving Honigtot (2015) millions of lives – however, then the man she deeply and passionate- ly loves, would inevitably have to die...

Hanni Münzer’s Honigtot was self-published in early 2014, outrank- ing 50 Shades of Grey on the bestseller list and staying at No. 1 on am- azon.de’s Kindle store bestseller list for 12 weeks and remains in the Top 5. Piper Verlag published Honigtot in April 2015, which became a Der Spiegel bestseller. Hanni lives in a village, south of Munich, with her husband and dog.

Praise for Honigtot

“The family saga confronts the reader with the diverse fates people suffered during the Nazi’s regime of terror. Revenge features as a large topic in this captivating novel. Real people as well as fictional characters have been interwoven into a story that’s absolutely worth reading.” - Rhurnachrichten.de

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HONIGTOT

Hanni Münzer

From Hanni Münzer, the ‘secret queen of bestselling authors’ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), we are delighted to present Honigtot.

When her mother disappears, young American Felicity’s search takes her to Rome, where she unearths traces of her family history, revealing a secret from the darkest period of German history that haunts generations of Felicity’s family.

Honigtot is a novel about love and betrayal, of guilt and redemption, and of compulsion and escape. It is the story of four generations of women, each in her own way caught up in the tragedies of twentieth- century violence.

“The novel is not only extremely entertaining and thrilling, but is also a lesson in history. […] Yet the author manages to combine all of this extremely well, [… and] puts a spell onto the reader who lives through an emotional rollercoaster, Germany: Piper, April 2015 which will not just entertain, but also give material for thought. All of the characters have been drawn out in detail – especially Elizabeth, as well Rights sold: as Deborah and later on Marlene; they are sympathetic in any situation life China - Thinkingdom Media throws at them and have great potential for readers to identify themselves in Hungary - Animus them.” Italy - Giunti - Huffington Post.de Netherlands - Xander Poland - Insignis Media Slovak Republic - Motyl Spain - Alianza (World Spanish) Turkey - Pegasus

Available material: German edition and digital ms 450 pp approx. English synopsis Sample available Illustrations - No

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THE STYLIST TAKES MANHATTAN Rosie Nixon

The sequel to The Stylist finds Amber Green in love and embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move to New York for six months. Des- perate not to be seen as her boyfriend Rob’s ‘dependent’ she embarks on rekindling her styling career.

A couple of catastrophic social media faux pas catapult her back into the fashion spotlight with a bang and a chance meeting with a once disgraced well-known designer and a reformed wild-child star could be the start of something big.

Meanwhile, Amber is trying not to be jealous of the ever lengthening limbs on the models Rob is working with as he makes a documentary about a fabled underwear company. When an opportunity arises to work with him styling the biggest fashion show Manhattan has ever seen, Amber rises to the challenge. But who is trying to sabotage the show? And why has her best friend turned up in tears on her apartment doorstep, carrying a large suitcase?

UK: Harlequin, February 2017 Life on the fashion front line was never going to be straight forward, especially in the city that never sleeps… Available material: Digital ms due April 2016 Illustrations - No Rosie Nixon has been joint Editor of HELLO! magazine for the past five Previous publications: years where she relishes the role of hands-on editor with a love of all The Stylist (2016) things celebrity, royal and fashion-related. She previously held senior positions at glossy women's magazines including Grazia, Glamour and Red. In her career she has been lucky enough to attend a multitude of glamorous

award ceremonies, premieres and showbiz weddings all around the world. Ever discreet and protective of the big stars she has worked with, Rosie's experience has undoubtedly enabled her to write her debut novel, The Styl- ist. As part of a two-book deal with Harlequin, the sequel to The Stylist will be published in 2017.

Praise for The Stylist 'A stylish, fun read, I absolutely loved it!' - Jackie Collins

‘Sassy, stylish and super-fun’ - Glamour UK

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THE STYLIST

Rosie Nixon

The Stylist is Rosie's debut novel, a labour of love written in the tube, in bed and in any spare minutes outside of her day job as editor of HELLO! magazine. Before HELLO!, Rosie held senior positions at women's magazines including Grazia, Glamour and Red.

When fashion boutique worker Amber Green is mistakenly offered a job as assistant to infamous, jet-setting 'stylist to the stars' Mona Armstrong, she hits the ground running, helping to style some of Hollywood's hottest (and craziest) starlets. Over the next few weeks, awards season spins into action with The Golden Globes, BAFTAs and the big one, The Oscars. Mona is in hot demand and Amber's life turned upside down as dazzling designer gowns are paraded on red carpets in Los Angeles, London and back. Ro- mance, red carpet crises, and crushing hangovers on both sides of the Atlan- tic ensues. Meanwhile Mona is unravelling faster than a hemline. What is Mona's secret? How will Amber keep her head? And what the hell will everyone wear? UK: Harlequin, February 2016

Available material: Digital ms "Rosie’s writing is so incredibly warm, funny and addictive. This is an utterly filmic, fan- 109,000 words tastic read that I can’t wait to get into people’s hands. The Stylist is The Devil Wears Illustrations - No Prada for a new generation and will appeal to fans of Lindsay Kelk and Sophie Kinsella." - Anna Baggaley, Harlequin

“A must-read for The Devil Wears Prada and Shopaholic fans!” - Adele Parks

'A stylish, fun read, I absolutely loved it!' - Jackie Collins

“Captivating, glamorous and laugh-out-loud funny!” - Giovanna Fletcher

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THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET Natasha Pulley

In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny London flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has bigger things to worry about than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received a bomb threat.

Six months later, the mysterious watch saves Thaniel’s life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, and at last, he goes in search of its maker – a kind Japanese man called Keita Mori who has the ability to tell the future. Then physicist Grace Carrow enters the scene and as their lives become en- twined, events spiral out of Thaniel’s control.

Time, destiny, genius – and a clockwork octopus – collide in this ravishing debut literary fantasy. Natasha Pulley takes readers on an enchanting journey through Victorian London, Oxford and civil-war Japan, creating a magical past reminiscent of the work of Susanna Clarke, Philip Pullman, David Mitchell and Neil Gaiman.

UK: Bloomsbury (WE), July 2015 Natasha Pulley studied English Literature at Oxford University. After stints working at Waterstones as a bookseller, then at Cambridge University Rights sold: Press as a publishing assistant in the astronomy and maths departments, The Netherlands - De Fontein Spain (Spanish and Catalan) - she did the Creative Writing MA at UEA. She has recently returned from Penguin Random House Tokyo, where she lived for nineteen months on a scholarship from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is her Available material: first novel and will be followed by The Bedlam Stacks, due to be published in Finished copies and digital ms early 2017 by Bloomsbury. 319 pp Illustrations - No “There's nothing quite like putting down a delightful, relentlessly charming and deeply moving book and then finding out it's the author's first. "The Watchmaker of Filigree Street" is a remarkable debut” - The LA Times

"Electrifying...a triumph of speculative fiction. Pulley expertly employs the tools of mystery and fantasy to examine the social pressures faced by the marginalised...but the heart of the story is the universal human quest for acceptance, understanding and love" - Publishers Weekly, starred review

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MADELEINE’S WAR

Peter Watson

A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-Day in 1944.

Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the Europe- an theatre during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but he continues to serve his country by training new resistance fighters.

One of the recruits under his tutelage is Madeleine, a spellbinding, impassioned French-Canadian with eyes of “burnished whiskey.” De- spite protocols discouraging romance, they are deeply in love, and Matthew is torn about putting Madeleine's life in danger. He already has one tragic affair with a Resistance fighter under his belt—his former lover, Celestine, was killed because her assassination of a German doctor went awry.

But the Allies are mustering all their resources for crucial beach landings in Normandy, and Matthew knows his unit will need to play a US: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday role. It will be a very dangerous mission: parachuting in behind the (WE), June 2015 Nazi line. As Madeleine progresses through the training with her fellow recruits, Matthew can only hope that luck will guide her through Available material: when the drop finally arrives. Finished copies and digital ms 320 pp Illustrations - No Peter Watson is a well-known author of many critically acclaimed Previous publications: works of fiction and non-fiction. His debut novel, The Kissing Gates, a The Age of Nothing (2014), The Great love story set during the First World War, was published under the Divide (2011), The German Genius pseudonym Mackenzie Ford, followed by The Clouds Beneath The Sun, (2010), The Clouds Beneath The Sun set in Kenya in 1961, in 2009. (2009), The Kissing Gates (2008) (US title: Gifts of War, 2010); Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention From Fire to Freud (2005), A Terrible Beau- “Watson’s use of detail, down to the crinkle-free silk writing pads sewn into ty (2000) agents’ clothes, heightens the atmosphere of intrigue…[a] mix of romance and risk

Previous non-fiction publishers: makes for a heady cocktail sure to be savoured by historical-fiction readers.” Bulgaria - Kragozor - Booklist China - Shanghai Translation Egypt - National Center for Trans- lation Germany - C. Bertelsmann Korea - Cum Libro Netherlands - Het Spectrum Russia - Eksmo Spain - Critica Sweden - Fri Tanke Taiwan - Wu Nan Book Turkey - Yapi Kredi

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THE CASTLE IN NORMANDY

‘DAS SCHLOSS IN DER NORMANDIE’

Ulrich Wickert

Book 6 in the Jacques Ricou series

An African head of state, a Corsican billionaire and mysterious incidents in a castle in Normandy.

Corruption in the highest political circles does not only exist in Africa. The judge from Paris knows that very well. But the case of the President of Equatorial Guin- ea is not only a matter of bribe money, luxury French real estate and expensive cars. In his sixth case, Jacques Ricou discovers a top secret affair. A story that could be true …

Jacques Ricou is known for being implacable when justice is at stake. That’s why he doesn’t hesitate for a moment to file the suit of a non governmen- tal organisation against an African president. But little by little he realizes how explosive this case is and that catastrophe is imminent. The French president dis- charges a minister, his boss does not trust him, and the powerful people who fight against him as a judge want to eliminate him once and for all. They conspire to cast a horrible suspicion over him. Should the scheming succeed, Jacques Ricou Germany: Hoffman & Campe, would be removed from his office for good. The key to the case lies within a cas- September 2015 tle in Normandy. But this only becomes clear to Jacques Ricou when it is almost too late. Available material: German edition and digital ms English synopsis Ulrich Wickert is one of the most renowned journalists in Germany. He worked 318 pp as a correspondent in the US and in France and for a number of years was the Illustrations - No anchor of the very prestigious German news programme Tagesthemen. His previous books Der Ehrliche ist immer der Dumme, Das Buch der Tungenden and Gauner muss Previous titles in the Jacques Man Gauner Nennen were bestsellers in Germany. Ricou series: Das Marrokkanisch Mädchen (2014), Das Achte Paradies (2011), Der Nützliche Freund (2008), Die “Ulrich Wickert is a storyteller who knows how to take his readers into a world full of ominous Wuestenkoenigin (2005), Der Richter entanglements.” Aus Paris (2003) - Hamburger Abendblatt

“Cantankerous but nice Judge Ricou impresses even confirmed Mankell-Fans - Chapeau!” - Hajo Steinert, Focus

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ARDENNES 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble

Antony Beevor

On 16th December, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the border of Belgium and Germany. He believed he could split the Allies by driv- ing all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and non-commissioned officers were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the East. Many were exultant at the prospect of striking back. The Ardennes offensive, with more than a million men involved, became the greatest battle of the war in West- ern Europe.

American troops, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two panzer armies. While many fled or surrendered, others held on heroi- cally, creating breakwaters which slowed the German advance. And after massacres by the Waffen-SS, even American generals approved when their men shot down surrendering Germans. Fear and anger UK: Viking, May 2015 was also stoked by the discovery that paratroopers had been dropped behind their lines and Skorzeny’s commandos had infiltrated their US: Viking, May 2015 lines in American vehicles and uniforms.

Rights sold: China - CITIC Press; Denmark - The Ardennes was the battle which finally broke the back of the Lindhardt & Ringhof; Finland - Wehrmacht. In mid-January 1945, when the Red Army launched its WSOY; France - Calmann-Levy; onslaught from the Vistula towards Berlin, the once-feared German Germany - C. Bertelsmann; Hungary war machine was revealed to be broken beyond repair. - Gold Book; Italy - RCS Libri; Israel - Yedioth Books; Korea - Geulhan- gari; Netherlands - Ambo-Anthos; Norway - Cappelen Damm; Poland - Antony Beevor is the author of No.1 bestseller, The Second World Znak; Portugal - Bertrand; Spain - War, Crete – The Battle and the Resistance, (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad, Planeta; Sweden - Historiska Media (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize for Literature), Berlin – The Downfall 1945, The Battle for Spain Available material: (Premio La Vanguardia), and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, (Prix Finished copies and digital ms Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal). His books have 400 pp approx. appeared in thirty languages and have sold more than six million cop- Illustrations - Yes ies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent, Bath and East Previous publications: Anglia, and is a visiting professor at the University of Kent. He is the The Second World War (2012), D-Day: recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achieve- The Battle for Normandy (2009) The Battle for Spain (2006), The Mystery of ment in Military Writing. Olga Chekhova (2004), Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (2002), Stalingrad (1999), Paris After The Liberation “Beevor weaves a brilliant narrative out of all this drama. As in his previous (1994), Crete: The Battle and the Re- books, his gifts are strongest in focusing on telling details from different perspec- sistance (1992) tives. . . a vital historical insight.” - The Sunday Times

“a treasure of memorable portraits, striking details, fascinating revelations, and broad insights—likely to be the definitive account of the battle for years to come.” - Kirkus

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WHO LOST RUSSIA? How East and West Fell In and Out of Love

Peter Conradi

Based in Moscow as Bureau Chief for The Times from 1988 to 1995, Peter Conradi witnessed first-hand the shift that took place as the Cold War ended and a new era of cooperation dawned between Russia and the West. More recently, as Foreign Editor at the Sunday Times, he has seen this relationship sour and deteriorate, reaching a critical state following Russia’s annexation of the Crimea, her intervention in Ukraine and now Syria.

So who lost Russia? Many in the West will rush to lay the blame on Putin’s aggressive attempts to reconstruct the Soviet Union; others would criticize the West for its thinly veiled campaign to see Putin overthrown. Tracing the development from the early 1990s to the present, Peter Conradi argues that this is in fact a story of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, and that the West has repeatedly miscalculated Russia’s stance towards it – a miscalcula- tion for which we are all now paying the price.

This book could not be more timely: 2016 will be the twenty-fifth anniversary Available material: of the attempted Moscow coup of August 1991 and the dissolution of the Digital ms due Spring 2016 Soviet Union a few months later. Foreign policy towards Russia will be one of Proposal (27 pp) the greatest challenges facing the next President of the United States in 2017. Given the panoply of individuals Peter will interview, this will be a vivid and Previous titles: penetrating exploration of what has brought us to the present crisis in diplo- Hot Dogs and Cocktails (2013) matic relations, and how East and West might eventually reconcile their dif- The Great Survivors (2012) ferences. The King's Speech (2010) Hitler's Piano Player (2004) Greenpeace (1998) The Red Ripper (1992) Peter Conradi graduated in PPE from Oxford University and Ludwig Maxi- milian University in Munich and has worked as a journalist for thirty years. He is also the author of several books on a variety of subjects, including Hit- ler’s Piano Player (2004), a biography of Ernst Hanfstaengl, who worked for both Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and The Great Survivors (2012), a study of European monarchy and why it has endured into the twenty-first century. Together with Mark Logue, Conradi co-authored The King’s Speech (2010), the international bestseller that recounts the events that inspired the award-winning film of the same name.

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SWIMMING WITH SHARKS ‘DIT KAN NIET WAAR ZIJN’

Joris Luyendijk

Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector.

Joris immersed himself in the City for a few years, speaking to over 200 people - from the competitive investment bankers and elite hedge-fund managers to downtrodden back-office staff, reviled HR managers and those made redundant in the regular 'culls'. Breaking the strictly imposed code of secrecy and silence, these insiders talked to Joris about what they actually do all day, how they see themselves and what makes them tick. They opened up about the toxic hiring and firing culture. They confessed to being overwhelmed by techno- logical and mathematical opacity. They admitted that when Lehman Brothers went down in 2008 they hoarded food, put their money in gold and prepared to evacuate their children to the countryside. They agreed that nothing has changed since the crash.

The Netherlands: Atlas-Contact, Joris had a chilling realisation. What if the bankers themselves aren't February 2015 the real enemy? What if the truth about global finance is more sinister than that? UK: Guardian Faber, September 2015

Rights sold: Joris Luyendijk was born in 1971 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. China - CITIC Press; Denmark - He is a journalist and author of the non-fiction title, Het Zijn Net Tiderne Skifter; Finland - Atena; France - Editions Plon; Germany - Mensen (UK: ‘Hello Everybody’, US: ‘People Like Us’, Australia: ‘Fit Klett-Cotta; Hungary - Corvina; to Print’), about his experiences as a news correspondent in the Mid- Korea - Open Books; Norway - dle East. The title has sold over 250,000 copies in the Netherlands Arneberg Forlag; Spain - Malpaso; alone, and been published in sixteen countries. Sweden - NoK; Taiwan - China Times Publishing In 2011 Joris moved to London to start an experimental banking blog for The Guardian – ‘The Joris Luyendijk Banking Blog’ – to look Available material: Dutch and English editions and at the world of finance from an anthropological perspective. digital manuscripts 240 pp Illustrations - No "An exploration of the inner workings of banking that's both enormously enter-

taining and utterly terrifying. Proceeding in his fair-minded, unsensationalist way, Previous publications: Joris Luyendijk ends up showing how the financial system has evolved to offer all Het Zijn Net Mensen (UK: Hello Everybody; US: People Like Us; Aus- the wrong psychological rewards for all the worst behaviour – and how we may be tralia: Fit to Print, 2006) teetering on the brink of a greater crisis than those we've already seen. It's not (mainly) that bankers are bad people. It's far scarier than that." - Oliver Burkeman

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THE BLOOD SUGAR FIX Dr Michael Mosley

From the author of the international bestselling Fast Diet – a revolutionary new approach to ‘diabesity.’

Everywhere we look in the world today – whether it be on media bill- boards or in the display counters of supermarkets and big brand coffee shops – we are encouraged to treat ourselves to foods and drinks that are raising our blood sugar levels to dangerously high levels.

The result has been a doubling in the number of type 2 diabetics over the last few decades and these numbers are expected to double again. Along with the explosion in diabetes we have seen a surge in those with the potentially damaging condition, pre-diabetes. Even moderately ele- vated blood sugar levels lead to premature ageing and can trigger a range of life-threatening diseases, including cancer, heart disease and dementia. It is the greatest global epidemic of the 21st century.

Scientists in the UK have recently made a discovery with revolutionary implications. They have not only identified an important cause of type 2 UK: Short Books, January 2016 diabetes – accumulation of fat in the liver and the pancreas – but have US: Atria, spring 2016 demonstrated in medical trials that you can not only prevent but also AUZ: Simon & Schuster reverse type 2 diabetes.

Available material: In this book, Dr Michael Mosley, the medical journalist who alerted the Digital ms due November 2015 world to the benefits of intermittent fasting (and who is himself a for- 244 pp mer diabetic), draws on the work of Professor Roy Taylor – one of the Illustrations - 8 pp colour UK’s foremost diabetes experts – to present a ground breaking new diet that will show you how to defuse the blood sugar time-bomb before it Previous publications: explodes in your life by offering a simple, flexible 8-week diet plan, with The Fast Diet (2014), Fast Exercise quick, easy recipes and menus, plus a special high/low carb food moni- (2013) tor (everything you need to know about sugar...) with dietary dos and don’ts. Option publishers: Brazil - Sextante; Bulgaria - Colibri; China - Shanghai Dook; Croatia - Dr Michael Mosley is a science presenter, journalist and executive pro- Stilus; Czech Republic - Beta; Den- ducer for the BBC, which he joined after qualifying to be a doctor at the mark - Politikens; Estonia - Tana- Royal Free Hospital in London. He has presented numerous documen- paev; Finland - WSOY; France - taries including Eat, Fast, Live Longer for BBC Horizon, which went viral Leduc; Germany - Goldmann; in 2012. Shortly afterwards, he co-wrote The Fast Diet with award- winning journalist Mimi Spencer, alerting the world to the phenomenon Greece - Minoas; Hungary - Gabo; of intermittent fasting, or 5:2 as it is also known. The book has topped Iceland - Forlagid; Italy - Cor- bestseller charts ever since, been translated into over 30 languages and baccio; Israel - Kinneret-Zmora; encouraged hundreds of thousands of people to reclaim control of their Japan - Gentosha; Korea - Torna- eating habits, and lead healthier, happier lives. do; Latvia - Zvaigzne ABC; Lithua- nia - Alma Littera; The Netherlands - Prometheus; Norway - Gyldendal; Poland - Muza; Portugal - Lua De Papel; Romania - Adevar Divin; Russia - Exmo; Slovakia - Priroda; Slovenia - Zalozba ; Spain - Urano; Sweden - Bonnier; Taiwan - Sun Color; Turkey - Dogan 34 Non-Fiction

A HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST

Laurence Rees

Laurence Rees, the award-winning author of the international bestseller Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution now turns to his most ambitious project to date – a single volume history of the Holocaust.

At the most basic level this book will answer two fundamental questions about the Holocaust: how and why did this monstrous crime ever happen? Via a chronological narrative of the history, the book will feature both the latest historical research and compelling eyewit- ness testimony. The majority of the personal testimony that will be featured in the book has never been published before.

From the development of racial anti-Semitism in the nineteenth century, through to the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the 1930s and the development of the murder factories of the Holocaust during the UK: Ebury, Spring 2017 Second World War, this new history will be both accessible and authoritative. Quite simply, it’s the inside story of the worst single Available material: crime in the history of the world. Outline Digital ms due June 2016 Reader interest in the Holocaust is – understandably – extremely 150,000 to 180,000 words high. Yet no overarching history book on this subject suitable for Illustrations - Yes the general reader has been successfully published for sometime.

Previous publications: The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler (2012), World War II: Behind Closed Laurence Rees is the former Head of the BBC TV history pro- Doors (2008), Their Darkest Hour grammes and Creative Director of BBC Television History. He (2007), Auschwitz: The Nazis and the wrote, directed and produced several award-winning series on the Final Solution (2005), Horror in The Second World War for TimeWatch, and has authored companion East (2001), War of the Century books that include, The Nazis: A Warning from History, Horror in the (1999), The Nazis: A Warning From East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II, The War of the Century: History (1997) When Hitler Fought Stalin, and Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solu-

Previous publishers: tion. Brazil - Leya Bulgaria - Ciela Norma Laurence has received numerous awards for his programmes and Czech Rep. - Euromedia writing: he won the British Book Award ‘History Book of the Year’ France - Albin Michel 2006’ for Auschwitz as well as a BAFTA for the television series of Greece - Patakis the same name, becoming the first person ever to win both accolades Hungary - Pecsi Direkt for a single work. In 2009 he was presented with the ’Lifetime Italy - Pearson Italia Netherlands - Ambo-Anthos Achievement Award’ by ‘History Makers’, the worldwide congress of Norway - Schibsted History and Current Affairs programme makers. Poland - Prószyński Russia - Azbooka-Atticus Slovakia - Ikar Praise for The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler Spain - Critica UK - Ebury “So how did Hitler convince his generals to invade Russia and his subjects to US - Pantheon ignore the genocide around them? This readable, fascinating book, a worthy addi- tion to the vast literature surrounding Hitler, has plausible answers.” - Kirkus

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DEFENDING THE MOTHERLAND

Lyuba Vinogradova

Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy- bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all- female active combat units in modern history.

Drawing on original interviews with surviving airwomen, Lyuba Vinogradova weaves together the untold stories of the female Soviet fighter pilots of the Second World War. From that first train journey to the last tragic disappearance, Vinogradova’s panoramic account of these women’s lives follows them from society balls to unmarked graves, from landmark victories to the horrors of Stalingrad. Battling not just fearsome Aces of the Luftwaffe but also patronising preju- dice from their own leaders, women such as Lilya Litvyak and Ekate- rina Budanova are brought to life by the diaries and recollections of those who knew them, and who watched them live, love, fight and die. UK: MacLehose Press, April 2015

Russia: Azbooka-Atticus, April Lyuba Vinogradova was born in Moscow in 1973 and is a specialist 2015 in Soviet and contemporary Russian history. Lyuba has worked in all the main Russian archives and in 1995 was introduced to Antony Rights sold: Finland - Minerva Kustannus Beevor, for whom she researched material for his book, Stalingrad. France - Heloise d’Ormesson Since then she has worked on a number of other research projects Poland - Czarne with Antony and other English-speaking writers including Max Has- Russia - Azbooka-Atticus tings and Simon Sebag Montefiore. Spain - Ediciones de Pasado y Presente Lyuba is the translator and co-editor with Antony Beevor of A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941 - 1945, published in Available material: Russian edition and digital ms the UK and US in 2005 and translated into eighteen languages. English edition and digital ms 400 pp Illustrations - Yes “A gripping, unforgettable and heartbreaking story of female heroism in war and terror, written elegantly, filled with new research – archival and oral – and told Previous publications: here fully for the first time. Not just a tale of amazing derring-do, but a terrifying A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman window into Stalinist Russia. Simply superb.” with the Red Army 1941 - 1945, with Antony Beevor (2005) - Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

“Every page evokes in vivid detail what it was like to be a woman in the heart of the male world of aerial combat in Stalin’s Russia...A feat of historical research and a wonderful, stirring read.” - Rachel Polonsky, author of Molotov’s Magic Lantern

“An absorbing and meticulously researched account.” - Rodric Braithwaite, author of Moscow 1941: A City & Its People at War

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THE EMERGING ORDER

Peter Watson

The Emerging Order is a history of modern science but told with a marked twist. The twist in its argument is that the various disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, and apparent areas of interest, have been gradually coming together over the past 150 years, coalesc- ing to tell one master narrative, one overwhelming interconnected coherent story. Physics has been joined to chemistry, quantum chemistry with molecular biology, particle physics with astronomy, paediat- rics with ethology, psychology with physics, chemistry and econom- ics, genetics with linguistics, botany with archaeology – and so on. This is a simple insight but one with profound consequences.

Peter Watson is a British journalist and author. He has worked as senior editor at The Sunday Times, the New York correspondent of The Times, as a columnist for the Observer, and regularly contributed to the UK & US: Simon & Schuster, New York Times and The Spectator. He is the author of several books Spring 2016 on cultural and intellectual history, including Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention From Fire to Freud, and The German Genius: Europe’s Available material: Third Renaissance, The Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century. Outline From 1997 to 2007 he was a research associate at the McDonald In- Digital ms due December, 2015 stitute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, 350-400 pp Illustrations - No having written three exposés on the world of art and antiquities. Peter also writes gripping and finely researched historical fiction, pre- Previous publications: viously under a pseudonym - now under his own name. The Age of Nothing (2014), The Great Divide (2011), The German Genius (2010), Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention From Fire to Freud Praise for The Age of Nothing (2005), A Terrible Beauty (2000)

Previous publishers: “...his erudition is formidable” Bulgaria - Kragozor - Theodore Dalyrmple, The Times China - Shanghai Translation Egypt - National Center for Trans- “The beauty of this book is Watson's ability to impose order on a riot of ideas.” lation - Publisher's Weekly Germany - C. Bertelsmann Korea - Cum Libro “I recommend this book to anyone who needs to know what the loss of religious Netherlands - Het Spectrum Spain - Critica faith has meant to the high culture of our civilsation and what, if anything, we Sweden - Fri Tanke might do about it.... (it) covers a whole century of intellectual endeavour as lightly Taiwan - Wu Nan Book as it can.” Turkey - Yapi Kredi - Roger Scruton, The Independent

“In a vividly engaging conspectus of the formative ideas of the past century, The Age of Nothing shows how Nietzsche's diagnosis evoked responses in may areas of cultural life, including some surprising parts of the political spectrum.” - John Gray, The New Statesman

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THE HIDDEN PLEASURES OF LIFE

Theodore Zeldin

What is the point of working so hard? What can replace the shortage of soul-mates? What else can one do in a hotel?

Taking as his premise that the great questions of the twenty-first century have not yet been asked, let alone answered, Theodore Zeldin applies his celebrated passion and wit to exploring what it means to be alive in the third millennium.

In an era where geographical barriers have been swept away, extraordinary scientific progress illuminates and overwhelms in equal measure, and even the outer reaches of the universe are within sight, the intimate thoughts and muddled feelings of each of seven billion unique individuals remain largely hidden.

Considering both lovers and leaders, intimate companions as well as UK: MacLehose Press, May 2015 ideological enemies, Zeldin illustrates the importance of human inter- action and, especially, open communication to combat isolation, fear France: Fayard, October 2014 and lack of fulfilment. Only by truly relating to others can we get a taste, even just a nibble, of what it is possible to experience as a hu- Rights sold: China - Grand China Publishing man being. House Estonia - Varrak Germany - Hoffmann & Campe Theodore Zeldin studied at London University and Christ Church, Italy - Sellerio Oxford, and later was Dean of St Antony’s College, Oxford for thir- Spain - Plataforma teen years. He is an authority on contemporary French society and Turkey - Ayrinti has been hailed “the most popular Englishman in France” (Le Point),

Available material: appearing frequently in the French media. His History of French Pas- English edition and digital ms sions won the Wolfson Prize, and was followed by the best-seller, The 350 pp approx. French. Zeldin’s other notable works, Happiness, An Intimate History of Illustrations - No Humanity and his BBC lectures on Conversation marked the expansion of his research to all civilisations. His writings have been translated Previous publications: into 24 languages. An Intimate History of Humanity (1994), Conversation (1998), A Histo- ry of French Passions (1979) Currently President of the Oxford Muse Foundation, (established in 2001 to develop his ideas, and to promote innovative ways of im- proving personal, professional and intercultural relations), Theodore is also a Patron of the National Academy of Writing, a Member of the European Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Litera- ture.

“eclectic, ambitious and profoundly thought-provoking” - Sunday Times, London

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MODEL UNDERCOVER series

Carina Axelsson (Age group: 11+)

MODEL UNDERCOVER 4 UK: Usborne, March 2016 Rights sold: Hungary - Erawan Available material: Manuscript due October 2015 Axelle's back! This fourth gripping mystery sees her sleuthing amongst the stars of fashion week in Milan.

MODEL UNDERCOVER: Deadly by Design UK: Usborne, June 2015 US: Sourcebooks, January 2016 Rights sold: Hungary - Erawan; Turkey - Epsilon Available material: Finished copies and digital ms. Extent - 359pp. Illustrations - Yes.

When a new case lands on Axelle Anderson's London doorstep, the stylish sleuth can't resist strapping on the heels and snapping on the shades to track down whoever attacked fashion photographer Gavin.

But what's the deal with the memory stick full of mysterious photos? Can Axelle discover the secret they contain and stop a killer in his tracks?

MODEL UNDERCOVER: Stolen with Style UK: Usborne, September 2014 US: Sourcebooks, January 2015 Rights sold: France - Fleurus; Hungary - Erawan; Turkey - Epsilon Available material: Finished copies and digital ms. Extent - 310pp approx. Illustrations - Yes. Despite being the hottest new model around, all Axelle wants to do is solve mysteries. So when a fabulous diamond goes missing from a fashion shoot, the world's only undercover model slips on her sky-high heels to catch the culprit.

“This book is a dark tale full of suspense and mystery, you couldn’t write a better detective tale. Any girl could relate to Ax- elle.” Ella Routledge, age 11 - LoveReading4Kids

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MODEL UNDERCOVER: A Crime of Fashion UK: Usborne, February 2014 US: Sourcebooks, July 2014 Rights sold: Denmark - Turbine; France - Fleurus; Hungary - Erawan; Japan - Hayakawa Shobo; Turkey - Epsilon Available material: Finished copes and digital ms. Extent - 355pp approx. Illus- trations - yes. Fifteen-year-old Axelle Anderson is furious at being sent to Paris for Fashion Week as punishment for meddling in mysteries – and staying with her dragon-like fashion editor aunt Venetia doesn’t help.

But when top fashion designer Belle La Lune vanishes – and her aunt Venetia becomes a prime suspect – Ax- elle suddenly has a real crime to solve and, channelling Miss Marple, decides to go undercover as a model to find Belle. Thrust into the backstage world of modelling, Axelle must navigate her way through an endless round of cat-walk shows, castings and photo shoots to find and solve the clues.

With the help of supermodel Ellie Mac, and gorgeous Sebastian, the Chief Inspector’s son, will Axelle find Belle – before it’s too late?

Nancy Drew meets The Devil Wears Prada in this pacey and funny contemporary teen novel set in the glamorous and fascinating world of international fashion.

Carina Axelsson grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco, California. After high school Carina moved to New York City to model, then on to Paris where she published her first book, a picture book for 4-6 year-olds. Nigel of Hyde Park, written and illustrated by Carina, was published in French, English and German in 2004.

"The effortlessly enchanting writing style, wry humour and completely irresistible character give this fresh and fabulous series huge appeal." - Rebecca Hill, Usborne

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LOVE SONG Sophia Bennett

Nina Baxter has had her heart broken more times than she cares to remember by the boy next door. But that’s fine. She’s even grateful – it’s made her the strong, boy-proof seventeen-year-old she is today.

However, Nina’s about to go on tour with The Point, the biggest band in the world, as assistant to the lead singer’s fiancée. It’s every girl’s dream except hers, it seems, but even Nina is forced to admit they’re hot.

Behind the screaming fans and the glamour, Jamie, Angus, Con- nor and George are hiding dark secrets. Their manager is worried they're about to split apart. Nina can handle their bad behaviour, but can she handle what happens when she's left alone with them? One thing’s for certain: in the world of rock, things will get broken …

Age group: Teen/Young Adult Sophia Bennett was born into an army family, which meant her childhood was spent travelling. She continued the trend as a lan- UK: Chicken House, April 2016 guages student, traipsing round more European cities than Anne Hathaway has worn Oscar dresses. Many more, in fact. Available material: She would have loved to be an artist, fashion designer, or the lady Digital ms 80,000 words approx who does costumes for Jane Austen films. However, not being Illustrations - No able to draw or sew very well made those careers unlikely. Instead, she got a PhD in Italian literature, and worked as everything from Previous publications: a tour guide to a management consultant with McKinsey. Eventu- The Castle (2014), You Don’t Know ally, after ten years of trying to write fiction for grown-ups be- Me (2013), The Look (2012), Se- tween jobs, she tried her hand at a children's story she'd been quins, Stars and Spotlights (2011), thinking about for years, and won the Times/Chicken House Fic- Beads, Boys and Bangles (2010), Threads (2009) tion Competition in 2009 with her debut novel, Threads, which went on to be an international success. Since then she has pub- Option publishers: lished four further books with Chicken House, with another one Brazil - Intrinseca; China - Aurora; on the way, and has written for The Times and the Guardian. France - Hachette; Germany - Chicken House; Indonesia - Ben- tang; Italy - Piemme; Japan - Sho- Praise for The Castle gkukan; The Netherlands - Chick- en House; Norway - Cappelen “Three tall blonde girls, also dressed à la fruit". The Castle by Sophia Ben- Damm; Poland - Egmont; Serbia - nett is a witty and fast-paced novel.” Alnari; Slovenia - Mladinska Kniji- ga; Spain - Maeva; - The Telegraph

“... this adventure thriller is a marked change of direction for Bennett but she

pulls it off beautifully, getting right to the heart of her protagonist and family secrets.” - Fiona Noble, The Bookseller

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Kirsten Boie EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT ‘BESTIMMT WIRD ALLES GUT’ Germany: Oetinger, 2015 (age group: 8+)

Available material: German ms. Extent - 9 pp. English translation. Illustrations - No

Many people are currently on the run: some are escaping from war in their home countries, some are being persecuted for political or religious reasons, others are suffering poverty and hunger and wish for a better future for their children.

But what does it mean to be a refugee? Why do people risk the dangerous journey in shaky boats over the sea to live with us in foreign countries? And what does it mean to be obliged to leave your home, your belongings and your language?

Kirsten Boie, the much-loved German children’s author, has met two children from Syria who have told her their story, how they escaped from their home country and arrived in a foreign country.

ADULTS TALK. MARCO HAS DONE SOMETHING ‘ERWACHSENE REDEN. MARCO HAT WAS GETAN’ Germany: Oetinger, August 2015 (age group: 13-16yr) Available material: German edition and digital ms. Extent - 111 pp. Illustrations - No “It was an unlucky accident, actually it wasn’t my fault”, Marco tries to defend himself. But he has done something that cost two people’s lives: he set fire to a Turkish family’s house. The mayor stresses that are hardly any foreigners in his respectable little town and consequently there is no xenophobia either. Kirsten Boie makes thirteen adults who know Marco talk.

LISA’S STORY, JASIM’S STORY ‘LISA’S GESCHICHTE, JASIM’S GESCHICHTE’ Germany: Oetinger, August 2007 (age group - 13-16yr) Available material: German edition. Extent - 192 pp. Illustrations - No. Lisa and Jasim live in the same city. And they are both unsatisfied. Lisa didn’t want to move there because she would have preferred to stay with her friend Maik. Jasim absolutely wanted to live there, but he had imagined it completely differently … Lisa and Jasim feel similar although their situations could not be more different. Because Lisa lives in a big house, and Jasim in a refuge for asylum seekers.

Kirsten Boie is one of Germany’s best-known authors of modern children’s and young people’s novels. Over sixty of her books have since been published and translated into several different languages. 2015 sees Boie celebrate an impressive milestone in her career, as she reaches her thirtieth year of writing children's books.

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TUTTO QUELLO CHE SIAMO ‘ALL THAT WE ARE’ Federica Bosco

Whoever tells you that being nineteen is great, they’re wrong. They only say so because they don’t remember what it was like at the time. They don’t remember the feeling of being constantly angry and confused, and always feeling different. Out of place, unlucky, alone, and always lacking something that others have. No, they don’t remember what it was like, because afterwards it gets even worse. Afterwards come commitments, responsibilities, a job, a house, a family, and others who depend on you - the longed-for package that is adult life. Unfortunately I came to know all this very early in life, and without even asking for it. Some people arrive in this world on a golden chariot pulled by white horses, landing delicately on a soft cashmere blanket, and wherever they tread, the path will be scattered with rose petals. Others are swept up in a tidal surge, the waves bashing them against the rocks until they reach the shore, gasping for air, their hair mat- ted with algae and sand. Need I tell you which group I belonged to?

Marina’s life is very complicated. Having lost her mother a few years ago, she lives with her strict and overbearing father, whose new wife treats her like Cin- Italy: Mondadori, November 2015 derella. The only thing keeping her at home is her little brother Filippo, whom she adores and tries to protect from their difficult family situation through her Available material: constant affection and irony.

Italian digital ms Marina’s greatest dream has always been to attend the School of Fine Art, and English synopsis and sample make a living from her drawings; but as she lacks the money and, out of pride, chapters has no intention of asking her father for help, she works instead in a bar right 92,300 words approx opposite the school. This is the only means she has to see up close the world of Illustrations - No which she so wants to be a part; to make matters worse, she has an enormous crush on Christo, a handsome and unruly Brazilian student who comes to the bar Previous YA publications: every morning for breakfast, but has never even looked at her. Un Amore Di Angelo (2014), Il Mio Angelo Segreto (2013), Innamorata Di Her best friends are Dario and Ginevra: Dario is an oddball, an overwrought, Un Angelo (2012) spoiled boy who doesn’t know what to do in life, because he could do almost anything and has a new idea every five minutes; Ginevra is a free spirit – open- Previous publishers: minded, enthusiastic and unafraid of seizing opportunities, for better or for Brazil - Bertrand worse. Croatia - Znanje Germany - Goldmann Unlike her friends, Marina doesn’t have the option to do what she really wants, Hungary - Libri Kiado and is torn between feelings of guilt and the frustration at having to remain at Poland - Prószyński home and seeing her life go to waste. Romania - Editura Alfa Russia - Azbooka-Atticus Serbia - IP Jovan Federica Bosco lives in Rome and is the author of several bestselling novels for Slovakia - Motyl women. Adored by readers of all ages, her humorous, smart and ironic books Spain - Planeta have sold over 1 million copies in Italy and have been published in ten languages.

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COMPTON VALANCE series

Matt Brown (Age group: 8+)

COMPTON VALANCE: Revenge of the Fancy-Pants Time Pirate UK: Usborne, April 2016 Available material: manuscript due spring 2015 Compton Valance 4 will pick up where Super F.A.R.T.s Versus The Master Of Time ended. A few months have passed since the extraordinary scenes at graduation day in the Time Museum and the FPU is still no closer to discovering the whereabouts (or indeed the whenabouts) of the extraordinarily moustached timecrim, Gussage St Vincent…

COMPTON VALANCE: Super F.A.R.T.s Versus the Master of Time UK: Usborne, June 2015 Available material: Finished copies and digital ms Extent - 352 pp Illustrations - Yes. How does Compton Valance become a super, future agent recruit in training? First, he travels 600 years into the future to join a top-secret academy. Then, he discovers that notorious criminal and mega-baddy, ‘The Master Of Time’, has escaped from prison – and is after him. Then, he panics. Finally, he stops panicking and comes up with a plan of utter genius to save himself, his best buddy… and of course THE WORLD.

COMPTON VALANCE: The Time-Travelling Sandwich Bites Back UK: Usborne, October 2014 Rights sold: Germany - Fischer Available material: Finished copies and digital ms Extent - 320 pp Illustrations - Yes. Compton Valance has an incredible secret: he can travel through time using a stinky old sandwich. But now he’s in the biggest pickle ever! Compton’s evil brother Bravo has stolen the time machine sandwich and is biting his way through history, causing chaos wherever he goes. It’s up to Compton and his best friend Bryan to stop Bravo before time runs out and the universe implodes... Can Compton save the world from total destruction? 44 Children’s & Young Adult

COMPTON VALANCE: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe UK: Usborne, June 2014 Rights sold: Germany - Fischer Available material: Finished copies and digital ms Extent - 318 pp Illustrations - Yes.

When Compton Valance and his best friend Bryan Nylon discover the world's first TIME MACHINE (aka a mouldy, thirteen-week-old-cheese-and-pickled-egg sandwich), they become the most powerful boys in the universe. But how will Compton and Bryan decide to use their incredible new time-travelling powers? Will they use them for good? Will they use them for evil? Or will they just focus their efforts on perfecting a formula for the world's first pair of custard trousers?

Matt Brown has been a radio and television broadcaster for just over fifteen years, presenting on some of the UKs most popular shows like Nickelodeon, The Big Breakfast and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!. Matt has written four books about Compton Valance, a ten-year-old boy who accidentally creates his own time machine. The Most Powerful Boy In The Universe and The Time Travelling Sandwich Bites Back were published in 2014 by Usborne. The third instalment, Super F.A.R.Ts versus The Master Of Time will be published in June 2015 and he is currently working on Compton Valance 4.

“Funny, Clever, Brilliant — I love these books!” Dermot O’Leary

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THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY

Keren David

Kitty dreams of a beautiful life, but that's impossible in suburban London where her family is haunted by her father's unexpected death. So when her mum suggests moving to Amsterdam to try a new life, Kitty doesn't take much persuading. Will this be her opportunity to make her life picture perfect?

In Amsterdam she meets moody, unpredictable Ethan, and clever, troubled Theo. Two enigmatic boys, who each harbour their own secrets. In a beautiful city and far from home, Kitty finds herself fall- ing in love for the first time.

But will love be everything she expected? And will anyone's heart survive?

Keren David got her first job in journalism, at eighteen, as a messen- ger girl. The following year she turned down a place at university to be apprenticed as a reporter. She's worked for many of the national Age group: Teen/Young Adult newspapers in Scotland and London and later became a commission-

UK: Atom, May 2015 ing editor on the Independent's op-ed page. After eight years in Am- sterdam, Keren returned to London in 2007 and took a course of Available material: evening classes in Writing for Children at City University. Her first Finished copies and digital ms book, the award-winning When I Was Joe started out as a plot- 352 pp planning exercise on the course. Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery, a Illustrations - No stand-alone novel was developed into a musical.

Previous publications: Salvage (2014) Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery (2011) When I was Joe (trilogy) (2010) “This is a novel filled with heartwarming reality that every teenager can enjoy. This is a story that will undoubtedly withdraw smiles, giggles and even tears from Previous publishers: its readers. This is a modern page turner that is refreshingly relatable and unapol- Australia - Walker Books ogetically relevant.” UK - Frances Lincoln - Atomics Brazil - Editora Novo Conceito Germany - DTV “This is a perfect holiday read – but that doesn't mean you need to be on holiday Korea - Gaeam Namu The Netherlands - DeFontein to read it. This Is Not A Love Story will waft you away from your bed or your fireside or your tube train seat and relocate you to Amsterdam.” - The Bookbag

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EIGHT RIVERS OF SHADOW

Leo Hunt

Six months after the events of 13 Days of Midnight, Luke Manchett thinks he’s put his father’s ghosts behind him. His biggest worry is the exams which are just months away, but when an exchange student named Ash appears at his school, life takes another turn into the darkness. Ash is the daughter of a man Luke’s father killed, and she needs his help with a dangerous magical ritual which will restore her twin sister to life. Drawn in by her sad story, Luke agrees, but the ritual turns out to have a cost greater than he ever imagined, and he finds that either he or Ash stand to lose everyone they love. Along with local witchlet Elza Moss, and his cowardly dog Ham, Luke will face ghosts both old and new, and travel deeper into the world of the dead than ever before.

Leo Hunt is 23 years old and graduated from UEA with a First in Creative Writing and American Literature. He is now a full-time writer and his first Age: Teen/Young Adult book, Thirteen Days of Midnight, was published in the UK and US in 2015. US & Canada: Candlewick Press, Eight Rivers of Shadow is the second book in a trilogy from Leo Hunt, with August 2016 the third title due for publication in Spring 2017.

UK: Orchard Books/Hachette, July 2016

Available material: Praise for Thirteen Days of Midnight Digital ms “...chilling at times and funny at others. Great stuff, and I recommend it.” 70,000 words approx - The Bookbag Illustrations - No

“With well-drawn characters, some truly creepy ghouls, and entertaining banter, this is a

self-assured debut that’s as funny as it is terrifying.” - Publishers Weekly

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THIRTEEN DAYS OF MIDNIGHT Leo Hunt

‘It might be wise,’ says the Vassal, ‘to read everything that he left to you. Some of the Host… some of them are dangerous sir. I won’t speak ill—’

‘—of the dead. I know.’

‘Quite, sir. Nevertheless. Your father’s collection was the envy of many who moved in his circles. We are not some flea market amassment of second-rate chain rattlers. We must be managed, as one would manage anything that one knew to be powerful and dangerous.’

When Luke Manchett’s estranged father dies suddenly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance. Luke has been left in charge of his father’s ghost collection; eight restless spirits. They want revenge for their long enslavement, and in the absence of the father, they’re more than Age: Teen/Young Adult happy to take his son. It isn’t fair, but you try and reason with the vengeful dead. US & Canada: Candlewick Press, August 2015 Halloween, the night when the ghosts reach the height of their power, is fast approaching. With the help of school witchlet Elza Moss, UK: Orchard Books/Hachette, July 2015 and his cowardly dog Ham, Luke has just thirteen days to uncover the closely guarded secrets of black magic, and send the unquiet spir- Rights sold: its back to their graves. Brazil - Rocco Germany - Arena Spain - Anaya Infantil y Juvenil Thailand - Pran Publishing "Such an accomplished debut is a rare find, and we were delighted to beat off stiff Available material: competition to snap up Leo Hunt's brilliant first book. He is a future star, and Finished copies and digital ms 64,000 words/224 pp we can't wait to get his book into the hands of readers." Illustrations - No - Megan Larkin, Orchard Books

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OUTCASTE

Ellen Renner

Zara’s journey reaches its stunning conclusion in this, the sequel to Tribute

Hunted by her own kind as a traitor, Zara travels to the Maker World with the last of the Knowledge Seekers of Asphodel, non-magic commoners who have rebelled against their mage overlords.

Knowing she faces persecution and death if her identity becomes known in the Maker city of Gengst-on-the-Wall, Zara lives a life of pretence, secrecy and isolation. Her dearest hopes and dreams are challenged when she must learn to live without magic, and to accept that Maker society is not the utopia of which she has long dreamt.

She has fallen in love with the Maker boy, Aidan, a talented engineer. But as Aidan and Philip, the leader of the Knowledge Seekers, work Age: Teen/Young Adult together building war machines powerful enough to change the

World English: Hot Key Books, course of history and bring the centuries-long war between the mages May 2015 and the non-magic Makers to a grisly end, Zara finds her loyalties and love tested to the breaking point. Rights sold: Germany - DTV Junior Her relationship with Aidan flounders, and when she is assaulted and forced to use her magic to defend herself, Zara's identity is discov- Available material: ered and she must flee to save her life. Finished copies and digital ms 384 pp Illustrations - No Alone and friendless, Zara returns to Asphodel. There, she must face the evil that is her heritage, uncover the truth behind the childhood Previous publications: tragedy that haunts her, and find the strength to believe in her talent Tribute (2014) as a mage . . . and in her own integrity. City of Thieves (2010) Castle of Shadows (2010)

Ellen Renner was born in the USA, in the Ozark Mountains of Mis- souri, but came to England looking for adventure, married here, and now lives in an old house in Devon with her husband and son. Ellen Renner’s debut novel Castle of Shadows, was published by Orchard Books in 2010. Renner’s third book Tribute was published in the UK in March 2014.

Praise for Tribute “Ellen Renner's wild imagination and tender prose resemble Joan Aiken's and Tribute is a tour de force.” - Amanda Craig, New Statesman

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MONSTER C. J. Skuse

More than anything, Nash Staley wants to be Head Girl. She wants to be the biggest fish in the pond, the one they all look up to.

But then she gets word from her parents that her beloved brother has gone missing while on his gap year, and suddenly impressing the Head- mistress at her remote boarding school is the last thing on her mind.

As her parents leave the country to join the search, Nash is stuck at school over Christmas. Five other girls are staying too, similarly aban- doned by their parents: Maggie, the rebel; Dianna, the suck up; Clarice, the bully; Regan, the misfit and Tabby, the baby.

Then, one by one, sinister events begin to unfold. Matron goes missing. A snow storm cuts the power. And a large black shape is seen stalk- ing the grounds. Is there a monster outside, trying to get in? Or has the monster always been inside, biding its time until it can finally show itself?

Age: Young Adult/Teen Now is Nash's chance to prove to herself and all the others at Bathory School for Girls that the Head Girl badge should have been hers. UK & Commonwealth: Mira Ink, September, 2015 (2-book deal) If she can survive long enough to claim it, that is… Rights sold: Vietnam - Nha Nham Mallory Towers meets Psycho in this gripping and often chilling mystery from C.J Skuse, the high mistress of dark YA humour. Available material: Finished copies and digital ms 400 pp Illustrations - No C J Skuse was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England. She has First Class degrees in Creative Writing and Writing for Children and, Previous publications: aside from writing novels, works as a freelance children’s fiction con- Dead Romantic (2013) sultant and lectures in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University. Rockoholic (2011) Pretty Bad Things (2010)

Previous Publishers: “…a dark dangerous story with a mind-blowing twist, this is an absolutely stand Brazil - Novo Seculo out YA novel” France - Gallimard Jeunesse Germany - Chicken House - Book 2 Book Greece - Patakis Netherlands - Chicken House “...an exciting psychological thriller, 'Monster' has more depth than most. Indeed, the Norway - Cappelen Damm USA - Scholastic book has one of the best endings I've read.” - The Bookbag

“CJ is such an incredibly special voice in UK YA fiction and an author whose writing I have adored for years so I’m truly thrilled to be publishing her in MIRA Ink. Monster is a dark, edgy, addictive teen read and one of those once in a life time books that lingers with the reader so long after you have turned the final page” - Anna Baggaley, MIRA Ink Commissioning Editor

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DEAD ROMANTIC UK: Chicken House, February 2013 (age group: teen/young adult) Available material: English edition. Extent - 352 pp. Illustrations - No. Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. But when she's mocked at a college party, she knows there isn't a boy alive who'll ever measure up. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-style. But can she make him love her?

ROCKOHOLIC UK: Chicken House, March 2011 (age group: teen/young adult) US: Scholastic, November 2012 Rights sold: Brazil - Novo Seculo; France - Gallimard; Germany - Chicken House; The Netherlands - Chicken House Available material: English edition and digital ms. Extent - 368 pp. Illustrations - No. Jody loves Jackson Gatlin, frontman of The Regulators. At his only UK rock concert, she’s right at the front of the sold out event. But when she's caught in the crush and carried back stage she has more than concussion to contend with. Throw in a menacing manager, a super-wired superstar and a Curly Wurly, and Jody finds herself taking home more than just a poster. It’s the accidental kidnapping of the dec- ade. But what happens when you’ve got a rock god in your garage who doesn’t want to leave? Jody’s stuck between a rock idol and a hard place! A tale of rock star obsession gone nuts. Rockoholic hilariously and sharply explores the fantasy and reality of celebrity worship through a teenager’s eyes.

PRETTY BAD THINGS UK: Chicken House, March 2010 (age group: teen/young adult) US: Scholastic, July 2011 Rights sold: France - Gallimard; Germany - Chicken House; Greece - Patakis; Norway - Cappelen Damm Available material: English edition and digital ms. Extent - 272 pp. Illustrations - No. Last time Twins, Paisley and Beau Argent were in the headlines , they were the 'wonder twins', when, as six-year-olds, they were found alive in the woods after three days missing following their mother’s death. Now at 16, life’s not so wonderful. Cast out and exploited by their money- grabbing grandmother, they’re clueless about their dad’s whereabouts. Until they discover an old letter from him. That’s when they decide to hit the road – and make headlines again. Holding up fast food joints in Las Vegas might seem extreme but if they can get on the news, and tell their dad they need him, they might just get the dream reunion they never thought could happen. A darkly-comic ‘Tarantino for teens’ – this is a fast, fearless and funny first novel from C.J. Skuse.

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